Connectionists: *Reminder* Call for Tutorials/Workshops - Deadline April 16, 2018 - ECML-PKDD 2018 - Dublin, Ireland

[Carlos Alzate]

The ECML-PKDD 2018 Organizing Committee invites proposals for half-day
tutorials and full/half-day workshops to be held on the first and last days
of the conference (September 10 and 14, 2018), which will take place in
Dublin, Ireland.

Tutorials are intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to
established or emerging research topics of interest for the machine
learning and the data mining community. These topics include related
research fields or applications but also well-developed tools and suites
that support ML/DM research. The ideal tutorial should attract a wide
audience. It should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the
chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth.
Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its content can be covered in
a half-day slot. Proposals that exclusively focus on the presenter’s own
work or commercial demonstrations are strongly discouraged.

Tutorial slides will be made available online at the ECML-PKDD website,
although authors can provide them on additional websites as well. Depending
on the budget, we may offer a waived registration fee for attendance to one
speaker of each accepted tutorial (i.e., no guarantee at this stage).

GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSALS
Tutorial proposals should contain at least the following:

    A title and an abstract of the tutorial.
    A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the
ECML-PKDD community (no more than 2 pages).
    A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial’s
core content can be covered in a 4 hours slot (including a 30 minutes
break).
    The names and contact information of the tutorial instructors,
including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of
expertise; it is required to indicate in the proposal who is planning to
attend the conference and present which part.
    A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same
or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of
the audience size.
    A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g.,
audio equipment).

Especially for a relatively novel but rapidly maturing topic, a half day
tutorial (4h incl. one 30 minute break) followed by a half day workshop (4h
incl. one 30 minute break) could be a good format. We kindly ask you to
write a single proposal for the tutorial and workshop that covers the
different guidelines and requirements for tutorials and workshops. In
addition, the links should be clearly described and the proposal should be
submitted to the workshop and tutorial chairs (select both ‘Workshop’ and
‘Tutorial’ as topics). For workshop guidelines, please see the separate
Call For Workshop Proposals below.

The proposal will be reviewed by the workshop and tutorial co-chairs, who
may use the help of external reviewers, and experts on the submission
topics.

Features that will be evaluated are:

    The interestingness for the ECML-PKDD areas, which should result in a
large audience.
    The clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description.
    Good organization as appearing from the outline.
    The adequacy of the speakers, i.e., her/his background/experience in
teaching the target topics.
    The ability to explain the topics to a large audience with
heterogeneous background.

Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss novel topics in a small and
interactive atmosphere. They can concentrate in-depth on 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.
Multidisciplinary workshops that bring together researchers and
practitioners from different communities are particularly welcome.

If the budget permits, one organizer or invited speaker of an accepted
workshop may be offered the possibility of waived registration fee for
attendance on the workshop day.

DURATION & FORMAT
We welcome both full- and half-day workshop proposals. Full-day workshops
will have a program of typically 8 hours including two 30-minute coffee
breaks and a 90-minute lunch break. Half-day workshops will have a 4 hours
program with a 30-minute coffee break. We would like to encourage proposers
to aim for a program that is both varied and interesting. Especially where
the format of the workshop is concerned, we would like you to think about
ways of going beyond the usual list of presentations of accepted papers.
Keep in mind that the main conference is necessarily more time-constrained
and workshops therefore allow for group explorations of interesting topics,
for example by means of discussions, demo sessions, invited talks, and
panels.

Another way of extending the usual format is to include a specific
challenge problem that can be addressed by the workshop participants, with
a dedicated challenge session in the workshop program. Note, however, that
the challenge should be only one of the components of the workshop,
targeting a problem which is specific to the workshop topic(s).

For some workshops, it may be useful to first present an introduction to
the state-of-the-art in the field given by experienced invited presenters,
and afterwards discuss more technical or novel work in a standard (or
non-standard!) workshop setting.

COMBINED TUTORIAL & WORKSHOP
Especially for a relatively novel but rapidly maturing topic, giving the
aforementioned introduction of the state-of-the-art may go beyond the scope
of an invited presentation. In this case, a half day tutorial (4h incl. one
30 minute break) followed by a half day workshop (4h incl. one 30 minute
break) could be a good format. We kindly ask you to write a single proposal
for the tutorial and workshop that covers the different guidelines and
requirements for tutorials and workshops. In addition, the links should be
clearly described and the proposal should be submitted to the workshop and
tutorial chairs (select both ‘Workshop’ and ‘Tutorial’ as topics). For
tutorial guidelines, please see the separate Call For Tutorial Proposals
above.

GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSALS
Workshop proposals should contain the necessary information for the
workshop chairs and reviewers to judge the importance, quality, and
community interest in the proposed topic (a minimum of 15-20 expected
participants is required). Each workshop should have one or more designated
organisers and a program. When proposing a workshop, please provide (at
least) the following information:

    A brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will
address, the reasons why the workshop is of interest, the main research
areas involved, and what the workshop will add to the conference (e.g., do
you expect papers of a theme that would not fit the main conference?).
    Contact information of the workshop chairs, their competence in the
proposed topic(s), and previous experience in chairing scientific events.
    A tentative list of Program Committee members and potential invited
speakers.
    A draft of the Call for Papers, including information on accepted
formats (e.g., regular papers, extended abstracts, oral-only presentations
of relevant recently published or submitted contributions, etc.) and
expected format of the workshop (e.g., invited talks, presentations, poster
sessions, panel discussions, challenge sessions, or other ideas for
ensuring an interactive atmosphere). In the case of a combined
tutorial-workshop, please clearly indicate the format.
    Any special requirements regarding logistics (e.g., poster stands,
audio equipment), if applicable.
    An estimate of the number of expected submissions, and an estimate of
the number of expected workshop participants at the conference.

SUBMISSION
Please submit your workshop proposals in PDF format to the email address
wt_chairs at ecmlpkdd2018.org  The submitted proposals will be reviewed in a
close collaboration with the conference chairs and the program committee.

IMPORTANT DATES – Tutorials
The following deadlines are important for the tutorial organizers:

    Tutorial proposal deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018
    Tutorial acceptance notification: Monday, April 30, 2018
    Tutorial final abstract submission: Monday, May 14, 2018
    Tutorial course material (slides, bibliography) online: Monday,
September 3, 2018

IMPORTANT DATES  – Workshops
The following deadlines are important for the workshop organizers:

    Workshop proposal deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018
    Workshop acceptance notification: Monday, April 30, 2018
    Workshop websites and call for papers online: Monday, May 14, 2018
    Workshop program and proceedings online: August 27, 2018

For paper submission, reviewing and final revisions, please consider the
following deadlines:

    Workshop paper submission deadline: Monday, July 2, 2018
    Workshop paper acceptance notification: Monday, July 23, 2018
    Workshop paper camera-ready deadline: Monday, August 6, 2018

These deadlines are somewhat flexible, but consider as constraints that the
paper submission deadline should be after conference author notification
(June 14) and acceptance notification should be before the conference early
registration deadline.

CONTACTS
In case you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs (Anna Monreale and Carlos Alzate) at
wt_chairs at ecmlpkdd2018.org. We are looking forward to your proposals.


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Carlos Alzate, PhD
Research Scientist - Machine Learning
IBM Research AI
IBM Research - Ireland
Mulhuddart, Dublin 15, Ireland

IBM Ireland Limited registered in Ireland under company number 16226.
Registered Office: IBM House, Shelbourne Rd., Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
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