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Neuron Digest Friday, 24 Feb 1989
Volume 5 : Issue 10
Today's Topics:
6th International Workshop on Machine Learning
BIRA Seminar On Neural Networks
call for papers: Computer Apps. in Medical Care
Call for Papers: IEEE Workshop on 3D Scene Interpretation
Conf. on VISION & 3-D REPRESENTATION
Hinton Lectures at U. of Manchester
NIPS CALL FOR PAPERS
TENCON '89. Session on Artificial Intelligence & Neural Networks
TENCON '89. Session on Neural Nets and Optimization.
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Subject: 6th International Workshop on Machine Learning
From: segre@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Alberto M. Segre)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 89 22:18:53 -0500
Call for Papers:
Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York; U.S.A.
June 29 - July 1, 1989
The Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning will be
held at Cornell University from June 29 through July 1, 1989.
The workshop will be divided into six parallel sessions, each
focusing on a different theme:
Combining Empirical and Explanation-Based Learning (M. Pazzani,
chair). Both empirical evaluation and theoretical analysis have
been used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of
individual learning methods. Integrated approaches to learning
have the potential of overcoming the limitations of individual
methods. Papers are solicited exploring hybrid techniques
involving, for example, explanation-based learning, case-based
reasoning, constructive induction, or neural networks.
Empirical Learning; Theory and Application (C. Sammut, chair).
This session will be devoted to discussions on inductive (also
called empirical) learning with particular emphasis on results
that can be justified by theory or experimental evaluation.
Papers should characterize methodologies (either formally or
experimentally), their performance and/or problems for which
they are well/ill suited. Comparative studies applying
different methodologies to the same problem are also invited.
Learning Plan Knowledge (S. Chien and G. DeJong, co-chairs).
This session will explore machine learning of plan-related
knowledge; specifically, learning to construct, index, and
recognize plans by using explanation-based, empirical, case-
based, analogical, and connectionist approaches.
Knowledge-Base Refinement and Theory Revision (A. Ginsberg,
chair). Knowledge-base refinement involves the discovery of
plausible refinements to a knowledge base in order to improve
the breadth and accuracy of the associated expert system. More
generally, theory revision is concerned with systems that start
out having some domain theory, but one that is incomplete and
fallible. Two basic problems are how to use an imperfect
theory to guide one in learning more about the domain as more
experience accumulates, and how to use the knowledge so gained
to revise the theory in appropriate ways.
Incremental Learning (D. Fisher, chair, with J. Grefenstette, J.
Schlimmer, R. Sutton, and P. Utgoff). Incremental learning
requires continuous adaptation to the environment subject to
performance constraints of timely response, environmental
assumptions such as noise or concept drift, and knowledge base
limitations. Papers that cross traditionally disparate
paradigms are highly encouraged, notably rule-based,
connectionist, and genetic learning; explanation-based and
inductive learning; procedure and concept learning;
psychological and computational theories of learning; and
belief revision, bounded rationality, and learning.
Representational Issues in Machine Learning (D. Subramanian,
chair). This session will study representational practice in
machine learning in order to understand the relationship
between inference (inductive and deductive) and choice of
representation. Present-day learners depend on careful
vocabulary engineering for their success. What is the nature
of the contribution representation makes to learning, and how
can we make learners design/redesign hypotheses languages
automatically? Papers are solicited in areas including, but not
limited to, bias, representation change and reformulation, and
knowledge-level analysis of learning algorithms.
PARTICIPATION
Each workshop session is limited to between 30 and 50
participants. In order to meet this size constraint, attendance
at the workshop is by invitation only. If you are active in
machine learning and you are interested in receiving an
invitation, we encourage you to submit a short vita (including
relevant publications) and a one-page research summary describing
your recent work.
Researchers interested in presenting their work at one of
the sessions should submit an extended abstract (4 pages maximum)
or a draft paper (12 pages maximum) describing their recent work
in the area. Final papers will be included in the workshop
proceedings, which will be distributed to all participants.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Each submission (research summary, extended abstract, or
draft paper) must be clearly marked with the author's name,
affiliation, telephone number and Internet address. In addition,
you should clearly indicate for which workshop session your
submission is intended.
