Benelearn 2005 - Call for Participation

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                       Call for Participation

                              Benelearn 2005

     Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and the Netherlands

       http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/benelearn2005

                       Februari 17 - 18, 2005

          University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

             Early Registration deadline: Februari 1st

            With support from NWO, SIKS, CTIT and Senter-IOP
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Benelearn is the annual machine learning conference of Belgium and the
Netherlands. It serves as a forum to exchange ideas and present recent work.

Technical Program includes:

2 invited talks:
- Probabilistic Logic Learning and Reasoning by K. Kersting
(Machine Learning Lab, University of Freiburg, Germany)
- Challenges in Multimodal Processing by S. Bengio
(IDIAP, Martigny, Switserland)
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List of accepted papers:

Amplifying the Block Matrix Structure for Spectral Clustering
Igor Fischer and Jan Poland
Saarland University, Germany
IDSIA, Manno (Lugano), Switzerland

Evolving Neural Networks for Forest Fire Control
Marco Wiering, Filippo Mignogna and Bernard Maassen
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Experiments with Relational Neural Networks
Werner Uwents and Hendrik Blockeel
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Assessment of SVM Reliability for Microarrays Data Analysis
Andrea Malossini, Enrico Blanzieri and Raymond T. Ng
University of Trento, Italy
University of British Columbia, Canada

Speaker Prediction based on Head Orientations
Rutger Rienks, Ronald Poppe and Mannes Poel
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Strong Asymptotic Assertions for Discrete MDL in Regression and
Classification
Jan Poland and Marcus Hutter
IDSIA, Manno (Lugano), Switzerland

Detecting Deviation in Multinomially Distributed Data
Jan Peter Patist
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Monotone Constraints in Frequent Tree Mining
Jeroen De Knijf and Ad Feelders
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Best-Response Play in Partially Observable Card Games
Frans Oliehoek, Matthijs Spaan and Nikos Vlassis
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Master Algorithms for Active Experts Problems based on Increasing Loss
Values
Jan Poland and Marcus Hutter
IDSIA, Manno (Lugano), Switzerland

Maximizing Expected Utility in Coevolutionary Search
Edwin de Jong
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Reliability yields Information Gain
Ida Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, Evgueni Smirnov and Georgi Nalbantov
University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Facial Expression Analysis using Multi-layer Perceptrons
Michal Sindlar and Marco Wiering
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Reinforcement Learning using Optimistic Process Filtered Models
Funlade Sunmola and Jeremy Wyatt
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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The registration form and further information can be found at the
conference website:
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/benelearn2005

The Organizing Comittee:
Martijn van Otterlo (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Mannes Poel (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, the Netherlands)

Sponsors:
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
http://www.nwo.nl
Dutch research school for
Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS)
http://www.siks.nl/
Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)
SRO NICE.
http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/research/sro/nice/index.html
Senter-IOP
http://www.senter.nl/asp/page.asp?alias=iop