EuroCOLT

[John Shawe-Taylor]

            The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

                            Euro-COLT '93

        FIRST EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING THEORY

    20th-22nd December, 1993       Royal Holloway, University of London

	      Call for Participation and List of Accepted Papers
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The inaugural IMA European conference on Computational Learning Theory
will be held 20--22 December at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The conference covers areas related 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 and cryptology, decision theory and
Bayesian/MDL estimation.

Invited Talks
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As part of our program, we are pleased to announce three invited talks
by Wolfgang Maass (Graz), Lenny Pitt (Illinois) and Les Valiant (Harvard).

Euroconference Scholarships
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The conference has also received scientific approval from the European
Commission to be supported under the Human Capital and Mobility
Euroconferences initiative. This means that there will be a number of
scholarships available to cover the expenses of young researchers
attending the conference. The scholarships are open to citizens of
European Community Member States or people who have been residing and
working in research for at least one year in one of the European
States. Please indicate on the return form below if you would like to
receive more information about these scholarships.

List of Accepted Papers
=======================
R. Gavalda,  On the Power of Equivalence Queries.

M. Golea and M. Marchand, On Learning Simple Deterministic and
		Probabilistic Neural Concepts.

P. Fischer, Learning Unions of Convex Polygons.

S. Polt, Improved Sample Size Bounds for PAB-Decisions.

F. Ameur, P. Fischer, K-U. Hoffgen and F.M. Heide, Trial and Error: A
		New Approach to Space-Bounded Learning.

A. Anoulova and S. Polt, Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence in Learning
		Theory.

J. Viksna, Weak Inductive Inference.

H.U. Simon, Bounds on the Number of Examples Needed for Learning
		Functions.

R. Wiehagen, C.H. Smith and T. Zeugmann, Classification of Predicates
		and Languages.

K. Pillaipakkamnatt and V. Raghavan, Read-twice DNF Formulas can be
		learned Properly.

J. Kivinen, H. Mannila and E. Ukkonen, Learning Rules with Local
		Exceptions.

J. Kivinen and M. Warmuth, Using Experts for Predicting Continuous
		Outcomes.

M. Anthony and J. Shawe-Taylor, Valid Generalisation of Functions from
		Close Approximation on a Sample.

N. Cesa-Bianchi, Y. Freund, D.P. Helmbold and M. Warmuth, On-line
		Prediction and Conversion Strategies.

A. Saoudi and T. Yokomori, Learning Local and Recognisable
		omega-Languages and Monadic Logic Programs.

K. Yamanishi, Learning Non-Parametric Smooth Rules by Stochastic Rules
		with Finite Partitioning.

H. Wiklicky, The Neural Network Loading Problem is Undecidable.

T. Hegedus, Learning Zero-one Threshold Functions and Hamming
Balls over the Boolean Domain.

Members of the Organising Committee
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John Shawe-Taylor (Chair: Royal Holloway, University of London, email
to eurocolt at dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk), Martin Anthony (LSE, University of
London), Jose Balcazar (Barcelona), Norman Biggs (LSE, University of
London), Mark Jerrum (Edinburgh), Hans-Ulrich Simon (University of
Dortmund), Paul Vitanyi (CWI Amsterdam).

Location
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The conference will be held at Royal Holloway, University of London in
Egham, Surrey, conveniently located 15 minutes' drive from London
Heathrow airport. Accommodation will be either in the chateau-like
original Founders Building or in en-suite rooms in a new block also on
the Royal Holloway campus.  Accommodation fees range from 110 pounds 
to 150 pounds (inclusive of bed, breakfast and dinner), while the
conference fee is 195 pounds (inclusive of lunch, coffee and tea;
140 pounds for students with reductions available for IMA members;
late application fee of 15 pounds if application received after 16th
November).

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Telephone: (0702) 354020. Fax: (0702) 354111

                         Euro-COLT '93
20th--22nd December, 1993         Royal Holloway, University of London

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