International Workshop Announcement

[Yves Moreau]

 International Workshop on


 ***  ADVANCED BLACK-BOX TECHNIQUES FOR NONLINEAR MODELING:
          THEORY AND APPLICATIONS                                ***

 with  !!!  TIME-SERIES PREDICTION COMPETITION !!!


 Date:    July 8-10, 1998
 Place:   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
 Info:    http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/

 Organized at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SISTA) and
the
 Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Networks (ICNN) in the framework of
the
 project KIT and the Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Pole IUAP P4/02.



 * GENERAL SCOPE

   The rapid growth of the field of neural networks, fuzzy systems
   and wavelets is offering a variety of new techniques for modeling
   of nonlinear systems in the broad sense. These topics have been
   investigated from differents points of view including statistics,
   identification and control theory, approximation theory, signal
   processing, nonlinear dynamics, information theory, physics and
   optimization theory among others. The aim of this workshop is to
serve
   as an interdisciplinary forum for bringing together specialists in
these
   research disciplines. Issues related to the fundamental theory as
well
   as real-life applications will be addressed at the workshop.


 * TIME-SERIES PREDICTION COMPETITION

   Within the framework of this workshop a time-series prediction
   competition will be held. The results of the competition will be
   announced during the workshop, where the winner will be awarded.
   Participants in the competition are asked to submit their predicted
   data together with a short description and references of the
   methods used. In order to stimulate wide participation in the
   competition, attendence of the workshop is not mandatory but
   is of course encouraged.


 * INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed)

   L. Feldkamp (Ford Research, USA)     -  Extended Kalman filtering
   C. Micchelli (IBM T.J. Watson, USA)  -  Density estimation
   U. Parlitz (Gottingen, Germany)      -  Nonlinear time-series
analysis
   J. Sjoberg (Goeteborg, Sweden)       -  Nonlinear system
identification
   S. Tan (Beijing, China)              -  Wavelet-based system modeling

   M. Vidyasagar (Bangalore, India)     -  Statistical learning theory
   V. Wertz (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) -  Fuzzy modeling


 * TOPICS include but are not limited to

   Nonlinear system identification     Backpropagation
   Time series analysis                Learning and nonlinear
optimization
   Multilayer perceptrons              Recursive algorithms
   Radial basis function networks      Extended Kalman filtering
   Fuzzy modelling                     Embedding dimension
   Wavelets                            Subspace methods
   Piecewise linear models             Identifiability
   Mixture of experts                  Model selection and validation
   Universal approximation             Simulated annealing
   Recurrent networks                  Genetic algorithms
   Regularization                      Forecasting
   Bayesian estimation                 Frequency domain identification
   Density estimation                  Classification
   Information geometry                Real-life applications
   Generalization                      Software


 * IMPORTANT DATES

       Deadline paper submission:    April   2, 1998
       Notification of acceptance:   May     4, 1998
       Workshop:                     July 8-10, 1998

   Time-series competition:

       Deadline data submission:     March  20, 1998


 * Chairman:

       Johan Suykens
       Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
       Departement Elektrotechniek - ESAT/SISTA
       Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94
       B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium
       Tel: 32/16/32 18 02
       Fax: 32/16/32 19 70
       Email: Johan.Suykens at esat.kuleuven.ac.be

   Program Committee:

   B. De Moor, E. Deprettere, D. Roose, J. Schoukens, S. Tan,
   J. Vandewalle, V. Wertz, Y. Yu