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Neuron Digest Thursday, 19 Mar 1992 Volume 9 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: Call for Papers - NIPS Symposium - Connectionism Cognitive Processing (Vienna, AT) European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Call for Workshops - post-NIPS CFP - HICSS-26 Conference - PDP áNN (Indiana) Send submissions, questions, address maintenance, and requests for old issues to "neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu". The ftp archives are available from cattell.psych.upenn.edu (128.91.2.173). Back issues requested by mail will eventually be sent, but may take a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Call for Papers - NIPS From: Davi Geiger <geiger@medusa.siemens.com> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 92 17:39:57 -0500 [[ Editor's Note: I have a backlog of Call for Papers, Conference announcements, and so on. I will be sending them out in reverse chronological order over the next week or so. Apologies to organizers with past deadlines. Remember, if your submission is time-critical, please note that fact so I'll push the queue a bit faster... -PM ]] CALL FOR PAPERS NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS) -Natural and Synthetic- Monday, November 30 - Thursday, December 3, 1992 Denver, Colorado This is the sixth meeting of an inter-disciplinary conference which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. A day of tutorial presentations (Nov 30) will precede the regular session and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec 4-5). Major categories and examples of subcategories for paper submissions are the following; Neuroscience: Studies and Analyses of Neurobiological Systems, Inhibition in cortical circuits, Signals and noise in neural computation, Theoretical Neurobiology and Neurophysics. Theory: Computational Learning Theory, Complexity Theory, Dynamical Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Probability and Statistics, Approximation Theory. Implementation and Simulation: VLSI, Optical, Software Simulators, Implementation Languages, Parallel Processor Design and Benchmarks. Algorithms and Architectures: Learning Algorithms, Constructive and Pruning Algorithms, Localized Basis Functions, Tree Structured Networks, Performance Comparisons, Recurrent Networks, Combinatorial Optimization, Genetic Algorithms. Cognitive Science áAI: Natural Language, Human Learning and Memory, Perception and Psychophysics, Symbolic Reasoning. Visual Processing: Stereopsis, Visual Motion, Recognition, Image Coding and Classification. Speech and Signal Processing: Speech Recognition, Coding, and Synthesis, Text-to-Speech, Adaptive Equalization, Nonlinear Noise Removal. Control, Navigation, and Planning: Navigation and Planning, Learning Internal Models of the World, Trajectory Planning, Robotic Motor Control, Process Control. Applications: Medical Diagnosis or Data Analysis, Financial and Economic Analysis, Timeseries Prediction, Protein Structure Prediction, Music Processing, Expert Systems. The technical program will contain plenary, contributed oral and poster presentations with no parallel sessions. All presented papers will be due (January 13, 1993) after the conference in camera-ready format and will be published by Morgan Kaufmann. Submission Procedures: Original research contributions are solicited, and will be carefully refereed. Authors must submit six copies of both a 1000-word (or less) summary and six copies of a separate single-page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating their results postmarked by May 22, 1992 (express mail is not necessary). Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference program. Summaries are for program committee use only. At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first summary page indicate preference for oral or poster presentation and specify one of the above nine broad categories and, if appropriate, sub-categories (For example: Poster, Applications- Expert Systems; Oral, Implementation-Analog VLSI). Include addresses of all authors at the front of the summary and the abstract and indicate to which author correspondence should be addressed. Submissions will not be considered that lack category information, separate abstract sheets, the required six copies, author addresses, or are late. Mail Submissions To: Jack Cowan NIPS*92 Submissions University of Chicago Dept. of Mathematics 5734 So. University Ave. Chicago IL 60637 Mail For Registration Material To: NIPS*92 Registration SIEMENS Research Center 755 College Road East Princeton, NJ, 08540 All submitting authors will be sent registration material automatically. Program committee decisions will be sent to the correspondence author only. NIPS*92 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Stephen J. Hanson, Siemens Research á Princeton University; Program Chair, Jack Cowan, University of Chicago; Publications Chair, Lee Giles, NEC; Publicity Chair, Davi Geiger, Siemens Research; Treasurer, Bob Allen, Bellcore; Local Arrangements, Chuck Anderson, Colorado State University; Program Co-Chairs: Andy Barto, U. Mass.; Jim Burr, Stanford U.; David Haussler, UCSC ; Alan Lapedes, Los Alamos; Bruce McNaughton, U. Arizona; Barlett Mel, JPL; Mike Mozer, U. Colorado; John Pearson, SRI; Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute; David Touretzky, CMU; Alex Waibel, CMU; Halbert White, UCSD; Alan Yuille, Harvard U.; Tutorial Chair: Stephen Hanson, Workshop Chair: Gerry Tesauro, IBM Domestic Liasons: IEEE Liaison, Terrence Fine, Cornell; Government áCorporate Liaison, Lee Giles, NEC; Overseas Liasons: Mitsuo Kawato, ATR; Marwan Jabri, University of Sydney; Benny Lautrup, Niels Bohr Institute; John Bridle, RSRE; Andreas Meier, Simon Bolivar U. DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES áABSTRACTS IS MAY 22, 1992 (POSTMARKED) please post ------------------------------ Subject: Symposium - Connectionism Cognitive Processing (Vienna, AT) From: Georg Dorffner <georg@ai.univie.ac.at> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 92 17:58:28 +0100 Announcement Symposium on CONNECTIONISM AND COGNITIVE PROCESSING as part of the Eleventh European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) April 21 - 24, 1992 University of Vienna, Austria Chairs: Noel Sharkey (Univ. of Exeter) Georg Dorffner (Univ. of Vienna) The following papers will be presented: Thursday afternoon (Apr. 23) Conflict Detection in Asynchronous Winner-Take-All Structures M.Deng, Penn State Univ., USA Weightless Neurons and Categorisation Modelling M.H.Gera, Univ. of London, UK Semantic Transitions in a Hierarchical Memory Network M.Herrmann, M.Usher, Tel Aviv Univ., ISR Type Generalisations on Distributed Representations D.Mundi, N.E.Sharkey, Univ. of Exeter, UK Non-Conceptual Content and Parallel Distributed Processing, a Match Made in Cognitive Science Heaven? R.L.Chrisley, Univ. of Oxford, UK Aspects of Rules and Connectionism E.Prem, Austrian Research Inst. for AI, A Friday Morning (April 24) Sub-symbolic Inference: Inferring Verb Meaning A.Baldwin, Univ. of Exeter, UK Mental Models in Connectionist Networks V.Ajjanagadde, Univ. of Tuebingen, D Connectionism and the Issue of Compositionality and Systematicity L.Niklasson, N.E.Sharkey, Univ. of Skoevde, S Friday Afternoon INVITED LECTURE: The Causal Role of the Constituents of Superpositional Representations N.E.Sharkey, Univ. of Exeter, UK followed by a moderated discussion with all previous presenters Section Neural Networks EMG/EEG Pattern Recognition by Neural Networks A.Hiraiwa, N.Uchida, K.Shimohara, NTT Human Interface Labs., J Simulation of Navigation of Mobile Robots with Non-Centralized Neuromorphic Control L.F.B. Almeida, E.P.L.Passos, Inst.Militar de Engenharia, BRA Weightless and Threshold-Controlled Neurocomputing O.Kufudaki, J.Horejs, Czechoslovak Acad.of Sciences, CS Neural Networks Learning with Genetic Algorithms P.M.Palagi, L.A.V. de Carvalho, Univ.Fed.do Rio de Janeiro, BRA - * - Among the plenary lectures of the conference, Tuesday morning will feature Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Soft Computing L. Zadeh, UC Berkeley, USA Furthermore, the conference will include symposia on the following topics: - General Systems Methodology - Mathematical Systems Theory - Computer Aided Process Interpretation - Fuzzy Sets, Approximate Reasoning and Knowledge-Based Systems - Designing and Systems - Humanity, Architecture and Conceptualization - Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology - Cybernetics in Medicine - Cybernetics of Socio-Economic Systems - Systems, Management and Organization - Cybernetics of National Development - Communication and Computers - Intelligent Autonomous Systems - Artificial Intelligence - Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Conference Fee: AS 2,400 for contributors, AS 3,400 for participants. (incl.proceedings (2 volumes) and two receptions; 12 AS = 1 US$ approx.). The proceedings will also be available from World Scientific Publishing Co., entitled "Cybernetics and Systems '92; R.Trappl (ed.)" Registration will be possible at the conference site (main building of the University of Vienna). You can also contact: EMCSR Conference Secretariat Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 1 535 32 810 Fax: +43 1 63 06 52 Email: sec@ai.univie.ac.at ------------------------------ Subject: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology From: Martin Davies <UBTY003@cu.bbk.