************************************************************************* Machine Learning List: Volume 20, Number 6 Thursday, July 24, 2008 ************************************************************************* Contents Call for Papers ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Conference on Data Mining Foundations of Genetic Algorithms SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Data Mining, Protection, Detection and Security Logic Programming, Doctorial Consortium Conference of Evolvable Systems Autonomous Robots - Special Issue on Robot Learning Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining Career Opportunities Scientific R&D Engineer, United Kingdom Telefonica Research in Madrid, Spain Lecturer, Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Group, UK Post-Doctoral Research CS, NLP, Data Mining, University of Caen, France Bayesian Machine Learning, The Netherlands Data Mining for Personalization, Australia Medical Physics, California, USA ************************************************************************ 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 27, 2008 From: rcamacho@fe.up.pt Subject: ACM Symposium on Relational Learning Call for Papers Special track on Relational Learning as part of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009) Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8-12, 2009 http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/ Paper submission Deadline: August 16th, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: October 25th, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 2, 2008 From: lawyn@bii.a-star.edu.sg Subject: Conference on Data Mining Call for Papers 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'08) Pisa, Italy, December 15 - 19, 2009 http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/ Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: October 7, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 2, 2008 From: Ivan Garibay Subject: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Call for Papers Foundations of Genetic Algorithms(FOGA X) Orlando, Florida USA, January 9-11, 2009 http://www.sigevo.org/foga-2009 Extended Abstracts Deadline: August 18, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: December, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 6, 2008 From: Ee-Peng Lim Subject: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Call for Papers 9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Reno, Nevada, USA, April 30 - May 2, 2009 http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm09 Abstract Submission Deadline: October 3, 2008 Workshop Proposal & Tutorial Deadline: October 3, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: January 26, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 6, 2008 From: "Rachel Swinburn" Subject: Data Mining, Protection, Detection and Security Call for Papers 10th International Conference On Data Mining, Protection, Detection and Security Royal Mare Village, Crete, May 27-29, 2009 http://www.wessex.ac.uk/data2009rem1a.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 9, 2008 From: iclp08pub@cs.nmsu.edu Subject: Logic Programming, Doctorial Consortium Call for Papers International Conference on Logic Programming 4th Doctoral Consortium Udine, Italy, December 9-13, 2008 http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~toms/DC2008/ Paper Submission Deadline: August 25, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 25, 2008 From: Giovanni Squillero Subject: Conference of Evolvable Systems Call for Late-Breaking Papers 8th International Conference of Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware Prague, Czech Republic, September 21-24, 2008 http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/events/ices2008 Paper Submission Deadline: August 20, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 28, 2008 From: Jan Peters Subject: Autonomous Robots-Special Issue on Robot Learning Call For Papers Autonomous Robots - Special Issue on Robot Learning Editors: Jan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Andrew Y. Ng, Stanford University Paper Submission Deadline: November 8, 2008 Approximate Publication Date: 4th Quarter, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jul 4, 2008 From: icdm08-publicity@isti.cnr.it Subject: Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining (SADM'08) In conjunction with the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008) Pisa, Italy, December 15 - 19, 2008 http://www-kdd.isti.cnr.it/SADM/ Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: October 7, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 5, 2008 From: Greg Slabaugh Subject: Scientific R&D Engineer, United Kingdom Company: Medicsight, PLC Job Title: Scientific R&D Engineer Salary: Depends on Experience Department: Research and Development Reports to: Head of Research and Development Location: Hammersmith, London, UK About Medicsight PLC Medicsight are pioneers in the development of enterprise-wide computer-aided detection (CAD) and other image processing software used by the medical imaging community to aid in earlier detection of disease. Medicsight's unique software solutions have been validated using some of the world's largest and most population-diverse verified CT scan databases to help clinicians identify, measure and analyse suspicious pathology of the lung and colon. We are looking for an experienced scientific engineer who can join our team in research and development of world class medical imaging applications. The Scientific R&D Engineer is responsible for * Performing scientific research into image processing, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence algorithms for applications in medical imaging * Extending, enhancing, and testing existing algorithms and developing new ones as libraries for integration and distribution * Following software engineering principles for code design, review and defect fixes and relevant procedures for research software development * Writing and presenting scientific papers for international journals and conferences * Maintaining a working knowledge of the state-of-the-art in relevant research areas Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate all or many of these key qualities: * A proven research background in image processing, pattern recognition, and/or artificial intelligence * Doctorate in Mathematics, Computer Science or other numerate discipline * Advanced research experience in machine learning and classification preferred * Knowledge of Matlab, C++, and object-oriented programming * Understanding of Medical Physics including