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           Machine Learning List: Volume 20, Number 5
                     Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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Contents

Call for Participation
  ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge
  Tutorial on the CLARION Cognitive Architecture
Call for Papers
  Conference on Web Intelligence
  Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference
  Workshop on High-level Information Extraction
  Conference on Logic Programming
  ACM KDD Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Source
  Mining the Web 2.0
  Feature Selection in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation
  From Local Patterns to Global Models
  Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
  Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction
  Conference on Data Mining
  RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
  Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data
  Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data
  Conference on Genetic Programming
  Data Streams Track
  Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Career Opportunities
  Robust Computer Vision and ML, Siemans Corporate Research
Post-Doctoral Research
  ML & abductive reasoning using Markov Logic Networks, Texas
Summer School
  School on Imprecise Probabilities

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Date: May 7, 2008=20
From: Andreas Hotho <[email protected]>
Subject: ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge 2008

Call for Participation
ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge
Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/rsdc08/


Tasks and Datasets Available: May 5, 2008=20
Test Datasets Released (midnight CEST): July 30, 2008=20
Result Submission Deadline (midnight CEST): August 1, 2008=20
Paper Submission Deadline: August 4, 2008=20
Camera-ready Deadline: August 14, 2008=20
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Date: May 21, 2008=20
From: Professor Ron Sun <[email protected]>
Subject: Tutorial on the CLARION Cognitive Architecture

Call for Participation
30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Washington D.C., USA, July 23, 2008
http://ccc.utexas.edu/cogsci08/index.html
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Date: 28 Apr 2008=20
From: [email protected]
Subject: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2008: Call For Papers

Call for Papers
2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
  Web Intelligence (WI-08)
Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008
http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/wi/

Electronic Paper Deadline: July 10, 2008
Tutorial Proposal Deadline: July 10, 2008
Workshop Paper Deadline: July 30, 2008
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Date: Apr 29, 2008
From: Thomas Stuetzle <[email protected]>
Subject: Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference

Call for Papers
Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (LION 3)
Trento, Italy, January 14-18, 2009
www.intelligent-optimization.org/LION3

Paper Submission Deadline: October 15, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: February 15, 2009
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Date: May 2, 2008
From: Sebastian Blohm <[email protected]>
Subject: Workshop on High-level Information Extraction

Call for Papers
Workshop on High-level Information Extraction
  at ECML PKDD 2008
Antwerp, Belgium, September 19, 2008
http://www-ai.cs.tu-dortmund.de/HLIE08

Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: August 7, 2008
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Date: May 5, 2008=20
From: [email protected]
Subject: Conference on Logic Programming

Call for Papers
24th International Conference on Logic Programming
Udine, Italy, December 9-13, 2008
http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 2, 2008
Paper Submission Deadline: June 9, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: September 15, 2008
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Date: May 6, 2008
From: Xingquan Zhu <[email protected]>
Subject: KDD workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources

Call for Papers
2nd ACM KDD Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources
  In conjunction with ACM SIGKDD-08,=20
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 24, 2008
http://www.cse.fau.edu/~xqzhu/mmis/kdd08_mmis.html

Paper Submission Deadline: May 30, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: June 20, 2008=20
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Date: May 6, 2008=20
From: Andreas Hotho <[email protected]>
Subject: Mining the Web 2.0

Call for Papers
Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining the
  Web 2.0 (WBBTMine'08) Workshop at ECML/PKDD 2008
Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/wbbtmine2008/

Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: August 14, 2008
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Date: May 7, 2008=20
From: I=F1aki Inza <[email protected]>
Subject: Feature Selection in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Call for Papers
ECML/PKDD-08 Workshop on New Challenges for
  Feature Selection in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008
http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/fsdm2008

Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2008
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Date: May 7, 2008=20
From: [email protected]
Subject: Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation

Call for Papers
2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence
  for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08
Vienna, Austria, December 10-12, 2008
http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/

Paper Submission Deadline: August 29, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: October 17, 2008=20
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Date: May 7, 2008=20
From: Johannes Fuernkranz <[email protected]>
Subject: From Local Patterns to Global Models

Call for Papers
ECML/PKDD-08 Workshop - From Local Patterns to Global Models
Antwerp, Belgium, September 15, 2008=20
http://www.ke.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/events/LeGo-08/

Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: August 14, 2008
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Date: May 8, 2008
From: Menno van Zaanen <[email protected]>
Subject: Colloquium on Grammatical Inference

Second Call for Papers
9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
St Malo, Brittany, France, September 22-24, 2008
http://icgi08.irisa.fr

Paper Submission Deadline: May 20, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: July 14, 2008=20
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Date: May 8, 2008=20
From: Max Bramer <[email protected]>
Subject: Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Final Call for Papers
28th SGAI International Conference on Innovative
  Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Cambridge, UK, December 9-11, 2008=20
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2008/

Paper Submission Deadline: June 2, 2008
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Date: May 10, 2008=20
From: Magdiel Galan Oliveras <[email protected]>
Subject: Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction

Call for Papers=20
ACM TKDD Special Issue on Social Computing,
  Behavioral Modeling and Prediction
http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/acm-tkdd-sbp

Guest Editors: Huan Liu, John Salerno, Michael Young,
  Rakesh Agrawal, and Philip Yu

Paper Submission Deadline: September 10, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: December 10, 2008
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Date: May 12, 2008=20
From: Maurizio Atzori <[email protected]>
Subject: Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'08)

