Abbadingo One: DFA Learning Competition

[Barak Pearlmutter]

	       Abbadingo One: DFA Learning Competition

			     Announcement
				  &
			Call for Participation

In order to encourage the development of better grammar induction
algorithms, the Abbadingo One competition will award at least $1,024
to the designer of the system that is most successful at discovering
the structure of random deterministic finite automata, as assessed by
a graded series of nine benchmark problems.  The competition ends on
15-Nov-1997.

This competition is being sponsored by, among others,
 * The Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico,
   which is providing computational support.
 * The Kluwer Academic journal "Machine Learning," which will give
   priority treatment to a paper describing the award winning algorithm.
 * The Santa Fe Institute, which will host the award ceremony.
 * The "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research."

For details retrieve http://abbadingo.cs.unm.edu/

Good luck, and may the best algorithm win!
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Competition	Kevin J. Lang <kevin at research.nj.nec.com>
  organizers:	Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap at cs.unm.edu>