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- Subject: CFP
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- CALL FOR PAPERS
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- SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS: INTEGRATING SYMBOLIC AND SUBSYMBOLIC
- APPROACHES TO COOPERATIVE COMPUTATION
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- A Workshop sponsored by the
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- Center for Neural Engineering
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520
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- April 13th and 14th, 1993
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- Program Committee:
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- Michael Arbib (Organizer),
- John Barnden,
- George Bekey,
- Francisco Cervantes-Perez,
- Damian Lyons,
- Paul Rosenbloom,
- Ron Sun,
- Akinori Yonezawa.
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- To design complex technological systems and to analyze complex
- biological and cognitive systems, we need a multilevel methodolo-
- gy which combines a coarse-grain analysis of cooperative or dis-
- tributed computation (we shall refer to the computing agents at
- this level as "schemas") with a fine-grain model of flexible,
- adaptive computation (for which neural networks provide a power-
- ful general paradigm). Schemas provide a language for distri-
- buted artificial intelligence, perceptual robotics, cognitive
- modeling, and brain theory which is "in the style of the brain",
- but at a relatively high level of abstraction relative to neural
- networks. The proposed workshop will provide a 2-hour introducto-
- ry tutorial and problem statement by Michael Arbib, and sessions
- in which an invited paper will be followed by several contributed
- papers, selected from those submitted in response to this call
- for papers. Preference will be given to papers which present
- practical examples of, theory of, and/or methodology for the
- design and analysis of complex systems in which the overall
- specification or analysis is conducted in terms of schemas, and
- where some but not necessarily all of the schemas are implemented
- in neural networks.
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- A list of sample topics for contributions is as follows, where a
- hybrid approach means one in which the abstract schema level is
- integrated with neural or other lower level models:
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- Schema Theory as a description language for neural networks.
- Modular neural networks.
- Linking DAI to Neural Networks to Hybrid Architecture.
- Formal Theories of Schemas.
- Hybrid approaches to integrating planning & reaction.
- Hybrid approaches to learning.
- Hybrid approaches to commonsense reasoning by integrating
- neural networks and rule-based reasoning (using
- schema for the integration).
- Programming Languages for Schemas and Neural Networks.
- Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming for Distributed AI
- and Neural Networks.
- Schema Theory Applied in Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics,
- Robotics, AI and Neuroscience.
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- Prospective contributors should send a hard copy of a five-page
- extended abstract, including figures with informative captions
- and full references (either by regular mail or fax) by February
- 15, 1993 to:
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- Michael Arbib
- Center for Neural Engineering
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA
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- Tel: (213) 740-9220,
- Fax: (213) 746-2863,
- email: arbib@pollux.usc.edu.
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- Please include your full address, including fax and email,
- on the paper.
-
- Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by email no
- later than March 1, 1993. There are currently no plans to issue
- a formal proceedings of full papers, but revised versions of ac-
- cepted abstracts received prior to April 1, 1993 will be collect-
- ed with the full text of the Tutorial in a CNE Technical Report
- which will be made available to registrants at the start of the
- meeting. [A useful way to structure such an abstract is in
- short numbered sections, where each section presents (in a small
- type face!) the material corresponding to one transparency/slide
- in a verbal presentation. This will make it easy for an audi-
- ence to take notes if they have a copy of the abstract at your
- presentation.]
-
- Hotel Information: Attendees may register at the hotel of their
- choice, but the closest hotel to USC is the University Hilton,
- 3540 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007, Phone: (213)
- 748- 4141, Reservation: (800) 872-1104, Fax: (213) 748- 0043.
- A single room costs $70/night while a double room costs
- $75/night. Workshop participants must specify that they are
- "Schemas and Neural Networks Workshop" attendees to avail of the
- above rates.
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- The registration fee of $150 includes a copy of the abstracts,
- coffee breaks, and a dinner to be held on the evening of April
- 13th.
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- Those wishing to register should send a check payable to Center
- for Neural Engineering, USC for $150 together with the following
- information to:
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- Paulina Tagle
- Center for Neural Engineering
- University of Southern California
- University Park
- Los Angeles CA 90089-2520
- USA
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- SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS
- Center for Neural Engineering, USC
- April 13 - 14, 1992
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- NAME: ____________________________________________
- ADDRESS: ____________________________________________
- ____________________________________________
- PHONE NO.: _______________ FAX:___________________
- EMAIL: ____________________________________________
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- I intend to submit a paper: YES [ ] NO [ ]
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