Abbadingo One: DFA Learning Competition Announcement & Call for Participation In order to encourage the development of better grammar induction algorithms, the Abbadingo One competition will award at least $1,024 to the designers of the systems that are most successful at discovering the structure of random deterministic finite automata, as assessed by a table of benchmark problems. The competition ends on 15-Nov-1997. This competition is being sponsored by, among others, * The Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico, which is providing computational support. * The Kluwer Academic journal "Machine Learning," which will give priority treatment to a paper describing the award winning algorithm. * The Santa Fe Institute, which will host the award ceremony. * The "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research." For details retrieve http://abbadingo.cs.unm.edu/ Good luck, and may the best algorithms win! -- Competition Kevin J. Lang organizers: Barak A. Pearlmutter