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Monday, September 22
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09:00 - 17:00 Workshops and Tutorials


Tutorial-Workshop 1
Panorama
Context-Free Grammar Learning

Colin de la Higuera, Jose Oncina, Pieter Adriaans, Menno van Zaanen



Tutorial-Workshop 2
Bobara
Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining

Fabio Ciravegna, Nicholas Kushmerick



Workshop 1
Libertas
First European Web Mining Forum

Bettina Berendt, Andreas Hotho, Dunja Mladenic, Maarten van Someren, Myra Spiliopoulou, Gerd Stumme



Workshop 2
Sipun
Multimedia Discovery and Mining

Dunja Mladenic, Gerhard Paass



Workshop 3
Ragusa
Data Mining and Text Mining in Bioinformatics

Tobias Scheffer, Ulf Leser



Workshop 4
Orlando
Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases

Jean-François Boulicaut, Saso Dzeroski, Mika Klemettinen, Rosa Meo, Luc De Raedt





Tuesday, September 23
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09:00 - 15:30 Workshops and Tutorials


09:00 - 15:30 Workshop 5
Ragusa
Graph, Tree, and Sequence Mining

Luc De Raedt, Takashi Washio



09:00 - 15:30 Workshop 6
Orlando
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Classification

Pedro Larrañaga, Jose A. Lozano, Jose M. Peña, Iñaki Inza



09:00 - 15:30 Workshop 7
Libertas
Parallel and Distributed Computing for Machine Learning

Rui Camacho, Ashwin Srinivasan



09:00 - 15:30 Workshop 8
Sipun
Discovery Challenge

Petr Berka, Jan Rauch, Shusaku Tsumoto



09:00 - 12:30 Tutorial 1
Panorama
KD Standards

Sarab Anand, Marko Grobelnik, Dietrich Wettschereck



09:00 - 12:30 Tutorial 2
Bobara
Data Mining and Machine Learning in Time Series Databases

Eamonn Keogh



14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial 3
Panorama
Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Data and Decision Making Using Interactive Maps and Linked Dynamic Displays

Natalia Andrienko and Gennady Andrienko



14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial 4
Bobara
Music Data Mining

Darrell Conklin



16:00 - 17:15 KDNet Presentations and Exhibition
Ragusa and poster area


17:30 Opening of ECML/PKDD-2003
Ragusa


17:45 Keynote talk
Ragusa
From Knowledge-based Systems to Skill-based Systems: Sailing as a Machine Learning Challenge

Pieter Adriaans



18:45 Best paper awards announcement
Ragusa


18:50 Best Student Paper
Ragusa
Logistic Model Trees

Niels Landwehr, Mark Hall and Eibe Frank



20:00 Welcome Party





Wednesday,  September 24
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09:00 Keynote talk
Ragusa
Taking Causality Seriously: Propensity Score Methodology Applied to Estimate the Effects of Marketing Interventions

Donald Rubin



10:00 Best PKDD Paper
Ragusa
Application of Inductive Logic Programming to Structure-Based Drug Design

David P. Enot and Ross D. King



10:30 Coffee Break



11:00



  1a Text Mining  Ragusa


      Explaining Text Clustering Results using Semantic Structures
      Andreas Hotho, Steffen Staab and Gerd Stumme


      A Simple Algorithm for Topic Identification in 0-1 Data
      Jouni K Seppanen, Ella Bingham and Heikki Mannila


      Topic Learning From Few Examples
      Huaiyu Zhu, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan and Mahesh Joshi


    1b Ensemble Methods
Orlando


      A New Pairwise Ensemble Approach for Text Classification

      Yan Liu, Jaime Carbonell and Rong Jin



      On Boosting Improvement: Error Reduction and Convergence Speed-Up
      Marc Sebban and Henri-Maxime Suchier



      SMOTEBoost: Improving the Prediction of Minority Class in Boosting

      Nitesh Chawla, Aleksandar Lazarevic, Lawrence Hall and Kevin Bowyer

   

