From N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk Sun Jan 28 13:57:05 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 28 Jan 96 13:57:03 -0600; AA01280 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 28 Jan 96 05:56:45 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa29802; 28 Jan 96 6:37:10 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa29799; 28 Jan 96 6:26:48 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04385; 28 Jan 96 6:26:16 EST Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa17014; 28 Jan 96 6:21:25 EST Received: from gw.dcs.shef.ac.uk by RI.CMU.EDU id aa23960; 28 Jan 96 6:21:01 EST Received: from entropy.dcs.shef.ac.uk by dcs.shef.ac.uk (4.1/DAVE-1.0) id AA04198; Sun, 28 Jan 96 11:18:18 GMT Received: by entropy.dcs.shef.ac.uk (920330.SGI/SMI-4.1) id AA28201; Sun, 28 Jan 96 11:18:58 GMT Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 11:18:58 GMT From: N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk Message-Id: <9601281118.AA28201@entropy.dcs.shef.ac.uk> To: intcon@phoenix.ee.unsw.edu.au, reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au, gann-list@cs.iastate.edu, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: EANN-96 - ROBOTICS Cc: N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk Sorry if you get this twice, but I messed up the mailing last week. *** ROBOTICS TRACK of EANN-96 *** London, UK: 17-19 June, 1996. For those of you a bit late in submitting you abstracts (200-400 words) for the Robotics track of EANN-96, you can send them directly to me electronically at n.sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk (or fax). But please let me know of your intention to do so. For more information on EANN '96: http://www.lpac.ac.uk/EANN96 For reports on EANN '95, contents of the proceedings, etc.: http://www.abo.fi/~abulsari/EANN95.html Please mention two to four keywords, and whether you prefer it to be a short paper or a full paper. The short papers will be 4 pages in length, and full papers may be upto 8 pages. Notification of acceptance will be sent around 15 February. noel Noel Sharkey Professor of Computer Science Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk FAX: (0114) 2780972 From piuri@elet.polimi.it Sun Jan 28 13:57:14 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 28 Jan 96 13:57:11 -0600; AA01303 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 28 Jan 96 05:56:40 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa29636; 28 Jan 96 3:49:24 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa29631; 28 Jan 96 3:36:58 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04259; 28 Jan 96 3:36:22 EST Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15301; 28 Jan 96 3:35:25 EST Received: from ipmel2.elet.polimi.it by CS.CMU.EDU id aa21205; 28 Jan 96 3:35:10 EST Received: by ipmel2.elet.polimi.it (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3A) id AA20390; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 09:34:32 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 09:34:32 +0100 From: Vincenzo Piuri Message-Id: <9601280834.AA20390@ipmel2.elet.polimi.it> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: NICROSP'96 - deadline extension ====================================================================== NICROSP'96 * * * DEADLINE EXTENSION * * * Due to a delay in posting on some web servers, submission deadlines have been extended as follows: one-page abstract for review assignment: by February 19th, 1996 extended summary or full paper for review: by March 3rd, 1996 For details see the following call for papers. 1996 International Workshop on Neural Networks for Identification, Control, Robotics, and Signal/Image Processing Venice, Italy - 21-23 August 1996 ====================================================================== Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. In cooperation with: ACM SIGART, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, IEEE Neural Network Council, IEEE North-Italy Section, IEEE Region 8, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (pending), IEEE Signal Processing Society (pending), IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IMACS, INNS (pending), ISCA, AEI, AICA, ANIPLA, FAST. CALL FOR PAPERS This workshop is directed to create a unique synergetic discussion forum and a strong link between theoretical researchers and practitioners in the application fields of identification, control, robotics, and signal/image processing by using neural techniques. The three-days single-session schedule will provide the ideal environment for in-depth analysis and discussions concerning the theoretical aspects of the applications and the use of neural networks in the practice. Invited talks in each area will provide a starting point for the discussion and give the state of the art in the corresponding field. Panels will provide an interactive discussion. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers concerning theoretical foundations of neural computation, experimental results or practical applications related to the specific workshop's areas. Interested authors should submit a half-page abstract to the program chair by e-mail or fax by February 19, 1996, for review planning. Then, an extended summary or the full paper (limited to 20 double-spaced pages including figures and tables) must be sent to the program chair by March 3, 1996 (PostScript email submission is strongly encouraged). Submissions should contain: the corresponding author, affiliation, complete address, fax, email, and the preferred workshop track (identification, control, robotics, signal processing, image processing). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register, attend the workshop and present the paper. Papers' selection is based on the full paper: the corresponding author will be notified by March 30, 1996. The camera-ready version, limited to 10 one-column IEEE-book-standard pages, is due by May 1, 1996. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. The extended version of selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues of international journals. General Chair Prof. Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio Department of Electrical Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3128 USA phone (409) 845-7498 fax (409) 845-7161 email sanchez@eesun1.tamu.edu Program Chair Prof. Vincenzo Piuri Department of Electronics and Information Politecnico di Milano piazza L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy phone +39-2-2399-3606 fax +39-2-2399-3411 email piuri@elet.polimi.it Publication Chair Dr. Jose' Pineda de Gyvez Department of Electrical Engineering Texas A&M University Publicity, Registr. & Local Arrangment Chair Dr. Cesare Alippi Department of Electronics and Information Politecnico di Milano Workshop Secretariat Ms. Laura Caldirola Department of Electronics and Information Politecnico di Milano phone +39-2-2399-3623 fax +39-2-2399-3411 email caldirol@elet.polimi.it Program Committee (preliminary list) Shun-Ichi Amari, University of Tokyo, Japan Panos Antsaklis, Univ. Notre Dame, USA Magdy Bayoumi, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA James C. Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA Pierre Borne, Ecole Politechnique de Lille, France Luiz Caloba, Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jill Card, Digital Equipment Corporation, USA Chris De Silva, University of Western Australia, Australia Laurene Fausett, Florida Institute of Technology, USA C. Lee Giles, NEC, USA Karl Goser, University of Dortmund, Germany Simon Jones, University of Loughborough, UK Michael Jordan, Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA Robert J. Marks II, University of Washington, USA Jean D. Nicoud, EPFL, Switzerland Eros Pasero, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Emil M. Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada Alberto Prieto, Universidad de Granada, Spain Gianguido Rizzotto, SGS-Thomson, Italy Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio, A&M University, USA Bernd Schuermann, Siemens, Germany Earl E. Swartzlander, University of Texas at Austin, USA Philip Treleaven, University College London, UK Kenzo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Michel Weinfeld, Ecole Politechnique de Paris, France ====================================================================== From luis.almeida@inesc.pt Sun Jan 28 14:02:11 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 28 Jan 96 14:02:08 -0600; AA01952 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Sat, 27 Jan 96 16:40:44 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa26885; 26 Jan 96 18:21:43 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa26883; 26 Jan 96 17:57:00 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03039; 26 Jan 96 17:56:33 EST Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa13921; 26 Jan 96 8:15:20 EST Received: from inesc.inesc.pt by RI.CMU.EDU id aa16019; 26 Jan 96 8:13:26 EST Received: from ilusion.inesc.pt by inesc.inesc.pt with SMTP; id AA07209 (/); Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:51:32 +0100 Received: from aleph by ilusion.inesc.pt (4.1/OSversion) id AA20929; Fri, 26 Jan 96 13:51:42 +0100 Sender: Luis.Almeida@inesc.pt Message-Id: <3108CE5E.3F784554@inesc.pt> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:51:42 +0100 From: "Luis B. Almeida" Organization: INESC / IST X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Workshop: Spatiotemporal Models Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *** PLEASE POST *** PLEASE FORWARD TO OTHER APPROPRIATE LISTS *** Preliminary announcement Sintra Workshop on Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems Sintra, Portugal, 6-8 November 1996 A workshop is being organized, on the topic of Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems, to foster the discussion of the latest developments in these fields, and the cross-fertilization of ideas between people from the areas of biological and artificial information processing systems. This is a preliminary announcement of the workshop, to allow potential participants enough time to prepare their works for submission. The size of the workshop is planned to be relatively small (around 50 people), to enhance the communication among participants. Submissions will be subjected to an international peer review procedure. All accepted submissions will be scheduled for poster presentation. The authors of the best-rated submissions will make oral presentations, in addition to their poster presentations. Presentation of an accepted contribution is mandatory for participation in the workshop. There will also be a number of presentations by renowned invited speakers. Submissions will consist of the full papers in their final form. Paper revision after the review is not expected to be possible. The camera-ready paper format is not available yet, but a rough indication is eight A4 pages, typed single-spaced in a 12 point font, with 3.5 cm margins all around. The accepted contributions will be published by a major scientific publisher. The proceedings volume is planned to be distributed to the participants at the beginning of the workshop. The workshop will take place on 6-8 November 1996 in Sintra, Portugal. The tentative schedule is as follows: Deadline for paper submission 30 April 1996 Results of paper review 31 July 1996 Workshop 6-8 November 1996 Although no confirmation is available yet, we expect to have partial funding for the workshop, from research-funding institutions. If so, this will allow us to partially subsidize the participants' expenses. The