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Alife Digest, Number 079
Monday, July 6th 1992
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Today's Topics:
Calendar of Alife-related Events
Thanks to one and all!
Santa Fe diary, by Shirley Kitts
Call for Papers - ICNN'93
ALIFE syllabus group
SBIA'92 Final Call
Digital Mobile Radio Mailing List
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 92 20:45:45 -0700
From: liane@cs.ucla.edu (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Calendar of Alife-related Events
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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
Autopoiesis and Perception, Dublin, Ireland Aug 25-26, 1992 v76
9th Brazilian Symposium on AI, Rio de Janeiro Oct 5-8, 1992 v79
Worshop on Neural Networks, Liverpool, England Sep 7-8, 1992 v74
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Brussels Sep 28-30, 1992 v77
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 v74
International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii Jan 5-8, 1993 v74
Int Conf on Neural Networks, San Francisco CA Mar 28-Apr 1, 1993 v79
Int Conf on Fuzzy Systems, San Francisco CA Mar 28-Apr 1, 1993 v79
AI and Simulation of Behaviour Conf, Birmingham UK Mar 29-Apr 2, 1993 v75
Intnl Workshop on Artifiical Neural Networks,
Barcelona Spain June 9-11, 1993 v76
(Send announcements of other activities to alife@cognet.ucla.edu)
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 08:19:04 MDT
From: cgl@t13.lanl.gov (Chris Langton)
Subject: Thanks to one and all!
Hey everybody!
Thanks for making AlifeIII such a great conference!
I really enjoyed it and I hope all of you did too (exhausting
as it was...)
I was quite impressed with the overall quality of the work presented
and the new directions that researchers are pursuing.
Keep up the good work! ....and we'll see you at Alife IV!
Cheers!
Chris Langton
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From: Inman Harvey <inmanh@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 09:58:23 +0100
Subject: Santa Fe diary, by Shirley Kitts
In response to requests - well a request, this is the diary I kept at
Alife 3, and started to pin up daily on the noticeboard, mainly to
give smokers like myself something to look at when they'd nipped out
for a drag and there wasn't much else to look at until people started
putting papers out. I'm not sure it's still of interest to anyone, if
it ever was, being rather ephemeral by its nature, but here it is
anyway, including the entries for Thursday and Friday which never made
it as far as the noticeboard. -- Shirley Kitts.
SANTA FE DIARY
MONDAY
Is this a sensible place to hold a conference, I wonder, sitting on
the terrace of my wonderful adobe condo, cold beer in hand, looking
at the mountains, and only ten minutes walk from the Plaza and all
those tasteful shops. I paid close attention to the first talk this
morning, thinking it important and interesting. I tried to do likewise
to the second, feeling it also was important and interesting, but I
kept hearing these voices calling to me - shopping - sunshine - cold
beer - astral healing. There are 200 acupuncturists in Santa Fe,
perhaps one of them can do something about chronic lack of ability to
concentrate on important and interesting matters. Spoke to someone
from Australia who was blaming jet lag, but when he started talking
about hiring a bicycle so as not to be tied to the hotel shuttle and
thus to conference timings, I wondered. Someone else at last night's
reception was so thrilled with his equally wonderful condo, he had
stocked up his freezer and was planning to spend the week indoors,
emerging only to study the exotic wildlife in his front yard.
Apparently, there are blackbirds just like English ones, only
elongated. Well, he was very excited about them anyway. Me, I like
cruising up and down the strip with my elbow out of the window,
singing along to country spelt K.O.L.T. on 106. You only have to hear
two lines of a song and you know how the rest will go, tune _and_
words.
I've seen an abstract on the "evolution of colonies of musical strata"
of which I have high hopes. I'm a bit worried it might turn out to be
a spoof of the kind that used to be popular with Eng Lit PhD's, of the
"Queen Victoria wrote Alice in Wonderland" genre. Anyway, I'd like to
know where "I won't play second fiddle to the beat of your honky tonk
heart" fits in, a dominant emergent entity if ever I heard one, it's
been stuck in my head for two days now, is that fit or what?