Deadline for submission is March 1, 1989. Submissions should be
mailed directly to:
6th International Workshop on Machine Learning
Alberto Segre, Workshop Chair
Department of Computer Science
Upson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-7501
USA
Telephone: (607) 255-9196
Internet: ml89@cs.cornell.edu
While hardcopy submissions are preferred, electronic
submissions will be accepted in TROFF (me or ms macros), LaTeX or
plain TeX. Electronic submissions must consist of a single file.
Be sure to include all necessary macros; it is the responsibility
of the submitter to ensure his/her paper is printable without
special handling. Foreign contributors may make special
arrangements on an individual basis for sending their submissions
via FAX.
Submissions will be reviewed by the individual session
chair(s). Determinations will be made by April 1, 1989.
Attendance at the workshop is by invitation only; you must submit
a paper, abstract or research summary in order to be considered.
While you may make submissions to more than one workshop session,
each participant will be invited to only one session.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 1, 1989
Submission deadline for research summaries, extended
abstracts and draft papers.
April 1, 1989
Invitations issued; presenters notified of acceptance.
April 20, 1989
Final camera-ready copy of accepted papers due for inclusion
in proceedings.
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Subject: BIRA Seminar On Neural Networks
From: "Rob A. Vingerhoeds / Ghent State University"
<ROB%BGERUG51.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 13:02:00 +0100
BIRA SEMINAR ON NEURAL NETWORKS
25 APRIL 1989
International Congress Centre Ghent
BELGIUM
BIRA (Belgian Institute for Control Engineering and Automation) is
organising a seminar on the state of the art in Neural Networks. The central
theme will be "When and how will neural networks become applicable for
industry". To be able to give a good and reliable verdict to this theme,
some of the most important and leading scientists in this fasci- nating area
have been invited to present a lecture at the seminar and take part in a
panel discussion.
The following schedule is foreseen:
8.30 - 9.00 Registration
9.00 - 9.15 Opening on behalf of BIRA
Prof. L. Boullart
Ghent State University
9.15 - 10.00 Introduction to the domain
Prof. Fogelman Soulie
Universite de Paris V
10.00 - 10.30 coffee
10.30 - 11.30 Theoretical Backgrounds and Mathematical Models
Prof. B. Kosko
University of Southern California
11.30 - 12.00 Special dedicated hardware
(probably the French representative of Hecht-Nielsen
Neurocomputers)
12.00 - 14.00 lunch / exhibition
14.00 - 15.00 Application in Robotics
Dr. David Handelman
Princeton
15.00 - 16.00 Application in Image Processing and Pattern
Recognition (Neocognitron)
Dr. S. Miyake
ATR
16.00 - 16.30 tea
16.30 - 17.15 panel discussion over the central theme
17.15 - 17.30 closing and conclusions
The seminar will be held in the same period as the famous Flanders
Technology International (F.T.I.) exhibition is held. This exhibition is for
both representatives from industry and for other interested people very
interesting and going to both the seminar and the exhibition is double
interesting. It is possible to obtain a ticket for F.T.I. at a reduced
price, when attending the seminar. Please indicate, whether you would like
to get a ticket, when sending in a letter or an e-mail message.
Prices:
members of BIRA : 12.500 BEF
others : 15.000 BEF
universities : 7.500 BEF
If you intent to attent our seminar, you can either send a letter to the
BIRA coordinator (adress follows) or an e-mail message to one of us. We will
fill you in on the details as soon as possible.
Rob Vingerhoeds Leo Vercauteren
<ROB@BGERUG51.BITNET> <LEO@BGERUG51.BITNET>
BIRA Coordinator: L. Pauwels
BIRA-secretariaat
Het Ingenieurshuis
Desguinlei 214
2018 Antwerpen
Belgium
telefax: +32-3-216-06-89
(attn. BIRA L. Pauwels)
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Subject: call for papers: Computer Apps. in Medical Care
From: James A. Reggia <reggia@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 19:41:19 -0500
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 13th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care will have
a tract this year on applications of neural models (connectionist models,
etc.) in medicine. The Symposium will be held in Washington DC, as in
previous years, on November 5 - 8, 1989.
Submissions are refereed and if accepted, appear in the Symposium
Proceedings. Deadline for submission of manuscripts (six copies, double
spaced, max. of 5000 words) is March 3, 1989. For further information
and/or a copy of the detailed call for papers, contact:
SCAMC
Office of Continuing Medical Education
George Washington University Medical Center
2300 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
The detailed call for papers includes author information sheets that must be
returned with a manuscript.
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Subject: Call for Papers: IEEE Workshop on 3D Scene Interpretation
From: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 07:17:43 -0500
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Workshop on Interpretation of 3D Scenes
Austin Mariott at the Capital
Austin, TX
November 27-29, 1989
The interpretation of 3D scenes remains a difficult problem for many
application areas and has attracted the attention of researchers in
many disciplines. The intent of this workshop is to bring together
vision researchers to discuss current work in scene interpretation,
representation, matching and sensing. A variety of sessions will be
devoted to different aspects of scene interpretation research. The
number of presentations will be limited, so there will be ample
opportunity for discussion. Papers are invited on all aspects of
scene interpretation by human and machine, including:
* General 3D interpretation * Applications in navigation, industry,
problems enabling technology, etc.
* Internal 3D representation and * Matching sensed scene structure
modeling to internal representations.
* Sensing 3D scene structure
Authors are encouraged to present new representations or
computational methods with experimental results, present new
theoretical insights, or relate new observations of relationships
between human and machine processing of 3D scenes.
Submission of Papers:
Submit three copies of your paper to Eric Grimson to be received on or
before June 15, 1989. Papers should not exceed a total of 25 double
spaced pages. Authors will be notified of reviewing decisions by
August 15 and final papers in camera-ready form will be required by
the IEEE Computer Society by September 30,1989.
General Chairman: Anil Jain, Michigan State University
(517) 353-5150
Internet: jain@cps.msu.edu
Program Committee:
Jake Aggarwal, University of Texas, Austin
Dan Huttenlocher, Cornell University
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Carnegie Mellon University
Avi Kak, Purdue University
David Lowe, University of British Columbia
Linda Shapiro, University of Washington
Program Chairpersons:
Eric Grimson
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
M. I. T.
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
George Stockman
Computer Science Deptartment
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Local Arrangements: Alan Bovik, University of Texas, Austin
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Subject: Conf. on VISION & 3-D REPRESENTATION
From: "Jonathan Marshall [Learning Center]" <mv10801@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 15:40:33 -0600
Conference on
VISION AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION
May 24-26, 1989
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The appearance of the three dimensional world from images pro-
jected on our two dimensional retinas is immediate, effortless,
and compelling. Despite the vigor of research in vision over the
past two decades, questions remain about the nature of three di-
mensional representations and the use of those representations
for recognition and action. What information is gathered? How is
it integrated and structured? How is the information used in
higher level perceptual tasks? This conference will bring togeth-
er nineteen prominent scientists to address these questions from
neurophysiological, psychological, and computational perspec-
tives.
The conference is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific
Research and the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
in cooperation with the Departments of Psychology, Computer
Science, Electrical Engineering, Child Development, and the
Center for Research in Learning, Perception, and Cognition.
