6-9 Oct 2013
Singapore, Singapore
Call for Papers: ALT 2013 The 24th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory Singapore, Republic of Singapore, 6--9 October 2013 http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~thomas/ALT13/index.html The 24th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2013) will be held in Singapore, Republic of Singapore, at the National University of Singapore, during 6--9 October 2013. The conference is on the theoretical foundations of machine learning. The conference will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2013). Topics of Interest. We invite submissions with theoretical and algorithmic contributions to new or already existing learning problems including but are not limited to: 1. Comparison of the strength of learning models and the design and evaluation of novel algorithms for learning problems in established learning-theoretic settings such as - Statistical learning theory, - On-line learning, - Inductive inference, - Query models, - Unsupervised or semi-supervised learning, clustering and active learning, - Stochastic optimization, - High dimensional and non-parametric inference, - Exploration-Exploitation tradeoff and bandit theory, - Reinforcement learning and planning. 2. Analysis of the theoretical properties of existing algorithms. These families could include the following ones: - Boosting, - Kernel-based methods and support vector machines, - Bayesian networks, - Graph- and/or manifold-based methods, - Methods for latent-variable estimation and/or clustering, - Minimum description length, - Decision tree methods, - Information-based methods. 3. The analyses could include generalization, speed of convergence, computational complexity and sample complexity. 4. Definition and analysis of new learning models. Models might - Identify and formalise classes of learning problems inadequately addressed by existing theory or - Capture salient properties of important concrete applications. Format. The submitted paper should be no longer than 15 pages in the standard format for Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. The 15 page limit includes title, abstract, acknowledgements, references, illustrations and any other parts of the paper; appendixes bypassing the page limit are not allowed. Policy. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the program committee and be judged on clarity, significance and originality. Joint submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed. Papers that have appeared in journals or other conferences are not appropriate for ALT 2013. Proceedings. All accepted papers will be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, and will be available at the conference. Full versions of selected papers of ALT 2013 will be invited to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. E.M. Gold Award. One scholarship of 555 Euros will be awarded to a student author of an excellent paper (please mark student submissions on the title page). The student should have made a significant contribution to a paper coauthored by senior researchers. Important Dates. - Full paper submission: 11 May 2013. - Author notification: 16 June 2013. - Camera-ready papers due: 7 July 2013. - Conference: 6--9 October 2013. Submission} Authors can submit their papers electronically via the submission page at Easychair for ALT 2013 (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alt2013). Conference Chair: Frank Stephan, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Local Arrangements Chair: Lee Wee Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Programme Committee: Dana Angluin (Yale University), Andras Antos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest), Peter Auer (Montanuniversitat Leoben), Sebastien Bubeck (Princeton University), Alexander Clark (King's College London), Corinna Cortes (Google), Vitaly Feldman (IBM Research), Claudio Gentile (Universita degli Studi dell Insubria, Varese), Kohei Hatano (Kyushu University, Fukuoka), Marcus Hutter (Australian National University), Sanjay Jain (National University of Singapore, cochair), Timo Koetzing (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena), Gabor Lugosi (ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Eric Martin (University of New South Wales, Sydney), Mehryar Mohri (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Remi Munos (INRIA, Lille, cochair), Lev Reyzin (University of of Illinois at Chicago), Daniil Ryabko (INRIA, Lille), Gilles Stoltz (Ecole normale superieure, Paris), Masashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Csaba Szepesvari (University of Alberta), Vladimir Vovk (Royal Holloway, University of London), Ryo Yoshinaka (Kyoto University), Sandra Zilles (University of Regina).