I&AAN'98 Workshop

[ICSC Canada]

International Workshop on
INDEPENDENCE & ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS / I&ANN'98 
at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
February 9-10, 1998

http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/icsc/iann98.htm


This workshop will take place immediately prior to the
International ICSC Symposium on
ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS / EIS'98
at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
February 11-13, 1998

http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/icsc/eis98.htm

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TOPICS

Recent ANN research has developed from those networks which find
correlations in data sets to the more ambitious goal of finding independent
components of data sets. The workshop will concentrate on those neural
networks which find independent components and the associated networks whose
learning rules use contextual information to organize their learning.

The topic falls then into (at least) three main streams of current ANN research:

1. Independent Component Analysis which has most 
   recently been successfully applied to the problem 
   of "blind separation of sources" such as the 
   recovery of a single voice from a mixture/convolution 
   of voices. Such methods normally use either 
   information theoretic criteria or higher order 
   statistics to perform the separation.

2. Identification of independent sources: The seminal 
   experiment in this field is the identification of 
   single bars from an input grid containing mixtures 
   of bars. Factor Analysis (or generative models) has 
   been a recent popular method for this problem. 

3. Using contextual information to identify structure 
   in data.

We envisage a single track program over two days (February 9 - 10, 1998)
with many opportunities for informal discussion.

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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

- Luis Almeida, INESC, Portugal
- Tony Bell, Salk Institute, USA
- Andrew Cichocki, RIKEN Institute, Japan
- Colin Fyfe, University of Paisley, U.K.
- Mark Girolami, University of Paisley, U.K.
- Peter Hancock, University of Stirling, U.K.
- Juha Karhunen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Jim Kay, University of Glasgow, U.K.
- Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

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INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND AUTHORS

Registrations are available for the workshop only (February 9 - 10, 1998),
or combined with the EIS'98 symposium (February 11 - 13, 1998).

The registration fee for the 2-day workshop is estimated at approximately
Ptas. 37,000 per person and includes:

- Use of facilities and equipment
- Lunches, dinners and coffee breaks
- Welcome wine & cheese party
- Proceedings in print (workshop only) 
- Proceedings on CD-ROM (workshop and EIS'98 conference)
- Daily transportation between hotels in Santa Cruz and workshop site

The regular registration fee for the EIS'98 symposium (February 11-13, 1998)
is estimated at Ptas. 59,000 per person, but a reduction will be offered to
workshop participants.

Separate proceedings will be printed for the workshop, but all respective
papers will also be included on the CD-ROM, covering the I&ANN'98 workshop
and the EIS'98 symposium. As a bonus, workshop participants will thus
automatically also receive the conference proceedings (CD-ROM version). We
anticipate that the proceedings will be published as a special issue of a
journal.

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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Prospective authors are requested to send a 4-6 page report of their work
for evaluation by the International Scientific Committee. All reports must
be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem,
the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. 

The report should also include:

- Title of workshop (I&ANN'98)
- Title of proposed paper
- Authors names, affiliations, addresses
- Name of author to contact for correspondence
- E-mail address and fax # of contact author
- Topics which best describe the paper (max. 5 keywords)

Submissions may be made by airmail or electronic mail to:

  Dr. Colin Fyfe
  Department of Computing and Information Systems
  The University of Paisley
  High Street
  Paisley, PA1 2BE
  Scotland

  Email: fyfe0ci at paisley.ac.uk
  Fax: +44-141-848-3542

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE

It is the intention of the organizers to have the proceedings available for
the delegates. Consequently, the submission deadline of September 15, 1997
has to be strictly respected.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of reports:      September 15, 1997
Notification of acceptance: October 15, 1997
Delivery of full papers:    November 15, 1997
I&ANN'98 Workshop:          February 9 - 10, 1998
EIS'98 Conference:          February 11 - 13, 1998
 
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LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

For details about local arrangements, please consult the EIS'98 website at
http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/icsc/eis98.htm

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FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information please contact:

- Dr. Colin Fyfe 
  Department of Computing and Information Systems
  The University of Paisley
  High Street
  Paisley PA1 2BE
  Scotland
  E-mail: fyfe0ci at paisley.ac.uk
  Fax: +44-141-848-3542

or

- ICSC Canada
  International Computer Science Conventions
  P.O. Box 279
  Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0
  Canada
  E-mail: icsc at compusmart.ab.ca
  Fax: +1-403-387-4329 
  WWW: http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/icsc