csaba szepesvari xciugxyefakpocbualbertaca apologies crossposting ieee international symposium approximate dynamic programming reinforcement learning honolulu hawaii april 15 2007 call contributed papers special sessions ieee international symposium approximate dynamic programming reinforcement learning held part symposium series computational intelligence ssci area approximate dynamic programming reinforcement learning fusion number research areas engineering mathematics artificial intelligence operations research systems control theory 50 years richard bellmans pioneering work dynamic programming 1957 symposium provide remarkable opportunity academic industrial community address new challenges share solutions define promising future research directions main challenge introduced bellman still remains widely open question famous curse dimensionality theme years symposium breaking curse dimensionality systems approach required address new problems challenging promising area designing biologicallyinspired intelligent systems may interesting way address problems research directions towards breaking curse welcome symposium feature plenary speeches academia nsf darpa industry industrial panel sessions funding agency panel sessions poster sessions invitedspecial sessions technical topics symposium include limited towards breaking curse parsimoneous function representation convergence performance bounds adp complexity issues rl adp statistical learning rl pac bounds rl montecarlo quasi montecarlo methods direct policy search actorcritic methods adaptive feature discovery learning rules architectures rl sensitivity analysis policy gradient estimation neuroscience biologically inspired control partially observable markov decision processes distributed intelligent systems multiagent systems multilevel multiobjective optimization kernel methods value function representation applications adp rl paper submission prospective authors invited submit complete papers eight 8 pages ieee twocolumn format including results figures tables references authors submit papers pdf format online submission system available website httpwwwieeessciorg latex style file microsoft word template available ieee web site httpwwwieeeorgpubstransactionsstylesheetsxml title page paper include author names affiliation mailing address telephone fax email address prospective authors expected present papers symposium important dates special session proposals deadline october 15 2006 paper submission deadline november 1 2006 notification acceptance december 1 2006 cameraready copy due january 15 2007 thu 07 aug 2008 041902 0600 uai cfp ieee adprl 2007 honolulu hawaii