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Neuron Digest Volume 08 Number 07
Neuron Digest Sunday, 10 Nov 1991 Volume 8 : Issue 7
Today's Topics:
Administrivia - Conferences in the next few issues
Upcoming Nnet Conferences (Regular Posting)
Neural Network Applications in Business
call for papers for COLT '92
Announcement: ICANN 92 Final call for papers
CNS*92
Conference CFP
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 (128.91.2.173). Back issues
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Subject: Administrivia - Conferences in the next few issues
From: "N-D Moderator, Peter Marvit" <neuron@cattell.psych.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 91 19:07:39 -0500
This issue and the next one or two will contain only conference
announcements, call for papers, workshop announcements and similar notes.
As faithful readers know, I try to group postings togother according to
general types. I have accumulated too much, however, to keep these in
queue any longer.
I apologize for not getting more Digests out recently. This fall has
found me busier than expected. Thank you for your patience and
readership.
-Peter
: Peter Marvit, Neuron Digest Moderator
: Courtesy of Psychology Department, University of Pennsylvania
: neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
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Subject: Upcoming Nnet Conferences (Regular Posting)
From: bakker@cs.uq.oz.au (Paultje Bakker)
Organization: CS Department, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Date: 27 Oct 91 23:01:29 +0000
[[ Editor's Note: This posting came from the ISSN mailing list. Many
thanks to contributors and to the collector. -PM ]]
Upcoming Conferences with a Neural Networks component
(ordered by date of submission deadline)
[If you have any conference details or other information to add
to this list, please mail 'bakker@cs.uq.oz.au'.]
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Format:
>>conference title<<<
>>date<< >>place<< >>deadline<<
>>any 'main topics' that are relevant to neural nets<<
>>contact address (if any is known)<<
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Artificial Neural Networks In Engineering (ANNIE '91)
11 Nov 91 St. Louis, USA *passed*
Contact: c3260@umrvmb.bitnet
IEE 2nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
18-20 Nov 91 Bournmouth, UK *passed*
Contact: +44 71 497 3633 (Fax)
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'91)
18-22 Nov 91 Singapore *passed*
Contact: Dr. Teck-Seng, Low Tel: (65) 226-2838
3rd IEEE Symposium on Parallel Distributed Processing
1-5 Dec 91 Dallas, USA *passed*
Contact: spdp@cs.utexas.edu
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
2-5 Dec 91 Denver, USA *passed*
Parallel and Distributed Information Systems
4 Dec 91 Florida, USA *passed*
1st European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'91)
11 Dec 91 Paris, France *passed*
Contact: ecal@cemagref.fr
Australian Conference on Neural Networks (ACNN'92)
3-5 Feb 92 Canberra, Australia *passed*
"Neuroscience, theory, implementation, architectures and learning
algorithms, cognitive science and AI, applications."
Contact: acnn92@ee.su.oz.au
Intelligent Control and Instrumentation
18 Feb 92 Singapore *passed*
"Neural Networks in control"
Contact: FENGHCC@NUS3090.BITNET
Symposium on Connectionism & Cognitive Processing
21 Apr 92 Vienna, Austria *passed*
"Connectionism and cognitive processing"
Contact: georg@ai-vie.uucp
11th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition
30 Aug-3 Sep 92 The Hague, Netherlands 31 Oct 91
Contact: icpr@et.tudelft.nl
6th European Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Based Systems Workshop
18-22 May 92 Heidelberg, Germany 13 Dec 91
"Issues in cognition & expertise that affect the knowledge acquisition
process."
Contact: althoff@informatik.uni-kl.de
First Annual Computation and Neural Systems Meeting (CNS*92)
26-31 Jul 92 San Francisco, USA 7 Jan 92(abstracts)
"The general field of computational neuroscience."
Contact: jbower@cns.caltech.edu (Jim Bower)
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'92)
7-11 Jun 92 Baltimore, USA 15 Jan 92
Contact: Nomi Feldman (Fax: (619) 535-3880)
10th European Conference on AI (ECAI 92)
3-7 Aug 92 Vienna, Austria 17 Jan 92
"Connectionist and PDP Models"
Contact: neumann@rz.informatik.uni-hamburg.dbp.de
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'92)
8 Jul 92 Seattle, USA 1 Feb 92
Canadian AI Conference
11-15 May 92 Vancouver, Canada 24 Feb 92
"Rule-based reasoning, Cognitive modelling, Learning."
Contact: janice@qucis.queensu.ca
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'92)
4 Sep 92 Brighton, UK ?
Contact: Igor Aleksander (fax: +44 71 823 8125)
International Neural Network Conference (INNC'92)
Jul.? 92 ? ?
Pacific Rim International Conference on AI
23-25 Sep 92 Seoul, Sth. Korea 31 Mar 92
"Neural networks and applications. Knowledge acquisition, machine
learning, and cognitive modelling."
Contact: PRICA92@CAIR.KAIST.AC.KR
Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN'92)
28-30 Sep 92 Brussels, Belgium 1 Apr 92
"Neural networks, insofar problem solving, learning and adaptability
are concerned".
Contact: ppsn@arti.vub.ac.be
Second International Computer Science Conference (ICSC'92)
13-16 Dec 92 Hong Kong 15 Apr 92
"Data and Knowledge Engineering: Theory and Applications"
Contact: ernest@bc750.hkbc.hk (Dr Ernest Lam)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Dec 92 Denver, USA May 92
Australian Joint Conference on AI
Nov 92 Hobart, Australia ?
"Machine Learning (including Artificial Neural Nets)"
Contact: ai92@cs.utas.edu.au
3rd International Conference for Young Computer Scientists
15 Jul 93 Beijing, China 1 Oct 92
"Artificial Neural Networks"
Contact: Dr Wen Gao, P.O. Box 320, Harbin Inst. of Tech.,
Harbin, 15006, China (Fax: +86-451-228393)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'93)
29 Aug 93 Chambery, France ?
Contact: wahlster@cs.uni-sb.de
PaulBakker ------------------------------------- email:bakker@cs.uq.oz.au
Depts.ofComputerScience/Psychology,UniversityofQueensland,Qld4072,Australia
"My CPU is a neural network processor - a learning machine" - Arnie, T2
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Subject: Neural Network Applications in Business
From: William Remus <cbadwre%uhccvm.bitnet@uhccvm.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 14 Oct 91 12:25:06 -1000
As part of the 1992 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences
(January 7-9 on the island of Kauai), the following papers will be
presented. The papers will also appear in the conference proceedings to
be published by IEEE Press.
1992 NEURAL NETWORK MINITRACK
BILL REMUS AND TIM HILL, COORDINATORS
SESSION 1: NEURAL NETWORKS IN FORECASTING
Chair: W. Remus
1. "Neural Networks in Forecasting: A Review"
Leorey Marquez* , Tim HIll* , Marcus O'Connor** , & W. Remus*
University of Hawaii
Dept. of Decision Sciences
* 2404 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
** Marcus O'Connor
University of New South Wales
Faculty of Information Systems
Sydney, Australia
2. "Neural Networks As Bond Rating Tools"
Alvin J. Surkan
Computer Science Department
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0155
J. Clay Singleton
Finance Department
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0155
3. "Currency Exchange Rate Forecasting By Error Backpropogation"
A. N. Refenes, M. Azema-Barac, & S. A. Karoussos
Department of Computer Science
University College London
Gower Street, WCI, 6BT
London, UK
4. "Developing Neural Networks to Forecast Agricultural Commodity Prices"
John Snyder, Jason Sweat, Michelle Richardson & Doug Pattie
Colorado State University
College of Business
Fort Collins, CO
1992 NEURAL NETWORK MINITRACK
BILL REMUS AND TIM HILL, COORDINATORS
Session 2 : Neural Network Applications
Chair: Tim Hill
5. "Predicting Stock Market Fluctuations Using Neural Network Models"
George Tsibouris
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Matthew Zeidenberg
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
6. 'A Neural Network Integrated With Hypertext for Legal Document Assembly"
V. Mital and T. D. Gideon
Department of Computer Science
Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middx. UB8 3PU, U.K.
7. "A Neural Net Approach to Infer Choice Processes from Multiattribute
Preferrence Data"
Krishnakumar Srinivasan
School of Management
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30340-0520
8. "Feasibility of Generic Algorithms for Clustering Data Cases"
Ravindra Krovi
Department of MIS / DS
Fogelman College of Business & Economics
Memphis State University
Memphis, TN 38152
**** William Remus, Professor of Decision Sciences ****
**** College of Business, University of Hawaii ****
**** 2404 Maile Way, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822-2282 USA ****
**** Phone (808) 956-7608 FAX (808) 956-3261 ****
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Subject: call for papers for COLT '92
From: David Haussler <haussler@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 91 14:09:23 -0800
CALL FOR PAPERS
COLT '92
Fifth ACM Workshop on Computational Learning Theory
University of Pittsburgh July 27-29, 1992
The fifth workshop on Computational Learning Theory will be held at the
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The workshop is
sponsored jointly by the ACM Special Interest Groups in Automata and
Computability Theory and Artificial Intelligence. Registration is open,
within the limits of the space available (about 150 people). We invite
papers in all areas that relate directly to the analysis of learning
algorithms and the theory of machine learning, including artificial and
biological neural networks, robotics, pattern recognition, inductive
inference, information theory, decision theory, Bayesian/MDL estimation,
and cryptography. We look forward to a lively, interdisciplinary meeting.
