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Both papers are going to be presented in talks at the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN 2001, August 21-25, 2001, Vienna, Austria. Regards, Michael Schmitt ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Complexity of Learning for Networks of Spiking Neurons with Nonlinear Synaptic Interactions AUTHOR: Michael Schmitt ABSTRACT We study model networks of spiking neurons where synaptic inputs interact in terms of nonlinear functions. These nonlinearities are used to represent the spatial grouping of synapses on the dendrites and to model the computations performed at local branches. We analyze the complexity of learning in these networks in terms of the VC dimension and the pseudo dimension. 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------=_NextPart_000_003A_01C0CD9B.801A5C10-- From lord@rci.rutgers.edu Thu Apr 26 12:53:41 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26353 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:53:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gehenna0.rutgers.edu (gehenna0.Rutgers.EDU [165.230.116.155]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA06285 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:54:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 21209 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2001 16:54:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 20663 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2001 16:53:57 -0000 Received: from wendy.rutgers.edu (HELO rc73.rutgers.edu) (165.230.94.73) by gehenna0.rutgers.edu with SMTP; 26 Apr 2001 16:53:57 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010426120954.05036b40@email.rci.rutgers.edu> X-Sender: lord@email.rci.rutgers.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:10:15 -0400 To: lord@rci.rutgers.edu From: Muffin Lord Subject: Rutgers College Representative to University Senate Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Status: O April 26, 2001 I am writing to inform you that Robert Boikess, Department of Chemistry, has agreed to serve as Rutgers College Representative to the University Senate for a three year term, July 1, 2001-June 30, 2004. Rutgers College 210 Milledoler Hall 520 George Street New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1167 (732) 932-7964 email: lord@rci.rutgers.edu From warfield@ias.edu Thu Apr 26 14:23:06 2001 Received: from mailgate.ias.edu (mailgate.ias.edu [192.16.204.20]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00304; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:23:02 -0400 (EDT) From: warfield@ias.edu Received: from prague.math.ias.edu (prague.math.ias.edu [192.108.106.25]) by mailgate.ias.edu (8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA26987; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:24:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from warfield@localhost) by prague.math.ias.edu (8.9.3+Sun/Pro-8.9.3) id OAA01305; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:24:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:24:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200104261824.OAA01305@prague.math.ias.edu> To: carlk@cs.princeton.edu, deturck@math.upenn.edu, kazdan@math.upenn.edu, mpugh@math.upenn.edu, muckenho@math.rutgers.edu, sahi@math.rutgers.edu, speer@math.rutgers.edu, sussmann@math.rutgers.edu, taylor@math.rutgers.edu, tilla@math.rutgers.edu, treves@math.rutgers.edu, vinod@research.nj.nec.com, vogelius@math.rutgers.edu, weinan@cims.nyu.edu, wheeden@math.rutgers.edu, wsweeney@math.rutgers.edu, xinz@cims.nyu.edu, xiu@math.princeton.edu, yang@math.princeton.edu Subject: Combinatorics/Complexity seminars for week of April 30 Status: O INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY School of Mathematics Princeton, NJ 08540 Complexity and Combinatorics Seminars at IAS: Week of April 30 - May 3, 2001 All talks at the Simonyi Hall (Math building) seminar room 101. (more updated and detailed information can be found below, and in the Complexity Theory and Combinatorics link at www.math.ias.edu) Monday 11-12 Theoretical Computer Science/Discrete Math Seminar April 30 Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University/NECI Title: "A trace bound for the discrepancy" Tuesday 10:15-12:15 Complexity Year Reading Seminar May 1 Please check the Home Page for the latest information ****************************************************************************** "A trace bound for the discrepancy" Abstract: We prove a general lower bound on the hereditary discrepancy of a set system in terms of the traces of various matrices associated with it. The advantage of this bound is that the traces have combinatorial meaning, which makes them more amenable to asymptoptic approximations. This allows us to prove new discrepancy bounds (and rederive old ones more easily). For example, we show that the discrepancy of $n$ points and $n$ lines is about $n^{1/6}$, which is essentially optimal, as opposed to $n^{1/4}$ for points and triangles. We also derive new bounds for boxes and points when the dimension is not fixed. We use these discrepancy results to prove lower bounds on the circuit complexity of various "geometric searching" problems. (This is joint work with Alexey Lvov, IBM Yorktown Heights) From owner-crime_alert@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU Thu Apr 26 22:55:26 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA16673 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:55:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mouston.rutgers.edu (mouston.rutgers.edu [165.230.4.99]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08064 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:56:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 20404 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2001 02:24:44 -0000 Received: from mouston.rutgers.edu (HELO mouston) (165.230.4.99) by mouston.rutgers.edu with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 02:24:44 -0000 Received: from EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU by EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 4887060 for CRIME_ALERT@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:22:57 -0400 Approved-By: anmurphy@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU Delivered-To: crime_alert@email.rutgers.edu Received: (qmail 18889 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2001 02:13:23 -0000 Received: from gehenna5.rutgers.edu (165.230.116.160) by mouston.rutgers.edu with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 02:13:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 26578 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2001 02:10:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 26572 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2001 02:10:14 -0000 Received: from rupd-2008.rutgers.edu (HELO rci.rutgers.edu) (165.230.143.223) by gehenna5.rutgers.edu with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 02:10:14 -0000 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3AE8D977.1D9251B5@rci.rutgers.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:29:11 -0400 Reply-To: Anthony Murphy Sender: Crime Alerts in the NB area From: Anthony Murphy Subject: Robbery - City of New Brunswick To: CRIME_ALERT@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU Status: O The New Brunswick Police Department has notified the Rutgers University Police Department of an armed robbery that occurred on Guilden St. in the City of New Brunswick on 25 April 2001 at approximately 2:45Pm. The suspect produced a handgun at a residence on Guilden St. and then fled on foot from the premises. There were no injuries. The New Brunswick Police Department described the suspect as: RACE: White or Hispanic Age: Early 20's Height: 5'6" - 5'7" Facial Hair: Mustache Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the New Brunswick Police Department at : 732-745-5200 Authority: Chief Anthony Murphy 26 April 2001 From warfield@ias.edu Fri Apr 27 09:11:22 2001 Received: from mailgate.ias.edu (mailgate.ias.edu [192.16.204.20]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28492; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:11:20 -0400 (EDT) From: warfield@ias.edu Received: from prague.math.ias.edu (prague.math.ias.edu [192.108.106.25]) by mailgate.ias.edu (8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12682; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:12:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from warfield@localhost) by prague.math.ias.edu (8.9.3+Sun/Pro-8.9.3) id JAA01625; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:12:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:12:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200104271312.JAA01625@prague.math.ias.edu> To: carlk@cs.princeton.edu, deturck@math.upenn.edu, kazdan@math.upenn.edu, mpugh@math.upenn.edu, muckenho@math.rutgers.edu, sahi@math.rutgers.edu, speer@math.rutgers.edu, sussmann@math.rutgers.edu, taylor@math.rutgers.edu, tilla@math.rutgers.edu, treves@math.rutgers.edu, vinod@research.nj.nec.com, vogelius@math.rutgers.edu, weinan@cims.nyu.edu, wheeden@math.rutgers.edu, wsweeney@math.rutgers.edu, xinz@cims.nyu.edu, xiu@math.princeton.edu, yang@math.princeton.edu Status: O INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY School of Mathematics Princeton, NJ 08540 Mathematics Seminars Week of April 30, 2001 THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE/DISCRETE MATH SEMINAR Monday 11:00 a.m. Speaker: Bernard Chazelle, Princeton/NECI April 30 SH-101 Topic: A trace bound for the discrepancy COMPLEXITY YEAR READING SEMINAR Tuesday 10:15-12:15 Please check the Home Page for latest information May 1 SH-101 SEMINAR ON RANDOM MATRICES AND EIGENVALUES Tuesday 1:00 p.m. Speaker: Thomas Spencer, IAS May 1 SH-101 Topic: An introduction to supersymmetric methods for random matrices PU/IAS/RUTGERS NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR Thursday 4:30 p.m. Speaker: Johan de Jong, MIT May 3 Fine 322 Topic: To be announced _____________________________ IAS Math Seminars are on our Home Page: http://www.math.ias.edu From ygoldber@math.rutgers.edu Fri Apr 27 10:28:00 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03736 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:27:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from math.rutgers.edu (math.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.2]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11016 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:29:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03637; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:27:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ygoldber@localhost) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00974 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:03:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:03:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Yael Goldberg To: stat-mech@math.rutgers.edu Subject: FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT 85th STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, HILL CENTER, ROOM 114 SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, MAY 6-8, 2001 DEAR COLLEAGUE: THIS IS THE LAST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO COME AND HAVE NOT YET REGISTERED, PLEASE DO SO NOW. WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MEALS, TALKS ETC. There will be a dinner Saturday evening, May 5, at Szechwan Gourmet, 3 Livingston Street (corner George Street), New Brunswick (732-846-7878) at 7:00 pm. The restaurant is about 3-4 blocks from the railroad and bus stations, along George Street, in the center of New Brunswick, 1 floor up. Transportation will be available from the Howard Johnson about 6:40 pm, as well as transportation back there after the dinner. Information about the conference, as well as other meetings*, can be obtained at: ftp://www.math.rutgers.edu/pub/smm, or http://www.math.rutgers.edu at the Statistical mechanics Conference site. Looking very much forward to seeing you here, With best wishes, Joel *I mention two of those meetings: 1) The 21st IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Cancun, Mexico, 15-21 July 2001, http://varea.ifisicacu.unam.mx/statphys.htm. There are also many satellite meetings; 2) Workshop on Mathematical Physics, Anderson Localization, ..., Polymers and Random Walks in Random Environment, Mambucaba, Brazil, 19-25 August, 2001, vladas@impa.br. Professor Joel L. 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For more information about the Symposium and the registration process, please see our web site at www.cshp.rutgers.edu/events.html, or you can contact me directly. ________________________ Margaret Koller Special Assistant Center for State Health Policy Rutgers, The State University 317 George Street, Suite 400 New Brunswick, NJ 08901 tel: (732)932-3105 x248 fax: (732)932-0069 E-mail: MKoller@CSHP.Rutgers.Edu Web: www.cshp.rutgers.edu From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Sat Apr 28 04:32:44 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA17792 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 04:32:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa10481; 28 Apr 2001 1:51 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa10479; 28 Apr 2001 1:39 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa24984; 28 Apr 2001 1:39 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa09775; 27 Apr 2001 22:07 EDT Received: from fruitcake.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU by edrc.cmu.edu id aa15245; 27 Apr 2001 22:07 EDT Received: from dill.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (dill.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU [192.150.186.56]) by ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA22904 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:07:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shastri@localhost) by dill.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.2/1.8) with ESMTP id TAA06655 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:07:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104280207.TAA06655@dill.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: dill.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU: shastri owned process doing -bs To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Episodic Memory Formation via Cortico-Hippocampal Interactions Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:07:10 PDT From: Lokendra Shastri Status: O Dear Connectionists, The following article may be of interest to you. Best wishes, -- Lokendra Shastri -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~shastri/psfiles/shastri_em.pdf From Transient Patterns to Persistent Structures: A model of episodic memory formation via cortico-hippocampal interactions Lokendra Shastri International Computer Science Institute Berkeley, CA 94704 Abstract We readily remember events and situations in our daily lives and rapidly acquire memories of specific events by watching a telecast or reading a newspaper. There is a broad consensus that the hippocampal system (HS), consisting of the hippocampal formation and neighboring cortical areas, plays a critical role in the encoding and retrieval of such ``episodic'' memories. But how the HS subserves this mnemonic function is not fully understood. This article presents a computational model, SMRITI, that demonstrates how a cortically expressed transient pattern of activity representing an event can be transformed rapidly into a persistent and robust memory trace as a result of long-term pot- entiation within structures whose architecture and circuitry resemble those of the HS. Memory traces formed by the model respond to partial cues, and at the same time, reject similar but erroneous cues. During retrieval these memory traces, acting in concert with cortical circuits encoding semantic, causal, and procedural knowledge, can recreate activation-based representations of memorized events. The model explicates the representational requirements of encoding episodic memories, and suggests that the idiosyncratic architecture of the HS is well matched to the representational problems it must solve in order to support the episodic memory function. The model predicts the nature of memory deficits that would result from insult to specific HS components and to cortical circuits projecting to the HS. It also identifies the sorts of memories that must remain encoded in the HS for the long-term, and helps delineate the semantic and episodic memory distinction. (Submitted to Behavioral and Brain Sciences) From mstefanova48@yahoo.com Sat Apr 28 05:03:41 2001 Received: from web14107.mail.yahoo.com (web14107.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.137]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA18034 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 05:03:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010428090326.38956.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [194.177.32.70] by web14107.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 02:03:26 PDT Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 02:03:26 -0700 (PDT) From: mimi smit Subject: Tenth International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Sciences with Applications To: sussmann@math.rutgers.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O > To: Professor Dr. Sussmann, > > Professor Dr. Drumi Bainov > P.O. Box 45, > Sofia 1504, Bulgaria > Tel: +3592437343 > Fax: + (359) 29879874 > E-mail: dbainov@mbox.pharmfac.acad.bg > > > Dear Professor Sussmann, > > The Organizing Committee of the Tenth International > Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Sciences with Applications, Plovdiv 12-17 August 2001 kindly invite you to take part in the work of the Colloquium with an invited lecture. > The work of the Colloquium will proceed in the > following sessions: > 1. Acceleration of convergence. > 2. Numerical simulation. > 3. Numerical approximation. > 4. Numerical methods in complex analysis. > 5. Numerical methods in linear algebra. > 6. Ynterval arithmetic. > 7. Numerical algebraic or transcendental equations. > 8. Mathematical programming, optimization and > variational techniques. > 9. Numerical analysis for ordinary differential > equations. > 10. Numerical analysis for partial differential > equations. > 11. Computer arithmetic and numerical analysis. > 12. Computer aspects of numerical algorithms. > 13. Parallel and distributed algorithms. > 14. Concurrent and parallel computations. > 15. Computer networks. > 16. Discrete mathematics in relation to computer > science. > 17. Computer aided design. > 18. Theory of data. > 19. Programming. > 20. Image processing. > 21. Pattern recognition. > 22. Comunication systems. > 23. Information systems. > 24. Manufacturing systems. > 25. Data base. > 26. Software technologies. > 27. Software engineering. > 28. Applications in mechanics, physics, chemistry, > biology, technology and > economics. > > If you kindly agree, please, send me your full > mailing address in order to mail you the first > announcement and invitation for participation. > Inform us please, in what kind of Colloquium is your > field every time when you communicate with our office by e-mail since we organize two colloquia > by the same time in Plovdiv: the first (12-17 of > August) is the Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and > Computer Sciences with Applications and the second > (18-23 of August) is the Colloquium on Differential > Equations. > > > With profound respect, > Yours sincerely, > Drumi Bainov > Chairman of the Organizing Committee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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--MuLtIpArT_BoUnDaRy-- From leonhard@lagrange.rutgers.edu Mon Apr 30 15:56:22 2001 Received: from lagrange.rutgers.edu (lagrange.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.70]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18407 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:56:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (leonhard@localhost) by lagrange.