ECML PKDD, the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, is one of the leading[1][2] academic conferences on machine learning and knowledge discovery, held in Europe every year.
ECML PKDD is a merger of two European conferences, European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD).
[4] The history of ECML dates back to 1986, when the European Working Session on Learning was first held.
Originally PKDD stood for the European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery from Databases.
[5] The name European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases was used since 1999.