Connectionists: CFP: SUEMA workshop

[Giorgio Valentini]

************************** Call for Papers ************************
     Workshop on Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and
       Their Applications (SUEMA), in conjunction with IbPRIA'2007
                                    Gerona, Spain, 4-5 June, 2007.
              http://ibpria2007.udg.cat          http://suema07.dsi.unimi.it
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Ensembles  of   supervised  learning  machines   and,  in  particular,
ensembles  of classifiers  have been  established as  one of  the main
research topics in machine  learning.  Recently, methods for combining
unsupervised clusterings have been proposed to improve the reliability
and to assess  the validity of discovered clusters.   The main goal of
this workshop is  to provide a forum open  to researchers from pattern
recognition and  related disciplines  to present and  discuss problems
related  to  unsupervised  and  supervised  ensemble  methods  with  a
particular  focus on  their applications  to real-world  problems, but
considering also  the theoretical reasons of the  practical success of
several widely used ensemble methods.

Possible topics of the workshop  include (but are not limited to):

- New ensemble methods raised from new real world supervised and
  unsupervised learning problems. 
- Application of ensemble methods in
  various branches of science and technology with a particular focus
  on:
     - bioinformatics,
     - computer security,
     - medical informatics,
     - ecology,
     - economics,
     - meteorology and weather forecast,
     - satellite image analysis. 
- Fusion of multiple-source/multi-sensor data.
- Unsupervised ensemble methods for discovering structures in
  unlabeled real data. 
- Unsupervised ensemble approaches to assess the
  reliability/validity of clusters discovered in real data.
- Combination techniques and methods to generate multiple base
  learners from different features and data. 
- Classifier selection strategies for ensemble. 
- Heterogeneous ensembles of base learners.
- Variants of resampling-based methods (bagging, boosting). 
- Ensemble methods for supervised multi-class classification and
  regression.

*** Workshop Chairs **************************************************

  Oleg Okun
  Machine Vision  Group Infotech Oulu and Department of
  Electrical and Information  Engineering P.O.Box 4500,
  90014 University of Oulu, Oulu  - FINLAND
  Email address: oleg at ee.oulu.fi 
  Phone: +358 8553 2898    Fax: +358 8 553 2612

  Giorgio  Valentini
  Dipartimento  di Scienze  dell'Informazione
  Universita`  degli Studi  di Milano 
  Via Comelico  39, 20135  Milano - ITALY
  Email address: valentini at dsi.unimi.it 
  Phone: +39 (02) 503 16225 Fax: +39 (02) 503 16373

******* Workshop  Program  Committee *********************************
 
 Carlotta  Domeniconi  (George  Mason University,  USA)
 Robert  Duin (Delft  University of  Technology, the Netherlands)
 Mark  Embrechts (Rensselaer Polytechnic  Institute, USA)
 Ana  Fred  (Technical  University  of  Lisbon,  Portugal) 
 Joao  Gama (University  of  Porto,  Portugal) 
 Giorgio Giacinto  (University  of Cagliari,  Italy) 
 Larry  Hall  (University of  South  Florida,  USA)
 Ludmila  Kuncheva   (University  of  Wales,   UK) 
 Francesco  Masulli (University of Genova, Italy) 
 Petia Radeva (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
 Juan Jose`  Rodriguez (University of Burgos, Spain)
 Fabio Roli (University of Cagliari, Italy)
 Paolo Rosso (University of Valencia, Spain) 
 Carlo Sansone  (University of Naples,  Italy)
 Jose` Salvador   Sanchez  (University   Jaume  I,   Spain)  
 Jordi  Vitria`(Autonomous   University   of   Barcelona,  Spain)  
 Terry   Windeatt (University of Surrey, UK)

******** Submission Procedure ****************************************

Prospective authors should submit the full paper written in English to
one of the workshop chairs by email (preferably as a PDF file).

Authors  are encouraged  to use  LATEX  for the  preparation of  their
articles together  with the corresponding class  file llncs.cls.  This
file as well as other relevant files can be downloaded from the IbPRIA
2007 web site (http://ibpria2007.udg.cat).
Each submitted paper not exceeding 15  A4 pages will be reviewed by at
least two members of the program committee.
Submission implies  that at least one  of the authors  has to register
and to present the paper at workshop.
CD  proceedings  with  accepted  papers  will be  distributed  to  the
registered workshop participants.
The  organizers of  the workshop  are working  for  a post-proceedings
publication of  the accepted papers with an  international journal or
an international computer science book series.

**************** Registration ****************************************

Workshop registration fee is 200 per participant. A reduction of 30 is
applied to participants also registered to IbPRIA'2007.

*****************Important Dates *************************************

Submission of papers        :  March 16, 2007
Notification of acceptance  :  April 13, 2007
Camera  ready               :  April 20, 2007
Early Registration          :  April 10, 2007
Workshop                    :  June 4 or 5, 2007