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Neuron Digest Friday, 23 Nov 1990 Volume 6 : Issue 67 Today's Topics: Intelligent Control Conference Announcing a NIPS '90 workshop comparing decision trees and neural nets CALL FOR PAPERS Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS Permanent Lectureship neural net position available NIPS VLSI post conference workshop Neural Network Session at IMACS World Congress, Dublin Post NIPS Conference Workshop on Cortical Oscillations Send submissions, questions, address maintenance and requests for old issues to "neuron-request@hplabs.hp.com" or "{any backbone,uunet}!hplabs!neuron-request" Use "ftp" to get old issues from hplpm.hpl.hp.com (15.255.176.205). ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Intelligent Control Conference From: KOKAR@northeastern.edu Date: Fri, 09 Nov 90 12:09:00 -0500 CALL FOR PAPERS 1991 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT CONTROL August 13-15,1991 Key Bridge Marriott Arlington, Virginia Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society General Chairman: Harry E. Stephanou, Rensselaer Polytechnic lnstitute Program Chairman: Alexander H. Levis, George Mason University Finance Chairman: Elizabelh R. Ducot, MlT Lincoln Labs Registration Chairman : Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University Publications Chairman: Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University Local Arrangements: James E. Gaby, UNYSlS Corporation The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC 91 ) will be held in conjunction with the 1991 IFAC Symposium on Distributed Intelligence Systems. Registrants in either symposium will be able to attend all technical and social events in both symposia and will receive preprint volumes from both. The ISIC 91 theme will be "Integrating Quantitative and Symbolic Processing". The design and analysis of automatic control systems have traditionally been based on rigorous, numerical techniques for modeling and optimization. Conventional controllers perform well in the presence of random disturbances, and can adapt to relatively small changes in fairly well known environments. Intelligent controllers are designed to operate in unknown environments and, therefore, require much higher levels of adaptation to unexpected events. They are also required to process and interpret large quantities of sensor data, and use the results for action planning or replanning. The design of intelligent controllers, therefore, incorporates heuristic and/or symbolic tools from artificial intelligence. Such tools which have traditionally been applied to open-loop, off-line problems, must now be integrated into the perception-reasoning-action closed loop of intelligent controllers. Effective methods for the integration of numerical and symbolic processing schemes are needed. Robustness and graceful degradation issues must be addressed. Reconfigurable feedback loops at varying levels of abstraction should be considered. Papers are being solicited ior presentation at the Symposium and publication in the Symposium Proceedings. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Intelligent control architectures Reasoning under uncertainty Self-organizing systems Sensor-based robot control Fault detection and error recovery Cellular robotics Intelligent manufacturing control Microelectro-mechanical systems systems Discrete event systems Variable precision reasoning Concurrent engineering Active sensing and perception Neural network controllers Multisensor data fusion Hierarchical controllers Intelligent inspection Learning control systems Intelligent database systems Autonomous control systems Microelectronics,advanced materials, Knowledge representation for and other novel applications real-time processing Five copies of papers should be sent by February 15,1991 to: Professor Alexander H. Levis Dept. of ECE George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Telephone: 703-764-6282 A separate cover sheet with the name of the corresponding author, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address should also be included. Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 15, 1991. Accepted papers, in final camera ready form, will be due on May 15, 1991. Proposals for invited sessions and tutorial workshops are also solicited. Cohesive sessions focusing on successful applications are particularly encouraged. Requests for additional information and proposal submissions (by February 15, 1991) should be addressed to Professor Levis. Symposium Program Committee: Suguru Arimoto, University of Tokyo Vivek V, Badami, General Electric John Baras, University of Maryland Research Lab Piero Bonissone, General Electric Hamid Berenji, NASA Ames Research Lab V.T. Chien, National Science David B. Cooper, Brown University Foundation David A. Dornfeld, University Kenneth J. DeJong, George Mason of California, Berkeley University Judy A. Franklin, GTE Laboratories Masakazu Ejiri, Hitachi Janos Gertler, George Mason Univesity Roger Geesey, BDM International Roderic Grupen, University of George Giralt, LAAS Massachusetts William A. Gruver, University of Susan Hackwood, University of Kentucky California, Riverside Thomas Henderson, Uiversity of Utah Joseph K. Kearney, University of Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Iowa University Yves Kodratoff, Universite de Paris Benjamin Kuipers, University of Texas, Michael B. Leahy, Air Force Institute Austin of Technology Gaston H. Lefranc, Universidad Catolica Ramiro Liscano, Nat'l Research Council Valparaiso of Canada Ronald Lumia, NIST Yukio Mieda, Honda Engineering Co.,Ltd Thang N. Nguyen, IBM Corporation Kevin M. Passino, Ohio State Michael A.Peshkin, Northwestern University University Roger T. Schappell, Martin Marietta Yoshiaki Shirai, Osaka University Marwan Simaan, University of Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt Pittsburgh University Zuheir Tumeh, General Motors Research Kimon P. Valavanis, Northeastern Labs University Agostino Villa, Politecnico di Torino John Wen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ------------------------------ Subject: Announcing a NIPS '90 workshop comparing decision trees and neural nets From: "Lorien Y. Pratt" <pratt@paul.rutgers.