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Neuron Digest Volume 09 Number 30
Neuron Digest Thursday, 25 Jun 1992 Volume 9 : Issue 30
Today's Topics:
Call for Papers/Announcement - Non-linear Image Processing
Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences
Workshop announcement - Speech processing
Schedule for AAAI Workshop on integrating ANN and Symbolic processes
Functional Neuroimaging - An International Symposium
call for contributions - edited book
Call for papers - Asia Pacific Engineering Journal
CLNL workshop - Last call
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Subject: Call for Papers/Announcement - Non-linear Image Processing
From: dawn@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu
Date: Fri, 29 May 92 15:01:00 -0600
Conference Announcement/Call for Papers
Nonlinear Image Processing IV
Specifics:
Jan 31-Feb 5, 1993, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose CA
Nonlinear filtering techniques have become standard in image
processing. These techniques included the use of mathematical
morphology, order statistics, stack filters, and threshold
decomposition. Nonlinear image processing also includes ares of
statistical estimation, regression, neural networks, and both logical
and cellular processing.
This conference is devoted to the presentation of new results inthe
design and analysis of various types of nonlinear filters. Sessions
will concentrate on the following areas:
Morphological filters
Order-statistic filters
Median-type filters
Nonlinear estimation
Nonlinear Image modeling
Neural Networks
Fuzzy approaches to image processing
Special purpose computer architectures for nonlinear processing,
including optical implementation
Applications for image enhancement and restoration, compression,
machine vision, and medical imaging
Conference Chairs:
Edward R Dougherty, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jaakko Astola, University of Tampere
Harold Longbotham, University of Texas at San Antonio
Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 5, 92
Camera ready Abstract Due Date: Nov 16, 92
Manuscript Due Date: Jan 4, 93
Four copies of abstract sent to: shipping:
SPIE/IS&T EI '93
SPIE 1000 20th Street
PO Box 10 Bellingham, WA
Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 98225
Tele: (206) 676-3290
Telex: 46-7053
Telefax: (206) 647-1445
OPTO-LINK (206) 733-2998
Internet: spie@nessie.wwu.edu
Compu serve: 71630,2177
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Subject: Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences
From: Donald Peterson <D.M.Peterson@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 30 May 92 18:19:35 +0000
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Royal Institute of Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY and the COGNITIVE SCIENCES
The University of Birmingham
September 11-14 1992
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
The conference will address a variety of questions concerning the
foundations of cognitive science and the philosophical importance of
the models of mind which it produces.
Topics will include: connectionism and classical AI, rules and
representation, reasoning, concepts, rationality, multiple
personality, the mind as a control system, blindsight, etc.
Speakers will include: Stephen Stitch, Terry Horgan, Michael Tye,
Margaret Boden, Aaron Sloman, Brian McLaughlin, Andrew Woodfield,
Martin Davies, Antony Galton, Stephen Mills, Niels Ole Bernsen.
Papers given at the conference will be published in a volume produced
by the Cambridge University Press, as a supplement to the journal
_Philosophy_.
Copies of this document together with titles as they become available
can be obtained by emailing the auto reply service: rip92@bham.ac.uk
REGISTRATION
To attend the conference, please fill in the form below and return it
by post (not email) together with payment by cheque in pounds sterling
to:
Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference,
Department of Philosophy,
The University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, B15 2TT,
U.K.
Delegates will be considered registered when cheques have been
cleared. The total for Registration, Bed and Breakfast and all meals
is 122.50 pounds.
For registered students and the unwaged, the Registration Fee will be
waived if evidence of status is sent. For a limited number of
postgraduate students, all other charges will be at half-price: if you
wish to apply for this reduction, please write to the organisers
indicating your research topic and reason for attending the
conference.
For bookings received after 7th August we cannot guarantee
accommodation, and for bookings received after 10th August an
additional charge of 10 pounds has to be made.
