From Connectionists-Request@cs.cmu.edu Thu May 2 01:30:58 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA24329 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 01:30:53 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA25152 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 01:30:50 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa04651; 2 May 96 1:10:20 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04649; 2 May 96 0:48:38 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15020; 2 May 96 0:47:42 EDT Received: from B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa29057; 1 May 96 0:05:22 EDT To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu From: Connectionists-Request@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Bi-monthly Reminder Date: Wed, 01 May 96 00:05:16 -0400 Message-ID: <29055.830923516@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU> Sender: Connectionist_Research_Group@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU *** DO NOT FORWARD TO ANY OTHER LISTS *** This note was last updated September 9, 1994. This is an automatically posted bi-monthly reminder about how the CONNECTIONISTS list works and how to access various online resources. CONNECTIONISTS is a moderated forum for enlightened technical discussions and professional announcements. It is not a random free-for-all like comp.ai.neural-nets. Membership in CONNECTIONISTS is restricted to persons actively involved in neural net research. The following posting guidelines are designed to reduce the amount of irrelevant messages sent to the list. Before you post, please remember that this list is distributed to thousands of busy people who don't want their time wasted on trivia. Also, many subscribers pay cash for each kbyte; they shouldn't be forced to pay for junk mail. -- Dave Touretzky & Lisa Saksida --------------------------------------------------------------------- What to post to CONNECTIONISTS ------------------------------ - The list is primarily intended to support the discussion of technical issues relating to neural computation. - We encourage people to post the abstracts of their latest papers and tech reports. - Conferences and workshops may be announced on this list AT MOST twice: once to send out a call for papers, and once to remind non-authors about the registration deadline. A flood of repetitive announcements about the same conference is not welcome here. - Requests for ADDITIONAL references. This has been a particularly sensitive subject. Please try to (a) demonstrate that you have already pursued the quick, obvious routes to finding the information you desire, and (b) give people something back in return for bothering them. The easiest way to do both these things is to FIRST do the library work to find the basic references, then POST these as part of your query. Here's an example: WRONG WAY: "Can someone please mail me all references to cascade correlation?" RIGHT WAY: "I'm looking for references to work on cascade correlation. I've already read Fahlman's paper in NIPS 2, his NIPS 3 abstract, corresponded with him directly and retrieved the code in the nn-bench archive. Is anyone aware of additional work with this algorithm? I'll summarize and post results to the list." - Announcements of job openings related to neural computation. - Short reviews of new textbooks related to neural computation. 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This saves copying, postage and handling, by having the interested reader supply the paper. We strongly discourage the merger into the repository of existing bodies of work or the use of this medium as a vanity press for papers which are not of publication quality. PLACING A FILE To place a file, put it in the Inbox subdirectory, and send mail to pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu. Within a couple of days, I will move and protect it, and suggest a different name if necessary. Current naming convention is author.title.filetype.Z where title is just enough to discriminate among the files of the same author. The filetype is usually "ps" for postscript, our desired universal printing format, but may be tex, which requires more local software than a spooler. The Z indicates that the file has been compressed by the standard unix "compress" utility, which results in the .Z affix. To place or retrieve .Z files, make sure to issue the FTP command "BINARY" before transfering files. After retrieval, call the standard unix "uncompress" utility, which removes the .Z affix. An example of placing a file is in the appendix. Make sure your paper is single-spaced, so as to save paper, and include an INDEX Entry, consisting of 1) the filename, 2) the email contact for problems, 3) the number of pages and 4) a one sentence description. See the INDEX file for examples. ANNOUNCING YOUR PAPER It is the author's responsibility to invite other researchers to make copies of their paper. Before announcing, have a friend at another institution retrieve and print the file, so as to avoid easily found local postscript library errors. And let the community know how many pages to expect on their printer. Finally, information about where the paper will/might appear is appropriate inside the paper as well as in the announcement. In your subject line of your mail message, rather than "paper available via FTP," please indicate the subject or title, e.g. "paper available "Solving Towers of Hanoi with ART-4" Please add two lines to your mail header, or the top of your message, so as to facilitate the development of mailer scripts and macros which can automatically retrieve files from both NEUROPROSE and other lab-specific repositories: FTP-host: archive.cis.ohio-state.edu FTP-filename: /pub/neuroprose/filename.ps.Z When you announce a paper, you should consider whether (A) you want it automatically forwarded to other groups, like NEURON-DIGEST, (which gets posted to comp.ai.neural-networks) and if you want to provide (B) free or (C) prepaid hard copies for those unable to use FTP. To prevent forwarding, place a "**DO NOT FORWARD TO OTHER GROUPS**" at the top of your file. If you do offer hard copies, be prepared for a high cost. One author reported that when they allowed combination AB, the rattling around of their "free paper offer" on the worldwide data net generated over 2000 hardcopy requests! A shell script called Getps, written by Tony Plate, is in the directory, and can perform the necessary retrieval operations, given the file name. Functions for GNU Emacs RMAIL, and other mailing systems will also be posted as debugged and available. At any time, for any reason, the author may request their paper be updated or removed. For further questions contact: Jordan Pollack Associate Professor Computer Science Department Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Phone: (617) 736-2713/* to fax Waltham, MA 02254 email: pollack@cs.brandeis.edu APPENDIX: Here is an example of naming and placing a file: unix> compress myname.title.ps unix> ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.edu Connected to archive.cis.ohio-state.edu. 220 archive.cis.ohio-state.edu FTP server ready. Name: anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password:neuron 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> binary 200 Type set to I. ftp> cd pub/neuroprose/Inbox 250 CWD command successful. ftp> put myname.title.ps.Z 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for myname.title.ps.Z 226 Transfer complete. 100000 bytes sent in 1.414 seconds ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. unix> mail pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu Subject: file in Inbox. Jordan, I just placed the file myname.title.ps.Z in the Inbox. Here is the INDEX entry: myname.title.ps.Z mylogin@my.email.address 12 pages. A random paper which everyone will want to read Let me know when it is in place so I can announce it to Connectionists@cmu. ^D AFTER RECEIVING THE GO-AHEAD, AND HAVING A FRIEND TEST RETRIEVE THE FILE, HE DOES THE FOLLOWING: unix> mail connectionists Subject: TR announcement: Born Again Perceptrons FTP-host: archive.cis.ohio-state.edu FTP-file: pub/neuroprose/myname.title.ps.Z The file myname.title.ps.Z is now available for copying from the Neuroprose repository: Random Paper (12 pages) Somebody Somewhere Cornell University ABSTRACT: In this unpublishable paper, I generate another alternative to the back-propagation algorithm which performs 50% better on learning the exclusive-or problem. ~r.signature ^D ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to FTP Files from the NN-Bench Collection --------------------------------------------- 1. Create an FTP connection from wherever you are to machine "ftp.cs.cmu.edu" (128.2.254.155). 2. Log in as user "anonymous" with password your username. 3. Change remote directory to "/afs/cs/project/connect/bench". Any subdirectories of this one should also be accessible. Parent directories should not be. Another valid directory is "/afs/cs/project/connect/code", where we store various supported and unsupported neural network simulators and related software. 4. At this point FTP should be able to get a listing of files in this directory and fetch the ones you want. Problems? - contact us at "neural-bench@cs.cmu.edu". From ludwig@ibm18.uni-paderborn.de Thu May 2 19:20:21 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA09687 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:20:11 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA09179 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:20:09 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa05415; 2 May 96 13:42:50 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05404; 2 May 96 13:19:04 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15579; 2 May 96 13:17:54 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa20218; 2 May 96 6:09:23 EDT Received: from uni-paderborn.de by RI.CMU.EDU id aa05330; 2 May 96 6:08:02 EDT Received: from ibm18.uni-paderborn.de (ibm18.uni-paderborn.de [131.234.156.33]) by uni-paderborn.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA22397 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 12:07:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by ibm18.uni-paderborn.de (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA11495; Thu, 2 May 1996 12:05:07 +0200 From: "Lars Alex. Ludwig" Message-Id: <9605021005.AA11495@ibm18.uni-paderborn.de> Subject: Call for Papers: Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 12:05:07 +0100 (DFT) Reply-To: fns97@uni-paderborn.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] Content-Type: text =============================================================================== FFFFF N N SSSSS || 99999 77777 Fuzzy-Neuro-Systeme '97 F NN N S 9 9 7 - Computational Intelligence - FFF N N N SSSSS 99999 7 4. Internationaler Workshop in Soest F N NN S 9 7 http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~fns97/ F N N SSSSS 99999 7 E-Mail: fns97@uni-paderborn.de =============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 - Computational Intelligence - 4th International Workshop 12 to 14 March 1994 University of Paderborn, Germany Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 is the fourth event of a well established series of workshops with international participation. Its aim is to give an overview of the state of the art in research and development of fuzzy systems and artificial neural networks. Another aim is to highlight applications of these methods and to forge innovative links between theory and application by means of creative discussions. Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 will add evolutionary algorithms to the areas of fuzzy logic and neural networks in order to show current trends in soft computing and computational intelligence comprehensively. Interested parties are especially encouraged to hand in contributions of hybrid systems that combine advantages of various methods efficiently. Organizer of this workshop is Research Committee 1.2 "Inference Systems" (Fachausschuss 1.2 "Inferenzsysteme") of German Society of Computer Science (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e. V. (GI)) supported by Research Center "Sensors/Actuators" (Forschungsschwerpunkt "Sensorik/Aktorik") of Northrhine- Westfalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) at University of Paderborn, Department Soest. Preceding workshops were held in Braunschweig (1993), Munich (1994) and Darmstadt (1995). Invited plenary speakers were Prof. D. Dubois (Toulouse), Prof. J. A. Feldman (Berkeley), Dr. H. Hellendoorn (Munich), Prof. L. Koczy (Tokyo, Budapest), Prof. R. Kruse (Braunschweig), Prof. E. H. Mamdani (London), Prof. L. A. Zadeh (Berkeley) and Prof. H.-J. Zimmermann (Aachen). Invited plenary speakers for this workshop will be Prof. J. Bezdek (Pensacola), Prof. E. P. Klement (Linz), Prof. T. Kohonen (Helsinki), Prof. W. Pedrycz (Manitoba) and Prof. H.-P. Schwefel (Dortmund). Conference languages will be German and English. Further information is available in World Wide Web under http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~fns97/ Scientific Topics ----------------- - theory and principles of multivariate and fuzzy logic - representation modes of fuzzy knowledge - approximate reasoning - fuzzy control: theory and practice - fuzzy logic: data analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition - fuzzy classification systems - fuzzy decision support systems - fuzzy logic in non-technical areas: business administration, management etc. - fuzzy databases - theorie and principles of artificial neural networks - hybrid learning algorithms - neural networks: pattern recognition, classification, process monitoring and production control - theory and principles of evolutionary algorithms: genetic algorithms and evolution strategies - discrete parameter and structural optimization - hybrid systems: neuro-fuzzy systems, connectionistic expert systems etc. - special hardware and software Program Committee ----------------- Prof. Dr. W. Becker, University of Paderborn, Department Soest Prof. Dr. F. Belli, University of Paderborn Prof. Dr. W. Bibel, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. W. Brauer, Technical University of Munich Prof. Dr. C. Freksa, University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. M. Glesner, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. S. Gottwald, University of Leipzig Prof. Dr. A. Grauel, University of Paderborn, Department Soest (Chairman) Dr. H. Hellendoorn, Siemens AG, Munich Prof. Dr. R. Isermann, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. P. Klement, University of Linz Prof. Dr. R. Kruse, Technical University of Braunschweig Dr. R. Palm, Siemens AG, Munich Prof. Dr. B. Reusch, University of Dortmund Prof. Dr. W. von Seelen, University of Bochum Prof. Dr. H. Tolle, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. W. Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken Prof. Dr. H.