If I have another beer, will I be fit enough to go and take all those
tasteful horticultural photographs as I had planned this afternoon for
my "Santa Fe in Bloom" collection. I don't suppose it matters much,
the frame counter on my camera has started to go backwards, something
must be wrong, or maybe it's all Santa Fe's centred energy giving me
48 exposures for the price of 24. Who knows - who cares - I'll have
another beer.
TUESDAY
I was idly leaning over the gallery last night, watching people
fighting over the last few chocolate-dipped strawberries, when I
noticed that some sort of mishap had occurred on the MIT Press table.
People were mopping up with paper towels and carefully taking all the
books off and wiping them. There was a beer can sitting quietly in
the midst of the melee, all passion apparently spent. A few moments
later, someone turned round from the posters and declared accusingly
"Hey, someone's pinched my beer, I left it here on the parapet." It
gave me hardly any pleasure at all to have to point out to him just
what had probably happened to his beer. He was justifiably mortified,
and I promised faithfully not to tell anyone who it was. Having agreed
a fee, I made my excuses and left. All higher bids considered, details
on application.
Another hard day at the Sweeney Centre. I didn't quite catch the first
talk, but that was allright because neither did the speaker. I did
catch most of the talk before lunch, which seemed to be about giving
computers to Balinese farmers so they could see how much better their
method of water distribution was than anything devised by 'experts'.
Now, I think that owning an Apple Mac is a basic human right and
should be written into anybody's Constitution, but I hope they've been
given something else to do with them, some games or a spreadsheet or
something. How long can people spend proving over and over to
themselves that they were right all along? Actually, probably quite a
long time, thinking about it.
I was quite looking forward to this afternoon's talks, but made the
mistake of a $5 for all you can eat lunch which necessitated a change
of schedule. So I'm back in the sun with the beer and the radio
playing "If I could walk a mile in your shoes I'd walk right back to
me". Pass the peanuts, someone.
_Addendum_
I'm sorry I missed this afternoon's session. I hear that some
guy who had miscalculated the time it would take to grow an artificial
embryo (by a factor of just short of infinity) had similar difficulty
over the time his talk would take and had to fast forward his video.
Some people just won't learn.
WEDNESDAY
Highlight of yesterday's talks, and of the conference so far for some
of us, was the last philosophy lecture of the evening, in which the
speaker did a deconstruction of metaphors used by A Life folk. It was
energetic, erudite and just short of gratuitously offensive, which is
what I like to hear at conferences, but rarely have on this occasion.
Perhaps it's the overspill from Santa Fe's hundreds of spiritual
healers that's neutralising the quantities of bile that usually swills
around at these events. But everyone here is so damn polite and
friendly - shopkeepers, waiters, even car drivers. And everything's so
desperately tasteful - apparently there are laws about it. Perhaps in
time even I would become a really tasteful person too, but I don't
think a week is long enough. I keep having to nip into Woolworths for
a quick fix of tat, quite apart from it being the only place that
sells anything anyone could possibly _need_. Even there, they are
holding an impossibly discreet sale of Kodak film. If there were any
signs at all, I didn't see them, certainly no big placards with "GET
YOURS HERE!!" on them. You just choose your film, take it to the
counter, the cashier murmurs "that's on sale" and looks up the price
in a catalogue. With everyone being so civil and pleasant, you just
can't help being nice back. Even my dinner companion of last night,
the most surly and monosyllabic of customers as a rule, very restful I
always find it, was being charming and chatty with the waitress.
Well, there's still tomorrow - I'll keep hoping for a little
vituperation. People must get tired of being nice eventually, mustn't
they?
THURSDAY
Well, after yesterday's complaints about people being too nice, I did
have a little gratification when one speaker was extremely, and
repeatedly rude about computer scientists. The bad news is that the
organised assault and lynching one could reasonably have expected to
follow never happened. I asked the speaker if he'd had any complaints,
and he said no, but it's no more than he expected, computer scientists
were not only stupid, but wimps as well.
I don't think that's true, I still think it's something about this
town. Even I can feel myself becoming more spiritual by the minute,
and am well on the way to becoming a real person - someone told me of
a conversation he'd had with a woman who told him she wasn't real and,
in fact, didn't know any real people. Apparently, real people are
either poor or have some religious or spiritual beliefs. She, on the
other hand, just liked going out and having a good time. Well, I was
once like her, but since spending a week here I feel I have changed. I
am now one with nature, my aura's in great shape and I'm completely
centred. I overheard some people talking in a cafe - they were
involved in organising some dance event for a new gallery opening. It
was going to be a very meaningful occasion, one part of it was going
to signify silence, and at some other part there would be some high
pitched shrieking. They were looking for another dancer, but had used
up all the budget for body paint, so the new one would have to be
something different. I can't bear the thought of not being there to
see it.
FRIDAY
Last night's philosophy session - well, what can one say. I thought
Patti Maes was brilliant. There's not much more I can say in public,
except that I was a little surprised at the choice of guest speakers
and of topic. I was a philosophy undergraduate once, and the
discussion brought back long-buried memories. So people still discuss
Searle's Chinese room - well well. It could have been nostalgic and
comforting. I found it frightening.
Never mind, I did some last minute shopping this afternoon - some
bargain ammonites, 400 million years old and only $6.95.
Unfortunately, they have labels on them saying "produced in Morocco"
but I can soon take them off and write "present from Santa Fe". (I'm
not quite sure about the 400 m., I've no memory for numbers, and
trusted my companion who was once a mathematician to remember, but
having seen the trouble he has dividing a bar bill, I think it was a
mistake. I couldn't possibly have drunk twice as much as him.)
Okay, conference over, out to dinner with a few of the boys. They got
a bit excited over the muscular conformation of our waitress. The
discussion became quite specific, and I was advised not to listen. I
can't think why, I've got an adolescent son, I _understand_ men. And I
think they're sweet. Anyway, I've left them in the bar together to
have a proper boys' end of term beano.
Well, this conference has been quite an experience. Santa Fe is
wonderful, I could live here. I don't know how I'm going to live
without an icemaker, I'd never heard of such a thing in England. And
how will I ever drive anywhere again without country on the radio. I'm
still not quite sure I'd have it in the house, but it makes being in a
car feel like being on the road, a very different matter. But I still
have doubts about it being a good place for a conference. Perhaps
these things should be held in mean places, where people will feel
less warm and happy, therefore less inclined to be so respectful of
other views. I'd quite like to see the different disciplines engage a
bit more. Still, what do I know, I'm just an observer anyway, and I've
had a wonderful week. Thanks for listening, those who did - have a
nice day.
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 16:13:50 -0700
From: stefang@leland.stanford.edu (Stefan Helmreich)
Von Neumann's Cellular Automata and Leibniz's Monads
In 1948, at the suggestion of his colleague Stanislaw Ulam,
John von Neumann created the mathematical formalism known as the
cellular automata. Christopher Langton's description of the CA model
in Artificial Life is concise:
"A CA model consists of a regular lattice of finite automata, which
are the simplest formal models of machines. A finite automaton can be
in only one of a finite number of states at a time, and its
transitions between states are governed by a state transition table:
given a certain input and a certain internal state, the state
transition table specifies the state to be adopted by the finite
automaton at the next time step. In a CA, the necessary input is
derived from the states of the automata at the neighboring lattice
points. Thus the state of an automaton at time t+1 is a function of
the states of the automaton itself and its immediate neighbors at time
t. All of the automata in the lattice obey the same transition table
and every automaton changes state at the same instant, time step after
time step." (Langton 1989:13)
Von Neumann used the CA model as a logical structure in which
to embed his kinematic model of a self-reproducing automaton. The CA
model had the virtue of allowing von Neumann to encode and manipulate
logical relationships in two-dimensional space (though one could
imagine an n dimensional CA). Scuttling his self-reproducing
automaton out of three dimensional space and planting it in a gridlike
flatland composed of finite automata gave it a manageable logical
structure while preserving for it a spatial extent within which to
exist and propagate itself.
I'd like to suggest that the finite automata in von Neumann's
CA model have an interesting historical precedent in Gottfried
Leibniz's (1646-1716) notion of Rmonads. I don't yet know whether an
intellectual lineage can be traced directly from Leibniz to von
Neumann, but I suspect that the convergences between their two
formulations are not fortuitous. Von Neumann worked in a field --
mathematics -- in which the ideas of Leibniz were foundational. He
also matured in a cultural milieu in which the Christian metaphysics
of Liebniz had been incorporated into common sense thinking about the
very fabric of the universe.
In his Monadology, Leibniz gives us an anatomy of his
theory. Leibniz believed that the universe was composed of universal
centers of force and consciousness, the monads. These were
autonomous, indestructible, indivisible, and eternal centers of force
that did not interact, but were organized such that they corresponded
in a harmony pre-established by God. Norbert Wiener notes that:
"While these are conceived after the pattern of the soul, they include
many instances which do not rise to the degree of self-consciousness
of full souls, and which form part of that world which Descartes would
have attributed to matter. Each of them lives in its own closed
universe, with a perfect causal chain from the creation ... to the
future.... Leibniz compares them to clocks which have been wound up as
to keep time together from the creation for all eternity." (1961:41)
The monad can be seen as a kind of finite state machine,
changing its state according to rules given at the creation. The
notable dissimilarity between monads and finite state machines is that
while finite state machines change according to input about the state
of their neighbors, monads Rhave no windows (Leibniz [1965]:148), and
so cannot change in response to changes in their neighboring monads.
This dissimilarity is only apparent, however. Monads do in fact
change with respect to their neighbors, through the agency of an
all-seeing God who has adjusted them so that they will all change
together. And cellular automata, although apparently changing because
of the state transitions of their neighbors, really only change
because of the agency of a programmer who has set the transition
rules; thus they correspond in a kind of Leibnizian Rpre-established
harmony.S Recognition of this fact reduces cellular automata to a sort
of triviality, as Kampis and Csanyi (1987) have pointed out (though
they don't connect their argument to Leibniz).
Von Neumann's self-reproducing automaton (1966) exists in and
is made of a substrate of cellular automata (finite state machines),
just as for Leibniz, animals and humans (natural automata or divine
machines) are made of the same monads which comprise the inanimate
world around them ([1965]:158). Although Leibniz disallowed the
possibility of fabricating artificial automata which equalled divinely
created life, his mechanistic language -- as well as his contention
that our universe is a God-made machine (162) -- easily suggested to
the atheistic lineage of natural philosophy that such automata might
be constructed (one has only to look at La Mettrie's L'Homme Machine
(1748)). By the time of von Neumann, the mechanistic view of the
universe and of the organism as part of that universe was fully
accepted. In spite of this, however, the divine remained ensconced in
the machine, harbored in the unexamined assumptions undergirding such
entities as John von Neumann's cellular automata.
References
Kampis, G. and V. Csnyi. 1987 RReplication in Abstract and Natural Systems.S
BioSystems 20:143-152.
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de 1748 LUHomme Machine. Translated as RMan
A Machine,S by M.W. Calkins. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1988.
Langton, Christopher G., ed. 1989 Artificial Life. Redwood City, CA:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc.
Leibniz, Gottfried [1965] The Monadology and Other Philosophical
Essays. Translated by Paul Schrecker and Anne Martin Schrecker. New
York: Macmillan.
von Neumann, John 1966 Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. Arthur Burks, ed.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Wiener, Norbert. 1961 Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the
Animal and the Machine. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985 (first edition,
1948).
Stefan Helmreich
Department of Anthropology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
stefang@leland.stanford.edu
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Date: Fri 26 Jun 92 12:34:05-PDT
From: Enrique Ruspini <RUSPINI@ai.sri.com>
Subject: Call for Papers - ICNN'93
1993 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS
San Francisco, California, March 28 - April 1, 1993
The IEEE Neural Networks Council is pleased to announce its 1993
International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'93) to be held in
San Francisco, California from March 28 to April 1, 1993. ICNN'93
will be held concurrently with the Second IEEE International
Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE'93). Participants will be able
to attend the technical events of both meetings.
