3rd European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks: programme & registration
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* 3rd European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks *
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* What's new in fundamental research? *
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* Brussels - April 19-20-21, 1995 *
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* Preliminary Program *
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This e-mail contains all information concerning the 3rd European
Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, to be held in Brussels,
on 19-20-21 April, 1995:
- general information about the conference
- the full programme
- the committees
- practical information
- how to register
The field of Artificial Neural Networks includes a lot of different
disciplines, from mathematics and statistics to robotics and electronics.
For this reason, actual studies concern various aspects of the field,
sometimes to the detriment of strong, well established foundations for
these researches; it is obvious that a better knowledge of the basic
aspects of neurocomputing, and more effective comparisons with other
computing methods are strongly necessary for a profitable long-term use of
neural networks in applications.
The purpose of the ESANN series of conferences is to present the latest
results in the fundamental aspects of artificial neural networks. The
third European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks will be organized in
Brussels, on 19-21 April 1995. It will cover most of the main theoretical,
mathematical and fundamental new developments of the field: learning,
models, approximation of functions, classification, control, signal
processing, biology, self-organisation and many other topics will be
treated during the conference. ESANN'95 is coupled with the 'Neurap'95'
conference (Marseilles, France, December 1995), which will present the
appplications of neural network methods.
The program committee of ESANN'95 received 112 submissions of
communications; 53 were selected for presentation during the symposium, and
will be included in the proceedings. This severe selection guarantees the
high quality of the selected papers. Besides these presentations, four
invited speakers (David Stork, Hans-Peter Mallot, Pierre Comon and
Christian Jutten) will present the state-of-the-art and the recent
developments in some particular aspects of the topics covered by the
conference.
The steering and program committees of ESANN'95 are pleased to invite you
to participate to this symposium. More than a formal conference presenting
the last developments in the field, ESANN'95 will be also a forum for open
discussions, round tables and opportunities for future collaborations. We
hope to have the pleasure to meet you in April, in the splendid town of
Brussels, and that your stay in Belgium will be as scientifically
beneficial as agreeable.
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- Programme of the conference -
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Wednesday 19th April 1995
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8H30 Registration
9H00 Opening session
Session 1: Self-organisation
Chairman: F. Blayo (Univ. Paris I, France)
9H10 "Self-organisation, metastable states and the ODE method in
the Kohonen neural network"
J.A. Flanagan, M. Hasler
E.P.F. Lausanne (Switzerland)
9H30 "About the Kohonen algorithm: strong or weak
self-organization?"
J.-C. Fort*, G. Pages**
*Univ. Nancy I & Univ. Paris I (France),
**Univ. Paris 6 & Univ. Paris 12 (France)
9H50 "Topological interpolation in SOM by affine transformations"
J. Goppert, W. Rosenstiel
Univ. Tuebingen (Germany)
10H10 "Dynamic Neural Clustering"
K. Moscinska
Silesian Tech. Univ. (Poland)
10H30 "Multiple correspondence analysis of a crosstabulations
matrix using the Kohonen algorithm"
S. Ibbou, M. Cottrell
Univ. Paris I (France)
10H50 Coffee break
Session 2: Models 1
Chairman: J. Stonham (Brunel Univ., United Kingdom)
11H10 "Identification of the human arm kinetics using dynamic
recurrent neural networks"
J.-P. Draye*, G. Cheron**, M. Bourgeois**, D. Pavisic*,
G. Libert*
*Fac. Polytech. de Mons (Belgium), **Univ. Brussels (Belgium)
11H30 "Simplified cascade-correlation learning"
M. Lehtokangas, J. Saarinen, K. Kaski
Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)
11H50 "Active noise control with dynamic recurrent neural networks"
D. Pavisic, L. Blondel, J.-P. Draye, G. Libert, P. Chapelle
Fac. Polytech. de Mons (Belgium)
12H10 "Cascade learning for FIR-TDNNs"
M. Diepenhorst, J.A.G. Nijhuis, L. Spaanenburg
Rijksuniv. Groningen (The Netherlands)
12H30 Lunch
14H00 Invited paper:
D. Stork (Ricoh California Research Center), A. Sperduti
(Univ. di Pisa)
"Recent developments in transformation-invariant pattern
classification"
Session 3: Signal processing and chaos
Chairman: M. Hasler (E.P.F. Lausanne, Switzerland)
14H45 "Adaptive signal processing with unidirectional Hebbian
adaptation laws"
J. Dehaene, J. Vandewalle
Kat. Univ. Leuven (Belgium)
15H05 "MAP decomposition of a mixture of AR signal using multilayer
perceptrons"
C. Couvreur
Fac. Polytech. de Mons (Belgium)
15H25 "XOR and backpropagation learning: in and out of the chaos?"
