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                              BENELEARN-95

              5th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning

                            P R O G R A M M E
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8:30-9:15    Registration

Inductive Logic Programming:

9:20-9:45    Shan-Hwei Nienhuys-Cheng and Ronald de Wolf
             "Specializing Definite Programs by Unfolding"
9:45-10:10   Hendrik Blockeel, Wim Van Laer, Luc De Raedt
             "Inductive Constraint Logic and the Mutagenesis Problem"

10:10-10:35  Coffee Break


Learning in Robotics and Genetic Reasoning:

10:35-11:00  Luc Steels and Bart de Boer
             "Learning Basic Behaviours on Autonomous Robots"
11:00-11:25  Jan Paredis
             "Symbiotic Coevolution for Epistatic Problems"
11:25-11:50  Kees van Kemenade
             "A Two-level Evolution Strategy"


Invited Talk:

11:50-12:35  Marco Dorigo
             "Shaping robots:  An experiment in Behavior Engineering" 

12:35-14:15  Lunch


Neural Networks:

14:15-14:40  Miroslav Kubat, Irena Ivanova
             "Initialization of RBF Networks with Decision Trees"
14:40-15:05  Bas Haring, Joos N. Kok
             "Finding Functional links for neural networks by
              evolutionary Computation"
15:05-15:30  Jan C. Bioch, Onno van der Meer, Rob Potharst
             "Classification using Bayesian Neural Nets"
15:30-15:55  Hugues Bersini, Gianluca Bontempi, Christine Decaestecker
             "Towards Neuro-fuzzy defuzzification "

15:55-16:20  Coffee Break


Supervised Learning and Knowledge Acquisition:

16:20-16:45  Gunther Sablon, Luc De Raedt
             "Forgetting and compacting data in concept learning"
16:45-17:10  Antal van den Bosch, Tom Weijters, J van den Herik,
             Walter Daelemans
             "The Profit of Learning Exceptions"
17:10-17-35  Floor Verdenius
             "Notes on designing learning applications"