   1c Relational and Multi-instance Learning
Libertas


      Ensembles of Multi-Instance Learners

      Zhi-Hua Zhou and Min-Ling Zhang



      A Two-level Learning Method for Generalized Multi-Instance Problems

      Nils Weidmann, Eibe Frank and Bernhard Pfahringer



      Mr-SBC: a Multi-Relational Naive Bayes Classifier

      Michelangelo Ceci, Annalisa Appice and Donato Malerba



12:30 Lunch Break



14:00



   2a Kernel Methods
Ragusa


      Support Vector Machines with Example Dependent Costs

      Ulf Brefeld, Peter Geibel and Fritz Wysotzki



      Exploring Fringe Settings of SVMs for Classification

      Adam Kowalczyk and Bhavani Raskutti



      Classification Approach Towards Ranking and Sorting

      Shyamsundar Rajaram, Ashutosh Garg, Xiang Sean Zhou and Thomas Huang



      Color Image Segmentation: Kernel Do the Feature Space

     Jianguo Lee, Jingdong Wang and Changshui Zhang



   2b Probabilistic Models and Ranking
Orlando


      On Decision Boundaries of Naive Bayes in Continuous Domains

      Tapio Elomaa and Juho Rousu



      Scaled CGEM: A Fast Accelerated EM

      Joerg Fischer and Kristian Kersting



      A Skeleton-Based Approach to Learning Bayesian Networks from Data

      Steven van Dijk, Linda C. van der Gaag and Dirk Thierens



      Pairwise Preference Learning and Ranking

      Johannes Furnkranz and Eyke Hullermeier



   2c Machine Learning of Natural Language
Libertas


      Backoff Parameter Estimation for the DOP Model

      Khalil Sima'an and Luciano Buratto



      Learning Rules to Improve a Machine Translation System

      David Kauchak and Charles Elkan



      Combined Optimization of Feature Selection and Algorithm Parameters in
      Machine Learning of Language


      Walter Daelemans, Veronique Hoste, Fien De Meulder and Bart Naudts



      A Generative Model for Semantic Role Labeling

      Cynthia Thompson, Roger Levy and Christopher Manning



16:00 Visit to the Walls of Dubrovnik





Thursday, September 25
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09:00 Keynote Talk
Ragusa
Two-eyed Algorithms and Problems

Leo Breiman



10:00 Best ECML Paper
Ragusa
A Decomposition Of Classes Via Clustering To Explain And Improve Naive Bayes

Ricardo Vilalta and Irina Rish



10:30 Coffee Break



11:00



  3a Decision Trees and ROC Analysis
Ragusa


      Predicting Outliers

      Luis Torgo and Rita Ribeiro



      Rademacher Penalization over Decision Tree Prunings

      Matti Kaariainen and Tapio Elomaa



      Volume Under the ROC Surface for Multi-class Problems

      Cesar Ferri, Jose Hernandez-Orallo and Miguel Angel Salido



   3b Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Orlando


      Life Cycle Modeling of News Events Using Aging Theory

      Chien Chin Chen, Yao-Tsung Chen, Yeali Sun and Meng Chang Chen


      Using Transduction and Multi-View Learning to Answer Emails

      Michael Kockelkorn, Andreas Luneburg and Tobias Scheffer



      Improving Rocchio with Weakly Supervised Clustering

      Romain Vinot and Francois Yvon



   3c Temporal Data Mining and Clustering
Libertas


      Rule Discovery and Probabilistic Modeling for Onomastic Data

      Antti Leino, Heikki Mannila and Ritva Liisa Pitkanen



      An Indiscernibility-Based Clustering Method with Iterative Refinement of Equivalent Relations

      Shoji Hirano and Shusaku Tsumoto



      Discovering Unbounded Episodes in Sequential Data

      Gemma Casas


12:30 Lunch Break



14:00



    4a Personalization, Adaptivity and User Modeling
Ragusa


      Preference Mining: A Novel Approach on Mining User Preferences for Personalized Applications

      Stefan Holland, Martin Ester and Werner Kiessling



      Collaborative Filtering using Restoration Operators

      Atsuyoshi Nakamura, Mineichi Kudo and Akira Tanaka



      Towards Behaviometric Security Systems: Learning to Identify a Typist

      Mordechai Nisenson, Ido Yariv, Ran El-Yaniv and Ron Meir



    4b Clustering
Orlando


      Efficient Density Clustering Method for Spatial Data

      Fei Pan, Baoying Wang, Yi Zhang, Dongmei Ren, Xin Hu and William Perrizo



      Clustering in Knowledge Embedded Space

      Yungang Zhang, Changshui Zhang and Shijun Wang



      Evaluation of Topographic Clustering and its Kernelization

      Marie-Jeanne Lesot, Florence d'Alche-Buc and Georges Siolas



    4c Computational Learning Theory and Grammatical Inference
Libertas


      Robust k-DNF Learning via Inductive Belief Merging

      Frederic Koriche and Joel Quinqueton



      Improvement of the State Merging Rule on Noisy Data in Probabilistic Grammatical Inference

      Amaury Habrard, Marc Bernard and Marc Sebban



      Unambiguous Automata Inference by Means of State-merging Methods

      Francois Coste and Daniel Fredouille



15:30 Coffee Break



16:00



   5a Reinforcement Learning
Ragusa


      Iteratively Extending Time Horizon Reinforcement Learning

      Damien Ernst, Pierre Geurts and Louis Wehenkel



      A New Way to Introduce Knowledge into Reinforcement Learning

      Pascal Garcia



      Optimising Performance of Competing Search Engines in Heterogeneous Web Environments

      Rinat Khoussainov and Nicholas Kushmerick



    5b Inductive Logic Programming
Orlando


      Bottom-Up Learning of Logic Programs for Information Extraction from Hypertext Documents

