Neural Networks Session at SCI'97, Venezuela

[prof. Soo-Young Lee]

			CALL FOR PAPERS
                             SCI'97

                     Neural Networks Session
                               at
             WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS,
                 CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS

                     Caracas, Venezuela
                      July 7-11, 1997

  I was asked to organize session(s) on neural networks at a 
multi-disciplinary conference, SCI'97.  As you may see at the following
announcements of the conference, it is a truly interdiciplinary
conference covering intelligent computing, information theory,
cybernetics, social systems, psychology, biology, and applications.
WE believe this interdisciplinary conference will provide a very good
chance to meet researchers from  different-but-related disciplines
and promote interesting discussions.  Therefore, I would like to
invite you to present your recent research results at this conference,
and meet interesting people.
    The Neural Networks sessions will cover following topics:
     * Neural network models (biological and artificial)
     * Hybrid systems (Neuro, fuzzy, GA, EP, etc.)
     * Applications (Speech, Time-series, controls, etc.)
     * Artificiasl life
    If you are interested in this multidisciplinary conference,
please send me an e-mail to sylee at eekaist.kaist.ac.kr.

SUBMISSIONS AND DEADLINES

January 17, 1997 	Submission of extended abstracts or a condensed first
                          draft(500-1500 words)
March 10, 1997    	Acceptance notifications
May 12, 1997      	Submission of papers camera/ready, hard copies and
                          electronic versions

Best regards,

Soo-Young Lee
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             WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS,
                 CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS

                     Caracas, Venezuela
                      July 7-11, 1997

MAJOR THEMES

 Conceptual Infrastructure of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
 Information Systems (ISAS '97)
 Control Systems
 Managerial/Corporative Systems
 Human Resources Systems
 Natural Resources Systems
 Social Systems
 Educational Systems
 Financial Systems
 SCI in Psychology, Cognition and Spirituality
 SCI in Biology and Medicine
 SCI in Art
 Globalization, Development and Emerging Economies


ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC SPONSORS

 World Organization of Systemics and Cybernetics (WOSC) (France)
 IFSR: International Federation for Systems Research (Austria/USA)	
 International Systems Institute (USA)
 CUST, Engineer Science Institute of the Blaise Pascal University (France)
 The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and
 Cybernetics (Canada)
 Society Applied Systems Research (Canada)
 Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics 
   and Cybersemiotics (Denmark)
 International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (USA)
 IEEE (Venezuela Chapter)
 Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela)
 Universidad Central de Venezuela


INCLUSION OF SCI'97 PROCEEDINGS IN A CD-ROM EXTENDED ENCYCLOPEDIA

An electronic version of the SCI 97 proceedings will also be available on
CD-ROM, with search and hypertext features. Other media, such as sound,
animation and video, are also being considered.

These proceedings will also be included in the CD-ROM Extended Encyclopedia
of Systemics and Cybernetics (TM), whose development in presently in
progress.

TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED   

 Research, Review or Position Papers
 Panel Presentation, Workshop and/or Round Table Proposals
 New Topics Proposal (which should include a minimum of 15 papers)
 Focus Symposia (which should include a  minimum of 15 papers)


JOURNALS PUBLICATIONS FOR BEST PAPERS

Best papers will be published by "Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A 
Journal of Second Order Cybernetics and Cybersemiotics". Members 
of the Program Committee who are refrees of the Journal will
take the decision on the issue.

Other Journals are being considered for other areas of SCI'97/ISAS'97.

WEB SITE

http://www.callaos.com/SCI 97


PURPOSE

The purpose of the Conference is to bring together, from universities and
corporations, academics and professionals, researchers and consultants,
scientists and engineers, theoreticians and practitioners, all over the world
to discuss themes of the conference and to participate with original ideas or
innovations, knowledge or experience, theories or methodologies, in the areas
of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI).
Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI) are being increasingly related
to each other and to almost every scientific discipline and human activity.
Their common transdisciplinarity characterizes and communicates them,
generating strong relations among them and with other disciplines. They
interpenetrate each other integrating a whole that is permeating human
thinking and practice. This phenomenon induced the Organization Committee to
structure SCI'97 as a multiconference where participants may focus on an
area, or on a discipline, while maintaining open the possibility of attending
conferences from other areas or disciplines. This systemic approach
stimulates cross-fertilization among different disciplines, inspiring
scholars, generating analogies and provoking innovations; which, after all,
is one of the very basic principles of the systems movement and a fundamental
aim in cybernetics.


BACKGROUND

The success achieved in ISAS'95 (Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis)
held in Baden-Baden (Germany), symbolized by the award granted by the
International Institute for Advanced Studios in Systems Research and
Cybernetics (Canada), as the best and largest symposium at the 5th
International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics,
encouraged its sponsors and session chairs to organize ISAS '96 at Orlando and
prepare a more general Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
(SCI '97) at Caracas (Venezuela). The widely acknowledged success of ISAS'96
(held on July 22-26 at Orlando) by means of spontaneous verbal feedback and a
written comprehensive evaluation from 143 authors, of high quality papers,
from 32 countries, galvanized the Program and Organizing Committees to make a
definitive commitment to organize SCI'97 and ISAS '97 at Caracas, in July
7-11, 1997. Many Program and Organizing Committees members from past
international and world conferences are joining us for SCI '97 and ISAS'97,
including most of those who organized the World Conference on Systems
Sponsored by UNESCO and the United Nations' World Federation of Engineering
Organizations (WFEO). We are still looking for more organizational support
from experienced scholars, consultants, practitioners, professionals and
researchers, as well as from international or national organizations, public
or private, academic or professional.