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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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