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Call for Workshop Proposals
The Twenty-first International Conference
on Machine Learning
Banff Alberta Canada
4-8 July 2004
The ICML-2004 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to
be held at the 21st
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2004)>, which
will take place July 4-8, 2004, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. ICML-2004
will be co-located with the
Computational Learning Theory (COLT-04) and
Uncertainty in AI (UAI-04) conferences. The workshops will be held
on July 8th, the same day as the UAI tutorials. There will be room for
two large (< 150 participants) and up to two small workshops (<
40 participants).
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 and data mining. Proposals that
aim at a cross-fertilization between Machine Learning and one of the
topics of the co-located conferences are particularly welcome.
Working notes of the workshops will be made available to participants
in electronic form prior to the conference.
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:
Johannes Fürnkranz
E-mail: juffi@oefai.at
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien, Austria
Important Dates
| Dec 19, 2003 |
Proposal deadline |
| Jan 7, 2004 |
Acceptance notification |
| Jan 23, 2004 |
Publicity Materials Due |
| Apr 2, 2004 |
WS Paper submission deadline |
| Apr 16, 2004 |
Notification of participants |
| May 7, 2004 |
WS final paper deadline |
| May 14, 2004 |
Workshop notes due (on-line) |
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