The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) will take place in Porto, Portugal, from September 7th to 11th, 2015.

This event is the leading European scientific event on machine learning and data mining and builds upon a very successful series of 25 ECML and 18 PKDD conferences, which have been jointly organized for the past 14 years.

The 2015 edition will host, for the first time, the Summer School on Data Sciences for Big Data.

The program will include plenary keynote talks of invited speakers, a series of tutorials and workshops and a discovery challenge.