Received: from BUACCA by BUACCA.BU.EDU (Mailer R2.08 PTF009) with BSMTP id 9675; Thu, 25 Mar 93 16:24:25 EST Received: from noc2.dccs.upenn.edu by BUACCA.BU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with TCP; Thu, 25 Mar 93 16:24:22 EST Received: from CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU by noc2.dccs.upenn.edu id AA07037; Thu, 25 Mar 93 16:03:03 -0500 Return-Path: Received: from LOCALHOST by cattell.psych.upenn.edu id AA25087; Thu, 25 Mar 93 14:31:43 EST Posted-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 14:30:53 EST From: "Neuron-Digest Moderator" To: Neuron-Distribution:; Subject: Neuron Digest V11 #20 (misc. discussion and queries) Reply-To: "Neuron-Request" X-Errors-To: "Neuron-Request" Organization: University of Pennsylvania Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 14:30:53 EST Message-Id: <25019.733087853@cattell.psych.upenn.edu> Sender: marvit@cattell.psych.upenn.edu Neuron Digest Thursday, 25 Mar 1993 Volume 11 : Issue 20 Today's Topics: Economic forecasting by NN Neura Network Competition. an information, please ENNS membership British Private Companies LAST Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute NN Normailization ANN for extracting structure from grey scale images? Request for Info on Time Series Analysis conferences RE: ANN code in C++ (ND V11 #19) postdoctoral research opportunity email address requested Send submissions, questions, address maintenance, and requests for old issues to "neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu". The ftp archives are available from cattell.psych.upenn.edu (130.91.68.31). Back issues requested by mail will eventually be sent, but may take a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Economic forecasting by NN From: mb@tce.ing.uniroma1.it Date: Thu, 04 Mar 93 12:55:16 +0100 Concerning requests of references on the topic of economic forecasting using neural networks, many papers may be found in the proceedings of the workshop on Parallel Applications in Statistics and Economics (PASE'92), held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, December 7-8,1992. Thay have been published in a special issue of Neural Network World (vol.2, no.6, 1992). This journal is published in Prague, by the Institute of Computer and Information Science of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, edited by Prof. M. Novak. Their e-mail is CVS15@CSPGCS11.BITNET Have a good reading! Marco Balsi Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" mb@tce.ing.uniroma1.it ------------------------------ Subject: Neura Network Competition. From: asfour@park.bu.edu (Yousif Asfour) Organization: Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems Date: 04 Mar 93 20:06:45 +0000 Hello everyone, In order to increase interest in ISSNNET, and in order to stimulate local student groups to work together in forming "local chapters", I would like to suggest that ISSNNET sponsor a "Neural Network Competition". I propose that this competition be modeled after such events as the "robot competition" at MIT and others where students are encouraged to design and implement specific "toys" in order to "beat" other teams. The rules of such a competition are usually designed to make it challenging, imaginative, and above all, fun. Is this a good idea? If so, do you have any suggestions for what such the rules for such a competition might be ? Would you be interested in helping out in organizing such an event? All and any comments are welcome. Thanks, Yousif Asfour Cognitive and Neural Systems Dept. Boston Univeristy 111 Cummington St, Rm 204, Boston, MA 02215 asfour@cns.bu.edu ------------------------------ Subject: an information, please From: neural@iuav.unive.it Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 11:44:02 +0100 I have to buy for the library of my University some books on NNs. I need the address (possibly the fax number) of a couple of good bookshops in the U.S., rich in NN books and which accept an order by VISA credit card. Please, do you know by chance of any list of bookshops? Could you help me? In any case, thankyou prof silvio griguolo neural@cidoc.iuav.unive.it P.S.: Also, do you know of any organization trading books which has an e-mail address? ------------------------------ Subject: ENNS membership From: Piero Morasso Date: Mon, 08 Mar 93 19:44:53 +0700 ============================================== E N N S European Neural Network Society ============================================= ENNS is the Society which organizes every year the ICANN Conferences (Helsinki'91, Brighton'92, Amsterdam'93, Sorrento'94, ...) ENNS membership allows reduced registration to ICANN, subscription to the Neural Networks journal and the reception of a Newsletter. The ENNS membership application form is available via ftp. In order to get it, proceed as follows: 1) you type "ftp dist.unige.it" 2) upon the request "login:" you type "anonymous" 3) upon the request "password:" you type your email address 4) if this is OK, you are inside the dist machine; your home directory should be /home1/ftp; check it with "pwd" 5) you go to the ENNS directory (type "cd pub/ENNS") 6) you set the transmission to "binary" 7) you get the file by "get member_appl_form.ps.Z" 8) quit ftp 9) type "uncompress member_appl_form.ps" File member_appl_form.ps is now ready to print. Pietro Morasso ENNS secretary E-mail: morasso@dist.unige.it mail: DIST-University of Genova Via Opera Pia, 11A I-16145 Genova (ITALY) phone: +39 10 3532749/3532983 fax: +39 10 3532948 ------------------------------ Subject: British Private Companies From: Diego Gachet Date: Tue, 09 Mar 93 17:22:15 +0100 One of my students is looking for a British private company involved in R+D activities concerning with applications of neural networks to robotics and automation. The purpose of this search is to aply for a grant of the COMETT Program, this grant provides financial support for training in one of those companies. My student has good background in neural networks and he has experience in the software development in this area and in the applications to mobile robots. Thanks in advance. Diego Gachet Dpto. Automatica Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Spain gachet@disam.upm.es ------------------------------ Subject: LAST Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute From: "Antonio J. Rubio Ayuso" Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 17:20:29 +0000 LAST Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute (Deadline: April 1, 1993) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW ADVANCES and TRENDS in SPEECH RECOGNITION and CODING 28 June-10 July 1993. Bubion (Granada), SPAIN. Institute Director: Dr. Antonio Rubio-Ayuso, Dept. de Electronica. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Granada. E-18071 GRANADA, SPAIN. tel. 34-58-243193 FAX. 34-58-243230 e-mail ASI@hal.ugr.es Organizing Committee: Dr. Jean-Paul Haton, CRIN / INRIA, France. Dr. Pietro Laface, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Dr. Renato De Mori, McGill University, Canada. OBJECTIVES, AGENDA and PARTICIPANTS A series of most successful ASIs on Speech Science (the last ones in Bonas, France; Bad Windsheim, Germany; Cetraro, Italy) created a fruitful and stimulating environment to learn about scientific methods, exchange of results, and discussions of new ideas. The goal of this ASI is to congregate the most important experts on Speech Recognition and Coding to discuss and disseminate their most recent findings, in order to spread them among the European and American Centers of Excellence, as well as among a good selection of qualified students. A two-week programme is planned with invited tutorial lectures, and contributed papers by selected students (maximum 65). The proceedings of the ASI will be published by Springer-Verlag. TOPICS The Institute will focus on the new methodologies and techniques that have been recently developed in the speech communication area. Main topics of interest will be: -Low Delay and Wideband Speech Coding. -Very Low bit Rate and Half-Rate Speech Coding. -Speech coding over noisy channels. -Continuous Speech and Isolated word Recognition. -Neural Networks for Speech Recognition and Coding. -Language Modeling. -Speech Analysis, Synthesis and data bases. Any other related topic will also be considered. INVITED LECTURERS A. Gersho (UCSB, USA): "Speech coding." B. H. Juang (AT&T, USA): "Statistical and discriminative methods for speech recognition - from design objectives to implementation." J. Bridle (RSRU, UK): "Neural networks." G. Chollet (Paris Telecom): "Evaluation of ASR systems, algorithms and databases." E. Vidal (UPV, Spain): "Syntactic learning techniques in language modeling and acoustic-phonetic decoding." J. P. Adoul (U. Sherbrooke, Canada): "Lattice and trellis coded quantizations for efficient coding of speech." R. De Mori (McGill Univ, Canada): "Language models based on stochastic grammars and their use in automatic speech recognition." R. Pieraccini (AT&T, USA): "Speech understanding and dialog, a stochastic approach." F. Jelinek (IBM, USA): "New approaches to language modeling for speech recognition." L. Rabiner (AT&T, USA): "Applications of Voice Processing Technology in Telecommunications." N. Farvardin (UMD, USA): "Speech coding over noisy channels." J. P. Haton (CRIN/INRIA, France): "Methods for the automatic recognition of speech in adverse conditions." R. Schwartz (BBN, USA): "Search algorithms of real-time recognition with high accuracy." H. Niemann (Erlangen-Nurnberg Univ., Germany): "Statistical Modeling of segmental and suprasegmental information." I. Trancoso (INESC, Portugal): "An overview of recent advances on CELP." C. H. Lee (AT&T, USA): "Adaptive learning for acoustic and language modeling." P. Laface (Poli. Torino, Italy) H. Ney (Phillips, Germany): "Search Strategies for Very Large Vocabulary, Continuous Speech Recognition." A. Waibel (CMU, USA): "JANUS, A speech translation system." ATTENDANCE, COSTS and FUNDING Participation from as many NATO countries as possible is desired. Additionally, prospective participants from Greece, Portugal and Turkey are especially encouraged to apply.A small number of students from non-NATO countries may be accepted. The estimated cost of hotel accommodation and meals for the two-week duration of the ASI is US$1,000. A limited number of scholarships are available for academic participants from NATO countries. In the case of industrial or commercial participants a US$500 fee will be charged. Participants are responsible for their own health or accident insurance. A deposit of US$200 is required for living expenses. This deposit is non-refundable in the case of late cancelation (after 10 June, 1993). The NATO Institute will be held in the hospitable village of Bubion (Granada), set on Las Alpujarras, a peaceful mountain region with incomparable landscapes. HOW TO REGISTER Each application should include: 1) Full address (including e-mail and FAX). 2) An abstract of the proposed contribution (1-3 pages). 3) Curriculum vitae of the prospective participant (including birthdate). 