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Neuron Digest Volume 11 Number 20
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
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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
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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
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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?
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Subject: ENNS membership
From: Piero Morasso <piero@dist.dist.unige.it>
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
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Subject: British Private Companies
From: Diego Gachet <gachet@disam.upm.es>
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
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Subject: LAST Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute
From: "Antonio J. Rubio Ayuso" <rubio@hal.ugr.es>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 17:20:29 +0000
LAST Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute
(Deadline: April 1, 1993)
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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.
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Subject: NN
From: <PINI@BGUEE.BGU.AC.IL>
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
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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
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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!
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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
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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.
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Subject: postdoctoral research opportunity
From: rohwerrj <rohwerrj@cs.aston.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 18:54:45 +0000
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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY
Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Aston University
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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.
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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
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