Call for Papers: International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Analysis (ICMLDA 2008) From: International Association of Engineers (IAENG) San Francisco, USA, 22-24 October, 2008 http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2008/ICMLDA2008.html The conference ICMLDA'08 is held under the World Congress on Engineering 2008. The WCECS 2008 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. Our last IAENG conference has attracted more than one thousand participants from over 50 countries, and our IAENG conference committees have been formed with over two hundred committee members who are mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, and research scientists from universities like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley and Yale etc. All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-988-98671-0-2). The abstracts will be indexed and available at major academic databases. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication in the special issues of the journal Engineering Letters, in IAENG journals and in edited books. Revised and expanded version of the selected papers may also be included as book chapters in the standalone edited books under the framework of cooperation between IAENG and Springer, and between IAENG and America Institute of Physics. For reference, the following post conference edited books of our recent IAENG 2007 conferences: Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering, Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering, Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis, have been published by Springer. Important Dates: Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 2 July, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers Due & Registration Deadline: 30 July, 2008 WCECS 2008: 22-24 October, 2008 The topics of the ICMLDA'08 include, but not limited to, the following: Machine Learning: artificial neural networks Bayesian networks case-based reasoning computational models of human learning computational learning theory cooperative learning decision tree discovery of scientific laws evolutionary computation statistical relational learning grammatical inference incremental induction and on-line learning inductive logic programming information retrieval and learning instance based learning kernel methods knowledge acquisition and learning knowledge base refinement knowledge intensive learning learning from text and web evaluation metrics and methodologies machine learning of natural language meta learning multi-agent learning multi-strategy learning planning and learning reinforcement learning revision and restructuring statistical approaches unsupervised learning vision and learning Data analysis and databases database integration inductive databases data mining query languages data mining query optimization Foundations of data analysis complexity issues knowledge (pattern) representation global vs. local patterns logic for data mining statistical inference and probabilistic modelling Data pre-processing dimensionality reduction data reduction discretization uncertain and missing information handling Innovative applications mining bio-medical data web content, structure and usage mining semantic web mining mining governmental data, mining for the public administration personalization adaptive data mining architectures invisible data mining Algorithms and techniques: classification clustering frequent patterns rule discovery statistical techniques and mixture models constraint-based mining incremental algorithms scalable algorithms distributed and parallel algorithms privacy preserving data mining multi-relational data mining KDD process and process-centric data analysis models of the KDD process standards for the KDD process background knowledge integration collaborative data mining vertical data mining environments Analysis of different forms of data graph, tree, sequence mining semi-structured and XML data mining text mining temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal data mining data stream mining multimedia miningPattern post-processing Pattern post-processing quality assessment visualization knowledge interpretation and use ICMLDA Conference Committee: Prof. Yang Dai Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Department (MC 063), University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Dr. Pi-Sheng Deng Faculty member, Computer Information Systems, California State University, Stanislaus, USA Prof. Irene Yu-Hua Gu (co-chair) Professor, Signal Processing Group, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Former Associate Editor, IEEE transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; Chair-Elect, Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2004, IEEE Swedish Signal Processing Chapter, Sweden Dr. Shehzad Khalid Research scientist, University of Manchester, UK Prof. Robert Levinson (co-chair) Associate Professor, Machine Intelligence Lab., Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Prof. Layuan Li Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, China; Editor in Chief of the Journal of Wuhan University of Technology Dr. Alessandra Lumini Associate Researcher at the II Faculty of Engineering of University of Bologna, Italy Prof. Clara Pizzuti Senior Researcher, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), Italy; Professor in the department of Computer Science at the University of Calabria Prof. Xiaojun Qi Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Utah State University, USA Prof. Jishou Ruan Associate Professor, Key Laboratory of Pure Mathematics and Combinatorics, Nankai University, China Prof. Ventzeslav Valev (co-chair) Professor; Computer Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Department of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, USA Dr. Gang Wu Research Software Engineer, Microsoft, Redmond, USA Prof. Zhongfei Mark Zhang Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Binghamton University, USA Prof. Dan Zhu (Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon) Dean's Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of Information Systems; Associate Professor of Computer Science, Iowa State University, USA WCECS Congress Co-chairs Prof. Craig Douglas (WCECS Keynote Speaker & Co-chair) Professor of Computer Science & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky Senior Research Scientist (corresponding to nonteaching full professor) Computer Science Department, Yale University, USA Prof. Warren S. Grundfest, Fellow, AIMBE, SPIE (WCECS co-chair) Co-Chair, Biomedical Engineering IDP Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Surgery The Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles, USA Former Chair, SPIE Health Care Engineering & Technology Policy Former Vice Chair, Health Care Engineering Policy Committee, IEEE Prof. Lee Schruben, Ph.D. Yale (WCECS & ICMSC co-chair) Professor and Former Department Chairman Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research University of California, Berkeley, USA Prof. Jon Burgstone (ICIMT honorary co-chair) Faculty Chair Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology College of Engineering University of California, Berkeley, USA Board Member of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, Harvard University Prof. Su-Shing Chen, Fellow, SPIE (ICCB honorary co-chair) Emeritus Professor, Department of Computer Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, USA; Principal Investigator of Systems Biology Laboratory, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB); Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Benjamin Friedlander, FIEEE (ICCST honorary co-chair) Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA The IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000) Former Vice Chairman of the Bay Area Chapter of the Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society Former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control Prof. Burghard B. Rieger (ICMLDA honorary co-chair) Professor of Computational Linguistics Former Dean (1999-2001) of Faculty of Languages and Literature Former Head of Department of Linguistic Computing, University of Trier, Germany President (1989-93) of the German Society for Linguistic Computing (GLDV) Vice-President (1990-94) of the International Society for Terminoly and Knowledge Engineering (GTW) Prof. Lei Xu (ICSCA honorary co-chair) IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow, Member of European Academy of Sciences, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong WCECS Submissions: WCECS 2008 is now accepting manuscript submissions. Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper in full paper (any appropriate style) to WCECS { at }iaeng.org by 2 July, 2008. The submitted file can be in MS Word format, PS format, or PDF formats. The first page of the draft paper should include: (1) Title of the paper; (2) Name, affiliation and e-mail address for each author; (3) A maximum of 5 keywords of the paper. Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being submitted to should be stated in the email. It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCECS congress. The conferences have enjoyed high reputation among many research colleagues (for example, see the http://cs.conference-ranking.net/ or http://www.conference-ranking.com/). It is our target that the reviewing process and the result notification for each submitted manuscript can be completed within one month from its submission. The reviewing process is to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in the WCECS congress. More details about the WCECS 2008 can be found at: http://www.iaeng.com/WCECS2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.net/WCECS2008/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2008/index.html More details about the International Association of Engineers, and the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and the IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics can be found at: http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html http://www.newswood.org/index.html The official journal web site of Engineering Letters at: http://www.engineeringletters.com Other Engineering Letters web sites at: http://www.engineeringletters.net http://www.engineeringletter.com ******** It will be highly appreciated if you can circulate these calls for papers to your colleagues.