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Alife Digest, Number 074
Wednesday, March 25th 1992
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Today's Topics:
Calendar of Alife-related Events
Biocomputation Workshop in Monterey
Cognitive Science Summer School / SAB92
Conference on System Sciences
Neural Networks Workshop
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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 10:05:23 -0800
From: liane@cs.ucla.edu (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Calendar of Alife-related Events
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CALENDAR OF ALIFE-RELATED ACTIVITIES:
Canadian AI Conference, Vancouver, BC May 11-15, 1992
Artificial Life III, Santa Fe, NM June 15-19, 1992
Biocomputation Workshop, Monterey, CA June 22-24, 1992 v74
10th National Conference on AI, San Jose, CA Jul 12-17, 1992
14th Conf of the Cognitive Science Soc, Bloomington IN Jul 29-Aug 1, 1992
10th European Conference on AI Aug 3-7, 1992
13th International Congress on Cybernetics, Belgium Aug 24-28, 1992
Worshop on Neural Networks, Liverpool, England Sep 7-8, 1992 v74
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Brussels Sep 28-30, 1992
State of the Art in Ecological Modelling, Kiel Germany Sep 28-Oct 2, 1992
Neural Processing Information Systems (NIPS), Denver Nov 28-Dec 3, 1992 v73
2nd International Conf on
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Honolulu, Hawaii Dec 7-11, 1992 v 74
International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii Jan 5-8, 1993 v74
(Send announcements of other activities to alife@cognet.ucla.edu)
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From: Mike Anderson <anderson@atc.boeing.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 15:21:23 PST
Subject: Biocomputation Workshop in Monterey
CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS
BIOCOMPUTATION WORKSHOP
Evolution as a computational process
June 22-24, 1992
Monterey, CA
This workshop brings together biologists, physicists and computer
scientists with interests in the study of evolution. The premise
of the workshop is that natural evolution is computational process
of adaptation to an ever changing environment. Mathematical theory
and computer modeling are therefore ideally suited to study evolution
and conversely, evolution may be used as a model system to study the
computational processes of optimization and emergent pattern formation.
Fifteen invited speakers will provide general reviews and summaries of
their recent research. Although oral presentations will be limited to
invited speakers, original research contributions are solicited for
poster sessions in the following areas:
natural evolution
artificial life
genetic algorthms and optimization
List of speakers:
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Stuart Kauffman --- University of Pensylvania, Santa Fe Institute
Alan Templeton --- Washington University, St. Louis
Daniel Hillis --- Thinking Machines Inc.
Richard Hudson --- University of California, Irvine
Steven Frank --- University of California, Irvine
Joseph Felsenstein --- University of Washington
Alan Hastings --- University of California, Davis
Warren Ewens --- Melbourne University and University of Phil
Mark Feldman --- Stanford University
Lee Altenberg --- Duke University
Aviv Bergman --- SRI and Stanford University
Mark Bedau --- Reed College
Gary Beluzo --- Holyoke Community College
Instructions for Submissions and registration:
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Authors should submit a single page abstract clearly stating their
results by May 15 1992 to the Meeting Coordinator at the address
listed below. Please indicate which of the above categories best
applies to your paper.
There will be no parallel sessions, and the workshop will be structured to stimulate and facilitate the active involvement of all attendees.
Registration fees are $100 for full-time Ph.D. students and $250 for all
others. Fees include admission to a banquet, at the Monterey aquarium, to
be held on Monday night. (There is a $50 discount for students presenting
posters at the meeting.)
To obtain registration materials, abstract forms and housing information,
please contact the meeting coordinator.
Organizing Committee: Joachim Buhmann (LLNL), Michael Colvin (SNL),
Richard Durbin (MRC), Frank Eeckman (LLNL), Richard Judson (SNL),
Nora Smiriga (LLNL)
For information only please contact eeckman@mozart.llnl.gov.
Electronic submissions only at jb@s1.gov
Meeting Coordinator:
Chris Ghinazzi
P.O. Box 808, L-426
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94550
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 14:51:26 HST
From: Herbert Roitblat <roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Subject: Cognitive Science Summer School / SAB92
Call for Participation
Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science (CACS92):
An International Summer School
CACS92 is an international summer school to be held in Aix
en Provence, France, July 6-17, 1992 on comparative approaches to
cognitive science. This school will bring together leading
investigators in animal and human cognition, artificial
intelligence, and robotics to discuss, compare, and share the
concepts, problems, and techniques that characterize their fields
of investigation. It will also offer numerous opportunities for
collaboration. Its main goals are to discuss the role that
investigations of animals and machines can play in the
development of cognitive science generally, and to provide the
intellectual and methodological tools necessary to the
advancement of such developments.
A major focus in cognitive science has been on modeling the
performance of tasks that are characteristic of human
intelligence, such as planning, problem solving, scientific
creativity, and the like. Several investigators have recently
suggested the possibility of a complementary comparative approach
to cognitive science. Rather than modeling toy problems from the
larger domain of human expert behavior, this approach advocates
the modeling of whole, albeit simple, organisms in a real
environment, performing real biological tasks (surviving,
exploring, mating, feeding, escaping predators, etc.). The goal
of the approach is to develop coherent incremental models out of
functionally complete components. Achieving this goal requires
that we investigate animal performance and the mechanisms they
use as the basis for our growing models. It also requires
extensive collaborations among ethologists, psychologists,
computer scientists, engineers, and cognitive scientists because
no one of these fields, by itself, has the tools to thoroughly
understand the mechanisms of such complex processes. The purpose
of this summer school is to review the state of the art in this
interdisciplinary approach and to share the tools and
perspectives it requires.
The summer school will be held at the Ecole d'Art d'Aix en
Provence, France, from July 6-17, 1992. Aix is in a beautiful
part of France known as a favorite location for many of the
Impressionist painters.
The summer school will consist of morning lectures followed
by afternoon discussions. English will be the official language.
We have asked the instructors to prepare presentations that are
accessible as tutorials to the students and are broader than
normal, that describe not only the investigator's own interests,
but also review the state of the art, and describe the
theoretical and empirical tools that are employed. We have also
asked them to draw explicit conclusions concerning how the work
they describe impacts on cognitive science more generally.
Presentations will draw specific conclusions about the role that
cognition plays in solving behavioral problems and identify the
kinds of organisms and environments in which such mechanisms may
be useful.
During the summer school, the Ecole d'Art d'Aix will
simultaneously organize a series of artistic activities and
demonstrations including conferences, workshops, and shows, for
which artists of many nationalities have been invited to
contribute works along themes related to those of the planned
summer school (artificial life, behavioral organization,
networks, interconnectedness, robots, animal behavior, etc.).
Many opportunities for interaction among the scientific and
artistic participants will be available.
This promises to be an excellent and influential summer
school. In addition to the invited speakers, a limited number of
participants/students can be accommodated. Advanced graduate
students, young researchers, new PhDs, and post-docs are
particularly welcome. Participants are invited to submit
abstracts for poster presentations during the summer school.
The costs to participants have not yet been determined. We
expect that the registration fee for the summer school will be
approximately FF4,500, which would cover summer school
registration, room (in student housing at the University of Aix)
and board. We expect some scholarship support to be available to
help offset these costs. Prospective participants are urged to
indicate their interest as soon as possible because space is
limited.
Participants should submit the following: A letter
describing their interest in the subject matter of the conference
and a curriculum vitae. Include a full mailing address,
electronic mail address, and FAX number. If scholarship support
is desired then a letter of recommendation from the participant's
advisor or department chair is also required. Please indicate
the amount of scholarship support desired. Those desiring to
present posters should submit a one-page abstract. Centered at
the top of the page should be the complete title, author name(s)
with the presenting author underlined, affiliation(s), and
complete mailing address. This is followed by a blank space and
the text of the abstract.
One copy of all material should be sent to each of the
summer school organizers:
Herbert ROITBLAT Jean-Arcady MEYER
Department of Psychology Groupe de Bioinformatique
University of Hawaii at Manoa URA686.Ecole Normale
2430 Campus Road Superieure
Honolulu, HI 96822 46 rue d'Ulm
USA 75230 Paris Cedex 05
email: roitblat@uhunix.bitnet, France
roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii. e-mail: meyer@frulm63.bitnet
edu
Organizing Committee and local arrangements
CYPRES Groupe de BioInformatiqe
Ecole d'Art Ecole Normale Superieure
Rue Emile Tavan 46 rue d'Ulm
13100 Aix-en-Provence Paris Cedex 05
Tel (33) 42 27 57 35 Tel (33) 44 32 36 23
FAX (33) 42 27 63 99 FAX (33) 44 32 39 01
Tentative Program
Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science (CACS92)
* Indicates participation to be confirmed
Introduction
Jean-Pierre Changeux (France) From non-human to human cognition:
challenge and prospects
Herbert Roitblat (USA) Comparative approach as a tool in
cognitive science
Jean-Arcady Meyer (France) Computational approaches to cognition
Marc Bekoff (USA) Cognitive ethology, common sense, and the
explanation of animal behavior
Perception and action
Tom Bourbon (USA) Perceptual control theory: Modelling conflict,
cooperation and control
George Butterworth (UK) Factors in visual attention eliciting
manual pointing in human infancy
Steven Whitehead (USA) Towards a computational theory of
perception, action and learning
Concept formation
Roger Thompson (USA) Natural concepts and self-concept in
animals
Lorenzo Von Fersen (Germany) Abstract and natural concept
formation in animals
Keith Holyoak (USA) Natural and artificial induction
Internal world models
Julie Neiworth (USA) Internal models of space, time, and
movement in animals
Catherine Thinus-Blanc (France) Spatial information processing
in animals
Bartlett Mel (USA) Mechanisms and applications of associative
learning in biological sensory and motor systems
Motivation and emotion
Frederick Toates (UK) Animal motivation and cognition
Janet Halperin (Canada) Cognition and emotion in animals and
machines
Niko Frijda (Netherlands) Emotions in robots
Intentionality
Daniel Dennett (USA) Animals and human beings as intentional
systems: The fundamental difference
David McFarland(UK) Goals, no-goals and own-goals
Peter Kugler (USA) Informational fields and intentional action
Colin Allen (USA) Intentionality: natural and artificial
Language, Communication and Cooperative Behavior
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (USA) Cooperative communication by pygmy
chimpanzees
* Giulio Sandini (Italy) Cellular robotic systems
Learning
Randy Gallistel (USA) Time representation and conditioning in
animals
Jean Delacour (France) The memory system of the mammalian brain
Richard Sutton (USA) Learning and planning
Leslie Kaelbling (USA) Reinforcement learning in robots
Evolution
David Premack (USA) Evolution of cognition from primates to man
Michael Dyer (USA) Symbol Grounding and Evolution of Primitive
Communication
Rik Belew (USA) Interacting models of evolution, ontogeny and
learning
Conclusions
John Anderson (USA)
Margaret Boden (UK): Creativity in Humans and Machines
Rodney Brooks (USA)
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Conference Announcement and Call For Papers
FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS
Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB92)
Ilikai Hotel
Honolulu, Hawaii, December 7-11, 1992
This conference is the successor to SAB90 - which was held in Paris
in September, 1990. Its object 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 simulation models in order
to help characterize and compare various organizational principles
or architectures capable of inducing adaptive behavior in real or
artificial animals.
Contributions treating any of the following topics from the
perspective of adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis.
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 classifier systems
Ontogeny, learning and evolution Characterization of environments
Internal world models Applied adaptive behavior
and cognitive processes
Submission Instructions
Authors are requested to send two copies (hard copy only) of a full paper
to each of the Conference co-chairs (Meyer, Roitblat, & Wilson). Papers
should not exceed 10 pages (excluding the title page), with 1 inch margins
all around, and no smaller than 10 pt (12 pitch) type (Times Roman preferred).
Each paper must include a title page containing the following: (1) Full
names, postal addresses, phone numbers, email addresses (if available),
and fax numbers for each author, (2) A 100-200 word abstract, (3) The
topic area(s) in which the paper could be reviewed (see list above). Camera
ready versions of the papers will be required after acceptance.
Computer, video, and robotic demonstrations are also invited. Please contact
Herbert Roitblat to make arrangements for demonstrations. Other program
proposals will also be considered.
Conference committee
Conference Chair
Jean-Arcady MEYER
Groupe de Bioinformatique
URA686.Ecole Normale Superieure
46 rue d'Ulm
75230 Paris Cedex 05
France
e-mail: meyer@wotan.ens.fr
meyer@frulm63.bitnet
Herbert ROITBLAT
Department of Psychology
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2430 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
email: roitblat@uhunix.bitnet,
roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Stewart WILSON
The Rowland Institute for Science
100 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
e-mail: wilson@smith.rowland.org
Organizing Committee S. Gagnon, H. Harley, D. Helweg, M. Hoffhines,
and local arrangements G. Losey, P. Nachtigall, P. Moore, E. Reese
Program Committee
A. Berthoz, France M. Bitterman, USA
L. Booker, USA R. Brooks, USA
P. Colgan, Canada J. Delius, Germany
S. Goss, Belgium L. Steels, Belgium
R. Sutton, USA F. Toates, UK
S. Tsuji, Japan W. Uttal, USA
D. Waltz, USA
Official Language: English
Important Dates
JUL 15, 1992 Submissions must be received by the organizers
SEP 1, 1992 Deadline for early registration
OCT 1, 1992 Notification of acceptance or rejection
NOV 7, 1992 Deadline for regular registration
NOV 15, 1992 Camera ready revised versions due
DEC 7-11, 1992 Conference dates
Registration
All participants must register. Early registration fee will be $180,
regular registration will be $220 and late registration will be $250.
Students will be allowed to register for $50. Students should submit
proof of their status along with their registration fee. The fee for
accompanying persons is $75, which includes the reception and the cruise.
Meeting Site
The conference activities will be held at the Ilikai Hotel. The Ilikai
is situated at the gateway to Waikiki within walking distance of many
fine restaurants, Ala Moana Shopping Center, and Ala Moana Park. The
Hotel overlooks the Ala Wai Yacht Marina where Waikiki Beach begins.
Room rates for the conference are $110 or $125 per night (single or
double). Most rooms have been recently remodelled and provide ocean
or city views. The hotel is adjacent to the beach and also offers two
swimming pools, a fitness center, and tennis courts. Reservations
must be made directly with the hotel. Conference rates will be
available for the weekend before and the weekend following the
conference as well. Arrangements have been made for a small number of
student rooms in a nearby hotel at about $55 per night (single or
double). Students are, of course, welcome to stay in the conference
hotel. Reservations for student rooms will be made through the
official travel agent. A small number of travel scholarships may be
available to defray part or all of the expenses of attending the
conference. Interested students should submit a letter of application
describing their research interests, the year they expect to receive
their degree, and a brief letter of recommendation from their major
professor. Please state the amount of support required. The number and
size of awards will be limited by the total money available.
Persons with disabilities may contact Herbert Roitblat for information
on accessibility. Advance notice is advised, if you have special
needs and request an accomodation. The University of Hawaii is an
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution.
Travel Information
Theo Stahl, Associated Travel, 947 Keeaumoku Street, Honolulu, HI 96814
(808) 949-1033, (800) 745-3444, (808) 949-1037 (fax) is the official travel
agent for the conference. Participants are encouraged, but not required,
to make their travel arrangements through Ms Stahl. United Airlines is
offering a special conference rate for participants from US as well as
European, Japanese, and Australian gateway cities served by United.
Ms Stahl is very knowledgeable about the local travel market and can make
arrangements to visit neighbor islands (including Hawaii with its active
volcano) and for other activities.
Please make your travel arrangements early because Hawaii is a popular
destination in December and the conference is scheduled just before
the start of the busiest season.
Tentative Conference Schedule
Sunday, December 6, 1992
1800-2000 Cocktail Reception at the Ilikai
Monday, December 7, 1992
0800-1230 Paper presentations
Break
1630-1900 Paper and poster presentations
Tuesday, December 8, 1992
0800-1230 Paper presentations
Break
1630-1900 Paper and poster presentations
Wednesday, December 9, 1992
0800-1230 Paper presentations
Break
1630-1900 Paper and poster presentations
Thursday, December 10, 1992
0800-1230 Paper presentations
Break
1630-1900 Paper and poster presentations
2100-2400 Cruise on the Navatek I
Friday, December 11, 1992
0800-1330 Paper presentations
1900 Optional Luau (not included in registration).
SAB92 December 7-11, 1992
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu, HI
SAB92, December 7-11, 1992
____________________________________________________________
Last Name First Name Middle
____________________________________________________________
Professional Affiliation
____________________________________________________________
Street Address and Internal Mail Code
____________________________________________________________
City State/Country Zip/Postal Code
____________________________________________________________
E-mail Telephone Fax
Registration Fees (includes reception, cruise, continental
breakfasts)
___ Early (Before September 1, 1992) $180
___ Regular (Before November 7, 1992) $220
___ Late (After November 7, 1992) $250
___ Student (with proof of status) $50
___ Accompanying person (number of persons) $75
___ Luau (number of tickets) $45
___ Donation to support student scholarship fund $____
Enclosed is a check or money order (US $ only, payable to
University of Hawaii) for $_______
Return to: SAB92 Registration, Conference Center, University
of Hawaii, 2530 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96822.
