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Neuron Digest Volume 11 Number 42
Neuron Digest Friday, 2 Jul 1993 Volume 11 : Issue 42
Today's Topics:
Travel grants for CNS*93
CLNL'93 - Revised deadline
call for papers: SAC '94
PASE'93
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Subject: Travel grants for CNS*93
From: Jim Bower <jbower@smaug.cns.caltech.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 15:30:08 -0800
The Second Annual
Computation and Neural Systems Meeting
CNS*93
July 31 through August 7,1993
Washington DC
Travel grant announcement
With support from the National Science Foundation, the CNS*93
organizing committee is pleased to announce the availability of travel
grants for the upcoming meeting. Funds will be provided based on the
distance traveled to the meeting. Grants are expected to range from $200
to $500.
General meeting information:
The Computation and Neural Systems meeting (CNS*93) is the second
in a series of annual inter- disciplinary conferences intended to address
the broad range of research approaches and issues involved in the general
field of computational neuroscience. The meeting will bring together
experimental and theoretical neurobiologists along with engineers,
computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians
interested in understanding how biological neural systems compute. The
meeting will equally emphasize experimental, model-based, and more
abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological
computation.
The meeting will be composed of three parts: a day of tutorials,
three and a half days of research presentations, and two and a half days
of follow up workshops. The agenda for the main meeting is based on 85
peer reviewed papers presented in both oral and poster format. The
tutorial day and the main meeting itself will be held at the Hyatt
Regency, Bethesda Maryland. The postmeeting workshops will be held at the
Coolfont resort which is set within 1350 mountainous acres in the Eastern
Panhandle of West Virginia.
Further information:
Additional information about the meeting is available
via FTP over the internet (address: 131.215.137.69 ). To
obtain information about the agenda, currently registered
attendees, or paper abstracts, the initial sequence is the
same (Things you type are in ""):
> yourhost% "ftp 131.215.137.69"
> 220 mordor FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
Name (131.215.137.69:<yourname>): "ftp"
> 331 Guest login OK, send ident as password.
Password: "yourname@yourhost.yourside.yourdomain"
> 230 Guest login OK, access restrictions apply.
ftp> "cd cns93"
> 250 CWD command successful.
ftp>
At this point you can do one of several things:
1) To examine what is available type: "ls"
Directory as of 6/1/93:
abstracts (a directory)
agenda
attendees
general_information
registration
rooms_to_share
travel_arrangements
travel_grants
tutorials
workshops
2) To download specific files type: "get <filename>"
for example: "get agenda" or "get attendees"
3) To download meeting abstracts first type: "cd
cns93/abstracts"
a) to view the list of abstracts type: "ls"
b) to download specific abstracts type: "get
<abstract name>"
c) to download all abstracts type: "mget *"
Once you have obtained the information you want type:
"quit"
Registration:
We would recommend registering for the meeting as
soon as possible as space for some meeting events is
limited. Participants can register for the meeting in
several different ways. 1) electronically, 2) via email,
3) via regular surface mail. Each different method is
described below. Please only register using one method.
1) Interactive electronic registration:
For those of you with internet connectivity who would
like to register electronically for CNS*93 we have
provided an internet account through which you may submit
your registration information. To use this service you
need only "telnet" to "mordor.cns.caltech.edu" and login as
"cns93". No password is required. For example (You
type what appears in ""):
yourhost% "telnet mordor.cns.caltech.edu"
Trying 131.215.137.69 ...
Connected to mordor.cns.caltech.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
SunOS UNIX (mordor)
login: "cns93"
Now answer all questions
2) For those with easy access to electronic mail, simply
fill in the attached registration form and email it to:
cp@smaug.cns.caltech.edu
3) Finally, for those who elect neither of the above
options, please print out the attached registration form
and send with payment via surface mail to the address
indicated.
CNS*93 Registrations
Division of Biology 216-76
Caltech
Pasadena, CA 91125
This address should also be used to send check or money
orders following electronic registration.
*******************************************
REGISTRATION FORM
CNS*93
WASHINGTON D.C. July 31 - August 7 1993
*****************************************
Name :
Title :
Organization :
Address :
City : State : Zip : Country
:
Telephone : email address :
Registration Fees :
_____ $ 25 Tutorial (July 31) (includes lunch)
Technical Program (August 1 - 4)
_____ $ 300 Regular
_____ $ 125 Full-time Student (Include verification of
status)
_____ $ 50 Banquet (for each additional banquet
ticket)
(main registration includes one banquet ticket
and book of abstracts)
Post-meeting Workshop (August 4 - 7)
_____ $ 325 (includes round-trip transportation, meals
and lodging)
$ ______ Total Payment
Please indicate method of payment :
____ Check or Money Order (Payable in US. dollars
to CNS*93 - Caltech)
will be sent to CNS*93 Registrations
Division of Biology 216-76
Caltech
Pasadena, CA 91125
___ Visa ___ Mastercard ___ American Express
Charge my card number
________________________________________
Expiration date ____________ Name of cardholder
___________________
Signature as appears on card :
_________________________ Date ____________
Please make sure to indicate CNS*93 and YOUR name
on all money transfers
Did you submit an abstract & summary ? ( ) yes ( ) no
title :
Do you have special dietary preferences or restrictions
(e.g., diabetic, low
sodium, kosher, vegetarian)? If so, please note:
Some grants to cover partial travel expenses may become
available. Do you wish to apply for a grant ? ( ) yes
( ) no
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Subject: CLNL'93 - Revised deadline
From: Russell Greiner <greiner@learning.siemens.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 23:25:52 -0500
re: deadlines for Computational Learning and Natural Learning (CLNL'93)
Due to popular requests, we have decided to extend the deadline for CLNL'93
submission by one week, until 7/July/93. Below is the revised call for
papers, with updated "Important Dates" and "Programme Committee" entries,
as well as general registration information.
We look forward to receiving your papers, and also hope that you
will attend the workshop this September!
Russ Greiner
(Chair, CLNL'93)
CLNL'93 -- Call for Submissions
Computational Learning and Natural Learning
Provincetown, Massachusetts
10-12 September 1993
CLNL'93 is the fourth of an ongoing series of workshops designed to bring
together researchers from a diverse set of disciplines --- including
computational learning theory, AI/machine learning,
connectionist learning, statistics, and control theory ---
to explore issues at the intersection of theoretical learning research
and natural learning systems.
Theme:
To be useful, the learning methods used by our fields must be able
to handle the complications inherent in real-world tasks. We therefore
encourage researchers to submit papers that discuss extensions to
learning systems that let them address issues such as:
* handling many irrelevant features
* dealing with large amounts of noise
* inducing very complex concepts
* mining enormous sets of data
* learning over extended periods of time
* exploiting large amounts of background knowledge
We welcome theoretical analyses, comparative studies of existing algorithms,
psychological models of learning in complex domains, and reports on relevant
new techniques.
Submissions:
Authors should submit three copies of an abstract (100 words or less) and a
summary (2000 words or less) of original research to:
CLNL'93 Workshop
Learning Systems Department
Siemens Corporate Research
755 College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08540-6632
by 30 June 1993. We will also accept plain-text, stand-alone LaTeX
or Postscript submissions sent by electronic mail to
clnl93@learning.scr.siemens.com
Each submission will be refereed by the workshop organizers and evaluated
based on its relevance to the theme, originality, clarity, and significance.
Copies of accepted abstracts will be distributed at the workshop, and
MIT Press has agreed to publish an edited volume that incorporates papers
from the meeting, subject to revisions and additional reviewing.
Invited Talks:
Tom Dietterich Oregon State University
Ron Rivest Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leo Breiman University of California, Berkeley
Yann le Cun Bell Laboratories
Important Dates:
Deadline for submissions: 7 July 1993
Notification of acceptance: 27 July 1993
CLNL'93 Workshop: 10-12 September 1993
Programme Committee:
Andrew Barron, Russell Greiner, Steve Hanson, Robert Holte,
Michael Jordan, Stephen Judd, Pat Langley, Thomas Petsche,
Tomaso Poggio, Ron Rivest, Eduardo Sontag, Steve Whitehead
Workshop Sponsors:
Siemens Corporate Research and MIT Laboratory of Computer Science
CLNL'93
General Information
Dates:
The workshop officially begins at 9am Friday 10/Sept, and concludes by 3pm
Sunday 12/Sept, in time to catch the 3:30pm Provincetown-Boston ferry.
