CFP: Symbol Processing

[Tony Browne]

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Connectionist Symbol Processing

For the journal: Expert Systems: The International Journal of
Knowledge Engineering and Neural Networks

The processing of symbols and symbolic structures has long been
a challenge to connectionists. This special issue will bring
together a broad range of contributed articles that explore
the areas of representation, variable binding and inference. Papers
are sought which present recent results in this field, or discuss
fundamental theoretical concepts related to the performance of
symbolic processing with connectionist networks.

All papers will be peer-reviewed.

Special Issue Editor:
Antony Browne

Submission Details: 
Deadline for Submission: 30th April 1999
Notification of Acceptance: 31st July 1999
Format: As for normal papers to the journal 
(Please see attachment to this message for instructions to authors)
Length: No longer than 10000 words

Address for Papers: 
Dr. Antony Browne
School of Information Systems
University College Northampton
Northampton NN2 7AL
UK

Further questions should be addressed to Tony Browne at:
antony.browne at nene.ac.uk 

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

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NIKLASSON, L and BODEN, M. (1997). Representing structure and structured
representations in connectionist networks, in A. Browne (Ed.), Neural
Network Perspectives on Cognition and Adaptive Robotics, pp. 20-50.
Institute of Physics Press, Bristol, UK.

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BROWNE, A. (1998). Detecting systematic structure in distributed
representations. Neural Networks 11(5), 815-824.

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BROWNE, A. PASCALIS, R. and AMIN, S. (1996). Signal and image processing
with neural networks. Proceedings of Circuits, Systems and Computers 96,
Vol. 1, 335-339.

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reading.'