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Machine Learning List: Vol. 14, No. 7
Sunday, Sept 22, 2002
Contents
Calls for Papers and Meeting Announcements
CFP: CONTEXT'03, the 4th Intl Conference on Modeling and Using Context
2003 WSEAS Conferences -- NNA, FSFS, and EC
evoBIO call for papers
EvoIASP2003: CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: Workshop on Data Mining for Cyber Threat Analysis
Jobs
Post-doc Position in Computational Biology or Bioinformatic
Dorothean Professor in Computer Science at the University of Vermont
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From: "Roberta Ferrario" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CONTEXT'03, 4th International Conference on Modeling and Using Context
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:52:09 +0200
Call for Papers
CONTEXT'03
Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on
Modeling and Using Context
Stanford, California (USA)
June 18-20, 2003
(www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03)
The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling
and Using Context (CONTEXT'03), will provide a high-quality forum for
discussions about context among researchers active in artificial
intelligence and other areas of computer science, cognitive science,
linguistics, the organizational sciences, philosophy, and psychology.
Context affects a wide range of activities in humans and animals as
well as in artificial agents and other computer programs. The
importance of context is widely acknowledged, and "context" has become
an area of study in its own right, as evidenced by the numerous
workshops, symposia, seminars, and conferences held recently. CONTEXT,
the oldest conference series focusing on context, is unique due to its
strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research. Previous CONTEXT
conferences have been held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CONTEXT'97),
Trento, Italy (CONTEXT'99), and Dundee, Scotland (CONTEXT'01). Each of
these brought together researchers in many disparate fields to discuss
and report on research on context-related topics.
The proceedings of CONTEXT'03 will be published in a Lecture Notes
series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lnai) of Springer-Verlag, as were
those of the previous CONTEXT conferences.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
To guide potential submissions, a representative sampling of topics of
interest for CONTEXT'03 are as follows (in alphabetical order). This
is not an exhaustive list, and other contributions are welcome,
although all submissions must have a focus on context.
Analogy and case-based reasoning Autonomous Agents & Agent-based Systems
Cognitive Modeling Commonsense Reasoning
Context Issues in Databases Context-aware Applications
Contextual effects on language Contextual effects on problem-solving,
understanding and production decision-making, and categorization
Decision Support and Expert Systems Distributed Information Systems
Formal Theories of Context Heterogeneous Information Integration
Human-Computer Interaction Information Management
Intelligent Tutoring Systems Intelligent/Semantic Web Systems
Interagent Communication Knowledge Engineering and Management
Knowledge Representation Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems Natural Language Processing
Neuroscience and context Organizational Theory and Design
Philosophical Foundations
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Since CONTEXT'03 will be an interdisciplinary forum, all submissions,
in addition to being evaluated for their technical merit, will be
evaluated for their accessibility to an interdisciplinary audience.
Works that transcend disciplinary boundaries are especially
encouraged. Papers will be accepted either for oral presentation or
for presentation at a poster session.
Each submission will be evaluated by three referees. Complete
formatting requirements and detailed instructions for authors can be
found on the conference Web page. Note that papers cannot be longer
than 14 pages. Papers must be submitted electronically--no hardcopy
submissions will be accepted without prior approval from the Program
Co-Chairs well in advance of the submission deadline. LaTeX and Word
templates are available at the conference Web page. Papers must be in
PDF format. See the conference Web page for instructions on
converting to this format from Word, LaTeX, etc.
Submitted papers should be received by the Program Co-Chairs no later
than January 6, 2003. The conference Web page contains instructions
for submitting papers electronically.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline................January 6, 2003
Notification for all submissions.........March 6, 2003
Deadline for final versions papers.......April 6, 2003
Conference...............................June 18-20, 2003
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From: "Dear Colleagues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2003 WSEAS Conferences -- NNA, FSFS, and EC
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:45:02 +0300
CALL FOR PAPERS
After the impressive success of the previous conferences of WSEAS in
Artificial (Computational) Intelligence in Tenerife, Mexico, New York,
Switzerland, you are invited to submit a paper or to organize a
session or a group of sessions for the following WSEAS conferences:
4th WSEAS Int.Conf. on NEURAL NETWORK AND APPLICATIONS (NNA '03)
4th WSEAS Int.Conf. on FUZZY SETS AND FUZZY SYSTEMS (FSFS '03)
4th WSEAS Int.Conf. on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (EC '03)
Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, February 13-15, 2003 (three conferences)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Oct 31, 2002
Please, visit: http://www.wseas.org
Papers will be published in the Proceedings and in WSEAS Journals and Books
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From: Marchiori Elena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: evoBIO call for papers
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:18:18 +0200
EVOBIO 2003
1ST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
AND BIOINFORMATICS
University of Essex, April 14-16, 2003
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~evobio/evobio.html
http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/evobio.html
EvoBIO is the first workshop of the newly formed EvoNet (European
Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation) working group on
bioinformatics. EvoBIO covers research in all aspects of
computational intelligence in bioinformatics and computational
biology.
