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ECML PKDD 2009
The European Conference on Machine Learning and
Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
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September 7-11, 2009
Bled, Slovenia
http://www.ecmlpkdd2009.net/

Key Dates
Abstract submission deadline:	April 3, 2009
Paper Submission deadline:      April 14, 2009
Paper Acceptance Notification: 	June 5, 2009
Paper Camera Ready:             June 12, 2009

Call For Papers
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The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and
Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases provides an international
forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results
in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in
databases. Encouraged are submissions of papers that describe the
application of machine learning and data mining methods to real-world
problems, particularly exploratory research that describes novel
learning and mining tasks and applications requiring non-standard
techniques. Submissions that demonstrate both theoretical and
empirical rigor are especially encouraged.

Proceedings and Journal
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The conference proceedings will be published by Springer. A selection
of papers will be directly published in the special journal issues  
"Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery" and in "Machine Learning  
Journal". All other
accepted submissions will be published in the Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence Series.

Submissions
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ECML PKDD 2009 will not accept any paper which, at the time of
submission, is under review or has already been accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also
expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period
of ECML PKDD 2009.

The papers must be in English and must be formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines.
Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html .
The maximum length of papers is at most 16 pages in this format.
Papers submitted to ECML PKDD 2009 will normally be reviewed by  
minimum two referees.
There will be no "blind review" process. Student submissions
should be clearly indicated on the submission form.


area chairsOrganization
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General chair:
	Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Program Chairs:
	Wray Buntine, NICTA, Australia and HIIT, Finland
	Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
	John Shawe-Taylor, University College London, UK

Workshop Chair:			Rayid Ghani, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
Tutorial Chair:         	Cedric Archambeau, University College London,  
UK
Best Papers Chair:		Aleksander Kolcz, Microsoft Live Labs, USA
Industrial track Chairs:	Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute,  
Slovenia
	   	 		Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Discovery challenge Chair: 	Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Demo chair:                     Alejandro Jaimes Larrarte, Telefonica  
Research, Spain
Publicity chair:                David R. Hardoon, University College  
London, UK
Video chair:                    Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute,  
Slovenia
Local chair:                    Tina Anzic, Jozef Stefan Institute,  
Slovenia

Area Chairs: Francis Bach, Hendrik Blockeel, Francesco Bonchi, Pavel  
Brazdil, Toon Calders, Nitesh Chawla, Walter Daelemans, Tijl De Bie,  
Johannes Fuernkranz, Thomas Gaertner, Joao Gama, Bart Goethals, Eamonn  
Keogh, Joost Kok, Jure Leskovec, Stan Matwin, Taneli Mielikainen,  
Dunja Mladenic, Claire Nedellec, Martin Scholz, David Silver, Bernhard  
Pfahringer, Steffen Staab, Gerd Stumme, Luis Torgo, Michael Witbrock,  
Stefan Wrobel.