From mli@math.uwaterloo.ca Wed Oct 6 00:38:26 EDT 1993 Article: 4850 of news.announce.conferences Xref: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:4850 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sparky!rick From: mli@math.uwaterloo.ca (Ming Li) Subject: CFP: Seventh ACM Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT'94) Message-ID: <1993Oct3.190131.29611@sparky.sterling.com> Keywords: machine learning Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 19:01:31 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 90 X-Md4-Signature: f1fd6a5f59045a9776195b094b210b1b CALL FOR PAPERS---COLT 94 Seventh ACM Conference on Computational Learning Theory New Brunswick, New Jersey July 12--15, 1994 The Seventh ACM Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT 94) will be held at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University from Tuesday, July 12, through Friday, July 15, 1994. The conference will be co-located with the Eleventh International Conference on Machine Learning (ML 94), which will be held from Sunday, July 10, through Wednesday, July 13. So the two conferences overlap on Tuesday and Wednesday. The COLT 94 conference is sponsored jointly by the ACM Special Interest Groups for Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and Artificial Intelligence (SIGART). We invite papers in all areas that relate directly to the analysis of learning algorithms and the theory of machine learning, including artificial and biological neural networks, robotics, pattern recognition, inductive inference, information theory, decision theory, Bayesian/MDL estimation, statistical physics, and cryptography. We look forward to a lively, interdisciplinary meeting. In particular we expect some fruitful interaction between the research communities of the two overlapping conferences. There will be a number of joint invited talks. Prof. Michael Jordan from MIT will be one of the invited speakers; the others will be announced at a later date. Abstract Submission: Authors should submit twelve copies (preferably two-sided copies) of an extended abstract to be received by Thursday, February 3, 1994, to Manfred Warmuth - COLT 94 225 Applied Sciences Department of Computer Science University of California Santa Cruz, California 95064 An abstract must be received by February 3, 1994 (or postmarked January 23 and sent airmail, or sent overnight delivery on February 2). This deadline is FIRM! Papers that have appeared in journals or other conferences, or that are being submitted to other conferences, are not appropriate for submission to COLT. Abstract Format: The abstract should consist of a cover page with title, authors' names, postal and e-mail addresses, and a 200- word summary. The body of the abstract should be no longer than 10 pages with roughly 35 lines/page in 12-point font. Papers deviating significantly from this length constraint will not be considered. The body should 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. Notification: Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by a letter mailed on or before Monday, April 4, with possible earlier notification via e-mail. Final camera-ready papers will be due on Tuesday, May 3. Program Format: Depending on submissions, and in order to accommodate a broad variety of papers, the final program may consist of both "long" talks, and "short" talks, corresponding to longer and shorter papers in the proceedings. The short talks will also be coupled with a poster presentation in special poster sessions. 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 the cover letter. The cover letter should also specify the contact author and give his/her e-mail. Program Chair: Manfred Warmuth (UC Santa Cruz, e-mail to colt94@cse.ucsc.edu). Conference and Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Robert Schapire and Michael Kearns (AT&T Bell Laboratories, e-mail to colt94@research.att.com). Program Committee: Shun'ichi Amari (U. Tokyo), Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon), Nader Bshouty (U. Calgary), Bill Gasarch (U. Maryland), Tom Hancock (Siemens), Michael Kearns (AT&T), Sara Solla (Holmdel), Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon St. U.), Jeffrey Vitter (Duke U.), Thomas Zeugmann (TU. Darmstadt).