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Neuron Digest   Tuesday, 19 Jan 1993
                Volume 11 : Issue 3

Today's Topics:
                  Symposium January 29, Birmingham, UK
            Re-revised deadline: Cognitive Science Conference
                     call for papers "AI and Genome"
                  CFP : 2nd Turkish Conf on AI and ANN
                        EuroColt call for papers
                        NATO ASI Call for Papers


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Subject: Symposium January 29, Birmingham, UK
From:    British Neural Network Society <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 16 Dec 92 19:09:22 +0000

                British Neural Network Society
                        Symposium on
                Recent Advances in Neural Networks

                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                    ======================

January 29th 1993

Lucas Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, U.K.

Start 9:30

Cost: 55 pounds (30 pounds full-time student)

A one-day symposium that looks at recent advances in neural networks, with
submissions received under the following headings:

- - Theory & Algorithms   Time series, learning theory, fast algorithms.
- - Applications          Finance, image processing, medical, control.
- - Implementations       Software, hardware, optoelectronics.
- - Biological Networks   Perception, motor control, representation.

The proceedings will be available after the symposium: participants will have
the opportunity to purchase them at a reduced rate.

Please note that places are limited to 80, and so an early reply is advised.
Payment should be made to BNNS'93.  Credit cards are not accepted.

Please fill in the form below and return it to:
        BNNS'93 Registration
        School of Computer Science
        University of Birmingham
        Edgbaston
        Birmingham B15 2TT  UK.

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please register me for the BNNS'93 Symposium
"Recent Advances in Neural Networks", January 29th 1993.


Name:..........................................................................

Address:.......................................................................

        .......................................................................

        .......................................................................

Phone:  ............... Fax: ................ email: ..........................

Amount: ............... (55 pounds, 30 pounds student, payable to BNNS'93)

Cheque number: .........................



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Subject: Re-revised deadline: Cognitive Science Conference
From:    Paul Smolensky <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:41:50 -0700

We've stretched the deadline as far as we can, including another weekend
(doubling the time some of us can spend on writing the paper! ... that's
off the record, of course) ... here's the Call for Papers again, with the
new deadline, Feb 2:


                     Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the
                        COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY

               A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON COGNITION

                           June 18 - 21, 1993
                    University of Colorado at Boulder
                         Call for Participation
                         with Revised Deadlines

This year's conference aims at broad coverage of the many and diverse
methodologies and topics that comprise Cognitive Science.  In addition
to computer modeling, the meeting will feature research in computational,
theoretical, and psycho-linguistics; cognitive neuroscience; conceptual
change and education; artificial intelligence; philosophical foundations;
human-computer interaction and a number of other approaches to the
study of cognition.

A plenary session honoring the memory of Allen Newell is scheduled.

Plenary addresses will be given by:

        Alan Baddeley       Andy DiSessa           Paul Smolensky
                 Sandra Thompson         Bonnie Webber

The conference will also highlight invited research papers:

  Conceptual Change:      (Organizers: Nancy Songer & Walter Kintsch)
      Frank Keil          Gaea Leinhardt     Ashwin Ram      Jeremy Rochelle

  Language Learning:      (Organizers: Paul Smolensky & Walter Kintsch)
      Michael Brent       Robert Frank       Brian MacWhinney

  Situated Action:        (Organizer: James Martin)
      Leslie Kaebling     Pattie Maes        Bonnie Nardi    Alonso Vera

  Visual Perception & Cognitive Neuroscience: (Organizer: Michael Mozer)
      Marlene Behrmann    Robert Jacobs      Hal Pashler     David Plaut

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
  With the goal of assembling a high-quality program representative of the
  diversity of methods and topics in cognitive science, we invite papers
  presenting interdisciplinary research addressing any cognitive domain and
  using any of the diverse methodologies of the field.  Papers are specifically
  solicited which address the topics of the invited research sessions listed
  above.

  Authors should submit five (5) copies of the paper in hard copy form to:

        Cognitive Science 1993 Submissions
        Dr. Martha Polson
        Institute of Cognitive Science
        Campus Box 344
        University of Colorado
        Boulder, CO 80309-0344

DAVID MARR MEMORIAL PRIZES FOR EXCELLENT STUDENT PAPERS
  Papers with a student first author will be eligible to compete for a David
  Marr Memorial Prize for excellence in research and presentation.  The David
  Marr Prizes are accompanied by a $300.00 honorarium, and are funded by an
  anonymous donor.

