[R--gR] Fw: AISTATS 2005 - Barbados - Call for Papers (due Sep 14)

[Steffen Lauritzen]

This workshop could well be of interest to the gRpeople. Hope to see many of
you there.

Greetings from Toronto, where the gR session was very well attended.

Steffen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zoubin Ghahramani" <zoubin at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>
To: <allstat at jiscmail.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 2:36 PM
Subject: AISTATS 2005 - Barbados - Call for Papers (due Sep 14)


>                         ** Call for Papers **
>
>                              AISTATS 2005
>
>                    Tenth International Workshop on
>                 Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
>
>            January 6-8,  2005, The Savannah Hotel, Barbados
>
>                  http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/aistats/
>
>             ** Submission Deadline:  September 14, 2004 **
>
> This is the tenth workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics,
> an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers at the intersection of
> computer science, statistics, and related areas. Since its inception
> in 1985, the primary goal of this workshop has been to broaden
> research in both of these fields by promoting the exchange of ideas
> between them. We encourage the submission of all papers which are in
> keeping with this objective.
>
> Presentations will include invited talks, contributed talks, and
> posters. Papers for poster sessions will be treated equally
> with papers for presentation in publications.
>
> Papers on all aspects of the interface between AI & Statistics are
> strongly encouraged, including but not limited to
>
>          Active learning and experimental design
>          Approximate Inference
>          Automated data analysis
>          Bayesian networks
>          Bayesian statistics
>          Causal modelling
>          Density Estimation
>          Error correcting codes
>          Information retrieval
>          Game theory
>          Cluster analysis and unsupervised learning
>          Graphical models
>          Integrated man-machine modeling methods
>          Interpretability in modelling
>          Kernel methods
>          Knowledge discovery in databases
>          Machine learning
>          Metadata and the design of statistical data bases
>          Model uncertainty, multiple models
>          Online learning
>          Pattern recognition
>          Prediction: classification and regression
>          Probabilistic neural networks
>          Probability and search
>          Semi-supervised learning
>          Vision, robotics, natural language processing, speech recognition
>          Visualization of very large datasets
>
> Submission Requirements:
> -------------------------
>
> Electronic submission of papers is required. The papers (up to 8 pages
> in length) should be submitted through the AI and Statistics
> Conference Management page. More specific instructions will be made
> available soon.
>
> Submissions will be considered if they are received by 11:59 PM
> September 14, 2004, Pacific Daylight Time. Receipt of all submissions
> will be confirmed via electronic mail. Acceptance notices will be
> emailed by November 2, 2004.
>
> Final papers (up to 8 pages, double column) must be received by
> November 24, 2004. These papers will be made available on the web, and
> distributed at the workshop in electronic form.
>
> Invited Speakers
> ----------------
>
> Craig Boutelier (University of Toronto)
> Nir Friedman (Hebrew University)
> Tommi Jaakkola (MIT)
> Steffen Lauritzen (University of Oxford)
> Tom Minka (Microsoft Research)
>
> Program Chairs:
> ----------------
>
> Robert Cowell,  Actuarial Science and Statistics, City University, London
> Zoubin Ghahramani, Gatsby Unit, University College London
>