K. Bertels*, L. Neuberg*, S. Vassiliadis**, G. Pechanek***
*Fac. Univ. N.-D. de la Paix (Belgium), **T.U. Delft (The
Netherlands), ***IBM Microelectronics Div. (USA)
15H45 "Analog Brownian weight movement for learning of artificial
neural networks"
M.R. Belli, M. Conti, C. Turchetti
Univ. of Ancona (Italy)
16H05 Coffee break
Session 4: Biological models
Chairman: H.P. Mallot (Max-Planck Institut, Germany)
16H30 "Spatial summation in simple cells: computational and
experimental results"
F. Worgotter*, E. Nelle*, B. Li**, L. Wang**, Y.-C. Diao**
*Ruhr Univ. Bochum (Germany), **Academia Sinica (China)
16H50 "Activity-dependent neurite outgrowth in a simple network
model including excitation and inhibition"
C. van Oss, A. van Ooyen
Neth. Inst. for Brain Research (The Netherlands)
17H10 "Predicting spike train responses of neuron models"
S. Joeken, H. Schwegler
Univ. of Bremen (Germany)
17H30 "A distribution-based model of the dynamics of neural
networks in the cerebral cortex"
A. Terao*, M. Akamatsu*, J. Seal**
*Nat. Inst. of Bioscience and Human Technology (Japan),
**CNRS Marseilles (France)
17H50 "Some new results on the coding of pheromone intensity in an
olfactory sensory neuron"
A. Vermeulen*,**, J.-P. Rospars*, P. Lansky***,*, H.C.
Tuckwell****,*
*INRA (France), **I.N.P. Grenoble (France), ***Acad. of
Sciences (Czech Republic), ****Australian Nat. Univ.
(Australia)
Thursday 20th April 1995
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Session 5: Special session on the Elena-Nerves2 ESPRIT Basic
Research project
Chairman: M. Cottrell (Univ. Paris I, France)
9H00 Invited paper:
P. Comon (Thomson-Sintra, France)
"Supervised classification: a probabilistic approach"
9H30 Invited paper:
C. Jutten, O. Fambon (Inst. Nat. Pol. Grenoble, France)
"Pruning methods: a review"
10H00 "A deterministic method for establishing the initial
conditions in the RCE algorithm"
J.M. Moreno, F.X. Vazquez, F. Castillo, J. Madrenas,
J. Cabestany
Univ. Politecnica Catalunya (Spain)
10H20 "Pruning kernel density estimators"
O. Fambon, C. Jutten
Inst. Nat. Pol. Grenoble (France)
10H40 "Suboptimal Bayesian classification by vector quantization
with small clusters"
J.L. Voz, M. Verleysen, P. Thissen, J.D. Legat
Univ. Cat. Louvain (Belgium)
11H00 Coffee break
Session 6: Theory of learning systems
Chairman: C. Touzet (IUSPIM Marseilles, France)
11H20 "Knowledge and generalisation in simple learning systems"
D. Barber, D. Saad
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
11H40 "Control of complexity in learning with perturbed inputs"
Y. Grandvalet*, S. Canu*, S. Boucheron**
*Univ. Tech. de Compiegne (France),
**Univ. Paris-Sud (France)
12H00 "An episodic knowledge base for object understanding"
U.-D. Braumann, H.-J. Boehme, H.-M. Gross
Tech. Univ. Ilmenau (Germany)
12H20 "Neurosymbolic integration: unified versus hybrid approaches"
M. Hilario*, Y. Lallement**, F. Alexandre**
*Univ. Geneve (Switzerland), **INRIA (France)
12H40 Lunch
Session 7: Biological vision
Chairman: J. Herault (Inst. Nat Polyt. Grenoble, France)
14H00 "Improving object recognition by using a visual latency
mechanism"
R. Opara, F. Worgorter
Ruhr Univ. Bochum (Germany)
14H20 "On the function of the retinal bipolar cell in early vision"
S. Ohshima, T. Yagi, Y. Funahashi
Nagoya Inst. of Technology (Japan)
14H40 "Sustained and transient amacrine cell circuits underlying
the receptive fields of ganglion cells in the vertebrate
retina"
G. Maguire
Univ. of Texas (USA)
15H00 "Latency-reduction in antagonistic visual channels as the
result of corticofugal feedback"
J. Kohn, F. Worgotter
Ruhr Univ. Bochum (Germany)
15H20 Coffee break
Session 8: Models 2
Chairman: V. Kurkova (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
15H40 "On threshold circuit depth"
A. Albrecht
BerCom GmbH (Germany)
16H00 "Minimum entropy queries for linear students learning
nonlinear rules"
P. Sollich
Univ. of Edinburg (United Kingdom)
16H20 "An asymmetric associative memory model based on relaxation
labeling processes"
M. Pelillo, A.M. Fanelli
Univ. di Bari (Italy)
16H40 "Invariant measure for an infinite neural network "
T.S. Turova
Kat. Univ. Leuven (Belgium)
17H00 "Growing adaptive neural networks with graph grammars"
S.M. Lucas
Univ. of Essex (United Kingdom)
17H20 "Constructing feed-forward neural networks for binary
classification tasks"
C. Campbell*, C. Perez Vincente**
*Bristol Univ. (United Kingdom), **Univ. Barcelona (Spain)
20H00 Conference dinner
Friday 21th April 1995
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Session 9: Classification and control
Chairman: M. Grana (UPV San Sebastian, Spain)
9H00 "Improvement of EEG classification with a subject-specific
feature selection"
M. Pregenzer, G. Pfurtscheller, C. Andrew
Graz Univ. of Technology (Austria)
9H20 "Neural networks for invariant pattern recognition"
J. Wood, J. Shawe-Taylor
Univ. of London (United Kingdom)
9H40 "Derivation of a new criterion function based on an
information measure for improving piecewise linear separation
incremental algorithms"
J. Cuguero, J. Madrenas, J.M. Moreno, J. Cabestany
Univ. Politecnica Catalunya (Spain)
10H00 "Neural network based one-step ahead control and its
stability"
Y. Tan, A.R. Van Cauwenberghe
Univ. of Gent (Belgium)
10H20 "NLq theory: unifications in the theory of neural networks,
systems and control"
J. Suykens, B. De Moor, J. Vandewalle
Kat. Univ. Leuven (Belgium)
10H40 Coffee break
11H00 Invited paper:
H.P. Mallot (Max-Planck-Institut, Germany)
"Learning of cognitive maps from sequences of views"
Session 10: Radial-basis functions
Chairman: G. Pages (Univ. Paris VI, France)
11H45 "Trimming the inputs of RBF networks"
C. Andrew*, M. Kubat**, G. Pfurtscheller*
*Graz Univ. Tech. (Austria), **Johannes Kepler Univ.
(Austria)
12H05 "Learning the appropriate representation paradigm by circular
processing units"
S. Ridella, S. Rovetta, R. Zunino
Univ. of Genoa (Italy)
12H25 "Radial basis functions in the Fourier domain"
M. Orr
Univ. of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
12H45 Lunch
Session 11: Function approximation
Chairman: J. Vandewalle (Kat. Univ. Leuven, Belgium)
14H00 "Function approximation by localized basis function neural
network"
M. Kokol, I. Grabec
Univ. of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
14H20 "Functional approximation by perceptrons: a new approach"
J.-G. Attali*, G. Pages**
*Univ. Paris I (France), **Univ. Paris 6 & Univ. Paris 12
(France)
14H40 "Approximation of functions by Gaussian RBF networks with
bouded number of hidden units"
V. Kurkova
Acad. of Sciences (Czech Republic)
15H00 "Neural network piecewise linear preprocessing for
time-series prediction"
T.W.S. Chow, C.T. Leung
City Univ. (Hong-Kong)
15H20 "An upper estimate of the error of approximation of
continuous multivariable functions by KBF networks"
K. Hlavackova
Acad. of Sciences (Czech Republic)
15H40 Coffee break
Session 12: Multi-layer perceptrons
Chairman: W. Duch (Nicholas Copernicus Univ., Poland)
16H00 "Multi-sigmoidal units and neural networks"
J.A. Drakopoulos
Stanford Univ. (USA)
16H20 "Performance analysis of a MLP weight initialization
algorithm"
M. Karouia, R. Lengelle, T. Denoeux
Univ. Compiegne (France)
16H40 "Alternative output representation schemes affect learning
and generalization of back-propagation ANNs; a decision
support application"
P.K. Psomas, G.D. Hilakos, C.F. Christoyannis, N.K. Uzunoglu
Nat. Tech. Univ. Athens (Greece)
17H00 "A new training algorithm for feedforward neural networks"
B.K. Verma, J.J. Mulawka
Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland)
17H20 "An evolutive architecture coupled with optimal perceptron
learning for classification"
J.-M. Torres Moreno, P. Peretto, M. B. Gordon
C.E.N. Grenoble (France)
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- Committees -
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Steering committee
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Francois Blayo Univ. Paris I (F)
Marie Cottrell Univ. Paris I (F)
Nicolas Franceschini CNRS Marseille (F)
Jeanny Herault INPG Grenoble (F)
Michel Verleysen UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B)
Scientific committee
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Agnes Babloyantz Univ. Libre Bruxelles (Belgium)
Herve Bourlard ICSI Berkeley (USA)
Joan Cabestany Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E)
Dave Cliff University of Sussex (UK)
Holk Cruse Universitat Bielefeld (D)
Dante Del Corso Politecnico di Torino (I)
Wlodek Duch Nicholas Copernicus Univ. (PL)
Marc Duranton Philips / LEP (F)
Jean-Claude Fort Universite Nancy I (F)
Bernd Fritzke Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (D)
Karl Goser Universitat Dortmund (D)
Manuel Grana UPV San Sebastian (E)
Martin Hasler EPFL Lausanne (CH)
Kurt Hornik Techische Univ. Wien (A)
Christian Jutten INPG Grenoble (F)
Vera Kurkova Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ)
Petr Lansky Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ)
Jean-Didier Legat UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B)
Hans-Peter Mallot Max-Planck Institut (D)
Eddy Mayoraz RUTCOR (USA)
Jean Arcady Meyer Ecole Normale Superieure Paris (F)
Jose Mira-Mira UNED (E)
Pietro Morasso Univ. of Genoa (I)
Jean-Pierre Nadal Ecole Normale Superieure Paris (F)
Erkki Oja Helsinky University of Technology (FIN)
Gilles Pages Universite Paris VI (F)
Helene Paugam-Moisy Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon (F)
Alberto Prieto Universitad de Granada (E)
Pierre Puget LETI Grenoble (F)
Ronan Reilly University College Dublin (IRE)
Tamas Roska Hungarian Academy of Science (H)
Jean-Pierre Rospars INRA Versailles (F)
Jean-Pierre Royet Universite Lyon 1 (F)
John Stonham Brunel University (UK)
John Taylor King's College London (UK)
Vincent Torre Universita di Genova (I)
Claude Touzet IUSPIM Marseilles (F)
Joos Vandewalle KUL Leuven (B)
Marc Van Hulle KUL Leuven (B)
Christian Wellekens Eurecom Sophia-Antipolis (F)
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- Support -
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ESANN'95 is organized with the support of:
- Commission of the European Communities (DG XII, Human Capital and
Mobility programme)
- Region of Brussels-Capital
- IEEE Region 8
- UCL (Universite Catholique de Louvain - Louvain-la-Neuve)
- REGARDS (Research Group on Algorithmic, Related Devices and Systems
UCL)
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- Conference information -
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Registration fees for symposium
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registration before registration after
17th March 1995 17th March 1995
Universities BEF 15000 BEF 16000
Industries BEF 19000 BEF 20000
Registration fees include attendance to all sessions, the ESANN'95 banquet,
a copy of the conference proceedings, daily lunches (19-21 April '95), and
coffee breaks twice a day during the symposium.
Advance registration is mandatory.
Advance payments (see registration form) must be made to the conference
secretariat by bank transfer on a Belgian bank (free of charges), by bank
transfer from a bank abroad account (add BEF 500 for processing fees) or by
sending a cheque (add BEF 500 for processing fees). Bank transfers and
cheques must be made out in Belgian francs.
Language
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The official language of the conference is English. It will be used for
all printed material, presentations and discussions.
Proceedings
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A copy of the proceedings will be provided to all conference registrants.
All technical papers will be included in the proceedings.
Additional copies of the proceedings (ESANN'93, ESANN'94 and ESANN'95) may
be purchased at the following rates:
ESANN'95 proceedings: BEF 2000
ESANN'94 proceedings: BEF 2000
ESANN'93 proceedings: BEF 1500.
Add BEF 500 to any single or multiple order for p.&p. and bank charges.
Please write to the conference secretariat to order proceedings.
Conference dinner
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A banquet will be offered on Thursday 20th to all conference registrants in
a famous and typical place of Brussels. Additional vouchers for the
banquet may be purchased on Wednesday 19th at the conference.
Cancellation
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If cancellation is received by 24th March 1995, 50% of the registration
fees will be returned. Cancellation received after this date will not be
entitled to any refund.
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- General information -
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Brussels, Belgium
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Brussels is not only the host city of the European Commission and of
hundreds of multinational companies; it is also a marvelous historical
town, with typical quarters, famous monuments known throughout the world,
and the splendid "Grand-Place". It is a cultural and artistic center, with
numerous museums. Night life in Brussels is considerable. There are of
lot of restaurants and pubs open late in the night, where typical Belgian
dishes can be tasted with one of the more than 1000 different beers.
Hotel accommodation
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Special rates for participants to ESANN'95 have been arranged at the
MAYFAIR HOTEL (4 stars), and at the FORUM HOTEL (3 stars).
The Mayfair Hotel is tastefully decorated to the highest standards of
luxury and comfort. It includes two restaurants, a bar and a private
parking. Located on the elegant Avenue Louise, the exclusive Hotel Mayfair
is a short walk from the "uppertown" luxurious shopping district. Also
nearby is the 14th century Cistercian abbey and the magnificent "Bois de la
Cambre" park.
Single room BEF 3300
Double room or twin room BEF 4000
HOTEL MAYFAIR phone: +32 2 649 98 00
381 av. Louise fax: +32 2 649 22 49
1050 Brussels - Belgium
The Forum Hotel is situated in the heart of a "Art Nouveau" quiet,
residential and historical area. It includes a bar, a Tuscan restaurant
and a private parking.
Single room BEF 2200
Double room or twin room BEF 2700
FORUM HOTEL phone: + 32 2 343 01 00
2 av. du Haut-Pont fax: + 32 2 347 00 54
1060 Brussels - Belgium
Prices for both hotels include breakfast, taxes and service. Rooms can
only be confirmed upon receipt of booking form (see at the end of this
booklet) and deposit. Rooms must be booked before 31 March 1995. Public
transportation goes directly from the hotels (trams No. 93 & 94 for Mayfair
hotel and tram No. 92 from the Forum hotel) to the conference center
("Parc" stop)
Conference location
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The conference will be held at the "Chancellerie" of the Generale de
Banque. A map is included at the end of this booklet.
Generale de Banque - Chancellerie
1 rue de la Chancellerie
1000 Brussels - Belgium
Conference secretariat
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D facto conference services phone: + 32 2 245 43 63
45 rue Masui fax: + 32 2 245 46 94
B-1210 Brussels - Belgium E-mail: esann at dice.ucl.ac.be
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badge, proceedings and all materials.
Registration fees include attendance to all sessions, the ESANN'95 banquet,
a copy of the conference proceedings, daily lunches (19-21 April '95), and
coffee breaks twice a day during the symposium.
Advance registration is mandatory.
Hotel booking
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Hotel MAYFAIR (4 stars) - 381 av. Louise - 1050 Brussels
Single room : BEF 3300
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