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Call for papers

MLG-2008: 6th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs

Helsinki, Finland, July 4 and 5, 2008
http://www.cis.hut.fi/MLG08/
mlg08@cis.hut.fi

Co-located with ICML 2008 <http://icml2008.cs.helsinki.fi/>, COLT 2008
<http://colt2008.cs.helsinki.fi/> and UAI 2008
<http://uai2008.cs.helsinki.fi/>

Driven by application areas ranging from biology to the World Wide Web,
research in Data Mining and Machine Learning is nowadays increasingly
focusing on the analysis of structured data. Of particular interest is
data
that consists of interrelated parts or is characterized by collections
of
objects that are interrelated and linked together into complex graphs
and
structures. Following in the footsteps of the highly successful MLG
workshops in the past, MLG 2008 again will be the premier forum for
bringing
together different sub-disciplines within Machine Learning and Data
Mining
that focus on the analysis of structured data. The workshop is actively
seeking contributions dealing with all forms of structured data,
including
but not limited to graphs, trees, sequences, relations and networks.
Contributions are invited from all relevant disciplines, such as for
example:

• Statistical Relational Learning
• Inductive Logic Programming
• Kernel Methods for Structured Data
• Probabilistic Models for Structured Data
• Graph Mining
• (Multi-)relational Data Mining
• Methods for Structured Outputs
• Network Analysis

The workshop is open to theoretical, algorithmical, engineering and
application-oriented reports on these topics.

Submissions:

We are looking for extended abstracts of max 3 pages in a two-column
ICML format. Papers will be reviewed normally by three (at least two)
referees.

In addition to original contributions we will consider abstracts
based on recently published outstanding works, given that the original
papers are adequately cited and the status is clarly stated in the
covering letter.

Authors of selected original papers will be encouraged to submit to a
journal special issue planned for the end of 2007. Since we would like
to hear about your most recent and best research results, there will
be no formal proceedings that could prevent you from submitting your
contribution to other venues.

Dates:

April 1: Submission deadline
May 13: Notification of acceptance
July 4-5: Conference

Committees:

Workshop Chairs:

Samuel Kaski (Helsinki University of Technology)
S V N Vishwanathan (National ICT Australia)
Stefan Wrobel (Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and
   Information Systems & University of Bonn)

Program committee (to be extended):

Edo Airoldi, Princeton, USA
Yasemin Altun, MPI Tuebingen, Germany
Nicos Angelopoulos, Edinburgh University, UK
José Balcázar, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Michael Berthold, University of Konstanz, Germany
Hendrik Blockeel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Francesco Bonchi, ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy
Christian Borgelt, European Center for Soft Computing, Spain
Karsten Borgwardt, Cambridge University, UK
Ulf Brefeld, TU Berlin, Germany
Yun Chi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Fabrizio Costa, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Luc DeRaedt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Alan Fern, Oregon State University, USA
Ingrid Fischer, University of Konstanz, Germany
Peter Flach, University of Bristol, UK
Thomas Hofmann, Google Zurich, Switzerland
Manfred Jaeger, Aalborg University, Denmark
Kristian Kersting, CSAIL, MIT, USA
Joost Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Risi Kondor, Gatsby Unit, UCL, UK
Stefan Kramer, Technische Universität München, Germany
Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Thorsten Meinl, University of Konstanz, Germany
Brian Milch, MIT, USA
Mehryar Mohri, New York University, USA
Tsuyoshi Murata, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Andrea Passerini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Kristiaan Pelckmans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Tapani Raiko, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Jan Ramon, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Craig Saunders, University of Southampton, UK
Janne Sinkkonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Alessandro Sperduti, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
William Stafford-Noble, University of Washington, USA
Koji Tsuda, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
Takeaki Uno, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Jean-Philippe Vert Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
Takashi Washio, Osaka University, Japan
Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Dengyong Zhou, Microsoft Research, USA
Xiaojin Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Local committee:

Gemma Garriga
Hannes Heikinheimo
Arto Klami
Tapani Raiko

Sponsored by:

PASCAL

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