-J. Zimmermann, Technical University of Aachen Submission of Contributions --------------------------- Please pay attention to the following deadlines for submission of contributions: 30/08/1996: abridged version (German or English, 3 to 4 pages DIN A4 size) of following structure: - title - author(s) - address - phone - fax - e-mail Contents: 1. abstract 2. key words (not more than 5) 3. state of the art 4. new aspects 5. theory, simulation or experiment 6. results and conclusion 7. references October 96: notification of acceptance or rejection of contribution 29/11/1996: final camera-ready papers for proceedings (up to 8 pages DIN A4) Please send your scientific contribution in four copies to: Prof. Dr. Adolf Grauel Universitaet-Gesamthochschule Paderborn Abteilung Soest, Fachbereich 16 Fachgebiet Mathematische Methoden und Systemtheorie Steingraben 21 D-59494 Soest GERMANY WWW: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~fns97/ E-mail: fns97@uni-paderborn.de Workshop Fees ------------- Workshop fees are: industry rate DM 600,- university rate DM 450,- rate for GI members or speakers DM 400,- rate for students without income DM 100,- (excluding proceedings and banquet) A surcharge of DM 100,- is payable for registration after 15/2/1996. Services of Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e. V. (GI) are tax-free according to German law 4 Nr. 22a UStG. The fee includes proceedings, drinks during breaks as well as DM 45,- for attending the banquet. DM 45,- incl. VAT paid for the banquet will be directly remitted to the account of a local caterer. Registration ------------ Please send the completed application form to: DLGI Dienstleistungsgesellschaft fuer Informatik mbH Frau Gabriele Trapp Ahrstrasse 45 D-53175 Bonn GERMANY Phone: ++ 49 / 2 28 / 30 21 64 Fax: ++ 49 / 2 28 / 37 86 90 Application Form ---------------- I am interested in (please tick) O submitting a contribution; O attending the workshop. Last name:__________________________________________________________________ First name:_________________________________________________________________ Title:______________________________________________________________________ Affiliation:________________________________________________________________ Address:____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Phone:______________________________________________________________________ Fax:________________________________________________________________________ E-mail:_____________________________________________________________________ GI member number:___________________________________________________________ Place/Date:_________________________________________________________________ Signature:__________________________________________________________________ From KOKINOV%BGEARN.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Thu May 2 19:20:23 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA09689 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:20:13 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA09181 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:20:11 -0500 Message-Id: <199605030020.TAA09181@lucy.cs.wisc.edu> Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab05415; 2 May 96 13:43:32 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ab05404; 2 May 96 13:19:09 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15584; 2 May 96 13:18:43 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa23183; 2 May 96 8:53:19 EDT Received: from helios.edvz.univie.ac.at by CS.CMU.EDU id aa24880; 2 May 96 6:47:34 EDT Received: from BGEARN.ACAD.BG by AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8866; Thu, 02 May 96 12:44:13 MEZ Received: from BGEARN (NJE origin KOKINOV@BGEARN) by BGEARN.ACAD.BG (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7225; Thu, 2 May 1996 13:15:35 +0300 Date: Thu, 02 May 96 13:15:30 BG From: Boicho Kokinov Subject: CogSci96 in Sofia To: cogsci96@cogs.nbu.acad.bg 3rd International Summer School in Cognitive Science Sofia, July 21 - August 3, 1996 First Announcement and Call for Papers The Summer School features introductory and advanced courses in Cognitive Science, participant symposia, panel discussions, student sessions, and intensive informal discussions. Participants will include university teachers and researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students. International Advisory Board Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA) Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy) Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy) Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA) Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy) Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland ) Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany) Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA) Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany) Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany) Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA) Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland) David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA) Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England) Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy) Eran ZAIDEL (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) Courses Two Sciences of Mind: Cognitive Science and Consciousness Studies - Sean O'Nuallain (NCR, Canada) Contextual Reasoning - Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy) Diagrammatic Reasonning - Hari Narayanan (Georgia Tech, USA) Qualitative Spatial Reasoning - Schlieder (Hamburg and Freiburg University, Germany) Language, Vision, and Spatial Cognition - Annette Herskovits (Boston University) Situated Planning and Reactivity - Iain Craig (University of Warwick, UK) Anthropology of Knowledge - Janet Keller (University of Illinois, USA) Cognitive Ergonomics - Antonio Rizzo (University of Siena, Italy) Psychophysics: Detection, Discrimination, and Scaling - Stephan Mateeff (BAS and NBU, Bulgaria) Participant Symposia Participants are invited to submit papers reporting completed research which will be presented (30 min) at the participant symposia. Authors should send full papers (8 single spaced pages) in triplicate or electronically (postscript, RTF, MS Word or plain ASCII) by May 31. Selected papers will be published in the School's Proceedings. Only papers presented at the School will be eligible for publication. Student Session Graduate students in Cognitive Science are invited to present their work at the student session. Research in progress as well as research plans and proposals for M.Sc. Theses and Ph.D. Theses will be discussed at the student session. Papers will not be published in the School's Proceedings. Panel Discussions Cognitive Science in the 21st century Symbolic vs. Situated Cognition Human Thinking and Reasoning: Contextual, Diagrammatic, Spatial, Culturally Bound Local Organizers New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian Cognitive Science Society Sponsors TEMPUS SJEP 07272/94 Local Organizing Committee Boicho Kokinov - School Director, Elena Andonova, Gergana Yancheva, Veselka Anastasova Timetable Registration Form: as soon as possible Deadline for paper submission: May 31 Notification for acceptance: June 15 Early registration: June 15 Arrival date and on site registration July 21 Summer School July 22-August 2 Excursion July 28 Departure date August 3 Paper submission to: Boicho Kokinov Cognitive Science Department New Bulgarian University 21, Montevideo Str. Sofia 1635, Bulgaria e-mail: cogsci96@cogs.nbu.acad.bg Send your Registration Form to: e-mail: cogsci96@cogs.nbu.acad.bg (If you don't receive an aknowledgement within 3 days, send a message to kokinov@bgearn.acad.bg) From N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk Thu May 2 19:20:37 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA09692 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:20:14 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA09183 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:20:12 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ac05415; 2 May 96 13:44:26 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05406; 2 May 96 13:21:08 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15593; 2 May 96 13:19:41 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa25055; 2 May 96 11:11:06 EDT Received: from gw.dcs.shef.ac.uk by RI.CMU.EDU id aa07635; 2 May 96 11:10:02 EDT Received: from freud.dcs.shef.ac.uk by dcs.shef.ac.uk (4.1/DAVE-1.0) id AA19951; Thu, 2 May 96 15:42:19 BST Date: Thu, 2 May 96 15:42:19 BST From: Noel Sharkey Message-Id: <9605021442.AA19951@dcs.shef.ac.uk> To: alife@cognet.ucla.edu, cogpsy@neuro.psy.soton.ac.uk, colt@cs.uiuc.edu, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, gann-list@cs.iastate.edu, hybrid-list@cs.ua.edu, intcon@phoenix.ee.unsw.edu.au, reinforce@cs.uwa.EDU.AU, mscb18%teach@dcs.shef.ac.uk, mscb40%teach@dcs.shef.ac.uk, mscb0%teach@dcs.shef.ac.uk Subject: 1st CALL FOR PAPERS Cc: A.Timmer@dcs.shef.ac.uk ****** ROBOT LEARNING: THE NEW WAVE ****** Special Issue of the journal Robotics and Autonomous Systems Submission Deadline: August, 1st, 1996 Decisions to authors: October, 1st, 1996 Final papers back: November, 7th, 1996 SPECIAL EDITOR Noel Sharkey (Sheffield) SPECIAL EDITORIAL BOARD Michael Arbib (USC) Ronald Arkin (GIT) George Bekey (USC) Randall Beer (Case Western) Bartlett Mel (USC) Maja Mataric (Brandeis) Carme Torras (Barcelona) Lina Massone (Northwestern) Lisa Meeden (Swarthmore) INTERNATIONAL REVIEW PANEL S Perkins (UK) T Ziemke (Sweden) P Zhang (France) S Wilson (USA) P Bakker (Japan) J Tani (Japan) C Thornton (UK) M Wilson (UK) M Recce (UK) D Cliff (UK) G Hayes (UK) U Zimmer (Germany) S Thrun (USA) S Nolfi (Italy) P van der Smagt (Germany) C Touzet (France) U Nehmzow (UK) R Salmon (Switzerland) J Hallam (UK) M Nilsson (Sweden) M Dorigo (Belgium) A Prescott (UK) C Holgate (UK) E Celaya (Spain) P Husbands (UK) I Harvey (UK) The objective of the Special Issue is to provide a focus for the new wave of research on the use of learning techniques to train real robots. We are particularly interested in research using neural computing techniques, but would also like submissions of work using genetic algorithms or other novel techniques. The nature of the new wave research is transdisciplinary bringing on board control engineering, artificial intelligence, animal learning, neurophysiology, embodied cognition, and ethology. We would like to encourage work discussing replicability and quantification provided that the research has been conducted or tested on real robots. AREAS OF RESEARCH INCLUDE: Mobile autonomous robotics, Fixed Arm robotics, Dextrous robots, Walking Machines, High level robotics, Behaviour-based robotics, Biologically inspired robots. TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE * Reinforcement learning * Supervised learning * Self organisiation * Genetic algorithms * Learning brainstyle control systems * High level robot learning * Hybrid learning * Imitation Learning * The learning and use of representations * Adaptive approaches to dynamic planning * Place recognition Send submissions to Ms Jill Martin, RAS Special, Department of Computer Science, Regent Court, Portobello Rd., University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK. Updates will appear on the web page: http:\www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nn/RASspecial.html From lba@inesc.pt Thu May 2 19:20:41 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA09685 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:20:09 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA09177 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:20:07 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa05402; 2 May 96 13:32:37 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05400; 2 May 96 13:18:06 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15573; 2 May 96 13:17:28 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa19742; 2 May 96 4:57:24 EDT Received: from inesc.inesc.pt by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa00804; 2 May 96 4:56:55 EDT Received: from ilusion.inesc.pt by inesc.inesc.pt with SMTP; id AA04958 (/); Thu, 2 May 1996 09:56:02 +0100 Received: from aleph by ilusion.inesc.pt (4.1/OSversion) id AA15767; Thu, 2 May 96 09:56:03 +0100 Sender: Luis.Almeida@inesc.pt Message-Id: <318878A2.398A68D@inesc.pt> Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 09:56:02 +0100 From: "Luis B. Almeida" Organization: INESC / IST X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Cc: Fernando Lopes da Silva , "Jose' Carlos Principe" Subject: deadline extension - Sintra spatiotemporal models workshop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Due to requests from several prospective authors, the deadline for submission of papers to the Sintra Workshop on Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems has been extended. The new deadline is May 10. Papers received after this date will NOT be opened. The call for papers and the instructions for authors can be obtained from the web: http://aleph.inesc.pt/smbas/ or http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/workshop.html They can also be requested by sending e-mail to 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 arbib@pollux.usc.edu Fri May 3 21:06:06 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA02186 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 21:05:52 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA28056 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 21:05:50 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa07163; 3 May 96 19:49:36 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa07161; 3 May 96 19:30:12 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16860; 3 May 96 19:28:42 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21370; 3 May 96 15:39:03 EDT Received: from pollux.usc.edu by CS.CMU.EDU id aa12243; 3 May 96 15:38:02 EDT Received: (from arbib@localhost) by pollux.usc.edu (8.7.2/8.7.2/usc) id MAA02879; Fri, 3 May 1996 12:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 12:37:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael A. Arbib" Message-Id: <199605031937.MAA02879@pollux.usc.edu> To: alife@cognet.ucla.edu, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, cvnet@skivs.ski.org, gann@cs.iastate.edu, list@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Subject: SENSORIMOTOR COORDINATION: EXTENDED DEADLINE Cc: liaw@bmsrs.usc.edu *******PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION *******OF ABSTRACTS HAS BEEN EXTENDED *******FROM 1 MAY to 15 MAY, 1996. Workshop on SENSORIMOTOR COORDINATION: AMPHIBIANS, MODELS, AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES Poco Diablo Resort, Sedona, Arizona, November 22-24, 1996 Co-Directors: Kiisa Nishikawa (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff) and Michael Arbib (University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Local Arrangements Chair: Kiisa Nishikawa. E-mail enquiries may be addressed to Kiisa.Nishikawa@nau.edu or arbib@pollux.usc.edu. Further information may be found on our home page at http://www.nau.edu:80/~biology/vismot.html. Program Committee: Kiisa Nishikawa (Chair), Michael Arbib, Emilio Bizzi, Chris Comer, Peter Ewert, Simon Giszter, Mel Goodale, Ananda Weerasuriya, Walt Wilczynski, and Phil Zeigler. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM The aim of this workshop is to study the neural mechanisms of sensorimotor coordination in amphibians and other model systems for their intrinsic interest, as a target for developments in computational neuroscience, and also as a basis for comparative and evolutionary studies. The list of subsidiary themes given below is meant to be representative of this comparative dimension, but is not intended to be exhaustive. The emphasis (but not the exclusive emphasis) will be on papers that encourage the dialog between modeling and experimentation. A decision as to whether or not to publish a proceedings is still pending. Central Theme: Sensorimotor Coordination in Amphibians and Other Model Systems Subsidiary Themes: Visuomotor Coordination: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives Reaching and Grasping in Frog, Pigeon, and Primate Cognitive Maps Auditory Communication (with emphasis on spatial behavior and sensory integration) Motor Pattern Generators This workshop is the sequel to four earlier workshops on the general theme of "Visuomotor Coordination in Frog and Toad: Models and Experiments". The first two were organized by Rolando Lara and Michael Arbib at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1981) and Mexico City (1982). The next two were organized by Peter Ewert and Arbib in Kassel and Los Angeles, respectively, with the Proceedings published as follows: Ewert, J.-P. and M. A. Arbib (Eds.) 1989. Visuomotor Coordination: Amphibians, Comparisons, Models and Robots. New York: Plenum Press. Arbib, M.A. and J.-P. Ewert (Eds.) 1991. Visual Structures and Integrated Functions, Research Notes in Neural Computing 3. Heidelberg, New York: Springer Verlag. INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS Persons who wish to present oral papers are asked to send three copies of an extended abstract, approximately 4 pages long, including figures and references. Persons who wish to present posters are asked to send a one page abstract. Abstracts may be sent by regular mail, e-mail or FAX. Authors should be aware that e-mailed abstracts should contain no figures. Abstracts should be sent no later than 15 May, 1996 to: Kiisa Nishikawa , Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640, E-mail: Kiisa.Nishikawa@nau.edu; FAX: (520)523-7500. Notification of the Program Committee's decision will be sent out no later than 15 June, 1996. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Meeting Location and General Information: The Workshop will be held at the Poco Diablo Resort in Sedona, Arizona (a beautiful small town set in dramatic red hills) immediately following the Society for Neuroscience meeting in 1996. The 1996 Neuroscience meeting ends on Thursday, November 21, so workshop participants can fly from Washington, DC to Phoenix, AZ that evening, meet Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, with a Workshop Banquet on Sunday evening, and fly home on Monday, November 25th. Paper sessions will be held all day on Friday, on Saturday afternoon, and all day on Sunday. Poster sessions will be held on Saturday afternoon and evening. A group field trip is planned for Saturday morning. Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Participation: In order to encourage the participation of graduate students and postdoctorals, we have arranged for affordable housing, and in addition we are able to offer a reduced registration fee (see below) thanks to the generous contribution of the Office of the Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies at Northern Arizona University. TRAVEL FROM PHOENIX TO SEDONA: Sedona, AZ is located approximately 100 miles north of Phoenix, where the nearest major airport (Sky Harbor) is located. Workshop attendees may wish to arrange their own transportation (e.g., car rental from Phoenix airport) from Phoenix to Sedona, or they may use the Workshop Shuttle (estimated round trip cost $20 US) to Sedona on 21 November, with a return to Phoenix on 25 November. If you plan to use the Workshop Shuttle, we will need to know your expected arrival time in Phoenix by 1 October 1996, to ensure that space is available for you at a convenient time. LODGING: The following costs are for each night. Since many participants may want to extend their stay to further enjoy Arizona's scenic beauty, we have negotiated special rates for additional nights after the end of the workshop on November 24th. Attendees should make their own booking with the Poco Diablo Resort, by phone (800) 352-5710 or FAX (520) 282-9712. Thurs.-Fri. (and additional week nights before the workshop) per night: students $85 US + tax, faculty $105 + tax Sat.-Sun. (and additional week nights after the workshop) per night: students $69 + tax, faculty $89 + tax. The student room rates are for double occupancy. Thus, students willing to share a room may stay for half the stated rate. When you make your room reservations with the Poco Diablo Resort, please be sure to indicate the number of guests in your party. Graduate students and postdocs should be sure to indicate whether they want single or double occupancy. REGISTRATION FEES: Students and postdoctorals $100; faculty, guests and others $200. The registration fee includes lunch Fri. - Sun., wine and cheese reception during the Saturday evening poster session, and a Farewell Dinner on Sunday evening. Registration fees should be paid by check in US funds, made payable to "Sensorimotor Coordination Workshop", and should be sent to Kiisa Nishikawa at the address listed below, together with the completed registration form that follows at the end of this announcement. Completed registration forms and fees must be received by 1 July, 1996. Late registration fees will be $150 for students and postdoctorals and $250 for faculty. REGISTRATION FORM NAME: ADDRESS: PHONE: FAX: EMAIL: STATUS: [ ] Faculty ($200); [ ] Postdoctoral ($100); [ ] Student ($100); [ ] Other ($200). (Postdocs and students: Please attach certification of your status signed by your supervisor.) TYPE OF PRESENTATION (paper vs. poster): ABSTRACT SENT: (yes/no) AREAS OF INTEREST RELEVANT TO WORKSHOP: WILL YOU REQUIRE ANY SPECIAL AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT FOR YOUR PRESENTATION? HAVE YOU MADE A RESERVATION WITH THE HOTEL? EXPECTED TIME OF ARRIVAL IN PHOENIX (ON NOVEMBER 21): EXPECTED TIME OF DEPARTURE FROM PHOENIX (ON NOVEMBER 25): DO YOU WISH TO USE THE WORKSHOP SHUTTLE TO TRAVEL FROM PHOENIX TO SEDONA? (If so, please be sure that we know your expected arrival time by 1 October!) DO YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN A GROUP HIKE IN THE SEDONA AREA ON SATURDAY MORNING? Please make sure that your check (in US funds and payable to the "Sensorimotor Coordination Workshop") is included with this form. If you plan to bring a guest with you to the Workshop, please add their name(s) to this form and enclo se their registration fee along with your own. Mail to: Kiisa Nishikawa, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640. E-mail: Kiisa.Nishikawa@nau.edu. FAX: (520)523-7500. Phone: (520)523-9497. From koza@CS.Stanford.EDU Sat May 4 15:39:56 1996 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA11334 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 15:39:50 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA03739 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 15:39:47 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa08308; 4 May 96 14:29:52 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa08306; 4 May 96 14:13:20 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa17564; 4 May 96 14:13:08 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03558; 4 May 96 11:20:58 EDT Received: from Sunburn.Stanford.EDU by RI.CMU.EDU id aa19138; 4 May 96 11:20:27 EDT Received: (from koza@localhost) by Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (8.7.1/8.7.1) id IAA08316 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Sat, 4 May 1996 08:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 08:20:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "John R. Koza" Posted-Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 08:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199605041520.IAA08316@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: GP-96 Registration and Papers CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, LIST OF TUTORIALS, LIST OF PAPERS, LIST OF PROGRAM COMMITTEES, AND REGISTRATION FORM (Largest discount availabe until May 15) Genetic Programming 1996 Conference (GP-96) July 28 - 31 (Sunday - Wednesday), 1996 Fairchild Auditorium and other campus locations Stanford University Stanford, California Proceedings will be published by The MIT Press In cooperation with -the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), - SIGART - IEEE Neural Network Council, - American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Genetic programming is an automatic programming technique for evolving computer programs that solve (or approximately solve) problems. Starting with a primordial ooze of thousands of randomly created computer programs composed of programmatic ingredients appropriate to the problem, a population of computers programs is progressively evolved over many generations using the Darwinian principle of survival of the fittest, a sexual recombination operation, and occasional mutation. Since 1992, over 500 technical papers have been published in this rapidly growing field. This first genetic programming conference will feature 75 papers and 27 poster papers, 12 tutorials, 2 invited speakers, a session featuring late-breaking papers, and informal birds-of-a-feather meetings. Topics include, but are not limited to, applications of genetic programming, theoretical foundations of genetic programming, implementation issues and technique extensions, use of memory and state, cellular encoding (developmental genetic programming), evolvable hardware, evolvable machine language programs, automated evolution of program architecture, evolution and use of mental models, automatic programming of multi-agent strategies, distributed artificial intelligence, automated circuit synthesis, automatic programming of cellular automata, induction, system identification, control, automated design, compression, image analysis, pattern recognition, molecular biology applications, grammar induction, and parallelization. ------------------------------------------------- HONORARY CHAIR: John Holland, University of Michigan INVITED SPEAKERS: John Holland, University of Michigan and David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois GENERAL CHAIR: John Koza, Stanford University PUBLICITY CHAIR: Patrick Tufts, Brandeis University ------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS -Sunday July 28 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM - Genetic Algorithms - David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois - Machine Language Genetic Programming - Peter Nordin, University of Dortmund, Germany - Genetic Programming using Mathematica P Robert Nachbar P Merck Research Laboratories - Introduction to Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford University ------------------------------------------------- Sunday July 28 1:00 PM - 3: 15 PM - Classifier Systems- Robert Elliott Smith, University of Alabama - Evolutionary Computation for Constraint Optimization - Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of North Carolina - Advanced Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford University ------------------------------------------------- Sunday July 28 3:45 PM - 6 PM - Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies - David Fogel, University of California, San Diego - Cellular Encoding P Frederic Gruau, Stanford University (via videotape) and David Andre, Stanford University (in person) - Genetic Programming with Linear Genomes (one hour) - Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany -JECHO - Terry Jones, Santa Fe Institute ------------------------------------------------- Tuesday July 30 - 3 PM - 5:15PM - Neural Networks - David E. Rumelhart, Stanford University - Machine Learning - Pat Langley, Stanford University -JMolecular Biology for Computer Scientists - Russ B. Altman, Stanford University ------------------------------------------------- Additional tutorial P Time to be Announced % Evolvable Hardware - Hugo De Garis,ATR, Nara, Japan and Adrian Thompson, University of Sussex, U.K. ------------------------------------------------- FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE GP-96 CONFERENCE: See the GP-96 home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html or contact GP-96 at via e-mail at gp@aaai.org. PHONE: 415-328- 3123. FAX: 415-321-4457. Conference operated by Genetic Programming Conferences, Inc. (a California not- for-profit corporation). ABOUT GENETIC PROGRAMMING IN GENERAL: http://www-cs- faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/. FOR GP-96 TRAVEL INFORMATION: See the GP-96 home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html. For further information regarding special GP-96 airline and car rental rates, please contact Conventions in America at e-mail flycia@balboa.com; or phone 1-800-929-4242; or phone 619-678-3600; or FAX 619-678-3699. FOR HOTEL AND UNIVERSITY HOUSING INFORMATION: See the GP-96 home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html or via e- mail at gp@aaai.org. FOR STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: See the GP-96 home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html. ABOUT THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND SILICON VALLEY SIGHTS: Try the Stanford University home page at http://www.stanford.edu/, the Hyperion Guide at http://www.hyperion.com/ba/sfbay.html; the Palo Alto weekly at http://www.service.com/PAW/home.html; the California Virtual Tourist at http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtual- tourist/California.html; and the Yahoo Guide of San Francisco at http://www.yahoo.com/Regional_Information/States/Califor nia/San_Francisco. ABOUT OTHER CONTEMPORANEOUS WEST COAST CONFERENCES: Information about the AAAI-96 conference on August 4 P 8 (Sunday P Thursday), 1996, in Portland, Oregon is at http://www.aaai.org/. Information on the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD- 96) in Portland on August 3 P 5, 1996 is at http://www- aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96. Information about the Protein Society conference on August 3 P 7, 