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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 (ÅÅÔÍ)
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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