Joint Call for Workshops

With this joint call, we are inviting proposals for workshops to be held during the conference week of ECML and PKDD. Due to the closely coordinated nature of the two events, workshops will be accessible to participants of both conferences. A first group of workshops will be held on September 3 and 4 (in parallel to the PKDD main program), the second group of workshops will be held on September 6 and 7 (in parallel to the ECML main program), September 5th being an overlap day for joint invited speakers and technical sessions.

Workshops provide organizers and participants an opportunity to discuss current topics in machine learning and/or data mining in a small and interactive atmosphere. Thus, any topic that is of current interest to a sufficient number of participants from the two communities could be the focus of a workshop. Workshops can choose to concentrate in-depth on 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.

Workshop Participation and Publication

All workshop participants are required to register for the main conference, and must specify which workshop they are going to attend. If you intend to to allow access to the workshop by invitation only, or would like to see the number of participants limited, then please clearly indicate so.

Workshop proceedings have to be prepared camera-ready by the workshop organizers. They will be printed by the ECML/PKDD organizers and distributed among registered participants of the workshop. There may be a joint paper style for the proceedings.

In addition, there will be a joint Web-publication of all the workshop proceedings after the conference. Hence, electronic submissions to the workshops are strongly encouraged, and the workshop organizers are expected to provide an online version of their proceedings (a table of contents with pointers to postscript versions of the papers is sufficient).

How to Propose a Workshop

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

• Description of the workshop topic and goals. Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic, and why do you believe the workshop is best held at ECML/PKDD? What are the main goals of the workshop, and how would participants benefit from it?
• 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? How are you going to publicize your workshop?
• Organization of the workshop. Please describe the intended format of the workshop. Are you going to schedule invited talks, presentations, panel discussions, other methods for ensuring and interactive atmosphere? Are there any plans to document the workshop results (beyond ECML/PKDDs web publication)?
• Organizers' details. Please provide complete addresses including Web pages of all organizers and committee members. For the main organizers, please indicate which background they have in the proposed topic.

Please submit your workshop proposals by E-Mail to both ECML/PKDD workshop chairs.

Timetable

Workshop proposals will be due on February 16th, 2001. All workshops will have the same submssion deadlines, which are given below. In order to guarantee a timely production of the proceedings, both the camera-ready copy and a Web-version of the proceedings must be ready by July 27th, 2001.

Important Dates

16. 2. 2001	Workshop proposal deadline
2. 3. 2001	Workshop acceptance notification
8. 6. 2001	WS paper submission deadline
29. 6. 2001	WS paper acceptance notification
13. 7. 2001	WS paper camera-ready deadline
27. 7. 2001	Workshop proceedings (camera- and Web-ready)

ECML/PKDD'01 Workshop Chairs

Johannes Fürnkranz Austrian Research Institute for  Artificial  Intelligence Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Wien Austria	Stefan Wrobel IWS, Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning School of Computer Science Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg P.O.Box 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg Germany
E-mail: juffi@ai.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-(1)-53 36 112-19 Fax: +43-(1)-53 36 112-77	E-mail: wrobel@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Phone: +49-(391)-67-18397 Fax: +49-(391)-67-12018