Call for papers: ECML'07 Workshop on Approaches and Applications of
Inductive Programming (AAIP)
The second workshop on inductive programming will be held on Friday,
21st September 2007 in conjunction with the 18th European Conference on
Machine Learning (ECML) in Warsaw, Poland.
ECML 2007 page: http://www.ecmlpkdd2007.org/
AAIP Workshop page: http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/aaip07/
Inductive programming incorporates all approaches which are concerned
with learning programs or algorithms from incomplete specifications such
as input/output examples describing the desired behavior of the intended
program or traces describing steps of computation of specific outputs.
Typical additional input to an IP system is background knowledge such as
predefined functions and predicates to be used or schemas/templates
defining the general data flow of the intended program. Output of an IP
system is a program in some arbitrary programming language containing
conditionals and loop- or recursive control structures.
In the workshop, we aim at bringing together researchers working on
different approaches to inductive programming with the goal of
discussing and evaluating the relative strengths and limitations of the
different approaches (class of learnable programs, quality of learned
programs, amount of background knowledge needed for synthesis,
efficiency of synthesis, etc.). Furthermore, we are interested in
presenting current applications and discussing possible further
application domains.
The workshop will be interesting to anyone studying the synthesis of
general programs. Topics of interest include but are not limited to
* induction of recursive programs using techniques from inductive logic
programming, evolutionary programming, synthesis of functional programs,
or grammar inference,
* theoretical analysis of learnability of recursive programs and of IP
algorithms,
* applications of inductive programming such as programming support for
endusers, novice programmers, and routine programming, invention of new
algorithms for optimization problems, policy learning, language
learning, web-mining, data transformation.
Submissions are invited in four categories:
* full papers (6-12 pages),
* reports on work in progress (4-12 pages),
* position papers,
* abstracts for software demos (please provide a link to the demo or
software).
All submissions will be peer reviewed by two referees. Accepted papers
will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Submitted papers must be in English and should be formatted according to
the Springer's LNCS (preferably LaTeX) guidelines. Authors instructions
and style files can be downloaded at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
To submit your paper, please use the electronic submission procedure.
You must indicate the category of the paper.
Please also indicate whether you wish to be included in the mailing list
for the workshop where discussions on relevant open problems and
possibilites for cooperation may take place before the workshop begins.
The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2007.
Further dates are:
July 21, 2007 Notification of workshop paper acceptance
July 28, 2007 Workshop camera ready copy submission
Sept 21, 2007 Workshop
More information about the workshop and the program committee can be
found at the workshop webpage:
http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/aaip07/
Welcome to the second workshop on AAIP covering all areas of program
induction!
Emanuel Kitzelmann
Ute Schmid
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Emanuel Kitzelmann
Faculty Information Systems and Applied CS
University of Bamberg
http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de