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 09:18:42 -0500 Neural Networks and Decision Tree Induction: Exploring the relationship between two research areas A NIPS '90 workshop, 11/30/1990 or 12/1/1990, Keystone, Colorado Workshop Co-Chairs: L. Y. Pratt and S. W. Norton The fields of Neural Networks and Machine Learning have evolved separately in many ways. However, close examination of multilayer perceptron learning algorithms (such as Back-Propagation) and decision tree induction methods (such as ID3 and CART) reveals that there is considerable convergence between these subfields. They address similar problem classes (inductive classifier learning) and can be characterized by a common representational formalism of hyperplane decision regions. Furthermore, topical subjects within both fields are related, from minimal trees and network reduction schemes to incremental learning. In this workshop, invited speakers from the Neural Network and Machine Learning communities will discuss their empirical and theoretical comparisons of the two areas, and then present work at the interface between these two fields which takes advantage of the potential for technology transfer between them. In a discussion period, we'll discuss our conclusions, comparing the methods along the dimensions of representation, learning, and performance. We'll debate the ``strong convergence hypothesis'' that these two research areas are really studying the same problem. Schedule of talks: AM: 7:30-7:50 Lori Pratt Introductory remarks 7:50-8:10 Tom Dietterich Evidence For and Against Convergence: Experiments Comparing ID3 and BP 8:15-8:35 Les Atlas Is backpropagation really better than classification and regression trees? 8:40-9:00 Ah Chung Tsoi Comparison of the performance of some popular machine learning algorithms: CART, C4.5, and multi-layer perceptrons 9:05-9:25 Ananth Sankar Neural Trees: A Hybrid Approach to Pattern Recognition PM: 4:30-4:55 Stephen Omohundro A Bayesian View of Learning with Tree Structures and Neural Networks 5:00-5:20 Paul Utgoff Linear Machine Decision Trees 5:25-5:45 Terry Sanger Basis Function Trees as a Generalization of CART, MARS, and Other Local Variable Selection Techniques 5:50-6:30 Discussion, wrap-up - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- L. Y. Pratt S. W. Norton pratt@paul.rutgers.edu, norton@learning.siemens.com Rutgers University Computer Science Dept. Siemens Corporate Research New Brunswick, NJ 08903. 755 College Road East (201) 932-4634 Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 734-3365 ------------------------------ Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS From: "Centro de Inteligencia Artificial(ITESM)" <ISAI@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 18:25:06 -0600 Please include the following information in your bulletin board. Thank you in advance. Sincerely, The Symposium Publicity Committee. ====================================================================== INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS IN INFORMATICS: Software Engineering, Data Base Systems, Computer Networks, Programming Environments, Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems. C A L L F O R P A P E R S Preliminary Version. The Fourth International Sysmposium on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Cancun Mexico on November 13-15, 1991. The Symposium is sponsored by the ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in cooperation with the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc., the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, the Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial and IBM of Mexico. Papers from all countries are sought that: (1) Present applications of artificial intelligence technology to the solution of problems in Software Engineering, Data Base Systems, Computer Networks, Programming Environments, Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems and other Informatics technologies; and (2) Describe research on techniques to accomplish such applications, (3) Address the problem of transfering the AI Technology in different socio-economic contexts and environments. Areas of application include but are no limited to: Software development, software design, software testing and validation, computer-aided software engineering, programming environments, structured techniques, intelligent databases, operating systems, intelligent compilers, local networks, computer network design, satellite and telecommunications, MIS and data processing applications, intelligent decision support systems. AI techniques include but are not limited to: Expert systems, knowledge acquisition and representation, natural language processing, computer vision, neural networks and genetic algorithms, automated learning, automated reasoning, search and problem solving, knowledge engineering tools and methodologies. Persons wishing to submit a paper should send five copies written in English to: Hugo Terashima, Program Chair Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM. Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Col.Tecnologico C.P. 64849 Monterrey, N.L. Mexico Tel.(52-83) 58-2000 Ext.5134 Telefax (52-83) 58-1400 Dial Ext.5143 or 58-2000 Ask Ext.5143 Net address: ISAI@tecmtyvm.bitnet or ISAI@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx The paper should identify the area and technique to which it belongs. Extended abstract is not required. Use a serif type font, size 10, sigle-spaced with a maximum of 10 pages. No papers will be accepted by electronic means. Important dates: Papers must be received by April 30,1991. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 15,1991. A final copy of each accepted paper, camera ready for inclusion in the Symposium proceedings, will be due by July 15,1991. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 13:16:00 EST From: Charles Wilson x2080 <wilson@magi.ncsl.nist.gov> Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly National Bureau of Standards Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS PROGRESS IN NEURAL NETWORKS This is a call for papers for Special Volume of the Progress In Neural Networks Series. This volume will concentrate on software implementation of neural networks, natural and synthetic. Contributions from leading researchers and experts will be sought. This series is intended for a wide audience, including those professionally involved in neural network research, such as lecturers and primary investigators in neural computing, neural modeling, neural learning, neural memory, and neurocomputers. Authors are invited to submit an abstract, extended summary, or manuscripts describing recent progress in theoretical analysis, modeling, or design of neural network architecture. The manuscripts should be self contained and of a tutorial nature. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Parallel Architectures * Distributed Architectures * Hybrid Architectures * Parallel Learning Models * Connectionist Architectures * Associative Memory * Self Organizing and Adaptive Systems * Neural Net Language)to)Architecture Translation Ablex and the editors invite you to submit an abstract, extended summary, or manuscript proposal for consideration. Please contact the editors directly. Omid M. Omidvar, Associate Professor Charles L. Wilson, Manager Progress Series Editor Associate Volume Editor University of the District of Columbia Image Recognition Group Computer Science Department Advanced Systems Division 4200 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. National Inst. of Tech & Stand. Washington, D.C. 20008 Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 Tel:(202)282-7345 Fax:(202)282-3677 Tel:(301)975-2080 Fax:(301)590-0932 Email: OOMIDVAR@UDCVAX.BITNET Email:Wilson@MAGI.NCSL.NIST.GOV Publisher:Ablex Publishing Corp.,355 Chestnut St., Norwood,NJ 07648 (201)767)8450 ------------------------------ Subject: Permanent Lectureship From: "R.J. Watt" <watt@compsci.stirling.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 16:07:01 +0000 University of Stirling, Scotland Department of Psychology Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (CCCN) We have a permanent post available for a LECTURER: M. Sc. in NEURAL COMPUTATION This new one-year M. Sc. will begin Sept 1991, and will cover a wide variety of topics in neural computation with vision as a major specialisation. The person appointed will have a major responsibility for running the course, and for teaching the vision components, and will also be exepected to have an active research program. The CCCN is multidisciplinary and includes staff from the Departments of Psychology, Computing Science and Mathematics. Starting date: 1 July 1991 Salary on scale UKL 12,086 - UKL 22,311 Applications (initially by by email, fax or snail-mail) including a CV with names and addresses (inc e-mail if poss) of 2 referees to Prof R. J. Watt, Psychology Dept., University of Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland tel: 0786 67665 fax : + 44 786 63000 e-mail: watt@cs.stir.ac.uk by 26 Nov 1990. Further particulars and information from Prof Watt. The University of Stirling is an equal opportunities employer. ------------------------------ Subject: neural net position available From: Dave.Touretzky@DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU Date: Sat, 17 Nov 90 00:46:56 -0500 I'm posting this position announcement as a favor to the Navy. I have no additional information to what appears below, so contact Dr. Lorey, not me, if you have questions. -- Dave ................................................................ Subj: POSITION DESCRIPTION 1. The Naval Surface Warfare Center is seeking to expand its operations in basic research in Artificial Neural Nets to compliment the ongoing applied work. A new thrust in basic research is seeking to augment the existing staff with one or two new hires. Preference will be given candidates who will soon complete their PhD work but Masters candidates will be considered. We are also interested in filling at least one summer faculty position. Neural Network experience is a must for all positions. The full-time and summer positions will join the current staff of five--two with PhDs, two with Masters. 2. The ongoing research areas include: multi-sensor fusion, image/data compression, image processing, optimization, development of new learning rules for existing architectures and development of schemes to embed networks in multi-chip simulation systems. 