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Neuron Digest   Thursday, 25 Mar 1993
                Volume 11 : Issue 20

Today's Topics:
                       Economic forecasting by NN
                       Neura Network Competition.
                         an information, please
                             ENNS membership
                        British Private Companies
            LAST Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute
                                   NN
                             Normailization
          ANN for extracting structure from grey scale images?
          Request for Info on Time Series Analysis conferences
                    RE: ANN code in C++ (ND V11 #19)
                    postdoctoral research opportunity
                         email address requested


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Subject: Economic forecasting by NN
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Thu, 04 Mar 93 12:55:16 +0100


        Concerning requests of references on the topic of economic forecasting
using neural networks, many papers may be found in the proceedings of the
workshop on Parallel Applications in Statistics and Economics (PASE'92), held
in Prague, Czechoslovakia, December 7-8,1992. Thay have been published in a
special issue of Neural Network World (vol.2, no.6, 1992). This journal is
published in Prague, by the Institute of Computer and Information Science of
the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, edited by Prof. M. Novak. Their e-mail
is [e-mail]
        Have a good reading!

Marco Balsi
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
[e-mail]



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Subject: Neura Network Competition.
From:    [e-mail] (Yousif Asfour)
Organization: Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems
Date:    04 Mar 93 20:06:45 +0000


Hello everyone,

        In order to increase interest in ISSNNET, and in order to stimulate
local student groups to work together in forming "local chapters",
I would like to suggest that ISSNNET sponsor a "Neural Network Competition".

        I propose that this competition be modeled after such events as the
"robot competition" at MIT and others where students are encouraged to design
and  implement specific "toys" in order to "beat" other teams. The rules of
such a competition are usually  designed to make it challenging, imaginative,
and above all, fun.

        Is this a good idea? If so, do you have any suggestions for what such
the rules for such a competition might be ? Would you be interested in
helping out in organizing such an event?  All and any comments are welcome.


                Thanks,

                                Yousif Asfour

                                Cognitive and Neural Systems Dept.
                                Boston Univeristy
                                111 Cummington St, Rm 204,
                                Boston, MA 02215

                                [e-mail]

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Subject: an information, please
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Mon, 08 Mar 93 11:44:02 +0100

     I have to buy for the library of my University some books on
     NNs. I need the address (possibly the fax number) of a couple
     of good bookshops in the U.S., rich in NN books and which
     accept an order by VISA credit card.
     Please, do you know by chance of any list of bookshops?
     Could you help me?
     In any case, thankyou

                              prof silvio griguolo

                              [e-mail]

    P.S.: Also, do you know of any organization trading books which has
    an e-mail address?



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Subject: ENNS membership
From:    Piero Morasso <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 08 Mar 93 19:44:53 +0700

==============================================
                  E N N S
      European Neural Network Society
=============================================
ENNS is the Society which organizes every year the ICANN
Conferences (Helsinki'91, Brighton'92, Amsterdam'93,
Sorrento'94, ...)

ENNS membership allows reduced registration to ICANN,
subscription to the Neural Networks journal and the reception
of a Newsletter.

The ENNS membership application form is available via ftp. In
order to get it, proceed as follows:
1) you type "ftp dist.unige.it"
2) upon the request "login:" you type "anonymous"
3) upon the request "password:" you type your email address
4) if this is OK, you are inside the dist machine; your home
directory should be /home1/ftp; check it with "pwd"
5) you go to the ENNS directory (type "cd pub/ENNS")
6) you set the transmission to "binary"
7) you get the file by "get member_appl_form.ps.Z"
8) quit ftp
9) type "uncompress  member_appl_form.ps"
File member_appl_form.ps is now ready to print.


                        Pietro Morasso
                        ENNS secretary
                E-mail: [e-mail]
                  mail: DIST-University of Genova
                        Via Opera Pia, 11A
                        I-16145 Genova (ITALY)
                phone:  [phone]
                fax:    [phone]


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Subject: British Private Companies
From:    Diego Gachet <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 09 Mar 93 17:22:15 +0100


One of my students is looking for a British private company involved in
R+D activities concerning with applications of neural networks to
robotics and automation.

The purpose of this search is to aply for a grant of the COMETT Program,
this grant provides financial support for training in one of those
companies.

My student has good background in neural networks and he has experience
in the software development in this area and in the applications to
mobile robots.

Thanks in advance.
Diego Gachet
Dpto. Automatica
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Spain
[e-mail]


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Subject: LAST Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute
From:    "Antonio J. Rubio Ayuso" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 11 Mar 93 17:20:29 +0000

LAST Announcement: NATO Advanced Study Institute
(Deadline: April 1, 1993)
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NEW ADVANCES and TRENDS in SPEECH RECOGNITION and CODING

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

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

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

OBJECTIVES, AGENDA and PARTICIPANTS

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

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

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

TOPICS

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

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

Any other related topic will also be considered.

INVITED LECTURERS

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

ATTENDANCE, COSTS and FUNDING

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

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

HOW TO REGISTER

Each application should include:

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

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

This application must be sent to the Institute Director address mentioned
above (before 1 April 1993).

SCHEDULE

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




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Subject: NN
From:    <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sun, 14 Mar 93 02:00:00

Hello !


  I am a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
   I'll be happy to have your opinion on my question:
   1) I'm interested to encode a nonstationary pulses (from a data base) in
      a neural network, to synthesis a pattern generator. The retrieval of the
      pulses should be  by different DC level. Any configuration of  neural
      networks is suitable. I'll be happy to receive any  ideas and
      comments.

   2) I'm interested to encode 10 sequences of length 7 in a neural network
      and retrieve them by different DC. level. Any configuration of neural
      networks is suitable. I'll be happy to receive any  ideas and
      comments.

                                        thanks


                                                 Pinchas Tandeitnik.


My address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Ben-Gurion University of the  Israel.
email: [e-mail]



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Subject: Normailization
From:    [e-mail] (Ming-Chuan Wu)
Date:    Wed, 17 Mar 93 11:46:58 -0600


        About the normalization of the input vectors:
        (The neural network I used consists of one input layer, one hidden
         layer and one output node.  The learning rule is the gradient descent
         mothod with momentum.)

                What if the normalization of input vectors is not possible?
        Is there any other way which can be done to eliminate the side
        effects of the magnitude of the elements in the input vectors?
                Or can the net elimiate this side effect SOME HOW by itself?
        I wonder!  Please help me out of this!


                                        +          Michael Ming-Chuan Wu
  '" ~        Somebody's gotta do the   |      [e-mail]
   o.O`         dirty work.             |                         DB Lab
  ( o )       I am Somebody.            |Inst. of Information Engineering
  />W<\                 MiCHaEL.        +  National Cheng-Kong University



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Subject: ANN for extracting structure from grey scale images?
From:    [e-mail] (Tim Stucke)
Date:    Thu, 18 Mar 93 11:50:31 +1300

I am a Ph.D student working in the neural vision area, motivated by
the need to develop trajectory paths for robot kind. I am/have
developed a network for extracting structure from grey scale images
of objects of a single population with natural variability (like
biological objects) for which the network has been trained. the
network extracts significant structures and can use this to develop
secondary structures such as the desired path. Currently the work
is restricted to the "mostly 2D" case. For instance tree leaves
have been successfully used as the population. The network has also
been used for reconstruction of noise corrupted binary patterns.

I am seeking information and references of work of this nature. I
have found very little to date. This is not simply image
segmentation but seeking structural sense in variable, poor, grey
scale images.

Thank you in advance!



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Subject: Request for Info on Time Series Analysis conferences
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Thu, 18 Mar 93 08:24:50 -0500


                  I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date:     18-Mar-1993 08:19am EST
                                        From:     DALE E. NELSON
                                                  NELSONDE
                                        Dept:     AAAT-1
                                        Tel No:   57646

TO:  Remote Addressee                     (
 _AAUNIX::"[e-mail]" )


Subject: Request for Info on Time Series Analysis conferences

    A collegue of mine at the Air Force Institute of Technology is
    interested in information on upcoming conferences on time series
    analysis.  If you or anyone has info, please contact me at:
                [e-mail]"
    Thanks

    Dale Nelson


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Subject: RE: ANN code in C++ (ND V11 #19)
From:    wrdc::mrgate::"a1::raethpg"[e-mail] (Maj Peter G.
 Raeth)
Date:    Wed, 24 Mar 93 08:36:19 -0500


To those interested in neural network code in C++:

Academic Press has just published "PRACTICAL NEURAL NETWORK RECIPES IN C++",
a book written by Timothy Masters.  Orders can be placed by phoning
617-876-3901.

I've no financial interest in this company or this book, although I was a
volunteer member of the publisher's critical review team.

Best,

Pete.




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Subject: postdoctoral research opportunity
From:    rohwerrj <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 24 Mar 93 18:54:45 +0000


***************************************************************************
                   POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY
            Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
                            Aston University
***************************************************************************

The Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Aston
University is seeking a Postdoctoral research assistant under SERC
grant GR/J17814, "Training Algorithms based on Adaptive Critics". The
successful applicant will work with Richard Rohwer in the Neural
Computing research group at Aston to develop and study the use of
Adaptive Critic credit assignment techniques for training several types
of neural network models.  This involves transplanting techniques
developed mainly for control applications into a different setting.

The applicant must hold a PhD degree in Computer Science, Physics,
Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a similar quantitative science.
Mathematical skill, programming experience (preferably with C or C++
under UNIX), and familiarity with neural network models are essential.

Aston University's growing neural networks group currently consists of
three academic staff and about 10 research students and visiting
researchers.  The group has access to about 50 networked Sparc stations
in the Computer Science Department, in addition to 5 of its own, and
further major acquisitions are in progress.

The post will be for a period of two years, which can commence at
any time between 15 May 1993 and 15 November 1993.  Starting salary
will be within the range 12638 to 14962 pounds per annum.

Application forms and further particulars may be obtained from the
Personnel Officer (Academic Staff), quoting Ref: 9307, Aston University,
Aston Triangle, Birmingham  B4 7ET, England.  (Tel: (44 or 0)21 359-0870
(24 hour answerphone), FAX: (44 or 0)21 359-6470).  The closing date
for receipt of applications is 30 April 1993.


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Subject: email address requested
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Wed, 24 Mar 93 15:32:27 -0500


Hi,

Is there an email address that I can get in touch with somebody at the
NEUROFORECASTING club?  Possible Prof. Derek Bunn.

Thanks,
- -Tom
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Neuron Digest   Tuesday, 30 Mar 1993
                Volume 11 : Issue 21

Today's Topics:
                  Post-Doc Position Announcement - JPL
                            software request
                        NN market size forecasts
                       Proceedings for PhysComp 92
           Job openings at Apple (permanent and summer intern)
        INNS SIG on Advanced Technology in Financial Applications
                             revue AIExpert
 MOTOR INTENTION, IMAGERY AND REPRESENTATION: BBS Call for Commentators
                      Postgraduate Studies at HKUST


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Subject: Post-Doc Position Announcement - JPL
From:    Harry Langenbacher <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:56:03 -0800

The Concurrent Processing Devices Group at JPL has two post-doc positions
for recent PhD's with neural-net, analog/digital VLSI and/or
opto-electronic experience. The positions will have a duration of one to
two years.  USA citezinship or permanent-resident status is required.

One position will be in our Electronic Concurrent Processing Devices
Group to concentrate on applications of neural networks and parallel
processing devices to problems such as pattern recognition, resource
allocation, and optimization, using custom VLSI designs, and custom
designs of computer sub-systems.

The other position will be in our optical-processing group, to work
with lasers, computer-generated holograms, and Acusto-Optic-Tuneable
Filters for applications in pattern recognition and other neural-net
architectures.

We currently work with (analog, digital, and optical) neural net and
concurrent processing devices and hardware systems. We build
special-purpose and general-purpose analog, digital, mixed-signal,
and opto-electronic chips. We develop neural net algorithms that
suit our applications and our hardware.

For over 7 years we have been a leader in hardware neural nets .

If you're interested, please send me a ONE PAGE summary of your
qualifications in the above mentioned fields, by e-mail(preferred),
US mail, or FAX.

Lab: 818-354-9513       , FAX: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]

Harry Langenbacher
JPL,  Mail-Stop 302-231
4800 Oak Grove Dr
Pasadena, CA 91109        USA




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Subject: software request
From:    Alfonso Pitarque Gracia <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 26 Mar 93 13:12:58 +0100

I am trying to find good neural network software for Macintosh II
computers. We already know the MacBrain, MacActivation and PDP programs.I
would appreciate any information about it. Thank you for your time in
addressing these issues.

**************************
Alfonso Pitarque
Facultad de Psicologia
Universidad de Valencia
Avda. Blasco Ibanez, 21
46010 Valencia (Spain)
e-mail:[e-mail]
**************************


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Subject: NN market size forecasts
From:    "Sean Pidgeon" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 26 Mar 93 09:45:01 -0500


Does anybody know of recent forecasts indicating the current market size
(US$ millions) and projected growth rate for NN-related software? I'd be
grateful if someone could direct me to an appropriate source.

Thanks.

Sean Pidgeon
Institute of Physics, Philadelphia



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Subject: Proceedings for PhysComp 92
From:    [e-mail] (Doug Matzke)
Date:    Fri, 26 Mar 93 09:38:46 -0600


   The Workshop on  Physics  and Computation,  PhysComp  `92,  held in
Dallas in October 2-4,  1992,  provided an  opportunity to explore the
intimate relationship emerging between  modern physics and computation
theory. One commonly held view is that  information laws are dependent
on the  laws of physics.  Another  emerging view is  that the universe
would not   work without information   primitives  underlying physical
laws.  Both of  these views conclude that  physics and computation are
linked  together  at  a   very fundamental level.   Understanding  the
convergence of  computation  and    physics will lead  to     a better
understanding of using physical  mechanisms  as computing engines, and
also lead to a better understanding of  how the universe is organized.
Additional  copies of  the PhysComp  '92   proceedings can  be ordered
directly from IEEE Computer Society Press using the following form.

To subscribe to the our mailing list, to obtain more information about
this workshop, or to find out about related activities currently being
organized in the reawakening of this exciting interdisciplinary field,
please contact me.

Doug Matzke
PhysComp '92 Workshop Chairman
Phone:    [phone]
Internet: [e-mail]
      or: [e-mail]

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Subject: Job openings at Apple (permanent and summer intern)
From:    Dan Rose <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 26 Mar 93 10:29:10 -0800

The Information Technology project in Apple's Advanced Technology Group is
now hiring for one permanent position and two summer internships.  One of
the intern positions (#2 listed below) is specifically aimed at people with
neural net experience; the other two may also be of interest to this
audience.

Note:  E-mail submissions are STRONGLY preferred.  ASCII files only,
please.  (More time unbinhexing, latexing, etc. means less time for us to
read your resume!)

Apple Computer has a corporate commitment to the principle of diversity.
In that spirit, we welcome applications from all individuals.  Women,
minorities, veterans and disabled individuals are encouraged to apply.

- --------------------------- PERMANENT POSITION -------------------------

ENGINEER/SCIENTIST

Job description:  Join a team conducting research on new approaches to
finding, sharing, organizing, and manipulating information for
content-aware systems.  Emphasis on implementation of experimental
information and communication systems.

Requires:  MS in Computer Science or BS with equivalent experience with
strong programming skills.  Experience in information retrieval, hypertext,
interface design, or related field.

Preferred:  Knowledge of Macintosh Toolbox, dynamic languages (LISP,
Smalltalk, etc.), GUI programming.  Familiarity with common text-indexing
methods.

E-mail resumes to [e-mail], or send to

        InfoTech Recruiting
        c/o Nancy Massung
        Apple Computer, Inc.  MS 301-4A
        One Infinite Loop
        Cupertino, CA  95014

- ----------------------------- SUMMER POSITIONS ------------------------------

ENGINEER/SCIENTIST   Intern (summer) #1

Job description:  Work with senior researchers on the application of
numerical methods to information retrieval (IR) systems. Assist on the
design, implementation, user testing and performance evaluation of such
systems.

Requires:  Graduate or upper division undergraduate student in computer
science, cognitive science, information retrieval or other relevant
program. Macintosh programming experience, the candidate should be able to
write an application program. MPW C. Basic knowledge on numerical linear
algebra.

Preferred: Background on numerical methods and/or statistics. Smalltalk
programming, familiarity with common text-indexing techniques.  Some
exposure to human-computer interaction issues. Knowledge on the following
topics would be ideal: the vector model in IR, singular value decomposition
and factor analysis.


ENGINEER/SCIENTIST   Intern (summer) #2

Job Description:  Work with senior researchers to experiment with the use
of neural network and other learning methods for information retrieval and
organization.

Requires:  Graduate or upper division undergraduate student with experience
in neural networks.  Lisp programming with CLOS or other object system.
Interest in information retrieval, hypertext, corpus linguistics, or
related field.

Preferred:  Macintosh programming experience.  Some exposure to
human-computer interaction issues.  Use of mapping techniques such as
vector quantization or multidimensional scaling.  Familiarity with common
text-indexing methods.


E-mail resumes to [e-mail], or send to

        InfoTech Internships
        c/o Nancy Massung
        Apple Computer, Inc.  MS 301-4A
        One Infinite Loop
        Cupertino, CA  95014

Please indicate which position you are interested in.



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Subject: INNS SIG on Advanced Technology in Financial Applications
From:    [e-mail] (masud cader)
Date:    Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:12:57 -0500

You recently received an announcement of the establishment of a board
on financial and economic applications of advanced technology. Some
of you have had messages bouncing back when responding to the
original announcement. We fixed these problems and hope we got all
the bugs out of the system. The mailer and network services are now
consistent with those of the organization who is maintaining this
board.  As a reminder, the following accounts  are now operational

ACCOUNTS

=>  AT-Finance-Board or at-finance-board

This account can be used by all users on this system to post messages
that will be shared with everyone.

Send messages to [e-mail] or use
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This account is to be used  ONLY for requesting to get on or off the
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Send requests to [e-mail]

=>  AT-Finance or at-finance

This account will be solely used for board maintenance and
administration. Please do not use this account to respond to
messages.

Looking forward to your participation in this board.


