CFP: Biologically Inspired Autonomous Systems

[Jonathan Marshall]

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		 Biologically Inspired Autonomous Systems:
		     Computation, Cognition, and Action
				      
			      March 4-5, 1996
		  Washington Duke Hotel (Duke University)
			   Durham, North Carolina
				      
	     Co-Sponsored by the Duke University Departments of
	     Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neurobiology,
	    Biomedical Engineering, and Experimental Psychology

The dramatic evolution of computer technology has caused a return to the
biological paradigms which inspired many of the early pioneers of
information science such as John von Neumann, Stephen Kleene and Marvin
Minsky.  Similarly, many fields of the life and human sciences have been
influenced by paradigms initiated in systems theory, computation and control
Engineering.  The purpose of this workshop is to pursue this fruitful
interaction of engineering and the exact sciences, with the life and human
sciences, by investigating the processes which can provide systems, both
artificial and natural, with autonomous and adaptive behavior.

                        Topics of interest include 

  Autonomous behavior of biophysically and cognitively inspired models
  Autonomous agents and mobile systems
  Collective behaviour by semi-autonomous agents
  Self repair and regeneration in computational and artificial structures
  Autonomous image understanding
  Brain imaging and Functional MRI

Keynote Speakers: Stephen Grossberg (Boston University), Daniel Mange
(EPFL), Jean-Arcady Meyer (ENS, Paris), Heinz Muehlenbein (GMD, Bonn), John
Taylor (University College, London).

Speakers will include: Paul Bourgine (Ecole Polytechnique), Bernadette
Dorizzi (INT, Evry), Warren Hall (Duke), Ivan Havel (Center for Theoretical
Studies and Prague University), Petr Lansky (Center for Theoretical Studies
and Prague University), Miguel Nicollelis (Duke), Richard Palmer (Duke),
David Rubin (Duke) , Nestor Schmajuk (Duke), John Staddon (Duke), John
Taylor (University College, London), Ed Ueberbacher (Oak Ridge National
Laboratory), Paul Werbos (NSF).

Paper submissions, in the form of four page extended abstracts, are
solicited in areas of relevance to this workshop.  They should be sent
before January 15, 1996 to one of the workshop Co-Chairs.  The Workshop
Proceedings will be published in book form with full papers.

Workshop Co-Chairs: 

Erol Gelenbe                       Nestor Schmajuk
Department of Electrical and       Department of Experimental Psychology
Computer Engineering               Duke University
Duke University                    Durham, NC 27708, USA
Durham, NC 27708-0291, USA         nestor at acpub.duke.edu
erol at ee.duke.edu

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