Computational Learning Theory: 4th European Conference, EuroCOLT'99 Nordkirchen, Germany, March 29-31, 1999 Proceedings: 1572 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1572) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 3540657010 ISBN 13: 9783540657019

Publisher: Springer, 1999

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".

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Computational Learning Theory, EuroCOLT'99, held in Nordkirchen, Germany in March 1999. The 21 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 35 submissions; also included are two invited contributions. The book is divided in topical sections on learning from queries and counterexamples, reinforcement learning, online learning and export advice, teaching and learning, inductive inference, and statistical theory of learning and pattern recognition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540657010
• ISBN 13: 9783540657019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 309
• Editor: Fischer Paul, Simon Hans U.