From kirsch at bcf.uni-freiburg.de Wed Jun 1 05:41:56 2011 From: kirsch at bcf.uni-freiburg.de (Janina Kirsch) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:41:56 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Call for applications ----- NWG-Course: Analysis and Models in Neurophysiology, Freiburg, Germany In-Reply-To: <000801cbf531$223d33b0$66b79b10$@uni-freiburg.de> References: <001401cb0d47$5fc842b0$1f58c810$@uni-freiburg.de> <000801cbf531$223d33b0$66b79b10$@uni-freiburg.de> Message-ID: <000001cc2040$2673c9a0$735b5ce0$@uni-freiburg.de> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% NWG-Course: Analysis and Models in Neurophysiology %% %% October 16-21, 2011 %% %% Application deadline: June 30, 2011 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Aim of the course The course is intended to provide advanced Diploma/Masters and PhD students, as well as young researchers from the neurosciences with approaches for the analysis of electrophysiological data and the theoretical concepts behind them. http://www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de/events/conferences/20111016-nwgcourse The course includes various topics such as ? Neuron models and spike train statistics ? Point processes and correlation measures ? Systems and signals ? Local field potentials and synaptic plasticity The course will consist of lectures in the morning and and matching exercises using Matlab and Mathematica. Experience with these software packages will be helpful but is not required for registration. The participants should have a basic understanding of scientific programming. This course is designated especially for advanced diploma/master-students and PhD-students (preferentially in their first year). Organisation and teaching: ? Dr. Stefan Rotter, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg ? Dr. Sonja Gruen, Kernforschungszentrum J?lich ? Dr. Ulrich Egert, Biomicrotechnology, Department of Microsystems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Freiburg ? Dr. Ad Aertsen, Neurobiology & Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Application Please apply by sending an email containing your CV and a meaningfull letter of motivation to nwg-course at bcf.uni-freiburg.de The course is limited to 20 participants. Course fees: NWG members: 50 Euro others: 125 Euro Course venue: Bernstein Center Freiburg, Lecture Hall and Computerlab (ground floor), Hansastr. 9a, 79104 Freiburg, Germany Contact: Dr. Janina Kirsch, Bernstein Center Freiburg Germany Tel: +49 761 203 9575 Fax: +49 761 203 9559 Email: nwg-course at bcf.uni-freiburg.de From choe at cs.tamu.edu Wed Jun 1 17:07:11 2011 From: choe at cs.tamu.edu (Yoonsuck Choe) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:07:11 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Connectionists: From Brains to Machines symposium (at IJCNN, sponsored by NSF) Message-ID: IJCNN 2011 in San Jose to Feature "From Brains to Machines" Symposium Sponsored by NSF Doubletree Hotel, San Jose Tuesday, August 2, 2011 The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, to be held at the San Jose Doubletree Hotel from July 31 to August 5, will feature a special symposium entitled "From Brains to Machines" sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The symposium, to be held all day on Tuesday, August 2, will bring together leading neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and engineers seeking to understand the brain and build neuromorphic machines. Keynote plenary talks will be given by Michael Arbib, Director of the USC Brain Project at the University of Southern California, and Dharmendra Modha, Manager of Cognitive Computing at IBM Almaden Research Center. The full program for the symposium is as follows: Plenary Session Michael Arbib, University of Southern California Brains, machines and buildings Session 1 Adam Gazzaley, University of California San Francisco Neural networks underlying top-down enhancement and suppression of visual processing Cheryl Grady, Rotman Research Institute, Toronto The effects of aging on functional connectivity during cognitive tasks and at rest Jennie Si, Arizona State University New insights into the cortical neural substrate for goal-directed cognitive control Vinod Menon, Stanford University Dynamical functional organization of the human brain Plenary Session Dharmendra Modha, IBM Almaden Research Center Cognitive computing: neuroscience, supercomputing, nanotechnology Session 2 Jose Carmena, University of California Berkeley Neural adaptations to a brain-machine interface Michel Maharbiz, University of California Berkeley Cyborg beetles: building interfaces between synthetic and multicellular Ted Berger, University of Southern California Biomimetic models and microelectronics for neural prosthetic devices that support memory systems of the brain Dileep George, Vicarious Systems How to work towards a mathematical understanding of the brain In addition to the symposium, the conference will feature: * Plenary lectures by internationally renowned researchers in neural networks, cognitive science, robotics and distributed intelligence, including a special session on “The Emergence of Mind”. * More than 500 research presentations, including special sessions on neuromorphic hardware, smart grid applications and autonomous machine learning. * Tutorials, workshops and panels in a wide range of areas related to neural networks, computational intelligence and cognitive science. Discounted early registration is available through June 30. For details and registration information, please visit http://www.ijcnn2011.org From v.steuber at herts.ac.uk Fri Jun 3 06:42:13 2011 From: v.steuber at herts.ac.uk (Steuber, Volker) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:42:13 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Studentships in Computational Neuroscience Message-ID: <18EF08266D889C41A14D1099C7102CE2B96DC0F756@UH-MAILSTOR.herts.ac.uk> PhD Studentships in Computational Neuroscience Science and Technology Research Institute University of Hertfordshire, UK We invite applications for PhD studentships in the Biocomputation Research Group at the Science and Technology Research Institute at the University of Hertfordshire. Depending on the candidate?s interests and background, the project will involve computer simulations of biologically detailed models of neurons and neuronal networks to study information processing in the brain, or the application of novel information-theoretic approaches to understand neural coding (in collaboration with Dr Daniel Polani and the Adaptive Systems Research Group in Hertfordshire). More details about our research can be found on our web page and in relevant publications: http://homepages.stca.herts.ac.uk/~comqvs/ Volker Steuber, Nathan Schultheiss, R Angus Silver, Erik De Schutter and Dieter Jaeger (2011). Determinants of synaptic integration and heterogeneity in rebound firing explored with data-driven models of deep cerebellar nucleus cells. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 30, 633-659. Reinoud Maex and Volker Steuber (2009). The first second: models of short-term memory traces in the brain. Neural Networks 22, 1105-1112. Jason Rothman, Laurence Cathala, Volker Steuber and R. Angus Silver (2009). Synaptic depression enables neuronal gain control. Nature 457, 1015-1018. Applicants should have excellent computational and numerical skills and a good first degree in maths, computer science, physics, neuroscience, biology or a related discipline. Previous experience in neuroscience is not required but would be an advantage. Successful candidates will receive an approximately ?13,500 per annum bursary plus the payment of the standard UK student fees. Research in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire has been recognized as excellent by the latest Research Assessment Exercise, with 55% of the research submitted being rated as world leading or internationally excellent. The Science and Technology Research Institute provides a very stimulating environment, offering a large number of specialized and interdisciplinary seminars as well as general training opportunities. The University of Hertfordshire is located in Hatfield, just north of London. For informal inquiries contact Dr Volker Steuber (v.steuber at herts.ac.uk). Further information and an application form can be obtained from Mrs Lorraine Nicholls, Research Student Administrator, STRI, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Herts, AL10 9AB, Tel: 01707 286083, email: l.nicholls at herts.ac.uk. The short-listing process will begin on 1 July 2011. From bonnybanerjee at yahoo.com Thu Jun 2 15:21:32 2011 From: bonnybanerjee at yahoo.com (Bonny Banerjee) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Connectionists: Fully-funded PhD positions available in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Memphis, USA Message-ID: <197723.30055.qm@web113409.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ***** Apologies if you receive this message multiple times ***** Fully-funded PhD positions available in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Memphis, USA Multiple fully-funded PhD positions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are available at the new Computational Intelligence Laboratory (CIL). The CIL is affiliated with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (EECE) and the interdisciplinary Institute for Intelligent Systems (IIS). A PhD student will work as a research assistant at CIL which will provide full financial support that includes tuition fees and a monthly stipend sufficient for a reasonable lifestyle in Memphis. Obtaining a PhD typically requires 5-6 years. PhD students will work under the supervision of Dr. Bonny Banerjee. Dr. Banerjee will be joining the University of Memphis in August, 2011 as an assistant professor with joint appointment at the EECE department and the IIS. He will be leading the CIL. There will be the opportunity to collaborate with researchers of IIS, EECE department, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, and the student?s home department at the University of Memphis, as well as with researchers external to the university. Research will involve investigating computational approaches to answering fundamental questions in visual and auditory perception, such as, how do we learn the different objects/behaviors in our environment, how do we filter different kinds of noise without any prior model of the noise,? how do we perceive/act proactively to garner efficiency, and so on. Our current focus is on developing a multilayered neural network architecture for learning repeating coincident patterns across multiple spatial and temporal resolutions. This research exists at the confluence of AI, machine learning, cognitive science, and computational neuroscience, with applications to intelligent systems (e.g., smart biomedical devices, decision support systems, human-machine interaction, ambient intelligence) and algorithms (that learn to be efficient by solving similar problems). An ideal candidate will posses the following: 1. Strong mathematical and programming skills (Matlab experience desirable) 2. Strong motivation to pursue research in AI, neural networks, machine learning, with application to interesting real world problems 3. Some experience in research, such as, working on research projects, co-authoring journal/conference papers, etc. The student will have to apply and be accepted to the University of Memphis for graduate study in Electrical & Computer Engineering or Computer Science or Physics or Mathematics or Statistics or Psychology or in a related area before he can start working in this position. Informal enquiries should be sent to Dr. Bonny Banerjee (BonnyBanerjee at yahoo.com) Important Links: Dr. Bonny Banerjee ?s research??? http://sites.google.com/site/bonnybanerjee1 University of Memphis??? http://www.memphis.edu Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering? http://www.memphis.edu/eece Institute for Intelligent Systems? http://iis.memphis.edu Admissions? http://www.memphis.edu/admissions PhD degree requirements? http://www.memphis.edu/gradcatalog/deg_req/doctoral.php From icais11 at cuas.at Fri Jun 3 10:23:36 2011 From: icais11 at cuas.at (icais11) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:23:36 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Last CFP: The 2011 International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems (ICAIS'11), Austria, September 06-08, 2011 Message-ID: <29E93A60E97FC647BD76AAA56A3D935E0B374B6525@exchange05.technikum.local> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * Last CALL FOR PAPERS * * * The 2011 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'11 September 06th - 08th, 2011 Klagenfurt, Austria http://icais.uni-klu.ac.at Sponsored by - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) - The International Neural Network Society - The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * PLENARY TALKS * * * Prof. Nicol? Cesa-Bianchi, University of Milano, Italy The game-theoretic approach to machine learning and adaptation Prof. Peter Auer, University of Leoben, Austria Exploration and Exploitation in Online Learning Prof. Hani Hagras, Essex University, UK Towards Online Adaptive Ambient Intelligent Environments for Multiple Occupants Prof. Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK The Evolution of Evolutionary Computation * * * AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE * * * The ICAIS'11 conference aims at bringing together international researchers, developers and practitioners from different horizons to discuss the latest advances in system learning and adaptation. ICAIS'11 will serve as a space to present the current state of the art but also future research avenues of this thematic. Topics of the conference cover three aspects: Algorithms & theories of adaptation and learning, Adaptation issues in Software & System Engineering, Real- world Applications. ICAIS'11 will feature contributed papers as well as world-renowned guest speakers (see webpage), interactive breakout sessions, and instructional workshops. Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. * * * IMPORTANT DATES * * * - Full paper submission: June 10, 2011 - Acceptance notification: July 08, 2011 - Final camera ready: July 18, 2011 * * * POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION * * * A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be considered for possible inclusion in one of the following special issues of international journals: - Special Issue of Evolving Systems (Springer) on Clustering and Classification in Dynamic Environments - Special Issue of Neurocomputing (Elsevier) on Neurocomputing for Dynamically Changing Systems * * * MAIN TOPICS (but not limited to) * * * - Track 1: Self-X Systems o Self-adaptation o Self-organization and behavior emergence o Self-managing o Self-healing o Self-monitoring o Multi-agent systems o Self-X software agents o Self-X robots o Self-organizing sensor networks o Evolving systems - Track 2: Incremental Learning o Online incremental learning o Self-growing neural networks o Adaptive and life-long learning o Plasticity and stability o Forgetting o Unlearning o Novelty detection o Perception and evolution o Drift handling o Adaptation in changing environments - Track 3: Online Processing o Adaptive rule-based systems o Adaptive identification systems o Adaptive decision systems o Adaptive preference learning o Time series prediction o Online and single-pass data mining o Online classification o Online clustering o Online regression o Online feature selection and reduction o Online information routing - Track 4: Dynamic and Evolving Models in Computational Intelligence o (Dynamic) Neural networks architectures o (Dynamic) Evolutionary computation o (Dynamic) Swarm intelligence o (Dynamic) Immune and bacterial systems o Uncertainty and fuzziness modeling for adaptation o Approximate reasoning and adaptation o Chaotic systems - Track 5: Software & System Engineering o Autonomic computing o Organic computing o Evolution o Adaptive software architecture o Software change o Software agents o Engineering of complex systems o Adaptive software engineering processes o Component-based development - Track 6: Applications - Adaptivity and Learning o Smart systems o Ambient / ubiquitous environments o Distributed intelligence o Robotics o Industrial applications o Internet applications o Business applications o Supply chain management o etc. * * * SUBMISSION * * * Papers must be in PDF, not exceeding 10 pages and conforming to Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers must be submitted through the submission system ( http://icais.uni-klu.ac.at/openconf/openconf.php ). Short papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature results are also welcome. All submission will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 qualified reviewers. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author have to attend the conference to present the paper. The conference proceedings which will be published as a hardcopy by Springer in LNAI, will be available at the conference. * * * ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE * * * General Chair: - Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria International Advisory Committee: - Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University, New Zealand - Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi, University of Milano, Italy - Djamel Ziou, University of Sherbrooke, Canada - Plamen Angelov, University of Lancaster, UK - Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK - Witold Pedrycz, University of Edmonton, Canada - Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Organization Committee: - Roland Mittermeir, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - Annette Lippitsch, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - Markus Kuenstner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - Andreas Bollin, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Publicity Chair: - Markus Prossegger, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20110603/59d601ab/attachment.html From mbethge at tuebingen.mpg.de Thu Jun 2 05:32:59 2011 From: mbethge at tuebingen.mpg.de (Matthias Bethge) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:32:59 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: W2 group leader position in Theoretical Neuroscience Message-ID: <358A469D-6CD4-468D-B5CE-45EBBEE9609E@tuebingen.mpg.de> Dear All, the recently established Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience T?bingen (http://www.bccn-tuebingen.de) seeks to appoint a W2 group leader position in "Theoretical Neuroscience" at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. The Bernstein Center in Tuebingen investigates the neural basis of perceptual inference and we invite excellent postdoctoral researchers in the field of Theoretical Neuroscience who would like to contribute to the goals of the center to apply. To ensure full consideration application documents should be sent as electronic copy to the coordinator of the Bernstein center (mbethge at tuebingen.mpg.de) by July 15. The total funding for the group is 1.2 Mio Euros and the run time is 6 years. The group will be located at Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics. There are no teaching obligations but great opportunities to contribute to the lecturing at the newly established graduate school for neural information processing (http://www.neuroschool-tuebingen-comput.de/index.php?id=182). The Bernstein Center entertains close links to the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) in T?bingen (http://www.cin.uni-tuebingen.de) and includes two Max Planck Institutes, the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, and the University. The thriving research community is composed of sixty labs with more than 150 postdocs and 300 PhD students. Possibilities exist for multiple interactions between neurobiological, psychophysical, and theoretical researchers. T?bingen itself is a beautiful medieval town and home to one of the oldest European universities. It boasts a rich cultural community and is situated close to the Black Forrest within 2h train or driving distance to France, Switzerland and Austria. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20110602/df5857a5/attachment-0001.html From t.heskes at science.ru.nl Sun Jun 5 13:55:41 2011 From: t.heskes at science.ru.nl (Tom Heskes) Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:55:41 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Neurocomputing volume 74 (issue 6-15) Message-ID: <4DEBC31D.2050104@science.ru.nl> Neurocomputing volume 74 (issue 6) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5660-2011-999259993-2903758 ----------- REGULAR PAPERS The complex local mean decomposition Cheolsoo Park, David Looney, Marc M. Van Hulle, Danilo P. Mandic Seeker optimization algorithm for tuning the structure and parameters of neural networks Chaohua Dai, Weirong Chen, Yunfang Zhu, Zhiling Jiang, Zhiyu You Unsupervised learning in second-order neural networks for motion analysis Toma? Maul, Sapiyan Baba Disaggregation & aggregation of time series components: A hybrid forecasting approach using generalized regression neural networks and the theta method Marina Theodosiou The bridge relating process neural networks and traditional neural networks Tao Ye, Xuefeng Zhu LIFT: A new framework of learning from testing data for face recognition Yuan Cao, Haibo He, He (Helen) Huang Probabilistic neural computing with advanced nanoscale MOSFETs Nor Hisham Hamid, Tong Boon Tang, Alan F. Murray A new quality assessment criterion for nonlinear dimensionality reduction Deyu Meng, Yee Leung, Zongben Xu Stability analysis of stochastic recurrent neural networks with unbounded time-varying delays Xuejing Meng, Maosheng Tian, Shigeng Hu Discriminative structure selection method of Gaussian Mixture Models with its application to handwritten digit recognition Xuefeng Chen, Xiabi Liu, Yunde Jia Transform based spatio-temporal descriptors for human action recognition Ling Shao, Ruoyun Gao, Yan Liu, Hui Zhang Less conservative results of state estimation for delayed neural networks with fewer LMI variables Cheng-De Zheng, Mingming Ma, Zhanshan Wang Visualization of Riemannian-manifold-valued elements by multidimensional scaling Simone Fiori Synchronization and synchronized periodic solution in a simplified five-neuron BAM neural network with delays Juhong Ge, Jian Xu Existence of periodic solutions for a class of Cohen?Grossberg type neural networks with neutral delays S. Mandal, N.C. Majee A probabilistic fuzzy approach to modeling nonlinear systems Song Hengjie, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen, Wuyts Roel, Maja D?Hondt, Catthoor Francky Interactions between two neural populations: A mechanism of chaos and oscillation in neural mass model Gan Huang, Dingguo Zhang, Jiangjun Meng, Xiangyang Zhu Adaptive multi-cue tracking by online appearance learning Qing Wang, Feng Chen, Wenli Xu ----------- BRIEF PAPERS Training RBF network to tolerate single node fault Kevin Ho, Chi-sing Leung, John Sum Face recognition using kernel entropy component analysis B.H. Shekar, M. Sharmila Kumari, Leonid M. Mestetskiy, Natalia F. Dyshkant Error back-propagation algorithm for classification of imbalanced data Sang-Hoon Oh The almost periodic solution of Lotka?Volterra recurrent neural networks with delays Yiguang Liu, Bingbing Liu, Sai Ho Ling ----------- Neurocomputing volume 74 (issue 7) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5660-2011-999259992-2903759 ----------- REGULAR PAPERS Continuous state/action reinforcement learning: A growing self-organizing map approach Hesam Montazeri, Sajjad Moradi, Reza Safabakhsh Doubly periodic traveling waves in cellular neural networks with polynomial reactions Jian Jhong Lin, Sui Sun Cheng Non-uniform multiple kernel learning with cluster-based gating functions Yadong Mu, Bingfeng Zhou A novel approach for analog fault diagnosis based on neural networks and improved kernel PCA Yingqun Xiao, Yigang He Supposed maximum information for comprehensible representations in SOM Ryotaro Kamimura Computational modeling of cortical pathways involved in action execution and action observation Emmanouil Hourdakis, Helen E. Savaki, Panos Trahanias ----------- Neurocomputing volume 74 (issue 8) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5660-2011-999259991-3008746 ----------- SPECIAL PAPERS (IWINAC 2009) From phenomenological data and sensations to cognition (editorial) J.M. Ferr?ndez, D. Maravall, J.R. ?lvarez-S?nchez A network of pyramidal neurons is sensitive to the timing of its excitatory inputs Santi Chillemi, Michele Barbi, Angelo Di Garbo V-Proportion: A method based on the Voronoi diagram to study spatial relations in neuronal mosaics of the retina (reprint) Oscar Martinez Mozos, Jose A. Bolea, Jose M. Ferrandez, Peter K. Ahnelt, Eduardo Fernandez A historical perspective of algorithmic lateral inhibition and accumulative computation in computer vision Antonio Fern?ndez-Caballero, Mar?a T. L?pez, Enrique J. Carmona, Ana E. Delgado Toward local and global perception modules for vision substitution Guido Bologna, Beno?t Deville, Juan Diego Gomez, Thierry Pun Neuromorphic detection of speech dynamics Pedro G?mez-Vilda, Jos? M. Ferr?ndez-Vicente, Victoria Rodellar-Biarge, Agust?n ?lvarez-Marquina, Luis Miguel Mazaira-Fern?ndez, Rafael Mart?nez Olalla, Cristina Mu?oz-Mulas The Dorso-medial visual