Guido J. Deboeck
Chairman SIG Finance INNS


~~~~~~~
Forwarded from:
Masud Cader
The World Bank
[e-mail]






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Subject: revue AIExpert
From:    [e-mail] (Gueniffey Yves)
Date:    Tue, 30 Mar 93 09:34:29 +0200

[[ Editor's Note: A reminder that the language of this Digest is English.
However, this fellow seems to be asking is AI Expert is available
electronically.  I seem to remember that some of the software (code) was
archived somewhere, at least.  Could someone offer assistance to this
fellow (and me with my very poor French?). -PM ]]

Bonjour,

Est-ce que par hasard, la revue AIExpert serait disponible a la
bibliotheque du CRIN?  Merci du renseignement.  (a propos, le(la)
bibliothecaire a peut-etre une adresse electronique?).

Y.G.
Yves Gueniffey-([e-mail])
Ecole des Mines-Departement Informatique
Parc de Saurupt-54042 Nancy Cedex-FRANCE
Tel:[phone] Fax:[phone]



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Subject: MOTOR INTENTION, IMAGERY AND REPRESENTATION: BBS Call for Commentators
From:    Stevan Harnad <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 25 Mar 93 14:15:03 -0500

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by MARC JEANNEROD,
on MOTOR INTENTION, IMAGERY AND REPRESENTATION, that has been accepted
for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an
international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary
on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral
and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or
nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator
for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for
information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to:

[e-mail]  or [e-mail]        or write to:
BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542  [tel: [phone]]

To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some
indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your
areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An
electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by anonymous
ftp according to the instructions that follow after the abstract.
____________________________________________________________________

THE REPRESENTING BRAIN: NEURAL CORRELATES OF MOTOR INTENTION AND IMAGERY

                Marc Jeannerod
                Vision et Motricite
                INSERM Unite 94
                16 avenue du Doyen Lepine
                69500 Bron
                France

KEYWORDS: affordances, goals, intention, motor imagery, motor schemata,
neural codes, object manipulation, planning, posterior parietal cortex,
premotor cortex, representation.

ABSTRACT: This target article concerns how motor actions are neurally
represented and coded. Action planning and motor preparation can be
studied using motor imagery. A close functional equivalence between
motor imagery and motor preparation is suggested by the positive
effects of imagining movements on motor learning, the similarity
between the neural structures involved, and the similar physiological
correlates observed in both imagining and preparing. The content of
motor representations can be inferred from motor images at a
macroscopic level: from global aspects of the action (the duration and
amount of effort involved) and from the motor rules and constraints
which predict the spatial path and kinematics of movements. A
microscopic neural account of the represenation of object-oriented
action is described. Object attributes are processed in different
neural pathways depending on the kind of task the subject is
performing. During object-oriented action, a pragmatic representation
is activated in which object affordances are transformed into specific
motor schemata independently of other tasks such as object recognition.
Animal as well as clinical data implicate posterior parietal and
premotor cortical areas in schema instantiation. A mechanism is
proposed that is able to encode the desired goal of the action and is
applicable to different levels of representational organization.

- --------------------------------------------------------------
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this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from
princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is
bbs.jeannerod). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just
let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you
feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article.
- -------------------------------------------------------------
   To retrieve a file by ftp from a Unix/Internet site, type either:
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   or
ftp 128.112.128.1
   When you are asked for your login, type:
anonymous
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   and then change directories with:
cd /pub/harnad/BBS
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ls
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   When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
   In case of doubt or difficulty, consult your system manager.
   A more elaborate version of these instructions for the U.K. is
   available on request (thanks to Brian Josephson)>

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the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or
bitftp will then execute for you).
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Subject: Postgraduate Studies at HKUST
From:    [e-mail] (MS CONNIE)
Date:    Mon, 01 Mar 93 16:42:45 +0700


Hello,

Enclosed here is a file informing about postgraduate studies at HKUST.  Please
broadcast the message to all.

Thanks in advance.


Regards,
Connie Cheung
Executive Officer
Department of Computer Science


               HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
                       Department of Computer Science


                            Postgraduate Studies


THE UNIVERSITY

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) was incorporated
in April 1988.  It was intended to be established as a major technological
research university dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of
learning and to research scholarship.  Its graduates will be men and women
of mature judgement and generous spirit who will contribute to Hong Kong's
economic and social well-being and promote research, development, and
entrepreneurship in the Asian Pacific region.

The medium of instruction is English.


LOCATION

Located at the geographical heart of Asia, Hong Kong has long been a
dynamic, international city.  It is also the gateway for international ties
to China's business and industrial development.  The world's third largest
financial centre, Hong Kong is home to 180 banks and the Asian base for more
than 500 international corporations.  It is presently taking on the
challenges of high-tech based global business to create new avenues of
opportunity for economic growth.


POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

The Department of Computer Science at HKUST offers the degrees of Master of
Science (MSc), Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
in computer Science.

The Computer Science Department initially seeks to establish critical mass
in a few research areas that are relevant to the needs of society.  The
particular focus of these selected research areas is software.  Currently,
the research areas are Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Data
and Knowledge Base Systems, and Software Engineering.  Additional research
areas will be established as the Department reaches maturity.

RESEARCH FACILITIES

State-of-the-art workstations with network access are available for research
use by faculty and postgraduate students in the Department.  Current
departmental computers include numerous SUN SPARCs, DEC workstations,
NeXTStations, and 486 PCs.  The Department will be expanding these existing
departmental computing facilities, both through funds provided by the
University for equipment to support computer science research and through
donations from industries.  The Department has planned to establish
laboratory facilities for artificial intelligence, multimedia applications,
robotics, and software engineering.  The workstations are connected to the
local Ethernet subnet, which is itself connected to the University's FDDI
backbone.  The University network provides access to Internet and BITNET.
Computer Science staff and students have access to all of the University's
central facilities, such as the University Library, the CAD/CAM Laboratory,
and the Microelectronics Fabrication Centre.


FINANCIAL AID

Teaching and research assistantships are available for qualified applicants.

For 1992-93, these pay HK$9,000 (approximately US$1,165) per month.  All of
our current full-time postgraduate students are supported by some form of
assistantships.


COSTS

Tuition for 1992-93 is HK$11,600 (approximately US$1,502) per year.
Postgraduate student housing is available on campus.  For 1992-93, the cost
of a dormitory room is approximately HK$7,850 (approximately US$1,016) for 9
months.


ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Applicants for admission to the postgraduate programmes are required to have
completed, by the time they enter HKUST, a bachelor's degree in computer
science or a related science or engineering field.

Application may be submitted for both Fall and Spring semesters.


FACULTY PROFILES

The Department plans to grow to 50 academic staff by 1994.  The following
are brief descriptions of the full-time academic staff as of January 1993:


Ishfaq AHMAD (PhD, Syracuse U., 1992)
Lecturer

Parallel and distributed processing; high performance computer architectures
and their assessment; performance evaluation.


Samuel T. CHANSON (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1975)
Reader

Computer communications (particularly protocols); software environment for
parallel computers; distributed operating systems.



Lewis Hau-Ming CHAU (PhD, UCLA, 1989)
Lecturer

Logic programming; formal specification; knowledge base systems; artificial
intelligence.


Siu-Wing CHENG (PhD, U. of Minnesota, 1992)
Lecturer

VLSI/CAD; computational geometry; design and analysis of algorithms; data
structures.


Roland T. CHIN (PhD, U. of Missouri-Columbia, 1979)
Visiting Professor

Image processing; machine vision; digital signal processing; pattern
recognition and related applications.


Scott C. DEERWESTER (PhD, Purdue U., 1984)
Lecturer

Information retrieval; distributed information system architecture;
information visualisation; multilingual computing.


Pamela A. DREW (PhD, U. of Colorado, Boulder, 1991)
Lecturer

Heterogeneous and extensible DBMS architectures; object-oriented systems and
languages; semantic data modelling, DBMS support for software engineering
environments; information technologies.


Mordecai J. GOLIN (PhD, Princeton U., 1990)
Lecturer

The theory, design, and application of algorithms; computational geometry;
combinatorics.


Mounir HAMDI (PhD, Pittsburgh U., 1991)
Lecturer

Design and analysis of parallel computer architectures and parallel
algorithms; distributed computing; communication networks; optical
