LEARN 2009

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as part of the

24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009)

(http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/)

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA March 8 - 12, 2009

Relational Learning (RL) algorithms allow the use of more complex representations for both data and models when compared with traditional algorithms that use attribute-value representations. The difference in the complexity of the representation makes RL algorithms applicable to a wider range of applications but also rises new problems. It is an important topic for data analysis in any field that processes structured data an requires complex models. Problems of scalability and efficient implementations are critical for RL algorithms.

The track aims at providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange findings and review knowledge and understanding on topics related to Relational Learning. It will be also an opportunity to present novel applications and new RL systems.

List of topics

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A non-exclusive list of topics relevant to the track, sorted alphabetically, include:

Applications of Relational Learning (bioinformatics, drug design,    text-mining, ...) Distributed Computing for Relational Learning Efficiency issues of Relational Learning Graph Mining Implementation issues of Relational Learning Inductive Logic Programming New Relational Learning algorithms Propositionalization methods Statistical Relational Learning

Important dates

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Deadline for paper submission & August 16th, 2008 Author notification & October 11th, 2008 Camera ready due & October 25th, 2008 Conference takes place & March 8 - 12, 2009

Submission

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Papers should respect the ACM SAC format as specified in: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/ Submission of papers is made using the SAC submission web page. According to the conference reviewing rules, all papers will be evaluated by three reviewers following a blind review process (reviewers will be blind to the identities of the authors and their institutions). The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information.

Organization

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Track chairs:

Rui Camacho LIAAD & Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal rcamacho@fe.up.pt  Vitor Santos Costa CRACS & Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto vsc@dcc.fc.up.pt  Nuno Fonseca Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC) & CRACS, Universidade do Porto nf@ibmc.up.pt

Program Committee

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Hendrik Blockeel    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Rui Camacho	    (University of Porto, Portugal) Jesse Davis	    (University of Washington, USA) Ines Dutra	    (University of Porto, Portugal) Nuno Fonseca	    (University of Porto, Portugal) Paolo Frasconi	    (Universit degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) Kristian Kersting   (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Ross King	    (University of Aberystwyth, UK) Stefan Kramer	    (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Siegfried Nijssen   (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Irene Ong	    (University of Wisconsin, USA) Vitor Santos Costa  (University of Porto, Portugal) Jude W. Shavlik	    (University of Wisconsin, USA) Fernando Silva	    (University of Porto, Portugal) Ashwin Srinivasan   (IBM India Research Lab, India) Jan Struyf	    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Gerson Zavarucha    (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) Filip Zelezny	    (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP