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Neuron Digest Wednesday, 30 Mar 1994 Volume 13 : Issue 19
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"Conference in Hyderabad, India"
IWANN'95 Call for Papers
Conference on Oscillations in Neural Systems
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Subject: "Conference in Hyderabad, India"
From: VEMURI@icdc.llnl.gov
Date: 16 Mar 1994 13:40:05 -0700
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE/IAS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
HYDERABAD, INDIA
JANUARY 5-7, 1995
IEEE INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION AND CONTROL
COSPONSORED BY
IEEE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS SOCIETY
IEEE HYDERABAD SECTION
IEEE INDIA COUNCIL
TOPICS COVERED:
Expert Systems, Neural Networks and Fuzzy logic Controllers
Neural Nets in Industrial Automation
Intelligent Sensors, transducers, and actuators
Programmable controllers and Industrial Controllers
Distributed Computer Control Systems
Flexible Automation Systems
Real-Time Communications Networks and Controls
Energy Conservation Tools and Technologies
.Other topics can be added.
PAPER DEADLINES
15 June 94 Receipt of Extended Abstract from Authors
16 August 94 Notification of Acceptance
14 October 94 Receipt of camera-ready full paper from authors
TUTORIALS
Many pre-conference and post-conference tutorials are being
planned. If you have a proposal for a tutorial, please submit
your proposals by
15 June 1994
to the Technical Program Chair (USA)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
GENERAL CHAIR:
DR. E. BHAGIRADHA RAO
ENGINEERING STAFF COLLEGE OF INDIA
KHAIRATABAD, HYDERABAD- 500 004, INDIA
EMAIL: ebrao%engsci@uunet.in
Technical Program Co-Chair (INDIA)
Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar
Director, Center for Development of Advanced Computing
Poona University Campus
PUNE 411 007, INDIA
Email: bhatkar@parcom.ernet.in
Technical Program Co-Chair (INDIA)
Dr. M. Safiuddin
President, STS International
2451 Wehrle Building, Suite F
Williamsville, NY 14211, USA
Tel: (716) 688-2056
Fax: (716) 688-2056
or,
Dr. V. Rao Vemuri
Professor, Dept. of Applied Science
University of California at Davis
Livermore, CA 94550
Tel: (510) 424-4051
Fax: (510) 422-8681
Email: vemuri@icdc.llnl.gov
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING, PRESENTING A PAPER, ORGANIZING
A SESSION OR CONDUCTING A TUTORIAL, PLEASE CONTACT ANY OF THE ABOVE
INDIVIDUALS.
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Subject: IWANN'95 Call for Papers
From: Jose Ramon Alvarez Sanchez <jras@uned.es>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 19:14:29 +0100
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
ON
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
IWANN'95
Preliminary Announcement and First Call for Papers
Malaga - Costa del Sol, Spain
June 7 - 9, 1995
SPONSORED BY
IFIP (Working Group in Neural Computer Systems, WG10.6)
Spanish RIG IEEE Neural Networks Council
UK&RI communication chapter of IEEE
Spanish Computer Society chapter of IEEE
AEIA (IEEE affiliate society)
ORGANISED BY
Universidad de Malaga
UNED (Madrid)
IWANN'95. The third International Workshop on artificial
Neural Networks, will take place in the Spanish "Costa del Sol"
(Malaga) from 7 to 9 of June, 1995. This biennial meeting with
focus on Biological Models and New Computing Paradigms, was first
held in Granada (1991) and Sitges (1993) with a growing number of
participants from more than 20 countries and with high quality
papers published by Springer-Verlag (LNCS 540 and 686).
SCOPE
From the computational viewpoint, standard neural networks
paradigms are nearly exhausted and some fresh air is needed. In
this workshop, remaining with the powerful roots of neural
computation (modularity, autonomy, distributed computation and
self-programming via supervised or non-supervised learning),
focus is placed on Biological Modeling, the search of Theory and
Design Methodologies and the bridge between Connectionism and
Symbolic Computation.
IWANN's main objective is to offer an interdisciplinary
forum for scientists and engineers from Neurology, Computer
Science, Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Cognitive Science
and applied domains, looking after brain storming and innovative
formulations of Natural and Artificial Neural Computation.
It is the deep feeling of the IWANN's organizers that this
more-complex, biologically inspired, and theoretical and
methodologically supported approach will also provide us with
more powerful tools for applied domains.
Contributions on the following or related topics are
welcome.
TOPICS
1. Neuroscience: (Principles, methodologies in brain
research, modeling and simulation, central and peripheral neural
coding, dendro-dentritic nets, local circuits, anatomical and
physiological organizations, plasticity, learning and memory in
natural neural nets, models of development and evolution,
specific circuits in sensorial and motor pathways, networks in
cerebral cortex).
2. Computational Models of Neurons and Neural Nets:
Continuous (linear, high order, recurrent), logic, sequential,
inferential (object oriented, production rules, frames),
probabilistic, Bayesian, fuzzy and chaotic models, hybrid
formulations, massive computation and learning enabling
structures for all these formulations.
3. Organizational Principles: The living organization,
deterministic networks dynamics, autopoiesis, self-organization,
cooperative processes and emergent computation, synergetics,
evolutive optimization and genetic algorithms.
4. Learning: Inspirations from the biological mechanisms
of learning, supervised and unsupervised strategies, local
self-programming, continous learning, evolutive algorithms,
symbolic-subsymbolic formulations.
5. Cognitive Science and AI: Neural networks for knowledge
acquisition, multisensorial integration, perception, knowledge-
based neural nets, inductive, deductive and abductive reasoning,
memory mechanisms, natural language.
6. Neurosimulators: Languages, environments,
parallelization, modularity, extensibility and benchmarks.
7. Hardware Implementation: VLSI, parallel architectures,
neurochips, preprocessing networks, neurodevices, FPGA's,
benchmarks, optical and other technologies.
8. Neural Networks for Perception: Low level processing,
segmentation, feature extraction, pattern recognition, adaptive
filtering, noise reduction, texture, motion analysis, hybrid
symbolic-neural architectures for artificial vision.
9. Neural Networks for communications systems: Modems and
codecs, network management, digital communications.
10. Neural Networks for control and robotics: Systems
identification, motion planning and control, adaptive and
predictive control, navigation, real time applications.
LOCATION
Malaga - Costa del Sol, June 7-9, 1995.
Malaga, capital of the Costa del Sol, is strategically
located on the southern coast of Spain. It is a genuine
crossroads of communication and culture. Malaga is well-know for
its history (Cathedral, historic down-town, arabian citadel,
roman amphitheatre, ...) and excelent beaches.
Malaga, with many modern hotels, is very well communicated
by car or plane; its international airport has direct flights to
all major European capitals, to America and some destinations on
the other continents.
LANGUAGE
English will the official language of IWANN'95. Simultaneous
translation will not be provided.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Programme Committee seeks original papers on the above
mentioned Topics. Authors should pay special attention to
explanation of theoretical and technical choices involved, point
out possible limitations and describe the current state of their
work. Authors must take into account the following:
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Authors must submit four copies of full papers, not
exceeding 8 pages in DIN-A4 format.
The heading should be centered and include:
. Title in capitals.
. Name(s) of author(s).
. Address(es) of author(s).
. A 10 line abstract.
Three blank lines should be left between each of the above
items, and four between the heading and the body of the paper,
1.6 cm left, right, top and bottom margins, single-spaced and not
exceeding the 8 page limit.
In addition, one sheet should be attached including the
following information:
. Title and author(s) name(s).
. A list of five keywords.
. A reference to the Topics the paper relates to.
. Postal address, phone and fax numbers and E-mail
(if available).
All received papers will be reviewed by the Programme
Committee. Accepted papers may be presented orally or as poster
panels, however all accepted contributions will be published in
full length. (Springer-Verlag Proceedings are expected).
IMPORTANT DATES
Second Call for Papers September, 1994
Final date for submission January 15, 1995
Notification of acceptance March 15, 1995
Workshop June 7-9, 1995
CONTRIBUTIONS MUST BE SENT TO:
Prof. Jose Mira
Dpto. Informatica y Automatica
UNED
Senda del Rey, s/n
28040 MADRID (Spain)
Phone: +34 (1) 398-7155
Fax: +34 (1) 398-6697
Email: jose.mira@uned.es
GENERAL CHAIRMAN
Alberto Prieto Unv. de Granada (E)
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Joan Cabestany Unv. Pltca. de Catalunya (E) Chairman
Senen Barro Unv. de Santiago de Compostela (E)
Trevor Clarkson King's College London (UK)
Dante Del Corso Politecnico de Torino (I)
Ana Delgado UNED. Madrid (E)
Karl Goser Unv. Dortmund (G)
Jeanny Herault INPG Grenoble (F)
K.Nicholas Leibovic SUNY at Buffalo (U.S.A.)
Jose Mira UNED. Madrid (E)
Federico Moran Unv. Complutense. Madrid (E)
Stanislaw Osowski Tech. Unv. Warsaw (Po)
Conrad Perez Unv. de Barcelona (E)
Francisco Sandoval Unv. de Malaga (E)
Juan A. Siguenza Unv. Autonoma de Madrid (E)
Elena Valderrama CNM-Unv. Autonoma de Barcelona (E)
Marley Vellasco Pont. U. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (Br)
Michel Verleysen Unv. Catholique de Louvain (B)
LOCAL COMMITTEE
Francisco Sandoval Unv. de Malaga (E) Chairman
Antonio Diaz Unv. de Malaga (E)
Gonzalo Joya Unv. de Malaga (E)
Francisco Vico Unv. de Malaga (E)
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Jose Mira UNED. Madrid (E) Chairman
Carlos Acuna C. Unv. Santiago de Compostela (E)
Joshua Alspector Bellcore. (USA)
Sanjeev B.Ahuja Nielsen A.I. Research & Development. Bannokburn (USA)
Igor Aleksander Imperial College. London (UK)
Luis B. Almeida INESC. Lisboa (P)
Shun-ichi Amari Unv. Tokyo (Jp)
Michael Arbit Unv. Southern, CA (USA)
Xavier Arreguit CSEM SA (CH)
Francois Blayo LERI-EERIE. Nimes (F)
Colin Campbell University of Bristol (UK)
Jordi Carrabina CNM- Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (E)
Francisco Castillo Unv. Pltca. de Catalunya (E)
Antoni Catala Unv. Pltca. de Catalunya (E)
Gloria Cembrano Instituto de Cibernetica. CSIC. Barcelona (E)
Leon Chua Unv. California, Berkeley (USA)
Michael Cosnard LIP. Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (F)
Marie Cottrell Unv. Paris I (F)
Dante A. Couto B. Instituto de Informatica (Br)
Gerard Dreyfus ESPCI. Paris (F)
F.K. Fogelman Soulie Mimetics. Chatenay Malabry (F)
J. Simoes da Fonseca Unv. Lisboa (P)
Kunihiko Fukushima Unv. Osaka (Jp)
Hans Peter Graf AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey (USA)
Francesco Gregoretti Politecnico di Torino (I)
Karl E. Grosspietsch Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) St. Augustin (D)
Mohamad H. Hassoun Wayne State University (USA)
Jaap Hoekstra Delft University of Technology (NL)
P.T.W. Hudson Leiden University (NL)
Jose Luis Huertas CNM- Universidad de Sevilla (E)
Paul G.A. Jespers Universite Catholique de Louvain (B)
Simon Jones IERI Loughborough University of Technology (UK)
Chistian Jutten INPG Grenoble (F)
H. Klar Technische Universitat Berlin (D)
C.Koch CalTech. (USA)
Teuvo Kohonen Helsinki Unv. of Techn. (Fin)
Michael D. Lemmon University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame (USA)
K. Nicholas Leibovic SUNY at Buffalo, NY (USA)
Panos A. Ligomenides Unv. of Maryland (USA)
Javier Lopez Aligue Unv. de Extremadura. (E)
Pierre Marchal CSEM SA (CH)
