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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD 2015) will take place on September 7 of 2015, in Porto Portugal (</span><a href="http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>) and includes a Nectar Track that offers conference attendees a compact overview of recent scientific advances at the frontier of machine learning and data mining with other disciplines, as published in related conferences and journals. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>We invite senior and junior researchers to submit summaries of their own work published in neighboring fields, such as (but not limited to) artificial intelligence, data analytics, bioinformatics, games, computational linguistics, computer vision, geoinformatics, health informatics, database theory, human computer interaction, information and knowledge management, robotics, pattern recognition, statistics, social network analysis, theoretical computer science, uncertainty in AI, network science, complex systems science, and computationally oriented sociology, economy, statistics and biology. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Particularly welcome is work that illustrates the pervasiveness of data-driven exploration and modelling in science and technology, as well as innovative applications.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Accepted NECTAR contributions will be presented as talks or posters and included in the conference proceedings.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Important dates</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Submission deadline: May 4, 2015</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Notifications of acceptance: June 1, 2015</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Submission of camera ready copies: June 15, 2015</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Detailed information about the Nectar Track is available on:</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/submission/call-nectar-track-contributions</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>For further information please contact the ECMLPKDD 2015 Nectar Track Chairs: </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Ricard Gavaldà (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Dino Pedreschi (Università di Pisa)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Hope to see you all soon in Porto, Portugal!!!</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>The publicity chairs of the ECMLPKDD 2015,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Carlos Abreu Ferreira</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;background:white'>Ricardo Campos</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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