8-10 Oct 2014
Bled, Slovenia
The 25th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~thomas/ALT14/index.html Second Call for Papers. Bled, Slovenia, October 8?Äì10, 2014 The 25th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2014) will be held in Bled, Slovenia, during October 8?Äì10, 2014. The conference is on the theoretical foundations of machine learning. The conference will be co-located with the 17th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2014), http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~thomas/ALT14/index.html. Topics of Interest: We invite submissions with theoretical and algorithmic contributions to new or already existing learning problems including but are not limited to: * 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, Active learning, Stochastic optimization, High dimensional and non-parametric inference, Exploration-Exploitation Trade-offs, Bandit theory, Reinforcement learning, Planning. * Analysis of the theoretical properties of existing algorithms such as: Boosting, Kernel-based methods, SVM, Bayesian networks, Graph- and/or manifold-based methods, Methods for latent-variable estimation and/or clustering, MDL, Decision tree methods, Information-based methods. * Definition and analysis of new learning models. Models might identify and formalize 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 or are under review for journals or other conferences are not appropriate for ALT 2014. 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 2014 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). Important Dates. Full paper submission: May 9, 2014 Author notification: Jun 13, 2014 Camera-ready papers due: Jul 9, 2014 Conference: October 8?Äì10, 2014 Submission. Authors can submit their papers electronically via our submission page (which will be opened in April 2014). For queries please contact the PC co-chairs via the email alt2014@easychair.org Peter Auer, Montanuniversit?§t Leoben Alexander Clark, King's College London PC members Nir Ailon, Technion Andr?°s Antos, SZIT, Budapest Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo S?©bastien Bubeck, Princeton University Corinna Cortes, Google Vitaly Feldman, IBM Research Claudio Gentile, Universit?? dell'Insubria, Varese Steve Hanneke, Carnegie Mellon University Kohei Hatano, Kyushu University, Fukuoka Sanjay Jain, National University of Singapore Timo K??zing, Friedrich-Schiller-Universit?§t, Jena Eric Martin, University of New South Wales, Sydney Mehryar Mohri, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York R?©mi Munos, INRIA, Lille Ronald Ortner, Montanuniversit?§t Leoben Lev Reyzin, University of Illinois at Chicago Daniil, Ryabko, INRIA, Lille Sivan Sabato, Microsoft Research New England Masashi Sugiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology Csaba Szepesv?°ri, University of Alberta, Edmonton John Shawe-Taylor, University College London Vladimir Vovk, Royal Holloway, University of London Sandra Zilles, University of Regina