ECML PKDD 05: Call For Papers

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Apologies for multiple posting
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Call for Papers

ECML/PKDD-2005
Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005
http://ecmlpkdd05.liacc.up.pt/
mailto:ecmlpkdd05@liacc.up.pt


The 16th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) will be co-located in Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005. The combined event will comprise presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials, a demo session, and a discovery challenge.


Important dates 

- Submission deadline: May 16, 2005
- Notification of acceptance: July 11, 2005
- Camera-ready copies due: July 25, 2005 
- Conferences: October 3 to October 7, 2005


Paper submission 

High quality research contributions pertinent to any aspects of machine learning and knowledge discovery are called for, ranging from principles to practice; particular attention will be paid to papers describing innovative, challenging applications. 

There will be a single electronic submission procedure, where authors should indicate whether they submit their paper to ECML, PKDD, or both. In the latter case, the topic of the joint submission must be within the scope of both conferences; accepted joint submissions will be assigned to the most appropriate of the conferences. Student submissions should be clearly indicated on the submission form. All submissions will be reviewed by the respective program committees. 

The papers must  be in English and should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html 

The maximum length of papers is 12 pages. The proceedings of ECML and PKDD will be published as two separate volumes by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series and will be available at the conference. 

Simultaneous submissions to other  conferences are allowed, provided this fact is clearly indicated on the submission form. Simultaneous submissions that are not clearly specified as such will be rejected.  Accepted papers will appear in the ECML/PKDD conference proceedings only if they are  withdrawn from proceedings of other conferences.


** ECML Call for Papers

The European Conference on Machine Learning series intends to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in machine learning and is the major European scientific event in the field. Submissions of papers that describe the application of machine learning methods to real-world problems are encouraged, particularly exploratory research that describes novel learning tasks and applications requiring non-standard techniques. 
Submissions that demonstrate both theoretical and empirical rigor are especially encouraged. 

Topics of interest (non-exhaustive list): 

- artificial neural networks
- Bayesian networks 
- case-based reasoning 
- computational models of human learning 
- computational learning theory 
- cooperative learning 
- decision trees
- discovery of scientific laws
- evolutionary computation 
- grammatical inference
- incremental induction and on-line learning
- inductive logic programming 
- information retrieval and learning 
- instance based learning
- kernel methods  
- knowledge acquisition and learning 
- knowledge base refinement 
- knowledge intensive learning 
- machine learning of natural language 
- meta learning
- multi-agent learning 
- multi-strategy learning 
- planning and learning 
- reinforcement learning 
- revision and restructuring   
- statistical approaches 
- unsupervised learning 
- vision and learning


** PKDD Call for Papers

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) is the ability to extract useful patterns from large amounts of data stored in databases, data warehouses or other information repositories. KDD is a combination of many research areas: databases, statistics, machine learning, automated scientific discovery, artificial intelligence, visualization, and high performance computing. KDD 
focuses on the value that is added by the creative combination of the contributing areas. 

The European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases series intends to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in KDD and is the major European scientific event in the field. 

Submissions are invited that describe empirical and theoretical research  in all areas of KDD, as well as submissions that describe challenging applications of KDD.

Topics of interest (non-exhaustive list): 

Algorithms and techniques
- classification
- clustering
- frequent patterns
- rule discovery
- statistical techniques and mixture models
- constraint-based mining
- incremental algorithms
- scalable algorithms
- distributed and parallel algorithms
- privacy preserving data mining
- multi-relational data mining
Data mining and databases
- database integration
- OLAP and data warehouse integration
- data mining query languages
- data mining query optimization
Data pre-processing
- dimensionality reduction
- data reduction
- discretization
- uncertain and missing information handling
Foundations of data mining
- complexity issues
- inductive databases
- knowledge (pattern) representation
- global vs. local patterns
- logic for data mining
- statistical inference and probabilistic modelling 
Innovative applications
- mining bio-medical data
- web content, structure and usage mining
- semantic web mining
- mining governmental data, mining for the public administration
- personalization 
- adaptive data mining architectures
- invisible data mining
KDD process and process-centric data mining
- models of the KDD process
- standards for the KDD process
- background knowledge integration
- collaborative data mining
- vertical data mining environments
Mining different forms of data
- graph, tree, sequence mining
- semi-structured and XML data mining
- text mining 
- temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal data mining
- data stream mining
- multimedia mining
Pattern post-processing
- quality assessment
- visualization
- knowledge interpretation and use
- knowledge exploration


