The Twelfth European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'01)

                                     and

    The Fifth European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge
                      Discovery in Databases (PKDD'01)

                   September 3-7, 2001, Freiburg, Germany

       http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ml/ecmlpkdd/ecmlpkdd.htm

                          Joint Call for Workshops

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In 2001, the 12th European Conference on Machine Learning is co-located with
the 5th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge
Discovery in Databases in Freiburg, Germany. It is the first time --
world-wide -- that a KDD conference is co-located with an ML conference. The
co-location should allow ample opportunities for cross-fertilization between
these two scientific areas.

With this joint call, we are inviting proposals for workshops to be held
during the conference week of ECML and PKDD. Due to the closely coordinated
nature of the two events, workshops will be accessible to participants of
both conferences. A first group of workshops will be held on September 3 and
4 (in parallel to the PKDD main program), the second group of workshops will
be held on September 6 and 7 (in parallel to the ECML main program),
September 5th being an overlap day for joint invited speakers and technical
sessions.

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.


Workshop Participation and Publication
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All workshop participants are required to register for the main conference,
and must specify which workshop they are going to attend. If you intend to
to allow access to the workshop by invitation only, or would like to see the
number of participants limited, then please clearly indicate so.

Workshop proceedings have to be prepared camera-ready by the workshop
organizers. They will be printed by the ECML/PKDD organizers and distributed
among registered participants of the workshop. There may be a joint paper
style for the proceedings.

In addition, there will be a joint Web-publication of all the workshop
proceedings after the conference. Hence, electronic submissions to the
workshops are strongly encouraged, and the workshop organizers are expected
to provide an online version of their proceedings (a table of contents with
pointers to postscript versions of the papers is sufficient).


How to Propose a Workshop
-------------------------

Workshop proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop
chairs and reviewers to judge the importance, quality and community interest
in the proposed topic. Each workshop should have one or more designated
organizers and workshop program or organizing committee. When proposing a
workshop, please provide (at least) the following information:

   * Description of the workshop topic and goals. Why do you believe this is
     an interesting and significant topic, and why do you believe the
     workshop is best held at ECML/PKDD? What are the main goals of the
     workshop, and how would participants benefit from it?
   * Intended audience. From which areas do you expect potential
     participants to come? How many participants do you expect, can you
     already name some of them? How are you going to publicize your
     workshop?
   * Organization of the workshop. Please describe the intended format of
     the workshop. Are you going to schedule invited talks, presentations,
     panel discussions, other methods for ensuring and interactive
     atmosphere? Are there any plans to document the workshop results
     (beyond ECML/PKDDs web publication)?
   * Organizers' details. Please provide complete addresses including Web
     pages of all organizers and committee members. For the main organizers,
     please indicate which background they have in the proposed topic.

Please submit your workshop proposals by E-Mail to both ECML/PKDD workshop
chairs.


Timetable
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Workshop proposals will be due on February 16th, 2001. All workshops will
have the same submssion deadlines, which are given below. In order to
guarantee a timely production of the proceedings, both the camera-ready copy
and a Web-version of the proceedings must be ready by July 27th, 2001.

     IMPORTANT DATES:
         16. 2. 2001:  Workshop proposal deadline
          2. 3. 2001:  Workshop acceptance notification
          8. 6. 2001:  WS paper submission deadline
         29. 6. 2001:  WS paper acceptance notification
         13. 7. 2001:  WS paper camera-ready deadline
         27. 7. 2001:  Workshop proceedings (camera- and Web-ready)


ECML/PKDD'01 Workshop Chairs
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 Johannes Fuernkranz               Stefan Wrobel
 Austrian Research Institute for   IWS, Knowledge Discovery and Machine
 Artificial Intelligence           Learning
 Schottengasse 3,                  School of Computer Science
 A-1010 Wien, Austria              Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
                                   P.O.Box 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany
 E-mail: [log in to unmask]     E-mail: [log in to unmask]
 Phone: +43-(1)-53 36 112-19       Phone: +49-(391)-67-18397
 Fax: +43-(1)-53 36 112-77         Fax: +49-(391)-67-12018


WWW-Site
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