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Information Theory and Statistical Learning (ITSL)
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The conference 'Information Theory and Statistical Learning' (ITSL) will be held as part of WORLDCOMP'08, the 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA).
'Information Theory and Statistical Learning' is an interdisciplinary conference aiming to bring together researches from Information Theory, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Physics and related areas to present the newest developments in the interface between Information Theory and Statistical Learning. Especially, new methods designed for analyzing information processing in biological systems, e.g., from molecular and cell biology, genetics or neuroscience, are of central importance. Another major topic of 'Information Theory and Statistical Learning' is the application of Information Theory for the analysis of Networks as can be found nowadays omnipresently in biological, technical, sociological or economical systems. Furthermore, all aspects of classical Information Theory topics like compression or coding - applied or theoretical - are also of interest for ITSL.
The workshop 'Information-Theoretic Aspects of Integer-Point Enumeration in Polyhedra' will be helt in conjunction with ITSL08. The entitled workshop aims to bring together researchers from various fields within the framework of information theory and discrete geometry. Special emphasize is given on developments concerning Ehrhart's theory of lattice point enumeration in convex polyhedra in pure mathematics, computer science and information theory. Contributions from both a theoretical and practical point of view are welcome. The main focus of the workshop consists in giving the participants an up-to-date account on recent progress in this fields. In this context, we strongly encourage submissions from the following areas: All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Additionally, we plan to publish extended versions of the best papers in a special issue of a journal. Organizer of the workshop:
Papers should be submitted to Matthias Beck or Thomas Stoll.
Session: Selected Topics in Quantum Information Theory The quantization of basic concepts in Information theory, Complexity theories and Mathematical Statistics, as well as the study of the peculiar, new and surprising features that appear, when Quantum Physics is considered from an information theoretic point of view, have attracted much attention in the last two decades. The workshop is addressed to cover recent developments in that amazing field. The opportunity to present this topic within a conference on general information theoretic issues is very welcome. Special attention is given to developments, which emphasize the connection between the classical and quantum theories, and contributions which give also the broader audience some motivation and introductory view into the field are particularly welcome. Some of the areas we would like to put the focus on, are: Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Organizers:
Papers should be submitted to Tyll Krüger.
We are deeply greatful to the project Network Models, Governance and R& D Collaboration Networks (NEMO) for financial support. NEMO is funded by the European Union at the Vienna University of Technology.
Information Theory and Statistical Learning (ITSL'08) is an international conference held in conjunction with WORLDCOMP'08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing) taking place in Las Vegas (Nevada), USA.
Prospective authors are invited to submit their paper (between 4 to 6 pages - single space, font size of 12) or abstract to ITSL08. The paper should be prepared according to IEEE style. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include:
Also, the file size is limited to 8 MB. Violations of any of the above paper specifications may result in rejection of the paper. In addition to paper submissions we also accept abstracts (not longer than one page) for poster presentations.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers (tentative titles): Monday: 03:10 - 03:40pm: Keynote Lecture: Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University, USA Information Transfer in Biological Systems (LOCATION: Titanium Room) SESSION 1-ITSL: INFORMATION THEORETIC LEARNING (Chair: Franz-Josef Schmitt) July 14, 2008 (Monday) (LOCATION: Titanium Room) 03:40 - 04:00pm: Information Geometry of Contrastive Divergence Shotaro Akaho Neuroscience Research Institute, Japan 04:00 - 04:20pm: Clustering on a Subspace of Exponential Family Using Variational Bayes Method Kazuho Watanabe University of Tokyo, Japan 04:20 - 04:40pm: On the Multinomial Stochastic Complexity and its Connection to the Birthday Problem Tommi Mononen Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland 04:40 - 05:00pm: A Randomized Complexity-Theoretic Model of Bio-Inspired Mobile Epidemics via Close Contact Zhen Cao, Jiejun Kong and Mario Gerla University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA 05:00 - 05:20pm: The Advantage of Robust Measure for Mining Multivariate Outliers Dyah Erny Herwindiati Tarumanagara University, Jakarta, Indonesia 05:20 - 05:40pm: A Diagnostic of Influential Cases Based on the Information Complexity Criteria in Mixed Models Junfeng Shang Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA 05:40 - 06:00pm: An Empirical Comparison of NML Clustering Algorithms Petri Kontkanen, Petri Myllymaki Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland 06:00 - 06:30pm: Keynote Lecture: Sally J. Goerner, Integral Science Institute, USA Quantifying Economic Sustainability: Social and Economic Implications of Centripetality and a New Measure of Network Vitality (LOCATION: Titanium Room) Thuesday: 03:40 - 04:10pm: Keynote Lecture: Subhash Basak, University of Minnesota, USA Pattern recognition of chemical and biological systems by information theoretic invariants (LOCATION: Titanium Room) Workshop: INFORMATION-THEORETIC ASPECTS OF INTEGER-POINT ENUMERATION IN POLYHEDRA (Chair: Thomas Stoll and Matthias Beck ) 04:10 - 04:30pm: An Implementation of the Barvinok-Woods Integer Projection Algorithm M. Koeppe, S. Verdoolaege, and K. M. Woods *Universitaet Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA 04:30 - 04:50pm: Algorithms for Weighted Counting Over Parametric Polytopes: A Survey and a Practical Comparison S. Verdoolaege and M. Bruynooghe Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 04:50 - 05:10pm: Holes in Semigroups and Their Applications to the Two-Way Common Diagonal Effect Model A. Takemura, P. Thomas, and R. Yoshida University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA 05:10 - 05:30pm: Simple Polytopes Arising from Finite Graphs H. Ohsugi and T. Hibi Rikkyo University, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan; Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan 05:30 - 05:50pm: Weight Multiplicities for so_5(C) T. Bliem Universitaet zu Koeln, Koeln, Germany 05:50 - 06:10pm: Coefficient Functions of the Ehrhart Quasi-Polynomials of Rational Polygons T. B. McAllister Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 06:10 - 06:30pm: Ehrhart Functions with Analytic Weight B. Chen and W. Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Wednesday: SESSION 3-ITSL: QUANTUM INFORMATION: THEORY AND APPLICATION (Chair: Tyll Krueger and Markus Mueller) July 16, 2008 (Wednesday); 04:00pm - 05:40pm (LOCATION: Titanium Room) 04:00 - 04:20pm: The Communication Index of Graphs Sascha Delitzscher, Andreas Krueger, and Tyll Krueger University of Bielefeld, Germany 04:20 - 04:40pm: Resolution Limits of Time and Space Correlated Single Photon Counting Franz-Josef Schmitt Technical University of Berlin, Germany 04:40 - 05:00pm: Quantum Bit Strings and Prefix-Free Hilbert Spaces Markus Mueller and Caroline Rogers Technical University of Berlin, Germany; University of Warwick, United Kingdom 05:00 - 05:20pm: Chained Typical Subspaces - a Quantum Version of Breiman's Theorem Igor Bjelakovic, Tyll Krueger, Rainer Siegmund-Schultze, and Arleta Szkola Technical University of Berlin, Germany 05:20 - 05:40pm: Structure of general probabilistic theories Greg ver Steeg, Caltech
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