kevin murphy rxysyew9gmailcom dear colleagues would like invite participate workshop statistical models networks sat 8th december nips07 whistler bc due several requests extended deadline abstract submissions oct 31st please send 12 pages pdf format murphykcsubcca details found httpwwwcsubccamurphyknips07networkworkshop kevin murphy lise getoor eric xing raphael gottardo purpose workshop bring together people different disciplines computer science statistics biology physics social science etc discuss foundational issues modeling network relational data particular hope discuss various open research issues represent graphs varying levels abstraction whose topology potentially conditionspecific timevarying combine techniques graphical model structure learning community techniques statistical network modeling community integrate relational data kinds data eg gene expression text data six stellar invited speakers mark handcock peter hoff stephen fienberg stanley wasserman volker tresp jasmine zhou already accepted however also soliciting abstracts related work broaden scope workshop improve exchange ideas please send 2 pages pdf format jkqgmpacsubcca october 31st describe relevant work currently recently published due time constraints accepted abstracts presented poster andor short spotlight however accepted abstracts also posted online thu 07 aug 2008 234945 0700 uai 2nd cfp nips workshop statistical models networks