Invited Talks

Invited talks at conferences and workshops


Predictive clustering for finding disease signatures.
Second Human Brain Project Workshop: Future Medicine – Medical Intelligence for Brain Diseases, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2015.

Inductive process modeling for learning the dynamics of biological systems.
In Proc. First International Conference on Formal Methods in Macro-Biology. LNCS 8738: xix-xx, Noumea, New Caledonia, September 2014.

Equation discovery for systems biology.
Workshop on Learning and Discovery in Symbolic Systems Biology (held at ECML PKDD-2012), Bristol, UK, September 2012.

Inductive databases and constraint-based data mining.
In Proc. Ninth International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, LNCS 6628: 1-17, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 2011.

An ontology of data mining.
Workshop on Mining Complex Patterns (held at AI*IA 2011). Palermo, Italy, September 2011.

Estimating the risk of fire outbreaks in the natural environment by using data mining.
In Proc. Joint Meeting of the Fourteenth SANKEN International Symposium and the Ninth SANKEN Nanotechnology Symposium. Otsu, Japan, January 2011.

Machine learning and systems biology.
In Proc. Ninth Congress of the Slovenian Biochemical Society; Fifth Congress of the Slovenian Microbiological Society with International Participation; and Third Central European Forum for Microbiology. Maribor, Slovenia, October 2011.

Equation discovery for ecology and systems biology.
The Nineteenth Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and The Netherlands. Leuven, Belgium, May 2010.

Knowledge discovery in environmental data.
Seventh International Conference on Ecological Informatics. Ghent, Belgium, December 2010.

Inductive process modeling for systems biology.
Second International Workshop on the Induction of Process Models (held at ECML PKDD-2008). Antwerp, Belgium, September 2008.

Machine learning and ecological modelling: Successes and challenges.
In Proc. Sixth European Conference on Ecological Modelling. Trieste, Italy, November 2007.

From inductive logic programming to relational data mining.
In Proc. Tenth European Conference on Logics for Artificial Intelligence, LNCS 4160: 1-14. Liverpool, UK, September 2006.

Data mining and its environmental applications.
Seventh National Conference (with International Participation) on Electrotechnics, Telecommunications, Automatics and Informatics (ETAI - 2005). Ohrid, Macedonia, September 2005.

Language resources and machine learning.
In Proc. Second Balkan Conference on Informatics (BCI - 2005), pp. 1-12. Ohrid, Macedonia, November 2005.

Invited lectures at schools


Learning models, supermodels, and ensemble models of dynamic systems.
Summer School on Nonlinear Dynamics, Machine Learning and Climate Modeling (SUMO 2013). Ohrid, Macedonia, September 2013.

Invited lectures at foreign institutions


Systems Biology and Machine Learning.
Maastricht University, Тhe Netherlands, December 2013.

Selected Topics in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and their Applications.
Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, April 2010.

Relational Data Mining and Relational Reinforcement Learning.
Departamento de Informatica, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, Marec 2007.

Environmental Data Mining.
Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy, April 2006.

Environmental Applications of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy, March 2003.

From Data Mining to Relational Data Mining.
Universita di Pisa, Italy, 2003.

Tutorials


Data mining in a nutshell. Hands-on-session.
Second Human Brain Project Workshop: Future Medicine – Medical Intelligence for Brain Diseases. Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2015.

Machine learning for systems biology.
Joint FEBS & SystemX Advanced Lecture Course on Systems Biology. Innsbruck, Austria, February 2011.

Machine learning for systems biology.
Twelfth International Conference on Systems Biology. Heidelberg, Germany, August 2011.

Constraint-based data mining and inductive queries.
Eleventh International Conference on Discovery Science. Budapest, Hungary, October 2008.



Editing journals

Guest editor of special issues


Journal of Machine Learning Research Workshop and Conference Proceedings, 8(1). Special Issue: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology: Revised Selected Papers (guest editors S. DŽeroski, S., Geurts, P., and Rousu, J.). MIT Press, Cambridge, 2009.

Ecological Modelling, 191(1). Special Issue: Selected Papers from the Fourth International Workshop on Environmental Applications of Machine Learning (guest editors: S. Džeroski, S., Ženko, B., and Debeljak, M.). Elsevier B,V, Amsterdam, 2006.

Ecological Modelling, 194(1-3). Special Issue: Selected Papers from the Fourth European Conference on Ecological Modelling (guest editors: Debeljak, M., Džeroski, S., and Ženko, B.) Elsevier B,V, Amsterdam, 2006.