Committee and Chairs

General Chair:

Pavel Brazdil (email), LIACC/FEP, Portugal 


Program Chairs:

- ECML - 
Rui Camacho (email), LIACC/FEUP, Portugal 
João Gama (email), LIACC/FEP, Portugal 

- PKDD - 
Alípio Jorge (email), LIACC/FEP, Portugal 
Luís Torgo (email), LIACC/FEP, Portugal 

Workshops Chair:

Floriana Esposito (email), University of Bari, Italy

Tutorials Chair:

Dunja Mladenic (email), Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Area Chairs:

Michael R. Berthold, University of Konstanz,Germany
Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy
Ivan Bratko , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto, Portugal
Carla E. Brodley, University Tuffs, USA
Rui Camacho, University of Porto, Portugal
Luc Dehaspe , PharmaDM, Belgium
Peter Flach, University of Bristol, UK
Johannes Fürnkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Joao Gama , University of Porto, Portugal
Howard J. Hamilton, University of Regina, USA
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University, USA
Alípio Jorge, University Porto, Portugal
Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland, USA
Pedro Larranaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain 
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
Jose Carlos Principe , University of Florida, USA
Tobias Scheffer, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Michele Sebag , Universitè Orsay, France
Peter Stone, University of Texas, USA
Luis Torgo, University of Porto, Portugal
Gerhard Widmer , University of Vienna, Austria
 
