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Neuron Digest Wednesday, 23 Oct 1991 Volume 8 : Issue 4
Today's Topics:
CFP: IJCNN '92
CFP - NN for Ocean Engineering
CFP - Parallel Problem Solving in Nature
CFP - Special issue of Information Sciences
CFP - IJCNN Workshop of GA + NN
Announcement and call for abstracts for Feb. conference
Workshop & CFP: Par. Prob. Solving: Applns. in Statistics & Economics
Announcement of NIPS Workshop - call for proposals
CFP - CNS*92
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Subject: CFP: IJCNN '92
From: "Clifford G. Lau" <clau@isi.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 91 06:36:58 -0800
I would like to place the following announcement for IJCNN'92 Baltimore.
IJCNN'92 Call for Papers:
Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland
June 7 - 11, 1992
Sponsored by: IEEE and INNS
General Chair: C. Lau, Office of Naval Research
Honorary Chair: B. Widrow, Stanford University
Program Chair: J. Shynk, Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara
Submissions: Authors should submit six copies of the paper to the address
below by January 15, 1992. Papers are limited to six pages maximum,
including figures. Papers must be camera-ready on 8 1/2 x 11 white
paper, one-column format in Times or similar font style, 10 points or
larger with one inch margins on all four sides. Title, author name(s),
affiliation(s) must be on the top of the firest page followed by the
abstract. Papers will be printed as submitted. A covering letter must
show: 1. Title of paper 2. Name, address, and telephone number of
corresponding author 3 Your choice of technical sessions.
Contact: Nomi Feldman, IJCNN'92, 5665 Oberlin Drive, Suite #110, San
Diego, CA 92121. Phone (619)453-6222, FAX (619)535-3880.
Thanks, Cliff Lau sends.
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Subject: CFP - NN for Ocean Engineering
From: xm8@sdcc12.UCSD.EDU (patrick k. simpson)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 12:01:30 -0800
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue
on
Neural Networks for Oceanic Engineering
The _IEEE_Journal_of_Oceanic_Engineering_ is accepting papers for a
special issue on Neural Networks for Ocean Engineering. Neural networks
are having a large impact on several aspects of the oceanic engineering
including passive and active acoustic signal processing, ocean
surveillance, adaptive beam forming, underwater acoustic communication,
seismic exploration, and many others.
The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, in cooperation with the IEEE Neural
Networks Council, has recently sponsored the Conference on Neural
Networks for Ocean Engineering (CNNOE 91). This conference represents the
first meeting of its kind. The enormous interest in neural networks
generated by this conference has resulted in a special issue of the
_IEEE_Journal_of_ Oceanic_Engineering_.
Journal length papers are being sought for the special issue on Neural
Networks for Oceanic Engineering. Papers concering all areas of neural
network applications to ocean engineering are requested, including (but
not limited to):
o Passive and Active Acoustic Signal Processing
o Bioacoustics
o Ocean Surveillance, Monitoring and Modeling
o Underwater Vehicle Control
o Underwater Image Processing
The submission guidelines are found in past issues of the
_IEEE_Journal_of_ Oceanic_Engineering_. The deadline for paper submission
is January 2, 1992. All papers should be sent to the Special Issue Guest
Editor at:
Patrick K. Simpson
Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Ocean Engineering
Special Issue on Neural Networks for Ocean Engineering
General Dynamics Electronics Division
P.O. Box 85310; MZ 7202-K
San Diego, CA 92186-5310
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Subject: CFP - Parallel Problem Solving in Nature
From: bernard@arti1.vub.ac.be (Bernard Manderick)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 91 20:56:51 +0100
Call for Papers
PPSN 92
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
Free University Brussels, Belgium
28-30 September 1992
The unifying theme of the PPSN-conference is ``natural computation'',
i.e. the design, the theoretical and empirical understanding, and the
comparison of algorithms gleaned from nature as well as their application
to real-world problems in science, technology, etc. Characteristic for
natural computation is the metaphorical use of concepts, principles, and
mechanisms explaining natural systems. Examples are genetic algorithms,
evolution strategies, algorithms based on neural networks, immune
networks, and so on. A first focus of the conference is on problem
solving in general, and learning and adaptiveness in particular. Since
natural systems usually operate in a massively parallel way, a second
focus is on parallel algorithms and their implementations.
The conference scope includes but is not limited to the following topics:
Physical metaphors such as simulated annealing,
Biological metaphors such as evolution strategies, genetic
algorithms, immune networks, classifier systems and neural networks
insofar problem solving, learning and adaptability are concerned, and
Transfer of other natural metaphors to artificial problem solving.
Objectives of this conference are 1) to bring together scientists and
practitioners working with these algorithms, 2) to discuss theoretical
and empirical results, 3) to compare these algorithms, 4) to discuss
various implementations on different parallel computer architectures, 5)
to discuss applications in science, technology, administration, etc., and
6) to summarize the state of the art.
For practical reasons, there will be both oral and poster presentations.
The way of presentation of a paper does not say anything about its
quality.
Conference Chair: B. Manderick (VUB, Belgium) and H. Bersini (ULB, Belgium)
Conference Address:
PPSN - p/a D. Roggen - Dienst WEIN -
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
tel. +32/2/641.35.75
fax +32/2/641.28.70
email ppsn@arti.vub.ac.be
Organizing Committee: D. Keymeulen, D. Roggen, P. Spiessens, J. Toreele
(all VUB)
Program Co-chairs: Y. Davidor (Israel) and H.-P. Schwefel (Germany)
Program Committee:
E.M.L. Aarts (The Netherlands)
R.K. Belew (USA)
K.A. de Jong (USA)
J. Decuyper (Belgium)
M. Dorigo (Italy)
D.E. Goldberg (USA)
M. Gorges-Schleuter (Germany)
J.J. Grefenstette (USA)
A.W.J. Kolen (The Netherlands)
R. Maenner (Germany)
W. Ebeling (Germany)
J.-A. Meyer (France)
H. Muehlenbein (Germany)
F. Varela (France)
H.-M. Voigt (Germany)
Important Dates:
April 1, 1992: Submission of papers (four copies) not exceeding
5000 words to be sent to the conference address.
May 15, 1992: Notification of acceptance or rejection.
June 15, 1992: Camera ready revised versions due.
Sept. 28-30, 1992: PPSN-Conference.
The proceedings will be published by Elsevier Publishing Company and will
be available at the time of the conference.
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Subject: CFP - Special issue of Information Sciences
From: "Dr. S. Kak" <kak@max.ee.lsu.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 91 11:43:11 -0600
[[ Editor's Note: Apologies for the short notice. I batched all the CFP
and this had a short deadline - 31 October. I'm still clearing out old
messages. -PM ]]
Call for Papers
Special Issue of
INFORMATION SCIENCES
Topic: Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence
The motivation for this Special Issue, which will be published in 1992,
is to evaluate the advances in the field of neural networks in
perspective. Critics have charged that engineering neural computing has
turned out to be no more than a new technique of clustering data. From
another perspective neural networks function as good associative
memories. But neither of these viewpoints constitutes AI in any real
sense. There is a famous saying by Nietzsche that might be adapted to
describe the current status of neural networks: Machines "do not become
thinkers simply because their memories are too good."
Yet there are other aspects of neural networks that have been extremely
important. Thus the structural paradigm is of obvious value to the
neurophysiologist, the cognitive scientist, and the vision researcher.
It would be of value to the computer science community if Information
Sciences were to review and critique the original promise of
neurocomputing in the light of developments in the past few years.
The Special Issue of Information Sciences will do just this. It will
provide reviews of this link between neural networks and AI. In other
words, the scope of this \fIIssue\fR is much broader than that of the
most commonly encountered applications of associative memories or mapping
networks. The application areas that the \fIIssue\fR will deal with
include neural logic programming, feature detection, knowledge
representation, search techniques, and learning. The connectionist
approach to AI will be contrasted from the traditional symbolic
techniques.
