<html><body><p>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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).<br><br>GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSALS<br>Tutorial proposals should contain at least the following:<br><br> A title and an abstract of the tutorial.<br> A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the ECML-PKDD community (no more than 2 pages).<br> 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).<br> 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.<br> 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.<br> A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g., audio equipment).<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Features that will be evaluated are:<br><br> The interestingness for the ECML-PKDD areas, which should result in a large audience.<br> The clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description.<br> Good organization as appearing from the outline.<br> The adequacy of the speakers, i.e., her/his background/experience in teaching the target topics.<br> The ability to explain the topics to a large audience with heterogeneous background.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>DURATION & FORMAT<br>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.<br><br>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).<br><br>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.<br><br>COMBINED TUTORIAL & WORKSHOP<br>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.<br><br>GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSALS<br>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:<br><br> 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?).<br> Contact information of the workshop chairs, their competence in the proposed topic(s), and previous experience in chairing scientific events.<br> A tentative list of Program Committee members and potential invited speakers.<br> 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.<br> Any special requirements regarding logistics (e.g., poster stands, audio equipment), if applicable.<br> An estimate of the number of expected submissions, and an estimate of the number of expected workshop participants at the conference.<br><br>SUBMISSION<br>Please submit your workshop proposals in PDF format to the email address wt_chairs@ecmlpkdd2018.org The submitted proposals will be reviewed in a close collaboration with the conference chairs and the program committee.<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES – Tutorials<br>The following deadlines are important for the tutorial organizers:<br><br> Tutorial proposal deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018<br> Tutorial acceptance notification: Monday, April 30, 2018<br> Tutorial final abstract submission: Monday, May 14, 2018<br> Tutorial course material (slides, bibliography) online: Monday, September 3, 2018<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES – Workshops<br>The following deadlines are important for the workshop organizers:<br><br> Workshop proposal deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018<br> Workshop acceptance notification: Monday, April 30, 2018<br> Workshop websites and call for papers online: Monday, May 14, 2018<br> Workshop program and proceedings online: August 27, 2018<br><br>For paper submission, reviewing and final revisions, please consider the following deadlines:<br><br> Workshop paper submission deadline: Monday, July 2, 2018<br> Workshop paper acceptance notification: Monday, July 23, 2018<br> Workshop paper camera-ready deadline: Monday, August 6, 2018<br><br>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.<br><br>CONTACTS<br>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@ecmlpkdd2018.org. We are looking forward to your proposals.<br><br><br><font size="2">-----------------------------------</font><br><font size="2">Carlos Alzate, PhD</font><br><font size="2">Research Scientist - Machine Learning</font><br><font size="2">IBM Research AI</font><br><font size="2">IBM Research - Ireland</font><br><font size="2">Mulhuddart, Dublin 15, Ireland</font><br><br><font size="1">IBM Ireland Limited registered in Ireland under company number 16226.<br>Registered Office: IBM House, Shelbourne Rd., Ballsbridge, Dublin 4</font><br><BR>
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