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA01370 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:56:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:56:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Alice Leonhardt To: sussmann@math.rutgers.edu Subject: 7th floor office Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O Hector: As i said earlier...there are only 3 boxes left on 7th floor - believe these are the boxes you wanted to take home. alice ********************************* Alice Leonhardt Hill Center - 3rd Floor Math Dept. - Rm 318 e-mail: leonhard@math.rutgers.edu (732) 445-3922 8:30am - 4:30pm From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Mon Apr 30 22:11:12 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA00643 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:10:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa21671; 30 Apr 2001 19:08 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa21669; 30 Apr 2001 18:55 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa29442; 30 Apr 2001 18:54 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa30604; 30 Apr 2001 13:44 EDT Received: from morgana.elet.polimi.it by edrc.cmu.edu id aa08220; 30 Apr 2001 13:43 EDT Received: from host pcpiucr.elet.polimi.it and sender pcpiucr.crema.unimi.it [159.149.70.55]; by mail relay Morgana.Elet.PoliMi.IT (Sendmail Ver. 8.x.x / 2 Nov. 1998); with protocol ESMTP and identifier TAA32528; for recipient ; on date and time Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:43:45 +0200 (MET DST). Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010430193834.0277c990@morgana.elet.polimi.it> X-Sender: piuri@morgana.elet.polimi.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:44:20 +0200 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu From: Vincenzo Piuri Subject: NIMIA 2001 and LFTNC 2001: application reminder Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: O Dear Colleague, this is to remind you about: - the NATO ASI NIMIA 2001 - NATO Advanced Study Institute on Neural Networks for Instrumentation, Measurement and Related Industrial Applications, to be held on 9-20 October 2001, in Crema, Italy. - the NATO ARW LFTNC 2001 - NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Limitations and Future Trends of Neural Computation, to be held on 22-24 October 2001, in Siena, Italy. Since the attendance has to be approved by NATO, applications to attend should be submitted 15 JUNE 2001. Detailed information and the application forms are available at http://www.ims.unico.it/2001/ or at the mirror site at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/im/2001/ You are allowed to withdraw your application at any time. Submitting earlier will give us more time to look for possible additional funding if the grants which are now available will not be sufficient to cover all attendees. Best regards Vincenzo Piuri University of Milan, Department of Information Technologies via Bramante 65, 26013 Crema (CR), Italy phone: +39-0373-898-242 secretary: +39-0373-898-249 fax: +39-0373-898-253 email: piuri@elet.polimi.it secondary address: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics and Information piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy phone: +39-02-2399-3606 secretary: +39-02-2399-3623 fax: +39-02-2399-3411 email: piuri@elet.polimi.it From mentor@math.rutgers.edu Tue May 1 09:57:27 2001 Received: (from mentor@localhost) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15739; Tue, 1 May 2001 09:57:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:57:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Peer Mentor Message-Id: <200105011357.JAA15739@math.rutgers.edu> To: mentor@math.rutgers.edu Subject: Possible peer mentors for fall 2001 Status: O To: Instructors of upper level mathematics courses The department is interested in recruiting good students to participate in the peer mentor program. Please consider sending me the names of students in your classes who have performed well and would be good candidates to mentor first year calculus. Such recommendations are often a source of some of our best performing mentors. Thanks. J. Tunnell Peer mentor coordinator 2000-2001 From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue May 1 18:34:12 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA09668 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 18:34:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa25560; 1 May 2001 16:07 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa25558; 1 May 2001 15:56 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa01359; 1 May 2001 15:55 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa10573; 1 May 2001 12:12 EDT Received: from fruitcake.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU by ri.cmu.edu id aa02579; 1 May 2001 12:12 EDT Received: from raclette.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (raclette.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU [192.150.186.20]) by ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA16738; Tue, 1 May 2001 09:12:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Gabriele Scheler Received: (scheler@localhost) by raclette.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.2/1.8) id JAA25734; Tue, 1 May 2001 09:12:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:12:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105011612.JAA25734@raclette.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Two papers on Tuning Curves and Neural Control Cc: scheler@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU Status: O The following two papers from CNS 2000 and CNS 2001 are available from my website http://wwwbrauer.in.tum.de/~scheler/pub/control.ps http://wwwbrauer.in.tum.de/~scheler/pub/cns-paper.pdf Signal Loss with Neural Controllers Gabriele Scheler We examine the effect of neuronal plasticity on information processing in a neural feedback-control system implemented by a recurrent structure. We show that fine tuning of low-pass and high-pass filters on information flow may lead to controlled signal degradation and signal loss, which is an important function for any self-recursive system. We relate the filter function to neuromodulatory control, and discuss the biological realization of short-term and long-term plasticity effects. Dopamine modulation of prefrontal delay activity - reverbatory activity and sharpness of tuning curves Gabriele Scheler and Jean-Marc Fellous Recent electrophysiological experiments have shown that dopamine (D1) modulation of pyramidal cells in prefrontal cortex reduce spike frequency adaptation and enhances NMDA transmission. Using four models, from multicompartmental to integrate and fire, we examine the effects of these modulations on sustained (delay) activity in a reverberatory network. We find that D1 modulation may enable robust network bistability yielding selective reverberation among cells that code for a particular item or location. We further show that the tuning curve of such cells is sharpened, and the signal-to-noise ratio is increased. We postulate that D1 modulation affects the tuning of "memory fields" and yield efficient distributed dynamic representations. Gabriele Scheler ------------------- Dr. Gabriele Scheler ICSI 1947 Center Street Berkeley, Ca. 94704 From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue May 1 23:10:56 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA17247 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 23:10:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ac25604; 1 May 2001 16:11 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa25591; 1 May 2001 16:06 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa01384; 1 May 2001 16:05 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa08900; 1 May 2001 10:17 EDT Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com by ri.cmu.edu id aa01002; 1 May 2001 10:16 EDT Received: from guilder ([62.252.153.81]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with SMTP id <20010501141655.PPPV283.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@guilder>; Tue, 1 May 2001 15:16:55 +0100 Message-ID: <002801c0d24a$51f50980$56acfea9@guilder> From: "Dr. Amir Hussain" To: "Dr. Amir Hussain" , connectionists@cs.cmu.edu MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Cc: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010430193834.0277c990@morgana.elet.polimi.it> <007f01c0d22d$f2f86420$56acfea9@guilder> Subject: Re: Extended Deadline for CIS Journal Special Issue: Final Call for Papers Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 15:23:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Status: O Dear Connectionists: As I have been asked by quite a few potential paper authors for an extension in the submission deadline, I have decided to extend the formal deadine for submission of papers to the Journal of Control & Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on "Non-linear Speech Processing Techniques & Applications" (Vol.30(1), 2002 issue) UNTIL 21 MAY 2001 !! This email announcement also therefore, serves as the final call for papers for this journal special issue. Please see http://www.actapress.com/journals/specialci.htm for more details. Best wishes Dr. Amir Hussain Guest Editor - Neural Computing Research Group Department of Computing Science & Mathematics University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA SCOTLAND, UK Tel / Fax: (++44) 01786 - 476437 / 464551 Email: a.hussain@cs.stir.ac.uk http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu/ From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed May 2 04:41:55 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA22581 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 04:41:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa26715; 1 May 2001 21:46 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa26713; 1 May 2001 21:35 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa01621; 1 May 2001 21:34 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa14082; 1 May 2001 17:06 EDT Received: from H-135-207-30-103.research.att.com by cs.cmu.edu id aa02950; 1 May 2001 17:05 EDT Received: from surfcity.research.att.com (surfcity.research.att.com [135.207.128.5]) by mail-green.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44F61E911 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 17:05:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from surfcity.research.att.com (tide [135.207.128.23]) by surfcity.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA07062 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 17:04:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200105012104.RAA07062@surfcity.research.att.com> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Announcing NIPS Online Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:05:46 -0400 From: Yann LeCun Status: O Dear Colleagues: We are pleased to announce the availability of the NIPS Online web site at http://nips.djvuzone.org NIPS Online offers free access to the full collection of NIPS Proceedings, volumes 1 to 12 (NIPS*88 to NIPS*99). High resolution scans of the articles are provided in DjVu format with full-text search capability. Viewer software and information about DjVu are available at http://www.djvuzone.org The NIPS Online web site was made possible by the NIPS Foundation which funded the scanning, the original publishers, MIT Press and Morgan-Kaufmann, which graciously let us provide free access to the content; and AT&T Labs which supported the project. -- Yann LeCun [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ____________________________________________________________________ Yann LeCun Head, Image Processing Research Dept. AT&T Labs - Research tel:+1(732)420-9210 fax:(732)368-9454 200 Laurel Avenue, Room A5-4E34 yann@research.att.com Middletown, NJ 07748, USA. http://www.research.att.com/~yann From ygoldber@math.rutgers.edu Wed May 2 10:38:08 2001 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02195; Wed, 2 May 2001 10:38:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ygoldber@localhost) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02092 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 10:37:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:37:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Yael Goldberg To: math-phys-list@math.rutgers.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O RUTGERS UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINARS HILL CENTER, ROOM 705 NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY JUST A REMINDER THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2001 Y. Avron, Technion, Israel 11:30 am The Quantum Hall Effect from a Geometric Point of View Abstract: I shall review two geometric points of view on the quantum Hall effect: One that interprets the Hall conductance as a Chern number and another that relates it to a Fredholm index. I shall explain the shortcoming of the theory and outline few open problems. The talks will assume no a-priori knowledge of the Hall effect, Chern numbers, or Fredholm indices. Brown bag Lunch C. Maes, K.U. Leuven 1:30 pm A Symmetry in the Local Fluctuations of the Steady State Entropy Production Abstract: Using the asymmetric exclusion process we show how to derive a local fluctuation theorem for the entropy production in a nonequilibrium steady state. The important ingredient consists in exploiting the Gibbsian structure of the space-time distribution; the part in the space-time action functional that breaks the time-reversal invariance is, up to boundary terms, the variable space-time entropy production. ******* For program and more information see ftp://math.rutgers.edu/pub/smm, or contact lebowitz@math.rutgers.edu. Tel. 732-445-3923, Room 612. From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Thu May 3 00:11:56 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04587 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 00:11:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01166; 2 May 2001 20:07 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01160; 2 May 2001 19:55 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa03292; 2 May 2001 19:55 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa23847; 2 May 2001 8:12 EDT Received: from scapa.anc.ed.ac.uk by edrc.cmu.edu id aa02938; 2 May 2001 8:12 EDT Received: from ed.ac.uk (scapa [129.215.238.4]) by scapa.anc.ed.ac.