Deadline for Submissions: October 30, 1991
Papers may be sent to:
Subhash Kak
Guest Editor, Information Sciences
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5901, USA
Tel: (504) 388-5552
E-mail: kak@max.ee.lsu.edu
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Subject: CFP - IJCNN Workshop of GA + NN
From: Russ Eberhart <RCE1%APLVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 09:39:16 -0500
CALL FOR PAPERS
In conjunction with IJCNN-92, a one day workshop is scheduled on
combinations of genetic algorithms (GAs) and neural networks (NNs).
These paradigms are both inspired by information processing schemes used
by Nature, but they typically have vastly different time constants.
Recently, researchers have begun experimenting with combining them into
adaptive/learning systems with new capabilities. The time is right for a
workshop to bring together researchers to share concepts and experience.
Three copies of original papers (10 pages, 12 point type) should be
submitted to:
Dr. Darrell Whitley
Program Chair: COGANN
Department of Computer Science
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80524 USA
whitley@cs.colostate.edu
by February 1, 1992.
Papers will be rejected if they exceed the page limit or if they fail to
describe work combining both these technologies.
Relevant topics include, but are no limited to:
Using GAs to train NNs
Using GAs to design NN topologies and parameters
Using GAs to analyze NN performance
Artificial life applications and the evolution of learning
Comparative studies
Applications (especially encouraged)
Workshop date: 6 June 1992
place: IJCNN-92, Baltimore, MD
sponsor: IEEE NN Council
cooperating: International Society for Genetic Algorithms
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Subject: Announcement and call for abstracts for Feb. conference
From: B344DSL@UTARLG.UTA.EDU
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 91 22:55:00 -0600
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
WORKSHOP ON
OPTIMALITY IN BIOLOGICAL AND ARTIFICIAL NETWORKS?
Sponsored by the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (MIND) and the
Texas SIG of the International Neural Network Society (INNS). To be held
at a location to be announced in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Thursday
through Saturday, February 6-8, 1992.
Confirmed speakers include:
Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)
Stephen Hampson (University of California, Irvine)
Karl Pribram (Radford University)
Harold Szu (Naval Surface Warfare Center)
Graham Tattersall (University of East Anglia)
The focus of this conference will be twofold: (1) how to optimize
different aspects of neural and cognitive function and (2) whether
particular natural or artificial solutions to specific neural or
cognitive problems are in fact optimal. Specific problems to which these
optimality considerations are applied will be taken from many areas
including goal direction and planning, adaptive categorization, sensory
perception, and motor control.
The talks will be an hour each for invited speakers and 45 minutes each
for contributed speakers, with time afterwards for questions. Speakers
will not be required to write a paper, but will be invited to contribute
chapters to a book several months after the conference. Books based on
two previous MIND conferences -- on Motivation, Emotion, and Goal
Direction in Neural Networks and NeuralNetworks for Knowledge
Representation and Inference -- are now being published by Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
Registration for the conference will be $80 for non-students, $20 for
students, with a $10 rebate for MIND or Texas SIG membership. We will
try to arrange for discounted air fares from American Airlines as we have
done in the past. Those interested in presenting should send me a short
(1-3 paragraph) abstract by December 1, 1991, using either e-mail, FAX,
or snail mail. Notification of acceptance will be given December 15,
1991. We will not be holding parallel sessions, so there are
limitations on the number of speakers. However, individuals who send
high-quality abstracts that cannot be accommodated in actual talks will
have space to present their work in posters at the conference, and will
also be invited to contribute to the book.
Prof. Daniel S. Levine
Department of Mathematics
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-0408
e-mail: b344dsl@utarlg.uta.edu
FAX: 817-794-5802
Telephone: 817-273-3598
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Subject: Workshop & CFP: Par. Prob. Solving: Applns. in Statistics & Economics
From: MURTAGH@SCIVAX.STSCI.EDU
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 91 15:29:25 -0500
Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers:
"Parallel Problem Solving From Nature: Applications in Statistics &
Economics".
Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing, ETH, Zurich,
Switzerland. December 10-11, 1991.
