Carl H. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, smith@cs.umd.edu

Conference Chair:
Thomas Zeugmann
Medizinische Universität Lübeck,
Germany
thomas@tcs.uni-luebeck.de

Program Committee Chairs:
Naoki Abe (NEC Labs., Japan)
Roni Khardon (Tufts University, USA)

Program Committee:
Hiroki Arimura (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Javed Aslam (Dartmouth College, USA)
Peter L. Bartlett (ANU, Australia)
Anselm Blumer (Tufts Univ., USA)
Carlos Domingo (Synera Systems, Spain)
Colin de la Higuera (Univ. St. Etienne, France)
Steffen Lange (DFKI Ltd., Germany)
Philip M. Long (National University, Singapore)
Eric Martin (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
Atsuyoshi Nakamura (NEC Labs., Japan)
Vijay Raghavan (Vanderbilt Univ., USA)
Dan Roth (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
John Shawe-Taylor (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK)
Eiji Takimoto (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Christino Tamon (Clarkson Univ., USA)

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): the design and analysis of learning algorithms, computational models of machine learning (such as on-line learning, learning via queries, inductive inference, PAC-learning), specific algorithmic approaches (boosting, kernel methods, MDL-estimation), learning complex models (neural networks, Bayesian networks, inductive logic programming, grammatical inference, case-based reasoning), machine discovery, and applications of machine learning to data mining, the web and bioinformatics.

E.M. Gold Award: One scholarship of $500 sponsored by IFIP Working Group 1.4 will be awarded to a student author (please mark student submissions on title page) of an excellent paper.

Conference Homepage:
http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~roni/ALT2001

Conference Chair:
Masahiko Sato
Kyoto University, Japan
masahiko@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Program Committee Chairs:
Klaus P. Jantke (DFKI Ltd., Germany)
Ayumi Shinohara (Kyushu Univ., Japan)

Program Committee:
Diane J. Cook (Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Andreas Dengel (DFKI Ltd., Germany)
Michael E. Gorman (Univ. of Virginia, USA)
Achim Hoffmann (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
John R. Josephson (Ohio State Univ., USA)
Pat Langley (Stanford Univ., USA)
Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Ryohei Nakano (Nagoya Inst. Techn., Japan)
Yukio Ohsawa (Tsukuba Univ., Japan)
Jorge C. G. Ramirez (Intelligent Tech. Corp., USA)
Kazumi Saito (NTT, Japan)
Einoshin Suzuki (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
Stefan Wrobel (Techn. Univ. Magdeburg, Germany)
Thomas Zeugmann (Med. Univ. Lübeck, Germany)

Topics of interest within the scope of this conference include (but not limited to) the following areas: Logic of knowledge discovery, knowledge discovery by inferences, knowledge discovery by learning algorithms, knowledge discovery by heuristic search, scientific discovery, knowledge discovery in databases, data mining, knowledge discovery in network environments, inductive logic programming, abductive reasoning, machine learning, constructive programming as discovery, intelligent network agents, knowledge discovery from unstructured and multimedia data, statistical methods for knowledge discovery, data and knowledge visualization, knowledge discovery and human interaction, human factors in knowledge discovery, user interfaces for discovery, information visualization, philosophy of discovery, psychology of discovery, and chance discovery.

Conference Homepage:
http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds2001

Submission Deadline: May 10, 2001; Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2001; Camera Ready due: August 1, 2001