ESANN 2011 - ESANN'11 special session on "Kernel methods for Structured Data"

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Category ESANN 2011

Deadline: December 01, 2010 | Date: April 27, 2011-April 29, 2011

Venue/Country: Bruges, Belgium

Updated: 2010-11-26 13:03:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

event for researchers in the fields of artificial neural networks,

machine learning, computational intelligence and related topics. It

will be held in Bruges (Belgium) from April 27-29, 2011. This year the

program committee has decided to include a special session on kernel

methods for structured data in the conference program.

Call for Papers

"Kernel Methods for Structured Data" - ESANN'11 Special Session.

In many applications areas, such as biology, chemistry, natural

language processing (just to name a few), data are represented in

structured form. Among all learning algorithms, kernel methods can

naturally deal with any type of input data, provided an appropriate

similarity function, the kernel function, has been defined on any pair

of objects of the domain. Recently, there has been an increasing

interest in the research community in kernel functions for structured

data (strings, trees, relational data just to name a few examples) and

particularly in kernels for graphs. However, due to the typical very

high dimensionality of such data, finding the right trade-off between

expressiveness and computational complexity poses severe challenges.

This special session looks for original contributions to the topic

(particular emphasis on kernels for graphs), as well as significant

applications of kernel methods to structured data.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Kernel algorithms for structured data

- Kernel functions for strings, trees, graphs and generally any non

vectorial data

- Efficient kernels or learning algorithms

- Significant applications of kernel methods to structured datasets

We kindly invite you to submit a paper to the special session.

Please note that this invitation does not guarantee that your

submission will be accepted: each paper will undergo to a rigorous

peer reviewing process.

Paper submission should be done exclusively through the ESANN portal

(http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=submission). The

submission deadline is the same as the one for regular papers, that is

November 24, 2010.

The deadline for notification of acceptance is January, 18, 2011.

Please notice that the authors of accepted papers should register (and

pay the registration fee) as any other participant to the conference.

If you have any questions concerning the special session, please do

not hesitate to contact us (see email address below).

More information about the Conference Program, accommodation

facilities and registration fees is available on the ESANN website

(http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann).

The relevant information is summarized below:

Deadline for paper submission: November 24, 2010

Notification of acceptance: January, 18, 2011

Submission site: http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=submission

Site for general information: http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann

Corresponding organizer email: dasanmath.unipd.it (Giovanni Da San

Martino)