Machine Learning List: Vol 21, No. 2

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           Machine Learning List: Volume 21, Number 2
                    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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Contents

Call for Papers
  Computational Intelligence and Games
  WORLDCOMP'09
  Asian Conference on Machine Learning
  Inductive Reasoning and ML on the Semantic Web
  Intelligent Data Analysis
  ICLP Doctoral Consortium
  Methodologies for Intelligent Systems
  International Conference on Logic Programming\
  Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications
  Adaptive & Intelligent Systems
  Learning Structural Knowledge from Observations
  Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing
  Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  Agents for Autonomic Computing
  Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
  Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning
  Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems
  Intelligent Information Systems

Career Opportunities
  Research Assistant, Leeds, UK

Post-Doctoral Research
  Project on Academic Publication Management, Germany
  Robotics and Adaptive Control, Edinburgh, UK
  Biomedical Ontology, New York, USA
Ph.D. Studentship
  Charles Sturt University, Australia

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Date: Jan 3, 2009
From: Pier Luca Lanzi <lanzi@...>
Subject: Computational Intelligence and Games

Call for Papers
IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence
  and Games (CIG-2009)
Milano, Italy, September 7-10, 2008
http://www.ieee-cig.org

Tutorial Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: July 15, 2009
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Date: Jan 5, 2009
From: WORLDCOMP'09 Congress Conferences
Subject: WORLDCOMP'09

Call for Papers
2009 World Congress in Computer Science,
  Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 13-16, 2009
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: April 25, 2009
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Date: Jan 6, 2009
From: Sheng-Jun Huang <huangsj@...>
Subject:  Asian Conference on Machine Learning

Call for Papers
1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'09)
Nanjing, China, November 2-4, 2009
http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/ACML09

Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: August 5, 2009
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Date: Jan 8, 2009
From: Claudia d'Amato <claudia.damato@...>
Subject: Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and ML on the Semantic Web

First Call for Papers
1st International Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine
  Learning on the Semantic Web
Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 1, 2009
http://irmles2009.di.uniba.it

Paper Submission Deadline: March 7, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: April 18, 2009
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Date: Jan 9, 2009
From: Bruno Cremilleux <Bruno.Cremilleux@...>
Subject: Intelligent Data Analysis

Call for Papers
8th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis
Lyon, France, August 31 - September 2, 2009
http://ida09.liris.cnrs.fr/
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Date: Jan 9, 2009
From: iclp09.dc@...
Subject: ICLP Doctoral Consortium

Call for Papers
International Conference on Logic Programming
  5th ICLP Doctoral Consortium
Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-17, 2009
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~toms/DC2009/

Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2009
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Date: Jan 12, 2009
From: Petr Berka <Berka@...>
Subject:  Methodologies for Intelligent Systems

Call for Papers
18th International Symposium on Methodologies
  for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'09)
Prague, Czech Republic, September 14-17, 2009

Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: June 15, 2009
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Date: Jan 18, 2009
From: cfp@...
Subject: International Conference on Logic Programming

Call for Workshop Proposals
25th International Conference on Logic Programming
Pasadena, California, USA, July 14-17, 2009
http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/

Workshop Proposal Deadline: February 9, 2009
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Date: Jan 20, 2009
From: Alessandro Antonucci <alessandro@...>
Subject: Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications

Final Call for Papers
6th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability:
  Theories and Applications
Durham, UK, July 14-18, 2009
http://www.sipta.org/isipta09

Paper Submission Deadline: February 13, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: April 25, 2009
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Date: Jan 23, 2009
From: hamid@...
Subject: Adaptive & Intelligent Systems

Call for Papers
2009 International Conference on Adaptive
  & Intelligent Systems (ICAIS'09)
Klagenfurt, Austria, September 24 - 26, 2009
http://www.isys.uni-klu.ac.at/icais09/

Paper Submission Deadline: February 28, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: July 10, 2009
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Date: Jan 23, 2009
From: Ugur Kuter <ukuter@...>
Subject: Learning Structural Knowledge from Observations

Call for Papers
The IJCAI-09 Workshop on Learning Structural
  Knowledge from Observations
  in conjunction with 21st International Joint Conference
  on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09)
Pasadena, California, USA, July 12, 2009
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/ukuter/struck09/

Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: May 8, 2009
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Date: Jan 23, 2009
From: Kevin Duh <kevinduh@...>
Subject: Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing

Call for Papers
NAACL 2009 Workshop on Semi-supervised Learning for
  Natural Language Processing
Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 4, 2009
http://sites.google.com/site/sslnlp/

Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2009
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Date: Jan 28, 2009
From: Carlo Combi <carlo.combi@...>
Subject: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Call for Papers, Workshops, and Tutorials
12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in MEdicine
Verona, Italy, July 18 - 22, 2009
http://www.aimedicine.info/
http://aimedicine.info/aime09/

Tutorial Submission Deadline: February 9, 2009
Workshop Proposal Deadline: February 9, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: February 9, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: April 27, 2009
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Date: Jan 28, 2009
From: aac2009@...
Subject: Agents for Autonomic Computing

Call for Papers
2nd International Workshop on Agents for Autonomic Computing (AAC 2009)
  to be held in conjunction with
  6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2009)
Barcelona, Spain, June 192009
http://www.iids.org/aac-2009/

Paper Submission Dealine: February 16, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: April 6, 2009
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Date: Jan 29, 2009
From: Fernando Fernandez Rebollo <ffernand@...>
Subject: Automated Planning and Scheduling

Call for Papers
19th International Conference on Automated
  Planning and Scheduling
Thessaloniki, Greece, September 19-23, 2009
ICAPS-2009, http://icaps09.uom.gr

Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2009
Workshop Submission Deadline: February 15, 2009
Tutorial Submission Deadline: April 13, 2009
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Date: Jan 30, 2009
From: Menno van Zaanen <M.M.vanZaanen@...>
Subject: Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning

Call for Papers
18th Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine
  Learning (Benelearn 09)
Tilburg, the Netherlands, May 18-19, 2009
http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/

Paper Submission Deadline: February 21, 2009
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Date: Feb 2, 2009
From: Nils T Siebel, HYCAS Workshop <nils@...>
Subject: Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems

Call for Papers
International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems
  Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control
  Held in conjunction with IJCAI-09
Pasadena, CA, USA, July 13 2009
http://www.hycas.org/

Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: May 8, 2009
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Date: Feb 6, 2009
From: IIS'09 Conference
Subject: Intelligent Information Systems

Call for Papers
International Joint Conference Intelligent
  Information Systems 2009 (IIS 2009)
  Joint venture of the 17th International Conference Intelligent
  Information Systems (IIS) and the 24th International Conference
  on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Krakw, Poland, June 15-18, 2009
http://iis.ipipan.waw.pl/

Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2009
Camera-ready Deadline: May 4, 2009
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Date: Jan 16, 2009
From: Serge Sharoff <s.sharoff@...>
Ssubject: Research Assistant, Leeds, UK

The Centre for Translation Studies and School of Computing,
the University of Leeds, UK, are inviting applications for the
post of Research Assistant to work on a 12-month research
project funded by a Google Research Award to Serge Sharoff
and Katja Markert.  This fixed-term position is for one year
with a start date in April 2009.

The project aims to classify web pages into genres in multiple
languages, since different pages have quite different uses and
characteristics.  A query for `Venice' results in pages of various
types, referring to recent news, information about history,
guidebooks, hotel lists, opinions about hotels and restaurants, etc.
Our research questions in this project are:
* Which features of webpages are useful for their automatic
     classification?
* How language-specific are those features?
  * How can we build efficient classifiers with minimal annotation
     data?

The RA will be doing research on feature selection, development
of classifiers and evaluation.  The ideal candidate has recently
completed or nearing completion of a PhD in computational
linguistics or machine learning with an emphasis on weakly-supervised
methods in natural language processing.  Knowledge of graph-based
machine learning or linguistic genre theory and at least one language
in addition to English is desirable.  Suitable candidates with MSc/MA
degree can be also considered.

The 12-month salary will be according to Grade 6 in the British
academic system (24,152-28,839).

The deadline for application is February 27, 2009 with interviews
expected in the beginning of March.

Information on the application procedure is available from:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/hr/jobs/apply.htm

With any informal questions about this job, please contact Dr Serge
Sharoff (s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk, tel. [phone]).
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Date: Jan 26, 2009
From: Sethu Vijayakumar <sethu.vijayakumar@...>
Subject: Robotics and Adaptive Control, Edinburgh, UK

University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics

Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Robotics and Adaptive Control

Applications are invited for two Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the
area of Learning Robotics and Adaptive Control as part of an
EU-IST FP7 funded project. The posts are available from Mar. 2009 for a
maximum of 34 months and located in the School of Informatics at the
University of Edinburgh. Salary is on the UE07 scale (29,704-35,469)
with annual increments and full staff benefits.
Placement for the post is according to experience and qualifications.

Post One: Robotics and Adaptive Control:
The candidate is expected to have good fundamentals in control theory
and most importantly, hands on experience with writing software and
controlling robotic hardware. The appointee will be responsible for
direct implementation of adaptive control paradigms on biophysical
simulations and on state-of-the-art novel variable impedance actuators.

Post Two: Statistical Learning and Adaptive Control Theory:
The candidate is expected to have a strong background in optimization,
statistical learning and adaptive control theory and some familiarity
of concepts such as direct policy learning, stochastic dynamic programming
and optimal feedback control. An interest and knowledge of variable
impedance strategies in human motor control is a definite advantage.
The appointee will be responsible for development of effective adaptive
control strategies and algorithms that exploit variable stiffness
paradigms.

Both posts will involve traveling to project partner meetings around
Europe, periodic reporting at EU reviews as well as attending and
disseminating work at international conference. The post also assumes
leadership roles and some level of PhD supervision on topics relevant
to the project.

The successful candidates will have a PhD (or expected completion) in the
area of (learning) robotics, probabilistic machine learning and/or
adaptive motor control; strong mathematical skills in the area of
optimization, algebra and control theory; strong programming skills in
C, C++, MATLAB or equivalent; some experience with writing software
and control of real hardware systems; a good understanding of adaptive
control paradigms

More details of the job and the research group can be found at:
http://www.ipab.inf.ed.ac.uk/slmc

Applicants are asked to submit your curriculum vitae including a statement
of interest justifying your suitability for the post you are applying for
and contact details of two referees using the online application procedure
at:

Post1:
http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.
detail&vacancy_ref=3010336
Post2:
https://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.
detail&vacancy_ref=3010337

Application Deadline: February 20, 2009

Informal enquiries may be addressed to:
Dr. Sethu Vijayakumar (sethu.vijayakumar [at] ed.ac.uk)
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Date: Feb 4, 2009
From: Barry Smith <phismith@...>
Subject: Biomedical Ontology, New York, USA

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (http://ncbo.us)
seeks applicants for a post-doctoral research position to
work on projects relating to applications of ontology in
medicine and biology. The successful candidate will work
with ontology researchers in the New York State Center of
Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences in Buffalo,
New York. He or she will have expertise in at least two of
the following areas: ontology, logic, philosophy of science,
bioinformatics, biology, medicine, computer science.

Further details are available from
Barry Smith <phismith@...>
or under posting number 0900040 at http://ubjobs.buffalo.edu.
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Date: Jan 29, 2009
From: Gao, Jun bin (Dr) <jbgao@...>
Subject: Charles Sturt University, Austrailia

1 PhD Scholarship at $25,000 per annum each
The Charles Sturt University
http://www.csu.edu.au


An opportunity exists for one (1) highly motivated student to
take on PhD in the areas of computer vision, pattern recognition,
image processing and signal processing. The research is part
of an industry supported project. The students roles are to
investigate methods which will be used to extract image features
and apply pattern recognition methods to rock surfaces.

The scholarship covers $25K living stipend and CSU shall offer a
fee-free place for the successful candidate. The potential applicants
must be Australian citizens or permanent residents (applications
from non-Australian citizen may be considered, but applicants from
non-English speaking countries shall have an English test IELTS of
score 6.5+.)  The optimal candidate would have a clear interest in
computer vision and pattern recognition. In addition, the candidate
should demonstrate a willingness to tackle relevant mathematical
problems and to work with various software APIs for the hardware
used in this project. The candidate should possess or expect to
obtain Honours I or strong Honours II degree from disciplines
including, but not limited to Computer Science/Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and/or Statistics. The
applicants are also expected to have strong programming
skills in C++ (or Matlab) and have some system engineering
experience.

For more information contact:

A/Professor Junbin Gao (email jbgao@...;
phone [phone])

Applicants should submit a letter (maximum two pages)
outlining their suitability for the position, accompanied by
a brief CV (including contact details for two referees) and a
copy of their academic transcripts at first instance. After a
shortlisting procedure, suitable applicants will be contacted
and guided for further admission application.

Your letter etc should be sent by email to:
   A/Professor Junbin Gao at jbgao@...
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