ECML Program Committee:
Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Jesus Aguilar, University Seville, Spain
Michael Bain, University New South Wales, Australia
Jose Luis Balcazar, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ho Tu Bao, School of Knowledge Science, Japan
Michael R. Berthold, University of Konstanz,Germany
Fernando Berzal, University of Granada, Spain
Hendrik Blockeel , K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Daniel Borrajo, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Henrik Boström , Stockholm University, Sweden
Marco Botta , University of Torino, Italy
Jean-Francois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France
Ivan Bratko , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto, Portugal
Carla E. Brodley, University Tuffs, USA
Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute of Information Technology, Finland
Rui Camacho, University of Porto, Portugal
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Remi Coulom, University Lille, France
James Cussens, University of York, UK
Luc Dehaspe , PharmaDM, Belgium
Saso Dzeroski , Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Tapio Elomaa, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Floriana Esposito , University of Bari, Italy
Ad Feelders , Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Peter Flach, University of Bristol, UK
Eibe Frank, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Alex Freitas, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Johannes Fürnkranz, Knowledge Engineering Group, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Joao Gama , University of Porto, Portugal
Dragan Gamberger , Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Universitè Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Minos N. Garofalakis, Bell Labs, USA
Fosca Giannotti, ISTI - Institute of CNR
Attilio Giordana , Università di Torino, Italy
Christophe Giraud-Carrier, ELCA Informatique SA, Switzerland
Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Howard J. Hamilton, University of Regina, USA
Melanie Hilario, University of Geneve, Switzerland
Robert J. Hilderman, University of Regina, USA
Haym Hirsh , Rutgers University, USA
Frank Hoeppner, University of Applied Sciences BS/WF, Germany
Thomas Hofmann , Brown University, USA
Nitin Indurkhya, University of New South Walles, Australia
Inaki Inza, University of Basque Country,Spain
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University, USA
Alípio Jorge, University Porto, Portugal
Hong Se June, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Alexandros Kaloussis, University of Geneve, Switzerland
Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland, USA
Dimitar Kazakov, University of York, UK
Eamonn Keogh, University of California, Riverside, USA
Roni Khardon , Tufts University, USA
Ross D. King , University of Wales, UK
Igor Kononenko , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Stefan Kramer , Technische Universität München, Germany
Miroslav Kubat, University of Miami, USA
Stephen Kwek, University of Texas at San Antonio,USA
Pedro Larranaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain 
Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Jinyan Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Charles Ling, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
Stan Matwin , University of Ottawa, Canada
Michael May , Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany
Rosa Meo , Università di Torino, Italy
Josè del R. Millan , IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Carolina Monard, University of S.Paulo, Brasil
Katharina Morik, University Dortmund, Germany
Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshi Motoda, ISIR, Osaka University, Japan
Claire Nedellec, Laboratoire Mathèmatique, Informatique et Gènome, France
Richard Nock, Universitè Antilles-Guyane/Martinique,France
Masayushi Numao, University of Osaka, Japan
Arlindo Oliveira, Technical University Lisboa, Portugal
Ramon Otero, University of Santiago, Spain
Johann Petrak, University of Viena, Austria
Bernhard Pfahringer , University of Waikato, New Zeland
Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Andre Ponce Leao, University S.Paulo, Brasil
Jose Carlos Principe , University of Florida, USA
Jan Rauch, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Solange Rezende, University of S.Paulo, Brasil
Jose Riquelme, University of Seville, Spain
Joseph Roure, University of Mataro, Spain
Juho Royal Rousu, Holloway University of London, UK
Celine Rouveirol , LRI, Universite Paris Sud, France
Stefan Rueping, University Dortmund, Germany
Salvatore Ruggieri , University of Pisa, Italy
Marques de Sa, Faculty of Engineering, Porto
Lorenza Saiita, Università del Piemonte, Italy
Tobias Scheffer, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Bruno Scherrer, LORIA, France
Michele Sebag , LRI, Universitè Orsay - France
Giovanni Semeraro , University of Bari, Italy
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Arno Siebes, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Robert H. Sloan, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Maarten van Someren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Myra Spiliopoulou , Otto-von-Guericke Universitaet Magdeburg,Germany
Ashwin Srinivasan, IBM Research, India
Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Peter Stone, University of Texas, USA
Einoshin Suzuki , Yokohama National University, Japan
Washio Takashi , University of Osaka, Japan
Kai Ming Ting, Monash University, Australia
Ljupco Todorovski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Luis Torgo, University of Porto, Portugal
Peter Turney , National Research Council of Canada, Canada
Ricardo Vilalta, University of Houston, Usa
Paul Vitanyi , CWI and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Louis Wehenkel , University of Liège, Belgique
Gary Weiss, Rutgers University / AT&T, USA
Gerhard Widmer , University of Vienna, Austria
Marco Wiering , Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Gerson Zaverucha, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Thomas Zeugmann, Hokkaido University, Japan
Blaz Zupan , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
PKDD Program Committee
Jesus Aguilar, University Seville, Spain
Paulo Azevedo, University Minho, Portugal
Michael Bain, University New South Wales, Australia
