kevin murphy rxysyew9gmailcom dear colleagues would like invite participate workshop statistical models networks 7th 8th december nips07 whistler bc see url details httpwwwcsubccamurphyknips07networkworkshop 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 adrian raftery peter hoff stephen fienberg stanley wasserman volker tresp jasmine zhou already accepted however seeking additional contributions community order broaden scope form basis fruitful discussion would like contribute please send 12 page abstract october 15 1159pm pst murphykcsubcca details looking forward seeing kevin murphy lise getoor eric xing raphael gottardo submission instructions researchers interested contributing send extended abstract 12 pages pdf format jkqgmpacsubcca october 15 2007 1159pm pst special style required note previously published work acceptable unless appears main nips07 conference long clearly marked acceptance decisions made october 31st decisions made four organizers based relevance quality balance topics due time constraints accepted abstracts presented poster andor short spotlight however accepted abstracts also posted online proceedings thu 07 aug 2008 214547 0700 uai cfp nips workshop statistical models networks