computing.


Kamalakar KARLAPALEM  (PhD, Georgia Inst. of Tech., 1992)
Lecturer

Distributed database systems; data distribution; conceptual data modelling;
cooperative problem solving.


Michael KAMINSKI (PhD, Hebrew Univ., 1982)
Senior Lecturer

Complexity of algebraic computations; finite automata theory; applications
of logic in computer science.


Alex Chia-Yee KEAN (PhD, UBC, 1992)
Lecturer

Abductive, deductive and inductive reasoning; distributed reasoning; theorem
proving; constraint satisfaction problems; belief revisions; knowledge
representation.


Chung-Mong LEE (PhD, U. of Minnesota, 1989)
Lecturer

Computer vision; image processing; neural networks; expert systems;
robotics; artificial intelligence.


Qing LI (PhD, USC, 1988)
Lecturer

Object database technology; distributed and federated database systems;
applied machine learning; expert database systems.


Amelia FONG LOCHOVSKY (PhD, Princeton U., 1977)
Senior Lecturer

Artificial intelligence; image processing and pattern recognition.


Frederick H. LOCHOVSKY (PhD, U. of Toronto, 1978)
Associate Dean of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science

Data and knowledge base systems; organisational support systems;
human-computer interaction.


Jogesh K. MUPPALA (PhD, Duke U., 1991)
Lecturer

Performance and dependability modelling of systems and software;
fault-tolerant computing; stochastic Petri nets.


Man-Chi PONG (PhD, U. of Kent, 1985)
Lecturer

Software engineering; software tools; multi-media communication; Chinese
information processing.


Ting-Chuen PONG (PhD, Virginia Tech. Inst. and State U., 1984)
Senior Lecturer

Computer vision and image processing; artificial intelligence; pattern
recognition; robotics.


Helen C. SHEN (PhD, U. of Waterloo, 1982)
Senior Lecturer

Image and texture analysis (monochrome and colour); pattern recognition;
flexible manufacturing systems.


Vincent Yun SHEN (PhD, Princeton U., 1969)
Head of Department

Software engineering; distributed and real-time systems.


Chung-Dak SHUM (PhD, UCLA, 1989)
Lecturer

Query processing; multi-processor database systems; performance modelling
and analysis.


Michael STIBER (PhD, UCLA, 1992)
Lecturer

Neural networks; computer vision; computational neuroscience; nonlinear
dynamics; complex systems.


Stephen M. THEBAUT (PhD, Purdue U., 1983)
Visiting Scholar (1991-93)

Software engineering, including software requirements engineering, software
verification and validation, and software engineering technology transfer.


Dekai WU (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1992)
Lecturer

Probabilistic, statistical and neural natural language processing; dialog
systems;   knowledge representation; machine translation.


Dit-Yan YEUNG (PhD, USC, 1989)
Lecturer

Primary research interests: neurocomputing (artificial neural networks),
pattern recognition.  Other research interests: Chinese computing, machine
learning, robotics, speech recognition, telecommunications.



FURTHER INFORMATION

For more information about the graduate programme in computer science at
HKUST, contact:

                       DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

               Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
                               Clear Water Bay
                             Kowloon, HONG KONG

                          Telephone : [phone]

                             Fax : [phone]

                        E-mail : [e-mail]




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Today's Topics:
               2nd European Conference on Artificial Life
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Subject: 2nd European Conference on Artificial Life
From:    Goss Simon <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 05 Mar 93 17:26:14 +0700


ECAL '93

2nd European Conference on Artificial Life

SELF-ORGANIZATION AND LIFE, FROM SIMPLE RULES TO GLOBAL COMPLEXITY

Brussels, May 24-26th, 1993


Natural and artificial systems governed by simple rules exhibit self-
organisation leading to autonomy, self-adaptation and evolution. While
these phenomena interest an increasing number of scientists, much remains
to be done to encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas and techniques.
The aim of this conference is to bring together scientists from different
fields in the search for common rules and algorithms underlying different
systems. The following themes have been selected :

- - Origin of life and molecular evolution
- - Patterns and rhythms in chemical and biochemical systems and interacting
 cells
 (neural network, immune system, morphogenesis).
- - Sensory and motor activities in animals and robots.
- - Collective intelligence in natural and artificial groups
- - Ecological communities and evolution .
- - Ecological computation.
- - Epistemology

We are also planning demonstrations of computer programmes, robots and
physico-chemical reactions, both in vivo and in video.


Invited Speakers

C. Biebricher (Germany), S. Camazine (USA), H. Cruse, P. De Kepper (France),
W. Fontana, N. Franks (UK), F. Hess (Holland),
B. Huberman (USA), S. Kauffman (USA), C. Langton (USA), M. Nowak (UK),
T. Ray (USA), P. Schuster (Germany), M. Tilden (Canada), J. Urbain (Belgium),
F. Varela (France).

Organising committee

J.L. Deneubourg, H. Bersini, S. Goss, G. Nicolis (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
R. Dagonnier (Universite de Mons-Hainaut).

International Program committee

A. Babloyantz (Belgium), G. Beni (USA), P. Borckmans (Belgium),
P. Bourgine (France), H. Cruse (Germany), G. Demongeot (France),
G. Dewel (Belgium), P. De Kepper (France), S. Forrest (USA), N. Franks (UK),
T. Fukuda (Japan), B. Goodwin (UK), P. Hogeweg (Holland), M. Kauffman (Belgium),
C. Langton (USA), R. Lefever (Belgium), P. Maes (USA), J.-A. Meyer (France),
T. Ray (USA), P. Schuster (Austria), T. Smithers (Belgium), F. Varela (France),
R. Wehner (Germany).

Address:

ECAL '93,
Centre for Non-Linear Phenomena and Complex Systems, CP 231,
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bld. du Triomphe, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Fax : [phone]; Phone : [phone];
EMAIL : [e-mail]
_____________________________________________________________________________

                      REGISTRATION

The registration fees for ECAL '93 (May 24-26) are as
follows ($1=34BF):

               Payment before      Payment after
               May 1st             May 1st

Academic:      10.000 BF           12.000 BF
Non-Academic:  12.000 BF           14.000 BF
Student:        6.500 BF            7.500 BF


a) I authorise payment of                 BF by the
following credit card:

American Express    Visa/Eurocard/Master
(please indicate which card!)
Card Name
Card No
Valid from:                   to:
Signature


b) I enclose a Eurocheque for                   BF


c) I have ordered my bank to make a draft of
BF to :

ECAL '93
Account no: 034-1629733-01
CGER (Caisse Generale d'Epargne et de Retraite)
Agence Ixelles-Universite
Chaussee de Boondael 466
1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
_________________________________________________________
____________

Signature                          Date

Name

Telephone                     Fax
e-mail
Address





_______________________________________________________________________________
                        ECAL '93

               Self-Organisation and life
         From simple rules to global complexity

                   Brussels May 24-26

               (Very) Provisional Program

(16 invited speakers, 40 oral communications, 50 posters)


Monday May 24th

9.00 Inauguration
9.10 Opening remarks

9.45 Coffee

10.15 Origins of life and      10.15 Chemical patterns
molecular evolution.           and rhythms. Invited
Invited speakers: C.           speaker: P. De Kepper
Biebricher, W. Fontana, P.
Schuster.

12.20 lunch                    13.10 lunch

14.10 Theoretical biology      14.10 Collective
and artificial life.           intelligence in animal
Invited speaker: C.            groups (social insects).
Langton                        Invited speaker: N.R.
                               Franks


15.50 coffee                   15.50 coffee

16.30 Theoretical biology      16.20 Collective
and artificial life            intelligence in animal
                               groups (social insects).
                               Invited speaker: S.
                               Camazine



18.00 Beer and sandwiches

19.30 Theoretical biology
and artificial life:
General discussion.
Invited speaker: F. Varela

22.00 Close

Tuesday May 25th

9.00 Individual behaviour.      9.00 Patterns and rhythms
Invited speaker: M. Tilden     in human societies.
                               Invited speaker: B.
                               Huberman


10.40 coffee                   10.40 Coffee

11.10 Individual behaviour     11.10 Multi-robot systems

12.10 lunch                    13.10 lunch


14.00 Posters and
demonstrations (robots,
simulations, videos,
chemical reactions, ...).
Invited speaker: F. Hess.

18.00 Cocktail

20.00 Banquet



Wednesday May 26th

 9.00 Evolution. Invited       9.00 Sensory and motor
speakers: T. Ray, S.           activities in animals and
Kauffman.                      robots. Invited Speaker:
                               H. Cruse

10.20 Coffee                   10.40 coffee

11.10                          11.40 Ecological
                               communities and evolution.
                               Invited speaker: M. Nowak


12.10 lunch                    13.10 lunch

14.10 Collective pattern       14.10 Patterns and rhythms
in living systems              in the immune system.
                               Invited speaker: J. Urbain

15.50 coffee                   15.50 coffee

16.30 Collective pattern       16.20 Patterns and rhythms
in living systems              in the immune system.


17.30 Closing remarks

_____________________________________________________________________________
*** you may need a physical copy of the BIT hotel reservation form or the ***
*** Brussels Hotel Guide. See below for details                           ***

             HOTEL ACCOMODATION FOR ECAL '93


We have  reserved a  number of  rooms in  the  centre  of
Brussels (see attached list), not far from the Metro line
1a which  will take  you to  the conference  (ULB, Campus
Plaine, Metro  Station Delta,  Metro Ligne  1a, direction
Hermann Debroux). There are unfortunately no hotels close
to the  University. All  prices  include  breakfast,  TV,
bathroom (see  enclosed official  hotel  guide  for  more
details).

Hotels are rather expensive in Brussels, and you will see
that we  have not  been able  to reserve  many low-priced
rooms. The  earlier you make your reservation, therefore,
the surer  you are  of having one. Another possibility is
that you  arrange to  share a  double room  with a fellow
conferencier.

It is  important that  you try to reserve before the 15th
of April,  otherwise our  options on  the  rooms  may  be
cancelled. Please note that there are 3 ways of reserving
your room, depending on which hotel you choose.


