Call for papers: COLT '97

[Robert Schapire]

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			-- Call for Papers --

			       COLT '97

       Tenth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory
	     Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
			   July 6--9, 1997

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The Tenth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT'97)
will be held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from
Sunday, July 6 through Wednesday, July 9, 1997. COLT'97 is sponsored
by Vanderbilt University, with additional support from AT&T Labs, and
in cooperation with ACM SIGACT and SIGART.

The conference will be co-located with the Fourteenth International
Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'97) which will be held Tuesday,
July 8 through Saturday, July 12.  We anticipate a lively program
including oral presentations, posters, a number of invited speakers
and a half day of tutorials (jointly organized with ICML).

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.


ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

Authors are encouraged to submit their abstracts electronically.
Instructions for how to submit papers electronically can be obtained
after December 1 by sending email to colt97 at research.att.com with
subject "help", or from our web page.

Alternatively, authors may submit fourteen copies (preferably
two-sided) of an extended abstract to:

   Robert Schapire -- COLT'97
   AT&T Labs
   600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2A-424
   Murray Hill, NJ  07974  USA
   Telephone (for overnight mail): (908) 582-4533

Abstracts (whether hard-copy or electronic) must be RECEIVED by
11:59pm EST on

   FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1997.

This deadline is FIRM.  (We also will accept abstracts sent via air
mail and postmarked by January 6, or sent via overnight carrier by
January 16.)  Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection on
or before March 24, 1997.  Final camera-ready papers will be due by
April 18.

Papers that have appeared in journals or other conferences, or that
are being submitted to other conferences (including ICML), are NOT
appropriate for submission to COLT.


ABSTRACT FORMAT:

The extended abstract should consist of a cover page with title,
authors' names, postal and email addresses, and a 200-word summary.
The body of the abstract should be no longer than 10 pages with at
most 35 lines per page, at most 6.5 inches of text per line, and in
12-point font.  If the abstract 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:

Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire (AT&T Labs).


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Andrew Barron (Yale University), John Case (University of Delaware),
Sally Goldman (Washington University), David Helmbold (University of
California, Santa Cruz), Rob Holte (University of Ottawa), Eyal
Kushilevitz (Technion), Ga`bor Lugosi (Pompeu Fabra University,
Barcelona), Arun Sharma (University of New South Wales), John
Shawe-Taylor (University of London), Satinder Singh (University of
Colorado, Boulder), Haim Sompolinsky (Hebrew University), Volodya Vovk
(Royal Holloway, University of London).


CONFERENCE AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR:

Vijay Raghavan (Vanderbilt University).


STUDENT TRAVEL:

We anticipate some funds will be available to partially support travel
by student authors. Details will be distributed as they become
available.


TUTORIALS:

The program will include a half day of tutorials, jointly organized by
COLT and ICML, and intended as introductions to topics in the theory
and practice of machine learning.  For further information, or to
submit a proposal for a tutorial, contact Sally Goldman, the tutorials
chair, at sg at cs.wustl.edu or visit our web page.


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit the ICML/COLT'97 web page at
http://cswww.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~mlccolt/, or send email to
colt97 at research.att.com.

This call for papers is available in html and other formats from
http://www.research.att.com/~yoav/colt97/cfp.html