Machine Learning List

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Machine Learning List: Volume 18, Number 4
Monday, May 1, 2006
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Administrative announcements
New ML List format
Calls for Papers and Participation
ILP 2006
ABiALS Workshop 2006
ICGI 2006
ICML Workshop on Learning in Structured Output Spaces
AAI Special Issue on Applications of Grammatical Inference
ICML Workshop on Surveillance and Event Detection
Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition
ICML Workshop on Transfer Learning
ICML Workshop on Applications of Multiple-Instance Learning
ICML Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams
ICML Workshop on Learning with Nonparametric Bayesian Methods
Workshop on Machine Learning in Structural and Systems Biology
ICML Workshop on Kernel Machines and Reinforcement Learning
Human-Competitive Competition at GECCO-2006
Summer School on Neural Networks
Book Announcements
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
Career Opportunities
Postdoc job in "Evidence" at UCL
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006
From: Pat Langley
Subject: New ML List format

In this issue of the Machine Learning List, we introduce a new, briefer format that contains only the essential information about conferences, special issues, and similar events. We hope our readers will find it easier to find items that interest them, and that they can then go to the relevant URL to get additional information. We will continue to include longer announcements about open positions.

Sincerely, -Pat Langley

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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:09:42 +0000
From: ILP 2006
Subject: ILP 2006

Call for Papers
16th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2006) Santiago, Spain
http://ilp06.doc.ic.ac.uk

Submission deadline, short paper July 24, 2006
Acceptance notification, short paper: August 4, 2006
ILP 2006 Conference: August 24-27, 2006
Acceptance notification, selected papers: August 31, 2006
Submission deadline, full paper: September 30, 2006
Acceptance notification, full paper: November 3, 2006
Camera-ready deadline: December 8, 2006
Publication of conference proceedings: Early 2007
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From: Giovanni Pezzulo
Subject: ABiALS Workshop 2006
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:07:55 +0100

Call for Papers
ABiALS Workshop 2006
Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems
ROME, ITALY
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/ABiALS

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2006
ABiALS Workshop 2006: September 30, 2006
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Date: 17 Mar 2006 07:18:02 -0000
From: satoshi@cs.uec.ac.jp
Subject: ICGI 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS
Eighth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2006)
http://www.tnlab.ice.uec.ac.jp/icgi06/
The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, JAPAN

Submission deadline: May 20, 2006
Acceptance notification: June 19, 2006
Final version of manuscripts: July 16, 2006
Conference date: September 20-22, 2006
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:46:41 +0100
From: Ulf Brefeld
Subject: ICML Workshop on Learning in Structured Output Spaces

Call for Papers
ICML-2006 Workshop on Learning in Structured Output Spaces
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~brefeld/lisos

Submission deadline: April 28, 2006
Acceptance notification: May 19, 2006
Final paper deadline: June 9, 2006
Workshop date: June 29, 2006
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:01:31 +1100
From: Menno van Zaanen
Subject: AAI Special Issue on Applications of Grammatical Inference

Call for Submissions
APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Special Issue on Applications of Grammatical Inference
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~menno/AAI06/

Submission deadline: May 1, 2006
Acceptance notification: October, 1, 2006
Final versions of accepted papers: December, 1, 2006
Publication: Second half of 2007
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:04:59 -0700
From: Terran Lane
Subject: ICML Workshop on Surveillance and Event Detection

Call for Papers and Contributions
ICML-2006 Workshop on Machine Learning Algorithms for Surveillance and Event Detection
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Submissions deadline: April 28, 2006 (tentative)
Acceptance notification: May 19, 2006 (tentative)
Workshop proceedings posted on Web site: June 18, 2006
Workshop date: June 29, 2006
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:52:15 -0600
From: Vasant Honavar
Subject: Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition

AAAI Fall Symposium
Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa 2006)
Arlington, VA

Submission deadline: May 1, 2006
Acceptance notification: May 22, 2006
Camera-ready deadline: June 2, 2006
Symposium date: October 12-15, 2006
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:57:39 -0600 (CST)
From: Bikramjit Banerjee
Subject: ICML Workshop on Transfer Learning

