CNE WORKSHOP - PROGRAM
Jean-Marc Fellous
fellous at rana.usc.edu
Wed Oct 13 20:36:19 EDT 1993
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The Center for Neural Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089-2520
Announces a Workshop - Oct 19-20, 1993
Neural Architectures and Distributed AI: From Schema Assemblages
to Neural Networks October 19-20, 1993
Program Committee: Michael Arbib (Organizer), George Bekey,
Damian Lyons, and Ron Sun
This message contains the PROGRAM for the meeting and comes with
a warm invitation to participate in the Workshop. Registration
materials are provided at the end. Please plan to join us in Los
Angeles in October for the workshop - and do consider coming a
day early to take part in the CNE Review.
Scope of the Workshop: To design complex technological systems,
we need a multilevel methodology which combines a coarse-grain
analysis of cooperative or distributed 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 powerful general paradigm). Schemas
provide a language for distributed artificial intelligence and
perceptual robotics which is "in the style of the brain", but at
a relatively high level of abstraction relative to neural
networks. We seek (both at the level of schema asemblages, and
in terms of "modular" neural networks) a distributed model of
computation, supporting many concurrent activities for
recognition of objects, and the planning and control of different
activities. The use, representation, and recall of knowledge is
mediated through the activity of a network of interacting
computing agents which between them provide processes for going
from a particular situation and a particular structure of goals
and tasks to a suitable course of action. This action may
involve passing of messages, changes of state, instantiation to
add new schema instances to the network, deinstantiation to
remove instances, and may involve self-modification and self-
organization. Schemas provide a form of knowledge representation
which differs from frames and scripts by being of a finer
granularity. Schema theory is generative: schemas may well be
linked to others to provide yet more comprehensive schemas,
whereas frames tend to "build in" from the overall framework.
The analysis of interacting computing agents (the schema
instances) is intermediate between the overall specification of
some behavior and the neural networks that subserve it. The
Workshop will focus on different facets of this multi-level
methodology.
Abstracts will be collected in a CNE Technical Report which will
be made available to registrants at the start of the meeting.
Monday: The meeting will start at 6:30pm on Monday evening (for
those who have formally registered): Evening at the University
Hilton No-Host Bar followed by Dinner
Note: Members of the USC community are welcome to attend the
presentations (but not the dinner) free of charge - please obtain
your free registration between 8:30 and 9:00am on Tuesday.
USC registrants may purchase the Workshop Proceedings for $10.
---------------------------- TUESDAY
All talks except for the last session will be given in the Hedco
Neurosciences Building Auditorium 8:30am Registration. Hedco
Neurosciences Building Lobby
- Introductory Overview
> 9:00am Schemas and Neural Networks: A Multi-Level Approach
to Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Michael A. Arbib - University of Southern California
- Schemas for Robotics
> 10:00am Reactive Schema-based Robotic Systems: Principles
and Practice.
Ronald C. Arkin - Georgia Institute of Technology
> 10:30 Coffee
> 11:00am A Schema-Theory Approach to Building and Analysing
the Behavior of Robot Systems
D. M. Lyons - North American Philips Corporation
> 11:30am Visually Guided Multi-Fingered Robot Hand Grasping
as Defined by Schemas and a Reactive System.
T. G. Murphy - University of Massachusetts, Lowell D. M. Lyons
& A.J. Hendricks - North American Philips Corporation
> 12 Noon Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Reaching and Grasping
Andrew H. Fagg - University of Southern California
> 12:30pm Lunch
> 1:30pm A Knowledge Base for Neural Guidance System
Ramon Krosley & Manavendra Misra - Colorado School of Mines
> 2:00pm Multiresolutional Schemata for Motion Control
A. Meystel - Drexel University
> 2:30pm Baby Sub: Using Schemata for Conceptual Learning
Alberto Lacaze & Michael Meystel - Drexel University
> 3:00pm Refreshments
> 3:30pm A Real-Time Neural Implementation of a Schema Driven Toy-Car.
