CFP

The 13th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'02)
and
The 6th European Conference on Principles and Practice of
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD-02)

19-23 August 2002, Helsinki, Finland

Joint Call for Tutorials and Workshops

With this call we are inviting proposals for tutorials and workshops to be held during the conference week of ECML/PKDD 2002. These tutorials and workshops will be freely accessible to participants of the joint conference. They will take place on August 19 and 20, before the start of the main conference. Workshops and workshop/tutorial combinations (see below) will last for a full day, while tutorials will be half-day events. We currently foresee up to 6 tutorials, 6 workshops, and 2 workshop/tutorial combinations. However, these numbers are subject to change.

Workshops provide organizers and participants an opportunity to discuss current topics in machine learning and/or data mining in a small and interactive atmosphere. Thus, any topic that is of current interest to a sufficient number of participants from the two communities could be the focus of a workshop. Workshops can choose to concentrate in-depth on research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues, or to questions concerning the economic and social aspects of machine learning and data mining.

Tutorials should provide an introduction and/or a review of the state-of-the-art of a topic that is of interest to attendants of a machine learning or a data mining conference. These could be on particular research topics within the two fields, but could also be on topics from other research fields if the proposal makes clear why this is considered to be an important topic for researchers from other areas. A tutorial must be broad enough to cover a research area in which there is a significant publication activity in the community. Presentations that focus on the presenters' own research results or commercial presentations are not eligible.

As workshops and tutorial are in a sense complementary, we also welcome proposals for combined tutorial-workshop events. The general idea is that the tutorial gives an introduction to the field of the workshop, making the workshop accessible to a broader audience.

For practical information on the workshops and tutorials, and for details on the submission procedure, please refer to the detailed call for workshops and tutorials that is available at http://ecmlpkdd.cs.helsinki.fi/cfwt.html.

Proposal deadline: 1. 3. 2002 (March 1)