[UAI] PGM2012 Call for participation
== The sixth European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models PGM'12 Call For Participation Granada, Spain September 19-21, 2012 http://leo.ugr.es/pgm2012/ == The European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM) is a biennial workshop that aims to bring together people interested in probabilistic graphical models and provides a forum for discussion of the latest research developments in this field. The first PGM workshop was first held in Cuenca, Spain, in 2002, followed by workshops in Leiden (2004), Prague (2006), Hirtshals (2008) and Helsinki (2010). The fifth PGM workshop will be held in Helsinki, Finland, September 13-15, 2010. The sixth PGM workshop will be held in Granada, Spain, September 19-21, 2012. Granada is located at the south of Spain near the coast and Sierra Nevada mountains. Granada is the city of the Alhambra. Workshop Information: = * Deadline for early registration is Wednesday August 8 * Registration is open at http://leo.ugr.es/pgm2012/registration.php * Invited speakers: http://leo.ugr.es/pgm2012/invitedspeakers.php * List of accepted papers: http://leo.ugr.es/pgm2012/accepted-papers.php * Outline (preliminary): http://leo.ugr.es/pgm2012/outline.php * Social events: http://leo.ugr.es/pgm2012/social-events.php Workshop Organization: == Program Co-Chairs: Andrés Cano, University of Granada, Spain Manuel Gómez-Olmedo, University of Granada, Spain Thomas D. Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark. The workshop is organized by members of the department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Granada, Spain. Email: pgm2...@decsai.ugr.es Workshop Details: = The aim of the workshop is to bring together people interested in probabilistic graphical models and provide a forum for discussion of the latest research developments in this field. The workshop is organized so as to facilitate discussions and collaboration among the participants also outside the workshop sessions. To facilitate the spreading of research results and promote interactions among the participants, parallel sessions will be avoided and the workshop will be organized around a single thread of plenary and posters sessions. We welcome theoretical and applied contributions related to the following topics: - Principles of Bayesian (belief) networks, chain graphs, decision networks, influence diagrams, and other probabilistic graphical models (PGMs). - Information processing in PGMs (exact and approximate inference). - Learning and data mining in the context of PGMs: machine learning approaches, statistical testing and search methods, MCMC simulation. - Exploitation of results from related disciplines for the construction of PGMs, e.g., statistics, information theory, optimization, decision making under uncertainty, multivariate statistical analysis. - Software systems based on PGMs. - Application of PGMs to real-world problems. -- Manuel Gomez Olmedo e-mail: mgo...@decsai.ugr.es Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial E.T.S. Ingenierias Informatica y de Telecomunicacion Universidad de Granada Tel.: +34 958 246143 18071 - GRANADA (Spain) Fax: +34 958 243317 ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] ECML PKDD 2012 - Call for Participation - Early Registration: July 31
*** ECML PKDD 2012 *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** EARLY REGISTRATION: JULY 31 *** The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) will take place in Bristol, UK from September 24th to 28th, 2012. ECML-PKDD is the prime European scientific event in machine learning and data mining. It will feature presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials on the first and last days, a discovery challenge, and a DINe track with demo, industry, and 'nectar' talks. http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/keynote-talks/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/workshops/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/tutorials/ The list of accepted research track papers can be accessed at http://ecmlpkdd2012.webfactional.com/ . The early registration deadline with reduced registration fee is July 31st, 2012. Accommodation is booked directly with the hotels: reduced rates are available on a first-come-first-serve basis, so please act now to avoid disappointment! http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/attending/registration/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/attending/hotels/ We look forward to welcoming you in Bristol this September. Peter Flach, Tijl De Bie and Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol ECML-PKDD 2012 General and Programme Chairs ecmlpkdd2...@cs.bris.ac.uk ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
[UAI] URSW 2012: Call for Papers
*** CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2012) http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2012 In conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Boston, USA November 11-12, 2012 *** You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in November of 2012 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel Towers, USA. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers. This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following: - Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies; - Semantic web developers and researchers; - People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web. - Ontology researchers and ontological engineers; - Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web; - Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers. TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. - Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages to enable representation of uncertainty; - Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web languages; - Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts; - Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping; - Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies; - The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web; - Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web; - The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services; - Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among Web services; - Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web; - Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web; - Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; - The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web. IMPORTANT DATES July 31, 2012 Paper submissions due August 21 Paper acceptance notification September 10 Camera-ready papers due November 11-12 URSW 2012 SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW workshop will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality, and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2012 conference, and committed to attend the URSW workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshops submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ursw2012. Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2011. For complete details, see Springers Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts