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f42CC5362333; Wed, 2 May 2001 13:12:06 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3AEFF9C8.53D60004@ed.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:12:56 +0100 From: Nigel Goddard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, cneuro@bbb.caltech.edu, neuron@biomed.med.yale.edu, bnews@bbb.caltech.edu, cfn-community@lists.ed.ac.uk Subject: Neural Coding: Call for Participation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O THE NEURAL CODE: MULTILEVEL AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES a Maxwell Neuroinformatics Workshop Call for Participation May 28-June 1, 2001, Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/workshops This workshop is concerned with theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding the neural code, particularly with respect to analysis of multineuron data and theoretical approaches which can inform these analyses. To be able to address the key questions, it is necessary to bring together biologists, physicists, computer scientists and statisticians. The workshop brings together scientists with experimental, computational and theoretical approaches spanning multiple levels to provide an opportunity for interaction between methodological and phenomenological foci. Confirmed speakers include: Moshe Abeles Peter Dayan Peter Foldiak Andreas Herz Rob Kass Bruce McNaughton Mike Oram Stefano Panzeri Maneesh Sahani David Sterret Alessandro Treves Emma Wood Florentin Worgotter Rich Zemel The meeting is being organized in a small workshop style with emphasis on short presentations from invited speakers and from participants, round table discussions, and open debates on emerging topics. Time is scheduled for informal, self-organised, small-group activities. Computers will be available to support explorative work and demonstrations. In addition to the invited speakers, a limited number of places will be available to interested scientists, who will be chosen on the basis of the contribution they can make to the workshop. A number of places are reserved for junior faculty, postdoctoral researchers and senior graduate students who are early on in a research career in the areas covered by the workshop and who could gain significantly from exposure to the workshop presentations and discussions. We will have some travel/accommodation stipends for some of these participants who do not have access to their own funding to participate. Registration is via the developing Neuroinformatics portal at http://www.neuroinf.org, and further information can be found at the workshope site: http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/workshops From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Thu May 3 00:11:56 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04591 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 00:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01183; 2 May 2001 20:08 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01168; 2 May 2001 19:57 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa03306; 2 May 2001 19:57 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa26996; 2 May 2001 12:19 EDT Received: from master.tardis.ed.ac.uk by cs.cmu.edu id aa17708; 2 May 2001 12:19 EDT Received: from davros.tardis.ed.ac.uk (davros.tardis.ed.ac.uk [193.62.81.4]) by master.tardis.ed.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7B12F897; Wed, 2 May 2001 17:19:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from tardis.ed.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by davros.tardis.ed.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5ECC14A; Wed, 2 May 2001 17:18:57 +0100 (BST) To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Cc: james.hammerton@ucd.ie Reply-To: james.hammerton@ucd.ie Subject: CFP: Special Issue of JMLR on "Machine Learning Approaches to Shallow Parsing" Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:18:56 +0100 From: James Hammerton Message-Id: <20010502161857.3A5ECC14A@davros.tardis.ed.ac.uk> Status: O [Please note the Reply-To field] Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Machine Learning Research -- "Machine Learning Approaches to Shallow Parsing" Editors: James Hammerton james.hammerton@ucd.ie, University College Dublin Miles Osborne osborne@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, University of Edinburgh Susan Armstrong susan.armstrong@issco.unige.ch, University of Geneva Walter Daelemans walter.daelemans@uia.ua.ac.be, University of Antwerp The Journal of Machine Learning Research invites authors to submit papers for the Special Issue on Machine Learning approaches to Shallow Parsing. Background ---------- Over the last decade there has been an increased interest in applying machine learning techniques to corpus-based natural language processing. In particular many techniques have been applied to shallow parsing of large corpora, where rather than produce a detailed syntactic or semantic analysis of each sentence, key parts of the syntactic structure or key pieces of semantic information are identified or extracted. For example, such tasks include identifying the noun phrases in a text, extracting non-overlapping chunks of text that identify the major phrases in a sentence or extracting the subject, main verb and object from a sentence. Applications of shallow parsing include data mining from unstructured textual material (e.g. web pages, newswires), information extraction, question answering, automated annotation of linguistic corpora and the preprocessing of data for linguistic tasks such as machine translation or full scale parsing. Shallow parsing of realistic, naturally occuring language poses a number of challenges for a machine learning system. Firstly, the training set is usually large which will push batch techniques to the limit. The training material is often noisy and frequently only partially determines a model (that is, only some aspects of the target model are observed). Secondly, shallow parsing requires making large numbers of decisions which translates as learning large models. The size of such models usually results in extremely sparse counts, which makes reliable estimation difficult. In sum, learning how to do shallow parsing will tax almost any machine learning algorithm and will thus provide valuable insight into real-world performance. In a number of workshops and publications, a variety of machine learning techniques have been applied in this area including memory based (instance based) learning, inductive logic programming, probabilistic context free grammars, maximum entropy, transformation based learning, artificial neural networks and more recently support vector machines. However there has not been an opportunity to compare and contrast these