Opening session Bled, September 7, 2009
ECML PKDD in SecondLife For the first time, ECML PKDD present in a virtual world Opening and Awards ceremony and the invited talk by Rosie Jones broadcast in real time to a virtual conference centre provided by Nature Publishing Group in SecondLife Everyone invited to join the event, the instructions at http://www.nature.com/secondnature/basics.html and then visit http://slurl.com/secondlife/Elucian%20Islands/214/42/58 thanks to Blaz Novak, J. Stefan Institute
Conference chairs General Chair Dunja Mladeni ć , Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Program Chairs Wray Buntine, NICTA, Australia; Helsinki Institute of IT, Finland Marko Grobelnik, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia John Shawe-Taylor, University College London, UK Local Chair Tina Anži č , Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Conference chairs Workshop Chair Rayid Ghani, Accenture Technology Labs, USA Tutorial Chair Cedric Archambeau, University College London, UK Best Papers Chair Aleksander Kolcz, Microsoft Live Labs, USA Industrial Track Chairs Marko Grobelnik, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Nataša Mili ć -Frayling, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Discovery Challenge Chair Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Conference chairs Demo Chair Alejandro Jaimes Larrarte, Telefonica Research, Spain Publicity Chair David Hardoon, University College London, UK Video Chair Mitja Jermol, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Steering committee members Walter Daelemans, Bart Goethals, Katharina Morik, Johannes Fürnkranz, Joost N. Kok, Stan Matwin, Dunja Mladeni ć , Tobias Scheffer, Andrzej Skowron, Myra Spiliopoulou
Local team Staff of J. Stefan Institute Center for Knowledge Transfer Student volunteers mainly members of Slovenian AI society SLAIS Team of J. Stefan Institute Videolectures.net Department of Knowledge Technologies at J. Stefan Institute
Accepted papers - content logic, representation clustering, kernels, SVM, prediction, subgroup sample, function patterns, databases classification feature selection by DocAtlas.ijs.si
by OntoGen.ijs.si Accepted Papers by Topic
Previous editions ECML PKDD 2001 – Freiburg 2002 – Helsinki 2003 – Cavtat-Dubrovnik 2004 – Pisa 2005 – Porto 2006 – Berlin 2007 – Warsaw 2008 – Antwerp
Topics over the last 3 years Distinctive keywords for the accepted papers 2007-2009 (linear SVM trained on one year against the other two) 2007 - classifiers , information, sets, training, generally, time , objective, order , case, techniques 2008 - usa, data, metric , mining , computer, models, large , class, called, form 2009 - feature, kernel , inference, graph , technology, searching, algorithms, class, science, pattern by OntoGen.ijs.si
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Registrations by type: summary Early: 227 Regular: 111 Free: 45
Registrations by type Regular Early 125 Regular 72 Student Early 67 Student Regular 24 Student Early Discount 35 Student Regular Discount 15 Free 45
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Reviewing process Area Chairs Francis Bach, Hendrik Blockeel, Francesco Bonchi, Pavel Brazdil, Toon Calders, Nitesh Chawla, Walter Daelemans, Tijl De Bie, Johannes Fuernkranz, Thomas Gaertner, Joao Gama, Bart Goethals, Eamonn Keogh, Joost Kok, Jure Leskovec, Stan Matwin, Taneli Mielikainen, Dunja Mladenic, Claire Nedellec, Martin Scholz, David Silver, Steffen Staab, Gerd Stumme, Luis Torgo, Michael Witbrock, Stefan Wrobel Programme committee having over 300 members
Overview of submissions ECML PKDD 2009 received 679 abstract submissions Finally 422 papers submitted (and not withdrawn during the reviewing process) Area chairs provided recommendations and ranking based on the reviews and discussions among the reviewers The three Program Chairs made the final decision after merging the opinions of the Area chairs
Reviewing process - hierarchical 26 Area chairs each responsible for several related research topics Program committee nominated by area chairs consisting of some 300 renowned researchers To reduce the efforts of the reviewers 1. only two reviews were requested in the event of an inconsistency between the two assessments a third review 2. was requested papers receiving two very positive reviews were considered for inclusion in 3. the two special journal issues: `Machine Learning' and `Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery‘ 4. further review for the candidates for journal among the journal papers two best student papers were selected 5.
