From owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Tue Oct 30 01:43:11 2001 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECAD517BF0 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:43:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A950517BF8 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:43:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6023) id EB28117BFD; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:42:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 002AA17AA4 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:56:28 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 4826917AB3; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:56:25 +0100 (BST) To: bionet-biology-computational@net.bio.net From: cjlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw (Chih-Jen Lin) Newsgroups: bionet.biology.computational Subject: CFP: special issue on Support vector machines Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-ID: X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD73B17AA4 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:56:21 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from ms (ms.csie.ntu.edu.tw [140.112.30.68]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 864C517A64 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:56:15 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from linux5 ([140.112.30.60] helo=linux5.csie.ntu.edu.tw) by ms with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15wj6y-00038B-00; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:55:48 +0800 X-Received: from cjlin by linux5.csie.ntu.edu.tw with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15wj6p-0004re-00; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:55:39 +0800 X-To: comp-bio@net.bio.net X-Cc: "V. David Sanchez A." , Colin Campbell , "S. Sathiya Keerthi" X-Reply-To: cjlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:42:39 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk CALL FOR PAPERS: special issue on SVM NEUROCOMPUTING An International Journal published by Elsevier Science B.V., vol. 42-47, 24 issues, in 2002 ISNN 0925-2312, URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom Special Issue on Support Vector Machines Paper Submission Deadline: February 28, 2002 Further information: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/svmcfp.html Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are currently a very active research area within machine learning. Motivated by statistical learning theory they have been successfully applied to numerous tasks within data mining, computer vision and bioinformatics, for example. SVMs are examples of a broader category of learning approaches which utilize the concept of kernel substitution, thereby making the task of learning more tractable by exploiting an implicit mapping into a high dimensional space. SVMs have many appealing properties for machine learning. For example, the classic SVM learning task involves quadratic programming: there is only one solution and this may be found by using many of the efficient algorithms developed in optimization theory. Furthermore, recently developed model selection strategies can be applied, so that few, if any, learning parameters must be set by the operator. Above all, they have been found to work very well in practice. The Neurocomputing journal invites original contributions for the forthcoming special issue on Support Vector Machines from a broad range of areas. Some topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not restricted to: -- Theoretical foundations, algorithms, and implementations -- Model selection and hyperparameter tuning -- Choosing kernels for special situations -- Probabilistic treatment of SVMs -- SVM methods for large scale problems -- Benchmarking SVMs against other methods -- Feature selection methods for SVMs -- Key applications including, but not restricted to data mining, bioinformatics, text categorization, machine vision, etc. Please send two hardcopies of the manuscript before February 28, 2002 to: V. David Sanchez A., Neurocomputing - Editor in Chief - Advanced Computational Intelligent Systems P.O. Box 60130, Pasadena, CA 91116-6130, U.S.A. Street address: 1149 Wotkyns Drive Pasadena, CA 91103, U.S.A. Fax: +1-626-793-5120 Email: vdavidsanchez@earthlink.net including abstract, keywords, a cover page containing the title and author names, corresponding author name's complete address including telephone, fax, and email address, and clear indication of submission to the Special Issue on Support Vector Machines. Guest Editors Colin Campbell Department of Engineering Mathematics Bristol University, Bristol BS8 1TR United Kingdom Phone: (+44) (0) 117 928 9858 Fax: (+44) (0)117-925-1154 Email: C.Campbell@bristol.ac.uk Chih-Jen Lin Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan, 106 Phone: (+886) 2-2362-5336 x 413 Fax: (+886) 2-2362-8167 Email: cjlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw S. Sathiya Keerthi Department of Mechanical Engineering National University of Singapore 10 KentRidge Crescent Singapore 119260 Republic of Singapore Phone: (+65) 874-4684 Fax: (+65) 779-1459 Email: mpessk@guppy.mpe.nus.edu.sg V. David Sanchez A., Neurocomputing - Editor in Chief - Advanced Computational Intelligent Systems P.O. Box 60130 Pasadena, CA 91116-6130 U.S.A. Fax: +1-626-793-5120 Email: vdavidsanchez@earthlink.net --- .