SAB92 December 7-11, 1992
Hotel Registration
Ilikai Hotel
Name _____________________________________________________
Address _________________________________________________
City ____________________________________________________
State/Country, Zip ______________________________________
Telephone Number ________________________________________
Arrival Date ____________________________________________
Departure Date __________________________________________
No. of Persons __________________________________________
Preferred Room rate:
_____ 1 or 2 persons $110+tax
_____ 1 or 2 persons $125+tax
_____ 1 Bed _____ 2 Beds
_____ Handicapped Accessible
All reservations must be guaranteed by check or credit card
deposit for one night lodging.
Amount of enclosed check: $_____
Charge to: ___Visa ___ Mastercard ___American Express
___Diner's Club ___Discover
Credit card Number: _______________________
Expiration Date: ________
Signature ___________________________________
Request and deposit must be received by November 7, 1992.
Check-in time is 3:00. Check-out time is 12:00.
Mail hotel registration directly to the Ilikai Hotel,
1777 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96815. (800) 367-8434.
(808) 947-4523 (fax). In Britain: 0800 282502
In Tokyo: 03-3281-4321
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 09:00:55 EST
From: hunter@nlm.nih.gov (Larry Hunter)
Subject: Conference on System Sciences
Call for Papers
Biotechnology Computing Track
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 26
January 5-8, 1993
The twenty-sixth annual Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences (HICSS) has expanded its coverage of Biotechnology to a full,
three day conference track. The track includes presentations of
original research, tutorials, advanced seminars and a distinguished
guest lecture. The purpose of the Biotechnology Computing Track is to
provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, and
system building activities in all areas of computation related to
biology. Submitted papers are rigorously refereed, and accepted
papers are published in a conference proceedings available through the
IEEE Computer Society Press. The conference is sponsored by the
University of Hawaii in cooperation with the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM), the IEEE Computer Society, and the Pacific Research
Institute for Information Systems and Management (PRIISM).
Advances in biotechnology generally and in the international Human
Genome Project are creating an explosion of important biological data.
The computational challenges inherent in gathering, managing and
analyzing this data are daunting, but the potential payoff is very
high. This challenge involves nearly every aspect of computer
science, from algorithm development, systems integration and advanced
database management to image analysis, artificial intelligence and
robotics. The Biotechnology Computing Track encompasses eight
minitracks, each focused on a rapidly evolving research area.
Relevant papers are solicited for each of the following minitracks.
Papers must be previously unpublished, and should be from 22-26 double
spaced pages in length, including figures. Prospective authors are
urged to contact the appropriate minitrack chair as early as possible.
Please leave adequate time for international mail, as all deadlines
are firm. Review papers and proposals for tutorials and advanced
seminars can be sent to the track chair.
For general information, contact the track chair:
Lawrence Hunter (hunter@nlm.nih.gov)
National Library of Medicine
Building 38A, Mail Stop 54
Bethesda, MD 20894
(301) 496-9300
fax: (301) 496-0673
The other members of the Track steering committee are:
Tom Marr, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
John Wootton, National Center for Biotechnology Information
Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University
Deadlines:
Manuscripts must be RECEIVED by June 5, 1992
Notification of accepted papers sent August 31, 1992
Accepted camera ready copy must be RECEIVED by October 1, 1992
International mail can be slow. We recommend use of courier services
to international destinations.
Biotechnology Computing Minitracks and Chairs. Please contact the
relevant minitrack chair as soon as possible for further information
on the requirements and deadlines for that minitrack.
* Computer Support for Genome Mapping and Sequencing: including genome
map assembly algorithms, map database management and design,
sequence assembly and analysis algorithms, integrated software
systems, and robotics for mapping and sequencing.
Mary Berlyn (berlyn@biomed.med.yale.edu)
Yale Dept. of Biology
117D Greeley Lab, 370 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06520
(203) 432-5145
James Fickett (jwf@mrna.lanl.gov)
Charles Lawrence (chas@cmb.bcm.tmc.edu)
Stanley Letovsky (letovsky@cs.yale.edu)
* Methods for Dealing with Errors and Uncertainty in Molecular Biology
Calculations and Databases: including representing and/or reasoning
about mutations, natural variation, errors and omissions in
biological data, heuristics for handling uncertainty, plausible
simplifying assumptions and statistical methods.
