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ICML 2006 Workshops
The ICML-2006 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2006), on Thursday, June 29, 2006 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic in machine learning or a closely related area. Workshops can choose to concentrate on emerging research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues, or to questions concerning the economic and social aspects of machine learning and data mining.
Workshop participants will not be given workshop proceedings in a hardcopy format. Instead, organizers of the workshops will make the proceedings available on their website prior to the conference (see the timeline below).
How to Propose a Workshop
Workshop proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chair and reviewers from the conference organizing committee to judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed topic. Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers and a workshop program committee. When proposing a workshop, please use the following boldface text as the section headings in your proposal. The proposal should be 1-3 pages long (plus possibly extra materials).
- Topic importance -- What will the workshop be about? Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic? Why is the topic best addressed at an ICML workshop, as opposed to a workshop at another conference or papers in an ICML technical session? What do you expect will come out of the workshop? How will the workshop change the participants' understanding of the area? Do you think it will have an impact on the Machine Learning community at large?
- Content quality -- From which areas do you expect potential participants to come? How many participants do you expect? Can you already name some of them? Who do you expect as invited speakers? What are the reasons to believe that there will be a sufficient number of interesting submissions to the workshop?
- Format -- How will the workshop sessions be scheduled? How much time will be used for discussion, panel discussions, paper presentations, invited talks, or other methods for encouraging communication and consensus? Organizers are encouraged to focus on mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations and to differentiate the workshop clearly from typical conference sessions.
- Publicity -- How do you intend to advertise the workshop? How will you reach the most interested and appropriate participants? Are there any plans to document the workshop results (beyond a web publication)?
- Organizers' expertise -- Please include the name, e-mail address, and webpage of all members of the program committee. In addition, indicate the organizers' background in the workshop area.
Workshop proposals should be submitted in the PDF format on-line: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/icml06/myreview/index.php?authorsInstructions=1
The timeline is as follows:
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Workshop proposals due |
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Acceptance notification |
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Workshop publicity materials due |
March 18, 2006 |
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Suggested deadline for workshop submissions |
April 28, 2006 |
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Workshop proceedings posted on your website |
June 18, 2006 |
Acknowledgements: some of the material on this page has been adopted from
ICML'04.