The emphasis is on algorithms based on evolutionary computation, on
neural networks and on other novel optimisation and machine learning
methods, that address important problems in molecular biology,
genomics and genetics, that are computationally efficient, and that
have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets.
The goal of the workshop is to present recent research results,
including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore
directions of future research, besides stimulating closer interaction
between members of this scientific community working on
Bioinformatics.
The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in
Evolutionary Computing, and will be held in conjunction with
EuroGP2003, the European Conference on Genetic Programming (April
14-16).
SUBMISSIONS
To submit, send your manuscript (postscript or PDF, maximum length: 10 A4
pages) via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] no later than November 20, 2002.
Formatting instructions can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf The papers will be
peer reviewed by three members of the program committee. Authors will be
notified via email on the results of the review by December 20, 2002.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: November 20, 2002
Notification of acceptance: December 20, 2002
Camera ready due: January 17, 2003
Workshop: April 14-16, 2003
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From: Stefano Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EvoIASP2003: CALL FOR PAPERS
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:18:36 +0200
CALL FOR PAPERS
EVOIASP2003
Fifth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis
and Signal Processing
Essex, United Kingdom, April 14, 2003
EvoIASP is the first European event specifically dedicated to the
applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis and
signal processing (IASP) and gives European and non-European
researchers in those fields, as well as people from industry, an
opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current
developments and applications, besides fostering closer future
interaction between members of the three scientific communities.
The previous editions of the Workshop were held in Goteborg, Sweden
(1999), Edinburgh, UK (2000), Como, Italy (2001), and Kinsale, Ireland
(2002).
The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in
Evolutionary Computing, and is one of the activities of EvoIASP, the
EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Computation for Image Analysis
and Signal Processing. It will be part of EvoWorkshops2003 and will be
held in conjunction with EuroGP2003, the European Conference on
Genetic Programming.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
applications of evolutionary computation to real-life IASP problems,
evolvable vision and signal processing hardware,
evolutionary pattern recognition,
hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing
including evolutionary components,
theoretical developments,
comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between
evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in IASP applications,
financial time series analysis by means of EC techniques.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: 20 November 2002
Notification of acceptance: 20 December 2002
Camera ready papers for workshop: 17 January 2003
Workshop: 14 April 2003
For full details about submissions and updated news about the workshop
please visit the workshop web pages:
http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/evoiasp.html
http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/
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From: Aleksandar Lazarevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: Workshop on Data Mining for Cyber Threat Analysis
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:27:38 -0500 (CDT)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Data Mining for Cyber Threat Analysis
in conjunction with
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
December 9-12, 2002
Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan
People have always depended upon information technology of some type,
beginning with smoke signals in ancient days and turning into network
based computer systems today. Information technology becomes an
essential part of the way various organizations function. Nowadays,
the computers control power, oil and gas delivery, communications,
transportation, banking and financial services. They are used to store
and exchange vital information, from publicly know facts to well kept
secrets.
Notwithstanding the tremendous benefits that the emergence of this
technology brings, there is inevitably an escalation of "dark side of
the force" in the form of cyber terrorism. As a form of convergence
between cyberspace and terrorism, cyber terrorism "refers to unlawful
attacks and threats of attack against computers, networks, and the
information stored therein when done to intimidate or coerce a
government or its people ..."
As the cost of the information processing and Internet accessibility
falls, more and more organizations will be vulnerable by potential
cyber threats. According to a recent research survey, cyber attacks
have increased by almost 80 percent over the last six months. This
indicates that there is an urgent need to expand efforts in the battle
against cyber terrorism. The key question is whether contemporary
computer technologies such as artificial intelligence and data mining
can contribute to this battle and further enhance defense mechanisms.
The main aim of the workshop on cyber threat analysis is to bring
together leading figures from academia, military, government and
industry to assess the state-of-the-art in the area as well as to
explore the applications of data mining to address the problem of
cyber threat analysis.
