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Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No.20
Saturday, Nov 15, 2003
Contents
Meeting Announcements
CFP: Special issue of MLJ: PGMs for Classification
EPIA03: Call for Participation
CFP: Workshops on SIAM Conference on Data Mining
CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web
Career Opportunities
PhD Assistantship Opportunities in Computer Science at U Vermont
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: Special issue of MLJ: PGMs for Classification
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:19:29 +0100 (MET)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Machine Learning Journal:
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Classification
http://www.sc.ehu.es/isg
We would like to invite authors to submit their works on Probabilistic
Graphical Models (PGMs) for supervised and unsupervised classification
for a special issue of Machine Learning Journal. Submissions must
conform with the standards of originality, relevance and quality of
Machine Learning, as they will be subject to the regular reviewing
process. Submissions based on work published in previous conferences
must represent a significant expansi= on over the prior publication.
* Topics of Interest. A non-exhaustive list of the topics of interest
is as follows:
- PGMs and extensions thereof for supervised and unsupervised
classification in discrete, continuous and mixed domains
- PGM classification learning algorithms (structural and parametric)
- Accuracy assessment, and model validation and interpretation in PGMs
- Feature selection and extraction for PGMs
- (Semi)automatic identification of the number of clusters in PGM
learning
- Discretization of continuous variables for PGM learning
- Prior knowledge incorporation in PGM classification learning
algorithms
- Synergies between supervised and unsupervised PGM classifiers
- Applications of PGM classifiers
* Important Dates:
Reception of papers: February 29, 2004
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2004
Reception of revised versions: September 30, 2004
* Co-editors: P. Larra=F1aga, J.A. Lozano, J.M. Pe=F1a, I. Inza
For more information see the homepage at:
http://www.sc.ehu.es/isg
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From: Salvador Abreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EPIA03: Call for Participation
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:10:45 +0000
11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence -- EPIA'03
Beja, Portugal
December 4--7, 2003
http://www.di.uevora.pt/epia03/
Call for Participation
The 11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA'03,
will continue in the tradition of previous editions of the conference
and will be organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association
for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA, http://www.appia.pt/). It will
maintain its international character and continue to provide a forum
for presenting and discussing research on different aspects of
Artificial Intelligence.
To promote motivated discussions among participants, the coming
conference will proceed along the lines of the previous edition and be
structured as a set of thematic workshops. There will 8 invited
lectures and 49 paper presentations. Besides the parallel sessions
corresponding to each workshop, there will be plenary sessions for the
invited lectures. Workshop papers are published by Springer-Verlag in
the LNAI series.
EPIA'03 will be held in Beja, in the Alentejo "Golden Plains" region,
in the south of Portugal and is hosted by University of Evora and the
Beja Polytechnic Institute. Details on each workshop, conference
programme, registration and accomodation are available on the
conference site, http://www.di.uevora.pt/epia03/ .
WORKSHOPS
- EKDB (International Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Data
Bases)
- ALEA (Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms)
- CLPS (Workshop on Constraint and Logic Programming Systems)
- NLTR (Natural Language and Text Retrieval)
- MAAII (Multi-Agents and AI for the Internet)
IMPORTANT DATES
Low rate registration: November 15, 2003
Conference: December 4-7, 2003
For more information, please see http://www.di.uevora.pt/epia03/
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From: Aleksandar Lazarevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: Workshops on SIAM Conference on Data Mining
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:21:34 -0600 (CST)
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
WORKSHOPS AT THE FOURTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING
Hyatt Orlando Near Walt Disney Resort,
Orlando, Florida, USA, April 24, 2004
URL: http//www.siam.org/meetings/sdm04
Technical Paper Deadline: January 21, 2004
The Fourth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining will provide
several workshops on topics of current interest in data mining on
April 22, 2004.
WORKSHOP ON CLUSTERING HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA AND ITS APPLICATIONS
www.cs.utexas.edu/users/inderjit/sdm04.html
WORKSHOP ON MINING SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING DATASETS
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/%7Emburl/MSD04/
WORKSHOP ON HIGH PERFORMANCE AND DISTRIBUTED DATA MINING
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/%7Eagrawal/hpdm04.html
WORKSHOP ON BIOINFORMATICS
www.ist.temple.edu/sbw04
WORKSHOP ON DATA MINING IN RESOURCE CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS
ic.arc.nasa.gov/siam/
WORKSHOP ON LINK ANALYSIS, COUNTER-TERRORISM AND PRIVACY PRESERVING
DATA MINING
Please check the conference web site (www.siam.org/meetings/sdm04) for
more details.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Technical Paper Submission Deadline: January 21, 2004
Acceptance notification to the authors: February 20, 2004
Camera-ready workshop papers: March 15, 2004
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From: cimca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:26:47 +1100
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies
and Internet Commerce
12-14 July 2004
Gold Coast, Australia
http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic04/index.htm
Jointly with
nternational Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling,
Control and Automation
12-14 July 2004
Gold Coast, Australia
http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca04/index.htm
International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and
Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2004 provides a medium for researchers and
practitioners to exchange and explore the issues and opportunities in
the area of intelligent agent, web technologies and Internet
commerce. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and
contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and
applications of intelligent agents, web technologies and Internet
commerce.
