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Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!ee.su.oz.au!marwan From: marwan@ee.su.oz.au (Marwan A. Jabri, Sydney Univ. Elec. Eng., Tel: +61-2 692 2240) Subject: ACNN'93 Programme Message-ID: <1993Jan10.044431.6523@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: brutus.ee.su.oz.au Reply-To: marwan@ee.su.oz.au (Marwan A. Jabri, Sydney Univ. Elec. Eng., Tel: +61-2 692 2240) Organization: Electrical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:44:31 GMT Lines: 653 THE FOURTH AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (ACNN'93) CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 1st - 3rd FEBRUARY 1993 UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA PROGRAMME Monday, 1st February 1993 8.30 - 9.15 am Registration 9.15 - 9.30 am Official Opening 9.30 - 10.30 am Keynote Address G Hinton Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, Canada 10.30 - 11.00 am Morning Coffee 11.00 - 12.30 pm Session 1 An Associative Memory Model for the CA3 Region of the Hippocampus M R Bennett Neurobiology Research Centre W G Gibson & J Robinson School of Mathematics & Statistics University of Sydney, Australia Variable Threshold ART3 Neural Network P Lozo Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering University of Adelaide, Australia Constrained Quadratic Optimization using Neural Networks A Bouzerdoum & T R Pattison Dept of Electrical & Electronic Eng University of Adelaide, Australia 12.30 - 3.00 pm Lunch (including Student Poster Session) 3.00 - 3.30 pm Afternoon Tea 3.30 - 5.00 pm Session 2 The Sample Size Necessary for Learning in Multi-layer Networks P L Bartlett Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Queensland, Australia Implementing a Model for Line Perception B P McGregor & M L Cook Centre for Visual Sciences, RSBS Australian National University, Australia Improving the Performance of the Neocognitron D R Lovell, D Simon & A C Tsoi Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Queensland, Australia 5.00 - 7.30 pm Poster Session 1 Tuesday, 2nd February 1993 9.00 - 10.30 am Session 2 Improved Phoneme Recognition Using Multi-Module Recurrent Neural Networks L R Leerink & M Jabri Dept of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia External Stimuli in Biased Attractor Neural Networks A N Burkitt Computer Sciences Laboratory, RSPS Australian National University, Australia Activity Dependent Plasticity of Synapses in the Central Nervous System F H Guldner Department of Anatomy Khon Kaen University, Thailand 10.30 - 11.00 am Morning Coffee 11.00 - 12.00 noon A Method for Learning from Hints (Invited) Y S Abu-Mostafa California Institute of Technology, U S A 12.00 - 1.30 pm Lunch 1.30 - 3.00pm Session 4 A VLSI Arrhythmia Classifier P H W Leong & M A Jabri Department of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia The Associative Conditioning Element B L Rogers Information Technology Institute Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Establishing Analogical Mappings by Synchronizing Oscillators B D Burns, J E Hummel & K J Holyoak Department of Psychology University of California, Los Angeles, U S A 3.00 - 3.30 pm Afternoon Tea 3.30 - 5.00 pm Session 5 Experimental Low Cost Neural Networks for Spoken Language Understanding A Kowalczyk & M Dale Telecom Research Laboratories, Australia A Neural Network Implementation of Sokolov's Model of Habituation of the Orienting Reflex B A Daniels Department of Psychology University of Tasmania, Australia Moving Image Compression and Regeneration by Associative Retina Chip Y Nakamura, M Ikegami & M Tanaka Faculty of Science & Technology Sophia University, Japan 5.00 - 7.00 pm Poster Session 2 7.00 - 9.00 pm BBQ and drinks Wednesday, 3rd February 1993 9.00 - 10.00 am A Spectral Domain Associative Memory with Improved Recall (Invited) B Hunt, M S Nadar, P Keller, E Van Colln & A Goyal Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Arizona, USA 10.00 - 10.30 am Morning Coffee 10.30 - 11.30 am Session 6 Modelling Context Effects in Human Character Recognition Using Interconnected Single-Layer Perceptrons C Latimer, C Stevens & M Charles Department of Psychology University of Sydney, Australia Learning Nonlinearly Parametrized Decision Regions K L Halliwell, R C Williamson & I M Y Mareels Interdisciplinary Engineering Program Australian National University, Australia 11.30 - 1.00 pm Lunch (including Ideas-in-Progress Posters) 1.00 - 2.00 pm Session 7 A Comparison of Three On Chip Neuron Designs for a Low Power VLSI MLP R J Coggins, M A Jabri & S Pickard Department of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia Developments to the CMAC Neural Net C S Berger Department of Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering Monash University, Australia 2.00 - 2.15 pm Closing Poster Session 1 Monday, 1st February 1992 5.00 - 7.30 pm The Effect of Representation on Error Surface S Phillips Department of Computer Science University of Queensland, Australia Statistical Analysis of a Parallel Dynamics Autoassociative Memory Network A M N Fu & W G Gibson School of Mathematics & Statistics University of Sydney, Australia Error Bounds for Approximation by Feedforward Neural Networks M Ma & A C Tsoi Department of Electrical Engineering University of Queensland, Australia A Comparative Study between SGNT and SONN W Wen, V Pang & A Jennings AISS/TSSS Telecom Research Laboratories, Australia A Critical Look at Adaptive Logic Networks S Parameswaran & M F Schulz Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Queensland, Australia Single and Dual Transistor Synapses for Analogue VLSI Artificial Neural Networks B Flower & M A Jabri Department of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia Well-Balanced Learning by Observing Individual Squared Errors K Kohara & T Kawaoka NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories, Japan Optimization of Multi-Layer Neural Networks using Gauss-Newton Minimization A Bainbridge-Smith, M A Stoksik & R G Lane Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering University of Tasmania, Australia Exception Learning by Backpropagation: A New Error Function P Bakker & J Wiles Department of Computer Science University of Queensland, Australia R Lister Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Queensland, Australia Genetic Optimization and Representation of Neural Networks M Mandischer Department of Computer Science VI University of Dortmund, Growing Context Units in Simple Recurrent Networks Using the Statistical Attribute of Weight Updates L R Leerink & M A Jabri Department of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia A Nonlinear Model for Human Associative Memory Based on Error Accumulation R A Heath Department of Psychology University of Newcastle, Australia Towards Connectionist Realization of Fuzzy Production Systems N K Kasabov Department of Information Science University of Otago, New Zealand A Stable Neural Controller for Nonminimum Phase Systems S K Mazumdar & C C Lim Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering University of Adelaide, Australia An Adaptive Neural Net Based Spectral Classifier J T Hefferan & S Reisenfeld School of Electrical Engineering University of Technology Sydney, Australia Neuro-Morphology of Biological Vision: Fractional Discriminant Functions in the Emulation of Visual Receptive Fields for Remote Sensed Images S K Hungenahally & A Postula School of Microelectronic Engineering Griffith University, Australia L C Jain School of Electronic Engineering University of South Australia, Australia Automated Acquisition of Rules for Diagnosis S Sestito & S Goss Air Operations Division DSTO Aeronautical Research Laboratory, Australia G Merrington & R Eustace Flight Mechanics & Propulsion Division DSTO Aeronautical Research Laboratory, Australia Neural Networks to Compute Global Pattern Rotation and Dilation J S Chahl & M V Srinivasan Centre for Visual Sciences, RSBS Australian National University, Australia A Neural Architecture with Multiple Scales of Organisation D Alexander Behavorial Sciences Macquarie University, Australia Error and Variance Bounds in Multilayer Neural Networks D R Lovell & P L Bartlett Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Queensland, Australia What Size Higher Order Network gives Valid Generalization? S Young & T Downs Department of Electrical Engineering University of Queensland, Australia Poster Session 2 Tuesday, 2nd February 1992 5.00 - 7.00 pm RPROP: A Fast and Robust Backpropagation Learning Strategy M Riedmiller & H Braun Institute fur Logik, Komplexitat und Deduktionssysteme University of Karlsruhe, A VLSI Switched Capacitor Realisation of An Artificial Synapse and Neuron Suitable for Nano-Power Multi-Layer Perceptrons S Pickard & M A Jabri Department of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia PANNE: A Parallel Artificial Neural Network Engine S Guda, B Flower & M A Jabri Department of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia The Self-Growing Feed-Forward Counterpropagation Network S J Bye Telecom Research Laboratories, Australia A Adams & P Vamplew Artificial Neural Network Research Group University of Tasmania, Australia Pruning Feed-forward Neural Networks A N Burkitt Computer Sciences Laboratory, RSPS Australian National University, Australia P Ueberholz Physics Department University of Wuppertal, Germany A Comparison of Architectural Alternatives for Recurrent Networks W H Wilson School of Computer Science & Engineering University of New South Wales, Australia An Entropy Based Feature Evaluation and Selection Technique Z Chi & M A Jabri Department of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia Designing and Training a Multi-Net System with varying Algorithms and Architectures M Arnold & M A Jabri Department of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia The Minds Eye: Extraction of Structure from Images of Objects with Natural Variability T J Stucke & G Coghill Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering G C Creak Department of Computer Science University of Auckland, New Zealand Comparison of a Back-Propagation Model of Music Recognition and Human Performance C Stevens & C Latimer Department of Psychology University of Sydney, Australia Analysis of a Neural Network with Application to Human Memory Modelling M Chappell & M S Humphreys Department of Psychology University of Queensland, Australia An Art Model of Human Recognition Memory A Heathcote Psychology Department University of Newcastle, Australia Comparison of Different Neighbourhood Size in Simulated Annealing X Yao Department of Computer Science University College, University of New South Wales, ADFA, Australia Classification of Incomplete Data using Neural Networks M L Southcott & R E Bogner Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering University of Adelaide, Australia Feature Extraction Using Neural Networks S V R Madiraju, Z Q Liu & T M Caelli Department of Computer Science University of Melbourne, Australia Application of Neural Networks to Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships of Benzodiazepine/GABAA Receptor Binding Compounds D J Maddalena & G Johnston Department of Pharmacology University of Sydney, Australia Word-boundary Detection using Recurrent Neural Networks L R Leerink & M A Jabri Department of Electrical Engineering University of Sydney, Australia Classification by Single Hidden Layer ANN G Chakrabnorty, N Shiratori & S Noguchi Division of Engineering Tohoku University, Japan Unification in Prolog by Connectionist Models Volker Weber Computer Science Department University of Hamburg, Germany Ideas-in-Progress Posters A Feedforward Neural Network with Complex Weights E Skafidas & M Palaniswami Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering University of Melbourne, Australia A Method of Training Multi-Layer Networks with Heaviside Characteristics using Internal Representations R J Gaynier & T Downs Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Queensland, Australia Comparing Computed Neural Nets and Living Brains C J A Game Department of Surgery University of Sydney & SEDAL, Australia Neural Networks as Direct Adaptive Controllers M Bahrami School of Electrical engineering University of New South Wales, Australia Performance Criteria for Stop Consonant Identification Using Artificial Neural Nets R Katsch, P Dermody & D Woo Speech Communication Research Group National Acoustic Laboratories, Australia Classifying High Dimensional Spectral Data by Neural Networks R A Dunne Murdoch University, Australia N A Campbell & H T Kiiveri Division of Mathematics & Statistics C S I R O, Australia Registration The conference is being held at the Prince Philip Theatre in the Architecture and Planning Building in Masson Rd (marked on the attached map of Melbourne University). Registration is available in the foyer of the Architecture and Planning Building from 4-6pm on Sunday, 31 January, and from 8.30 each morning of the Conference. Registration fees: Academic A$200.00 Student A$ 75.00 Other A$300.00 Accommodation For accommodation booking, please contact Conference Associates, Tel/Fax: +61 (3) 887 8003. Accommodation has been block booked at: Ormond College Student $ 32.00 (Bed&Breakfast) University of Melbourne Other $ 42.00 The Town House Standard $ 98.00 701 Swanston St Executive $110.00 Carlton (rates include continental breakfast) Lygon Lodge Standard $ 83.00 220 Lygon St Deluxe $ 95.00 Carlton Standard 3 bed room $95.00 Train (Sydney-Melbourne) Economy Return $ 98.00 1st Class Return $158.00 Depart Sydney 8.05 pm Melbourne 8.00 pm Arrive Melbourne 9.10 am Sydney 9.00 am Local Air Travel Information Ansett are the official Carrier for ACNN'93 and are providing a number of services. However, only the normal discount air fares are available for delegates. If booking with Ansett please quote the Master File number: MC 04351. The reservation phone number is 131300. Discount tickets have to be booked at least 14 days in advance. However only a limited number of seats will be available at these prices so book