Tutorial Track
The ECML PKDD 2025 Organizing Committee invites proposals for half-day tutorials to be held on the first and last days of the conference (September 15th and 19th, 2025), which will take place in Porto, Portugal. Tutorials are intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest to the machine learning and data mining community. These topics include related research fields or applications but also well-developed tools and suites that support ML/DM research. The ideal tutorial should attract a wide audience. It should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its content can be covered in a half-day slot. For relatively novel but rapidly maturing topics, we encourage a format that combines a half day tutorial (4h incl. one 30 minute break) followed by a half-day workshop (also 4h incl. one 30 minute break). Proposals that exclusively focus on the presenter’s own work or commercial demonstrations are strongly discouraged. We offer a waived registration fee for attendance of the main conference to one speaker for each accepted no-online tutorial.
The organizers of each tutorial will have the opportunity to have an extended abstract describing their tutorial included in the proceedings.
Key Dates & Deadlines
SubmissionTutorial Proposal Submission system opens
2025-01-10
Tutorial Proposal Deadline
2025-02-03
Tutorial Proposal Acceptance Notification
2025-03-01
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Guidelines for Tutorial Proposals
Evaluation of Tutorial Proposals
Guidelines for Tutorial Proposals
Tutorial proposals should contain at least the following:
- A title and abstract of the tutorial.
- A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the ECML PKDD community (no more than 2 pages).
- A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial’s core content can be covered in a 4 hours slot (including a 30 minutes break).
- The names and contact information of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise; it is required to indicate in the proposal who is planning to attend the conference and who will present which part.
- A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an estimate of the audience size.
- A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g., audio equipment).
- An indication on whether the tutorial is part of a combined tutorial+workshop proposal. In that case, we kindly ask you to write a single proposal for the tutorial and workshop, following the guidelines and attending to the requirements for tutorials and workshops. For workshop guidelines, please see the separate Call For Workshop Proposals. Submit the combined proposal in both tracks.
- Please provide a link to slides from earlier similar tutorials (if any).
Evaluation of Tutorial Proposals
reviewed by the workshop and tutorial co-chairs, who may use the help of external reviewers and experts on the submission topics. Features that will be evaluated are:
- The interestingness for the ECML PKDD areas, which should result in a large audience.
- The clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description.
- Good organization as appearing from the outline.
- The scientific renown and experience of the tutorialists in the topic area of the proposed tutorial
- The ability to explain the topics to a large audience with heterogeneous background.