LENGTH
  Papers must be a maximum of six (6) pages long (excluding only the cover
  page), must have at least 1 inch margins on all sides, and must use no
  smaller that 10 point type.  Camera-ready versions will be required only
  after authors are notified of acceptance.

COVER PAGE
  Each copy of the paper must include a cover page, separate from the body
  of the paper, which includes, in order:

  1. Title of paper.
  2. Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses
     (if possible) of all authors.
  3. An abstract of no more than 200 words.
  4. The area(s) in which the paper should be reviewed.  When possible, please
     list, in decreasing order of relevance, 1-3 of the following keywords:
       action/motor control, acquisition/learning, cognitive architecture,
       cognitive neuroscience, connectionism, conceptual change/education,
       decision making, foundations, human-computer interaction, language
       (indicate subarea), memory, reasoning and problem solving, perception,
       situated action/cognition, skill/expertise.
  5. Preference for presentation format: Talk or poster, talk only, poster
     only.  Poster sessions will be highlighted in this year's conference. The
     proceedings will not distinguish between papers presented orally and
     those presented as posters.
  6. A note stating if the paper is eligible to compete for a Marr Prize.
     For jointly authored papers, include a note from the student author's
     advisor explaining the student's contribution to the research.

DEADLINE

  *****    PAPERS ARE DUE FEBRUARY 2, 1993.    ******

SYMPOSIA
  Proposals for symposia are also invited.  Proposals should indicate:
    (1) A brief description of the topic;
    (2) How the symposium would address a broad cognitive science audience;
    (3) Names of symposium organizer(s);
    (4) List of potential speakers, their topics, and some estimate of their
        likelihood of participation;
    (5) Proposed symposium format (designed to last 90 minutes).
  Symposium proposals should be sent as soon as possible, but no later than
  February 2, 1993.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
        Dr. Martha Polson
        Institute of Cognitive Science
        Campus Box 344
        University of Colorado
        Boulder, CO  80309-0344
        E-mail: [e-mail]
        Telephone: [phone]
        FAX: [phone]


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Subject: call for papers "AI and Genome"
From:    "irina Tchoumatchenko 46.42.32.00 poste 433" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 17 Dec 92 19:24:02 +0100


*****************        CALL FOR PAPERS        ************************


            WORKSHOP "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and the GENOME"

        at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

                                IJCAI-93

                        August 29 - September 3, 1993

                            Chambery, FRANCE

There is a great deal of intellectual excitement in molecular biology
(MB) right now. There has been an explosion of new knowledge due to the
advent of the Human Genome Program. Traditional methods of computational
molecular biology can hardly cope with important complexity issues
without adapting a heuristic approach. They enable one to explicitate
molecular biology knowledge to solve a problem as well as to present the
obtained solution in biologically-meaningful terms. The computational
size of many important biological problems overwhelms even the fastest
hardware by many orders of magnitude. The approximate and heuristic
methods of Artificial Intelligence have already made significant progress
in these difficult problems. Perhaps one reason is great deal of
biological knowledge is symbolic and complex in their organization.
Another reason is the good match between biology and machine learning.
Increasing amout of biological data and a significant lack of theoretical
understanding suggest the use of generalization techniques to discover
"similarities" in data and to develop some pieces of theory.  On the
other hand, molecular biology is a challenging real-world domain for
artificial intelligence research, being neither trivial nor equivalent to
solving the general problem of intelligence. This workshop is dedicated
to support the young AI/MB field of research.


TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT RESTRICTED TO):
- -------------------------------------------------------

*** Knowledge-based approaches to molecular biology problem solving;

Molecular biology knowledge-representation issues, knowledge-based heuristics
to guide molecular biology data processing, explanation of MB data
processing results in terms of relevant MB knowledge;

*** Data/Knowledge bases for molecular biology;

Acquisition of molecular biology knowledge, building public genomic
knowledge bases, a concept of "different view points" in the MB data
processing context;

*** Generalization techniques applied to molecular biology problem solving;

Machine learning techniques as well as neural network techniques,
supervised learning versus non-supervised learning, scaling properties of
different generalization techniques applied to MB problems;

*** Biological sequence analysis;

AI-based methods for sequence alignment, motif finding, etc.,
knowledge-guided alignment, comparison of AI-based methods for sequence
analysis with the methods of computational biology;

*** Prediction of DNA protein coding regions and regulatory sites using
    AI-methods;

Machine learning techniques, neural networks, grammar-based approaches,
etc.;

*** Predicting protein folding using AI-methods;

Predicting secondary, super-secondary, tertiary protein structure,
construction protein folding prediction theories by examples;

*** Predicting gene/protein functions using AI-methods;

Complexity of the function prediction problem, understanding the
structure/function relationship in biologically-meaningful examples,
structure/functions patterns, attempts toward description of functional
space;

*** Similarity and homology;

Similarity measures for gene/protein class construction, knowledge-based
similarity measures, similarity versus homology, inferring evolutionary
trees;

*** Other perspective approaches to classify and predict properties of MB
    sequences;

Information-theoretic approach, standard non-parametric statistical
analysis, Hidden Markov models and statistical physics methods;


INVITED TALKS:
- --------------

L. Hunter, NLM, AI problems in finding genetic sequence motifs

J. Shavlik, U. of Wisconsin, Learning important relations in
protein structures

B. Buchanan, U. of Pittsburgh, to be determined

R. Lathrop, MIT, to be determined

Y. Kodratoff, U. Paris-Sud, to be determined

J.-G. Ganascia, U. Paris-VI, Application of machine learning
techniques to the biological investigation viewed as a constructive
process


SCHEDULE
- ----------

Papers received:                March 1, 1993
Acceptance notification:        April 1, 1993
Final papers:                   June  1, 1993

WORKSHOP FORMAT:
- ------------------
The format of the workshop will be paper sessions with discussion
at the end of each session, and a concluding panel.

Prospective particitants should submit papers of five to ten pages in
length.  Four paper copies are required. Those who would like to attend
without a presentation should send a one to two-page description of their
relevant research interests.

Attendance at the workshop will be limited to 30 or 40 people.  Each
workshop attendee MUST HAVE REGISTERED FOR THE MAIN CONFERENCE.  An
additional (low) 300 FF fee for the workshop attendance (about $60) will
be required.  One student attending the workshop normally (has registered
for the main conference) and being in charge of taking notes during the
entirre workshop, could be exempted from the additional 300 FF fee.
Volunteers are invited.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- --------------------

Buchanan, B.                    (Univ. of Pittsburgh - USA)
Ganascia, J.-G., chairperson    (Univ. of Paris-VI - France)
Hunter, L.                      (National Labrary of Medicine - USA)
Lathrop, R.                     (MIT - USA)
Kodratoff, Y.                   (Univ. of Paris-Sud - France)
Shavlik, J. W.                  (Univ. of Wisconsin - USA)


PLEASE, SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:
- ---------------------------

Ganascia, J.-G.

LAFORIA-CNRS
University Paris-VI
4 Place Jussieu
75252 PARIS Cedex 05
France

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]



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Subject: CFP : 2nd Turkish Conf on AI and ANN
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    18 Dec 92 14:03:29 -0500


                                 CALL FOR PAPERS


                              2nd Turkish Symposium on
                              Artificial Intelligence and
                              Artificial Neural Networks

                              Bogazici University
                              Istanbul, Turkey
                              June 24-25, 1993

Supported by :
Bogazici University, Istanbul; Bilkent University, Ankara;
IEEE Computer Society Turkiye Section; Middle East Technical University,
Ankara; TUBITAK, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey.

Scope

Commonsense Reasoning, Knowledge Representation, Learning, Natural Language
Processing, Control and Planning, Expert Systems, Theorem Proving,
Intelligent Databases, Signal Processing, Speech Processing,
Vision and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Robotics,
Programming Languages, Simulation Environments, Theoretical Foundations,
Hardware Implementations, Industrial Applications,
Social, Legal, and Ethical Aspects,


Paper submissions
Deadline for full papers limited to 6 single spaced (12 point) A4 pages:
March 1, 1993.
Author notification: April 1, 1993.
Camera ready copies: May 1, 1993.

Send submissions (in English or Turkish) to
Dr. L. Akin, Department of Computer Engineering,
Bogazici University, TR-80815 Istanbul, Turkey.
Tel (voice): [phone] x 1323     (fax): [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Symposium Chair: Selahattin Kuru, Bogazici Univ.

