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CALL FOR PAPERS
SOFT METHODS IN MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA MINING
Special Session to be held as part of
5th International Conference on
Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2010)
September 28 - October 1, 2010
Oviedo and Mieres (Asturias), Spain
http://www.cost-ic0702.org/smps2010/
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The research fields of machine learning and data mining have received a
great deal of attention in recent years and, beyond doubt, have
established themselves as main cornerstones of intelligent systems
design. Learning and extracting patterns from data is inseparably
connected with various types of uncertainty, including randomness,
vagueness, incompleteness, inconsistency and imprecision, which may
concern both the input and output of a learning method as well as its
internal representations of models or patterns. Probabiliy theory is an
established methodology for handling uncertainty in a proper way, and is
widely used in machine learning and data mining. Yet, it is becoming
more and more apparent and accepted among researchers that probability
does not capture all relevant forms of uncertainty equally well, and
that other mathematical tools currently developed under the umbrella
term "soft computing", notably fuzzy sets and related uncertainty
formalisms, can complement classical probability in a reasonable way.
This special session, which is supported by the EUSFLAT working group on
Learning and Data Mining and the IEEE CIS Task Force on Machine
Learning, will focus on recent advances in the use of soft computing
methods in machine learning and data mining. The organizers especially
welcome contributions on the use of formal frameworks for reasoning
under uncertainty such as, e.g., probabilistic and Bayesian methods,
fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, possibility theory, evidence theory, rough
set theory, and information theory, to machine learning and data mining,
including but not limited to data preprocessing, model induction (e.g.,
classification, regression), pattern mining and analysis (e.g.,
association rules, subgroup mining, clustering, novelty detection),
formal concept analysis, handling of incomplete and heterogeneous data,
analysis of non-stationary data and mining data streams, interactive and
online data mining, mining at multiple levels of abstraction,
incorporation of background knowledge, and visualization and
presentation of data mining results.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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The platform for paper submission and registration will be open from
February 1, 2010. Full papers of 5-8 pages written in English and
fulfilling the instructions for authors (see Call For Papers menu in the
web page) should be submitted no later than March 1, 2010 (tentative),
camera-ready versions of the accepted papers no later than May 16, 2010
(tentative). The conference proceedings will be published as an edited
volume of the series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
(Springer-Verlag) - up to now both the whole book and the individual
papers are recognized by the ISI web of science.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Extended deadline for paper submission: March 15, 2010
Reviews Due: April 25, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2010
Early Registration: May 7, 2010
Submission of camera-ready versions of the papers: May 16, 2010 (tentative)
SESSION ORGANIZERS
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Eyke Hüllermeier
Deptartment of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Marburg, Germany
eyke(a)mathematik.uni-marburg.de
Daniel Sanchez
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI)
University of Granada, Spain
daniel(a)decsai.ugr.es
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