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                 Machine Learning List: Vol. 16, No. 8
                        Wednesday, 5, 2004

Contents
  Calls for Papers/Participation
    CIA04: Extended Submission Deadline
    Extended deadline for Workshop on Symbolic Networks 
    ICDL 04 Extended Deadline
    MBR04 Extended Deadline 
    Symposium on Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection
    COLT 2004 program and registration
    ICML SRL2004 workshop: Call for Participation
    AAAI Workshop on Semantic Web Personalisation
    ECML/PKDD 2004: Call for Demonstrations
    KDD-2004 workshop "Multi-relational data mining"
    BIOKDD04: 4th Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
    NIPS 2004 Call for Papers
    First Int'l Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams
    Workshop on Data Mining for Economics and Management
    ECML/PKDD 2004 Workshops: Call for Papers

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From: Matthias Klusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CIA04: Extended Submission Deadline
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:35:38 +0200

Due to many requests in the past days, the paper submission deadline
for the Eighth International Workshop CIA 2004 on cooperative 
information agents to be held September 27-29, 2004 in Erfurt 
(Germany), in cooperation with ACM SIGART and ACM SIGWeb

has been EXTENDED to

          **** May 10, 2004 (Monday) ***

For more information on this event please visit
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2004/

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From: Damian Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:  Workshop on Symbolic Networks (ECAI '04)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:32:35 +0200 (CEST)

                 EXTENDED DEADLINE until May 14

                      LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

We kindly invite you to submit a paper to the "Workshop on Symbolic
Networks" to be held in Valencia, Spain, August 22, 2004.

More information about the Workshop can be found at the following
web-page:

               http://www.dsic.upv.es/users/tlcc/wsn.html

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Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 09:51:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: ICDL '04 Call For Papers Extended Deadline
From: Andrea Chiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ICDL 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, MAY 21 2004
There will be absolutely no further extensions.

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: DEVELOPING
SOCIAL BRAINS

The Salk Institute
October 20-22, 2004
San Diego, California
A Satellite Conference preceding
The Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference
http://www.icdl.cc

PAPER SUBMISSION The extended submission deadline is May 21,
2004. Papers for the meeting can be submitted ONLY through the
conference's web site at: http://www.icdl.cc. Papers can be submitted
either as a 200 word summary or as a full paper (max 8 typeset pages).
IMPORTANT: There will be NO further submission deadline extensions.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
Register online at http://www.icdl.cc
Student Registration is: $150
Non-student Registration is: $290

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From: Lorenzo Magnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MBR04 Extended Deadline June 13, 2004
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:19:03 +0200

EXTENDED DEADLINE - Deadline June 13, 2004

        MODEL-BASED REASONING  IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
            ABDUCTION, VISUALIZATION, AND SIMULATION

                            MBR'04

               Pavia, Italy, December 16-18, 2004

         Chairs: Lorenzo Magnani and Nancy J. Nersessian

               information on the conference will be found at
       http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html

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From: Stephen Bay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Symposium on Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:07:00 -0700

                        Call for Participation
         Symposium on Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection
                         Stanford University
                           May 22-23, 2004
 
This symposium aims to bring together researchers interested in using
machine learning to detect anomalies across a variety of application
domains. Ten invited speakers will present their recent work in areas
such as intrusion detection, spacecraft monitoring, interpreting
spatial satellite information, and detecting disease outbreaks. More
information, including a list of speakers and abstracts, may be found
at
 
             http://cll.stanford.edu/symposia/anomaly/
 
We have room for additional participants and there is no registration
fee for the symposium, but attendance will be by invitation only. If
you are interested in participating, please send electronic mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], along with a
brief account of your previous and current work on the symposium topic.
 
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From: John S Shawe-Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COLT 2004 program and registration
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:46:07 +0100 (BST)

The Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) program for 2004 is now
available on the web site: http://www.learningtheory.org/colt2004/

The conference will be held in Banff from July 1st - 4th.  Notice that
the early registration deadline for COLT 2004 is 1 May, and hotel
availability and prices are not guaranteed after 30 April.

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From: Lise Getoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ICML SRL2004 workshop: Call for Participation
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:07:38 -0400

        ICML 2004 Workshop on Statistical Relational Learning and its
                                Connections to Other Fields (SRL2004)
                                http://www.cs.umd.edu/srl2004
 
July 8, 2004 in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on
Machine Learning (ICML-2004) co-located with the 20th Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2004) Banff, Alberta,
Canada

Announcements:

* There is an option to sign up only for the workshop if you do
  not plan to attend ICML
* The code for registering for the workshop is srl2004
* For mailing list info got to http://mailman.cs.umd.edu/mailman/listinfo/srl

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From: Sarabjot Singh Anand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AAAI Workshop on Semantic Web Personalisation
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 21:55:34 +0100

                       CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
         AAAI 2004 Workshop on Semantic Web Personalization

             http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/swp04/
               July 25-26, 2004, San Jose, California

PLEASE NOTE: Please let us know as soon as possible if you intend to
participate in the workshop by e-mailing the Workshop organisers at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Note also that all workshop participants must 
register directly with AAAI, who require that workshop participants
also register for the main conference.

DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP

The Web is now an integral part of numerous applications in which a
user interacts with a company, government, employer, or an information
provider. However, the potential of the Web is hampered by the
enormity of the content available and the diverse expectations of its
user base.  Hence, Web applications need to combine all available
knowledge in order to form personalized, user-friendly, and
business-optimal services.

Over the years, personalized Web applications and services have been
developed that use Web Mining and similar technologies to harvest
shallow patterns hidden within masses of transactional, navigational,
and content-structural data that are useful for presenting product
recommendations and the likes. Without the benefit of deeper semantic
or ontological knowledge about the underlying domain, personalization
systems cannot handle heterogeneous and complex objects based on their
properties and relationships. Nor can these systems possess the
ability to automatically explain or reason about the user models or
user recommendations. This realization points to an important research
focus that combines the strengths of Web mining with semantic or
ontological knowledge. The prospect of having deeper knowledge, gained
from a combination of relevant but highly heterogeneous sources, about
the information available and/or the resources accessed by users,
means that personalization approaches can be developed that can
present the most contextually relevant content to the user of the Web.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners 
from the two rapidly developing research areas: Semantic Web and Web
Intelligence. The aim is to improve the results of Web Personalization
by exploiting the new semantic structures in the Web, and also by 
incorporating AI techniques that take advantage of existing, learned,
or extracted ontological knowledge.

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From: ECML/PKDD 2004 Announcement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ECML/PKDD 2004: Call for Demonstrations
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:01:04 +0200

CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AT ECML/PKDD-2004 Pisa, Italy, September
20-24, 2004 http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 8th
European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery
in Databases (PKDD) will be co-located in Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 
2004. The combined event will comprise presentations of contributed
papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops, tutorials,
and a discovery challenge, and last but not least a demo session.

The Demo Session is reserved to innovative applications or successful
experiences/prototypes in applying the knowledge discovery process to
practical cases. Also, are solicited demonstrations of prototypes/
systems which show the integration of new data mining and machine
learning technologies, advances using complex data structures and
databases, XML-data, multimedia, expert systems in innovative
application domains, such as bioinformatics, medical domains, WEB,
e-commerce, etc.

Demonstration proposals should give a short description of the
demonstrated system, explain what is going to be demonstrated, and
state the significance of the contribution to the field of machine
learning and knowledge discovery in databases. Important for 
the participants, in addition to the description of technical
functionalities, will be to provide also performance results and
quality measures (on standard benchmarks in the field and comparative
examples).

Short papers describing demos will appear in the Proceedings.
Demonstration proposals must be no more than three (3) pages, in
English and should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science guidelines.  Authors instructions
and style files can be downloaded at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

The deadline for submitting proposals is May 15, 2004. 
Notification of acceptance: Monday, June 7, 2004.
Camera Ready due: Monday, June 28, 2004 (Strict deadline).
Please submit your proposal to: 

KD-net office:
Ina Lauth
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous
Intelligent Systems (AIS)
- Knowledge Discovery Team -
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
Tel.:    +49 - (0) 22 41 - 14 - 2686
Fax:    +49 - (0) 22 41 - 14 - 2072 

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From: Hendrik Blockeel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDD-2004 workshop "Multi-relational data mining"
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:20:27 +0200 (MEST)

