ACML 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'09)

Nanjing, China, November 2-4, 2009

http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/ACML09

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The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'09) will be held in November 2-4, 2009, Nanjing, China. The conference aims at providing a leading international forum for researchers in Machine Learning and related fields to share their new ideas and achievements. Submissions from other than the Asia-Pacific regions are also highly encouraged.

Important dates:

Full Paper submission: June 15 2009 Author notification:   July 31 2009 Camera-Ready:          August 5 2009 Conference:            November 2-4 2009

Topics: ---

The conference calls for papers that report high quality original research results on machine learning and related fields. The topics include but are not limited to the following:

* Active learning * Bayesian learning * Case-based reasoning * Clustering * Computational models of human learning * Computational learning theory * Constructive induction * Cost-sensitive learning * Decision trees * Deep learning * Dimensionality reduction * Ensemble methods * Evaluation of learning methods * Feature selection/extraction/construction * Incremental learning and on-line learning * Inductive logic programming * Information retrieval and learning * Instance-based learning * Kernel methods * Knowledge refinement and theory revision * Knowledge intensive learning * Learning in computer vision * Learning in natural language processing * Learning to rank * Learning with complex structures * Meta learning * Multi-agent learning * Multi-instance learning * Multi-strategy learning * Multi-task learning * Neural networks * Regression * Reinforcement learning * Rule learning * Statistical approaches * Semi-supervised learning * Transfer learning * Unsupervised learning * Web search and learning

Submission:

The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The maximum length of papers including its coverpage is at most 15 pages in this format. Overlength submissions or submissions without appropriate format will be rejected without review. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. Detailed instructions will be available at the conference website http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/ACML09/submission.htm. The submitted papers must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere. Submissions will be rigorously reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted submissions will be published in a volume of LNCS/LNAI.

Organization:

General Chairs * Hiroshi Motoda (AFOSR/AOARD and Osaka University, Japan) * Jian Lu (Nanjing University, China)

Program Committee Chairs * Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) * Takashi Washio (Osaka University, Japan)

Tutorial Chair * Tu Bao Ho (JAIST, Japan)

Program Committee Area Chairs * Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea) * Eibe Frank (University of Waikato, New Zealand) * Joao Gama (University of Porto, Portugal) * Rong Jin (Michigan State University, USA) * James Kwok (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) * Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, China) * Charles X. Ling (University of Western Ontario, Canada) * Huan Liu (Arizona State University, USA) * Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan) * Katharina Morik (University of Dortmund, Germany) * Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato, New Zealand) * Michele Sebag (CNRS, France) * Masashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) * Kai Ming Ting (Monash University, Australia) * Koji Tsuda (AIST, Japan) * Limsoon Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore) * Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) * Changshui Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)

Local Arrangement Chairs * Yang Gao (Nanjing University, China) * Ming Li (Nanjing University, China)

Publicity Chair * Yuhong Guo (Temple University, USA)

Publication Chair * Min-Ling Zhang (Hohai University, China)

Organized by:

Nanjing University (http://www.nju.edu.cn) LAMDA Group (http://lamda.nju.edu.cn) This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP