The workshop is being held under the auspices of the Twenty-fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011).

Please visit the NIPS Registration page (https://nips.cc/login.php) for more information and workshop registration. The registration fee for the Workshop can be found on NIPS page (https://nips.cc/ConferenceInformation/ConferencePrices).

Submissions should be 4-6 pages in length and must follow the NIPS 2011 format (http://nips.cc/PaperInformation/StyleFiles).  Submissions need not to be anonymous and should include the title, authors' names, postal and email addresses, and an abstract not to exceed 150 words.

The workshop will include discussed talks and poster sessions. We invite submissions of papers describing the technical content of proposed contribution. The selected submissions may be accepted either as an oral presentation or as a poster presentation. We especially encourage submissions that directly address any of the topics, but related papers are also welcomed.

The workshop’s targeted audience is: