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.

We would like to remind you that Monday August 10th is the last day for booking your hotel accommodation based on the special prices we have negotiated with different category hotels in Bled. After this date the rooms will be “on-request” so we can no longer guarantee the availability or the price. If you have registered and not yet booked the accommodation or transfer please do that as soon as possible by logging in to the on-line system again (with you username and password). Read more…

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…