The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD 2015) will take place on September 7 of 2015, in Porto Portugal (http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/). The conference includes a PhD session that provides an environment for students to exchange their ideas and experiences with peers and senior researchers in machine learning, data mining, and related areas.

We invite PhD students (PhD in progress or defended not earlier than 31st December 2014) to submit papers on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications.

Papers submitted to ECML/PKDD 2015 PhD session will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be presented in the special PhD session at ECMLPKDD 2015 and will be published in the session proceedings which will be available through the conference website.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: June 10 2015

Author notification: July 15 2015

Camera-ready: August 5 2015

Doctoral consortium session: September 7 2015  

Detailed information about the PhD Session is available on:

http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/submission/doctoral-consortium

For further information please contact the ECMLPKDD 2015 PhD Chairs:

Jaakko Hollmen (Aalto University)

Panagiotis Papapetrou (Stockholm University)

Hope to see you all soon in Porto, Portugal!!!

The publicity chairs of the ECMLPKDD 2015,

Carlos Abreu Ferreira

Ricardo Campos