From oliensis@research.nj.nec.com Mon Apr 17 13:39:34 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 95 13:39:30 -0500; AA09856 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 95 13:39:27 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab17717; 17 Apr 95 13:29:54 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ab17715; 17 Apr 95 13:06:48 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03498; 17 Apr 95 13:06:24 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05407; 14 Apr 95 14:41:07 EDT Received: from zingo.nj.nec.com by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa01911; 14 Apr 95 14:40:21 EDT Received: by zingo (920330.SGI/YDL1.4-910307.16) id AA20271(zingo); Fri, 14 Apr 95 14:38:32 -0400 Received: by iris63 (940816.SGI.8.6.9/cliff's joyful mailer #2) id OAA01131(iris63); Fri, 14 Apr 1995 14:38:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 14:38:31 -0400 From: John Oliensis Message-Id: <199504141838.OAA01131@iris63> To: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu Subject: NECI Vision Workshop: www proceedings NECI VISION WORKSHOP FEB. 27 - MAR. 10, 1995 NECI Research Institute 4 Independence Way Princeton, NJ 08540 DESCRIPTION The NECI Vision Workshop brought together vision psychologists and computer vision researchers for a two week period to exchange ideas. The meeting was oriented toward discussion with a relaxed schedule of presentations. Foci of discussion included object recognition, recovery of structure and motion, subjective contours, perceptual inference, and low level vision. ATTENDEES Bill Bialek (NECI), Heinrich Bulthoff (Max-Planck), Brian Burns (Teleos), Jacob Feldman (Rutgers), Ingemar Cox (NECI), David Forsyth (Berkeley), Jonas Garding (KTH, Sweden), Richard Hartley (GE), David Jacobs (NECI), Allan Jepson (U. of Toronto), Dan Kersten, (U. of Minnesota), David Knill (U. of Pennsylvania), Tony Lindeberg (KTH, Sweden), Mike Langer (McGill), Zili Liu (NECI), Larry Maloney (NYU), Steve Maybank (GEC/U. of Oxford), John Oliensis (NECI), Pietro Perona (Cal Tech), Jean Ponce (U. of Illinois), Harpreet Sawhney (IBM), Bob Shapley (NYU), Stefano Soatto (Cal Tech), Mike Tarr (Yale), Shimon Ullman (Weizmann), Bill Warren (Brown), Lance Williams (NECI), Alan Yuille (Harvard), Steve Zucker (McGill). PROCEEDINGS The www "proceedings" for the NECI Vision Workshop is available at: http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/oliensis/NECI_Vision_Workshop.html From njm@cupido.inesc.pt Mon Apr 17 20:00:25 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 95 20:00:16 -0500; AA14605 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 95 20:00:11 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa17717; 17 Apr 95 13:28:50 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa17715; 17 Apr 95 13:06:46 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03493; 17 Apr 95 13:06:02 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa26285; 17 Apr 95 5:29:30 EDT Received: from inesc.inesc.pt by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa10205; 17 Apr 95 5:28:31 EDT Received: from cupido.inesc.pt ([146.193.0.171]) by inesc.inesc.pt with SMTP; id AA01089 (/); Sun, 16 Apr 1995 13:30:31 +0200 Received: from localhost by cupido.inesc.pt (5.65/Ultrix4.3) id AA26132; Sun, 16 Apr 1995 13:32:51 +0100 Message-Id: <9504161232.AA26132@cupido.inesc.pt> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: 2nd CFP: Neural Nets & Genetic Algorithms Workshop Date: Sun, 16 Apr 95 13:32:51 +0100 From: njm@cupido.inesc.pt X-Mts: smtp ________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------- EPIA'95 WORKSHOPS - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NEURAL NETWORKS AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS -------------------------------------------------------- A subsection of the: FUZZY LOGIC AND NEURAL NETWORKS IN ENGINEERING WORKSHOP ________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------- Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal October 3-6, 1995 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI) -------------------------------------------- REMEMBER: SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 2, 1995 -------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks in Engineering, running during the Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'95), includes a subsection on Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms. This subsection of the workshop will be devoted to models of simulating human reasoning and behaviour based on GA and NN combinations. Recently in disciplines such as AI, Engineering, Robotics and Artificial Life there has been a rise in interest in hybrid methodologies such as neural networks and genetic algorithms which enables modelling of more realistic flexible and adaptive behaviour and learning. So far such hybrid models have proved very promising in investigating and characterizing the nature of complex reasoning and control behaviour. Participants are expected to base their contribution on current research and the workshop emphasis will be on wide-ranging discussions of the feasibility and application of such hybrid models. This part of the workshop is intended to promote the exchange of ideas and approaches in these areas and for these methods, through paper presentations, open discussions, and the corresponding exhibition of running systems, demonstrations or simulations. COORDINATION OF THIS SUBSECTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mukesh Patel Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) P.O.Box 1385, GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Voice: +30 (81) 39 16 35 Fax: +30 (81) 39 16 01/09 Email: mukesh@ics.forth.gr The submission requirements, attendance and deadlines information are the same of the workshop, which Call for Papers is enclosed. Further inquiries could be addressed either to the subsection coordinator or the Workshop address. ============================================================================= ============================================================================= ============================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------- EPIA'95 WORKSHOPS - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FUZZY LOGIC AND NEURAL NETWORKS IN ENGINEERING WORKSHOP -------------------------------------------------------- Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal October 3-6, 1995 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI) INTRODUCTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'95) will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, between October 3-6, 1995. As in previous cases ('89, '91, and '93), EPIA'95 will be run as an international conference, English being the official language. The scientific program includes tutorials, invited lectures, demonstrations, and paper presentations. The Conference will include three parallel workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, and Applications of A.I. to Robotics and Vision Systems. These workshops will run simultaneously (see below) and consist of invited talks, panels, paper presentations and poster sessions. Fuzzy Logic And Neural Networks In Engineering workshop may last for either 1, 2 or 3 days, depending on the quantity and quality of submissions. FUZZY LOGIC AND NEURAL NETWORKS IN ENGINEERING WORKSHOP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The search for systems simulating human reasoning in what regards uncertainty has created a strong research community. In particular, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks have been a source of synergies among researchers of both areas, aiming at developing theoretical approaches and applications towards the characterization and experimentation of such kinds of reasoning. The workshop is intended to promote the exchange of ideas and approaches in those areas, through paper presentations, open discussions, and the corresponding exhibition of running systems, demonstrations or simulations. The organization committee invites you to participate, submitting papers together with videos, demonstrations or running systems, to illustrate relevant issues and applications. EXHIBITIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~ In order to illustrate and to support theoretical presentations the organization will provide adequate conditions (space and facilities) for exhibitions regarding the three workshops mentioned. These exhibitions can include software running systems (several platforms are available), video presentations (PAL-G VHS system), robotics systems (such as robotics insects, and autonomous robots), and posters. On the one hand, this space will allow the presentation of results and real-world applications of the research developed by our community and, on the other it will serve as a source of motivation to students and young researchers. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Authors are asked to submit five (5) copies of their papers to the submissions address by May 2, 95. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first (or designated) author on June 5, 95, and camera ready copies for inclusion in the workshop proceedings will be due on July 3, 95. Each copy of submitted papers should include a separate title page giving the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses (where available) of all authors, and a list of keywords identifying the subject area of the paper. Papers should be a maximum of 16 pages and printed on A4 paper in 12 point type with a maximum of 38 lines per page and 75 characters per line ( corresponding to LaTeX article style, 12 pt). Double sided submissions are preferred. Electronic or faxed submissions will not be accepted. Further inquiries should be addressed to the inquiries address. ATTENDANCE ~~~~~~~~~~ Each workshop will be limited to at most fifty people. In addition to presenters of papers and posters, there will be space for a limited number of other participants chosen on the basis of a one- to two-page research summary which should include a list of relevant publications, along with an electronic mail address if possible. A set of working notes will be available prior to the commencement of the workshops. Registration information will be available in June 1995. Please write for registration information to the inquiries address. DEADLINES ~~~~~~~~~ Papers submission: ................. May 2, 1995 Notification of acceptance: ........ June 5, 1995 Camera Ready Copies Due: ........... July 3, 1995 PROGRAM-CHAIR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jose Tome (IST, Portugal) ORGANIZING-CHAIR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luis Custodio (IST, Portugal) SUBMISSION AND INQUIRIES ADDRESS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EPIA'95 Fuzzy Logic & Neural Networks Workshop INESC, Apartado 13069 1000 Lisboa Portugal Voice: +351 (1) 310-0325 Fax: +351 (1) 525843 Email: epia95-FLNNWorkshop@inesc.pt PLANNING TO ATTEND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ People planning to submit a paper or/and to attend the workshop are asked to complete and return the following form (by fax or email) to the inquiries address standing their intention. It will help the workshop organizer to estimate the facilities needed and will enable all interested people to receive updated information. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | REGISTRATION OF INTEREST | | (Fuzzy Logic & Neural Networks Workshop) | | | | Title . . . . . Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Address1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Address2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax . . . . . . . . . . | | Email address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I intend to submit a paper (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I intend to participate only (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I will travel with ... guests | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ From terry@salk.edu Mon Apr 17 20:00:26 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 95 20:00:20 -0500; AA14609 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 95 20:00:17 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa18083; 17 Apr 95 18:35:11 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa18081; 17 Apr 95 18:27:39 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03648; 17 Apr 95 18:27:23 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa07359; 17 Apr 95 18:25:56 EDT Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu by CS.CMU.EDU id aa27712; 17 Apr 95 18:25:45 EDT Received: by salk.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04122; Mon, 17 Apr 95 15:25:43 PDT Date: Mon, 17 Apr 95 15:25:43 PDT From: Terry Sejnowski Message-Id: <9504172225.AA04122@salk.edu> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Telluride DEADLINE April 24 FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN A WORKSHOP ON "NEUROMORPHIC ENGINEERING" JUNE 25 - JULY 8, 1995 TELLURIDE, COLORADO DEADLINE for application is April 24, 1995. Christof Koch (Caltech) and Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute/UCSD) invite applications for one two-week workshop that will be held in Telluride, Colorado in 1995. The first Telluride Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering was held in July, 1994 and was sponsored by the NSF. A summary of the 94 workshop and a list of participants is available over MOSAIC: http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~timmer/telluride.html OR http://www.salk.edu/~bryan/telluride.html GOALS: Carver Mead introduced the term "Neuromorphic Engineering" for a new discipline based on the design and fabrication of artificial neural systems, such as vision systems, head-eye systems, and roving robots, whose architecture and design principles are based on those of biological nervous systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together young investigators and more established researchers from academia with their counterparts in industry and national laboratories, working on both neurobiological as well as engineering aspects of sensory systems and sensory-motor integration. The focus of the workshop will be on ``active" participation, with demonstration systems and hands-on-experience for all participants. Neuromorphic engineering has a wide range of applications from nonlinear adaptive control of complex systems to the design of smart sensors. Many of the fundamental principles in this field, such as the use of learning methods and the design of parallel hardware, are inspired by biological systems. However, existing applications are modest and the challenge of scaling up from small artificial neural networks and designing completely autonomous systems at the levels achieved by biological systems lies ahead. The assumption underlying this two week workshop is that the next generation of neuromorphic systems would benefit from closer attention to the principles found through experimental and theoretical studies of brain systems. The focus of the first week is on exploring neuromorphic systems through the medium of analog VLSI and will be organized by Rodney Douglas (Oxford) and Misha Mahowald (Oxford). Sessions will cover methods for the design and fabrication of multi-chip neuromorphic systems. This framework is suitable both for creating analogs of specific biological systems, which can serve as a modeling environment for biologists, and as a tool for engineers to create cooperative circuits based on biological principles. The workshop will provide the community with a common formal language for describing neuromorphic systems. Equipment will be available for participants to evaluate existing neuromorphic chips (including silicon retina, silicon neurons, oculomotor system). The second week of the course will be on vision and human sensory-motor coordination and will be organized by Dana Ballard and Mary Hayhoe (Rochester). Sessions will cover issues of sensory-motor integration in the mammalian brain. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding neural algorithms used by the brain which can provide insights into constructing electrical circuits which can accomplish similar tasks. Issues to be covered will include spatial localization and constancy, attention, motor planning, eye movements, and the use of visual motion information for motor control. These researchers will also be asked to bring their own demonstrations, classroom experiments, and software for computer models. Demonstrations will include a robot head active vision system consisting of a three degree-of-freedom binocular camera system that is fully programmable. The vision system us based on a DataCube videopipe which in turn provides drive signals to the three motors of the head. FORMAT: Time will be divided between lectures, practical labs, and interest group meetings. There will be three lectures in the morning that cover issues that are important to the community in general. In general, one lecture will be neurobiological, one computational, and one on analog VLSI. Because of the diverse range of backgrounds among the participants, the majority of these lectures will be tutorials, rather than detailed reports of current research. These lectures will be given by invited speakers. Participants will be free to explore and play with whatever they choose in the afternoon. Participants are encouraged to bring their own material to share with others. After dinner, participants will get together more informally to hear lectures and demonstrations. LOCATION AND ARRANGEMENTS: The workshop will take place at the "Telluride Summer Research Center," located in the small town of Telluride, 9000 feet high in Southwest Colorado, about 6 hours away from Denver (350 miles) and 4 hours from Aspen. Continental and United Airlines provide many daily flights directly into Telluride. Participants will be housed in shared condominiums, within walking distance of the Center. Bring hiking boots and a backpack, since Telluride is surrounded by beautiful mountains. The workshop is intended to be very informal and hands-on. Participants are not required to have had previous experience in analog VLSI circuit design, computational or machine vision, systems level neurophysiology or modeling the brain at the systems level. However, we strongly encourage active researchers with relevant backgrounds from academia, industry and national laboratories to apply, in particular if they are prepared to talk about their work or to bring demonstrators to Telluride (e.g. robots, chips, software). Internet access will be provided. Technical staff present throughout the workshops will assist with software and hardware problems. We will have a network of SUN workstations running UNIX and PCs running windows and LINUX. Up to $500 will be reimbursed for domestic travel and all housing expenses will be provided. Participants are expected to pay for food and incidental expenses and are expected to stay for the duration of this two week workshop. A limited number of travel awards will be available for international travel. PARTIAL LIST OF INVITED LECTURERS: Richard Anderson, Caltech. Chris Atkeson, Georgia Tech. Dana Ballard, Rochester. Kwabena Boahen, Caltech. Avis Cohen, Maryland. Tobi Delbruck, Arithmos, Palo Alto. Steve DeWeerth, Georgia Tech. Steve Deiss, Applied NeuroDynamics, San Diego. Chris Dioro, Caltech. Rodney Douglas, Oxford and Zurich. John Elias, Delaware University. Mary Hayhoe, Rochester. Christof Koch, Caltech. Shih-Chii Liu, Caltech and Rockwell. Jack Loomis, UC Santa Barbara. Jonathan Mills, Indiana University. Misha Mahowald, Oxford and Zurich. Mark Tilden, Los Alamos: Multi-legged Robots. Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute and UCSan Diego. Mona Zaghoul, George Washington University. HOW TO APPLY: The deadline for receipt of applications is April 24, 1995 Applicants should be at the level of graduate students or above (i.e. post- doctoral fellows, faculty, research and engineering staff and the equivalent positions in industry and national laboratories). We actively encourage qualified women and minority candidates to apply. Application should include: 1. Name, address, telephone, e-mail, FAX, and minority status (optional). 2. Curriculum Vitae. 3. One page summary of background and interests relevant to the workshop. 4. Description of special equipment needed for demonstrations that could be brought to the workshop. 5. Two letters of recommendation Complete applications should be sent to: Prof. Terrence Sejnowski The Salk Institute 10010 North Torrey Pines Road San Diego, CA 92037 email: terry@salk.edu FAX: (619) 587 0417 Applicants will be notified druign the week of May 7, 1995. ----- From JCONNOR@lbs.lon.ac.uk Mon Apr 17 20:00:27 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 95 20:00:18 -0500; AA14607 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 95 20:00:15 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa17997; 17 Apr 95 17:04:11 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa17995; 17 Apr 95 16:53:27 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03557; 17 Apr 95 16:53:16 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04561; 17 Apr 95 16:00:54 EDT Received: from pluto.lbs.lon.ac.uk by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa12424; 17 Apr 95 15:59:25 EDT Received: from charon.lbs.lon.ac.uk (charon.lbs.lon.ac.uk [163.119.254.8]) by pluto.lbs.lon.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA15310 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 20:59:23 +0100 Received: From TERRA/WORKQUEUE by charon.lbs.lon.ac.uk via Charon-4.0A-VROOM with IPX id 100.950417204645.608; 17 Apr 95 20:57:39 -0100 Message-Id: From: Jerry Connor Organization: London Business School To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 20:46:55 BST Subject: NNCM-95, SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Jerry Connor" X-Pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS NNCM-95 Third International Conference On NEURAL NETWORKS IN THE CAPITAL MARKETS Thursday-Friday, October 12-13, 1995 with tutorials on Wednesday, October 11, 1995. The Langham Hilton, London, England. (Note Deadline for Camera Ready Full Papers To Be Published In Hard Back Conference Proceedings) Neural networks are now emerging as a major modeling methodology in financial engineering. Because of the overwhelming interest in the NNCM workshops held in London in 1993 and Pasadena in 1994, the third annual NNCM conference will be held on October 12-13, 1995, in London. NNCM*95 will take a critical look at state of the art neural network applications in finance. This is a research meeting where original, high-quality contribu- tions to the field are presented and discussed. In addition, a day of introductory tutorials (Wednesday, October 11) will be included to familiarise audiences of different backgrounds with financial engineering, neural networks, and the mathematical aspects of the field. Application areas include: + Bond and stock valuation and trading + Foreign exchange rate prediction and trading + Commodity price forecasting + Risk management + Tactical asset allocation + Portfolio management + Option Pricing + Trading strategies Technical areas include, but are not limited to: + Neural networks + Nonparametric statistics + Econometrics + Pattern recognition + Time series analysis + Model Selection + Signal processing and control + Genetic and evolutionary algorithms + Fuzzy systems + Expert systems + Machine learning Instructions for Authors Authors who wish to present a paper should mail a copy of their extended abstract (4 pages, single-sided, single-spaced) typed on A4 (8.5" by 11") paper to the secretariat no later than May 31, 1995. Submissions will be refereed by no less than four referees, and authors will be notified of acceptance by 14 June 1995. Authors of accepted papers will be mailed guidelines for producing final camera ready papers which are due 12 July 1995. The accepted papers will be published in a hard back conference proceedings published by World Scientific. Separate registration is required using the attached registration form. Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts as soon as possible. Registration To register, complete the registration form and mail to the sec- retariat. Please note that attendance is limited and will be allocated on a "first-come, first-served" basis. Secretariat: For further information, please contact the NNCM-95 secretariat: Ms Busola Oguntula, London Business School Sussex Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4SA, UK e-mail: boguntula@lbs.lon.ac.uk phone (+44) (0171) 262 50 50 fax (+44) (0171) 724 78 75 Location: The main conference will be held at The Langham Hilton, which is situated near Regent's Park and is a short walk from Baker Street Underground Station. Further directions including a map will be sent to all registries. Programme Commitee Dr A. Refenes, London Business School (Chairman) Dr Y. Abu-Mostafa, Caltech Dr A. Atiya, Cairo University Dr N. Biggs, London School of Economics Dr D. Bunn, London Business School Dr M. Jabri, University of Sydney Dr B. LeBaron, University of Wisconsin Dr A. Lo, MIT Sloan School Dr J. Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute Dr C. Pedreira, Catholic University PUC-Rio Dr M. Steiner, Universitaet Munster Dr A. Timermann, University of California, San Diego Dr A. Weigend, University of Colorado Dr H. White, University of California, San Diego Hotel Accommodation: Convenient hotels include: The Langham Hilton 1 Portland Place London W1N 4JA Tel: (+44) (0171) 636 10 00 Fax: (+44) (0171) 323 23 40 Sherlock Holmes Hotel 108 Baker Street, London NW1 1LB Tel: (+44) (0171) 486 61 61 Fax: (+44) (0171) 486 08 84 The White House Hotel Albany St., Regent's Park, London NW1 Tel: (+44) (0171) 387 12 00 Fax: (+44) (0171) 388 00 91 --------------------------Registration Form -------------------------- -- NNCM-95 Registration Form Third International Conference on Neural Networks in the Capital Markets October 12-13 1995 Name:____________________________________________________ Affiliation:_____________________________________________ Mailing Address: ________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Telephone:_______________________________________________ ****Please circle the applicable fees and write the total below**** Main Conference (October 12-13): (British Pounds) Registration fee 450 Discounted fee for academicians 250 (letter on university letterhead required) Discounted fee for full-time students 100 (letter from registrar or faculty advisor required) Tutorials (October 11): You must be registered for the main conference in order to register for the tutorials. (British Pounds) Morning Session Only 100 Afternoon Session Only 100 Both Sessions 150 Full-time students 50 (letter from registrar or faculty advisor required) TOTAL: _________ Payment may be made by: (please tick) ____ Check payable to London Business School ____ VISA ____Access ____American Express Card Number:___________________________________ From pierre.demartines@csemne.ch Tue Apr 18 17:10:08 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 95 17:10:05 -0500; AA10449 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 95 17:10:03 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa19586; 18 Apr 95 15:51:30 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa19584; 18 Apr 95 15:21:42 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04737; 18 Apr 95 15:21:11 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id ab17651; 18 Apr 95 10:15:52 EDT Received: from design.csemne.ch by CS.CMU.EDU id aa03280; 18 Apr 95 10:14:18 EDT Received: from grillet.csemne.ch by morgon.csemne.ch; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:14:01 +0200 Received: by grillet.csemne.ch; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:14:00 +0200 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:14:00 +0200 From: pierre.demartines@csemne.ch Message-Id: <199504181414.QAA16521@grillet.csemne.ch> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: French Doctoral Thesis available: Nonlinear Data Analysis through Self-Organizing Neural Networks Hello, It is my pleasure to inform you about the availability of my doc- toral dissertation (in french only) on "Data Analysis through Self-Organizing Neural Networks". You can get it by FTP from the TIRFLab ftp-server (Grenoble, France). FTP-host: tirf.inpg.fr FTP-name: anonymous FTP-passwd: anything (your email for instance) FTP-file: /pub/demartin/demartin.phd94.ps.Z (2.2 Mo compressed, 8.7 Mo uncompressed, 214 pages) ----------------------------------------------------------------- DATA ANALYSIS THROUGH SELF-ORGANIZED NEURAL NETWORKS Keywords -------- Data structure (submanifold), Self-Organizing Maps (Kohonen), Fractal Dimension, Dimension Reduction, Nonlinear Projection, Un- folding, "VQP" algorithm, diffeomorphism, interpolation, extrapo- lation, Multidimensional Scaling, Nonlinear Mapping, Industrial Applications. Abstract -------- Data understanding is often based on hidden informations re- trieval within a big amount of collected variables. It is a search for linear or non linear dependencies between these ob- served variables, and consists in reducing these variables to small number of parameters. A classical method, widely used for this purpose, is the so- called Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Unfortunately, this method is only linear, and fails to reduce data that are redun- dant in a non linear way. The Kohonen's Self-Organizing Maps are a type of artificial neur- al networks, the functionality of which can be viewed as a non linear extension of PCA: data samples are mapped onto a grid of neurons. A major drawback of these maps, however, is their a priori defined shape (generally a square or a rectangle), which is rarely adapted to the shape of the parametric space to represent. We relax this constraint with a new algorithm, called ``Vector Quantization and Projection'' (VQP). It is a kind of self- organizing map, the output space of which is continuous and takes automatically the relevant shape. From a mathematical point of view, VQP is the search for a diffeomorphism between the raw data set and an unknown parametric representation to be found. More intuitively, this is an unfolding of data structure towards a low-dimensional space, which dimension is the number of degrees of freedom of the observed phenomenon, and can be determined through fractal analysis of the data set. In order to illustrate the generality of VQP, we give a wide range of application examples (real or simulated), in several domains such as data fusion, graphes matching, industrial process monitoring or analysis, faults detection in devices and adaptive routing in telecommunications. ---------------- ANALYSE DE DONNEES PAR RESEAUX DE NEURONES AUTO-ORGANISES Mots-cles --------- Structure de donnees (variete), cartes auto-organisantes (Kohonen), dimension fractale, reduction de dimension, projection non-lineaire, depliage, algorithme "VQP", diffeomorphisme, inter- polation, extrapolation, "Multidimensional Scaling", "Nonlinear Mapping", applications industrielles. Resume ------ Chercher a comprendre des donnees, c'est souvent chercher a trouver de l'information cachee dans un gros volume de mesures redondantes. C'est chercher des dependances, lineaires ou non, entre les variables observees pour pouvoir resumer ces dernieres par un petit nombre de parametres. Une methode classique, l'Analyse en Composantes Principales (ACP), est abondamment employee dans ce but. Malheureusement, il s'agit d'une methode exclusivement lineaire, qui est donc incapa- ble de reveler les dependances non lineaires entre les variables. Les cartes auto-organisantes de Kohonen sont des reseaux de neu- rones artificiels dont la fonction peut etre vue comme une exten- sion de l'ACP aux cas non-lineaires. L'espace parametrique est represente par une grille de neurones, dont la forme, generale- ment carree ou rectangulaire, doit malheureusement etre choisie a priori. Cette forme est souvent inadaptee a celle de l'espace parametrique recherche. Nous liberons cette contrainte avec un nouvel algorithme, nomme ``Vector Quantization and Projection'' (VQP), qui est une sorte de carte auto-organisante dont l'espace de sortie est continu et prend automatiquement la forme adequate. Sur le plan mathema- tique, VQP peut etre defini comme la recherche d'un diffeomor- phisme entre l'espace brut des donnees et un espace parametrique inconnu a trouver. Plus intuitivement, il s'agit d'un depliage de la structure des donnees vers un espace de plus petite dimension. Cette dimension, qui correspond au nombre de degres de liberte du phenomene etudie, peut etre determinee par des methodes d'analyse fractale du nuage de donnees. Afin d'illustrer la generalite de l'approche VQP, nous donnons une serie d'exemples d'applications, simulees ou reelles, dans des domaines varies qui vont de la fusion de donnees a l'appariement de graphes, en passant par l'analyse ou la surveil- lance de procedes industriels, la detection de defauts dans des machines et le routage adaptatif en telecommunications. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FTP INSTRUCTIONS: unix> ftp tirf.inpg.fr (or 192.70.29.33) Name: anonymous Password: ftp> cd pub/demartin ftp> binary ftp> get demartin.phd94.ps.Z ftp> quit unix> uncompress demartin.phd94.ps.Z -------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre Demartines email: demartin@csemne.ch C.S.E.M. Phone: (41) 38 205 252 Maladiere 71 Fax: (41) 38 205 770 CH-2007 Neuchatel Mosaic: ftp://tirf.inpg.fr/pub/HTML/tirf.html Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------- From l.s.smith@cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Apr 18 17:10:13 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 95 17:10:07 -0500; AA10455 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 95 17:10:05 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab19586; 18 Apr 95 15:52:50 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ab19584; 18 Apr 95 15:21:43 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04742; 18 Apr 95 15:21:34 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa19890; 18 Apr 95 13:34:46 EDT Received: from dosh.cs.stir.ac.uk by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa16352; 18 Apr 95 11:30:14 EDT Received: from katrine.cs.stir.ac.uk by dosh.cs.stir.ac.uk (8.6.10) with ESMTP id QAA07742; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:29:47 +0100 Received: by katrine.cs.stir.ac.uk (8.6.10) id QAA18251; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:29:46 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:29:46 +0100 From: "Dr L S Smith (Staff)" Message-Id: <199504181529.QAA18251@katrine.cs.stir.ac.uk> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100) To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: New book: Neural Computation and Psychology Cc: lss@cs.stir.ac.uk Newly-published book available. Order it from you bookshop! Neural Computation and Psychology eds: Leslie S. Smith, Peter J.B. Hancock. Proceedings of the 3rd Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW3), Stirling, Scotland, 31 August - 2 September 1994 Springer-Verlag Workshops in Computing Series: published in collaboration with the British Computer Society. ISBN 3-540-19948-9 Published April 1995 Contents: Preface Cognition. Symbolic and subsymbolic approaches to cognition. David Willshaw (Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh). Mapping across domains without feedback: a neural network model of transfer of implicit knowledge. Zoltan Dienes, Gerry T.M. Altmann, Shi-Ji Gao (Lab of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex). Modelling reaction times. John A. Bullinaria (Dept of Psychology, University of Edinburgh). Chunking: an interpretation bottleneck. Jon Slack (Department of Psychology, University of Kent). Learning, relearning and recall for two strengths of learning in a neural networks 'aged' by simulated dendritic attrition. R. Cartwright, G.W. Humphries (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham). Perception. Learning invariances via spatio-temporal constraints. James V. Stone (Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex). Topographic map formation as statistical inference. Roland Baddeley (Dept of Psychology, University of Oxford). Edge enhancement and exploratory projection pursuit. Colin Fyfe, Roland Baddeley (Dept of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, Dept of Psychology, University of Oxford). The "perceptual magnet" effect: a model based on self-organizing feature maps. M. Herrmann , H.-U Bauer, R. Der (Nordita, Copenhagen, Inst. f. Theor Physik, Universitaet Frankfurt, and Inst f. Informatik, Universitaet Leipzig). How local cortical processors that maximize coherent variation could lay foundations for representation proper. W.A Phillips, Jim Kay and D. Smyth (Dept of Psychology, University of Stirling, SASS, Aberdeen, Dept of Psychology, University of Stirling). Audition and Vision Using complementary streams in a model that learns representations of abstract diatonic pitch. Niall Griffifth (Dept of Computer Science, University of Exeter). Data-driven sound interpretation: its application to voiced sounds. Leslie S. Smith (Dept of Computing Science, University of Stirling). Computer simulation of gestalt auditory grouping by frequency proximity. Michael W. Beauvois, Ray Meddis , (IRCAM, Paris, and Dept of Human Sciences, Loughborough University of Technology). Mechanisms of visual search:an implementation of guided search. K.J. Smith, G.W. Humphreys (School of Psychology, University of Birmingham). Categorical perception as an acquired phenomenon: what are the implications? James M. Beale, Frank C. Keil (Dept of Psychology, Cornell University). Sequence Learning. A computational account of phonologically mediated free recall. Peter J. Lovatt , Dimitrios Bairaktaris (CCCN, Dept of Computing Science, University of Stirling). Interactions between knowledge sources in a dual-route connectionist model of spelling. David W. Glasspool, George Houghton, Tim Shallice (University College, London). Author Index. ____________________________________________________ Dr Leslie S. Smith Dept of Computing and Mathematics, Univ of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland lss@cs.stir.ac.uk (NeXTmail welcome) Tel (44) 1786 467435 Fax (44) 1786 464551 www http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~lss/ From mike@PSYCH.UALBERTA.CA Wed Apr 19 02:21:03 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 02:21:00 -0500; AA14372 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 02:20:58 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa20068; 18 Apr 95 22:59:12 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa20066; 18 Apr 95 22:51:01 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05081; 18 Apr 95 22:50:14 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27577; 18 Apr 95 22:44:14 EDT Received: from cyber.psych.ualberta.ca by RI.CMU.EDU id aa01371; 18 Apr 95 22:43:24 EDT Received: from motion.psych.ualberta.ca ([129.128.52.12]) by psych.ualberta.ca with SMTP id <17717>; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:43:23 -0600 Received: by motion.psych.ualberta.ca (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.8) id ; Tue, 18 Apr 95 20:49 MDT Message-Id: From: Mike Dawson Subject: Biological Computation Project WWW To: Connectionists Mailing List Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:49:11 -0600 Reply-To: mike@PSYCH.UALBERTA.CA X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 733 For anyone who might be interested, the research activities of the Biological Computation Project at the University of Alberta are now described in a new WWW page that is located at: http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/dawsonm.html The page describes BCP research activity involving the motion correspondence problem, the value unit connectionist architecture, network interpretation, redundant networks, medical diagnosis, and issues in cognitive science. -- Michael R.W. Dawson email: mike@psych.ualberta.ca Biological Computation Project, Department of Psychology University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB CANADA T6G 2E9 Tel: +1 403 492 5175 Fax: +1 403 492 1768 http://web.psych.ualberta/~mike/dawsonm.html From JCONNOR@lbs.lon.ac.uk Wed Apr 19 07:05:37 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 07:05:34 -0500; AA01910 Received: from bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 07:05:31 -0500 Received: from (mafm@parma.