<div dir="ltr"><div>############################################################</div><div>European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of</div><div>Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) </div><div>Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 (<a href="http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org">http://www.ecmlpkdd2017.org</a>).</div><div>############################################################</div><div><br></div><div><div>The ECML-PKDD 2017 Organizing Committee invites proposals for half-day tutorials to be held on the first and last days of the conference (September 18 and 22, 2017), which will take place in Skopje, Macedonia.</div><div>Tutorials are intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the machine learning and the data mining community. These topics include related research fields or applications but also well-developed tools and suites that support ML/DM research. The ideal tutorial should attract a wide audience. It should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its content can be covered in a half-day slot. Proposals that exclusively focus on the presenter’s own work or commercial demonstrations are strongly discouraged.</div><div>Tutorial slides will be made available online at the ECML-PKDD website, although authors can provide them on additional websites as well. Depending on the budget, we expect to offer a waived registration fee for attendance on the workshop day to one speaker of each accepted tutorial (i.e., no guarantee).</div><div>Guidelines for proposals</div><div>Tutorial proposals should contain at least the following:</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A title and an abstract of the tutorial.</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the ECML-PKDD community (no more than 2 pages).</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial’s core content can be covered in a 4 hours slot (including a 30 minutes break).</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The names and contact information of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise; it is required to indicate in the proposal who is planning to attend the conference and present which part.</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size.</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g., audio equipment).</div><div>Combined Tutorial & Workshop</div><div>Especially for a relatively novel but rapidly maturing topic, a half day tutorial (4h incl. one 30 minute break) followed by a half day workshop (4h incl. one 30 minute break) could be a good format. We kindly ask you to write a single proposal for the tutorial and workshop that covers the different guidelines and requirements for tutorials and workshops. In addition, the links should be clearly described and the proposal should be submitted to the workshop and tutorial chairs (select both 'Workshop' and 'Tutorial' as topics). For workshop guidelines, please see the separate Call For Workshop Proposals.</div><div>Proposal reviewing process</div><div>The proposal will be reviewed by the workshop and tutorial co-chairs, who may use the help of external reviewers, and experts on the submission topics.</div><div>The features that will be evaluated are:</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The interestingness for the ECML-PKDD areas, which should result in a large audience.</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description.</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Good organization as appearing from the outline.</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The adequacy of the speakers, i.e., her/his background/experience in teaching the target topics.</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The ability to explain the topics to a large audience with heterogeneous background.</div><div>Submission</div><div>Please submit your tutorial proposals in PDF format using EasyChair.</div><div>The submitted proposals will be reviewed in a close collaboration with the conference chairs and the program committee.</div><div>Important dates</div><div>The following deadlines are important for the tutorial organizers:</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tutorial proposal deadline Monday, April 17, 2017</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tutorial acceptance notification Monday, May 1, 2017</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tutorial final abstract submission Monday, May 15, 2017</div><div>●<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tutorial course material (slides, bibliography) online Monday, September 4, 2017</div><div>Contact</div><div>In case you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs (Panče Panov and Nathalie Japkowicz) at <a href="mailto:wt_chairs@ecmlpkdd2017.org">wt_chairs@ecmlpkdd2017.org</a>. We are looking forward to your proposals.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nikola Simidjievski & Dragi Kocev</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.38;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Publicity Chairs of ECML-PKDD 2017</span></p></div></div>
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