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Neuron Digest Volume 13 Number 09
Neuron Digest Monday, 21 Feb 1994 Volume 13 : Issue 9
Today's Topics:
2AI and Stats Workshop
ECAL95 First Announcement
IEE Colloquia
CFP: Combining symbolic and statistical approaches to language
CfP: Workshop "Logic and Reasoning with Neural Networks"
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Subject: AI and Stats Workshop
From: "Douglas H. Fisher" <dfisher@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 06:39:55 -0600
Call For Papers
Fifth International Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence
and
Statistics
January 4-7, 1995
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
PURPOSE:
This is the fifth in a series of workshops which has
brought together researchers in Artificial Intelligence and in
Statistics to discuss problems of mutual interest. The exchange has
broadened research in both fields and has strongly encouraged
interdisciplinary work.
This workshop will have as its primary theme:
``Learning from data''
Papers on other topics at the interface of AI & Statistics
are *strongly* encouraged as well (see TOPICS below).
FORMAT:
To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the
presentations will be limited to about 20 discussion papers in single
session meetings over three days (Jan. 5-7). Focussed poster
sessions will provide the means for presenting and discussing the
remaining research papers. Papers for poster sessions will be treated
equally with papers for presentation in publications.
Attendance at the workshop will *not* be limited.
The three days of research presentations will be preceded by a day
of tutorials (Jan. 4). These are intended to expose researchers
in each field to the methodology used in the other field. The Tutorial
Chair is Prakash Shenoy. Suggestions on tutorial topics can be sent to
him at pshenoy@ukanvm.bitnet.
LANGUAGE:
The language will be English.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The fifth workshop has a primary theme of
``Learning from data''
At least one third of the workshop schedule will be set aside for
papers with this theme. Other themes will be developed according
to the strength of the papers in other areas, including but not
limited to:
- integrated man-machine modeling methods
- empirical discovery and statistical methods for knowledge
acquisition
- probability and search
- uncertainty propagation
- combined statistical and qualitative reasoning
- inferring causation
- quantitative programming tools and integrated software for
data analysis and modeling.
- discovery in databases
- meta data and design of statistical data bases
- automated data analysis and knowledge representation for
statistics
- connectionist approaches
- cluster analysis
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Three copies of an extended abstract (up to four pages) should be
sent to
H. Lenz, Program Chair or D. Fisher, General Chair
5th Int'l Workshop on AI & Stats 5th Int'l Workshop on AI & Stats
Free University of Berlin Box 1679, Station B
Department of Economics Department of Computer Science
Institute for Statistics Vanderbilt University
and Econometrics Nashville, Tennessee 37235
14185 Berlin, Garystr 21 USA
Germany
or electronically (postscript or latex documents preferred) to
ai-stats-95@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Submissions for discussion papers (and poster presentations) will
be considered if *postmarked* by June 30, 1994. If the submission
is electronic (e-mail), then it must be *received* by midnight
June 30, 1994. Abstracts postmarked after this date but *before*
July 31, 1994, will be considered for poster presentation *only*.
Please indicate which topic(s) your abstract addresses and include
an electronic mail address for correspondence. Receipt of all
submissions will be confirmed via electronic mail. Acceptance
notices will be mailed by September 1, 1994. Preliminary papers (up
to 20 pages) must be returned by November 1, 1994. These preliminary
papers will be copied and distributed at the workshop.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
General Chair: D. Fisher Vanderbilt U., USA
Program Chair: H. Lenz Free U. Berlin, Germany
Members:
W. Buntine NASA (Ames), USA
J. Catlett AT&T Bell Labs, USA
P. Cheeseman NASA (Ames), USA
P. Cohen U. of Mass., USA
D. Draper U. of Bath, UK
Wm. Dumouchel Columbia U., USA
A. Gammerman U. of London, UK
D. J. Hand Open U., UK
P. Hietala U. Tampere, Finland
R. Kruse TU Braunschweig, Germany
S. Lauritzen Aalborg U., Denmark
W. Oldford U. of Waterloo, Canada
J. Pearl UCLA, USA
D. Pregibon AT&T Bell Labs, USA
E. Roedel Humboldt U., Germany
G. Shafer Rutgers U., USA
P. Smyth JPL, USA
MORE INFORMATION:
For more information write dfisher@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
or write to ai-stats-request@watstat.uwaterloo.ca to
subscribe to the AI and Statistics mailing list.
Traditionally, the Workshop has attracted many with an interest
in connectionism, and we encourage even more for the 1995
Workshop.
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Subject: ECAL95 First Announcement
From: Arantza Etxeberria <arantza@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 18:34:31 +0000
First Announcement
3rd. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE
ECAL95
Granada, Spain, 4-6 June, 1995
It is a pleasure to announce the forthcoming 3rd European Conference on
Artificial Life (ECAL95).
Despite its short life, Artificial Life (AL) is already a mature scientific
field. In trying to discover the rules of life and extract its essence so that
it can be implemented in different media, AL research has led us to a
better understanding of a large set of interesting biology-related problems,
such as self organization, emergence, origins of life, self-reproduction,
computer viruses, learning, growth and development, animal behavior,
ecosystems, autonomous agents, adaptive robotics, etc.
The Conference will be organized into Scientific Sessions, Demonstrations,
Videos and Comercial Exhibits. Scientific Sessions will consist of Lectures
(invited), Oral Presentations, and Posters.
The site of ECAL95 will be the city of Granada, located in the south of Spain,
in the region of Andalucia. Granada was the last moors site in the Iberic
Peninsula, and it has the inheritance of their culture with the legacy of
marvelous constructions such as the Alhambra and the Gardens of Generalife.
ECAL95 will be organized in collaboration with the International Workshop on
Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN95) to be held at Malaga (Costa del Sol,
Spain), June 7-9, 1995. These places are only one hour apart by car.
Special inscription fees will be offered to those attending both meetings.
Scientific Sessions and Topics
1. Foundations and Epistemology:
Philosophical Issues. Emergence. Levels of organization. Evolution of
Hierarchical Systems. Evolvability. Computation and Dynamics. Ethical
Problems.
2. Evolution:
Prebiotic Evolution. Origins of Life. Evolution of Metabolism. Fitness
Landscapes. Ecosystem Evolution. Biodiversity. Evolution of Sex.
Natural Selection and Sexual selection. Units of Selection.
3. Adaptive and Cognitive Systems:
Reaction, Neural and Immune Networks. Growth and Differentiation.
Self-organization. Pattern Formation. Multicellulars and Development.
Natural and Artificial Morphogenesis.
4. Artificial Worlds:
Simulation of Adaptive and Cognitive Systems. System-Environment
Correlation. Sensor-Effector Coordination. Environment Design.
5. Robotics and Emulation of Animal Behavior:
Sensory and Motor Activity. Mobile Agents. Adaptive Robots. Autonomous
Robots. Evolutionary Robotics. Ethology.
6. Societies and Collective Behavior:
Swarm Intelligence. Cooperation and Communication among Animals and
Robots. Evolution of Social Behavior. Social Organizations. Division of
Tasks.
7. Applications and Common Tools:
Optimization. Problem Solving. Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics.
Genetic Algorithms. Neural Networks. Fuzzy Logic. Evolutionary
Computation. Genetic Programming.
