SMUC Workshop (CIKM): Open Invitation to Researchers from the Industry

This year we organize SMUC Workshop (Search and Mining User-generated Contents) at CIKM. We are now organizing an industry panel on related topics, and we would like to count on several researchers from big and small companies for this panel.

We think industry related activities on workshops like SMUC are very important in order to make it easier for academic researchers to discover new trends and research topics, and for allowing a more direct conversation between the academic and the industry worlds.

If you work on any topic related to SMUC Workshop (social search, mining social networks, opinion mining, etc.) for an start-up/small/medium/big company, you're planning to attend CIKM, and you'd like to join us in this industry panel, please contact us at josecarlos.cortizo@uem.es. We'd be pleased to count on you for this industry panel.

Call for ICML/UAI/COLT 2009 Workshop Proposals

The ICML, UAI, and COLT conferences will be colocated in Montreal June 14-21 2009. We solict proposals for workshops to be held during a single joint workshop day on June 18. This date lies between ICML (June 14-17) and UAI/COLT (June 19-21). Workshops will be selected on the basis of their interest to the attendees of one or more of the conferences.

The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are encouraged. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are also encouraged.

Organization

The format, style, and content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers and largely autonomous from the main conferences. The workshops will be seven hours long and split into morning and afternoon sessions. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, specify the workshop format, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop registration will be handled centrally by the main conferences with a single uniform registration fee and with registrants allowed to attend workshops other than the one they register for.

Submission Instructions

Proposals should specify clearly all of the following:

• the workshop's title (what is it called?)
• topic (what is it about?)
• motivation (why a workshop on this topic?)
• impact and expected outcomes (what will having the workshop do?)
• potential invited speakers (who might come?)
• a list of related publications (where can we learn more?)
• main workshop organizer (who is making it happen?)
• other organizers (who else is making it happen?)
• workshop URL (where will interested parties get more information?)
• relevant conferences (which of ICML, UAI, and COLT would it appeal to?)

Please also provide brief CVs of all organizers. This information should be sent by email (in plain text or pdf format) to Icml-uai-colt-workshops09@ssli.ee.washington.edu by 19 Jan 2009.