Jose Luis Balcazar, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Elena Baralis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Bettina Berendt, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Petr Berka, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Michael R. Berthold, University of Konstanz,Germany
Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy
Hendrik Blockeel , K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Francesco Bonchi, CNR Pisa, Italy
Henrik Boström , Stockholm University, Sweden
Marco Botta , Università di Torino, Italy
Jean-Francois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France
Pavel Brazdil, University of Porto, Portugal
Carla E. Brodley, University Tuffs, USA
Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute of Information Technology, Finland
Rui Camacho, University of Porto, Portugal
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Susan Craw, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
Bruno Cremilleux , Universite de Caen, France
James Cussens, University of York, UK
Luc Dehaspe , PharmaDM, Belgium
Vasant Dhar, Stern Business School, USA
Saso Dzeroski , Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Tapio Elomaa, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Floriana Esposito , University of Bari, Italy
Ronen Feldman , Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Peter Flach, University of Bristol, UK
Eibe Frank, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Alex Freitas, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Johannes Fürnkranz, Knowledge Engineering Group, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Joao Gama , University of Porto, Portugal
Dragan Gamberger , Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
Minos N. Garofalakis, Bell Labs, USA
Bart Goethals , Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Howard J. Hamilton, University of Regina, USA
Melanie Hilario, University of Geneve, Switzerland
Haym Hirsh , Rutgers University, USA
Frank Hoeppner, University of Applied Sciences BS/WF, Germany
Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Nitin Indurkhya, University of New South Walles, Australia
Radim Jirousek, Academy of Science, Czech Republic
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University, USA
Alípio Jorge, University Porto, Portugal
Murat Kantarcioglu, Purdue University, USA
Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland, USA
Samuel Kaski , Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Eamonn Keogh, University of California, Riverside, USA
Roni Khardon , Tufts University, USA
Jorg-Uwe Kietz, KDlabs AG, Switzerland
Joerg Kindermann, Institute for Autonomous intelligent Systems, Germany
Ross D. King , University of Wales, UK
Joost N. Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Igor Kononenko , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Stefan Kramer , Technische Universität München, Germany
Miroslav Kubat, University of Miami, USA
Nicholas Kushmerick , University College Dublin, Ireland
Pedro Larranaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain 
Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Jinyan Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Charles Ling, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy
Giuseppe Manco, National Research Council of Italy,Italy
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
Stan Matwin , University of Ottawa, Canada
Michael May , Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany
Rosa Meo , Università di Torino, Italy
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Katharina Morik, University Dortmund, Germany
Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshi Motoda, ISIR, Osaka University, Japan
Steve Moyle, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, England
Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
Claire Nedellec, Laboratoire Mathèmatique, Informatique et Gènome, France
Richard Nock, Universitè Antilles-Guyane/Martinique,France
Masayushi Numao, University of Osaka, Japan
Arlindo Oliveira, Technical University Lisboa, Portugal
Georgios Paliouras, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Greece
Dino Pedreschi, Università di Pisa, Italy
Johann Petrak, University of Viena, Austria
Bernhard Pfahringer , University of Waikato, New Zeland
Jose Carlos Principe , University of Florida, USA
Jan Ramon, University of Leuven, Belgium
Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, USA
Jan Rauch, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Christophe Rigotti, INSA de Lyon, France
Gilbert Ritschard, Dept of Econometrics, University of Geneva
John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia
Marques de Sa, University of Porto, Portugal
Lorenza Saiita, Università del Piemonte, Italy
Daniel Sanchez, University of Granada, Spain
Yucel Saygin , Sabanci University, USA
Tobias Scheffer, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Michele Sebag , LRI, Universitè Orsay - France
Marc Sebban , University Jean Monnet, France
Giovanni Semeraro , University of Bari, Italy
Arno Siebes, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Carlos Soares, University of Porto, Portugal
Maarten van Someren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Myra Spiliopoulou , Otto-von-Guericke Universitaet Magdeburg,Germany
Nicolas Spyratos, LRI, Universitè Orsay Paris-Sud, France
Ashwin Srinivasan, IBM Research, India
Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Reinhard Stolle, Xerox PARC, USA
Peter Stone, University of Texas, USA
Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Einoshin Suzuki , Yokohama National University, Japan
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Ah-Hwee Tan, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore
Ljupco Todorovski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Luis Torgo, University of Porto, Portugal
Shusaku Tsumoto , Shimane Medical University, Japan
Peter Turney , National Research Council of Canada, Canada
Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
Maria Amparo Vila, University of Granada, Spain
Dietrich Wettschereck , The Robert Gordon University, UK
Gerhard Widmer , University of Vienna, Austria
Ruediger Wirth , DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
Mohammed J. Zaki , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Carlo Zaniolo , UCLA Computer Science Department, USA
Djamel A. Zighed, Universitè Lyon 2, France