Dear MLNET member -

this is a final call for members of MLNET to participate in the MLNET
Exhibition in Barcelona. The goals of the exhibition are:

* show to the other members of MLNET what your are doing and hear what
  others are doing; also projects that do have not yet produced 
  publications or products can be publicised here!

* provide an opprtunity to meet a EC representative (to be confirmed)
  and learn about their current and planned programmes

* see and discuss the results of MLNET activities (education materials,
  application guide, technological roadmap)

* for MLNET: to encourage more complete information about nodes on the
  web, alllowing better access to our knowledge and technology for
  people outside our field.



The event is located conveniently between ECML and a workshop on Agents.
which indirectly supports travel to these events. MLNET supports
participants to the Exhibition with a maximum of 350 EUR.

A contribution to the Exhibition consists of a website and a poster
summarising basic information about your node:

* projects
* people
* scientific/technological expertise (area, methods, systems)
* application expertise (application area)

Many nodes already have this and this means that only a poster for the 
meeting in Barcelona should be made. For others this should be an extra 
stimulus to make or update such a website. A submission consists of sending 
me the URL of the website. MLNET will check if it contains the
information.

The deadline for submissions is extended to Friday 14 April. 

        - maarten van someren (MLNET coordinator)

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Call for exhibitors

MLNET, the network of excellence in Machine Learning, Case-Based
Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition organises a network-wide
exhibition where nodes of MLNET can show their recent achievements and
current projects. This exhibition will be held at ?? in Barcelona,
joint with the ECML Conference and several other MLNET activities. The
purpose of the exhibition is to give an overview of the scientific and
industrial expertise that is available in MLNET both to its own
members and to potential users of this expertise outside the network.

To contribute to the exhibition a node must supply the following:

· a hardcopy poster displaying achievements (scientific results, tools
or applications) and a description of the node that includes keywords
on the scientific or technical areas in which a node considers itself
an expert and application areas in which a node has expertise and
experience. The size of the hardcopy poster is maximally 2 m2.

· a web-based version of this poster to be linked to the MLNET
Information Service. This should includes the hardcopy materials.

· The name of a person to represent the node at the MLNET
Exhibition. If the contribution is approved then this person can claim
a maximum of 350 Euros travel/accomodation costs from MLNET.


Submissions

Submissions for the exhibition are subject to approval by the
Exhibition Programme Committee consisting of Maarten van Someren,
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Stefan Wrobel, Derek Sleeman, Pieter
Adriaans, Lorenza Saitta, Katharina Morik, Reza Nakhaeizadeh, Claire
Nedellec, Bob Wielinga, Mark Keane.

Posters can be submitted by sending an email to Maarten van Someren
(maarten@swi.psy.uva.nl) with the URL of the electronic version,
indicating which of this will appear as hardcopy poster. Submissions
should be received by 31 March 2000. Decisions on acceptance will be
made by 7 April 2000.