************************************************************************* Machine Learning List: Volume 20, Number 5 Tuesday, June 3, 2008 ************************************************************************* Contents Call for Participation ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge Tutorial on the CLARION Cognitive Architecture Call for Papers Conference on Web Intelligence Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference Workshop on High-level Information Extraction Conference on Logic Programming ACM KDD Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Source Mining the Web 2.0 Feature Selection in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation From Local Patterns to Global Models Colloquium on Grammatical Inference Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction Conference on Data Mining RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data Conference on Genetic Programming Data Streams Track Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Career Opportunities Robust Computer Vision and ML, Siemans Corporate Research Post-Doctoral Research ML & abductive reasoning using Markov Logic Networks, Texas Summer School School on Imprecise Probabilities ************************************************************************ The Machine Learning List is moderated. 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The ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ************************************************************************* Date: May 7, 2008 From: Andreas Hotho Subject: ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2008 Call for Participation ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/rsdc08/ Tasks and Datasets Available: May 5, 2008 Test Datasets Released (midnight CEST): July 30, 2008 Result Submission Deadline (midnight CEST): August 1, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: August 4, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: August 14, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 21, 2008 From: Professor Ron Sun Subject: Tutorial on the CLARION Cognitive Architecture Call for Participation 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Washington D.C., USA, July 23, 2008 http://ccc.utexas.edu/cogsci08/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Apr 2008 From: wic-office@wi-consortium.org Subject: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2008: Call For Papers Call for Papers 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-08) Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008 http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/ Electronic Paper Deadline: July 10, 2008 Tutorial Proposal Deadline: July 10, 2008 Workshop Paper Deadline: July 30, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 29, 2008 From: Thomas Stuetzle Subject: Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference Call for Papers Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (LION 3) Trento, Italy, January 14-18, 2009 www.intelligent-optimization.org/LION3 Paper Submission Deadline: October 15, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: February 15, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 2, 2008 From: Sebastian Blohm Subject: Workshop on High-level Information Extraction Call for Papers Workshop on High-level Information Extraction at ECML PKDD 2008 Antwerp, Belgium, September 19, 2008 http://www-ai.cs.tu-dortmund.de/HLIE08 Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: August 7, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 5, 2008 From: iclp08pub@cs.nmsu.edu Subject: Conference on Logic Programming Call for Papers 24th International Conference on Logic Programming Udine, Italy, December 9-13, 2008 http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it Abstract Submission Deadline: June 2, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: June 9, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: September 15, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 6, 2008 From: Xingquan Zhu Subject: KDD workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources Call for Papers 2nd ACM KDD Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources In conjunction with ACM SIGKDD-08, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 24, 2008 http://www.cse.fau.edu/~xqzhu/mmis/kdd08_mmis.html Paper Submission Deadline: May 30, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: June 20, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 6, 2008 From: Andreas Hotho Subject: Mining the Web 2.0 Call for Papers Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining the Web 2.0 (WBBTMine'08) Workshop at ECML/PKDD 2008 Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/wbbtmine2008/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: August 14, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 7, 2008 From: Iņaki Inza Subject: Feature Selection in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Call for Papers ECML/PKDD-08 Workshop on New Challenges for Feature Selection in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008 http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/fsdm2008 Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 7, 2008 From: cimca@canberra.edu.au Subject: Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation Call for Papers 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08 Vienna, Austria, December 10-12, 2008 http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/ Paper Submission Deadline: August 29, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: October 17, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 7, 2008 From: Johannes Fuernkranz Subject: From Local Patterns to Global Models Call for Papers ECML/PKDD-08 Workshop - From Local Patterns to Global Models Antwerp, Belgium, September 15, 2008 http://www.ke.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/events/LeGo-08/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: August 14, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 8, 2008 From: Menno van Zaanen Subject: Colloquium on Grammatical Inference Second Call for Papers 9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference St Malo, Brittany, France, September 22-24, 2008 http://icgi08.irisa.fr Paper Submission Deadline: May 20, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: July 14, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 8, 2008 From: Max Bramer Subject: Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence Final Call for Papers 28th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence Cambridge, UK, December 9-11, 2008 http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2008/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 2, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 10, 2008 From: Magdiel Galan Oliveras Subject: Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction Call for Papers