CFP

The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
8 - 12 July 2002
University of New South Wales
Sydney Australia

The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
(ICML-2002) will be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney
Australia from 8 - 12 July 2002.  The conference will bring together
researchers to exchange ideas and report recent progress in the
computational study of learning.

Important Dates
    Submissions due: 1 February 2002
    Acceptance decisions mailed to authors: 22 March 2002
    Revised copies of conditionally accepted papers due: 15 April 2002
    Camera-ready copies of accepted papers (conditional and unconditional)
    due: 19 April 2002

Topics for Submission

ICML-2002 welcomes submissions on all facets of machine learning and
especially solicits papers on problem areas, research topics,
learning paradigms, and approaches to evaluation that  include:

    *  the role of learning in natural language and speech, vision,
       planning and scheduling, design and configuration, logical and
       spatial reasoning, motor control, and more generally on
       learning for performance tasks carried out by intelligent
       agents;

    *  the discovery of scientific laws and taxonomies, the
       construction of componential and structural models, and
       learning at multiple levels of temporal and spatial resolution;

    *  novel applications of machine, particularly those that require
       non-standard techniques;

    *  computational models of human learning, exploratory research
       that describes novel learning tasks, work that integrates
       familiar methods to demonstrate new functionality, and agent
       architectures in which learning plays a central role;

We also welcome submissions on all the traditional topics of Machine
Learning.

Format of the Conference

The conference will be co-located with COLT and ILP. The two
conferences will span the week starting 8 July, 2002, with one
overlap day of joint session. ICML will include a one-day program of
workshops and tutorials.  This will be followed by three days of
talks, poster sessions, and informal gatherings designed to foster
discussion of research in machine learning.

The conference will include both plenary and parallel tracks for the
presentation of papers published in the conference proceedings.
Speakers will also present their work at an evening poster session,
which will allow conference attendees to discuss the work with the
authors at greater length.

In addition to paper presentations, there will be talks given by
three invited speakers.  Please watch for the announcement of the
distinguished speakers for this year's conference.

For additional information, see the web site for the conference at

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~icml2002

which will provide additional details as they become available. If
you have questions about ICML-2002, please send electronic mail to
Claude Sammut at icml2002@cse.unsw.edu.au.