Anthony N. Michel University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame (USA)
Roberto Moreno Unv. Las Palmas Gran Canaria (E)
Jean Daniel Nicoud EPFL (CH)
Josef A. Nossek Tech. Univ. of Munich (D)
Julio Ortega Unv. de Granada (E)
Marco Pacheco Pont. U. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (Br)
Conrad Perez Unv. de Barcelona (E)
Francisco J. Pelayo Unv. de Granada (E)
Franz Pichler Johannes Kepler Univ. (A)
Ulrich Ramacher Siemens AG. Munich (D)
J.Ramirez Paradigma C.A. Caracas (V)
Leonardo Reyneri Unv. di Pisa (I)
Tamas Roska Hungarian Academy of Science. Budapest (H)
Peter A. Rounce Unv. College London (UK)
V.B. David Sanchez German Aerospace Research Establishment. Wessling (G)
E. Sanchez-Sinencio Texas A&M University (USA)
David Sherrington University of Oxford (UK)
Renato Stefanelli Politecnico di Milano (I)
T.J. Stonham Brunel-University of West London (UK)
John G. Taylor King's College London (UK)
Carme Torras Instituto de Cibernetica. CSIC. Barcelona (E)
Philip Treleaven Unv. College London (UK)
Eric Vittoz CSEM SA (CH)
Michel Weinfeld Ecole Polytechnique Paris (F)
Bernard Widrow Stanford University CA (USA)
R.Yager Iona College NY (USA)
INFORMATION FORM
to be returned as soon as possible to:
Prof. F. Sandoval
IWANN'95
Dept. Tecnologia Electronica
Universidad de Malaga
Pza. El Ejido, s/n
E-29013 Malaga SPAIN
Phone: +34.5.213.13.52
Fax: +34.5.213.14.47
E-mail: iwann95@ctima.uma.es
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Subject: Conference on Oscillations in Neural Systems
From: sriram@cse.uta.edu (Sriram Govindarajan)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 00:13:30 -0600
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Conference on Oscillations in Neural Systems, Sponsored by the
Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (MIND) and the University
of Texas at Arlington. To be held Thursday through Saturday,
MAY 5-7, 1994
Location:
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
MAIN LIBRARY, 6TH FLOOR PARLOR
Official Conference Motel:
Park Inn
703 Benge Drive
Arlington, TX 76013
1-800-777-0100 or 817-860-2323
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Park Inn for $35 a night
(single or double). Room sharing arrangements are possible.
Reservations should be made directly through the motel.
Official Conference Travel Agent:
Airline reservations to Dallas-Fort Worth airport should be made
through Dan Dipert travel in Arlington, 1-800-443-5335. For those
who wish to fly on American Airlines, a Star File account has been
set up for a 5% discount off lowest available fares (two week
advance, staying over Saturday night) or 10% off regular coach
fare; arrangements for Star File reservations should be made
through Dan Dipert. Please let the conference organizers know
(by e-mail or telephone) when you plan to arrive: some people
can be met at the airport (about 30 minutes from Arlington),
others can call Super Shuttle at 817-329-2000 upon arrival for
transportation to the Park Inn (about $14-$16 per person).
Registration for the conference is $25 for students, $65 for non-
student oral or poster presenters, $85 for others. MIND members
will have $20 (or $10 for students) deducted from the registration.
A registration form is attached to this announcement.
Registrants will receive the MIND monthly newsletter (on e-mail
when possible) for the remainder of 1994.
