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.

This year’s discovery challenge consists of three tasks in the area of social bookmarking. All tasks target the support of the user during the tagging process by recommending tags. As we are hosting the social bookmark and publication sharing system BibSonomy, we are able to provide a complete dataset of BibSonomy for the challenge.The presentation of the results will take place at the ECML PKDD workshop where the top teams are invited to present their approaches and results. Read more…

Dear authors. We are informing you that abstracts of your papers can be submitted on the following page. Note that the deadline for abstract submissions is the 3rd of April. Paper submission deadline is April 14th. Don’t forget to visit the Call for papers page with all the instructions.