Neural Control Colloquium bei Daimler-Benz in Berlin

Thu Apr 7 14:33:00 EDT 1994

	IEE Colloquium on Advances in Neural 
	Networks for Control and Systems
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	Date: 		25-27 May 1994
	Venue: 		Systems Technology Research,
			Daimler-Benz AG, Berlin, Germany

	Co-sponsors: 	IEE German Centre
			The Michael Faraday Institution e.V.
			Daimler-Benz AG

		Provisional Programme
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Wednesday 25 May
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18:30 -- 20:30
Welcoming reception and buffet

Thursday 26 May
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8:30 Registration

9:30 -- 10:15
Supervised learning and divide-and-conquer via the EM algorithm
EM = Expectation-Maximization
M. Jordan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

10:15 -- 10:45
The TACOMA algorithm for reflective growing of neural networks
TACOMA = TAsk decomposition, COrrelation Measures and local
Attention neurons
J. Lange, H-M. Voigt and D. Wolf (Center for Applied Computer
Science, and Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

Pause

11:15 -- 12:00
The ASMOD algorithm - some theoretical and practical results
ASMOD = Adaptive Spline Modelling of Observation Data			
T. Kavli and E. Weyer (SINTEF SI, Oslo, Norway)

12:00 -- 12:30
Semi-empirical modelling of non-linear dynamical systems
T. A. Johansen (Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway)

Lunch

14:00 -- 14:45		
Neural networks for control of industrial processes		
B. Schuermann (Siemens AG, Munich, Germany)

14:45 -- 15:15
Data analysis by means of Kohonen feature maps for load forecast 
in power systems
S. Heine and I. Neumann (Hochschule fuer Technik, Leipzig, 
and BEST Data Engineering GmbH, Germany)

Pause

15:45 -- 16:15
Improved prediction of the corrosion behaviour of car body steel
using a Kohonen self-organising map
W. Kessler, R. Kessler, M. Kraus (Fachhochschule fuer Technik 
und Wirtschaft, Reutlingen, Germany),
and R. Kuebler (Mercedes-Benz AG, Sindlefingen, Germany)

16:15 -- 16:45
Adaptive neural network control of the temperature in an oven
O. Dubois, J. Nicolas and A. Billat
(UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Reims, France)

16:45 -- 17:15
Exothermic heat estimation using fuzzy-neural nets for a batch
reactor temperature control system
E. Cuellar, J. Coronado, C. Moreno and J. Izquierdo
(University of Valladolid, Spain)

19:30 Colloquium Dinner

Friday 27 May 
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9:00 -- 9:45			
On interpolating memories for learning control
H. Tolle (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany) 

9:45 --10:15
Comparison of optimisation techniques for training feedforward networks		
G. Irwin and G Lightbody (Queen's University of Belfast, UK)

10:15 -- 10:45
Dynamic systems in neural networks					
K. Warwick, C Kambhampati(University of Reading, UK)
and P. Parks (University of Oxford, UK)

Pause

11:15 -- 12:00
Adaptive neurocontrol of MIMO systems based on stability theory
MIMO = Multi-input Multi-Output
J-M Renders, M. Saerens, and H. Bersini 
(Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

12:00 -- 12:30
Learning in neural networks and stochastic approximation with averaging		
P. Shcherbakov, S. Tikhonov (Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
and J. Mason (University of Reading, UK)

Lunch

14:00 -- 14:45
Adaptive neurofuzzy systems for difficult modelling and control problems
M. Brown and C. Harris (University of Southampton, UK) 

14:45 -- 15:15
Constructive training - industrial perspectives
R. Murray-Smith, K. Hunt and F. Lohnert (Daimler-Benz AG, Berlin, Germany)

Pause

15:45 -- 16:15			
Equalisation using non-linear adaptive clustering
C. Cowan (Loughborough University of Technology, UK)

16:15 -- 16:45
Hierarchical competitive net architecture
T. Long (NeuroDyne Inc.)
and E. Hanzevack (University of South Carolina, USA)

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"ADVANCES IN NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CONTROL AND SYSTEMS"

Colloquium from Wednesday, 25 - Friday, 27 May 1994 at

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