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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4264

José L. Balcázar Philip M. Long Frank Stephan (Eds.)

Algorithmic Learning Theory 17th International Conference, ALT 2006 Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors José L. Balcázar Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics c/ Jordi Girona, 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Philip M. Long Google 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA E-mail: [email protected] Frank Stephan National University of Singapore, Depts. of Mathematics and Computer Science 2 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543, Singapore E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006933733

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.6, I.2.3, F.1, F.2, F.4, I.7 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-46649-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-46649-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

This volume contains the papers presented at the 17th Annual Internation Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2006) which was held in Barcelona (Catalunya, Spain), October 7–10, 2006. The conference was organized with support from the PASCAL Network within the framework of PASCAL Dialogues 2006, which comprised three conferences: Learning 2006 provided a forum for interdisciplinary study and discussion of the different aspects of learning and took place October 2–5, 2006 on the campus of Vilanova i La Geltr´ u. ALT 2006 was dedicated to the theoretical foundations of machine learning and took place in the rooms of the Institute of Catalan Studies in Barcelona. ALT provides a forum for high-quality talks with a strong theoretical background and scientific interchange in areas such as query models, on-line learning, inductive inference, algorithmic forecasting, boosting, support vector machines, kernel methods, reinforcement learning and statistical learning models. DS 2006 was the 9th International Conference on Discovery Science and