SPECIAL SESSION AT NEURAP'98: Knowledge-Based Applications of ANNs

[Frederic Alexandre]

                           NEURAP'98 

       Fourth International Conference on Neural Networks & their Applications 

                      March 11-12-13, 1998, Marseille, France 

                         CALL FOR PAPERS 

                      Deadline: December 1, 1997 



                 SPECIAL SESSION AT NEURAP'98 

      Knowledge-Based Applications of Artificial Neural Networks 



This special session aims to address issues concerning the integration
of knowledge-based systems and artificial neural networks. Such hybrid
systems hold  the  promise  of  combining the  best  features  of each
approach for constructing  intelligent systems. Various strategies can
be envisaged, from the coupling of existing symbolic and connectionist
models to  the  design of specific models  for  that purpose. Each  of
these strategies underline properties and gives original views of this
new  domain, that we wish  to discuss and  compare during this special
session.  We are  especially  interested   in  applications of    this
technology to real-world problems.

Topics can include, but are not limited to: 

    
- Methods for incorporating prior knowledge into feed-forward
  and recurrent connectionist architectures
- Combination of classical knowledge-based and connectionist models
- Exploration of relationships between symbolic Machine Learning
  algorithms, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge-Based Systems and
  Knowledge-Based Neural Networks
- Learning algorithms for Knowledge-Based Neural Networks
- Rule extraction and refinement
- Neural expert systems
- Implementation issues: Modularity, Parallel and Distributed
  implementations, etc.
- Applications to real world problems



Organizers: Ian Cloete ( ian at cs.sun.ac.za )
        and Frederic Alexandre ( falex at loria.fr ) 



Instructions:

To ensure a lively conference, all papers will be presented in plenary
session  (short presentations) and also  through  posters. However, to
guarantee the high  quality of the  presented works, the selection  is
based on  full paper proposals. Depending on  the maturity of the work
presented, there will be short papers for on-going research of 4 pages
long, and  long papers for mature research  results, up to  8 A4 pages
(double columns, Times 10-point font size). All papers will be printed
in full  in  the proceedings and must  be  in English.  Please send  4
copies  to    the   conference    secretariat   before   December   1,
1997. Notification   will  be  sent   on February   3,  1998  and  the
camera-ready version is due on February 20, 1998.

PLEASE NOTE: All papers must be clearly marked indicating inclusion in
this Special Session.

Secretariat & Information 
   NEURAP'98
   DIAM - IUSPIM ,
   University of Aix-Marseille III,
   Domaine Universitaire de St Jerome,
   Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen,
   13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France

   Tel.: ++ 33 4 91 05 60 60
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   Email: Claude.Touzet at iuspim.u-3mrs.fr
   URL: http://www.iuspim.u-3mrs.fr/neurap98.htm
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