<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Hi All,</span><div style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Profs. Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Boyu Wang, Qiang Yang, and I are editing an upcoming Springer book. The abstract submission is September 1, with a submission deadline of November 1. While I expect the majority of the book will focus on traditional machine learning, I would really like to include agent-centric chapters as well. If you have work that incorporates existing, or creates new, federated learning or transfer learning techniques, please consider submitting.</div><div style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">If you have any questions about the potential fit of your work, please feel free to reach out directly to me (<a href="mailto:matthew.e.taylor@ualberta.ca">matthew.e.taylor@ualberta.ca</a>) or to us (<a href="mailto:roozbeh@uwindsor.ca">roozbeh@uwindsor.ca</a>, <a href="mailto:bwang@csd.uwo.ca">bwang@csd.uwo.ca</a>, <a href="mailto:qyang@cse.ust.hk">qyang@cse.ust.hk</a>).<br><br></div><div style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">More details can be found in the attached pdf and here: <a href="https://easychair.org/cfp/ftl2021" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(41,98,255)">https://easychair.org/cfp/ftl2021</a></div><div style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div>Best,</div><div>Matt</div><div><br></div></div><div style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">------<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-weight:700">Matthew E. Taylor </span>(he/him)</p><p><i>Director, Intelligent Robot Learning Lab (<a href="http://irll.ca/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(41,98,255)">IRL Lab)</a></i></p><p><span style="font-style:italic">Associate Professor, </span><a href="https://www.ualberta.ca/computing-science/index.html" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(41,98,255);font-style:italic">Computing Science</a><span style="font-style:italic"> at the </span><a href="https://www.ualberta.ca/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(41,98,255);font-style:italic">University of Alberta</a></p><p><a href="https://cifar.ca/ai/canada-cifar-ai-chairs/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(41,98,255)"><i>Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Amii</i></a></p><p><i>Fellow and Fellow-in-Residence, </i><i><a href="http://amii.ca/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(41,98,255)">Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute</a></i></p></div></div>