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Neuron Digest   Monday, 30 May 1994
                Volume 13 : Issue 31

Today's Topics:
                          Final call for papers
                 on-line information for ML94 and COLT94
                                ECAI '94
                       Call for papers: IWANNT*95
                        ANZIIS-94 Call for Papers
              Bat-Sheva seminar on functional brain imaging
                         ML'94/COLT'94 Reminder


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Subject: Final call for papers
From:    "Peter J.B. Hancock" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 11 May 1994 15:24:49 -0000

Our apologies if you receive this more than once...


FINAL Call for papers

3rd Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
University of Stirling
Scotland

31 August - 2 September 1994

This is the third of a series of workshops looking at the role of
neural computational models in psychological research. The first, in
Bangor in 1992, was on neurodynamics and psychology, last year's, in
Edinburgh, concentrated on models of memory and language.  This year's
theme is models of perception: general vision, faces, olfaction,
sound, music etc, though there will be at least one general session
where the subjects will be determined by the papers proposed.  There
will be invited and contributed talks and posters.  Invited speakers
include Dr. Ray Meddis and Professor David Willshaw.  It is hoped that
a proceedings will be published after the event.

The workshop will be limited to 75 participants to encourage an
informal atmosphere.  There will be 5 single-track sessions, starting
on Wednesday morning and ending after lunch on Friday.  Accomodation
will be in student residences on campus, with the option of staying in
the management centre hotel if wished.  Stirling is situated in the
centre of Scotland, with easy access by road, rail and air. For those
wishing to spend the subsequent weekend walking, the Highlands are
close at hand, and for those who prefer to be indoors, the Edinburgh
International Festival and Fringe will still be in progress.

We intend to keep costs low. Accommodation will be about 16 pounds per night
Bed and Breakfast.

Papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts of at most 1000 words,
by email or hardcopy to the first address below.

Extended deadline for submission: 15 June 1994.

Participation from postgraduates is particularly encouraged.



For further information contact:

Peter Hancock, Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA
   [e-mail], Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
Leslie Smith, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics,
   [e-mail],  Telephone: [phone], Fax: [phone]




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Subject: on-line information for ML94 and COLT94
From:    Haym Hirsh <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sun, 17 Apr 1994 17:27:17 -0400

Information for this summer's Machine Learning (ML94) and
Computational Learning Theory (COLT94) conferences is now available
on-line.  Users of anonymous ftp can find the information on
www.cs.rutgers.edu in the directory "/pub/learning94".  Users of
www information servers such as mosaic can find the information at
"http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/pub/learning94/learning94.html".
Please send comments or questions to [e-mail].

Please note that the early registration deadline is May 27, and
(for those planning on staying at the nearby Hyatt rather than in
dorms), conference room rates are only guaranteed until June 10.
Finally, the conferences coincide this year with World Cup soccer
matches being held at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New
Jersey.  These games are expected to be the largest sporting event
ever held in the New York metropolitan area, and we therefore
strongly encourage conference attendees to make travel arrangements
as early as possible.

Haym



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Subject: ECAI '94
From:    Hilario Melanie <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 23 May 1994 14:49:29 +0200

                    WORKSHOP PROGRAMME &  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


                                     ECAI'94
             Workshop on Combining Symbolic and Connectionist Processing
                     August 9, 1994 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Until a few years ago, the history of AI has been marked by two parallel,
often antagonistic streams of development -- classical or symbolic AI and
connectionist processing. A recent research trend, premised on the
complementarity of these two paradigms, strives to build hybrid systems
which combine the advantages of both to overcome the limitations of each.
For instance, attempts have been made to accomplish complex tasks by blending
neural networks with rule-based or case-based reasoning. This workshop will
be the first Europe-wide effort to bring together researchers active in the
area in view of laying the groundwork for a theory and methodology of
symbolic/connectionist integration (SCI).


                                Workshop Programme



                HYBRID EXPERT SYSTEM SHELLS

9:00 -  9:30    A Study of the Hybrid System SYNHESYS
                B. Orsier, B. Amy, V. Rialle, A. Giacometti
                LIFIA-IMAG & ENST (France)

9:30 - 10:00    Cognitive and Computational Foundations for
                Symbolic-Connectionist Integration
                R. Khosla, T. Dillon
                La Trobe University, Melbourne (Australia)

                MULTISTRATEGY LEARNING

10:00 - 10:30   Integration of Symbolic and Connectionist Learning to
                Ease Robot Programming and Control
                M. Kaiser, J. Kreuziger
                University of Karlsruhe (Germany)

10:30 - 11:00   A Hybrid Model of Psychological Experiments on Scientific
                Discovery
                E. Hoenkamp, R.A. Sumida
                University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

11:00 - 11:15   BREAK

                THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

11:15 - 11:45   Tracking the Neuro-Symbolic Continuum: Learning by Explicitation
                C. Thornton
                University of Sussex (United Kingdom)

11:45 - 12:15   Symbol Ground Revisited
                E. Prem
                Austian Institute for AI (Austria)

12:15 - 12:45   How Hybrid Should a Hybrid Model Be?
                R. Cooper, B. Franks
                University College & London School of Economics (United Kingdom)

12:45 - 14:15   LUNCH

                LOGIC AND INFERENCING

14:15 - 14:45   Towards a New Massively Parallel Computational Model
                for Logic Programming
                S. Hoelldobler, Y. Kalinke
                University of Dresden (Germany)

14:45 - 15:15   Scheduling of Modular Architectures for Inductive Inference
                of Regular Grammars
                M. Gori, M. Maggini, G. Soda
                University of Florence (Italy)

15:15 - 15:45   A Connectionist Control Component for the Theorem Prover SETHEO
                C. Goller
                Technical University of Munich (Germany)

15:45 - 16:00   BREAK

                NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

16:00 - 16:30   Metaphor and Memory: Symbolic and Connectionist Issues
                in Metaphor Comprehension
                T. Veale, M. Keane
                Trinity College (Eire)

16:30 - 17:00   Parsing Spontaneous Speech: A Hybrid Approach
                T.S. Polzin
                Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

17:00 - 17:30   A Symbolic-Connectionist Hybrid Abstract Generation System
                M. Aretoulaki, J. Tsujii
                UMIST, Manchester (United Kingdom)

17:30 - 17:45   BREAK

                VISUAL PATTERN RECOGNITION

17:45 - 18:15   A Hybrid Model for Visual Perception Based on
                Dynamic Conceptual Space
                A. Chella, M. Frixione, S. Gaglio
                University of Palermo & IIASS-Salerno (Italy)

18:15 - 18:45   Hybrid Trees for Supervised Learning of Decision Rules
                F. d'Alche-Buc, J.-P. Nadal, D. Zwierski
                Laboratoires d'Electronique Philips (France)


Those who wish to attend the workshop should send a request describing their
research interests and/or previous work in the field of SCI (maximum 1 page).
Since attendance will be limited to ensure effective interaction, requests
will be considered until the maximum number of participants is attained.
Please note that all workshop participants are required to register for the
main conference.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Bernard Amy (LIFIA-IMAG, Grenoble, France)
Patrick Gallinari (LAFORIA, University of Paris 6, France)
Franz Kurfess (Dept. Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany)
Christian Pellegrini (CUI, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Noel Sharkey (DCS, University of Sheffield, UK)
Alessandro Sperduti (CSD, University of Pisa, Italy)


CONTACT PERSON

Melanie Hilario
CUI - University of Geneva
24 rue General Dufour
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Voice:  +41 22/705 7791
Fax:    [phone]
Email:  [e-mail]


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Subject: Call for papers: IWANNT*95
From:    [e-mail] (Lee Giles)
Date:    Sun, 17 Apr 1994 14:13:02 -0400


PLEASE POST

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

              International Workshop on Applications of
           Neural Networks to Telecommunications (IWANNT*95)

                          Stockholm, Sweden
                           May 22-24, 1995

You are invited to submit a paper to an international workshop on
applications of neural networks and other intelligent systems to problems
in telecommunications and information networking. This is the second workshop
in a series that began in Princeton, New Jersey on October, 18-20 1993.
This conference will take place in the center of Stockholm at a time of the
year when the beautiful city is at its best. A tour in the famous archipelago
adds to the attraction.

This workshop will bring together active researchers in neural networks and
related intelligent systems with potential users in the telecommunications
industries. Today, telecommunications also means data transmission, cable TV,
wireless, and entertainment industries. We expect the workshop to be a forum
for discussion of applications issues relevant to the enlarged circle of
telecommunications industries. It is sponsored by IEEE, INNS, SNNS (Swedish
Neuronet Society),Bellcore and Ericsson.

Suggested Topics:

Application of Neural Networks and other Intelligent Systems in:
Network Management
Congestion Control
Adaptive Equalization
Speech Recognition
Security Verification
Language ID/Translation
Information Filtering
Dynamic Routing
Software Reliability
Fraud Detection
Financial and Market Prediction
Adaptive User Interfaces
Fault Identification and Prediction
Character Recognition
Adaptive Control
Data Compression

Please submit 6 copies of both a 50 word abstract and a 1000 word summary
of your paper by September 16, 1994. Mail papers to the conference
 administrator:

Betty Greer, IWANNT*95
Bellcore, MRE 2P-295
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960
[phone]
(fax) 829-5888
[e-mail]

Abstract and Summary Due: September 16, 1994
Author Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 1994
Camera-Ready Copy of Paper Due: February 10, 1995


Organizing Committee:

General Chair
Josh Alspector
Bellcore, MRE 2P-396
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960-6438
[phone]
[e-mail]

Program Chair
Rod Goodman
Caltech 116-81
Pasadena, CA 91125
[phone]
[e-mail]

Publications Chair
Timothy X Brown
Bellcore, MRE 2E-378
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960-6438
[phone]
[e-mail]

Treasurer
Anthony Jayakumar, Bellcore

Publicity
Atul Chhabra, NYNEX
Lee Giles, NEC

Local Arrangements
Miklos Boda, Ellemtel
Bengt Asker, Ericsson

Program Committee
Harald Brandt, Ellemtel
Tzi-Dar Chiueh, National Taiwan University
Michael Gell, British Telecom
Larry Jackel, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Thomas John, Southwestern Bell
Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Australia
S Y Kung, Princeton University
Tadashi Sone, NTT


INNS Liaison
Bernard Widrow, Stanford University

IEEE Liaison
Steve Weinstein, NEC

Conference Administrator
Betty Greer
Bellcore, MRE 2P-295
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960
[phone]
(fax) 829-5888
[e-mail]

- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

International Workshop on Applications of
Neural Networks to Telecommunications (IWANNT*95)
Stockholm, Sweden
May 22-24, 1995

Registration Form

Name: _____________________________________________________________

Institution: __________________________________________________________

Mailing Address:
___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

Telephone: ______________________________

Fax: ____________________________________

E-mail: _____________________________________________________________


I will attend | |

Send more information | |

Paper enclosed  | |

Registration Fee Enclosed  | |
($400; $500 after Apr. 15, 1995; $200 students;)
Please make sure your name is on the check (made out to IWANNT*95)

Registration includes lunch, a boat tour of the Stockholm archipelago,
and proceedings available at the conference.

Mail to:
Betty Greer, IWANNT*95
Bellcore, MRE 2P-295
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960
[phone]
(fax) 829-5888
[e-mail]

Deadline for submissions: September 16, 1994
Author Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 1994
Camera-Ready Copy of Paper Due: February 10, 1995



- --
C. Lee Giles / NEC Research Institute / 4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540 / 609-951-2642 / Fax 2482
==





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Subject: ANZIIS-94 Call for Papers
From:    "R. Uthurusamy" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 25 Apr 1994 23:39:29 -0500

CALL  FOR  PAPERS
- -----------------
                                ANZIIS-94
                                =========

               Second Australian and New Zealand Conference
                    on Intelligent Information Systems

                     Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

                      29 November - 2 December 1994


Tutorials:     29 November,
Conference:    30 November - 2 December 1994

Major fields:  Artificial Intelligence
               Fuzzy Systems
               Neural Networks
               Evolutionary Computation

The Second Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information
Systems (ANZIIS-94) will be held in Brisbane, from 29 November to 2 December
1994.  This follows the successful inaugural conference, ANZIIS-93, held in
Perth in December 1993.  The Conference will offer an international forum
for discussion of new research on the key methods of intelligent information
processing: conventional artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, artificial
neural networks, and evolutionary algorithms.

The conference will include invited keynote presentations and contributed
papers in oral and poster presentations. All papers will be refereed and
published in the proceedings.

TUTORIALS AND PANEL  SESSIONS

The Organising Programme Committee cordially invites proposals for tutorials
and special interest sessions relevant to the scope of the conference.
Proposals should include details of the proponent including mailing, e-mail
and fax addresses, and research record.

ABOUT BRISBANE

Brisbane is a cosmopolitan and pleasant subtropical city. It is the heart of
the vibrant south-east Queensland region that streches over 200 Km from the
Gold to the Sunshine Coasts. It is not only a focal point for national and
international tourists but tens of thousands Australians every year decide
to set up home here. We recommed conference participants to set aside a few
extra days to explore the region, either on their own leisure or by taking
part in the special pre and post conference activities to be announced.

Application areas will include, but will not be limited to:

Adaptive Systems
Artificial Life
Autonomous Vehicles
Data Analysis
Factory Automation
Financial Markets
Intelligent Databases
Knowledge Engineering
Machine Vision
Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Neurobiological Systems
Control Systems
Optimisation
Parallel and Distributed Computing
Robotics
Prediction
Sensorimotor Systems
Signal Processing
Speech Processing
Virtual Reality

INFORMATION

ANZIIS-94 Secretariat
School of Computing Science
Queensland University of Technology
GPO Box 2434
Brisbane, Q 4001, Australia.

Telephone: + 61 7 864 2925
Fax:       + 61 7 864 1801
e-mail: [e-mail]

SUBMISSION OF  PAPERS

For the speedy processing of the papers authors are requested to submit their
contributions camera-ready on paper and by mail only. Papers should be laser
printed on A4 size pages with 25 mm margins on all four sides using a Roman
font not smaller than 10 points. The maximum allowed length of an article is
5 pages. The paper should be set in two column format, using the LaTex
"article" style or following the style of the IEEE Transaction journals.
The papers should contain an abstract and the complete mailing addresses
of the authors. Papers will be reviewed internationally. Accepted articles
will be published as submitted, as there is no opportunity for revision.
Only those papers for which the presenting author has registered as a
conference delegate will be printed in the proceedings. Extra copies of
the Proceedings will be marketed through the IEEE book brokerage program.

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due: 15 July 1994
Tutorial proposals due: 15 July 1994
Notification of acceptance: 15 September 1994
Registration for authors due: 1 October 1994

FEES                                  before 1 Oct      after 1 Oct
- ----                                  ------------      -----------
Member of IEEE/IEAust/ACS                A$400            A$450
Other                                    A$450            A$500
Student member of  IEEE/IEAust/ACS       A$150            A$200
Other Student                            A$200            A$250

GOVERNMENT TRAINING LEVY

The conference programme will meet the requirements  of the Australian
Government Training Levy for inclusion in an employer's training programme.

ANZIIS-94  ORGANISED  BY : IEEE Australia Council
                           IEEE New Zealand Council
                           IEEE Queensland Section

IN CO-OPERATION WITH     : IEAust - The Institution of Engineers, Australia
                           Australian Computer Society
                           Queensland University of Technology -
                             School of Computing Science

ORGANISING  COMMITTEE

Dr. J. Sitte, Queensland University of Technology
General Conference Chair

Dr. W. Boles, Queensland University of Technology
Mr. S. Ellis, IEEE Queensland Section
Dr. S. Geva, Queensland University of Technology
Mr. R. Prandolini, IEEE Queensland Chapter
Ms. R. Sitte, Griffith University - Nathan
Mr. C. Thorne, Griffith University - Gold Coast
Dr. R. Zurawski,  Swinburne University of Technology

Prof.Y.Attikiouzel, University of Western Australia
Advisory Committe Chair

Dr. Nicola Kasabov,  University of Otago
New Zealand Liaison Chair

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

Dr.   J. Andreae, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Prof. S. Bang, Pohang Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Prof. B. Boashash, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Ms.   A. Bowles, BHP Research Laboratories, Australia
Prof. T. Caelli, University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. L. Cahill, La Trobe University, Australia
Dr.   Duncan Campbell, La Trobe University, Australia
Dr.   G. Coghill, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Prof. A. Constantinides, Imperial College, U.K.
Dr.   J. Cybulski, La Trobe University, Australia
Prof. T. Dillon, La Trobe University,Australia
Prof. T. Downs, University of Queensland, Australia
Prof. R. Evans, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. N. Foo, University of Sydney, Australia
Prof. T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
Prof. R. Hodgson, Massey University, New Zealand
Mr.   A. Horsfall, Fujitsu Australia Ltd., Australia
Prof. H. Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Prof. R. Jarvis, Monash University, Australia
Dr.   A. Jennings, Telecom Research Laboratories, Australia
Dr.   J. Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prof. S. Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Prof. B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA
Dr.   A. Kowalczyk, Telecom Research Laboratories
Dr.   H.C. Lui, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. T. Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dr.   J. Morris, University of Tasmania, Australia
Dr.   D. Nandagopal, DSTO, Australia
Prof. T. Nguyen, University of Tasmania, Australia
Dr.   M. Palaniswami, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. L. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science, India
Dr.   P.K. Simpson, Orincon Corp., San Diego, USA
Prof. A.C. Tsoi, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr.   R. Uthurusamy,  GM Research Labs. USA
Prof. A. Venetsanopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Prof. K. Wong, The University of Western Australia, Austrlia
Dr.   A. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia, Austrlia
Prof. J. Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
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Subject: Bat-Sheva seminar on functional brain imaging
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Mon, 02 May 1994 16:00:54 +0700


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%           "BAT-SHEVA SEMINAR ON FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING"
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%                which will take place in Tel-Aviv
%                      June 5 to 10, 1994
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%  Many thanks and best regards,
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%              D. Horn                 G. Navon
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\centerline{\bf BAT-SHEVA SEMINAR ON FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING}
\sk
\centerline{\bf Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 5 to 10, 1994}
\vskip 3cm
\centerline{\bf SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT}
\sk
   The seminar will bring together experts on various techniques
of functional brain imaging (PET, EEG, MEG, Optical,
and particular emphasis on MRI). It will start with a day of tutorials
at Tel-Aviv University. These will serve as technical and scientific
introductions for participants from different disciplines. It will
continue in a resort hotel at the seashore with plenary lectures,
describing recent advances in all different techniques
and comparing their merits and scientific results.


The number of participants in the workshop will be limited.
\sk
 \vskip 1cm

{\bf Tutorial Sessions}, Sunday June 5th at Tel Aviv University:

Amos Korczyn: Introduction to mapping of the brain.

Peter Bendel: Technical introduction to MRI.

{\bf Invited Lectures} (at Dan Accadia Hotel, Hertzlia) Monday-Friday
June 6--10:

John Belliveau: 1. Functional MRI.
                2. Correlation between EEG and fMRI.

Alan S. Gevins: 1. High resolution EEG.
                2. Sub-second networks of cognition in the human brain.

Amiram Grinvald: 1. Optical imaging of functional architecture based on
                    the intrinsic signals.
                 2. real time optical imaging of electric activity.

Matti H\"am\"al\"ainen: MEG -- a tool for functional brain imaging:
                    theory, instrumentation, results.

Seiji Ogawa: Basic mechanisms in fMRI.

Hillel Pratt: Imaging human brain activity from scalp recordings.

Marcus E. Raichle: 1. Introduction to neuroimaging.
                    2. Multimodel functional imaging.
                    3. PET studies of language and memory.

Robert Shulman: 1. Application of functional MRI to cognitive processes.
                2. Principles of magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the
                   brain.
                3. Measurements of brain metabolic MRS.

