************************************************************************* Machine Learning List: Volume 21, Number 2 Wednesday, February 18, 2009 ************************************************************************* Contents Call for Papers Computational Intelligence and Games WORLDCOMP'09 Asian Conference on Machine Learning Inductive Reasoning and ML on the Semantic Web Intelligent Data Analysis ICLP Doctoral Consortium Methodologies for Intelligent Systems International Conference on Logic Programming\ Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications Adaptive & Intelligent Systems Learning Structural Knowledge from Observations Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Agents for Autonomic Computing Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems Intelligent Information Systems Career Opportunities Research Assistant, Leeds, UK Post-Doctoral Research Project on Academic Publication Management, Germany Robotics and Adaptive Control, Edinburgh, UK Biomedical Ontology, New York, USA Ph.D. Studentship Charles Sturt University, Australia ************************************************************************ 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: Jan 3, 2009 From: Pier Luca Lanzi Subject: Computational Intelligence and Games Call for Papers IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG-2009) Milano, Italy, September 7-10, 2008 http://www.ieee-cig.org Tutorial Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009 Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: July 15, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 5, 2009 From: WORLDCOMP'09 Congress Conferences Subject: WORLDCOMP'09 Call for Papers 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 13-16, 2009 http://www.world-academy-of-science.org Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: April 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 6, 2009 From: Sheng-Jun Huang Subject: Asian Conference on Machine Learning Call for Papers 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'09) Nanjing, China, November 2-4, 2009 http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/ACML09 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: August 5, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 8, 2009 From: Claudia d'Amato Subject: Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and ML on the Semantic Web First Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning on the Semantic Web Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 1, 2009 http://irmles2009.di.uniba.it Paper Submission Deadline: March 7, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: April 18, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 9, 2009 From: Bruno Cremilleux Subject: Intelligent Data Analysis Call for Papers 8th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis Lyon, France, August 31 - September 2, 2009 http://ida09.liris.cnrs.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 9, 2009 From: iclp09.dc@gmail.com Subject: ICLP Doctoral Consortium Call for Papers International Conference on Logic Programming 5th ICLP Doctoral Consortium Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-17, 2009 http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~toms/DC2009/ Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 12, 2009 From: Petr Berka Subject: Methodologies for Intelligent Systems Call for Papers 18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'09) Prague, Czech Republic, September 14-17, 2009 Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: June 15, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 18, 2009 From: cfp@clip.dia.fi.upm.es Subject: International Conference on Logic Programming Call for Workshop Proposals 25th International Conference on Logic Programming Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-17, 2009 http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/ Workshop Proposal Deadline: February 9, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 20, 2009 From: Alessandro Antonucci Subject: Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications Final Call for Papers 6th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications Durham, UK, July 14-18, 2009 http://www.sipta.org/isipta09 Paper Submission Deadline: February 13, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: April 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Jan 23, 2009 From: hamid@isys.uni-klu.ac.at Subject: Adaptive & Intelligent Systems Call for Papers 2009 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems (ICAIS'09) Klagenfurt, Austria, September 24 - 26, 2009 http://www.isys.uni-klu.ac.at/icais09/ Paper Submission Deadline: February 28, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: July 10, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 23, 2009 From: Ugur Kuter Subject: Learning Structural Knowledge from Observations Call for Papers The IJCAI-09 Workshop on Learning Structural Knowledge from Observations in conjunction with 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09) Pasadena, California, USA, July 12, 2009 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/ukuter/struck09/ Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: May 8, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 23, 2009 From: Kevin Duh Subject: Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing Call for Papers NAACL 2009 Workshop on Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 4, 2009 http://sites.google.com/site/sslnlp/ Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 28, 2009 From: Carlo Combi Subject: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Call for Papers, Workshops, and Tutorials 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine Verona, Italy, July 18 - 22, 2009 http://www.aimedicine.info/ http://aimedicine.info/aime09/ Tutorial Submission Deadline: February 9, 2009 Workshop Proposal Deadline: February 9, 2009 Paper Submission Deadline: February 9, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: April 27, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 28, 2009 From: aac2009@iids.org Subject: Agents for Autonomic Computing Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Agents for Autonomic Computing (AAC 2009) to be held in conjunction with 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2009) Barcelona, Spain, June 192009 http://www.iids.org/aac-2009/ Paper Submission Dealine: February 16, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: April 6, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 29, 2009 From: Fernando Fernandez Rebollo Subject: Automated Planning and Scheduling Call for Papers 19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling Thessaloniki, Greece, September 19-23, 2009 ICAPS-2009, http://icaps09.uom.gr Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2009 Workshop Submission Deadline: February 15, 2009 Tutorial Submission Deadline: April 13, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 30, 2009 From: Menno van Zaanen Subject: Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning Call for Papers 18th Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (Benelearn 09) Tilburg, the Netherlands, May 18-19, 2009 http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/ Paper Submission Deadline: February 21, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 2, 2009 From: Nils T Siebel, HYCAS Workshop Subject: Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems Call for Papers International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control Held in conjunction with IJCAI-09 Pasadena, CA, USA, July 13 2009 http://www.hycas.