meeting: connectionism and cognition

[Georg Dorffner]

                        ! ! !   Call for Papers   ! ! !


                                  Symposium on
                     CONNECTIONISM AND COGNITIVE PROCESSING


                                 as part of the
        Eleventh European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR)

                              April 21 - 24, 1992
                                Vienna, Austria


                                    Chairs:
                        Noel Sharkey (Univ. of Exeter)
                        Georg Dorffner (Univ. of Vienna)

        After the successes of  two  sessions  on  Parallel  Distributed
        Processing at the previous EMCSRs, this symposium is designed to
        keep abreast with the  increasing  importance  of  connectionism
        (neural networks) in artificial intelligence, cognitive science,
        as well as in neuroscience and the philosophy and psychology  of
        the  mind.   Therefore, original papers from all these areas are
        invited. Descriptions of implemented models are  as  welcome  as
        theoretical or application-oriented contributions.


        Papers must not exceed 7 single-spaced A4 pages (max. 50  lines,
        final size will be 8.5 x 6 inch) and be written in English. They
        must contain the final text to be  submitted,  including  graphs
        and  figures  (these  need  not be of reducible quality). Please
        send t h r e e copies of  each  submission.   The  deadline  for
        submissions  is  Oct  15, 1991 (postmarked). However, if a brief
        note of intent to  submit  a  paper  (containing  the  tentative
        title)   is   emailed  to  georg at ai-vie.uucp  (alternatively  to
        georg%ai-vie.uucp at relay.eu.net) by the above date, papers can be
        sent until

                            Nov 1, 1991 (postmarked)

        Authors will then be notified about acceptance within  three  to
        four weeks. Authors of accepted papers will be provided detailed
        instructions for the final format  for  the  proceedings  to  be
        published by the time of the conference.

        Send all submissions -  marked  with  the  letter  'N'  for  the
        connectionist symposium - to

                          EMCSR conference secretariat
              Oesterreichische Studiengesellschaft fuer Kybernetik
                                Schottengasse 3
                             A-1010 Vienna, Austria


        or inquire about more details at the same address, at

                             tel: +43 1 535 32 810

        or at

                           email: georg at ai-vie.uucp

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        other symposia at the EMCSR will be:

        A: General Systems Methodology
        B: Mathematical Systems Theory
        C: Computer Aided Process Interpretation
        D: Fuzzy Sets, Approximate Reasoning and Knowledge-Based Systems
        E: Designing and Systems
        F: Humanity, Architecture and Conceptualization
        G: Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology
        H: Systems and Ecology
        I: Cybernetics in Medicine
        J: Cybernetics of Socio-Economic Systems
        K: Systems, Management and Organization
        L: Cybernetics of National Development
        M: Communication and Computers
        O: Intelligent Autonomous Systems
        P: Telepresence, Virtual Environments, and Interactive Fantasy
        Q: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
        R: History of Cybernetics and Systems Research

        Submissions  to  these  symposia  can  also  be  sent   to   the
        secretariat  no  later  than  Oct  15,  1991 (the above extended
        deadline only applies to the connectionist meeting).