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The data (concerning the prediction of functional classes of genes) is out since last sunday (8th May 2005). If you could be so kind to include the advert (attached to this email) in the net KDNuggets newsletter.

ILP 2005 Challenge (www.protein-logic.com).

This year, the 15th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2005) will introduce an ILP Challenge.

The data (concerning the prediction of functional classes of genes) is out since last sunday (8th May 2005).

The challenge of a real-world data set provides a test of how far we have progressed in the field of ILP and multi-relational data mining. Are the tools up to the job? Do they scale? Do they handle noisy, sparse and complex data?

The idea is to have a collaborative challenge rather than an individual challenge: a data set or sets will be provided, and the challenge is for the community to combine current techniques and approaches to analyse the data to the best of our abilities. The challenge will be open to anyone to participate, individually or in collaboration. There will be a special session at the conference devoted to discussion of the results of the analysis. It will also be possible to submit short papers in conjunction with prediction results to the late breaking papers track of ILP 2005.

Important Dates

Data and problem description available: May 8th
Results and corresponding late breaking
papers to be submitted: July 1st
Paper notification: July 8th
Feedback to submitters: August 1st
Special ILP Challenge session: August 11th or 12th

URLs

ILP Challenge: http://www.protein-logic.com/
ILP 2005: http://ilp2005.in.tum.de/

ILP 2005 will be held in Bonn, Germany, August 10-13, and
will be co-located with ICML 2005.

Challenge Organisers

Amanda Clare, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Andreas Karwath, University of Freiburg
Wenjin Lu, University of Wales, Aberystwyth