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.7]) by cs.uwa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.5) with SMTP id QAA01782; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 16:16:27 +0800 Message-Id: <199504190816.QAA01782@cs.uwa.oz.au> From: "Jerry Connor" To: Reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au Subject: NNCM-95 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 20:33:50 BST SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS NNCM-95 Third International Conference On NEURAL NETWORKS IN THE CAPITAL MARKETS Thursday-Friday, October 12-13, 1995 with tutorials on Wednesday, October 11, 1995. The Langham Hilton, London, England. (Note Deadline for Camera Ready Full Papers To Be Published In Hard Back Conference Proceedings) Neural networks are now emerging as a major modeling methodology in financial engineering. Because of the overwhelming interest in the NNCM workshops held in London in 1993 and Pasadena in 1994, the third annual NNCM conference will be held on October 12-13, 1995, in London. NNCM*95 will take a critical look at state of the art neural network applications in finance. This is a research meeting where original, high-quality contribu- tions to the field are presented and discussed. In addition, a day of introductory tutorials (Wednesday, October 11) will be included to familiarise audiences of different backgrounds with financial engineering, neural networks, and the mathematical aspects of the field. Application areas include: + Bond and stock valuation and trading + Foreign exchange rate prediction and trading + Commodity price forecasting + Risk management + Tactical asset allocation + Portfolio management + Option Pricing + Trading strategies Technical areas include, but are not limited to: + Neural networks + Nonparametric statistics + Econometrics + Pattern recognition + Time series analysis + Model Selection + Signal processing and control + Genetic and evolutionary algorithms + Fuzzy systems + Expert systems + Machine learning Instructions for Authors Authors who wish to present a paper should mail a copy of their extended abstract (4 pages, single-sided, single-spaced) typed on A4 (8.5" by 11") paper to the secretariat no later than May 31, 1995. Submissions will be refereed by no less than four referees, and authors will be notified of acceptance by 14 June 1995. 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(British Pounds) Morning Session Only 100 Afternoon Session Only 100 Both Sessions 150 Full-time students 50 (letter from registrar or faculty advisor required) TOTAL: _________ Payment may be made by: (please tick) ____ Check payable to London Business School ____ VISA ____Access ____American Express Card Number:___________________________________ From nips95@mines.colorado.edu Wed Apr 19 14:02:15 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 14:02:08 -0500; AA07236 Message-Id: <9504191902.AA18680@lucy.cs.wisc.edu> Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 14:02:03 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa20626; 19 Apr 95 3:19:33 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa20624; 19 Apr 95 3:12:07 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05411; 19 Apr 95 3:11:39 EDT To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: reminder: May 20 NIPS submission deadline Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 03:07:41 -0400 From: NIPS Conference Office CALL FOR PAPERS Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic Monday, Nov. 27 - Saturday, Dec. 2, 1995 Denver, Colorado This is the ninth meeting of an interdisciplinary conference which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. The confer- ence will include invited talks, and oral and poster presenta- tions of refereed papers. There will be no parallel sessions. There will also be one day of tutorial presentations (Nov. 27) preceding the regular session, and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec. 1-2). Major categories for paper submission, with example subcategories, are as follows: Neuroscience: systems physiology, signal and noise analysis, oscillations, synchronization, mechanisms of inhibition and neuromodulation, synaptic plasticity, computational models Theory: computational learning theory, complexity theory, dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, probability and statistics, approximation and estimation theory Implementation: analog and digital VLSI, novel neuro-devices, neurocomputing systems, optical, simulation tools, parallelism Algorithms and Architectures: learning algorithms, decision trees constructive/pruning algorithms, localized basis func- tions, recurrent networks, genetic algorithms, combinatorial optimization, performance comparisons Visual Processing: image recognition, coding and classifica- tion, stereopsis, motion detection and tracking, visual psycho- physics Speech, Handwriting and Signal Processing: speech recognition, coding and synthesis, handwriting recognition, adaptive equali- zation, nonlinear noise removal, auditory scene analysis Applications: time-series prediction, medical diagnosis, finan- cial analysis, DNA/protein sequence analysis, music processing, expert systems, database mining Cognitive Science & AI: natural language, human learning and memory, perception and psychophysics, symbolic reasoning Control, Navigation, and Planning: robotic motor control, pro- cess control, navigation, path planning, exploration, dynamic programming, reinforcement learning Review Criteria: All submitted papers will be thoroughly refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, significance, and clarity. Submissions should contain new results that have not been published previously. Authors should not be dissuaded from submitting recent work, as there will be an opportunity after the meeting to revise accepted manuscripts before submitting final camera-ready copy. Paper Format: Submitted papers may be up to eight pages in length, including figures and references. The page limit will be strictly enforced, and any submission exceeding eight pages will not be considered. Authors are encouraged (but not required) to use the NIPS style files obtainable by anonymous FTP at the sites given below. Papers must include physical and e-mail addresses of all authors, and MUST indicate one of the nine major categories listed above. Authors may also indicate a subcategory, and their preference, if any, for oral or poster presentation; this preference will play no role in paper acceptance. Unless otherwise indicated, correspondence will be sent to the first au- thor. 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Chicago; Workshops Chair, Michael Perrone, IBM; Publicity Chair, David Cohn, MIT; Local Arrangements, Manavendra Misra, Colorado School of Mines; Treasurer, John Lazzaro, Berkeley. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 20, 1995 (POSTMARKED) -please post- From nips95@mines.colorado.edu Wed Apr 19 14:02:21 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 14:02:12 -0500; AA07248 Message-Id: <9504191902.AA18684@lucy.cs.wisc.edu> Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 14:02:07 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab20626; 19 Apr 95 3:21:09 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ab20624; 19 Apr 95 3:12:08 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05415; 19 Apr 95 3:11:44 EDT To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: NIPS workshop proposals due May 20 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 03:08:45 -0400 From: NIPS Conference Office CALL FOR PROPOSALS NIPS*95 Post Conference Workshops December 1 and 2, 1995 Vail, Colorado Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 1995 conference, workshops on current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 1 and 2, 1995, 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, at- tention, bayesian analysis, benchmarking neural network applica- tions, computational complexity issues, computational neurosci- ence, fast training techniques, genetic algorithms, music, neural network dynamics, optimization, recurrent nets, rules and connec- tionist models, self-organization, sensory biophysics, speech, time series prediction, vision and audition, implementations, and grammars. 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. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are partic- ularly encouraged. Individuals proposing to chair a workshop will have responsibilities including: 1) arranging short informal presentations by experts working on the topic, 2) moderating or leading the discussion and reporting its high points, findings, and conclusions to the group during evening plenary sessions (the "gong show"), and 3) writing a brief summary. Submission Instructions: Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of interest postmarked by May 20, 1995. (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, the proposed length of the workshop (one day or two days), and the planned format. It should motivate why the topic is of in- terest or controversial, why it should be discussed and what the targeted group of participants is. 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Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (email: mpp@watson.ibm.com) PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 20, 1995 -Please Post- From pierre.demartines@csemne.ch Wed Apr 19 23:05:22 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 23:05:21 -0500; AA11612 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 23:05:17 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa21224; 19 Apr 95 14:08:35 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21222; 19 Apr 95 13:53:11 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05737; 19 Apr 95 13:52:09 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01206; 19 Apr 95 4:26:28 EDT Received: from design.csemne.ch by RI.CMU.EDU id aa02347; 19 Apr 95 4:26:06 EDT Received: from gervans.csemne.ch by morgon.csemne.ch; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:26:02 +0200 Received: by gervans.csemne.ch; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:26:00 +0200 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:26:00 +0200 From: pierre.demartines@csemne.ch Message-Id: <199504190826.KAA17936@gervans.csemne.ch> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: French Doctoral Thesis available: Nonlinear Data Analysis through Self-Organizing Neural Networks Hem... As some people told me, I forgot to check the correct read access to my dissertation Postscript file (the shame on me...) It's ok now. Excuse-me for the trouble. For non french reader, you can find on the same ftp-anonymous server (tirf.inpg.fr or 192.70.29.33, directory pub/demartin) some short papers on the subject (demartin.{gretsi95,nimes93,iwann93}.ps.Z). In fact, the shortest (2 pages) and the most up-to-date one is gretsi95. The one of IWANN'93 is a bit obsolete. Anyway, in the thesis you'll find a lot of figures and equations that are readable by everybody. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre Demartines email: demartin@csemne.ch C.S.E.M. Phone: (41) 38 205 252 Maladiere 71 Fax: (41) 38 205 770 CH-2007 Neuchatel Mosaic: ftp://tirf.inpg.fr/pub/HTML/tirf.html Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------- From hu@eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu Wed Apr 19 23:05:27 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 23:05:25 -0500; AA11618 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 19 Apr 95 23:05:22 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab21442; 19 Apr 95 18:52:56 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ab21440; 19 Apr 95 18:34:10 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05954; 19 Apr 95 18:33:54 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa09495; 19 Apr 95 15:10:19 EDT Received: from eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu by RI.CMU.EDU id aa04487; 19 Apr 95 15:09:09 EDT Received: by eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu (WE5:5.65c/ES5) id AA27828; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:08:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:08:25 -0500 From: Yu Hu Message-Id: <199504191908.AA27828@eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: CFP: Int'l Symp. on ANN, Dec.18-20, 1995, Taiwan, ROC (86 lines) FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------- 1995 International Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks December 18-20, 1995, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China Sponsored by National Chiao-Tung University in cooperation with Ministry of Education, Taiwan R.O.C. National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C. IEEE Signal Processing Society Call for Papers ------------------ The third of a series of International Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks will be held at the National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in December of 1995. Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following topics: Associative Memory Robotics Electrical Neurocomputers Sensation & Perception Image/Speech Processing Sensory/Motor Control Systems Machine Vision Supervised Learning Neurocognition Unsupervised Learning Neurodynamics Fuzzy Neural Systems Optical Neurocomputers Mathematical Methods Optimization Other Applications Prospective authors are invited to submit 4 copies of extended summaries of no more than 4 pages. All the manuscripts should be written in English with single-spaced, single column, on 8.5" by 11" white papers. The top of the first page of the summary should include a title, authors' names, affiliations, address, telephone/fax numbers, and email address if applicable. The indicated corresponding author will receive an acknowledgement of his/her submissions. Camera-ready full papers of accepted manuscripts will be published in a hard-bound proceedings and distributed at the symposium. For more information, please consult at the MOSAIC URL site http://www.ee.washington.edu/isann95.html, or use anonymous ftp from pierce.ee.washington.edu/pub/isann95/read.me (128.95.31.129). For submission from USA and Europe: Professor Yu-Hen Hu Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1691 Phone: (608) 262-6724, Fax: (608) 262-1267 Email: hu@engr.wisc.edu For submission from Asia and Other Areas: Professor Sin-Horng Chen Dept. of Communication Engineering National Chiao-Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan Phone: (886) 35-712121 ext. 54522, Fax: (886) 35-710116 Email: isann95@cc.nctu.edu.tw ************************* SCHEDULE ************************* Submission of extended summary: July 15 Notification of acceptance: September 30 Submission of photo-ready paper: October 31 Advanced registration, before: November 10 ORGANIZATIOIN General Co-Chairs Hsin-Chia Fu Jenq-Neng Hwang National Chiao-Tung University University of Washington Hsinchu, Taiwan Seattle, Washington, USA hcfu@csie.nctu.edu.tw hwang@ee.washington.ed Program Co-Chairs Sin-Horng Chen Yu-Hen Hu National Chiao-Tung University University of Wisconsin Hsinchu, Taiwan Madison, Wisconsin, USA schen@cc.nctu.edu.tw hu@engr.wisc.edu Advisory Board Co-Chair Sun-Yuan Kung C. Y. Wu Princeton University National Science Council Princeton, New Jersey, US Taipei, Taiwan, ROC From kak@gate.ee.lsu.edu Thu Apr 20 14:33:01 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 20 Apr 95 14:32:59 -0500; AA03573 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 20 Apr 95 14:32:54 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa21442; 19 Apr 95 18:50:56 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21440; 19 Apr 95 18:34:09 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05948; 19 Apr 95 18:33:26 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa07374; 19 Apr 95 12:47:58 EDT Received: from gate.ee.lsu.edu by CS.CMU.EDU id aa15556; 19 Apr 95 12:46:42 EDT Received: by gate.ee.lsu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15786; Wed, 19 Apr 95 11:46:35 CDT Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 11:46:35 CDT From: Subhash Kak Message-Id: <9504191646.AA15786@gate.ee.lsu.edu> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Paper The following paper has just been published: S.C. Kak, On quantum neural computing. INFORMATION SCIENCES, vol. 83, pp. 143-160, 1995. ---------------------------------------------------- Abstract: This paper examines the notion of quantum neural computing in the context of several new directions in neural network research. In particular, we consider new neuron and network models that lead to rapid training, chaotic dynamics in neuron assemblies, models of attention and awareness, cytoskeletal microtubule information processing. ----------------------------------------------------- You can get a copy of the latex file by anonymous ftp from gate.ee.lsu.edu The directory is ftp/pub/kak and the filename is q.tex From uzimmer@informatik.uni-kl.de Fri Apr 21 08:01:25 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 21 Apr 95 08:01:19 -0500; AA23699 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 21 Apr 95 08:01:14 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa22889; 20 Apr 95 19:09:10 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa22887; 20 Apr 95 18:47:23 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06804; 20 Apr 95 18:46:35 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa22117; 20 Apr 95 9:58:45 EDT Received: from stepsun.uni-kl.de by CS.CMU.EDU id aa24457; 20 Apr 95 9:58:17 EDT Received: from uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de by stepsun.uni-kl.de id ab24566; 20 Apr 95 15:56 MET DST Received: from ag-vp-file-server.informatik.uni-kl.de by uklirb.uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de id aa25115; 20 Apr 95 15:54 MET DST Subject: Paper available (mobile robots, self-localization) To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu From: "Uwe R. Zimmer, AG vP" Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 15:54:44 +0100 Reply-To: uzimmer@informatik.uni-kl.de Message-Id: <950420.155444.1722@ag-vp-file-server.informatik.uni-kl.de> A report on a current mobile robot project concerning basic mobile robot tasks is available via ftp or (together with some other reports) from the following WWW-server: WWW-Server is: http://ag-vp-www.informatik.uni-kl.