ICNN '93 will be devoted to the discussion of basic advances and
applications of neurobiological systems, neural networks, and neural
computers. Topics of interest include:
* Neurodynamics
* Associative Memories
* Intelligent Neural Networks
* Invertebrate Neural Networks
* Neural Fuzzy Systems
* Evolutionary Programming
* Optical Neurocomputers
* Supervised Learning
* Unsupervised Learning
* Sensation and Perception
* Genetic Algorithms
* Virtual Reality & Neural Networks
* Applications to:
- Image Processing and Understanding
- Optimization
- Control
- Robotics and Automation
- Signal Processing
ORGANIZATION:
General Chair: Enrique H. Ruspini
Program Chairs: Hamid R. Berenji, Elie Sanchez, Shiro Usui
ADVISORY BOARD:
S. Amari J. A. Anderson J. C. Bezdek Y. Burnod
L. Cooper R. C. Eberhart R. Eckmiller J. Feldman
M. Feldman K. Fukushima R. Hecht-Nielsen J. Holland
C. Jorgensen T. Kohonen C. Lau C. Mead
N. Packard D. Rummelhart B. Skyrms L. Stark
A. Stubberud H. Takagi P. Treleaven B. Widrow
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
K. Aihara I. Aleksander L.B. Almeida G. Andeen
C. Anderson J. A. Anderson A. Andreou P. Antsaklis
J. Barhen B. Bavarian H. R. Berenji A. Bergman
J. C. Bezdek H. Bourlard D. E. Brown J. Cabestany
D. Casasent S. Colombano R. de Figueiredo M. Dufosse
R. C. Eberhart R. M. Farber J. Farrell J. Feldman
W. Fisher W. Fontana A.A. Frolov T. Fukuda
C. Glover K. Goser D. Hammerstrom M. H. Hassoun
J. Herault J. Hertz D. Hislop A. Iwata
M. Jordan C. Jorgensen L. P. Kaelbling P. Khedkar
S. Kitamura B. Kosko J. Koza C. Lau
C. Lucas R. J. Marks J. Mendel W.T. Miller
M. Mitchell S. Miyake A.F. Murray J.-P. Nadal
T. Nagano K. S. Narendra R. Newcomb E. Oja
N. Packard A. Pellionisz P. Peretto L. Personnaz
A. Prieto D. Psaltis H. Rauch T. Ray
M. B. Reid E. Sanchez J. Shavlik B. Sheu
S. Shinomoto J. Shynk P. K. Simpson N. Sonehara
D. F. Specht A. Stubberud N. Sugie H. Takagi
S. Usui D. White H. White R. Williams
E. Yodogawa S. Yoshizawa S. W. Zucker
ORGANIZING COMMITEE:
PUBLICITY: H.R. Berenji
EXHIBITS: W. Xu
TUTORIALS: J.C. Bezdek
VIDEO PROCEEDINGS: A. Bergman
FINANCE: R. Tong
VOLUNTEERS: A. WORTH
SPONSORING SOCIETIES:
ICNN'93 is sponsored by the Neural Networks Council.
Constituent Societies:
* IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
* IEEE Communications Society
* IEEE Computer Society
* IEEE Control Systems Society
* IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
* IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
* IEEE Industry Applications Society
* IEEE Information Theory Society
* IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
* IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
* IEEE Power Engineering Society
* IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
* IEEE Signal Processing Society
* IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
CALL FOR PAPERS
The program committee cordially invites interested authors to submit
papers dealing with any aspects of research and applications related
to the use of neural models. Papers must be written in English and
must be received by SEPTEMBER 21, 1992. Six copies of the paper must
be submitted and the paper should not exceed 8 pages including
figures, tables, and references. Papers should be prepared on 8.5" x
11" white paper with 1" margins on all sides, using a typewriter or
letter quality printer in one column format, in Times or similar
style, 10 points or larger, and printed on one side of the paper only.