Organisers: Chris Hookway (Philosophy), Donald Peterson (Cognitive
Science).
30 May 1992.
______________________________________________________________________
REGISTRATION FORM
Royal Institute of Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY and the COGNITIVE SCIENCES
The University of Birmingham
September 11-14 1992
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REQUIREMENTS
Registration Fee 25.00 _______
Late Registration Fee 10.00 _______
Bed and Breakfast 64.00 _______
Dinner 11 September 7.50 _______
Lunch 12 September 5.50 _______
Dinner 12 September 7.50 _______
Lunch 13 September 5.50 _______
Dinner 13 September 7.50 _______
All Meals 33.50 _______
Total _______
Vegetarian meals (please tick) _______
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name ___________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________
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Telephone No. ___________________________________________
Fax No. ___________________________________________
Email ___________________________________________
REGISTRATION
I wish to register for the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference
Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, and enclose a cheque in pounds
sterling payable to C.J. Hookway (Royal Institute of Philosophy
Conference) for ________
Signed ___________________________________________
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Subject: Workshop announcement - Speech processing
From: MARCO@INGFI1.CINECA.IT
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 92 15:01:00 +0100
CALL FOR PAPERS
SECOND WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SPEECH PROCESSING
Florence, 10-11 December 1992
Objective:
This workshop will focus on the application of neural
networks for speech processing. The following areas
of interest will be mainly covered:
- Neural Models for Speech Processing (Backpropagation,
Backpropagation through time; LVQ,...):
- Integration between ``classical'' A.S.R. techniques
(e.g. DTW, HMM) and neural networks;
- Integration between priori-knowledge and neural networks.
Papers based on neural models which report results in
speech compression, phoneme and word recognition,... are
solicited. Critical reviews are also welcome.
Contributions:
Submissions should be in the form of an abstract of 2-3 pp.
to be received by:
Prof. Marco GORI,
Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica,
v. S. Marta, 3
50139 FIRENZE (ITALY)
E-mail: marco@ingfi1.cineca.it
Please, refer to Prof. Gori also for any information on the
workshop.
Deadlines:
- Receipt of abstracts: 30 June 1992;
- Notification of acceptance: 1 September 1992;
- Receipt of camera-ready 10 December 1992;
Working language: English, Italian
Hotels:
Details will be sent with the Provisional Programme.
Location:
Hotel Cavour, via Proconsolo, 3 - Firenze
Registration Fee (VAT incl.): 200.000 Lire
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Subject: Schedule for AAAI Workshop on integrating ANN and Symbolic processes
From: rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu (Ron Sun)
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 92 15:35:21 -0600
SCHEDULE
AAAI Workshop on Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes
the Cognitive Dimension
July 16th, 1992
San Jose, California
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9:00 Workshop Starts
9:00 - 9:10 Opening Remarks
by Ron Sun, University of Alabama
9:10 - 10:10 Localist Architectures (15 minutes each presentation)
The Symbolic/Subsymbolic Interface:
Hierarchical Network Organization for Reasoning
by C. Lacher, Florida State University
Representing Unrestricted First-Order Logic Formulas in
Connectionist Networks
by G. Pinkas, Washington University
Issues in Controlling Activation and Inferencing for natural
Language Understanding in Structured Connectionist Networks
by T. Lange, UCLA
A Connectionist Composition of Formula, Variable Binding
and Learning
by J. Chen, UCSD
10:10- 10:30 Informal Discussions and Break
10:30 - 11:15 Distributed Architectures (15 minutes each)
PDS Networks: Integrating Localist and PDP Approaches
by R. Sumida, UCLA
The Expanding Role of Superpositional Representation in Hybrid
Systems
by N. Sharkey, University of Exeter