Conference Speakers and Titles:
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Albert Yonas, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
"Development of Depth Perception"
Leslie G. Ungerleider, NIMH Laboratory of Neuropsychology
"Cortical Pathways for the Analysis of Form, Space, and
Motion: Three Streams of Visual Processing"
James Todd, Psychology, Brandeis University
"Perception of 3D Structure from Motion"
William B. Thompson, Computer Science, University of Minnesota
"Analyzing Visual Motion -- Spatial Organization at
Surface Boundaries"
Kent Stevens, Computer Science, University of Oregon
"The Reconstruction of Continuous Surfaces from Stereo
Measurements and Monocular Inferences"
Eric Schwartz, Neurophysiology, New York University
"Binocular Representation of the Visual Field in Primate Cortex"
Ken Nakayama, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute
"Occlusion Constraints and the Encoding of Color, Form,
Motion, and Depth"
Jittendra Malik, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
"Representing Constraints for Inferring 3D Scene Structure
from Monocular Views"
David Lowe, Computer Science, University of British Columbia
"What Must We Know to Recognize Something"
Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School
"Separate Processing of Form, Color, Movement, and Depth: Anatomy,
Physiology, Art, and Illusion"
Stephen Kosslyn, Psychology, Harvard University
"Components of High-Level Vision"
J. J. Koenderink, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht Fysisch Laboratorium
"Affine Shape from Motion"
Ramesh Jain, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. of Michigan
"3D Recognition from Range Imagery"
Melvin Goodale, Psychology, University of Western Ontario
"Depth Cues and Distance Estimation: The Calibration
of Ballistic Movements"
Bruce Goldstein, Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
"A Perceptual Approach to Art: Comments on the Art Exhibition"
John Foley, Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Binocular Space Perception"
Martin Fischler, SRI International
"Representation and the Scene Modeling Problem"
Patrick Cavanagh, Psychology, University of Montreal
"How 3D Are We?"
Irving Biederman, Psychology, University of Minnesota
"Viewpoint Invariant Primitives as a Basis for
Human Object Recognition"
An art exhibit reflecting the theme of the conference will be
held at the Coffman Gallery, Coffman Memorial Union, throughout
May.
Registration:
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The conference fee is $30 ($15 for current students). This fee
includes program materials, refreshments, and Wednesday's recep-
tion. Conference enrollment is limited, so early registration is
recommended.
Location/Parking:
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The conference will be held in room 3-180 Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science Building, University of Minnesota, Minneapo-
lis. Parking is available nearby in the Harvard Street Ramp, 216
Harvard Street SE. A map indicating building and parking loca-
tions will be sent to registrants.
Accommodations:
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A block of rooms has been reserved at the Radisson University
Hotel. Rates are $68 (plus tax) for double or single occupancy.
To make reservations, contact the hotel at (612) 379-8888 and
refer to the program title to obtain these special rates. Reser-
vations must be made by April 9.
For Further Information, Contact:
Program: Jo Nichols, Center for Research in Learning Perception
and Cognition, (612) 625-9367
Registration: Char Greenwald, Professional Development and
Conference Services, (612) 625-1520
Organizing Chairpersons:
Gordon Legge, Department of Psychology, (612) 625-0846,
legge@eye.psych.umn.edu
Lee Zimmerman, Department of Electrical Engineering,
(612) 625-8544,
lzimmerm@umn-ai.umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
_______________________________________________________________________
Registration Form:
Please duplicate for additional registrants. 54-38LB
Vision and Three Dimensional Representation
May 24-26, 1989
University of Minnesota
Name _______________________________________________
Address ____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Telephone
Day:_____________ Evening:______________
Position ___________________________________________
Affiliation ________________________________________
____ I enclose $30 general registration.
____ I enclose $15 current student registration.
Student I.D. number __________
____ The above fee will be provided by the University of Minnesota
Department budget number __________
Please make check or money order payable to the University of Minnesota.
Mail to: Registrar
Professional Development and Conference Services
University of Minnesota
338 Nolte Center
315 Pillsbury Drive S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0139
Registration should be received by May 15.
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Subject: Hinton Lectures at U. of Manchester
From: Paul Watson <paul%research4.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 11:22:24 +0000
Sun Annual Lecture in Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
The Computer Science Department at the Universtity of Manchester have
instituted an Annual Lecture series sponsored by SUN Microsystems. These
will be outstanding opportunities to hear distinguished Computer Scientists
introducing their field of research and discussing their latest work. The
usual format will be 6-8 hours of lectures spread over 2 days.
The first lecture will be given by Professor GEOFFREY E. HINTON on the
subject of NEURAL NETWORKS.
Professor Hinton (Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at the
University of Toronto) will give 8 hours of lectures to introduce the
subject of Neural Networks and discuss current research.
