Machine Learning List
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Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No. 1
Friday, Jan 3, 2003
Contents
Calls for Papers and Other Meeting Announcements
ECML/PKDD-2003 Call for Tutorials and Workshops
CFP: AMAI special issue on "Logic-Based Agent Implementation"
Call for papers: Cognitive Science Sydney, July 2003
KDD-2003 Call for Papers
KES2003 Call for Papers
CFP: NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Career Opportunities
Machine Learning Positions at Amazon.com
Job Posting: Data Modeling at BankOne Card Services
NIH Postdoc Fellowship in Biosurveillance at Harvard Med. School
PhD Bursary sponsored by AirBus UK
Misc Other Announcements
book announcement--Sommer
New Book on Knowledge Management
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From: Stefan Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ECML/PKDD-2003 Call for Tutorials and Workshops
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 20:23:46 +0100
The 14th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-03)
and
The 7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD-03)
22-26 September 2003, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/ecmlpkdd/
JOINT CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
The ECML/PKDD-2003 organizing committee invites proposals for
tutorials and workshops to be held on Monday and Tuesday, September
22-23, immediately preceding the main ECML/PKDD-2003 conference. We
invite proposals for up to six half-day tutorials and six full day
workshops. Proposals for a workshop/tutorial combination are also
welcome (see below). The scope of the proposal should be consistent
with the conference themes as described in the ECML/PKDD-2003 Call
for Papers (see URL above).
For practical information on the workshops and tutorials, and for
details on the submission procedure, please refer to the detailed call
for workshops and tutorials that is available at
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/ecmlpkdd/.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Workshop/tutorial proposal deadline: March 1, 2003
- Workshop/tutorial acceptance notification: March 15, 2003
- Workshop Call For Papers for web: April 1, 2003
- Tutorial summary for web: April 8, 2003
- Workshop paper submission deadline: June 13, 2003
- Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 4, 2003
- Workshop paper camera-ready deadline: July 11, 2003
- Workshop proceedings (camera/web-ready): July 18, 2003
- Tutorial notes (camera/web-ready): July 18, 2003
- Start conference: September 22, 2003
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From: Michael Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: AMAI special issue on "Logic-Based Agent Implementation"
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:37:25 GMT
CALL FOR PAPERS
LOGIC-BASED AGENT IMPLEMENTATION
[ http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael/LBAI03 ]
A special issue of the Annals of Mathematics & Artificial Intelligence
*** Submissions due: 1st March 2003 ***
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 1st March 2003
Author notification: 1st July 2003
Revised papers due: 1st September 2003
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From: Peter Slezak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call for papers: Cognitive Science Sydney, July 2003
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:06:49 +1100
Announcement and Call for Papers
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Joint International Conference
4th ICCS International Conference on Cognitive Science
7th ASCS Australasian Society for Cognitive Science Conference
13-17 July, 2003
The University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
http://www.cogsci.unsw.edu.au
We invite submissions from all disciplines within Cognitive Science,
including:
Computer science & Artificial Intelligence
Linguistics
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Psychology
Anthropology
IMPORTANT KEY DATES
*Please note: In case early acceptance is needed, we will provide rapid
response to submissions made at any time earlier than the deadlines below:
1 April 2003 Abstracts and proposals for symposia due
1 May 2003 Notice of acceptance or rejection
1 June 2003 Full papers due
13-17 July, 2003 Conference
SYMPOSIA
Proposals are invited for special streams and symposia. Planned symposia
include:
* Music and Cognition
* Cognitive Science and Education
* Cognitive Science of Science
* Animal Cognition
* Decision Making, Risk & Behavioural Finance
* Language and Cognition
* Brain imaging
* Machine Learning
* Evolutionary psychology
* Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science
* Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry & Psychoanalysis
Submission of proposals for symposia and workshops should be emailed to
Peter Slezak: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please refer to our website for further details about the conference. More
information will be available on the website http://www.cogsci.unsw.edu.au
as planning progresses.