      Bernd Thomas     


      Enriching Relational Learning with Fuzzy Predicates

      Henri Prade, Gilles Richard and Mathieu Serrurier



      Efficient Frequent Query Discovery in Farmer

      Siegfried Nijssen and Joost Kok



   5c Preprocessing and Visualization
Libertas


      Analyzing Attribute Dependencies

      Aleks Jakulin and Ivan Bratko



      Visualizations for Assessing Convergence and Mixing of MCMC

      Jarkko Venna, Samuel Kaski and Jaakko Peltonen



      Visualizing Class Probability Estimators

      Eibe Frank and Mark Hall



17:30 Coffee Break



18:00 ECML/PKDD Community Meeting



20:00 Conference Dinner





Friday, September 26
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09:00 Keynote Talk
Ragusa
Next Generation Data Mining Tools: Power Laws and Self-similarity for Graphs, Streams and Traditional Data

Christos Faloutsos



10:00



   6a Best Student Paper Runner-up
Ragusa


      Optimizing Local Probability Models for Statistical Parsing

      Kristina Toutanova, Mark Mitchell and Christopher Manning



   6b Relational Mining
Orlando


      Learning Characteristic Rules Relying on Quantified Paths

      Teddy Turmeaux, Ansaf Salleb, Christel Vrain and Daniel Cassard



10:30 Coffee Break



11:00



   7a Association Rules
Ragusa


      Efficient Statistical Pruning of Association Rules

      Alan Ableson and Janice Glasgow


      Minimal k-Free Representations of Frequent Sets

      Toon Calders and Bart Goethals



      Majority Classification by means of Association Rules

      Elena Baralis and Paolo Garza


   7b Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Orlando


      COllective INtelligence with Sequences of Actions

      Pieter Jan 't Hoen and S.M. Bohte



      Extended Replicator Dynamics as a Key to Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Systems

      Karl Tuyls, Dries Heytens, Ann Nowe and Bernard Manderick



      Self-Evaluated Learning Agent in Multiple State Games

      Koichi Moriyama and Masayuki Numao



   7c Preprocessing and Postprocessing
Libertas


      Experiments with Cost-sensitive Feature Evaluation

      Marko Robnik-Sikonja



      ExAnte: Anticipated Data Reduction in Constrained Pattern Mining

      Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Alessio Mazzanti and Dino Pedreschi



      The Pattern Ordering Problem

      Taneli Mielikainen and Heikki Mannila



12:30 Lunch Break



14:00



    8a Text Classification
Ragusa


      Text Categorisation Using Document Profiling

      Maximilien Sauban and Bernhard Pfahringer


      Using Belief Networks and Fisher Kernels for Structured Document Classification

      Ludovic Denoyer and Patrick Gallinari



      Improving SVM Text Classification Performance through Threshold Adjustment

      James Shanahan and Norbert Roma



   8b Reinforcement Learning
Orlando


      Abalearn: A Risk-Sensitive Approach to Self-Play Learning in Abalone

      Pedro Campos and Thibault Langlois



      Could Active Perception Aid Navigation of Partially Observable Grid Worlds?

      Paul A. Crook and Gillian Hayes



      Using MDP Characteristics to Guide Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

      Bohdana Ratitch and Doina Precup



   8c Constraints
Libertas


      Adaptive Constraint Pushing in Frequent Pattern Mining

      Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Alessio Mazzanti and Dino Pedreschi



      Constraint-Based Mining of Sequential Patterns over Datasets with Consecutive Repetitions

      Marion Leleu, Christophe Rigotti, Jean-Francois Boulicaut and Guillaume Euvrard



      Improving Numerical Prediction With Qualitative Constraints

      Dorian Suc and Ivan Bratko



15:30 Coffee Break



16:00



   9a Decision Trees
Ragusa


      Improving the AUC of Probabilistic Estimation Trees

      Cesar Ferri, Peter Flach and Jose Hernandez-Orallo


      Arbogodai, a New Approach for Decision Trees

      Djamel A. Zighed, Gilbert Ritschard, Walid Erray and Vasile-Marian Scuturici



      A Markov Network based Factorized Distribution Algorithm for Optimization

      Roberto Santana



   9b Mining Temporal and Clinical Data
Orlando


      Automated Detection of Epidemics from the Usage Logs of a Physicians' Reference Database

      Jaana Heino and Hannu Toivonen



      Mining Multi-level Diagnostic Process Rules from Clinical Databases using Rough Sets and
      Medical Diagnostic Model


      Shusaku Tsumoto



      Efficiently Finding Arbitrarily Scaled Patterns in Massive Time Series Databases

      Eamonn Keogh



   9c Preprocessing and Clustering
Libertas


      Ranking Interesting Subspaces for Clustering High Dimensional Data

      Karin Kailing, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kroger and Stefanie Wanka



      Symbolic Distance Measurements Based on Characteristic Subspaces

      Marcus-Christopher Ludl



      Statistical Sigma-partition Clustering over Data Streams

      Nam Hun Park and Won Suk Lee