fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) (02/26/90)
CALL FOR PAPERS COLT '90 Third Workshop on Computational Learning Theory Rochester, NY August 6 - August 8, 1990 The third workshop on Computational Learning Theory will be held in Rochester, NY. The conference will be jointly sponsored by SIGACT and SIGART, and is expected to be similar in style to the previous such workshops held at MIT and UC/Santa Cruz. Registration at COLT '90 is open. It is expected that most papers will present rigorous formal analyses of theoretical issues in Machine Learning. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: resource and robustness analysis of learning algorithms, general learnability and non-learnability results in new and existing computational learning models, theoretical comparisons among learning models, and papers that connect learning theory with work in robotics, neural nets, pattern recognition and cryptography. R. Freivalds (Latvian State University, Riga) has agreed to present an invited talk; the program committee may consider more such. Authors should submit an extended abstract that consists of: A) cover page with title, authors' names, (postal and e-mail) addresses, and a 200 word summary. B) body not longer than 10 pages in twelve-point font. Be sure to include a clear definition of the 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. Authors should send 10 copies of their abstract to John Case COLT '90 Department of Computer and Information Sciences 103 Smith Hall University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716. The deadline for receiving submissions is April 9, 1990. This deadline is FIRM. Authors will be notified by May 22, final camera-ready papers will be due June 18, and this deadline is ABSOLUTE. The proceedings will be published by Morgan-Kaufmann. For further information about submissions contact John Case (telephone: 302-451-2711, email: case@cis.udel.edu). Chair and local arrangements: Mark A. Fulk (U. Rochester). Program committee: J. Case (Delaware, chair), D. Angluin (Yale), E. Baum (NEC Research, Princeton) S. Ben David (Technion, Israel), M. Fulk (U. Rochester), D. Haussler (UC Santa Cruz), L. Pitt (U. Illinois), R. Rivest (MIT), C. Smith (Maryland), S. Weinstein (U. Pennsylvania). Note: papers that have appeared in journals or that are being submitted to other conferences are not appropriate for submission to COLT with the exception of papers submitted to the IEEE 31st Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS). A joint submission policy coordinated with FOCS permits authors to send a paper to both conferences; in the event that both conferences accept the paper, it will be published in the FOCS proceedings, the authors will be invited to give a talk at both conferences, and a short (one-page) abstract will be printed in the COLT proceedings. As the FOCS decisions may be quite late, authors of dual submissions will be asked to send the abstract with their final copy, so as to allow the publisher to substitute the abstract upon receiving word of the FOCS decision. It is, of course, required that authors notify both committees of the dual submission by including a note in the cover letters.