From - Tue Dec 2 02:00:20 1997 Received: from CS.Stanford.EDU (CS.Stanford.EDU [171.64.64.64]) by robotics.Stanford.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA16528; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from listserv-mail.surfnet.nl (listserv-mail.surfnet.nl [192.87.5.141]) by CS.Stanford.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA05244; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from listserv-mail (192.87.5.141) by listserv-mail.surfnet.nl (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.079767F0@listserv-mail.surfnet.nl>; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:50:42 +0100 Received: from NIC.SURFNET.NL by NIC.SURFNET.NL (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 5744 for DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:56:12 +0100 Received: from HEARN (NJE origin SMTP@HEARN) by HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 5934; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:56:09 +0100 Received: from utmfu6.math.utwente.nl by HEARN.nic.SURFnet.nl (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Tue, 25 Nov 97 18:56:03 +0100 Received: from utmfu0.math.utwente.nl (utmou1.math.utwente.nl) by utmfu6.math.utwente.nl with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA019830478; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:54:39 +0100 Received: by utmfu0.math.utwente.nl ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/16.2) id AA043070476; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:54:36 +0100 Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.36.1.1] Approved-By: DMANET Message-ID: <199711251754.AA043070476@utmfu0.math.utwente.nl> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 18:54:35 MET Reply-To: bartlett@keating.anu.edu.au Sender: DMANET From: DMANET Subject: COLT98 call for papers To: DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL Status: O X-Status: CALL FOR PAPERS: COLT '98 Eleventh Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory University of Wisconsin-Madison July 24-26, 1998 The Eleventh Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT '98) will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Friday, July 24 through Sunday, July 26, 1998. The conference will be co-located with the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML '98) and the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '98). Registrants to any of COLT, ICML, or UAI will be allowed to attend, without additional costs, the technical sessions of the other two conferences. Joint invited speakers, poster session, and a panel session are planned for the three conferences. The conferences will be directly followed by the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '98). The AAAI tutorial and workshop program will be held the day after the co-located conferences (Monday, July 27), and we anticipate that this program will include workshops and tutorials in the machine learning area. On the same day, UAI will offer a full day course on uncertain reasoning. There will be six other AI-related conferences held in Madison around this time. We invite papers in all areas that relate directly to the analysis of learning algorithms and the theory of machine learning. Some of the issues and topics that have been addressed in the past include: * design and analysis of learning algorithms; * sample and computational complexity of learning specific model classes; * frameworks modeling the interaction between the learner, teacher and the environment (such as learning with queries, learning control policies and inductive inference); * learning using complex models (such as neural networks and decision trees); * learning with minimal prior assumptions (such as mistake-bound models, universal prediction, and agnostic learning). We strongly encourage submissions from all disciplines engaged in research on these and related questions. Examples of such fields include computer science, statistics, information theory, pattern recognition, statistical physics, inductive logic programming, information retrieval and reinforcement learning. We also encourage the submission of papers describing experimental results that are supported by theoretical analysis. EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Authors are encouraged to submit their extended abstracts electronically. Instructions for electronic submissions can be obtained by sending email to colt98@anu.edu.au with subject "help". Alternatively, authors may submit fourteen copies (preferably two-sided) of an extended abstract to: Peter Bartlett -- COLT '98 Department of Systems Engineering RSISE Building 115 Australian National University Canberra 0200 Australia Telephone (for express mail): +61 2 6279 8681 Extended abstracts (whether hard-copy or electronic) must be received by 5:00pm Canberra time (= 1:00am Eastern Time) on FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1998. This deadline is firm. (We also will accept extended abstracts sent via air mail and postmarked by January 19.) Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection on or before April 3, 1998. Final camera-ready versions will be due by May 1. Papers that have appeared in journals or other conferences, or that are being submitted to other conferences (including ICML and UAI), are not appropriate for submission to COLT. EXTENDED ABSTRACT FORMAT: The extended abstract should be accompanied by a cover page with title, authors' names, postal and email addresses, and a 200-word summary. The body of the extended abstract should be no longer than 10 pages in 12-point font. If it exceeds 10 pages, only the first 10 pages may be examined. The extended abstract should include a clear definition of the theoretical model used and a clear description of the results, as well as a discussion of their significance, including comparison to other work. Proofs or proof sketches should be included. PROGRAM FORMAT: All accepted papers will be presented orally, although some or all papers may also be included in a poster session. At the discretion of the program committee, the program may consist of both long and short talks, corresponding to longer and shorter papers in the proceedings. By default, all papers will be considered for both categories. Authors who do not want their papers considered for the short category should indicate that fact in a cover letter. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Peter Bartlett (Australian National University) Yishay Mansour (Tel-Aviv University) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Dana Angluin (Yale University), Peter Auer (Technical University Graz), Jonathan Baxter (Australian National University), Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon University), Nicoló Cesa-Bianchi (University of Milan), William Cohen (AT&T Labs), Bill Gasarch (University of Maryland), Vijay Raghavan (Vanderbilt University), Dan Roth (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ronitt Rubinfeld (Cornell University), Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley), Rolf Wiehagen (University of Kaiserslautern) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: John Case (University of Delaware), Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Bob Sloan (University of Illinois, Chicago). WEB: Dana Ron (MIT). STUDENT TRAVEL: We anticipate some funds will be available to partially support travel by student authors. Eligible authors who wish to apply for travel support should indicate this in a cover letter. STUDENT PAPER PRIZE: The Mark Fulk Award for the best paper authored or coauthored by a student is expected to be available for the first time this year. Eligible authors who wish to be considered for this prize should indicate this on the cover page. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit the COLT'98 web page at http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/COLT-98/, or send email to colt98@anu.edu.au. -- ****************************************************** Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to DMANET@math.utwente.nl Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The original sender, however, is invited to prepare an update of the replies received and to communicate it via DMANET. DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)