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: May 8, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 6, 2009 From: IIS'09 Conference Subject: Intelligent Information Systems Call for Papers International Joint Conference Intelligent Information Systems 2009 (IIS 2009) Joint venture of the 17th International Conference Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) and the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Kraków, Poland, June 15-18, 2009 http://iis.ipipan.waw.pl/ Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2009 Camera-ready Deadline: May 4, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 16, 2009 From: Serge Sharoff Ssubject: Research Assistant, Leeds, UK The Centre for Translation Studies and School of Computing, the University of Leeds, UK, are inviting applications for the post of Research Assistant to work on a 12-month research project funded by a Google Research Award to Serge Sharoff and Katja Markert. This fixed-term position is for one year with a start date in April 2009. The project aims to classify web pages into genres in multiple languages, since different pages have quite different uses and characteristics. A query for `Venice' results in pages of various types, referring to recent news, information about history, guidebooks, hotel lists, opinions about hotels and restaurants, etc. Our research questions in this project are: * Which features of webpages are useful for their automatic classification? * How language-specific are those features? * How can we build efficient classifiers with minimal annotation data? The RA will be doing research on feature selection, development of classifiers and evaluation. The ideal candidate has recently completed or nearing completion of a PhD in computational linguistics or machine learning with an emphasis on weakly-supervised methods in natural language processing. Knowledge of graph-based machine learning or linguistic genre theory and at least one language in addition to English is desirable. Suitable candidates with MSc/MA degree can be also considered. The 12-month salary will be according to Grade 6 in the British academic system (£24,152-28,839). The deadline for application is February 27, 2009 with interviews expected in the beginning of March. Information on the application procedure is available from: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/hr/jobs/apply.htm With any informal questions about this job, please contact Dr Serge Sharoff (s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, tel. +44(0)113 3437287). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 26, 2009 From: Sethu Vijayakumar Subject: Robotics and Adaptive Control, Edinburgh, UK University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Robotics and Adaptive Control Applications are invited for two Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the area of Learning Robotics and Adaptive Control as part of an EU-IST FP7 funded project. The posts are available from Mar. 2009 for a maximum of 34 months and located in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Salary is on the UE07 scale (£29,704-£35,469) with annual increments and full staff benefits. Placement for the post is according to experience and qualifications. Post One: Robotics and Adaptive Control: The candidate is expected to have good fundamentals in control theory and most importantly, hands on experience with writing software and controlling robotic hardware. The appointee will be responsible for direct implementation of adaptive control paradigms on biophysical simulations and on state-of-the-art novel variable impedance actuators. Post Two: Statistical Learning and Adaptive Control Theory: The candidate is expected to have a strong background in optimization, statistical learning and adaptive control theory and some familiarity of concepts such as direct policy learning, stochastic dynamic programming and optimal feedback control. An interest and knowledge of variable impedance strategies in human motor control is a definite advantage. The appointee will be responsible for development of effective adaptive control strategies and algorithms that exploit variable stiffness paradigms. Both posts will involve traveling to project partner meetings around Europe, periodic reporting at EU reviews as well as attending and disseminating work at international conference. The post also assumes leadership roles and some level of PhD supervision on topics relevant to the project. The successful candidates will have a PhD (or expected completion) in the area of (learning) robotics, probabilistic machine learning and/or adaptive motor control; strong mathematical skills in the area of optimization, algebra and control theory; strong programming skills in C, C++, MATLAB or equivalent; some experience with writing software and control of real hardware systems; a good understanding of adaptive control paradigms More details of the job and the research group can be found at: http://www.ipab.inf.ed.ac.uk/slmc Applicants are asked to submit your curriculum vitae including a statement of interest justifying your suitability for the post you are applying for and contact details of two referees using the online application procedure at: Post1: http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies. detail&vacancy_ref=3010336 Post2: https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies. detail&vacancy_ref=3010337 Application Deadline: February 20, 2009 Informal enquiries may be addressed to: Dr. Sethu Vijayakumar (sethu.vijayakumar [at] ed.ac.uk) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Feb 4, 2009 From: Barry Smith Subject: Biomedical Ontology, New York, USA The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (http://ncbo.us) seeks applicants for a post-doctoral research position to work on projects relating to applications of ontology in medicine and biology. The successful candidate will work with ontology researchers in the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences in Buffalo, New York. He or she will have expertise in at least two of the following areas: ontology, logic, philosophy of science, bioinformatics, biology, medicine, computer science. Further details are available from Barry Smith or under posting number 0900040 at http://ubjobs.buffalo.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 29, 2009 From: Gao, Jun bin (Dr) Subject: Charles Sturt University, Austrailia 1 PhD Scholarship at $25,000 per annum each The Charles Sturt University http://www.csu.edu.au An opportunity exists for one (1) highly motivated student to take on PhD in the areas of computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing and signal processing. The research is part of an industry supported project. The student’s roles are to investigate methods which will be used to extract image features and apply pattern recognition methods to rock surfaces. The scholarship covers $25K living stipend and CSU shall offer a fee-free place for the successful candidate. The potential applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents (applications from non-Australian citizen may be considered, but applicants from non-English speaking countries shall have an English test IELTS of score 6.5+.) The optimal candidate would have a clear interest in computer vision and pattern recognition. In addition, the candidate should demonstrate a willingness to tackle relevant mathematical problems and to work with various software APIs for the hardware used in this project. The candidate should possess or expect to obtain Honours I or strong Honours II degree from disciplines including, but not limited to Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and/or Statistics. The applicants are also expected to have strong programming skills in C++ (or Matlab) and have some system engineering experience. For more information contact: A/Professor Junbin Gao (email jbgao@csu.edu.au; phone (02) 6338 4213) Applicants should submit a letter (maximum two pages) outlining their suitability for the position, accompanied by a brief CV (including contact details for two referees) and a copy of their academic transcripts at first instance. After a shortlisting procedure, suitable applicants will be contacted and guided for further admission application. Your letter etc should be sent by email to: A/Professor Junbin Gao at jbgao@csu.edu.au ------------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 21, No. 2