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Conference Program

Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 4, 2002

Wednesday 4 December 2002

  • 09:30 - Registration and Coffee

  • 10:00 - Invited Talk by Prof. Helge Ritter:
    Toward Robots that Learn to Imitate Actions

  • 11:00 - Coffee break

  • 11.20 - 12.40 Morning Session Session chair: Martijn van Otterlo

  • 11:20 - On Using Guidance in Relational Reinforcement Learning
    Kurt Driessens and Saso Dzeroski

  • 11:40 - Context-based Policy Search: Transfer of Experience Across Problems
    Leonid Peshkin and Edwin de Jong

  • 12:00 - Identifying Mislabeled Training Examples in ILP Classification Problems
    Sofie Verbaeten

  • 12:20 - Improving the Efficiency of ILP Systems Using an Incremental Language Level Search
    Rui Camacho

  • 12:40 - 13:40 - Lunch

  • 13.40 - 15.20 Afternoon Session 1 Session chair: Hendrik Blockeel

  • 13:40 - Locally Linear Generative Topographic Mapping
    Jakob Verbeek, Nikos Vlassis, and Ben Krose

  • 14:00 - Evolving Causal Neural Networks
    Marco Wiering

  • 14.20 - Model Growth
    Jeroen van Maanen

  • 14:40 - An Approach to Noncommunicative Multiagent Coordination in Continuous Domains
    Jelle Kok, Matthijs Spaan, and Nikos Vlassis

  • 15:00 - Non-Universal Suffrage Selection Operators Favor Population Diversity in Genetic Algorithms
    Federico Divina, Maarten Keijzer, and Elena Marchiori

  • 15:20 - 15:40 - Coffee break

  • 15:40 - 17:40 Afternoon Session 2 Session chair: Ad Feelders

  • 15:40 - Induction of Supermodels
    Hendrik Blockeel

  • 16:00 - Selecting Relevant Features for Splice Site Prediction by Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
    Yvan Saeys, Sven Degroeve, Dirk Aeyels, Yves van de Peer, and Pierre Rouz\'e

  • 16:20 - Detecting Orthogonal Class Boundaries in Entropy Behavior
    Floor Verdenius and Maarten van Someren

  • 16:40 - Supervised Learning of Bayesian Network Parameters Made Easy
    Hannes Wettig, Peter Grunwald, Teemu Roos, Petri Myllymaki, and Henry Tirri

  • 17:00 - Datasize-Based Confidence Measure for a Learning Agent
    Wojciech Jamroga

  • 17.20 - Labeling and Splitting Criteria for Monotone Decision Trees
    Jan Bioch and Viara Popova

  • 17:40 - 18:40 - Drinks

  • 19:30 - Social dinner (organized by Benelearn'02)