Support/Sponsorship: DOSES/Statistical Office of the European
Communities; IPS, ETH Zurich; Konjunkturforschungsstelle, ETH Zurich;
MasPar Distributor AG Zurich; PAR, Schweizerische Informatiker
Gesellschaft; Parsytec GmbH, Aachen; QT optec AG, Zug; Schweizerischer
Bankverein, Basel, IBM Switzerland.
Program Committee: J. Frain (Central Bank of Ireland), K. Kirchmayr
(Schweizerischer Bankverein, Basel), F. Murtagh (Munotec Systems, Munich
and Dublin), P. Van Nypelseer (DOSES/EUROSTAT, Luxembourg), U. Reimer
(Rentenanstalt Zuerich), M.M. Richter (DFKI Kaiserslautern), W. Roth
(Konjunkturforschungsstelle ETH, Zurich), D. Wuertz (IPS, ETH Zurich),
and H.G. Zimmermann (Siemens, Munich).
Invited Speakers: J. Bernasconi (ABB Corp. Research, Baden), A. Colin
(Citibank, London), F. Fogelman-Soulie (MIMETICS, Chatenay Malabry), J.
Frain (Central Bank of Ireland), H. Horner (Universitaet Heidelberg), H.
Muehlenbein (GMD, Sankt Augustin, Bonn), F. Murtagh (Munotec Syst.,
Munich), M.B. Priestley (UMIST Manchester), R. Rohwer (CSTR University of
Edinburgh), C. Schaefer (Rowland Inst. of Science, Cambridge MA), P.
Treleaven (University College London), A. Varfis (Joint Research Center,
Ispra), H.-M. Wallmeier (IBM Scientific Center, Heidelberg), D. Weers
(Aspen Intellect, Zug), A. Weigend (Stanford University) D. Wuertz (IPS,
ETH Zurich), H.G. Zimmermann (Siemens, Munich).
Registration: SFr 400 for those from profit-making companies; otherwise
SFr 150. A limited fund will be available to support younger
participants who would not otherwise be able to attend. Late
registration, after November 1, additional SFr 50. Remittance (only
Swiss Francs) to: PASE-Workshop - Dr. Diethelm Wuertz, Schweizerischer
Bankverein, Zurich. Acccount number: P0-206066.0. Accommodation
requests: directly to: Verkehrsverein Zurich (VVZ), Kongressbuero,
Postfach, CH-8023 Zurich, Switzerland (Tel: + 41 1 211-1256).
Contact Point:
Dr. Diethelm Wuertz, IPS ETH Zurich, ETH Zentrum, CLU B3, CH-8092 Zurich,
Switzerland. Fax: + 41 1 252-0185. Email: wuertz@ips.ethz.ch
or the undersigned.
Abstract: 1 page, by November 1.
F.D. Murtagh
murtagh@scivax.stsci.edu
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Subject: Announcement of NIPS Workshop - call for proposals
From: giles@research.nj.nec.com (Lee Giles)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 91 09:27:59 -0500
Announcement of NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) Workshop:
Dec 6-7, Vail, Colorado.
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RECURRENT NETWORKS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Recurrent neural networks have a very large potential for handling
dynamical / sequential problems, e.g. recognition and classification of
time-dependent signals like speech, modelling and control of dynamical
systems, learning of grammars and symbolic processing, etc. However, the
fulfillment of this potential remains one of the important open issues in
the neural network area. Training algorithms are very inefficient in
terms of memory demands, computational needs or both. Little is known
about convenient architectures for recurrent networks. The number of
known successful applications is very limited.
Even for static applications (operation in the "fixed point mode"),
recurrent networks are more general, and therefore more powerful, in
principle, than feedforward ones. However, once again, little is known
about their actual (dis)advantages, convenient architectures, successful
applications, etc.
We welcome proposals for presentations ( no more than one page in length)
related to the theme of theory or applications of recurrent networks.
Subject to the number of received proposals, we envisage a two day
workshop, one day theory, the next day applications, with 15-20 minute
presentations, each followed by about 10 minutes of discussion.
Please send proposals to Lee Giles.
