Machine Learning List: Vol. 14, No. 4
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Contents
Calls for Papers and Meeting Announcements
CFP: CP'02 International Workshop on Reformulating Constraint
Journal CFP: Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS)
CFP
FLAIRS'03 Call for Special Tracks Proposals
ES2002 workshop: AI for Intelligent Business
CFP: MLJ Special Issue: Theoretical Advances in Data Clustering
HIS'02 - Second Call for Papers
CFP - IS conference
Other Items of Interest
SIGKDD Explorations Volume 4, Issue 1 available online
ACM SIGKDD 2002 in Edmonton (Reduced airfares)
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From: Ian Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: CP'02 International Wrkshp on Reformulating Constraint
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:51:44 +0100
Call for Papers and Participation
International Workshop On
REFORMULATING CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS:
TOWARDS SYSTEMATISATION AND AUTOMATION
To be held at the 8th International Conference on
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2002)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
8 September 2002
Many companies have scheduling, assignment, supply chain and other
problems that could be solved with a constraint programming
toolkit. Although the solution of these problems is of vital
commercial importance, constraint programming toolkits are not widely
used because there is insufficient expertise available to model
problems as constraint programs.
This formulation bottleneck can be reduced by the development of
systems that can take a problem specification from a non-expert and
automatically reformulate it into a form that can be solved
efficiently. The facilities and capabilities of such a system might
include:
a high-level language for specifying constraint satisfaction problems,
a compiler to translate high level specifications to executable
models,
a module system that facilitates the modelling of large-scale and
complex CSPs and reformulation methods that can exploit models
constructed in this manner,
the construction of a more abstract formulation whose solution can
aid in solving the original problem,
the generation of implied constraints,
the detection and breaking symmetry,
the removal of redundant constraints,
the transformation of constraints,
the translation into Boolean satisfiability, and
the execution of large-scale changes of representation such as
changing the choice of variables.
We solicit original papers contributing to any aspect of constraint
problem reformulation including, but not limited to, those just
mentioned. We are especially interested in papers that address issues
in making the reformulation process more systematic and automatic.
SUBMISSION
To submit a paper, send an email to the Programme Chair
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with title, authors' names and emails, name of
corresponding author, and a URL of the submission in postscript or
(preferably) in pdf. Submissions must be formatted in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style and must not exceed 15 pages.
Submissions of shorter papers, including position papers, are welcomed.
All submissions will be reviewed and those that are well presented and
make a worthwhile contribution to the topic of the workshop will be
accepted for publication in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings
will be available electronically and in hardcopy at CP-2002. All
accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, either as a talk or
in a poster session.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 4 July 2002
Notification of acceptance: 22 July 2002
Camera Ready deadline: 5 Aug 2002
Workshop: 8 September 2002
FURTHER INFORMATION
CP'02 Conference: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cp2002/
Reformulation Workshop: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~frisch/Reformulation
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Journal CFP: Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 03:26:11 -0700 (PDT)
CALL FOR PAPERS
WEB INTELLIGENCE AND AGENT SYSTEMS: An International Journal
Home Page: http://wi-consortium.org/
WEB INTELLIGENCE AND AGENT SYSTEMS: An International Journal (WIAS) is
an official journal of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), an
international organization dedicated to promoting collaborative
scientific research and industrial development in the era of Web and
agent intelligence. WIAS seeks to collaborate with major societies and
international conferences in the fields. Presently, it has established
a tie with the International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) and
the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT).
WIAS is a peer-reviewed journal, which publishes 4 issues a year, in
both electronic and hard copies.
WIAS aims to achieve a disciplinary balance between Web technology and
intelligent agent technology. It is committed to deepening the
understanding of computational, logical, cognitive, physical, and
social foundations as well as the enabling technologies for developing
and applying Web-based intelligence and autonomous agents systems.
The journal features high-quality, original research papers (including
state-of-the-art reviews), brief papers, and letters in all
theoretical and technology areas that make up the field of WIAS.