1. Hotels President (World Trade Centre) and Palace

For the  Hotels President  and Palace you will see on the
enclosed ECAL  selected hotel list that we have been able
to negotiate  a substantial reduction on normal rates. To
do so  we have  had to  agree to pay for the rooms in one
lump sum,  including a  down payment.  Therefore, if  you
wish to  take a  room in  these hotels  you must make the
reservation through us. We will only accept to do this if
you pay  the necessary  sum in  advance (we  will  refund
cancellations, though  these two  hotels might  impose  a
cancellation charge  if there  are too  many last  minute
cancellations). Please  reserve before  April 15th. After
this date we cannot garuntee that the hotel will maintain
our unused  reservations and  group rate.  We  enclose  a
special form  for the  registration  and  pre-payment  of
these rooms.


2. Other hotels on selected ECAL list

For all  the other  hotels on  our selected  list, please
fill in  the enclosed  BTR reservation form and return it
to us. We will forward it to:

Mr. Freddy Meerkens
Group reservations
Belgian Tourist Reservations
Bld. Anspach 111, B4
B-1000 Bruxelles
Tel [phone]; Fax [phone]

He will  make the  reservation and should also notify you
that the  reservation has  been made.  There is no charge
for this service, BTR being a state agency.

You can  if you  wish send  or fax  your reservation form
directly to M. Meerkens, group reservations, BTR. In this
case, please  do not  forget to  mention in large letters
that you  are attending  the ECAL  '93 conference  (group
reservation), and  please send  us a copy (marked "COPY")
of your  reservation form,  so that  we can keep track of
where everyone is staying.


3. Independent Reservations

Finally, for  those of  you that  are more  independently
minded, who  wish to  find a cheaper hotel, or have other
reasons, we  enclose the Brussels Hotel Guide 1993, which
lists all  the hotels in Brussels. If you choose one that
is not  on the enclosed ECAL selected hotel list, you can
then reserve  through Belgian  Tourist Reservations  (see
above), using  the enclosed  BTR form (you do not need in
this case  to mention  that you  are attending  ECAL). We
would nevertheless  like you  to send  us a  copy (marked
"COPY") of your BTR reservation form, so that we can keep
track of where everyone is staying.
ECAL selected Hotel list (do not contact these hotels
directly - see attached instructions) ($1=34BF approx.)


Hotel President (World Trade Centre) (100 rooms) *****
180 Bld. E. Jacqmain, 1210 Bruxelles
Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
single room = double room: ECAL price: 4000 BF (<< Normal
price: 7500 BF)

Hotel Palace (lots of rooms) ****
3 Rue Gineste, 1210 Bruxelles
Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
single room: ECAL price: 3780 BF (<< Normal price: 6000
BF)
double room: ECAL price: 4520 BF (<< Normal price: 7000
BF)

Hotel Atlas (30 singles, 10 doubles) ****
30-34 Rue du Vieux Marche-aux-Grains, 1000 Bruxelles
Tel: [phone]
single room: ECAL price: 3360 BF (just < Normal price:
3500 BF)
double room: ECAL price: 3780 BF (just < Normal price:
4100 BF)

Hotel Arcade Sainte Catherine (30 singles, 10 doubles)
***
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Tel [phone]; Fax [phone]
single room = double room: ECAL price: 3900 BF (= Normal
price)

Hotel Orion (15 singles) ***
51 Quai au Bois a Bruler, 1000 Bruxelles
Tel [phone]; Fax [phone]
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Hotel de Paris (20 singles) ** (shower not bathroom)
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Tel [phone]; Fax [phone]
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Reservation and pre-payment for Hotel President (World
Trade Centre) or Hotel Palace


I would like to reserve a single / double room at the
Hotel President / Hotel Palace for the nights of:

Signature                          Date

Name

Telephone                     Fax
e-mail
Address









_________________________________________________________
____________

a) I authorise payment to ECAL '93 of                 BF
by the following credit card:

American Express    Visa/Eurocard/Master
(please indicate which card!)
Card Name
Card No
Valid from:                   to:
Signature


b) I enclose a Eurocheque (made put to ECAL '93) for
BF


c) I have ordered my bank to make a draft of
BF to :

ECAL '93
Account no: 034-1629733-01
CGER (Caisse Generale d'Epargne et de Retraite)
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Simon Goss

Unit of Behavioural Ecology
Center for Non-Linear Phenomena and Complex Systems
CP 231, Campus Plaine
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Boulevard du Triomphe
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium

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


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Subject: Reinforcement Learning workshop to follow ML93 -- Call for
 participation
From:    Rich Sutton <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 05 Mar 93 15:07:43 -0500

                      Call for Participation

        "REINFORCEMENT LEARNING: What We Know, What We Need"

              an Informal Workshop to follow ML93
       June 30 & July 1, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Reinforcement learning is a simple way of framing the problem of an
autonomous agent learning and interacting with the world to achieve a
goal.  This has been an active area of machine learning research for the
last 5 years.  The objective of this workshop is to present concisely
the current state of the art in reinforcement learning and to
identify and highlight critical open problems.

The intended audience is all learning researchers interested in
reinforcement learning; little prior knowledge of the area will be
assumed.  The first half of the workshop will consist mainly of
tutorial presentations, and the second half will define and explore
outstanding problems.  The entire workshop will last approximately one
and a half days. Attendance will be open to all those registered for
the main part of ML93 (June 27-29).

Program Committee: Rich Sutton (chair), Nils Nilsson, Leslie
Kaelbling, Satinder Singh, Sridhar Mahadevan, Andy Barto, Steve
Whitehead

CALL FOR PAPERS.  Papers are solicited that lay out relevant
problem areas, i.e., for the second half of the workshop.  Proposals
are also solicited for polished tutorial presentations on basic
topics of reinforcement learning for the first portion of the workshop.
The program has yet to be established, but will probably look something
like the following (all names are provisional):

Session 1: Introduction

  The Challenge of Reinforcement Learning, by Rich Sutton
  History of RL, by Harry Klopf
  Q-learning
  Planning and Action Models, by Long-Ji Lin

Session 2: Theory

  Dynamic Programming, by Andy Barto
  Convergence of Q-learning and TD(lambda), by Peter Dayan

Session 3: Applications

  TD-Gammon, by Gerry Tesauro
  Robotics, by Sridhar Mahadevan

Session 4: Extensions

  Prioritized Sweeping, by Andrew Moore
  Eligibility Traces, by Rich Sutton

Sessions 5 & 6: Open Problems

  Generalization
  Hidden State (short-term memory)
  Hierarchical RL
  Search Control
  Incorporating Prior Knowledge
  Exploration
  ...

If you are interested in attending the RL workshop, please register by
sending a note with your name, email and physical addresses, level of
interest, and a brief description of your current level of knowledge
about reinforcement learning, to:

   [e-mail]
OR
   Rich Sutton
   GTE Labs, MS-44
   40 Sylvan Road
   Waltham, MA  02254


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Subject: USC/CNE Workshop - Rescheduling.
From:    Jean-Marc Fellous <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 09 Mar 93 07:57:50 -0800

Thank you for posting the following notice:



**************************** RESCHEDULING ****************************


                      SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS
                   INTEGRATING SYMBOLIC AND SUBSYMBOLIC
                  APPROACHES TO COOPERATIVE COMPUTATION


   A Workshop sponsored by the

                      Center for Neural Engineering
                    University of  Southern  California
                         Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520





  The Program Committee has now evaluated the  submissions  to  the
  proposed  Workshop  on  'Schemas and Neural Networks: Integrating
  Symbolic and Subsymbolic Approaches to Cooperative  Computation',
  and  found  that  rather few were on the proposed topic, although
  there were several excellent submissions on Connectionist  Imple-
  mentation  of  Semantic  Networks;  and Schemas, Neural Networks,
  and Reactive Implementations of Robots.  We have thus decided  to
  postpone the meeting until October so that we may explicitly sol-
  icit the strongest possible contributions on an expanded theme  -
  still  on the topic of schemas and neural nets, but with the per-
  spective now broadened to include the two areas most closely  re-
  lated  to this particular combination of low and high-level tech-
  nologies: schemas plus  other  low-level  technologies  (such  as
  reactive  robot  control);  and neural nets plus other high-level
  technologies (such as rule systems and semantic nets).

  We regret whatever inconvenience this delay may  cause  you,  but
  believe  that  for  most contributors and participants, this will
  mean a much stronger and exciting meeting.

  New Schedule:  October 19 -20, 1993


    With Best Wishes

    Michael Arbib

**************************************************************************


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Subject: "Call for papers"
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    09 Mar 93 12:15:01 -0800

Dear Sir:

I'd appreciate if you kindly announce this once in your newsletter.
Thank you.
Rao Vemuri

===============================================================================

                         CALL FOR PAPERS

EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Jay Libowitz, George Washington University

Special Issue on Macintosh Based Expert Systems and Applications
Guest Editor: Prof. V. Rao Vemuri, University of California at Davis

The Journal of Expert Systems with Applications is planning on a
special issue devoted to expert systems on APPLE MACINTOSH PLATFORMS.

Papers are invited in the following areas:

Expert System Shells, Applications, Case Studies, and User Interfaces.
Hybrid Systems such as Fuzzy expert systems, Neural Nets and expert systems.
All the submissions, both invited and submitted, will be reviewed by a panel
of experts, both from academia and industry.

Please submit the original and 5 copies of your complete manuscript directly
to the Guest Editor before 30 November 1993.

If you do not have a paper, but wish to participate as a reviewer, please
send a note to me because I can use all sorts of help in the review process.

Prof. V. Vemuri
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Expert Systems
Department of Applied Science
P. O. Box 808, L-794
University of California at Davis
