Call for Papers: ALT 2002
The 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning TheoryMövenpick Hotel, Lübeck, Germany
November 24 - 26, 2002

The 13th International Conference on Algorithmic
Learning Theory (ALT 2002) will be held at theMövenpick Hotel, Lübeck, Germany, during November 24–26, 2002. The main objective of the conference
is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussionof theoretical foundations of machine learning as wellas their relevance to practical applications. The conference will be co-located with the 5th International
Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2002).
Topics of Interest: We invite submissions to ALT2002 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:
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi
Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione
Università degli Studi di Milano
via Bramante 65, 26013 Crema (CR), Italy
which must be received by the deadline given below.
Important Dates.
Submission deadline: May 12, 2002Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2002
Camera ready due: August 2, 2002
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 on
clarity, 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 2002.
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 2002 will be invited to a special
issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.
E.M. Gold Award. One scholarship of $ 500 will
be awarded to a student author (please mark student
submissions on the title page) of an excellent paper.
Conference Chair:Rüdiger Reischuk
Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
reischuk@tcs.mu-luebeck.de
Program Committee Chairs:
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (Univ. Milano, Italy)
Masayuki Numao (Titech, Japan)
Program Committee:
N. Abe (IBM, Yorktown, USA)
H. Almuallim (RC Squared Technologies, USA)
P. Auer (TU Graz, Austria)
J. Balcázar (Univ. de Catalunya, Spain)
S. Džeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
C. Gentile (Univ. Insubria, Italy)
B. Kijsirikul (Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand)
R. Schapire (AT & T Labs., USA)
K. Ming Ting (Monash University, Australia)
R. Wiehagen (Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Local Arrangements:
Andreas Jakoby & Thomas Zeugmann
Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
jakoby@tcs.mu-luebeck.de
thomas@tcs.mu-luebeck.de
For more information, please contact:
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (cesa-bianchi@dti.unimi.it)
Masayuki Numao (numao@cs.titech.ac.jp)
Conference Homepage:
http://www.tcs.mu-luebeck.de/pages/alt02.html