Call for papers DYNN2000

[Jean-Pierre Nadal]

                         Call for papers
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                            DYNN'2000

                   INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON 

          "DYNAMICAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS" 

                    Bielefeld, November 20-24, 2000 

           http://www.cert.fr/anglais/deri/dauce/DYNN2000

                      contact: samuelid at supaero.fr


OBJECTIVE
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Dynamics is a major feature of neural modeling. The study of 
neural networks viewed as dynamical systems evolving under 
environmental pressure is an attractive perspective to overcome 
the limitations of classical artificial neural networks especially 
in the fields of vision and control. Different disciplines are 
involved, such as dynamical systems theory, statistical physics, 
neurobiology, information theory and adaptive control. The DYNN 
workshop is a place where neurobiologists, theoreticians and 
engineers can exchange ideas and transfer knowledge. 

The first international workshop DYNN'96 took place in ONERA in
Toulouse, France, and was the occasion to compare theoretical 
studies and models of visual cortex with more general perceptual 
devices. The second workshop VI'DYNN'98 in Stockholm focused on 
Pulse Coupled Neural Networks and was dedicated to more applied 
tasks of image processing and computervision. The oncoming edition
DYNN'2000 keeps all these themes and will introduce new concepts 
from the physics of "Self-organized Criticality" which describes 
the spatio-temporal self-organization of coupled automata.

DYNN'2000 will take place at the ZIF in Bielefeld University from
11/20/2000 to 11/24/2000 in the frame of the Forschungsgruppe 
"The Sciences of Complexity: 
 From Mathematics to Technology to a Sustainable World" 
(http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/complexity/complexity.html).

Interested researchers are invited to participate to the workshop 
and to present their contribution. 

TOPICS
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Submissions of papers related, but not limited, to the technical 
areas and subareas listed below are invited. 

 1.Neural Networks Dynamics and Self Organization. 
 2.Mean Field Theory for Large Stochastic Networks. 
 3.Information Properties of Dynamical Neural Networks. 
 4.Spiking Neurons and Temporal Coding. 
 5.Applications of Dynamical Neural Networks for Planning and Control 
 6.Applications of Dynamical Neural Networks to computer vision. 


ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP
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The workshop is organized during five days and will reserve plenty of
time for discussion and interaction among attendants. Special attention
will be provided to the formation of young researchers and doctorate 
students. To fulfill this objective, there will be one day reserved to
tutorials and then three types of presentations: 

 * Invited conferences (one hour) will give a large review of the 
   subject and will introduce to ongoing research. They will be designed 
   to allow all the participants coming from different fields to follow
   all the sessions. 
 * Regular presentations (40 minutes including questions) will be
   dedicated to present relatively mature work and will be given mostly 
   by invited lecturers. 
 * Short presentations (20 minutes) are specially designed to allow
   young researchers to present the main ideas of their research project 
   and favor discussion and exchange. Normally short presentations will be
   associated with posters that allow further interaction between participants. 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Manuel SAMUELIDES, Chairman - ONERA/ENSAE, Toulouse, France.
                              Manuel.Samuelides at supaero.fr
Philippe BLANCHARD - Bielefeld, Germany.
                              blancblanchard at Physik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Bruno CESSAC - INLN, Nice, France.             
                              cessac at inln.cnrs.fr
Jacques DEMONGEOT - IUF/CNRS Grenoble, France.      
                              Celine.Fontant at imag.fr
Philippe GAUSSIER - Cergy-Pontoise, France.         
                              gaussier at ensea.fr
John JOHNSON - US Army, Germany.               
                              science at hq.c5.army.mil
Jean-Pierre NADAL - ENS/CNRS, Paris, France.        
                              nadal at lps.ens.fr
Simon THORPE - CERCO/CNRS, Toulouse, France.   
                              thorpe at cerco.ups-tlse.fr 
John TAYLOR - King's college, London, UK.     
                              john.g.taylor at kcl.ac.uk


CALENDAR
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   Expression of interest : from now on
   Extended abstract submission deadline: September 29, 2000 
   Notification to the authors : October 14, 2000 
   Early registration : Until october 31, 2000 
   Date of the workshop : November 20. to 24., 2000 

SUBMISSION
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The overall submission mode is electronic. 
Visit our website: http://www.cert.fr/anglais/deri/dauce/DYNN2000
Fill the expression of interest form to be informed about the workshop.

The abstracts will be refereed and the accepted papers will be available 
on the WEB. We are currently investigating the possibility of publishing 
selected papers in the form of a collective book. Send extended
abstract, 
with respect to format recommandations , 2 pages max, in electronic form 
(see recommandations on the web site) before September 29th, 2000 to
perrinet at cert.fr along with a submission form.

-- 
Manuel SAMUELIDES
Professeur a l'ENSAE 
Ingenieur de recherche a l'ONERA
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Answer please to the following email address:
samuelid at supaero.fr

DYNN2000 website:
http://www.cert.fr/anglais/deri/dauce/DYNN2000
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