GBR Workshop 2007

Goal Topics Papers Dates Registration and practical issues Committees

General goal of the workshop

Graphs, graph based representations, use of graphs to represent the results of the learning process, structural learning are some of the topics that, due to their increasing importance, are to serceive special attention by the PASCAL network in 2007. In order to do this PASCAL has decided to launch a thematic programme « Graph Theory Methods in Machine Learning ». In Pattern Recognition the use of graphs has been an important focus of attention for some time now, with a specific track (15) of the IAPR, and a bi-annual event called GBR (Graphbased Representations in Pattern Recognition). In order to promote collaboration between the different communities interested in learning with and from graphs, we propose to hold a one day PASCAL workshop on learning from and with graphs, workshop that will take place just after GBR 2007.

We also encourage participants to the workshop to attend GBR 2007. The workshop consists in scientific talks (invited and submitted), and a « business meeting » to discuss the events inside the Thematic Programme. Researchers are encouraged to submit contributions on:

Machine learning from graph based data,
Graph clustering and classification,
Graphical representations as outputs,
Relational data mining,
...

Selection of papers

The organizing committee is currently seeking abstracts for talks. The committee will select several submitted abstracts for 20-minute talks. Accepted abstracts will be published on the web site.

If you are interested in speaking at the workshop, please send us an email to cdlh@univ-st-etienne.fr before February 28th, 2007 with a two-page abstract in PDF (including figures and references). Presentations will be selected depending on relevance to the workshop topic, quality, and novelty.

The workshop is intended to be a meeting point between researchers in the field over a selected number of items. We therefore encourage submissions of abstracts covering:

Previously published material.
Preliminary work, specially by PhD students. This can be the occasion to present ongoing work to specialists of the field and receive immediate feedback!
New work not yet published. The workshop can perhaps help strengthen the results...

If in doubt about the fact that your work is suitable for presentation please contact the organiser.

Submission:
Please send a two-page abstract (including figures and references) to cdlh AT univ-st-etienne.fr

All papers must conform to the ICML06 style

Presentations will be selected depending on relevance to the workshop topic, quality, and novelty.
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Dates

28/2 deadline for submissions to the workshop;
31/3 decisions for the WS accepted papers;
31/5 deadline for early registration;
14/6 workshop.

Committees

Organising Committee

Colin de la Higuera, University of Saint-Étienne, chair
Gemma Garriga, Helsinki University of Technology
Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
Edwin Hancock, University of York
Jose Oncina, Universidad de Alicante
John Shawe Taylor, University of London

Registration and Practical issues

Registration

The registration fee is:

FREE for early registration (May 31, 2007)
100 EUR on-site registration

Registration, including the early one, must be accepted by the organisers, i.e. must come from a scientist working in the field or showing interest in the field.

The goal of the workshop is to allow participation by all those interested. In order to do this the organisers are proposing a free registration until May 31st. This is possible thanks to the help of the PASCAL Network. But it also means that the organisers may have to limit the number of registrations.

Registration, including the early one, must be accepted by the organizers, i.e. must come from a scientist working in the field or showing interest in the field. It should be noted that the PASCAL network will sponsor the registration to GBR 2007 of a number of PASCAL members. Please consult Colin de la Higuera (cdlh@univ-st-etienne.fr) for details.

Registration should be done online at this address

Practical issues

The conference will be organized in the town of Alicante, Spain. Please refer to the official GBR2007 web site for details on the conference and for travel informations.