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The 21st International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML-04)
July 4-8, 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Call For Papers
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The Twenty-first International Conference on Machine Learning
(ICML-2004) will be held in Banff Alberta Canada, 4-8 July 2004. The
conference will bring together researchers to exchange ideas and report
recent progress in the field of machine learning. ICML-2004 will be
co-located with COLT-2004 (July 1-4) and UAI-2004 (July 8-11) at the
Banff Park Lodge (http://www.banffparklodge.com). The conference website
is http://www.banff04.org/icml.
Topics for Submission
ICML-2004 invites submissions on substantial, original, and previously
unpublished research on all aspects of machine learning research,
including applications, techniques, theories, and connections to related
fields of inquiry.
Format of the Conference
The conference will include three and a half days of technical
presentations along with one day of tutorials and one day of workshops.
The conference will also feature poster sessions and informal gatherings
designed to foster discussion of research in machine learning. Accepted
papers will each be given an oral presentation and also featured in an
evening poster session, to allow conference attendees to discuss the
work with the authors at greater length. The ICML program will also
feature talks by several invited speakers.
On July 4, the first day of ICML, there will be a joint Kernel Day
featuring regular papers from both ICML and COLT on kernel-based
learning methods. Kernel Day replaces the previous Kernel Workshop held
in conjunction with NIPS and COLT, and will also include a special
kernels poster session. For more information on the special Kernel Day
see http://www.kernel-machines.org/workshop.
Paper Submission
To submit a paper to ICML-2004, authors must first submit an electronic
abstract by *Friday, 30 January 2004, 23:59:59 Mountain Standard Time*.
The deadline for paper submission to ICML-2004 is *Tuesday, 3 February
2004, 23:59:59 Mountain Standard Time*. The submission process will be
entirely electronic.
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, will be available at
http://www.banff04.org/icml/papers/format.
*Policy on Multiple Submissions* ICML-2004 will not accept any paper
which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been
accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors
are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during ICML's
review period.
*To submit your paper, please go to*
http://www.banff04.org/icml/papers/submit. You will be guided through
the submission process. Once you submit a paper, you will be given a
username and password, with which you may revise the information
(including submitting a revised version of the paper) until the
deadline.
Review Process
Papers submitted to ICML-2004 will normally be reviewed by three (but at
least two) referees. We will continue the policy 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.
Note that reviewing for ICML-2004 will be *blind* to the identities of
the authors.
See http://www.banff04.org/icml/papers/format for instructions.
Important Dates
30 January 2004 23:59:59 MST Abstracts due
3 February 2004 23:59:59 MST Submissions due
24 March 2004 Author notifications sent
21 April 2004 23:59:59 MST Camera-ready papers due
Proceedings
Proceedings will be published in hardcopy and made available on the
World Wide Web and on CD-ROM.
Organization
Conference Chair: Carla Brodley
Purdue University
Program Co-Chairs: Russell Greiner and Dale Schuurmans
University of Alberta
Additional Information
For more information see http://www.banff04.org/icml
or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
