DM: Support Vector Machine Workshop at IJCAI '99

[C. J. Saunders]

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                  SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

     International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                        IJCAI'99

             WORKSHOP ON SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

              2 August, 1999  Stockholm, Sweden

           
http://www.dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk/clrc/ijcai/
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Over the past few years, Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have become an increasingly popular subject for theoretical study into the nature of learning theory, and as a practical classification, regression, and general learning method. In the last twelve months this was particularly noticeable both from the number of researchers working on the subject and the number of submissions of Support Vector (and related work) to international conferences. This workshop will represent an opportunity for the community to debate current research and future directions.

The workshop will encourage collaboration between interested parties, and provide an environment which achieves the following goals:

   *  To attain an overview of recent work in the field of Support 
Vector machines including theory and applications. 
   *  To explore connections with other methods. 
   *  To identify directions and stimulate future research in the 
field of learning. 

It is our aim that the discussion among workshop participants will be
focussed on the following areas : 

   *  Theory of the Support Vector Method 
   *  Algorithms 
   *  Experiments on Benchmark Data Sets 
   *  Applications to real life problems 

In particular, we expect active discussions about 

   *  Mathematical foundations of the SV approach (such as 
optimisation theory). 
   *  Performance bounds. 
   *  Kernels - theory and application
   *  Regularisation. 
   *  Transduction. 
   *  Applications to text categorisation (especially in connection 
with the Internet), medical diagnosis, face recognition, etc. 


INVITED SPEAKERS include :

   * Vladimir Vapnik
   * Alexei Chervonenkis



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline          26 March 1999
Notification of acceptance   30 April 1999
Camera ready copy            24 May 1999
Workshop                     2 August 1999


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Papers should be no longer than 5 pages, and must be submitted in the IJCAI format. Papers must be in a postscript format and can be submitted through the web page for an oral and/or poster presentation.

The URL for this call for papers is :

http://www.dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk/clrc/ijcai/

For more details about ICJAI '99 look at :

http://www.dsv.su.se/ijcai-99/