Program Committee:
Levent Akin, Bogazici Univ.; Varol Akman, Bilkent Univ.;
Ethem Alpaydin, (chair) Bogazici Univ.; Isil Bozma, Bogazici Univ.;
M. Kemal Ciliz, Bogazici Univ.; Fikret Gurgen, Bogazici Univ.;
H. Altay Guvenir, Bilkent Univ.; Ugur Halici METU; Yorgo Istefanopulos,
Bogazici Univ.; Sakir Kocabas, TUBITAK Gebze Res. Center; Selahattin Kuru,
Bogazici Univ.; Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent Univ.; A. C. Cem Say, Bogazici Univ.;
Nese Yalabik, METU

Local Organizing Committee:
Levent Akin (chair); Ethem Alpaydin; Hakan Aygun; Sema Oktug; A. C. Cem Say;
Mehmet Yagci


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Subject: EuroColt call for papers
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Tue, 22 Dec 92 10:33:40 +0000


         THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

                          EURO-COLT '93

            CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING THEORY

    December, 1993       Royal Holloway, University of London

                ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The inaugural IMA European conference on Computational Learning Theory
will be held 20--22 December at Royal Holloway, University of London.
We invite papers in all areas that relate directly to the analysis of
learning algorithms and the theory of machine learning, including
artificial and biological neural networks, robotics, pattern
recognition, inductive inference, information theory and cryptology,
decision theory and Bayesian/MDL estimation.

As part of our program, we are pleased to announce three invited talks
by Les Valiant (Harvard),  Lenny Pitt (Illinois) and Wolfgang Maass
(Graz).

Invitation to Submit a Paper:
Authors should submit six copies (preferably two-sided copies) of an
extended abstract to be received by 15th May, 1993, to: Miss Pamela
Irving, Conference Officer, The Institute of Mathematics and its
Applications, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF.  The
abstract should consist of a cover page with title, authors' names,
(postal and e-mail) addresses, and a 200 word summary and a body of no
more than 10 pages.

We also solicit proposals for workshops sessions organised by qualified
individuals to facilitate in-depth discussion of particular current
topics. The workshops would be scheduled for the final day of the
conference and would typically last for 3 to 4 hours, including
presentation(s) by the organiser(s) of the workshop, with time for
additional discussions and contributions (informal short talks).

Notification: Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by a
letter mailed on or before 31st July.  Final camera-ready papers will
be due on 22nd September.

Members of the Organising Committee:  John Shawe-Taylor (Chair: Royal
Holloway, University of London, email to [e-mail]),
Martin Anthony (LSE, University of London), Norman Biggs (LSE,
University of London), Mark Jerrum (Edinburgh), Hans-Ulrich Simon
(University of Dortmund), Paul Vitanyi (CWI Amsterdam).

- --------------------------------------------------------------------
To: The Conference Officer, The Institute of Mathematics and its
Applications, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF.
Telephone: [phone]. Fax: [phone]

                         EURO-COLT '93
20th--22nd December, 1993         Royal Holloway, University of London

NAME ................................ GRADE (If IMA Member) ..........

ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE ...........................................

......................................................................

TELEPHONE NO ........................ FAX NO .........................

I intend to submit an abstract no later than 15th May, 1993 ..........

Please send me an application form when available ........
(Please tick where necessary)



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Subject: NATO ASI Call for Papers
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Thu, 24 Dec 92 19:23:56 -0300


First Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute

NEW ADVANCES and TRENDS in SPEECH RECOGNITION and CODING

28 June-10 July 1993. Bubion (Granada), SPAIN.

Institute Director:     Dr. Antonio Rubio-Ayuso,
                        Dept. de Electronica.
                        Facultad de Ciencias.
                        Universidad de Granada.
                        E-18071 GRANADA, SPAIN.
                        tel. [phone]
                        FAX. [phone]
                        e-mail [e-mail]

Organizing Committee:   Dr. Jean-Paul Haton, CRIN / INRIA, France.
                        Dr. Pietro Laface, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
                        Dr. Renato De Mori, McGill University, Canada.

OBJECTIVES, AGENDA and PARTICIPANTS

A series of most successful ASIs on Speech Science (the last ones in Bonas,
France; Bad Windsheim, Germany; Cetraro, Italy) created a fruitful and
stimulating environment to learn about scientific methods, exchange of
results, and discussions of new ideas.