Livermore, CA 94550
[e-mail]
[phone]

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Subject: Submission
From:    [e-mail] (Tan Shao Hua (Dr))
Date:    Wed, 10 Mar 93 13:35:54 +0800

Dear Editor,
Please kindly consider to include the attached Call for Papers in your next
issue of Neuron-Digest. This special issue should be relevent to the Neuron
Digest readers. Thanks for your consideration.

SH Tan
[e-mail]

********************** cut here **************************




                       Call for Papers
             ASIA-PACIFIC ENGINEERING JOURNAL
             (PART A: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING)
        MARCH 1994 SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEURAL CONTROL

ASIA-PACIFIC ENGINEERING JOURNAL (PART A: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) is planning
to publish a special issue on Neural Control in March 1994. This special issue
will cover all aspects of neural control, including but
not limited to the following topics:

Adaptive control         Learning control
Nonlinear control        Process control
Motion control           System identification
Stability                System theory
Hybrid control systems   Optimal control
Robotics                 Control strategies planning

Authors are invited to submit their contributions to

APEJ Managing Editor
Faculty of Engineering
National University of Singapore
Singapore 0511
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone] or (65)7773117
E-mail: [e-mail]

Submission Deadline: 15 September 1993

APEJ (Part A) Editorial Board (Control & Automation)

K.J. Astrom (Sweden), K. Furuta (Japan), G. Goodwin (Austrilia), Z.-J. Han
(P.R. China), C.C. Hang (Singapore), F. Harashima (Japan), R.N.K. Loh
(USA), M.G. Rodd (UK), Y.P. Shih (Taiwan), S. Yamamoto (JAPAN)

Instruction for Authors:

1. 3 copies of the manuscripts in English should be submitted to the
   Managing Editor. The manuscript, including an abstract of no more than
   100 words, references, tables, figures and figure captions should be clearly
   typed in double-space on A4 size paper with ample margins around text.

2. Each symbol must be clear, either typed neatly or written in ink
   and properly aligned to distinguish superscripts and subscripts.
   Section headings, references, tables and figures should be numbered in
   Arabic numerals. Footnotes and references should be listed at the end of
   the main text.

3. Each table or figure should occupy a separate page, and all tables and
   figures should be grouped at the end of the paper. Original indian-ink
   drawings or glossy prints are preferred and they should be large enough
   for reduction to a minimum of 50%. A list of figure captions should be
   given on a separate sheet.

4. Once a paper is accepted, authors are assumed to have transferred
   the copyright to the publisher. It is author's responsibility to obtain
   written permission to reproduce copyrighted materials.

5. All submitted papers will be acknowledged and refereed. There is no
   page charge and 50 free reprints will be provide to the main author of
   each paper.


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                Volume 11 : Issue 23

Today's Topics:
                                 NIPS*93
                            NIPS*93 workshops
                  Latin American Informatics Conference
                         NOLTA: call for papers
                ANNES'93 CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION
                  NeuronDigest- Workshop ANN to Telecom


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Subject: NIPS*93
From:    Jack Cowan <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 10 Mar 93 11:46:50 -0600

                        FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                Neural Information Processing Systems
                        -Natural and Synthetic-
            Monday, November 29 - Thursday, December 2, 1993
                           Denver, Colorado

This is the seventh meeting of an inter-disciplinary conference which
brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, cognitive
scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of
neural processing and computation.

There will be an afternoon of tutorial presentations (Nov 29) preceding the
regular session and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby
ski area (Dec 3-4).

Major categories and examples of subcategories for paper submissions are
the following:

 Neuroscience: Studies and Analyses of Neurobiological Systems, Inhibition
   in cortical circuits, Signals and noise in neural computation, Theoretical
   Biology and Biophysics.

 Theory: Computational Learning Theory, Complexity Theory, Dynamical
   Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Probability and Statistics, Approximation
   Theory.

 Implementation & Simulation: VLSI, Optical, Software Simulators,
   Implementation Languages, Parallel Processor Design and Benchmarks.

  Algorithms & Architectures: Learning Algorithms, Constructive and Pruning
   Algorithms, Localized Basis Functions, Tree Structured Networks,
   Performance Comparisons, Recurrent Networks, Combinatorial Optimization,
   Genetic Algorithms.

 Cognitive Science & AI: Natural Language, Human Learning and Memory,
   Perception and Psychophysics, Symbolic Reasoning.

  Visual Processing: Stereopsis, Visual Motion, Recognition, Image Coding
   and Classification.

 Speech & Signal Processing: Speech Recognition, Coding, and Synthesis,
   Text-to-Speech, Adaptive Equalization, Nonlinear Noise Removal.

 Control, Navigation, & Planning: Navigation and Planning, Learning
   Internal Models of the World, Trajectory Planning, Robotic Motor Control,
   Process Control.

 Applications: Medical Diagnosis or Data Analysis, Financial and Economic
   Analysis, Timeseries Prediction, Protein Structure Prediction, Music
   Processing, Expert Systems.

Technical Program: Plenary, contributed and poster sessions will be held.
There will be no parallel sessions.  The full text of presented papers will
be published.  Submission Procedures: Original research contributions are
solicited, and will be carefully refereed.  Authors must submit six copies
of both a 1000-word (or less) summary and six copies of a separate
single-page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating their results postmarked
by May 22, 1993 (express mail is not necessary). Accepted abstracts will be
published in the conference program.  Summaries are for program committee
use only.  At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first summary
page indicate preference for oral or poster presentation and specify one of
the above nine broad categories and, if appropriate, sub-categories (For
example: Poster, Applications, Expert Systems; Oral, Implementation-Analog
VLSI). Include addresses of all authors at the front of the summary and the
abstract and indicate to which author correspondence should be addressed.
Submissions will not be considered that lack category information, separate
abstract sheets, the required six copies, author addresses, or are late.

Mail submissions To:

                Gerry Tesauro
                The Salk Institute, CNL
                10010 North Torrey Pines Rd.
                La Jolla, CA 92037

Mail for registration material To:

                NIPS*93 Registration
                NIPS Foundation
                PO Box 60035
                Pasadena, CA 91116-6035

All submitting authors will be sent registration material automatically.
Program committee decisions will be sent to the correspondence author only.

NIPS*93 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Jack Cowan, University of
Chicago; Publications Chair, Joshua Alspector, Bellcore; Publicity Chair,
Bartlett Mel, CalTech; Program Chair, Gerry Tesauro, Salk Institute;
Treasurer, Rodney Goodman, CalTech; Local Arrangements, Chuck Anderson,
Colorado State University; Tutorials Chair, Dave Touretzky,
Carnegie-Mellon, Workshop Chair, Mike Mozer, University of Colorado,
Government & Corporate Liaison, Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute Inc.

   DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS MAY 22, 1993 (POSTMARKED)


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

Subject: NIPS*93 workshops
From:    "Michael C. Mozer" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:40:57 -0700

                                 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
                          NIPS*93 Post-Conference Workshops
                               December 3 and 4, 1993
                                   Vail, Colorado

          Following  the  regular  program  of   the   Neural   Information
          Processing  Systems  1993 conference, workshops on current topics
          in neural information processing will be held on December  3  and
          4,  1993,  in Vail, Colorado.  Proposals by qualified individuals
          interested in chairing one  of  these  workshops  are  solicited.
          Past   topics   have  included:   active  learning  and  control;
          architectural issues; attention; bayesian analysis;  benchmarking
          neural  network  applications;  computational  complexity issues;
          computational neuroscience;  fast  training  techniques;  genetic
          algorithms;   music;   neural   network  dynamics;  optimization;
          recurrent   nets;   rules   and   connectionist   models;   self-
          organization; sensory biophysics; speech; time series prediction;
          vision; and VLSI and optical implementations.

          The goal of the workshops is to provide  an  informal  forum  for
          researchers  to  discuss  important  issues  of current interest.
          Sessions will meet in the morning and in the  afternoon  of  both
          days,  with  free time in between for ongoing individual exchange
          or outdoor activities.  Concrete open and/or controversial issues
          are  encouraged  and  preferred  as workshop topics.  Individuals
          proposing  to  chair  a  workshop  will   have   responsibilities
          including:   arranging  short  informal  presentations by experts
          working on the topic, moderating or leading  the  discussion  and
          reporting its high points, findings, and conclusions to the group
          during evening plenary sessions (the "gong show"), and writing  a
          brief (2 page) summary.

          Submission Procedure:  Interested parties should submit  a  short
          proposal  for  a workshop of interest postmarked by May 22, 1993.
          (Express mail is *not* necessary.  Submissions by electronic mail
          will  also  be  accepted.)  Proposals  should  include a title, a
          description of what the workshop is to  address  and  accomplish,
          and  the  proposed  length of the workshop (one day or two days).
          It should motivate why the topic is of interest or controversial,
          why  it  should  be  discussed  and  what  the  targeted group of
          participants is.  In addition, please send a brief resume of  the
          prospective  workshop  chair, a list of publications and evidence
          of scholarship in the field of interest.

          Mail submissions to:

              Mike Mozer
              NIPS*93 Workshops Chair
              Department of Computer Science
              University of Colorado
              Boulder, CO  80309-0430   USA
              (e-mail: [e-mail])

          Name, mailing address, phone number, fax number, and  e-mail  net
          address should be on all submissions.


          PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 22, 1993

          Please Post


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Subject: Latin American Informatics Conference
From:    [e-mail] (Felipe Castro)
Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 93 15:23:37 -0600

                       CALL FOR PAPERS

                     XIX LATIN AMERICAN
                    INFORMATICS CONFERENCE
                          PANEL '93
                   BUENOS AIRES   ARGENTINA

             22nd  Argentine Meeting of Informatics
                   and Operational Research

    The XIX Latin American Informatics Conference will be held
between the 2nd and 6th of August, 1993, along with the 22nd Argentine
Meeting of Informatics and Operational Research.

Conference papers describing original research and novel applications
in all areas of informatics are solicited. The main areas of interest
include, but are not restricted to:

    Algorithms and Data Structures.
    Artificial Intelligence.
    Databases and Knowledge Bases.
    Networks and Distributed Systems.
    Non-Conventional Architectures.
    Software Engineering.
    Programming Paradigms.
    Connectionism and Neural Networks.
    Human-Computer Interfaces.
    Optimization and Simulation.
    Informatics in Education.
    Informatics and Government.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair:       Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto, Canada
             [e-mail]
             Phone [phone], Fax [phone]

Local chair: Gustavo Rossi, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina
             [e-mail]


Martin Abadi                    DEC                     USA
Guillermo Arango                Schlumberger            USA
Julian Araoz                    USB                     Venezuela
Jorge Boria                     UNICEN                  Argentina
Raul Carnota                    UBA                     Argentina
Walter Cunto                    IBM                     Venezuela
Vladimir Estivill-Castro        LANIA                   Mejico
David Fuller                    U.Catolica              Chile
Alvaro Galvis                   U.Los Andes             Colombia
Irene Loiseau                   UBA                     Argentina
Claudia Medeiros                UNICAMP                 Brasil
Alain Pirotte                   U.Louvain               Belgica
Patricio Poblete                U.Chile                 Chile
Celso Ribeiro                   PUC                     Brasil
Jorge Santos                    UNS                     Argentina
Guillermo Simari                UNS                     Argentina
Siang Song                      USP                     Brasil
Hermann Steffen                 U.Republica             Uruguay
Jorge Vidart                    U.Republica             Uruguay

PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors should submit three copies of their work, of up to
20 A4 pages in length (21 x 29.7cm) double-spaced, with an abstract of
no more than 200 words, by APRIL 1st, 1993. Papers may be submitted
in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Notification of acceptance or
rejection will be communicated by May 31st, 1993.

Papers should be sent to:

  Program Committee
  PANEL '93/22 JAIIO, SADIO
  Uruguay 252, 2do. piso D
  1015 Buenos Aires, Argentina

For additional information, contact
[e-mail], fax [phone],
telephone [phone].
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Subject: NOLTA: call for papers
From:    Anthony Kuh <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 16 Mar 93 10:12:48 -1000


                          Call for Papers

 1993 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

                  Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, HAWAII
                       December 5 - 9, 1993

The 1993 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and
its Applications(NOLTA'93) will be held at the Sheraton
Waikiki Hotel, Hawaii, on Dec. 5 - 9, 1993.
The conference is open to all the world.
Papers describing original work in all aspects of
Nonlinear Theory and
its Applications are invited. Possible topics include, but
are not limited to the following:

Circuits and Systems      Neural Networks                 Chaos
Dynamics                  Cellular Neural Networks       Fractals
Bifurcation               Biocybernetics                 Soliton
Oscillations              Reactive Phenomena             Fuzzy
Numerical Methods         Pattern Generation             Information Dynamics
Self-Validating Numerics  Time Series Analysis           Chua's Circuits
Chemistry and Physics     Mechanics                      Fluid Mechanics
Acoustics                 Control                        Optics
Circuit Simulation        Communication                  Economics
Digital/analog VLSI circuits   Image Processing          Power Electronics
Power Systems   Other Related Areas


                      Organizers:
    Research Society of Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, IEICE
              Dept. of Elect. Engr., Univ. of Hawaii

                  In cooperation with:
                 IEEE Hawaii Section
           IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
           IEEE Neural Networks Council
           International Neural Network Society
   IEEE CAS Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems
         Technical Group of Nonlinear Problems, IEICE
        Technical Group of Circuits and Systems, IEICE

Authors are invited to submit three copies of a summary of 2 or 3 pages to:

                  Technical Program Chairman
                  Prof. Shun-ichi Amari
                  Faculty of Engr.,
           University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 Japan
               Telefax: [phone]
             e-mail: [e-mail]

The summary should include the author's name(s), affiliation(s) and
complete return address(es).
The authors should also indicate one or more of the above categories
that best describe the topic of the paper.

     Deadline for submission of summaries:   August   15, 1993
     Notification of acceptance:             Before September 15, 1993
     Deadline for camera-ready manuscripts:  November 1, 1993


HONORARY CHAIRMEN    Kazuo Horiuchi (Waseda Univ.)
                     Masao Iri  (Univ. of Tokyo)

CO-CHAIRMEN          Shun-ichi Amari (Univ. of Tokyo)
                     Anthony Kuh (Univ. of Hawaii)
                     Shinsaku Mori (Keio Univ.)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRMAN   Shun-ichi Amari (Univ. of Tokyo)

PUBLICITY            Shinsaku Mori (Keio Univ.)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT    Anthony Kuh (Dept. of Electrical Engr.,
                           Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu,
                           Hawaii, 96822 U.S.A.
                           Phone: [phone]
                           Telefax. [phone]
                           e-mail: [e-mail])


ADVISORY  L. O. Chua (U.C.Berkeley)
          R. Eberhart (Research Triangle Inst.)
          A. Fettweis (Ruhr Univ.)
          L. Fortuna (Univ. of Catania)
          W.J. Freeman (U.C.Berkeley)
          M. Hasler (Swiss Fed. Inst. of Tech. Lausanne)
          Tatsuo Higuchi (Tohoku Univ.)
          Kazumasa Hirai (Kobe Univ.)
          Ryogo Hirota (Waseda Univ.)
          E.S. Kuh (U.C.Berkeley)
          Hiroshi Kawakami (Tokushima Univ.)
          Tosiro Koga (Kyushu Univ.)
          Tohru Kohda  (Kyushu Univ.)
          Masami Kuramitsu(Kyoto Univ.)
          R.W. Liu (Univ. of Notre Dame)
          Tadashi Matsumoto (Fukui Univ.)
          A.I. Mees (Univ. of Western Australia )
          Michitada Morisue (Saitama Univ.)
          Tomomasa Nagashima (Muroran Inst. Tech.)
          Tetsuo Nishi (Kyushu Univ.)
          J.A. Nossek (Technical University Munich)
          Kohshi Okumura (Kyoto Univ.)
          T. Roska (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
          Junkichi Satsuma (Univ. of Tokyo)
          I.W. Sandberg (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
          Chikara Sato (Keio Univ.)
          Yasuji Sawada (Tohoku Univ.)
          V.V. Shakhgildian (Russian Engr. Academy)
          Yoshisuke Ueda (Kyoto Univ.)
          Akio Ushida (Tokushima Univ.)
          J. Vandewalle (Catholic Univ. of Leuven, Heverlee)
          P. Werbos (National Science Foundation)
          A.N. Willson, Jr (U.C.L.A.)
          Shuji Yoshizawa (Univ. of Tokyo)
          A.H.Zemanian (State Univ. of NY at Stony Brook)

SECRETARIATS   Shin'ichi Oishi (Waseda Univ.)
               Mamoru Tanaka (Sophia Univ.)

INFORMATION CONTACT

                     Mamoru Tanaka
            Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng.,
                     Sophia Univ.
                Kioicho 7-1, Chiyoda-ku,
                     Tokyo 102 JAPAN
                Fax:  [phone]
             e-mail: [e-mail]


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Subject: ANNES'93 CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    19 Mar 93 16:17:06 +1200

      The First New Zealand International Two-Stream Conference
      on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems - ANNES'93

             November 24-26, 1993
    University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
D. Aha (CAN), J. Andreae (NZ), M. Apperley (NZ), M. Arbib (USA),
Y. Attikiouzel (AUS), G. Bartfai (NZ), J.Bezdek (USA), A. Bulsara
(USA), T. Caelli (AUS), J. Campbell (UK), G. Coghill (NZ), B Cox
(NZ), S. Cunningham(NZ), A. Everett (NZ), W. Friedrich (NZ), L.
Hamey (AUS), J. van den Herik (NL), G. Holmes (NZ), M. Jabri
(AUS), S. Jones (UK), N. Kasabov (NZ) - Chairman, E. Kemp (NZ),
G. Kennedy (NZ), M. Lim (SING), R. MarksII (USA), A. Mason (NZ),
L. Patnaik (IND), M. Paulin (NZ), D. Pham (UK), M. Purvis (NZ),
A. Ralescu (JAPAN), K. Reinartz (GER), A. Robins (NZ), P. Sallis
(NZ), N. Sharkey (UK), R. Sun (USA), M. Thathachar (IND), E.
Triantaphyllou (USA), V. Vemuri (USA), C. Wang (UK), T. Yamakawa
(JAPAN), W. Yeap (NZ).

TOPICS OF INTEREST
* Artificial neural networks: models; architectures; algorithms;
software tools; hardware implementations; cognitive models of the
brain and their impact.
* Neural networks for problem solving: handling large
experimental data bases; speech-, image- and text processing;
time-series prediction; control; diagnosis, etc.
* Fuzzy systems: methods; tools; software and hardware
implementations; fuzzy systems for problem solving; soft
programming.
* Expert systems: machine learning and knowledge acquisition;
methods for representing inexact data and uncertain knowledge;