1996 in San Jose is at http://www.faseb.org. Information about the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA) workshop on August 3 P 5 (Saturday P Monday), 1996, in San Diego is at http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/foga/. Information about the Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA-96) conference on August 6 P 9 (Friday P Sunday), 1996 in Sunnyvale, California is at http://www.ece.neu.edu/pdpta96.html. ABOUT MEMBERSHIP IN THE ACM, AAAI, or IEEE: For information about ACM membership, try http://www.acm.org/; for information about SIGART, try http://sigart.acm.org/; for AAAI membership, go to http://www.aaai.org/; and for membership in the IEEE, go to http://www.ieee.org. PHYSICAL MAIL ADDRESS FOR GP-96: GP-96 Conference, c/o American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025. PHONE: 415-328- 3123. FAX: 415-321-4457. WWW: http://www.aaai.org/. E-MAIL: gp@aaai.org. ------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION FORM FOR GENETIC PROGRAMMING 1996 CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON JULY 28 P 31, 1996 AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY First Name _________________________ Last Name_______________ Affiliation________________________________ Address__________________________________ ________________________________________ City__________________________ State/Province _________________ Zip/Postal Code____________________ Country__________________ Daytime telephone__________________________ E-Mail address_____________________________ Conference registration fee includes copy of proceedings, attendance at 4 tutorials of your choice, syllabus books for the tutorials, conference reception, copy of a book of late-breaking papers, a T-shirt, coffee breaks, lunch (on at least Sunday), and admission to conference sessions. Students must send legible proof of full-time student status. Conference proceedings will be mailed to registered attendees with U.S. mailing addresses via 2-day U.S. priority mail about 1 P 2 weeks prior to the conference at no extra charge (at addressee's risk). If you are uncertain as to whether you will be at that address at that time or DO NOT WANT YOUR PROCEEDINGS MAILED to you at the above address for any other reason, your copy of the proceedings will be held for you at the conference registration desk if you CHECK HERE ____. Postmarked by May 15, 1996: Student P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $195 Regular P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $395 Student P Non-member $215 Regular P Non-member $415 Postmarked by June 26, 1996: Student P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $245 Regular P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $445 Student P Non-member $265 Regular P Non-member $465 Postmarked later or on-site: Student P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $295 Regular P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $495 Student P Non-member $315 Regular P Non-member $515 Member number: ACM # ___________ IEEE # _________ AAAI # _________ Total fee (enter appropriate amount) $ _________ __ Check or money order made payable to "AAAI" (in U.S. funds) __ Mastercard __ Visa __ American Express Credit card number __________________________________________ Expiration Date ___________ Signature _________________________ TUTORIALS: Check off a box for one tutorial from each of the 4 columns: Sunday July 28, 1996 P 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM __ Genetic Algorithms __ Machine Language GP __ GP using Mathematica __ Introductory GP Sunday July 28, 1996 P 1:00 PM - 3: 15 PM __ Classifier Systems __ EC for Constraint Optimization __ Advanced GP Sunday July 28, 1996 P 3:45 PM - 6 PM __ Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies __ Cellular Encoding __ GP with Linear Genomes __ ECHO Tuesday July 30, 1996 P3:00 PM - 5:15PM __ Neural Networks __ Machine Learning __ Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists __ Check here for information about housing and meal package at Stanford University. __ Check here for information on student travel grants. T-shirt size ___ small ___ medium ___ large ___ extra-large No refunds will be made; however, we will transfer your registration to a person you designate upon notification. SEND TO: GP-96 Conference, c/o American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025. ------------------------------------------------- 90 PAPERS APPEARING IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE GP-96 CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ON JULY 28-31, 1996 -------------------------------------------------- LONG GENETIC PROGRAMMING PAPERS Discovery by Genetic Programming of a Cellular Automata Rule that is Better than any Known Rule for the Majority Classification Problem --- David Andre, Forrest H Bennett III, and John R. Koza A Study in Program Response and the Negative Effects of Introns in Genetic Programming --- David Andre and Astro Teller An Investigation into the Sensitivity of Genetic Programming to the Frequency of Leaf Selection During Subtree Crossover --- Peter J. Angeline Automatic Creation of an Efficient Multi-Agent Architecture Using Genetic Programming with Architecture-Altering Operations --- Forrest H Bennett III Evolving Deterministic Finite Automata Using Cellular Encoding --- Scott Brave Genetic Programming and the Efficient Market Hypothesis --- Shu-Heng Chen and Chia-Hsuan Yeh Bargaining by Artificial Agents in Two Coalition Games: A Study in Genetic Programming for Electronic Commerce --- Garett Dworman, Steven O. Kimbrough, and James D. Laing Waveform Recognition Using Genetic Programming: The Myoelectric Signal Recognition Problem --- Jaime J. Fernandez, Kristin A. Farry, and John B. Cheatham Benchmarking the Generalization Capabilities of A Compiling Genetic programming System using Sparse Data Sets --- Frank D. Francone, Peter Nordin, and Wolfgang Banzhaf A Comparison between Cellular Encoding and Direct Encoding for Genetic Neural Networks --- Frederic Gruau, Darrell Whitley, and Larry Pyeatt Entailment for Specification Refinement --- Thomas Haynes, Rose Gamble, Leslie Knight, and Roger Wainwright Genetic Programming of Near-Minimum-Time Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvers --- Brian Howley Evolving Evolution Programs: Genetic Programming and L-Systems --- Christian Jacob Genetic Programming using Genotype-Phenotype Mapping from Linear Genomes into Linear Phenotypes --- Robert E. Keller and Wolfgang Banzhaf Automated WYWIWYG Design of Both the Topology and Component Values of Electrical Circuits Using Genetic Programming --- John R. Koza, Forrest H Bennett III, David Andre, and Martin A. Keane Use of Automatically Defined Functions and Architecture-Altering Operations in Automated Circuit Synthesis Using Genetic Programming --- John R. Koza, David Andre, Forrest H Bennett III, and Martin A. Keane Using Data Structures within Genetic Programming --- W. B. Langdon Evolving Teamwork and Coordination with Genetic Programming --- Sean Luke and Lee Spector Using Genetic Programming to Develop Inferential Estimation Algorithms --- Ben McKay, Mark Willis, Gary Montague, and Geoffrey W. Barton Dynamics of Genetic Programming and Chaotic Time Series Prediction --- Brian S. Mulloy, Rick L. Riolo, and Robert S. Savit Genetic Programming, the Reflection of Chaos, and the Bootstrap: Towards a useful Test for Chaos --- E. Howard N. Oakley Solving Facility Layout Problems