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Neuron Digest Wednesday, 6 Apr 1994 Volume 13 : Issue 22
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NIPS note for auditory researchers
SAB94 Registration Details
IJCAI-95!
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Subject: NIPS note for auditory researchers
From: John Lazzaro <lazzaro@CS.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 13:11:46 -0800
Hi!
Just a note to encourage auditory research submissions to NIPS
this year -- the Neural Information Processing Systems meeting, in
Denver in November/December (with a post-conference workshop at Vail).
NIPS has single-track format, but is very multi-disciplinary
nature; the result is three or four papers representing different
disciplines in science and engineering, presented to appeal to a
general audience. The quality of posters and presentations is pretty
high; only ~5% of the submissions become talks, and about ~20% of the
submissions become posters. Dick Duda gave a talk at NIPS last year on
auditory scene analysis that was well received; in addition to scene
analysis, neuroscience and cognitive science auditory research have
also been well received at past NIPS.
The Call For Papers below has more details -- hope to see you
at NIPS!
--john lazzaro
area chair (implementations) NIPS 94
********* PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSIONS FORMAT FOR 1994 *********
CALL FOR PAPERS
Neural Information Processing Systems
-Natural and Synthetic-
Monday, November 28 - Saturday, December 3, 1994
Denver, Colorado
This is the eighth meeting of an interdisciplinary conference
which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer
scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians
interested in all aspects of neural processing and
computation. The conference will include invited talks, and oral
and poster presentations of refereed papers. There will be no
parallel sessions. There will also be one day of tutorial
presentations (Nov 28) preceding the regular session, and two
days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec
2-3).
Major categories for paper submission, and examples of keywords
within categories, are the following:
Neuroscience: systems physiology, cellular physiology, signal
and noise analysis, oscillations, synchronization, inhibition,
neuromodulation, synaptic plasticity, computational models.
Theory: computational learning theory, complexity theory,
dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, probability and
statistics, approximation theory.
Implementations: VLSI, optical, parallel processors, software
simulators, implementation languages.
Algorithms and Architectures: learning algorithms,
constructive/pruning algorithms, localized basis functions,
decision trees, recurrent networks, genetic algorithms,
combinatorial optimization, performance comparisons.
Visual Processing: image recognition, coding and
classification, stereopsis, motion detection, visual
psychophysics.
Speech, Handwriting and Signal Processing: speech recognition,
coding and synthesis, handwriting recognition, adaptive
equalization, nonlinear noise removal.
Applications: time-series prediction, medical diagnosis,
financial analysis, DNA/protein sequence analysis, music
processing, expert systems.
Cognitive Science & AI: natural language, human learning and
memory, perception and psychophysics, symbolic reasoning.
Control, Navigation, and Planning: robotic motor control,
process control, navigation, path planning, exploration,
dynamic programming.
Review Criteria: All submitted papers will be thoroughly
refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, significance
and clarity. Submissions should contain new results that have
not been published previously. Authors are encouraged to submit
their most recent work, as there will be an opportunity after the
meeting to revise accepted manuscripts before submitting final
camera-ready copy.
********** PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSIONS FORMAT FOR 1994 **********
Paper Format: Submitted papers may be up to eight pages in
length. The page limit will be strictly enforced, and any
submission exceeding eight pages will not be considered. Authors
are encouraged (but not required) to use the NIPS style files
obtainable by anonymous FTP at the sites given below. Papers must
include physical and e-mail addresses of all authors, and must
indicate one of the nine major categories listed above, keyword
information if appropriate, and preference for oral or poster
presentation. Unless otherwise indicated, correspondence will be
sent to the first author.
Submission Instructions: Send six copies of submitted papers to
the address given below; electronic or FAX submission is not
acceptable. Include one additional copy of the abstract only, to
be used for preparation of the abstracts booklet distributed at
the meeting. Submissions mailed first-class within the US or
Canada must be postmarked by May 21, 1994. Submissions from
other places must be received by this date. Mail submissions to:
David Touretzky
NIPS*94 Program Chair
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 USA
Mail general inquiries/requests for registration material to:
NIPS*94 Conference
NIPS Foundation
PO Box 60035
Pasadena, CA 91116-6035 USA
(e-mail: nips94@caltech.edu)
FTP sites for LaTex style files "nips.tex" and "nips.sty":
helper.systems.caltech.edu (131.215.68.12) in /pub/nips
b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.242.8) in /usr/dst/public/nips
NIPS*94 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Gerry Tesauro, IBM;
Program Chair, David Touretzky, CMU; Publications Chair, Joshua
Alspector, Bellcore; Publicity Chair, Bartlett Mel, Caltech;
Workshops Chair, Todd Leen, OGI; Treasurer, Rodney Goodman,
Caltech; Local Arrangements, Lori Pratt, Colorado School of
Mines; Tutorials Chairs, Steve Hanson, Siemens and Gerry Tesauro,
IBM; Contracts, Steve Hanson, Siemens and Scott Kirkpatrick, IBM;
Government & Corporate Liaison, John Moody, OGI; Overseas
Liaisons: Marwan Jabri, Sydney Univ., Mitsuo Kawato, ATR, Alan
Murray, Univ. of Edinburgh, Joachim Buhmann, Univ. of Bonn,
Andreas Meier, Simon Bolivar Univ.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 21, 1994 (POSTMARKED)
-please post-
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Subject: SAB94 Registration Details
From: "Phil Husbands" <philh@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 15:00:49 +0100
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND REGISTRATION DETAILS
You are cordially invited to
FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS
Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB94)
Brighton, UK, August 8-12, 1994
The object of the conference is to bring together researchers in ethology,
psychology, ecology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and
related fields so as to further our understanding of the behaviors and
underlying mechanisms that allow animals and, potentially, robots to adapt and
survive in uncertain environments.
The conference will focus particularly on well-defined models, computer
simulations, and built robots in order to help characterize and compare
various organizational principles or architectures capable of inducing
adaptive behavior in real or artificial animals.
Technical Programme
===================
The full technical programme will be announced in due course. There will be a
single track of oral presentations, with poster sessions separately
timetabled. There will also be computer, video and robotic demonstrations.
Major topics covered will include:
Individual and collective behavior Autonomous robots
Neural correlates of behavior Hierarchical and parallel organizations
Perception and motor control Emergent structures and behaviors
Motivation and emotion Problem solving and planning
Action selection and behavioral Goal directed behavior
sequences Neural networks and evolutionary
Ontogeny, learning and evolution computation
Internal world models Characterization of environments
and cognitive processes Applied adaptive behavior
Invited speakers
================
Prof. Michael Arbib, University of Southern California,
"Rats Running and Humans Reaching: The Brain's Multiple Styles of Learning"
Prof. Rodney Brooks, MIT, "Coherent Behavior from Many Adaptive Processes"
Prof. Herbert Roitblat, University of Hawaii,
"Mechanisms and Process in Animal Behaviour: Models of Animals, Animals as
Models"
Prof. Jean-Jacques Slotine, MIT, "Stability in Adaptation and Learning"
Prof. John Maynard Smith, University of Sussex,"The Evolution of Animal
Signals"
Proceedings
===========
The conference proceeding will be published by MIT Press/Bradford Books and
will be available at the conference.
Official Language: English
==========================
Demonstrations
==============
Computer, video and robotic demonstrations are invited. They should be of work
relevant to the conference. If you wish to offer a demonstration, please send
a letter with your registration form briefly describing your contribution and
indicating space and equipment requirements.
Conference Committee
====================
Conference Chairs:
Philip HUSBANDS Jean-Arcady MEYER Stewart WILSON
School of Cognitive Groupe de Bioinformatique The Rowland Institute
and Comp. Sciences Ecole Normale Superieure for Science
University of Sussex 46 rue d'Ulm 100 Cambridge Parkway
Brighton BN1 9QH, UK 75230 Paris Cedex 05 Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
philh@cogs.susx.ac.uk meyer@wotan.ens.fr wilson@smith.rowland.org
Program Chair: David CLIFF
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
davec@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Financial Chair: P. Husbands, H. Roitblat
Local Arrangements: I. Harvey, P. Husbands
Program Committee
=================
M. Arbib, USA R. Arkin, USA R. Beer, USA
A. Berthoz, France L. Booker, USA R. Brooks, USA
P. Colgan, Canada T. Collett, UK H. Cruse, Germany
J. Delius, Germany J. Ferber, France N. Franceschini, France
S. Goss, Belgium J. Halperin, Canada I. Harvey, UK
I. Horswill, USA A. Houston, UK L. Kaelbling, USA
H. Klopf, USA L-J. Lin, USA P. Maes, USA
M. Mataric, USA D. McFarland, UK G. Miller, UK
R. Pfeifer, Switzerland H. Roitblat, USA J. Slotine, USA
O. Sporns, USA J. Staddon, USA F. Toates, UK
P. Todd, USA S. Tsuji, Japan D. Waltz, USA
R. Williams, USA
Local Arrangements
==================
For general enquiries contact:
SAB94 Administration
COGS
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH
UK
Tel: +44 (0)273 678448
Fax: +44 (0)273 671320
Email: sab94@cogs.susx.ac.uk
ftp
===
The SAB94 archive can be accessed by anonymous ftp.