Organizers:
Professor Luis Borges de Almeida
INESC
Rua Alves Redol, 9
Apartado 10105
1017 LISBOA CODEX PORTUGAL
351-1-544607
inesc!lba@relay.EU.net (or)
lba@sara.inesc.pt
C. Lee Giles
NEC Research Institute
4 Independence Way
Princeton, N.J. 08540
609-951-2642
FAX: 609-951-2482
giles@research.nj.nec.com
Richard Rohwer
Centre for Speech Technology Research
Edinburgh University
80, South Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1HN, Scotland
(44 or 0) (31) 650-2764
FAX: (44 or 0) (31) 226-2730
rr%ed.cstr@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (or)
rr@uk.ac.ed.cstr
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C. Lee Giles
NEC Research Institute
4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540
USA
Internet: giles@research.nj.nec.com
UUCP: princeton!nec!giles
PHONE: (609) 951-2642
FAX: (609) 951-2482
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Subject: CFP - CNS*92
From: Jim Bower <jbower@cns.caltech.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 91 21:47:51 -0800
CALL FOR PAPERS
First Annual
Computation and Neural Systems Meeting
CNS*92
Tuesday, July 26 through Sunday, July 31
1992
San Francisco, California
This is the first annual meeting of an inter-disciplinary
conference intended to address the broad range of research
approaches and issues involved in the general field of
computational neuroscience. The meeting itself has grown out
of a workshop on "The Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems"
which has been held each of the last two years at the same
site. The strong response to these previous meetings has
suggested that it is now time for an annual open meeting
on computational approaches to understanding neurobiological
systems.
CNS*92 is intended to bring together experimental and
theoretical neurobiologists along with engineers, computer
scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians
interested in understanding how neural systems compute.
The meeting will equally emphasize experimental, model-based,
and more abstract theoretical approaches to understanding
neurobiological computation.
The first day of the meeting (July 26) will be devoted to tutorial
presentations and workshops focused on particular technical
issues confronting computational neurobiology. The next three
days will include the main technical program consisting of
plenary, contributed and poster sessions. There will be no
parallel sessions and the full text of presented papers will
be published. Following the regular session, there will be
two days of focused workshops at a site on the California coast
(July 30-31). Participation in the workshops is restricted to
75 attendees.
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.
Presentation categories:
A. Theory and Analysis
B. Modeling and Simulation
C. Experimental
D. Tools and Techniques
Themes:
A. Development
B. Cell Biology
C. Excitable Membranes and Synaptic Mechanisms
D. Neurotransmitters, Modulators, Receptors
E. Sensory Systems
1. Somatosensory
2. Visual
3. Auditory
4. Olfactory
5. Other
F. Motor Systems and Sensory Motor Integration
G. Behavior
H. Cognitive
I. Disease
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 singlepage 50-100 word abstract clearly stating
their results postmarked by January 7, 1992. 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 at least one appropriate category and
and theme. Also indicate preparation if applicable. Include
addresses of all authors on 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:
Chris Ploegaert
CNS*92 Submissions
Division of Biology
216-76
Caltech
Pasadena, CA. 91125
Mail For Registration Material To:
Chris Ghinazzi
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
P.O. Box 808
Livermore CA. 94550
All submitting authors will be sent registration material
automatically. Program committee decisions will be sent to the
correspondence author only.
CNS*92 Organizing Committee:
Program Chair, James M. Bower, Caltech.
Publicity Chair, Frank Eeckman, Lawrence Livermore Labs.
Finances, John Miller, UC Berkeley and
Nora Smiriga, Institute of Scientific Computing Res.
Local Arrangements, Ted Lewis, UC Berkeley and
Muriel Ross, NASA Ames.
Program Committee:
William Bialek, NEC Research Institute.
James M. Bower, Caltech.
Frank Eeckman, Lawrence Livermore Labs.
Scott Fraser, Caltech.
Christof Koch, Caltech.
Ted Lewis, UC Berkeley.
Eve Marder, Brandeis.
Bruce McNaughton, University of Arizona.
John Miller, UC Berkeley.
Idan Segev, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland.
Josef Skrzypek, UCLA.
DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS January 7, 1992
please post
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