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Machine Learning List Vol. 3 No. 18
Machine Learning List: Vol. 3 No. 18
Tuesday, Oct 8, 1991
Contents:
tree learning package available
Special Reduced Rate For Machine Learning
Planning Conference CFP
Artificial Life III CFP
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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 91 20:13:26 PDT
From: Wray Buntine <wray@ptolemy.arc.nasa.GOV>
Subject: tree learning package available
Following report is available in LaTeX source (440 lines, 7 printed pages)
if you e-mail to:
ind@kronos.arc.nasa.gov
and put in you subject line "About the IND Tree Package".
(Avid historians may note I promised this about 10 months ago. Sorry guys!)
The package is suitable (we hope) for:
* comparative studies with other supervised learning systems
* software and tutorial material for machine learning courses
* real applications
Wray Buntine
NASA Ames Research Center phone: (415) 604 3389
Mail Stop 244-17 fax: (415) 604 6997
Moffett Field, CA, 94035 email: wray@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
About the IND Tree Package
Wray Buntine, RIACS
NASA Ames Research Center
Mail Stop 269-2
Moffet Field, CA 94035
This note introduces the IND Tree Package to prospective procurers and
those users/installers looking at IND for the first time. IND
integrates features from Breiman et al.'s CART and Quinlan's C4 with
newer Bayesian and minimum encoding methods for growing classification
trees, and provides an experimental control suite on top. The package
comes with a manual, ``man'' entries, and a guide to tree methods and
research. Information about obtaining IND, performance statistics,
documentation, authorship, copyright, installation, etc., are given.
IND is currently in beta-test, although it has been used considerably
since late 1989. IND is implemented in C under UNIX.
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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 91 15:50:53 -0700
Subject: SPECIAL REDUCED RATE FOR MACHINE LEARNING
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 91 09:47:34 -0400
From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.EDU>
Subject: Planning Conference CFP
Drew and I wish to make it clear to the machine learning community
that "planning and learning" is an important area we wish to see
covered at the conference and that we hope to see plenty of
submissions from people working on the merging of these technologies.
The First International Conference on AI Planning Systems
College Park, Maryland
June 15-19, 1992
CALL FOR PAPERS
Much attention in AI has been given to the ``planning problem'' ---
that is, designing computational systems that can automatically
generate, debug, or optimize plans of action for one or more agents.
Planning as a subdiscipline of AI has been around for almost thirty
years, but has recently experienced rapid growth. The primary forums
for discussion of issues in the field have been the National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and a series of DARPA Workshops
on Planning, Scheduling, and Control. This series has been
increasingly successful in stimulating high-quality work. There are
now interesting practical algorithms for achieving efficiency in
planning (some domain-dependent, some heuristic and general). There
are formal results on the completeness of planning algorithms in
simple domains. We are seeing the beginning of the integration of
planning theory with robot programming. The time is clearly ripe for
the evolution of a full-fledged conference devoted to planning.
The conference will be aimed at bringing together researchers
attacking different aspects of the planning problem and related
issues. In addition to AI researchers, others working on
planning-related issues are also encouraged to attend. Of special
interest are papers discussing the integration of differing approaches
to planning or the integration of planning and other AI technologies.
TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE
APPLICATIONS
Empirical studies of existing planning systems
Domain-specific techniques
Heuristic techniques
Scheduling Systems
ARCHITECTURES
Real-time support for planning and control
Mixed-initiative planning and user interfaces
FORMAL MODELS
Reasoning about knowledge, action, and time
Search methods and analysis of algorithms
Formal characterization of existing planning systems
INTELLIGENT AGENCY
Resource-bounded reasoning
Distributed problem solving
Integrating reaction and deliberation
MEMORY-BASED APPROACHES
Case-based planning
Plan and operator learning and reuse
Incremental Planning
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ISSUES
Analyses of Complex goal-directed behavior
Neurophysiological studies concerning planning
Connectionist planning systems
ROBOTICS
Motion and path planning
Active perception and sensor-based planning
TIMETABLE:
The conference will take place at the University of Maryland in
College Park, Maryland, from June 15-19, 1992.
Papers due: Dec. 13, 1991.
Notification of acceptance/rejection: Feb. 18, 1992.
Camera Ready Copy: March 7, 1992.
REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION:
Appearance: Papers should be submitted on 8.5"x11" (or, if
necessary, A4) paper, with 12 pt. type. Letter quality print is
required. (Normally, dot-matrix printout will be unacceptable unless
truly letter quality. Exceptions will be made for countries where
high quality printers are not widely available.) LaTeX 12pt article
style will be acceptable.
Title-Page: Each copy of the paper must include a title page, separate
from the body of the paper. This should contain (i) Title, (ii) Names,
addresses and phone numbers ad email addresses of all authors, and
(iii) an abstract of 100-200 words.
Length: Papers should be in 12pt text filling roughly 5.5"x7.5" per
page. Papers should be no more that 12 pages including figures,
tables, and diagrams (but not references). Short papers (5 pages or
less) may be submitted for review as posters.
Submission: Send 5 copies of papers to:
AIPS-92
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
USA
For more information contact:
CONFERENCE CHAIR: Drew McDermott, Yale University
(mcdermott@cs.yale.edu)
PROGRAM CHAIR: James Hendler, University of Maryland
(hendler@cs.umd.edu)
INTERNATIONAL CHAIR: W. Hillier, IEE, UK
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: P. Agre, UC San Diego; J. Allen, Rochester
University; P. Bonasso, MITRE Corp.; T. Dean, Brown University; M.
Drummond, Nasa Ames Research Center; M. Georgeff, Australian AI
Institute; M. Ginsberg, Stanford University; J. Hertzberg, GMD,
Germany; K. Hammond, University of Chicago; S. Kambhampati, Arizona
State Univ.; A. Lansky, Nasa Ames Research Center; D. Nau, University
of Maryland; M. Pollack, University of Pittsburgh; R. Simmons,
Carnegie-Mellon University; A. Segre, Cornell University; S. Steel,
University of Essex, UK; K. Sycara, Carnegie-Mellon University; A.
Tate, AIAI, Edinburgh University, UK; M. Zweben, Nasa Ames Research
Center
Note: The "Second International Conference on Expert Planning Systems"
has been merged with this one.
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 09:49:09 EDT
Subject: Artificial Life III CFP
Artificial Life III
June 15-19, 1992
Santa Fe, NM
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are happy to invite contributions for the Third Artificial Life
Workshop, to be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 15-19, 1992.
Artificial Life complements the traditional Biological sciences, concerned
with the analysis of living organisms, by attempting to synthesize behaviors
normally associated with natural living systems within computers and other
"artificial" media. By extending the empirical foundation upon which the
science of Biology rests beyond the carbon-chain based life that has evolved
on Earth, Artificial Life can contribute to Theoretical Biology by locating
"life-as-we-know-it" within the larger context of "life-as-it-could-be."
Contributions may be submitted in the following categories: TALK (please
specify a 20 or a 45 minute talk); POSTER, which may include a computer
display (BYOC); DEMONSTRATION, which includes computer demos and/or videos
(please give time estimate); or OTHER (please specify).
Authors should send an abstract (5 pages at most) to the address below
by January 15, 1992. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL JAN. 14!!! Please try to get your
abstract in early. Authors will be notified of the status of their
contributions by March 15, 1992.
Proceedings of the first two Artificial Life Workshops are now available
from Addison Wesley Publishers (1-800-447-2226 to order). The proceedings
of the second workshop also include a videotape. We intend to emphasize
visualization in the third workshop as well, and encourage contributions
based on working mobile robots.
Contributions to the workshop will automatically be considered for
inclusion in the proceedings. Papers for the proceedings will be due at
the workshop, and papers may be submitted then which were not submitted as
contributions to the workshop itself. The end of the workshop is the
deadline for submission of papers for the proceedings. All papers received
by the end of the workshop will be sent out for review and authors notified
by the end of August.
We will also be holding a greatly expanded "Artificial 4H Show,"
involving exhibits of, judging among, and contests between, various
software and hardware artificial life forms. People who wish to enter
their artificial organisms in the "Artificial 4H Show" should send
a description of what they plan to exhibit to the address below. We
will be announcing a series of contests and challenges for robots,
genetic algorithms, and software life forms soon. Some of these will
carry cash-prizes. All contests and challenges will be carried out
during the workshop.
Abstracts should be sent to:
AlifeIII
Program Committee
Santa Fe Institute
1660 Old Pecos Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87501
alife@sfi.santafe.edu
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