4) Indication of whether the attendance to the ASI is conditioned to obtaining a NATO grant. For junior applicants, support letters from senior members of the professional speech community would strengthen the application. This application must be sent to the Institute Director address mentioned above (before 1 April 1993). SCHEDULE Submission of proposals (1-3 pages): To be received by 1 April 1993. Notification of acceptance: To be mailed out on 1 May 1993. Submission of the paper: To be received by 10 June 1993. ------------------------------ Subject: NN From: Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 02:00:00 Hello ! I am a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. I'll be happy to have your opinion on my question: 1) I'm interested to encode a nonstationary pulses (from a data base) in a neural network, to synthesis a pattern generator. The retrieval of the pulses should be by different DC level. Any configuration of neural networks is suitable. I'll be happy to receive any ideas and comments. 2) I'm interested to encode 10 sequences of length 7 in a neural network and retrieve them by different DC. level. Any configuration of neural networks is suitable. I'll be happy to receive any ideas and comments. thanks Pinchas Tandeitnik. My address: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Israel. email: pini@bguee.bgu.ac.il ------------------------------ Subject: Normailization From: michael@db.iie.ncku.edu.tw (Ming-Chuan Wu) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 11:46:58 -0600 About the normalization of the input vectors: (The neural network I used consists of one input layer, one hidden layer and one output node. The learning rule is the gradient descent mothod with momentum.) What if the normalization of input vectors is not possible? Is there any other way which can be done to eliminate the side effects of the magnitude of the elements in the input vectors? Or can the net elimiate this side effect SOME HOW by itself? I wonder! Please help me out of this! + Michael Ming-Chuan Wu '" ~ Somebody's gotta do the | michael@db.iie.ncku.edu.tw o.O` dirty work. | DB Lab ( o ) I am Somebody. |Inst. of Information Engineering />W<\ MiCHaEL. + National Cheng-Kong University ------------------------------ Subject: ANN for extracting structure from grey scale images? From: eletims@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Tim Stucke) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 11:50:31 +1300 I am a Ph.D student working in the neural vision area, motivated by the need to develop trajectory paths for robot kind. I am/have developed a network for extracting structure from grey scale images of objects of a single population with natural variability (like biological objects) for which the network has been trained. the network extracts significant structures and can use this to develop secondary structures such as the desired path. Currently the work is restricted to the "mostly 2D" case. For instance tree leaves have been successfully used as the population. The network has also been used for reconstruction of noise corrupted binary patterns. I am seeking information and references of work of this nature. I have found very little to date. This is not simply image segmentation but seeking structural sense in variable, poor, grey scale images. Thank you in advance! ------------------------------ Subject: Request for Info on Time Series Analysis conferences From: nelsonde%avlab.dnet@aaunix.aa.wpafb.af.mil Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 08:24:50 -0500 I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 18-Mar-1993 08:19am EST From: DALE E. NELSON NELSONDE Dept: AAAT-1 Tel No: 57646 TO: Remote Addressee ( _AAUNIX::"NEURON-REQUEST@CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU" ) Subject: Request for Info on Time Series Analysis conferences A collegue of mine at the Air Force Institute of Technology is interested in information on upcoming conferences on time series analysis. If you or anyone has info, please contact me at: NelsonDE@aa.wpafb.af.mil" Thanks Dale Nelson ------------------------------ Subject: RE: ANN code in C++ (ND V11 #19) From: wrdc::mrgate::"a1::raethpg"%wrdc.dnet@wl.wpafb.af.mil (Maj Peter G. Raeth) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 08:36:19 -0500 To those interested in neural network code in C++: Academic Press has just published "PRACTICAL NEURAL NETWORK RECIPES IN C++", a book written by Timothy Masters. Orders can be placed by phoning 617-876-3901. I've no financial interest in this company or this book, although I was a volunteer member of the publisher's critical review team. Best, Pete. ------------------------------ Subject: postdoctoral research opportunity From: rohwerrj Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 18:54:45 +0000 *************************************************************************** POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Aston University *************************************************************************** The Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Aston University is seeking a Postdoctoral research assistant under SERC grant GR/J17814, "Training Algorithms based on Adaptive Critics". The successful applicant will work with Richard Rohwer in the Neural Computing research group at Aston to develop and study the use of Adaptive Critic credit assignment techniques for training several types of neural network models. This involves transplanting techniques developed mainly for control applications into a different setting. The applicant must hold a PhD degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a similar quantitative science. Mathematical skill, programming experience (preferably with C or C++ under UNIX), and familiarity with neural network models are essential. Aston University's growing neural networks group currently consists of three academic staff and about 10 research students and visiting researchers. The group has access to about 50 networked Sparc stations in the Computer Science Department, in addition to 5 of its own, and further major acquisitions are in progress. The post will be for a period of two years, which can commence at any time between 15 May 1993 and 15 November 1993. Starting salary will be within the range 12638 to 14962 pounds per annum. Application forms and further particulars may be obtained from the Personnel Officer (Academic Staff), quoting Ref: 9307, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, England. (Tel: (44 or 0)21 359-0870 (24 hour answerphone), FAX: (44 or 0)21 359-6470). The closing date for receipt of applications is 30 April 1993. ------------------------------ Subject: email address requested From: tom@ksr.com Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 15:32:27 -0500 Hi, Is there an email address that I can get in touch with somebody at the NEUROFORECASTING club? Possible Prof. Derek Bunn. Thanks, - -Tom '====`. '====`. []---'====`.[]---'====`.[]----[] Tom Varga / .'====`./ .'====`./ /[] Kendall Square Research Corp. []----[]/[] []----[]/[] []----[]/[] "High Performance Computing" []----[]/[] []----[]/[] []----[]/[] 617-895-9415 []----[]/[] []----[]/[] []----[]/[] tom@ksr.com []----[]/[] []----[]/[] []----[]/[] uunet!ksr!tom []----[]/[] []----[]/[] []----[]/[] packet : N2UA@WA1PHY []----[]/ []----[]/ []----[]/ amprnet : n2ua@n2ua.ampr.org []----[] []----[] []----[] ------------------------------ End of Neuron Digest [Volume 11 Issue 20] ***************************************** Received: from BUACCA by BUACCA.BU.EDU (Mailer R2.08 PTF009) with BSMTP id 4054; Thu, 01 Apr 93 12:16:34 EST Received: from noc2.dccs.upenn.edu by BUACCA.BU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with TCP; Thu, 01 Apr 93 12:16:28 EST Received: from CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU by noc2.dccs.upenn.edu id AA21235; Thu, 1 Apr 93 12:04:59 -0500 Return-Path: Received: from LOCALHOST by cattell.psych.upenn.edu id AA12208; Thu, 1 Apr 93 10:07:09 EST Posted-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 93 10:06:21 EST From: "Neuron-Digest Moderator" To: Neuron-Distribution:; Subject: Neuron Digest V11 #21 (discussion, jobs, academic, + misc) Reply-To: "Neuron-Request" X-Errors-To: "Neuron-Request" Organization: University of Pennsylvania Date: Thu, 01 Apr 93 10:06:21 EST Message-Id: <12163.733676781@cattell.psych.upenn.edu> Sender: marvit@cattell.psych.upenn.edu Neuron Digest Tuesday, 30 Mar 1993 Volume 11 : Issue 21 Today's Topics: Post-Doc Position Announcement - JPL software request NN market size forecasts Proceedings for PhysComp 92 Job openings at Apple (permanent and summer intern) INNS SIG on Advanced Technology in Financial Applications revue AIExpert MOTOR INTENTION, IMAGERY AND REPRESENTATION: BBS Call for Commentators Postgraduate Studies at HKUST Send submissions, questions, address maintenance, and requests for old issues to "neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu". The ftp archives are available from cattell.psych.upenn.edu (130.91.68.31). Back issues requested by mail will eventually be sent, but may take a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Post-Doc Position Announcement - JPL From: Harry Langenbacher Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:56:03 -0800 The Concurrent Processing Devices Group at JPL has two post-doc positions for recent PhD's with neural-net, analog/digital VLSI and/or opto-electronic experience. The positions will have a duration of one to two years. USA citezinship or permanent-resident status is required. One position will be in our Electronic Concurrent Processing Devices Group to concentrate on applications of neural networks and parallel processing devices to problems such as pattern recognition, resource allocation, and optimization, using custom VLSI designs, and custom designs of computer sub-systems. The other position will be in our optical-processing group, to work with lasers, computer-generated holograms, and Acusto-Optic-Tuneable Filters for applications in pattern recognition and other neural-net architectures. We currently work with (analog, digital, and optical) neural net and concurrent processing devices and hardware systems. We build special-purpose and general-purpose analog, digital, mixed-signal, and opto-electronic chips. We develop neural net algorithms that suit our applications and our hardware. For over 7 years we have been a leader in hardware neural nets . If you're interested, please send me a ONE PAGE summary of your qualifications in the above mentioned fields, by e-mail(preferred), US mail, or FAX. Lab: 818-354-9513 , FAX: 818-393-4540 e-mail: harry%neuron6@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov Harry Langenbacher JPL, Mail-Stop 302-231 4800 Oak Grove Dr Pasadena, CA 91109 USA ------------------------------ Subject: software request From: Alfonso Pitarque Gracia Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 13:12:58 +0100 I am trying to find good neural network software for Macintosh II computers. We already know the MacBrain, MacActivation and PDP programs.I would appreciate any information about it. Thank you for your time in addressing these issues. ************************** Alfonso Pitarque Facultad de Psicologia Universidad de Valencia Avda. Blasco Ibanez, 21 46010 Valencia (Spain) e-mail:pitarque@mac.uv.es ************************** ------------------------------ Subject: NN market size forecasts From: "Sean Pidgeon" Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 09:45:01 -0500 Does anybody know of recent forecasts indicating the current market size (US$ millions) and projected growth rate for NN-related software? I'd be grateful if someone could direct me to an appropriate source. Thanks. Sean Pidgeon Institute of Physics, Philadelphia ------------------------------ Subject: Proceedings for PhysComp 92 From: matzke@tardis.hc.ti.com (Doug Matzke) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 09:38:46 -0600 The Workshop on Physics and Computation, PhysComp `92, held in Dallas in October 2-4, 1992, provided an opportunity to explore the intimate relationship emerging between modern physics and computation theory. One commonly held view is that information laws are dependent on the laws of physics. Another emerging view is that the universe would not work without information primitives underlying physical laws. Both of these views conclude that physics and computation are linked together at a very fundamental level. Understanding the convergence of computation and physics will lead to a better understanding of using physical mechanisms as computing engines, and also lead to a better understanding of how the universe is organized. Additional copies of the PhysComp '92 proceedings can be ordered directly from IEEE Computer Society Press using the following form. To subscribe to the our mailing list, to obtain more information about this workshop, or to find out about related activities currently being organized in the reawakening of this exciting interdisciplinary field, please contact me. 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One of the intern positions (#2 listed below) is specifically aimed at people with neural net experience; the other two may also be of interest to this audience. Note: E-mail submissions are STRONGLY preferred. ASCII files only, please. (More time unbinhexing, latexing, etc. means less time for us to read your resume!) Apple Computer has a corporate commitment to the principle of diversity. In that spirit, we welcome applications from all individuals. Women, minorities, veterans and disabled individuals are encouraged to apply. - --------------------------- PERMANENT POSITION ------------------------- ENGINEER/SCIENTIST Job description: Join a team conducting research on new approaches to finding, sharing, organizing, and manipulating information for content-aware systems. Emphasis on implementation of experimental information and communication systems. Requires: MS in Computer Science or BS with equivalent experience with strong programming skills. Experience in information retrieval, hypertext, interface design, or related field. Preferred: Knowledge of Macintosh Toolbox, dynamic languages (LISP, Smalltalk, etc.), GUI programming. Familiarity with common text-indexing methods. E-mail resumes to infotech-recruit@apple.com, or send to InfoTech Recruiting c/o Nancy Massung Apple Computer, Inc. MS 301-4A One Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 - ----------------------------- SUMMER POSITIONS ------------------------------ ENGINEER/SCIENTIST Intern (summer) #1 Job description: Work with senior researchers on the application of numerical methods to information retrieval (IR) systems. Assist on the design, implementation, user testing and performance evaluation of such systems. Requires: Graduate or upper division undergraduate student in computer science, cognitive science, information retrieval or other relevant program. Macintosh programming experience, the candidate should be able to write an application program. MPW C. Basic knowledge on numerical linear algebra. Preferred: Background on numerical methods and/or statistics. Smalltalk programming, familiarity with common text-indexing techniques. Some exposure to human-computer interaction issues. Knowledge on the following topics would be ideal: the vector model in IR, singular value decomposition and factor analysis. ENGINEER/SCIENTIST Intern (summer) #2 Job Description: Work with senior researchers to experiment with the use of neural network and other learning methods for information retrieval and organization. Requires: Graduate or upper division undergraduate student with experience in neural networks. Lisp programming with CLOS or other object system. Interest in information retrieval, hypertext, corpus linguistics, or related field. Preferred: Macintosh programming experience. Some exposure to human-computer interaction issues. Use of mapping techniques such as vector quantization or multidimensional scaling. Familiarity with common text-indexing methods. E-mail resumes to infotech-intern-recruit@apple.com, or send to InfoTech Internships c/o Nancy Massung Apple Computer, Inc. MS 301-4A One Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 Please indicate which position you are interested in. ------------------------------ Subject: INNS SIG on Advanced Technology in Financial Applications From: masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:12:57 -0500 You recently received an announcement of the establishment of a board on financial and economic applications of advanced technology. Some of you have had messages bouncing back when responding to the original announcement. We fixed these problems and hope we got all the bugs out of the system. The mailer and network services are now consistent with those of the organization who is maintaining this board. As a reminder, the following accounts are now operational ACCOUNTS => AT-Finance-Board or at-finance-board This account can be used by all users on this system to post messages that will be shared with everyone. Send messages to AT-Finance-Board@invnext.worldbank.org or use automatic reply. => AT-Finance-Request or at-finance-request This account is to be used ONLY for requesting to get on or off the mailing list of this board. Send requests to AT-Finance-Request@invnext.worldbank.org => AT-Finance or at-finance This account will be solely used for board maintenance and administration. Please do not use this account to respond to messages. Looking forward to your participation in this board. Guido J. Deboeck Chairman SIG Finance INNS ~~~~~~~ Forwarded from: Masud Cader The World Bank masud@invnext.worldbank.org ------------------------------ Subject: revue AIExpert From: gueniffe@mines.u-nancy.fr (Gueniffey Yves) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 93 09:34:29 +0200 [[ Editor's Note: A reminder that the language of this Digest is English. However, this fellow seems to be asking is AI Expert is available electronically. I seem to remember that some of the software (code) was archived somewhere, at least. Could someone offer assistance to this fellow (and me with my very poor French?). -PM ]] Bonjour, Est-ce que par hasard, la revue AIExpert serait disponible a la bibliotheque du CRIN? Merci du renseignement. (a propos, le(la) bibliothecaire a peut-etre une adresse electronique?). Y.G. Yves Gueniffey-(gueniffe@mines.u-nancy.fr) Ecole des Mines-Departement Informatique Parc de Saurupt-54042 Nancy Cedex-FRANCE Tel:(33) 83 57 42 83 Fax:(33) 83 57 97 94 ------------------------------ Subject: MOTOR INTENTION, IMAGERY AND REPRESENTATION: BBS Call for Commentators From: Stevan Harnad Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 14:15:03 -0500 Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by MARC JEANNEROD, on MOTOR INTENTION, IMAGERY AND REPRESENTATION, that has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to: harnad@clarity.princeton.edu or harnad@pucc.bitnet or write to: BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771] To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by anonymous ftp according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ THE REPRESENTING BRAIN: NEURAL CORRELATES OF MOTOR INTENTION AND IMAGERY Marc Jeannerod Vision et Motricite INSERM Unite 94 16 avenue du Doyen Lepine 69500 Bron France KEYWORDS: affordances, goals, intention, motor imagery, motor schemata, neural codes, object manipulation, planning, posterior parietal cortex, premotor cortex, representation. ABSTRACT: This target article concerns how motor actions are neurally represented and coded. Action planning and motor preparation can be studied using motor imagery. A close functional equivalence between motor imagery and motor preparation is suggested by the positive effects of imagining movements on motor learning, the similarity between the neural structures involved, and the similar physiological correlates observed in both imagining and preparing. The content of motor representations can be inferred from motor images at a macroscopic level: from global aspects of the action (the duration and amount of effort involved) and from the motor rules and constraints which predict the spatial path and kinematics of movements. A microscopic neural account of the represenation of object-oriented action is described. Object attributes are processed in different neural pathways depending on the kind of task the subject is performing. During object-oriented action, a pragmatic representation is activated in which object affordances are transformed into specific motor schemata independently of other tasks such as object recognition. Animal as well as clinical data implicate posterior parietal and premotor cortical areas in schema instantiation. A mechanism is proposed that is able to encode the desired goal of the action and is applicable to different levels of representational organization. - -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is bbs.jeannerod). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. 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Regards, Connie Cheung Executive Officer Department of Computer Science HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Department of Computer Science Postgraduate Studies THE UNIVERSITY The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) was incorporated in April 1988. It was intended to be established as a major technological research university dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of learning and to research scholarship. Its graduates will be men and women of mature judgement and generous spirit who will contribute to Hong Kong's economic and social well-being and promote research, development, and entrepreneurship in the Asian Pacific region. The medium of instruction is English. LOCATION Located at the geographical heart of Asia, Hong Kong has long been a dynamic, international city. It is also the gateway for international ties to China's business and industrial development. The world's third largest financial centre, Hong Kong is home to 180 banks and the Asian base for more than 500 international corporations. It is presently taking on the challenges of high-tech based global business to create new avenues of opportunity for economic growth. POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES The Department of Computer Science at HKUST offers the degrees of Master of Science (MSc), Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in computer Science. The Computer Science Department initially seeks to establish critical mass in a few research areas that are relevant to the needs of society. The particular focus of these selected research areas is software. Currently, the research areas are Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Data and Knowledge Base Systems, and Software Engineering. Additional research areas will be established as the Department reaches maturity. RESEARCH FACILITIES State-of-the-art workstations with network access are available for research use by faculty and postgraduate students in the Department. Current departmental computers include numerous SUN SPARCs, DEC workstations, NeXTStations, and 486 PCs. The Department will be expanding these existing departmental computing facilities, both through funds provided by the University for equipment to support computer science research and through donations from industries. The Department has planned to establish laboratory facilities for artificial intelligence, multimedia applications, robotics, and software engineering. The workstations are connected to the local Ethernet subnet, which is itself connected to the University's FDDI backbone. The University network provides access to Internet and BITNET. Computer Science staff and students have access to all of the University's central facilities, such as the University Library, the CAD/CAM Laboratory, and the Microelectronics Fabrication Centre. FINANCIAL AID Teaching and research assistantships are available for qualified applicants. For 1992-93, these pay HK$9,000 (approximately US$1,165) per month. All of our current full-time postgraduate students are supported by some form of assistantships. COSTS Tuition for 1992-93 is HK$11,600 (approximately US$1,502) per year. Postgraduate student housing is available on campus. For 1992-93, the cost of a dormitory room is approximately HK$7,850 (approximately US$1,016) for 9 months. ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS Applicants for admission to the postgraduate programmes are required to have completed, by the time they enter HKUST, a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related science or engineering field. Application may be submitted for both Fall and Spring semesters. FACULTY PROFILES The Department plans to grow to 50 academic staff by 1994. The following are brief descriptions of the full-time academic staff as of January 1993: Ishfaq AHMAD (PhD, Syracuse U., 1992) Lecturer Parallel and distributed processing; high performance computer architectures and their assessment; performance evaluation. Samuel T. CHANSON (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1975) Reader Computer communications (particularly protocols); software environment for parallel computers; distributed operating systems. Lewis Hau-Ming CHAU (PhD, UCLA, 1989) Lecturer Logic programming; formal specification; knowledge base systems; artificial intelligence. Siu-Wing CHENG (PhD, U. of Minnesota, 1992) Lecturer VLSI/CAD; computational geometry; design and analysis of algorithms; data structures. Roland T. CHIN (PhD, U. of Missouri-Columbia, 1979) Visiting Professor Image processing; machine vision; digital signal processing; pattern recognition and related applications. Scott C. DEERWESTER (PhD, Purdue U., 1984) Lecturer Information retrieval; distributed information system architecture; information visualisation; multilingual computing. Pamela A. DREW (PhD, U. of Colorado, Boulder, 1991) Lecturer Heterogeneous and extensible DBMS architectures; object-oriented systems and languages; semantic data modelling, DBMS support for software engineering environments; information technologies. Mordecai J. GOLIN (PhD, Princeton U., 1990) Lecturer The theory, design, and application of algorithms; computational geometry; combinatorics. Mounir HAMDI (PhD, Pittsburgh U., 1991) Lecturer Design and analysis of parallel computer architectures and parallel algorithms; distributed computing; communication networks; optical computing. Kamalakar KARLAPALEM (PhD, Georgia Inst. of Tech., 1992) Lecturer Distributed database systems; data distribution; conceptual data modelling; cooperative problem solving. Michael KAMINSKI (PhD, Hebrew Univ., 1982) Senior Lecturer Complexity of algebraic computations; finite automata theory; applications of logic in computer science. Alex Chia-Yee KEAN (PhD, UBC, 1992) Lecturer Abductive, deductive and inductive reasoning; distributed reasoning; theorem proving; constraint satisfaction problems; belief revisions; knowledge representation. Chung-Mong LEE (PhD, U. of Minnesota, 1989) Lecturer Computer vision; image processing; neural networks; expert systems; robotics; artificial intelligence. Qing LI (PhD, USC, 1988) Lecturer Object database technology; distributed and federated database systems; applied machine learning; expert database systems. Amelia FONG LOCHOVSKY (PhD, Princeton U., 1977) Senior Lecturer Artificial intelligence; image processing and pattern recognition. Frederick H. LOCHOVSKY (PhD, U. of Toronto, 1978) Associate Dean of Engineering Professor of Computer Science Data and knowledge base systems; organisational support systems; human-computer interaction. Jogesh K. MUPPALA (PhD, Duke U., 1991) Lecturer Performance and dependability modelling of systems and software; fault-tolerant computing; stochastic Petri nets. Man-Chi PONG (PhD, U. of Kent, 1985) Lecturer Software engineering; software tools; multi-media communication; Chinese information processing. Ting-Chuen PONG (PhD, Virginia Tech. Inst. and State U., 1984) Senior Lecturer Computer vision and image processing; artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; robotics. Helen C. SHEN (PhD, U. of Waterloo, 1982) Senior Lecturer Image and texture analysis (monochrome and colour); pattern recognition; flexible manufacturing systems. Vincent Yun SHEN (PhD, Princeton U., 1969) Head of Department Software engineering; distributed and real-time systems. Chung-Dak SHUM (PhD, UCLA, 1989) Lecturer Query processing; multi-processor database systems; performance modelling and analysis. Michael STIBER (PhD, UCLA, 1992) Lecturer Neural networks; computer vision; computational neuroscience; nonlinear dynamics; complex systems. Stephen M. THEBAUT (PhD, Purdue U., 1983) Visiting Scholar (1991-93) Software engineering, including software requirements engineering, software verification and validation, and software engineering technology transfer. Dekai WU (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1992) Lecturer Probabilistic, statistical and neural natural language processing; dialog systems; knowledge representation; machine translation. Dit-Yan YEUNG (PhD, USC, 1989) Lecturer Primary research interests: neurocomputing (artificial neural networks), pattern recognition. Other research interests: Chinese computing, machine learning, robotics, speech recognition, telecommunications. FURTHER INFORMATION For more information about the graduate programme in computer science at HKUST, contact: DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon, HONG KONG Telephone : 852-358-7000 Fax : 852-358-1477 E-mail : csdept@uxmail.ust.hk ------------------------------ End of Neuron Digest [Volume 11 Issue 21] ***************************************** Received: from BUACCA by BUACCA.BU.EDU (Mailer R2.08 PTF009) with BSMTP id 9879; Thu, 01 Apr 93 22:48:20 EST Received: from noc2.dccs.upenn.edu by BUACCA.BU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with TCP; Thu, 01 Apr 93 22:48:18 EST Received: from CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU by noc2.dccs.upenn.edu id AA17203; Thu, 1 Apr 93 22:38:28 -0500 Return-Path: Received: from LOCALHOST by cattell.psych.upenn.edu id AA02850; Thu, 1 Apr 93 20:58:24 EST Posted-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 93 20:57:49 EST From: "Neuron-Digest Moderator" To: Neuron-Distribution:; Subject: Neuron Digest V11 #22 (conferences) Reply-To: "Neuron-Request" X-Errors-To: "Neuron-Request" Organization: University of Pennsylvania Date: Thu, 01 Apr 93 20:57:49 EST Message-Id: <2842.733715869@cattell.psych.upenn.edu> Sender: marvit@cattell.psych.upenn.edu Neuron Digest Thursday, 1 Apr 1993 Volume 11 : Issue 22 Today's Topics: 2nd European Conference on Artificial Life Reinforcement Learning workshop to follow ML93 -- Call for participation USC/CNE Workshop - Rescheduling. "Call for papers" Submission Send submissions, questions, address maintenance, and requests for old issues to "neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu". The ftp archives are available from cattell.psych.upenn.edu (130.91.68.31). Back issues requested by mail will eventually be sent, but may take a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 2nd European Conference on Artificial Life From: Goss Simon Date: Fri, 05 Mar 93 17:26:14 +0700 ECAL '93 2nd European Conference on Artificial Life SELF-ORGANIZATION AND LIFE, FROM SIMPLE RULES TO GLOBAL COMPLEXITY Brussels, May 24-26th, 1993 Natural and artificial systems governed by simple rules exhibit self- organisation leading to autonomy, self-adaptation and evolution. While these phenomena interest an increasing number of scientists, much remains to be done to encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas and techniques. The aim of this conference is to bring together scientists from different fields in the search for common rules and algorithms underlying different systems. The following themes have been selected : - - Origin of life and molecular evolution - - Patterns and rhythms in chemical and biochemical systems and interacting cells (neural network, immune system, morphogenesis). - - Sensory and motor activities in animals and robots. - - Collective intelligence in natural and artificial groups - - Ecological communities and evolution . - - Ecological computation. - - Epistemology We are also planning demonstrations of computer programmes, robots and physico-chemical reactions, both in vivo and in video. Invited Speakers C. Biebricher (Germany), S. Camazine (USA), H. Cruse, P. De Kepper (France), W. Fontana, N. Franks (UK), F. Hess (Holland), B. Huberman (USA), S. Kauffman (USA), C. Langton (USA), M. Nowak (UK), T. Ray (USA), P. Schuster (Germany), M. Tilden (Canada), J. Urbain (Belgium), F. Varela (France). Organising committee J.L. Deneubourg, H. Bersini, S. Goss, G. Nicolis (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) R. Dagonnier (Universite de Mons-Hainaut). International Program committee A. Babloyantz (Belgium), G. Beni (USA), P. Borckmans (Belgium), P. Bourgine (France), H. Cruse (Germany), G. Demongeot (France), G. Dewel (Belgium), P. De Kepper (France), S. Forrest (USA), N. Franks (UK), T. Fukuda (Japan), B. Goodwin (UK), P. Hogeweg (Holland), M. Kauffman (Belgium), C. Langton (USA), R. Lefever (Belgium), P. Maes (USA), J.-A. Meyer (France), T. Ray (USA), P. Schuster (Austria), T. Smithers (Belgium), F. Varela (France), R. Wehner (Germany). Address: ECAL '93, Centre for Non-Linear Phenomena and Complex Systems, CP 231, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bld. du Triomphe, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. Fax : 32-2-6505767; Phone : 32-2-6505776; 32-2-6505796; EMAIL : sgoss@ulb.ac.be _____________________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION The registration fees for ECAL '93 (May 24-26) are as follows ($1=34BF): Payment before Payment after May 1st May 1st Academic: 10.000 BF 12.000 BF Non-Academic: 12.000 BF 14.000 BF Student: 6.500 BF 7.500 BF a) I authorise payment of BF by the following credit card: American Express Visa/Eurocard/Master (please indicate which card!) Card Name Card No Valid from: to: Signature b) I enclose a Eurocheque for BF c) I have ordered my bank to make a draft of BF to : ECAL '93 Account no: 034-1629733-01 CGER (Caisse Generale d'Epargne et de Retraite) Agence Ixelles-Universite Chaussee de Boondael 466 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium _________________________________________________________ ____________ Signature Date Name Telephone Fax e-mail Address _______________________________________________________________________________ ECAL '93 Self-Organisation and life From simple rules to global complexity Brussels May 24-26 (Very) Provisional Program (16 invited speakers, 40 oral communications, 50 posters) Monday May 24th 9.00 Inauguration 9.10 Opening remarks 9.45 Coffee 10.15 Origins of life and 10.15 Chemical patterns molecular evolution. and rhythms. Invited Invited speakers: C. speaker: P. De Kepper Biebricher, W. Fontana, P. Schuster. 12.20 lunch 13.10 lunch 14.10 Theoretical biology 14.10 Collective and artificial life. intelligence in animal Invited speaker: C. groups (social insects). Langton Invited speaker: N.R. Franks 15.50 coffee 15.50 coffee 16.30 Theoretical biology 16.20 Collective and artificial life intelligence in animal groups (social insects). Invited speaker: S. Camazine 18.00 Beer and sandwiches 19.30 Theoretical biology and artificial life: General discussion. Invited speaker: F. Varela 22.00 Close Tuesday May 25th 9.00 Individual behaviour. 9.00 Patterns and rhythms Invited speaker: M. Tilden in human societies. Invited speaker: B. Huberman 10.40 coffee 10.40 Coffee 11.10 Individual behaviour 11.10 Multi-robot systems 12.10 lunch 13.10 lunch 14.00 Posters and demonstrations (robots, simulations, videos, chemical reactions, ...). Invited speaker: F. Hess. 18.00 Cocktail 20.00 Banquet Wednesday May 26th 9.00 Evolution. Invited 9.00 Sensory and motor speakers: T. Ray, S. activities in animals and Kauffman. robots. Invited Speaker: H. Cruse 10.20 Coffee 10.40 coffee 11.10 11.40 Ecological communities and evolution. Invited speaker: M. Nowak 12.10 lunch 13.10 lunch 14.10 Collective pattern 14.10 Patterns and rhythms in living systems in the immune system. Invited speaker: J. Urbain 15.50 coffee 15.50 coffee 16.30 Collective pattern 16.20 Patterns and rhythms in living systems in the immune system. 17.30 Closing remarks _____________________________________________________________________________ *** you may need a physical copy of the BIT hotel reservation form or the *** *** Brussels Hotel Guide. See below for details *** HOTEL ACCOMODATION FOR ECAL '93 We have reserved a number of rooms in the centre of Brussels (see attached list), not far from the Metro line 1a which will take you to the conference (ULB, Campus Plaine, Metro Station Delta, Metro Ligne 1a, direction Hermann Debroux). There are unfortunately no hotels close to the University. All prices include breakfast, TV, bathroom (see enclosed official hotel guide for more details). Hotels are rather expensive in Brussels, and you will see that we have not been able to reserve many low-priced rooms. The earlier you make your reservation, therefore, the surer you are of having one. Another possibility is that you arrange to share a double room with a fellow conferencier. It is important that you try to reserve before the 15th of April, otherwise our options on the rooms may be cancelled. Please note that there are 3 ways of reserving your room, depending on which hotel you choose. 1. Hotels President (World Trade Centre) and Palace For the Hotels President and Palace you will see on the enclosed ECAL selected hotel list that we have been able to negotiate a substantial reduction on normal rates. To do so we have had to agree to pay for the rooms in one lump sum, including a down payment. Therefore, if you wish to take a room in these hotels you must make the reservation through us. We will only accept to do this if you pay the necessary sum in advance (we will refund cancellations, though these two hotels might impose a cancellation charge if there are too many last minute cancellations). Please reserve before April 15th. After this date we cannot garuntee that the hotel will maintain our unused reservations and group rate. We enclose a special form for the registration and pre-payment of these rooms. 2. Other hotels on selected ECAL list For all the other hotels on our selected list, please fill in the enclosed BTR reservation form and return it to us. We will forward it to: Mr. Freddy Meerkens Group reservations Belgian Tourist Reservations Bld. Anspach 111, B4 B-1000 Bruxelles Tel (322) 513.7484; Fax (322) 513.9277 He will make the reservation and should also notify you that the reservation has been made. There is no charge for this service, BTR being a state agency. You can if you wish send or fax your reservation form directly to M. Meerkens, group reservations, BTR. In this case, please do not forget to mention in large letters that you are attending the ECAL '93 conference (group reservation), and please send us a copy (marked "COPY") of your reservation form, so that we can keep track of where everyone is staying. 3. Independent Reservations Finally, for those of you that are more independently minded, who wish to find a cheaper hotel, or have other reasons, we enclose the Brussels Hotel Guide 1993, which lists all the hotels in Brussels. If you choose one that is not on the enclosed ECAL selected hotel list, you can then reserve through Belgian Tourist Reservations (see above), using the enclosed BTR form (you do not need in this case to mention that you are attending ECAL). We would nevertheless like you to send us a copy (marked "COPY") of your BTR reservation form, so that we can keep track of where everyone is staying. ECAL selected Hotel list (do not contact these hotels directly - see attached instructions) ($1=34BF approx.) Hotel President (World Trade Centre) (100 rooms) ***** 180 Bld. E. Jacqmain, 1210 Bruxelles Tel: (322) 217.2020; Fax: (322) 218.8402 single room = double room: ECAL price: 4000 BF (<< Normal price: 7500 BF) Hotel Palace (lots of rooms) **** 3 Rue Gineste, 1210 Bruxelles Tel: (322) 217.6200; Fax: (322) 218.1269 single room: ECAL price: 3780 BF (<< Normal price: 6000 BF) double room: ECAL price: 4520 BF (<< Normal price: 7000 BF) Hotel Atlas (30 singles, 10 doubles) **** 30-34 Rue du Vieux Marche-aux-Grains, 1000 Bruxelles Tel: (322) 502.6006 single room: ECAL price: 3360 BF (just < Normal price: 3500 BF) double room: ECAL price: 3780 BF (just < Normal price: 4100 BF) Hotel Arcade Sainte Catherine (30 singles, 10 doubles) *** 2 Rue Joseph Plateau, 1000 Bruxelles Tel (322) 513.7620; Fax (322) 514.2214 single room = double room: ECAL price: 3900 BF (= Normal price) Hotel Orion (15 singles) *** 51 Quai au Bois a Bruler, 1000 Bruxelles Tel (322) 221.1411; Fax (322) 221.1599 single room: ECAL price: 3120 BF (= Normal price) Hotel Vendome (30 singles) *** 96 Bld. Adolphe Max, 1000 Bruxelles Tel (322) 218.00070; Fax (322) 218.0683 single room: ECAL price: 2875 BF (= Normal price) Hotel Opera (20 singles) ** 53 Rue Gretry, 1000 Bruxelles Tel (322) 219.4343; Fax (322) 219.1720 single room: ECAL price: 2200 BF (= Normal price) Hotel de Paris (20 singles) ** (shower not bathroom) 800 Bld. Poincarre, 1070 Bruxelles Tel (322) 527.0920; Fax (322) 528.8153 single room: ECAL price: 1800 BF (= Normal price) Reservation and pre-payment for Hotel President (World Trade Centre) or Hotel Palace I would like to reserve a single / double room at the Hotel President / Hotel Palace for the nights of: Signature Date Name Telephone Fax e-mail Address _________________________________________________________ ____________ a) I authorise payment to ECAL '93 of BF by the following credit card: American Express Visa/Eurocard/Master (please indicate which card!) Card Name Card No Valid from: to: Signature b) I enclose a Eurocheque (made put to ECAL '93) for BF c) I have ordered my bank to make a draft of BF to : ECAL '93 Account no: 034-1629733-01 CGER (Caisse Generale d'Epargne et de Retraite) Agence Ixelles-Universite Chaussee de Boondael 466 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Simon Goss Unit of Behavioural Ecology Center for Non-Linear Phenomena and Complex Systems CP 231, Campus Plaine Universite Libre de Bruxelles Boulevard du Triomphe 1050 Bruxelles Belgium Tel: 32-2-650.5776 Fax: 32-2-650.5767 E-mail: sgoss@ulb.ac.be ------------------------------ Subject: Reinforcement Learning workshop to follow ML93 -- Call for participation From: Rich Sutton Date: Fri, 05 Mar 93 15:07:43 -0500 Call for Participation "REINFORCEMENT LEARNING: What We Know, What We Need" an Informal Workshop to follow ML93 June 30 & July 1, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Reinforcement learning is a simple way of framing the problem of an autonomous agent learning and interacting with the world to achieve a goal. This has been an active area of machine learning research for the last 5 years. The objective of this workshop is to present concisely the current state of the art in reinforcement learning and to identify and highlight critical open problems. The intended audience is all learning researchers interested in reinforcement learning; little prior knowledge of the area will be assumed. The first half of the workshop will consist mainly of tutorial presentations, and the second half will define and explore outstanding problems. The entire workshop will last approximately one and a half days. Attendance will be open to all those registered for the main part of ML93 (June 27-29). Program Committee: Rich Sutton (chair), Nils Nilsson, Leslie Kaelbling, Satinder Singh, Sridhar Mahadevan, Andy Barto, Steve Whitehead CALL FOR PAPERS. Papers are solicited that lay out relevant problem areas, i.e., for the second half of the workshop. Proposals are also solicited for polished tutorial presentations on basic topics of reinforcement learning for the first portion of the workshop. The program has yet to be established, but will probably look something like the following (all names are provisional): Session 1: Introduction The Challenge of Reinforcement Learning, by Rich Sutton History of RL, by Harry Klopf Q-learning Planning and Action Models, by Long-Ji Lin Session 2: Theory Dynamic Programming, by Andy Barto Convergence of Q-learning and TD(lambda), by Peter Dayan Session 3: Applications TD-Gammon, by Gerry Tesauro Robotics, by Sridhar Mahadevan Session 4: Extensions Prioritized Sweeping, by Andrew Moore Eligibility Traces, by Rich Sutton Sessions 5 & 6: Open Problems Generalization Hidden State (short-term memory) Hierarchical RL Search Control Incorporating Prior Knowledge Exploration ... If you are interested in attending the RL workshop, please register by sending a note with your name, email and physical addresses, level of interest, and a brief description of your current level of knowledge about reinforcement learning, to: sutton@gte.com OR Rich Sutton GTE Labs, MS-44 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254 ------------------------------ Subject: USC/CNE Workshop - Rescheduling. From: Jean-Marc Fellous Date: Tue, 09 Mar 93 07:57:50 -0800 Thank you for posting the following notice: **************************** RESCHEDULING **************************** SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS INTEGRATING SYMBOLIC AND SUBSYMBOLIC APPROACHES TO