Inscription / Information
Those interested please send (mail/fax/e-mail) the Intention Form to the
Programme Secretary, Juan J. Merelo, at the following address:
Dept. Electronica |
Facultad de Ciencias | Phone: +34-58-243162
Campus Fuentenueva | Fax: +34-58-243230
18071 Granada, Spain | E-mail: ecal95@ugr.es
Organization Committee
Federico Moran. UCM. Madrid (E) Chair
Alvaro Moreno. UPV. San Sebastian (E) Chair
Arantza Etxeberria Univ. Sussex (UK)
Julio Fernandez. UPV. San Sebastian (E)
Francisco Montero. UCM. Madrid (E)
Alberto Prieto. UGr. Granada (E)
Carme Torras. UPC. Barcelona (E)
Programm Committee
Francisco Varela. CNRS/CREA. Paris (F) Chair
Juan J. Merelo. UGr. Granada (E) Secretary
(Definitive list of this Committee will be completed and announced in the
forthcoming Call-for-Papers)
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INTENTION FORM
3rd. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE
ECAL95
Granada, Spain, 4-6 June, 1995
Family Name:
First Name:
Institution:
Address:
Phone No.:
Fax No.:
e-mail:
Signature: Date:
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Subject: IEE Colloquia
From: N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 13:08:29 +0000
IEE COLLOQUIUM IN LONDON, UK
SYMBOLIC AND NEURAL COGNITIVE ENGINEERING
Colloquium organised by Professional Group C4 (Artificial intelligence)
of the Institute of Electical Engineers (IEE) to be held at Savoy Place on
Monday, 14 February 1994
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
9.30 am Registration and coffee
Chairman: Professor I Aleksander (Imperial College)
10.00 Chairman's introduction
1 10.10 A review of cognitive symbolic engineering:
Professor B Richards (Imperial College)
2 10.40 The interplay of symbolic and adaptive techniques:
R Garigliano and D J Nettleton (University of Durham)
3 11.10 Engineering cognitive systems - some conceptual issues:
R Paton (University of Liverpool)
4 11.40 Variable binding in a neural network using a distributed
representation:
A Browne and J Pilkington (South Bank University)
12.10 LUNCH
5 1.30 Connectionist advances in natural language processing:
Professor N Sharkey (University of Sheffield)
6 2.00 Systematicity and generalisation in connectionist models:
L F Niklasson (University of Exeter)
7 2.30 Hierarchical symbolic structures and knowledge chunking:
B K Purhoit (BT Laboratories) and J F Boyce (King's College London)
3.00 TEA
8 3.15 Relational computing:
Professor J Taylor (King's College London)
9 3.45 The research challenge for symbolic and neural approaches:
Professor I Aleksander (Imperial College)
4.15 Discussion
4.45 CLOSE
The IEE is not, as a body, responsible for the views or opinions expressed by individual authors or speakers.
151/36/38 ref: 94/038
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OTHER EVENTS ORGANISED BY THE
COMPUTING AND CONTROL DIVISION TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 1994
1 Tue Colloquium on High performance applications of parallel PG C2
architectures
7 Mon Colloquium on Intelligent front-ends for existing systems PG C4
10 Thur 11TH COMPUTING AND CONTROL LECTURE
Out of control into systems engineering research?
By Professor C J Harris (University of Southampton)
21 Mon Colloquium on Modelling of controlled natural energy PG C6
systems
23 Wed Colloquium on Vehicle diagnostics in Europe PG C12
24 Thur Colloquium on Implications of the new legislation on PG C5
work with display screen equipment
28 Mon Colloquium on Molecular bioinformatics PG C4
Joint meeting with PAPAGENA
Further details of the above events can be obtained from the
Secretary, LS(D)CA, IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL or by
telephoning 071 240 1871 Ext: 2206
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Subject: CFP: Combining symbolic and statistical approaches to language
From: Philip Resnik - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS <presnik@caesar.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 10:30:07 +0500
Hello,
Although the following workshop does not specifically concern
connectionist approaches, one of our goals is to initiate new
discussions with the wide variety of researchers who have been
thinking about similar issues. That includes many members of this
list, and I would like to encourage connectionist researchers to
participate.
Philip <philip.resnik@east.sun.com>
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***** CALL FOR PAPERS ******
THE BALANCING ACT:
Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language
1 July 1994
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
A workshop in conjunction with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
(27-30 June 1994)
A renaissance of interest in corpus-based statistical methods has
rekindled old controversies -- rationalist vs. empiricist
philosophies, theory-driven vs. data-driven methodologies, symbolic
vs. statistical techniques. The aim of this workshop is to set aside
a priori biases and explore the balancing act that must take place
when symbolic and statistical approaches are brought together. We
plan to accept papers from authors having a wide range of
perspectives, and to initiate a discussion that includes
philosophical, theoretical, and practical issues.
Submissions to the workshop must describe research in which both
symbolic and statistical methods play a part. All research of this
kind requires that the researcher make choices: What knowledge will be
represented symbolically and how will it be obtained? What
assumptions underlie the statistical model? What is the researcher
gaining by combining approaches? Questions like these, and the
metaphor of the balancing act, will provide a unifying theme to draw
contributions from a wide spectrum of language researchers.
ORGANIZERS:
Judith Klavans, Columbia Univerisity
Philip Resnik, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work; they should
clearly emphasize the type of paper to be presented (e.g.
implementation, philosophical, etc.) and the state of completion of
the research. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented
or have been presented at any other meeting. In addition to the
workshop proceedings, plans for publication as a book require that
papers not have been published in any other publicly available
proceedings. Papers submitted to other conferences will be
considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the
submission.
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Following guidelines for the ACL meeting,
authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to
exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the
specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection
without review. Papers should be headed by a title page containing
the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the
subject area(s). If the author wishes reviewing to be blind, a
separate page with author identification information must be
submitted.
SUBMISSION MEDIA: Papers may be submitted electronically or in hard
copy to either organizer at the addresses given below. Electronic
submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain
text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty)
retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described
below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for
the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A model submission
modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a
bibliography style acl.bst. Note that the bibliography for a
submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual
bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source
file. Be sure that e-mail submissions have no lines longer than 80
characters to avoid mailer problems.
Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) copies of the paper.
A plain text version of the identification page should be sent
separately by electronic mail if possible, giving the following
information: title, author(s), address(es), abstract, content areas,
word count.
Schedule: Papers must be received by 15 March 1994. Late papers will
not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the
first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will
be notified of acceptance by 10 April 1994. Camera-ready copies of
final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a
laser printer, must be received by 10 May 1994, along with a signed
copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is
available through the ACL LISTSERV.
REGISTRATION: Registration fees are $25 for participants who register
by 15 May 1994. Late registrations will be $30. Registration
includes a copy of the proceedings, lunch, and refreshments during the
day. Payment in US$ checks payable to ACL or credit card payment
(Visa/Mastercard) can be sent to Philip Resnik at the address below.
Please submit the following information along with payment:
name
affiliation
postal address
email
method of payment (check or credit card)
credit card info (name, card number, expiration date)
dietary requirements (vegetarian, kosher, etc)
ACL INFORMATION: For other information on the ACL conference which
precedes the workshop and on the ACL more generally, please use the
ACL LISTSERV, described below.
ACL LISTSERV: Listserv is a facility to allow access to an electronic
document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up
at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from
the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to
listserv@cs.columbia.edu
with an empty subject field and the message body containing the
request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help
on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL
archive and "get acl-l <file>" to get a particular file named <file>
>from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a
message with the following body should be sent:
get acl-l membership-form.txt
Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have
many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued
up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled.
The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an
example of how to get the same file by FTP (user typein is
underlined):
$ ftp cs.columbia.edu
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Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous
---------
Password:pereira@research.att.com << not echoed
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ftp> cd acl-l
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ftp> get membership-form.txt.Z
-------------------------
ftp> quit
----
$ uncompress membership-form.txt.Z
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This file is listed under acl-l/ACL94/Workshop_balancing_act.ascii.Z.
SPONSORSHIP: This workshop is sponsored by the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL). It is organized by:
Judith L. Klavans Philip Resnik
Columbia University Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc.
