AWRL 2017 - 2nd Asian Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (AWRL 2017)

The Asian Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (AWRL) focuses on both theoretical foundations, models, algorithms, and practical applications. In the last few years, we have seen a growing interest in RL of researchers from different research areas and industries. We invite reinforcement learning researchers and practitioners to participate in this world-class gathering. We intend to make this an exciting event for researchers and practitioners in RL worldwide, not only for the presentation of top quality papers, but also as a forum for the discussion of open problems, future research directions and application domains of RL.
AWRL 2017 (in conjunction with ACML 2017) will consist of keynote talks, contributed paper presentations, and discussion sessions spread over a one-day period.
Topics
The workshop will cover a range of sub-topics in RL, from theoretical aspects to empirical evaluations, including but not limited to:
** Topics
The workshop will cover a range of sub-topics in RL, from theoretical aspects to
empirical evaluations, including but not limited to:
• Exploration/Exploitation
• Function approximation in RL
• Deep RL
• Policy search methods
• Batch RL
• Kernel methods for RL
• Evolutionary RL
• Partially observable RL
• Bayesian RL
• Multi-agent RL
• RL in non-stationary domains
• Life-long RL
• Non-standard Criteria in RL, e.g.:
• Risk-sensitive RL
• Multi-objective RL
• Preference-based RL
• Transfer Learning in RL
• Knowledge Representation in RL
• Hierarchical RL
• Interactive RL
• RL in psychology and neuroscience
• Applications of RL, e.g.:
• Recommender systems
• Robotics
• Video games
• Finance
** Paper Submission
AWRL is a non-archival venue and there will be NO published proceedings. However, the papers will be posted on this website. Therefore it will be possible to submit to other conferences and journals both in parallel to and after AWRL 2017. Besides, we also welcome submissions to AWRL that are under review at other conferences and workshops. For this reason, please feel free to submit either anonymized or non-anonymized versions of your work. We have enabled anonymous reviewing so EasyChair will not reveal the authors unless you chose to do so in your PDF.
At least one author from each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Please see the ACML 2017 Website for information about accommodation and registration.
Papers are recommended to be formatted according to the ACML formatting instructions for the Conference Track. Submissions need not be anonymous.
Workshop submissions and camera ready versions will be handled by EasyChair.
** Important Dates
• Submission deadline: Aug. 20, 2017
• Notification of acceptance: Sep. 10, 2017
• Camera ready deadline: Oct. 10, 2017
• Workshop date: Nov. 15, 2017
• ACML dates: Nov. 15-17, 2017
** Organizing Committee
Tao Qin, Microsoft Research Asia
Paul Weng, SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering, China
Yang Yu, Nanjing University, China
Zongzhang Zhang, Soochow University, China