Useful links:
Sources of Information and Educational Materials
- Artificial Intelligence Topics hosted by the Association for the Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Organized in the form of a wiki it is a good source
of AI related materials for both advanced and beginning readers.
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php - Videolectures.net hosts recorded lectures in many domains, including those of
interest to the CIML community. The lectures are mostly on very specific topics
and addressed for people with prior knowledge in these domains.
http://videolectures.net/Top/Computer_Science/Machine_Learning/
http://videolectures.net/Top/Computer_Science/Data_Mining/ - The PASCAL and PASCAL II networks are European collaboration initiatives in the CIML related fields.
http://www.pascal-network.org - Neural Network Resources (NNR). This is an online community interested in anything related to neural networks.
The website provides educational materials, publications, software, and more.
http://www.neoxi.com/NNR/index.html - DBLP. This is a server that provides free bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
It indexes over one million articles.
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/index.html
Journals and Magazines
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. The leading journal in artificial neural networks
http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tnn/ - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. The leading journal in evolutionary computation.
http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tec/ - Machine Learning. One of the leading journals in the field of machine learning.
http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/10994 - Journal of Machine Learning Research. One of the leading journals in the field. It concerns mostly statistical
approaches to machine learning. It is an online journal with fast review process.
http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu - IEEE Intelligent Systems. One of the leading magazines in the field.
http://www.computer.org/intelligent - IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. A magazine published by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/magazine/
Organizations
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
The leading organization in the field of Artificial Intelligence. It organizes, co-organizes, and sponsors multiple conferences,
workshops, symposia, and other events.
http://www.aaai.org - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).
http://ieee-cis.org/ - IEEE Computer Society.
http://www.computer.org - International Neural Network Society (INNS)
http://www.inns.org/ - Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ACM SIGEVO).
The group organizes two major conferences in the area of evolutionary computation – GECCO and FOGA.
Many interesting articles can be also found in the group’s publication called Sigevolution.
http://www.sigevo.org/ - Knowledge Discovery Network (KDNet). This is an open network supported by the European Commission for the purpose of
collaboration between academia and industry for the advancement of knowledge discovery and data mining.
www.kdnet.org/kdnet/control/about_kdnet - KDubiq. This is a public network funded by the European Union intended to “set up a homogenous platform for
building intelligent ubiquitous knowledge discovery systems”. The primary goal is advancement in the area of
ubiquitous knowledge discovery.
http://www.kdubiq.org/kdubiq/control/index - Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN).
This is a virtual community of shared resources in biomedicine and related fields. It provides innumerable tools, data, and
resources for research and collaboration – excellent site.
http://www.nbirn.net/
Departments, Groups, and Laboratories
- Computational Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Louisville
http://www.ci.louisville.edu - Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory at George Mason University.
http://www.mli.gmu.edu/ - Carnegie Mellon University Machine Learning Department
http://www.ml.cmu.edu/ - Computational Intelligence Research Group at the University of Pretoria.
http://cirg.cs.up.ac.za/ - Kernel-Machines Organization. This is an online community dedicated to machine learning methods built on
kernels (such as support vector machines). It provides links, information, and other resources.
http://www.kernel-machines.org/ - Mining Mart. This site is intended to provide public software and example cases for end-users of data mining techniques.
http://mmart.cs.uni-dortmund.de/
Data
- University of California at Irvine Machine Learning Repository. The best
well-known repository of datasets used in testing machine learning methods. The
repository maintains over 170 datasets and provides results of application of
different methods for comparison.
www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html - Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM). A large and very popular database of digitized screening mammograms.
http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/Mammography/Database.html - The Neuroscience Database Gateway (NDG). This is an online repository of databases and software related to neuroscience.
http://ndg.sfn.org/
Software
- Computational Intelligence Library.
http://cilib.sourceforge.net/ - Java Neural Network Simulator. This site provides a Java-based neural network simulator with a good GUI.
http://www.ra.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/software/JavaNNS/welcome_e.html - WEBSOM – Self-Organizing Maps for Internet Exploration.
This site provides a demo for Kohonen self-organizing maps.
The networks are used to map (relate) large numbers of online documents.
http://websom.hut.fi/websom - WEKA. This site provides public open-source Java-based software for the creation and/or application of
machine learning techniques to real world problems. This website is based at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/ - JavaSOM. This site provides a java-based implementation of unsupervised self-organizing neural networks.
http://javasom.sourceforge.net/ - Java Object Oriented Neural Engine (Joone).
This site provides a java-based framework for developing, training, and testing custom artificial neural networks.
http://www.jooneworld.com/