Department of Computer Science Mailstop UCHL03-207
500 W 120th Street Two Elizabeth Drive
New York, NY 10027, USA Chelmsford, MA 01824-4195 USA
klavans@cs.columbia.edu philip.resnik@east.sun.com
Phone: (212) 939-7120 Phone: (508) 442-0841
Fax: (914) 478-1802 Fax: (508) 250-5067
[94-01-27]
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Subject: CfP: Workshop "Logic and Reasoning with Neural Networks"
From: Franz Kurfess <franz@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 15:44:07 +0100
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
"Logic and Reasoning with Neural Networks"
Workshop at the
International Conference on Logic Programming ICLP'94
Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy
June 17 or 18, 1994
Description of the Workshop
===========================
The goal of the workshop is to initiate discussions
and foster interaction between researchers interested
in the use of neural networks and connectionist models
for various aspects of logic and reasoning.
There are a number of domains where the combination
of neural networks and logic opens up interesting
perspectives:
* Methods for Reasoning
- - cognitively plausible models of reasoning
- - reasoning with vague knowledge
- - neural inference mechanisms
- - probabilistic reasoning with neural networks
* Knowledge Representation Aspects
- - representation of non-symbolic information
- - knowledge acquisition from raw data (rule extraction)
with neural networks
- - representation of vague knowledge
- - similarity-based access to knowledge
- - context-dependent retrieval of facts
* Integration of Symbolic and Neural Components
- - combining sub-symbolic and symbolic information
- - pattern recognition
- - sensor fusion
* Implementation Techniques
- - connectionist implementations of symbolic inference mechanisms
- - neural networks as massively parallel implementation technique
- - neural networks for learning of search heuristics
There are at least three major aspects where a discussion
of neural networks / connectionist models can be beneficial
to the logic programming community at this time:
* development of reasoning techniques which are
closer to the way humans reason in everyday situation
* dealing with vague knowledge, i.e. imprecise, uncertain,
incomplete, inconsistent information, possibly from
different sources and in various formats
* efficiency improvements for symbolic inference mechanisms,
e.g. through adaptive learning from previously solved problems,
or content-oriented access to rules and facts
Submission of Papers
====================
Prospective contributors are invited to submit papers
or extended abstracts to the organizers by April 1, 1994.
They will be notified about acceptance or rejection by May 1.
The final version of the papers is due June 1.
We are planning to make the full papers accessible
to the workshop participants in an ftp archive,
and hand out only copies of the abstracts.
If possible, please use a text processing program
that allows you to produce PostScript output;
otherwise it might be difficult to print out
copies on other systems than the one you used.
Preliminary Agenda
==================
There will be one or two talks of approximately 30 min.
where the essential background on the use of neural networks
for logic and reasoning will be presented.
The main purpose for this is to offer a brief introduction to
those attendants with little knowledge of neural networks,
and to provide a common framework of reference for the workshop.
Care will be taken that these presentations concentrate on
fundamental aspects, providing an overview of the field
rather than a detailed technical review of one
particular system or approach.
The rest of the time slots will be used for presentations
of submitted papers, i.e. approximately two in each section,
with enough time for discussion.
The final time schedule will be distributed after May 1.
The workshop will be concluded by a final discussion
and a wrap-up of important aspects.
Important Dates
===============
Submission deadline April 1, 1994
Notification of acceptance/rejection May 1, 1994
Final version of papers due June 1, 1994
Date of the workshop June 17 or 18, 1994
Registration
============
According to the standard policy of LP post-coference workshops,
the workshops are integrating part of the conference.
This means that participants of the workshop are expected
to register for the conference.
Workshop Organizers
===================
Franz Kurfess
Dept. of Neural Information Processing
University of Ulm
D-89069 Ulm, Germany
Voice : +49/731 502-41+4953
Fax : +49/731 502-4156
E-mail: kurfess@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de
Alessandro Sperduti
CSD - University of Pisa
Corso Italia 40
56100 Pisa, Italy
Voice : +39/50 510 248
Fax : +39/50 510 226
E-mail: perso@di.unipi.it
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