<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span>Dear Colleagues,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>it is our pleasure to invite submissions to the</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>*NIPS 2013 Workshop on Constructive Machine Learning*</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>9 or <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0">10 December 2013</a> (to be determined)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span><a href="http://www.kdml-bonn.de/cml/">http://www.kdml-bonn.de/cml/</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span><a href="mailto:cml.nips2013@gmail.com">cml.nips2013@gmail.com</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Detailed information is below.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Do not hesitate to contact us for further information.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Best Regards,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span> Andrea Passerini, Roman Garnett, and Thomas Gärtner</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>---</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>*Overview*</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>In many real-world applications, machine learning algorithms are employed as a tool in a "constructive process". These processes are similar to the general knowledge-discovery process but have a more specific goal: the construction of one-or-more domain elements with particular properties. The most common use of machine learning algorithms in this context is to predict the properties of candidate domain elements.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>In this workshop we want to bring together domain experts employing machine learning tools in constructive processes and machine learners investigating novel approaches or theories concerning constructive processes as a whole. The concerned machine learning approaches are typically interactive (e.g., online- or active-learning algorithms) and have to deal with huge, relational in- and/or output spaces.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Many of the applications of constructive machine learning are primarily considered in their respective application domain research area but are hardly present at machine learning conferences. By bringing together domain experts and machine learners working on constructive ML, we hope to bridge this gap between the communities.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>---</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>*Contributions*</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>We welcome contributions on both theory and applications related to constructive machine-learning problems. We also welcome submissions containing previously published content in fields related to machine learning, especially descriptions of real-world problems and applications. Topics of interest (though not exhaustive) include:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Theory:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Active approaches for structured output learning</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Transfer and multi-task learning of generative models</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Active search and online optimization in relational domains</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Learning with constraints</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Integrating learning and search</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Applications:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* De novo drug design</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Generation of art (e.g., music composition)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Synthetic biology</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Construction of game levels</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Generation of novel food recipes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>* Creation of music playlists, travel itineraries, etc.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>We welcome work-in-progress contributions, position papers, as well as papers discussing potential research directions. Submission of previously published work or work under review is allowed. However, preference will be given to novel work or work that was not yet presented elsewhere. All double submissions must be clearly declared as such!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, significance, technical quality, and clarity. All accepted papers will be presented as posters and among them a few will be selected for the oral presentation.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Submissions should be in the NIPS 2013 format, with a maximum of 4 pages (excluding references). Accepted papers will be made available online at the workshop website, but the workshop proceedings can be considered non-archival. Submissions need not be anonymous. All papers should be submitted as pdf via email to <a href="mailto:cml.nips2013@gmail.com">cml.nips2013@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>---</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>*Important dates*</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Submission deadline (tentative): <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4">October 9th, 2013</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Acceptance decisions (tentative): <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5">October 23th, 2013</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>---</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>*Invited speakers*</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Ross King (University of Manchester, confirmed)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Bob Keller (Harvey Mudd College, confirmed)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Doug Turnbull (Ithaca College, confirmed)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Josh Tenenbaum (MIT, tentative)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>---</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>*Organizers*</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Andrea Passerini (University of Trento)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Roman Garnett (University of Bonn)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span>Thomas Gärtner (University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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