CALL FOR PAPERS
Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning
Workshop at the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~banerjee/icmlws06/

Submission deadline: May 02, 2006
Workshop date: June 29, 2006
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:04:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Stephen D. Scott
Subject: ICML Workshop on Applications of Multiple-Instance Learning

Call for Papers and Participation
Workshop on Applications of Multiple-Instance Learning
at the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sray/miws.html

Submission dealine: April 28, 2006
Acceptance notification: June 2, 2006
Camera-ready deadline: June 9, 2006
Workshop date: June 29, 2006
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:10:24 -0500
From: Josep Roure
Subject: ICML Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams

Call for Papers and Participation
Third International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams
At the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jroure/iwkdds/iwkdds_icml06.html

Submission deadline: April 28, 2006
Acceptance notification: June 2, 2006
Camera-ready deadline: June 16, 2006
Workshop date: June 29, 2006
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:27:54 +0200
From: Steffen Bickel
Subject: ICML Workshop on Learning with Nonparametric Bayesian Methods

CALL FOR PAPERS / ABSTRACTS
ICML-2006 Workshop on Learning with Nonparametric Bayesian Methods
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Submission deadline: April 28, 2006
Acceptance notification: May 19, 2006
Camera-ready deadline: June 9, 2006
Workshop date: June 29, 2006
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:08:23 +0300
From: Esa Pitkanen
Subject: Workshop on Machine Learning in Structural and Systems Biology

Workshop on Probabilistic Modeling and Machine Learning in
Structural and Systems Biology
Tuusula, Finland
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/bioinformatiikka/events/pmsb06/

Submission deadline: April 23, 2006
Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2006
Final version due: May 31, 2006
Workshop date: June 17-18, 2006
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:09:17 +0200
From: Remi Munos
Subject: ICML Workshop on Kernel Machines and Reinforcement Learning

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
ICML-2006 Workshop on Kernel Machines and Reinforcement Learning
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/krl.html

Submission deadline: April 30, 2006
Workshop date: June 29, 2006
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:14:27 -0800
From: John Koza
Subject: Human-Competitive Competition at GECCO-2006

CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR
$10,000 IN AWARDS
HUMAN-COMPETITIVE RESULTS
www.human-competitive.org
to be held as part of the
GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2006)
July 8-12, 2006 (Saturday-Wednesday)
Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA

Entry deadline: May 29, 2006
Finalists' notification: June 25, 2006
Submission deadline: July 5, 2006
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:08:55 -0000
From: Jorge Santos
Subject: Summer School on Neural Networks

SUMMER SCHOOL NN2006
Neural Networks in Classification, Regression, and Data Mining
ISEP - Porto, Portugal
http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt? email: nn-2006@isep.ipp.pt

Early Registration: May 15, 2006
Hotel booking: June 15, 2006
Summer School: July 3-7, 2006
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:26:42 -0500
From: David Weininger
Subject: Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning

This title is available from MIT Press:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SP2006026218253X

Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
Carl Edward Rasmussen and Christopher K. I. Williams
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:02:59 +0100
From: Peter Dayan
Subject: Postdoc job in "Evidence" at UCL

A vacancy has arisen for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on the project "Formal tools for handling evidence", which forms part of the research programme "Evidence, Inference and Enquiry" at University College London -- see http://www.evidencescience.org

This is a 2-year post, available with immediate effect. Applicants should have a PhD in Statistics, Machine Learning, or similar, and be knowledgeable in theoretical and computational aspects of Bayesian Networks. The appointment will be on Grade 6, salary range 20234-23457 plus London Allowance of 2400.

Letters of application, including a Curriculum Vitae and names of 3 referees, should be sent to: Marion Ware, Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK, telephone +44 (0)20 7679 1872, e-mail marion@stats.ucl.ac.uk. Full details of the post and the project can be found at:
http://128.40.59.163/evidence/people/emp0305.html