The First Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2009) was held at
Nanjing, China during November 2-4, 2009.This was the ?rst edition of a
series of annual conferences which aim to provide a leading
international forum for researchers in machine learning and related
?elds to share their new ideas and research ?ndings. This year we
received 113 submissions from 18 countries and regions in Asia,
Australasia, Europe and North America. The submissions went through a r-
orous double-blind reviewing process. Most submissions received four
reviews, a few submissions received ?ve reviews, while only several
submissions received three reviews. Each submission was handled by an
Area Chair who coordinated discussions among reviewers and made
recommendation on the submission. The Program Committee Chairs examined
the reviews and meta-reviews to further guarantee the reliability and
integrity of the reviewing process. Twenty-nine - pers were selected
after this process. To ensure that important revisions required by
reviewers were incorporated into the ?nal accepted papers, and to allow
submissions which would have - tential after a careful revision, this
year we launched a "revision double-check" process. In short, the
above-mentioned 29 papers were conditionally accepted, and the authors
were requested to incorporate the "important-and-must"re-
sionssummarizedbyareachairsbasedonreviewers'comments.Therevised?nal
version and the revision list of each conditionally accepted paper was
examined by the Area Chair and Program Committee Chairs. Papers that
failed to pass the examination were ?nally rejected.
