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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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 �2001 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
