ECML PKDD 2009 Call for papers – Reminder

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ECML PKDD 2009
The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
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September 7-11, 2009
Bled, Slovenia
http://www.ecmlpkdd2009.net/

Key Dates
Abstract submission deadline: April 3, 2009
Paper Submission deadline: April 14, 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: June 5, 2009
Paper Camera Ready: June 12, 2009
Call For Papers
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The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases. Encouraged are submissions of papers that describe the application of machine learning and data mining methods to real-world problems, particularly exploratory research that describes novel learning and mining tasks and applications requiring non-standard techniques. Submissions that demonstrate both theoretical and empirical rigor are especially encouraged.

Proceedings and Journal
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The conference proceedings will be published by Springer. A selection of papers will be directly published in the special journal issues “Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery” and in “Machine Learning Journal”. All other accepted submissions will be published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series.

Submissions
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ECML PKDD 2009 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period of ECML PKDD 2009.

The papers must be in English and must be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines.
Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html .
The maximum length of papers is at most 16 pages in this format.
Papers submitted to ECML PKDD 2009 will normally be reviewed by minimum two referees.
There will be no “blind review” process. Student submissions should be clearly indicated on the submission form.

Organization
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General chair:
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Program Chairs:
Wray Buntine, NICTA, Australia and HIIT, Finland
Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
John Shawe-Taylor, University College London, UK

Workshop Chair: Rayid Ghani, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
Tutorial Chair: Cedric Archambeau, University College London, UK
Best Papers Chair: Aleksander Kolcz, Microsoft Live Labs, USA
Industrial track Chairs: Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Discovery challenge Chair: Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Demo chair: Alejandro Jaimes Larrarte, Telefonica Research, Spain
Publicity chair: David R. Hardoon, University College London, UK
Video chair: Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Local chair: Tina Anzic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Area Chairs: Francis Bach, Hendrik Blockeel, Francesco Bonchi, Pavel Brazdil, Toon Calders, Nitesh Chawla, Walter Daelemans, Tijl De Bie, Johannes Fuernkranz, Thomas Gaertner, Joao Gama, Bart Goethals, Eamonn Keogh, Joost Kok, Jure Leskovec, Stan Matwin, Taneli Mielikainen, Dunja Mladenic, Claire Nedellec, Martin Scholz, David Silver, Bernhard Pfahringer, Steffen Staab, Gerd Stumme, Luis Torgo, Michael Witbrock, Stefan Wrobel.