WORKSHOPS

The Second Annual Reinforcement Learning Competition (RL 2008) will conclude with an event at which the winners are announced.

CALL FOR ICML/UAI/COLT 2008 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

9 July 2007

Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2008.

Acceptance Notification: February 15, 2008

The ICML, UAI, and COLT conferences, being collocated in Helsinki July 5-12 2007, hereby solicit proposals for workshops to be held during a single joint workshop day on July 9. This date is between ICML (July 5-8) and UAI/COLT (July 10-12). Workshops will be selected on the basis of their interest to the attendees of one or more of the conferences.

Organization

The format, style, and content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers and largely autonomous from the main conferences. The workshops will be seven hours long and split into two sessions: from 8.30am to 11:30am and from 2pm to 6pm. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, specify the workshop format, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop registration will be handled centrally by the main conferences with a single uniform registration fee and with registrants allowed to attend workshops other than the one they register for.

Submission Instructions

Proposals should specify clearly all of the following:

• the workshop's title (what is it called?)
• topic (what is it about?)
• a motivation (why a workshop on this topic?)
• impact and expected outcomes (what will having the workshop do?)
• invited potential speakers (who might come?)
• a list of related publications (where can we learn more?)
• main workshop organizer (who is making it happen?)
• other organizers (who else is making it happen?)
• brief CVs of all organizers (what have they done?)
• workshop URL (where will interested parties get more information?)
• relevant conferences (which of ICML, UAI, and COLT would it appeal to?)

This information should be sent by email (plain text) to workshops08@cs.rutgers.edu .