Subject: CFP: Multistrategy Learning Workshop '96
From: [email-masked] (RYSZARD S. MICHALSKI)
Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:54:35 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.ai

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                   CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION 

    The Third International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning (MSL'96)
                           May 23-25, 1996
               Hilltop Inn, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

                   http://www.mli.gmu.edu/msl96.html
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The rapid expansion of machine learning methods, approaches and paradigms
creates a strong need for investigating their interrelationships,
and the development of methods for their synergistic integration.
Multistrategy learning workshops (MSL) provide a forum for presenting and
discussing research on these topics, and related issues, such as the
cross-fertilization of machine learning and cognitive science research,
learning with large knowledge bases, goal-oriented learning agents,
and multistrategy approaches to knowledge discovery. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following:

- comparative studies of learning strategies, methods and paradigms
- cognitive models of learning, inference and discovery
- intelligent learning agents and complex adaptive systems
- user-oriented learning in distributed information systems (e.g., WWW)
- role of learning goals and learning in large knowledge systems
- knowledge representation, acquisition and reuse in multistrategy learning
  and inference systems
- advanced applications of multistrategy learning and knowledge discovery

MSL '96 will be held in the picturesque and historic Harpers Ferry,
located at the intersection of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.
Harpers Ferry is easily accessible from Dulles airport and from
the Washington, D.C. railway station.  To maintain a true workshop atmosphere,
the attendance will be limited to approximately 60 participants.
The workshop is organized by Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory
at George Mason University, and sponsored by National Science Foundation,
Office of Naval Research and American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

IMPORTANT DATES:

February 10, 1996: Paper submission deadline.
*IF DUE TO WEATHER OR OTHER PROBLEMS YOU NEED MORE TIME, CONTACT
[email-masked] or  [email-masked]            

Send four copies (no more than 15 single-spaced pages) to
             MSL '96, Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory
             Attention J. Wnek, MS 4A5, SITE 2
             George Mason University
             4400 University Drive, Fairfax VA 22030-4444, USA
*IF YOU WANT JUST TO ATTEND, SEND AN EMAIL BY 
March 1, 1996, TO [email-masked]
stating in the Subject:  attend only

March 25, 1996:    Author notification

April 25, 1996:    Dealine for final manuscript

For more information see http://www.mli.gmu.edu/msl96.html

INVITED SPEAKERS:

John Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University
Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University
Hugo de Garis, ATR, Kansai Science City
Laveen Kanal, University of Maryland & LNK Inc.
Doug Lenat, CycCorp
Doug Medin, Northwestern University
Marvin Minsky, Massachussets Institute of Technology
Michael Pazzani, University of California at Irvine
Luc de Raedt, Catholic University of Leuven
Paul Rosenbloom, University of Southern California
Lorenza Saitta, University of Torino
Claude Sammut, University of New South Wales
Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

John Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University
Franscesco Bergadano, University of Messina
Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University
Marie desJardins, SRI International
Hugo de Garis, ATR, Kansai Science City
Diana Gordon, Naval Research Laboratory
Kenneth Haase, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heedong Ko, Korea Institute of Technology
Yves Kodratoff, University of Paris South
Stan Matwin, University of Ottawa
Doug Medin, Northwestern University
Raymond  Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Stephen Muggleton, Oxford University
Michael Pazzani, University of California at Irvine
Luc de Raedt, Catholic University of Leuven
Ashwin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lorenza Saitta, University of Torino
Claude Sammut, University of New South Wales
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin
Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen
Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University and Romanian Academy

ORGANIZERS:

Ryszard S. Michalski,  Chair, George Mason University and Polish Academy
                       of Sciences ([email-masked])
Janusz Wnek, Co-Chair, George Mason University ([email-masked])

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

Abhay Kasera, George Mason University
([email-masked]; 703-993-1714; Fax 703-993-3729)

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