<-- Provide the best solution in the CoIL Challenge 2000 before May 4 and get free registration and travel support for the CoIL'2000 Symposium on June 19-23 in Chios, Greece! Direct mailings to a company's potential customers - "junk mail" to many - can be a very effective way for them to market a product or a service. However, as we all know, much of this junk mail is really of no interest to the majority of the people that receive it. Most of it ends up thrown away, not only wasting the money that the company spent on it, but also filling up landfill waste sites or needing to be recycled. If the company had a better understanding of who their potential customers were, they would know more accurately who to send it to, so some of this waste and expense could be reduced. Therefore, following a successful CoIL competition last year (See Synergy Issue 1, Winter 1999), CoIL has just announced a new competition challenge for 2000: "Can you predict who would be interested in buying a caravan insurance policy and give an explanation why?" This competition is organized by COiL, the Computational Intelligence and Learning Cluster. The goal of CoIL is to achieve scientific, technical and "social" integration of four european communities that perform research, development and application: Erudit (Fuzzy logic), EvoNet (Evolutionary computing), MLNet (Machine learning) and NEuroNet (Neural networks). We encourage any type of solutions to these problems, particularly those involving any of the CoIL technologies or any combinations of these. We are also interested in other solutions using other technologies, since CoIL is interested in being able to demonstrate how CoIL technologies relate to other techniques. The winners will be invited to present a short paper on their approach at the CoIL'2000 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Learning (19-23 June 2000), in Chios, Greece. Your participation will be free of charge and we will pay you a travel support of 750 Euro. Important dates: 17 March 2000 Release of data 4 May 2000 Deadline for submissions 12 May 2000 Announcement of Winner 22-23 June 2000 CoIL'2000 Symposium