Location:
All sessions will take place in the Provincetown Inn (800 942-5388). We
encourage registrants to stay there; please sign up in the enclosed
registration form. Notice the $74/night does correspond to $37/person per
night double-occupancy, if two people share one room.
Cost:
The cost to attend this workshop is $50/person in general; $25/student.
This includes
* attendance at all presentation and poster sessions, including the four
invited talks;
* the banquet dinner on Saturday night; and
* a copy of the accepted abstracts.
Transportation:
Provincetown is located at the very tip of Cape Cod, jutting into the
Atlantic Ocean. The drive from Boston to Provincetown requires
approximately two hours. There is also a daily ferry (run by Bay State
Cruise Lines, 617 723-7800) that leaves Commonwealth Pier in Boston Harbor
at 9:30am and arrives in Provincetown at 12:30pm; the return trip departs
Provincetown at 3:30pm, arriving at Commonwealth Pier at 6:30pm. Its cost
is $15/person, one way. There are also cabs, busses and commuter airplanes
(CapeAir, 800 352-0714) that service this Boston-Provincetown route.
Reception (Tentative):
If there is sufficient interest (as indicated by signing up on the form
below), we will hold a reception on a private ferry that leaves Commonwealth
Pier for Provincetown at 6:30pm 9/Sept. The additional (Siemens-subsidized)
cost for ferry and reception is $40/person, which also includes the return
Provincetown-Boston ferry trip on 12/Sept. You must sign up by 30/June;
we will announce by 13/July whether this private ferry will be used (and
refund the money otherwise).
Inquiries:
For additional information about CLNL'93, contact
clnl93@learning.scr.siemens.com
or the above address. To learn more about Provincetown, contact their
Chamber of Commerce at 508 487-3424.
CLNL'93 Registration
Name: ________________________________________________
Affiliation: ________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________
________________________________________________
Telephone: ____________________ E-mail: ____________________
Select the appropriate options and fees:
Workshop registration fee ($50 regular; $25 student) ___________
Ferry transportation + reception ($40) ___________
Hotel room(*) ($74 = 1 night deposit) ___________
Arrival date ___________ Departure date _____________
Name of person sharing room (optional) __________________
# of breakfasts desired ($7.50/bkfst; no deposit req'd) ___
Total amount enclosed: ___________
(*) This is at the Provincetown Inn. For minimum stay of 2 nights.
The total cost for three nights is $222 = $74 x 3, plus optional breakfasts.
The block of rooms held for CLNL'93 will be released on 30 June 93; room
reservations received after this date are accepted subject to availability.
See hotel for cancellation policy.
If you are not using a credit card, make your check payable in U.S. dollars
to "Provincetown Inn/CLNL'93", and mail your completed registration form to
Provincetown Inn/CLNL
P.O. Box 619
Provincetown, MA 02657.
If you are using Visa or MasterCard, please fill out the following,
which you may mail to above address, or FAX to 508 487-2911.
Signature: ______________________________________________
Visa/MasterCard #: ______________________________________________
Expiration: ______________________________________________
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Subject: call for papers: SAC '94
From: MASETTI@BOLOGNA.INFN.IT
Date: Mon, 17 May 93 09:57:00 +0000
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| 1994 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'94) |
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| TRACK ON FUZZY LOGIC IN APPLICATIONS |
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| Phoenix Civic Plaza, Phoenix, Arizona, USA |
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| March 6-8, 1994 |
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SAC'94 is the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group
on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), APL (SIGAPL), Biomedical Computing (SIGBIO),
Business Information Technology (SIGBIT), Computer Uses in Education (SIGCUE),
Forth (SIGFORTH), and Small and Personal Computer (SIGSMALL/PC).
For the past nine years, SAC has become a primary forum for applied
computing practitioners and researchers.
Once again SAC'94 will be held in conjunction with the 1994 ACM Computer
Science Conference (CSC'94).
