CFP:Vth Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks

[Antonio de Padua Braga]

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

              Vth Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks
                    Brazilian Computer Society

                 Federal University of Minas Gerais
               Belo Horizonte, 9 to 11th December 1998
                 http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~sbrn98
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                          INTEREST AREAS

Submissions of papers related to the following areas are wellcome : 
Theory, Applications, Architectures, Associative memories, Associative 
memories, Cognitive science, Electronic and optical implementation, 
Hybrid systems, Learning, Neurobiology, Neurodynamics and Chaos, 
Pattern recognition, Signal Processing, Prediction, Inteligent control,
Robotics, Identification, Image processing, Other themes related to 
artificial neural networks. 

                     SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Conference chairman:
Antonio de Padua Braga (Brazil) 
  
Scientific committee chairs:
Teresa Bernarda Ludermir (Brazil) 
Carlos Eduardo Pedreira (Brazil) 

Aluizio F. R. Araujo (Brazil), Andre P. L. F. Carvalho (Brazil), 
Antonio de Padua Braga (Brazil), Brijesh Verma (Australia), 
Cairo L. Nascimento Junior (Brazil), Edson Costa B.C. Filho (Brazil)
Harold Szu (USA), Helge Ritter (Germany), Igor Aleksander (England),
James A. Anderson (USA), Jude W. Shavlik (USA), Luiz Pereira Caloba 
(Brazil), Phillipe De Wilde (England), Takashi Yoneiama (Brazil) 
Vladimir Vapnik (USA), Walmir Matos Caminhas (Brazil) and Weber Martins 
(Brazil) 

                           INVITED TALKS
  
Harold Szu (Title: Blind Demixing by Neural Network Independent
Component Analyses)

Igor Aleksander (Title: The Emergence of a Qualia-Like Phenomenon in a 
Neurocomputational System)

James A. Anderson (Title: Teaching the Multiplication Tables to a Neural 
Network: Flexibility vs. Accuracy) 

Jude W. Shavlik (Title: Talking with Your Neural Networks: Putting
Inference Rules In and Getting Rules Out)

Vladimir Vapnik (Title: Problems of Learning and Generalization)

                       IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission : 30 JUNE, 1998 
Notification of acceptance : 30 September, 1998. 

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     Detailed information can be obtained from conference WWW-page:
            <http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~sbrn98>
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