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ICML 2005 call for workshop and
tutorial proposals below.
Submission deadlines:
http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de/call_for_proposals.php
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The 22nd International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML 2005)
http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de
Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
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The ICML 2005 Organizing
Committee invites proposals for workshops and
tutorials to be held at the 22nd International Conference on
Machine
Learning (ICML 2005), which
will take place
Conference on Inductive Logic
Programming, August 10-13) and will closely
follow IJCAI 2005 (19th International Joint Conference on
Artificial
Intelligence,
The ICML 2005 workshops and
tutorials will be held on August 7 and 11.
Workshops provide organizers
and participants with an opportunity to
focus intensively on a specific topic in machine
learning. Workshops
can choose to concentrate on emerging research topics,
but can also be
devoted to application issues, or to questions concerning the
economic
and social aspects of machine learning. Proposals that aim at a
cross-fertilization between machine learning and one of the topics of
the co-located conferences are particularly welcome.
Tutorials should provide an
introduction and/or a review of the
state-of-the-art of a topic that is of interest to attendants of a
machine learning conference. These could be on particular
research
topics within the two fields, but could also be on topics
from other
research fields if the proposal makes clear why this is
considered to
be an important topic for researchers from other areas.
A tutorial
must be broad enough to cover a research area in which
there is a
significant publication activity in the community. Presentations that
focus on the presenters' own research results or commercial
presentations are not eligible.
For practical information on
the workshops and tutorials, and for
details on the submission procedure, see below or refer to
the detailed
calls for workshops and tutorials that are available at
http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de/call_for_proposals.php
Tutorial notes and working
notes of the workshops will be made
available to participants in electronic form prior to the
conference.
They will also be distributed
at the conference itself (CD and paper
versions).
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How to Propose a
Workshop
Workshop proposals should
contain the necessary information for the
workshop chair and reviewers from the conference organizing
committee
to judge the importance, quality and community interest
in the
proposed topic. Each workshop should have one or more
designated
organizers and a workshop program committee. When proposing a
workshop, please provide (at least) the following information:
* Topic -- What will the
workshop be about? Why do you believe
this is an interesting and significant topic? Why is the
topic
best addressed in an ICML workshop, as opposed to a workshop
at
another conference or papers in an ICML technical session?
* Goals -- What do you
expect will come out of the workshop? How
will the workshop change the participants' understanding of
the
area? Do you think it will have an impact on the Machine Learning
community at large?
* Intended audience -- From
which areas do you expect potential
participants to come? How many participants do you expect?
Can you
already name some of them?
* Format -- How will the
workshop sessions be scheduled? How much
time will be used for discussion, panel discussions, paper
presentations, invited talks, or other methods for
encouraging
communication and consensus? Organizers are encouraged to
focus on
mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations and to
differentiate themselves clearly from typical conference
sessions.
* Publicity -- How do you
intend to publicize the workshop? How
will you reach the most interested and appropriate
participants?
Are there any
plans to document the workshop results (beyond
ICML's web
publication)?
* Organizers -- Please include the name,
postal address, phone
number, e-mail address, and webpage of all members of the
program
committee. In addition, indicate the organizers' background
in the
workshop area.
Proposals should be submitted
in electronic form to:
E-mail: hendrik.blockeel@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Important Dates
URL
http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de/call_for_proposals.php
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How to Propose a Tutorial
Proposals should provide
sufficient information to evaluate the
quality and importance of the topic, the likely quality of
the
presentation materials, and the speakers' teaching ability. We
encourage tutorials taught by two-person teams because the
added
perspective of a second presenter can provide richer, more
balanced
coverage of an area. When proposing a tutorial, please provide
(at
least) the following information:
* Topic -- What will the
tutorial be about? Why do you believe
this is an interesting and significant subject for the
machine
learning community at large?
* Intended audience -- From
which areas do you expect potential
participants to come? Which prior knowledge, if any, do you
expect from the audience? What will the participants learn? How
many participants do you expect?
* Content -- Provide a
detailed outline of the topics to be
presented, including estimates for the time that will be
devoted
to each subject. If possible, provide samples of past
tutorial
slides or teaching materials. In case of multiple
presenters,
specify how you will distribute the work.
* Format -- How will you
present the material? Will there be
multi-media parts of the presentation? Do you plan software
demonstrations? Specify any extraordinary technical
equipment
that you would need. Will the tutorial be full-day or
half-day?
* Presenters -- Please
include the name, postal address, phone
number, e-mail address, and webpage of all presenters. In
addition, indicate the presenters' background and a list of
publications in the tutorial area.
Proposals should be submitted
in electronic form to:
E-mail: hendrik.blockeel@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Important Dates
Feb
11, 2005 Proposal deadline
Feb
28, 2005 Acceptance notification
Mar 7, 2005
Tutorial abstracts due
May
20, 2005 Tutorial
notes due
URL
http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de/call_for_proposals.php