Connectionists: Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning 2011

[Yoshua Bengio]

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Dear Connectionists, subscribers to this list may be interested in the
following event which includes (among others) plenty of topics rooted in
neural networks:


Call for Papers

IAPR TC3 Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning (PSL 2011)

September 15 - 16, 2011

University of Ulm

http://neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de/PSL2011/

On behalf of the  organizing committee of the First International
Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning (PSL 2011) we are pleased to
invite all interested contributors to submit an abstract or a paper to
the workshop, that will take place at the University of Ulm (Germany)
on September 15-16, 2011.

The deadline for submission has been extended to July 15th, 2011.

PSL2011 is supported by the International Association of Pattern
Recognition (IAPR) and is organized by the IAPR Technical Committee on
Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence (TC 3),  the
workshop's objective is to bring together recent novel research in the
broad areas of learning from partially labeled data, or combined
supervised/unsupervised learning, as well as to identify scenarios
for real-world applications.

Contributions on the following issues are welcome:
Methodological issues:
-        Combinations of supervised and unsupervised learning
-        Diffusion learning
-        Semi-supervised classification, regression, and clustering
-        Learning with deep architectures
-        Active leaning
-        PSL with vague, fuzzy, or uncertain teaching signals
-        PSL in multiple classifier systems and ensembles
-        PSL in neural nets, machine learning, or statistical pattern
         recognition
-        PSL in cognitive systems

Applications of PSL (including, but not limited to):
-        Image and signal processing
-        Multimodal information processing
-        Sensor / information fusion
-        Human computer interaction
-        Data mining and web mining
-        Bioinformatics

Invited Speaker
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China


Submission guidelines

We solicit talk proposals in the form of regular papers (10 pages) an
extended abstract (4 pages). Oral and poster presentations will be  
organized
depending on the number of contributions.
Authors of accepted abstracts have the opportunity to submit a full
paper of 10 pages after the workshop. The submission for full
papers/extended abstracts is October 15th, 2011.

After the workshop the proceedings will be published as a volume in
the Springer LNAI series. Length is 10 pages for full papers  or 4
pages for extended abstracts in LNCS/LNAI format.

Important dates:
Submission of regular papers and extended abstracts: July 15th, 2011
Notification of acceptance: August 1st, 2011.
Workshop: September 15-16, 2011
Camera ready papers : October 10th, 2011

Workshop Organization:
Friedhelm Schwenker, Ulm, Germany , Email: friedhelm.schwenker at uni-ulm.de
Edmondo Trentin, Siena, Italy , Email: trentin at dii.unisi.it

Program Committee:

Erwin Bakker (Netherlands)
Yoshua Bengio (Canada)
Hendrik Blockheel (Belgium/Netherlands)
Horst Bunke (Switzerland)
Paolo Frasconi (Italy)
Neamat El Gayar (Egypt)
Marco Gori (Italy)
Markus Hagenbuchner (Australia)
Barbara Hammer (Germany)
Tom Heskes (Netherlands)
Lakhmi Jain (Australia)
Manfred Jaeger (Denmark)
Jose Manuel Inesta (Spain)
Cheng-Lin Liu (China)
Nik Kasabov (New Zealand)
Marco Maggini (Italy)
Simone Marinai (Italy)
Erkki Oja (Finland)
Günther Palm (Germany)
Lionel Prevost (France)
Fabio Roli (Italy)
Alessandro Sperduti (Italy)
Markus Hagenbuchner (Australia)
Ah Chung Tsoi (Hong Kong)
Michel Verleysen (Belgium)
Ian Witten (New Zealand)