------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers ALT 2001 The Twelfth International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory Washington D.C., November 25-28, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 12th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'01) will be held in Washington DC (USA), during November 25-28, 2001. The conference will be co-located with the fourth international conference on Discovery Science (DS'2001). The main objective of the conference is to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for discussion of theoretical foundations of machine learning, as well as their relevance to practical applications. Important Dates. Submission Deadline: May 10, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2001 Camera-ready Due: August 1, 2001 Conference: November 25-28, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Details Topics of Interest: We invite submissions to ALT'01 in all areas related to algorithmic learning theory, and those that are aimed at bridging theory and practice. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): the design and analysis of learning algorithms, computational models of machine learning (such as on-line learning, learning via queries, inductive inference, PAC-learning), specific algorithmic approaches (boosting, kernel methods, MDL-estimation), learning complex models (neural networks, Bayesian networks, inductive logic programming, grammatical inference, case-based reasoning), machine discovery, and applications of machine learning to data mining, the web and bioinformatics. Format: The submitted paper should consist of a cover page with title, authors' names, postal and e-mail addresses, an approximately 200 word summary, and a body not longer than ten (10) A4 or letter size pages in twelve-point font. You may use appendices to include long but major proofs. If you submit hardcopies, double-sided printing is encouraged. Policy: Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the program committee and judged on clarity, significance, and originality. Joint submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed. Papers that have appeared in journals or other conferences are not appropriate for ALT'01. Proceedings will be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes Series in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, and will be available at the conference. Selected papers of ALT'01 will be invited to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. E.M. Gold Award: One scholarship of $500 sponsored by IFIP Working Group 1.4 will be awarded to a student author (please mark student submissions on title page) of an excellent paper. Authors may either e-mail postscript files of their papers to roni@eecs.tufts.edu, or submit nine copies of their papers to: Roni Khardon EECS Department Tufts University 161 College Ave. Medford, MA 02155 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference Chair: Thomas Zeugmann Medizinische Universitat Lubeck, Germany Email: thomas@tcs.mu-luebeck.de Program Committee Chairs: N. Abe (IBM, USA) R. Khardon (Tufts Univ., USA.) Program Committee: H. Arimura (Kyushu Univ., Japan) J. Aslam (Dartmouth College, USA) P. Bartlett (Barnhill Technologies, Australia) A. Blumer (Tufts Univ., USA) C. Domingo (Synera Systems, Spain) C. de la Higuera (Univ. St. Etienne, France) S. Lange (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany) P. Long (National University, Singapore) E. Martin (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) A. Nakamura (NEC Laboratories., Japan) V. Raghavan (Vanderbilt Univ., USA) D. Roth (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) J. Shawe-Taylor (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK) E. Takimoto (Tohoku Univ., Japan) C. Tamon (Clarkson Univ., USA) Local Arrangements Committee: C. Smith (Univ. of Maryland) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference home page: http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~roni/ALT2001/ ALT series home page: http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~thomas/ALTARCH/altarch.jhtml For more information, please contact: Program Committee Naoki Abe ( nabe@us.ibm.com) or Roni Khardon ( roni@eecs.tufts.edu) Local arrangements Committee Carl Smith ( smith@cs.umd.edu ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------