Algorithmic Learning Theory

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.