Computational Learning Theory : 4th European Conference, Eurocolt '99, Nordkirchen, Germany, March 29-31, 1999 Proceedings

Fischer, Paul; Simon, Hans Ulrich

ISBN 10: 3540657010 / ISBN 13: 9783540657019

Published by Springer, 1999

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• Title: Computational Learning Theory : 4th European Conference, Eurocolt '99, Nordkirchen, Germany, March 29-31, 1999 Proceedings
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540657010
• ISBN 13: 9783540657019
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume contains papers presented at the Fourth European Conference on ComputationalLearningTheory, whichwasheldatNordkirchenCastle, inNo- kirchen, NRW, Germany, from March 29 to 31, 1999. This conference is the fourth in a series of bi-annual conferences established in 1993. TheEuroCOLTconferencesarefocusedontheanalysisoflearningalgorithms and the theory of machine learning, and bring together researchers from a wide variety of related elds. Some of the issues and topics that are addressed include the sample and computational complexity of learning speci c model classes, frameworks modeling the interaction between the learner, teacher and the en- ronment (such as learning with queries, learning control policies and inductive inference), learningwithcomplexmodels(suchasdecisiontrees, neuralnetworks, and support vector machines), learning with minimal prior assumptions (such as mistake-bound models, universal prediction, and agnostic learning), and the study of model selection techniques. We hope that these conferences stimulate an interdisciplinary scienti c interaction that will be fruitful in all represented elds. Thirty- ve papers were submitted to the program committee for conside- tion, and twenty-one of these were accepted for presentation at the conference and publication in these proceedings. In addition, Robert Schapire (AT & T Labs), and Richard Sutton (AT & T Labs) were invited to give lectures and contribute a written version to these proceedings. There were a number of other joint events including a banquet and an excursion to Munster ] . The IFIP WG 1.4 Scholarship was awarded to Andra s Antos for his paper \Lower bounds on the rate of convergence of nonparametric pattern recognition".