mli@water.waterloo.edu (Ming Li) (09/18/90)
CALL FOR PAPERS
COLT '91
Fourth Workshop on Computational Learning Theory
Santa Cruz, CA. August 5-7, 1991
The fourth workshop on Computational Learning Theory will be held at
the Santa Cruz Campus of the University of California. Registration
is open, within the limits of the space available (about 150 people).
In previous years COLT has focused primarily on developments in the
analysis of learning algorithms within certain computational learning
models. This year we would like to widen the scope of the workshop by
encouraging papers in all areas that relate directly to the theory of
machine learning, including artificial and biological neural networks,
robotics, pattern recognition, information theory, decision theory,
Bayesian/MDL estimation, and cryptography. We look forward to a lively,
interdisciplinary meeting.
As part of our program, we are pleased to present two special invited talks.
"Gambling, Inference and Data Compression"
Prof. Tom Cover of Stanford University
"The Role of Learning in Autonomous Robots"
Prof. Rodney Brooks of MIT
Authors should submit an extended abstract that consists of:
(1) A cover page with title, authors' names,
(postal and e-mail) addresses, and a 200 word summary.
(2) A body not longer than 10 pages in twelve-point font.
Be sure to include a clear definition of the theoretical model used,
an overview of the results, and some discussion of their significance,
including comparison to other work. Proofs or proof sketches should be
included in the technical section. Experimental results are welcome,
but are expected to be supported by theoretical analysis. Authors
should send 11 copies of their abstract to L.G. Valiant, COLT '91,
Aiken Computing Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
The deadline for receiving submissions is February 15, 1991. This
deadline is FIRM. Authors will be notified by April 8; final
camera-ready papers will be due May 22. The proceedings will be
published by Morgan-Kaufmann. Each individual author will keep the
copyright to his/her abstract, allowing subsequent journal submission
of the full paper.
Chair: Manfred Warmuth (UC Santa Cruz).
Local arrangements chair: David Helmbold (UC Santa Cruz).
Program committee: Leslie Valiant (Harvard, chair), Dana Angluin (Yale),
Andrew Barron (U. Illinois), Eric Baum (NEC, Princeton), Tom Dietterich
(Oregon State U.), Mark Fulk (U. Rochester), Alon Itai (Technion, Israel),
Michael Kearns (Int. Comp. Sci. Inst., Berkeley), Ron Rivest (MIT),
Naftali Tishby (Bell Labs, Murray Hill), Manfred Warmuth (UCSC).
Hosting Institution: Department of Computer and Information Science,
UC Santa Cruz.
Papers that have appeared in journals or other conferences, or that are
being submitted to other conferences are not appropriate for
submission to COLT. Unlike previous years, this includes papers
submitted to the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
(FOCS). We no longer have a dual submission policy with FOCS.
Note: this call is being distributed to THEORY-NET, ML-LIST,
CONNECTIONISTS, Alife, NEWS.ANNOUNCE.CONFERENCES, COMP.THEORY,
COMP.AI, COMP.AI.EDU, COMP.AI.NEURAL-NETS, and COMP.ROBOTICS. Please
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