Algorithmic Learning Theory [electronic resource] : 17th International Conference, ALT 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006, Proceedings /

Editors’ Introduction -- Editors’ Introduction -- Invited Contributions -- Solving Semi-infinite Linear Programs Using Boosting-Like Methods -- e-Science and the Semantic Web: A Symbiotic Relationship -- Spectral Norm in Learning Theory: Some Selected Topics -- Data-Driven Discovery Using Probabilistic Hidden Variable Models -- Reinforcement Learning and Apprenticeship Learning for Robotic Control -- Regular Contributions -- Learning Unions of ?(1)-Dimensional Rectangles -- On Exact Learning Halfspaces with Random Consistent Hypothesis Oracle -- Active Learning in the Non-realizable Case -- How Many Query Superpositions Are Needed to Learn? -- Teaching Memoryless Randomized Learners Without Feedback -- The Complexity of Learning SUBSEQ (A) -- Mind Change Complexity of Inferring Unbounded Unions of Pattern Languages from Positive Data -- Learning and Extending Sublanguages -- Iterative Learning from Positive Data and Negative Counterexamples -- Towards a Better Understanding of Incremental Learning -- On Exact Learning from Random Walk -- Risk-Sensitive Online Learning -- Leading Strategies in Competitive On-Line Prediction -- Hannan Consistency in On-Line Learning in Case of Unbounded Losses Under Partial Monitoring -- General Discounting Versus Average Reward -- The Missing Consistency Theorem for Bayesian Learning: Stochastic Model Selection -- Is There an Elegant Universal Theory of Prediction? -- Learning Linearly Separable Languages -- Smooth Boosting Using an Information-Based Criterion -- Large-Margin Thresholded Ensembles for Ordinal Regression: Theory and Practice -- Asymptotic Learnability of Reinforcement Problems with Arbitrary Dependence -- Probabilistic Generalization of Simple Grammars and Its Application to Reinforcement Learning -- Unsupervised Slow Subspace-Learning fromStationary Processes -- Learning-Related Complexity of Linear Ranking Functions.