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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to ECML-PKDD 2012 in Bristol, UK. We have worked hard -- together with a local team and a large number of dedicated chairs who are listed in the conference proceedings -- to bring you a high-quality and varied scientific programme. This booklet has been put together to help you find your way through the conference and make the most of your stay in Bristol. 

In addition to this programme booklet we have developed two online tools that provide personalised recommendations based on your publication profile on DBLP. One is accessible via a web browser and the other is an iPhone app available from the App Store; surf to \url{www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/apps/} for the links. These conference planners are brought to you by the PreSift team: 
Ruthie Hambley, 
Tom Kelly, 
Louise Millard, 
Andrew Pickin and
Simon Price. 
We hope you find them useful -- feel free to email \url{PreSift@cs.bris.ac.uk} with your feedback. 

No conference would be possible without a team of dedicated volunteers, and we gratefully acknowledge the help of the following MSc students, PhD students and postdocs: 

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Reem Al-Otaibi\\
Qipeng Chen\\
Ilias Flaounas\\
Noor Hafhizah\\
Osian Haines\\
Joe Heath\\
Elena Hensinger\\
Patricia Jim\'{e}nez Aguirre\\
Nanlin Jin\\
Namita Kalantri\\
Georgios Kalogiros\\
David Kirchheimer\\
Akis Kontonasios\\
Tom Lansdall-Welfare\\
Daniel Lewis\\
Kevin Lloyd\\
Foteini Markatopoulou\\
Louise Millard\\
Pablo Munoz Espada\\
Ricardo \~{N}anculef\\
Yizhao Ni\\
Athanasia Notta\\
Andrew Pickin\\
Seyed Ali Sadegh Zadeh\\
Nick Sampson\\
Raul Santos-Rodriguez\\
Pranshu Saxena\\
Rakhi Singh\\
Eirini Spyropoulou\\
Saatviga Sudhahar\\
Claudio Taranto\\
Konstantin Tretjakov\\
Bowen Yan
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During the week they can be recognised by their blue T-shirts with the ECML-PKDD 2012 logo (you can pick up your own T-shirt on Friday). Please talk to them if you have any questions, they are there to help. 

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Peter Flach, Tijl De Bie and Nello Cristianini\\
\url{ECMLPKDD2012pcchairs@cs.bris.ac.uk}
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