{\bf Schedule of activities:}

Sunday, June 5: Tutorials at Tel Aviv University

Monday, June 6: Session One and Two at Dan Accadia Hotel.
Evening: Get-together at the Hotel

Tuesday, June 7: Sessions Three and Four.


Wednesday, June 8: Morning: Session Five.
                   Afternoon: Organized Tour

Thursday, June 9: Session Six and Seven.
                  Evening: Dinner at Tel Aviv University.

Friday, June 10: Morning: Session Eight.


\sk

{\bf Information and registration}: Dan Knassim Ltd., P.O.B. 57005,
Tel-Aviv 61570, Israel.
Tel: [phone]       Fax: [phone]
\sk
\vskip 2cm
\centerline {D. Horn~~~~~~~~G. Navon}
\centerline {ADAMS SUPER-CENTER FOR BRAIN STUDIES}
\centerline {TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL}
\centerline{ e-mail:   [e-mail] }
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Subject: ML'94/COLT'94 Reminder
From:    Ming Li <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sat, 21 May 1994 14:43:08 -0400


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++ REMINDER ++ REMINDER ++ REMINDER ++ REMINDER ++ REMINDER ++ REMINDER ++
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+                                                                        +
+               ML '94                             COLT '94              +
+                                                                        +
+  Eleventh International Conference        Seventh ACM Conference on    +
+         on Machine Learning            Computational Learning Theory   +
+          July 10-13, 1994                     July 12-15, 1994         +
+                                                                        +
+        Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick      +
+                                                                        +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The early registration deadline for the COLT94 and ML94 conferences is

                           FRIDAY, MAY 27.


Registration materials can be obtained via ftp from cs.rutgers.edu in
the directory /pub/learning94/registration-information, and also from
our www site at http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/pub/learning94/learning94.html.
If you do not have access to ftp/www, send email to [e-mail]
or [e-mail].




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Subject: biomoo
From:    Kimball Collins <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 13 May 1994 22:13:27 -0700

[[ Editor's Note: From the Cognitive Neuroscience Mailing List.  This may
appeal to some of the ND readers with greater wetware interest.  Are
there ANN MOOs? -PM ]]

I meant to include this in the digest too, but it's probably worth
sending out anyway, since biomoo isn't too well known yet and the
neuroscience activities on it are probably of interest.

Biomoo is a MOO for biologists to meet on (or in).  I just tried it to
see if there are any cogneuro/psychobiology types there.  There is a
neuroscience journal club.  Perhaps with enough of us joining there
will be a thriving community of cogneuro types as well.

To try it, do your computer's equivalent of

        telnet bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il 8888

and don't be shy!

More information about biomoo follows the page break below.

Response time is excellent from here.  Players are friendly; within a
minute of joining, somebody asked if I needed help and told me a few
things about biomoo.

Biomoo describes itself like this:

> BioMOO is a 'text-based virtual reality' for biologists, in which the users
>  can move about from place to place manipulating their environment and
>  communicating with other users.
>
> BioMOO is not a game, but a serious application of a technology that has been
>  largely devoted to gaming. People here meet to cooperate, learn, teach,
>  explore, create.

They mean that.  MOOs are not only places where you participate in
many-to-many communication; they are also places where you can create
programmatic models of things that can be manipulated by other
characters.

For example, there is a section of DNA in biomoo that you can do
things to, such as looking at a particular gene.  Perhaps eventually
brain models will be put there to be viewed, rotated, zoomed,
annotated, indexed, and referenced.

For those who are curious and still reading, MOO history goes vaguely
like this.  This is just my impression and is perhaps wrong!

        o JRR Tolkien writes a wonderful book about a fictional place
        o Nerds play D&D games partly based on book
        o Hackers write "adventure" game for computers based on games
        o adventure leads to MUDs and MOOs, which are multiplayer and
          persistent (players can change the game state and that state
          can stay from login to login)
        o MOOs evolve to be used for non-game applications as a
          creative, if typing-intensive, way to communicate

And finally, in case you are wondering where the cognitive
neuroscience is in this history:

        o Biologist hackers write biomoo for serious purposes
        o A neuroscience journal club forms on it
        o I write this post about it

My opinion (based on less than one hour of experience with it): far
too much typing, and currently a low S/N ratio, but many salutary
possibilities for scientific collaboration.  Eventually there will be
graphics and sound, and connections to the web, all of which will
reduce typing for those who aren't using vt100's.

I have a dream that all references in scientific papers can be clicked
on and followed to their sources.  That's what the web was designed
for; MOO-style communication will, I hope, augment the web by
providing sundry and various many-to-many ways of discussing papers,
playing with data, manipulating models, meeting people interested in
similar research topics, etc.

Despite the reliance on typing, I like the biomoo idea a lot and hope
that cogneuro-ers try it out and keep it alive.

P.S.  There will be an article in Science about it soon, so
participation will probably shoot up after that.  If you try it before
it is published, it will probably be quieter.

- --
[e-mail].  AI, multidisciplinary neuroethology, info filtering.
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you can't make your on-ramp, politics controls development; and they arrest you
if you go too fast, travel in your own direction, or use unapproved technology.


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Subject: New Book and Videotape on Genetic Programming
From:    John Koza <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 24 May 1994 11:04:09 -0700


Genetic Programming II and the associated videotape
are now available from the MIT Press.

GENETIC PROGRAMMING II:
AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF REUSABLE
SUBPROGRAMS

by John R. Koza
Computer Science Department
Stanford University

It is often argued that the process of solving complex
problems can be automated by first decomposing the
problem into subproblems, then solving the presumably
simpler subproblems, and then assembling the solutions to
the subproblems into an overall solution to the original
problem.  The overall effort required to solve a problem can
potentially be reduced to the extent that the decomposition
process uncovers subproblems that are diPesproportionately
easy to solve and to the extent that regularities in the
problem environment permit multiple use of the solutions
to the subproblems.  Sadly, conventional techniques of
machine learning and artificial intelligence provide no
effective means for automatically executing this alluring
three-step problem-solving process on a computer.

GENETIC PROGRAMMING II describes a way to
automatically implement this three-step problem-solving
process by means the recently developed technique of
automatically defined functions in the context of genetic
programming.   Automatically defined functions enable
genetic programming to define useful and reusable
subroutines dynamically during a run.  This new technique
is illustrated by solving, or approximately solving, example
problems from the fields of Boolean function learning,
symbolic regression, control, pattern recognition, robotics,
classification, and molecular biology.  In each example, the
problem is automatically decomposed into subproblems;
the subproblems are automatically solved; and the solutions
to the subproblems are automatically assembled into a
solution to the original problem.  Leverage accrues because
genetic programming with automatically defined functions
repeatedly uses the solutions to the subproblems in the
assembly of the solution to the overall problem.  Moreover,
genetic programming with automatically defined functionsn
produces solutions that are simpler and smaller than the
solutions obtained without automatically defined functions.

CONTENTS...

1.  Introduction
2.  Background on Genetic Algorithms, LISP, and Genetic
Programming
3.  Hierarchical Problem-Solving
4.  Introduction to Automatically Defined Functions P The
Two-Boxes Problem
5.  Problems that Straddle the Breakeven Point for
Computational Effort
6.  Boolean Parity Functions
7.  Determining the Architecture of the Program
8.  The Lawnmower Problem
9.  The Bumblebee Problem
10.  The Increasing Benefits of ADFs as Problems are
Scaled Up
11.  Finding an Impulse Response Function
12.  Artificial Ant on the San Mateo Trail
13.  Obstacle-Avoiding Robot
14.  The Minesweeper Problem
15.  Automatic Discovery of Detectors for Letter
Recognition
16.  Flushes and Four-of-a-Kinds in a Pinochle Deck
17.  Introduction to Molecular Biology
18.  Prediction of Transmembrane Domains in Proteins
19.  Prediction of Omega Loops in Proteins
20.  Lookahead Version of the Transmembrane Problem
21.  Evolution of the Architecture of the Overall Program
22.  Evolution of Primitive Functions
23.  Evolutionary Selection of Terminals
24.  Evolution of Closure
25.  Simultaneous Evolution of Architecture, Primitive
Functions, Terminals, Sufficiency, and Closure
26.  The Role of Representation and the Lens Effect
27.  Conclusion
Appendix A:  List of Special Symbols
Appendix B:  List of Special Functions
Bibliography
Appendix C:  List of Type Fonts
Appendix D:  Default Parameters for Controlling Runs of
Genetic Programming
Appendix E:  Computer Implementation of Automatically
Defined Functions
Appendix F: Annotated Bibliography of Genetic
Programming
Appendix G: Electronic Newsletter, Public Repository, and
FTP Site

Hardcover.  746 pages.  ISBN 0-262-11189-6.

- -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Genetic Programming II Videotape:
The Next Generation

by John R. Koza

This videotape provides an explanation of automatically
defined functions, the hierarchical approach to problem
solving by means of genetic programming with
automatically defined functions, and  a visualization of
computer runs for many of the problems discussed in
Genetic Programming II.  These problems include symbolic
regression, the parity problem, the lawnmower problem, the
bumblebee problem, the artificial ant, the impulse response
problem, the minesweeper problem. the letter recognition
problem, the transmembrane problem, and the omega loop
problem.

VHS videotape.  62-Minutes.  Available in VHS NTSC,
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NTSC ISBN 0-262-61099-X.  PAL ISBN 0-262-61100-7.
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Subject: CogSci Summer School
From:    Boicho Kokinov <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 25 May 1994 16:05:57 -0700

The Summer School features introductory and advanced courses in Cognitive
Science, participant symposia, discussions, and student sessions.
Participants will include university teachers and researchers, graduate
and senior undergraduate students.

International Advisory Board

Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy)
Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA)
Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy)
Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland )
Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany)
Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA)
Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany)
Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany)
Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland)
David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA)
Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England)
Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy)

Local Organizers

New Bulgarian University
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgarian Cognitive Science Society

Local Organizing Committee

Boicho Kokinov -  School Director
Lilia Gurova, Vesselin Zaimov, Vassil Nikolov, Lora Likova,
Marina Yoveva, Pasha Nikolova


Courses

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
Christian Freksa (Hamburg University, Germany)

Computer Models of Analogy-Making
Bob French (Indiana University, USA)

Social Cognition
Rosaria Conte (CNR, Roma, Italy)

Multi-Agent Systems
Iain Craig (University of Warwick, England)

Cognitive Aspects of Language Processing
Amedeo Cappelli (CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Catastrophic Forgetting in Connectionist Networks
Bob French (Indiana University, USA)

Dynamic Networks for Cognitive Modeling
Peter Braspenning (University of Limburg, Holland)

Models of Brain Functions
Andre Holley (CNRS, Lyon, France)

Foundations of Cognitive Science
Encho Gerganov, Naum Yakimov, Boicho Kokinov, Viktor Grilihes (New
Bulgarian University, Bulgaria)

Participant Symposia

Participants are invited to submit papers which will be presented (30 min)
at the participant symposia. Authors should send full papers (8 single
spaced pages) in thriplicate or electronically (postcript, RTF, or
plain ASCII) by July 30. Selected papers will be published in the
School's Proceedings after the School itself. Only papers presented
at the School will be eligible for publishing.

Panel Discussions

Integration of Methods and Approaches in Cognitive Science
Trends in Cognitive Science Research

Student Session

At the student session proposals for M.Sc. Theses and Ph.D. Theses will be
discussed as well as public defence of such theses (if presented).

Fees (including participation, board and lodging)

Advance Registration (payment in full, postmarked on or before June 15): $650
Late Registration (postmarked after June 15):                            $750

The fees should be transferred to the New Bulgarian University (for the
Cognitive Science Summer School) at the Economic Bank (65 Maria Luisa Str.,
Sofia) -  bank account 911422735300-8 or paid at registration.

A very limited number of grants for partial support of participants from East
European countries is available.

Important dates:

Send Application Form: now
Deadline for Advance Registration: June 15
Deadline for Paper Submission: July 15


Inquiries, Applications, and Paper Submission to be send to:

Boicho Kokinov
Cognitive Science Department
New Bulgarian University
54, G.M.Dimitrov blvd.
Sofia 1125, Bulgaria
fax: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]   or   [e-mail]

Parallel Events

The International Conference in Artificial Intelligence - AIMSA'94 -
will be held in Sofia in the period September 21-24.

Summer School on Information Technologies - will be held in Sofia in
the period September 16-20.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

           International Summer School in Cognitive Science
                      Sofia, September 12-24, 1994

                            Application Form

Name:
First Name:
Status: faculty / graduate student / undergraduate student / other
Affiliation:
Country:
Mailing address:
e-mail address:
fax:
I intend to submit a paper: (title)


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Subject: NIPS*94 Mosaic hompage now available
From:    David Redish <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sat, 28 May 1994 07:41:50 -0400


There is now a homepage for NIPS*94 at the following url:

        http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/project/cnbc/nips/NIPS.html

Included in this homepage are:
 - the call for papers (html and ascii versions)
 - the call for workshops (html and ascii versions)
 - style files for papers

When they become available, the following will also be added:
 - NIPS*94 program
 - NIPS*94 abstracts
 - NIPS*94 workshops
 - hotel and other local Denver information

- ------------------------------------------------------------
A short description of NIPS*94 follows:

                Neural Information Processing Systems
                       -Natural and Synthetic-
          Monday, November 28 - Saturday, December 3, 1994
                          Denver, Colorado

  This is the  eighth meeting  of an  interdisciplinary  conference
  which   brings   together  neuroscientists,  engineers,  computer
  scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and  mathematicians
  interested    in    all    aspects    of  neural  processing  and
  computation.  The conference will include invited talks, and oral
  and  poster  presentations  of refereed papers.  There will be no
  parallel sessions.  There  will  also  be  one  day  of  tutorial
  presentations  (Nov   28) preceding the  regular session, and two
  days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby ski  area  (Dec
  2-3).

- ------------------------------------------------------------
David Redish
Carnegie Mellon University


------------------------------

Subject: NN and Multimedia
From:    Dagmar Mack <[e-mail]>
Organization: Universitaet Dortmund - WISO - WI
Date:    Tue, 31 May 1994 07:35:04 +0100

HI everybody,

my name is Dagmar Mack and I am new on the list.
The first question I have got hasn't quite so much to do with NN. I
want to know if there is still a list for MULTIMEDIA people. We
intend to combine NNs and multimedia-applications.
So if anybody knows anything about such a list, please let me know!

Yours
Dagmar
- -----------------------------------------------------------
Universitaet Dortmund           Telefon [phone]
Fakultaet WiSo                  Telefax 0049 (0)231 7553158
Lehrstuhl Wirtschaftsinformatik Street: Vogelpothsweg 87
Dipl. Wirt.-Ing. Dagmar Mack            D-44227 Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund


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Subject: Re: Neuron Digest V13 #30 (Postscript to ASCII conversion )
From:    [e-mail] (Zsolt Bagoly)
Date:    Tue, 31 May 1994 09:33:35 -0200

|
| Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
In article "Neuron Digest V13 #30 (questions, jobs, and stuff)"
<[e-mail]> writes:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|...
| Subject: Request for TeX files
| From:    [e-mail]
| Date:    Fri, 22 Apr 1994 20:04:38 -0700
|
| [[ Editor's Note: This is a difficult problem with the new muslti-mudeia
| servers and Internet browsing systems.  If anyone has a general solution,
| please let us know.  Otherwise, I suggest trying to contact the authors
| directly. Is there some type of Postscript to ASCII conversion possible? -PM]]
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes, there's a program called pst:

(c) Copyright 1993 by Panagiotis Tsirigotis All rights reserved.
The file named COPYRIGHT specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.

   NAME
     pst - extract the text of a postscript file
   SYNOPSIS
     pst [-l] [-v] [-d] [-n] [-a algorithm] file
   DESCRIPTION
     This program extracts the text contained in the specified postscript
     file. Such files are typically produced by other programs.  pst needs to
     identify how the file was produced in order to successfully extract the
     text from it.  It currently understands files generated by the following
     programs:
          dvips
          ditroff through psdit
          WordPerfect
          idraw

The package name is pstext-1.0.5.tar.gz (e.g. anonymous ftp from
liasun3.epfl.ch:///pub/ps/pstext-1.0.5.tar.gz). I've tried the ghostscript
ps2ascii.ps file too, but the pst works better for me.

                                        Zsolt
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Zsolt Bagoly   Dept. of Atomic Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary|
|TEL: [phone] OR ([phone]/ext. 433    FAX: [phone] |
|E-MAIL: [e-mail]  OR [e-mail]                    |
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... Ceterum censeo windowsinem esse delendam!


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Subject: Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) version 3.13
From:    Lester Ingber <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 01 Jun 1994 09:18:50 -0700

                Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) version 3.13

The latest Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) code and some related
(p)reprints can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from
ftp.alumni.caltech.edu [131.215.139.234] in the /pub/ingber directory.

A new OPTION now collects data during the global optimization process
to importance-sample the user's variables.

Interactively [brackets signify machine prompts]:
        [your_machine%] ftp ftp.alumni.caltech.edu
        [Name (...):] anonymous
        [Password:] your_e-mail_address
        [ftp>] cd pub/ingber
        [ftp>] binary
        [ftp>] ls
        [ftp>] get file_of_interest
        [ftp>] quit
The 00index file contains an index of the other files and information
on getting gzip and unshar for DOS, MAC, UNIX, and VMS systems.

The latest version of ASA, ASA-x.y (x and y are version numbers), can
be obtained in several formats.  ASA-shar.Z is a compress'd shar'd file
of the current code.  For the convenience of users who do not have any
uncompress/gunzip utility, there is a file ASA-shar which is an
uncompress'd copy of ASA-shar.Z; if you do not have sh or shar, you
still can delete the first-column X's and separate the files at the
END_OF_FILE locations.  There are tar'd versions in compress and gzip
format, ASA.tar.Z and ASA.tar.gz, respectively.  There also is a
current zip'd version, ASA.zip, in which all files have been processed
through unix2dos.  Directory /pub/ingber/0lower.dir contains links to
these files for some PC users who may have difficulty with upper case.

If you do not have ftp access, get information on the FTPmail service
by: mail [e-mail], and send only the word "help" in the
body of the message.

If any of the above are not possible, and if your mailer can handle
large files (please test this first), the code or papers you require
can be sent as uuencoded compressed files via electronic mail.  If you
have gzip, resulting in smaller files, please state this.

Sorry, I cannot assume the task of mailing out hardcopies of code or
papers.  My volunteer time assisting people with their queries on my
codes and papers must be limited to electronic mail correspondence.

To get on or off the ASA_list e-mailings, just send an e-mail to
[e-mail] with your request.  Update notices are
sent to the ASA_list about every month or two, more frequently if
warranted, e.g., in cases of important bug fixes; these notices are the
only e-mail sent to the ASA_list.


Lester

|| Prof. Lester Ingber                                                ||
|| Lester Ingber Research                                             ||
|| P.O. Box 857                     E-Mail: [e-mail] ||
|| McLean, VA  22101      Archive: ftp.alumni.caltech.edu:/pub/ingber ||


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Subject: Hard System for NN
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Fri, 03 Jun 1994 01:01:27 -0200

[[ Editor's Note: I'm not quite sure what this person is asking.  Perhaps
there is eitehr a) a translation problem or b) a meaning of "hard" of
which I'm not aware? Perhaps some kind soul could help? -PM ]]

        I'm trying to find any hard system on PC which could
simulate Neural Networks.

        It's realy inportant for me, thanks
_______________________________________________________________________
I   DURAND E.                     I                                    I
Iat [e-mail] I                                    I
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I_________________________________I____________________________________I




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Subject: solution to mind-body problem
From:    [e-mail] (Wlodzislaw Duch)
Date:    Tue, 07 Jun 1994 13:31:37 +0200

[[ Editor's Note: At last! -PM ]]

I have found an interesting solution to the mind-body problem and would be
grateful for comments on the paper that will be submitted to PSYCOLOQUY
soon. Since the paper has about 46 kB I just give a reference to it.