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From: Pedro M Domingos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDD-2003 Call for Papers
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:17:20 -0800
CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
KDD-2003
THE NINTH ACM SIGKDD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING
August 24-27, 2003
Washington, DC, USA
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2003
IMPORTANT DATES:
Electronic abstracts due: February 21, 2003 (12 noon PST)
Electronic paper submissions due: February 28, 2003 (12 noon PST)
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 23, 2003
Camera-ready papers due: June 6, 2003
In the past few years, the ACM SIGKDD conference has established
itself as the premier international conference on knowledge discovery
and data mining. To continue with this tradition, the ninth ACM SIGKDD
conference will provide a forum for academic researchers and industry
and government practitioners to share their research and experience,
and to inform government sponsors and users about the state of KDD
research and applications. It will feature keynote presentations,
oral paper presentations, poster presentations, workshops,
tutorials, and panels, as well as the KDD Cup competition.
KDD-2003 will be collocated with ICML-2003, the Twentieth International
Conference on Machine Learning, and COLT-2003, the Sixteenth Annual
Conference on Computational Learning Theory.
Abstracts and full papers must be submitted electronically at
the conference Web site (see URL above). Abstracts must be submitted
on or before February 21, 2003, at 12 noon PST (Pacific Standard Time).
An abstract may not contain more than 250 words. No paper will be
considered without having the abstract submitted on time.
Full papers must be submitted on or before February 28, 2003,
at 12 noon PST. This is a FIRM deadline. Papers must be no more than
10 pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references and
appendixes. Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two
columns, 9pt font, approx. 1in margins). Templates are available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html . Papers must be
submitted in PDF format. Authors are solely responsible for ensuring
that their submissions display and print properly.
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From: Vasile Palade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KES2003 Call for Papers
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:29:28 +0000
Call for Papers
KES'2003 - 7th International Conference on
Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
3, 4 & 5 September 2003
Oxford, United Kingdom
www.brighton.ac.uk/kes/kes2003/
The seventh conference in the very successful KES series will be held
at Oxford - UK, one of the most famous university and cultural sites
in the world as well as most popular tourist destination in
England. We are pleased to invite papers on Intelligent Systems and
Techniques, Applications of Intelligent Techniques and related areas
within Information Technology and Advanced Internet Technologies. The
conference will consist of plenary sessions and contributory sessions
on the theory and applications of various intelligent techniques.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
For General Sessions:-
* Submission of papers: 1 February 2003
* Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2003
* Final papers to reach KES Secretariat by: 1 May 2003
* Special Session/ Workshop Proposal: 1 March 2003
If you have been invited to contribute a paper for a Special/Invited
Session, please contact the Session Chair for deadlines relating to
the Session. Final papers for Special/Invited Sessions must reach the
KES Secretariat by 1 May 2003.
All presenting authors (both General and Special/Invited Sessions)
must register with payment by the 1st June 2003 deadline for their
papers to appear in the proceedings.
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From: Daniel Zeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 13:28:04 -0700 (MST)
CALL FOR PAPERS
NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Conference site: http://ecom.arizona.edu/ISI
Tucson, Arizona June 2-3, 2003
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission of full paper: February 10, 2003
- Submission of short paper: February 15, 2003
- Submission of tutorial proposal: February 15, 2003
- Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2003
- Camera-ready copy due: March 15, 2003
CONFERENCE SCOPE
After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, academics have been
called on for possible contributions to research relating to national
(and possibly international) security. As one of the original founding
mandates of the National Science Foundation, mid-to-long term national
security research in the areas of information technologies,
organizational studies, and security-related public policy is
critically needed.
Similar to medical and biological research that faces significant
information overload and yet also tremendous opportunities for new
innovation, law enforcement, criminal analysis, and intelligence
communities are facing the same challenge. We believe, similar to
"medical informatics" and "bioinformatics," there is a pressing need
to develop the science of "intelligence and security informatics" ---
the study of the use and development of advanced information
technologies, systems, algorithms and databases for national security
related applications, through an integrated technological,
organizational, and policy based approach.