Using Genetic Programming --- Jaime Garces-Perez, Dale A. Schoenefeld, and Roger L. Wainwright Variations in Evolution of Subsumption Architectures Using Genetic Programming: The Wall Following Robot Revisited --- Steven J. Ross, Jason M. Daida, Chau M. Doan, Tommaso F. Bersano- Begey, and Jeffrey J. McClain MASSON: Discovering Commonalties in Collection of Objects using Genetic Programming --- Tae-Wan Ryu and Christoph F. Eick Cultural Transmission of Information in Genetic Programming --- Lee Spector and Sean Luke Code Growth in Genetic Programming --- Terence Soule, James A. Foster, and John Dickinson High-Performance, Parallel, Stack-Based Genetic Programming --- Kilian Stoffel and Lee Spector Search Bias, Language Bias, and Genetic Programming --- P. A. Whigham Learning Recursive Functions from Noisy Examples using Generic Genetic Programming --- Man Leung Wong and Kwong Sak Leung SHORT GENETIC PROGRAMMING PAPERS Classification using Cultural Co-Evolution and Genetic Programming --- Myriam Abramson and Lawrence Hunter Type-Constrained Genetic Programming for Rule-Base Definition in Fuzzy Logic Controllers --- Enrique Alba, Carlos Cotta, and Jose J. Troyo The Evolution of Memory and Mental Models Using Genetic Programming --- Scott Brave Automatic Generation of Object-Oriented Programs Using Genetic Programming --- Wilker Shane Bruce Evolving Event Driven Programs --- Mark Crosbie and Eugene H. Spafford Computer-Assisted Design of Image Classification Algorithms: Dynamic and Static Fitness Evaluations in a Scaffolded Genetic Programming Environment --- Jason M. Daida, Tommaso F. Bersano-Begey, Steven J. Ross, and John F. Vesecky Improved Direct Acyclic Graph Handling and the Combine Operator in Genetic Programming --- Herman Ehrenburg An Adverse Interaction between Crossover and Restricted Tree Depth in Genetic Programming --- Chris Gathercole and Peter Ross The Prediction of the Degree of Exposure to Solvent of Amino Acid Residues via Genetic Programming --- Simon Handle y A New Class of Function Sets for Solving Sequence Problems --- Simon Handley Evolving Edge Detectors with Genetic Programming --- Christopher Harris and Bernard Buxton Toward Simulated Evolution of Machine Language Iteration --- Lorenz Huelsbergen Robustness of Robot Programs Generated by Genetic Programming --- Takuya Ito, Hitoshi Iba, and Masayuki Kimura Signal Path Oriented Approach for Generation of Dynamic Process Models --- Peter Marenbach, Kurt D. Betterhausen, and Stephan Freyer Evolving Control Laws for a Network of Traffic Signals --- David J. Montana and Steven Czerwinski Distributed Genetic Programming: Empirical Study and Analysis --- Tatsuya Niwa and Hitoshi Iba Programmatic Compression of Images and Sound --- Peter Nordin and Wolfgang Banzhaf Investigating the Generality of Automatically Defined Functions --- Una-May O'Reilly Parallel Genetic Programming: An Application to Trading Models Evolution --- Mouloud Oussaidene, Bastien Chopard, Olivier V. Pictet, and Marco Tomassini Genetic Programming for Image Analysis --- Riccardo Poli Evolving Agents --- Adil Qureshi Genetic Programming for Improved Data Mining: An Application to the Biochemistry of Protein Interactions --- M. L. Raymer, W. F. Punch, E. D. Goodman, and L. A. Kuhn Generality Versus Size in Genetic Programming --- Justinian Rosca Genetic Programming in Database Query Optimization --- Michael Stillger and Myra Spiliopoulou Ontogenetic Programming --- Lee Spector and Kilian Stoffel Using Genetic Programming to Approximate Maximum Clique --- Terence Soule, James A. Foster, and John Dickinson Paragen: A Novel Technique for the Autoparallelisation of Sequential Programs using Genetic Programming --- Paul Walsh and Conor Ryan The Benefits of Computing with Introns --- Mark Wineberg and Franz Oppacher GENETIC PROGRAMMING POSTER PAPERS Co-Evolving Classification Programs using Genetic Programming --- Manu Ahluwalia and Terence C. Fogarty Genetic Programming Tools Available on the Web: A First Encounter --- Anthony G. Deakin and Derek F. Yates Speeding up Genetic Programming: A Parallel BSP Implementation --- Dimitris C. Dracopoulos and Simon Kent Easy Inverse Kinematics using Genetic Programming --- Jonathan Gibbs Noisy Wall-Following and Maze Navigation through Genetic Programming --- Andrew Goldfish Genetic Programming for Classification of Brain Tumours from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Biopsy Spectra --- H. F. Gray, R. J. Maxwell, I. Martinez-Perez, C. Arus, and S. Cerdan GP-COM: A Distributed Component-Based Genetic Programming System in C++ --- Christopher Harris and Bernard Buxton Clique Detection via Genetic Programming --- Thomas Haynes and Dale Schoenefeld Functional Languages on Linear Chromosomes --- Paul Holmes and Peter J. Barclay Improving the Accuracy and Robustness of Genetic Programming through Expression Simplification --- Dale Hooper and Nicholas S. Flann COAST: An Approach to Robustness and Reusability in Genetic Programming --- Naohiro Hondo, Hitoshi Iba, and Yukinori Kakazu Recurrences with Fixed Base Cases in Genetic Programming --- Stefan J. Johansson Evolutionary and Incremental Methods to Solve Hard Learning Problems --- Ibrahim Kuscu Detection of Patterns in Radiographs using ANN Designed and Trained with the Genetic Algorithm --- Alejandro Pazos Julian Dorado and Antonino Santos The Logic-Grammars-Based Genetic Programming System --- Man Leung Wong and Kwong Sak Leung LONG GENETIC ALGORITHMS PAPERS Genetic Algorithms with Analytical Solution --- Erol Gelenbe Silicon Evolution --- Adrian Thompson SHORT GENETIC ALGORITHMS PAPERS On Sensor Evolution in Robotics --- Karthik Balakrishnan and Vasant Honavar Testing Software using Order-Based Genetic Algorithms --- Edward B. Boden and Gilford F. Martino Optimizing Local Area Networks Using Genetic Algorithms --- Andy Choi A Genetic Algorithm for the Construction of Small and Highly Testable OKFDD Circuits --- Rold Drechsler, Bernd Becker, and Nicole Gockel Motion Planning and Design of CAM Mechanisms by Means of a Genetic Algorithm --- Rodolfo Faglia and David Vetturi Evolving Strategies Based on the Nearest Neighbor Rule and a Genetic Algorithm --- Matthias Fuchs Recognition and Reconstruction of Visibility Graphs Using a Genetic Algorithm --- Marshall S. Veach GENETIC ALGORITHMS POSTER PAPERS The Use of Genetic Algorithms in the Optimization of Competitive Neural Networks which Resolve the Stuck Vectors Problem --- Tin Ilakovac, Zeljka Perkovic, and Strahil Ristov An Extraction Method of a Car License Plate using a Distributed Genetic Algorithm --- Dae Wook Kim, Sang Kyoon Kim, and Hang Joon Kim EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING AND EVOLUTION STRATEGIES PAPERS Evolving Fractal Movies --- Peter J. Angeline Preliminary Experiments on Discriminating between Chaotic Signals --- David B. Fogel and Lawrence J. Fogel Discovering Patterns in Spatial Data using Evolutionary Programming --- Adam Ghozeil and David B. Fogel Evolving Reduced Parameter Bilinear Models for Time Series Prediction using Fast Evolutionary Programming --- Sathyanarayan S. Rao and Kumar Chellapilla CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS PAPERS Three-Dimensional Shape Optimization Utilizing a Learning Classifier System --- Robert A. Richards and Sheri D. Sheppard Classifier System Renaissance: New Analogies, New Directions --- H. Brown Cribbs III and Robert E. Smith Natural Niching for Cooperative Learning in Classifier Systems --- Jeffrey Horn and David E. Goldberg