NN Workshop
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Dear Colleague ,
You are receiving this mail either
- because you showed interest in applying NN methods in the trigger
of HEP experiments and responded to our recent survey
or
- because you have participated in the Elba Workshop
Our original intention was to organize a workshop only for trigger applications.
We now have accepted the kind invitation of the organizers of the
Second International Workshop on Software Engineering, Artificial
Intelligence and Expert Systems for High Energy and Nuclear Physics
and we think that the 2 days topical workshop (number 4 in the following
Bulletin) would be a good start to bring interested people together.
This - in case of strong interest - could be followed by a dedicated workshop
in the Munich area next fall or later.
So we encourage you to send abstracts to this workshop in order to have
a succesfull meeting.
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SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR HIGH ENERGY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS
January 13 - 18 1992
L'AGELONDE FRANCE-TELECOM LA LONDE-LES-MAURES
BP 64 F-83250
FRANCE
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
G. Auger GANIL Caen, F
K. H. Becks Bergische Univ. Wuppertal, D
R. Brun CERN CN Geneva, CH
S. Cittolin CERN ECP Geneva, CH
B. Denby FNAL Chicago, USA
F. Etienne CPPM Marseille, F
V. Frigo CERN DG Geneva, CH
R. Gatto Geneva univ. Geneva, CH
G. Gonnet ETHZ Zurich CH
M. Green Royal Holloway Col. Egham Surray, GB
F. Hautin CNET Lannion, F
A. Kataev INR Moscow, USSR
C. Kiesling MPI Munich, D
P. Kunz SLAC Stanford, USA
J. Lefoll DPHPE Saclay Palaisseau, F
E. Malandain CERN PS Geneva, CH
V. Matveev INR Moscow, USSR
M. Metcalf CERN CN Geneva, CH
T. Nash FNAL Chicago, USA
D. Perret-Gallix LAPP Annecy, F
C. Peterson Lund Univ. Lund, S
P. Ribarics MPI Munich, D
M. Sendall CERN ECP Geneva, CH
Y. Shimizu KEK Tsukuba, JP
D. Shirkov JINR Dubna, USSR
M. Veltman Univ. Michigan Ann Arbor, USA
J. Vermaseren NIKHEF-H Amsterdam, NL
C. Vogel CISI Paris, F
W. Wojcik CCIN2P3 Lyon, F
Dear Colleague,
Some of you may remember the first workshop organized in Lyon in March
1990. The enthusiasm and interest of the participants (200) showed
clearly that this type of meeting was filling a real need for discussion
and information. Two years later, we think it is time for another
gettogether with a perspective of the large High Energy and Nuclear Physics
experiments.
We foresee a true type of workshop where in addition to scheduled
presentations, plenty of time will be available for informal discussion.
Our main objectives are:
* To create a bridge, a real link, between computer experts and others.
Modern computing techniques are developing rapidly and the gap between
physics and computer science activites is getting larger and larger.
This workshop is intended to bring to a physicist an understanding
of them to a level that real work can begin.
----> Tutorials
* Physics research is at the mercy of the industry in many
aspects. We have to create a forum between research and industry.
The problems encountered in large experiments are close
to industrial level and both sides can profit from such collaboration
----> Specialized Workshops, Products Showroom
* There will not be HEP experiments at SSC/LHC without integrating
new computing technologies, like going to the moon without the
transistor.
"How we will do it ?" is a question that should be addressed
right now. Experiments must have these techniques built-in in order
to perform at nominal value.
----> ASTEC project
The workshop will take place in a nice resort, in the France-Telecom
site "L'AGELONDE", on the French riviera (cote d'Azur, 500 m from the beach).
We will have access to an Ethernet network and video-conferencing
can be set up.
The full six-day Workshop will be organized as follows:
Monday 13-14 January Tutorials and, in parallel, Topical Workshops
TUTORIALS:
Monday 13
(1) 9h-12h30 CASE and Graphical User Interfaces
(2) 14h-18h C++ and Object Oriented Programing
Tuesday 14
(3) 9h-12h30 Expert systems and Artificial Intelligence
(4) 14h-18h Neural Networks in trigger and data analysis
TOPICAL WORKSHOP (Monday 13-Tuesday 14)
(1) Symbolic Manipulation Techniques
"Problems and Results of Symbolic Computations
in High Energy and Quantum field Theory"
(2) Networks and distributed computing
(3) Software development for "Big Sciences"
(4) Methods and techniques of artificial intelligence
Wednesday 15 January
Round-table, discussions, ASTEC project organization
Thursday 15 - Saturday 17 PLENARY SESSIONS
The ASTEC Project
One session will be devoted to the organization of long standing working
groups, not directly depending on experimental projects or accelerators
(LEP200, LHC, UNK, SSC, RHIC, HERA, KEK, CEBAF, B-Factories,
Tau/charm-Factories, ...) but with this future in mind.
The importance of these techniques has been largely demonstrated at LEP.
The purpose of the ASTEC project is to prepare reports to be used as
references or user-guides for developing more dedicated applications.
(Similar to the CERN yellow report for Physics at LEP or LHC)
This workshop will launch the project by precisely surveying the items
to be studied and naming various responsibilities for
a one to two year program. The outcome of this work will be presented
at a later workshop and published as a book.
The large task facing us will include evaluation of commercial products,
collaboration with companies to improve selected items, definition
and running of benchmarks, building pilot projects and making
proposals for standardization of tools, data description, languages
and systems.
REMEMBER:
"Higher luminosities are also achieved through a low down-time
and DAQ dead-time, more accurate triggers and
better event reconstruction programs. "
"ASTEC project: an Energy Saver Enterprise"
Three main groups will be organized:
(A) Group: Software Engineering
(1) Subgroup: Languages and Systems
- Conventional languages, Fortran 90, C, ...
- Object Oriented Languages, C++, Objective-C, ...
- Mixed languages environment
- Operating systems HEPIX, HEPVM, ...
- Network Wide Application software maintenance
- Porting packages between languages and OS.
- DataBase maintenance (updating, access protection)
- Data description and representation
(2) Subgroup: CASE
Tools for developing, maintaining and designing
software projects.
- Intelligent Editors
- Maintenance of multi-version application: CMZ, Historian, ...
- On-line Documentation
- Symbolic debuggers
- Data representation
- Software design and simulation
- System simulations for real-time application
-
(3) Subgroup: Interactive Analysis
- Event Server
- Workstation <-> Mainframe cooperation
- Graphical User Interface
- Interactive Analysis packages PAW, Reason, IDAL, ...
-
(B) Group: A.I.
(1) Subgroup: Languages, Systems
- Prolog II, Prolog III, ...
- Mixing Prolog, OOL and Conventional languages in
applications
- Expert system development management.
-
(2) Subgroup: Expert systems
- Off-line support
- Hardware testing and maintenance
- On-line assistance
- Real-time expert systems
- Electronic log-book
- Testing expert systems: Validation and verification
- Embedding E.S. support in detectors or systems
(3) Subgroup: Pattern recognition methods
- Track and shower recognition
- Event selection
- Fuzzy-logic in pattern recognition
- Genetic Algorithms
-
(4) Subgroup: Neural Networks
- Algorithms for off-line pattern recognition
- Algorithms for fast triggering
- Test of Silicon Neural Network prototypes
- Neural Network training
(C) Group: Symbolic Manipulation Techniques
(1) Subgroup: Languages, Systems
- Schoonschip, Form, Reduce, Mathematica, Scratchpad II,
GAL, Maple, ... a critical review.
- Graphics for representation of diagrams and for
display of results
- Database for intermediate computations and results,
integrals, sub-diagrams, ...
-
(2) Subgroup: Feynman Diagrams
- Diagram generation
- Symbolic diagram computation
- Symbolic/numeric integral computation
- Feynman Diagram Symbolic Manipulation Collaboration
-
(3) Subgroup: Quantum Field Theory and Super-Algebra
- methods and algorithms of higher order calculations
- symbolic manipulation for N-loop calculations
- numerical methods for N-loop calculations
- calculations in supersymmetry theories (SUSY, SG, Strings)
- applications in Quantum Field Theory
-
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Talks will be selected by the Organizing Committee on the basis of a
detailed abstract to be submitted before:
15 October, 1991.
A poster session will be organized.
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SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR HIGH ENERGY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS
1992
January 13 - 18
L'AGELONDE FRANCE-TELECOM LA LONDE LES MAURES
BP 64 F-83250
REGISTRATION
NAME: FIRSTNAME:
LABORATORY: COUNTRY
ADDRESS:
TEL: FAX: TELEX: E-MAIL:
HOTEL RESERVATION (Number of persons):
In the following you are expected to answer with the corresponding number
or character from the list above.
However if your interest is not mentioned in the list give a full
description.
WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED TO JOIN A WORKING GROUP OF THE ASTEC PROJECT ?
YES/NO
GROUP:
SUBGROUP:
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ATTEND TOPICAL WORKSHOPS OR TUTORIALS ?
WORKSHOPS:
TUTORIALS:
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRESENT A TALK ?
YES/NO
TALK TITLE:
To be considered by the organizing committee, send an extended abstract
before Oct. 15, 1991 to:
Michele Jouhet Marie-claude Fert
CERN L.A.P.P. - IN2P3
PPE-ADM B.P. 110
CH-1211 Geneve 23 F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux
SWITZERLAND FRANCE
Tel: (41) 22 767 21 23 Tel: (33) 50 23 32 45
Fax: (41) 22 767 65 55 Fax: (33) 50 27 94 95
Telex: 419 000 Telex: 385 180 F
E-mail: jouhet at CERNVM
Workshop fee : 700 FFr. Student : 500 FFr.
Accommodation : 2000 FFr. Accompagning Person: +1200 FFr.
To be paid by check:
Title: International Workshop
CREDIT LYONNAIS/Agence Internationale
Bank: 30002
Guichet: 1000
Account: 909154 V
Address: LYON REPUBLIQUE
The accommodation includes: hotel-room, breakfast, lunch and dinner
for 6 days.
Tennis, mountain bike and other activities will be available.
Denis Perret-Gallix Tel: (41) 22 767 62 93 E-mail: Perretg at CERNVM
Fax: (41) 22 782 89 23
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