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Self-Localization in Dynamic Environments --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTP-Server is: ftp.uni-kl.de Mode is : binary Directory is : reports_uni-kl/computer_science/mobile_robots/1995/papers File name is : Zimmer.Self-Loc.ps.gz IEEE/SOFT International Workshop BIES'95 May 30 - 31, 1995, Tokyo, Japan Self-Localization in Dynamic Environments Uwe R. Zimmer Self-localization in unknown environments respectively correlation of current and former impressions of the world is an essential ability for most mobile robots. The method, proposed in this article is the construction of a qualitative, topological world model as a basis for self-localization. As a central aspect the reliability regarding error-tolerance and stability will be emphasized. The proposed techniques demand very low constraints for the kind and quality of the employed sensors as well as for the kinematic precision of the utilized mobile platform. Hard real-time constraints can be handled due to the low computational complexity. The principal discussions are supported by real-world experiments with the mobile robot "ALICE". keywords: artificial neural networks, mobile robots, self-localization, self-organization, world-modelling (8 pages with photos and other figures) ----------------------------------------------------- ----- Uwe R. Zimmer --- University of Kaiserslautern - Computer Science Department | 67663 Kaiserslautern - Germany | ------------------------------.--------------------------------. Phone:+49 631 205 2624 | Fax:+49 631 205 2803 | From kak@gate.ee.lsu.edu Fri Apr 21 08:01:27 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 21 Apr 95 08:01:23 -0500; AA23701 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 21 Apr 95 08:01:18 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab22889; 20 Apr 95 19:12:10 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ab22887; 20 Apr 95 18:47:30 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06809; 20 Apr 95 18:47:13 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id ab22996; 20 Apr 95 10:47:43 EDT Received: from gate.ee.lsu.edu by CS.CMU.EDU id aa24994; 20 Apr 95 10:47:20 EDT Received: by gate.ee.lsu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23093; Thu, 20 Apr 95 09:47:17 CDT Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 09:47:17 CDT From: Subhash Kak Message-Id: <9504201447.AA23093@gate.ee.lsu.edu> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Paper announcement I regret that the directory listing for the anonymous ftp of my paper was in error in the announcement yesterday. The correct listing is given below: S.C. Kak, On quantum neural computing. INFORMATION SCIENCES, vol 83, pp. 143-160, 1995. -- Abstract: This paper examines the notion of quantum neural computing in the context of several new directions in neural networks research. In particular, we consider new neuron and network models that lead to rapid training, chaotic dynamics in neuron assemblies, models of attention and awareness, cytoskeletal microtubule processing. Several characteristics of quantum neural computing are examined. -- To obtain the .ps file of the paper use anonymous ftp at gate.ee.lsu.edu Get into directory pub and subdirectory kak. The .ps file is named q.ps ftp://gate.ee.lsu.edu/pub/kak/q.ps A more comprehensive (three times larger) report to appear in the ``Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics'' may also be obtained using anonymous ftp. The compressed postscript file is named a.ps.Z ftp://gate.ee.lsu.edu/pub/kak/a.ps.Z From jon@maths.flinders.edu.au Sat Apr 22 03:19:58 1995 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Sat, 22 Apr 95 03:19:55 -0500; AA02791 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Sat, 22 Apr 95 03:19:53 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa24342; 21 Apr 95 12:24:25 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa24340; 21 Apr 95 12:09:05 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa07569; 21 Apr 95 12:08:42 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id ac08515; 21 Apr 95 9:19:13 EDT Received: from [129.96.32.2] by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa01944; 21 Apr 95 9:14:57 EDT Received: by calvin.maths.flinders.edu.au id AA12304 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu); Fri, 21 Apr 1995 22:43:14 +0930 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 22:43:14 +0930 From: Jonathan Baxter Message-Id: <199504211313.AA12304@calvin.maths.flinders.edu.au> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Paper Avaliable: Learning Internal Representations The following paper is available by anonymous ftp from calvin.maths.flinders.edu.au (129.96.32.2) /pub/jon/repcolt.ps.Z It is a (hopefully lossy) compression of part of my thesis and will appear in the proceedings of COLT '95. Instructions for retrieval are at the end of this message. Title: Learning Internal Representations (10 pages) Author: Jonathan Baxter Abstract: Probably the most important problem in machine learning is the preliminary biasing of a learner's hypothesis space so that it is small enough to ensure good generalisation from reasonable training sets, yet large enough that it contains a good solution to the problem being learnt. In this paper a mechanism for {\em automatically} learning or biasing the learner's hypothesis space is introduced. It works by first learning an appropriate {\em internal representation} for a learning environment and then using that representation to bias the learner's hypothesis space for the learning of future tasks drawn from the same environment. An internal representation must be learnt by sampling from {\em many similar tasks}, not just a single task as occurs in ordinary machine learning. It is proved that the number of examples $m$ {\em per task} required to ensure good generalisation from a representation learner obeys $m = O(a+b/n)$ where $n$ is the number of tasks being learnt and $a$ and $b$ are constants. If the tasks are learnt independently ({\em i.e.} without a common representation) then $m=O(a+b)$. It is argued that for learning environments such as speech and character recognition $b\gg a$ and hence representation learning in these environments can potentially yield a drastic reduction in the number of examples required per task. It is also proved that if $n = O(b)$ (with $m=O(a+b/n)$) then the representation learnt will be good for learning novel tasks from the same environment, and that the number of examples required to generalise well on a novel task will be reduced to $O(a)$ (as opposed to $O(a+b)$ if no representation is used). It is shown that gradient descent can be used to train neural network representations and the results of an experiment are reported in which a neural network representation was learnt for an environment consisting of {\em translationally invariant} Boolean functions. The experiment provides strong qualitative support for the theoretical results. FTP Instructions: unix> ftp calvin.maths.flinders.edu.au (or 129.96.32.2) login: anonymous password: (your e-mail address) ftp> cd pub/jon ftp> binary ftp> get repcolt.ps.Z ftp> quit unix> uncompress repcolt.ps.Z unix> lpr repcolt.ps (or however you print)