SIGKDD Explorations, 5(1). Special Issue on Multi-Relational Data Mining (guest editors: Džeroski, S., and De Readt, L.). 2003.

Machine learning, 44(3). Special Issue on Inductive Logic Programming (guest editors: Flach, P., and Deroski S.). 2001.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 3(1). Special Issue on Inductive Logic Programming (guest editors: Džeroski, S. and Lavrač, N.). 1999.

New Generation Computing, 17(1). Special Issue on Inductive Logic Programming (guest editors: Lavrač, N., Džeroski, S., and Numao, M.). 1999.

Editorial board member of journals


Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Editorial board member since 2014.

Ecological Modelling
Editorial board member since 2007.

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data
Editorial board member since 2005.

Ecological Informatics
Editorial board member since 2004.

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Editorial board member 2002-2005.

Machine Learning
Editorial board member since 2002.

Journal of Machine Learning Research
Editorial board member since 2000.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Editorial board member since 1997.

Workshop proceedings


Džeroski, S., Rogers, S., and Sanguinetti, G., editors. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology Edinburgh, Scotland, 2010.

Džeroski, S., Geurts, P., and Rousu, J., editors. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009.

Džeroski, S., and Struyf, J., editors. Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases, Fifth International Workshop: Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, 2007. LNCS 4747.

Džeroski, S., and Struyf, J., editors. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases (held at ECML/PKDD-2006). Berlin, Germany, 2006.

Džeroski, S., and Blockeel, H., editors. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining (held at KDD-2005). Chicago, IL,2005.

Džeroski S., Debeljak, M., and Ženko, B., editors. Proceedings of The Fourth International Workshop on Environmental Applications of Machine Learning. Bled, Slovenia, 2004.

Džeroski, S., and Blockeel, H., editors. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining (held at KDD-2004). Seattle, WA, 2004.

Boulicaut, J.F., and Džeroski, S., editors. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases (held at ECML/PKDD-2003). Institut Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, 2003.

Džeroski, S., de Raedt, L., and Wrobel, S., editors. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining. Washington, DC, 2003.

Džeroski, S., de Raedt, L., and Wrobel, S., editors. Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining (held at KDD-2002). ACM, 2002.

Džeroski S., and Flach P., editors. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming, Bled, Slovenia. Springer, Berlin, 1999. LNCS, 1634.

Lavrač N., and Džeroski S., editors. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming, Prague, Czech Republic. Springer, Berlin, 1997. LNCS, 1297.



Organization of Events

Scientific Events


ECML PKDD-2015
26th European conference on Machine Learning and 19th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Porto, Portugal, September 2015.
Awards Committee co-Chair

DS-2014
17th International Conference on Discovery Science. Bled, Slovenia, September 2014
Program Committee Chair

MLSB-2010
Fourth International Workshop on Machine learning in systems biology. Edinburgh, UK, October 2010.
Program Committee co-Chair

MLSB-2009
Third International Workshop on Machine learning in systems biology. Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2009.
Program Committee co-Chair

KDID-2006
5th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases. Berlin, Germany, September 2006
Program Committee co-Chair

ICML-2005
22nd International Conference on Machine Learning.
General chair

Educational Events


Machine Learning and Systems Biosciences Workshop.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 2015.

The Bioinformatics Roadshow - Slovenia.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 2010.

Analysis of environmental data with machine learning methods.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2009

Analysis of environmental data with machine learning methods.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 2008

Analysis of environmental data with machine learning methods.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 2006

Program Committee Member


ICDM-2015
Fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.
Atlantic city, NJ, USA, November 2015.

IEEE BIBM-2015
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.
Washington D.C., USA, November 2015.

ICDM-2014
Fourteenth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.
Shenzhen, China, December 2014.

IEEE BIBM-2014
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.
Belfast, UK, November 2014.

NFMCP-2012
First International Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns held at ECML PKDD-2012.
Bristol, UK, September 2012.

ICML-2007
Twenty-fourth International Conference on Machine Learning.
Corvallis, Oregon, USA, June 2007.

BPM 2006
Business Process Management Workshops.
Vienna, Austria, September 2006.

ICML-2006
Twenty-third International Conference on Machine Learning.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, June 2006.

ICDM-2005
Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2005.

ICML-2005
Twenty-second International Conference on Machine Learning.
Bonn, Germany, August 2005.