stream: From neural activation to sensorimotor interaction Eris Chinellato, Beata J. Grzyb, Nicoletta Marzocchi, Annalisa Bosco, Patrizia Fattori, Angel P. del Pobil Multi-level cognitive machine-learning based concept for human-like ?artificial? walking: Application to autonomous stroll of humanoid robots Kurosh Madani, Christophe Sabourin A biological neuroprocessor for robotic guidance using a center of area method J.M. Ferr?ndez, V. Lorente, F. delaPaz, J.M. Cuadra, Jos? Ram?n ?lvarez-S?nchez, E. Fern?ndez Fusion of learning automata theory and granular inference systems: ANLAGIS. Applications to pattern recognition and machine learning Dar?o Maravall, Javier de Lope Breast cancer classification applying artificial metaplasticity algorithm A. Marcano-Cede?o, J. Quintanilla-Dom?nguez, D. Andina Robust high performance reinforcement learning through weighted k-nearest neighbors Jos? Antonio Mart?n H, Javier de Lope, Dar?o Maravall Principal component analysis-based techniques and supervised classification schemes for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease M. L?pez, J. Ram?rez, J.M. G?rriz, I. ?lvarez, D. Salas-Gonzalez, F. Segovia, R. Chaves, P. Padilla, M. G?mez-R?o and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Differential optical flow applied to automatic facial expression recognition A. S?nchez, J.V. Ruiz, A.B. Moreno, A.S. Montemayor, J. Hern?ndez, J.J. Pantrigo A block-based model for monitoring of human activity Encarnaci?n Folgado, Mariano Rinc?n, Enrique J. Carmona, Margarita Bachiller Implementation of a CNN-based retinomorphic model on a high performance reconfigurable computer J. Javier Mart?nez, Javier Garrig?s, Javier Toledo, Eduardo Fern?ndez, J. Manuel Ferr?ndez ----------- Neurocomputing volume 74 (issue 9) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5660-2011-999259990-3044749 ----------- SPECIAL PAPERS (ESANN 2010) Advances in artificial neural networks, machine learning, and computational intelligence (editorial) J.A. Lee, F.-M. Schleif, Thomas Martinetz A variational Bayesian approach for the robust analysis of the cortical silent period from EMG recordings of brain stroke patients Iv?n Olier, Juli? Amengual, Alfredo Vellido Pattern recognition through compatibility of excitatory and inhibitory rhythms Thomas Burwick Modeling short-term adaptation processes of visual motion detectors Volker Willert, Julian Eggert Neighbor embedding XOM for dimension reduction and visualization Kerstin Bunte, Barbara Hammer, Thomas Villmann, Michael Biehl, Axel Wism?ller Relevance learning in generative topographic mapping Andrej Gisbrecht, Barbara Hammer Relational generative topographic mapping Andrej Gisbrecht, Bassam Mokbel, Barbara Hammer Integrating feature maps and competitive layer architectures for motion segmentation Jan Steffen, Michael Pardowitz, Jochen J. Steil, Helge Ritter Sparse kernel spectral clustering models for large-scale data analysis Carlos Alzate, Johan A.K. Suykens Spectral clustering with more than K eigenvectors Nicola Rebagliati, Alessandro Verri Mode estimation in high-dimensional spaces with flat-top kernels: Application to image denoising Arnaud De Decker, Damien Fran?ois, Michel Verleysen, John A. Lee Exploiting local structure in Boltzmann machines Hannes Schulz, Andreas M?ller, Sven Behnke Soft-competitive learning of sparse codes and its application to image reconstruction Kai Labusch, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz Divergence-based classification in learning vector quantization E. Mwebaze, P. Schneider, F.-M. Schleif, J.R. Aduwo, J.A. Quinn, S. Haase, T. Villmann, M. Biehl Maximal Discrepancy for Support Vector Machines Davide Anguita, Alessandro Ghio, Sandro Ridella Asymptotic properties of mixture-of-experts models M. Olteanu, J. Rynkiewicz ----------- REGULAR PAPERS Manifold Mapping Machine Ping He, Xiaohua Xu, Ling Chen Neighborhood preserving regression for image retrieval Ke Lu, Jidong Zhao ----------- BRIEF PAPERS Reduced twin support vector regression Mittul Singh, Jivitej Chadha, Puneet Ahuja, Jayadeva, Suresh Chandra Kernel-view based discriminant approach for embedded feature extraction in high-dimensional space Miao Cheng, Bin Fang, Chi-Man Pun, Yuan Yan Tang Automatic image segmentation based on PCNN with adaptive threshold time constant Shuo Wei, Qu Hong, Mengshu Hou Improving the prediction of average total ozone in column over the Iberian Peninsula using neural networks banks S. Salcedo-Sanz, J.L. Camacho, ?.M. P?rez-Bellido, E.G. Ortiz-Garcia, A. Portilla-Figueras, E. Hern?ndez-Mart?n A neural network approach for data masking Vishal Anjaiah Gujjary, Ashutosh Saxena ----------- Neurocomputing volume 74 (issue 10) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5660-2011-999259989-3095753 ----------- REGULAR PAPERS Robust delay-dependent exponential stability for uncertain stochastic neural networks with mixed delays Feiqi Deng, Mingang Hua, Xinzhi Liu, Yunjian Peng, Juntao Fei Design of a reconfigurable pseudorandom number generator for use in intelligent systems Tiago de Oliveira, Norian Marranghello Stability analysis of Takagi?Sugeno stochastic fuzzy Hopfield neural networks with discrete and distributed time varying delays P. Balasubramaniam, M. Syed Ali Contour detection based on a non-classical receptive field model with butterfly-shaped inhibition subregions Chi Zeng, Yongjie Li, Kaifu Yang, Chaoyi Li Stability analysis for stochastic neural network with infinite delay Huan Su, Wenxue Li, Ke Wang, Xiaohua Ding Impulsive effects on stability of high-order BAM neural networks with time delays Chaojie Li, Chuandong Li, Xiaofeng Liao, Tingwen Huang Phase synchronizing in Hindmarsh?Rose neural networks with delayed chemical coupling Mahdi Jalili Adaptive fuzzy backstepping output feedback control of nonlinear uncertain systems with unknown virtual control coefficients using MT-filters Yongming Li, Shaocheng Tong Grey-box radial basis function modelling Sheng Chen, Xia Hong, Chris J. Harris Synchronization for an array of coupled stochastic discrete-time neural networks with mixed delays Huiwei Wang, Qiankun Song Neighborhood based sample and feature selection for SVM classification learning Qiang He, Zongxia Xie, Qinghua Hu, Congxin Wu Using the bagging approach for biclustering of gene expression data B. Hanczar, M. Nadif CPU load prediction using neuro-fuzzy and Bayesian inferences Kadda Beghdad bey, Farid Benhammadi, Zahia Gessoum, Aicha Mokhtari Lag stochastic synchronization of chaotic mixed time-delayed neural networks with uncertain parameters or perturbations Xinsong Yang, Quanxin Zhu, Chuangxia Huang Delay-dependent exponential stability analysis for discrete-time switched neural networks with time-varying delay Zheng-Guang Wu, Peng Shi, Hongye Su, Jian Chu Robust stability of delayed reaction?diffusion recurrent neural networks with Dirichlet boundary conditions on time scales Yongkun Li, Kaihong Zhao Rolling element bearing fault diagnosis using wavelet transform P.K. Kankar, Satish C. Sharma, S.P. Harsha A delay decomposition approach to delay-dependent passivity analysis for interval neural networks with time-varying delay P. Balasubramaniam, G. Nagamani A fast method of feature extraction for kernel MSE Yong-Ping Zhao, Zhong-Hua Du, Zhi-An Zhang, Hai-Bo Zhang Sparse kernel density estimations and its application in variable selection based on quadratic Renyi entropy Min Han, Zhiping Liang, Decai Li Chaos control and associative memory of a time-delay globally coupled neural network using symmetric map Tao Wang, Kejun Wang, Nuo Jia Online learning neural tracker S. Suresh, F. Br?mond, M. Thonnat, H.J. Kim Nonlinear system identification using memetic differential evolution trained neural networks Bidyadhar Subudhi, Debashisha Jena Performance analysis of gradient neural network exploited for online time-varying quadratic minimization and equality-constrained quadratic programming Yunong Zhang, Yiwen Yang, Gongqin Ruan Multitask Bregman clustering Jianwen Zhang, Changshui Zhang Short-term time series forecasting based on the identification of skeleton algebraic sequences Minvydas Ragulskis, Kristina Lukoseviciute, Zenonas Navickas, Rita Palivonaite Multiple resonances with time delays and enhancement by non-Gaussian noise in Newman?Watts networks of Hodgkin?Huxley neurons Yinghang Hao, Yubing Gong, Xiu Lin Passivity analysis of stochastic delayed neural networks with Markovian switching Song Zhu, Yi Shen VSImG: A high frame rate bitmap based display system for neuroscience research Lirio Onofre Baptista de Almeida, Jan Frans Willem Slaets, Roland K?berle Online multiple instance boosting for object detection Zhiquan Qi, Yitian Xu, Laisheng Wang, Ye Song Exponential synchronization of Cohen?Grossberg neural networks via periodically intermittent control Juan Yu, Cheng Hu, Haijun Jiang, Zhidong Teng ----------- Neurocomputing volume 74 (issue 11) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5660-2011-999259988-3209755 ----------- SPECIAL PAPERS (Adaptive Incremental Learning in Neural Networks) Adaptive incremental learning in neural networks (editorial) Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Nadia Nedjah Incremental learning with multi-level adaptation Abdelhamid Bouchachia A robust incremental learning method for non-stationary environments David Mart?nez-Rego, Beatriz P?rez-S?nchez, Oscar Fontenla-Romero, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos Extreme and incremental learning based single-hidden-layer regularization ridgelet network Shuyuan Yang, Min Wang, Licheng Jiao A filter based neuron model for adaptive incremental learning of self-organizing maps Mauro Tucci, Marco Raugi Binary tree time adaptive self-organizing map Hamed Shah-Hosseini Dynamic self-organising map Nicolas Rougier, Yann Boniface Adaptive personalized recommendation based on adaptive learning Wan-Yu Deng, Qing-Hua Zheng, Shiguo Lian, Lin Chen Incremental online sparsification for model learning in real-time robot control Duy Nguyen-Tuong, Jan Peters The convergence analysis and specification of the Population-Based Incremental Learning algorithm Helong Li, Sam Kwong, Yi Hong Modelling vocabulary acquisition, adaptation and generalization in infants using adaptive Bayesian PLSA J. Driesen, H. Van hamme Neuro-fuzzy control of antilock braking system using sliding mode incremental learning algorithm Andon V. Topalov, Yesim Oniz, Erdal Kayacan, Okyay Kaynak An adaptive fuzzy model using orthonormal basis functions based on multifractal characteristics applied to network traffic control F.H.T. Vieira, F.G.C. Rocha Mixture control chart patterns recognition using independent component analysis and support vector machine Chi-Jie Lu, Yuehjen E. Shao, Po-Hsun Li ----------- SPECIAL PAPERS (ICONIP 2009) Learning algorithm and mathematic modeling (editorial) Chi Sing Leung Affective saliency map considering psychological distance Sang-Woo Ban, Young-Min Jang, Minho Lee A support vector machine classifier with automatic confidence and its application to gender classification Ji Zheng, Bao-Liang Lu SOM time series clustering and prediction with recurrent neural networks Aymen Cherif, Hubert Cardot, Romuald Bon? An approximate inference with Gaussian process to latent functions from uncertain data Patrick Dallaire, Camille Besse, Brahim Chaib-draa Extended HALS algorithm for nonnegative Tucker decomposition and its applications for multiway analysis and classification Anh Huy Phan, Andrzej Cichocki PARAFAC algorithms for large-scale problems Anh Huy Phan, Andrzej Cichocki Robust local tangent space alignment via iterative weighted PCA Yubin Zhan, Jianping Yin An adaptive threshold in joint approximate diagonalization by assuming exponentially distributed errors Yoshitatsu Matsuda, Kazunori Yamaguchi Two design methods of hyperparameters in variational Bayes learning for Bernoulli mixtures Daisuke Kaji, Sumio Watanabe Hebbian-based neural networks for bottom-up visual attention and its applications to ship detection in SAR images Ying Yu, Bin Wang, Liming Zhang PPoSOM: A new variant of PolSOM by using probabilistic assignment for multidimensional data visualization Yang Xu, Lu Xu, Tommy W.S. Chow Regularizers for fault tolerant multilayer feedforward networks Shue Kwan Mak, Pui-Fai Sum, Chi-Sing Leung ----------- Neurocomputing volume 74 (issue 12-13) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5660-2011-999259987-3213760 ----------- REGULAR PAPERS A framework for rapid visual image search using single-trial brain evoked responses Yonghong Huang, Deniz Erdogmus, Misha Pavel, Santosh Mathan, Kenneth E. Hild II Rough Neuron based on Pattern Space Partitioning Sandeep Chandana, Rene V. Mayorga Unsupervised kernel least mean square algorithm for solving ordinary differential equations Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi, Morteza