CT, MRI, and Ultrasound, is useful * Ability to deal with steep learning curves and work to tight timeframes * Strong team working and communication skills * Particular preference will be given to candidates with experience in medical imaging applications, especially Computer Aided Detection (CAD) and Computer Aided Diagnosis (CADx) tools Applications/enquiries with detailed CV for the attention of: Dr. Greg Slabaugh - Head of Research and Development E-mail: careers@medicsight.com Web: www.medicsight.com Please note that due to the large number of email applicants it is not possible for Medicsight to respond to every individual. A representative from the company will contact you if you have successfully passed to the interview stage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 8, 2008 From: Alejandro Jaimes Subject: Telefonica Research, Madrid Research Openings at Telefonica Research in Madrid, Spain Areas: User Modeling, AI & Data Mining, Personalization, Business Intelligence. Telefonica Research in Madrid has several research openings at all levels in the new Data Mining and User Modeling research group, which focuses on human-centered approaches to data analysis for customer modeling, personalization, and recommender systems. Additional information about the group and research opportunities available here: http://research.tid.es/usermodeling/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jul 3, 2008 From: Uwe Aickelin Subject: Lecturer, Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Group, UK University of Nottingham Lecturer in Computer Science Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Research Group School of Computer Science Applications are invited for the above post in the Intelligent Modelling and Analysis (IMA) Research Group in School of Computer Science. The IMA group has recently been established to focus a growing area of interest in the School. The group currently has four permanent academics, two support staff, six researchers, over 30 PhD students and holds over £5m in external research funding. Further information about the IMA Research Group is available at: http://www.ima.cs.nott.ac.uk Full details of the vacancy can be found here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/RN311/Lecturer_in_Computer_Science/ Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor U Aickelin Email: Uwe.Aickelin@Nottingham.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 9, 2008 From: Thierry Charnois Subject: CS, NLP, and Data Mining, University of Caen, France Topic: Discovering Extraction Rules for annotating corpus A post-doctoral position in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing and Data Mining is opened at the GREYC laboratory (CNRS UMR 6072) at University of Caen: http://bingo2.greyc.fr/openPositions/postDoc08GREYC_En ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jul 7, 2008 From: Tjeerd Dijkstra Subject: Bayesian Machine Learning, The Netherlands Post-doctoral researcher in Bayesian Machine Learning Machine Learning Group, Intelligent Systems Section Institute for Computing and Information Sciences Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Job number: 62.63.08 Job description In the GeNeUSS (Genetic Networks Underlying Synaptic Signaling) project dynamical models of neurotransmitter vesicle release will be developed. From a machine learning perspective, the challenge is to develop efficient techniques for structure learning in large dynamical models. Your task is to fit different models with techniques from Bayesian inference. Job requirements We are seeking a candidate with a relevant PhD (engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics or bioinformatics) and experience with Bayesian machine learning. Further information Informal enquiries may be addressed to Tjeerd Dijkstra E-mail: t.dijkstra@science.ru.nl; or Tom Heskes, E-mail: t.heskes@science.ru.nl. How to apply Send your letter of application and CV before September 1, 2008 to Radboud University Nijmegen, mrs.drs. D. Reinders PO Box, 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, NL E-mail: pz@science.ru.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jul 14, 2008 From: Mike Bain Subject: Data Mining for Personalization, Australia Postdoctoral Positions: Data Mining for Personalization The University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) is recruiting up to two postdoctoral positions for research on data mining applications in the area of personal assistants and personalized services. These would suit recent graduates in machine learning or data mining, knowledge acquisition, software agents, etc., who have an interest in industry collaboration. For further details see: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~wobcke/Postdocs.html http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/recruitment/jobs/11070801.html Or contact Wayne Wobcke (wobcke@cse.unsw.edu.au) or Mike Bain (mike@cse.unsw.edu.au). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jul 15, 2008 From: Hennon, Brianne Subject: Medical Physics, California, USA POSITION: Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Physics LOCATION: University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center Several postdoctoral positions are immediately available in the Center for Advanced Radiotherapy Technologies (CART), Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Diego, for individuals interested in pursuing an academic career in medical physics. Medical physics is a field concerning the application of physics and engineering techniques to solving medical problems. The positions at CART are specifically related to the development of image guidance techniques in cancer radiotherapy. A Ph.D. in physics, engineering, computer science or related disciplines, with strong programming skills, is required. Experience with machine learning will be a plus. Training in clinical medical physics may be provided. Initial appointment will be for one year with potential renewal for a second year. Radiotherapy medical physics is an intellectually challenging yet practical and well compensated profession. It is definitely a career path worthy of exploring for physics and engineering graduates. Interested candidates should e-mail a CV to the contact below. Brianne Hennon Research Administrative Assistant Center for Advanced Radiotherapy Technologies Department of Radiation Oncology University of California, San Diego 3855 Health Sciences Dr. #0843 La Jolla, CA 92093-0843 Tel: (858)822-5036 Fax: (858)822-6078 http://radonc.ucsd.edu/Research/CART ------------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 20, No. 6