Connectionists: 2nd CFP - NIPS workshop on statistical models of networks

[Kevin Murphy]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to invite you to participate in a workshop on
"Statistical models of networks" on Sat 8th of December at
NIPS'07 in Whistler, B.C.  Due to several requests, we have extended
the deadline for abstract submissions until Oct 31st. Please send 1-2
pages in pdf format to murphyk at cs.ubc.ca. More details can be found
below and at

  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/nips07NetworkWorkshop/


Kevin Murphy
Lise Getoor
Eric Xing
Raphael Gottardo



The purpose of the workshop is to bring together people from different
disciplines - computer science, statistics, biology, physics, social
science, etc - to discuss foundational issues in the modeling of
network and relational data. In particular, we hope to discuss various
open research issues, such as

- How to represent graphs at varying levels of abstraction, whose
topology is potentially condition-specific and time-varying

- How to combine techniques from the graphical model structure
learning community with techniques from the statistical network
modeling community

- How to integrate relational data with other kinds of data (e.g.,
gene expression or text data)

Six stellar invited speakers (Mark Handcock, Peter Hoff, Stephen
Fienberg, Stanley Wasserman, Volker Tresp, Jasmine Zhou) have already
accepted. However, we are also soliciting abstracts on related work,
to broaden the scope of the workshop and improve the exchange of
ideas.

Please send 2 pages in pdf format to murphyk at cs.ubc.ca by October 31st.
This should describe relevant work that you are currently doing or
have recently published. Due to time constraints, accepted abstracts
can only be presented as a poster and/or a short spotlight. However,
all accepted abstracts will also be posted online.