workshop is planned to have a duration of two and a half days, from a wednesday afternoon (6 Nov.) through the next friday afternoon (8 Nov.). The participants who so desire will have the opportunity to stay the following weekend, for sightseeing. Sintra is a beautiful little town, located about 20 km west of Lisbon. It used to be a vacation place of the Portuguese aristocracy, and has in its vicinity a number of beautiful palaces, a moor castle, a monastery carved in the rock and other interesting spots. It is on the edge of a small mountain which creates a microclimate with a luxurious vegetation. Sintra has recently been designated World Patrimonium. Further announcements of the workshop will be made, but people who wish to stay informed can send e-mail to Luis B. Almeida (see below), to be included in the workshop mailing list. Workshop organizers: Chair Fernando Lopes da Silva Amsterdam University, The Netherlands Technical program Jose C. Principe University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA principe@synapse.ee.ufl.edu Local arrangements Luis B. Almeida Instituto Superior Tecnico / INESC, Lisbon, Portugal luis.almeida@inesc.pt -- Luis B. Almeida INESC Phone: +351-1-3544607, +351-1-3100246 R. Alves Redol, 9 Fax: +351-1-3145843 P-1000 Lisboa Portugal e-mail: lba@inesc.pt or luis.almeida@inesc.pt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Indonesia is killing innocent people in East Timor *** From marshall@cs.unc.edu Mon Jan 29 10:25:50 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 29 Jan 96 10:25:48 -0600; AA21089 Received: from bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 29 Jan 96 10:25:43 -0600 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 RAA14374; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:01:32 +0800 Message-Id: <199601290901.RAA14374@cs.uwa.oz.au> From: Jonathan Marshall To: reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au Subject: CFP: Mathematical Psychology conference -- August 1996 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:00:12 -0400 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 29th Annual MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY Meeting 1-4 August 1996 Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The 29th Annual Mathematical Psychology Meeting will be held at the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The meetings will follow the usual format with paper sessions over two and a half days (2-4 August) with a banquet after the first day of papers. The Organizing Committee consists of Christina A. Burbeck, Elliot L. Hirshman, Jonathan A. Marshall (Co-Chair), Nestor A. Schmajuk, Thomas S. Wallsten (Co-Chair), and Yiu-Fai Yung. Papers for the Mathematical Psychology Meeting may be submitted by regular members, student members, and nonmembers. Any one person may present only one paper but may be a coauthor of other papers, or may be an invited speaker or symposium participant. Papers will be limited to those in which mathematical, statistical, and simulation methods play a significant role in the development of psychological ideas or in the interpretation of results. Purely theoretical developments should clearly relate to some psychological issue or contribute to methodologies of obvious use in psychology. Experimental results should bear directly on some mathematical or simulation model. Programs of past meetings appear in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology and may be consulted for ideas concerning symposia as well as for ideas about areas that have not recently been covered. All members of the Society for Mathematical Psychology are welcome to make suggestions for symposia and invited speakers, to the Program Committee as soon as possible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts of papers must be received by 30 April 1996. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers are accepted on the basis of their quality and suitability and not according to the author's affiliation with the Society. For oral papers, presentation time will be limited to 25 minutes including five minutes for discussion. Sessions will be strictly timed. This year, we are considering adding a poster session. If there are sufficient submissions, we will do so. Poster presentations have the advantage of longer discussion time, less formality, and closer audience contact. The "status" associated with poster presentations will be equal to that associated with oral presentations. Submissions must include the following information: 1. For all authors and co-authors: - Names - Institutional affiliations - Mailing addresses - E-mail addresses - Telephone and fax numbers - Membership status in the Society for Mathematical Psychology (member, student member, or nonmember) 2. A specification of which co-author will present the paper at the meeting 3. Your preference for spoken/poster presentation: (a) Only wish to present a spoken paper (b) Prefer spoken paper, willing to give a poster (c) No preference; either spoken or poster is fine (d) Prefer poster, willing to give a spoken paper (e) Only willing to present a poster 4. Title of paper 5. Category of the paper. Choose the most appropriate category: (a) categorization (b) cognition and language (c) judgment, decision, and choice (d) information processing and performance (e) learning and memory (f) measurement and scaling (g) methodology and statistics (h) neural/neurophysiological modeling (i) physiology (j) psychophysics (k) sensation and perception (l) social psychology (m) other (please specify) 6. An abstract of 150-250 words E-mail submission of abstracts is greatly preferred, since this will facilitate compiling (without retyping) of an abstract book to be distributed at the meeting. Send abstracts to: Professor Jonathan A. Marshall Math