Lloyd Allison (lloyd@cs.monash.edu.au)
Dept. of Computer Science, Monash University,
Clayton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3168.
tel: 61 3 565 5205 fax: 61 3 565 5146
* Alternative Approaches to Sequence Representation: including graphic
representations of nucleotide and protein sequence, representations
of patterns, automatic generation of patterns for sets of related
sequences, representation and analysis of structural and/or
functional regularities of sequences, application of novel
representations to recognition or analysis problems.
Victor Solovyev (solovyev@scri1.scri.fsu.edu)
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
400 Science Center Library, Florida State University, B-186
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052
phone (904)644-7012, fax: (904)644-0098
* Sequence Analysis Algorithms based on Physicochemistry and
Thermodynamics: including DNA and RNA physicochemical models,
experimental work and models of ribosome dynamics, algorithms based
on codon usage, models physicochemical properties on tRNA-mRNA or
rRNA-mRNA interactions, models and computational analysis of intron
dynamics.
Germinal Cocho (cocho@sysul2.ifisicacu.unam.mx)
Instituto de Fisica
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Apartado Postal 20-364, Mexico 01000, D.F. Mexico
Telephone: 525-548 9783 FAX: 525-548 3111
* Computer-Aided Drug Design: including integrated systems, machine
learning techniques, design and use of databases for molecular
design, molecular graphics techniques, molecular modeling and
quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) tools.
Teri Klein (klein@cgl.ucsf.edu)
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
513 Parnassus Ave., Box 0446
San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 476-0663, fax: (415) 502-1755
Kimberle Koile (kkoile@arris.com)
* Protein Structure Prediction: including statistical and machine
learning approaches, multi-strategy systems, topology prediction,
lattice models, loop placement, side-chain conformation prediction,
methods for distinguishing native from incorrect alternative
foldings, mutational analysis.
Richard Lathrop (rickl@ai.mit.edu)
MIT AI Lab, NE43-795
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
phone: (617)253-8833 fax: (617)258-8682
* AI Technologies for Molecular Biology Analysis: including object
oriented and deductive databases for biology, knowledge-based
modeling of biological phenomena, pattern recognition, neural
networks, genetic algorithms and machine learning applied to
macromolecular sequences, laboratory robotics.
Katsumi Nitta (nitta@icot.or.jp)
Institute for New Generation Computer Technology
1-4-28 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, JAPAN
fax: +81-3-3456-1618
* Simulation Methods in Computational Neuroscience: including
numerical algorithms and techniques for integrated data acquisition,
analysis and simulation, user interface issues, parallel processing,
simulation languages, methods of constructing and validating models
of biological neural circuits.
Anthony Zador (zador@yale.edu)
Neuroscience Program
Yale University
Box 11A Yale Station
New Haven, CT 06511
fax (203) 432-7172
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From: M.J.Taylor@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Neural Networks Workshop
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 19:21:28 GMT
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
F O R P R E S E N T A T I O N A T
WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETWORKS:
TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS
7-8 September 1992
University of Liverpool
England, UK
Organised by
Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Electronics
University of Liverpool
In cooperation with
British Computer Society
IEEE, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Computer Chapter
European Association for Microprocessing and Microprogramming (EUROMICRO)
The last six years have witnessed an explosion of applications involving a
wide range of techniques under the general heading of artificial neural
networks. It has been recognised that these tools have general
applicability, but they must also be carefully integrated with the
application area. This workshop aims to bring together a broad spectrum of
neural computing applications, with emphasis on matching computational
methods to different problem domains.
Of particular interest are solutions to problems in the following areas:
- finance - medicine
- manufacturing - communication
- process industries - development environments
- information retrieval - expert systems
Additional applications areas will also be considered.
The Workshop Proceedings will be published after the meeting.
Programme Committee:
PJG Lisboa, University of Liverpool;
RJ Maxwell, St George's Hospital Medical School, London;
MJ Taylor, University of Liverpool;
JB Waite, British Telecom Laboratories;
P Wilkie, Royal Insurance (UK)
Submission of Papers:
Those wishing to contribute to the Workshop are invited to submit
three copies of a 500 word summary of their paper by the 22 May 1992.
Notification of acceptance: 5 June 1992
Deadline for camera-ready papers: 7 August 1992
Abstracts submitted to:
Dr PJG Lisboa, Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics,
University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK.
Further details of programme available after 5 June 1992 from:
Miss K Houghton, Department of Computer Science,
University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK.
Email: K.Houghton@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk
Other enquiries by Email to M.J.Taylor@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk
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