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Benelearn 2005
Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and the Netherlands
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/benelearn2005
Februari 17 - 18, 2005
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Early Registration deadline: Februari 1st
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Technical Program includes:
2 invited talks: - Probabilistic Logic Learning and Reasoning by K. Kersting (Machine Learning Lab, University of Freiburg, Germany) - Challenges in Multimodal Processing by S. Bengio (IDIAP, Martigny, Switserland) ---------------------------- List of accepted papers:
Amplifying the Block Matrix Structure for Spectral Clustering Igor Fischer and Jan Poland Saarland University, Germany IDSIA, Manno (Lugano), Switzerland
Evolving Neural Networks for Forest Fire Control Marco Wiering, Filippo Mignogna and Bernard Maassen Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Experiments with Relational Neural Networks Werner Uwents and Hendrik Blockeel Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Assessment of SVM Reliability for Microarrays Data Analysis Andrea Malossini, Enrico Blanzieri and Raymond T. Ng University of Trento, Italy University of British Columbia, Canada
Speaker Prediction based on Head Orientations Rutger Rienks, Ronald Poppe and Mannes Poel University of Twente, The Netherlands
Strong Asymptotic Assertions for Discrete MDL in Regression and Classification Jan Poland and Marcus Hutter IDSIA, Manno (Lugano), Switzerland
Detecting Deviation in Multinomially Distributed Data Jan Peter Patist Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Monotone Constraints in Frequent Tree Mining Jeroen De Knijf and Ad Feelders Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Best-Response Play in Partially Observable Card Games Frans Oliehoek, Matthijs Spaan and Nikos Vlassis University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Master Algorithms for Active Experts Problems based on Increasing Loss Values Jan Poland and Marcus Hutter IDSIA, Manno (Lugano), Switzerland
Maximizing Expected Utility in Coevolutionary Search Edwin de Jong Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Reliability yields Information Gain Ida Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, Evgueni Smirnov and Georgi Nalbantov University of Maastricht, The Netherlands Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Facial Expression Analysis using Multi-layer Perceptrons Michal Sindlar and Marco Wiering Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Reinforcement Learning using Optimistic Process Filtered Models Funlade Sunmola and Jeremy Wyatt University of Birmingham, United Kingdom ---------------------------- The registration form and further information can be found at the conference website: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/benelearn2005
The Organizing Comittee: Martijn van Otterlo (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Mannes Poel (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Sponsors: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) http://www.nwo.nl Dutch research school for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS) http://www.siks.nl/ Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) SRO NICE. http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/research/sro/nice/index.html Senter-IOP http://www.senter.nl/asp/page.asp?alias=iop
