Call for Papers: ALT 2003
The 14th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, October 17 - 19, 2003

The 14th International Conference on AlgorithmicLearning Theory (ALT 2003) will be held at Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, Japan, during October 17–19,
2003. The main objective of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of theoretical foundations of machine learning as well as theirrelevance to practical applications. The conference will
be co-located with the 6th International Conference onDiscovery Science (DS 2003).
Topics of Interest: We invite submissions to ALT
2003 in all areas related to algorithmic learning theory, and those that are aimed at bridging theory
and practice. Topics of interest include (but are notlimited to): the design and analysis of learning algorithms, computational models of machine learning(e.g., on-line learning, learning via queries, inductive inference, statistical learning), specific algorithmic approaches (e.g., margin-based algorithms, MDL
estimation), learning complex models (e.g., neural networks, Bayesian networks, logical formulae, grammars,
instance-based models), machine discovery, and applications of machine learning to other fields (e.g., datamining, web mining, bioinformatics).
Invited Talks. There will be several invited talks byprominent researchers in the field.
Submissions. Authors are encouraged to submit
their papers electronically. Details are given at theconference web-page. Alternatively, they may submit
nine hard copies of their papers to:
Eiji Takimoto
Graduate School of Information Sciences
Tohoku University
Sendai, 980-8579 Japan
which must be received by the deadline given below.
Important Dates.
Submission deadline: May 30, 2003
Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2003
Camera ready due: August 10, 2003
Format. The submitted paper should consist of acover page with title, authors’ names, postal and email addresses, an approximately 200 word summary,and a body not longer than ten (10) A4 or letter sizedpages in twelve-point font. You may use appendicesto include long but major proofs. If you submit hardcopies, double-sided printing is encouraged.

Policy. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by themembers of the program committee and be judged onclarity, significance, and originality. Joint submissions
to other conferences with published proceedings arenot allowed. Papers that have appeared in journals orother conferences are not appropriate for ALT 2003.
Proceedings will be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes Series in Artificial Intelligence, Springer,
and will be available at the conference.
Selected papers of ALT 2003 will be invited to a special
issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.
E.M. Gold Award. One scholarship of 555 € will
be awarded to a student author (please mark student
submissions on the title page) of an excellent paper.
Conference Chair:
Klaus P. Jantke
DFKI GmbH Saarbrücken, Germany
jantke@dfki.de
Program Committee Chairs:
Ricard Gavaldà (Tech. Univ. of Catalonia, Spain)
Eiji Takimoto (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Program Committee:
Hiroki Arimura (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Shai Ben-David (Cornell Univ., USA)
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (Univ. Milano, Italy)
Nello Cristianini (UC Davis, USA)François Denis (LIF, Univ. de Provence, France)
Kouichi Hirata (Kyutech, Japan)
Sanjay Jain (Nat. Univ. Singapore, Singapore)
Stephen Kwek (Univ. Texas, San Antonio, USA)
Phil Long (Genome Inst. Singapore, Singapore)
Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio Univ., Japan)
Rocco Servedio (Columbia Univ., USA)
Hans-U. Simon (Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Germany)Frank Stephan (Univ. Heidelberg, Germany)
Christino Tamon (Clarkson Univ., USA)
Local Arrangements Chair:
Makoto Haraguchi
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
makoto@db-ei.eng.hokudai.ac.jp
For more information, please contact:
Ricard Gavaldà (gavalda@lsi.upc.es)
Eiji Takimoto (t2@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp)
Conference Homepage:
http://www.tcs.mu-luebeck.de/pages/alt03.html