To be held October 2-4, 2006, in the Vilanova i la Geltrú campus of UPC, organized by the LARCA Research Group, as a part of the PASCAL Dialogues.

Registration is open.

The schedule in PDF. Getting here: see the EPSEVG, the floor plan (we will be in Vestibul Principal and in Sala d'Actes), and other maps from Google Maps: a bit wider, and wider.

We are honored to announce invited talks by:

• Victoria D. Chamizo (Univ Barcelona): "Acquisition of knowledge about spatial location in rats: the associative mechanism"
• Isabelle Guyon (Clopinet, Berkeley CA): "Feature selection and causality inference"
• Michelle Sebag (LRI, Paris): "Exploration - Exploitation for Statistical Software Testing"
• Marta Arias (Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, NY): "Predicting Electricity Distribution Feeder Failures Using Boosting and Online Learning"

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Learning is an essential process, whether for living beings, for physical machines, or for computational programs, if they are to behave efficiently in front of complex tasks or evolving environments. Consequently, intensive research is being dedicated to the many aspects of this rich phenomenon.

Most of this research adopts a particular point of view: biological, psychological, educational, mathematical, algorithmic, or computational, for instance. Nevertheless, many researchers consider that perspectives coming from other scientific fields are important, sometimes critical, to produce significant advances and useful results.

LEARNING'06 is one more along a series of events (LEARNING'98, LEARNING'00, LEARNING'02, hosted at Universidad Carlos III; LEARNING'04, hosted in Elche) intended to provide a forum for interdisciplinary study and discussion of the different aspects of learning. It is hoped that the interactions taking place at these events will contribute to a fluid interchange of different kinds of know-how to accelerate the progress along different research conceptions and lines.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

• Jose L Balcazar (Chair, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain);
• Jesús Cid-Sueiro (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain),
• Peter Dayan (University College, London, United Kingdom),
• Jose Dorronsoro (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain),
• Pascal Frossard (Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland),
• Joao Gama (Universidade do Porto, Portugal),
• Huma Lodhi (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom),
• Rafael Morales (Universidad de Malaga, Spain),
• Fernando Perez-Cruz (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain),
• Nestor Schmajuk (Duke University, Durham, NC, United States),
• Tinne Tuytelaars (University of Leuven, Belgium).