ICANN'94 Program

RAMPO@SALERNO.INFN.IT RAMPO at SALERNO.INFN.IT
Thu Mar 17 17:42:00 EST 1994


 
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 |         *    EUROPEAN NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY           *         |
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 |         *       I C A N N ' 94 - SORRENTO              *         |
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 | ICANN'94 (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS)|
 | is the fourth Annual Conference of ENNS and it comes after       |
 | ICANN'91(Helsinki), ICANN'92 (Brighton), ICANN'93 (Amsterdam).   |
 | It is co-sponsored by INNS, IEEE-NC, JNNS.                       |
 | It will take place at the Sorrento Congress Center, near Naples, |
 | Italy, on May 26-29, 1994.                                       |
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 | Conference Chair: Prof. Maria Marinaro, Univ. Salerno,    	    |
 | Italy, Dept. Theoretic Physics; email: iiass at salerno.infn.it     |
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 | Conference Co-Chair: Prof. Pietro G. Morasso, Univ. Genova,      |
 | Italy, Dept. Informatics, Systems, Telecommunication;            |
 | email: morasso at dist.unige.it; fax: +39 10 3532948                |
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 |			May 26 - Tutorials			    |
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 |*	Introduction to neural networks (J.G. Taylor)               |
 |*	Advanced techniques in supervised learning I (F. Fogelman)  |
 |*	Advanced techniques in supervised learning II (F. Fogelman) | 
 |*	Advanced techniques for self organising maps (T. Kohonen)   |
 |*	Weightless NNs (I. Aleksander)                              |
 |*	Information theory in NNs (M. Plumbley)                     |
 |*	Hybrid systems (T. Schwarz)				    |
 |*	From neuroscience to neurocomputation for robotics and 	    |
 |        prediction (R. Eckmiller)				    |
 |*	Applications of neural nets (R. Hecht-Nielsen)		    |
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 |		May 27/29 - Scientific sessions                     |
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 | Plenary presentations: S. Grossberg, H. Szu, E. Bizzi, D. Amit,  |
 |			  L. Zadeh                                  |
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 | 356 contributions, including 21 invited presentations, are       |
 | presented in 27 oral sessions and 6 poster sessions which are    |
 | grouped into 4 main areas:                                       |
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 |A: Neurobiology						    |
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 |Invited presentations:					    |
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 | S. Grossberg et al.: Spatial pooling and perceptual framing by   |
 |			synchronizing cortical dynamics.	    |
 | J. Herault: Vertebrate retina: sub-sampling and aliasing effects |
 |	       can explain colour-opponent and colour constancy     |
 |	       phenomena.                                           |
 | L.W. Stark: ANNs and MAMFs: transparency or opacity?    	    |
 | S. Usui et al.: Dry electrophysiology: an approach to the        |
 |		   internal representation of the brain functions   |
 |		   through artificial neural networks.              |
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 | There are 4 oral sessions and 1 poster session covering topics on| 
 | vision, motor control, models of biological neurons and circuits.|
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 |B: Mathematical models					    |
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 |Invited presentations:					    |
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 | J.G. Taylor: Neuronal network models of mind.		    |
 | I. Aleksander: The consciousness of a neural state machine.	    |
 | T. Kohonen: What generalisations of the self-organizing map make |
 |	       sense?					            |
 | F. Fogelman: Variable selection with neural networks.	    |
 | M.L. Jordan et al.: Hierarchical mixtures of experts and the EM  |
 |		       algorithm.				    |
 | M. Marinaro et al.: Outline of a linear neural network and       |
 |		       applications.                                |
 | M. Kawato et al.: Teaching by showing in Kendama based on 	    |
 |		     optimization principle.			    |
 | S. Amari: Information geometry and the EM algorithm.		    |
 | C.C.A.M. Gielen: Learning and interpretation of weights in neural| 
 | 		    networks.					    |
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 | There are 10 oral sessions and 3 poster session covering topics  |
 | on fuzzy systems, symbolic and hybrid systems, self-organizing   |
 | maps, attractor networks, RBF networks, reinforcement learning,  |
 | optimization, statistical models, and network growing.           |
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 |C: Applications					            |
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 |Invited presentations:					    |
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 | H. Ritter: Parametrized self-organizing maps for vision learning |
 |	      tasks.					            |
 | R. De Mori et al.: Artificial neural networks for source code in |
 |		      formal information analysis. 		    |
 | E. Oja: Beyond PCA: statistical expansions by nonlinear neural   |
 |	   networks.					            |
 | R.J. Marks II et al.: Fourier analysis and filtering of a single |
 |			 hidden layer perceptron.                   |
 | V. Lopez et al.: Neural forecasting in real time industrial      |
 |		    control.					    |
 | P. Morasso et al.: Cortical representation of external space.    |
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 | There are 10 oral sessions and 2 poster sessions covering topics |
 | on classification models, speech, character recognition, signal  |
 | and image processing, clustering and quantization, robotics and  |
 | control.					                    |
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 |D: Neurocomputing					            |
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 |Invited presentations:					    |
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 | C. Nicolini: From neural network to biomolecular electronics.    |
 | R. Eckmiller: Biology-inspired pulse processing neural networks  |
 |		 (BPN) for neurotechnology.  			    |
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 | There are 3 oral sessions and 1 poster session covering topics   |
 | of computational architecture, hardware design, software tools,  |
 | and fault tolerance.                                             |
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 |            T E C H N I C A L   E X H I B I T I O N               |
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 | A technical exhibition will be organized for presenting the      |
 | literature on neural networks and related fields, neural networks|
 | design and simulation tools, electronic and optical              |
 | implementation of neural computers, and application              |
 | demonstration systems. Potential exhibitors are kindly requested |
 | to contact the industrial liaison chair.                         |
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 | Industrial Liaison Chair: Dr. Roberto Serra, Ferruzzi            |
 | Finanziaria, Ravenna, fax: +39 544 35692/32358                   |
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 | Social activities will include a welcome party, a banquet, and   |
 | post-conference tours to some of the many possible targets of    |
 | the area (participants will also have no difficulty to           |
 | self-organize a la carte).                                       |
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 | EMAIL where to send correspondence (not papers):		    |
 |    Dr. Salvatore Rampone - iiass at salerno.infn.it                 |
 | FAX where to send correspondence (not papers):                   |
 |    Mr. V. DiMarino - +39 89 822275 				    |
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 | - Regular registrants become ENNS members.                       |
 | - Student registrants must provide an official certification of  |
 |   their status.                                                  |
 | - Pre-registration payment: Remittance in LIT to                 |
 |   BANCO DI NAPOLI, Branch  of FISCIANO, FISCIANO (SALERNO), ITALY| 
 |   on the Account of "Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica e S.M.S.A."  |
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 | - On-site payment: cash.                                         |
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 |   remittance must be mailed to:                                  |
 |    Dr. Roberto Tagliaferri, Dept. Informatics, Univ. Salerno,    |
 |    I-84081 Baronissi, Salerno, Italy                             |
 |    Fax +39 89 822275                                             |
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 | RUSSO TRAVEL srl                                                 |
 | Via S. Antonio, I-80067 Sorrento, Italy                          |
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