Jan N. H. Heenskerk & Fred Keijzer - Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Schemas, NNs, Vision, and Visuomotor Coordination
> 4:00pm Representing and Learning Visual Schemas in Neural Networks for
Scene Analysis
Wee Kheng Leow & Risto Miikkulainen - University of Texas at Austin
> 4:30pm Integration of Connectionist and Symbolic Modules in a Vision Task
Masumi Ishikawa, Kengo Matsuo & Kenichi Yoshino Kyushu
Institute of Technology, Japan
-------------------- WEDNESDAY
> 9:00am A Schema-Theoretic Approach to Study the "Chantlitaxia"
Behavior in the Praying Mantis
Francisco Cervantes Perez, Arturo Franco, Susana Velazquez and
Nydia Lara - ITAM and UNAM, Mexico
> 9:30am Schema Based Learning and Anuran Detour Behavior
Fernando J. Corbacho and Hyun Bong Lee
University of Southern California
> 10:00am "What", "Where", and the Architecture of Action-Oriented
Perception
Michael A. Arbib - University of Southern California
> 10:30am Coffee
- Programming Environments for Schemas and NNs
> 11:00am ASL:Hierarchy, Composition, Heterogeneity, and Multi-
Granularity in Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming
A. Weitzenfeld - University of Southern California
> 11:30am A Message Passing Based Approach to the Design of Modular
Neural Network Systems
Lawrence Gunn - MacDonald Dettwiler Associates, Canada
> 12 Noon A Paradigm for Handling Neural Networks in Databases
Erich Schikuta - University of Vienna
> 12:30pm Lunch
- Schemas and Connectionism
> 1:30pm Feeling-Based Schemas
Peter H.Greene & Greg T.H. Chien - Illinois Institute of
Technology
> 2:00pm Neural Schemas and Connectionist Logics: A Synthesis of
the Symbolic and the Subsymbolic
Ron Sun - The University of Alabama
> 2:30pm Distributed Knowledge Representation in Adaptive Self-
Organizing Concurrent Systems
Andrew Bartczak - The University of Rhode Island
> 3:00pm Refreshments
**Refreshments and the concluding session will take place
at the Auditorium of the Andrus Gerontology Center.**
> 3:30pm A Connectionist Model of Semantic Memory for Metaphor
Interpretation
Tony Veale & Mark Keane - Trinity College, Ireland
> 4:00pm Schema-based Modeling of Commonsense Understanding of
Causal Narratives
Srinivas Narayanan - University of California, Berkeley
> 4:30pm Dynamic Schema Instances in the Conposit Framework
John A. Barnden - New Mexico State University
************** BONUS EVENT: CNE RESEARCH REVIEW ****************
Registrants for the Workshop are invited to attend, at no extra
charge, the CNE Research Review to be held on Monday, October 18,
1993. The Review will present a day-long sampling of CNE
research. In particular, the meeting will celebrate the opening
of two new CNE Laboratories: The Autonomous Robotics Laboratory
and the The Neuro-Optical Computing Laboratory which join the
Brain Simulation Laboratory in the Hedco Neurosciences Building.
During the day, George Bekey will present an overview of our
research on autonomous robots, while Keith Jenkins and Armand
Tanguay will review the state of the art in our research on
optical implementation of neural networks. Related talks will
include those by Bing Sheu on VLSI for Neural Networks and by
Alfredo Weitzenfeld on neural simulation tools. Another major
development we will celebrate is the ever-strengthening
cooperation between CNE and USC's Program in Neural,
Informational, and Behavioral Sciences (NIBS) in bringing
information technology to bear in catalyzing new insights into
the complexity of the brain. Scott Grafton will review our use
of PET scans to gain new insight into human brain mechanisms of
vision, action and memory; while Denis McLeod will present our
approach to the construction of federated databases for
neuroscience and other scientific applications. The Program will
be rounded out by talks by other faculty and students, student
posters, and demonstrations of hardware and software.
Accommodation 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) 7480043. A
single room costs $70/night while a double room costs $75/night.
Workshop participants must specify that they are "CNE Workshop"
attendees to avail themselves of the above rates. Information
on student accommodation may be obtained from the Student Chair,
Jean-Marc Fellous, jfellous at pollux.usc.edu.
REGISTRATION The registration fee of $150 ($40 for qualified
students who include a "certificate of student status" from their
advisor and for CNE Members) includes a copy of the abstracts,
coffee breaks, and a dinner to be held on the evening of October
18th. Those wishing to register should send a check payable to
"Center for Neural Engineering, USC" for $150 ($40 for students
and CNE members) together with the following information to:
Marietta Pobst
Center for Neural Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520,
USA.
mpobst at pollux.usc.edu
Tel: (213) 740-1176; Fax: (213) 740-5687
SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS Center for Neural Engineering;
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