The papers should clearly focus on some of the following areas of
interest:
o Agent infrastructure and architecture
o Agent self-organization, learning, and adaptation
o Agent-based knowledge discovery
o Agent-mediated markets
o Autonomy-oriented or autonomic computing
o Cooperative problem solving
o Distributed intelligence and emergent behavior
o Emerging agent-based, Web-based systems and computing paradigms
o Evaluation and standards for agent-based Web intelligence technologies
o Information ecology
o Knowledge management, networks, and communities
o Mediators and middleware
o Ontology engineering
o Personalization techniques
o Security issues in Web and agent systems
o Semantic Web, Web services and interoperability
o Ubiquitous computing and social intelligence
o Web information filtering and retrieval
o Web mining and farming
Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers, which have
not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration
for another journal or conference.
In order to facilitate the review process, authors are required to
mark the topics (within the Electronic Submission Form) to which their
submissions are most relevant.
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From: Shie Mannor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please publish the CFP
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:00:28 +0200
Call for Papers
Annals of Operations Research
special issue on
Cross-entropy Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation,
Rare-event Simulation and Neural Computation
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2002
The Annals of Operations Research (AOR) invites authors to submit
papers to the special issue on Cross-entropy Algorithms for
Combinatorial Optimisation, Rare-event Simulation, and Neural
Computation.
BACKGROUND
Introduced in 1997 as an adaptive approach to the efficient estimation
of rare-event probabilities, the cross-entropy (CE) method has rapidly
developed into a powerful and versatile technique for both rare-event
simulation and combinatorial optimisation. The method derives its name
from the cross-entropy (or Kullback-Leibler) distance - a well known
measure of "information", which has been successfully employed in
diverse fields of engineering and science, and in particular in neural
computation, for about half a century. The CE method is an iterative
method, which involves the following two phases:
1. Generation of a sample of random data (trajectories, vectors,
etc.) according to a specified random mechanism.
2. Updating the parameters of the random mechanism, on the basis of
the data, in order to produce a "better" sample in the next
iteration.
For more information on the CE method we refer to the web site:
http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/ce/.
TOPICS
We welcome the submission of cross-entropy-based papers on all three
topics: combinatorial optimization, rare-event simulation, and neural
computation. In this issue we plan to include several papers on the
application of the CE method for solving classification, clustering,
vector quantization, image reconstruction and Markovian decision
problems under uncertainty, which are associated with the field of
neural computation and learning. We also encourage submissions on the
comparison of the CE method to related techniques such as Ant Colony
Optimisation, Stochastic Steepest Ascent, the EM algorithm and
Simulated Annealing. Finally, theoretical advances to and analytical
insights into the CE method will be of great value. It is our belief
that this volume will stimulate the interest on the theory and
applications of learning and in particular on learning with CE.
SUBMISSION
The deadline for submission is December 31, 2002. All papers should be
submitted to Reuven Rubinstein by e-mail as postscript or pdf files.
One of the four editors will be assigned to each submitted paper. The
editor will carefully referee the paper along with two additional
referees. The papers accepted for publication will be delivered to the
Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Peter Hammer by December 31, 2003. The special
issue of AOR is to published sometime during the year 2004.
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From: Rosina Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FLAIRS'03 Call for Special Tracks Proposals
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:24:58 -0400
FLAIRS'03
The 16th International FLAIRS Conference
Call for Special Track Proposals
Casa Monica Hotel
St. Augustine, FL
May 11-15, 2003
Deadline for submission of proposals on July 19, 2002
As the Special Tracks Coordinator of FLAIRS 2003, I would like to
invite AI researchers to propose a special track for the 2003
International FLAIRS Conference, to be held at the Casa Monica Hotel,
St. Augustine, FL, May 11-15, 2003. A special track usually consists
of presentation of papers in an AI sub discipline or special field,
refereed by researchers and practitioners in the field. Unlike
workshops, where position papers and reports on initial and intended
work are appropriate, papers selected for a special track should
report on significant unpublished work suitable for publication as a
conference paper.
If you are interested in proposing a special track, please send me a
proposal as described below, by the deadline. The FLAIRS organizing
committee will respond to you on the acceptance of the proposal by
August 4, 2002. We expect this timetable to provide sufficient time
for publicity of the special tracks.
If you know of some AI colleague who might be interested in proposing
a track, please share this announcement with her/him or send me the
e-mail address of the colleague.
The conference will provide an umbrella for running all special
tracks. This entails affiliation with a well-known and well-
publicized conference, in addition to all the logistics of actually
holding such a meeting. High quality papers with the level of maturity
for a journal publication will be considered to be included in a
special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence
Tools (IJAIT) devoted to FLAIRS-03. Special tracks papers are also
considered for best paper award.