ACM TKDD Special Issue on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/acm-tkdd-sbp Guest Editors: Huan Liu, John Salerno, Michael Young, Rakesh Agrawal, and Philip Yu Paper Submission Deadline: September 10, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: December 10, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 12, 2008 From: Maurizio Atzori Subject: Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'08) Call for Papers 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'08) Pisa, Italy, December 15-19, 2008 http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/ Paper Submission Deadline: July 7, 2008 Tutorial Submission Deadline: June 30, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 12, 2008 From: Nick Bassiliades Subject: RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications Call for Papers 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) Orlando, Florida, USA, October 30-31, 2008 http://2008.ruleml.org Paper Submissions Deadline: June 2, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: August 9, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 17, 2008 From: Tom Fawcett Subject: Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data Second Call for Papers Machine Learning Journal special issue on Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/public/ndbaf65/CFP.pdf Paper Submission Deadline: June 20, 2008 Intended Publication Date: 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 18, 2008 From: Nitesh Chawla Subject: Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (Sensor-KDD, 2008) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 24, 2008 http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/SensorKDD-2008/index.htm Paper Submission Deadline: May 28, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: June 20, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 19, 2008 From: Vanneschi Leonardo Subject: Conference on Genetic Programming Call for Papers 12th European Conference on Genetic Programming Tübingen, Germany, April 15-17 2009 http://www.evostar.org Paper Submission Deadline: November 5, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 21, 2008 From: Pedro Pereira Rodrigues Subject: Data Streams Track Call for Papers ACM Symposium on Applied Computing The 24nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8 - 12, 2009 http://www.liaad.up.pt/~jgama/SAC09/ Paper Submission Deadline: August 16, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: October 25, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 22, 2008 Deom: Chuck Anderson Subject: Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Call for Papers IASTED International Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Orlando, Florida, November 16-18, 2008 http://www.iasted.org Paper Submissions Deadline: June 30, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: September 5, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 16, 2008 From: Raymond Mooney Subject: ML & abductive reasoning using Markov Logic Networks, Texas Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. The position will involve conducting research under the direction of Prof. Raymond J. Mooney on machine learning and abductive reasoning using Markov Logic Networks, as part of a recently awarded MURI (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) grant entitled "A Unified Approach to Abductive Inference," whose other principal investigators include Professors Pedro Domingos (Univ. of Washington), Tom Dietterich (Oregon State Univ.), Jerry Hobbs (ISI/USC), Henry Kautz (Rochester Univ.), Carlos Guestrin (CMU), and Josh Tenenbaum (MIT). The position is for one or two years, full time, starting Sept. 1, 2008 at a competetive postdoc salary. Candidates should have research experience in machine learning, ideally statistical relational learning, and/or abductive and probabilistic reasoning. The CS department at UT Austin was recently ranked the 9th best graduate program in the U.S. and the 5th best in Artificial Intelligence by U.S. News. Interested applicants should email their vita and list of references to Ray Mooney using the contact information below. Raymond J. Mooney, Professor Phone: (512) 471-9558 Fax: (512) 471-8885 E-mail: mooney@cs.utexas.edu http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mooney ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 30, 2008 From: Comaniciu, Dorin Subject: Robust Computer Vision and ML, Siemans Corporate Research Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., has immediate openings for Research Scientists in the areas of computer vision and medical imaging, applied machine learning, 3D/4D segmentation, tracking and information fusion, pattern recognition and graphical models. You will have the opportunity to test your computer vision and machine learning knowledge in a challenging problem-solving environment. You will be encouraged to think out of the box, innovate and find solutions to real-life problems. Our group has a strong publication record in leading journals and conferences. We will only consider candidates holding a Ph.D. in CS, EE or related fields with a proven record in problem solving and research. Candidates should have C/C++ proficiency on MS Windows platform. Candidates need to demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, be able to work independently on problems, be an effective team player and willing to accept challenges and responsibility. Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) is one of the world's premier research labs for computer vision, medical imaging, and applied machine learning. SCR is headquarted in Princeton, USA, and provides a stimulating environment for highly talented and self-motivated researchers. SCR excels in transferring academic research into innovative products, and works in close collaboration with clinical partners. The lab has more than 250 researchers and over 100 students involved in hundreds of University, Clinical and Government collaborations. SCR is part of Siemens Corporate Technology, a division comprising 2500+ research scientists in Princeton, Berkeley, Erlangen, Munich, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Bangalore, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Siemens is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. Please forward your resume to Gustavo.Carneiro@siemens.com - for Princeton, New Jersey Martin.Huber@siemens.com - for Erlangen Germany Dorin.Comaniciu@siemens.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 5, 2008 From: Alessandro Antonucci Subject: School on Imprecise Probabilities Call for Participation 3rd School of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA), July 2-8, 2008 Montpellier, France, July 2-8, 2008 http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTASchool08/ Registration Deadline: June 8, 2008 ------------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 20, No. 5