ECML/PKDD 2004: Call for Tutorials and Workshops

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   DEADLINE: 8 March 2004
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       The 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-04)
                                  and
       The 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of
               Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD-04)

                   20-24 September 2004, Pisa, Italy

                      http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it

 JOINT CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

 The ECML/PKDD-2004 organizing committee invites proposals for
 tutorials and workshops to be held on Monday and Friday, September
 20 and 24, immediately preceding and following the main ECML/PKDD-2004 
 conference. We  invite proposals for up to six half-day tutorials 
 and six full day  workshops. Proposals for a workshop/tutorial 
 combination are also welcome (see below). The scope of the proposal 
 should be consistent with the conference themes as described in the 
 ECML/PKDD-2004 Call for Papers (see URL above).

 Workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to
 discuss current topics in machine learning and/or data mining in a
 small and interactive atmosphere. Thus, any topic that is of current
 interest to a sufficient number of participants from the two
 communities could be the focus of a workshop. Workshops can
 concentrate in-depth on research topics, but can also be devoted to
 application issues, or to questions concerning the economic and
 social aspects of machine learning and data mining.

 Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction on topics
 from the field of machine learning or data mining. Introductions to
 other research domains that could fertilize the ML/DM field with new
 challenges or solutions are also welcome. Each tutorial should
 - attract a large enough audience;
 - be presented by highly qualified persons with a demonstrable
   background and teaching experience in the tutorial area;
 - be well-focused, so that its core content can be covered in a 3.5
   hour tutorial slot (incl. a 30 minute break);
 - be accompanied by comprehensive notes written in clear, standard
   English;
 - cope with the wide diversity in the audience, or else be accompanied
   by a complete list of tutorial prerequisites;
 - cover the overall picture, without a bias towards the presenters'
   own work;
 - be free of commercial or sales-oriented material.

 As workshops and tutorials are in a sense complementary, we also
 welcome proposals for combined tutorial-workshop events. The general
 idea is that the tutorial gives an introduction to the field of the
 workshop, making the workshop accessible to a broader audience.

 For practical information on the workshops and tutorials, and for
 details on the submission procedure, please refer to the detailed call
 for workshops and tutorials that is available at
 http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it/.

 IMPORTANT DATES

 - Workshop/tutorial proposal deadline: March 8, 2004
 - Workshop/tutorial acceptance notification: March 22, 2004
 - Workshop Call For Papers for web: April 8, 2004
 - Tutorial summary for web: April 8, 2004
 - Workshop paper submission deadline: June 14, 2004
 - Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 5, 2004
 - Workshop paper camera-ready deadline: July 12, 2004
 - Workshop proceedings (camera/web-ready): July 19, 2004
 - Tutorial notes (camera/web-ready): July 19, 2004
 - Start conference: September 20, 2004


 CONTACT INFORMATION

 Tutorial Chairs

 Katharina Morik
 Computer Science Department
 University of Dortmund
 Campus Süd - Baroper Straße 301,
 D-44227 Dortmund, Germany
 morik@ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de
 Phone: +49 231 7555101
 Fax:   +49 231 7555105

 Franco Turini
 Department of Informatics
 University of Pisa
 via F. Buonarroti, 2
 I-56127 Pisa, Italy
 turini@di.unipi.it
 Phone: +39 050 2212753
 Fax:   +39 050 2212726

 Workshop Chairs
 
 Donato Malerba
 Department of Informatics 
 University of Bari
 via Orabona 4,
 I-70126 Bari, Italy
 malerba@di.uniba.it
 Phone: +39 080 5443269
 Fax:   +39 080 5443269

 Mohammed J. Zaki
 Department of Computer Science
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
 Troy, New York 12180-3590 
 USA
 zaki@cs.rpi.edu
 Phone: +1 518 2766340
 Fax:   +1 518 2764033

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