COOPERATIVE COMPUTATION A Workshop sponsored by the Center for Neural Engineering University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 The Program Committee has now evaluated the submissions to the proposed Workshop on 'Schemas and Neural Networks: Integrating Symbolic and Subsymbolic Approaches to Cooperative Computation', and found that rather few were on the proposed topic, although there were several excellent submissions on Connectionist Imple- mentation of Semantic Networks; and Schemas, Neural Networks, and Reactive Implementations of Robots. We have thus decided to postpone the meeting until October so that we may explicitly sol- icit the strongest possible contributions on an expanded theme - still on the topic of schemas and neural nets, but with the per- spective now broadened to include the two areas most closely re- lated to this particular combination of low and high-level tech- nologies: schemas plus other low-level technologies (such as reactive robot control); and neural nets plus other high-level technologies (such as rule systems and semantic nets). We regret whatever inconvenience this delay may cause you, but believe that for most contributors and participants, this will mean a much stronger and exciting meeting. New Schedule: October 19 -20, 1993 With Best Wishes Michael Arbib ************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Subject: "Call for papers" From: VEMURI@icdc.llnl.gov Date: 09 Mar 93 12:15:01 -0800 Dear Sir: I'd appreciate if you kindly announce this once in your newsletter. Thank you. Rao Vemuri =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Jay Libowitz, George Washington University Special Issue on Macintosh Based Expert Systems and Applications Guest Editor: Prof. V. Rao Vemuri, University of California at Davis The Journal of Expert Systems with Applications is planning on a special issue devoted to expert systems on APPLE MACINTOSH PLATFORMS. Papers are invited in the following areas: Expert System Shells, Applications, Case Studies, and User Interfaces. Hybrid Systems such as Fuzzy expert systems, Neural Nets and expert systems. All the submissions, both invited and submitted, will be reviewed by a panel of experts, both from academia and industry. Please submit the original and 5 copies of your complete manuscript directly to the Guest Editor before 30 November 1993. If you do not have a paper, but wish to participate as a reviewer, please send a note to me because I can use all sorts of help in the review process. Prof. V. Vemuri Guest Editor, Special Issue on Expert Systems Department of Applied Science P. O. Box 808, L-794 University of California at Davis Livermore, CA 94550 vemuri@icdc.llnl.gov (510) 294-4051 ------------------------------ Subject: Submission From: eletansh@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Shao Hua (Dr)) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 13:35:54 +0800 Dear Editor, Please kindly consider to include the attached Call for Papers in your next issue of Neuron-Digest. This special issue should be relevent to the Neuron Digest readers. Thanks for your consideration. SH Tan eletansh@nuscc.nus.sg ********************** cut here ************************** Call for Papers ASIA-PACIFIC ENGINEERING JOURNAL (PART A: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) MARCH 1994 SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEURAL CONTROL ASIA-PACIFIC ENGINEERING JOURNAL (PART A: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) is planning to publish a special issue on Neural Control in March 1994. This special issue will cover all aspects of neural control, including but not limited to the following topics: Adaptive control Learning control Nonlinear control Process control Motion control System identification Stability System theory Hybrid control systems Optimal control Robotics Control strategies planning Authors are invited to submit their contributions to APEJ Managing Editor Faculty of Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore 0511 Tel: (65)7722292 Fax: (65)7773847 or (65)7773117 E-mail: eletansh@nuscc.nus.sg Submission Deadline: 15 September 1993 APEJ (Part A) Editorial Board (Control & Automation) K.J. Astrom (Sweden), K. Furuta (Japan), G. Goodwin (Austrilia), Z.-J. Han (P.R. China), C.C. Hang (Singapore), F. Harashima (Japan), R.N.K. Loh (USA), M.G. Rodd (UK), Y.P. Shih (Taiwan), S. Yamamoto (JAPAN) Instruction for Authors: 1. 3 copies of the manuscripts in English should be submitted to the Managing Editor. The manuscript, including an abstract of no more than 100 words, references, tables, figures and figure captions should be clearly typed in double-space on A4 size paper with ample margins around text. 2. Each symbol must be clear, either typed neatly or written in ink and properly aligned to distinguish superscripts and subscripts. Section headings, references, tables and figures should be numbered in Arabic numerals. Footnotes and references should be listed at the end of the main text. 3. Each table or figure should occupy a separate page, and all tables and figures should be grouped at the end of the paper. Original indian-ink drawings or glossy prints are preferred and they should be large enough for reduction to a minimum of 50%. A list of figure captions should be given on a separate sheet. 4. Once a paper is accepted, authors are assumed to have transferred the copyright to the publisher. It is author's responsibility to obtain written permission to reproduce copyrighted materials. 5. All submitted papers will be acknowledged and refereed. There is no page charge and 50 free reprints will be provide to the main author of each paper. ------------------------------ End of Neuron Digest [Volume 11 Issue 22] ***************************************** Received: from BUACCA by BUACCA.BU.EDU (Mailer R2.08 PTF009) with BSMTP id 8739; Fri, 09 Apr 93 17:08:56 EDT Received: from noc2.dccs.upenn.edu by BUACCA.BU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with TCP; Fri, 09 Apr 93 17:08:52 EDT Received: from CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU by noc2.dccs.upenn.edu id AA20983; Fri, 9 Apr 93 16:56:22 -0400 Return-Path: Received: from LOCALHOST by cattell.psych.upenn.edu id AA05917; Fri, 9 Apr 93 13:06:20 EDT Posted-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 93 13:05:35 -0400 From: "Neuron-Digest Moderator" To: Neuron-Distribution:; Subject: Neuron Digest V11 #23 (conferences, CFP) Reply-To: "Neuron-Request" X-Errors-To: "Neuron-Request" Organization: University of Pennsylvania Date: Fri, 09 Apr 93 13:05:35 -0400 Message-Id: <5872.734375135@cattell.psych.upenn.edu> Sender: marvit@cattell.psych.upenn.edu Neuron Digest Thursday, 8 Apr 1993 Volume 11 : Issue 23 Today's Topics: NIPS*93 NIPS*93 workshops Latin American Informatics Conference NOLTA: call for papers ANNES'93 CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION NeuronDigest- Workshop ANN to Telecom Send submissions, questions, address maintenance, and requests for old issues to "neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu". The ftp archives are available from cattell.psych.upenn.edu (130.91.68.31). Back issues requested by mail will eventually be sent, but may take a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: NIPS*93 From: Jack Cowan Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 11:46:50 -0600 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Neural Information Processing Systems -Natural and Synthetic- Monday, November 29 - Thursday, December 2, 1993 Denver, Colorado This is the seventh meeting of an inter-disciplinary conference which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. There will be an afternoon of tutorial presentations (Nov 29) preceding the regular session and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec 3-4). Major categories and examples of subcategories for paper submissions are the following: Neuroscience: Studies and Analyses of Neurobiological Systems, Inhibition in cortical circuits, Signals and noise in neural computation, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics. Theory: Computational Learning Theory, Complexity Theory, Dynamical Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Probability and Statistics, Approximation Theory. Implementation & Simulation: VLSI, Optical, Software Simulators, Implementation Languages, Parallel Processor Design and Benchmarks. Algorithms & Architectures: Learning Algorithms, Constructive and Pruning Algorithms, Localized Basis Functions, Tree Structured Networks, Performance Comparisons, Recurrent Networks, Combinatorial Optimization, Genetic Algorithms. Cognitive Science & AI: Natural Language, Human Learning and Memory, Perception and Psychophysics, Symbolic Reasoning. Visual Processing: Stereopsis, Visual Motion, Recognition, Image Coding and Classification. Speech & Signal Processing: Speech Recognition, Coding, and Synthesis, Text-to-Speech, Adaptive Equalization, Nonlinear Noise Removal. Control, Navigation, & Planning: Navigation and Planning, Learning Internal Models of the World, Trajectory Planning, Robotic Motor Control, Process Control. Applications: Medical Diagnosis or Data Analysis, Financial and Economic Analysis, Timeseries Prediction, Protein Structure Prediction, Music Processing, Expert Systems. Technical Program: Plenary, contributed and poster sessions will be held. There will be no parallel sessions. The full text of presented papers will be published. Submission Procedures: Original research contributions are solicited, and will be carefully refereed. Authors must submit six copies of both a 1000-word (or less) summary and six copies of a separate single-page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating their results postmarked by May 22, 1993 (express mail is not necessary). Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference program. Summaries are for program committee use only. At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first summary page indicate preference for oral or poster presentation and specify one of the above nine broad categories and, if appropriate, sub-categories (For example: Poster, Applications, Expert Systems; Oral, Implementation-Analog VLSI). Include addresses of all authors at the front of the summary and the abstract and indicate to which author correspondence should be addressed. Submissions will not be considered that lack category information, separate abstract sheets, the required six copies, author addresses, or are late. Mail submissions To: Gerry Tesauro The Salk Institute, CNL 10010 North Torrey Pines Rd. La Jolla, CA 92037 Mail for registration material To: NIPS*93 Registration NIPS Foundation PO Box 60035 Pasadena, CA 91116-6035 All submitting authors will be sent registration material automatically. Program committee decisions will be sent to the correspondence author only. NIPS*93 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Jack Cowan, University of Chicago; Publications Chair, Joshua Alspector, Bellcore; Publicity Chair, Bartlett Mel, CalTech; Program Chair, Gerry Tesauro, Salk Institute; Treasurer, Rodney Goodman, CalTech; Local Arrangements, Chuck Anderson, Colorado State University; Tutorials Chair, Dave Touretzky, Carnegie-Mellon, Workshop Chair, Mike Mozer, University of Colorado, Government & Corporate Liaison, Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute Inc. DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS MAY 22, 1993 (POSTMARKED) ------------------------------ Subject: NIPS*93 workshops From: "Michael C. Mozer" Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:40:57 -0700 CALL FOR PROPOSALS NIPS*93 Post-Conference Workshops December 3 and 4, 1993 Vail, Colorado Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 1993 conference, workshops on current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 3 and 4, 1993, in Vail, Colorado. Proposals by qualified individuals interested in chairing one of these workshops are solicited. Past topics have included: active learning and control; architectural issues; attention; bayesian analysis; benchmarking neural network applications; computational complexity issues; computational neuroscience; fast training techniques; genetic algorithms; music; neural network dynamics; optimization; recurrent nets; rules and connectionist models; self- organization; sensory biophysics; speech; time series prediction; vision; and VLSI and optical implementations. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important issues of current interest. Sessions will meet in the morning and in the afternoon of both days, with free time in between for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Concrete open and/or controversial issues are encouraged and preferred as workshop topics. Individuals proposing to chair a workshop will have responsibilities including: arranging short informal presentations by experts working on the topic, moderating or leading the discussion and reporting its high points, findings, and conclusions to the group during evening plenary sessions (the "gong show"), and writing a brief (2 page) summary. Submission Procedure: Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of interest postmarked by May 22, 1993. (Express mail is *not* necessary. Submissions by electronic mail will also be accepted.) Proposals should include a title, a description of what the workshop is to address and accomplish, and the proposed length of the workshop (one day or two days). It should motivate why the topic is of interest or controversial, why it should be discussed and what the targeted group of participants is. In addition, please send a brief resume of the prospective workshop chair, a list of publications and evidence of scholarship in the field of interest. Mail submissions to: Mike Mozer NIPS*93 Workshops Chair Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0430 USA (e-mail: mozer@cs.colorado.edu) Name, mailing address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail net address should be on all submissions. PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 22, 1993 Please Post ------------------------------ Subject: Latin American Informatics Conference From: fcastro@tolten.puc.cl (Felipe Castro) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 15:23:37 -0600 CALL FOR PAPERS XIX LATIN AMERICAN INFORMATICS CONFERENCE PANEL '93 BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA 22nd Argentine Meeting of Informatics and Operational Research The XIX Latin American Informatics Conference will be held between the 2nd and 6th of August, 1993, along with the 22nd Argentine Meeting of Informatics and Operational Research. Conference papers describing original research and novel applications in all areas of informatics are solicited. The main areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: Algorithms and Data Structures. Artificial Intelligence. Databases and Knowledge Bases. Networks and Distributed Systems. Non-Conventional Architectures. Software Engineering. Programming Paradigms. Connectionism and Neural Networks. Human-Computer Interfaces. Optimization and Simulation. Informatics in Education. Informatics and Government. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto, Canada mendel@db.toronto.edu Phone +1-416-978-2952, Fax +1-416-978-4765 Local chair: Gustavo Rossi, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina grossi@unlpd.edu.ar Martin Abadi DEC USA Guillermo Arango Schlumberger USA Julian Araoz USB Venezuela Jorge Boria UNICEN Argentina Raul Carnota UBA Argentina Walter Cunto IBM Venezuela Vladimir Estivill-Castro LANIA Mejico David Fuller U.Catolica Chile Alvaro Galvis U.Los Andes Colombia Irene Loiseau UBA Argentina Claudia Medeiros UNICAMP Brasil Alain Pirotte U.Louvain Belgica Patricio Poblete U.Chile Chile Celso Ribeiro PUC Brasil Jorge Santos UNS Argentina Guillermo Simari UNS Argentina Siang Song USP Brasil Hermann Steffen U.Republica Uruguay Jorge Vidart U.Republica Uruguay PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors should submit three copies of their work, of up to 20 A4 pages in length (21 x 29.7cm) double-spaced, with an abstract of no more than 200 words, by APRIL 1st, 1993. Papers may be submitted in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be communicated by May 31st, 1993. Papers should be sent to: Program Committee PANEL '93/22 JAIIO, SADIO Uruguay 252, 2do. piso D 1015 Buenos Aires, Argentina For additional information, contact jaiio@sadio.edu.ar, fax +54-1-476-3950, telephone +54-1-40-5755. ------------------------------ Subject: NOLTA: call for papers From: Anthony Kuh Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 10:12:48 -1000 Call for Papers 1993 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, HAWAII December 5 - 9, 1993 The 1993 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications(NOLTA'93) will be held at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Hawaii, on Dec. 5 - 9, 1993. The conference is open to all the world. Papers describing original work in all aspects of Nonlinear Theory and its Applications are invited. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following: Circuits and Systems Neural Networks Chaos Dynamics Cellular Neural Networks Fractals Bifurcation Biocybernetics Soliton Oscillations Reactive Phenomena Fuzzy Numerical Methods Pattern Generation Information Dynamics Self-Validating Numerics Time Series Analysis Chua's Circuits Chemistry and Physics Mechanics Fluid Mechanics Acoustics Control Optics Circuit Simulation Communication Economics Digital/analog VLSI circuits Image Processing Power Electronics Power Systems Other Related Areas Organizers: Research Society of Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, IEICE Dept. of Elect. Engr., Univ. of Hawaii In cooperation with: IEEE Hawaii Section IEEE Circuits and Systems Society IEEE Neural Networks Council International Neural Network Society IEEE CAS Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Group of Nonlinear Problems, IEICE Technical Group of Circuits and Systems, IEICE Authors are invited to submit three copies of a summary of 2 or 3 pages to: Technical Program Chairman Prof. Shun-ichi Amari Faculty of Engr., University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 Japan Telefax: +81-3-5689-5752 e-mail: amari@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp The summary should include the author's name(s), affiliation(s) and complete return address(es). The authors should also indicate one or more of the above categories that best describe the topic of the paper. Deadline for submission of summaries: August 15, 1993 Notification of acceptance: Before September 15, 1993 Deadline for camera-ready manuscripts: November 1, 1993 HONORARY CHAIRMEN Kazuo Horiuchi (Waseda Univ.) Masao Iri (Univ. of Tokyo) CO-CHAIRMEN Shun-ichi Amari (Univ. of Tokyo) Anthony Kuh (Univ. of Hawaii) Shinsaku Mori (Keio Univ.) TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRMAN Shun-ichi Amari (Univ. of Tokyo) PUBLICITY Shinsaku Mori (Keio Univ.) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT Anthony Kuh (Dept. of Electrical Engr., Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822 U.S.A. Phone: +1-808-956-7527 Telefax. +1-808-956-3427 e-mail: kuh@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu) ADVISORY L. O. Chua (U.C.Berkeley) R. Eberhart (Research Triangle Inst.) A. Fettweis (Ruhr Univ.) L. Fortuna (Univ. of Catania) W.J. Freeman (U.C.Berkeley) M. Hasler (Swiss Fed. Inst. of Tech. Lausanne) Tatsuo Higuchi (Tohoku Univ.) Kazumasa Hirai (Kobe Univ.) Ryogo Hirota (Waseda Univ.) E.S. Kuh (U.C.Berkeley) Hiroshi Kawakami (Tokushima Univ.) Tosiro Koga (Kyushu Univ.) Tohru Kohda (Kyushu Univ.) Masami Kuramitsu(Kyoto Univ.) R.W. Liu (Univ. of Notre Dame) Tadashi Matsumoto (Fukui Univ.) A.I. Mees (Univ. of Western Australia ) Michitada Morisue (Saitama Univ.) Tomomasa Nagashima (Muroran Inst. Tech.) Tetsuo Nishi (Kyushu Univ.) J.A. Nossek (Technical University Munich) Kohshi Okumura (Kyoto Univ.) T. Roska (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Junkichi Satsuma (Univ. of Tokyo) I.W. Sandberg (Univ. of Texas at Austin) Chikara Sato (Keio Univ.) Yasuji Sawada (Tohoku Univ.) V.V. Shakhgildian (Russian Engr. Academy) Yoshisuke Ueda (Kyoto Univ.) Akio Ushida (Tokushima Univ.) J. Vandewalle (Catholic Univ. of Leuven, Heverlee) P. Werbos (National Science Foundation) A.N. Willson, Jr (U.C.L.A.) Shuji Yoshizawa (Univ. of Tokyo) A.H.Zemanian (State Univ. of NY at Stony Brook) SECRETARIATS Shin'ichi Oishi (Waseda Univ.) Mamoru Tanaka (Sophia Univ.) INFORMATION CONTACT Mamoru Tanaka Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng., Sophia Univ. Kioicho 7-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102 JAPAN Fax: +81-3-3238-3321 e-mail: tanaka@mamoru.ee.sophia.ac.jp ------------------------------ Subject: ANNES'93 CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION From: NKASABOV@commerce.otago.ac.nz Date: 19 Mar 93 16:17:06 +1200 The First New Zealand International Two-Stream Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems - ANNES'93 November 24-26, 1993 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: D. Aha (CAN), J. Andreae (NZ), M. Apperley (NZ), M. Arbib (USA), Y. Attikiouzel (AUS), G. Bartfai (NZ), J.Bezdek (USA), A. Bulsara (USA), T. Caelli (AUS), J. Campbell (UK), G. Coghill (NZ), B Cox (NZ), S. Cunningham(NZ), A. Everett (NZ), W. Friedrich (NZ), L. Hamey (AUS), J. van den Herik (NL), G. Holmes (NZ), M. Jabri (AUS), S. Jones (UK), N. Kasabov (NZ) - Chairman, E. Kemp (NZ), G. Kennedy (NZ), M. Lim (SING), R. MarksII (USA), A. Mason (NZ), L. Patnaik (IND), M. Paulin (NZ), D. Pham (UK), M. Purvis (NZ), A. Ralescu (JAPAN), K. Reinartz (GER), A. Robins (NZ), P. Sallis (NZ), N. Sharkey (UK), R. Sun (USA), M. Thathachar (IND), E. Triantaphyllou (USA), V. Vemuri (USA), C. Wang (UK), T. Yamakawa (JAPAN), W. Yeap (NZ). TOPICS OF INTEREST * Artificial neural networks: models; architectures; algorithms; software tools; hardware implementations; cognitive models of the brain and their impact. * Neural networks for problem solving: handling large experimental data bases; speech-, image- and text processing; time-series prediction; control; diagnosis, etc. * Fuzzy systems: methods; tools; software and hardware implementations; fuzzy systems for problem solving; soft programming. * Expert systems: machine learning and knowledge acquisition; methods for representing inexact data and uncertain knowledge; approximate reasoning; tools and systems; object-oriented systems. * Hybrid systems: integrating neural networks and AI-techniques; integrating neural networks and fuzzy systems; extending existing software tools with fuzzy reasoning and neural nets. * Applications of expert systems and neural networks in: Manufacturing; Process Control; Quality Testing; Finance; Economics; Marketing; Management; Banking; Agriculture; Environment Protection; Medicine; Geographic information systems; and other application areas. * The impact of neural networks and expert systems to the future IT development. INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor Takeshi Yamakawa, Department of Computer Science and Control, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan). Professor V.Rao Vemuri, Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis (U.S.A.). CALL FOR PAPERS Papers must be received by April 30, 1993. They will be reviewed by senior researchers in the field and the authors will be informed about the decision of the review process by June 20, 1993. Final versions of the accepted papers should be submitted by 20 July 1993. A recommended size for a paper would be 4 pages. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (USA). The Conference Proceedings will be available at the conference for distribution to all the regular conference registrants. As the conference is a multi-disciplinary meeting the papers are required to be comprehensible to a wider rather than to a very specialised audience. Papers will be presented at the conference either in an oral or in a poster session. Please submit three (3) copies (one camera-ready original and two copies) of the paper written in English on A4-format white paper with one inch margins on all four sides, in one-column format, single-spaced, in Times or similar font of 12 points, and printed on one side of the page only. Centred at the top of the first page should be the complete title, author(s), mailing and e-mailing addresses, followed by an abstract and the text. TUTORIALS During the first day of the conference the following 3-hour tutorials will be organized: 1. The basics of artificial neural networks. 2. The basics of fuzzy systems. Fuzzy systems applications. 3. Neural networks for problem solving. 4. Object-oriented systems. These aim at providing basic knowledge in the subject area. The tutorial fee is not included in the conference fee. Tutorial materials will be distributed among the participants. EXHIBITION Companies and university research laboratories are encouraged to exhibit their developed or distributing software and hardware products. There will be an additional fee of NZ$50 for exhibiting products at the conference. STUDENTS SESSION A postgraduate session will be organised. Postgraduate students are encouraged to submit papers to this session following the same formal requirements for paper submission. The submitted papers will be published in a separate brochure. WORKSHOP A two hour workshop during the last day of the conference will be organised on "Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition for Expert Systems". There is an additional fee of NZ$50 to attend the workshop. VIDEO TRACK A video session will be organised which will allow participants to display up to 15 minute films. These should ideally cover applications of expert systems and neural networks to real problems in Commerce, Industry, Medicine, Agriculture, Government, Education, etc. SPONSORSHIP The sponsors of the ANNES'93 conference are: New Zealand Computer Society; Telecom New Zealand; Air New Zealand; Ansett New Zealand; Computer World Magazine - New Zealand REGISTRATION The registration fees to attend the conference are: Full time students NZ$ 75.00 Academics,company representatives: NZ$300.00 One tutorial: NZ$100.00 A single day registration: NZ$150.00 An exhibition fee: NZ$50.00 A workshop fee: NZ$50.00 A discount of 20% applies for advance registration which must be posted to the Secretary before 20 July 1993. A discount of NZ$50 applies to participants who will present their accepted papers either in the oral or in the poster session. VENUE The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. ACCOMMODATION Accommodation has been booked at St Margaret's College located right on the Campus and 10 minutes from downtown Dunedin. The college offers well equipped facilities including library, sports hall, music hall and computers with E-MAIL connection. Full board (NZ$50) is available during the conference days as well as two days before or after the conference. Accommodation will be also booked for a range of hotels in the city. TRAVELLING Two companies offer a discount of up to 45% for travelling to the Conference within New Zealand. When making a reservation with Air New Zealand please quote the code DOM/1621/3, for Ansett New Zealand quote TA53506. POSTCONFERENCE EVENTS Following the conference, delegates may like to experience the delights of Queenstown, Central Otago, Fiordland. A variety of options are available with travel plans able to be coordinated by the Dunedin Visitors Centre (telephone +(3)4743300, Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand). ANNES'93 CONFERENCE CONTACTS: PROGRAM AND CONFERENCE CHAIR Nikola Kasabov Tel. +(3) 479 8319, Fax. +(3) 479 8311 email: nkasabov@otago.ac.nz Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O.Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand (Conference program, papers, proceedings, tutorials, reviewing, invited talks) CHAIR OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Martin Anderson Tel. +(3) 479 8315, Fax. +(3) 479 8311 email: manderson@otago.ac.nz Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand (Sponsorship proposals, exhibition proposals, video track, business and industry contacts) POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SESSION Ms. Kitty Ko Tel. +(3) 479 8153, Fax. +(3) 479 8311 email: kittyko@otago.ac.nz Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O.Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY: Ms Gina Porteous Tel.+(3) 479 8180, Fax. +(3) 479 8311, email: gporteous@otago.ac.nz Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand (Registration and all enquiries). DEADLINES 30 April 1993 Submission of papers. 20 June 1993 Notification of acceptance. 20 July 1993 Early registration; final papers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM Fee Enclosed Registration Fee: *Students (NZ $75) ...$ Academics,Industry: Before 20 July After20 July Single Day NZ $240 NZ $300 NZ $150 ...$ Tutorials Fee: No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 NZ $100 NZ $100 NZ $100 NZ $100 ...$ Exhibition Fee: NZ $50 ...$ Workshop Fee: NZ$50 ...$ TOTAL (including GST) ...$ GST Number: 11-163-831 MMMMMMMMM * Student Registration must be accompanied by a letter or verification from Department Chairman. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please Print or Type: NAME: TITLE: ADDRESS: City: State: Zip: Country: Telephone: Fax: Email: SPOUSE/GUEST NAME: ______________________________________________________________ Complete this form and return it to the Secretary with a cheque or a bank draft payable in New Zealand dollars to: ANNES'93, Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. Return address for the Registration Forms: Ms Gina Porteous, Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. ACCOMMODATION BOOKING: St Margaret's College (NZ $50 full board) Number:... Single room in a hotel (approximately NZ$70 per night) Number:.. Double room in a hotel (approximately NZ$90 per night) Number:.. Booking will only be made after a registration for the Conference. The accommodation is to be paid at the venue. All enquiries about registration and accommodation booking should be addressed to Ms Gina Porteous. There will be no refunds after September 30. Refunds before September 30 will not include an administration fee of NZ $30. ------------------------------ Subject: NeuronDigest- Workshop ANN to Telecom From: Miklos.Boda@eua.ericsson.se (Miklos.Boda) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 21:32:53 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks to Telecommunications Princeton, NJ October 18-20, 1993 You are invited to submit a paper to an international workshop on applications of neural networks to problems in telecommunications. The workshop will be held in Princeton, New Jersey on October, 18-20 1993. This workshop will bring together active researchers in neural networks with potential users in the telecommunications industry in a forum for discussion of applications issues. Applications will be identified, experiences shared, and directions for future work explored. Suggested Topics: Application of Neural Networks in: Network Management Congestion Control Adaptive Equalization Speech Recognition Security Verification Language ID/Translation Information Filtering Dynamic Routing Software Reliability Fraud Detection Financial and Market Prediction Adaptive User Interfaces Fault Identification and Prediction Character Recognition Adaptive Control Data Compression Please submit 6 copies of both a 50 word abstract and a 1000 word summary of your paper by May 14, 1993. Mail papers to the conference administrator: Betty Greer Bellcore, MRE 2P-295 445 South St. Morristown, NJ 07960 (201) 829-4993 (fax) 829-5888 bg1@faline.bellcore.com Abstract and Summary Due: May 14 Author Notification of Acceptance: June 18 Camera-Ready Copy of Paper Due: August 13 Organizing Committee: General Chair Josh Alspector Bellcore, MRE 2P-396 445 South St. Morristown, NJ 07960-6438 (201) 829-4342 josh@bellcore.com Program Chair Rod Goodman Caltech 116-81 Pasadena, CA 91125 (818) 356-3677 rogo@micro.caltech.edu Publications Chair Timothy X Brown Bellcore, MRE 2E-378 445 South St. Morristown, NJ 07960-6438 (201) 829-4314 timxb@faline.bellcore.com Treasurer Anthony Jayakumar, Bellcore Events Coordinator Larry Jackel, AT&T Bell Laboratories University Liaison S Y Kung, Princeton INNS Liaison Bernie Widrow, Stanford University IEEE Liaison Steve Weinstein, Bellcore Industry Liaisons Miklos Boda, Ellemtel Atul Chhabra, NYNEX Michael Gell, British Telecom Lee Giles, NEC Thomas John, Southwest Bell Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Australia Conference Administrator Betty Greer Bellcore, MRE 2P-295 445 South St. Morristown, NJ 07960 (201) 829-4993 (fax) 829-5888 bg1@faline.bellcore.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks to Telecommunications Princeton, NJ October 18-20, 1993 Registration Form Name: _____________________________________________________________ Institution: __________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Telephone: ______________________________ Fax: ____________________________________ E-mail: _____________________________________________________________ I will attend | | Send more information | | Paper enclosed | | Registration Fee Enclosed ($350) | | (please make sure your name is on the check) Registration includes Monday night reception, Tuesday night banquet, and proceedings available at the conference. Mail to: Betty Greer Bellcore, MRE 2P-295 445 South St. Morristown, NJ 07960 (201) 829-4993 (fax) 829-5888 bg1@faline.bellcore.com Deadline for submissions: May 14, 1993 Author Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 1993 Camera-Ready Copy of Paper Due: August 13, 1993 ------------------------------ End of Neuron Digest [Volume 11 Issue 23] *****************************************