Please distribute to anyone who may be interested: (apologies for multiple postings)
************************************************************ Call for Contributions EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (EWRL) 2008 June 30 - July 3, 2008 INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, France http://ewrl08.futurs.inria.fr INFORMATION ----------- European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL) is a (biennial) series of events that is being organized since 1994. To date, the sequential decision making problem with delayed rewards has been studied, under various guises, by various communities: machine learning, control, economics, applied mathematics, psychology and biology to name the foremost. EWRL'08, the eighth workshop in the series as well, aims to serve as a forum to discuss the current state-of-the-art and future research directions in this continuously growing field. We intend to make this an exciting event not only for the European RL community but also international researchers from related areas with many opportunities to share new knowledge and encourage collaborative work. We also hope to help the emergence of European projects in the 7th framework program that fall into the scope of RL. EWRL'08 is planned to be a theme oriented event in which each main theme will be allocated a half-day session including (i) an overview or tutorial, (ii) technical contributions in the form of long and short papers, followed by (iii) discussions. There will be two special sessions; a general discussion session entitled "Where are we heading? - Current and Future Trends in RL", and a demonstration session entitled "Real-life Applications of RL". Prof. Rich Sutton, University of Alberta, will also be our special guest. Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Exploration vs Exploitation Trade-off * (Function) Approximation in RL * Knowledge Representation in RL * Theoretical RL (Convergence and performance bounds, Complexity issues, Sensitivity analysis) * Multi-Agent RL * Regret-minimization Algorithms in Games * Direct Policy Search and Policy Gradient Methods * Reward design and inverse RL * Bayesian vs Frequentist Approaches * RL and Statistical Learning * Metrics for Empirical Comparisons in RL * Reducing RL to Inference, Regression and Classification * RL to Sequence Prediction * RL from Biological and Psychological Perspectives More information about the event can be found at EWRL'08 web site http://ewrl08.futurs.inria.fr SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ------------------ Peter Auer Peter Dayan Kurt Driessens Alain Dutech Yaakov Engel Damien Ernst Frederick Garcia Mohammad Ghavamzadeh Daniel Kudenko Michail G. Lagoudakis Francisco Melo Ann Nowe Martijn van Otterlo Jan Peters Pascal Poupart Martin Riedmiller Daniil Ryabko Regis Sabbadin Bruno Scherrer Olivier Sigaud Rich Sutton Csaba Szepesvari Chris Watkins Shimon Whiteson Marco Wiering Jeremy Wyatt Martin Zinkevich EWRL'08 is organized by the team-project SequeL of INRIA Lille-Nord Europe. (http://sequel.futurs.inria.fr) IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission Deadline: March 31, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2008 Workshop: June 30 - July 3, 2008 (The week before ICML'08 together with COLT'08 and UAI'08 in Helsinki) SUBMISSION ---------- * Paper: Papers should be prepared in LNCS format (at most 8 pages). A poster may be designed alongside a presentation. Posters will be exhibited during the workshop so as to help people interactions. Papers submitted to other conferences can be submitted to EWRL'08, regardless of their acceptance in these conferences. Please check out EWRL'08 web site for more information about submission. * Tutorial: Please provide the title, speaker, abstract, and a plan/draft for the tutorial. An electronic version (pdf) of the presentation should be provided on the workshop website. It should be delivered at least a week beforehand. * Demonstration: Please provide the title and abstract of your demonstration, as well as any multimedia document that can illustrate it. LOCATION -------- The workshop will take place at IRCICA building, around the scientific campus of Lille, northern France. REGISTRATION FEE AND GRANTS --------------------------- EWRL'08 is a free event, there won't be any registration fee. Limited travel grants are available to help fund travel and accommodation for (PhD) students. Please visit our web site or contact us for more information. _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