Please include title, authors name(s) and affiliation(s) on top of
first page followed by an abstract. FAX submissions are not
acceptable. Please send submissions prior to the deadline to:
Dr. Hamid Berenji, AI Research Branch, MS 269-2, NASA Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field, California 94035
CALL FOR VIDEOS:
The IEEE Neural Networks Council is pleased to announce its first
Video Proceedings program, intended to present new and significant
experimental work in the fields of artificial neural networks and
fuzzy systems, so as to enhance and complement results presented in
the Conference Proceedings. Interested researchers should submit a 2
to 3 minute video segment (preferred formats: 3/4" Betacam, or Super
VHS) and a one page information sheet (including title, author,
affiliation, address, a 200-word abstract, 2 to 3 references, and a
short acknowledgment, if needed), prior to September 21, 1992, to
Meeting Management, 5665 Oberlin Drive, Suite 110, San Diego, CA
92121. We encourage those interested in participating in this program
to write to this address for important suggestions to help in the
preparation of their submission.
TUTORIALS:
The Computational Brain: Biological Neural Networks
Terrence J. Sejnowski
The Salk Institute
Evolutionary Programming
David Fogel
Orincon Corporation
Expert Systems and Neural Networks
George Lendaris
Portland State University
Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks
Darrell Whitley
Colorado State University
Introduction to Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
Steven Rogers
Air Force Institute of Technology
Suggestions from Cognitive Science for Neural Network Applications
James A. Anderson
Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Brown University
EXHIBITS:
ICNN '93 will be held concurrently with the Second IEEE International
Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE '93). ICNN '93 and FUZZ-IEEE
'93 are the largest conferences and trade shows in their fields.
Participants to either conference will be able to attend the combined
exhibit program. We anticipate an extraordinary trade show offering
a unique opportunity to become acquainted with the latest developments
in products based on neural-networks and fuzzy-systems techniques.
Interested exhibitors are requested to contact the Chairman, Exhibits,
ICNN '93 and FUZZ-IEEE '93, Wei Xu at Telephone (408) 428-1888, FAX
(408) 428-1884.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT
Meeting Management
5665 Oberlin Drive
Suite 110
San Diego, CA 92121
Tel. (619) 453-6222
FAX (619) 535-3880
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CALL FOR PAPERS
SECOND IEEE INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON FUZZY SYSTEMS
FUZZ-IEEE'93
San Francisco, California
March 28 - April 1, 1993
In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to fuzzy-logic
approaches and to their application to the solution of real-world
problems.
The Second IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE
'93) will be dedicated to the discussion of advances in:
* Basic Principles and Foundations of Fuzzy Logic
* Relations between Fuzzy Logic and other Approximate
Reasoning Methods
* Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Modeling
* Hardware Implementations of Fuzzy-Logic Algorithms
* Learning and Acquisition of Approximate Models
* Relations between Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks
* Applications to
* System Control
* Intelligent Information Systems
* Case-Based Reasoning
* Decision Analysis
* Signal Processing
* Image Understanding
* Pattern Recognition
* Robotics and Automation
* Intelligent Vehicle and Highway Systems
This conference will be held concurrently with the 1993 IEEE
International Conference on Neural Networks. Participants will be
able to attend the technical events of both meetings.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
This conference is sponsored by the IEEE Neural Networks Council, in
cooperation with:
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
International Fuzzy Systems Association
North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems
ELITE - European Laboratory for Intelligent Techniques Engineering
The conference includes tutorials, exhibits, plenary sessions, and
social events.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
GENERAL CHAIR: Enrique H.Ruspini
Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International
CHAIR: Piero P. Bonissone
General Electric CR&D
PROGRAM ADVISORY BOARD:
J. Bezdek E. Sanchez E. Trillas
D. Dubois Ph. Smets T. Yamakawa
G. Klir M. Sugeno L.A. Zadeh
H. Prade T. Terano H.J. Zimmerman
FINANCE:
R. Tong (Chair)
R. Nutter
PUBLICITY:
H. Berenji (Chair)
B. D'Ambrosio
R. Lopez de Mantaras
T. Takagi
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
S. Ovchinnikov
TUTORIALS:
J. Bezdek (Chair)
H. Berenji
H. Watanabe
EXHIBITS:
A. Ralescu
M. Togai
L. Valverde
W. Xu
T. Yamakawa
H.J. Zimmerman
TUTORIAL INFORMATION
The following tutorials have been scheduled:
Introduction to Fuzzy-Set Theory, Uncertainty, and Fuzzy Logic
Prof. George J. Klir, SUNY
Fuzzy Logic in Databases and Information Retrieval
Prof. Maria Zemankova, NSF
Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition
Prof. James C. Bezdek, Univ. of West Florida
Hardware Approaches to Fuzzy-Logic Applications
Prof. Hiroyuki Watanabe, Univ. North Carolina
Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks for Control Systems
Dr. Hamid R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center
Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks for Computer Vision
Prof. James Keller, Univ. of Missouri
EXHIBITS:
ICNN '93 will be held concurrently with the Second IEEE International
Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE '93). ICNN '93 and FUZZ-IEEE
'93 are the largest conferences and trade shows in their fields.
