[UAI] Call-for-Papers: Haifa Winter Workshop on Computer Science and Statistics (Dec. 17-20, 2001)

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Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 15:00:14 PDT

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                                CALL FOR PAPERS

              Haifa Winter Workshop on Computer Science and Statistics

                              17-20 December 2001

    The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for
    Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at the University of Haifa,
    together with the Department of Statistics and the Department of
    Computer Science, are organizing an international workshop Dec. 17-20, 2001
    on Computer Science and Statistics -- with an emphasis on Knowledge
    Discovery and other AI related topics. Additional funding is provided by
    co-sponsors the Ministry of Science and the US National Science Foundation.

    Purpose: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together experts from the
    fields of computer science and statistics and to explore potential areas of
    research in order to stimulate collaborative work. Particular areas of
    interests are (preliminary list):

    * Bayesian learning
    * Data mining
    * Simulation-based computation
    * Expert systems
    * Automated learning
    * Robotics

    Call-for-Papers: Contributed papers and posters are solicited for presentation.
    Submissions (extended abstract or full paper) should be sent electronically to
    libi@cs.haifa.ac.il no later than Nov. 15, 2001. Accepted abstracts will be
    posted on the workshop website http:// www.rothschild.haifa.ac.il /csstat
    (Late submissions will be considered on a space available basis.)

    Dates: 17-20 December þ2001 Venue: University of Haifa

    Organizers: Martin C. Golumbic, Udi E. Makov, Yoel Haitovski, Ya'acov Ritov

    Tentative list of Invited speakers:
     · Matt Beal (Gatsby) · Steve Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon)
     · Nir Friedman (Hebrew Univ.) · Dan Geiger (Technion)
     · Michael Kearns (Syntekcapital) · Yishay Mansour (Tel Aviv)
     · David Madigan (Rutgers) · Thomas Richardson (Washington)
     · Dan Roth (Urbana) · Steve Skiena (Stony Brook)
     · Yehuda Vardi (Rutgers) · Volodya Vovk (London)

    Registration: There will be no registration fee, but participants are
    asked to register in advance using the form on the website
    http://www.rothschild.haifa.ac.il /csstat
            Hotel subsidies for advanced graduate students will be available
    upon the recommendation of their thesis advisor.

    For further information please contact libi@cs.haifa.ac.il
     



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