CFP: NN and Adaptive Systems
Georg Dorffner
georg at ai.univie.ac.at
Mon Sep 29 15:06:56 EDT 1997
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the symposium
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Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems
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chairs: Horst-Michael Gross, Germany, and Georg Dorffner, Austria
as part of the
Fourteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
April 14-17, 1998
University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria
For this symposium, papers on any theoretical or practical
aspect of artificial neural networks are invited. Special focus,
however, will be put on the issue of adaptivity both in
practical engineering applications and in applications of neural
networks to the modeling of human behavior. By adaptivity we
mean the capability of a neural network to adjust itself to
changing environments. For this, a careful distinction between
"learning" to devise weight matrices for a neural network before
it is applied (and usually left unchanged) on one hand, and
"true" adaptivity of a given neural network to constantly
changing conditions on the other hand - i.e. real-time learning
in unstationary environments - is made. The following is a - by
no means exhaustive - list of possible topics in this realm:
- online learning of neural network applications facing
changing data distributions
- transfer of neural network solutions to
related but different domains
- application of neural networks for
adaptive autonomous systems
- "phylogenetic" vs. "ontogenetic" adaptivity
(e.g. adaptivity of connectivity and architecture vs.
adaptivity of coupling parameters or weights)
- short term vs. long term adaptation
- adaptive reinforcement learning
- adaptive pattern recognition
- localized vs. distributed approximation (in terms of
overlap of decision regions) and adaptivity
Preference will be given to contributions that address such
issues of adaptivity, but - as mentioned initially - other
original work on neural newtorks is also welcome.
Deadline for submissions (10 single-spaced A4 pages, maximum 43
lines, max. line length 160 mm, 12 point) is
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October 26, 1997
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(Note that this deadline has been extended w.r.t. the original
EMCSR deadline)
Papers should be sent to:
I. Ghobrial-Willmann or G. Helscher
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3 (Austria)
Phone: +43-1-53532810
Fax: +43-1-5320652
E-mail: sec at ai.univie.ac.at
For more information on the whole EMCSR conference, see the
Web-page http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/ or contact the above
address.
!Hope to see you in Vienna!
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