****************
New Deadlines:

29th March - Paper submission
21st April - Acceptance Notification
 5th May   - Final Versions Delivery
20th May   - Publication of the final Program

****************

ECML-2000

DEALING WITH 
STRUCTURED DATA IN MACHINE LEARNING AND STATISTICS




BARCELONA, 30th MAY 2000



EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING


THEMES

Workshop themes include but are not limited to :

Clustering Analysis 
Classification with Structured Data 
Symbolic Data Analysis  
Data Summarizing and Data Mining 
Logical Approaches to Induction with Structured Data 

with Applications in :

Social and Human Sciences
Official Statistics ; Marketing
Economics ; Finance ; Risk Management
Engineering ; Environmental Sciences 
Biometrics ; Medicine 


Deadlines
  
 15th March  -   Paper submission
 7th April      -   Acceptance Notification
 5th May      -    Final Versions Delivery
20th May      -    Publication of the Final Program


INFORMATIONS 

  e-mail : ecml2kws@ncc.up.pt
 http://www.ncc.up.pt/liacc/ML/ECML-workshop


 REGISTRATION :

    People wishing to participate in the Workshop
    should fulfill the Registration Form and send it by 
    e-mail or fax to : 

     Paula Brito, Joaquim Costa
     LIACC - Univ. Porto
     Fax : (351) 22 6003654
     ecml2kws@ncc.up.pt


     Inscription in the Conference is also required, 
     which should be made directly to the organization
     in Barcelona (http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecml2000),
     stating that you wish to participate in 
     the workshop.

     Please note that participants in the workshop
     are supposed to pay both the Conference fee
     and a Workshop fee.  


Motivation :

There is nowadays an increasing interest in extracting knowledge from databases, which often include variables that are hierarchically dependent and/or whose values are tree-structured; this is for instance the case of survey data. In this context, the aim of the workshop is to promote the discussion and development of new ideas and methods to deal with such data.

Participation :

Papers will be subject to peer review. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and quality of the presentation.
Accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentation and will be printed in the Workshop Notes. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, should be registered and are expected to present their works in the workshop.

Authors should present a paper of 6 to 10 pages (including references), an abstract and 3 key-words.

The Text should be submitted in electronic form, (postscript) by e-mail to   ecml2kws@ncc.up.pt
. 




Program Committee :

Ivan Bratko                Univ. Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pavel Brazdil             Univ. Porto, Portugal
Paula Brito                Univ. Porto, Portugal
Francisco Carvalho    Univ. Fed. Pernambuco, Brasil
Joaquim Costa          Univ. Porto, Portugal
Edwin Diday               Univ. Paris-IX Dauphine, France
Floriana Esposito       Univ. Bari, Italy
David Hand                Imperial College, UK
Israel Lerman             Univ. Rennes I, Irisa, France
Donato Malerba          Univ. Bari, Italy
Fionn Murtagh            Queen's Un. Belfast, N. Ireland,UK
Fernando Nicolau       Univ. Aberta, Portugal 
Blaz Zupan                 Univ. Ljubljana, Slovenia



Organizing Committee :

Paula Brito                 Univ. Porto, Portugal
Joaquim Costa           Univ. Porto, Portugal
Donato Malerba          Univ. Bari, Italy