As part of our program, we are pleased to be presenting an invited talk
by Prof. A. Barto of the University of Massachusetts on reinforcement
learning. Other invited talks may be scheduled as well.
Authors should submit an extended abstract that consists of:
+ A cover page with title, authors' names, (postal and e-mail) addresses,
and a 200 word summary.
+ A body not longer than 10 pages in twelve-point font.
Be sure to include a clear definition of the theoretical model used, an
overview of the results, and some discussion of their significance,
including comparison to other work. Proofs or proof sketches should be
included in the technical section. Experimental results are welcome, but
are expected to be supported by theoretical analysis. Authors should
send 13 copies of their abstract to David Haussler, COLT '92, Computer
and Information Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.
The deadline for receiving submissions is February 10, 1992. This
deadline is FIRM. Authors will be notified by April 10; final
camera-ready papers will be due May 15.
Chair: Bob Daley (C.S. Dept., U. Pittsburgh, PA 15260).
Program committee:
David Haussler (UC Santa Cruz, chair),
Naoki Abe (NEC, Japan),
Shai Ben-David (Technion),
Tom Cover (Stanford),
Rusins Freivalds (U. of Latvia),
Lisa Hellerstein (Northwestern),
Nick Littlestone (NEC, Princeton),
Wolfgang Maass (Technical U., Graz, Austria),
Lenny Pitt (U. Illinois),
Robert Schapire (Bell Labs, Murray Hill),
Carl Smith (U. Maryland),
Naftali Tishby (Hebrew U.),
Santosh Venkatesh (U. Penn.)
Note: papers that have appeared in journals or other conferences, or that
are being submitted to other conferences are not appropriate for
submission to COLT.
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Subject: Announcement: ICANN 92 Final call for papers
From: rich@elijah.ee.ic.ac.uk (Richard Evans)
Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., Imperial College London
Date: 08 Nov 91 13:46:29 +0000
I C A N N 9 2 *** F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S ***
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The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
Brighton UK, 4th-7th September 1992
Sponsored by the UK Department of Trade and Industry
Conference Chairs
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Igor Aleksander
John G Taylor
Program Chair
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Rolf Eckmiller
International Program Committee
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Almeida (P) Amari (J)
Angeniol (F) Babloyantz (B)
Bounds (UK) Buttner (D)
Caianiello (I) Croall (UK)
Fallside (UK) Fogelman-Soulie (F)
Fukushima (J) Garth (UK)
Gielen (NL) Grossberg (USA)
Hecht-Nielsen (USA) Hughes (UK)
Kohonen (SF) Morasso (I)
Murray (UK) Rolls (UK)
Sherrington (UK) Simula (SF)
Snyder (USA) Treleaven (UK)
Von der Malsburg (D) Widrow (USA)
Tutorials
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Grossberg (USA): Supervised and unsupervised learning, recognition
and prediction.
Kohonen (SF): The self organising map and vector quantisation
Rolls & Treves (UK): Biological approaches
Sharkey (UK): Natural language processing
Sherrington (UK): Statistical physics and Neural Nets
Widrow (USA): An overview of Neural Nets
Plenaries
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Aleksander (UK): Whats new in '92 ?
Eckmiller (D): Biological vs. technical geometric mapping machines: when
will they ever learn?
Hinton (CAN): Shape recognition
Judd(USA): Complexity of learning - whats new ?
Kanarva (SF/USA): Associative memory models of the cerebellum
Kohonen (SF): Artificial Neural Networks: models, paradigms or methods ?
Murray (UK): What's new in hardware ?
TAylor (UK): From Neuron to cognition.
Werbos (USA): Neurocontrol: where do we stand in 1992 ?
Topics of Interest
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Applications Algorithms
Architectures Control Systems
Associative Memories Hardware and VLSI
Cognitive models Natural Language
Hybrid Systems Neuromathematics
Industrial Systems Robotics
Learning Theory Software
Neurobiological Systems Speech
Pattern Recognition Weightless Systems
Sensorimotor Systems Vision
Signal processing Other
Accent on quality
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The papers will be ranked in terms of evidence of NOVELTY and reviewers will
be asked to select those that rank highest in their topic for oral presentation.
The quality of poster sessions will also be kept high and the value of person-
to-person communication (rather than addressing an audience) in specialist areas
will be borne in mind by reviewers. We expect to accept 80-100 papers for oral
presentation and 200+ for poster presentation.
