EMCSR 1990

[Georg Dorffner]

                                  Announcement

           Tenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research

                               April 17-20, 1990
                         University of Vienna, Austria

                                  Symposium L:
             Parallel Distributed Processing in Humans and Machines
                   Chairs: David Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon)
                            Georg Dorffner (Vienna)



        The following papers will be presented:

                          Tuesday afternoon (Apr. 17)

        INVITED LECTURE:
        A Computational Basis for Phonology
        D. Touretzky, USA

        On the Neural Connectance-Performance Relationship
        G. Barna, P. Erdi, Hungary

        Quasi-Optimized Learning Dynamics in Sparsely  Connected  Neural
        Network Models
        K.E. Kuerten, Germany

        Memorization and Deleting in Linear Neural Networks
        A. Petrosino, F. Savastano, R. Tagliaferri, Italy

        A Memory-Based Connectionist Network for Speech Recognition
        C.-C. Chen, Belgium

        Meta-Parsing in Neural Networks
        A. Nijholt, The Netherlands

        Parallel Data Assimilation in Knowledge Networks
        A. Parodi, S. Khouas, France


                          Wednesday morning (Apr. 18):

        Preprocessing   of   Musical   Information   and   Examples   of
        Applications for Neural Networks
        G. Hipfinger, C. Linster, Austria

        Symbolic  Behavior  and  Code  Generation:  The   Emergence   of
        "Equivalence Relations" in Neural Networks
        G.D.A. Brown, M. Oaksford, United Kingdom

        Connectionism and Unsupervised Knowledge Representation
        I.M. Havel, Czechoslovakia

        On Learning Content-Blind Rules
        C. Mannes, G. Dorffner, Austria

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        The conference will include  other  symposia  on  the  following
        topics:

        - General Systems Methodology
        - Fuzzy Sets, Approximate Reasoning and Knowledge-Based Systems
        - Designing and Systems
        - Humanity, Architecture and Conceptualization
        - Cybernetics in Biology and Medicine
        - Cybernetics of Socio-Economic Systems
        - Managing Change and Innovation
        - Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence for Peace 
          Research
        - Communication and Computers
        - Software Development for Systems Theory
        - Artificial Intelligence
        - Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
        - Panel on Organizational Cybernetics, National Development 
          Planning, and Large-Scale Social Experiments

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        Conference Fee: AS 2,900 (ca. $240,  incl.proceedings),  
                        NO FEE for students with valid id!

        The proceedings will also be  available  from  World  Scientific
        Publishing  Co., entitled "Cybernetics and Systems '90; R.Trappl
        (ed.)"

        Registration will be  possible  at  the  conference  site  (main
        building of the University of Vienna). You can also contact:

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

           Tel: +43 1 535 32 810
           Fax: +43 1 63 06 52
           Email: sek at ai-vie.uucp