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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD 2015) will take place on September 7 of 2015, in Porto Portugal </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white'>(</span><a href="http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext;background:white'>http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white'>). </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>The conference includes a PhD session that provides an environment for students to exchange their ideas and experiences with peers and senior researchers in machine learning, data mining, and related areas.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>We invite PhD students (PhD in progress or defended not earlier than 31st December 2014) to submit papers on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Papers submitted to ECML/PKDD 2015 PhD session will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be presented in the special PhD session at ECMLPKDD 2015 and will be published in the session proceedings which will be available through the conference website.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Important Dates</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Paper submission deadline: June 10 2015</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Author notification: July 15 2015</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Camera-ready: August 5 2015</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Doctoral consortium session: September 7 2015 </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Detailed information about the PhD Session is available on:</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/submission/doctoral-consortium</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>For further information please contact the ECMLPKDD 2015 PhD Chairs:</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Jaakko Hollmen (Aalto University)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Panagiotis Papapetrou (Stockholm University)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Hope to see you all soon in Porto, Portugal!!!</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>The publicity chairs of the ECMLPKDD 2015,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Carlos Abreu Ferreira</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Ricardo Campos</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>