Psych '96 Program Committee Department of Computer Science CB 3175, Sitterson Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175, U.S.A. E-mail marshall@cs.unc.edu Tel +1-919-962-1887, fax +1-919-962-1799 Address symposium outlines, and invited speaker suggestions to: Professor Thomas S. Wallsten Math Psych '96 Program Committee Department of Psychology CB 3270, Davie Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270, U.S.A. E-mail tom.wallsten@unc.edu Tel +1-919-962-2538, fax +1-919-962-2537 Send all other questions concerning the Mathematical Psychology Meeting to: Ms. Colleen R. Schwoerke Division of Continuing Education CB 1020, Friday Center University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1020, U.S.A. E-mail smp96@cs.unc.edu Tel +1-919-962-6298, fax +1-919-962-2061 Expenses: Registration fees will be kept very low, as in past SMP conferences. Low-cost dorm accommodations will be available, as will standard hotel rooms. Travel: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is approximately 20-25 minutes from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU). Information about accommodations and transportation will be sent in early spring to members of the Society for Mathematical Psychology; others should contact Colleen Schwoerke at the above address. Information about the Society for Mathematical Psychology is available via the World Wide Web at http://www.socsci.uci.edu/smp/. Sponsors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology, Department of Computer Science Society for Mathematical Psychology ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hd@research.att.com Mon Jan 29 17:52:55 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 29 Jan 96 17:52:53 -0600; AA01568 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 29 Jan 96 17:52:50 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa02420; 29 Jan 96 17:51:39 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa02418; 29 Jan 96 17:25:58 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05672; 29 Jan 96 17:24:59 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21385; 26 Jan 96 14:41:18 EST Received: from [192.20.239.133] by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa16938; 26 Jan 96 14:40:14 EST Received: from big.info.att.com by ig2.att.att.com id AA16386; Fri, 26 Jan 96 14:40:41 EST Received: from learnx by big.info.att.com; id AA16638; Fri, 26 Jan 96 14:39:12 EST Posted-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 14:44:53 EST Message-Id: <9601261939.AA16638@big.info.att.com> Received: from melody by learnx (4.1/4.7) id AA22080; Fri, 26 Jan 96 14:44:53 EST Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 14:44:53 EST From: Harris Drucker To: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu Subject: please post Please announce to connectionists bulletin board: Two papers on using boosting techniques to improve the performance of classification trees are available via anonymous ftp: The first paper describes a preliminary set of experiments showing that an ensemble of trees constructed using Freund and Schapire's boosting algorithm is much better than single trees: Boosting Decision Trees Harris Drucker and Corinna Cortes to be published in NIPS 8, 1996. A new boosting algorithm of Freund and Schapire is used to improve the performance of decision trees which are constructed using the information ratio criterion of Quinlan's C4.5 algorithm. This boosting algorithm iteratively constructs a series of decision trees, each decision tree being trained and pruned on examples that have been filtered by previously trained trees. Examples that have been incorrectly classified by the previous trees in the ensemble are resampled with higher probability to give a new probability distribution for the next tree in the ensemble to train on. Results from optical character recognition (OCR), and knowledge discovery and data mining problems show that in comparison to single trees, or to trees trained independently, or to trees trained on subsets of the feature space, the boosting ensemble is much better. The second paper extends this work giving more details and applies this technique to the design of a fast preclassifier for OCR: Fast Decision Tree Ensembles for Optical Character Recognition by Harris Drucker accepted by Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (1996) in Las Vegas To get both-papers: unix> ftp ftp.monmouth.edu (or ftp 192.100.64.2) Connected to monmouth.edu. 220 monnet FTP server (Version wu-2.4(1) Mon Oct 9 18:48:45 EDT 1995) ready. Name (ftp.monmouth.edu:hd): anonymous (no space after the :) 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password: (your email address) 230-Welcome to the Monmouth University FTP server 230- ftp> binary Type set to I. ftp> cd pub/drucker 250 CWD command successful ftp> get nips-paper.ps.Z ftp> get las-vegas-paper.ps.Z ftp> quit unix> uncompress nips-paper.ps.Z unix> uncompress las-vegas-paper.ps.Z unix> lpr (or your postscript print command) (either paper) Any problems, contact me at hd@harris.monmouth.edu Harris Drucker From ersintul@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr Wed Jan 31 00:18:38 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 00:18:33 -0600; AB25894 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 00:18:31 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa04358; 30 Jan 96 22:48:56 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04356; 30 Jan 96 22:28:59 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06641; 30 Jan 96 22:28:06 EST Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aj17793; 30 Jan 96 10:19:18 EST Received: from rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr by CS.CMU.EDU id aa08399; 30 Jan 96 9:34:58 EST Received: by rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA46845; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:14:53 +0300 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:14:53 +0300 (MEST) From: ersin tulunay To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: EANN'96: Special Track on Control Systems Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Neural Net and Control System Researcher, A special track on Control Systems will be organized during the International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN'96) which is to be held in London, UK between 17-19 June 1996. The Final Call for papers for the EANN'96 can be found at the end of this message. The EANN'95 was held in Helsinki, Finland between 21-23 August 1995. Reports on the EANN'95 and the contents of the proceedings etc. may be seen on http://www.abo.fi/~abulsari/EANN'95.html Based on a number of good quality papers presented in the EANN'95 it was possible to edit a special issue for the Journal of Systems Engineering. For the forthcoming meeting we have plans for publishing same kind of special issue in a suitable journal also. For this, of course, your contribution is essential. I am sure you agree that one of the most interesting areas of utilization of neural nets is control systems. However, the number of papers published so far has not been as many as control systems deserve. In particular, as far as the real world applications are concerned there are only a few works published. Therefore, your contribution to EANN'96 will be very functional. We would like also to plan arranging a discussion session in a leisurely atmosphere on the use of neural nets in control applications. The ideas which may come up will help the organization of the following future activities. The conference, and especially this meeting will help us making efficient and sincere personal contacts with our colleagues and will provide a good apportunity for planting seeds for mutual collaborative research for international projects which might be funded by international bodies such as European Union. We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts latest by 15 February 1996. With kind regards, Dr.Ersin Tulunay Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department Middle East Technical University 06531 Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 2102335 (Office) +90 312 2101199 (Home) Fax: +90 312 2101261 (Office) E-mail : etulunay@ed.eee.metu.edu.tr ---------- International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN '96) London, UK 17--19 June 1996 The conference is a forum for presenting the latest results on neural network applications in technical fields. The applications may be in any engineering or technical field, including but not limited to systems engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics, process engineering, metallurgy, pulp and paper technology, aeronautical engineering, computer science, machine vision, chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, electrical engineering, electronics, civil engineering, geophysical sciences, biotechnology, environmental engineering, and biomedical engineering. Abstracts of one page (200 to 400 words) should be sent by e-mail in PostScript format or ASCII. Please mention two to four keywords, and whether you prefer it to be a short paper or a full paper. The short papers will be 4 pages in length, and full papers may be upto 8 pages. Submissions will be reviewed and the number of full papers will be very limited. For more information on EANN'96, please see http://www.lpac.ac.uk/EANN96 Five special tracks are being organised in EANN '96: Computer Vision (J. Heikkonen, Jukka.Heikkonen@jrc.it), Control Systems (E. Tulunay, ersin-tulunay@metu.edu.tr), Mechanical Engineering (A. Scherer, andreas.scherer@fernuni-hagen.de), Robotics (N. Sharkey, N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk), and Biomedical Systems (G. Dorffner, georg@ai.univie.ac.at) Organising committee A. Bulsari (Finland) D. Tsaptsinos (UK) T. Clarkson (UK) International program committee G. Dorffner (Austria) S. Gong (UK) J. Heikkonen (Italy) B. Jervis (UK) E. Oja (Finland) H. Liljenstr\"om (Sweden) G. Papadourakis (Greece) D. T. Pham (UK) P. Refenes (UK) N. Sharkey (UK) N. Steele (UK) D. Williams (UK) W. Duch (Poland) R. Baratti (Italy) G. Baier (Germany) E. Tulunay (Turkey) S. Kartalopoulos (USA) C. Schizas (Cyprus) J. Galvan (Spain) M. Ishikawa (Japan) D. Pearson (France) Registration information for the International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN '96) The conference fee will be sterling pounds (GBP) 300 until 28 February, and sterling pounds (GBP) 360 after that. At least one author of each accepted paper should register by 21 March to ensure that the paper will be included in the proceedings. The conference fee can be paid by a bank draft (no personal cheques) payable to EANN '96, to be sent to EANN '96, c/o Dr. D. Tsaptsinos, Kingston University, Mathematics, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK. The fee includes attendance to the conference and the proceedings. Registration form can be picked up from the www (or can be sent to you by e-mail) and can be returned by e-mail (or post or fax) once the conference fee has been sent. A registration form sent before the payment of the conference fee is not valid. For more information, please ask eann96@lpac.ac.uk From chentouf@kepler.inpg.fr Wed Jan 31 00:18:39 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 00:18:35 -0600; AA25896 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 00:18:33 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab04406; 30 Jan 96 22:57:37 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04367; 30 Jan 96 22:33:48 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06660; 30 Jan 96 22:33:05 