ICML 2015 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING (ICML) 2015 CALL FOR SITE PROPOSALS

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Call For Papers - CFP

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING (ICML) 2015

CALL FOR SITE PROPOSALS

In the summer of 2015, the 32th International Conference on Machine

Learning (ICML-2015) will be held. We invite groups interested in

hosting the conference to submit a letter of intent by March 31, 2013,

and a complete proposal by May 31, 2013.

Proposals from Europe or western North America are particularly

encouraged; however, proposals from elsewhere will also be given

serious consideration. (ICML-2013 will be in Atlanta, Georgia, and

ICML-2014 will be in Beijing, China).

Proposals should address the following issues:

1. Proposed Dates. The conference should be scheduled for four days

(one day reserved for workshops and tutorials; three days for paper

sessions, poster sessions, and invited talks). The conference prefers

dates in the range from June 15 to July 15, but other dates will be

considered, particularly if they permit co-location with other related

conferences.

2. Locale Parameters.

- Accessibility. Is it easy and inexpensive for people

(especially graduate students) to travel to the conference site?

(Compute mean airfares from Europe, North America, and Asia;

include ground transportation from relevant airports to the site;

discuss visa issues if relevant.)

- Meeting Rooms, AV Equiment, etc. What are the physical

facilities like? Consider rooms for plenary sessions, parallel

sessions, workshops, tutorials, and poster sessions. Is there

highly visible space for sponsors and publishers who want to set

up displays? What are the charges, if any, for using the various

rooms/locations?

- Meals and Lodging. Is there low-cost, quality housing available

for attendees (especially graduate students)? How far from the

meeting rooms? Where will attendees eat? Please estimate costs

for meals and lodging.

- Demo facilities. Will there be computing equipment and space

available to support demos?

- Internet access. Is wired or wireless internet access

available? At what cost?

- Other features. You may mention any other aspects of the site

or the region that are relevant.

3. Local Machine Learning Community. Is there a local ML

group/community that can help with organization and funding?

4. Opportunities to co-locate with other conferences. In the past, we

have co-located with COLT, UAI, and KDD. There is strong interest in

co-locating with these conferences and also with other related

conferences including ISMB (Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology),

EMNLP (Empirical Methoers in Natural Language Processing), CoNLL

(Conference on Natural Language Learning), IUI (Intelligent User

Interfaces), and CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition).

5. Organizational and Institutional Support. Is there a conference

office that can help with local arrangements?

6. Budgetary Issues. Is any financial support available from the

hosting institution and/or local industry? What is a rough estimate

of the expected conference registration fees (including a student

rate)? Historically ICML has made efforts to maintain low

registration fees to encourage wide participation, and prospective

hosts for ICML should contact William Cohen if they have questions

about budgetary decisions.

Letters of intent need contain nothing other than a non-binding

statement of intent and a list of likely principals, but should be

emailed by March 31, 2013 to:

William W. Cohen

President, International Machine Learning Society (IMLS)

wcohencs.cmu.edu

Proposals (in PDF) should be emailed to the same address by May 31, 2013.

The IMLS governing board will rank proposals according to cost and

accessibility, proposed dates, opportunities for co-location,

attractiveness of the location, and experience of the host group.

Note that IMLS chooses the Program Chair and General Chair as a

decision separate from the choice of the site. The site proposal

should propose a Local Arrangements Chair and other relevant

supporting positions (e.g., Volunteers Coordinator, Registration

Chair).