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Machine Learning List: Vol. 15, No. 8
Saturday, May 28, 2003
Contents
Calls for Papers and Other Meeting Announcements
AIEDAM Special Issue, November 2004, Vol.18 No.5
CFP: WEBKDD 2003 (@ ACM SIGKDD 2003)
KCAP03 workshop
Intelligent Systems, Island of Madeira 2004
Career Opportunities
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Research Assistant
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS (Australian Research Council)
Postdoc positions
Misc. Other Announcements
a new book: Duality of the Mind
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From: Alex Duffy <[email protected]>
Subject: AIEDAM Special Issue, November 2004, Vol.18 No.5
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 22:45:27 +0100
AIEDAM Special Issue, November 2004, Vol.18 No.5
Learning and Creativity in Design
Edited by: A. H. B. Duffy and F.M.T. Brazier
Learning and creativity in design are two related activities. Can the
interrelations between the activities be defined? What is the nature of
these inter-relationships? Does creativity necessarily result in new
knowledge and/or learning? Can creativity be supported by computational
means? Can learning be supported by computational means? IF so, can such
computational systems support design practice? Can automated design be
considered to be creative? Can learning from past design manipulations
be considered to be creative?
The Learning and Creativity in Design Workshop at AID'02, held at
Cambridge University, provided a forum to discuss and attempt to answer
some of these questions, together with identifying the latest trends,
and challenge areas of learning to support design creativity. The goal
of this special issue is to further this area of research by presenting
answers to some of the above questions through a snapshot of the latest
research to produce an insightful understanding of the subject of
learning and creativity in design. The state-of-the-art of research in
the area, and its computational support, can also be obtained through
identifying the key challenges and issues.
Related papers are invited, but not limited to, one or more of the areas
listed below:
· The links between learning and creativity in design.
· The nature of creativity and learning.
· Creativity and learning in team design.
· Techniques, knowledge and approaches to computationally
supported creativity and learning.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two reviewers,
and a selection for publication made on the basis of these reviews.
Further details about registration of interest, submission, etc, can be
found at the Special Issue information page:
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/SpecialIssues/Duffy-Brazier.html
Information about the format and style required for AIEDAM papers can be
found at www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/Instructions/
Important dates:
Submission deadline for full papers: 1 September 2003
Notification and reviews to authors: 9 January 2004
Revised version submission deadline: 1 March 2004
Final notification and re-reviews: 3 May 2004
Final version submission deadline: 7 June 2004
Publication: November 2004
Guest editors:
Please direct enquiries to the guest editors:
Alex Duffy
Computer Aided Design Centre
Dept. Design Manufacture and Engineering Management
University of Strathclyde
Email: [email protected]
Frances Brazier
Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems Group
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Email: [email protected]
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From: Osmar Zaiane <[email protected]>
Subject: CFP: WEBKDD 2003 (@ ACM SIGKDD 2003)
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:07:09 -0600 (MDT)
WEBKDD 2003
Call for Papers
The Fifth WEBKDD Workshop:
Web Mining as a Premise to Effective and Intelligent Web Applications
http://db.cs.ualberta.ca/webkdd03/
In conjunction with
The Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
August 24-27, 2003 - Washington, DC, USA
Important Dates
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Abstracts due: Tuesday May 27th, 2003
Papers due: Tuesday June 3rd, 2003
Notification: Friday June 27th, 2003
Camera Ready: Thursday July 17th, 2003
WEBKDD'03 is the 5th of a successful series of workshops on knowledge
discovery in the Web. The Web presents a key driving force for a large
spectrum of applications, in which a user or even an application can
interact with a company, a governmental authority, a non-governmental
organization or a non-profit institution. To develop effective and
intelligent web-applications and web services, it is essential to
analyse patterns hidden in the usage of web resources, their contents
and their interconnections. User preferences and expectations together
with usage patterns form the basis for personalized, user-friendly and
business-optimal services. Contents, and link structures as well as
the semantic web are paramount for the development of good wrappers
for intelligent web agents. Enabling technologies include data mining,
document analysis and classification, user modelling and quality
evaluation models for them.
The WEBKDD'03 workshop aims at bringing together practitioners on
web-commerce, portals and ASPs, decision-makers in
[MSOffice1]non-commercial institutions that exploit web technologies
to optimize their services, technology providers, and data mining
researchers to foster the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of
emerging solutions on user and usage modelling for effective and
intelligent web-based applications using web usage, structure and
content mining.
Workshop Co-Chairs:
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* Ronny Kohavi (Blue Martini Software, USA)
* Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
* Brij Masand (Data Miners Inc., USA)
* Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota, USA)
* Osmar R. Zaïane (University of Alberta, Canada)
For inquiry, send e-mail to
[email protected]
Topics of interest:
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WEBKDD '03 calls for contributions related to data mining of web log
data, site information, document contents, user records and
preferences; the exploitation of the mining results for user
profiling, user modeling, web structure and content mining, and web
usage metrics and intelligent web applications. These include the
following subjects:
-Web Usage based Business Metrics
* Relationship of appropriate web usage data capture and
pre-processing methods to business metrics
* Reliability and consistency of Metrics
* Integration of click stream data with back end data and related metrics
* Intelligent summarization/explanation of changes in key web usage metrics.
-Enabling technologies: (limitations and strengths)
* Data warehousing (both web and non-web data)
* Data collection including event streams, such as click streams, call
center streams, and transactional data
* Techniques for web data preparation, including cleansing,
transformation, and sampling
* Classification of web page texts and multimedia content
-Modeling users and usage:
* Profile establishment upon declared and derived preferences
* Deriving profiles from usage
* Discovering misuse and fraud
* Recommendation systems
* Student profiles in e-learning
* Alert systems
* Permission marketing
-Web content and structure mining:
* Wrapper generation and information extraction
* Web content and/or structure mining
* Semantic Web mining
* Web mining for business intelligence and for security
-Applications:
* Recommendation systems, such as travel assistants
* E-learning, such as collectors of personalized teaching materials
* Alert systems, such as personalized delivery of news and journals
* Fraud and misuse detection, such as credit-card fraud and network
intrusion detection
* Web log (and other types of log) analysis for security applications
Paper Submission:
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Papers should be up to 5000 words long (aprox. a maximum of 15 pages).
Only electronic submissions are accepted. Either PDF or PS format is
strongly encouraged. MS Word format is also acceptable. Submissions
should be done via the on-line submission system. See the workshop web
site http://db.cs.ualberta.ca/webkdd03/
For further details, see http://db.cs.ualberta.ca/webkdd03/
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From: D Sleeman <[email protected]>
Subject: KCAP03 workshop
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:20:26 +0100
KCAP-03 WORKSHOP
CAPTURING KNOWLEDGE FROM DOMAIN EXPERTS: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS
To be linked with the Workshop on "Distributed & Collaborative
Knowledge Capture" (Please also see their announcement)
In the early days of Expert Systems, knowledge engineers were given a
very prominent role in interviewing domain experts and then
formalising and implementing a knowledge base which captured what they
thought an expert had said and/or how they had solved selected
problems. This approach is both very expensive and open to many
potential communication problems between the domain expert and the
knowledge engineer. Role-limiting approaches took a substantial step
forward, by viewing domain-level knowledge acquired from an expert by
a knowledge acquisition tool as playing certain roles within a
domain-independent problem solving method (PSM).
Today's experts are avid computer users who can envision the potential
of knowledge bases in their fields of expertise. This is clearly the
case in many areas of science, where experts are eager and committed
to undertake long-term knowledge capture and dissemination to improve
their fields and benefit related ones. Many are already developing
what can be considered skeletal ontologies and already using them to
support relatively simple tasks. There is clear interest in moving
towards more sophisticated knowledge bases that support complex
problem solving activity.
One of the functions of this workshop is to have an in-depth look at
the current state-of-the-art and in particular to see how the WWW has
changed our thinking about these issues. The issue of whether it is
necessary to superimpose a knowledge model on information acquired
before it can be used to solve meaningful & novel tasks is one of the
points of contention between this workshop & the one with which it is
linked, namely, the "Distributed & Collaborative Knowledge Capture"
workshop. Additionally, some groups of domain experts, who are now
more computationally sophisticated, are asking for tools which will
enable them to maintain collaboratively their own Knowledge
Bases. Some of the problems of maintaining knowledge bases overlap
with acquisition, others are quite distinct.
Clearly, this is a very inter-disciplinary activity and we very much
hope that the contributions for the workshop will reflect this. These
are some of the topics which we hope papers will address;
- Systems which have been used by domain experts to develop KBs
- Systems which have been used by domain experts to maintain KBs
- Techniques to help domain experts visualise and debug their KBs
- Detailed requirements from domain experts for the tools they would
like to use when developing & maintaining KBs /Ontologies
- Detailed case histories of the development of particular
topic-specific KBs
etc
Workshop format:
- There will be an opening Invited talk/position paper.
- Where possible talks should include appropriate demos.
- If there is a need we will also organize a longer demo/posters
session.
- We plan to have at least one panel - this will be with the Linked
Workshop as the grand finale.
It is desirable that persons attending this workshop should also
attend the linked workshop: "Distributed & Collaborative Knowledge
Capture" as this is on a related topic & we are planning at least to
have a joint panel as a Grand Finale for the 2 workshops.
Co-chairs:
Derek Sleeman, Aberdeen, UK [email protected]
Yolanda Gil, ISI, USA [email protected]
Submissions
We invite short papers, limited to 8 pages, which describe ongoing
work or new ideas within the scope of the workshop. Papers may also be
in the form of a position statement, indicating a writer's particular
opinion on a subject related to the workshop.
Submission procedure: Please email submissions, in PDF format only, to
[email protected] before 20th July (2003).
Submission format: Please use this Word template:
http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2003/templates/KCAP-Examp03.doc
This template is based on the official ACM templates for
proceedings. In accordance with requirements of the ACM digital
library, please include categories and subject descriptors that best
describe your submission. The hierarchy of descriptors can be found
here. You may include optional keywords. Note that reviewer
assignments will be based on the contents of the abstract, as well as
these descriptors and keywords. Accepted papers will be published as
part of the KCAP 2003 workshop proceedings.
Timetable:
May 19, 2003: Publications of Call for Participation
July 19, 2003: Papers to be submitted to Chair of Workshop Committee,
Derek Sleeman
August 19, 2003: Feedback to Authors on submitted papers
September 1, 2003: Publication of K-CAP 2003 workshop program
September 12, 2003: Revised papers to be submitted to Workshop Chair,
Derek Sleeman
October 25-26, 2003: K-CAP 2003 workshops
Contributions & general queries should be sent to:
Derek Sleeman,
Department of Computing Science,
The University, ABERDEEN AB24 3FX
Phone: +44 (0)1224 272296/88
FAX +44 (0)1224 273422
Email: [email protected]
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From: "Jeanny S. Ryffel" <[email protected]>
Subject: Intelligent Systems, Island of Madeira 2004
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:02:13 -0600
ENGINEERING in INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (EIS 2004)
in collaboration with the University of Madeira, Funchal
Island of Madeira, Portugal
And the University of Maribor, Slovenia
February 29 - March 3, 2004
Honorary Chairman: Erkki Oja, Finland
Fourth International ICSC Symposium on
(Preliminary Announcement)
The problem of engineering of intelligent systems is in fact the
science of transferring the methodologies, the knowledge and the
experiences from the area of artificial intelligence into the daily
life, either directly through the applications or indirectly through
basic or applied research. The conference originated in order to
provide a wide forum in which the latest developments in the field
could be discussed; so the participants from all countries are warmly
welcome. The scope of the conference as indicated by its topics has
been updated to reflect the recent rapid development of the
intelligent systems, such as in the area of control systems, decision
support systems or artificial life, to mention only a few.
The previous very successful conferences in the series were held in
1998 on Tenerife Island, Spain, in 2000 in Paisley, Scotland, and in
2002 in Malaga, Spain. The success of the previous conferences and the
achieved high standard will be reflected also in the coming
conference.
TOPICS THEORY
Artificial Immune Systems; Artificial Life; Case based Reasoning; Data
Mining; Chaos; Clustering; Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint
Programming; Expert Systems; Evolutionary Computation; Fuzzy
Clustering; Fuzzy Control; Fuzzy learning; Fuzzy Modelling; Hybrid
Systems; Intelligent Agents; Reasoning with Intervals; Knowledge
Extraction; Machine Learning; Model based Reasoning; Multi Agent
Systems; Neural Networks; Qualitative Reasoning; Wavelets
TOPICS APPLICATIONS
Concurrent Engineering; Condition Monitoring and Control; Damage
Assessment; Data Mining and Knowledge Extraction; Design; Emerging
Organizational Forms; Fault Detection; Hardware Implementations; Image
Processing and Computer Vision; Industrial Diagnostics; Management;
Medicine Robotics; Mobile robots; Monitoring and Control; Multimedia;
Natural Language Processing; Pattern Recognition; Product Development;
Resource Allocation; Remote Sensing; Robotics; Security; Sensors
fusion; Signal Processing; Speech Processing and Recognition;
Teledetection; Teleoperation
Important Dates
Submission Deadline August 15,, 2003
Notification September 15, 2003
Early registration September 20 - October 10, 2003
Final Manuscripts + registration by October 15, 2003
Conference: February 29 - March 3, 2004
ISMC 2004:
Fourth Workshop on Information Systems for Mass Customization
More information and URL will be available soon.
Other Special Events:
A list of very interesting events, speakers and organizers will be
publicized in our next announcement. Suggestions are welcome until
June 30, 2003.
Additional information will be available on our home page
http://www.icsc-naiso.org/
Conference Organizers:
University of Madeira, Portugal
University of Maribor, Slovenia
ICSC Canada/USA/Europe
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From: Jon Sporring <[email protected]>
Subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Research Assistant
Date: 15 May 2003 16:07:01 +0200
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Research Assistant
DIKU
Department of Computer Science
University of Copenhagen
Application deadline: June 15, 2003
Start: August 1, 2003
The successful applicant will be member of a European team working on
advanced feature extraction techniques and analysis tools for Earth
observation data. The applicant is to perform a survey of methods in
close collaboration with DIKU's scientific staff and to participate in
the design and development of prototypes in three selected areas. The
project is a 1 year pilot project with the possibility for extension
pending successful future applications. Applicants are expected to
have a strong knowledge of statistical methods in computer vision and
pattern recognition.
Salary will be approximately 32000 DKK per month depending on
qualifications. Foreign researchers at Ph.D. level may further
qualify for reduced tax through the Danish 25% Tax Scheme.
Applications to be sent by email to [email protected] or by mail to
Professor Peter Johansen, DIKU, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 Denmark.
The investigation is carried out by a consortium which consists of
ROVSING A/S(http://www.rovsing.dk/),
DIKU(http://www.diku.dk/forskning/image/),
GRAS(Geographic Resource Analysis and Science A/S,
http://www.gras.ku.dk/) and
DTU(Ãrsted, Danish Technical University, http://www.emi.dtu.dk/)
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From: Claude Sammut <[email protected]>
Subject: RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS (Australian Research Council)
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 11:37:03 +1000
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS (up to 10 positions)
Australian Research Council
Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems
The University of Sydney
The University of New South Wales
The University of Technology, Sydney
The new Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for
Autonomous Systems (CAS) is seeking to appoint up to ten new Research
Fellows in the broad area of robotics and autonomous systems. The
Centre is seeking highly qualified applicants with broad backgrounds
robotics, machine learning, vision and image processing, control
systems, signal processing, modelling of dynamical systems, physics,
electrical engineering or mechatronics.
CAS brings together, in a single Centre, The University of Sydney
Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), The University of New
South Wales School of Computer Science and Engineering (AI group) and
the University of Technology, Sydney Faculty of Engineering
(Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems). The partners have a world-class
track record in both fundamental and applied research. CAS currently
comprises some 70 staff and PhD students with an expectation that this
will grow to around 120 staff and students in the next five years.CAS
provides a world-leading environment for research and development of
autonomous systems including a large number of land, air and indoor
robots for experimental research, specialist laboratories in areas such
as sensing and human-machine interaction, extensive computing and field
test facilities, and has an active collaboration programme with a range
of national and overseas research institutes.
For position descriptions and application procedures, please visit:
http://www.cas.edu.au/jobs.html
Closing date: 19 June 2003
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From: "Conseil de la Recherche de l'Institut" <[email protected]>
Subject: Postdoc positions
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 10:47:18 +0200 (MEST)
Postdoctoral Research Positions
at the University of Namur, Belgium
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Five postdoctoral research positions are be available in six research
areas at the University of Namur, among which, two are in computer
science:
- Cognitive and semantic approaches to building large concept graphs
- Agent-oriented features
All the details concerning these positions are available at
http://www.fundp.ac.be/recherche/PostDoc_FUNDP_CERUNA_2003.pdf
Note in particular that the application deadline is June 6 2003.
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From: Ron Sun <[email protected]>
Subject: a new book: Duality of the Mind
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:24:00 -0500
Announcing a new book published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
http://www.erlbaum.com/
D U A L I T Y O F T H E M I N D
A Bottom-up Approach toward Cognition
by Ron Sun
Synthesizing situated cognition, reinforcement learning, and hybrid
connectionist models, a cognitive architecture focused on situated
involvement and interaction with the world is developed in this book. The
architecture notably incorporates the distinction between implicit and
explicit processes.
The work described in the book demonstrates the cognitive validity of
the architecture, by ways of capturing a wide range of human learning
data. Computational properties of the architecture is explored with
experiments that manipulate implicit and explicit processes to optimize
performance in a range of domains. Philosophical implications
of the approach, on situated cognition, intentionality, symbol grounding,
and consciousness, are also explored in detail.
In a nutshell, this book motivates and develops a framework for
studying human cognition, based on an approach that is characterized by
its focus on the dichotomy of, and the interaction between, implicit
and explicit cognition.
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For more details, go to
http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/book6-ann.html
To order the book, go to
https://www.erlbaum.com/shop/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=0-8058-3880-5
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