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 92 12:12:00 +0000 ****** EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY ****** *********** INAUGURAL CONFERENCE *********** **** 17 - 19 JULY, 1992 **** The Inaugural Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology will take place in Louvain (Leuven) Belgium, from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 July, 1992. The goal of the Society is 'to promote interaction between philosophers and psychologists on issues of common concern'. The programme for this inaugural meeting will comprise invited lectures - by Dan Sperber and Larry Weiskrantz - and invited symposia. Topics for symposia include: Intentionality, Reasoning, Connectionist Models, Consciousness, Theory of Mind, and Philosophical Issues from Linguistics. There will also be a business meeting to inaugurate the Society formally. The conference will be held in the Institute of Philosophy, University of Louvain. The first session will commence at 3.00 pm on Friday 17 July, and the conference will end at lunchtime on Sunday 19 July. Accommodation at various prices in hotels and student residences will be available. To receive further information about registration and accommodation, along with programme details, please contact one of the following: Daniel Andler CREA 1 rue Descartes 75005 Paris France Email: azra@poly.polytechnique.fr Martin Davies Philosophy Department Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX England Email: ubty003@cu.bbk.ac.uk Beatrice de Gelder Psychology Department Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg Netherlands Email: beadegelder@kub.nl Tony Marcel MRC Applied Psychology Unit 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 2EF England Email: tonym@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk **************************************************************** ------------------------------ Subject: Call for Workshops - post-NIPS From: Davi Geiger <geiger@medusa.siemens.com> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 92 12:26:32 -0500 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS NIPS*92 Post-Conference Workshops December 4 and 5, 1992 Vail, Colorado Request for Proposals Following the regular NIPS program, workshops on current topics in Neural Information Processing will be held on December 4 and 5, 1992, in Vail, Colorado. Proposals by qualified individuals interested in chairing one of these workshops are solicited. Past topics have included: Computational Neuroscience; Sensory Biophysics; Recurrent Nets; Self-Organization; Speech; Vision; Rules and Connectionist Models; Neural Network Dynamics; Computa- tional Complexity Issues; Benchmarking Neural Network Applica- tions; Architectural Issues; Fast Training Techniques; Active Learning and Control; Optimization; Bayesian Analysis; Genetic Algorithms; VLSI and Optical Implementations; Integration of Neural Networks with Conventional Software. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to freely discuss important issues of current interest. Sessions will meet in the morning and in the afternoon of both days, with free time in between for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Specific open and/or controversial issues are en- couraged and preferred as workshop topics. Individuals proposing to chair a workshop will have responsibilities including: arrange brief informal presentations by experts working on the topic, moderate or lead the discussion, and report its high points, findings and conclusions to the group during evening plenary ses- sions, and in a short (2 page) written summary. Submission Pro- cedure: Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of interest postmarked by May 22, 1992. (Express mail is *not* necessary. Submissions by electronic mail will also be acceptable.) Proposals should include a title, a short descrip- tion of what the workshop is to address and accomplish, and the proposed length of the workshop (one day or two days). It should state why the topic is of interest or controversial, why it should be discussed and what the targeted group of participants is. In addition, please send a brief resume of the prospective workshop chair, a list of publications and evidence of scholar- ship in the field of interest. Mail submissions to: Dr. Gerald Tesauro NIPS*92 Workshops Chair IBM T. J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA (e-mail: tesauro@watson.ibm.com) Name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail net address (if applicable) must be on all submissions. PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 