BAW-UAI09 2009 - Seventh Annual Workshop on Bayes Applications in conjunction with UAI/COLT/ICML

Bayes Applications Workshop 2009: Call for Participation


Seventh Annual Workshop on Bayes Applications
on Thursday 18 June, 2009
in conjunction with UAI/COLT/ICML, Montreal, CA


Submission Deadline: 20 April 2009
Acceptance Notification: 16 May 2009
Final Version Due: 13 June 2009


The 7th annual Bayes Applications Workshop is looking for real world
applications of graphical models and Bayes networks. We are especially
interested in contributions that emphasize the challenges encountered in
exploring novel domains — that are characteristic of the domain and the
software tools used. With contributions at the border of the academic and
non-academic community, our desire is to foster discussion and interchange.
Accordingly, we not only seek submissions from members of the immediate
conference community, but also strongly encourage submissions from
practitioners from a larger community.

Real world applications typically integrate theories and techniques from
multiple sources, taking a systems approach. One topic of particular
interest is how researchers and developers have reconciled apparently
conflicting demands of theory and practice in larger systems. Further, the
availability of mature academic and commercial software tools has spawned
numerous applications. We'd like to reach out this year to users of such tools,
especially those who have applied software in places and domains where they have
not been applied before: Many of the connections among researchers and
applications occur by virtue of software that researchers make available that is
applied by someone working on a real world problem.

In past years this workshop has addressed the UAI community. Now with the
joint workshop program, the AI/ML communities have grown closer, and we invite
participation of interested parties from all communities with an interest in
building graphical models.


Broad areas of interest:

Ecological & biological systems models
computer systems & dependability
dialog systems
fault isolation & root cause analysis
conflict analysis
disaster response
forensics
financial & economic modeling
...others


Submissions:

E-mail submissions to baw-uai09-AT-intel-research.net, in pdf format.
Submissions should be in UAI format, limited to 8 pages. Demonstrations to
accompany talks are encouraged. As in past years, proceedings
will be posted online.


Workshop format:

The format of the workshop will be a series of selected talks, and
posters, grouped to encourage discussion. We will leave time during breaks
for poster presentations. Speakers may also want to present posters of
their work in the poster session.

Workshop discussions tend to be informal, and the smaller group tends to
encourage more candid comments from presenters. We ask presenters to consider
why some projects succeed or fail in a larger organizational context, and
generally encourage them to take a multi-disciplinary approach. Hopefully this
will reveal lessons learned from projects that have shown value (or in some
cases, surprisingly failed to show value) in situations and organizations
motivated by specific needs.


Organizers:

John Mark Agosta, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA
Russell Almond, ETS, Princeton, NJ
Dennis Buede, Innovative Decisions, Vienna, VA
Marek J. Druzdzel, ISL, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Silja Renooij, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands