Connectionists: CFP: SUEMA 2008

[Giorgio Valentini]

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               CALL FOR PAPERS

Workhop on Supervised  and  Unsupervised  Ensemble  Methods  and Their
              Applications - SUEMA 2008
              http://suema08.dsi.unimi.it
       
     European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI 2008

           Patras (Greece) 21-22 July 2008
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Dear colleague,
we  are pleased  to  invite you  to  submit a  paper  to the  workshop
Supervised  and Unsupervised Ensemble  Methods and  Their Applications
(SUEMA  2008),  that will  be  held in  the  context  of the  European
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008) in Patras.

This second  edition, organized within the  PASCAL2 (Pattern Analysis,
Statistical Modelling and  Computational Learning) European Network of
Excellence, intends to provide a forum for researchers in the field of
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to discuss topics related
to ensemble methods and their applications.

New trends  and challenges in the  theory and methods  of ensembles of
learning machines  will be discussed,  with a particular focus  on the
application  of  principled  ensemble  methods to  emerging  real-life
problems.

More information about the topics of the workshop are available at the
workshop web-site: http://suema08.dsi.unimi.it

With best regards

Oleg Okun and Giorgio Valentini.



--- IMPORTANT DATES

Submission      7th May 2008
Notification     26th May 2008
Camera Ready     5th June 2008

--- Submission of papers

The style  for SUEMA 2008  papers is the  same of the  main conference
ECAI 2008.  The maximum length  is 5 pages (double columns). For Latex
users    the    necessary    files    can    be    downloaded    from:
http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/documents/ecai2008.zip.
The authors should submit the  papers by e-mail to the workshop chairs
Oleg     Okun      (oleg at ee.oulu.fi)     and     Giorgio     Valentini
(valentini at dsi.unimi.it).

--- Workshop proceedings

Each workshop  participant will receive a hardcopy  of the proceedings
of  the  workshop  (s)he  participates,  as  well as  a  CD  with  the
proceedings  of all  ECAI'08 workshops.   We are  managing  to publish
workshop  extended papers  in an  edited book,  as for  the  1st SUEMA
workshop (that will be published by Springer-Verlag).

--- Registration

Partcipants to the workshop should register directly to the main ECAI
2008 conference  (workshops' early registration deadline is  set to 16
June 2008)

------ Main topics

The main topics of the conference include (but not are 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:  bioinformatics, medical informatics, computer
    security, economics, ecology, meteorology and weather forecast,
    image analysis and signal processing, 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

    Dynamic member selection for including into an ensemble

    Heterogeneous ensembles of base learners

    Variants of re-sampling-based methods (bagging, boosting)

    Ensemble methods for supervised multi-class classification and
    regression

    Supervised and unsupervised ensemble methods for structured
    domains

--- SUEMA Scientific Program Committee

Nicolo' Cesa-Bianchi, University of Milano, Italy
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 Lisboa, 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
Carlo Sansone, Federico II University of Napoli, Italy
Jose' Salvador Sanchez, University Jaume I, Spain
Grigorios Tsoumakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Jordi Vitria', Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Terry Windeatt, University of Surrey, UK

--- Workshop Chairs

Oleg Okun,
Dept. of Electrical and Information Engineering,
University of Oulu, Finland
oleg at ee.oulu.fi

Giorgio Valentini,
DSI, Dept. of Computer Science
University of Milano, Italy
valentini at dsi.unimi.it

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Giorgio Valentini
D.S.I. - Universita' degli Studi di Milano - Italia
Phone: +39 (02) 503.16225
e-mail: valentini at dsi.unimi.it
http://homes.dsi.unimi.it/~valenti
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Giorgio Valentini
D.S.I. - Universita' degli Studi di Milano - Italia
Phone: +39 (02) 503.16225
e-mail: valentini at dsi.unimi.it
http://homes.dsi.unimi.it/~valenti
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