Call for Papers
The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
8 - 12 July 2002
University of New South Wales
Sydney Australia
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The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
(ICML-2002) will be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney
Australia from 8 - 12 July 2002. The conference will bring together
researchers to exchange ideas and report recent progress in the
computational study of learning.
Important Dates
Submissions due: 1 February 2002
Acceptance decisions mailed to authors: 22 March 2002
Revised copies of conditionally accepted papers due: 15 April 2002
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers (conditional and unconditional)
due: 19 April 2002
Topics for Submission
ICML-2002 welcomes submissions on all facets of machine learning and
especially solicits papers on problem areas, research topics,
learning paradigms, and approaches to evaluation that include:
* the role of learning in natural language and speech, vision,
planning and scheduling, design and configuration, logical and
spatial reasoning, motor control, and more generally on
learning for performance tasks carried out by intelligent
agents;
* the discovery of scientific laws and taxonomies, the
construction of componential and structural models, and
learning at multiple levels of temporal and spatial resolution;
* novel applications of machine, particularly those that require
non-standard techniques;
* computational models of human learning, exploratory research
that describes novel learning tasks, work that integrates
familiar methods to demonstrate new functionality, and agent
architectures in which learning plays a central role;
We also welcome submissions on all the traditional topics of Machine
Learning.
Format of the Conference
The conference will be co-located with COLT and ILP. The two
conferences will span the week starting 8 July, 2002, with one
overlap day of joint session. ICML will include a one-day program of
workshops and tutorials. This will be followed by three days of
talks, poster sessions, and informal gatherings designed to foster
discussion of research in machine learning.
The conference will include both plenary and parallel tracks for the
presentation of papers published in the conference proceedings.
Speakers will also present their work at an evening poster session,
which will allow conference attendees to discuss the work with the
authors at greater length.
In addition to paper presentations, there will be talks given by
three invited speakers. Please watch for the announcement of the
distinguished speakers for this year's conference.
Paper Submission
Authors should submit papers using the same format and length as will
be required for the final proceedings version. Detailed instructions,
as well as templates for LaTeX and Word are available from
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~icml2002/format.html
Submission will be entirely electronic by transferring papers to the
ICML-2002 submission site. Authors must submit papers in postscript
or pdf format to ensure our ability to print them out for review.
ICML-2002 allows simultaneous submission to other conferences,
provided this fact is clearly indicated on the submission form.
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings only if
they are withdrawn from other conferences. Simultaneous submissions
that are not clearly specified as such will be rejected.
Review Process
All papers submitted to ICML-2002 will be read by at least two
reviewers, as well as an area chair. We will follow the policy
adopted in 2000 and 2001 of conditionally accepting papers that are
not publishable in their initial form, but that the reviewers feel
can be improved enough in time to appear in the proceedings. If a
paper is conditionally accepted, the requirements for acceptance will
be explicitly listed on the review form. Papers that have been
conditionally accepted will be reviewed again after re-submission.
Additional Information
For additional information, see the web site for the conference at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~icml2002
which will provide additional details as they become available. If
you have questions about ICML-2002, please send electronic mail to
Claude Sammut at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
