<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-36229619-8dec-9e10-5886-853d890706b9"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:15pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(99,93,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><font size="2">ECML/PKDD 2016: Updated prizes and deadline for SPHERE Challenge</font></span></h3><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(99,93,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Prizes</span></h4><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(136,128,111);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Prizes will be awarded to the first three winners:</span></h3><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(136,128,111);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;text-decoration:line-through;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">€1,000</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> € 5,000 being awarded to the winner;</span></h3></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(136,128,111);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;text-decoration:line-through;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">€600</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> € 3,000 to the runner up; and</span></h3></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(136,128,111);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;text-decoration:line-through;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">€400</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> € 2,000 to the second runner up.</span></h3></li></ul><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(99,93,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Deadlines</span></h4><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(136,128,111);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:32px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Solution Proposal Deadline: </span><span style="font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">July 19th 2016</span></h3></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(136,128,111);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:32px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission deadline: </span><span style="font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">July 8th 2016</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Selected Teams will be invited to submit their solution to the challenge workshop)</span></h3></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(136,128,111);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:32px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.71429;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification: </span><span style="font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">July 25th 2016</span></h3></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(136,128,111);vertical-align:baseline;margin-left:32px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"></li></ul><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(99,93,80);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Challenge Website</span></h4><span style="text-decoration:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,116,173);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><a href="https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/sphere" style="text-decoration:none">https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/sphere</a></span></span><br><div><br></div><div><span><b><font color="#666666">Good luck!</font></b></span></div><div><span><br></span></div></div>