Tree Matching with Recursive Distributed Representations
by A. Stockle and D. Wu, ICSI
11:15 - 12:15 Hybrid Architectures (15 minutes each)
A Two-Tier Framework for Comprehension
by L. Bookman, Sun Laboratories
A Grounded Modular architecture for Cognitive Models
by A. Almor, Brown University
SCANning Understanding: A Hybrid Connectionist Architecture
by S. Wermter, University of Hamburg
A Two-Level Hybrid Architecture for Commonsense Reasoning
by R. Sun, University of Alabama
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 - 3:30 Invited Talks (30 minutes each)
A Neural Network's Theory of a Domain
by S. Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
Connectionism to the Top
by J. Feldman, ICSI
When Symbolic meets Subsymbolic
by J. Hendler, U. Maryland
3:30 - 3:45 Informal Discussions and Break
3:45 - 4:30 Theoretical Topics (15 minutes each)
Restricted Binding in a Strong Hybrid Architecture
by R. Stark, University of Sussex
Belief Representation and Connectionism
by J. Barnden, NMSU
Semantic Transparency, Brain Monitoring and the Integration
of Neural and Symbolic Processes
by J. Wallace and K. Bluff, Swinburne Institute of Technology
4:30 - 5:15 Other Topics (15 minutes each)
An Overview of a Connectionist Cognitive Architecture
by E. Chown, U. Michigan
Integration of Knowledge Based and Constructive Learning Neural
Networks
by Z. Obradovic and J. Fletcher, Washington State University
Title TBA
by Vasant Honavar, Iowa State U.
5:15 - 5:30 Informal Discussions and Break
5:30 - 6:30 Summary Panel and Open Discussions
Larry Bookman, Sun Laboratories
Shashi Shekhar, U. Minnesota
Jack Gelfond, Princeton University
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ron Sun
Dept. Computer Science
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Lawrence Bookman \\
Sun Microsystems Laboratories \\
Two Federal Street \\
Billerica MA 01821
Shashi Shekhar
Dept. Computer Science
University of Minnesota
Mpls, MN 55455
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Subject: Functional Neuroimaging - An International Symposium
From: mike@nmr-z.mgh (Mike Vevea)
Organization: Mass General Hospital
Date: 02 Jun 92 14:19:03 +0000
FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING: Looking at the Mind
An International Symposium sponsored by
the Massachusetts Biomedical Research Corporation and
the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology
Back Bay Hilton, Boston, MA. Nov. 5 & 6, 1992
Functional neuroimaging is the application of instruments to view the
changes in physiological state which accompany the work of the brain. It
is also a window into a deeper understanding of the interaction of the
mind and the organism which supports it. By assembling together leaders
in the development of that understanding, the symposium, "Functional
Neuroimaging: Looking at the Mind" will provide a forum for considering
whether the boundaries of physiology and consciousness are impenetrable,
or if with the tools of functional neuroimaging we are approaching a
watershed of epistemology.
PROGRAM:
Introduction and Welcome: James Thrall, Daniel Tostesen
Physiology and Function in the Nervous System: David Hubel
*** Instrumentation for Functional Neuroimaging ***
Thomas Brady, Michael Phelps, Samuel Williamson, Alan Gevins, Gilberto
Gonzalez, Mark Cohen, Thomas Budinger, Verne Caviness
Commentator: Davis Baird
*** The Brain in Health and Disease ***
Gerald Fischbach, Keith Chiappa, David Caplan, James Prichard, Keith
Thulborn, Bruce Rosen, David Kennedy
Commentator: John Mazziotta
*** Human Sensation and Motor Control ***
Anne Young, Emilio Bizzi, Rodolfo Llinas, Richard Frackowiak, Riitta Hari,
Peter Fox, John George, John Belliveau, Semir Zeki
Commentator: Stephen Grossberg
*** Imaging of Cognitive Function ***
Joseph Coyle, Daniel Schacter , Marcus Raichle, Steven Petersen, Daniel
Weinberger, Stephen Kosslyn
Commentator: David van Essen
Escape from the Cartesian Theater: Daniel Dennett
Program Directors: Mark Cohen and Thomas Brady
The attendance fee of $200 includes all meals and a reception. Attendance
will be strictly limited and handled on a first come, first served basis.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Mary Perdikes
MGH-NMR Center
(617) 726-7421 FAX (617)726-7422
Or respond by e-mail to:
mcohen@nmr-r.mgh.harvard.edu
