CNE Workshop/USC Call For Papers

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		         CALL FOR PAPERS


   SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS: INTEGRATING SYMBOLIC AND SUBSYMBOLIC
		APPROACHES TO COOPERATIVE COMPUTATION

		    A Workshop sponsored by the

		   Center for Neural Engineering 
		University of  Southern  California
		     Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520

                     April 13th and 14th, 1993



Program  Committee:  Michael  Arbib  (Organizer),  John  Barnden,
George  Bekey,  Francisco  Cervantes-Perez,  Damian  Lyons,  Paul
Rosenbloom, Ron Sun, Akinori Yonezawa.


  To design complex technological systems and  to  analyze  complex
  biological and cognitive systems, we need a multilevel methodolo-
  gy which combines a coarse-grain analysis of  cooperative or dis-
  tributed  computation  (we shall refer to the computing agents at
  this level as "schemas") with a  fine-grain  model  of  flexible,
  adaptive  computation (for which neural networks provide a power-
  ful general paradigm).  Schemas provide  a language  for  distri-
  buted  artificial  intelligence,  perceptual  robotics, cognitive
  modeling, and brain theory which is "in the style of the  brain",
  but  at a relatively high level of abstraction relative to neural
  networks. The proposed workshop will provide a 2-hour introducto-
  ry  tutorial and problem statement by Michael Arbib, and sessions
  in which an invited paper will be followed by several contributed
  papers,   selected  from those submitted in response to this call
  for papers.  Preference will be given  to  papers  which  present
  practical  examples  of,  theory  of,  and/or methodology for the
  design and analysis of  complex  systems  in  which  the  overall
  specification  or  analysis is conducted in terms of schemas, and
  where some but not necessarily all of the schemas are implemented
  in neural networks.

A list of sample topics for contributions is as follows, where  a
hybrid  approach  means one in which the abstract schema level is
integrated with neural or other lower level models:

	Schema Theory as a description language for neural networks.
	Modular neural networks.
	Linking DAI to Neural Networks to Hybrid Architecture.
	Formal Theories of Schemas.
	Hybrid approaches to integrating planning & reaction.
	Hybrid approaches to learning. 
	Hybrid approaches to commonsense reasoning by integrating 
		neural networks and rule-based reasoning (using 
		schema for the integration).
	Programming Languages for Schemas and Neural Networks.
	Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming for Distributed AI 
		and Neural Networks.
	Schema Theory Applied in Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, 
		Robotics, AI and Neuroscience.

Prospective contributors should send a hard copy of  a  five-page
extended  abstract,   including figures with informative captions
and full references (either by regular mail or fax)  by  February
15,  1993   to: 

	          Michael Arbib
	  Center for Neural Engineering 
	University of Southern California
	 Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA 

	      Tel: (213) 740-9220, 
	      Fax: (213) 746-2863, 
	      email: arbib at pollux.usc.edu.  
 
Please include your full address, including fax and email, 
on the paper.  

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by email  no
later  than March 1, 1993.  There are currently no plans to issue
a formal proceedings of full papers, but revised versions of  ac-
cepted abstracts received prior to April 1, 1993 will be collect-
ed with the full text of the Tutorial in a CNE  Technical  Report
which  will  be made available to registrants at the start of the
meeting.   [A useful way to structure  such  an  abstract  is  in
short  numbered sections, where each section presents (in a small
type face!) the material corresponding to one  transparency/slide
in  a  verbal presentation.  This will make it  easy for an audi-
ence to take notes if they have a copy of the  abstract  at  your
presentation.]

Hotel Information:  Attendees may register at the hotel of  their
choice,  but  the  closest hotel to USC is the University Hilton,
3540 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007, Phone:   (213)
748-  4141,  Reservation:  (800) 872-1104, Fax:  (213) 748- 0043.
A  single  room  costs  $70/night  while  a  double  room   costs
$75/night.   Workshop  participants  must  specify  that they are
"Schemas and Neural Networks Workshop" attendees to avail of  the
above rates.

The registration fee of $150 includes a copy  of  the  abstracts,
coffee  breaks,  and  a dinner to be held on the evening of April
13th.

Those wishing to register should send a check payable  to  Center
for  Neural Engineering, USC for $150 together with the following
information to: 

	Paulina  Tagle
 Center  for  Neural  Engineering
University  of Southern California
	University Park 
    Los Angeles CA 90089-2520
              USA


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		SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS 
	  Center for  Neural  Engineering,  USC
                    April 13 - 14, 1992


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