[Bio-matrix] ECML PKDD 2008 Call for Workshops/Tutorials

[Siegfried Nijssen]

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Call For Tutorial and Workshop Proposals
ECML PKDD 2008
The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of 
Knowledge Discovery in Databases
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September 15-19, 2008
Antwerp, Belgium
http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/

The ECML PKDD 2008 Organizing Committee invites proposals for full-day or 
half-day tutorials and workshops or a combination of these. Workshops and 
tutorials will be part of the main conference, and are free of charge to the 
attendees of the conference. Every workshop and tutorial will receive one 
free conference registration to be used by one of the organisers or an 
invited speaker of a workshop. Informal printed workshop proceedings and 
tutorial notes will be made available by ECML PKDD organizers.

Key Dates

    * Workshop/tutorial proposal deadline: March 31, 2008
    * Workshop/tutorial acceptance notification: April 11, 2008
    * Workshop websites and call for papers online: April 18, 2008
    * Workshop/tutorial proceedings/notes camera-ready: August 21, 2008

Workshops

Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss current and emerging topics in 
machine learning and/or data mining in an 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 that bring 
together researchers and practitioners from different communities are 
especially encouraged. Each workshop should be well-focused, aim not to be a 
mini-conference, but attract a sufficiently large audience. At least one of 
the Workshop Chairs should be a knowledgeable person in the area of machine 
learning or data mining.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide independent instruction on topics from the field of machine 
learning or data mining. Introductions to other research domains that could 
fertilize the machine learning/data mining field with new challenges or 
solutions are also welcome provided that there is a clear relation to machine 
learning/data mining. Each tutorial should be well-focused, attract a 
sufficiently large audience, cover the overall picture at an introductory 
level without a bias towards the work of one author, and be free of 
commercial or sales-oriented material. A tutorial should be presented by 
highly qualified persons with a demonstrable background and teaching 
experience in the tutorial area.

Submissions

Proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chairs and 
reviewers to judge the importance, relevance, quality and community interest 
in the proposed tutorial/workshop. More detailed instructions are available 
here:

http://www.ecmlpkdd2008.org/workshop-tutorial-instructions

Each proposal should be submitted by email to the ECML PKDD 2008 workshop and 
tutorial chairs, who will review the proposals in close collaboration with 
the conference chairs and members of the program committee.

Contact

In case you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are 
looking forward to your proposals,

The ECML PKDD 2008 Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:
Siegfried Nijssen, siegfried from ecmlpkdd2008.org
Arno Siebes, arno from ecmlpkdd2008.org