Fuzzy Logic in Applications is one of the major tracks in SAC.
The purpose of this track is to provide a forum for the interchange of
ideas, research, development activities, and applications among academic
and practitioners in the areas related to Fuzzy Logic in Applications.
State-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice original papers relevant to
the track themes as well as panel proposals are solicited.
RELEVANT TOPICS:
Applications of Fuzzy Systems to:
- System Control - Signal Processing
- Intelligent Information Systems - Image Understanding
- Case-Based Reasoning - Pattern Recognition
- Decision Making and Analysis - Robotics and Automation
- Modelling - Medical Diagnostic and MRI
- Databases and Information Retrieval - Evolutionary Computation
- Neural Systems
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of draft papers: 17.09.1993
Notification of acceptance: 01.11.1993
Camera-ready copy due: 20.11.1993
TRACK CHAIR:
Madjid Fathi
FB Informatik, LS1
P.O.BOX 500 500
University of Dortmund
D-4600 Dortmund 50
Germany
Tel: +49231-7556372
FAX: +49231-7556555
Email: fathi@ls1.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
HONORARY ADVISOR :
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley
TRACK ADVISORY:
Y. Attikiouzel, Univ. of Western Australia
H. Berenji, NASA Ames Division, AI Research, CA, USA
M. Jamshidi, Univ. of New Mexico, NM, USA
A. Kandel, Univ. of South Florida, USA
R. Kruse, Univ. of Braunschweig, Germany
E.H. Mamdani, Univ. of London, GB
M. Masetti, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
H. Prade, Univ. of Paul Sabatier, France
B. Reusch, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany
E.H. Ruspini, SRI International, USA
H. Tanaka, Univ. of Osaka, Japan
L. Valverde, Univ. of de les Illes Baleares, Spain
R.R. Yager, Iona College, Editor in-chief, USA
H.J. Zimmermann, Univ. of Aachen, Germany
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
Several Categories of papers will be considered for presentation and publication
including:
(i) original and unpublished research articles,
(ii) Reports of applications in
- business,
- government,
- industrie,
- arts,
- science and
- engineering.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM/SAC'94 Conference Proceedings
to be printed by the ACM Press.
In order to facilitate the blind external review process, submission guidelines
must be strictly adhered to:
- Submit 5 copies of your manuscript to the track chair.
- Authors names and addresses MUST NOT appear in the body of the paper,
self-reference must be in the third person, attribution to the author(s)
must be in the form of "author", and bibliographical entries by the
author(s) must also be in the form of "author".
- The body of the paper should not exceed 5.000 words
(approximately 20 doubled-spaced pages).
- A seperate cover sheet shoeld be attached to each copy, containing
- the title of the paper,
- the author(s) and affiliation(s),
- and the address (including e-mail address and fax number, if available)
to which correspondence should be sent.
- Panel proposals must include abstract of the topics and a copy of
resume/vita of the moderator.
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Subject: PASE'93
From: ff@lri.fr
Date: Mon, 24 May 93 17:56:59 +0100
First Announcement
PASE '93
4th International Workshop on Parallel Applications
in Statistics and Economics
>> Exploration of Complex Systems Dynamics <<
Ascona, Switzerland, November 22-26, 1993
Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested
in innovative information processing systems and their applications in
the areas of statistics, finance and economics. The focus will be on
in-depth presentations of state-of-the-art methods and applications as
well as on communicating current research topics. This workshop is
intended for industrial and academic persons seeking new ways of
comprehending the behavior of dynamic systems. The PASE '93 workshop is
concerned with but not restricted to the following topics:
o Artificial Neural Networks
o Dynamical and Chaotic Systems
o Fuzzy Logic
o Genetic Algorithms
o Stochastic Optimization
Organizing Committee:
M. Dacorogna, O&A Zurich H. Beran, ICS Prague
F. Murtagh, Munotec Munich M. Hanf, IPS ETH Zurich
E. Pelikan, ICS Prague A. Scheidegger, CSCS Manno
D. Wuertz, IPS ETH Zurich M. Tomassini, CSCS Manno
Please contact for further information and registration
Hynek Beran, ICS Prag
Pod vodarenskou vezi 2
182 07 PRAGUE 8, Czech Republic
FAX: +42 2 858 57 89
E-mail: pase@uivt1.uivt.cas.cs
and for local arrangements
Marco Tomassini, CSCS Manno
Galleria 2, Via Cantonale
6928 MANNO, Switzerland
FAX: +41 91 506711
E-mail: pase@cscs.ch
The workshop will be held near Ascona, an attractive holiday resort in
Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland. In keeping with the
tradition of the PASE workshop, an art exhibition as well as other social
events will be organized.