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Subject: call for contributions - edited book
From: "Dr. Josef Skrzypek" <skrzypek@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 08:57:17 -0800
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
We are organizing a special edited book to be published by Kluwer,
that is dedicated to the subject of NEURAL NETWORK SIMULATION
ENVIRONMENTS. Submissions will be refereed. The plan calls for the book
to be published in the winter/spring of 1993. I would like to invite
your participation.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 25th of September, 1992
VOLUME TITLE: Neural Networks Simulation Environments
EDITOR: Prof. Josef Skrzypek
Department of Computer Science, 3532 BH
UCLA
Los Angeles CA 90024-1596
Email: skrzypek@cs.ucla.edu
Tel: (310) 825 2381
Fax: (310) UCLA CSD
DESCRIPTION
This edited volume is devoted to ``Simulation environments for studying
neuronal functions ''. The purpose of this special book is to encourage
further work and discussion in the area of Neural Network Simulation
tools that matured over the last decade into advanced neural
modeling environments. Computer simulation is currently the best way to
study dynamic properties of complex neuronal assemblies that might be
mathematically intractable until we learn how to grow our own neurons on
the breadboards. Simulation is also a way to avoid building prototypes
without testing and verification of the design. Finally, computer
simulation of very large complex systems, capable of intelligence or
vision is the only reasonable way to organize the ever increasing flood
of knowledge about these phenomena.
In the past decade the development of neural network simulation
environments has focused on two areas: 1) realistic (compartmental)
models of a single neuron (small cluster of neurons) based on information
currently available from the Neurosciences and 2) computational models
of abstract neurons in support of "artificial" or connectionist models.
All these NEURAL NETWORK SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS
HAVE NOT BEEN COMPREHENSIVELY COLLECTED, ORGANIZED, OR COMPARED
ANYWHERE. Hence this volume should be a valuable addition to the
desktop library for every computational neuroscientist as well as
engineer designing artificial neural systems.
The volume will include both invited and submitted peer-reviewed
contributions. We are seeking submissions from researchers in relevant
fields, including, computational neuroscience, natural and artificial
vision, scientific computing, artificial intelligence, psychology, image
and signal processing and pattern recognition. We are seeking
submission describing MATURE (useful) WORKING simulation environements
dedicated to modeling a complete spectrum of neural phenomena from
membrane biophysics to computational abstraction such as for example
three-layer backpropagation network.
The volume will consist of three parts devoted to each major
class of neural simulation methodologies:
NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL REALISM; simulators supporting neural models that
incorporate detail models of membrane biophysics.
PSYCHOPHYSICAL REALISM; simulators supporting computational models
of neurons and networks that can account for reported psychological
phenomena.
Connectionist (Symbolic) - based simulators for neuronal networks
models used in industry.
We would like to encourage submissions from both, researchers engaged
in analysis of biological systems such as modeling
psychophysical/neurophysiological data using neural networks as well as
from members of the engineering community who are synthesizing neural
network models. The number of papers that can be included in this
edited volume will be limited. Therefore, some qualified papers may be
encouraged for submission to professional journals.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Submissions should be sent to Josef Skrzypek, by Sept 25 1992. The
suggested length is 20-22 double-spaced pages including figures,
references, abstract and so on. Format details, etc. will be
supplied on request.
Authors are strongly encouraged to discuss ideas for possible
submissions with the editor Tel (310)825-2381 or skrzypek@cs.ucla.edu
Thank you for your considerations.