Pakdaman, Hamed Modaghegh Adaptive neural control for uncertain stochastic nonlinear strict-feedback systems with time-varying delays: A Razumikhin functional method Zhaoxu Yu, Hongbin Du On-line analysis of out-of-control signals in multivariate manufacturing processes using a hybrid learning-based model Mojtaba Salehi, Ardeshir Bahreininejad, Isa Nakhai Traffic flow forecasting by seasonal SVR with chaotic simulated annealing algorithm Wei-Chiang Hong The asymptotic structure of the Morris?Lecar model H.Y. Li, Y.K. Wong, W.L. Chan Arbitrary ROI-based wavelet video coding Xuguang Lan, Nanning Zheng, Wen Ma, Yuan Yuan Robust filtering of extended stochastic genetic regulatory networks with parameter uncertainties, disturbances, and time-varying delays Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, Vahid Johari Majd Feature level analysis for 3D facial expression recognition Teng Sha, Mingli Song, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Dacheng Tao Face recognition using second-order discriminant tensor subspace analysis Su-Jing Wang, Chun-Guang Zhou, Na Zhang, Xu-Jun Peng, Yu-Hsin Chen, Xiaohua Liu Stability of stochastic Markovian jump neural networks with mode-dependent delays Qian Ma, Shengyuan Xu, Yun Zou, Jinjun Lu Pulsed magnetic field exposure induces lasting changes in neural network dynamics Robert Z. Stodilka, Julien Modolo, Frank S. Prato, John A. Robertson, Charles Cook, John Patrick, Anne Beuter, Alex W. Thomas, Alexandre Legros Discriminative learning by sparse representation for classification Fei Zang, Jiangshe Zhang Physical activity recognition based on motion in images acquired by a wearable camera Hong Zhang, Lu Li, Wenyan Jia, John D. Fernstrom, Robert J. Sclabassi, Zhi-Hong Mao, Mingui Sun Structural learning of the Boltzmann machine and its application to life cycle management Shamshul Bahar Yaakob, Junzo Watada, John Fulcher Learning low-rank kernel matrices for constrained clustering Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah, Saeed Bagheri Shouraki Analyzing relationships among ARMA processes based on non-Gaussianity of external influences Yoshinobu Kawahara, Shohei Shimizu, Takashi Washio A new scheme to learn a kernel in regularization networks Jie Chen, Fei Ma, Jian Chen Annealed Kullback?Leibler divergence minimization for generalized TSP, spot identification and gene sorting Jiann-Ming Wu, Pei-Hsun Hsu Self-organizing adaptive fuzzy neural control for the synchronization of uncertain chaotic systems with random-varying parameters Da Lin, Xingyuan Wang Empirical analysis and evaluation of approximate techniques for pruning regression bagging ensembles Daniel Hern?ndez-Lobato, Gonzalo Mart?nez-Mu?oz, Alberto Su?rez Energy based competitive learning Chang-Dong Wang, Jiang-Huang Lai ----------- Neurocomputing volume 74 (issue 14-15) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5660-2011-999259985-3273739 ----------- REGULAR PAPERS Decentralized adaptive neural control of nonlinear interconnected large-scale systems with unknown time delays and input saturation Tieshan Li, Ronghui Li, Junfang Li Modified locally linear discriminant embedding for plant leaf recognition Shanwen Zhang, Ying-Ke Lei Illumination robust single sample face recognition using multi-directional orthogonal gradient phase faces Xi Chen, Jiashu Zhang Optimal segmentation of brain MRI based on adaptive bacterial foraging algorithm P.D. Sathya, R. Kayalvizhi Robotic path planning in static environment using hierarchical multi-neuron heuristic search and probability based fitness Rahul Kala, Anupam Shukla, Ritu Tiwari Interval type-2 fuzzy neural networks version of the Stone?Weierstrass theorem Saeed Panahian Fard, Zarita Zainuddin New robust stability analysis for genetic regulatory networks with random discrete delays and distributed delays Wenbing Zhang, Jian-an Fang, Yang Tang Learning sequences of sparse correlated patterns using small-world attractor neural networks: An application to traffic videos Mario Gonz?lez, David Dominguez, ?ngel S?nchez Deterministic convergence of conjugate gradient method for feedforward neural networks Jian Wang, Wei Wu, Jacek M. Zurada Neural network-based sliding mode adaptive control for robot manipulators Tairen Sun, Hailong Pei, Yongping Pan, Hongbo Zhou, Caihong Zhang Stability analysis of stochastic fuzzy cellular neural networks with time-varying delays Shujun Long, Daoyi Xu Behavioral simulation and synthesis of biological neuron systems using synthesizable VHDL J.A. Bailey, R. Wilcock, P.R. Wilson, J.E. Chad ----------- BRIEF PAPERS Bimodal biometric verification based on face and lips Carlos M. Travieso, Jianguo Zhang, Paul Miller, Jes?s B. Alonso, Miguel A. Ferrer ------------ JOURNAL SITE: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/neucom From d.polani at herts.ac.uk Mon Jun 6 13:19:04 2011 From: d.polani at herts.ac.uk (Daniel Polani) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:19:04 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: PhD Studentships in Information Processing/Self-Organization in Adaptive Systems at the University of Hertfordshire, UK Message-ID: <19949.3080.296711.767409@gargle.gargle.HOWL> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// PhD Studentships Available on INFORMATION PROCESSING AND SELF-ORGANIZATION IN ADAPTIVE BIOLOGICAL AND ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS Adaptive Systems Research Group School of Computer Science University of Hertfordshire, UK ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// PhD studentships are available in the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire in the topics of Artificial Life, especially for the study of principles behind information processing in adaptive, complex and self-organizing systems, a research area which has witnessed a dramatic growth in the last years. We use mathematical methods, with particular emphasis on an arsenal of recently developed techniques based on Shannon's information theory, to describe, understand or construct such systems in the context of AI/robotics and biology. Questions of interest and possible research directions include, but are not limited to: - information-theoretic approaches towards a mathematically founded understanding of information processing and the perception-action loop in agents; fundamental quantitative constraints governing the interaction between an agent and its environment - theoretically grounded pathways towards a systematic way to generate self-organization in complex systems - biologically plausible, information-based methods for creating Artificial Intelligence systems - fundamental principles underlying biological (e.g. neural) computation (with opportunities to collaborate with the Biocomputation Research Group) The prospective candidates should have a keen interest in contributing to a new and highly dynamic research area and a strong background in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics or another relevant computational discipline. In particular, they should demonstrate excellent programming skills in one or more major computer languages. A mathematical/numerical background would be desirable, ideally including probability theory and data modelling/neural network techniques. Successful candidates are eligible for a research studentship award from the University (which includes approximately GBP 13,500 per annum bursary and the payment of the standard UK student fees). The envisaged research will take place in the vibrant and enthusiastic research environment of the Adaptive Systems Research Group in the School of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire which offers a large number of specialized and interdisciplinary seminars as well as general training opportunities. Research in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire has been recognized as excellent by the latest Research Assessment Exercise, with 55% of the research submitted being rated as world leading or internationally excellent. The University of Hertfordshire is located in Hatfield, Hertfordshire UK which is considered the "northern green belt" of London. Hatfield is close to London (~25 minutes by train to Kings Cross), has convenient access to Stansted, Luton and Heathrow airports and is not far from the historic town of St. Albans. Contact for informal inquiries on the research topic: Dr. Daniel Polani (E-mail: d.polani at herts.ac.uk) Application forms are available from http://homepages.stca.herts.ac.uk/~comqvs/ApplicationFormUHStudentship.doc and should be returned to Mrs Lorraine Nicholls, Research Student Administrator, STRI University of Hertfordshire College Lane Hatfield AL10 9AB Hertfordshire UK Tel: 01707 286083, Email: l.nicholls at herts.ac.uk. The shortlisting process will begin on 1. July 2011. From bhammer at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de Tue Jun 7 04:27:09 2011 From: bhammer at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Barbara Hammer) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:27:09 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: call for abstracts - workshop NC^2 Message-ID: <4DEDE0DD.4010900@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> In conjunction to the DAGM'2011 and GfKl'2011, the workshop New Challenges in Neural Computation (NC^2) (http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~bhammer/GINN/NC2/nc2.html) will take place on 30 August 2011 at Campus Westend at University of Frankfurt. Extended abstracts connected to work in progress in Neural Computation, in particular related to the special focus topic Autonomous Learning are solicited until 30 July 2011 (http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~bhammer/GINN/NC2/call.html) Barbara Hammer, Thomas Villmann From wsenn at cns.unibe.ch Tue Jun 14 17:52:41 2011 From: wsenn at cns.unibe.ch (Walter Senn) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:52:41 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Biological Cybernetics: vol 104, issue 4 --- Table of Content Message-ID: <4DF7D829.8020601@cns.unibe.ch> Biological Cybernetics: vol 104, issue 4 --- Table of Content Original papers: "State estimation bias induced by optimization under uncertainty and error cost asymmetry is likely reflected in perception" Y. P. Shimansky http://www.springerlink.com/content/67044446318q035q/ "Biologically inspired kinematic synergies enable linear balance control of a humanoid robot" Helmut Hauser, Gerhard Neumann, Auke J. Ijspeert & Wolfgang Maass http://www.springerlink.com/content/5217485124776363/ "Normalization for probabilistic inference with neurons" Chris Eliasmith & James Martens http://www.springerlink.com/content/j7117u2675r27jv0/ "A comprehensive workflow for general-purpose neural modeling with highly configurable neuromorphic hardware systems" Daniel Br?derle, Mihai A. Petrovici, Bernhard Vogginger et. al. http://www.springerlink.com/content/xlh783325w537622/ "Analysis of a neural oscillator" Kiyotoshi Matsuoka http://www.springerlink.com/content/b52u4001197qk156/ "Self-enhancement learning: target-creating learning and its application to self-organizing maps" Ryotaro Kamimura http://www.springerlink.com/content/5t33372547804201/ "Optic flow estimation on trajectories generated by bio-inspired closed-loop flight" Patrick A. Shoemaker, Andrew M. Hyslop & J. 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These mechanisms operate at different stages of cognition, allowing salient information to be flexibly extracted and readily used. How does attention contribute to understanding of scenes, language processing, social interaction, and motor control? To gain insights in these topics, the Graduate School in "Cognitive Interaction Technology" invites top PhD students to apply for the 2011 Summer School entitled "Mechanisms of attention - From experimental studies to technical systems". It will take place from 3rd (day of arrival) to 8th of October 2011 at Bielefeld University. The vision of CITEC is to create interactive tools that can be operated easily and intuitively - to fit future technology more seamlessly into daily human life. In order to accomplish this, such technology needs to be endowed with cognitive capabilities, and so part of CITEC's mission is the study of the fundamental architectural principles of cognitive interaction. We believe this goal can only be realized through intense interdisciplinary cooperation. The proposed summer school series aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of fields for discussion and exchange of ideas. The CITEC summer school will comprise small-group workshops on practical, experimental and theoretical topics, plenary lectures held by the invited speakers, as well as discussion groups, evening lectures and an activities program. For the afternoon courses, you may select one from the following four streams: 1. Mechanisms Of Active Exploration And Multisensory Integration; 2. Attentional Mechanisms In Language Processing And Communication: From Humans To Virtual Agents; 3. Structuring And Coordinating Attention; 4. Motion And Attention. Guest speakers: Ehud Ahissar -- Weizmann Institute of Science Dana Ballard -- University of Texas at Austin Gustavo Deco -- University Pompeu Fabra Mary Hayhoe -- University of Texas at Austin Gordon Logan -- Vanderbilt University John Tsotsos -- York University Mark Williams -- John Moores University Liverpool We hope to offer a rich curriculum, which will promote discussion across the boundaries of different branches of science. Please find details for the online application here: http://www.cit-ec.de/summerschool/application2011 * Deadline for applications is the 14th August 2011 * For more information, please visit: http://www.cit-ec.de/summerschool/ Prof. Dr. Thomas Schack - Head of Graduate School Cognitive Interaction Technology, Neurocognition and Action - Biomechanics Group Prof. Dr. Helge Ritter - Coordinator of the Centre of Excellence CITEC, Neuroinformatics Group Claudia Muhl - Graduate School Manager -- ------------------------------------------- Anna Belardinelli, phD Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) http://www.cit-ec.de/index.