Conference Topics Include (but not limited to):
- Intelligent Agents
- Knowledge Management
- Intelligent Business Agents
- Agent Architectures
- Environments and Languages
- Adaptation and learning for agents
- Human and agent interaction
- Interface agents
- Mobile agents
- Virtual agent-based marketplaces
- Agents and uncertainty
- The privacy issues for agents
- Automated shopping and trading agents
- Agent-oriented services
- Social implications for agent
- Conceptual modelling & Ontologies for agents
- Agents and e-commerce
- Legal aspects of agents in e-commerce
- Performance measurement of e-commerce agents
- Rational information agents and electronic commerce
- Web Technologies
- Web data mining and information retrieval
- Agent-based trade-and mediating services
- Teaching on Web
- Virtual trading institutions
- Knowledge Discovery
- Intelligent Information Systems
- Knowledge Clustering & Classification
- Internet Commerce
- E-commerce applications of Knowledge Representation
- Reasoning Techniques
- Electronic Payment Systems
- Internet Marketing
- Intranets and Extranets
- Electronic Payment Systems
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Supply Chain Management
- Electronic Payment Systems
- Internet-based Electronic Commerce
- Virtual Communities/Community Networks
- Logistics Issues for Electronic Commerce
- Business Reengineering Issues for Electronic Commerce
- Government Electronic Procurement & Service Delivery
- Legal & Security Issues for Electronic Commerce
- Requirements Engineering for Electronic Commerce
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance,
correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more)
should be submitted to the following e-mail or postal address:
E-mail submission of draft papers:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postal Submission of draft papers:
IAWTIC'2004 Secretariat
School of Computing
University of Canberra
ACT, Canberra, 2614, Australia
Papers should present original work, which has not been published or
being reviewed for other conferences. Papers should be written in
English. The name and affiliation of authors should be omitted on the
paper. A separate page must be included with each extended abstract
paper, containing, the names, affiliations, postal address and e-mail
addresses of authors as well as the address of contact author. E-mail
submission of papers are encouraged.
IMPORTANT DATES
- 14 March 2004 Submission of papers
- 30 April 2004 Notification of acceptance
- 21 May 2004 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers
- 12-14 July 2004 Conference sessions
SPECIAL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS
Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the
conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and
tutorial proposals. All proposals should be sent to the conference
chair on or before 27th February 2004. CIMCA'04 will also include a
special poster session devoted to recent work and
work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts
(3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference
date.
INVITED SESSIONS
Keynote speakers from academia and industry will be addressing the
main issues of the conference.
VISITS AND SOCIAL EVENTS
Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A
separate program will be arranged for companions during the
conference.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information either contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
see the conference homepage at:
http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic04/index.htm
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From: Xindong Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PhD Assistantship Opportunities in Computer Science at U Vermont
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:30:40 -0500 (EST)
PhD Assistantship Opportunities
Department of Computer Science
University of Vermont (UVM)
351 Votey Building
Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
The Department of Computer Science (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/) at UVM
announces up to 6 assistantships for PhD studies in 2004-05, in the
form of Graduate Research Assistantships (GRAs) and Graduate Teaching
Assistantships (GTAs). These assistantships are for incoming students
studying towards the PhD degree in Computer Science. The Department
offers fields of study in both traditional and interdisciplinary areas
such as bioinformatics and ecological modeling. Our faculty is
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 (comprising computational biology, discrete modeling, and
numerical methods).
Our faculty in Computer Science participates in various
interdisciplinary research activities involving on-campus entities
such as the UVM College of Medicine (http://www.med.uvm.edu), the UVM
Bioinformatics Core
(http://bioinformatics.uvm.edu/bioinformatics.html) and the Gund
Institute for Ecological Economics (http://www.uvm.edu/giee/). We
encourage applicants who are interested in and have a strong
background in interdisciplinary studies. *Up to 3 (interdisciplinary)
GRAs are specially designated for PhD students who will be involved in
interdisciplinary areas.*
QUALIFICATIONS:
The successful applicants must possess a Bachelor's degree and show
satisfactory test scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
general section. International applicants must submit a TOEFL test
score of 600 or higher. Applicants with a BS degree in a field other
than Computer Science are especially encouraged to apply for the
interdisciplinary GRA positions.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Tel: +1-802-656-3330
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.cs.uvm.edu/gradinfo/PhD-guide.shtml
ONLINE APPLICATION:
http://www.uvm.edu/~gradcoll
Choose "Online Application" and Computer Science PhD Program.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Applications accepted until February 1, 2004 for Fall 2004
assistantship opportunities.
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