EST Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:29:26 +0100 From: rachida Message-Id: <199601301629.RAA09862@kepler.inpg.fr> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: 2 papers available First paper: Combining Sigmoids and Radial Basis Functions in Evolutive Neural Architectures. available at: ftp://tirf.inpg.fr/pub/HTML/chentouf/esann96_chentouf.ps.gz ABSTRACT An incremental algorithm for supervised learning of noisy data using two layers neural networks with linear output units and a mixture of sigmoids and radial basis functions in the hidden layer (2-[S,RBF]NN) is proposed. Each time the network has to be extended, we compare different estimations of the residual error: the one provided by a sigmoidal unit responding to the overall input space, and those provided by a number of RBFs responding to localized regions. The unit which provides the best estimation is selected and installed in the existing network. The procedure is repeated until the error reduces to the noise in the data. Experimental results show that the incremental algorithm using 2-[S,RBF]NN is considerably faster than the one using only sigmoidal hidden units. It also leads to a less complex final network and avoids being trapped in spurious minima. This paper has been accepted for publication in the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belgium , April, 96. =========================================================== The second paper is an extended abstract (the final version is in preparation): DWINA: Depth and Width Incremental Neural Algorithm. available at: ftp://ftp.tirf.inpg.fr/pub/HTML/chentouf/icnn96_chentouf.ps.gz ABSTRACT This paper presents DWINA: an algorithm for depth and width design of neural architectures in the case of supervised learning with noisy data. Each new unit is trained to learn the error of the existing network and is connected to it such that it does not affect its previous performance. Criteria for choosing between increasing width or increasing depth are proposed. The connection procedure for each case is also described. The stopping criterion is very simple and consists in comparing the residual error signal to the noise signal. Preliminary experiments point out the efficacy of the algorithm especially to avoid spurious minima and to design a network with a well-suited size. The complexity of the algorithm (number of operations) is on average the same as that needed in a convergent run of the BP algorithm on a static architecture having the optimal number of parameters. Moreover, it is found that no significant difference exist between networks having the same number of parameters and different structure. Finally, the algorithm presents an interesting behaviour since the MSE on the training set tends to decrease continuously during the process evolving directly and surely to the solution of the mapping problem. This paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, Washington, June, 96. __ ______ __ ________ _______ __ __ __ ________ ______ / / /_ __/ / / / ____ / / _____/ / // /\ / // ____ // ____/ / / / / / / / /___/ / / /___ ____ / // /\ \ / // /___/ // / ____ / /_____ / / / / / ___/ / _____/ /___/ / // / \ \/ // /_____// /_/ __/ /_______/ /_/ /_/ /_/\__\ /_/ /_//_/ \_\//_/ /_____/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= || Mrs Rachida CHENTOUF || || LTIRF-INPG || || 46, AV Felix Viallet || || 38031 Grenoble - FRANCE || || Tel : (+33) 76.57.43.64 || || Fax : (+33) 76.57.47.90 || || || || WWW: ftp://tirf.inpg.fr/pub/HTML/chentouf/rachida.html || -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From wilson@smith.rowland.org Wed Jan 31 10:07:03 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 10:06:55 -0600; AA06313 Received: from bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 10:06:52 -0600 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 SAA17373; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:58:18 +0800 Message-Id: <199601311058.SAA17373@cs.uwa.oz.au> From: Stewart Wilson To: reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au Subject: ISAB Web page Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:24:06 -0500 The International Society for Adaptive Behavior (ISAB) http://netq.rowland.org/isab/isab.html ISAB is a new scientific society devoted to education and furthering research on adaptive behavior in animals, animats, software agents and robots. The society's Web page (URL above) is offered as a focal point for information useful to people in the adaptive behavior field. It should be of interest to many members of the RL community. From weissg@informatik.tu-muenchen.de Wed Jan 31 12:35:56 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 12:35:53 -0600; AA08425 Received: from bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 12:35:43 -0600 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 SAA17205; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:48:22 +0800 Message-Id: <199601311048.SAA17205@cs.uwa.oz.au> From: Gerhard Weiss Sender: Gerhard Weiss To: DAI-List@ece.sc.edu, agentnews-owner@cs.umbc.edu, ckbs-int@cs.keele.ac.uk, maamaw@cosmos.imag.fr, vki-request@dfki.uni-sb.de, reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au, gi-fgml@gmd.de Subject: 2nd CFP: ECAI-96 Workshop on Learning in DAI Systems Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:31:03 +0100 (MET) Please distribute the following 2nd CFP through your mailing list: *********************************************************************** --- 2nd Call for Papers and Participation --- Workshop on LEARNING IN DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS held as part of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) (August 12-16, 1996, Budapest, Hungary) and organized by Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan Gerhard Kraetschmar, Universitaet Ulm, Germany Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, USA Jeffrey Rosenschein, The Hebrew University, Israel Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University, USA, & Romanian Academy, Romania Walter Van de Velde, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Gerhard Weiss (Chair), Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Workshop Description -------------------- Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is concerned with the study and design of systems consisting of several interacting entities which are logically and often spatially distributed and in some sense can be called autonomous and intelligent. Two primary types of such systems, or of DAI systems for short, can be distinguished: distributed problem solving and planning systems, where the emphasis is on task decomposition and solution synthesis, and multi-agent systems, where the emphasis is on behavior coordination. Many DAI systems of both types have been described in the literature, differing from each other in the entities involved (e.g., with respect to their number, the number of goals pursuit by them, their degree of autonomy, and their perceptual, cognitive and effectual skills) as well as in the interactions between the entities (e.g., with respect to frequency, level and purpose). Examples of DAI systems are collections of communicating expert systems and teams of cooperating assembly robots. DAI systems receive considerable attention for two major reasons. First, they offer useful properties such as parallelism, robustness, and scalability, and therefore are applicable in many domains which cannot be handled by centralized AI systems; in particular, they are well suited for domains which require, e.g., the resolution of interest and goal conflicts, the integration of multiple sources of knowledge or activity, the time- bounded processing of very large data sets, or the on-line interpretation of data arising in different geographical locations. And second, they are in accordance with the insight gained in disciplines like AI, psychology and sociology that intelligence is deeply and inevitably coupled with interaction. DAI systems typically are very complex and hard to specify in their dynamics. It is therefore commonly agreed that they should be equipped with the ability to learn, that is, to automatically improve their future performance. Unfortunately, in contrast to this agreement and apart from a few exceptions, the area of learning in DAI systems has been neglected for a long time. This situation has considerably changed in the past few years, and today this area receives steadily increasing attention within both the DAI and the Machine Learning communities. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners being interested in this area, and to serve as a discussion forum that allows to evaluate the state-of-the-art in DAI learning, to attack the many open questions and unsolved problems, and to identify important and promising research and application directions. Papers are invited that describe practical and/or theoretical work on learning in DAI systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Concepts, models and architectures of learning in DAI systems. - Requirements for and principles of learning in DAI systems. - Algorithms and tools for learning in DAI systems. - Benefits of learning DAI systems over non-learning DAI systems. - Applicability and limitations of traditional machine learning approaches in the context of DAI systems. - Relationships between learning and cooperation, learning and communication, learning and self-organization, etc. - Learning in DAI systems by knowledge acquisition/discovery/refinement/ integration, by advice taking, by negotiation, by observation, etc. - Parallel and distributed learning in DAI systems (e.g., inductive learning, reinforcement learning, etc.) - Multistrategy learning in DAI systems. - Organizational learning and emergent organizational behavior. - Learning in robot teams. - Formal models of learning in DAI systems, theory of team learning. - Distributed integrated simulations with learning agents. - Applications of learning DAI systems. - Interdisciplinary approaches to learning in DAI systems from fields like game theory, organizational theory, economics, psychology, sociology, etc. We would like to stress that not only papers presenting completed work, but also papers on novel ideas and of exploratory nature are welcome. We also would like to stress the interdisciplinary nature of this workshop, and we are keen to particularly encourage related contributions from other fields than AI and DAI. Workshop Participation and Format --------------------------------- Attendance will be by invitation only and is limited to approximately 35 participants. Those interested in attending the workshop are required to submit either (i) an extended abstract describing their work or (ii) a statement of interest. (Please note that due to the limited workshop size preference will be given to authors of submitted abstracts.) The workshop will last a full day (08/12/96 or 08/13/96), immediately prior to the start of the main conference. Participants will be selected by the workshop organizers after reviewing all submissions. If more papers are accepted than can be presented, a small poster session will be included. There will be ample time alloted for discussion. Printed working notes containing copies of the accepted papers will be available at the workshop. Submission Information ---------------------- Extended abstracts: . Those who wish to present a paper should (i) submit a version of their extended abstract (postscript, 5-7 pages, 12pt font) via anonymous ftp to flop.