techniques in a systematic manner. The special issue will thus provide a venue for drawing together the relevant ML techniques. TOPICS ------ The aim of the special issue is to solicit and publish papers that provide a clear view of the state of the art in machine learning for shallow parsing. We therefore encourage submissions in the following areas: * applications of machine learning techniques to shallow parsing tasks, including the development of new techniques. * comparisons of machine learning techniques for shallow parsing * analyses of the complexity of machine learning for shallow parsing tasks To facilitate cross-paper comparison and thus strengthen the special issue as a whole, authors are encouraged to consider using one of the following data sets provided via the CoNLL workshops (please note however that this is not mandatory): http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/chunking/ or: http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2001/clauses/ We emphasise that authors will not be solely judged in terms of raw performance and this is not to be considered as a competition: insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a given system is deemed to be more important. High quality papers reviewing machine learning for shallow parsing will also be welcome. Instructions ------------ Articles should be submitted electronically. Postcript or PDF format are acceptable and submissions should be single column and typeset in 11 pt font format, and include all author contact information on the first page. See the author instructions at www.jmlr.org for more details. To submit a paper send the normal emails asked for by the JMLR in their author instructions to submissions@jmlr.org (NOT to the editors directly), indicating in the subject headers that the submission is intended for the Special Issue on Machine Learning Approaches to Shallow Parsing. Key dates --------- Submission deadline: 2nd September 2001 Notification of acceptance: 16th November 2001 Final drafts: 3rd February 2002 Further information ------------------- Please contact James Hammerton with any queries. From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Thu May 3 00:11:57 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04598 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 00:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01204; 2 May 2001 20:16 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01202; 2 May 2001 20:15 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa03332; 2 May 2001 20:15 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab26584; 2 May 2001 11:49 EDT Received: from hapy.sunderland.ac.uk by edrc.cmu.edu id aa05705; 2 May 2001 11:49 EDT Received: from skuld.sunderland.ac.uk ([157.228.106.130]) by isis.sunderland.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14uyto-0006bI-00; Wed, 02 May 2001 16:50:44 +0100 Received: from sunderland.ac.uk by skuld.sunderland.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id QAA13759; Wed, 2 May 2001 16:49:58 +0100 (BST) Sender: cs0stw@skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Message-ID: <3AF02CA5.3BAD883A@sunderland.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 16:49:57 +0100 From: "Stefan.Wermter" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: PG Research Student Applications Status: O With respect to this email list I would like to encourage applications from computing PhD students in intelligent systems (e.g. neural networks, natural language engineering, hybrid systems, cognitive neuroscience, neuro/fuzzy systems, machine learning). General application text for all areas of interest below Stefan Wermter ------------------------------------------------- Phd & MPhil Opportunities in Computing, Engineering & Technology The School of Computing, Engineering & Technology at the University of Sunderland is seeking high quality, motivated applicants wishing to gain a PhD or MPhil in the disciplines of Computing, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering and Technology. The school has a strong and growing research profile with 6 EPSRC and more than 10 EU-funded projects and a vibrant community of over 100 researchers. The School is well-resourced and offers excellent facilities with much state-of the art computing equipment and not only offers high quality postgraduate but also undergraduate programmes accredited by professional societies. We look for applications in both computing and mathematics as well as general engineering. The main research groups in computing & mathematics are: intelligent systems (major strengths in neural networks, genetic algorithms, hybrid systems and natural language engineering: Professor Stefan Wermter - stefan.wermter@sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5153279); human computer systems (includes themes such as multimedia, computer-aided learning, computing for the disabled and human computer interaction evaluation methodologies: Professor Gilbert Cockton - gilbert.cockton@sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5153394); software engineering (focussed on practical areas especially software testing and the organisational risks of implementing information systems, methodologies and solutions for industry: Professor Helen Edwards helen.edwards@sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152786 or Professor Barrie Thompson barrie.thompson@sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152769); electronic commerce (encompasses the development and promotion of standards in this dynamic area with a special interest in the area of electronic procurement: Kevin Ginty - kevin.ginty@sunderland.ac.uk or Albert Bokma albert.bokma@sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5153233); decision support systems (covers a diverse range of activities in statistics & mathematics at the boundary of Computer Science and Statistics and Operational Research: Professor Eric Fletcher eric.fletcher@sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152822 or Professor Alfredo Moscardini alfredo.moscardini@sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152763); *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Research Chair in Intelligent Systems University of Sunderland Centre of Informatics, SCET St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter@sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** From mikota@mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at Thu May 3 03:32:09 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA08201 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 03:32:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from aml.mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at (aml.mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.136.10]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA13572 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 03:32:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from seppix72.mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at ([140.78.136.72]) by aml.mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with ESMTP id 430; Thu, 3 May 2001 09:20:59 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010503091929.00a98ec0@aml.mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at> X-Sender: josef@aml.mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 09:19:48 +0200 To: Arde Guran From: Josef Mikota Subject: International Symposium on Human Movement and Biomaterials Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Status: O Dear Colleagues and Friends: On behalf of the organization committee of the "International Symposium on Human Movement and Biomaterials", Ottawa, August 5-7, I would like to invite you to participate in this meeting. 