The format of the workshop will consists of one or two plenary talks
by key people in the field and oral presentations by authors of
selected papers followed by possible panel discussion comprising the
best presenters. The workshop may vary in length with an expected
duration from half a day up to one day.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
- Methods to identify the most critical infrastructures
- Methods to detect cyber terrorist attacks
- Methods to protect against cyber terrorism
- Information assurance
- Intrusion detection and analysis via data mining
- Data mining in forensic
- Credit card fraud analysis
- Economic espionage
IMPORTANT DATES:
September 27, 2002: Paper Submissions Due
October 30, 2002: Acceptance Notification
November 15, 2002: Camera Ready Copy Due
December 9, 2002: Workshop Day
PAPER FORMAT:
Submissions on the related topics to data mining in cyber threat analysis
are invited. We also encourage submissions, which present early stages of
research work, military and government applications and solutions. Papers
should not be more than 10 pages in 10 point font and single-spaced
(excluding references), with one-inch margins on all sides. Contact author
and email address should be specified on the title page.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION:
Electronic submission either in PDF or PS format are strongly encouraged.
Please e-mail electronic submissions with subject "DMCTA2002" to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Hiroshi Mamitsuka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Post-doc Position in Computational Biology or Bioinformatic
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:30:24 +0900
A Post-doctoral Position in
Computational Biology or Bioinformatics
in Institute for Chemical Research
Kyoto University, Japan
A post-doctoral position in computational biology or bioinformatics is
available at the Proteome Informatics Laboratory, Institute for
Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan. The laboratory was
established in April 2002 with donations from Silicon Graphics Japan,
Ltd. The main objective of the laboratory is to build novel
computational approaches for analyzing a variety of subjects related
to proteomes.
Current application areas of the laboratory include protein-protein
interaction, docking between a protein and its ligand, small-molecule
similarity, and pathways.
The laboratory uses a variety of computational techniques, including
algorithmic/thoretical approaches such as approximation algorithms for
combinatorial optimization problems as well as machine learning
techniques such as active ensemble methods and probabilistic models
like finite-mixture models, hidden Markov models, and stochastic
grammars.
The candidate should have a Ph.D. and solid technical experience in
one of the above fields or another field in computer science or a
similar quantitative area of study. The applicant should be
enthusiastic and energetic in doing new research in proteome
informatics and should have sufficient programming skills in C, C++ or
Java.
The laboratory is well funded, and an excellent research environment
will be provided. The position is for one year but renewable, by
mutual agreement, until as late as March 2005.
Kyoto University's Institute for Chemical Research is located 10 miles
south of downtown Kyoto and 25 miles north of the center of Nara, and
thus convenient to Japan's two most famous historical cities. The
location is ideal for you to both enjoy Japanese traditional beauty
and to devote yourself to a new research field, proteome informatics.
Please send your detailed curriculum vitae to:
Dr. Hiroshi Mamitsuka
Associate Professor
Institute for Chemical Research
Kyoto University
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Xindong Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dorothean Professor in Computer Science at the University of Vermont
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:44:23 -0400 (EDT)
Dorothean Professor in Computer Science at the University of Vermont
The College of Engineering and Mathematics at the University of
Vermont invites applications for the Dorothean Professorship (at the
Full Professor or Associate Professor level) in Computer Science,
commencing with the 2003-04 academic year. Tenure will be sought at
time of appointment.
The University of Vermont, one of the top public national
universities, is located in Burlington, Vermont. It offers a
supportive research environment in a relatively small city that
repeatedly has drawn national attention for offering a high quality of
life. The greater Burlington area includes 125,000 people, and is
situated on the shores of Lake Champlain between the Green Mountains
of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Burlington and
the surrounding area provide an environment rich in cultural and
recreational activities. The Department of Computer Science offers
programs in the College of Engineering and Mathematics and the College
of Arts and Sciences, as well as a joint program with the School of
Business Administration.
Our existing faculty in Computer Science are involved in the forefront
of research in knowledge and data engineering (such as data mining,
database systems, pattern recognition, and knowledge-based systems),
software engineering and verification (including programming
languages), and computational sciences (including computational
biology, discrete modeling, and numerical methods). We are seeking to
complement and further strengthen our existing research and teaching
activities in these areas. Candidates in these areas are most sought,
and candidates in any other area of computer science will also be
considered seriously.
Candidates should have a distinguished research record, hold a
doctorate in Computer Science or a closely related field, and have
broad teaching abilities and interests. The successful applicant is
expected to (1) play a major role in departmental research initiatives
and the graduate program coordination, (2) strengthen and build
interdisciplinary bridges between the Department of Computer Science
and other departments within the University, and (3) take an active
role in teaching computer science courses.
Please send a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, a statement of
teaching experience and interests, a statement of research interests
and aspirations to, and arrange for at least three letters of
reference to be sent to
Chair, Dorothean Professor Search Committee,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT 05405.
Complete applications received by January 20, 2003 will be fully
considered. For more information about the Department and the College
please see http://www.cs.uvm.edu or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The University of Vermont is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
employer and encourages applications from women and members of
minority groups.
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