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The 21st International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML-04)
July 4-8, 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Call For Workshop Proposals

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The ICML-2004 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to
be held at the 21st International Conference on Machine Learning
(ICML-2004), which will take place July 4-8, 2004, in Banff, Alberta,
Canada. ICML-2004 will be co-located <http://www.banff04.org/> with
the Computational Learning Theory (COLT-04) and Uncertainty in AI
(UAI-04) conferences (see <http://www.banff04.org>). The workshops
will be held on July 8th, the same day as the UAI tutorials. There
will be room for two large (< 150 participants) and up to two small
workshops (< 40 participants).

Workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to
focus intensively on a specific topic in machine learning. Workshops
can choose to concentrate on emerging 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. Proposals that
aim at a cross-fertilization between Machine Learning and one of the
topics of the co-located conferences are particularly welcome.

Working notes of the workshops will be made available to participants
in electronic form prior to the conference.


How to Propose a Workshop

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

* /Topic --/ What will the workshop be about? Why do you believe
this is an interesting and significant topic? Why is the topic
best addressed in an ICML workshop, as opposed to a workshop at
another conference or papers in an ICML technical session?
* /Goals --/ What do you expect will come out of the workshop? How
will the workshop change the participants' understanding of the
area? Do you think it will have an impact on the Machine Learning
community at large?
* /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?
* /Format --/ How will the workshop sessions be scheduled? How much
time will be used for discussion, panel discussions, paper
presentations, invited talks, or other methods for encouraging
communication and consensus? Organizers are encouraged to focus on
mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations and to
differentiate themselves clearly from typical conference sessions.
* /Publicity --/ How do you intend to publicize the workshop? How
will you reach the most interested and appropriate participants?
Are there any plans to document the workshop results (beyond
ICML's web publication)?
* /Organizers --/ Please include the name, postal address, phone
number, e-mail address, and webpage of all members of the program
committee. In addition, indicate the organizers' background in the
workshop area.

Proposals should be submitted in electronic form to:

Johannes Fuernkranz
E-mail: juffi@...

Important Dates

Dec 19, 2003 Proposal deadline
Jan 7, 2004 Acceptance notification
Jan 23, 2004 Publicity Materials Due
Apr 2, 2004 WS Paper submission deadline
Apr 16, 2004 Notification of participants
May 7, 2004 WS final paper deadline
May 14, 2004 Workshop notes due (on-line)

URL
<http://www.oefai.at/icml-04/cfwp.html>.