% ftp ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk
login: anonymous
password: <your_email@your_address>
ftp> cd pub/sab94
ftp> get <filename>*
ftp> quit
* Files available at present are:
README
announcement
reg_document
hotel_booking_form
Sponsors
========
Sponsors include:
British Telecom University of Sussex Applied AI Systems Inc
Uchidate Co., Ltd. Mitsubishi Corporation Brighton Council
Financial Support
================
Limited financial support may be available to graduate students and young
researchers in the field. Applicants should submit a letter describing their
research, the year they expect to receive their degree, a letter of
recommendation from their supervisor, and confirmation that they have no other
sources of funds available. The number and size of awards will depend on the
amount of money available.
Venue
=====
The conference will be held at the Brighton Centre, the largest conference
venue in the town, situated on the seafront in Brighton's town centre and
adjacent to the 'Lanes' district.
Brighton is a thriving seaside resort, with many local attractions, situated
on the south coast of England. It is just a 50 minute train journey from
London, and 30 minutes from London Gatwick airport -- when making travel
arrangements we advise, where possible, using London Gatwick in preference to
London Heathrow.
Social Activities
=================
A welcome reception will be held on Sunday 7th August. The conference banquet
will take place on Thursday 11th August. There will also be opportunities for
sightseeing, wine cellar tours and a visit to Brighton's Royal Pavilion.
Accommodation
=============
We have organised preferential rates for SAB94 delegates at several good
quality hotels along the seafront. All hotels are within easy walking distance
of the Brighton Centre. Costs vary from 29 pounds to 70 pounds inclusive per
night for bed and breakfast. An accommodation booking form will be sent out to
you on request, or can be obtained by ftp (instructions above). Details of
cheaper budget accommodation can be obtained from Brighton Accommodation
Marketing Bureau (Tel: +44 273 327560 Fax: +44 273 777409).
Insurance
=========
The SAB94 organisers and sponsors can not accept liablility for personal
injuries, or for loss or damage to property belonging to conference
participants or their guests. It is recommended that attendees take out
personal travel insurance.
Registration Fees
=================
Registration includes: the conference proceedings; technical program; lunch
each day (except Wednesday when there will be no afternoon sessions); welcome
reception; free entry to Brighton's Royal Pavilion; complimentary temporary
membership of the Arts Club of Brighton.
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
REGISTRATION FORM
3rd International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB94)
8-12 August 1994
Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK
Please complete the form below and send to the conference office with full
payment.
Name: ______________________________________________________________
Address: __________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Country: ___________________________________________________________
Postal Code or Zip Code: ___________________________________________
Email: _____________________________________________________________
Telephone:____________________________ Fax:_________________________
Professional Affiliation:___________________________________________
Name(s) of accompanying person(s):
1. ________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________
Dietary needs: ____________________________________________________
Any other special needs: _________________________________________
PAYMENTS
========
All payments must be made in pounds sterling.
Delegates:
=========
Tick if you will be attending the welcome reception on Sunday 7 August _____
Tick appropriate boxes.
Individual Student
Early (before 15 May 1994) 200 pounds ( ) 100 pounds ( )
Late (after 15 May 1994) 230 pounds ( ) 115 pounds ( )
On site 260 pounds ( ) 130 pounds ( )
Banquet 18 pounds ( ) 18 pounds ( )
STUDENTS MUST SUBMIT PROOF OF THEIR STATUS ALONG WITH THEIR REGISTRATION FEE.
Accompanying persons:
===================
Welcoming reception 10 pounds
Banquet 28 pounds
TOTAL PAYMENT
___________ Registration
___________ Banquet (delegate rate) (Please tick if vegetarian _____)
___________ Banquet (guest rate) (Please tick if vegetarian _____)
___________ Reception (guests only)
___________ Donation to support student scholarship fund
METHOD OF PAYMENT
=================
Please make payable to "SAB94", pounds sterling only.
_____ Bank Draft or International Money Order: __________________ pounds
_____ Cheque: (drawn on a UK bank) __________________ pounds
Send to:
SAB Administration
COGS
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH
UK
CANCELLATIONS
=============
The SAB Administration should be notified in writing of all cancellations.
Cancellations received before 10 July will incur a 20% administration charge.
We cannot accept any cancellations after that date.
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Subject: IJCAI-95!
From: Rick Skalsky <skalsky@aaai.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 11:18:58 -0800
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: IJCAI-95
IJCAI-95 will take place at the Palais de Congres, Montreal, August 20-25
1995.
