----------------------------------------------------------------------- ICML 2010 Call for Participation http://www.icml2010.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 27th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the premier conference in the field, will be held in Haifa, Israel, June 21-25, 2010, and will be co-located with the 23rd Conference on Learning Theory (COLT). PROGRAM The scientific program features 152 paper and poster presentations, 8 tutorials, 10 workshops, an invited application track, 3 invited speakers, and a guest lecture by Nobel laureate Robert Aumann. The social program features a banquet, two evening poster sessions, guided walking tours through Haifa, and a trip to Jerusalem. INVITED SPEAKERS (http://www.icml2010.org/invited.html) * Nir Friedman * Tom Mitchell * Duncan Watts * Robert Aumann (Nobel Laureate 2005) ACCEPTED PAPERS (http://www.icml2010.org/papers.html) From 594 submissions, we selected 152 papers, which will be presented in five parallel tracks. In addition, each paper will be presented at a poster session. We will also have a short track of invited application papers. TUTORIALS (http://www.icml2010.org/tutorials.html) * Domain Adaptation (Hal Daume & John Blitzer) * Geometric Tools for Identifying Structure in Large Social and Information Networks (Michael W. Mahoney) * Kernel Adaptive Filters (José Príncipe & Weifeng Liu) * Learning through Exploration (Alina Beygelzimer and John Langford) * Metric Learning (Brian Kulis) * Privacy-preserving Data Mining (Stan Matwin) * Sparse Modeling: Theory, Algorithms and Applications (Irina Rish & Genady Grabarnik) * Stochastic Optimization for Machine Learning (Nathan Srebro and Ambuj Tewari) WORKSHOPS (http://www.icml2010.org/workshops.html) * Budgeted Learning, Dragos Margineantu, Russell Greiner, Tomas Singliar and Prem Melville * Learning from Multi-Label Data, Min-Ling Zhang, Grigorios Tsoumakas and Zhi-Hua Zhou * Learning in Non-(geo)metric Spaces, J. Buhmann, R. Duin, M. Figueiredo, E. Hancock, V. Murino and M. Pelillo * Learning to Rank Challenge, Olivier Chapelle and Yi Chang * Machine Learning and Games, Kurt Driessens, Olana Missura and Christian Thurau * Machine Learning and Open Source Software, Soeren Sonnenburg, Mikio Braun, Cheng Soon Ong and Patrik Hoyer * Reinforcement Learning and Search in Very Large Spaces, Peter Auer, Samuel Kaski and Csaba Szepesvari * Social analytics: Learning from Human Interactions, Elad Yom-Tov, Shie Mannor and Yossi Richter * Topic Models; Structure, Applications, Evaluation, and Extensions, Michal Rosen-Zvi, Amit Gruber and Richard Zemel * Web Applications of Explore/Exploit Schemes, Ronny Lempel, Deepak Agarwa, Yehuda Koren and Bee-Chung Chen REGISTRATION (http://www.icml2010.org/registration.html) The early registration deadline is on MAY 9th. Don't hesitate to contact us at [log in to unmask] , if you have any questions. We hope to see you Haifa! Stefan Wrobel (General Chair) Thorsten Joachims, Johannes Fürnkranz (Program Co-chairs) Shai Fine, Dan Pelleg (Local Chairs)