=============================================================== ********************************* Machine Learning and Applications ********************************* Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI-99) 5-16 July 1999 Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete, GREECE ****** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******* For detailed information, please have a look at the new ACAI '99 Web site: http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99 Aim of the course: ------------------- The ECCAI Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence for 1999 (ACAI-99) is organised by the Hellenic Artificial Inteligence Society (ÅÅÔÍ) in the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh), Crete, Greece. The goal of ACAI-99 is to present the current state of the art in Machine Learning, as well as to show the potential of Machine Learning in a variety of problems. Towards this goal, the course is structured as a multimodal event, containing plenary sessions from distinguished lecturers, workshops on machine learning applications, student sessions and panel discussions on the success of ML so far and its future directions. ACAI-99 will be of benefit to professionals, who are interested in using machine learning techniques, as well as researchers and postgraduate students, who work or are thinking of working in this exciting field. List of plenary talks & Lectures: ---------------------------- "Machine learning: Setting the scene" T. Mitchell (CMU, USA) "Machine learning and knowledge acquisition: from ML technology push to user oriented design" M. van Someren (Amsterdam, Holland) "Concept learning and natural induction" R. Michalski (George Mason, USA) "Are ML applications a subfield of KDD?" Y. Kodratoff (CNRS, France) "Case-based reasoning" R.L. de Mantaras (SSRC, Spain) "Noise handling in tree induction" & "Inducing intermediate concepts" I. Bratko (Ljublana, Slovenia) "Machine discovery" & "Formation of probabilistic concept hierarchies" P. Langley (ISLE, USA) "Inductive logic programming for data mining and machine learning" L.de Raedt (KU Lueven, Belgium) "A unified information theoretic approach to prediction ,clustering and learning" N. Tishby (Hebrew University, Israel) "Probabilistic graphical models" C. Bishop (Microsoft, UK) "Genetic algorithms in artificial intelligence" J. Shapiro (Manchester, UK) "Multi-strategy learning" L. Saitta (Torino, Italy) List of workshops & workshops organisers: --------------------- Machine learning in human language technology N. Fakotakis Managing ML application development and organizational implementation V. Moustakis Machine learning in user modeling C. Papatheodorou Machine learning for intelligent information access G. Karakoulas Pre- and post-processing in machine learning and data mining: theoretical aspects and applications I. Bruha Text mining Y. Kodratoff Machine learning and intelligent agents T. Panayiotopoulos Machine learning in medical applications G. Magoulas, A. Prentza Data mining in economics, marketing and finance H. Jessen Machine learning applications in the electric power industry N.Hatziargyriou Biologically-inspired machine learning J. Demiris Support vector machine theory and applications T. Evgeniou Intelligent techniques for Spatio-Temporal Data Anaysis in Environmental Applications N. Avouris, N. Vassilas Algorithmic Issues of the Genetic Approach P. Spirakis ACAI' 99 Chair: -------------------- C. Spyropoulos (costass@iit.demokritos.gr), (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece) ACAI' 99 Co-chair: ------------------- N. Fakotakis (fakotaki@wcl.ee.upatras.gr), (Univ.of Patras, Greece) Organising Committee: ---------------------- Members:G. Dounias (Technical Univ. of Crete, Chania) V. Karkaletsis, (NCSR "Demokritos", Athens) J. Kontos, (Economic Univ. of Athens) I. Malagardi, (ILSP, Athens) V. Moustakis, (Technical Univ. of Crete, Chania) G. Paliouras, (NCSR "Demokritos", Athens) T. Panayiotopoulos, (University of Piraeus C. Papatheodorou, (NCSR "Demokritos", Athens) N. Vassilas, (NCSR "Demokritos", Athens) G. Vouros, (Univ. of Aegean, Samos) Programme Committee: ----------------------- Chair:V. Moustakis (moustaki@csi.forth.gr), (Technical Univ. of Crete, Chania, Greece) Co-chair:G. Paliouras (paliourg@iit.demokritos.gr), (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece) Members:C. Bishop, (Microsoft Research Laboratory, UK) I. Bratko, (Ljubljana University, Slovenia) M. Giakoumakis, (Economic Univ. of Athens, Greece) D. Kalles, (Computer Technology Institute, Greece) V. Karkaletsis, (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece) Y. Kodratoff, (CNRS, Univ. of Paris-Sud, France) J. Kontos, (Economic Univ. of Athens, Greece) P. Langley, (ISLE, USA) R. Lopez de Mantaras, (CSIC, Spain) R. Michalski, (George Mason University, USA) T. Mitchell, (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) L. de Raedt, (KU Leuven, Belgium) T. Panayiotopoulos, (University of Piraeus, Greece) J. Pitas, (Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece) L. Saitta, (University of Torino, Italy) T. Sellis, (Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece) J. Shapiro, (Manchester University, UK) M. van Someren, (University of Amsterdam, Holland) S. Tzafestas, (Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece) N. Tishby, (The Hebrew University, Israel) N. Vassilas, (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece) Workshops chair:V. Karkaletsis (vangelis@iit.demokritos.gr) --------------- Student sessions chair:N. Vassilas (nvas@iit.demokritos.gr) ----------------------- Important dates: ----------------- Febr. 28, 1999 Deadline for Submission of Camera-ready Student Papers April 1, 1999 Notification of Students Papers Acceptance April 1, 1999 Deadline for Workshop Programmes and Delivery of Workshop Material April 30, 1999 Deadline of Early Registration June 15, 1999 Deadline of Late Registration