The biennial IJCAI conferences are the major forums for the international
scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The Conference Technical
Program will include workshops, tutorials, panels and invited talks, as well
as tracks for paper and videotape presentations.
PAPER TRACK: SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES
Topics of Interest
Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished
research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to:
* Architectures and languages for AI (e.g. parallel hardware and software for
building AI systems)
* Artistic, entertainment and multimedia applications.
* Automated reasoning (e.g. theorem proving, abduction, automatic
programming, search, context management and truth maintenance systems,
constraint satisfaction, satisfiability checking)
* Cognitive modeling (e.g. user models, memory models)
* Connectionist and PDP models
* Distributed AI, autonomous agents, multi-agent systems and real-time
issues.
* Intelligent teaching systems
* Knowledge Engineering and Principles of AI applications (e.g. for design,
manufacturing control, grand challenge applications)
* Knowledge representation (e.g. logics for knowledge, action, belief and
intention, nonmonotonic formalisms, complexity analysis, languages
and systems for representing knowledge)
* Learning, knowledge acquisition and case-based reasoning
* Logic programming (e.g. semantics, deductive databases, relationships to
AI knowledge representation)
* Natural language (e.g. syntax, semantics, discourse, speech recognition
and understanding, natural language front ends, generation systems,
information extraction and retrieval)
* Philosophical foundations
* Planning and reasoning about action (including the relation between
planning and control)
* Qualitative reasoning and naive physics (e.g. temporal and spatial
reasoning, model-based reasoning, diagnosis)
* Reasoning under uncertainty (including fuzzy logic and fuzzy control)
* Robotic and artificial life systems (e.g. unmanned vehicles,
vision/manipulation systems)
* Social, economic and legal implications
* Vision (e.g. color, shape, stereo, motion, object recognition, active
vision, model-based vision, vision architectures and hardware, biological
modeling).
Timetable
Submissions must be received by 6th January 1995. Submissions received after
that date will be returned unopened. Authors should note that ordinary mail
can sometimes be considerably delayed, especially over the new year period,
and should take this into account when timing their submissions. Notification
of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon
after receipt.
Notification of acceptance or rejection: successful authors will be notified
on or before 20th March 1995. Unsuccessful authors will be notified by 27th
March 1995. Notification will be sent to the first author (or designated
author).
Camera ready copies of the final versions of accepted papers must be received
by the publisher in the USA by 24th April 1995.
Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend
the conference to present the work.
General
Authors should submit six (6) copies of their papers in hard copy form. All
paper submissions should be to the following address. Electronic or fax
submissions cannot be accepted.
IJCAI-95 Paper Submissions,
American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
445, Burgess Drive,
Menlo Park, CA. 94025, USA.
(telephone (415) 328-3123, email ijcai@aaai.org).
Appearance and Length
Papers should be printed on 8.5'' x 11'' or A4 sized paper. They must be a
maximum of 15 pages long, each page having no more than 43 lines, lines being
at most 140mm long and with 12 point type. Title, abstract, figures and
references must be included within this length limit. Papers breaking these
rules will not be considered for presentation at the conference.
Letter quality print is required. (Normally, dot-matrix printout will be
unacceptable unless truly of letter quality. Exceptions will be made for
submissions from countries where high quality printers are not widely
available.)
Title Page
Each copy of the paper must include a title page, separate from the body of
the paper. This should contain:
* Title of the paper
* Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email
addresses (where these exist) of all authors. The first postal address
should be one that is suitable for delivery of items by courier service
* An abstract of 100-200 words
* A set of keywords giving the area/subarea of the paper and describing the
topic of the paper. This information, together with the title of the paper,
will be the main information used in allocating reviewers.
* The following declaration:
``This paper has not already been accepted by and is not currently under
review for a journal or another conference. Nor will it be submitted
for such during IJCAI's review period.''
Policy on Multiple Submissions
IJCAI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under
review for a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to
submit their papers elsewhere during IJCAI's review period. These
restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and
similar specialized presentations with a limited audience.
Review Criteria
Papers will be subject to peer review, but this review will not be ``blind''
(that is, the reviewers will be aware of the names of the authors). Selection
criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance
of results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the Program
Committee, taking into consideration the individual reviews, will be final
and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation
and will be printed in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their
representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference.
Distinguished Paper Awards
The Program Committee will distinguish one or more papers of exceptional
quality for special awards. This decision will in no way depend on whether
the authors choose to enhance their paper with a video presentation.
Other Calls
Calls for tutorial and workshop proposals and video presentations for
IJCAI-95 will be issued shortly.
For questions or comments, (415) 328-3123, email ijcai@aaai.org
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