This CFP was sent to several mailing lists. Please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies. Akira Maruoka ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS---ALT 97 The Eighth International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory Sendai, Japan October 6-8, 1997 ______________________________________________________________________ The 8th International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'97) will be held in Sendai, Japan during October 6-8, 1997. The workshop is sponsored by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) and Tohoku University. We invite submissions to ALT'97 in all areas related to algorithmic learning theory including (but not limited to): the design and analysis of learning algorithms, the theory of machine learning, computational logic of/for machine discovery, inductive inference, learning via queries, artificial and biological neural networks, pattern recognition, learning by analogy, Bayesian/MDL/MML estimation, statistical learning, inductive logic programming, application of learning to databases and biological sequence analysis. In addition to above theoretical topics, we invite submissions to two special tracks on data mining and case-based learning, aimed at promoting applications of theoretical ideas. INVITED TALKS. Invited talks will be given by Manuel Blum (UC Berkeley and City Univ. Hong Kong), Wolfgang Maass (Tech. Univ. Graz), Lenny Pitt (Univ. Illinois), and Masahiko Sato (Kyoto Univ.). SUBMISSIONS. Authors may either e-mail postscript files of their abstracts to mli@cs.cityu.edu.hk, or submit nine copies of their extended abstracts to: Professor Ming Li - ALT'97 Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon, Hong Kong Abstracts must be received by April 1, 1997. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be (e)mailed to the first (or designated) author by May 19, 1997. Camera-ready copy of accepted papers will be due June 16, 1997. FORMAT. The submitted abstract should consist of a cover page with title, author names, postal and e-mail addresses, an approximately 200 word summary, and a body not longer than ten (10) pages of size A4 or 7x10.5 inches 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 abstract will be reviewed by the members of the program committee, and be 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'97. Proceedings will be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, and will be available at the conference. Selected papers of ALT'97 will be invited to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. One scholarship of $500US sponsored by IFIP TC 1.4 will be awarded to a student author (please mark student authors) in order to attend ALT'97. Conference chair: Professor Akira Maruoka Tohoku University Sendai, Japan 980 maruoka@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp Program committee chair: Ming Li (City Univ. HK and Univ. Waterloo) Program Committee: Naoki Abe (NEC, Japan) Nader Bshouty (Univ. Calgary, Canada) Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi (Milano Univ., Italy) Makoto Haraguchi (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) Hiroki Ishizaka (Kyushu Tech., Japan) Klaus P. Jantke (HTWK Leipzig, Germany) Philip Long (Nat. Univ. Singapore, Singapore) Shinichi Morishita (IBM Japan, Japan) Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka Univ., Japan) Yasubumi Sakakibara (Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan) Arun Sharma (New South Wales, Australia) Ayumi Shinohara (Kyushu Univ., Japan) Carl Smith (Univ. Maryland, USA) Frank Stephan (RKU, Germany) Naftali Tishby (Hebrew Univ., Israel) Paul Vitanyi (CWI, Netherlands) Les Valiant (Harvard, USA) Osamu Watanabe (Titech., Japan) Takashi Yokomori (UEC, Japan) Bin Yu (UC Berkeley, USA) Local arrangements chair: Professor Hirotomo Aso Graduate School of Engineering Tohoku University Sendai, Japan 980 alt97@maruoka.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp For more information, contact: Email: alt97@maruoka.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp Homepage: http://www.maruoka.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~alt97 ^_