ECML'01 and PKDD'01
          Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals

12th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'01)
  5th European Conference on Principles and Practice
    of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'01)

 http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ml/ecmlpkdd/

        September 3-7, 2001, Freiburg, Germany


Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals

We hope this is not just another call for tutorials.
It's the first time, world-wide, that two major events
in Machine Learning and Data Mining are co-located.
This is an  unprecedented opportunity to make each
community aware of the research priorities and the
resources developed in the sister community.

With this joint call, we invite proposals for tutorials
surveying mature work in the learning and mining areas,
presenting emerging approaches or challenging
applications, and introducing potential users to the
mining and learning methodologies.

Especially welcome are tutorials addressing one of the
following topics (non-exhaustive list):

- how to integrate the user in the learning and mining
  loop (ranging from background knowledge specifications
  to visual tools, including interestingness and cost-
  sensitive aspects);

- how to handle applicative requirements and particular
  data structures (textual information, temporal series,
  biological sequences, meta-data, inductive logic
  programming, applications);

- how to ensure robustness (Bayesian approaches,
  regularization, support vector machines, feature
  reduction, extraction); how to construct and handle
  distributions (randomized algorithms, boosting,
  reinforcement learning, evolutionary computation);

- how to evaluate the results ...

Tutorials will take place during Sept. 3-4 (in parallel
to ECML'01) and Sept. 6-7 (in parallel to PKDD'01).
They will be freely accessible to participants of both
conferences. Tutorial notes will be put on the Web site
of the conference by mid-October 2001.

For more information on the joint conference, see
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ml/ecmlpkdd/


Timetable

Deadline for proposals:                 February 28, 2001
Notification of acceptance:             March 16, 2001
Tutorial summary:                       May 1, 2001
Tutorial notes (camera and Web-ready):  July 27, 2001


Submission

The tutorial proposal must contain:

- a short description of the tutorial (1 paragraph)
- a tutorial syllabus (1 page)
- a description of the target audience, including
  prerequisites and whether the tutorial is mostly aimed
  at ML or KDD people, if relevant
- motivations of relevance to the conference(s) themes
- a short resume of the presenter(s), with address and
  evidence for research and teaching experience

What a tutorial should NOT be: promotion of the presenter's
work; promotion of a product.

Proposals should be sent (electronic form preferred) to both:

Michhle Sebag                      Hannu T.T. Toivonen
LMS, Ecole Polytechnique           Nokia Research Center
91128 Palaiseau                    Itamerenkatu 11-13
France                             FIN-00180 Helsinki
                                   Finland
michele.sebag@polytechnique.fr     hannu.tt.toivonen@nokia.com