<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">***************************************************</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(7, 55, 99);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Apologies for multiple posting.<br>Please distribute this call to interested parties.<br>****************************************************</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The ECML PKDD PhD Forum spans various topics of data mining and machine learning, as well as work in related fields such as databases, artificial intelligence, statistics, information retrieval, multimedia, and the Web. Topics in specific domains, such as bioinformatics and general science informatics are also encouraged. Participants with interdisciplinary work across the areas are particularly welcome.<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The submission requires a title, an author (authors) and an extended abstract (up to 2000 characters, excluding spaces+ references), briefly describing the work. <span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The extended abstract can be based either on:<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">A single paper (possibly but not necessarily accepted at the main conference ) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The whole doctoral dissertation, including planned work. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Work-in-progress papers:</b> we welcome submissions from PhD students at early and middle stages of their PhD work. As guideline, we recommend that the submission is structured to explain 1) what the problem is, 2) why it is important, 3) why existing solutions in literature are insufficient, 4) how your approach works, and 5) optionally some preliminary experiments.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 100, 100); text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Additionally, we require a<b> supporting letter/email from the student’s supervisor</b> sent to </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); font-family: Lora; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;"><a href="mailto:ecml-pkdd-2026-phd-forum-chairs@googlegroups.com">ecml-pkdd-2026-phd-forum-chairs@googlegroups.com</a></span>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The purpose is to obtain feedback regarding future plans and technical feedback on the research topic and writing. Note:<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The main criteria for acceptance are 1) that the submission is clearly structured and written in the English language and 2) that it is of sufficient maturity to enable the audience of the PhD Forum to provide constructive feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Extended abstracts will not be formally published.</b> However, unless the authors opt-out, they will be made publicly available through the conference website.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">First authors must be PhD students 1-3 years into their PhD. Co-authors may include the research advisors, committee members, and other collaborators as needed.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">In case of acceptance, t<b>he work will be presented as a poster at the PhD student forum</b>. Also, the <b>few researchers, based on reviewers’ recommendations, will be given the opportunity to provide a short presentation (up to 10 min) followed by a Q&A.<o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">We will ask each PhD student to participate in the review process.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">In-person attendance is required for the PhD forum, i.e., no remote attendance is possible. Accepted submissions whose authors cannot attend in person will be removed from the final list.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Lora;">Submission instructions</span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Lora;">The papers must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNAI guidelines. If you have a paper accepted at the main conference or workshops, you may also submit the accepted PDF. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?srsltid=AfmBOoo-7iT6-VLIl322Dea91mLWOhOO-1LfYG9tAA3n6AL6BM6KfYz3" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Lora; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: none;">here.</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Lora;"> (link <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?srsltid=AfmBOoo-7iT6-VLIl322Dea91mLWOhOO-1LfYG9tAA3n6AL6BM6KfYz3" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(26, 115, 232); text-decoration: none;">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?srsltid=AfmBOoo-7iT6-VLIl322Dea91mLWOhOO-1LfYG9tAA3n6AL6BM6KfYz3</span></a>) </span><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12px;">Submission link:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDDPF2026/Submission/Index" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(26, 115, 232); text-decoration: none;">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDDPF2026/Submission/Index</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br><br><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Submission Deadline: June, 08 <span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Author notification : June, 26<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Camera ready: July, 08</span></p><br><br><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Vincenzo Pasquadibisceglie, PhD<br>Department of Computer Science<br>University of Bari Aldo Moro</div><div>Via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari - Italy<br>phone: +39 080 5442203<br>URL: https://persone.ict.uniba.it/rubrica/vincenzo.pasquadibisceglie</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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