BAW-UAI09 2009 - Seventh Annual Workshop on Bayes Applicationsin conjunction with UAI/COLT/ICML

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Category BAW-UAI09 2009

Deadline: April 20, 2009 | Date: June 18, 2009

Venue/Country: Montreal, Canada

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Seventh Annual Workshop on Bayes Applications

on Thursday 18 June, 2009

in conjunction with UAI/COLT/ICML, Montreal, CA

Submission Deadline: 20 April 2009

Acceptance Notification: 16 May 2009

Final Version Due: 13 June 2009

The 7th annual Bayes Applications Workshop is looking for real world

applications of graphical models and Bayes networks. We are especially

interested in contributions that emphasize the challenges encountered in

exploring novel domains — that are characteristic of the domain and the

software tools used. With contributions at the border of the academic and

non-academic community, our desire is to foster discussion and interchange.

Accordingly, we not only seek submissions from members of the immediate

conference community, but also strongly encourage submissions from

practitioners from a larger community.

Real world applications typically integrate theories and techniques from

multiple sources, taking a systems approach. One topic of particular

interest is how researchers and developers have reconciled apparently

conflicting demands of theory and practice in larger systems. Further, the

availability of mature academic and commercial software tools has spawned

numerous applications. We'd like to reach out this year to users of such tools,

especially those who have applied software in places and domains where they have

not been applied before: Many of the connections among researchers and

applications occur by virtue of software that researchers make available that is

applied by someone working on a real world problem.

In past years this workshop has addressed the UAI community. Now with the

joint workshop program, the AI/ML communities have grown closer, and we invite

participation of interested parties from all communities with an interest in

building graphical models.

Broad areas of interest:

Ecological & biological systems models

computer systems & dependability

dialog systems

fault isolation & root cause analysis

conflict analysis

disaster response

forensics

financial & economic modeling

...others

Submissions:

E-mail submissions to baw-uai09intel-research.net, in pdf format.

Submissions should be in UAI format, limited to 8 pages. Demonstrations to

accompany talks are encouraged. As in past years, proceedings

will be posted online.

Workshop format:

The format of the workshop will be a series of selected talks, and

posters, grouped to encourage discussion. We will leave time during breaks

for poster presentations. Speakers may also want to present posters of

their work in the poster session.

Workshop discussions tend to be informal, and the smaller group tends to

encourage more candid comments from presenters. We ask presenters to consider

why some projects succeed or fail in a larger organizational context, and

generally encourage them to take a multi-disciplinary approach. Hopefully this

will reveal lessons learned from projects that have shown value (or in some

cases, surprisingly failed to show value) in situations and organizations

motivated by specific needs.

Organizers:

John Mark Agosta, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA

Russell Almond, ETS, Princeton, NJ

Dennis Buede, Innovative Decisions, Vienna, VA

Marek J. Druzdzel, ISL, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Silja Renooij, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands