Call for Papers

The First instructional Conference on Machine Learning

Topics for Submission

iCML-03 welcomes submissions on all facets of machine learning and especially solicits papers on problem areas, research topics, learning paradigms, and approaches to evaluation that include:

the role of learning in natural language and speech, vision, planning and scheduling, design and configuration, logical and spatial reasoning, motor control, and more generally on learning for performance tasks carried out by intelligent agents;
the discovery of scientific laws and taxonomies, the construction of componential and structural models, and learning at multiple levels of temporal and spatial resolution;
novel applications of machine, particularly those that require non-standard techniques;
computational models of human learning, exploratory research that describes novel learning tasks, work that integrates familiar methods to demonstrate new functionality, and agent architectures in which learning plays a central role.

We also welcome submissions on all the traditional topics of Machine Learning.

Format of the Conference

The conference will be co-located with CS536. The conference will be held on December 3, 2003 and December 8, 2003 and will include a one-day program of workshops as well as talks, poster sessions, and informal gatherings designed to foster discussion of research in machine learning.

The main conference will include only a plenary track for the presentation of papers published in the conference proceedings. Speakers will also present their work as part of the poster session, which will allow conference attendees to discuss the work with the authors at greater length.

In addition to paper presentations, there will be a talk given by an invited speaker. Please watch for the announcement of the distinguished speaker for this year's conference.

Paper Submission

Authors should submit papers using the same format and length as will be required for the final proceedings version. Detailed instructions, as well as templates for LaTeX and Word are available from

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~icml2002/format.html

These specify two-column style, Times Roman font with 10 point type, vertical spacing of 11 points, overall text width of 6.75 inches, length of 9.0 inches, 0.25 inches between the two columns, top margin of 1.0 inch, and left margin of 0.75 inch. (The right and bottom margins will depend on whether one uses US letter or A4 paper.) Contrary to the instructions above, papers must not exceed four (4) pages including figures and references. We will return papers that do not satisfy these requirements to the author.

The deadline for submission to iCML-03 is 27 October 2003. Submission will be entirely electronic, with details to be announced.

Authors must submit papers in pdf format to ensure our ability to review them.

iCML-03 allows simultaneous submission to other conferences or classes, provided this fact is clearly indicated on the submission form. Simultaneous submissions that are not clearly specified as such will be rejected.

Review Process

All papers submitted to iCML-03 will be read by at least three reviewers, as well as the program chair. We reserve the right to designate some papers as "conditionally accepted", meaning that the author will have an opportunity to make specific revisions to the paper before the conference program is finalized. If the conditions for accepting are met, the revised paper will be accepted for presentation.