Call for Papers
2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'08)
Pisa, Italy, December 15-19, 2008
http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/

Paper Submission Deadline: July 7, 2008
Tutorial Submission Deadline: June 30, 2008
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Date: May 12, 2008=20
From: Nick Bassiliades <[email protected]>
Subject: RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications

Call for Papers
2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule
  Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008)
Orlando, Florida, USA, October 30-31, 2008
http://2008.ruleml.org

Paper Submissions Deadline: June 2, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: August 9, 2008
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Date: May 17, 2008=20
From: Tom Fawcett <[email protected]>
Subject: Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data

Second Call for Papers
Machine Learning Journal special issue
  on Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data
http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/public/ndbaf65/CFP.pdf

Paper Submission Deadline: June 20, 2008
Intended Publication Date: 2009
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Date: May 18, 2008
From: Nitesh Chawla <[email protected]>
Subject: Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data

Call for Papers=20
2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from
  Sensor Data (Sensor-KDD, 2008)
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 24, 2008
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/SensorKDD-2008/index.htm

Paper Submission Deadline: May 28, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: June 20, 2008
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Date: May 19, 2008=20
From: Vanneschi Leonardo <[email protected]>
Subject: Conference on Genetic Programming

Call for Papers
12th European Conference on Genetic Programming
T=FCbingen, Germany, April 15-17 2009
http://www.evostar.org

Paper Submission Deadline: November 5, 2008
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Date: May 21, 2008=20
From: Pedro Pereira Rodrigues <[email protected]>
Subject: Data Streams Track

Call for Papers
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  The 24nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8 - 12, 2009
http://www.liaad.up.pt/~jgama/SAC09/

Paper Submission Deadline: August 16, 2008=20
Camera-ready Deadline: October 25, 2008
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Date: May 22, 2008=20
Deom: Chuck Anderson <[email protected]>
Subject: Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Call for Papers=20
IASTED International Symposium on Computational
  Biology and Bioinformatics
Orlando, Florida, November 16-18, 2008
http://www.iasted.org

Paper Submissions Deadline: June 30, 2008
Camera-ready Deadline: September 5, 2008
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Date: May 16, 2008=20
From: Raymond Mooney <[email protected]>
Subject: ML & abductive reasoning using Markov Logic Networks, Texas

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in=20
the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of
Texas at Austin. The position will involve conducting=20
research under the direction of Prof. Raymond J. Mooney
on machine learning and abductive reasoning using Markov=20
Logic Networks, as part of a recently awarded MURI=20
(Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) grant
entitled "A Unified Approach to Abductive Inference,"=20
whose other principal investigators include Professors=20
Pedro Domingos (Univ. of Washington), Tom Dietterich=20
(Oregon State Univ.), Jerry Hobbs (ISI/USC), Henry
Kautz (Rochester Univ.), Carlos Guestrin (CMU), and=20
Josh Tenenbaum (MIT).

The position is for one or two years, full time, starting
Sept. 1, 2008 at a competetive postdoc salary.  Candidates
should have research experience in machine learning,
ideally statistical relational learning, and/or abductive=20
and probabilistic reasoning.

The CS department at UT Austin was recently ranked the 9th
best graduate program in the U.S. and the 5th best in Artificial
Intelligence by U.S. News.

Interested applicants should email their vita and list of
references to Ray Mooney using the contact information below.

Raymond J. Mooney, Professor
Phone:  (512) 471-9558
Fax:    (512) 471-8885
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mooney
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Date: Apr 30, 2008
From: Comaniciu, Dorin <[email protected]>
Subject: Robust Computer Vision and ML, Siemans Corporate Research

Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., has immediate openings for Research
Scientists in the areas of computer vision and medical imaging, applied
machine learning, 3D/4D segmentation, tracking and information fusion,
pattern recognition and graphical models.

You will have the opportunity to test your computer vision and machine
learning knowledge in a challenging problem-solving environment. You
will be encouraged to think out of the box, innovate and find solutions
to real-life problems. Our group has a strong publication record in
leading journals and conferences.

We will only consider candidates holding a Ph.D. in CS, EE or related
fields with a proven record in problem solving and research.

Candidates should have C/C++ proficiency on MS Windows platform.
Candidates need to demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, be able to
work independently on problems, be an effective team player and willing
to accept challenges and responsibility.

Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) is one of the world's premier research
labs for computer vision, medical imaging, and applied machine learning.
SCR is headquarted in Princeton, USA, and provides a stimulating
environment for highly talented and self-motivated researchers. SCR
excels in transferring academic research into innovative products, and
works in close collaboration with clinical partners. The lab has more
than 250 researchers and over 100 students involved in hundreds of
University, Clinical and Government collaborations. SCR is part of
Siemens Corporate Technology, a division comprising 2500+ research
scientists in Princeton, Berkeley, Erlangen, Munich, Berlin, Tokyo,
Beijing, Shanghai, Bangalore, St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Siemens is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the
workplace.

Please forward your resume to

[email protected]  - for Princeton, New Jersey
[email protected] - for Erlangen Germany
[email protected]
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Date: May 5, 2008
From: Alessandro Antonucci <[email protected]>
Subject: School on Imprecise Probabilities

Call for Participation
3rd School of the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories
  and Applications (SIPTA), July 2-8, 2008=20
Montpellier, France, July 2-8, 2008
http://www.lirmm.fr/SIPTASchool08/

Registration Deadline: June 8, 2008
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