approximate reasoning; tools and systems; object-oriented
systems.
* Hybrid systems: integrating neural networks and AI-techniques;
integrating neural networks and fuzzy systems; extending existing
software tools with fuzzy reasoning and neural nets.
* Applications of expert systems and neural networks in:
Manufacturing; Process Control; Quality Testing; Finance;
Economics; Marketing; Management; Banking; Agriculture;
Environment Protection; Medicine; Geographic information systems;
and other application areas.
* The impact of neural networks and expert systems to the future
IT development.

INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Takeshi Yamakawa, Department of Computer Science and
Control, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan).
Professor V.Rao Vemuri, Department of Applied Science, University
of California, Davis (U.S.A.).

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers must be received by April 30, 1993. They will be reviewed
by senior researchers in the field and the authors will be
informed about the decision of the review process by June 20,
1993. Final versions of the accepted papers should be submitted
by 20 July 1993. A recommended size for a paper would be 4 pages.
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press (USA). The Conference Proceedings will be available at the
conference for distribution to all the regular conference
registrants. As the conference is a multi-disciplinary meeting
the papers are required to be comprehensible to a wider rather
than to a very specialised audience. Papers will be presented at
the conference either in an oral or in a poster session. Please
submit three (3) copies (one camera-ready original and two
copies) of the paper written in English on A4-format white paper
with one inch margins on all four sides, in one-column format,
single-spaced, in Times or similar font of 12 points, and printed
on one side of the page only. Centred at the top of the first
page should be the complete title, author(s), mailing and
e-mailing addresses, followed by an abstract and the text.

TUTORIALS
During the first day of the conference the following 3-hour
tutorials will be organized:
1. The basics of artificial neural networks.
2. The basics of fuzzy systems. Fuzzy systems applications.
3. Neural networks for problem solving.
4. Object-oriented systems.
These aim at providing basic knowledge in the subject area. The
tutorial fee is not included in the conference fee. Tutorial
materials will be distributed among the participants.

EXHIBITION
Companies and university research laboratories are encouraged to
exhibit their developed or distributing software and hardware
products. There will be an additional fee of NZ$50 for exhibiting
products at the conference.

STUDENTS SESSION
A postgraduate session will be organised. Postgraduate students
are encouraged to submit papers to this session following the
same formal requirements for paper submission. The submitted
papers will be published in a separate brochure.

WORKSHOP
A two hour workshop during the last day of the conference will
be organised on "Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition for
Expert Systems". There is an additional fee of NZ$50 to attend
the workshop.

VIDEO TRACK
A video session will be organised which will allow participants
to display up to 15 minute films. These should ideally cover
applications of expert systems and neural networks to real
problems in Commerce, Industry, Medicine, Agriculture,
Government, Education, etc.

SPONSORSHIP
The sponsors of the ANNES'93 conference are: New Zealand Computer
Society; Telecom New Zealand; Air New Zealand; Ansett New
Zealand; Computer World Magazine - New Zealand

REGISTRATION
The registration fees to attend the conference are:
Full time students  NZ$ 75.00
Academics,company representatives: NZ$300.00
One tutorial: NZ$100.00
A single day registration: NZ$150.00
An exhibition fee: NZ$50.00
A workshop fee: NZ$50.00
A discount of 20% applies for advance registration which must be
posted to the Secretary before 20 July 1993. A discount of NZ$50
applies to participants who will present their accepted papers
either in the oral or in the poster session.

VENUE
The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation has been booked at St Margaret's College located
right on the Campus and 10 minutes from downtown Dunedin. The
college offers well equipped facilities including library, sports
hall, music hall and computers with E-MAIL connection. Full board
(NZ$50) is available during the conference days as well as two
days before or after the conference. Accommodation will be also
booked for a range of hotels in the city.

TRAVELLING
Two companies offer a discount of up to 45% for travelling to the
Conference within New Zealand. When making a reservation with Air
New Zealand please quote the code DOM/1621/3, for Ansett New
Zealand quote TA53506.

POSTCONFERENCE EVENTS
Following the conference, delegates may like to experience the
delights of Queenstown, Central Otago, Fiordland. A variety of
options are available with travel plans able to be coordinated
by the Dunedin Visitors Centre (telephone +(3)4743300, Octagon,
Dunedin, New Zealand).

ANNES'93 CONFERENCE CONTACTS:

PROGRAM AND CONFERENCE CHAIR
Nikola Kasabov
Tel. +(3) 479 8319, Fax. +(3) 479 8311
email: [e-mail]
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O.Box
56, Dunedin, New Zealand
(Conference program, papers, proceedings, tutorials, reviewing,
invited talks)

CHAIR OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Martin Anderson
Tel. +(3) 479 8315, Fax. +(3) 479 8311
email: [e-mail]
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box
56, Dunedin, New Zealand
(Sponsorship proposals, exhibition proposals, video track,
business and industry contacts)

POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SESSION
Ms. Kitty Ko
Tel. +(3) 479 8153, Fax. +(3) 479 8311
email: [e-mail]
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O.Box
56, Dunedin, New Zealand

ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY:
Ms Gina Porteous
Tel.+(3) 479 8180, Fax. +(3) 479 8311,
email: [e-mail]
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box
56, Dunedin, New Zealand
(Registration and all enquiries).

DEADLINES
30 April 1993 Submission of papers.
20 June 1993 Notification of acceptance.
20 July 1993 Early registration; final papers.

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                    REGISTRATION FORM

                                                     Fee Enclosed

Registration Fee: *Students (NZ $75)                         ...$
Academics,Industry: Before 20 July After20 July  Single Day
                    NZ $240        NZ $300       NZ $150     ...$

Tutorials Fee:  No. 1     No. 2     No. 3       No. 4
                NZ $100   NZ $100   NZ $100     NZ $100      ...$

Exhibition Fee: NZ $50                                       ...$

Workshop Fee:   NZ$50                                        ...$

                                     TOTAL (including GST)   ...$
                             GST Number: 11-163-831     MMMMMMMMM
*       Student Registration must be accompanied by a letter or
verification from Department Chairman.
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Please Print or Type:

NAME:
TITLE:
ADDRESS:
City:                  State:           Zip:     Country:
Telephone:             Fax:             Email:

SPOUSE/GUEST NAME:
______________________________________________________________
Complete this form and return it to the Secretary with a cheque
or a bank draft payable in New Zealand dollars to:
        ANNES'93,
        Department of Information Science,
        University of Otago,
        P.O. Box 56,
        Dunedin,
        NEW ZEALAND.

Return address for the Registration Forms:
        Ms Gina Porteous,
        Department of Information Science,
        University of Otago,
        P.O. Box 56,
        Dunedin,
        NEW ZEALAND.

ACCOMMODATION BOOKING:
St Margaret's College (NZ $50 full board)   Number:...
Single room in a hotel (approximately NZ$70 per night) Number:..
Double room in a hotel (approximately NZ$90 per night) Number:..

Booking will only be made after a registration for the
Conference. The accommodation is to be paid at the venue.

All enquiries about registration and accommodation booking should
be addressed to Ms Gina Porteous.  There will be no refunds after
September 30.  Refunds before September 30 will not include an
administration fee of NZ $30.


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Subject: NeuronDigest- Workshop ANN to Telecom
From:    [e-mail] (Miklos.Boda)
Date:    Fri, 19 Mar 93 21:32:53 +0100



CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on Applications of
Neural Networks to Telecommunications

Princeton, NJ
October 18-20, 1993

You are invited to submit a paper to an international workshop on applications
of neural networks to problems in telecommunications.
The workshop will be held in Princeton, New Jersey on October, 18-20 1993.

This workshop will bring together active researchers in neural networks with
potential users in the telecommunications industry in a forum for discussion
of applications issues. Applications will be identified, experiences shared,
and directions for future work explored.

Suggested Topics:
Application of Neural Networks 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 May 14, 1993. Mail papers to the conference administrator:

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


Abstract and Summary Due: May 14
Author Notification of Acceptance: June 18
Camera-Ready Copy of Paper Due: August 13

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

Events Coordinator
Larry Jackel, AT&T Bell Laboratories

University Liaison
S Y Kung, Princeton

INNS Liaison
Bernie Widrow, Stanford University

IEEE Liaison
Steve Weinstein, Bellcore

Industry Liaisons
Miklos Boda, Ellemtel
Atul Chhabra, NYNEX
Michael Gell, British Telecom
Lee Giles, NEC
Thomas John, Southwest Bell
Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Australia

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


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International Workshop on Applications of
Neural Networks to Telecommunications
Princeton, NJ
October 18-20, 1993

Registration Form

Name: _____________________________________________________________

Institution: __________________________________________________________

Mailing Address:
___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

Telephone: ______________________________

Fax: ____________________________________

E-mail: _____________________________________________________________


I will attend | |

Send more information | |

Paper enclosed  | |

Registration Fee Enclosed ($350) | |
(please make sure your name is on the check)

Registration includes Monday night reception, Tuesday night banquet,
and proceedings available at the conference.

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

Deadline for submissions: May 14, 1993
Author Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 1993
Camera-Ready Copy of Paper Due: August 13, 1993

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