From owner-theorynt@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Mon Mar 9 09:09:33 1998 Received: from CS.Stanford.EDU (CS.Stanford.EDU [171.64.64.64]) by robotics.Stanford.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29073 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 09:09:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from listserv.nodak.edu (listserv.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.8]) by CS.Stanford.EDU (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA14162; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 09:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from listserv (134.129.111.8) by listserv.nodak.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.C5139FF0@listserv.nodak.edu>; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:09:03 -0600 Received: from LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU by LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 100021 for THEORYNT@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:09:01 -0600 Received: from listserv (134.129.111.8) by listserv.nodak.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.C38EFBC0@listserv.nodak.edu>; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:09:01 -0600 Received: from LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU by LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 100010 for THEORY-A@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:09:00 -0600 Received: from pollux.usc.edu by listserv.nodak.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.C312EDF0@listserv.nodak.edu>; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:09:00 -0600 Received: (from ierardi@localhost) by pollux.usc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/usc) id JAA20463 for theory-a@vm1.nodak.edu; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 09:08:59 -0800 (PST) Approved-By: Doug Ierardi Approved-By: Theory-A - TheoryNet World-Wide Events Message-ID: <199803090727.QAA01715@malone.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 09:08:59 PST Reply-To: Theory-A - TheoryNet World-Wide Events , Thomas Zeugmann Sender: TheoryNet List From: Thomas Zeugmann Subject: 1st Int. WS on APPLIED LEARNING THEORY Comments: To: THEORY-A@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU To: THEORYNT@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Status: OR Dear Colleagues, I apologize if you receive this CFP more than once. Please distribute. With best regards, Thomas Zeugmann _______________________________________________________________________ C A L L F O R P A P E R S Workshop on Applied Learning Theory Leipzig, Germany October 12, 1998 http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~slange/altws98.html OBJECTIVES. The One-day-workshop on Applied Learning Theory will be organized as a post-workshop to the 9th International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'98) which will be held at the European Academy, Otzenhausen, Germany, during October 8--10, 1998. It is supported by the University of Leipzig, Institute for Computer Science. Algorithmic Learning Theory emerged roughly 30 years ago but real applications of it are still rare. This workshop aims to stimulate fruitful discussions between people working on real applications and in theory. Ideally, people in theory should benefit by learning about challenging research problems which arose in practice, and people in application may benefit by getting answers to their problems from theoreticians. We therefore kindly invite: - people who are studying applications of algorithmic learning theory to a real domain, - people who are using empirical learning techniques and who are interested in a formal analysis of their techniques, - people who have problems which might be solved using machine learning techniques. WORKSHOP PROGRAM. The program will consist of a maximum of 15 talks. Presentations will take 25 minutes (including 5--10 minutes discussion). Accepted papers will be distributed via the workshop homepage before the workshop for stimulating the discussion. The workshop proceedings will be published by the University of Leipzig, Institute for Computer Science, and will be available at the workshop. Additionally, one page abstracts of the accepted papers will be published as part of the ALT'98 Proceedings which appear in the Lecture Notes Series in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag (available at the conference). We invite submissions dealing with (but not limited to) the following topics: 1. application of algorithmic learning techniques to the Genome Project, to knowledge discovery in the internet, to motion control learning, to learning from multimedia data bases, to financial engineering, to learning winning strategies in games, 2. empirical learning techniques which have great success in real applications but need some formal analysis, and 3. new problem descriptions which are promising to lead to new applications of learning techniques. SUBMISSION GUIDELINESS. 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 10 pages of size A4 or 7 x 10.5 inches in twelve-point font. For facilitating the intended discussion, please clearly indicate to which of the above mentioned categories your paper belongs, and be as specific as possible in describing the contribution your paper is going to make. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the program committee on its relevance for the workshop. SUBMISSION SCHEDULE. Authors may either e-mail postscript files of their papers to: slange@informatik.uni-leipzig.de or submit six copies of their papers to: Dr. Steffen Lange University of Leipzig Institute for Computer Science Augustus-Platz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany PAPERS must be received by APRIL 30, 1998. Electronic paper submissions are prefered. If you submit hardcopies, double-sided printing is encouraged. NOTIFICATION of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be (e)mailed to the first (or designated) author by May 31, 1998. The camera-ready copy of the title page of accepted papers will be due June 15, 1998. The camera-ready copy of the final version of accepted papers will be due June 30, 1998. Accepted papers will be available on the workshop homepage by July 15, 1998. Program Committee G. Brewka (Univ. Leipzig, Germany) S. Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slowenia) S. Lange (Univ. Leipzig, Germany) M. Numao (Tokyo Inst. Technology, Japan) K. Satoh (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) T. Zeugmann (Kyushu Univ., Japan) Local Arrangements Dr. Steffen Lange University of Leipzig More information is provided via the homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~slange/altws98.html