Participants to either conference will be able to attend the combined
exhibit program. We anticipate an extraordinary trade show offering
a unique opportunity to become acquainted with the latest developments
in products based on neural-networks and fuzzy-systems techniques.
Interested exhibitors are requested to contact the Chairman, Exhibits,
ICNN '93 and FUZZ-IEEE '93, Wei Xu at Telephone (408) 428-1888, FAX
(408) 428-1884.
CALL FOR PAPERS
In addition to the papers related to any of the above areas, the
program committee cordially invites interested authors to submit
papers dealing with any aspects of research and applications related
to the use of fuzzy models. Papers will be carefully reviewed and only
accepted papers will appear in the FUZZ-IEEE '93 Proceedings.
DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: September 21, 1992
Papers must be received by September 21, 1992. Six copies of the paper
must be submitted. The paper must be written in English and its
length should not exceed 8 pages including figures, tables, and
references. Papers must be submitted on 8-1/2" x 11" white paper with
1" margins on all four sides. They should be prepared by typewriter
or letter-quality printer in one column format, single-spaced, in
Times or similar type style, 10 points or larger, and printed on one
side of the paper only. Please include title, author(s) name(s) and
affiliation(s) on top of first page followed by an abstract. FAX
submissions are not acceptable. Please send submissions prior to the
deadline to:
Dr. Piero P. Bonissone
General Electric Corporate Research and Development
Building K-1, Room 5C32A
1 River Road
Schenectady, New York 12301
CALL FOR VIDEOS
The IEEE Neural Networks Council is pleased to announce its first
Video Proceedings program, intended to present new and significant
experimental work in the fields of artificial neural networks and
fuzzy systems, so as to enhance and complement results presented in
the Conference Proceedings. Interested researchers should submit a 2
to 3 minute video segment (preferred formats: 3/4" Betacam, or Super
VHS) and a one page information sheet (including title, author,
affiliation, address, a 200-word abstract, 2 to 3 references, and a
short acknowledgment, if needed), prior to September 21, 1992, to
Meeting Management, 5665 Oberlin Drive, Suite 110, San Diego, CA
92121. We encourage those interested in participating in this program
to write to this address for important suggestions to help in the
preparation of their submission.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING FUZZ-IEEE'93 PLEASE
CONTACT:
Meeting Management
5665 Oberlin Drive Suite 110
San Diego CA 92121
Tel. (619) 453-6222
FAX (619) 535-3880
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 92 8:40:04 PDT
From: John Koza <koza@sunburn.stanford.edu>
Subject: ALIFE syllabus group
ALIFE SYLLABUS GROUP
A small group of people who teach, or are contemplating teaching, artificial
life courses has formed a group to exchange ideas on course content. You can
add your name to this mailing list by sending a request to
alsyll-request@lotka.stanford.edu
John Koza
Stanford University
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 92 12:39:26 EST
From: Edson Costa de Barros Carvalho Filho <ecdbcf%di.ufpe.br@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: SBIA'92 Final Call
NINTH BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - SBIA'92
Rio de Janeiro, 5th - 8th October 1992
DEADLINE 31st July 1992
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Final Call for Papers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The ninth Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SBIA'92, will
be held in Rio de Janeiro on October 1992, in conjunction with the
congress of the Brazilian Society for Computing Science(SBC).