Both orally presented papers and poster papers which are accepted by the
referees will need to be written up fully (5pp) for prepublication in the
proceedings (Artificial Neural Networks II), to be published by Elsevier. See
the various deadlines below.
Submission of Papers
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Deadline for submissions 15th February 1992
Author notification: 15th March 1992
Mats of accepted papers to publisher: 15th April 1992
Authors should submit two copies of an extended summary. Submissions should
be at most 3 pages of A4 in length with a fontsize of not less than 10-point.
The following MUST be included:
Title
Authors(s) and affiliation(s)
Full mailing address, email, fax etc.
Topic category from list above
A statement of the novelty of the paper
A reference to the last paper on the same topic and where it was submitted
A summary of the paper with a clear statement of which results are new
Relation to and references to relevant work in the topic done elsewhere
Submission address
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Prof. Igor Aleksander,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Imperial College,
London SW7 2BT
Fax: +44 71 823 8125
Tel: +44 71 225 8501
Email: i.aleksander@vaxa.cc.imperial.ac.uk
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Subject: CNS*92
From: Jim Bower <jbower@cns.caltech.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 91 21:55:04 -0800
CALL FOR PAPERS
First Annual
Computation and Neural Systems Meeting
CNS*92
Sunday, July 26 through Friday, 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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Subject: Conference CFP
From: <EDWWANG%NTUVAX.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 91 09:10:00 +0800
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Contributed by emital@ntuvax.bitnet
ICARCV'92 Final Call-for-Papers
The Second International Conference on Automation, Robotics
and Computer Vision will be held in Singapore on 15-18
September 1992. The conference is jointly organised by
Nanyang Technological University and the Institution of
Engineers (Singapore), co-sponsored by the Institution of
Electrical Engineers (IEE), UK and the Institute of Measurement
and Control (InstMC), UK, and in cooperation with the IEEE
Computer Society, the IEEE SMC Society, IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society (solicited), the IEEE Singapore Section,
the Insturmnetation and Control Society (ICS), Singapore
Section and other local professional organisations.
The theme will focus on "A Glimpse of the 21st Century" in the
context of intelligent industrial automation. There will be
plenary and tutorial sessions. An exhibition will also be held
in conjunction with the conference.
Keynote Addresses by :
*Prof Michael Brady "COMPUTER VISION - where we are and what
can it do ? "
*Prof Russel Eberhart "Can Neural Network Systems outperform
Experts ? "
*Prof Lester Gerhardt "CIM in the 21st Century "
Tutorial Sessions :
* State-of-the-art in Computer Vision Prof Michael Brady
* Advances in Computer Integrated Manufacture Prof Lester Gerhardt
* Engineering a Solution with Neural Network Prof Russel Eberhart
* Sensor-based Intelligent Robots Prof Mohan Trivedi
* Real-time Software Engineering Prof Mike Rodd
for Industrial Applications
Papers describing original theoretical and/or applied work in,
though not limited, to the following research areas are invited :
* Robotics - robotic control, mobile robots and navigation,
task planning, intelligent sensors, micro-robots,
robotic applications, sensors and actuators
* Intelligent Automation - instrumentation systems, FMS,
process automation, man-machine
interface, CIM
* Computer Vision - image processing, 3-D/colour/stereo image
image analysis, dynamic scene analysis,
machine vision, vision systems, pattern
recognition and applications
* Neural Network - network dynamics, network architecture,
learning algorithms, hardware implementation,
parallel processing
* AI and Expert Systems - knowledge acquisition and representation,
AI languages, intelligent control, user
interface and tools
* Control applications - systems identification, power system
control, motion control, modelling and
simulation, adaptive control, robust
control, signal processing, fuzzy control
and diagnosis
* Real-Time Systems - hardware/software architecture, operating
systems and scheduling, languages and
software, reliability and fault tolerance
analysis, perforamnce evaluations, real-time
sensing and control
Authors are invited to submit four copies of an extended summary
of 300-500 words to :
ICARCV'92 Conference Secretariat
Associated Conventions and Exhibitons
204 Bukit Timah Road, #04-00
Boon Liew Building, Singapore 0922
Fax: (65) 791-2687 Tel: (65) 799-5470
Telex: NTU RS 38851 E-mail: EMITAL@NTUVAX.BITNET
Author's Schedule : 30 April 1992 Extended Summary
31 May 1992 Notification of Acceptance
30 June 1992 Reciept of Final Manuscript
All accepted papers for presentation at the conference will be
reviewed by an international panel of experts for possible
publication in the Nanyang Technological University's EEE Journal,
Special Edition on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision.
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