Preface

The papers in these proceedings were presented at the Eighth International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'97), held in Sendai, Japan, October 6-8, 1997. The workshop was sponsored by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) and Tohoku University. Forty-two papers on all aspects of computational learning theory and related areas were submitted, nearly all electronically. Twenty-six papers were accepted for presentation at the conference. The papers were selected by the program committee based on originality, quality, and relevance to the theory of machine learning. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the program committee members for their time and effort: Naoki Abe, Nader Bshouty, Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi, Makoto Haraguchi, Hiroki Ishizaka, Klaus P. Jantke, Philip Long, Shinichi Morishita, Hiroshi Motoda, Yasubumi Sakakibara, Arun Sharma, Ayumi Shinohara, Carl Smith, Frank Stephan, Naftali Tishby, Les Valiant, Paul Vitanyi, Osamu Watanabe, Takashi Yokomori, and Bin Yu. On behalf of the program committee and the organization committee, we would like to express our gratitude to our four distinguished invited speakers Manuel Blum, Wolfgang Maass, Lenny Pitt, and Masahiko Sato. We gratefully acknowledge Thomas Zeugmann's contribution in helping to produce the ALT'97 logo. We also thank Setsuo Arikawa, Satoru Miyano, Arun Sharma, Takeshi Shinohara, and Takashi Yokomori for their advice, IFIP for providing a student scholarship, local arrangement committee chair Hirotomo Aso, and Tomonori Shimomura for drawing the ALT poster. We are also grateful to our referees who are listed on a separate page. Last but not least, we are very grateful to all the institutions and corporations which have supported the meeting: City of Sendai Fujitsu, Ltd. Hitachi, Ltd. IBM Japan, Ltd. Inoue Foundation for Science Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation NEC Corporation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT Data Corporation Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Omron Corporation Sharp Corporation Sony Corporation The Asahi Glass Foundation The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Toshiba Corporation Hong Kong, June, 1997, Ming Li, Program Committee Chair Sendai, June, 1997, Akira Maruoka, Conference Chair ©Copyright Notice: The document of this page is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provision of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under German Copyright Law.

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