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20110617/97d39748/attachment-0001.html From antonior at ffclrp.usp.br Tue Jun 14 17:43:42 2011 From: antonior at ffclrp.usp.br (Antonio Carlos Roque da Silva Filho) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:43:42 -0300 Subject: Connectionists: LASCON 2012 - IV Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (call for applications) Message-ID: <668199F9AD8A4148B4223EF33F8C0A18@userPC> **** Apologies for cross-posting **** IV Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience - LASCON 2012 January 15 - February 10, 2012, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil http://sisne.org/LASCON FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Dear Colleagues, Following the success of the previous three editions of LASCON (Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience), held in 2006, 2008 and 2010, I am pleased to announce the 4th LASCON, which will take place between January 15th and February 10th 2012 in Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil. LASCON aims at introducing young researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students to the use of computational and mathematical methods for modeling neurons and neural networks. These models will be taught via a combination of theoretical lectures and hands-on tutorials with the use of the programs neuroConstruct, NEURON, XPPAUT, NEST and Matlab. Students will have to work on small research projects (to be done in groups of two), which they will present orally at the end of the school. The following lecturers will be in charge of theoretical classes and tutorials: Arnd Roth (University College, London, UK) Emilio Kropff (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway) Gennady Cymbalyuk (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA) Harel Shouval (University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, USA) Moshe Abeles (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel) Olaf Sporns (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA) Reynaldo Pinto (University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil) Tom Tetzlaff (Research Center Juelich, Juelich, Germany) Volker Steuber (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK) William Lytton (SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY, USA) The following graduate students will work as tutors (plus graduate students from the organizer's lab): Boris Marin (University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil) Giseli de Sousa (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK) Sam Neymotin (SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY, USA) William Barnett (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA) There will also be some invited lecturers who will give one or two lectures at the end of the school. The number of students is limited to 28 and applications should be made electronically via the application form in the school's web page (http://sisne.org/LASCON). Applicants are also requested to submit a detailed CV (in English) and to provide two letters of recommendation. There is no registration fee for the school. Costs for accommodation and meals will be covered by the school organization. Travel costs have to be covered by the students. In the selection procedure, priority will be given to Latin-American students, but students from other parts of the world are encouraged to apply as well. The application deadline is September 10th 2011. I am looking forward to see you in Ribeirao Preto. Best regards, A. 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URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20110614/adcde722/attachment.html From bengioy at iro.umontreal.ca Sat Jun 18 15:27:10 2011 From: bengioy at iro.umontreal.ca (Yoshua Bengio) Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:27:10 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning 2011 References: Message-ID: <57A0892B-F83A-445F-98C5-D1D382EA3875@iro.umontreal.ca> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dear Connectionists, subscribers to this list may be interested in the following event which includes (among others) plenty of topics rooted in neural networks: Call for Papers IAPR TC3 Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning (PSL 2011) September 15 - 16, 2011 University of Ulm http://neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de/PSL2011/ On behalf of the organizing committee of the First International Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning (PSL 2011) we are pleased to invite all interested contributors to submit an abstract or a paper to the workshop, that will take place at the University of Ulm (Germany) on September 15-16, 2011. The deadline for submission has been extended to July 15th, 2011. PSL2011 is supported by the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and is organized by the IAPR Technical Committee on Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence (TC 3), the workshop's objective is to bring together recent novel research in the broad areas of learning from partially labeled data, or combined supervised/unsupervised learning, as well as to identify scenarios for real-world applications. Contributions on the following issues are welcome: Methodological issues: - Combinations of supervised and unsupervised learning - Diffusion learning - Semi-supervised classification, regression, and clustering - Learning with deep architectures - Active leaning - PSL with vague, fuzzy, or uncertain teaching signals - PSL in multiple classifier systems and ensembles - PSL in neural nets, machine learning, or statistical pattern recognition - PSL in cognitive systems Applications of PSL (including, but not limited to): - Image and signal processing - Multimodal information processing - Sensor / information fusion - Human computer interaction - Data mining and web mining - Bioinformatics Invited Speaker Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Submission guidelines We solicit talk proposals in the form of regular papers (10 pages) an extended abstract (4 pages). Oral and poster presentations will be organized depending on the number of contributions. Authors of accepted abstracts have the opportunity to submit a full paper of 10 pages after the workshop. The submission for full papers/extended abstracts is October 15th, 2011. After the workshop the proceedings will be published as a volume in the Springer LNAI series. Length is 10 pages for full papers or 4 pages for extended abstracts in LNCS/LNAI format. Important dates: Submission of regular papers and extended abstracts: July 15th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: August 1st, 2011. Workshop: September 15-16, 2011 Camera ready papers : October 10th, 2011 Workshop Organization: Friedhelm Schwenker, Ulm, Germany , Email: friedhelm.schwenker at uni-ulm.de Edmondo Trentin, Siena, Italy , Email: trentin at dii.unisi.it Program Committee: Erwin Bakker (Netherlands) Yoshua Bengio (Canada) Hendrik Blockheel (Belgium/Netherlands) Horst Bunke (Switzerland) Paolo Frasconi (Italy) Neamat El Gayar (Egypt) Marco Gori (Italy) Markus Hagenbuchner (Australia) Barbara Hammer (Germany) Tom Heskes (Netherlands) Lakhmi Jain (Australia) Manfred Jaeger (Denmark) Jose Manuel Inesta (Spain) Cheng-Lin Liu (China) Nik Kasabov (New Zealand) Marco Maggini (Italy) Simone Marinai (Italy) Erkki Oja (Finland) G??nther Palm (Germany) Lionel Prevost (France) Fabio Roli (Italy) Alessandro Sperduti (Italy) Markus Hagenbuchner (Australia) Ah Chung Tsoi (Hong Kong) Michel Verleysen (Belgium) Ian Witten (New Zealand) From jainv at janelia.hhmi.org Tue Jun 14 20:40:33 2011 From: jainv at janelia.hhmi.org (Jain, Viren) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:40:33 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Connectomics Postdoctoral Positions Available Message-ID: <2D4BAE7C-1C53-4DB6-90B0-1E45A8632A4E@janelia.hhmi.org> The Jain Lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus (http://www.hhmi.org/research/fellows/jain.html) is looking for highly motivated individuals to pursue interdisciplinary computer science & neuroscience research projects. Opportunities available for individuals with interest and backgrounds in: >> Machine Learning Structured Prediction, Supervised/Active Learning, Feature Learning >> Computer Vision Segmentation, Shape Description, Object Recognition >> Human Computation Human-Computer Interaction, Crowdsourcing CONTACT: jainv at janelia.hhmi.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20110614/f8f4dfa6/attachment.html From raphael.ritz at incf.org Mon Jun 13 07:12:51 2011 From: raphael.ritz at incf.org (Raphael Ritz) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:12:51 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Scientific Program Officer at INCF Message-ID: <4DF5F0B3.7020800@incf.org> Scientific Program Officer at the INCF Secretariat, Stockholm, Sweden Program Officer, with a neuroscientific background, business oriented thinking and driving force management merits. The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) was launched in 2005, following a proposal by the Global Science Forum of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The mission of INCF is to build and coordinate an open international infrastructure to integrate heterogeneous neuroscience data and knowledge bases and enable new insights from analysis, modeling and simulation. We are looking for an individual with a background in neuroscience and management for a position as a Program Officer at the INCF Secretariat in Stockholm, Sweden. The Program Officer will play a key role in identifying relevant outcomes from scientific workshops, strategy meetings, conferences and other internal and external forums, business and taking the best of these values into operational implementation as projects under the INCF programs. Overall, this candidate will coordinate efforts across the INCF network and interact with relevant experts with respect to the progress of the scientific INCF programs. Responsibilities will include strategic and tactical planning of the programs, documentation of their progress and operations, establishment of contracts with follow-up of deliverables. This position reports directly to the Executive Director. This position involves approximately 30% travel and will require working hours during evenings and occasional weekends. Excellent social and communication skills are necessary for this role. The abilities to balance perspectives, prioritize, and maintain focus are also crucial. Program Officers at INCF hold different domain expertise. For this position, a solid neuroscience background is required. Experience as a program officer and a manager are assets. Fluency in written and spoken English is required. We are looking forward to receiving your application to jobs at incf.org as soon as possible, no later than July 10, 2011. Applications should contain a CV and a cover letter including statement of interest and minimum three references. INCF Secretariat, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels v?g 15 A, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: +46 8 524 87 093 Fax: +46 8 524 87 094 E-mail: jobs at incf.org http://www.incf.org http://www.incf.org/resources/jobs/scientific-program-officer Thanks, Raphael -- Dr. Raphael Ritz Scientific Officer International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility Karolinska Institutet Nobels v?g 15 A SE-171 77 Stockholm Sweden Email: raphael.ritz at incf.org Phone: +46 8 524 87017 Fax: +46 8 524 87150 web: www.incf.org From shimon.whiteson at gmail.com Sun Jun 19 05:03:47 2011 From: shimon.whiteson at gmail.com (Shimon Whiteson) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:03:47 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: Special issue of Machine Learning journal on "Empirical Evaluations in Reinforcement Learning" is now available Message-ID: <272F8C38-0044-4D84-ACA9-528AB6F9FFC2@gmail.com> Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the availability of a special issue of the Machine Learning journal on "Empirical Evaluations in Reinforcement Learning": http://www.springerlink.com/content/k176582r5021/ The table of contents is listed below. -Shimon Whiteson and Michael Littman --- Introduction to the special issue on empirical evaluations in reinforcement learning Shimon Whiteson and Michael L. Littman On the analysis and design of software for reinforcement learning, with a survey of existing systems Tim Kovacs and Robert Egginton Empirical evaluation methods for multiobjective reinforcement learning algorithms Peter Vamplew, Richard Dazeley, Adam Berry, Rustam Issabekov and Evan Dekker The first learning track of the international planning competition Alan Fern, Roni Khardon and Prasad Tadepalli Informing sequential clinical decision-making through reinforcement learning: an empirical study Susan M. Shortreed, Eric Laber, Daniel J. Lizotte, T. Scott Stroup and Joelle Pineau, et al. Reinforcement learning in feedback control: Challenges and benchmarks from technical process control Roland Hafner and Martin Riedmiller Policy search for motor primitives in robotics Jens Kober and Jan Peters Characterizing reinforcement learning methods through parameterized learning problems Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Neuron models and spike train statistics ? Point processes and correlation measures ? Systems and signals ? Local field potentials and synaptic plasticity The course will consist of lectures in the morning and and matching exercises using Matlab and Mathematica. Experience with these software packages will be helpful but is not required for registration. The participants should have a basic understanding of scientific programming. This course is designated especially for advanced diploma/master-students and PhD-students (preferentially in their first year). Organisation and teaching: ? Dr. Stefan Rotter, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg ? Dr. Sonja Gruen, Research Center J?lich ? Dr. Ulrich Egert, Biomicrotechnology, Department of Microsystems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Freiburg ? Dr. Ad Aertsen, Neurobiology & Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Application Please apply by sending an email containing your CV and a meaningfull letter of motivation to nwg-course at bcf.uni-freiburg.de The course is limited to 20 participants. Course fees: NWG members: 50 Euro others: 125 Euro Course venue: Bernstein Center Freiburg, Lecture Hall and Computerlab (ground floor), Hansastr. 9a, 79104 Freiburg, Germany Contact: Dr. Janina Kirsch, Bernstein Center Freiburg Germany Tel: +49 761 203 9575 Fax: +49 761 203 9559 Email: nwg-course at bcf.uni-freiburg.de From moritzgw at tuebingen.mpg.de Mon Jun 20 13:43:01 2011 From: moritzgw at tuebingen.mpg.de (Moritz Grosse-Wentrup) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:43:01 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Application=3A_Interdisciplina?= =?utf-8?q?ry_T=C3=BCbingen_Summer_School_on_=22Operationalisation_of_ment?= =?utf-8?q?al_states=22?= Message-ID: <4DFF86A5.6030909@tuebingen.mpg.de> ============================================== # CFA ============================================== Call for Application Interdisciplinary T?bingen Summer School With David Papineau and Simone Sch?tz-Bosbach "Operationalisation of mental states" September 26th to 29th, 2011 The summer school 2011 on "operationalisation of mental states", is a joint venture of the Forum Scientiarum (www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de) and the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (http://www.cin.uni-tuebingen.de). ## Deadline July 31st, 2011 # Topic The topic of this year's summer school is "operationalisation of mental states", thus concerning the conceptual and empirical problems of accessing ones mind. What are mentals states and how can they be measured? How are mind and brain related and why does it matter for empirical research? What is a "self" and how is it embodied? These are but a few examples of what is going to be discussed. The goal is to work on the foundations of the mind-body-problem and to have an interdisciplinary perspective on the main concepts of philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. # Faculty ## David Papineau Is professor of philosophy of science at King's College London. His research interests are -- amongst others -- the philosophy of mind and consciousness, and the question how reason evolved. www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/academic/papineau ## Simone Sch?tz-Bosbach Is head of the research group "body and self" at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Her research has a focus on cognitive neuroscience and the embodiment of the self. www.cbs.mpg.de/~bosbach # Programme The summer school will take place from the 26th to the 29th of September in the beautiful Kloster Heiligkreuztal close to T?bingen (http://www.kloster-heiligkreuztal.de). This event aims at advanced students, graduates and Ph.D. students. Accommodation and meals will be covered, and travelling expenses for foreign participants can be subsidised with up to 100 ?. There is a maximum of 25 places on the summer school. We intend to publish selected essays in an edited volume. # Application Participants will have to apply with an English language essay (1000 to 2000 words) on the topic: focus can be on philosophy or neuroscience or the connection between them. We suggest that the essays are based on the works of Papineau and/or Sch?tz-Bosbach. An additional application form is downloadable from our website (www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de/summerschool) and has to be submitted with the essay. Deadline is July 31st. Applications should be sent to info at fsci.uni-tuebingen.de or to our postal address: FORUM SCIENTIARUM, Doblerstr. 33, 72074 T?bingen, Germany. -- Dr.-Ing. Moritz Grosse-Wentrup Project Leader & Senior Research Scientist Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Dept. Sch?lkopf Spemannstra?e 38 72076 T?bingen Telephone: +49-7071-601-547 moritzgw at tuebingen.mpg.de http://brain-computer-interfaces.net From dmodha at gmail.com Mon Jun 20 21:28:49 2011 From: dmodha at gmail.com (Dharmendra Modha) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:28:49 -0700 Subject: Connectionists: Cognitive Computing Jobs at IBM Research Message-ID: Software: https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/job_summary.jsp?st=6316&job_id=RES-0413915 https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/job_summary.jsp?job_id=RES-0400164 Hardware: https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/job_summary.jsp?st=6316&job_id=RES-0413916 https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/job_summary.jsp?job_id=RES-0400194 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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International students may be required to pay fees. Funding is also available for project costs. For more information and details on how to apply, please visit: http://www.uws.edu.au/research/scholarships/new_higher_degree_research_scholarships/#bens Andr? van Schaik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20110627/322ea55f/attachment-0001.html From dianne.nguyen at monash.edu Tue Jun 21 03:20:58 2011 From: dianne.nguyen at monash.edu (Dianne Nguyen) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:20:58 +1000 Subject: Connectionists: Final Call for Papers - Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference Message-ID: *Final Call for Papers* Apologies for cross posting *Extended Deadline of Paper Submission: 2 July 2011 (NEW) * Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu.au/ Proceedings of this multi-disciplinary conference will be published by Springer in the prestigious LNAI (LNCS) series ******************************************************************************************** Dear Colleague You are cordially invited to submit a paper and participate at Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference which, will be held in Melbourne, Australia, between 30 November - 2 December 2011 with the possibility of a tutorial/workshop being organised on the 29th November 2011. This multi-disciplinary Conference will be run back to back with the AI 2011 Conference in Perth, Australia. This is a multi-disciplinary conference based on the wide range of applications of work related to or inspired by that of Ray Solomonoff. The contributions sought for this conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:- Statistical inference and prediction, Econometrics *(including time series and panel data)*, in Principle proofs of financial market inefficiency, Theories of (quantifying) intelligence and new forms of *(universal)*intelligence test *(for robotic, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial life)*, the Singularity(or infinity point , when machine intelligence surpasses that of humans), the future of science, Philosophy of science, the Problem of induction, Evolutionary (tree) models in biology and linguistics, Geography, Climate modelling and bush-fire detection, Environmental science, Image processing, Spectral analysis, Engineering, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Statistics and Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics, Computer science, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Computational intelligence, Computational science, Life sciences, Physics, Knowledge discovery, Ethics, Computational biology, Computational linguistics, Collective intelligence, structure and computing connectivity of random nets, effect of Heisenberg's principle on channel capacity, Arguments that entropy is not the arrow of time, and etc. See also Ray Solomonoff's Publications (and his obituary ). (For more details, please see Extended Call for Papers .) *General and Program Chair* David Dowe, Monash University, Australia *Program Committee* Andrew Barron, Statistics, Yale University, USA Greg Chaitin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Fouad Chedid, Notre Dame University, Lebanon Bertrand Clarke, Medical Statistics, University of Miami, USA A. Phil Dawid, Statistics, Cambridge University, UK Peter Gacs, Boston University, USA Alex Gammerman, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK John Goldsmith, Linguistics, University of Chicago, USA Marcus Hutter, Australian National University, Australia Leonid Levin, Boston University, USA Ming Li, Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada John McCarthy, Stanford University, USA *(Turing Award winner)* Marvin Minsky, MIT, USA *(Turing Award winner)* Kee Siong Ng, ANU & EMC Corp, Australia David Paganin, Physics, Monash University, Australia Teemu Roos, University of Helsinki, Finland Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Switzerland Farshid Vahid, Econometrics, Monash University, Australia William Uther, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia Paul Vitanyi, CWI, The Netherlands Vladimir Vovk, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Co-ordinator* Dianne Nguyen, Monash University, Australia You will find more information about the Conference at the following Website: http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu.au/ For more details on how to submit a paper(s), please refer to the Submission Page at: http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.infotech.monash.edu/submission.html *Important Dates* Extended Deadline of Paper Submission: *2 July 2011* Notification of Acceptance of Paper: *10 August 2011* Receipt of Camera-Ready Copy: *5 September 2011* Conference Dates: *30 Nov. - 2 Dec. 2011* I look forward to receiving your valuable paper contribution and attendance at the Conference. David Dowe General Chairman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20110621/24c528d9/attachment.html From friedhelm.schwenker at uni-ulm.de Sun Jun 19 15:25:45 2011 From: friedhelm.schwenker at uni-ulm.de (friedhelm.schwenker@uni-ulm.de) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:25:45 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: CfP IAPR Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning Message-ID: <20110619212545.raael8yc8ggsgkko@imap.uni-ulm.de> Call for Papers ************************************************************** IAPR TC3 Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning (PSL 2011) September 15 - 16, 2011 University of Ulm http://neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de/PSL2011/ ************************************************************** Important dates --------------- Submission of extended abstracts: July 15th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: August 1st, 2011. Workshop: September 15-16, 2011 Camera ready papers : October 15th, 2011 Invited Speaker --------------- Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Introduction ------------ On behalf of the organizing committee of the First International Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning (PSL 2011) we are pleased to invite all interested contributors to submit an abstract or a paper to the workshop, that will take place at the University of Ulm (Germany) on September 15-16, 2011. PSL2011 is supported by the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and is organized by the IAPR Technical Committee on Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence(TC 3), the workshop's objective is to bring together recent novel research in the broad areas of learning from partially labeled data, or combined supervised/unsupervised learning, as well as to identify scenarios for real-world applications. Topics ------ Methodological Issues . Combinations of supervised and unsupervised learning . Diffusion learning . Semi-supervised classification, regression, and clustering . Learning with deep architectures . Active leaning . PSL with vague, fuzzy, or uncertain teaching signals . PSL in multiple classifier systems and ensembles . PSL in neural nets, machine learning, or statistical pattern recognition . PSL in cognitive systems Applications . Image and signal processing . Multimodal information processing . Sensor / information fusion . Human computer interaction . Data mining and web mining . Bioinformatics Submission guidelines --------------------- We solicit talk proposals in the form of an extended abstract of four pages. Oral and poster presentations will be organized depending on the number of contributions. Authors of accepted abstracts have the opportunity to submit a full paper of 10 pages after the workshop. The submission for full papers is October 15th, 2011. After the workshop the proceedings will be published as a volume in the Springer LNAI series. Length is 10 pages for full papers or 4 pages for extended abstracts in LNCS/LNAI format. Workshop Organization --------------------- Friedhelm Schwenker, University of Ulm, Germany , Email: friedhelm.schwenker at uni-ulm.de Edmondo Trentin, University of Siena, Italy , Email: trentin at dii.unisi.it From jenny.bizley at googlemail.com Tue Jun 21 07:54:30 2011 From: jenny.bizley at googlemail.com (Jenny Bizley) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:54:30 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Post-doc position at UCL Ear Institute In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, please forward the following advertisement to anyone who might be interested. Best wishes, Jenny UCL Ear Institute Research Associate Position A 3-year postdoctoral research associate position, funded by the BBSRC, is available at the UCL Ear Institute to investigate the neural basis of auditory perception. Specifically, the project will examine the neural activity underlying a listener?s ability to identify signals, such as speech sounds, across varied and noisy listening conditions. Experimental work will include training animals in listening tasks and using state-of-the-art recording techniques to measure the activity of single neurons and populations of neurons in the auditory cortex of freely moving animals, whilst they discriminate speech-like sounds. These methods will be combined with reversible-inactivation methods in trained animals to identify which auditory cortical fields contribute to different aspects of auditory perception. Similar techniques will be used to investigate the conditions under which visual information can help us to ?hear better? and to examine neural activity in auditory cortex which might underlies this. The successful applicant will have a PhD in auditory neuroscience or a related discipline and will have experience in electrophysiological recordings and/or animal psychophysics. They are expected to be proficient in signal processing techniques and computational analysis of multi-electrode data sets. The Ear Institute (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear) is a multi-disciplinary facility with the remit of ?understanding hearing and fighting deafness?. Facilities at the Ear Institute are world-class, and will enable all of the components of the project to be undertaken to a high level. The laboratory is also affiliated with UCL?s Department of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Physiology (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/npp/) enabling the successful applicant to become part of UCL?s exceptional neuroscience community. The position is funded for three years by a BBSRC project grant and is available immediately, with a start date of not later than October 1st. For an informal discussion please contact Dr Jennifer Bizley (email: j.bizley at ucl.ac.uk) The closing date for applications is Friday 8th July 2011. -- Dr Jennifer Bizley Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow UCL Ear Institute 332 Grays Inn Road London, WC1E 6BT 07779 148804 www.dBSPL.co.uk www.bizley.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20110621/4b9f3948/attachment.html From malin.sandstrom at incf.org Thu Jun 23 03:10:15 2011 From: malin.sandstrom at incf.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Malin_Sandstr=F6m?=) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:10:15 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: =?windows-1252?q?Call_for_lightning_talks_at_CNS*?= =?windows-1252?q?2011_workshop_=93Emerging_standards_for_network_m?= =?windows-1252?q?odeling=94?= Message-ID: Call for lightning talks at CNS*2011 workshop ?Emerging standards for network modeling? The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) and its task force on multiscale modeling will hold a one-day workshop ?Emerging standards for network modeling? at CNS*2011 in Stockholm, July 27. This workshop aims to present an overview of the tools available to the community that support the development and exchange of network models, and to give the workshop participants the opportunity to share their experiences, their questions and comments to help us to further develop these tools and their interactions. The program (see link below) covers NineML, NeuroML, LEMS, PyNN, Connection Set Algebra and MUSIC, and interactions between these technologies as well as with the simulators NEURON, NEST, PCSIM, and Brian. Finally, we would like to invite interested scientists to present their related work, developed outside of the major initiatives, in a lightning talk (4 + 1 minutes). We will select 3 to 4 of these talks to conclude this workshop. To participate, email your talk idea to Malin Sandstr?m (malin.sandstrom at incf.org) latest Friday July 8. Full workshop information and program: http://www.incf.org/programs/modeling/projects/standards/cns-2011-workshop-emerging-standards-for-network-modeling-in-neuroscience -- Malin Sandstr?m, PhD Scientific Communication and Public Relations Officer malin.sandstrom at incf.org International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility Karolinska Institutet Nobels v?g 15 A SE-171 77 ?Stockholm Sweden http://www.incf.org From nicolas.brunel at parisdescartes.fr Mon Jun 27 09:26:39 2011 From: nicolas.brunel at parisdescartes.fr (Nicolas Brunel) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:26:39 +0200 Subject: Connectionists: CIRM workshop Message-ID: <4E08850F.1000109@parisdescartes.fr> SEMESTER ON THEORETICAL, MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE CIRM Marseille October - December 2011 http://www-sop.inria.fr/manifestations/SemesterCirm/ Neuroscience and its applications are greatly developing world-wide and Europe is one of the important contributors to the advancement of this discipline. Because of the variety of topics that it has to address, it is characterized by a very broad inter-disciplinarity and requires the cooperation of actors in several fields of knowledge. In this context, the need for developing new theoretical, mathematical, and computational tools can be clearly identified and must be addressed. The purpose of this semester is to present some of the relevant modern mathematical tools through short courses and to explore several facets of the current research through workshops. WORKSHOPS 03-07/10/2011 - Organizers : N. Brunel, O. Faugeras Mean-field methods and multiscale analysis of neuronal populations http://lcn.epfl.ch/Workshops/Marseille2011/MMMA_Oct/MMMA_Marseille2011.htm 24-28/10/2011 - Organizers : P. Bressloff, S. Coombes Spatio-temporal evolution equations and neural fields http://lcn.epfl.ch/Workshops/Marseille2011/SpatioTemporalEvolution/STE_Marseille2011.htm 07-11/11/2011 - Organizers : N. Brunel, W. Gerstner, J. Sjostrom, H. Markram Learning and Plasticity http://lcn1.epfl.ch/LP.html 5-9/12/2011- Organizers : V. Jirsa, G. Deco Mathematical Models of Cognitive Architectures http://lcn.epfl.ch/Workshops/Marseille2011/MMCA/MMCA_Marseille2011.htm Registration from June 6th The registration will follow a first-come first-served policy until all available slots are filled Program committee: P. Bressloff (University of Utah), N. Brunel (Universit? Paris 5), P. Chossat (CNRS - INRIA), O. Faugeras (ENS - INRIA), W. Gerstner (EPFL), V. Jirsa (CNRS - Universit? de la M?diterran?e). -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- : Olivier Faugeras : http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Olivier.Faugeras/index.en.html : Email: Olivier.Faugeras at sophia.inria.fr : Sophia-Antipolis ENS/Place d'Italie : Tel: +334 92 38 78 31 +331 39 63 54 27 : Sec: +334 92 38 78 30 : Fax: +334 92 38 78 45 --------------------------------------------------------------------- From pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk Thu Jun 23 10:41:49 2011 From: pmt6sbc at maths.leeds.ac.uk (S Barry Cooper) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:41:49 +0100 (BST) Subject: Connectionists: Turing Centenary Research Competition - Call for Proposals Message-ID: THE TURING CENTENARY RESEARCH PROJECT: MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS Research Fellowship and Scholar Competition http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?408 Submission deadline - December 16, 2011 More than any other figure, Turing has left a coherent scientific agenda related to many of the 'Big Questions' concerning the relationship between the human mind, mechanism in nature, and the mathematics required to clarify and answer these questions. The very breadth and fundamental nature of Turing's impact makes the centenary celebration a hugely opportune period in which to reassert the role of basic thinking in relation to deep and intractable problems facing science. 