CFP: ICML-04 Call for Workshop Proposals

    The 21st International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML-04)

                 July 4-8, 2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada

                      Call For Workshop Proposals

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The ICML-2004 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at the 21st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2004), which will take place July 4-8, 2004, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. ICML-2004 will be co-located <http://www.banff04.org/> with the Computational Learning Theory (COLT-04) and Uncertainty in AI (UAI-04) conferences (see <http://www.banff04.org>). The workshops will be held on July 8th, the same day as the UAI tutorials. There will be room for two large (< 150 participants) and up to two small workshops (< 40 participants).

Workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic in machine learning. Workshops can choose to concentrate on emerging research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues, or to questions concerning the economic and social aspects of Machine learning and data mining. Proposals that aim at a cross-fertilization between Machine Learning and one of the topics of the co-located conferences are particularly welcome.

Working notes of the workshops will be made available to participants in electronic form prior to the conference.

       How to Propose a Workshop

Workshop proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chair and reviewers from the conference organizing committee to judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed topic. Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers and a workshop program committee. When proposing a workshop, please provide (at least) the following information:

• /Topic --/ What will the workshop be about? Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic? Why is the topic best addressed in an ICML workshop, as opposed to a workshop at another conference or papers in an ICML technical session?
• /Goals --/ What do you expect will come out of the workshop? How will the workshop change the participants' understanding of the area? Do you think it will have an impact on the Machine Learning community at large?
• /Intended audience --/ From which areas do you expect potential participants to come? How many participants do you expect? Can you already name some of them?
• /Format --/ How will the workshop sessions be scheduled? How much time will be used for discussion, panel discussions, paper presentations, invited talks, or other methods for encouraging communication and consensus? Organizers are encouraged to focus on mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations and to differentiate themselves clearly from typical conference sessions.
• /Publicity --/ How do you intend to publicize the workshop? How will you reach the most interested and appropriate participants? Are there any plans to document the workshop results (beyond ICML's web publication)?
• /Organizers --/ Please include the name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of all members of the program committee. In addition, indicate the organizers' background in the workshop area.

Proposals should be submitted in electronic form to:

     Johannes Fuernkranz
     E-mail: juffi_at_oefai.at

Important Dates

     Dec 19, 2003 	Proposal deadline
     Jan  7, 2004 	Acceptance notification
     Jan 23, 2004 	Publicity Materials Due
     Apr  2, 2004 	WS Paper submission deadline
     Apr 16, 2004 	Notification of participants
     May  7, 2004 	WS final paper deadline
     May 14, 2004 	Workshop notes due (on-line)

URL
     <http://www.oefai.at/icml-04/cfwp.html>