22, 1992 Please Post ------------------------------ Subject: CFP - HICSS-26 From: Tim Hill <thill@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 17:51:04 -1000 HICSS-26 REQUEST FOR PAPERS 26th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Mini-Track on Neural Network Applications in Organizations Kauai, Hawaii - January 5-8, 1993 Papers are requested for the HICSS-26 Mini-Track on Neural Network Applications in Organizations. The mini-track will provide a forum for presenting and discussing original research addressing the application of any type of neural network, or connectionist model, to practical problems within organizations. Submissions may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in nature. Of special interest, however, are papers detailing innovative solutions to significant practical problems, through application of neural network technology. Appropriate applications include, but are not limited to, the following: - neural network tools for performing business-related tasks such as bond rating, forecasting, data analysis, etc., - neural network models of human decision making in organizational contexts such as production scheduling, project planning, etc., - neural networks as components of organizational support systems for communication, negotiation and decision making, etc. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS AND DEADLINES: Submissions should include six copies of the full paper. Manuscripts should be 12-26 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length, including figures and tables. Manuscripts should have two title pages. The first one should include all title, author name(s), affiliation(s), complete mailing and electronic address(es), and telephone number(s). The second one should include only the title. The first page of the manuscript should include a 300-word abstract of the paper. Deadlines are as follows: Apr 3, 92 Optional abstract submitted by e-mail or post to Mini-Track chair for guidance and indication of appropriate content. Apr 17, 92 Feedback to author concerning abstract. Jun 5, 92 Full papers submitted to Mini-Track chair. Aug 31, 92 Notification of acceptance to authors. Sep 25, 92 Camera-ready manuscripts due for accepted papers. Nov 15, 92 At least one author must register for conference. Send all correspondence to: Prof. Tim Hill, Mini-Track Chair College of Business University of Hawaii 2404 Maile Way Honolulu, HI 96822 USA Tel: (808) 956-6657 E-mail: thill@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu Fax: (808) 956-3261 ------------------------------ Subject: Conference - PDP áNN (Indiana) From: TEPPER@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 15:42:20 -0500 Fifth NN áPDP CONFERENCE PROGRAM - April 9, 10 and 11,1992 ----------------------------------------------------------- The Fifth Conference on Neural Networks and Parallel Distributed Processing at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne will be held April 9, 10, and 11, 1992. Conference registration is $20 (on site). Students and members or employees of supporting organizations attend free. Some limited financial support might also be available to allow students to attend. Inquiries should be addressed to: US mail: ======= Pr. Samir Sayegh Physics Department Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 email: sayegh@ipfwcvax.bitnet ======== FAX: (219)481-6880 ====== Voice: (219) 481-6306 OR 481-6157 ======== All talks will be held in Kettler Hall, Room G46: Thursday, April 9, 6pm-9pm; Friday Morning áAfternoon (Tutorial Sessions), 8:30am-12pm ì 1pm-4:30pm and Friday Evening 6pm-9pm; Saturday, 9am-12noon. Parking will be available near the Athletic Building or at any Blue A-B parking lots. Do not park in an Orange A lot or you may get a parking violation ticket. Special hotel rates (IPFW corporate rates) are available at Canterbury Green, which is a 5 minute drive from the campus. The number is (219) 485-9619. The Marriott Hotel also has corporate rates for IPFW and is about a 10 minute drive. Their number is (219) 484-0411. Another hotel with corporate rates for IPFW is Don Hall's Guesthouse (about 10 minutes away). Their number is (219) 489-2524. The following talks will be presented: Applications I - Thursday 6pm-7:30pm ====================================== Nasser Ansari áJanusz A. Starzyk, Ohio University. DISTANCE FIELD APPROACH TO HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION Thomas L. Hemminger áYoh-Han Pao, Case Western Reserve University. A REAL-TIME TIME NEURAL-NET COMPUTING APPROACH TO THE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC TRANSIENTS Seibert L. Murphy áSamir I. Sayegh, Indiana-Purdue University. ANALYSIS OF THE CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE OF A BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORK DESIGNED FOR ACOUSTIC SCREENING S. Keyvan, L. C. Rabelo, áA. Malkani, Ohio University. NUCLEAR DIAGNOSTIC MONITORING SYSTEM USING ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY J.L. Fleming áD.G. Hill, Armstrong Lab, Brooks AFB. STUDENT MODELING USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Biological and Cooperative Phenomena Optimization I - Thursday 7:50pm-9pm =========================================================================== Ljubomir T. Citkusev áLjubomir J., Buturovic, Boston University. NON- DERIVATIVE NETWORK FOR EARLY VISION Yalin Hu áRobert J. Jannarone, University of South Carolina. A NEUROCOMPUTING KERNEL ALGORITHM FOR REAL-TIME, CONTINUOUS COGNITIVE PROCESSING M.B. Khatri áP.G. Madhavan, Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis. ANN SIMULATION OF THE PLACE CELL PHENOMENON USING CUE SIZE RATIO Mark M. Millonas, University of Texas at Austin. CONNECTIONISM AND SWARM INTELLIGENCE ====================================================================== Tutorials I - Friday 8:30am-11:45am ===================================== Bill Frederick, Indiana-Purdue University. INTRODUCTION TO FUZZY LOGIC Helmut Heller, University of Illinois. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPUTER SYSTEMS Arun Jagota, SUNY-Buffalo. THE HOPFIELD NETWORK, ASSOCIATIVE MEMORIES, AND OPTIMIZATION Tutorials II - Friday 1:15pm-4:30pm ===================================== Krzysztof J. Cios, University Of Toledo. SELF-GENERATING NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM : CID3 APPLICATION TO CARDIOLOGY Robert J. Jannarone, University of South Carolina. REAL-TIME NEUROCOMPUTING, AN INTRODUCTION Network Analysis I - Friday 6pm-7:30pm ======================================== M.R. Banan áK.D. Hjelmstad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A SUPERVISED TRAINING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON LOCAL ADAPTATION, FUZZINESS, AND SIMULATION Pranab K. Das II, University of Texas at Austin. CHAOS IN A SYSTEM OF FEW NEURONS Arun Maskara áAndrew Noetzel, University Heights. FORCED LEARNING IN SIMPLE RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS Samir I. Sayegh, Indiana-Purdue University. SEQUENTIAL VS CUMULATIVE UPDATE: AN EXPANSION D.A. Brown, P.L.N. Murthy, áL. Berke, The College of Wooster. SELF- ADAPTATION IN BACKPROPAGATION NETWORKS THROUGH VARIABLE DECOMPOSITION AND OUTPUT SET DECOMPOSITION Applications II - Friday 7:50pm-9pm ===================================== Susith Fernando áKaran Watson, Texas A áM University. ANNs TO INCORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN HI FAULTS DETECTION D.K. Singh, G.V. Kudav, áT.T. Maxwell, Youngstown State University. FUNCTIONAL MAPPING OF SURFACE PRESSURES ON 2-D AUTOMOTIVE ShAPES BY NEURAL NETWORKS K. Hooks, A. Malkani, áL. C. Rabelo, Ohio University. APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN QUALITY CONTROL CHARTS B.E. Stephens áP.G. Madhavan, Purdue University at Indianapolis. SIMPLE NONLINEAR CURVE FITTING USING THE ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWOR ====================================================================== Network Analysis II - Saturday 9am-10:30am ============================================ Sandip Sen, University of Michigan. NOISE SENSITIVITY IN A SIMPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEM Xin Wang, University of Southern California. DYNAMICS OF DISCRETE-TIME RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS: PATTERN FORMATION AND EVOLUTION Zhenni Wang and Christine Di Massimo, University of Newcastle. A PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE CANONICAL STRUCTURE OF MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS Srikanth Radhakrishnan, Tulane University. PATTERN CLASSIFICATION USING THE HYBRID COULOMB ENERGY NETWORK Biological and Cooperative Phenomena Optimization II - Saturday 10:50am-12noon =============================================================== J. Wu, M. Penna, P.G. Madhavan, áL. Zheng, Purdue University at Indianapolis. COGNITIVE MAP BUILDING AND NAVIGATION C. Zhu, J. Wu, áMichael A. Penna, Purdue University at Indianapolis. USING THE NADEL TO SOLVE THE CORRESPONDENCE PROBLEM Arun Jagota, SUNY-Buffalo. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY OF ANALYZING A HOPFIELD-CLIQUE NETWORK Assaad Makki, áPepe Siy, Wayne State University. OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS BY MODIFIED HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORKS ------------------------------ End of Neuron Digest [Volume 9 Issue 12] ****************************************