Further information will be available from anonymous ftp:
ftp maggia.ethz.ch (129.132.17.1)
"Instructions to Authors"
***** ASCII *****
____________________________________________________________________________
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
1. Manuscript
Two copies of the manuscript should be submitted to the
Organizing Committee (See the Contact Address). Manuscripts must
be submitted in English.
2. Copyright
Original papers (not published or not simultaneously submitted
to another journal) will be reviewed. Copyright for published
papers will be vested in the publisher.
3. Text
Text double space on one side of the sheet only, with a margin
of at least 5 cm, (2") on the left. Titles of chapters and
paragraphs should appear clearly distinguished from the text.
Complete text records on 5 1/4" floppy discs are prefered.
4. Equations
Mathematical equations inserted in the text must be clearly
formulated in such a manner that there can be no possible doubt
about meaning of the symbols employed.
5. Figures and Tables
The figures, if any, must be clearly numbered and their
position in the text marked. They will be drawn in Indian ink on
white paper or tracing paper, bearing in mind that they will be
reduced to a width of either 7,5 or 15 (3 or 6") for printing.
After scaling down, the normal lines ought to have a minimum
thickness of 0,1 mm and maximum of 0,3 mm while lines for which
emphasis is wanted can reach a maximum thickness of 0,5 mm.
Labelling of the figures must be easy legible after reduction. It
will be as far as possible placed across the width of the diagram
from left to right. The height of the characters after scaling
down must not be less than 1mm. Photographs for insertion in the
text will be well defined and printed on glossy white paper, and
will be scaled down for printing to a width of 7,5 to 15 cm (3 to
6"). All markings on photographs are covered by the same
recommendations as for figures. It is recommended that authors of
communications accompany each figure or photograph with a
descriptive title giving sufficient information on the content of
the picture. Tables of characteristics or values inserted in the
text or appended to the article must be prepared in a clear
manner, preferably as Camera Ready text. Should a table need
several pages these must be kept together by sticking or other
appropriate means in such a way as to emphasize the unity of the
table.
6. Abstracts and Required Informations
An abstracts of 10 to 20 typed lines written by the author in
the English will precede and introduce each article. Provide
title, authors, affiliation, data of dispatch on a separate sheet
with exact mailing address for correspondence.
7. References
The references should be cited in a sequential manner and the
reference numbers should be in square brackets. References must
be listed at the end of the paper in the numerical order.
Example for references to articles from journals
[1] Dawes E.M., Corrigan K.: Linear models. Trans.JSCM, 30},
1991, 42-51.
Example for references to articles from proceedings
[2] Brown B.: Linears models. In: Proc.of the IEEE International
Conference, A.Priets(Eds), IEE Press, New York, 1988, 607-610.
Example for refrences to books
[3] Bollobes B.: Extremal Graph Theory. Springer, New York, 1988.
All references should be indicated in the manuscript.
*** REMARKS FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE ***
The contributions are requested by the Organizing Commitee on
the PC-compatible 3 1/2" or 5 1/4" floppy disk in an ASCII form.
Adding the TEX file will be welcomed. For figures the post-script
files can be also enclosed. Please, do send the hardopy together
with your floppy disk. Sending your contribution in any other form
may cause troubles for publishing.
In the case of any problems please do contact the Organizing
Commitee:
Hynek Beran, ICS Prague
Pod vodarenskou vezi 2
182 07 PRAGUE 8, Czech Republic
FAX: +42 2 858 57 89
E-mail: pase@uivt1.uivt.cas.cs
Your contributions are to be sent to the same address.
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