The goal of this ASI is to congregate the most important experts on Speech
Recognition and Coding to discuss and disseminate their most recent findings,
in order to spread them among the European and American Centers of Excellence,
as well as among a good selection of qualified students.

A two-week programme is planned with invited tutorial lectures, and
contributed papers by selected students (maximum 65). The proceedings of
the ASI will be published by Springer-Verlag.

TOPICS

The Institute will focus on the new methodologies and techniques that have
been recently developed in the speech communication area. Main topics of
interest will be:

        -Low Delay and Wideband Speech Coding.
        -Very Low bit Rate and Half-Rate Speech Coding.
        -Speech coding over noisy channels.
        -Continuous Speech and Isolated word Recognition.
        -Neural Networks for Speech Recognition and Coding.
        -Language Modeling.
        -Speech Analysis, Synthesis and data bases.

Any other related topic will also be considered.

INVITED LECTURERS

A. Gersho (UCSB, USA):
                "Speech coding."
B. H. Juang (AT&T, USA):
                "Statistical and discriminative methods for speech recognition
                 - from design objectives to implementation."
J. Bridle (RSRU, UK):
                "Neural networks."
G. Chollet (Paris Telecom):
                "Evaluation of ASR systems, algorithms and databases."
E. Vidal (UPV, Spain):
                "Syntactic learning techniques in language modeling and
                 acoustic-phonetic decoding."
J. P. Adoul (U. Sherbrooke, Canada):
                "Lattice and trellis coded quantizations for efficient coding
                 of speech."
R. De Mori (McGill Univ, Canada):
                "Language models based on stochastic grammars and their use in
                 automatic speech recognition."
R. Pieraccini (AT&T, USA):
                "Speech understanding and dialog, a stochastic approach."
F. Jelinek (IBM, USA):
                "New approaches to language modeling for speech recognition."
L. Rabiner (AT&T, USA):
                "Applications of Voice Processing Technology in
                 Telecommunications."
N. Farvardin (UMD, USA):
                "Speech coding over noisy channels."
J. P. Haton (CRIN/INRIA, France):
                "Methods for the automatic recognition of speech in adverse
                 conditions."
R. Schwartz (BBN, USA):
                "Search algorithms of real-time recognition with high
                 accuracy."
H. Niemann (Erlangen-Nurnberg Univ., Germany):
                "Statistical Modeling of segmental and suprasegmental
                 information."
I. Trancoso (INESC, Portugal):
                "An overview of recent advances on CELP."
C. H. Lee (AT&T, USA):
                "Adaptive learning for acoustic and language modeling."
P. Laface (Poli. Torino, Italy)
H. Ney (Phillips, Germany):
                "Search Strategies for Very Large Vocabulary, Continuous Speech
                Recognition."
A. Waibel (CMU, USA):
                "JANUS, A speech translation system."

ATTENDANCE, COSTS and FUNDING

Participation from as many NATO countries as possible is desired.
Additionally, prospective participants from Greece, Portugal and Turkey
are especially encouraged to apply.A small number of students from
non-NATO countries may be accepted. The estimated cost of hotel
accommodation and meals for the two-week duration of the ASI is US$1,000.
A limited number of scholarships are available for academic participants
from NATO countries. In the case of industrial or commercial participants
a US$500 fee will be charged. Participants are responsible for their own
health or accident insurance. A deposit of US$200 is required for living
expenses. This deposit is non-refundable in the case of late cancelation
(after 10 June, 1993).

The NATO Institute will be held in the hospitable village of Bubion
(Granada), set on Las Alpujarras, a peaceful mountain region with
incomparable landscapes.

HOW TO REGISTER

Each application should include:

        1) Full address (including e-mail and FAX).
        2) An abstract of the proposed contribution (1-3 pages).
        3) Curriculum vitae of the prospective participant.
        4) Indication of whether the attendance to the ASI is conditioned
           to obtaining a NATO grant.

For junior applicants, support letters from senior members of the professional
speech community would strengthen the application.

This application must be sent to the Institute Director address mentioned
above.

SCHEDULE

Submission of proposals (1-3 pages): To be received by 1 April 1993.
Notification of acceptance: To be mailed out on 1 May 1993.
Submission of the paper: To be received by 10 June 1993.


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