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22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (Bonn, August 2005)
ICML 2005 call for workshop and tutorial proposals below.
Submission deadlines: Dec 17, 2004 (workshops) - Feb 11, 2005 (tutorials)
http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de/call_for_proposals.php
The 22nd International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML 2005)
August 7-11, 2005, Bonn, Germany
http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de
Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
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 August 7-11, 2005, in Bonn,
Germany. ICML 2005 will be co-located with ILP 2005 (15th International
Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, August 10-13) and will closely
follow IJCAI 2005 (19th International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, Edinburgh, July 30 - August 5).
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:
Hendrik Blockeel
E-mail: hendrik.blockeel@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Important Dates
Dec 17, 2004 Proposal deadline
Jan 7, 2005 Acceptance notification
Jan 21, 2005 Publicity Materials Due
Apr 1, 2005 WS Paper submission deadline
Apr 22, 2005 Notification of participants
May 13, 2005 WS final paper deadline
May 20, 2005 Workshop notes due (on-line)
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:
Hendrik Blockeel
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