Driven by application areas ranging from biology to the World Wide Web, research in Data Mining and Machine Learning is nowadays increasingly focusing on the analysis of structured data. Of particular interest is data that consists of interrelated parts or is characterized by collections of objects that are interrelated and linked together into complex graphs and structures. Following in the footsteps of the highly successful MLG workshops in the past, MLG 2008 again will be the premier forum for bringing together different sub-disciplines within Machine Learning and Data Mining that focus on the analysis of structured data. The workshop is actively seeking contributions dealing with all forms of structured data, including but not limited to graphs, trees, sequences, relations and networks. Contributions are invited from all relevant disciplines, such as for example
- Statistical Relational Learning
- Inductive Logic Programming
- Kernel Methods for Structured Data
- Probabilistic Models for Structured Data
- Graph Mining
- (Multi-)relational Data Mining
- Methods for Structured Outputs
- Network Analysis
Program committee
Edo Airoldi | Princeton, USA |
Yasemin Altun | Max Planck Institute Tübingen, Germany |
Nicos Angelopoulos | Edinburgh University, UK |
José Balcázar | Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Spain |
Michael Berthold | University of Konstanz, Germany |
Hendrik Blockeel | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
Francesco Bonchi | Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain |
Christian Borgelt | European Center for Soft Computing, Spain |
Karsten Borgwardt | Cambridge University, UK |
Ulf Brefeld | TU Berlin, Germany |
Yun Chi | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
Fabrizio Costa | Universitŕ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy |
Luc DeRaedt | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
Alan Fern | Oregon State University, USA |
Ingrid Fischer | University of Konstanz, Germany |
Peter Flach | University of Bristol, UK |
Susanne Hoche | University of Bristol, UK |
Thomas Hofmann | Google Zurich, Switzerland |
Manfred Jaeger | Aalborg University, Denmark |
George Karypis | University of Minnesota, USA |
Kristian Kersting | CSAIL, MIT, USA |
Joost Kok | Leiden University, The Netherlands |
Risi Kondor | Gatsby Unit, UCL, UK |
Stefan Kramer | Technische Universität München, Germany |
Jure Leskovec | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
Thorsten Meinl | University of Konstanz, Germany |
Brian Milch | MIT, USA |
Mehryar Mohri | New York University, USA |
Tsuyoshi Murata | National Institute of Informatics, Japan |
Andrea Passerini | Universitŕ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy |
Kristiaan Pelckmans | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
Tapani Raiko | Helsinki University of Technology, Finland |
Jan Ramon | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
Craig Saunders | University of Southampton, UK |
Janne Sinkkonen | Helsinki University of Technology, Finland |
Alessandro Sperduti | Universitŕ degli Studi di Padova, Italy |
William Stafford-Noble | University of Washington, USA |
Volker Tresp | Siemens, Germany |
Koji Tsuda | MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany |
Takeaki Uno | National Institute of Informatics, Japan |
Jean-Philippe Vert | Ecole des Mines de Paris, France |
Takashi Washio | Osaka University, Japan |
Mohammed Zaki | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA |
Dengyong Zhou | Microsoft Research, USA |
Xiaojin Zhu | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |