The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) will take place in Bled, Slovenia, from September 7th to 11th, 2009. This event builds upon a very successful series of 19 ECML and 12 PKDD conferences, which have been jointly organized for the past eight years. It has become the major European scientific event in these fields and in 2009 it will comprise presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials, a discovery challenge, a demo track and an industrial track.

As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging women to excel in computing and technology, we are pleased to announce the Google ECML PKDD 2009 Conference Grant to encourage more female computer scientists to attend and participate in the ECML PKDD 2009 conference , 8 to 10 September 2009, Bled, Slovenia. Read more…

The conference registration site is now open! For only 340 EUR (regular fee) or 290 EUR (student fee) registered participants may freely attend all ECML and PKDD sessions, as well as workshops and tutorials. All coffee breaks, receptions, and the banquet are included. This year students have a possibility to choose a lower rate (220 EUR) which does not include the conference banquet. Read more…

The Call for Proposals for ECML PKDD 2011 is now online. We would like to invite groups interested in hosting ECML PKDD 2011 to check the following website.