The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) will take place in Casa Convalescència, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from September 20th to 24th, 2010 .

This event builds upon a very successful series of 20 ECML and 13 PKDD conferences, the last nine editions of which have been have been organized jointly.

ECML PKDD has become the major European scientific event in these fields and in 2010 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.

Key Dates

* Abstract submission deadline 23rd of April 2010
* Paper submission deadline 30th of April 2010
* Notification to authors on 21st of June 2010
* Camera ready due on 4th of July

Organization

Program Comittee Chairs

* José Balcázar, UPC and University of Cantabria
* Francesco Bonchi, Yahoo! Research
* Aristides Gionis, Yahoo! Research
* Michèle Sebag, CNRS

Workshop & Tutorial Chairs

* Gemma C. Garriga, Univarsity of Paris VI
* Colin de la Higuera, Nantes University

Discovery Challenge Chairs

* András Benczúr, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
* Carlos Castillo - Yahoo! Research
* Zoltán Gyöngyi - Google
* Julien Masanès - European Internet Archive

Organization Chairs

* Ricard Gavaldà, UPC
* Elena Torres, Barcelona Media

Publicity Chair

* Ricard Gavaldà, UPC

Sponsorship Chair

* Debora Donato, Yahoo! Research

Web Master

* Albert Bifet, University of Waikato