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Subject: Call for papers - Asia Pacific Engineering Journal
From: Dr Srinivasan <ELESRINI%NUSVM.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 16:50:02 +0700
CALL FOR PAPERS
ASIA PACIFIC ENGINEERING JOURNAL Part A
The ASIA PACIFIC ENGINEERING JOURNAL is an international journal
published by the National University of Singapore and distributed by
World Scientific Publishing Co.. Part A is devoted to Electrical
Engineering. The first issue was published in September 1991. There are
FOUR issues every year each covering one of the following areas:
Microelectronics
Communications Engineering
Computer Engineering
Control and Automation
An international editorial board has been constituted for each area. The
members of the board for Computer Engineering include
R Chin (U Wisconsin)
B V Kumar (CMU)
B Liu (Princeton)
E S Kuh (UC Berkeley)
S Tsuji (Osaka).
The next issue in Computer Engineering is scheduled for publication in
June 1993. Tentatively, we would like this to be a Special Issue on
Neural Networks for Vision and Image Processing.
We welcome contributions to this special issue. The paper deadline is
December 31, 1992.
You may obtain further details or indicate your interest in submitting a
paper by e-mail to the issue editors ASAP.
Dr V Srinivasan ( elesrini@nusvm.bitnet OR elesrini@nuscc.nus.sg)
Dr SH Ong ( eleongsh@nusvm.bitnet )
Department of Electrical Engineering
National University of Singapore
Singapore
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Subject: CLNL workshop - Last call
From: Stephen Judd <judd@learning.siemens.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 17:41:08 -0500
LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
Third Annual Workshop on
Computational Learning Theory and `Natural' Learning Systems
August 27-29, Madison, Wisconsin
Siemens Corporate Research, MIT, and the University of Wisconsin- Madison
are sponsoring the third annual CLNL workshop to explore the intersection
of theoretical learning research and natural learning systems. (Natural
systems include those that have been successful in a difficult
engineering domain or those that represent natural constraints arising
from biological or psychological processes or mechanisms.) The workshop
will bring together a diverse set of researchers from three relatively
independent learning research areas: Computational Learning Theory,
AI/Machine Learning, and Connectionist Learning. Invited speakers and
participants will be encouraged to examine general issues in learning
systems which could provide constraints for theory, while at the same
time theoretical results will be interpreted in the context of
experiments with actual learning systems.
Examples of experimental approaches include: Models or comparisons of
learning systems in classification problems (vision, speech, etc.);
Controls and Robotics, Natural language processing; Studies of
generalization; Representation effects on learning rate, noise tolerance
and concept or function complexity; Biological or biologically inspired
models of adaptation; Competitive processing or synaptic growth and
modification.
Relevant theoretical subjects include: The computational and sample
complexity of learning; Learning in the presence of noise; The effect on
learnability of prior knowledge, representational bias, or feature
construction; Learning protocol: learning sample distributions; Efficient
algorithms for learning particular classes of concepts or functions;
Comparison of analytical bounds with real-world experiments.
Submission Procedure: Please submit 3 copies of a 100 word or less
abstract and a 2000 word or less summary of original research indicating
your preference for either experimental or theoretical category. The
DEADLINE for submission is JUNE 30, 1992. Send abstracts and summaries
to:
CLNL Workshop
Siemens Corporate Research
755 College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08540
(Or via email to clnl@learning.siemens.com)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Andrew Barto, U Massachusetts
Andrew Barron, U Illinois
Stephen J. Hanson, Siemens Corp. Research
Michael Jordan, MIT
Stephen Judd, Siemens Corp. Research
Kumpati S. Narendra, Yale University
Tomaso Poggio, MIT
Larry Rendell, Beckman Institute
Ronald L. Rivest, MIT
Jude Shavlik, U Wisconsin
Paul Utgoff, U Massachusetts
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Thomas Petsche, Siemens Corp. Research
Jude Shavlik, U Wisconsin
Stephen Judd, Siemens Research
WORKSHOP SPONSORS
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Computer Science
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