DM: ACAI-99 machine learning school

[Giorgos Paliouras]

Apologies for possible multiple copies of this announcement.

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                     MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS
           Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI-99)
                         5-16 July 1999, Greece
                      * Preliminary Announcement *
               (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99)

      European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence 
(ECCAI)
                           (http://www.eccai.org)
                                      &
                Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN)
                   (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn)


** Aim of the course: **

The ECCAI Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence for 1999 
(ACAI-99)
is organised by the Hellenic Artificial Inteligence Society (EETN) on 
a 
Greek island. The goal of ACAI-99 is to present the current state of 
the 
art in Machine Learning, as well as to show the potential of Machine 
Learning in a variety of problems. Towards this goal, the course is 
structured as a multimodal event, containing plenary sessions from 
distinguished lecturers, workshops on machine learning applications, 
student sessions and panel discussions on the success of ML so far 
and 
its future directions. ACAI-99 will be of benefit to professionals, 
who 
are interested in using machine learning techniques, as well as 
researchers and postgraduate students, who work or are thinking of 
working
in this exciting field.


** List of plenary talks: **

T. Mitchell (CMU, USA)              "Machine learning: Setting the 
scene"
M. van Someren (Amsterdam, Holland) "Machine learning and knowledge
                                     acquisition:  from ML technology 
push 
                                     to user oriented design"
R. Michalski (George Mason, USA)    "Concept learning"
Y. Kodrattoff (CNRS, France)        "Are ML applications a subfield 
of KDD?"
R.L. de Mantaras (CSIC, Spain)      "Case-based reasoning"
I. Bratko (Ljublana, Slovenia)      "Noise handling in tree 
induction" &
                                    "Inducing intermediate concepts"
P. Langley (ISLE, USA)              "Machine discovery" &
                                    "Formation of probabilistic 
concept 
                                     hierarchies"
L. de Raedt (KU Lueven, Belgium)    "Inductive logic programming for 
data
                                     mining and machine learning"
N. Tishby (Hebrew Univ., Israel)    "A unified information theoretic
                                     approach to prediction, 
clustering and 
                                     learning"
C. Bishop (Microsoft, UK)           "Probabilistic graphical models"
J. Shapiro (Manchester, UK)         "Genetic algorithms in artificial
                                     intelligence"
L. Saitta (Torino, Italy)           "Multi-strategy learning"


** Important dates: **

October 30, 1998  Deadline for Submission of Workshop Proposals
December 1, 1998  Announcement of Selected Workshops
March 1, 1999     Deadline for Grant Applications &
                  Submission of Student Papers
March 15, 1999    Announcement of Grant Offers & 
                  Collected Student papers
April 1, 1999     Deadline for Workshop Programmes and
                  Delivery of Workshop Material
April 15, 1999    Deadline of Early Registration
June 15, 1999     Deadline of Late Registration


** Committees: **

ACAI-99 Chair:    C. D. Spyropoulos (costass@iit.demokritos.gr),
                 (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
ACAI-99 Co-chair: N. Fakotakis (fakotaki@wcl.ee.upatras.gr),
                 (Univ. of Patras, Greece)

Organisation Committee:
         V. Karkaletsis, (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
         J. Kontos, (Economic Univ. of Athens, Greece)
         I. Malagardi, (ILSP, Greece)
         V. Moustakis, (Technical Univ. of Crete, Chania, Greece)
         G. Paliouras, (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
         G. Vouros, (Univ. of Aegean, Greece)

Programme Committee:
Chair:    V. Moustakis (moustaki@csi.forth.gr),
         (Technical Univ. of Crete, Chania, Greece)
Co-chair: G. Paliouras (paliourg@iit.demokritos.gr),
         (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
Members: C. Bishop, (Microsoft Research Laboratory, UK)
         I. Bratko, (Ljubljana University, Slovenia)
         M. Giakoumakis, (Economic Univ. of Athens, Greece)
         D. Kalles, (Computer Technology Institute, Greece)
         V. Karkaletsis, (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
         Y. Kodratoff, (CNRS, Univ. of Paris-Sud, France)
         J. Kontos, (Economic Univ. of Athens, Greece)
         P. Langley, (ISLE, USA)
         R. Lopez de Mantaras, (CSIC, Spain)
         R. Michalski, (George Mason University, USA)
         T. Mitchell, (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
         L. de Raedt, (KU Leuven, Belgium)
         T. Panayiotopoulos, (University of Piraeus, Greece)
         J. Pitas, (Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece)
         L. Saitta, (University of Torino, Italy)
         T. Sellis, (Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece)
         J. Shapiro, (Manchester University, UK)
         M. van Someren, (University of Amsterdam, Holland)
         S. Tzafestas, (Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece)
         N. Tishby, (The Hebrew University, Israel)
         N. Vassilas, (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)


Workshops: V. Karkaletsis (vangelis@iit.demokritos.gr),
          (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)

Student sessions: N. Vassilas (nvas@iit.demokritos.gr),
                 (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)

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