%------------------------------------------------------------------------------% ILP Newsletter Volume 2, Number 2, 13th February 1995 %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% Editors: Saso Dzeroski and Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, SI %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% Address all communication related to the ILP Newsletter to ilpnet@ijs.si To subscribe/unsubscribe send email with subject SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE ILPNEWS Send contributions in messages with subject heading ILPNEWS CONTRIBUTION Send comments and suggestions under subject heading ILPNEWS COMMENTS Back issues of the Newsletter and other information about ILPNET and ILP available via the World Wide Web (WWW), URL http://www-ai.ijs.si/ilpnet.html %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% Contents: - Call for papers: Special Issue of Machine Learning Journal on ILP - Postdoc positions at GMD - Book review: ILP - Techniques and Applications - 3rd ILPNET Management Board meeting %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% ********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************** Special Issue: INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING MACHINE LEARNING JOURNAL Edited by Stephen Muggleton and David Page Oxford University Computing Laboratory Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a growing research area spawned by Machine Learning and Logic Programming. While the in- fluence of Logic Programming has encouraged the development of strong theoretical foundations, the new area has inherited its experimental orientation from Machine Learning. Already ILP has been applied successfully to a variety of complex problems, in- cluding structure-activity and mutagenicity prediction of pharma- ceutical chemicals, protein secondary-structure prediction, finite-element mesh design, and optimal play in chess endgames. For this special issue we encourage submission of papers describ- ing novel ILP algorithms, experimental applications, or theoreti- cal results. Submission deadline: September 15, 1995 It is the editors' intention to publish the special issue as a book as well. Papers should be double spaced and 8,000 to 12,000 words in length, with full-page figures counting for 400 words. All sub- missions will be subject to the standard review procedure. Send three (3) copies of submissions to: David Page Phone: +44-865-283-520 Oxford University Computing Lab Fax: +44-865-273-839 Wolfson Building David.Page@prg.ox.ac.uk Parks Road Oxford, OX1 3QD U. K. Also mail five (5) copies of submitted papers to: Karen Cullen Phone: (617) 871-6300 MACHINE LEARNING Editorial Office karen@world.std.com Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive Norwell, MA 02061 U. S. A. Note: Machine Learning is now accepting submission of final copy in electronic form. A latex style file and related files are available via anonymous ftp from ftp.std.com. Look in Kluwer/styles/journals for the files README, smjrnl.doc, smjrnl.sty, smjsamp.tex, smjtmpl.tex, or smjstyles.tar (which contains them all). %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% GMD Postgraduate Programme 1995/96 Deadline for applications: March 1st 1995 ML/ILP people are welcome to apply! The German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) offers 10 Postgraduate Positions. By these positions GMD offers young scientists from all over Europe the opportunity to work on innovative topics on a broad range of subjects. The emphasis is on * Cooperation and Communication * Intelligent Multimedia Systems * Hardware/Software Co-Design * Parallel and Scientific Computing which represent the four major research areas of GMD. Each of the fully paid positions will have a duration of up to two years. A single extension by one additional year is possible. Funding can commence on April 1995. Applications before March 1, 1995 Applicants must have a Ph.D. (or equivalent) and demonstrate research experience from projects in research institutions, universities or industry. Good knowledge of English or German is required. A statement of research qualification and interest should accompany the application.The applications should include a Curriculum Vitae, copies of university degrees, letters of reference, and publication lists. They should be addressed to GMD Gilbert Kalb Schloss Birlinghoven D-53754 Sankt Augustin / Germany for further information please contact Gilbert Kalb by e-mail: kalb@gmd.de, or Telefax: ++49-2241-14 2288. Background information on GMD SmartCards, telepresence, virtual reality, embedded systems, neural networks, molecular bioinformatics and parallel computing, these relatively new terms point to the state of the art in research and applications in computer science and information technology. They also show the way to their further development. The interplay between computer science and parts of mathematics continually opens new dimensions which will play a key role in private and social life in the future. These are the fields in which the scientists of the German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) work. GMD's scientists conduct basic research in mathematics and computer science. The results are used to build prototypical applications designed to test the viability of new ideas, processes and methods. The German National Research Center for Computer Science - Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH - is an independent, nonprofit, research corporation. GMD was founded in Bonn in 1968. Its shareholders are the Federal Republic of Germany, and the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse. GMD's funding for 1993 was approximately DM 175 million. Of this total, approximately DM 130 million was provided by the shareholders. The remaining DM 45 million resulted from income generated by domestic and international research and cooperation contracts. GMD has about 1,300 employees. Of these about 800 are engaged in scientific or technical work. The majority work at GMD's headquarters at Sankt Augustin. Additional sites are located at Berlin and Darmstadt. GMD also maintains an office in Tokyo. GMD's primary research concerns are * System design technology, * Communication and cooperation, * Intelligent multimedia systems, * Parallel computing. Research work is planned annually, taking into account long-term research and development programs, and published in a budgetary plan available to the public. GMD publishes a quarterly journal, the GMD Spiegel, which regularly covers ongoing research. Research conducted by GMD benefits its cooperation partners and end users alike, whether in the public or private sector, or involved in scientific or industrial pursuits. Through GMD they have the opportunity to implement new scientific methods and procedures and thus improve the quality of their products. GMD offers the scientific community services for research and development work and a specially adapted infrastructure tailored to scientific needs, in particular, state-of-the-art communications technology. These services are especially used by scientists working in universities. Many of GMD's scientists are also professors and lecturers at universities and colleges. Their research and development work at GMD enables them to make an important contribution to the teaching of computer science. In this way, GMD functions as a catalyst between the academic world and the producers and users of information technology. GMD is also a member of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, ERCIM, which combines the strength of a number of important European research institutes to further scientific integration in Europe. GMD is a founding member of the European Software Institute, ESI. Through this membership, GMD works with software houses, manufacturers and users of information technology tools. In the United States of America, GMD is closely connected with, and is co-founder of, the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. In Japan, GMD is a member of the Real World Computing Partnership, RWC. The RWC Partnership is dedicated to the research of future oriented computer technology such as massively parallel systems, neural networks, and optical computers. %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% BOOK REVIEW Inductive Logic Programming - Techniques and Applications Nada Lavrac and Saso Dzeroski Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1994 A review of the above book by D.A. Rendell, Birmingham University, appears in The Computer Journal, Volume 37, Number 6, 1994, pages 47-48. If you spot a review of an ILP or ILP-relevant book, please let us know! Thanks. %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% %------------------------------------------------------------------------------% 3rd ILPNET MANAGEMENT BOARD MEETING The 3rd ILPNET MB meeting will be held at Heraclion, Crete, during the Eighth European Machine Learning Conference ECML-95, April 25-27, 1995. The exact date and time will be announced in the ECML-95 programme. The meeting will be preceeded by a presentation of the WWW support of ILPNET activities and the WWW access to information related to ML research. This presentation (by Darko Zupanic, Nada Lavrac and Stefan Wrobel) will be open to all ECML-95 participants. %------------------------------------------------------------------------------%