IWANN'99

Wed Jun 10 05:02:28 EDT 1998

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Call for papers

                     5TH.INTERNATIONAL WORK-CONFERENCE
                ON ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL NEURAL NETWORKS

                  Biological and Artificial Computation:
        Methodologies, Neural Modeling and Bioinspired Applications

                              IWANN'99
                          Alicante, Spain
                           June 2-4, 1999

                       http://iwann99.umh.es/

Organized by:
 Asociación Española de Redes Neuronales (AERN)
 Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
 Instituto de Bioingenieria, Universidad Miguel Hernandez (UMH)

IN COOPERATION WITH

 Universidad de Granada
 Universidad de Malaga
 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

AND

 IFIP (Working Group in Neural Computer Systems, WG10.6)
 Spanish RIG IEEE Neural Networks Council
 UK&RI Communication Chapter of IEEE

SCOPE

  Under the basic idea that living beings and machines can be understood
  using the same experimental methodology and the same theoretical and
  formal tools, the interdisciplinary team of the IWANN'99 program committee
  recognizes as global goals the following:

     I. Developments on Foundations and Methodology.

    II. From artificial to natural: How can help the Systems theory,
        the Electronics and the Computation (including AI) to  the
        understanding of Nervous System?.

        As a science of analysis, neural computation seeks to help
        neurology, brain theory, and cognitive psychology in the
        understanding of the functioning of the Nervous System by means
        of computational models of neurons, neural nets and subcellular
        processes.

   III. From Natural to Artificial: How can help the understanding
        of Nervous System to the obtention of bio-inspired models of
        artificial neurons, evolutionary architectures, and learning
        algorithms of value in computation and engineering?.

        As engineering, neural computation seeks to complement the
        symbolic perspective of Artificial Intelligence (AI), using these
        biologically inspired models of neurons and nets to solve those
        non-algorithmic problems of function approximation and pattern
        classification having to do with changing and only partially
        known environments.

    IV. Bio-inspired Technology and Engineering Applications: How
        can we obtain bio-inspired formulations for sensory coding,
        perception, memory, decision making, planning, and control?.

        The essential aim of this perspective is to reduce the distance
        between the biological and artificial perspectives of neural
        computation.

Contributions on the following and related topics are welcome.

TOPICS

1. Foundations of Computational Neuroscience: Brain Organization
   Principles: Communication, control and oscillations, cooperativity,
   self-organization, and evolution. Convergency between theory and
   experiments.  Principles: Communication, control and oscillations,
   cooperativity, self-organization, and evolution. Convergency between
   theory and experiments.

2. Neural Modeling: Biophysical and Structural Models: Ionic chanels,
   synaptic level, neurons, circuits and system level. Functional Models:
   Analogue, digital, probabilistic, bayesian, fuzzy and object oriented
   formulations. Energy related models. Hybrid techniques.

3. Plasticity Phenomena (Maturing, Learning and Memory): Biological
   mechanisms at the molecular, cellular,  network, and behavioural
   levels. Computable Models of adaptation and plasticity. Supervised
   and non-supervised algorithms. Inductive, deductive and hybrid
   symbolic-subsymbolic formulations.

4. Complex Systems Dynamics: Optimization, self-organization,
   cooperative processes, fault-tolerance and self-repair. Genetic
   algorithms. Simulated evolution. Social organization processes and
   large scale neural models, non-linear dynamics in biological systems.

5. Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience: Knowledge
   modeling. Ontologies. Generic tasks of analysis, modification
   and synthesis. Libraries of problem solving methods and reusable
   components. Concept formation. Natural language understanding and
   linguistic. Intentionality and consciousness in autonomous agents.

6. Artificial Neural Nets Simulation, Implementation, and
   Evaluation: Development environments, formal frames, and
   simulation languages. Neural models editing tools. Advances in
   ANN's implementation. Evolving hardware. Validation and evaluation
   criteria. Acceptability and explanatory capacity.

7. Methodology for Nets Design: Data analysis, task identification and
   recursive hierarchical design in specific domains. Hybrid solutions
   to hybrid problems.

8. Bio-inspired Systems and Engineering: Signal processing, cochlear
   systems, auditory processing, retinomorphic systems, other sensory
   processing systems, neuromorphic communication, neuromorphic learning,
   neural prosthetic devices.

9. Other applications: Artificial vision, speech recognition,
   multisensorial integration, spatio-temporal planning and scheduling,
   strategies of sensory-motor coordination. Applications of ANN's in
   vision, real time, control, robotics, economy, industry and medicine.

IMPORTANT DATES

       Second and final call for papers:  September 1998
  ***  Final date for submission:       January 15, 1999  ***
       Acceptance notification:        February 15, 1999
       Formalization of inscription:       March 1, 1999

Contributions must be sent by surface mail to:

 Prof. Jose Mira-Mira
 Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial - UNED
 Senda del Rey s/n.
 E-28040 MADRID, Spain.

Additional Information:

http://iwann99.umh.es/

Phone: +34 91-398-7155
FAX:   +34 91-398-6697

e-mail:  iwann99 at dia.uned.es

PAPER SUBMISSION
 The Programme Committee request original papers on the mentioned
topics. Authors are invited to submit five copies of papers, written in
english, of up to 10 pages, including figures, tables and references. The
format should be A4 or 1/2 11 inch paper, in a Roman font, 12 point in
size, with a printing area of 15.3 x 24.2 cm2 (6.0 x 9.5 sq. inches). If
possible, please make use of the latex/plaintex style available in our
WWW site. In adiction, one sheet must be attached including: title,
author's names, a list of five keywords, the topic under the paper fit the
best, the preferred presentation (oral or poster) and the corresponding
author information (name, postal and e-mail address, phone and fax number).
 All received papers will be reviewed by the Programm Committee. Accepted
papers may be presented orally or as a poster panels, however all accepted
contributions will be published at full length (Springer-Verlag Proceedings
are expected, as usual).

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