This symposium is a promotion of the SBC and its goal is to communicate
the national and international scientific production on artificial
intelligence, and to provide an environment to exchange ideias and
experiences among professional, researchers, and students.
The works will be analysed carefully by the program committee, according
with the criterion of originality, scientific contribution and clearness,
in such way that it can be accept for the technical session or for poster
sessions. All accepted technical papers will be published in the proceeding
of the symposium.
Proposals for software and products demonstration will be analysed in the
light of its potential interest and contribution for the participant of
the SBIA.
EVENTS:
~~~~~~
* Technical Sessions
* Poster Sessions
* Invited Talks
* New Product Demonstrations
CATEGORIES FOR SUBMISSIONS BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Knowledge Acquisition and Representation
Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence
Expert Systems and Applications
Perception and Machine Vision
Natural Language Processing
Logic and Formal Systems
Intelligent Interfaces
Neural Networks
Reasoning
Robotic
IMPORTANT SYMPOSIUM DATES:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
31st July 1991 Deadline for Submissions
31st July 1991 Deadline for Submissions of Products
31st August 1991 Notification of Acceptance
5th-8th October 1992 Conference
SUBMISSION:
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Original research contributions are requested and must be received
by JULY 31, 1992. Submissions must include:
* Original paper
* Four copies
* Covering letter indicating submission title, submission
category and correspondence addresses for authors.
The paper must be written in Portuguese, English ou Spanish and its length
should not exceed 14 pages including figures, tables, and references.
Papers must be submitted on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4 white paper with 3.5
margins on the top, 2cm margins on the bottom, and 2.5 cm margins on
the left and right sides. Pages MUST NOT be numbered. They should be
prepared in one column format, single-spaced, 10 points or larger,
and printed on one side of the paper only. Please include title,
author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s) on top of first page followed by
an abstract. FAX submissions are not acceptable.
The demonstration proposal must be described briefly, indicating on
two pages the main points of the software or product, title and the
responsible for the demonstration.
ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS AND GENERAL INFORMATION:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao - SBIA'92
Av. Venceslau Bras, 71 fundos casa 27
22290 Rio de Janeiro - RJ
BRAZIL
Phone (021) 2954846 or (021) 2954442
Fax (021) 5415342
FOR TECHNICAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Technical Programme Chairman:
Prof. Edson C de Barros Carvalho Filho
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Departamento de Informatica
50739 - Recife - PE
BRAZIL
Phone (081) 2718430 or (081) 2713052
email: edson@ufpe.di.br or sbia92@di.ufpe.br
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gentil Lucena, UNB
Guilherme Bittencourt, INPE
Marcos Mota Costa, EMBRAPA-UFPE
Mario Benevides, UFRJ-COPPE
Newton Viera, UFMG
Rosa Viccari, UFRGS
Tarcisio Pequeno, UFCE
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From: dec@slcdec.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Peter Decker)
Subject: Digital Mobile Radio Mailing List
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 92 19:43:43 MET DST
Aachen, 1.7.1992
Ladies and Gentlemen,
this is an announcement for a
mailing list about digital mobile radio.
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The contents should be about e.g.
- mobile communication
- digital cellular and future phone systems
e.g. GSM, PCN, DECT, UMTS, FPLMTS... :-)
- radio channel models
- channel coding, FEC, ARQ protocols
- source coding, speech-codec, data compression
- signal processing
- modulation technics
- media access protocols (... TDMA <-> CDMA)
- higher level protocols and internetworking
- short message exchange applications
- wireless LAN and PABX
In my opinion all problems about mobile radio should be discussed in this
group. The list of topics should only be a proposal.
If you would like to be considered,
or if you know s.o. who would like to be considered,
please let me know:
dec@dfv.rwth-aachen.de
======================
I hope that this mailing list will produce an interesting
and useful discussion.
Since I have announced this mailing list on Tuesday the 26th of November 1991
I received more than 300 registrations to our group.
If you would like to be considered, or if you know someone who would like
to be considered, please let me know:
dec@dfv.rwth-aachen.de
======================
Kind Regards,
Peter Decker
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