Invited speakers:
Bill Baird (University of California, Berkeley)
Adi Bulsara (Naval Command, Control, and Ocean Surveillance Center, San Diego)
Alianna Maren (Accurate Automation Corporation)
George Mpitsos (Oregon State University)
Martin Stemmler (California Institute of Technology)
Roger Traub (IBM, Tarrytown, New York)
Robert Wong (Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn)
Geoffrey Yuen (Northwestern University)
Those interested in presenting are invited to submit
abstracts (1-2 paragraphs) any time between now and March 31,
1994, of any work related to the theme of the conference. The
topic of neural oscillation is currently of great interest to
psychologists and neuroscientists alike. Recently it has been
observed that neurons in separate areas of the brain will oscillate
in synchrony in response to certain stimuli. One hypothesized
function for such synchronized oscillations is to solve the
"binding problem," that is, how is it that disparate features
of objects (e.g., a person's face and their voice) are tied
together into a single unitary whole. Some bold speculators
(such as Francis Crick in his recent book, The Astonishing
Hypothesis) even argue that synchronized neural oscillations form
the basis for consciousness.
Talks will be 1 hour for invited speakers and 45 minutes for
contributed speakers including questions. There will be no
parallel sessors. Contributors whose work is considered worthy
of presentation but who cannot be fit into the schedule will be
invited to present posters.
Presenters will not be required to write complete papers.
After the conference is over, we will attempt to obtain a contract
with a publisher for a book based on the conference. Oral and
poster presenters will be invited to submit chapters to this book,
although it is not a precondition for being a speaker. Two books
based on previous MIND conferences (Motivation, Emotion, and
Goal Direction in Neural Networks and Neural Networks for Knowledge
Representation and Inference) have been published by Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, and a book based on our last conference
(Optimality in Biological and Artificial Networks?) is now in
progress, under contract with Erlbaum as part of their joint series
with INNS.
Abstracts should submitted, by e-mail, snail mail, or fax,
to:
Professor Daniel S. Levine
Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington
411 S. Nedderman Drive
Arlington, TX 76019-0408
Office telephone: 817-273-3598, fax: 817-794-5802
e-mail: b344dsl@utarlg.uta.edu
Further inquiries about the conference can be addressed to
Professor Levine or to the other two conference organizers:
Professor Vincent Brown Mr. Timothy Shirey
817-273-3247 214-495-3500 or 214-422-4570
b096vrb@utarlg.uta.edu 73353.3524@compuserve.com
Please distribute this announcement to anyone you think may be
interested in the conference.
REGISTRATION FOR MIND/INNS CONFERENCE ON OSCILLATIONS IN NEURAL
SYSTEMS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, MAY 5-7, 1994
Name ______________________________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
E-Mail __________________________________________________________
Telephone _________________________________________________________
Registration fee enclosed:
_____ $15 Student, member of MIND
_____ $25 Student
_____ $65 Non-student oral or poster presenter
_____ $65 Non-student member of MIND
_____ $85 All others
Will you be staying at the Park Inn? ____ Yes ____ No
Are you planning to share a room with
someone you know? ____ Yes ____ No
If so, please list that person's name __________________________
If not, would be you be interested in
sharing a room with another conference
attendee to be assigned? ____ Yes ____ No
PLEASE REMEMBER TO CALL THE PARK INN DIRECTLY FOR YOUR RESERVATION
(WHETHER SINGLE OR DOUBLE) AT 1-800-777-0100 OR 817-860-2323.
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Subject: Please Post/Distribute
From: stiber@cs.ust.hk (Dr. Michael Stiber)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 18:39:34 +0700
1994 Annual Conference of Japanese Neural Network Society
Date: Nov. 8-11, 1994
Place: Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Major topics: Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Models & algorithms,
Hardware, Applications
Deadline of camera ready form: July 31, 1994(postmarked)
1 or 2 pages of A4 size, 2cm margin on all sides
Language: Japanese / English
Registration fee: 5,000 yen (3,000 yen for students)
For more information contact: Kazuhisa Niki
Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
Phone: +81-298-58-5858, Fax: +81-298-52-0865
Email: niki@etl.go.jp
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