From: IN%"RAMPO@SALERNO.INFN.IT" 18-MAR-1994 06:17:04.26 To: IN%"connectionists@cs.cmu.edu" CC: Subj: ICANN'94 Program -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ************************************************ | | * * | | * EUROPEAN NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY * | | *----------------------------------------------* | | * P R E L I M I N A R Y P R O G R A M * | | *----------------------------------------------* | | * I C A N N ' 94 - SORRENTO * | | * * | | ************************************************ | | | | ICANN'94 (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS)| | is the fourth Annual Conference of ENNS and it comes after | | ICANN'91(Helsinki), ICANN'92 (Brighton), ICANN'93 (Amsterdam). | | It is co-sponsored by INNS, IEEE-NC, JNNS. | | It will take place at the Sorrento Congress Center, near Naples, | | Italy, on May 26-29, 1994. | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Conference Chair: Prof. Maria Marinaro, Univ. Salerno, | | Italy, Dept. Theoretic Physics; email: iiass@salerno.infn.it | | | | Conference Co-Chair: Prof. Pietro G. Morasso, Univ. Genova, | | Italy, Dept. Informatics, Systems, Telecommunication; | | email: morasso@dist.unige.it; fax: +39 10 3532948 | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | May 26 - Tutorials | |------------------------------------------------------------------| |* Introduction to neural networks (J.G. Taylor) | |* Advanced techniques in supervised learning I (F. Fogelman) | |* Advanced techniques in supervised learning II (F. Fogelman) | |* Advanced techniques for self organising maps (T. Kohonen) | |* Weightless NNs (I. Aleksander) | |* Information theory in NNs (M. Plumbley) | |* Hybrid systems (T. Schwarz) | |* From neuroscience to neurocomputation for robotics and | | prediction (R. Eckmiller) | |* Applications of neural nets (R. Hecht-Nielsen) | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | May 27/29 - Scientific sessions | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Plenary presentations: S. Grossberg, H. Szu, E. Bizzi, D. Amit, | | L. Zadeh | | | | 356 contributions, including 21 invited presentations, are | | presented in 27 oral sessions and 6 poster sessions which are | | grouped into 4 main areas: | | | |A: Neurobiology | |--------------- | |Invited presentations: | | | | S. Grossberg et al.: Spatial pooling and perceptual framing by | | synchronizing cortical dynamics. | | J. Herault: Vertebrate retina: sub-sampling and aliasing effects | | can explain colour-opponent and colour constancy | | phenomena. | | L.W. Stark: ANNs and MAMFs: transparency or opacity? | | S. Usui et al.: Dry electrophysiology: an approach to the | | internal representation of the brain functions | | through artificial neural networks. | | | | There are 4 oral sessions and 1 poster session covering topics on| | vision, motor control, models of biological neurons and circuits.| | | |B: Mathematical models | |---------------------- | |Invited presentations: | | | | J.G. Taylor: Neuronal network models of mind. | | I. Aleksander: The consciousness of a neural state machine. | | T. Kohonen: What generalisations of the self-organizing map make | | sense? | | F. Fogelman: Variable selection with neural networks. | | M.L. Jordan et al.: Hierarchical mixtures of experts and the EM | | algorithm. | | M. Marinaro et al.: Outline of a linear neural network and | | applications. | | M. Kawato et al.: Teaching by showing in Kendama based on | | optimization principle. | | S. Amari: Information geometry and the EM algorithm. | | C.C.A.M. Gielen: Learning and interpretation of weights in neural| | networks. | | | | There are 10 oral sessions and 3 poster session covering topics | | on fuzzy systems, symbolic and hybrid systems, self-organizing | | maps, attractor networks, RBF networks, reinforcement learning, | | optimization, statistical models, and network growing. | | | |C: Applications | |--------------- | |Invited presentations: | | | | H. Ritter: Parametrized self-organizing maps for vision learning | | tasks. | | R. De Mori et al.: Artificial neural networks for source code in | | formal information analysis. | | E. Oja: Beyond PCA: statistical expansions by nonlinear neural | | networks. | | R.J. Marks II et al.: Fourier analysis and filtering of a single | | hidden layer perceptron. | | V. Lopez et al.: Neural forecasting in real time industrial | | control. | | P. Morasso et al.: Cortical representation of external space. | | | | There are 10 oral sessions and 2 poster sessions covering topics | | on classification models, speech, character recognition, signal | | and image processing, clustering and quantization, robotics and | | control. | | | |D: Neurocomputing | |----------------- | |Invited presentations: | | | | C. Nicolini: From neural network to biomolecular electronics. | | R. Eckmiller: Biology-inspired pulse processing neural networks | | (BPN) for neurotechnology. | | | | There are 3 oral sessions and 1 poster session covering topics | | of computational architecture, hardware design, software tools, | | and fault tolerance. | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | T E C H N I C A L E X H I B I T I O N | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | A technical exhibition will be organized for presenting the | | literature on neural networks and related fields, neural networks| | design and simulation tools, electronic and optical | | implementation of neural computers, and application | | demonstration systems. Potential exhibitors are kindly requested | | to contact the industrial liaison chair. | | | | Industrial Liaison Chair: Dr. Roberto Serra, Ferruzzi | | Finanziaria, Ravenna, fax: +39 544 35692/32358 | | | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | S O C I A L P R O G R A M | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Social activities will include a welcome party, a banquet, and | | post-conference tours to some of the many possible targets of | | the area (participants will also have no difficulty to | | self-organize a la carte). | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | C O R R E S P O N D E N C E | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | EMAIL where to send correspondence (not papers): | | Dr. Salvatore Rampone - iiass@salerno.infn.it | | FAX where to send correspondence (not papers): | | Mr. V. 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