'The Turing Centenary Research Project - Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics', supported by a major grant from the John Templeton Foundation, arises from the above-mentioned scientific agenda, and is aimed at researchers still within ten years of receiving their Ph.D. The participants in the research project will be the winners of the 'Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics' competition, designed to provide significant funding support for eight young researchers. Five of the winners will become JTF 'Turing Research Fellows' with an award of ?75,000 each; and awards of ?45,000 will be for JTF 'Turing Research Scholars' in the 16 to 25 age-group. The competition is organised in conjunction with the Turing Centenary Celebration, to be held June 22-25, 2012, at the Manchester City Hall and the University of Manchester. The award winners will be duly honoured on the June 23, 2012 centenary of Turing's birth. Further details: __________________________________________________________________________ Honorary Chairs: Rodney Brooks and Sir Roger Penrose Submission deadline - December 16, 2011 Award Notification - March 31, 2012 Award Ceremony - Turing Centenary Day, June 23, 2012 Commencement of the research project - July 1, 2012 Proposals will be judged relative to four research themes: Chair of the Judges: S Barry Cooper (Leeds) The Judges for Research Theme 1 (The Mathematics of Emergence: The Mysteries of Morphogenesis): Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/Santa Fe) Cris Moore (New Mexico/Santa Fe) The Judges for Research Theme 2 (Possibility of Building a Brain: Intelligent Machines, Practice and Theory): Luciano Floridi (Oxford/Hertfordshire) Barbara Grosz (Harvard) Aaron Sloman (Birmingham) The Judges for Research Theme 3 (Nature of Information: Complexity, Randomness, Hiddenness of Information): Eric Allender (Rutgers) Rodney Downey (Wellington) Manindra Agrawal (Kanpur) The Judges for Research Theme 4 (How should we compute? New Models of Logic and Computation): Samson Abramsky (Oxford) Gordon Plotkin (Edinburgh) Robert I. Soare (Chicago) Proposals should be made via the EasyChair submission page at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=turingresearch2012 For further details, see: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?408 __________________________________________________________________________ ALAN TURING YEAR http://www.turingcentenary.eu _________________ Prof S Barry Cooper Tel: UK: (0113) 343 5165, Int: +44 113 343 5165 School of Mathematics Fax: UK: (0113) 343 5090, Int: +44 113 3435090 University of Leeds Email: pmt6sbc at leeds.ac.uk, Mobile: 07590602104 Leeds LS2 9JT Home tel: (0113) 278 2586, Int: +44 113 2782586 U.K. WWW: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmt6sbc __________________________________________________________________________ From rsun at rpi.edu Wed Jun 22 16:14:09 2011 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:14:09 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Call for 2011 INNS Senior Member nominations Message-ID: <586B8D36-4694-47ED-A270-15DEA503764A@rpi.edu> INNS Membership Progression Scheme 2011 The International Neural Network Society (INNS) is the organization for individuals interested in a theoretical and computational understanding of the brain/mind and applying that knowledge to develop new and more effective forms of machine intelligence. INNS was formed in 1987 by the leading scientists in the neural network field. The field of neural networks encourages interdisciplinary perspectives, and INNS' membership reflects this diversity. Members represent a variety of fields, backgrounds and level of interest. INNS has introduced a new membership category of Senior Member (SM) to recognize INNS members for their contributions, and to allow for a progression of the INNS members to a higher recognition membership status. We call for 2011 Senior Member nominations. For 2011, on-line senior membership nomination and application can be made through the website at: or alternatively, you can sent via e-mail a nomination letter and a CV of the candidate to the INNS VP for Membership, Irwin King under the Subject line: ?2011 INNS Senior Membership Nomination for [Applicant's Name]?, on or before July 22, 2011. Final confirmation of the 2011 Senior Members will be made by the INNS Board of Governors and appropriate announcements will then be made, at least on the INNS website, www.inns.org, and in the Tri-Society Newsletter. INNS Membership Information: As of 2011, INNS has three types of confirmed membership categories: ? Student (payment 1 year $25; 2 years $35) ? Regular member (1 year $85; 2 years $125) ? Affiliate member (1 year $30; 2 years $40) for ENNS and JNNS members only Every INNS member receives, for example: ? A reduced fee to attend the annual IJCNN conference and the biennial INNS Symposia, as well as many other INNS co-sponsored conferences worldwide ? A subscription to the Tri-Society Newsletter ? A subscription to the flagship journal Neural Networks * Participation in many special interest groups and regional chapters etc. etc. For further information, contact: INNS VP for Membership, Irwin King ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun President, International Neural Network Society Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA web: http://sites.google.com/site/drronsun ======================================================= From yoh at psychology.rutgers.edu Mon Jun 27 23:56:29 2011 From: yoh at psychology.rutgers.edu (Yaroslav Halchenko) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:56:29 -0400 Subject: Connectionists: Neuroscience software survey: What is popular, what has problems? results/data/paper In-Reply-To: <20110518013926.GS7791@onerussian.com> References: <20110518013926.GS7791@onerussian.com> Message-ID: <20110628035629.GU16547@onerussian.com> We would like to thank all participants of the survey. As promised, final results and all data are now available: http://neuro.debian.net/survey/2011/ Enjoy, On Tue, 17 May 2011, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Dear neuroscience researchers and their IT staff > > We invite you to participate in a survey on software usage and computing > environments in neuroscience research. It will take no more than five > minutes to fill it out. Immediately after sending your answers you will > get to see a summary of how other participants have responded before. > This data will eventually be made available to software vendors and > distributors to determine advantages and issue of popular computing > environments in neuroscience research. > -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Wed Jun 29 20:33:40 2011 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr Amir Hussain) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:33:40 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Springer's Cognitive Computation journal: Table of Contents, Vol.3, No.2 / June 2011 issue Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: (with advance apologies for any cross-postings!) We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 3, No. 2 / June 2011, of Springer's Cognitive Computation journal - www.springer.com/12559 The individual list of published articles (Table of Contents) for Vol. 3, No. 2 / June 2011, can be found at the end of this message (followed by an overview of the previous Issues/Archive).**** A list of the most downloaded articles can be found here:**** http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559#realtime**** Other 'Online First' published articles not yet in a print issue can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/121361/?Content+Status=Accepted ========================================== Reminder: New Cognitive Computation "LinkedIn" Group: ========================================== To further strengthen the bonds amongst the interdisciplinary audience of Cognitive Computation, we have set-up a "Cognitive Computation LinkedIn group", which has 100+ members already! We warmly invite you to join us at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3155048! For further information on the journal and to sign up for electronic "Table of Contents alerts" please visit the Cognitive Computation homepage: http://www.springer.com/12559 or follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/CognComput for the latest On-line First Issues. For any questions with regards to LinkedIn and/or Twitter, please contact Springer's Publishing Editor: Dr. Martijn Roelandse: martijn.roelandse at springer.com Finally, we would like to invite you to submit short or regular papers describing original research or timely review of important areas - our aim is to peer review all papers within approximately four weeks of receipt. We also welcome relevant high quality proposals for Special Issues (four are already planned for 2011-12!). With our very best wishes to all aspiring readers and authors of Cognitive Computation, Amir Hussain, PhD (Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation) E-mail: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Igor Aleksander, PhD (Honorary Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation) John G. Taylor, PhD (Chair, Advisory Board: Cognitive Computation) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents: Springer's Cognitive Computation, Vol.3, No.2 / June 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Consciousness Versus Attention J. G. Taylor http://www.springerlink.com/content/g433131421873750/ Accounting for Certain Mental Disorders Within a Comprehensive Cognitive Architecture Ron Sun, Nick Wilson & Robert Mathews http://www.springerlink.com/content/6462k674686757g7/ XCR-1: An Experimental Cognitive Robot Based on an Associative Neural Architecture Pentti O. A. Haikonen http://www.springerlink.com/content/a8858125665957n3/ Dissociated Emergent Response System and Fine-Processing System in Human Neural Network and a Heuristic Neural Architecture for Autonomous Humanoid Robots Xiaodan Yan http://www.springerlink.com/content/y117520235684647/ Beyond Cognitive Signals Virginia Espinosa-Dur?, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy & Ji?? Mekyska http://www.springerlink.com/content/pm0616179544215j/ Recognition of Handwritten Arabic Literal Amounts Using a Hybrid Approach Abdelhak Boukharouba & Abdelhak Bennia http://www.springerlink.com/content/j687816p28084474/ Computation in Emotional Processing: Quantitative Confirmation of Proportionality Hypothesis for Angry Unhappy Emotional Intensity to Perceived Loss David Nicoladie Tam http://www.springerlink.com/content/0074x8475ht48728/ ----------------------------------------- Previous Issues/Archive: Overview ----------------------------------------- The full listing of the Inaugural Vol. 1, No. 1 / March 2009, can be viewed here (which included invited authoritative reviews by leading researchers in their areas - including keynote papers from London University's John Taylor, Igor Aleksander and Stanford University's James McClelland, and invited papers from Ron Sun, Pentti Haikonen, Geoff Underwood, Kevin Gurney, Claudius Gross, Anil Seth and Tom Ziemke): http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/1/ The full listing of Vol. 1, No. 2 / June 2009, can be viewed here (which included invited reviews and original research contributions from leading researchers, including Giacomo Indiveri, Rodney Douglas, Jurgen Schmidhuber, Thomas Wennekers, Pentti Kanerva and Friedemann Pulvermuller): http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/2/ The full listing of Vol.1, No. 3 / Sep 2009, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/3/ The full listing of Vol. 1, No. 4 / Dec 2009, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/4/ The full listing of Vol.2, No. 1 / March 2010, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/1/ The full listing of Vol.2, No. 2 / June 2010, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/2/ The full listing of Vol.2, No. 3 / Aug 2010, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/3/ The full listing of Vol.2, No. 4 / Dec 2010, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/4/**** The full listing of Vol.3, No.1 / Mar 2011 (Special Issue on: Saliency, Attention, Active Visual Search and Picture Scanning, edited by John Taylor and Vassilis Cutsuridis), can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/hu2245056415633l/ **** ------------------------------ The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010**** The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.**** -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20110629/9cc553c0/attachment-0001.html From erik at tnb.ua.ac.be Wed Jun 29 21:14:38 2011 From: erik at tnb.ua.ac.be (Erik De Schutter) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:14:38 +0900 Subject: Connectionists: Call for proposals to host the annual Computational Neuroscience (CNS) Meeting in 2014 Message-ID: <50D19DA8-080E-4007-9353-045BC322BB67@tnb.ua.ac.be> After the successful CNS*2010 meeting in San Antonio, OCNS (http://www.cnsorg.org) hereby requests proposals from candidate local organizers to organize the CNS meeting in 2014 in North America. Groups or individuals interested in organizing the CNS*2014 meeting should submit a proposal with consideration of the on-line information (http://www.cnsorg.org/meetings/future_hosts/) and using the on-line template provided as a guide. The OCNS board, executive and program committee members will select/discuss the different proposals, contact the potential local organizers for more information if necessary and come to a timely agreement between OCNS and potential local organizers. Proposals should be emailed to the OCNS president at president at cnsorg.org no later than October 31, 2011. Decisions are expected by end of the year. Erik De Schutter OCNS President CNS*2011 Stockholm, Sweden, July 23-28, 2011 at the Royal Institute of Technology. Over 400 submitted abstracts and an exciting tutorials and workshops program CNS*2012 Atlanta, USA, July 21-26, 2012 at the Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA CNS*2013 Paris, France, July 13-18, 2013 at the Universit? Paris Descartes