CNE / USC Workshop Reminder and Update.
Jean-Marc Fellous
fellous%hyla.usc.edu at usc.edu
Wed Feb 10 21:48:50 EST 1993
Thank you for posting the following final announcement:
*********************** Last Reminder and Update ************************
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
A previous announcement (reproduced below) announced a registra-
tion fee of $150 and advertised the availability of hotel accom-
modation at $70/night.
To encourage the participation of qualified students we have made
3 changes:
1) We have appointed Jean-Marc Fellous as Student Chair for the
meeting to coordinate the active involvement of such students.
2) We offer a Student Registration Fee of only $40 to students
whose application is accompanied by a letter from their supervi-
sor attesting to their student status.
3) Mr. Fellous has identified a number of lower-cost housing op-
tions, and will respond to queries to fellous at rana.usc.edu
The original announcement - with updated registration form - fol-
lows:
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 introductory 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 pa-
pers. 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 net-
works.
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
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. Information on student accommodation may be ob-
tained from the Student Chair, Jean-Marc Fellous,
fellous at rana.usc.edu.
The registration fee of $150 ($40 for qualified students who in-
clude a "certificate of student status" from their advisor) in-
cludes 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 ($40 for students) 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, 1993
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