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style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop Track</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The ECML PKDD 2026 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held on the first and last days of the conference (September 7th and 11th, 2026), which will take place in Naples, Italy. We solicit proposals for full- and half-day workshops on current and emerging machine learning and data mining topics. Workshops allow discussion of novel topics in a small and interactive atmosphere. They can concentrate in-depth on research topics but can also be devoted to application domains, issues, or 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. We also welcome proposals for less conventional ECMLPKDD workshop formats, e.g., those similar in spirit to CRAFT workshops at FAccT, which are currently running EU projects and other interactive events. We offer a waived registration fee for attendance at the main conference to one organizer or invited speaker for each accepted workshop.</span></p>
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style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Duration and format</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We welcome full- and half-day workshop proposals and tutorial+workshop proposals. Full-day workshops have a program of typically 8 hours, including two 30-minute coffee breaks plus a lunch break. Half-day workshops have a 4 hours program with a 30-minute coffee break. Combined tutorial + workshop events start with a half-day tutorial followed by a half-day workshop. We encourage proposers to aim for a varied and exciting program. Especially where the workshop format is concerned, we would like you to consider going beyond the usual list of presentations of accepted papers. Remember that the main conference is necessarily more time-constrained, and workshops allow for group explorations of exciting topics through 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 specific to the workshop topic(s).</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 organizers and a program. When proposing a workshop, please provide (at least) the following information:</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p></li>
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An estimate of the number of expected submissions and workshop participants at the conference. </span></p></li>
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proof of interest from the community will be of added value to the proposal.</span></p></li>
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style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are proposing a tutorial + workshop event, we kindly ask you to write a single proposal that covers both. In addition, the links should be clearly described, and the proposal should be submitted to the workshop and tutorial chairs. For tutorial guidelines, please see the separate Call For Tutorial Proposals.</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Features that will be evaluated are:</span></p>
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role="presentation"><span
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The maturity and popularity of the workshop subject; we expect that the workshop addresses a small and active community of researchers, who ideally submit to the workshop every year.</span></p></li>
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The combined tutorial+workshop proposals will be reviewed jointly by the workshop and tutorial co-chair, who may use the help of external reviewers and experts on the submission topics.</span></p></li>
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style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Post-Workshop Proceedings</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Workshops and Tutorials will be included in a joint Post-Workshop proceeding published by Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, in 1-2 volumes, organized by focused scope. Papers authors will have the faculty opt-in or opt-out. We suggest that workshop papers be prepared and submitted in the LNCS format (<a
href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a>). Springer LNCS Template.</span></p>
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