book on hybrid models

[Ron Sun]

Book announcement:

Title: ** CONNECTIONIST-SYMBOLIC INTEGRATION  **
       edited by Ron Sun and F. Alexandre

(information for ordering is at the end of this description)


This book is concerned with the development, analysis, and application
of hybrid connectionist-symbolic models in artificial  intelligence
and cognitive science, drawing contributions from an international  
group of leading experts.  It describes and compares a variety of models 
in this area.  Thus, it serves as a well-balanced report on the state of 
the art in this area.

This book is the outgrowth of The IJCAI Workshop on Connectionist-Symbolic 
Integration: From Unified to Hybrid Approaches}, which  was held for two days
during August 19-20  in Montreal, Canada, in conjunction with the Fourteenth 
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'95).

TABLE of CONTENT
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1. An Introduction to  Connectionist Symbolic Integration 
R. Sun

part 1: Reviews and Overviews

  2.  An overview of strategies for neurosymbolic integration
    M. Hilario

  3.  Task structure and computational level: architectural issues in
    symbolic-connectionist integration
    R. Khosla and T. Dillon

 4.   Cognitive aspects of neurosymbolic integration
    Y. Lallement and F. Alexandre

 5.   A first approach to a taxonomy of  fuzzy-neural systems
    L. Magdalena

part 2:
Learning in Multi-Module Systems

  6.  A hybrid learning model of abductive reasoning
    T. Johnson and J. Zhang

  7.  A hybrid learning model of reactive sequential decision making 
    R. Sun and T. Peterson

  8.  A preprocessing model for integrating CBR and prototype-based
    neural network
    M. Malek and B. Amy

  9.  A neurosymbolic system with 3 levels
    B. Orsier and A. Labbi

  10.  A distributed platform for symbolic-connectionist integration
    J. C. Gonzalez, J. R. Velasco, C. A. Iglesias

part 3:
Representing Symbolic Knowledge

   11.  Micro-level hybridization in DUAL
    B. Kokinov

   12. An integrated symbolic/connectionist model of parsing
    S. Stevenson

   13.  A hybrid system framework for disambiguating word senses
    X. Wu, M. McTear, P. Ojha, H. Dai

   14. A localist network architecture for logical inference
    N. Park and D. Robertson

    15. Distributed associative memory
    J. Austin

    16. Symbolic neural networks derived from stochastic grammar domain models
    E. Mjolsness

Part 4:
Learning Distributed Representation

    17. Holographic reduced representation
    T. Plate

    18. Distributed representations for terms in hybrid reasoning systems
    A. Sperduti, A. Starita, C. Goller

    19. Learning distributed representation
    R. Krosley and M. Misra

Conclusion
    20. Conclusion
      F Alexandre


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ISBN 0-8058-2348-4 (hard cover)
     0-8058-2349-2 (paper) 
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For a closed related book,  
"Computational Architectures Integrating Symbolic and Connectionist Processing"
(edited by Ron Sun and Larry Bookman, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers)  
see my Web page for information.

(This previous book also contains an extensive, annotated bibliography
on hybrid neural network models.)




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