Date: 11th and 12th July 1989
Venue: The Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester,
England.
Cost: Registration fee: Pounds Sterling 50
(Free for University of Manchester attendees)
Closing date for Registration: March 31st. 1989
Registration covers lunch and refreshments on both days of lectures, and
includes copies of the lecture slides. Attendees are also cordially invited
to a sherry reception on the evening of the 10th July. On the following
evening (11th), the Annual Lecture Dinner will be held. If you would like to
attend the dinner please fill in the appropriate part of the reply slip
below and include the cost in your payment.
We can arrange accommodation in one of Manchester's top hotels at special
rates (approx. Pounds Sterling 57 per night b&b). No pre-payment is
necessary, just tick the box on the reply slip below.
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Reply Slip: Please mail to: Helen Yates,Annual Lecture,
Department of Computer Science,The University, Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PL, England. Telephone: 061-275-6154
or Electronic Mail: Janet: annual-lecture@uk.ac.man.cs.ux
Arpa/Bitnet: annual-lecture@ux.cs.man.ac.uk
uucp: ..!ukc!mucs!annual-lecture
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Please register me for the SUN Annual Lecture in Computer Science at the
University of Manchester.
Name:
Address:
Company/Institution:
Telephone:
Electronic Mail Address:
Payments:
Registration Fee (Pounds Sterling 50) ....
Annual Dinner (Pounds Sterling 15) ....
Total ....
I enclose a cheque for this amount made payable to
The University of Manchester.
Tick here if you wish to have accommodation booked for the nights
of the 10th and 11th July 1989. []
Signature:......................
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Subject: NIPS CALL FOR PAPERS
From: Stephen J Hanson <wind!jose@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM>
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
Date: 02 Feb 89 20:54:49 +0000
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Conference on
Neural Information Processing Systems
- Natural and Synthetic -
Monday, November 27 -- Thursday November 30, 1989
Denver, Colorado
This is the third meeting of a high quality, relatively small,
inter-disciplinary conference which brings together
neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, cognitive
scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all
aspects of neural processing and computation. Several days of
focussed workshops will follow at a nearby ski area. Major
categories and examples of subcategories for papers are the
following:
1. Neuroscience: Neurobiological models of development, cellular
information processing, synaptic function, learning, and memory.
Studies and analyses of neurobiological systems and development
of neurophysiological recording tools.
2. Architecture Design: Design and evaluation of net
architectures to perform cognitive or behavioral functions and to
implement conventional algorithms. Data representation; static
networks and dynamic networks that can process or generate
pattern sequences.
3. Learning Theory Models of learning; training paradigms for
static and dynamic networks; analysis of capability,
generalization, complexity, and scaling.
4. Applications: Applications to signal processing, vision,
speech, motor control, robotics, knowledge representation,
cognitive modelling and adaptive systems.
5. Implementation and Simulation: VLSI or optical implementations
of hardware neural nets. Practical issues for simulations and
simulation tools.
Technical Program: Plenary, contributed, and poster sessions will
be held. There will be no parallel sessions. The full text of
presented papers will be published.
Submission Procedures: Original research contributions are
solicited, and will be refereed by experts in the respective
disciplines. Authors should submit four copies of a 1000-word
(or less) summary and four copies of a single-page 50-100 word
abstract clearly stating their results by May 30, 1989. Indicate
preference for oral or poster presentation and specify which of
the above five broad categories and, if appropriate, sub-
categories (for example, Learning Theory: Complexity, or
Applications: Speech) best applies to your paper. Indicate
presentation preference and category information at the bottom of
each abstract page and after each summary. Failure to do so will
delay processing of your submission. Mail submissions to Kathy
Hibbard, NIPS89 Local Committee, Engineering Center, Campus Box
425, Boulder, CO, 80309-0425.
DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES ABSTRACTS IS MAY 30, 1989
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Subject: TENCON '89. Session on Artificial Intelligence & Neural Networks
From: 79151F-V SESHADRI <att!mtuxo!mtfmi!sesh@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
Date: 15 Feb 89 17:32:57 +0000
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR TENCON 1989
A SESSION ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEURAL NETWORKS
November 22-24, 1989
Bombay, India
TENCON is the premier IEEE International Conference sponsored by Region 10
(Japan, China, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indian subcontinent, Australia,
New Zealand and so on).
This session will cover the application of artificial intelligence and
neural networks today and their possible evolution in the next decade.
Specifically, topics in artificial intelligence include not only the use of
expert systems in operations support but also the issues of knowledge
representation and learning. Thus this includes good and bad ways of
formulating problems, and self-improvement by means of learning.
The session will also cover neural networks. Topics include novel neural
networks, the application of neural networks, knowledge representation
issues and comparisons of neural network formulations with alternatives such
as rule-based formulations.
Robotics will also be covered in the session, including sensors/actuators,
control systems, teaching methods, flexible automation and workplace
integration issues.
SESSION TOPICS
o Expert systems technology and its application to information processing
- use of expert systems in operations support systems
- the knowledge acquisition cycle
- expert system languages
o Artificial intelligence and its application
- knowledge representation
- learning
- languages
- logic
- search techniques
o Neural networks: alternative paradigms for information processing
- applications of standard networks
- new network formulations
- knowledge representation
- comparison with other paradigms
o Robotics and its introduction into the workplace
- sensors and actuators
- control systems
- teaching methods
- off-line programming
- flexible automation
- workplace integration
Abstracts of 400 to 500 words (1 to 2 pages) should be submitted along with
the title of the paper and the author's details (postal, phone, fax and
email addresses) to the address below ON OR BEFORE MARCH 1, 1989.
Session Organizer and Chair:
V Seshadri
AT&T Bell Laboratories, MT3G122
200 Laurel Avenue
Middletown, NJ 07748
USA
voice: 1-201-957-6516
fax: 1-201-957-7545
email: ...!att!mtfmi!sesh
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Subject: TENCON '89. Session on Neural Nets and Optimization.
From: harish@ece-csc.UUCP (Harish Hiriyannaiah)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 18:05:30 +0000
CALL FOR PAPERS
TENCON '89 (IEEE Region 10 Conference)
SESSION
ON
OPTIMIZATION AND NEURAL NETWORKS
November 22 -- 24, 1989
Bombay, India
Under the auspices of the IEEE, the session organizers invite
submission of papers for a session on "Optimization and Neural
Networks". This session will focus on the interrelationship of
neural networks and optimization problems. Neural networks can
be seen to be related to optimization in two distinct ways:
+ As an adaptive neural network learns from examples,
the convergence of its weights solves an optimiza-
tion problem.
+ A large class of networks , even with constant we-
ights , solves optimization problems as they settle
from initial to final state.
The areas of interest include but are not limited to:
+ Combinatorial optimization
+ Continuous optimization
+ Sensor integration ( when posed as an optimization
problem)
+ Mean Field Annealing
+ Stochastic Relaxation
Depending on the number and quality of the responses,this ses-
sion may be split into multiple sessions, with one part focus-
ing on optimizing the weight-determination process in adaptive
nets,and the second one on using those nets to solve other pro
blems.
Prospective authors should submit two copies of an extended ab
stract (not exceeding 5 pages , double spaced) of their papers
to either of the organizers by March 31, 1989. Authors will be
notified of acceptance or rejection by May 15,1989.Photo-ready
copy of the complete paper (not exceeding 25 pages double-spa-
ced) must be received by Jul 15,1989 for inclusion in the pro-
ceedings which will be published by the IEEE and distributed
at the symposium.
Session Organizers
Dr. Wesley E. Snyder / Mr. Harish P. Hiriyannaiah
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7911, USA
Telephone: (919)-737-2336
FAX: (919)-737-7382
email: {wes,harish}@ecelet.ncsu.edu -- (Internet)
mcnc!ece-csc!{wes,harish} -- (UUCP)
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harish pu. hi. harish@ece-csc.ncsu.edu
{decvax,possibly other backbone sites}!mcnc!ece-csc!harish
I am not, therefore I think not ?
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