CALL FOR PAPERS

MRDM 2004 - Third Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining

organised at the

10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference 
on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining 
August 22 - 25, 2004, Seattle, WA, USA

Paper submissions due: June 1, 2004

Workshop Website: http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/MRDM2004/
Workshop Contact: Saso Dzeroski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Workshop Date:    August 22, 2004

Workshop chairs:
Saso Dzeroski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Hendrik Blockeel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM) is the multi-disciplinary field
dealing with knowledge discovery from relational databases consisting
of multiple tables. Mining data which consists of complex/structured
objects also falls within the scope of this field, since the
normalized representation of such objects in a relational database
requires multiple tables. The field aims at integrating results from
existing fields such as inductive logic programming, KDD, machine
learning and relational databases; producing new techniques for mining
multi-relational data; and practical applications of such tecniques.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners of data mining interested in methods for finding
patterns in expressive languages from complex/multi-relational/
structured data and their applications.

We also encourage submissions which present early stages 
of research work, software, and applications.

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From: Mohammed Zaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: BIOKDD04: Fourth Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:36:24 -0400

BIOKDD04: Fourth ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics
22nd August 2004, Seattle, WA, USA 
in conjunction with ACM SIGKDD Conference, 2004

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki/BIOKDD04

WORKSHOP SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES 
Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining, and interpreting
information from biological sequences and structures. Genome
sequencing projects have contributed to an exponential growth in
complete and partial sequence databases. The structural genomics
initiative aims to catalog the structure-function information for
proteins. Advances in technology such as microarrays have launched 
the subfield of genomics and proteomics to study the genes, proteins, 
and the regulatory gene expression circuitry inside the cell. What
characterizes the state of the field is the flood of data that exists
today or that is anticipated in the future; data that needs to be
mined to help unlock the secrets of the cell.

While tremendous progress has been made over the years, many of the
fundamental problems in bioinformatics, such as protein structure
prediction or gene finding, are still open. Data mining will play a
fundamental role in understanding gene expression, drug design and
other emerging problems in genomics and proteomics. Furthermore, text
mining will be fundamental in extracting knowledge from the growing
literature in bioinformatics.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages, single-spaced, single
column, 10 point font, including all figures, tables, and references. 
The workshop accepts only electronic submission of papers in PDF, or
PostScript format. See URL for more details.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: June 2, 2004
Notification: June 30, 2004
Camera-ready due: July 9, 2004
Workshop: August 22, 2004

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From: John Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIPS 2004 Call for Papers
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 15:58:38 -0700

                   CALL FOR PAPERS --- NIPS 2004
 Neural Information Processing Systems --- Natural and Synthetic
       Monday, December 13 --- Saturday, December 18, 2004
                Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
                          http://nips.cc

            Deadline for Paper Submissions: June 4, 2004

Submissions are solicited for the eighteenth annual meeting of an
interdisciplinary NIPS Conference (December 14-16) which brings
together researchers interested in all aspects of neural and
statistical processing and computation. The Conference will include
invited talks as well as Oral and Poster Presentations of refereed
papers and Demonstrations. It is single track and highly selective. 
Preceding the main Conference will be one day of tutorials (December
13), and following it will be two days of workshops at Whistler/
Blackcomb ski resort (December 17-18).

PAPER FORMAT: Submissions may be up to eight pages in length,
including figures and references, using a font no smaller than 10
point. Text is to be confined within a 8.25 inch by 5 inch rectangle. 
Submissions violating these guidelines will not be considered.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: NIPS accepts only electronic submissions 
in postscript and PDF format. The Conference web site will accept
electronic submissions from May 19, 2004 until midnight, June 4, 2004,
Pacific daylight time.

                 DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: JUNE 4, 2004

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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: First Int'l Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:08:57 +0100

CALL FOR PAPERS
First International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams
24 September 2004, Pisa, Italy
http://www.lsi.us.es/~aguilar/ecml2004/

in conjunction with ECML/PKDD 2004: The 15th European Conference 
on Machine Learning and the 8th European Conference on Principles 
and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it/

MOTIVATION 
Databases are growing incessantly and many sources produce data
continuously.  In many cases, we need to extract some sort of 
knowledge from this continuous stream of data. Examples include
customer click streams, telephone records, large sets of web pages,
multimedia data, scientific data, and sets of retail chain 
transactions. These sources are called data streams. The goal of 
this workshop is to convene researchers who deal with decision 
rules, decision trees, association rules, clustering, filtering,
preprocessing, post processing, feature selection, visualization
techniques, etc. from data streams and related themes. We are looking
for all possible contributions related to inductive learning from data
streams.

The rapid growth in information science and technology in general 
and the complexity and volume of data in particular have introduced
new challenges for the research community. Databases are growing
incessantly and many sources produce data continuously. In most of
real world applications, the process generating the data is not
strictly stationary. In many cases, we need to extract some sort of
knowledge from this continuous stream of data.  Examples include
customer click streams, telephone records, large sets of web 
pages, multimedia data, scientific data, and sets of retail chain
transactions. These sources are called data streams. Learning 
from data streams are incremental tasks that requires incremental
algorithms that take drift into account.

The goal of this workshop is to convene researchers who deal with
decision rules, decision trees, association rules, clustering,
filtering, preprocessing, post processing, feature selection,
visualization techniques, etc. from data streams and related themes.

Important Dates

      Submission deadline: June 14, 2004
      Notification of acceptance: July 5, 2004
      Camera-ready copies due: July 12, 2004

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From: Pavel Brazdil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Workshop on Data Mining for Economics and Management
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 18:08:15 +0100

Announcement and Call for Papers

Second International Workshop on Data Mining and Adaptive Modelling
Methods for Economics and Management (IWAMEM-04)

http://www.niaad.liacc.up.pt/AMEMIG/iwamem_04.html

20 September 2004
Pisa, Italy

Aims of the Workshop

The aim of the workshop is to promote collaboration between researchers 
and practitioners active in the subareas of artificial intelligence,
including machine learning, data mining, and adaptive modeling, and
economists wanting to explore computational models in theoretical or
real world studies.

The areas of interest can be divided into the following two major areas:

-  Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications in Economics, including:

  * Data Mining in Economics and Finance,
  * Financial Modelling and Forecasting.
  * Modeling Decision Making, among others.

- Simulations and Modeling in Economics, with a particular focus on
  adaptive methods, covering the following sub-areas.

  * (Agent-based) Simulation and Modeling in Economics,
  * Computational Economics,
  * Modeling Emergent Socioeconomic Phenomena,
  * Modeling Markets;  Automated Markets, E-Commerce;
  * Simulating Organizations, among others.

Important dates:

* Submission deadline: June 14, 2004
* Acceptance notification: July 5, 2004
* Camera-ready: July 12, 2004 (use LNCS style)

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From: ECML/PKDD 2004 Announcement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ECML/PKDD 2004 Workshops: Call for Papers
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 18:34:09 +0200

ECML/PKDD-2004 WORKSHOPS
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it/workshops.html
Pisa, Italy, September 20 and 24, 2004

The 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 8th
European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery
in Databases (PKDD) will be co-located in Pisa, Italy, September
20-24, 2004. The combined event will comprise a wide program of
workshops, to be held on Monday and Friday, September 20 and 24,
immediately preceding and following the main ECML/PKDD-2004
conference.

Workshop KDO-2004
http://olp.dfki.de/pkdd04/cfp.htm

Workshop on Symbolic and Spatial Data Analysis: Mining Complex Data
Structures September 20, 2004 http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/ssda-pkdd04

Workshop MGTS'04
Mining Graphs, Trees and Sequences
September 24, 2004
http://hms.liacs.nl/mgts2004

Workshop KDID
Third International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery 
in Inductive Databases
September 20, 2004
http://kdid04.cs.helsinki.fi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Workshop
Advances in Inductive Rule Learning
September 24, 2004
http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/KE/events/ECML-PKDD-04-WS

Workshop IWAMEM-04
Data Mining and Adaptive Modelling Methods for Economics 
and Management
September 20, 2004
http://www.niaad.liacc.up.pt/AMEMIG/iwamem_04.html

Workshop BioTDM
Data Mining and Text Mining for Bioinformatics
September 24, 2004
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Forschung_Lehre/wm/ws04

Workshopon Privacy and Security Issues in Data Mining
September 20, 2004
http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/~ysaygin/psdm

Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data Streams
September 24, 2004
http://www.lsi.us.es/~aguilar/ecml2004

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