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/ws-ecai96-sub by 03/17/96, and (ii) send an email notification to weissg@informatik.tu-muenchen.de . The extended abstracts and the email notifications should include (i) the authors' complete contact information and (ii) a note indicating the authors' preferred presentation mode (oral or poster). . Authors will be advised as to the acceptance status of their paper around 04/21/96. . Authors of accepted abstracts should electronically send their final workshop versions (postscript, up to 12 pages, 12pt font) via anonymous ftp to flop.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/ws-ecai96-sub by 05/20/96. Statements of interest: . Those who wish to attend the workshop without presenting a paper should send a statement of interest (plain ASCII text, 1-2 pages) via email to weissg@informatik.tu-muenchen.de by 03/17/96. . The statement should include (i) the author's complete contact information and (ii) a description of her/his research and application interests. . Authors will be advised as to their participation status around 04/21/96. Publication ----------- The final versions of the accepted papers will be published in the ECAI working notes of the workshop. Additionally, authors of accepted papers describing high-quality work will be invited for publication in a special issue on "Learning in Distributed Artificial Intelligence Systems" of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI). Summary of Important Dates -------------------------- 03/17/96 extended abstracts, statements of interest 04/21/96 notification of acceptance/rejection 05/20/96 final versions for working notes 08/12or08/13/96 workshop Contact Address --------------- Questions regarding this workshop can be directed to Gerhard Weiss Institut fuer Informatik Technische Universitaet Muenchen D-80290 Muenchen, Germany EMAIL: weissg@informatik.tu-muenchen.de TEL: +49 89 2105 2407 FAX: +49 89 2105 8207 Registration ------------ All ECAI-96 workshop participants are expected to register for the main ECAI conference. A fee of ECU 50 will be charged for each ECAI-96 workshop participant in addition to the normal ECAI conference registration fee. (Approximate exchange rates, as of October 1995: 1 ECU equals 1.2US$, 6.4FF, and 1.8DM.) WWW Page -------- Information about this workshop is also available via WWW at URL: http://www7.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~weissg/ws-ecai96 *********************************************************************** From marks@u.washington.edu Wed Jan 31 15:18:48 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 15:18:46 -0600; AA12477 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by lucy.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 31 Jan 96 15:18:43 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa04406; 30 Jan 96 22:56:30 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04365; 30 Jan 96 22:32:11 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06651; 30 Jan 96 22:31:45 EST Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa26515; 30 Jan 96 20:18:49 EST Received: from carson.u.washington.edu by CS.CMU.EDU id aa01016; 30 Jan 96 20:17:39 EST Received: by carson.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.01/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA06219; Tue, 30 Jan 96 17:17:35 -0800 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 17:17:35 -0800 From: Robert Marks Message-Id: <9601310117.AA06219@carson.u.washington.edu> X-Sender: marks@carson.u.washington.edu To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: TNN Abstracts Posting Cc: marks@ee.washington.edu Web Abstracts Robert J. Marks II, Editor-in-Chief IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks According to the 1994 Journal Citation Reports, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, based on frequency of citation, has a half-life of 3.1 years. Life is short in our technology. Engineer Sherman Minton expressed it nicely. "Half of everything you know will be wrong in 10 years; you just don't know which half." To make neural network research more temporally accessible, the TNN is establishing a WWW page posting of abstracts of papers submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Dr. Jianchang Mao will coordinate the posting effort. Authors submitting papers to the TNN may, at their own discretion, submit ASCII information on their papers via e-mail to Jianchang Mao, Abstracts Editor IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks IBM Almaden Research Center Image and Multimedia Systems, DPEE/B3 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120 IEEETNN@almaden.ibm.com Submission of the information may only be done only after a paper has been submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and a TNN paper number has been assigned. The following information should be included in the message sent to the Abstracts Editor. - The TNN number assigned to the paper. - The paper title - Authors and their affiliation. Please include e-mail addresses - The abstract of the paper - (Optional) Information on how to view or obtain a full copy of the paper. Electronic access on the WWW or ftp is preferred. If you currently have a paper in any stage of review in the TNN, you may also submit abstract information for posting. The TNN Abstracts page will be appended to the home page of the IEEE Neural Networks Council (http://www.ieee.org.nnc) under the able coordinator of Professor Payman Arabshahi. The NNC home page also includes a remarkably complete listing of conferences in computational intelligence, IEEE copyright forms and information, the NNC newsletter, information about neural network research centers and NNC sponsored books. The most recent table of contents of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks are also posted. Happy surfing. And may your technological half-life be long.