ECML PKDD 2008

We are very pleased to announce the best paper and best student paper award winners of ECML PKDD 2008. The selection was done by the program chairs based on the recommendations of the area chairs and program committee members. We are grateful to the Machine Learning journal and the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal who sponsor the Best Machine Learning Student Paper Award and the Best Knowledge Discovery Student Paper Award respectively. The awards will be handed to the winners at the conference opening ceremony on monday evening, september 15th.

And the winners are ...

Best Machine Learning Paper

"Improving Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization",
by Markus Weimer, Alexandros Karatzoglou, Alex Smola
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Best Knowledge Discovery Paper

"SkyGraph: An Algorithm for Important Subgraph Discovery in Relational Graphs",
by Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Apostolos Lyritsis, and Yannis Manolopoulos.
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Best Machine Learning Student Paper

Sponsored by the Machine Learning journal
"New Closed-form Upper Bounds on the Partition Function",
by Dvijotham Krishnamurthy, Soumen Chakrabarti, and Subhasis Chaudhuri.
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Best Knowledge Discovery Student Paper

Sponsored by the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal
"The Boolean Column and Column-Row Matrix Decompositions",
by Pauli Miettinen.
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