Our anonymous ftp archive is on

class1.phys.uni.torun.pl

Login as ftp, give your [e-mail] as password

cd pub/publications/kmk

Files are in postscript and are compressed (*.Z type) but the file
m-blong.tex is also stored as an ASCII file (Latex format).

Our site is accessible also via WWW (Mosiac) through Polish home page - look
for Torun at the list of WWW servers, not on the map (the map connects with
a gopher server), or give our machine address as URL.

Wlodzislaw Duch

[e-mail]
Department of Computer Methods
Nicholas Copernicus University
Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland
Tel/Fax ++48-56-21543


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Subject: WWW Neural Network Page at OFAI
From:    Georg Dorffner <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 08 Jun 1994 13:07:06 +0200

[[ Editor's Note: Please check with your local site experts on how to
access Mosiac, WWW, or other sources.  There is much software for
Internet searching available, but it's beyond my scope to explain how to
install and use it. -PM ]]

           =========================================================
                  Announcing a New WWW Page on Neural Networks
                                     at the
            Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
           =========================================================

        As part of the Worl-Wide-Web (WWW) server of the  Department  of
        Medical   Cybernetics   and   Artificial   Intelligence  of  the
        University of Vienna and the  Austrian  Research  Institute  for
        Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)

                        URL: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at

        a home page specifically dedicated to our research and  services
        in neural networks has been established:

             URL: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nn/nngroup.html

        It  gives  a  description  of  the  research   currently   being
        undertaken  at  the  Neural  Network  Group  of  the OFAI, which
        consists of the following four domains:

        - practical applications of neural networks
        - theoretical research on neural networks
        - cognitive modeling with neural networks
        - neural network simulation tools

        A complete list of publications is given, many of which  can  be
        directly retrieved as postscript files.

        Among the local services provided you are welcome to use our

                    ========================================
                     bibliographical search utility BIBLIO,
                    ========================================

        which permits you to search among 3500 books and papers  in  the
        field  of  neural  networks.  Search key can be an author's name
        and/or a string contained in the title. The basis for the search
        is  an  on-line data base containing books, reports, journal and
        conference references, such as  IEEE  and  INNS  neural  network
        conferences. This data base is constantly being extended.

        Finally, links to other neural network WWW  pages,  as  well  as
        data and report repositories are also given.

        Enjoy!


        P.S:  If  you  have   questions   or   difficulties,   mail   to
        [e-mail]



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Subject: Damaged NNs
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Mon, 13 Jun 1994 04:04:09 -0700

Hello ! I'd posted a request concerning damaged NNs some month ago and
received some answers, as well as questions to publish the results.
So here they are

Lesioning an attractor network : investigations of acquiered dyslexia,
G.Hinton, T. Shallice in Psychological Review 1991, Vol.98, No1, p.74-95,
(appeared also Scientific American 1993).

4-2-4 Encoder Death, S.L. Thaler in 1993 World Congress on NN, Portland,
Oregon, July 11-15, p. 180-183.

Alexander Kort.


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Subject: Stats vs ANNs : A Competition
From:    Jim Kay <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 13 Jun 1994 11:48:58 +0000


           Statistics vs. Neural Networks

                  A Competition


Can artificial neural networks outperform statistical methods
in a fair comparison ?

Finding applications where they can is one of the main objectives of a
two-day workshop to be held on April 19-20, 1995 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

We invite entries to this competition which should reach Jim Kay at the address
given below by November the first. The decisions reached will be communicated
to applicants by the 15th of January, 1995.

The best four entries will be selected and one applicant per entry will be
invited to attend the workshop and make an oral presentation of their results;
costs of accommodation and travel (within the UK) will be provided subject to
certain upper bounds.

The other general objectives of the workshop are:

  to discuss problems of statistical interest within ANN research;

  to discuss statistical concepts and tools that expand the technology
  of ANN research;

  to enhance collaborative research involving experts from one or more of
  the two communities.

We look forward to receiving your applications which should include
a contact name and address and be no more than 10 typed A4 pages.


           Jim Kay   and   Mike Titterington

SASS Environmental Modelling Unit
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen AB9 2 QJ
Scotland, UK

e-mail   :  [e-mail] (within the UK)

            [e-mail] (internet address)

Tel.     :  +224 - 318611 (ext. 2269)

Fax      :  +224 - 208065



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Subject: URGENT QUESTION
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Mon, 13 Jun 1994 12:18:35 +0600

Question:

I am interested in any help from anyone out there on the
following subject.

We have become an information gathering
society. One of the areas of interest is the gathering of
large databases of information. I was wondering if
anyone out there might know of databases of biomedical
information and how to access them. For example,
GenBank, census data, databases of medical images,
databases of population statistics, environmental
toxicity data, dental data, etc. If you know of such data,
would you please send me the following information:


Name of Database:
Is the database public or private:
How to contact database or database owner.


I will summarize the responses for the list. This is a
rather urgent request so, rapid answers would be
appreciated. Do not worry about duplicating others.


Feel free to cross post this note to any other lists that
might be appropriate.


Thanks,
Matthew Witten, Ph.D.
Head, Department of Applications Research and Development
Associate Director
UT System Center For High Performance Computing
Balcones Research Center, 1.154 CMS
10100 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758-4497 USA
Phone: [phone]  FAX: [phone]
E-MAIL  [e-mail]


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Subject: Research Opportunities Parallelizing ASA and PATHINT
From:    Lester Ingber <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sun, 05 Jun 1994 10:15:26 -0700

Research Opportunities Parallelizing ASA and PATHINT

I am looking for one to several people with experience parallelizing C
code, e.g., on Crays, to work on parallelizing two specific
algorithms:  (a) Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA), and (b) an
algorithm to calculate the time-development of multi-variable nonlinear
Fokker-Planck-type systems, using a powerful non-Monte Carlo path
integral algorithm (PATHINT).  Some code and papers dealing with these
algorithms can be obtained from ftp.alumni.caltech.edu
[131.215.139.234] in the /pub/ingber directory.

I am PI of an award of Cray time on an NSF Supercomputer, and have
ported these codes successfully onto a C90.  However, I am short of
time to further optimize these codes, which is an essential requirement
before doing production runs on C90 and T3D Crays.  If necessary, I
will do this work myself, but I would rather share the work,
experience, and research with other interested people who also can
expedite these projects.  All code will remain under my copyright under
the GNU General Public License (GPL), i.e., the least restrictive
Library GPL.

There are several immediate projects that are just waiting for detailed
calculations, using codes which already run on SPARCstations, but need
the power of supercomputers for production runs.  All results of these
studies will be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and
only active participants on these projects will be co-authors on these
papers.

Examples of these projects include:
        neuroscience
                EEG correlates of behavioral states
                short-term memory modeling
                realistic chaos + noise modeling
        financial applications
                2- and 3-state term-structure security calculations
                testing of trading rules
        nonlinear modeling
                persistence of chaos in the presence of moderate noise

If you are interested, please send me a short description of projects
you have worked on, and how many hours/week you are prepared to commit
to these projects for at least a period of 6-12 months.

Lester

|| Prof. Lester Ingber                                                ||
|| Lester Ingber Research                                             ||
|| P.O. Box 857                     E-Mail: [e-mail] ||
|| McLean, VA  22101      Archive: ftp.alumni.caltech.edu:/pub/ingber ||


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Subject: Cognitive Science position at Exeter
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Wed, 08 Jun 1994 12:11:44 +0100

Connectionist (especially language & connectionist) applications
are invited for the attached job.    Apologies if this has been
posted before (I'm not on the list!)

Don Mitchell

 ----------------------------------------------------------
                    Department of Computer Science

            Lectureship in Computer Science (Cognitive Science)

 The Department of Computer Science, recently rated excellent by HEFCE
 teaching quality assessment, requires:

                 LECTURER (COGNITIVE SCIENCE) (ref. 3913e)

 from September or as soon as possible. Candidates should have
 research and teaching interests in computational aspects of cognitive
 science (e.g. artificial intelligence, neurocomputing, visualization,
 computational linguistics, computational modelling of mind, cognitive
 architecture). Candidates should have an appropriate PhD and be able to
 contribute to existing research and teaching areas in the
 Department and to the BSc Single Honours interdisciplinary degree in
 Cognitive Science (with the Department of Psychology). Salary up to
 15,796 pounds p.a. on Lecturer A scale 13,601-18,855 pounds p.a.
 (under review).

 Information from Personnel, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QJ;
 [phone], or email [e-mail], quoting the above
 reference number. Closing date 6 July 1994.

 Informal enquiries should be directed towards: Ajit Narayanan,
 Department of Computer Science, [phone], or email:
 [e-mail]


 (Equal Opportunities Employer)


------------------------------

Subject: Postdoctoral Position: Applying Machine Learning to Ecosystem Modeling
From:    Tom Dietterich <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 08 Jun 1994 12:48:02 -0700


Postdoctoral Position: Applying Machine Learning to Ecosystem Modeling

Complex ecosystem models are calibrated by manually fitting them to
available data sets.  This is time-consuming, and it can result in
overfitting of the models to the data.  We are applying machine
learning methods to automate this calibration and thereby improve the
reliability and statistical validity of the resulting models.  Our
ecosystem model--MAPSS--predicts amounts and types of vegetation that
will grow under global warming climate scenarios.  An important goal
of global change research is to incorporate such vegetation models
into existing ocean-atmosphere physical models.

Under NSF funding, we are seeking a Post-Doc to assume a major role in
carrying out this research.  Components of the research involve (a)
representing ecosystem models declaratively, (b) implementing
gradient and non-gradient search techniques for parameter fitting,
(c) implementing parallel algorithms for running and fitting the
ecosystem model, and (d) conducting basic research on issues of
combining prior knowledge with data to learn effectively.  The ideal
candidate will have a PhD in computer science or a closely related
discipline with experience in neural networks, simulated annealing
(and similar search procedures), knowledge representation, and
parallel computing.  The candidate must know or be eager to learn some
basic plant physiology and soil hydrology.  Computational resources
for this project include a 16-processor 1Gflop Meiko multicomputer and
a 128-processor CNAPS neurocomputer.

Applicants should send a CV, summary of research accomplishments,
sample papers, and 3 letters of reference to

Thomas G. Dietterich
303 Dearborn Hall
Department of Computer Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
[e-mail]

Principal investigators:
Thomas G. Dietterich, Department of Computer Science
Ron Nielson, US Forest Service

OSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and Complies
with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.  OSU has a policy
of being responsive to the needs of dual-career couples.

Closing Date: July 5, 1994



------------------------------

Subject: Research position available
From:    Jakob Carlstr|m <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 13 Jun 1994 10:59:34 +0200



                   RESEARCH POSITION AVAILABLE:
       Hardware implementation of artificial neural networks


A research position is available in the field of hardware implementation
of artificial neural networks, at the Department of Computer Systems, Uppsala
University, Sweden.

The position is open to a scientist with a solid background in neural
networks and familiarity with analog and digital electronic circuit
construction as well as VLSI design. A candidate of postdoctoral or
equivalent status will be preferred.

The position will be in a new project for developing neural network
algorithms and hardware, aiming at VLSI implementations. The researcher
is expected to play a major role in this project. The position is tenable
for one year at minimum, possibly longer.

Uppsala University is Scandinavia's oldest university, founded in 1477, and
offers a stimulating research environment. The Department of Computer Systems
conducts research on artificial neural networks, real-time systems and
formal methods for concurrent systems.

The neural networks group was formed in 1991, and consists of four graduate
students supervised by Associate Professor Lars Asplund. We have published
reports on neural network-based control of digital telecom networks, and on
hardware architectures for neural networks.

Further information may be obtained from Associate Professor Lars Asplund,
Department of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Box 325, S-751 05
Uppsala, Sweden; fax [phone]; email [e-mail].

Applicants should send a full CV, sample papers and the names and addresses
of two professional referees to the above address.

Closing date: August 8, 1994.


------------------------------

Subject: PostDoc position
From:    Gilbert Chauvet <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 13 Jun 1994 17:41:01 -0700


Post Doc position available in:  MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Institute of Theoretical Biology, University of ANGERS (FRANCE),
beginning the 1st January 1995, for 2 years.

Qualification: PhD in Applied Mathematics
Project: Modeling in Neurobiology using non-local reaction diffusion
equations in general (numerical and theoretical aspects). Methods
will be applied to hippocampus.

Contact: Pr G.A. Chauvet, IBT
e-mail: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]
Fax:  [phone]


------------------------------

Subject: Fall School on Connectionism and Neural Nets HeKoNN 94 (in German)
From:    [e-mail] (Franz Kurfess)
Date:    Mon, 30 May 1994 17:34:32 +0200

[[ Editor's Note: This may be for a limited audience, but we have many
subsribers in German-speaking countries.  Further, other researchers with
good language skills may be interested.  I readers feel strongly about
keeping the Digest English-only, please feel free to send comments to
[e-mail]. -PM ]]

Below please find the announcement and call for participation of HeKoNN
94, a fall school on connectionism and neural networks to take place
October 10-14, 1994 near Muenster, Germany.  The courses will be held in
German, so this will not be of much interest for people who don't speak
German.

Franz Kurfess



                        HeKoNN 94
        Herbstschule Konnektionismus und Neuronale Netze
                Muenster, 10.-14.10.1994


Im kommenden Oktober veranstalten die Fachgruppen "Konnektionismus" und
"Neuronale Netze" der GI (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) eine Herbstschule
zu dem Themenbereich Konnektionismus und neuronale Netze.  Sie bietet
Einfuehrungen und vertiefende Darstellungen zu folgenden Themen:
Grundlagen und Statistik, Implementierungen und Anwendungen, symbolischer
Konnektionismus und kognitiver Konnektionismus.

Konnektionistische Modelle und neuronale Netze sind einerseits inspiriert
von biologischen Vorbildern, insbesondere dem menschlichen Gehirn, dienen
andererseits inzwischen aber auch als praktikable Mechanismen zur Loesung
konkreter Probleme. Durch diese Dichotomie ergibt sich die Gefahr von
vielerlei Missverstaendnissen und unrealistischen Erwartungen, sei es
bezueglich der Leistungsfaehigkeit im Vergleich zu herkoemmlichen
Methoden, oder der Moeglichkeit biologische Systeme "nachzubauen".

Seit etwa Mitte der achtziger Jahre ist das Backpropagation Modell vielen
gelaeufig. Viel zu wenig bekannt sind aber theoretische Ergebnisse zu den
Eigenschaften dieses und alternativer Verfahren und ueber die
Zuverlaessigkeit der Methoden. Es ist heute klar, dass neuronale Netze in
enger thematischer Verwandtschaft mit Statistik, Funktionsapproximation,
und theoretischer Physik stehen und viele der dort gewonnen Erkenntnisse
auch hier anwendbar sind.

Darueberhinaus besteht noch ein recht grosses Defizit bei Fragen, die
sich mit den biologischen, kognitiven und psychologischen Aspekten
neuronaler Netze befassen.  Hierbei dreht es sich um Konzepte zur
Modellierung von Verhaltensweisen und Denkprozessen auf der Basis
neuronaler Netze.  Beispiele hierfuer sind die Repraesentation von
"Wissen", insbesondere die Verankerung von internen Darstellungen mit den
zugehoerigen Objekten der realen Welt, oder auch das Durchfuehren von
einfachen Schlussfolgerungen.  Solche Fragen sind nicht nur von
akademischem Interesse, sondern ergeben sich auch beim Zusammenspiel von
eher symbolorientierter Wissensverarbeitung, z.B. in Expertensystemen,
und eher datenorientierten Verfahren etwa in der Mustererkennung.  Und
genau an dieser Stelle liegen auch viele Schwierigkeiten von
herkoemmlichen Verfahren der Kuenstlichen Intelligenz, etwa in den
Bereichen Sprach- oder Bildverarbeitung.

Die Herbstschule bietet eine umfassende und fachuebergreifende
Darstellung des Themengebiets mit besonderer Betonung der obigen
Fragestellungen. Zwanzig aktive Wissenschaftler konnten als Dozenten
gewonnen werden, die jeweils 8-stuendige Kurse abhalten.  Die Kurse sind
in vier Bereiche eingeteilt:

* Grundlagen und Statistik
* Implementierungen und Anwendungen
* Symbolischer Konnektionismus
* Kognitiver Konnektionismus

Im ersten Bereich -- Grundlagen und Statistik -- gibt es fuenf Kurse, in
denen die Grundlagen von Konnektionismus und neuronalen Netzen erlaeutert
werden.  Dabei geht es zunaechst um die Vorstellung der haeufig
verwendeten Modelle sowie die Einfuehrung der entsprechenden Fachbegriffe
und Algorithmen. Ein Kurs bietete eine Einfuehrung in die Grundlagen,
Zielsetzungen und Forschungsfragen des Gebietes 'Konnektionismus' bzw.
'Neuronale Netzwerke' vom Standpunkt der K"unstlichen-Intelligenz-
Forschung. Ein zweiter Kurs diskutiert neuronale Netze aus dem
Blickwinkel der Approximationstheorie und Statistik.  Hierbei wird
besonderes Gewicht auf die Diskussion der Eigenschaften der verschiedenen
Lern- und Optimierungsverfahren fuer die gaengigen Netzwerktypen gelegt.
Ein anderer Kurs untersucht die Eignung kuenstlicher Neuronaler Netze als
Modelle biologischer Vorgaenge.  Die Betonung liegt hierbei auf dem
erforderlichen Realitaetsgrad der Netze bei der Simulation der
Informationsverarbeitung in den Nervensystemen von Lebewesen.
Entscheidend fuer den praktischen Einsatz neuronaler Netze bei der
Prognose und Prozesssteuerung ist die Zuverlaessigkeit der Ergebnisse.
Ein spezieller Kurs zu dieser Fragestellung stellt Methoden zur
Abschaetzung der Zuverlaessigkeit, zur Verbesserung der
Prognosegenauigkeit und zur Optimierung der Netzwerktopologie vor.
Besonders vielversprechend sind hier genetische Algorithmen, die ein
globales Optimum fuer Funktionen mit vielen Nebenmaxima bestimmen
koennen. Diese Verfahren werden in einem weitereren Kurs diskut iert.


Der zweite Bereich -- Implementierungen und Anwendungen -- beinhaltet
vier Kurse. In diesen Kursen werden zum einen mit SNNS und SESAME zwei
weit verbreitete Public-Domain-Simulationswerkzeuge mit graphischer
Benutzeroberflaeche vorgestellt, wobei praktische Uebungen am Rechner
vorgesehen sind. Ein Schwerpunkt dieser Simulatoren ist die flexible
Aenderung bestehender Netzstrukturen sowie die schnelle und sichere
Modifikation von Lernverfahren. Waehrend der SNNS grossen Wert auf die
graphischen Oberfl"ache unter X-Windows zur Generierung, Visualisierung
und Modifikation der neuronalen Netze legt, hat Sesame seinen Schwerpunkt
in einem modularen Experimentdesign, dass schnellen flexiblen Austausch
einzelner Komponenten sicherstellt und durch Modularisierung die
Konstruktion neuer Algorithmen unterstuetzt.  Ein anderer Kurs
praesentiert den derzeitigen Stand der Technik bei der
Hardwareimplementierung neuronaler Netze. Hierbei handelt es sich
einerseits um Zusatzkarten f"ur konventionelle Arbeitsplatzrechner und
spezielle Parallelrechnersysteme, und zum anderen um Architekturen auf
der Basis von anwendungsspezifischen mikroelektronischen Bausteinen, die
entweder digital oder analog sein k"onnen.  Als eine Anwendung werden
schliesslich neuronale Netze im Bereich der Robotik diskutiert.
Kuenstliche Neuronale Netze erscheinen hier geignet weil sie aus
Trainingsbeispielen selbst"andig relevante Informationen extrahieren
koennen. Schwerpunkt ist die Frage, ob sich hieraus in der Praxis
Vorteile gegenueber den klassischen analytischen Verfahren der Robotik
ergeben.

Der dritte Bereich -- Symbolischer Konnektionismus -- versucht, den
Zusammenhang herzustellen zwischen symbolorientierten Methoden der
Kuenstlichen Intelligenz und sub-symbolischen Methoden, die meist im
sensornahen Bereich, also bei der Datenerfassung vorliegen.  Neuronale
Netze werden gerade im datennahen Bereich oft mit Erfolg eingesetzt, sind
jedoch nicht so ohne weiteres dafuer geeignet, Manipulationen auf
Zeichenreihen von Symbolen durchzufuehren.  Eine wichtige Fragestellungen
hierbei ist die Ueberfuehrung von Rohdaten, wie etwa von einer Kamera
aufgenommene Bilder oder von einem Mikrophon registrierte akustische
Signale, in eine symbolische Form, auf der dann konventionelle Werkzeuge
wie Expertensysteme aufsetzen koennen.  Ein anderer wichtiger Aspekt ist
die Extraktion von Wissen aus neuronalen Netzen, etwa zur Erklaerung
ihres Verhaltens oder zur Darstellung der von dem Netzwerk gelernten
Information in Form von Regeln.

Der letzte Bereich schliesslich -- Kognitiver Konnektionismus -- befasst
sich mit der Verwendung neuronaler Netze als Modelle fuer Wahrnehmung und
Denkprozesse.  Zum einen werden hier wichtige grundlegende Probleme
dieser Modelle vor einem eher philosophischen Hintergrund diskutiert, zum
anderen aber auch Ansaetze zur Modellierung von Phaenomenen wie
Konzeptrepraesentation, Lernen, und Gedaechtnis besprochen. Weitere
Themen betreffen die Untersuchung und Modellierung von
informationsverarbeitenden Teilsystemen im Gehirn, etwa der
Sprachverarbeitung oder des visuellen Systems.

Die Kurse zu den vier obigen Bereichen werden parallel abgehalten; es ist
hierbei jedoch nicht notwendig, einen Bereich als Gesamtes auszuwaehlen,
sondern die Teilnehmer koennen und sollen Kurse aus verschiedenen
Bereichen belegen.  Die Herbstschule wird im Jugendgaestehaus Aasee bei
Muenster stattfinden, wo sowohl die Teilnehmer als auch die Dozenten
untergebracht sein werden.  Dadurch soll die Moeglichkeit geboten werden,
auch ausserhalb der eigentlichen Lehrveranstaltungen in einer zwanglosen
Atmosphaere ueber interessante Fragestellungen weiterzudiskutieren.

Angesprochen werden sollen insbesondere fortgeschrittenne Studenten sowie
Praktiker aus Forschung und Industrie.  Die Zahl der Teilnehmer ist auf
100 beschraenkt.  Der Preis fuer Studenenten wurde relativ niedrig
gehalten (ca. 410,- DM incl Tagungsunterlagen und Vollpension).  Um das
Niveau der Tagung zu sichern, erfolgt die Auswahl der Teilnehmer auf
Grund einer Bewerbung. Hierbei werden Vorkenntnisse, praktische
Erfahrungen und das spezielle Interesse an Fragen des Konnektionismus und
der Neuronalen Netze beruecksichtigt.  Anmeldeschluss ist der

        - - - 1. Juli 1994 - - -

Im Organisations- und Programmkomitee sind
        Ingo Duwe, Uni Bielefeld,
        Franz Kurfess, Uni Ulm,
        Gerhard Paass, GMD Sankt Augustin (Vorsitz),
        Guenther Palm, Uni Ulm,
        Helge Ritter, Uni Bielefeld,
        Stefan Vogel, Uni Koeln.
Weitere Informationen sind erhaeltlich per anonymem ftp von
"ftp.gmd.de", Directory "/Learning/neural/HeKoNN94", per electronic
mail von "[e-mail]",
oder vom
        Tagungssekretariat HeKoNN 94
        c/o Birgit Lonsinger,
        Universitaet Ulm
        Fakultaet fuer Informatik
        Abteilung Neuroinformatik
        D-89069 Ulm
        Tel: [phone]
        Fax: [phone]


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Neuron Digest   Wednesday, 29 Jun 1994
                Volume 13 : Issue 34

Today's Topics:
                  Journal of Artificial Neural Systems
                         NN-Shell NeuralWorks???
                             Re: Damaged NNs
         Mailing List on Evolutionary Design of Neural Networks
              Cambridge Neural Networks Summer School 1994
                   Neural Network Meeting in New York


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Subject: Journal of Artificial Neural Systems
From:    "danial (d.j.c.) murray" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 14 Jun 1994 17:00:00 -0400

*********************** ANNOUNCEMENT ****************************

The Bellwood Research Center
Journal of Artificial Neural Systems

Advance copies of the first issue of V.1994 are now available.

Contents:

An Adaptive Back-Propagation Neural Network
        Y. Zhang, P. Sen & G.E. Hearn

Application of Neural and Fuzzy Image Interpretation and Analysis
Methods to an Industrial Quality Control Problem
        W. Poechmueller, S.K. Halgamuge & M. Glesner

Dynamically Generated Neural Network Architectures
        L.M. Sztandera

Neural Computability II
        M. Garzon & S. Franklin

Neural Networks with On-Chip Learning for Robust Estimation of
Principal Components in Real Time
        A. Cichocki, R. Unbehauen & A. Krzyzak

The Bellwood Research Center Journal of Artificial Neural
Systems (ISSN 1195-8103) is published quarterly.  Subscription
rates are US$192 annually or US$48 per issue.  Advance copies
of V.1994 #1 may be obtained now by sending US$18.50 to ...

        Journal of Artificial Neural Systems
        Bellwood Research Center
        17 Briston Private
        Ottawa, Ontario
        Canada, K1G 5R5

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

The Bellwood Research Center
Journal of Artificial Neural Systems
1994 Edition

The Journal of Artificial Neural Systems is intended to provide
a forum for theoretical and practical advances in the field of
neural networks.  Submissions should consist of full-length
original papers describing theoretical and/or practical research.

Interested parties should submit three copies of their original
work to ...

        Journal of Artificial Neural Systems
        Bellwood Research Center
        17 Briston Private
        Ottawa, Ontario
        Canada, K1G 5R5

Authors should describe work that is interesting to a broad
spectrum of ANS researchers, including theoreticians and
practicioners.

Contributions will be reviewed in approximately six to eight
weeks.  If a paper is accepted, the editors may require minor
revisions.  If a paper requires substantial revisions, it will
not be accepted.

Authors are not required to transfer copyright of their article
to the publishers.  The author simply agrees to allow the
Bellwood Research Center to publish his/her contribution in the
Journal of Artificial Neural Systems.

Contributions must be original and cannot be under review or
pending publication by another journal.

Authors must submit three copies of their contribution
in camera-ready form on 8.5"x11" paper (single-sided).
Contributions should not exceed twenty pages.  A separate title
page must include the title, the name(s) of the author(s),
contact information and an abstract (maximum 200 words).  Pages
should be numbered in light pencil on the blank side.

Thank you for your interest in the Bellwood Research Center ...
and good luck!


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Subject: NN-Shell NeuralWorks???
From:    Dagmar Mack <[e-mail]>
Organization: Universitaet Dortmund - WISO - WI
Date:    Wed, 15 Jun 1994 07:15:51 +0100

Hello,

I have got a question. We intend to buy the NN-shell NeuralWorks
Professional (in the latest version). Does anybody know where and how
to get it?

Thanks
Dagmar Mack
- -----------------------------------------------------------
Universitaet Dortmund           Telefon [phone]
Fakultaet WiSo                  Telefax 0049 (0)231 7553158
Lehrstuhl Wirtschaftsinformatik Street: Vogelpothsweg 87
Dipl. Wirt.-Ing. Dagmar Mack            D-44227 Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund


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Subject: Re: Damaged NNs
From:
 dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ksp
[e-mail] (Kevin Spencer)
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
Date:    15 Jun 1994 19:14:59 +0000

"Neuron-Digest Moderator" <[e-mail]> writes:

>Hello ! I'd posted a request concerning damaged NNs some month ago and
>received some answers, as well as questions to publish the results.
>So here they are

>Lesioning an attractor network : investigations of acquiered dyslexia,
>G.Hinton, T. Shallice in Psychological Review 1991, Vol.98, No1, p.74-95,
>(appeared also Scientific American 1993).

>4-2-4 Encoder Death, S.L. Thaler in 1993 World Congress on NN, Portland,
>Oregon, July 11-15, p. 180-183.

>Alexander Kort.

There is a very good (IMHO) paper by Farah et al. in a recent issue of
Psychological Review (1993 or '94) in which the authors simulated proso-
pagnosia.  In it, the authors suggested on the basis of their model that
there could be a unitary system for face recognition, instead of the
"dual-system" (my term) accounts of overt/covert face recognition.  I
thought it was a nice example of connectionist modeling in cognitive
neuroscience.

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Kevin Spencer
Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[e-mail] / [e-mail]
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Subject: Mailing List on Evolutionary Design of Neural Networks
From:    GANN Mailing list (Vasant Honavar) <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 16 Jun 1994 14:50:22 -0500




                        ** Announcement **
        ** A Mailing List on Evolutionary Design of Neural Networks **

The neuro-evolution e-mail list (which was originally started by
Mike Rudnick but has been defunct for a couple of years due to
logistic problems) is being restarted under the new name `gann'.

The gann list will focus on the use of evolutionary algorithms
(genetic algorithms, genetic programming and their variants) in
the exploration of the design space of (artificial) neural network
architectures and algorithms.

The list will be semi-moderated to keep the signal to noise ratio as
high as possible.

MEMBERSHIP AND SCOPE:

The membership on the list is open to researchers who are actively
working in this area. The primary objective of the mailing list is
to foster interaction and sharing of new research results, publications,
conference announcements, and other useful information among researchers
in this area.

A partial list of topics of particular interest includes:
        Genetic Representation (Blueprints) of Neural Networks
        Encoding and Decoding of Network Blueprints
        Complexity issues
        Development models
        Learning models
        Representational Bias
        Efficiency Issues
        Properties of Representation
        Experimental Results
        Theoretical Considerations

Details of operation of the mailing list follow:

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     mail to [e-mail]  with "Subject":   subscribe
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     [e-mail]

  All articles/notes/replies-to-queries/submissions to the list
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_______________________________________________________________________

Dr. Vasant Honavar                      Dr. Mike Rudnick
Assistant Professor                     Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Neuroscience         Computer Science
Department of Computer Science          Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University                   Tulane University
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Mr. Karthik  Balakrishnan
Doctoral Student
Artificial Intelligence Research Group
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Iowa State University
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Subject: Cambridge Neural Networks Summer School 1994
From:    [e-mail] (Richard Prager)
Date:    Mon, 20 Jun 1994 16:46:34 -0000

       Cambridge University Engineering Department in Collaboration
           Cambridge University Programme for Industry Announce
             The Fourth Annual Neural Networks Summer School
                          3 1/2 day short course
                           19-22 September 1994

                        KOHONEN   JORDAN   SUTTON
                   BOURLARD   DAUGMAN   JERVIS   MACKAY
                NIRANJAN   PRAGER   ROBINSON   TARRASENKO

        +--------------------------------------------------------+
        | Thanks to support from the ESPRC we are this year able |
        | to offer fully funded places for selected UK research  |
        | students.      There is also a large academic discount.|
        | See below for details of how to apply for these places.|
        +--------------------------------------------------------+



OUTLINE AND AIM OF THE COURSE

Recently, much progress has been made in the area of neural computing,
bringing together a range of powerful techniques from parallel computing,
nonlinear functional analysis, statistical inference and dynamical systems
theory.  There is much potential in this area for solving a range of
interesting and difficult problems, with commercial and industrial
applications.  The course will give a broad introduction to the
application and design of neural networks and deal with both the theory
and with specific applications.  Survey material will be given, together
with recent research results in architecture and training methods, and
applications including signal processing, control, speech, robotics and
human vision.  Design methodologies for a number of common neural network
architectures will be covered, together with the theory behind neural
network algorithms.  Participants will learn the strengths and weaknesses
of the neural network approach, and how to assess the potential of the
technology in respect of their own requirements.  Lectures will be given
by international experts in the field, and delegates will have the
opportunity of learning first hand the technical and practical details of
recent work in neural networks from those who are contributing to those
developments.


LABORATORY DEMONSTRATIONS

Informal evening visits to Cambridge University Engineering Department
laboratories, which will include demonstrations of a number of current
research projects.


POSTER SESSION

There will be an informal poster session in which delegates may present
their current work or interests should they so wish.  Please contact the
Course Administrator for further details.


LECTURERS

DR HERVE BOURLARD is with Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products in Brussels.
    He has made many contributions to the subject particularly in the area
    of speech recognition.

DR JOHN DAUGMAN came to Cambridge in 1991 as a Senior Research Fellow in
    Zoology (computational neuroscience) and is now a Lecturer in
    Artificial Intelligence in the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge
    University.  His areas of research and publication include
    computational neuroscience, multi-dimensional signal processing and
    pattern recognition, machine vision and biological vision.

DR TIMOTHY JERVIS is with Schlumberger Cambridge Research Ltd.  His
    interests lie in the field of neural networks and in the application
    of Bayesian statistical techniques to learning control.

PROFESSOR MICHAEL JORDAN is in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Science
    at MIT.  He was a founding member of the PDP research group and he
    made many contributions to the subject particularly in forward and
    inverse systems.

PROFESSOR TEUVO KOHONEN is with the Academy of Finland and Laboratory of
    Computer and Information Science at Helsinki University of Technology.
    His specialities are in self-organising maps and their applications.

DR DAVID MACKAY is the Royal Society Smithson Research Fellow at Cambridge
    University and works on Bayesian methods and non-linear modelling at
    the Cavendish Laboratory.  He obtained his PhD in Computation and
    Neural Systems at California Institute of Technology.

DR MAHESAN NIRANJAN is with the Department of Engineering at Cambridge
    University.  His specialities are in speech processing and pattern
    classification.

DR RICHARD PRAGER is with the Department of Engineering at Cambridge
   University.  His specialities are in speech and vision processing.

DR TONY ROBINSON is with the Department of Engineering at Cambridge
   University.  His specialities are in recurrent networks and speech
   processing.

DR RICH SUTTON is with the Adaptive Systems Department of GTE Laboratories
   near Boston, USA.  His specialities are in reinforcement learning,
   planning and animal learning behaviours.

DR LIONEL TARASSENKO is with the Department of Engineering at the
    University of Oxford.  His specialities are in robotics and the
    hardware implementation of neural computing.


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is intended for engineers, software specialists and other
scientists who need to assess the current potential of neural networks.
Delegates will have the opportunity to learn at first hand the technical
and practical details of recent work in this field.

The Neural Networks Summer School has been running for four consecutive
years and has consistently received high praise from those who have
attended.  We attract lecturers of international stature, and speakers
this year will include Professor Teuvo Kohonen, Professor Michael Jordan,
Dr Rich Sutton, Dr Lionel Tarassenko, Dr David MacKay and Dr John Daugman.


PROGRAMME

The course will be structured to enable full discussion periods between
lecturers and delegates.  All the formal sessions will be covered by
comprehensive course notes.  Lecture subjects will include:

**Introduction and overview**
     Connectionist computing: an introduction and overview
     Programming a neural network
     Parallel distributed processing perspective
     Theory and parallels with conventional algorithms
**Architectures**
     Pattern processing and generalisation
     Bayesian methods and non-linear modelling
     Reinforcement learning neural networks
     Multiple expert networks
     Self organising neural networks
     Feedback networks for optimization
**Applications**
     System identifications
     Time series predictions
     Learning forward and inverse dynamical models
     Control of nonlinear dynamical systems using neural networks
     Artificial and biological vision systems
     Silicon VLSI neural networks
     Applications to diagnostic systems
     Applications to speech recognition
     Applications to mobile robotics
     Financial system modelling
     Applications in medical diagnostics


COURSE FEES and ACCOMMODATION

The course fee is 750 UK pounds (350 UK pounds with academic discount for
full time students and faculty of higher education institutes), payable in
advance, and includes a full set of course notes, a certificate of
attendance, and all day-time refreshments for the duration of the course.
In order to benefit fully from the course we strongly recommend that
delegates elect to be residential as courses are designed to allow planned
and informal discussions in the evening.  Accommodation can be arranged in
college rooms with shared facilities at Corpus Christi College at 187
UKpounds for 4 nights to include bed and breakfast, dinner and a Course
Dinner.  If you would prefer to make your own arrangements please indicate
on the registration form and details of local hotels will be sent to you.



EPSRC SPONSORED PLACES

A limited number of EPSRC sponsored places are available for all full time
UK registered students.  However, priority placement will be given to
students with EPSRC (SERC) funding.  Sponsorship covers all course fees,
meals and college accommodation (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights
only).  To be considered for a place, please send a one page summary of
current research including how you expect to benefit by attending, a
curriculum vitae, a letter of recommendation from your supervisor and the
nature of your current funding.
The deadline for applications is 1 August 1994.

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I wish to REGISTER for the course:  "Neural Networks Summer School"

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For further information contact:

Rebecca Simons, Course Administrator
University of Cambridge Programme for Industry
1 Trumpington Street, Cambridge  CB2 1QA
Tel:[phone]
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Email: [e-mail]



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Subject: Neural Network Meeting in New York
From:    psitcct!ct_nsa![e-mail] (Ken Kleinberg)
Organization: New Science Associates
Date:    Mon, 20 Jun 1994 23:21:35 -0400


                      Neural Network Meeting in NYC on July 13, 1994
NEURAL NET SIG MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT for Wednesday, July 13, 1994 in New York
City

SMART-F$
Society for the Mgmt. of Advanced and Relevant Technologies in Financial
Services

We are pleased to announce the Neural Network meeting announcement of the
summer!  On Wednesday, July 13, 1994, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM, we will be
holding a special morning event on the use of Neural Networks for Database
Mining.   Our keynote speaker will be Paul Gregory, Managing Director of
UK-based Recognition Systems.  Mr. Gregory is also the director of the
Neurodata Consortium, sponsored by the British Government and Industry.  His
appearance is being sponsored by partner company Adaptive Solutions, a
leader in the development of the massively parallel CNAPS pattern
recognition co-processor and development environment.

Database mining is a method of searching large datastores for important and
relevant relationships.  Mr. Gregory will address the use of neural database
mining techniques in application areas such as forecasting customer churn,
managing pension funds, targeting prospects for the direct marketing of
financial services, as well as filling in gaps in your databases and using
time-series tools to identify trends and forecast future values in your
business data.  As usual, this meeting will also provide an excellent
opportunity for participants to network and catch up on what's happening in
the financial neural network community.

The event is being held at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, 7th
Avenue at 53rd Street in Manhattan, Riverside Suite.  Coffee at 8:30,
Meeting to start at 9:00 AM.  There is no need to confirm your attendance,
although I would appreciate hearing from you in advance so that we can be
sure to have adequate coffee available!  You can leave a message by calling
my voice mail at 203-964-0096 or e-mailing me at the address below.

Once again, you must be a paid SMART-F$ member to attend a SIG meeting.
However, everyone is invited to attend one function to see if SMART-F$ meets
their needs.  Those who have already attended a SIG meeting or SMART-F$
meeting are asked to join the organization.  Membership applications and
payment will be possible at the meeting.  SMART-F$ membership cost is $40
per year for users, $100 for consultants and vendors and free to full time
students.

Kenneth A. Kleinberg, Research Director Advanced Technologies Q The Gartner
Group, 56 Top Gallant Road, Stamford, CT 06904-2212, phone [phone], fax
203-975-6576, e-mail [e-mail]


The following is for people who want more information about SMART-F$.  Note
that this organization produces no written material and is primarily of
value to those who can attend the meetings held in New York City.

What follows is information on SMART-F$

SMART-F$ - Society for the Management of Artificial Intelligence Resources
and Technologies in the Financial Services. (we just changed this to read
Advanced and Relavant instead of AI Resources).

Knowledge is Power... SMART-F$ offers you Knowledge!

What is SMART-F$?

SMART-F$ was formed in 1987 by a small groups of artificial intelligence
(AI) professionals committed to fostering the wider application of
artificial intelligence technologies in financial services companies.  The
founding members conceived the association as a forum for communication
among the growing cadre of analysts, systems developers, and executives who
recognized the potential of AI in their businesses.

SMART-F$ is a not-for-profit professional association with a growing
corporate sponsorship and hundreds of members.  Its members included AI
systems developers, strategic technology planners, knowledge engineers,
consultants, MIS managers, sales and marketing professionals, auditors,
scientists, executives of AI firms, professors, and students.

SMART-F$ members are supported by organizations that range from commercial
and retail banks, the stock exchanges, investment firms, and insurance
companies, to AI hardware and software vendors, consultants and
university-affiliated researchers.

The Bottom Line in AI

Consulting firms can tell you where your firm ought to be in AI by the year
2000.  Vendors can tell you how their products will get you there.  What
SMART-F$ can give you is access to objective, practical knowledge that can
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*  choose wisely among AI technologies and applications to maximize your
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*  learn how others are applying these technologies in a variety of
businesses.

*  get independent viewpoints on what the major systems vendors are doing in
AI, as well as the activities of smaller hardware and software firms.

*  understand the issues involved in introducing an AI development project
to senior management, to your MIS group, to the user community.

*  make sense of the complex world of emerging technologies and its
sometimes quizzical jargon, like fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms.

New to the field of AI?  Need more resources for AI projects?

Is AI part of your strategic business direction?  Maybe your firm has had
some success applying a particular technology and now wants to go further.
Many SMART-F$ members are new to this field, but others are at the cutting
edge in both applications and technologies.

SMART-F$ is an interactive forum for information exchange, a network of AI
professionals.  SMART-F$ is a resource to help you meet the strategic an
tactical challenges to your firm's entry into AI development.  It's a place
to ask the questions no one in your firm can answer for you - questions
like:

*  "My advanced technology group is very small.  How do I effectively
transfer this technology across my company?"

*  "How do I introduce AI to the MIS group and get their support in linking
to existing systems?"

*  "How do I cost-justify emerging technologies?  Will traditional
cost-benefit models work?"

*  My firm hasn't even investigated AI  How do we get started?"

Whether its your first project or your twentieth, you want a strong win.
Knowledge is power.  We are your AI knowledgebase.

What does SMART-F$ offer?

*  Five (New York City) Meetings a year where renowned industry leaders
speak on AI issues, projects and products.

*  Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that focus on areas like career
development, neural networks, and investment management, and a support
system to help form SIGs in other areas of interest.

*  A network of AI professionals from hundreds of companies that have
already invested in AI, are reaping its benefits and want to talk about it!

AI SPECIALTIES

Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Abductive Reasoning, Knowledge Engineering,
Genetic Algorithms, Case-Based Reasoning, Object-Oriented Technologies,
Natural Language Processing, etc.

Past programs have included:

*  Doug Lenat of MCC talked about his project to develop a 10-million fact
"common sense knowledgebase".

*  A technology "shootout" between AICorp, AION, DEC, IBM, Inference and
Neuron Data analyzing their 12 month product forecasts.

*  Adele Goldberg, of ParcPlace Systems, on object-oriented systems.

*  Esther Dyson, of EDventure Holdings and publisher of Release 1.0, on
Natural Language.

*  Ed Mahler, of du Pont, on Technology Transfer strategies.

AI APPLICATIONS

Underwriting, Trading Systems, Risk Assessment, Fraud Detection, Image
Processing, Customer Service, Intelligent Front-Ends and
Integration/Connectivity, etc.

How Do I Join?

To join SMART-F$, send the following information and your check made out to
SMART-F$ to:

SMART-F$
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PO Box 6131
NY, NY  10150

Include your name, title, company, address, city, state, zip, phone #, fax
#.

Cost for one year is:

AI End User - $40.00
Vendor/Consultant - $100.00
Full-time Student - Free

If you are not ready to join at this time, indicate you would like to be on
the mailing list, or indicate you would like someone to contact you.  You
can also include a note indicating your specific interests.

SMART-F$ Tax ID # 13-3585569





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Neuron Digest   Thursday, 30 Jun 1994
                Volume 13 : Issue 35

Today's Topics:
                       Traffic Monitoring Position
                        Letter from Alan Lapedes
                          Postdoctoral Position
         JOB OPPORTUNITY IN NN at university of marburg, germany
                              WWW URL list
              searchable bibliographic databases available
          Re: How about some WWW structure to all these papers?
          Re: How about some WWW structure to all these papers?
                          neural software list
    1) NN Hardware 2) state of the art perf in character recognition.
        Announcing the "lutear-auditory-simulation" Mailing List
                    List of Challenge Problems in ANN


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Subject: Traffic Monitoring Position
From:    [e-mail] (C James Elliott)
Date:    Thu, 23 Jun 1994 15:37:16 +0700

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:

Chaparral Systems Corporation has an immediate opening
for a Research Associate in the field of Highway Traffic
Monitoring and Analysis.  The successful applicant will
perform research associated with the traffic data portion
of the Long Term Pavement Performance project, funded by
the Federal Highway Administration.  Funding for the project
is anticipated through 1997.  Research activities will
include the investigation of pattern recognition techniques
in traffic data quality assurance, techniques for seasonal
factoring of traffic volume and loading estimates, and topics
related to traffic data collection and analysis with emphasis
on vehicle class and weigh-in-motion.

The ideal candidate would have the following qualifications:

Graduate Degree in engineering statistics or experimental
statistics, including time series analysis, or some area of
transportation planning or operations research   An ability
to generate research ideas and follow up on assigned tasks
with minimal supervision   Expertise with computers, particularly
PCs and Unix platforms   Familiarity with the SAS language
Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including
proposal preparation and project management

Located in Santa Fe, Chaparral Systems Corporation has been
in the business of developing traffic monitoring and analysis
software for state highway agencies for over six years.  We
are currently the Technical Assistance Contractor for Traffic
Data Collection and Analysis for the Federal Highway Administrations
Long Term Pavement Performance project (through September, 1997).
Chaparral employees enjoy northern New Mexicos favorable climate,
as well as numerous cultural and outdoor activities.

Letters of application and resumes should be directed to:

        Chaparral Systems Corporation
        Attn:  Joe Wilkinson, President
        227 E. Palace, Suite W  Santa Fe, NM  87501
        Phone:  [phone]   FAX:  [phone]
        Please send your response by July 1, 1994.

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Subject: Letter from Alan Lapedes
From:    [e-mail],
         Donna Spitzmiller <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 23 Jun 1994 15:00:36 -0700

POSITIONS AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
                         (Postdoctoral and Tech)

Positions involving sequence analysis of DNA, RNA  and protein sequences, as
well as general aspects of computational biology, are available at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. Depending on funds, we will have a limited number of

(a) postdoctoral positions
(b) data entry, and elementary data analysis positions (techs)
(c) graduate student and summer student positions.

Funding for these positions is generally associated with specific grants,
and the successful applicant will generally be expected to work on specific
projects.  Projects range from analysis of HIV and human papilloma virus
sequences, to immune system studies, to more general aspects of computational
biology involving evolution, and sequence-structure-function relationships.
Exceptionally well qualified candidates who are interested in theoretical and
computational investigations related to the just mentioned topics, and with
expertise in one or more of the following areas are encouraged to apply:

(a) immunology
(b) virology
(c) sequence analysis
(d) statistical analysis
(e) neural net/pattern recognition analysis
(f) programming skills (C language)
(g) computational biology
(h) structural biology

Candidates may contact the following address:

email: [e-mail]

post:  Donna Spitzmiller
       MS B213
       Theoretical Division
       LANL
       Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

voice: 505-665-3209

FAX:   [phone]

for application material. Questions concerning specific positions should
be sent to the same address and will be distributed to appropriate staff
members for reply.

Please indicate in your initial inquiry whether you are interested in a
student, tech, or postdoctoral position. Candidates for tech positions can
not have a Ph.D. degree. Candidates for postdoctoral positions  must have
completed their Ph.D. within the last three years.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer.

Thank you,

Alan Lapedes
Los Alamos National Laboratory
T-13
Los Alamos, NM 87545


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Subject: Postdoctoral Position
From:    "Jack J. Gelfand" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 24 Jun 1994 16:47:54 -0400

Postdoctoral Position - Recent Ph.D. for research in hybrid
force/position control and modeling of the human motor control system.
This is a joint project in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering and Department of Psychology. Candidate must have strong
background in adaptive control theory with an interest in motor
physiology. Also includes work on anthropomorphic robots.


Please send a vita and a list of 3 references to:

        Dr. Jack Gelfand
        Princeton University
        1-S-6 Green Hall
        Princeton, NJ 08544
        [e-mail]
        609-258-2930

We would prefer someone who is available before October, 1994, but will
consider all applicants. Position is for 1 or 2 years.

Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer.


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Subject: JOB OPPORTUNITY IN NN at university of marburg, germany
From:   ma1201.mathematik.uni-marburg.de!ultsch (Alfred Ultsch)
Organization: university of marburg
Date:    27 Jun 1994 07:58:07 +0000

[[ Editor's Note: In the future, I shall probably reject all non-English
submissions, except if they are pertinant and *very* short. Despite the
fact that this Digest has a considerable international audience, I
suspect that we will succumb to English (or American, if you prefer)
being the "lingua franca" of scientific exchange in this forum. -PM ]]

At University of Marburg the following post as research
assistant (BAT IIa) in Neural Networks and Artificial
intelligence is available:

S T E L L E N A U S S C H E I B U N G

Am Fachbereich Mathematik -Fachgebiet Informatik- der
Philipps-Universitaet Marburg ist, vorbehaltlich der Bewilligung durch
das BMFT, vom 01.09.1994 bis 31.12.1995 die Stelle fuer eine[n]

Wissenschaftliche[n] Mitarbeiter[in]  zu besetzen.

Verguetung erfolgt nach BAT IIa. Unter Vorbehalt der Mittelzuweisung
durch das BMFT ist eine Verlaengerung der Beschaeftigung moeglich.

Es handelt sich um eine! im Rahmen eines befristeten
BMFT-Forschungsprogamms zu besetzende Stelle.  Es moechten sich nur
Bewerber melden, die an einer be- fristeten Einstellung interessiert
sind.

Aufgabengebiet: Mitarbeit in einem interdisziplinaeren
BMFT-Forschungsprojekt.  Schwerpunkt des Projektes ist die Extraktion von
symbolischem Wissen aus subsymbolischem Wissen in Neuronalen Netzen.

Voraussetzungen: Abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium in Informatik,
Mathematik, Physik oder vergleichbares Diplom. Sehr gute Kenntnisse ueber
Expertensysteme und in der Theorie und Anwendung Selbstorganisierender
Neuronaler Netze. Unabdinglich sind Kenntnisse in UNIX und C++.

Bewerbungen mit den ueblichen Unterlagen sind bis zum 08.07.1994 an Prof.
Dr. A. Ultsch, Fachbereich Mathematik, Fachgebiet Informatik, der
Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse, Lahnberge, 35032
Marburg, zu senden.

Zur Erhoehung des Frauenanteils ist die Philipps-Universitaet bemueht,
verstaerkt Frauen einzustellen. Qualifizierte Frauen sind ausdruecklich
zur Bewerbung aufgefordert.  Schwerbehinderte Bewerber[innen] werden bei
gleicher Eignung bevorzugt.

===================================================
Prof. Dr. Alfred Ultsch
Philipps Universitaet Marburg
Neuroinformatik und KI
FG Informatik, FB 12
Hans-Meerwein Strasse
35032 Marburg/Lahn
Germany
Tel:(Germany)-06421-28-2185/-2187
Fax:(Germany)-06421-28-8902
e-mail:[e-mail]
===================================================

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Subject: WWW URL list
From:    "T.P Harte" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 15 Jun 1994 14:39:50 +0100

[[ Editor's Note: Thanks to the following folks who ask, then answer,
these questions.  It is, however, beyond the scope of this Digest to
advise on access.  Please ask your local experts on how to obtain and set
the software necessary to access World-Wide Webs, gophers, WAIS, and
other information servers. Specifically, look into getting "mosaic" as a
wonderful front-end to the range of servers. -PM ]]

Does anyone have a complete list of all of the Web's URLs which are
related to neural networks?

Cheers,

Thomas.

Thomas Harte                    //__ __\\       [phone]
Medical Informatics Unit            _
University of Cambridge         (-------)       [e-mail]


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Subject: searchable bibliographic databases available
From:    "David B. Rosen" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sun, 19 Jun 1994 19:37:28 -0700

Just want to point out this very useful service for searching a large
collection of neural network bibtex bibliographies via the World-Wide Web:
        http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/bib/Neural/
For more information, and to access other CS-related bibliographies, see:
        ftp://ftp.cs.umanitoba.ca/pub/bibliographies/index.html
(I have nothing to do with them.)

- --
David Rosen                   \  Center for Biomedical   \  University
e-mail,finger: [e-mail]   \      Modeling Research   \    of Nevada


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Subject: Re: How about some WWW structure to all these papers?
From:    Andreas Stolcke <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 22 Jun 1994 17:25:16 -0700

In message <[e-mail]>you wrote:
>
> There's an opportunity here for some ambitious student.
>
> We get notices of several papers a day over connectionists.
> How about someone turn them into a WWW site with:
>
>         Title, abstract, and author details.
>         URL link to the FTP site & file.
>

Several services of this sort already exist.  The most useful
is probably the Computer Science Techreport index, at
http://cs.indiana.edu/cstr/search.  It indexes reports from several dozen
sources, including the neuroprose archive.  You search for title
keywords, authors, etc. and it returns URLs to the ftp sites.
You follow those, and voila', you got your report on screen (or on disk).

I would urge sites that maintain collections of ftp-able reports to
get in touch with Marc Van Heyningen ([e-mail]) to be
put on the list of sites queried by this index.

- --Andreas


------------------------------

Subject: Re: How about some WWW structure to all these papers?
From:    Paul Kainen <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 23 Jun 1994 02:46:51 -0400

Actually, one can already access the archives via web browsers.
For instance, using "lynx" which is available even without being
a node (or a similar approach with Mosaic), one can just type
"lynx ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/neuroprose/" to access
the directory via the WWW.  Thus, lynx actually subsumes gopher
and ftp.  To navigate, you just move the cursor or change the
options page to number the links so that you can just type the
number (usually faster).  Using lynx eliminates the nuisance of
the ftp log-in (which is a sham anyway) and also makes finding
files a lot easier.  The interface is also fairly intelligent so
all you need to do is to type "D" to download the file to your
host (or yourself is you're on the net directly). You are given
a choice to write the resulting file to disk under whatever name
you prefer, and if the file is binary, the transfer mode is set
automatically.  Anyway, there are tutorials on lynx, which is a
neat program by Lou Montulli at the Univ. of Kansas; see, e.g.,
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Lynx/Status.html  (by typing
"lynx" followed by the URL above).

        Paul Kainen ([e-mail])


------------------------------

Subject: neural software list
From:    "T.P Harte" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 17 Jun 1994 11:31:08 +0100

[[ Editor's Note: I have not explored the world of information servers
enough to be able to answer this question.  Can some who has be able to
point both Thomas and me to approporiate sources? -PM ]]

Is there a complete listing of all known archives containing neural
software/simulators available on the net or has anybody out there
compiled a list of the same?

Thomas Harte                    //__ __\\       [phone]
Medical Informatics Unit            _
University of Cambridge         (-------)       [e-mail]


------------------------------

Subject: 1) NN Hardware 2) state of the art perf in character recognition.
From:    [e-mail] (D. Ramesh)
Date:    Thu, 23 Jun 1994 14:42:02 +0500

[[ Editor's note: Regarding query #2, readers are reminded of the UNIPEN
which is devoted to handwriting becnhmarks, processing, and tools,
advertised in V13 #14. Also, there were a set of data available for
benchmarking mentioned in V12 #12.  -PM ]]


Hi Everybody,
query 1:
        I am looking for neural network or other parellelizing hardware
for a character recognition application that I am working in. The target
platform is a PC-486 and/or IBM-RS6000 can any body suggest appropriate
hardware that will allow simulation of a set around 20 NN's with the
total no of connections coming to around 100000.
        What are the advantages of using neural hardware against that of
using other special hardware such as DSP hardware(In terms of throughput
ease of implementation etc.).
query 2:
        I would like correspondence from anybody claiming state of the
art performance in character recognition(segmented handwritten , or machine
printed characters). All such people may please send a synopsis of their work
for my reference.
        Please address your replies to
by email :
[e-mail]
by post to:
D.Ramesh
Tata consultancy services,
1,Mangaldas Road,
Pune - 400050.
INDIA.

------------------------------

Subject: Announcing the "lutear-auditory-simulation" Mailing List
From:    "L.P.OMard" <[e-mail]> (Lowel P. O'Mard)
Date:    Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:03:38 -0000

Hello People,

  This message is to announce the "lutear-auditory-simulation" mailing
list.  The list may be joined by anybody (international internet users), by
sending the following message to "[e-mail]":

        To:             [e-mail]
        Subject:        (you may leave this blank)
        Message text:
                        join lutear-auditory-simulation Ann Jones
                        stop

 - where "Ann Jones" should be replaced by your own first and second names.

  The anouncement of the next release of LUTEar will be announced using the
present mailing list and the new "lutear-auditory-simulation", but all
future announcements will only be sent to the new mailing list.

  The aims of the "lutear-auditory-simulation" mailing list are as follows:-

(1) Quick bug reporting to all concerned:

        People can report suspected bugs, so that in the while I investigate,
        others can be aware of potential problems.

(2) The expression of "wish lists" which others can comment on:

        This might give me idea of priorities for extensions of LUTEar.

(3) Discussion of development of LUTEar:

        The development of LUTEar is an on-going process.  The mailing
        list would provide a forum for discussion of any major changes
        which I am considering.  This would allow me to avoid introducing
        unpopular changes in LUTEar.

(4) Encourage users to share extra routines they have written amongst
themselves.

        One of the very attractive features of LUTEar is that is provides
        a common platform for investigations, so that people can compare
        results obtained with a "standard" piece of software.  Extra
        routines written by users can be assessed, by other users as well
        as by myself, and subsequently incorporated in the standard code.

(5) Reporting of successes and failures in attemping to apply LUTEar to various
    problems :

        This will give everyone feedback about the performance of LUTEar,
        providing individuals wih further ideas on how they can use it,
        and also highlight as yet unresolved difficulties.

(6) The discussion of optimum parameter settings for various applications:

        Hopefully when people report results obtained with LUTEar, they will be
        quite specific about which routines and parameters they used.

(7) Exchange of scientific information amongst LUTEar users:

        Users of LUTEar must have common scientific interests! So many of
        us probably do already know each other and something about each
        other's work.  Nevertheless, it would be good to know who "the
        others" are, and to discuss specific problems we are trying to
        apply LUTear to.


  I indebted to Angela Darling ([e-mail]) for providing
the major portion of the above text.

...Lowel.



+-------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
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|Dept. of Human Sciences, |      /\/\    /\/  \/ /\ \  /\      Laboratory |
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Subject: List of Challenge Problems in ANN
From:    [e-mail] (Harold Szu)
Date:    Fri, 24 Jun 1994 10:29:36 -0400

[[ Editor's Note: Harold lays down the proverbial gauntlet.  Who will
pick it up and provide solutions to his challenges? -PM ]]

Please post the following unsolved problem in Artificial NN learning,
which seems to be simple but given in the literature for 4
years without a clear winner[2-4].

PROBLEM #1: SELF ORGANIZATION IN ARCHITECTURE----SZU 1989

Introduction:

It is easy to switch off weights when it becomes small, but difficulty
to create an interconnect when needed, e.g. its neighborhood
experiences a traffic jam, a hot spot phenomena.  A dynamic learning
must be able to kill & to build as truly biological NN often does [4].

Problem Statement:
To design a consistent lerning rule to prune
weights & grow interconnects.

Given 5 neurons Problem: Initially fully connected like a Hopfild
recurrent net, #1 node is clampled for the output in time: 1, 1,,-1,
 -1, when the input #4 & #5 were simultaneously fed with (1, 1); (-1,
 -1); (1, -1); (-1, 1) respectively. You may train your nets anyway you
want, but the working learning rule must be given reproducible.
The point is whether the NL learning can prune all those useless
interconnects by itself and reach from a fully 5X5=25 interconnects to
6 interconnects corresponding to three layer 2x2x1 architecture.

Furthermore, the architecture is not unique. When one neuron dies and 4
neurons with 5 interconnects (2x1x1 mixed) can still do it [2], but in
this case the input nodes #4, #5 can connect to a hidden node and also
feed directly to the output node #1.

Comments:
(i) This is basically the EXOR operation known to be done using one hidden
layer by Minsky & Rosenblatt arguement three dacade ago[1].

(ii) The test of any dynamic learning, as opposed to bilinear perturbation
Hebbian learning, is the capability to determine the architecture
by data itself. This is the concept of data-driven self-architecturing[2-4].


(iii) Can each architecutre corresponds to a minimum of the enegy landcape
in terms of its topology?

(iV) How does one compare the robustness & performamce of each architecture?

References & comments:

You do not need the following reference to solve it fresh yourself.
(1) M Minsky: Perceptron.
single layer perceptron can not compute EXOR
(2) H Szu "A dynamic Reconfigurable NN," J. Neural NETWORK COMPUTING,
AUERBACH NY, Vol. 1, Supplement pp.1-23, 1989.
Posed the problem of EXRO with prunning of one-layer Hofield net
(3) H. szu, "NN based on Peano Curve & Hairy Neurons" Telematics &
Informatics Vol. 7, pp. 403-430, 1990.
try to use Cauchy simulated annealing to find globe minimum
(4) H. Szu, J. Kim, I. Kim, "Self-Architecture--Theory & Expt. of
Biological NN," IEEE ICNN, pp. 1457-1463, San Francisco March 1993.
This is a sad story of Peter, Paul & Mary three hairy neurons, and will
be republished in Elsevier Neurocomputing 1994. Suggested a new
learning equation of the pair-correlation function and modify Back prop
for dynamic interconnects

Harold Szu, Ph D
INNS President-1993
Info Sci. Gp Leader
NSWC  Code B44, Silver Spring MD 20903
[phone](Fax)
[phone](O)

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Today's Topics:
                         Program DAGM/"OAGM 1994
                             a special issue
                    AI'94 Tutorial on Hybrid Systems
                                 AISB-95


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Subject: Program DAGM/"OAGM 1994
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Thu, 19 May 1994 17:23:56 -0500

(A postscript version of this program is available by anonymous-ftp
from prip5.prip.tuwien.ac.at (directory dagm/program))

                    PATTERN   RECOGNITION  1994
          16th DAGM SYMPOSIUM AND 18th OeAGM WORKSHOP

                    RECOGNIZING AND LEARNING
                    21.-23. SEPTEMBER 1994
                TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY  VIENNA
                        PROGRAM


The Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (OeAGM) and
the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) invite
you to participate in their joint conference on

"Recognizing and Learning".


The OeAGM and the DAGM have the aim to promote pattern recognition
in their countries.The OeAGM is a scientific association and the
DAGM is formed by following scientific associations:

DGaO   Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer angewandete Optik
GMDS   Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Medizinische Informatik,
       Biometrie und Epidemiologie
GI     Gesellschaft fuer Informatik
ITG    Informationstechnische Gesellschaft
DGNM   Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Nuklearmedizin
IEEE   The Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
       Deutsche Sektion
DGPF   Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung

Both the OeAGM and the DAGM are members of the International
Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).


CONFERENCE CHAIR

o. Univ. Prof. Dr. W.G. Kropatsch
Technical University Vienna, Institute for Automation
Department for Pattern  Recognition and Image Processing


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

H. Bunke, Bern         K.- H. Hoehne, Hamburg  E. Paulus, Braunschweig
H. Burkhardt, Hamburg  E. Hundt, Muenchen      S.J. Poeppl, Luebeck
H.G. Feichtinger, Wien W. Kropatsch, Wien      B. Radig, Muenchen
W. Foerstner, Bonn     F. Leberl,Graz          G. Sagerer, Bielefeld
S. Fuchs, Dresden      C.-E. Liedtke, Hannover K. Schneider, Konstanz
G. Hartmann, Paderborn M. Oerder, Aachen       B. Schleifenbaum,Wetzlar
K. Voss, Jena



CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

The conference is organised by the Department for
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing.
Contact persons are Karin Hraby and Horst Bischof:
Technical University Vienna, Institute for Automation
Department for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
Treitlstrasse 3/1832
A-1040 Vienna
Tel: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]


CONFERENCE-LANGUAGE

The official conference language is German,
but especially on wednesday, 21.9.1994
most of the talks will be held in English.


PRIZES

During the conference the "OLYMPUS" prize (DM 10.000,-),
the prize "MUSTERERKENNUNG 1994" (ATS 35.000,-)
and six additional prizes ( ATS 7.000,-) will be awarded.


INDUSTRIAL-EXHIBITION

During the conference an industrial exhibition will take
place. The following companies have registered so far:

ABW Automatisierung + Bildverarbeitung Dr. Wolf
GEPARD Gesellschaft fuer parallele Datenverarbeitung GmbH
HW - ELEKTRONIK Industrielle Hard & Software
LEUTRON VISION Systemhaus fuer Bildverarbeitung GmbH
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTERS GmbH


PROGRAM-OVERVIEW

WEDNESDAY, 21.9.1994

8.00   Registration, the conference attendees
       register at the registration desk and receive
       proceedings and conference material
9.00   Welcome message, OLYMPUS-Prize 1994
       Award by Dr. Ofner, Olympus Austria
9.30   Invited Talk
       Y. Aloimonos, Univ. of Maryland, U.S.A.
       "FLIES, BEES and UGVS (Unmanned ground
       vehicles): What can engineers learn from insect vision."
10.50  IMAGE UNDERSTANDING
12.30  Lunch
14.00  3-D VISION
16.00  MOTION
19.30  Conference Dinner: Mayor's reception in Vienna Town Hall


THURSDAY, 22.9.1994

9.00   Invited Talk
       W. von Seelen, Ruhr Univ. Bochum, BRD
       Szenenanalyse in einem autonomen Fahrzeug mit
       neuronal basierter 'Architektur'.
10.20  POSTERSESSION
12.30  Lunch
14.00  APPLICATIONS & SPEECH
16.15  NEURAL NETWORKS


FRIDAY, 23.9.1994

9.00   Invited Talk
       F. Leberl, Technical Univ. Graz, Austria
       Trade-Offs in the Reconstruction and Rendering
       of 3-D Objects.
10.30  THEORY
12.30  Lunch
14.00  LEARNING
16.00  Presentation of Prizes


CONFERENCE LOCATION

Technical University Vienna
Elektrotechnisches Institut, Hoersaal EI7
1040 Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27-29
A map is available via anonymous ftp (see above).
The registration desk is located in the Foyer.


REGISTRATION

Delegates are requested to complete either the registration
form at the end of this program or the one available by
anonymous ftp (see above) and return it to the
conference organisation. Please send your registration
card together with a copy of the bank transfer of the
conference fee.


CONFERENCE FEE

Registration   before 8.8.1994     after 8.8.1994

Regular              ATS 2.950,-      ATS 3.550,-
Reduced*             ATS 2.550,-      ATS 2.950,-
Students (< 27)**    ATS 1.200,-      ATS 1.400,-

*For members of one of the DAGM associations or the
OeAGM (please mark at the bank transfer and registration form).
**Students have to provide a copy of valid student id.

Cancellation:

before 8.8.1994     Postmarked,
                    registration fee (minus ATS 300.- handling costs)
                    will be returned.
after 8.8.1994      Postmarked, registration fee will not be returned,
                    proceedings will be send by mail.

Payment should be made in Austrian Schillings using a bank transfer
on the  following conference account. All costs to transmitter's charge.

Name:          DAGM 94
Bank:          CA Bankverein
Account Nb.s.: 0950-54276/03
BLZ:           11000


PROCEEDINGS

The Proceedings will be published by Springer in the
series "Informatik XPress" and are expected to be ready
at the conference.


ROOMS

Austropa-Interconvention has been appointed the official housing agent
for the conference.For reservations please use sheet available via
anonymous ftp.

For your reservation please state category as well as arrival and
departure date. The reservation must be accompanied by a deposit
of ATS 1.000,- for categories A, B & Season and ATS 500,- for
categorie "Jugendgaestehaus (Youth Hostel)". After the deposit
has been received a value voucher together with the address of
the hotel will be send. Changes and cancellations should be made
directly to Austropa-Interconvention, PO-Box 30, A -1043 Wien,
Tel. [phone], Fax [phone].
Late cancellations must be paid.


CONFERENCE DINNER

On wednesday, 21.9.1994 a reception of the mayor of Vienna,
Dr. Helmuth Zilk, will be held in the "Wappensaal" of the
town hall in Vienna, it includes a buffet. A preregistration is
required for this reception, the costs are ATS 350,- per person.


CULTURAL PROGRAM

Austropa Interconvention will also arrange theater, concert
or musical card. Programs will be available one month in
advance. Prices are between  ATS 250.- and ATS 1.200,-.
Please use card available by anonymous ftp (see above)
to obtain more information.



DETAILED CONFERENCE PROGRAMM

WEDNESDAY, 21.9.1994

8.00 Registration, the conference attendees
     register at the registration desk and receive
     proceedings and conference material
9.00 Welcome message, OLYMPUS-Prize 1994
     Award by Dr. Ofner, Olympus Austria
9.30 Invited Talk
     Y. Aloimonos, Univ. of Maryland, U.S.A.
     "FLIES, BEES and UGVS (Unmanned ground
     vehicles): What can engineers learn from insect vision."

10.30 BREAK

Session: IMAGE UNDERSTANDING
Session Chair: S. Fuchs, K.-H. Hoehne

10.50     Analysis of Optical Reflexion.
     A new Approach to Surface Inspection
     V. Mueller

11.05     Effiziente modellbasierte Objekterkennung in
     Tiefenbildern
     A. Ueltschi, H. Bunke

11.20     Automatische Analyse der retinalen Morphologie
     mit einem hierarchischen Bildverarbeitungsansatz
     A. Kaupp, A. Doelemeyer, R. Schloesser, R. Wilzeck,
     S. Wolf, D. Meyer-Ebrecht

11.35     Objekterkennung mit Hidden Markov Modellen
     F. Kummert, G. Sagerer

11.50     Curve Finding by Ridge Detection and Grouping
     F. Glazer

12.05     Discussion

12.30     Lunch


Session: 3-D VISION
Session Chair: F. Leberl, C.-E. Liedtke

14.00     Mustererkennung und Stereoskopie
     D. Reimann, H. Haken


14.15     Grasping Arbitrarily Shaped Objects
     M. Trobina, A. Leonardis, F. Ade

14.30     Learning Shape from Shading by Neural Networks
     G.-Q Wei, G. Hirzinger

14.45     Bestimmung von Tangentialpunkten zur Unter-
     stuetzung der Objektrekonstruktion aus Stereobildern
     R. Kutka, R. Lacroix

15.00     A new Depth from Focus Technique for In Situ
     Determination of Cell Concentration in Bioreactors
     T. Scholz, B. Jaehne, H. Suhr, G. Wehnert

15.15     Discussion

15.40     BREAK


Session: MOTION
Session Chair: W. Foerstner, B. Schleifenbaum

16.00     Color Object Tracking with Adaptive Modeling
     R. Schuster

16.15     Bewegungskompensation videofluoreszenzangio-
     graphisch gewonnener Bildsequenzen der Netzhaut
     A. Doelemeyer, H. Toonen, A. Kaupp,
     R. Schloesser, S. Wolf, D. Meyer-Ebrecht

16.30     Bewegungssegmentation von Bildfolgen durch die
     Minimierung konvexer nicht-quadratischer Funktionale
     C. Schnoerr

16.45     Recovering 3D Relative Affine Structure From a
     Stream of Perspective Views
     N. Navab, A. Shashua

17.00     A Comparative Analytical Study of Low-Level
     Motion Estimators in Space-Time Images
     B. Jaehne

17.15     Discussion

19.30     Conference Dinner
      Mayor's reception in Vienna Town Hall



THURSDAY, 22.9.1994

9.00 Invited Talk
     W. von Seelen, Ruhr Univ. Bochum, BRD
     Szenenanalyse in einem autonomen Fahrzeug mit
     neuronal basierter 'Architektur'.

10.00 BREAK

POSTERSESSION

10.20    Oral Presentation: Overview over the posters of the conference

11.40    Individual Posterpraesentation

12.30 LUNCH


Session: APPLICATIONS & SPEECH
Session Chair: G. Sagerer, M. Oerder

14.00     3D-Voronoi Diagramme zur quantitativen Bild-
     analyse in der Interphase-Cytogenetik
     R. Eils, S. Dietzel, E. Bertin, E. Schroeck, Y. Usson
     M. Robert-Nicoud, T. Cremer, Ch. Cremer

14.15     Strukturelle Beschreibung von kunstgeschicht-
     lichen Portraitminiaturen
     R. Sablatnig, H. Bischof

14.30     Generierung einer Datenbankanfrage aus einem
     gesprochenen Satz mit einer stochastischen
     attributierten Grammatik
     H. Aust, M. Oerder

14.45     Detektion unbekannter Woerter mit Hilfe phono-
     taktischer Modelle
     A. Jusek, H. Rautenstrauch, G. A. Fink, F.
     Kummert, G. Sagerer, J. Carson-Berndsen,
     D. Gibbon

15.00     Sichtweitenbestimmung durch Rechnersehen
     H. Weisser

15.15 Discussion

15.40 BREAK


Session: NEURAL NETWORKS
Session Chair: G. Hartmann, S. Fuchs

16.15     Tolerante Objekterkennung durch das Neuronale
     Active-Vision-System NAVIS
     S. Druee, R. Hoischen, R. Trapp

16.30     A Comparision of RBF and MLP Networks for
     Reconstruction of Focal Events from Bioelectric/
     Biomagnetic Field Patterns
     M. Schlang, M. Haft, K. Abraham-Fuchs

16.45     Learning in Pyramidal Neural Networks
     H. Bischof

17.00     Using a Hybrid Neural System for Astronomical
     Classification Tasks
     M. Klusch

17.15     Controlling Multiple Neural Nets with Semantic
     Networks
     R. Moratz, S. Posch, G. Sagerer

17.30     Discussion



FRIDAY, 23.9.1994

9.00 Invited Talk
     F. Leberl, Technical Univ. Graz, Austria
     Trade-Offs in the Reconstruction and Rendering
     of 3-D Objects.

10.00     BREAK


Session: THEORY
Session Chair: W.G. Kropatsch, H.G. Feichtinger

10.30     Unueberwachte Selektion und Abstimmung von
     dyadischen Gaborfiltern zur Textursegmentierung
     A. Teuner, O. Pichler, B.J. Hosticka

10.45     Ein Multiskalenansatz zur Klassifikation von
     Bildinhalten
     G. Laufkoetter, M.M. Richter, H.- G. Stark,
     A. Divivier


11.00     Detection of Visual-Data Transitions in "Nonlinear
     Parameter-Space"
     R. Sprengel, Ch. Schnoerr, B. Neumann

11.15     Algorithms for the construction of invariant
     features
     H. Schulz-Mirbach

11.30     Ein neues Verfahren zur Berechnung von
     Translationsinvarianten
     S. Kroener

11.45     Discussion

12.30     LUNCH


Session: LEARNING
Session Chair: H. Bunke, W.G.Kropatsch

14.00     GAZE: Eine attentive Verarbeitungsstrategie
     zum Erkennen und Lernen der visuell auffaelligen
     Gesichtsregionen
     R. Herpers, H. Kattner, G. Sommer

14.15     Kann ein Robot-Vision-System handgeschriebene
     Ziffern lesen?
     M. Busemann, G. Hartmann, K.O. Kraeuter

14.30     Lernen von Konfigurationswissen
     C.-E. Liedtke, A. Bloemer

14.45     Learning with Dynamic Cell Structures
     J. Bruske, J. Pauli, G. Sommer

15.00     Erkennen und Lernen zweidimensionaler Objekte
     mittels Subgraph-Isomorphismus
     B.T. Messmer, H. Bunke

15.15     Discussion

15.40     BREAK


16.00     PRESENTATION OF PRIZES



POSTERSESSION

THEORY
Session Chair:  H.G. Feichtinger, K.Voss

Segmentierung und Klassifikation von Texturen mittels Wavelets und
neuronalen Netzen
M.H. Gross , R. Koch, L. Lippert, A. Dreger

Parallel Adaptive Contraction for Hierarchical Cellular Complexes
D. Willersinn

Affininvariante Standardlagen und Separationsmethode
H. Suesse, K. Voss

Adaptive Resonance Theory and Classical Clustering Algorithms:
A Mathematical Analysis
M. J. Berchtold

Hierarchische Flaechenzerlegung von Laserscannerbildern zur
Objekterkennung in SOMBRERO
P. Kohlhepp

Schnelle Hough-Transformation unter Nutzung eines modifizierten
Ansatzes zur Geradenparametrisierung
H.Winter, T. Holz

Ein Modell zur Kompensation  oertlicher Wahrnehmungsluecken
beim menschlichen Sehen basierend auf lokaler Spektralanalyse
A. Kaup


APPLICATIONS IN MEDICIN
Session Chair: S.J. Poeppl, E. Paulus

Eindimensionale Fourier-Analyse ultraschall-dokumentierter
Schwingungsmuster des Rueckenmarks
D. Richter, R. Schumacher, R. Trabhardt

Bildanalytische Verfahren zur Charakterisierung von Hirntumoren in
dreidimensionalen MR-Schichtbildfolgen
C. Rossmanith, H. Handels, E. Rinast, S.J. Poeppl

Anwendung adaptiver Verfahren zur Erfassung der Position und
des Durchmessers von Blutgefaessen am Augenhintergrund
B. Schack, W. Vilser, E. Bareshova, Ch. Braeuer-Burchardt,
G. Grieszbach, H. Witte, M. Arnold, P. Putsche

Automatisches Erkennen von Rippenstrukturen in
Thorax-Roentgenbildern mittels Hough-Transformation
M. Schreckenberg, M. Joswig

Pseudoimpedanz statt Echogenitaet: Ein Beitrag zur Verbesserung der
 Strukturerkennbarkeit
in Ultraschall-Bildern
W. Pomrehn, M. Joswig

Automated Binucleated Cell Recognition and Micronuclei
Counting System
W. Boecker, W. U. Mueller, C. Streffer


3-D VISION
Session Chair: B. Radig, F. Leberl

Oberflaechen aus Konturen
F. Kruggel, G. Lohmann

Physical Correctness of Local Shading Analysis
R. Sara

On Curvature Computation Using the Convolution with the Gaussian
V. Hlav c, T. Pajdla, M. Sommer

Kalibrierung einer beweglichen, monokularen Kamera zur
Tiefengewinnung aus Bildfolgen
R. Bess

Ein robustes Rekonstruktionsverfahren zur Bestimmung der Form
von Graeben fuer die archaeologische magnetische Prospektion
A. Eder-Hinterleitner

Orthographische Projektion perspektivisch verzerrter Tiefenbilder
A. Gondring


NEURAL NETWORKS
Session Chair: G. Sagerer, H. Burkhardt

Klassifikation Neuromagnetischer Daten mittels Kuenstlicher
Neuronaler Netze
W.-M. Lippe, Th. Feuring, A. Jankrift, R. Hohenstein

Identifizieren von Gesichtern durch Steuerung der visuellen
Aufmerksamkeit
K. Hraby, H. Bischof

Modulare neuronale Architekturen in der Mustererkennung
E. Thurner, H. Bischof

Comparison of Spike Detection Algorithms based on Time Series
Analysis and Feature Extraction using Neural Networks in
Epilepsy Surgery
G. Hellmann, M. Spreng, H. Stefan

Unueberwachte Identifikation von Fahrzustaenden mit Hierarchischen
Selbstorganisierenden Karten
P. Weierich, M. von Rosenberg, J. Leisenberg, H. Niemann

Texturbasierte Segmentierung von Roentgenbildern mittels
Multilayer-Perzeptron und Topologischer Karte
E. Pelikan, F. Vogelsang, B. Schulz, M. Egmont-Petersen, T. Tolxdorff, K.
 Bohndorf

Schweissnahtverfolgung mit Kohonennetzen
R. Suna, P. Eisenhauer


HARDWARE / APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRY
Session Chair: K. Schneider, K.-H. Hundt

PIPS- A general purpose Parallel Image Processing System
M. Noelle, G. Schreiber, H. Schulz-Mirbach

Unscharfe Farbklassifikation und Strukturbewertung zur
Echtzeitsegmentierung von Mikrodefekten
K.-H. Franke, H. Kempe, D. Kollhoff

Wissensbasierte Guetebestimmung von Lederhaeuten
R. Gaemlich

Point Correlation: A New Approach for High Speed Template Matching
W. Krattenthaler, K.J. Mayer

Untersuchungen zur Farb- und Polarisationsinformation des
Streulichtes bei der Partikelkontrolle in Ampullen
C. Schnoerr

Systeme der kanten- und texturorientierten Szenenanalyse am
Beispiel der Automatisierung in der Umwelttechnik
L. Lohmann, B. Nickolay

Ein vektorbasiertes Verfahren zur schnellen Fehlererkennung in
strukturierten Texturen
J. Amelung, G. Lambert, J. Pfister


MOTION
Session Chair:  W. Foerstner,  H. Bunke

Modellbasierte Strassenerkennung
S. Richter

Fast recognition of road markings with use of the model of the
scene in each level of processing
Ch. Baghdassarian, H. Lange, H. Sahli

Bewegungskompensierte Akkumulatoren verrauschter Bildsequenzen
O. Grau

Multi-Sensorial Inputs for the Identification of Persons
with Synergetic Computers
T. Wagner

An Intensity-Based Method for the 3-D Motion and Structure
Estimation from Binocular Image Sequences
A. Luo, H. Burkhardt

Determining the focus of expansion by means of flowfield projections
Ch. Born

Local Orientation Coding and Neural Network Classifiers with
an Application to Real Time Car Detection and Tracking
C. Goerick, M. Brauckmann


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Subject: a special issue
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Mon, 06 Jun 1994 15:15:12 -0400

                CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


Special Issue of the Journal ``Knowledge-Based Systems''
Theme: ``Knowledge-Based Neural Networks''

Guest Editor: LiMin Fu (University of Florida, USA)

A.  Background:

Knowledge-based neural networks are concerned with
the use of domain knowledge to
determine the initial structure of the neural network.
Such constructions have drawn increasing attention recently.
The rudimentary idea is simple: the knowledge-based approach
models what we know and the neural-network approach does
what we are ignorant or uncertain of.
Furthermore, there is an urgent need for a bridge
between symbolic artificial intelligence and neural networks.
The main goal of this special issue is to explore the relationship between them
for engineering intelligent systems.


B.  Contents:

Examples of specific research include but are not limited to:
(1) How do we build a neural network based on prior
knowledge?
(2) How do neural heuristics improve the current model
for a particular problem (e.g., classification, planning,
signal processing, and control)?
(3) How does knowledge in conjunction with neural heuristics
contribute to machine learning?
(4) What is the emergent behavior of a hybrid system?
(5) What are the fundamental issues behind the combined approach?


C.  Schedule:

Four copies of a full-length Paper should be submitted, by 1 September 1994,
to

Dr. LiMin Fu
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
301 CSE
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA

All papers will be subject to stringent review.



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Subject: AI'94 Tutorial on Hybrid Systems
From:    "Nikola Kasabov" <[e-mail]>
Date:    11 Jun 1994 15:22:51 +1200

The Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94)
  "Sowing the Seeds for the Future", 21- 25 November, Armidale, Australia

      C A L L  F O R  P A R T I C I P A T I O N S

AI'94 Tutorial on "Hybrid (AI symbolic, Connectionist, Fuzzy, Chaotic) Systems"

    Dr Nik K Kasabov,
Department of Information Science, University of Otago
P.O.Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Fax: + 64 3 479 8311, Phone: + 64 3 479 8319, email: [e-mail]

     with  Dr. LC Jain,
Knowledge Engineering Systems Group, University of South Australia,
The Levels,SA 5095, Australia, Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone],
email: [e-mail]


ABSTRACT

   The current development of knowledge engineering brings to use very powerful
 methods
for representing and dealing with raw data, incomplete or imprecise data and
 knowledge,
uncertainty, common sense knowledge, complex systems. And these are the
 connectionist
methods, the methods of fuzzy logic and the chaos theory, which complement the
 existing AI
symbolic methods. What are the main principles of the symbolic AI methods, the
connectionist methods, the methods of fuzzy systems and chaos theory and how can
 one use
if necessary, all of them when creating an information system? This is the main
 theme of the
tutorial.
   First, the main principles of using symbolic, fuzzy and neuro systems for
 problem solving
will be discussed and compared. Then hybrid systems will be introduced. A hybrid
 symbolic-
fuzzy-neural environment will be used for demonstration and practical examples
 will be given
as illustrations. Different techniques for solving difficult problems in a
 hybrid environment
will be demonstrated.
   Connectionist and fuzzy systems can compliment each other very well. How to
 use neural
networks for learning fuzzy rules and how to implement fuzzy rules in a
 connectionist
structure will also be discussed. A picture on the current development of fuzzy
 neurons and
fuzzy neural networks will be given.
    Another topic presented in the tutorial is chaos theory. Chaos theory has
tremendous potential in many areas. It is not only about the infinite variety
of `patterns' which can be generated by using a chaotic function with a lot of
practical applications, but it is also the way we can simulate or approximate
complex real systems. Chaotic neurons and chaotic neural networks will be
 presented with
some of their applications.
   Having different techniques implemented in one hybrid environment facilitates
 creating
more powerful information processing systems than any of its components. So, the
 main
advantage of using hybrid systems is that they have all the advantages of their
 subsystems
which make them very powerful tools especially for solving AI problems.


              OUTLINE OF THE TUTORIAL

1. An Introduction to the principles of symbolic AI systems, connectionist
 systems and
fuzzy systems
 1.1. The symbolic AI methods and the BIG picture of knowledge engineering.
 1.2. Neural networks for problem solving: principles; design; applications;
 practical examples.
 1.3. Fuzzy rule-based systems: principles; design; applications; practical
 examples.

2. Hybrid symbolic-neuro-fuzzy systems
 2.1. How to combine symbolic AI, connectionist and fuzzy systems?
 2.2. Hybrid system tools. Fuzzy COPE - a hybrid tool based on CLIPS, neural
 networks and
 fuzzy systems.
 2.3. Fuzzy rules extraction from neural networks.
 2.4. Applications of hybrid systems. Practical examples.

3. Fuzzy neurons and fuzzy neural networks
 3.1. Fuzzy-, and neo fuzzy neurons
 3.2. Fuzzy neural networks and their applications

4. Chaotic systems
 4.1. What is chaos?
 4.2. Chaotic neurons and chaotic neural networks

5. Further development of the hybrid systems

Duration: 3 academic hours

PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE:  The basics of AI and the principles of expert systems.


Bio-data of the presenters:
   Dr. Nikola Kasabov is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information
 Science with the
University of Otago. Previously he has been an Associate Professor at the
 Technical
University in Sofia and a visiting lecturer at the University of Essex, UK. He
 has published
over 85 papers, 5 books and 5 patents in the area of connectionist and hybrid
 connectionist
systems, fuzzy systems, parallel programming. He is member of IEEE, INNS, ACM,
 NZCS,
ENNS, PARS and other international organisations. He is currently the Chairman
 of the
ANNES (Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems) Special Interest Group in
 New
Zealand which is part of the New Zealand Computer Society; and also - Chairman
 of the First
ANNES'93 international conference; liaison chairman of the ANZIIS'94; member of
 the
program and advisory board of ICONIP'94, ACNN'95 and other international
 conferences on
intelligent information systems.
   Dr L.C. Jain is a Leader of the Knowledge-based Engineering Systems Group
(KES),one
of the four groups located in the School of Electronic Engineering, University
 of South
Australia. In addition to books, he has published a hosts of invited papers and
 presented
workshops. His interests focus on System design, diagnosis and signal processing
 using expert
systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and chaos theory.



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Subject: AISB-95
From:    Paul Mc Kevitt <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 14 Jun 1994 09:39:40 -0000


            CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

                  AISB-95:  Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions.
                  ============================================

                      Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995

            Halifax Hall of Residence & Computer Science Department
                            University of Sheffield
                               Sheffield, ENGLAND

           The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science
       organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
                        and the Simulation of Behaviour

Programme Chair:     John Hallam (University of Edinburgh)

Programme Committee: Dave Cliff (University of Sussex)
                     Erik Sandewall (University of Linkoeping)
                     Nigel Shadbolt (University of Nottingham)
                     Sam Steel (University of Essex)
                     Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)

Local Organisation:  Paul  Mc Kevitt (University of Sheffield)

The past few years have seen  an  increasing  tendency  for  diversification  in
research into Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Artificial Life.  A
number of approaches are being pursued, based variously on  symbolic  reasoning,
connectionist  systems  and  models,  behaviour-based  systems,  and  ideas from
complex  dynamical  systems.   Each  has  its   own   particular   insight   and
philosophical position.

This variety of approaches appears in  all  areas  of  Artificial  Intelligence.
There  are  both  sybmolic  and  connectionist natural language processing, both
classical and behaviour-based vision research, for instance.

While purists from each approach may claim that all the  problems  of  cognition
can  in principle be tackled without recourse to other methods, in practice (and
maybe in theory, also) combinations of methods  from  the  different  approaches
(hybrid  methods)  are more successful than a pure approach for certain kinds of
problems.  The committee feels that there is an unrealised synergy  between  the
various approaches that an AISB conference may be able to explore.

Thus, the focus of the tenth AISB Conference is  on  such  hybrid  methods.   We
particularly  seek  papers  that  describe novel theoretical and/or experimental
work which uses a hybrid approach or papers from purists, arguing cogently  that
compromise  is  unnecessary  or  unproductive.   While  papers such as those are
particularly sought, good papers on any topic in Artificial Intelligence will be
considered:   as  always,  the  most  important  criteria for acceptance will be
soundness, originality, substance and clarity.  Research in all areas is equally
welcome.

The AISB conference is a single track conference lasting three days, with a  two
day  tutorial  and  workshop  programme  preceding the main technical event, and
around twenty high calibre papers will be presented in the  technical  sessions.
It  is expected that the proceedings of the conference will be published in book
form in time to be available at the conference itself, making  it  a  forum  for
rapid dissemination of research results.


SUBMISSIONS:

High quality original papers dealing with the issues raised by mixing  different
approaches,  or otherwise related to the Conference Theme, should be sent to the
Programme Chair.  Papers  which  give  comparative  experimental  evaluation  of
methods  from  different  paradigms  applied  to  the same problem, papers which
propose and evaluate mixed-paradigm theoretical models or tools, and papers that
focus  on  hybrid  systems  applied  to real world problems will be particularly
welcome, as will papers from purists who argue cogently that the hybrid approach
is flawed and a particular pure approach is to be preferred.

Papers being submitted, whether verbatim or in  essence,  to  other  conferences
whose review process runs concurrently with AISB-95 should indicate this fact on
their title page.  If a submitted paper appears at another conference it must be
withdrawn  from  AISB-95  (this  does  not  apply  to presentation at specialist
workshops).  Papers that violate these  requirements  may  be  rejected  without
review.


SHEFFIELD:

Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in the UK and is situated well having
the  best  and  closest surrounding countryside of any major city in the UK. The
Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers,
runners,  and  climbers.   It  has  two  theatres,  the Crucible and Lyceum. The
Lyceum, a beautiful Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated.   Also,  the
city  has  three 10 screen cinemas.  There is a library theatre which shows more
artistic films. The city has a large number of museums many of which demonstrate
Sheffield's  industrial  past,  and there are a number of Galleries in the City,
including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin.  A number of important ancient  houses
are close to Sheffield such as Chatsworth House. The Peak District National Park
is a beautiful site for visiting and rambling upon.  There  are  large  shopping
areas  in the City and by 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system:
the line to the Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open.

The University of Sheffield's Halls of Residence are  situated  on  the  western
side of the city in a leafy residential area described by John Betjeman as ``the
prettiest suburb in England''.  Halifax Hall is centred on a local Steel Baron's
house,  dating back to 1830 and set in extensive grounds. It was acquired by the
University in 1830 and converted into a Hall of Residence  for  women  with  the
addition of a new wing.


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD:

Sheffield Computer Science  Department  has  a  strong  programme  in  Cognitive
Systems  and  is  part  of  the  University's Institute for Language, Speech and
Hearing (ILASH).  ILASH has its own machines and  support  staff,  and  academic
staff  attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield Psychology Department has
the Artificial Intelligence Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) which  was  founded  in
1984 to coordinate a large industry/university Alvey research consortium working
on the development of computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and  robot
workstations.


FORMAT AND DEADLINES:

Four copies of submitted papers must be received by the Programme Chair no later
than  24  OCTOBER  1994  to be considered.  Papers should be at most 12 pages in
length and be produced in 12 point, with at most 60 lines of text  per  A4  page
and  margins  at  least  1 inch (2.5cm) wide on all sides (default LaTeX article
style is OK).  They should include a cover sheet (not counted  in  the  12  page
limit) giving the paper title, the abstract, the authors and their affiliations,
including a contact address for both electronic and paper mail for the principal
author.   Papers  should  be submitted in hard-copy, not electronically.  Papers
that do not adhere to this format specification may be rejected without review.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 7 DECEMBER 1994  and  full
camera-ready  copy  will  be  due  in  early JANUARY 1995 (publishers' deadlines
permitting).


CONFERENCE ADDRESS:

Correspondence relating to the conference programme, submissions of papers, etc.
should be directed to the conference programme chair at the address below.

        John Hallam,
        Department of Artificial Intelligence,
        University of Edinburgh,
        5 Forrest Hill,
        Edinburgh EH1 2QL,
        SCOTLAND.

        Phone:  + 44 31 650 3097
        FAX:    + 44 31 650 6899
        E-mail: [e-mail]

Correspondence concerning local arrangements should be directed to the local
arrangements organiser at the following address.

        Paul  Mc Kevitt,
        Department of Computer Science,
        University of Sheffield,
        Regent Court,
        211 Portobello Street,
        Sheffield S1 4DP,
        ENGLAND.

        Phone:  + 44 742 825572
        FAX:    + 44 742 780972
        E-mail: [e-mail]




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                               CFP ECAL95
                FIrst IEEE conference on Image Processing


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Subject: CFP: SCC-95 THE SECOND SWEDISH CONFERENCE ON CONNECTIONISM The
 Connectionist Research Group University of Skovde, SWEDEN
From:    Connectionist <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 05 May 1994 13:40:32 +0200

                      March 2-4, 1995


                      CALL FOR PAPERS



SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Understanding  neural  information   processing   properties
characterizes  the field of connectionism, also known as Ar-
tificial Neural Networks (ANN).

The rapid growth, expansion and great popularity of  connec-
tionism  is  motivated  by  the  new  way of approaching and
understanding the problems of artificial  intelligence,  and
its applicability in many real-world applications.

There is  a number of subfields of connectionism among which
we distinguish the following.

The importance of a  "Theory  of  connectionism"  cannot  be
overstressed.  The  interest in theoretical analysis of neu-
ronal models, and the complex dynamics of network  architec-
tures  grows rapidly.       It is often argued that abstract
neural network models are best understood by analysing their
computational  properties  with  respect to their biological
counterparts. A clear  theoretical  approach  to  developing
neural  models  also provides insight in dynamics, learning,
functionality and probabilities of  different  connectionist
networks.

"Cognitive connectionism" is bridging the  gap  between  the
theory  of  connectionism and cognitive science by modelling
higher  order  brain  functions  from  psychology  by  using
methods  offered  by  connectionist  models. The findings of
this field are often evaluated by  their  neuropsychological
validity and not by their functional applicability.

Sometimes the field of connectionism is referred to  as  the
"new  AI". Its applicability in AI has spawned a belief that
AI will benefit from a good understanding of neural informa-
tion  processing  capabilities.  The subfield "Connectionism
and artificial intelligence" is also concerned with the dis-
tinction between connectionist and symbolic representations.

The wide  applicability  and  problem-solving  abilities  of
neural  networks  are  exposed  in  "Real-world  computing".
Robotics, vision, speech and neural hardware are some of the
topics in this field.

"The philosophy of connectionism"  is  concerned  with  such
diverse  questions  as  the  mind-body problem and relations
between distributed representations, their semantics and im-
plications for intelligent behaviour.

Experimental studies in "Neurobiology" have implications  on
the  validity and design of new, artificial neural architec-
tures. This branch of connectionism addresses topics such as
self-organisation,  modelling  of  cortex,  and  associative
memory models.

A number of internationally renowned keynote  speakers  will
be  invited  to  give  plenary  talks on the subjects listed
above.


GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Instructions for submissions of manuscripts:

Papers may be submitted, in three (3) copies, to one of  the
following sessions.

~ Theory of connectionism
~ Cognitive connectionism
~ Connectionism and artificial intelligence
~ Real-world computing
~ The philosophy of connectionism
~ Neurobiology

A note should state principal author and email  address  (if
any). It should also indicate what session the paper is sub-
mitted to.

Length:

Papers must be a maximum of ten (10) pages  long  (including
figures  and references), the text area should be 6.5 inches
by  9  inches,  including  footnotes  but   excluding   page
numbers), and in a 12-point font type.

Template and style files conforming to these  specifications
for  several  text formatting programs, will be available to
authors of accepted papers.

Deadline:

Papers must be received by Thursday, September  1,  1994  to
ensure  reviewing.  All submitted papers will be reviewed by
members of the program committee on the basis  of  technical
quality,  research  significance,  novelty  and clarity. The
principal author will be notified  of  acceptance  no  later
than Tuesday, October 18, 1994.

Proceedings:

All accepted papers will appear in the  conference  proceed-
ings.


CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Lars Niklasson,                  Mikael Boden
[e-mail]        [e-mail]

TENTATIVE SPEAKERS

Michael Mozer     University of Colorado, USA
Ronan Reilly      University College Dublin, Ireland
Paul Smolensky    University of Colorado, USA
David Touretzky   Carnegie Mellon University, USA

This list is under completion.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jim Bower         California Inst. of Technology, USA
Harald Brandt     Ellemtel, Sweden
Ron Chrisley      University of Sussex, UK
Gary Cottrell     University of California, San Diego, USA
Georg Dorffner    University of Vienna, Austria
Tim van Gelder    National University of Australia, Australia
Agneta Gulz       University of Skovde, Sweden
Olle Gallmo       Uppsala University, Sweden
Tommy Garling     Goteborg University, Sweden
Dan Hammerstrom   Adaptive Solutions Inc., USA
Jim Hendler       University of Maryland, USA
Erland Hjelmquist Goteborg University, Sweden
Anders Lansner    Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm, Sweden
Reiner Lenz       Linkoping University, Sweden
Ajit Narayanan    University of Exeter, UK
Jordan Pollack    Ohio State University, USA
Noel Sharkey      University of Sheffield, UK
Bertil Svensson   Chalmers Inst. of Technology, Sweden
Tere Vaden        University of Tampere, Finland


PLEASE ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO:

                          "SCC-95"
              The Connectionist Research Group
                    University of Skovde
                        P.O. Box 408
                   541 28 Skovde, SWEDEN
                   E-mail: [e-mail]


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Subject: CFP ECAL95
From:    [e-mail] (Arantza Etxeberria)
Date:    Tue, 10 May 1994 18:11:00 -0000


               CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

               3rd. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE

                               ECAL95

                   Granada, Spain, 4-6 June, 1995


 Despite its short history, Artificial Life (AL) is already becoming a
 mature scientific field.  By trying to discover the rules of life and
 extract its essence so that it can be implemented in different media, AL
 research is leading us to a better understanding of a large set of
 interesting biology-related problems.

