DM: ACAI'99: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

[Vangelis Karkaletsis]

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                   Machine Learning and Applications
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        Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI-99)
                           5-16 July 1999

           Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania,
                           Crete, GREECE
   
              ******  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION  *******
    
 
For detailed information, please have a look at the new ACAI '99 
Web site:
   http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99

    
 
Aim of the course:
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The ECCAI Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence for 1999 
(ACAI-99) 
is organised by the Hellenic Artificial Inteligence Society (&Egr;&Egr;&Tgr;&Ngr;) 
in the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh), Crete,
Greece. 

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 & Lectures:
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"Machine learning: Setting the scene"
 T. Mitchell (CMU, USA)

"Machine learning and knowledge acquisition: from ML technology push 
 to user oriented design"
 M. van Someren (Amsterdam, Holland)

"Concept learning and natural induction"
 R. Michalski (George Mason, USA)

"Are ML applications a subfield of KDD?"
 Y. Kodratoff (CNRS, France)

"Case-based reasoning"
 R.L. de Mantaras (SSRC, Spain)

"Noise handling in tree induction" & "Inducing intermediate 
 concepts"
 I. Bratko (Ljublana, Slovenia)

"Machine discovery" & "Formation of probabilistic concept 
 hierarchies"
 P. Langley (ISLE, USA)

"Inductive logic programming for data mining and machine learning"
 L.de Raedt (KU Lueven, Belgium)

"A unified information theoretic approach to prediction ,clustering 
 and learning"
 N. Tishby (Hebrew University, Israel)

"Probabilistic graphical models"
 C. Bishop (Microsoft, UK)

"Genetic algorithms in artificial intelligence"
 J. Shapiro (Manchester, UK)

"Multi-strategy learning"
 L. Saitta (Torino, Italy)


 
   
List of workshops & workshops organisers:
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Machine learning in human language technology
 N. Fakotakis

Managing ML application development and organizational 
implementation
 V. Moustakis

Machine learning in user modeling
 C. Papatheodorou

Machine learning for intelligent information access
 G. Karakoulas

Pre- and post-processing in machine learning and data mining: 
theoretical aspects and applications
 I. Bruha

Text mining
 Y. Kodratoff

Machine learning and intelligent agents
 T. Panayiotopoulos

Machine learning in medical applications
 G. Magoulas, A. Prentza
            
Data mining in economics, marketing and finance
 H. Jessen

Machine learning applications in the electric power industry
 N.Hatziargyriou

Biologically-inspired machine learning
 J. Demiris

Support vector machine theory and applications
T. Evgeniou

Intelligent techniques for Spatio-Temporal Data Anaysis in 
Environmental Applications
 N. Avouris, N. Vassilas
            
Algorithmic Issues of the Genetic Approach
 P. Spirakis
    

    
 
    
ACAI' 99 Chair:
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         C. Spyropoulos (costass@iit.demokritos.gr), 
         (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
ACAI' 99 Co-chair:
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         N. Fakotakis (fakotaki@wcl.ee.upatras.gr), 
         (Univ.of Patras, Greece)
             
    
Organising Committee:
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    Members:G. Dounias (Technical Univ. of Crete, Chania)
            V. Karkaletsis, (NCSR "Demokritos", Athens)
            J. Kontos, (Economic Univ. of Athens)
            I. Malagardi, (ILSP, Athens)
            V. Moustakis, (Technical Univ. of Crete, Chania)
            G. Paliouras, (NCSR "Demokritos", Athens)
            T. Panayiotopoulos, (University of Piraeus
            C. Papatheodorou, (NCSR "Demokritos", Athens)
            N. Vassilas, (NCSR "Demokritos", Athens)
            G. Vouros, (Univ. of Aegean, Samos)
    
 
Programme Committee:
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      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 chair:V. Karkaletsis (vangelis@iit.demokritos.gr)
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Student sessions chair:N. Vassilas (nvas@iit.demokritos.gr)
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Important dates:
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      Febr. 28, 1999 Deadline for Submission of Camera-ready Student 
                     Papers
      April  1, 1999 Notification of Students Papers Acceptance
      April  1, 1999 Deadline for Workshop Programmes and Delivery of 
                     Workshop Material
      April 30, 1999 Deadline of Early Registration 
      June  15, 1999 Deadline of Late Registration

















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