ICANN 98

[Leila Khammari]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

   8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
                         (ICANN 98)

          September 1-4, 1998, Skoevde, Sweden
         (Tutorials Sept 1, Conference Sept 2-4)


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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION FORMS NOW AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.his.se/ida/icann98/
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INVITED TALKS:
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Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning in a Connectionist Framework
John Barnden, University of Birmingham, UK

Variational Learning in Graphical Models and Neural Networks
Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

Learning To Be Social
Rodney Brooks, MIT, Cambridge, USA

Synchronization: The Computational Currency of Cognition
Leif Finkel, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Applications of Vapnik's theory for prediction
Francoise Fogelman Soulie, Atos, France

Title pending
David Hansel, CNRS, France

Brains, Gases and Robots
Phil Husbands, University of Sussex, UK

Self-Organization of Very Large Document Collections: State of the Art
Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland

Gaussian Processes- a replacement for supervised neural networks?
David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

Title pending
Barak Pearlmutter, University of New Mexico, USA

The Silicon Way to Artificial Neural Networks
Ulrich Rueckert, Universitaet Paderborn, Germany

Title pending
David Rumelhart, Stanford University, USA


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SCOPE:
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ICANN 98 covers all aspects of ANN research, broadly divided into six
areas, corresponding to separate organizational modules.

-       THEORY
-       APPLICATIONS
-       COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AND BRAIN THEORY
-       CONNECTIONIST COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND AI
-       AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS AND ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR
-       HARDWARE/IMPLEMENTATION

Out of 340 submissions, 180 papers have been accepted for presentation.
65 of these will be presented orally in 3 parallel tracks, and 115 will
be
presented in two separate poster sessions.


In addition to the modules mentioned above we aim to further promote
contacts between researchers and industry. To achieve this, a special
session on INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH is organized, featuring the following
talks: 

Neural Computation at Siemens: Challenges in Applications and
Research, Bernd Schuermann, Siemens, Germany

Toward Real World Intelligence: R&D in the Real World Computing
Program, Nobuyuki Otsu, ETL, Japan

Industry - researchers interface: What is important for effective
co-operation?, Timo Salo, Helsinki University, Finland

Industrial perspective on ANN-research, Tony Larsson, Ericsson, Sweden

Funding programs in Europe, Karl-Einar Sjödin, NUTEK, Sweden

Technology transfer from European academia to industry
Trevor Clarkson, King's College London, NEuroNet, Great Britain


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TUTORIALS, September, 1
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Spiking Neurons
Wulfram Gerstner, EPFL, Lausanne

Realistic Modeling of Neurons and Networks using GENESIS
Erik De Schutter, University of Antwerp              

The Self-Organizing Map  
Teuvo Kohonen, HUT,  Helsinki

Combining Artificial Neural Networks
Amanda Sharkey, University of Sheffield           
                    
The Working Brain: Brain Imaging and its Implications
John Taylor, King's College, London
                    
Analogic Cellular Computing based on Cellular Neural Networks
Tamas Roska, Computer and Automation Institute, Budapest 

Evolutionary Robotics    
Stefano Nolfi, National Research Council, Rome       
Dario Floreano, EPFL, Lausanne

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REGISTRATION:
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Early registration deadline: July 14th.

Registration Fees:              Before July 14  After July 14
Regular ENNS-member             3000 SEK        3500 SEK
Regular non ENNS-member         3500 SEK        4000 SEK
Student                         2000 SEK        2500 SEK
Tutorial day                     500 SEK         500 SEK

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For more detailed information, and registration forms please use
www.his.se/ida/icann98, or get in contact with the ICANN 98 secretariat:

Address:        ICANN 98
                Hoegskolan i Skoevde
                P.O. Box 408
                541 28 Skoevde, SWEDEN

Email:          icann98 at ida.his.se

Fax:            +46 (0)500 46 47 25

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