EWRL 2012 - EWRL 2012: The 10th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning

EWRL 2012: The 10th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland (2-days ICML workshop)
Dates:
EWRL 2012: June 30-July 1
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2012
Notification Due: May 15, 2012
URL: http://ewrl.wordpress.com/ewrl10-2012/
Organizers: Marc Deisenroth, Csaba Szepesvari, Jan Peters
EWRL 2012 aims to serve as a forum to discuss the current state-of-the-
art and future research directions in the continuously growing field
of reinforcement learning. We intend to make this an exciting event
not only for the European RL community but also international
researchers from related areas with many opportunities to share new
knowledge and encourage collaborative work.
The main question of this workshop is to discuss, how other
statistical learning techniques may be used to developed new RL
approaches in order to achieve properties including higher numerical
robustness, easier use in terms of open parameters, probabilistic and
Bayesian interpretations, better scalability, the inclusions of prior
knowledge, etc.
We are calling for papers from the entire reinforcement
learning spectrum, with the option of either 3 page short
papers (on which open discussion will be held) or longer 12
page LNAI format research papers. We encourage a range of
submissions to encourage broad discussion. We aim to publish selected
papers in the prestigious Springer LNAI proceedings.
Double submissions are allowed, however in the event that an EWRL
paper is accepted to another conference proceedings or journal,
copyright restrictions prevent it from being reprinted in the official
EWRL proceedings. The paper would still be considered,
however, for acceptance and presentation at EWRL.
We encourage submissions from a range of sub-topics including
(but not limited to):
- Reinforcement Learning Theory
- Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning
- Current Progress in Bandit Regret Bounds
- MDPs, POMDPs
- Exploration vs Exploration Tradeoff
- Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Policy Search
- Actor-Critic Methods
- Bayesian Control Approaches
- RL Benchmark Problems
- Real-world Applications
Keynote Speakers:
Richard Sutton (University of Alberta)
Shie Mannor (Technion)
Martin Riedmiller (University of Freiburg)
Drew Bagnell (CMU) (tentative)
Submission deadline: April 15, 2012
Page limit: 3 pages for short papers and 12 pages for regular papers.
Paper format: LNAI Springer: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
For more information, see http://ewrl.wordpress.com/ewrl10-2012/