Reviewing process – details Our aim was to give Area Chairs control of the process: They recruit their referees They bid for papers They allocate the referees They lead the resolution of conflicts/discussions They rank their batch of papers Aim was to personalise the reviewing process and ensure all papers given attention of area chair
Reviewing process – details Some teething problems (our apologies!): Had significant number of papers that did not receive bids from Area Chairs Meant Area Chairs were handling papers they were not expert in and for which they did not initially have ideal reviewers Delays in allocation process significantly reduced reviewing time Despite these difficulties Area Chairs and reviewers did a magnificent job – and we believe that our main goal of more personalised reviewing was achieved.
Scientific program 105 research papers/presentations with posters (Tuesday, Thursday) 12 demo papers/presentations (Tuesday 18:00) with alive demos (Tuesday evening) 5 world-class invited talks (Monday-Friday) 9 Workshops (Monday, Friday) 6 Tutorials (Monday, Friday) Discovery Challenge (Monday) Industrial Track (Tuesday) Project Exhibition (Monday)
Schedule Monday 9:00 -17:00 Workshops, Tutorials, Discovery Challenge, Project Exhibition 17:20 Conference Opening and Awards + Invited Talk 20:00 Welcome Reception Tuesday – Thursday 9:00 Invited Talk, Regular Sessions / Banquet (Wed) Posters (Tue, Thu)/Community Meeting (Thu) Friday 9:00 Invited Talk Workshops, Tutorials + Farewell
Author Analysis: Accepted papers USA Germany China France Japan Britain Spain Holland Singapore Australia Finland Canada Italy Switzerland Hong-Kong Hungary New-Zealand Belgium Portugal Ireland Turkey Austria Norway
Author Analysis: Acceptance Rate New-Zealand Hungary Norway Finland Singapore Turkey Switzerland Holland Germany Hong-Kong USA Australia Ireland Canada Japan Britain Spain Portugal China France Belgium Italy Austria
Author Analysis: Accepted by Region Europe USA Asia Oceania gmail America Africa&ME
Author Analysis: Acceptance Rate by Region Oceania USA Europe Asia Africa&ME gmail America
Demos Call for two types of demonstrations: (1) On-site demonstrations, and (2) Stand-alone web demonstrations. Submissions: Most were on (1) only. 17 demo submissions, 12 accepted. 3 reviewers shared, looking at “perceived interest” and demo quality.
Invited Talks Monday 18:00-19:00 Rosie Jones , Yahoo!, Inc “Privacy in Web Search Query Log Mining” Tuesday 9:00 – 10:00 Shai Ben-David , University of Waterloo “Theory-Practice Interplay in Machine Learning – Emerging Theoretical Challenges” Wednesday 9:00 – 10:00 Ralf Steinberger , EC JRC “Highly multilingual news analysis applications” Thursday 9:00 – 10:00 Mark Greaves , Vulcan Inc. “The Growing Semantic Web” Friday 9:00 – 10:00 Nello Cristianini , University of Bristol “Are We There Yet?”
Best Papers: procedure Papers receiving positive reviews were suggested by the Area chairs as candidates for journal publication 16 papers were suggested; 8 for ML and 8 for KDD Additional review for each suggested paper, papers ranked, the top seven from each list were selected for a journal publication In each list: the highest ranked paper is awarded the best paper the highest ranked student paper is awarded the best student paper
The Best ECML Paper Sparse Kernel SVMs via Cutting-Plane Training , Thorsten Joachims, Chun-Nam Yu (Cornell University, USA) SESSION: MULTI-WAY LEARNING & SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES Wednesday 13:20 - 15:50, Room Preseren - Hotel Park
The Best PKDD Papers RTG: A Recursive Realistic Graph Generator using Random Typing , Leman Akoglu, Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) SESSION: GRAPHS 2 & INFERENCE 1 Wednesday 13:20 - 15:50, Room Concordia - Hotel Golf
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