asap and avoid disappointment. Transport from Airport Tullamarine Airport, located 20 km north-west of the city centre on the Tullamarine Freeway, is open 24 hours a day and handles both international and domestic flights at terminals in the same building. The Skybus Airport Coach service runs regularly to the city with a transfer time of 30-40 minutes. The airline and greyhound terminals in the city are adjacent to Swanston St. The contact number for Skybus is (03) 335 3066. Cab fare is about $20-25. Transport to the University of Melbourne The conference is situated in the Architecture and Planning Building in Masson Rd. Tram stop No. 10 in Swanston St (between Faraday and Elgin Sts) is directly opposite. Trams No. 1 and 15 are appropriate, and can be caught from Museum and Flinders St Stations. Parking Parking is not available on campus during regular hours. There are all day meters at 20 cents/hour to the north of the University in College Crescent and in Lygon St adjacent to the Cemetery and free all day parking in Princes Park Drive. Undercover parking is available at $6/day at Tower in Drummond St and there is also all day parking at $5 at the Exhibition Buildings in Rathdown St. Note that Monday, 1 February is a public holiday in Victoria. Limited all day parking may be available on campus for $5. On-Campus Facilities There is a Commonwealth Bank and a Post Office in the building in which the conference is held. The Union is nearby. There are bookshops, chemists and food stops in the union. Note that the Union is close on Monday, 1 February. Lunch Lygon St is a short walk east of the conference venue. There are restaurants, food bars, take-away and eat-ins to meet all budget and dietary tastes. This is open all week including the Australia Day Holiday on 1 February. Messages to Delegates The Conference Registration Desk can be contacted on (03) 344-7962 Sunday 4-6pm and from 8.30am Monday to Wednesday. Messages can also be left with the CITRI receptionist on (03) 282-2400 if the registration desk is unattended. Weather Melbourne is generally warm with sunny days in February. The average temperature is 26 degrees with average overnight temperature of 15 degrees. There are often hot periods in excess of 33 degrees followed by a change with thunderstorms. Maximum temperature recorded is 43 degrees, lowest is 4 degrees. There is a 25% chance of rain. Sponsors Ansett Airlines Australian Telecommunications & Electronics Research Board Carlton United Breweries CITRI, University of Melbourne Defence Science & Technology Organisation SEDAL, University of Sydney Telecom Research Laboratories ACNN'93 Organising Committee Conference Chairman Dr Marwan Jabri , University of Sydney Technical Programme Chairs Dr Andrew Jennings, Telecom Research Laboratories Dr Stephen Pickard, University of Sydney Technical Committee Prof Yianni Attikiouzel, University of Western Australia Prof Max Bennett, University of Sydney Prof Bob Bogner, University of Adelaide Dr Joel Bornstein, University of Melbourne Ms Angela Bowles, BHP Research Melbourne Prof Terry Caelli, University of Melbourne Prof Max Coltheart, Macquarie University Dr Phil Diamond, University of Queensland Mr Barry Flower, University of Sydney Dr Bill Gibson, University of Sydney A/Prof Richard Heath, University of Newcastle Dr Andrew Jennings, Telecom Research Laboratories Dr Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Research Laboratories Prof Bill Levick, Australian National University Dr D Nandagopal, Defence Science & Technology Organisation Dr M Palaniswami, Defence Science & Technology Organisation Dr Stephen Pickard, University of Sydney Dr Nick Redding, Defence Science & Technology Organisation Dr M Srinivasan, Australian National University Prof Ah Chung Tsoi, University of Queensland Dr Janet Wiles, University of Queensland Dr Bob Williamson, Australian National University Local Committee Dr Joel Bornstein, University of Melbourne Ms Angela Bowles, BHP Research Melbourne Prof Terry Caelli, University of Melbourne Dr Victor Ciesielski, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Dr Simon Goss, Defence Science & Technology Organisation Dr Andrew Jennings, Telecom Research Laboratories Dr Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Research Laboratories Institutions Liaison & Publicity Dr Simon Goss, Defence Science & Technology Organisation Sponsorship Dr Andrew Jennings, Telecom Research Laboratories Publications Mr Philip Leong, University of Sydney ------------------------------------------------------------------- Marwan Jabri Email: marwan@ee.su.oz.au SEDAL, Electrical Engineering, Tel: (+61-2) 692-2240 Sydney University, NSW 2006, Australia Fax: (+61-2) 692-3847