Please find below the details to be included in your proposal and
more specific guidelines and responsibilities of a ST organizer
for FLAIRS 2003, important dates, and a (nonrestrictive) list of
suggested topics. Please contact me ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
with any questions that are not answered by the information below,
or would like to find out more about proposing a special track
for FLAIRS 2003.
Rosina Weber
FLAIRS 2003 Special Tracks Coordinator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~rw37/STweb/specialtracks03.html
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From: Alun Preece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ES2002 workshop: AI for Intelligent Business
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:49:09 +0100
CALL FOR PAPERS
AI FOR INTELLIGENT BUSINESS
Workshop in conjunction with ES2002:
the 22nd Annual International Conference of the
British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~apreece/es2002/workshop/
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 30 September 2002
Increasingly, firms are looking for an edge against their competition.
A number of AI-based approaches are providing that edge by exploiting
the ability to:
o facilitate integration across companies for e-business
o interpret and understand data
The Web is providing an infrastructure that can be leveraged using AI.
In addition, with information overload, there is a need to use AI to be
able to process the available information.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
Papers are welcome on any use of artificial intelligence for business
applications, including but not limited to:
o agents and the semantic web
o e-business applications, e.g. automated contracting and negotiation
o competitive analysis
o data mining and visualization; machine learning and knowledge
discovery
o dynamic pricing - recommendation and reputation systems
o representation, communication, and execution of business policies,
rules, and processes
o xml-based technologies
o web services
We welcome either full papers (following the standard 14-page ES2002
submission format) or 2-page position statements. Formatting details are
on the ES2002 website: http://www.bcs-sges.org/es2002/
Please submit by email attachment (PDF or Word format) to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2002.
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From: Nina Mishra Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: MLJ Special Issue: Theoretical Advances in Data Clustering
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:40:59 -0700
Call for Papers
"Theoretical Advances in Data Clustering"
Special Issue of Machine Learning journal
Guest Editors:
Nina Mishra, HP Labs
Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University
Data clustering, the problem of grouping similar objects together,
has attracted significant practical attention due to modern applications
like web document clustering, click stream analysis, multimedia
applications, and telecommunication records. The field has experienced
a corresponding theoretical surge due to recent algorithmic discoveries
and novel methods of modeling the clustering problem. In this special
issue, we seek papers that document theoretical advances related to
data clustering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- approximation/randomized algorithms
- graph-based clustering
- spectral clustering
- dimension reduction techniques
- dense region identification
- Bayesian clustering
- statistical/machine-learning theory
- testing clusterability
- clustering large datasets
- clustering dynamic datasets, like data streams
- mixture modeling
- conceptual clustering
Rigorous papers supported with empirical case studies are also welcome.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Instructions
for submission can be found at
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~holte/mlj/initialsubmission.pdf
In the text of your electronic submission, please explicitly
state that the paper is for this special issue.
In addition to submitting the paper to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please
also submit to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IMPORTANT DATES
Dec 6, 2002 Abstract submission.
Dec 13, 2002 Full submissions should be received.
May 27, 2003 Decisions sent to authors; papers accepted
with no more than minor revisions accepted to
the special issue.
Dec 27, 2003 Final versions of accepted papers should be received
in the format specified for full submissions, using
Kluwer style guidelines.
An online version of this call for papers can be found at:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Nina_Mishra/MLJ-clustering.html
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From: Ajith Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HIS'02 - Second Call for Papers
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:45:21 +1000
second call for papers
2nd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'02)
December 01 - 04, 2002
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
http://his02.hybridsystem.com
DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: July 31, 2002
HIS'02 is the second International conference that brings together
researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of soft computing,
computational intelligence, agents, logic programming, and several
other intelligent computing techniques. The aim of HIS'02 is to serve
as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange
research ideas in this field.
HIS'02 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work
that demonstrate current research using soft computing/computational
intelligence and other intelligent computing techniques and their
applications in science, technology, business and commercial. Please
submit a full paper of 8 to 10 pages (Letter or A4 paper) for oral
presentation. The proceedings of the Conference will be published by
IOS Press, Netherlands. A selected number of papers will also be
considered for a special issue of the Elsevier Science Journal
"Applied Soft Computing" and for a special issue of the IOS Press
Journal- Intelligent Data Analysis. Please follow the author's
guidelines given by IOS Press for more information on submission.