3. Equipment on hand: 4 Sun Workstations 1 Alliant FX40 Minisuper Computer with 2 Compote engines 1 Silicon Graphics 4D/220GTXB Graphics Workstation 4. Planned positions(s) will encompass work in the following areas: -route planning for autonomous vehicles, -improvement of existing (Hopfield, Boltzmann machines) and -development of new network architectures for optimization, -development/implementation of networks for low-level vision processing, and -evaluation/integration of neural network processing chips 5. Planned procurements: 2 Silicon Graphics 4D/35TG 1 Terrain board 1 Silicon Graphics 4D1340VGXB 1 VME Sun Expansion box 1 VME SG Expansion box 1 Breadboard table Video capability 5. Technical questions regarding ongoing work at the Center may be addressed to Dr. George Rogers or Mr. Jeffrey Solka at 703-663- 7650. 6. Interested candidates should submit their resume to Dr. Richard Lorey (703-663-8159) at MILNET address: rlorey@ relay.nswc.navy.mil or via mail to: Commander Naval Surface Warfare Center Code K12 (Dr. Richard Lorey) Dahlgren, VA 22448-5000 7. ELIGIBILITY FOR SECRET LEVEL CLEARANCES MANDATORY - RESUME SHOULD INDICATE U.S. CITIZENSHIP STATUS. /s/ Dr. Richard Lorey ------------------------------ Subject: NIPS VLSI post conference workshop From: Jim Burr <burr@mojave.stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 21:54:20 -0800 This year's post conference workshop on VLSI neural nets will be held Saturday, Dec 1. There will be a morning and an evening session. The workshop will address the latest advances in VLSI implementations of neural nets. How successful have implementations been so far? Are dedicated neurochips being used in real applications? What algorithms have been implemented? Which ones have not been? Why not? How important is on chip learning? How much arithmetic precision is necessary? Which is more important, capacity or performance? What are the issues in constructing very large networks? What are the technology scaling limits? Any new technology developments? Several invited speakers will address these and other questions from various points of view in discussing their current research. We will try to gain better insight into the strengths and limitations of dedicated hardware solutions. Jim Burr burr@mojave.stanford.edu ------------------------------ Subject: Neural Network Session at IMACS World Congress, Dublin From: Soo Young Lee <sylee@eekaist.kaist.ac.kr> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 90 16:35:01 -0800 I am trying to organize "Neural Networks for Numerical Computation" session at the 13th IMACS World Congress on Computation and Applied Mathematics held at Dublin, Ireland, July 22-26, 1991. IMACS is an international association of professionals and scientists concerned with computers, computation and applied mathematics, in particular as they apply to the study and simulation of systems. IMACS's primary thrust is today in the general direction of Scientific Computing, which includes as specific topics Computational and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modelling, their applications in such areas as Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computational Physics, as well as all the hardware and software tools which form the backbone of this all too important field of modern applied science. The session will be devoted to new developments, both in theory and applications, of neural network technology related to these important area. Anyone interested in presenting paper(s) is encouraged to submit title and abstract of the paper(s) to sylee%eekaist.kaist.ac.kr@relay.cs.net or Prof. Soo-Young Lee Computation and Neural Systems Lab. Dept. of EE, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology P.O. Box 150 Chongryangni Seoul, KOREA Fax: 82-2-960-2103 by Janauary 15th, 1991. Early submission or contact will be greatly appreciated. If accepted, usually within 2 weeks after submission, the authors are expected to submit 2-page camera-ready manuscripts in IEEE 2-column format by March 15th, 1991. Soo-Young Lee Associate Professor ------------------------------ Subject: Post NIPS Conference Workshop on Cortical Oscillations From: Ernst Miebur <ernst@russel.cns.caltech.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 90 11:48:36 -0800 NIPS Post Conference Workshop #1: Oscillations in Cortical Systems 40-60 Hz oscillations have long been reported in the rat and rabbit olfactory bulb and cortex on the basis of single-and multi-unit recordings as well as EEG activity. Periodicities in eye movement reaction times as well as oscillations in the auditory evoked potential in response to single click or a series of clicks all support a 30-50 Hz framework for aspects of cortical activity and possibly cortical information processing. Recently, highly synchronized, stimulus specific oscillations in the 35-85 Hz range were observed in areas 17, 18 and PMLS of anesthetized as well as awake cats. Neurons with similar orientation tuning up to 10 mm apart, even across the vertical meridian (i.e. in different hemispheres) can show phase-locked oscillations. Organization of the workshop will favor interaction between participants as much as possible. To set a framework, introductory talks will be presented. Speakers include J. Bower (Caltech): Experiments B. Ermentrout (U. Pittsburgh): Coupled Oscillators E. Niebur (Caltech): Models D. Schwenders (U. Munich): Psychophysics If you plan to present your work during a 5-10 minute talk, I would appreciate sending me a notice, although ``walk-ins'' are welcome. Topics that will be discussed include - possible functions of cortical oscillations, - crucial experiments to elucidate these functions, - mechanisms for long-range synchronization. Ernst Niebur Computation and Neural Systems Caltech 216-76 Pasadena, CA 91125 ernst@descartes.cns.caltech.edu (818)356-6885 ------------------------------ End of Neuron Digest [Volume 6 Issue 67] ****************************************