1st International Workshop on Learning, Agents and Formal Languages (LAFLang)
August 22, 2011
Lyon, France

Co-located with the 2011 IEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

Sponsored by PASCAL 2

http://laflang.wordpress.com/


*AIM *

The workshop focuses on the common space delimited by three main areas: machine learning, agent technologies and formal language theory. The main goal of the workshop is to promote interdisciplinarity among people working in such disciplines, boosting the interchange of knowledge and viewpoints between specialists.


*TOPICS*

We are interested in contributions on any interaction between machine learning, agent technologies and formal language theory. Topics include (but are not limited to):

- Agent systems modelling
- Computational models of language learning
- Theoretical aspects of Grammatical Inference
- Theoretical descriptions of languages based on agent systems
- Formal models of bio-inspired agent systems
- Learning agents: Machine learning and Agent systems
- Applications of machine learning and agent technologies to natural language processing, human-computer interaction and language evolution.
- Intelligent human-computer interaction


*IMPORTANT DATES*

Paper submission deadline: April 24th, 2011
Acceptance notification : June 1st, 2011
Camera ready paper : June 10th, 2011
Workshop : August 22th, 2011


*SUBMISSIONS*

Submitted papers should be 4 pages maximum in length, including figures and references. A maximum of one additional page can be included, but is subject to a surcharge on the conference registration fee. The paper must be formatted according to the double column style guidelines for A4 papers available here: http://liris.cnrs.fr/~wi-iat11/IAT_2011/papers-submission/

All papers should be prepared in pdf format and submitted on the web site for workshop submissions http://liris.cnrs.fr/~wi-iat11/IAT_2011/papers-submission/


*ORGANIZERS*

Leonor Becerra-Bonache, University of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Étienne, France
Gemma Bel-Enguix, Rovira i Virigli Univeristy, Tarragona, Spain
M. Dolores Jiménez-López, Rovira i Virigli Univeristy, Tarragona, Spain


*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

Dana Angluin, Yale University, USA
Leonor Becerra-Bonache, University of Saint-Etienne, France
Gemma Bel-Enguix, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
Colin de la Higuera, Nantes University, France
Amaury Habrard, University of Marseille, France
Jeffrey Heinz, University of Delaware, USA
Adrian Horia Dediu, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
Jean Christophe Janodet, University of Saint-Etienne, France
María Dolores Jiménez-López, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
José Oncina, University of Alicante, Spain
Alfonso Ortega, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Marc Sebban, University of Saint-Etienne, France
Menno van Zaanen, Tilburg University, Netherlands
György Vaszil, MTA Sztaki, Hungary


*CONTACT INFORMATION*

If you have any question please feel free to contact us at the following addresses:

leonor.becerra@univ-st-etienne.fr
gemma.bel@urv.cat
mariadolores.jimenez@urv.cat