CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
 
                             NIPS'99 Workshop on 

       LEARNING WITH SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES: THEORY AND APLICATIONS
       
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is **** 20th October 1999 ****. 

Date and Location: December 3-4 in Breckenridge, Colorado following the
main NIPS conference.

Support Vector Machines have become established as a powerful technique
for solving a variety of classification, regression and density estimation
tasks. This workshop will cover Support Vector Machines and related
techniques based on the concepts of large margins or the use of kernel
methods. Topics covered will include: 

- new theoretical contributions
- algorithms and implementation techniques 
- applications 

Contributors to the workshop will be invited to submit their papers to a
special issue of the journal Machine Learning edited by the workshop
organisers. Further details about the workshop and
special issue may be found at:

http://lara.enm.bris.ac.uk/cig/nips99.htm

Potential contributors are expected to provide a title for their talk, an
abstract and contact details (name, mail address, email address,
telephone number) by email to C.Campbell@bris.ac.uk

Dr. Colin Campbell,
Department of Engineering Mathematics,
Queen's Building,
Bristol University,
Bristol BS8 1TR
United Kingdom 
 
C.Campbell@bris.ac.uk
http://lara.enm.bris.ac.uk/cig/
Tel: +44 (0) 117 928 9858.

Organizing Committee

Colin Campbell (Bristol University, UK) C.Campbell@bris.ac.uk 
Chris Burges (Lucent Technologies, USA) cjcb@molson.ho.lucent.com 
Nello Cristianini (Bristol University, UK) Nello.Cristianini@bris.ac.uk