conference announcement - EMCSR 1990

[Georg Dorffner]

                        Announcement and Call for Papers


                                    EMCSR 90
                             TENTH EUROPEAN MEETING
                                       ON
                        CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH

                               April 17-20, 1990
                         University of Vienna, Austria


                                   Session M:
                        Parallel Distributed Processing
                               in Man and Machine

                                    Chairs:
                 D.Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA)
                          G.Dorffner (Vienna, Austria)



        Other Sessions at the meeting will be: 

        A: General Systems Methodology
        B: Fuzzy Sets, Approximate Reasoning and Knowledge-based Systems
        C: Designing and Systems
        D: Humanity, Architecture and Conceptualization
        E: Cybernetics in Biology and Medicine
        F: Cybernetics in Socio-Economic Systems
        G: Workshop: Managing Change: Institutional  Transition  in  the
           Private and Public Sector
        H: Innovation Systems in Management and Public Policy
        I: Systems Engineering and  Artificial  Intelligence  for  Peace
           Research
        J: Communication and Computers
        K: Software Development for Systems Theory
        L: Artificial Intelligence
        N: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence


        The  conference  is  organized  by  the  Austrian  Society   for
        Cybernetic Studies (chair: Robert Trappl).


        SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

        For symposium  M,  all  contributions  in  the  fields  of  PDP,
        connectionism, and neural networks are welcome.

        Acceptance of contributors will be determined on  the  basis  of
        Draft Final Papers. These papers must not exceed 7 single-spaced
        A4 pages (maximum 50 lines, final size will be 8.5 x 6  inches),
        in  English.   They  have  to  contain  the  final  text  to  be
        submitted,  however,  graphs  and  pictures  need  not   be   of
        reproducible quality.

        The Draft Final Paper must carry the title,  author(s)  name(s),
        and  affiliation  in this order. Please specify the symposium in
        which you would like to present the paper (one  of  the  letters
        above).  Each scientist shall submit only 1 paper.

        Please send  t h r e e  copies of the Draft Final Paper to:

                       EMCSR 90 - Conference Secretariat

                    Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
                                Schottengasse 3
                             A-1010 Vienna, Austria

        Deadline for submission: Oct 15, 1989

        Authors will be notified about acceptance no later than Nov  20,
        1989.  They will then be provided with the detailed instructions
        for the preperation of the Final Paper.

        Proceedings containing all accepted papers will be printed.


        For further information write to the above address, call +43 222
        535 32 810, or send email to: sec at ai-vie.uucp

        Questions   concerning   symposium   M   (Parallel   Distributed
        Processing)  can  be directed to Georg Dorffner (same address as
        secretariat), email: georg at ai-vie.uucp