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			 CALL FOR PAPERS: ALT 2000

   The Eleventh International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory

		   Coogee Holiday Inn, Sydney, Australia

			  December 11 - 13, 2000

		   http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/alt2000/

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The 11th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2000)
will be held in Sydney, Australia during December 11--13, 2000.  The main
objective of this conference is to provide an open forum for discussion and
exchange of ideas among researchers from various fields of learning theory
and machine learning.

SCOPE. We invite submissions to ALT 2000 in all areas related to
algorithmic learning theory including (but not limited to):

   * the design and analysis of learning algorithms 
   * the theory of machine learning
   * computational logic of/for machine discovery 
   * inductive inference, learning via queries 
   * new learning models 
   * scientific discovery, learning by analogy
   * artificial and biological neural networks 
   * pattern recognition, statistical learning 
   * Bayesian/MDL/MML estimation
   * inductive logic programming 
   * data mining and knowledge discovery 
   * application of learning to biological sequence analysis

INVITED TALKS will be delivered by three distinguished researchers:

   * William Cohen (AT\&T Labs.)
   * Tom Dietterich (Oregon State Univ.)
   * Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo Inst. Tech.). 

SUBMISSIONS. Authors may either e-mail postscript files of their extended
abstracts to:

            alt2000@i.kyushu-u.ac.jp

or submit nine copies of their extended abstracts to: 

            Hiroki Arimura - ALT 2000
            Department of Informatics, Kyushu University
            Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan

IMPORTANT DATES. 

   * Submission Deadline:  May 25, 2000
   * Notification of Acceptance:  July 10, 2000.
   * Camera-ready Due:  August 10, 2000.

FORMAT. The submitted abstract should consist of a cover page with title,
author names, postal and e-mail addresses, an approximately 200 word
summary, and a body not longer than ten (10) pages of size A4 or 7x10.5
inches in twelve-point font.  You may use appendices to include long but
major proofs.  If you submit hardcopies, double-sided printing is
encouraged.

POLICY. Each submitted abstract 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 2000.

E.M. GOLD AWARD. One scholarship of $500US sponsored by IFIP TC 1.4 will be
awarded to a student author (please mark student authors) of an excellent
paper.

PROCEEDINGS will be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, and will be available at the
conference. Selected papers of ALT 2000 will be invited to a special issue
of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.

CONFERENCE CHAIR:
  Arun Sharma, University of New South Wales. 
  Email: arun@cse.unsw.edu.au

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
  H. Arimura (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan)
  S. Jain (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
  N. Abe (NEC, Japan) 
  M. Bain (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) 
  P. Bartlett (Australian National Univ., Australia) 
  S. Ben David (Technion, Israel) 
  R. Freivalds  (Univ. of Latvia, Latvia) 
  N. Indurkhya  (Nanyang Tech Univ., Singapore) 
  R. Khardon  (Edinburgh Univ., UK) 
  E. Martin (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) 
  Y. Sakakibara (Tokyo Denki Univ. , Japan) 
  T. Shinohara (Kyushu Inst. of Tech, Japan) 
  F. Stephan (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany) 
  O. Watanabe (Titech, Japan) 
  A. Yamamoto (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) 

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITEE:
  E. Martin (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) 
  E. McCreath (Univ. of Sydney, Australia) 

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CONFERENCE HOMEPAGE: http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/alt2000/

For more information, contact: 
  Hiroki Arimura (arim@i.kyushu-u.ac.jp) or 
  Sanjay Jain (sanjay@comp.nus.edu.sg) 

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