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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| * P R E L I M I N A R Y P R O G R A M * |
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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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| S O C I A L P R O G R A M |
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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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| C O R R E S P O N D E N C E |
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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." |
| clearly stating the motivation (Registration Fee for ICANN'94) |
| and the attendee name. |
| Bank Codes: |
| ABI 1010 |
| CAB 76210 |
| - On-site payment: cash. |
| - The registration form together with a copy of the bank |
| 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 |
| Fax: +39 81 807 1367 Phone: +39 81 807 1845 |
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