Many existing computer and information science techniques need to be
re-examined and adapted for national security applications. New
insights from this unique domain could result in significant
breakthroughs in new data mining, visualization, knowledge management,
and information security techniques and systems. For example, social
network analysis technologies and methodologies could be adopted to
uncover and understand Bin Laden's terrorist networks to assist the
intelligence community in detecting future attacks. Visual data mining
techniques such as association rules and multi- dimensional
information visualization could be used to identify criminal
relationships. Record linkage and string comparator algorithms could
be useful for criminal deception detection.
This first NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics
aims to provide an intellectual forum of discussions among previously
disparate communities: academic researchers (in information
technologies, computer science, public policy, and social studies),
local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts,
and information technology industry consultants and
practitioners. Several federal research programs are also seeking new
research ideas and projects that can contribute to national security.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Submissions on all research areas relating to security informatics are
welcome and may include system, evaluation, testbed, policy, and
position papers. Research needs to demonstrate relevance to both
informatics and national security. Topics include but are not limited
to:
- Intelligence-related knowledge discovery
- Criminal data mining
- Criminal network analysis
- Crime event detection
- Multimedia intelligence and security information analysis
- Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis
- Criminal and intelligence information sharing
- Deception detection
- Intrusion detection
- Cybercrime detection and analysis
- Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing
- Crime and intelligence visualization
- Bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis
- Major (natural and man-made) disaster prevention, detection, and management
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From: "Weigend, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machine Learning Positions at Amazon.com
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 03:02:44 -0800
Do you want to build quantitative models millions of people will use,
based on data from the world's largest online laboratory? Are you
passionate about formulating relevant questions and producing
solutions to initially ill-defined problems? Do the challenges and
opportunities of terabytes of data excite you? Can you think
abstractly and apply your ideas to the real world? Can you contribute
to the big picture and are not afraid to handle the details?
Amazon.com is solving incredibly interesting machine learning problems
in areas ranging from pricing to personalization, from fraud detection
to warehouse picking. Emphasizing measurement and analytics, we build
and automate solutions that leverage the Web's scale and instant
feedback.
We are looking for people with the right blend of vision, intellectual
curiosity, and hands-on skills, who want to be part of a highly
visible, entrepreneurial team at company headquarters in Seattle.
Ideal candidates will have a track record of creating innovative
solutions, and typically a Ph.D. in computer science, physics,
statistics, or electrical engineering. Significant research
experience is desired in fields including active learning,
probabilistic graphical models and Bayesian networks, data mining and
visualization, Web search and information retrieval, judgment and
decision making, consumer modeling, and behavioral economics.
If this position excites you, please send your resume, clearly
indicating your interests and strengths, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank
you.
Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, Amazon.com
+1 (917)697-3800
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Job Posting: Data Modeling at BankOne Card Services
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:40:25 -0500
Scoring Analysts/Statisticians/Modelers at FirstUSA Bank
The Scoring and Technology group at First USA is looking for a
quantitative Ph.D. (e.g., statistics, engineering, machine learning,
signal processing, econometrics) with an orientation towards data
analysis and mining to solve problems in consumer credit and financial
services. Experience in any or all of the following is desired:
-- Modeling and analysis of very large data sets=20 (via regression,
neural networks, genetic algorithms, classification trees, etc.);
-- Experimental design;
-- Data base management (using Oracle SQL or other query language);
-- Optimization and simulation.
Good programming (e.g., C/C++ or Java) and Unix scripting skills
(e.g., Perl) are desired, as is experience with stat packages (e.g.,
SAS, S-plus, Matlab). Business experience is preferred but is not
necessary. Strong communication and presentation skills are required,
as is attention to deta= il.
Respond to:
Vicky Greer
Human Resources
Bank One Card Services
Mail Stop DE1-1174
Three Christina Centre
201 North Walnut Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Marco Ramoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIH Postdoc Fellowship in Biosurveillance at Harvard Med. School
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:48:29 -0500
Children's Hospital Informatics Program at Harvard Medical School
invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in biosurveillance
and real-time epidemiology funded by the National Institutes of
Health. The candidate will work at the development and deployment of
cutting-edge systems for disease modeling, monitoring and
surveillance, at the intersection of artificial intelligence and
epidemiology. This position offers opportunities for academic career
advancement.