Author's guidelines can be downloaded from the conference web page.
HIS02 IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Events Proposals June 30, 2002
Deadline for Paper Submission (full paper) July 31, 2002
Notification of Acceptance August 30, 2002
Deadline for Camera Ready Papers September 10, 2002
HIS'02 Conference in Chile December 01-04, 2002
Venue Information (Santiago, Chile)
HIS=9202 will be hosted by the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical
Sciences at the Universidad de Chile (Beaucheff 850, Santiago
de Chile).
December is an excellent time to travel in Chile. The local
organizers will help the interested participants to arrange a
trip to any location in Chile. For more information about traveling
in Chile please visit:
http://www.sernatur.cl/ and http://www.visit-chile.org/
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From: "Matjaz Gams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fw: CFP - IS conference
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:46:36 +0200
CALL FOR PAPERS
The fifth international INFORMATION SOCIETY 2002 CONFERENCE
http://is.ijs.si consists of the following single conferences:
Collaboration and information society
Data mining
Development and reingeeniring of information systems
Education in information society
Intelligent systems
Management and information society
Cognitive science
Language technologies
October 14. to 18., Ljubljana, Slovenia (see
http://www.tourist-board.si/lega-eng.html)
Papers should be submited until the end of August
(exact data depends on the conference).
This conference aims to cover both technological as well as
non-technological issues related to these areas. With conference fee
of 50 Euro this conference is one of economically most attractive
events in Europe. Each single conference includes up to 5 invited
speakers from nearby countries. Best papers will be published in
journals.
Best regards,
Matjaz Gams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Personal: http://ai.ijs.si/mezi/matjaz.html
Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, Ljubljana
Slovenia, Europe
If you want to join or just get emails from Slovenian AI, Cognitive
sciences or ACM Slovenia, please email me.
http://ai.ijs.si/mezi/acmslovenia/index.html
http://www-ai.ijs.si/slais/slais.html
http://ai.ijs.si/Mezi/kogni/kogni.html
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From: Paul Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SIGKDD Explorations Volume 4, Issue 1 available online
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:21:49 -0700
We are please to announce that SIGKDD Explorations Volume 4, Issue 1
is available online at:
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/
Roberto Bayardo served as Guest Editor for this issue and coordinated
a set of high-quality articles on the topic of "Constraints in Data
Mining".
Table of Contents:
- R. J. Bayardo. Editorial. pp. i-ii.
Contributed Articles on "Constraints in Data Mining"
- R. Potharst and A. J. Feelders. Classification Trees for Problems
with Monotonicity Constraints. pp. 1 - 10.
- S. Babu, M. Garofalakis, and R. Rastogi. SPARTAN: Using
Constrained Models for Guaranteed Error Semantic Compression.
pp. 11 - 20.
- X. Wu and D. Barbara. Learning Missing Values from Summary
Constraints. pp. 21 - 30.
- J. Pei and J. Han. Constrained Frequent Pattern Mining: A
Pattern-Growth View. pp. 31 - 39.
- C. K.-S. Leung, L. V. S. Lakshmanan, and R. T. Ng. Exploiting
Succinct Constraints using FP-trees. pp. 40 - 49.
- J. Hipp and U. Guntzer. Is Pushing Constraints Deeply into the
Mining Algorithms Really What We Want? pp. 50 - 55.
- C.-S. Perng, H. Wang, S. Ma, and J. L. Hellerstein. Discovery in
Multi-Attribute Data with User-defined Constraints. pp. 56 - 64.
Contributed Articles
- V. Estivill-Castro. Why so many clustering algorithms -- A Position
Paper. pp. 65 - 75.
News, Events and Announcements. pp. 76 - 78.
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From: Osmar Zaiane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ACM SIGKDD 2002 in Edmonton (Reduced airfares)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:04:01 -0600 (MDT)
Dear colleagues,
This is an additional call for participation with new information
about airfare to Edmonton.
It just came to our attention that Air Canada is having a SEAT SALE.
Tickets must be bought by July 03 and travel must be completed by Sept
03. You can find more information at http://www.aircanada.ca. This
is a good opportunity to book your flight to KDD'02 in Edmonton (if
you haven't done so yet) AND save some money !
Also note that the early registration deadline is June 26 and the hotel
preferred rate for KDD attendees ends June 28.
More details about the conference (e.g., preliminary program) can be
found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2002/
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