The European Conference on “Machine Learning” and “Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases” (ECML-PKDD) provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high-quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases and other innovative application domains.
Submissions are invited on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications.

The overriding criteria for acceptance will be a paper’s:

* potential to inspire the research community by introducing new and relevant problems, concepts, solution strategies, and ideas;
* contribution to solving a problem widely recognized as both challenging and important;
* capability to address a novel area of impact of machine learning and data mining.

Other criteria are scientific rigour and correctness, challenges overcome, quality and reproducibility of the experiments, and presentation.