A PhD in computer science, statistics, or epidemiology is
preferred. US Citizenship or permanent residency is required.
Children's Hospital Informatics Program is one of the leading medical
informatics groups in the country and Harvard Medical School offers a
unique intellectual environment and unparalleled academic
opportunities.
Applications, including three letters of reference, should be sent to:
Marie Boyle
Children's Hospital Informatics Program
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (617) 355 7333
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Robert E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PhD Bursary sponsored by AirBus UK
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 05:16:43 -0000
PhD Student Bursary
Call for Applications
The Intelligent Computer Systems Centre and the Aerospace
Manufacturing Research Centre in The Faculty of Computing, Engineering
and Mathematical Sciences at the University of the West of England,
Bristol, in cooperation with Airbus UK, are pleased to solicit
applications for a EPSRC Industrial CASE bursary to support research
leading to a PhD. The PhD project will involve close liaison with the
Airbus wing design team based at Filton (near the UWE Campus). Airbus
are currently developing the world's largest civil aircraft, the A380,
which is due to fly in 2005. The research project will address some of
the design challenges that currently face Airbus in developing world
class products in increasingly short timescales.
The successful applicant will conduct original research using
computerized modelling, inference, and learning techniques in
relationship to monitoring of complex aircraft subsystems. The
research effort will range over 3 years, including 3 months placement
at Airbus, where techniques can be evaluated on industrial models and
test rigs.
Results of these efforts will bear on early design (subsystem design
concept selection), specification and procurement of functional
systems, and actual implementation and utilization of these
systems. Relevant technologies include causal and Bayesian networks,
Bond graphs, machine learning, and complexity theory. An ideal
candidate would have experience with these all technologies, and
aerospace systems in general. However, candidates with appropriately
strong mathematical backgrounds and familiarity with many of the
relevant concepts will be considered.
Applications are welcome from candidates with appropriate backgrounds
who also meet EPSRC CASE eligibility requirements, which include
relevant connection with UK (usually established by UK residence), a
degree at 2:1 or better (or equivalent) , and ability to start PhD
study by 31 March 2003.
Further information and electronic application forms are available
from Dr Robert E. Smith, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See the ICSC web site <http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/icsc>
(www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/icsc) for more details.
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From: David Weininger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: book announcement--Sommer
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:29:14 -0500
For more information, please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262194813/
Exploratory Analysis and Data Modeling in Functional Neuroimaging
edited by Friedrich T. Sommer and Andrzej Wichert
foreword by Manfred Spitzer
Functional imaging tools such as fMRI (functional magnetic resonance
imaging), PET (positron emission tomography), EEG
(electro-encephalogram), and MEG (magneto-encephalogram) allow
researchers to record activity in the working brain and draw
inferences about how the brain functions. This book provides a survey
of theoretical and computational approaches to neuroimaging, including
inferential, exploratory, and causal methods of data analysis;
theories of cerebral function; and biophysical and computational
models of neural nets. It also emphasizes the close relationships
between different approaches, for example, between causal data
analysis and biophysical modeling, and between functional theories and
computational models.
Friedrich T. Sommer is Assistant Professor and Andrzej Wichert is
Research Scientist, Department of Neural Information Processing,
Faculty of Computer Science, the University of Ulm.
Neural Information Processing series
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From: "Gregoris Mentzas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Book on Knowledge Management
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:46:39 +0200
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Knowledge Asset Management: Beyond the
Process-centred and Product-centred Approaches
authored by
Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Dimitris Apostolou, Planet Ernst & Young SA, Athens, Greece
Andreas Abecker, DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Ron Young, Knowledge Associates, Cambridge, UK
Published by Springer-Verlag, in the book series
Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
2003, XVI, 208 pages, 76 illus. Hardcover
ISBN 1-85233-583-1
For more information see the book's web page at:
http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=1-85233-583-1
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