 The Conference will be organized into Scientific Sessions, Demonstrations,
 Videos, and Comercial Exhibits.  Scientific Sessions will consist of
 Lectures (invited), Oral Presentations of submitted papers, and Posters.

 The site of ECAL95 will be the city of Granada, located in the South of
 Spain, in the region of Andalucia.  Granada was the last Arabic site in the
 Iberian Peninsula, and it has the heritage of their culture, including the
 legacy of marvelous constructions such as the Alhambra and the Gardens of
 Generalife.

 ECAL95 will be organized in collaboration with the International Workshop
 on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN95) to be held at Malaga (Costa del
 Sol, Spain), June 7-9, 1995.  Granada and Malaga are only one hour apart by
 car.  Special registration rates will be offered to people wishing to
 attend both meetings.


 Scientific Sessions and Topics

 1. Foundations and Epistemology:
     Philosophical Issues. Emergence. Levels of Organization. Evolution of
     Hierarchical Systems. Evolvability. Computation and Dynamics. Ethical
     Problems.

 2. Evolution:
     Self-organization.  Pattern Formation.  Prebiotic Evolution.  Origins
     of Life.  Evolution of Metabolism.  Evolutionary Optimization.  Fitness
     Landscapes.  RNA Systems.  Ecosystem Evolution.  Biodiversity.  Natural
     Selection and Sexual Selection.  Units of Selection.

 3. Adaptive and Cognitive Systems:
     Reaction, Neural and Immune Networks.  Growth and Differentiation.
     Multicellular Development.  Natural and Artificial Morphogenesis.
     Learning and Development.  Communication

 4. Artificial Worlds:
     Simulation of Ecologycal and Evolving Systems. System-Environment
     Correlation. Sensor-Effector Coordination. Environment Design.

 5. Robotics and Emulation of Animal Behavior:
     Sensory and Motor Activity. Mobile Agents. Adaptive Robots. Autonomous
     Robots. Evolutionary Robotics. Ethology.

 6. Societies and Collective Behavior:
     Swarm Intelligence. Cooperation and Communication among Animals and
     Robots. Evolution of Social Behavior. Social Organizations. Division of
     Tasks.

 7. Applications and Common Tools:
     Optimization. Problem Solving. Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics.
     Genetic Algorithms.  Neural Networks.  Fuzzy Logic.  Evolutionary
     Computation.  Genetic Programming.



 Submission Instructions

 Conference Contributions can be either papers, posters, videos, or
 demonstrations.  Authors should specify to wich session cotributions are
 intented. The contributions will be made available in two formats:

 1) Conference Proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag before the
 Conference, including all accepted papers.  One copy of the book will be
 given to each ECAL95 participant.

 2) Abstracts Book, for papers and other contributions (posters, videos, or
 demos).  For this purpose each contribution must include one Title/Abstract
 Page containing the following:
        - Title
        - Full name(s) of author(s)
        - Address(es) of author(s) with phone, fax, and E-mail
        - Extended abstract (100-200 words)
        - Keywords

 - Full papers:  In addition to the Title/Abstract Page, manuscripts should
 not exceed 12 pages, including figures, in DIN-A4 format, with 2.5 cm
 (1 inch) margins all around, and no smaller than 10 point type in
 Times-Roman typeface.  Cammera ready versions of the papers will be
 required after acceptance.

 - Posters:  Submit only the Title/Abstract Page.

 - Demonstrations:  In addition to the Title/Abstract Page, author(s) must
 specify the equipment needed for the demonstration.  Robotic demonstrations
 are encouraged, approximately 250 m2 will be available for this purpose.

 - Videos:  15 minutes maximum duration, VHS format.  In addition to the
 Title/Abstract Page, author(s) must specify recording standard (NTSC, Pal,
 or Secam).


 Submissions can be done in 2 different formats:  hardcopy or electronic.

 A) Hardcopy originals (4 copies) should be sent by the author(s) to the
 Program Secretary at the address below.

 B) Electronic submission:  an anonymous ftp directory has been created at
 the ECAL95 site (casip.ugr.es, /pub/ecal95/submissions).  Only LaTeX and
 PostScript submissions will be accepted.  The papers must be in the format
 specified above, and must include everything needed to print them (e.g.,
 fonts, macros, figures, etc).


 LaTeX macros and more detailed instructions will be given upon request to
 the ECAL95 Program Secretary, or can be got by ftp from the ECAL95 site.
 For demonstrations and videos contact the Program Secretary.


 Registration / Information
    Program Secretary:

           Juan J. Merelo
           Dept. Electronica          |
           Facultad de Ciencias       |    Phone:  [phone]
           Campus Fuentenueva         |    Fax:    [phone]
           18071 Granada, Spain       |    E-mail: [e-mail]

    Access to ECAL95 site:  casip.ugr.es (150.214.60.74)
                            login: anonymous
                            cd /pub/ecal95

 Organization Committee

 Federico Moran         U. Complutense Madrid (E)                    Chair
 Alvaro Moreno          U. Pais Vasco, San Sebastian (E)             Chair
 Arantza Etxeberria     U. Sussex (UK)
 Julio Fernandez        U. Pais Vasco, San Sebastian (E)
 George Kampis          ELTE Univ. Budapest (H)
 Francisco Montero      U. Complutense, Madrid (E)
 Tim Smithers           U. Pais Vasco, San Sebastian (E)
 Carme Torras           U. Politecnica Catalunya, Barcelona (E)


 Local Committee

 Alberto Prieto         U. Granada (E)                               Chair
 Juan J. Merelo         U. Granada (E)                           Secretary
 Julio Ortega           U. Granada (E)
 Francisco J. Pelayo    U. Granada (E)


 Program Committee

 Francisco Varela       CNRS/CREA, Paris (F)                         Chair
 Juan J. Merelo         U. Granada (E)                           Secretary
 Riccardo Antonini      U. Carlos III, Madrid (E)
 Michael Arbib          USC, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
 Randall D. Beer        Case Western Reserve U., Cleveland, OH (USA)
 George Bekey           USC, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
 Hugues Bersini         ULB, Brussels (B)
 Paul Bourgine          CEMAGREF, Antony (F)
 Rodney Brooks          MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)
 Scott Camazine         Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (D)
 Peter Cariani          MEEI, Boston, MA (USA)
 Michael Conrad         Wayne State U., Detroit, MI (USA)
 Jaques Demongeot       U. J. Fourier, La Tronche (F)
 Jean-Louis Deneubourg  U. Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (B)
 Michael Dyer           UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
 Claus Emmeche          U. of Rosekilde, (DK)
 Walter Fontana         U. of Vienna, (A)
 Brian C. Goodwin       Open U., Milton Keynes (UK)
 Pauline Hogeweg        U. of Utrecht, (NL)
 Philip Husbands        U. of Sussex, Brighton (UK)
 John Koza              Stanford U., CA (USA)
 Chris Langton          Santa Fe Institute, NM (USA)
 Pier L. Luisi          ETHZ, Zurich (CH)
 Pattie Maes            MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)
 Pedro C. Marijuan      U. Zaragoza, (E)
 Maja J. Mataric        MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)
 Enrique Melendez-Hevia U. La Laguna, Tenerife (E)
 Eric Minch             Stanford U., CA (USA)
 Melanie Mitchel        Santa Fe Institute, NM (USA)
 Jim D. Murray          U. of Washington, Seattle, WA (USA)
 Juan C. Nuno           U. Politecnica de Madrid, (E)
 Domenico Parisi        CNR, Roma (I)
 Mukesh Patel           Politecnico di Milano, Milan (I)
 Howard Pattee          SUNY, Binghampton, NY (USA)
 Juli Pereto            U. Valencia, (E)
 Rolf Pfeifer           U. Zurich-Irchel, Zurich (CH)
 Steen Rasmussen        LANL, Los Alamos, NM (USA)
 Robert Rosen           Dalhousie U. Halifax (CA)
 Peter Schuster         IMB, Jena (D)
 Luc Steels             VUB, Brussels (B)
 John Stewart           Institut Pasteur, Paris (F)
 Jon Umerez             SUNY Binghamton, NY (USA)
 William C. Winsatt     U. of Chicago, (USA)
 Rene Zapata            LIRM, Montpellier (F)


 Official Language: English

 Publisher: Springer-Verlag

 Important dates:

 January 9, 1995  Submission deadline
 March 10         Notification of acceptance
 March 24         Camera-ready due
 March 31         Early registration deadline
 May 4            Regular registration deadline
 June 3           Reception and on site registration
 June 4-6         Conference dates

 Sponsored by:

 Spanish RIG IEEE Neural Networks Council
 Silicon Graphics (Spain)
 Parque de las Ciencias de Granada
 EEC
 DGICYT (Spain)
 CICYT (Spain)
 Junta de Andalucia (Spain)
 EUDEMA

 Organised by:

 Universidad de Granada
 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
 Universidad del Pais Vasco






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Subject: FIrst IEEE conference on Image Processing
From:    [e-mail] (International Conf on Image Processing Mail
 Box)
Date:    Tue, 07 Jun 1994 20:10:11 -0500


        FIRST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING
                        November 13-16, 1994
               Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, USA

                    REGISTRATION INFORMATION
                    ************************

Sponsored  by  the  Institute  of  Electrical   and   Electronics
Engineers  (IEEE)  Signal  Processing  Society,  ICIP-94  is  the
inaugural international conference on  theoretical,  experimental
and  applied  image  processing.   It will provide a centralized,
high-quality forum for presentation of technological advances and
research  results  by  scientists  and engineers working in Image
Processing and associated  disciplines  such  as  multimedia  and
video   technology, as well as image processing  applications  in
areas  such  as  the  biomedical  sciences  and geosciences.

CONFERENCE ENVIRONMENT
ICIP-94 will be held in the recently  completed  state-of-the-art
Convention  Center  in  downtown Austin. The Convention Center is
situated two blocks from the Town Lake, and is  only  12  minutes
from  Robert  Meuller  Airport.   It is surrounded by many modern
hotels that provide comfortable accommodation  for  $75-$125  per
night.

Austin, the state capital, is  renowned  for  its  natural  hill-
country  beauty  and  an  active  cultural  scene. Within walking
distance of the Convention Center are several hiking and  jogging
trails, as well as opportunities for a variety of aquatic sports.
Live bands perform in various clubs around the city and at  night
spots  along  Sixth  Street,  offering  a  range  of jazz, blues,
country/Western, reggae, swing and rock music.  Day  temperatures
are typically in the upper sixties in mid-November.

An  exciting  range  of  EXHIBITS,  TUTORIALS,  SPECIAL   PRODUCT
SESSIONS, and SOCIAL EVENTS will be offered.

In the remainder of this mailing, you will find:

        - ICIP-94 Conference Registration form
        - ICIP-94 Hotel Registration Form
        - Information on ICIP-94 Hotels in Austin, Texas

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                  ICIP-94 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
                  ************************************

First IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
November 13-16, 1994
Austin, Texas  USA

Personal Information: (PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY)

First Name ______________________________________________________
Last Name _______________________________________________________
Name Desired on Badge ___________________________________________
Title ___________________________________________________________
Affiliation _____________________________________________________
Mailing Address _________________________________________________
City ____________________________________________________________
Country _________________________________________________________
Phone ________________________________ Fax ______________________
E-mail __________________________________________________________

Registration Fee Schedule:

_________________________      Advance                 On-Site or
IEEE Member Number            By Oct. 10              After Oct. 10

           IEEE Member        $275  USD __________  $325  USD __________
           Non-members        $375  USD __________  $425  USD __________
           *Student           $100  USD __________  $100  USD __________
           Tutorials each     $100  USD __________  $120  USD __________
*Student - Tutorials each     $ 40  USD __________  $ 40  USD __________
Banquet  Quantity ________    $ 50  USD __________  $ 50  USD __________
Extra Conference Proceedings:
   IEEE Member Quantity _____ $120  USD __________
    Non-Member Quantity _____ $145  USD __________

           TOTAL PAYMENT                __________

Tutorials: Sunday, Nov. 13, 1994
(Please check at most one morning and one afternoon session.)
______ Session 1 AM Bernd Girod - Compression of Still and Moving Images
______ Session 2 AM Robert Haralick - Mathematical Morphology
______ Session 3 PM Martin Vetterli/Jelena Kovacevic
                    Wavelets and Subband Coding
______ Session 4 PM Richard Blahut - Maximum-Likelihood Image Synthesis:
                    An Introduction to Imaging Algorithms

*Please attach proof of student status
(copy of valid student ID or letter from Department Chair)

Registration fees include: all sessions, exhibits, one copy of proceedings,
coffee breaks and social events.  Registration does not  include banquet.

METHOD OF PAYMENT (Circle one)    Check       Credit Card         Other

Credit card type  (Circle one)    Visa        American Express    Mastercard

Card Number        _______________________________________________
Expiration date    _______________________________________________
Cardholder's name  _______________________________________________

Cardholder's signature  __________________________________________
Delegates not using credit card facilities must forward a check, money
order or bank draft payable to "ICIP-94" and drawn on a US bank or US
branch of a foreign bank for the total amount in US dollars.

Check Number______________________



Mail to:
Conference Management Services
3024 Thousand Oaks Drive
Austin, Texas  78746 U.S.A.
FAX:   [phone]
Phone: [phone]

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                     ICIP-94 HOTEL RESERVATION FORM
                     ******************************

First IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
November 13-16, 1994
Austin, Texas, USA

MAIL,  FAX , or phone your reservation by OCT. 10 to ensure availability
and special rates to the hotel of your choice.  Be sure to mention the
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.

RESERVATION MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY FIRST NIGHT'S DEPOSIT PLUS 13% TAX, OR
AN ACCEPTED CREDIT CARD NUMBER AND SIGNATURE.

Last Name __________________________First Name______________________________

Company / Organization _____________________________________________________

Mailing Address ____________________________________________________________
                       (Please include Mail Stop)
City / State / Country / Postal Code _______________________________________

Phone (Work)________________________Phone (Home)____________________________

Arrival Date ___________ Expected Time of Arrival_________Departure Date ___

Room Desired:   ____Single   ____Double   ____Triple   ____Quad
  *Please note:  At the Four Seasons -- a Double is twin beds
Special Request:  ______non-smoking   _______smoking
Special Requirements _____________________________ Number of people ________
Sharing a room with  _______________________________________________________
If sharing a room, please return only one reservation card.

I authorize this hotel to charge my account for one night's deposit,
including all applicable taxes.

Please Circle One:  Master Card   VISA   American Express

Credit Card Number _____________________________Expiration Date  ___________

Signature_______________________________________
Reservations may be canceled 48 hours prior to arrival for a full refund of
a deposit.

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                      ICIP-94 HOTELS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS

First International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-94

All of the hotels listed are located within one mile of the Austin Convention
Center.  Please mail, phone, or fax your reservation request directly to the
hotel of your choice by OCTOBER 10, 1994 to ensure that a room will be
available.  In order to receive the special rates for conference attendees,
BE SURE TO MENTION ICIP-94.  Reservations received after the block of rooms
reserved for ICIP-94 is filled will only be confirmed on a space available
basis and may not have the special group rate.  Reservations must be
accompanied by the first night's deposit and 13% tax, or an accepted credit
card number and signature.  *If you are planning to stay the weekend prior,
PLEASE book your rooms EARLY to avoid conflict with other Austin events.
Hotel space is limited in Austin.

Four Seasons Hotel
98 San Jacinto Boulevard
Austin, Texas  78701-4039
Telephone:     + 512-478-4500
Fax:           + 512-478-3117
Single Rate    $ 119.00
Double Rate    $ 129.00
The Four Seasons is located on Town Lake and is one block from the
Convention Center.  It is the headquarters hotel for ICIP-94.  Hotel
facilities include full health club, heated outdoor pool and 24 hour
concierge services.  The service is impeccable and the facilities are
superior.  Ten minutes from the airport - taxi fare should be around $8.00.

Radisson Hotel on Town Lake
111 East 1st Street
Austin, Texas 78701
Telephone:           + 512-478-9611
Fax:                 + 512-478-3227
Single/Double Rate   $ 75.00
Triple/Quad   Rate   $ 85.00
The Radisson Hotel is three blocks and an easy walk from Austin's new
Convention Center.  The Radisson has a lakeside outdoor pool with nearby
picnic areas and an 18.45 mile Hike and Bike Trail.  The Radisson has
complimentary airport transportation and complimentary covered parking.

Sheraton Austin Hotel
Austin, TX  78701
500 N. IH-35
Telephone:      + 512-480-8181
Fax:            + 512-482-0660
Single Rate     $ 86.00
Double Rate     $ 96.00
The Sheraton Austin Hotel has Italian marble throughout with Drexel
Heritage furnishings and silk wall paper.  It is located on historic and
exciting Sixth Street.  The Sheraton is three blocks from the Convention
Center and 10 minutes by taxi from the airport.  Ample complimentary garage
parking is available for guests.

The Driskill
6th & Brazos Street
Austin, TX 78701
Telephone:    + 512-474-5911
Fax:          + 512-474-2214
Single Rate   $ 75.00
Double Rate   $ 85.00
The Driskill Hotel, built in 1886, is a State & Federal Historic landmark
located in the heart of downtown Austin. The State Capitol, The University
of Texas, Town Lake and Historic Sixth Street are all within walking
distance.  It is four blocks from the Convention Center and 10 minutes by
taxi from the airport.

Omni Austin Hotel
700 San Jacinto Street
Austin, TX 78701
Telephone:     + 512-476-3700
Fax:           + 512-320-5882
Single Rate    $ 95.00
Double Rate    $ 95.00
The Omni Austin Hotel is a Four Diamond hotel located one block from Historic
Sixth Street.  It is only 5 blocks from the Convention Center.  The Omni has a
penthouse health club, sauna, outdoor pool and whirlpool.  The Omni provides
complimentary transportation from the airport as well as complimentary
parking.

Hyatt Regency Austin
208 Barton Springs Road
Austin, TX  78704
Telephone:     + 512-477-1234
Fax:           + 512-480-2069
Single Rate    $  99.00
Double Rate    $  99.00
Triple Rate    $ 109.00
The Hyatt Regency is a downtown hotel in a nine-acre setting of landscaped
terrain on Town Lake.  It is eight blocks from the Convention Center.  The
Hyatt has an outdoor swimming pool and a ten mile Hike'n Bike Trail at
the hotel's back door.  Complimentary bicycles are available to hotel
guests.  General and valet parking is also available.

Austin Marriott at the Capitol
701 East 11th Street
Austin, TX 78701
Telephone:      + 512-478-1111
Fax:            + 512-478-3700
Single Rate     $ 92.00
Double Rate     $ 97.00
The Austin Marriott is ideally located at the intersection of I-35
and 11th Street, just 10 minutes from the airport.  This AAA Four Diamond
hotel offers a private concierge floor, airport transportation, and complete
recreational facilities.  The Convention Center is 10 blocks south of the
hotel.

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For further details about ICIP-94, please contact:

     Conference Management Services
     3024 Thousand Oaks Drive
     Austin, Texas 78746
     Tel: [phone]; Fax:[phone]
     or email: [e-mail]

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