CFP: 1st Workshop on Conformal Prediction and its Applications (CPA 2012)

[Harris Papadopoulos]

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1st Workshop on Conformal Prediction and its Applications (CPA 2012)

to be held in conjunction with the
8th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications &
Innovations (AIAI 2012)

Halkidiki, Greece, September 27-30, 2012

http://delab.csd.auth.gr/aiai2012/

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Workshop Theme:
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Quantifying the uncertainty of the predictions produced by
classification and regression techniques is an important problem in
the field of Machine Learning. Conformal Prediction is a recently
developed framework for complementing the predictions of Machine
Learning algorithms with reliable measures of confidence. The methods
developed based on this framework produce well-calibrated confidence
measures for individual examples without assuming anything more than
that the data are generated independently by the same probability
distribution (i.i.d.). Since its development the framework has been
combined with many popular techniques, such as Support Vector
Machines, k-Nearest Neighbours, Neural Networks, Ridge Regression
etc., and has been successfully applied to many challenging real world
problems, such as the early detection of ovarian cancer, the
classification of leukaemia subtypes, the diagnosis of acute abdominal
pain, the assessment of stroke risk, the recognition of hypoxia in
electroencephalograms (EEGs), the prediction of plant promoters, the
prediction of network traffic demand, the estimation of effort for
software projects and the backcalculation of non-linear pavement layer
moduli. The framework has also been extended to additional problem
settings such as semi-supervised learning, anomaly detection, feature
selection, outlier detection, change detection in streams and active
learning. The aim of this workshop is to serve as a forum for the
presentation of new and ongoing work and the exchange of ideas between
researchers on any aspect of Conformal Prediction and its
applications.

The workshop welcomes submissions introducing further developments and
extensions of the Conformal Prediction framework and describing its
application to interesting problems of any field.


Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original, English-language research
contributions or experience reports. Papers should be no longer than
10 pages formatted according to the well-known LNCS Springer style.
Papers should be submitted either in a doc or in a pdf form to:
h.papad...@frederick.ac.cy


Publication
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Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness,
originality, and relevance. Notification and reviews will be
communicated via email. Accepted papers will be presented at the
workshop and published in the Proceedings of the main event (by
Springer). They will also be considered for potential publication in
the Special Issues of the Conference.


Important Dates
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Full paper submission due: April 29, 2012
Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2012
Camera-ready paper submission: June 4, 2012


Honorary Chairs
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Vladimir Vapnik
NEC, USA & Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Alexei Chervonenkis
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia & Royal Holloway, University of
London, UK


Program Chairs
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Harris Papadopoulos
Frederick University, Cyprus
Email: h.papad...@frederick.ac.cy

Alex Gammerman
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Email: al...@cs.rhul.ac.uk

Vladimir Vovk
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Email: vo...@cs.rhul.ac.uk


Program Committee
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Vineeth Balasubramanian, Arizona State University, USA
Anthony Bellotti, Imperial College London, UK
David R. Hardoon, SAS Singapore
Mohamed Hebiri, Universite de Marne-la-Vallee, France
Shen-Shyang Ho, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zakria Hussain, University College London, UK
Yuri Kalnishkan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Matjaz Kukar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Antonis Lambrou, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Rikard Laxhammar, University of Skovde, Sweden
Yang Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zhiyuan Luo, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Andrea Murari, Consorzio RFX, Italy
Ilia Nouretdinov, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Savvas Pericleous, Frederick University, Cyprus
David Surkov, Egham Capital, UK
Jesus Vega, Asociacion EURATOM/CIEMAT para Fusion, Spain
Fan Yang, Xiamen University, China

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