Machine Learning: ECML 2004
Subtitle: 15th European Conference on Machine Learning, Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
Contributors: Jean-Francois Boulicaut (Editor); Floriana Esposito (Editor); Fosca Giannotti (Editor); Dino Pedreschi (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9783540231059
Subjects: Machine learning; Computers; Artificial Intelligence - General; Computers - General Information; Logic; Computer Books: General; General; Computer Science; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Congresses
First sentence: Given a collection of n data points (vectors) in high-dimensional Euclidean space it is natural to ask whether they can be projected into a lower dimensional Euclidean space without suffering great distortion.
Description: The proceedings of ECML/PKDD 2004 are published in two separate, albeit - tertwined,volumes:theProceedingsofthe 15thEuropeanConferenceonMac- ne Learning (LNAI 3201) and the Proceedings of the 8th European Conferences on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (LNAI 3202). The two conferences were co-located in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy during September 20–24, 2004. It was the fourth time in a row that ECML and PKDD were co-located. - ter the successful co-locations in Freiburg (2001), Helsinki (2002), and Cavtat- Dubrovnik (2003), it became clear that researchersstrongly supported the or- nization of a major scienti?c event about machine learning and data mining in Europe. We are happy to provide some statistics about the conferences. 581 di?erent papers were submitted to ECML/PKDD (about a 75% increase over 2003); 280 weresubmittedtoECML2004only,194weresubmittedtoPKDD2004only,and 107weresubmitted to both.Aroundhalfofthe authorsforsubmitted papersare from outside Europe, which is a clear indicator of the increasing attractiveness of ECML/PKDD. The Program Committee members were deeply involved in what turned out to be a highly competitive selection process. We assigned each paper to 3 - viewers, deciding on the appropriate PC for papers submitted to both ECML and PKDD. As a result, ECML PC members reviewed 312 papers and PKDD PC members reviewed 269 papers. We accepted for publication regular papers (45 for ECML 2004 and 39 for PKDD 2004) and short papers that were as- ciated with poster presentations (6 for ECML 2004 and 9 for PKDD 2004). The globalacceptance ratewas14.5%for regular papers(17% if we include the short papers).