Key Dates & Deadlines

The proposals should cover the end to end organization of a challenge. The proposal should be 2 to max 4 pages and should contain the following information:

• Problem description: Why is the problem challenging and interesting? What is the real-world application and impact (research/societal, etc.)? Potential research impact?
• Details on the exact tasks and the data (size, availability of meta data)
• Privacy and ethical concerns and considerations related to the problem, tasks and data.
• Evaluation: Describe how you will perform the evaluation. For example, what type of metrics you will use and how you will ensure a fair and rigid evaluation, are there just quantitative tasks or also qualitative etc.
• Communication plan: How do you plan to communicate and market the challenge? How do you drive the volume submissions? How do you ensure the challenge is made accessible for a a wide variety of participants, so that everyone could attend? How do you plan to communicate the results?
  • Technical details:
  • The platform you will use to host the challenge, discussion areas, leaderboard.
  • Baselines and code for data accessing that you will provide to participants. Will these be shared through github?
• Required and optional reporting requirements for the participants’ submissions, like for example, a report, code etc. ECML PKDD can offer facilities to upload papers (CMT).
• Timeline for the challenge. Note that you should respect the overall time frame mentioned above.
• Awards: The type of awards/prizes you will consider for the winning solutions.
• Details of the organizers of the challenge (Short CVs, Contact Details).

Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDD2024

Please submit your proposal as: Create new submission and select the track: Discovery Challenge.