Key Dates & Deadlines

Workshop proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chairs and reviewers to judge the importance, quality, and community interest in the proposed topic (a minimum of 15-20 expected participants is required). Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers and a program. When proposing a workshop, please provide (at least) the following information:

• A brief description of the specific issues that the workshop will address, the reasons why the workshop is of interest, the main research areas involved, and what the workshop will add to the conference (e.g., do you expect papers of a theme that would not fit the main conference?).
• Contact information of the workshop chairs, their competence in the proposed topic(s), and previous experience in chairing scientific events.
• A tentative list of Program Committee members and potential invited speakers.
• A draft of the Call for Papers, including information on accepted formats (e.g., regular papers, extended abstracts, oral-only presentations of relevant recently published or submitted contributions, etc.) and expected format of the workshop (e.g., invited talks, presentations, poster sessions, panel discussions, challenge sessions, or other ideas for ensuring an interactive atmosphere). In the case of a combined tutorial - workshop, please clearly indicate the format.
• Any special requirements regarding logistics (e.g., poster stands, audio equipment), if applicable.
• An estimate of the number of expected submissions and workshop participants at the conference. Proof of interest from the community will be of added value to the proposal.
• If you are proposing a tutorial + workshop event, we kindly ask you to write a single proposal that covers both. In addition, the links should be clearly described, and the proposal should be submitted to the workshop and tutorial chairs. For tutorial guidelines, please see the separate Call For Tutorial Proposals.

Features that will be evaluated are:

• The interestingness of the ECML PKDD areas should result in a large audience.
• The maturity and popularity of the workshop subject; we expect that the workshop addresses a small and active community of researchers, who ideally submit to the workshop every year
• Experience of the proposers in organizing such an event and contacts within the addressed community of researchers
• Involvement of renowned members of this community as anticipated authors or reviewers The combined tutorial+workshop proposals will be reviewed jointly by the workshop and tutorial co-chair, who may use the help of external reviewers and experts on the submission topics.