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Sincerely, Josef Mikota From pradeep.misra@wright.edu Thu May 3 04:31:22 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA08727 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:31:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailserv.wright.edu (mailserv.wright.edu [130.108.128.60]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA13899 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 04:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.mailserv.wright.edu by mailserv.wright.edu (PMDF V6.0-24 #45557) id <0GCR009013OCYG@mailserv.wright.edu> for sussmann@hilbert.rutgers.edu; Thu, 03 May 2001 04:31:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unixapps1.wright.edu (unixapps1.wright.edu [130.108.128.55]) by mailserv.wright.edu (PMDF V6.0-24 #45557) with ESMTP id <0GCR005PB3OCKK@mailserv.wright.edu> for sussmann@hilbert.rutgers.edu; Thu, 03 May 2001 04:31:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from w002pxm@localhost) by unixapps1.wright.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id EAA28940; Thu, 03 May 2001 04:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 04:31:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Pradeep Misra Subject: Eletter 153, May 2001 To: sussmann@hilbert.rutgers.edu Reply-to: eletter Message-id: <200105030831.EAA28940@unixapps1.wright.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Status: O E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing Issue 153, May, 2001 Editor: Pradeep Misra Dept. of Electrical Engineering Wright State University Dayton, OH 45435 USA Tel +937 775 5062 Fax +937 775 3936 Submit articles at http://www.ieeecss.org/PAB/eletter Submission deadline for June Eletter: May 31, 2001 Contents 0. Editorial 1. Personals 1.1 Dr. Denis Sidorov's New Address 2. General Announcements 2.1 ACC Workshop: Control Loop Performance Assessment 2.2 Short Course: Model Reduction of Large-scale Dynamical Systems 2.3 Short Course On Adaptive Control 2.4 Summer school: Impact of Optimization in Control 2.5 Workshop: Dynamics and Verification Brussels 2.6 Workshop on TLS and Errors-in-Variables Modeling 3. Positions 3.1 Faculty Position at the University of Alberta 3.2 Faculty Positions Nat. Taiwan Univ 3.3 Lecturers Aston Univ UK 3.4 PhD student for a Research Position in France 3.5 Post-Doc & Research Student Leicester UK 3.6 Research Assoc: Optimal Control of DAE Systems Germany 3.7 Research Assoc in Medical Imaging Univ of Chicago 4. Books 4.1 Computational Finance: A Scientific Perspective 4.2 New Book on Fuzzy Logic Systems 4.3 New Book on Permissive Electrical Networks 4.4 Nonlinear Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots 5. Journals 5.1 Automatica Online Paper Review Management System 5.2 CFP: Soft Computing Techniques in IVS 5.3 CFP: Special Issue on PID Control - Asian J. Control 5.4 Contents: Asian Journal of Control 5.5 Contents: Automatica 5.6 Contents: Control Engineering Practice 5.7 Contents: Electronic Trans on Numerical Analysis 5.8 Contents: IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology 5.9 Contents: Journal of Process Control 5.10 Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications 6. Conferences 6.1 39th Annual Allerton Conference on Comm. Control & Computing 6.2 51st CSChE 2001: Systems & Control Engineering 6.3 CFP: Autonomous Intelligent Systems 6.4 CFP: Int Symp on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems & Control 6.5 Call for Papers 2002 American Control Conference 6.6 IASTED Int Conf on Intelligent Systems and Control 6.7 Neuro-Fuzzy 2002 6.8 Web-based Conference: Active Control Of Sound And Vibration ****************************************** * * Editorial * * ****************************************** Welcome to the 153-rd issue of the E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing. As always, search for .** to navigate. The next issue of eletter will be mailed out at the begining of June 2001. Please forward this eletter to your colleagues. They can subscribe to eletter at http://www.ieeecss.org/cgi-bin/PAB/eletter/subscribe_form.cgi To unsubscribe, send an email to p.misra@ieee.org A web version of this eletter with Table of Contents hyperlinked to contents is located at: http://www.ieeecss.org/PAB/eletter/archive/current.shtml ************************************************************************ IMPORTANT: The intent of eletter is to accomodate as many announcements of intersest to our subscribers as possible. However, please note that in order to maintain efficiency of this media for information dissemination, the size of eletter must remain manageable. Submission of very lengthy articles unduly increases the length of the eletter and forces the editorial scissors to become active. Please try and keep your announcements to less than 100 lines of text. ************************************************************************ ****************************************** * * Personals * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Dr. Denis N. Sidorov, Dr. Denis N. Sidorov's New Address: EEE Dept. Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland e-mails: dsidorov@mee.tcd.ie, dsidorov@isem.sei.irk.ru office phone: (00353) 01 608 3818 ****************************************** * * General Announcements * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: N.F. Thornhill, ACC Workshop on Control Loop Performance Assessment During 2001 ACC, Arlington VA, USA, on Thursday June 28th 2001. Title: HOW WELL IS YOUR CONTROLLER PERFORMING: GOOD, BAD, OR OPTIMAL? (REF:T-2) Speakers: Sirish Shah and Biao Huang; University of Alberta, Canada Nina Thornhill; University College London, UK Alf Isaksson; KTH Stockholm, Sweden For a description of the workshop, please visit: http://acc2001.che.ufl.edu/#WD PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MAY 15TH. For REGISTRATION and FEES INFORMATION, please visit: ACC 2001 Information page: http://acc2001.che.ufl.edu/ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Georgia Kaliora, Short Course on Model Reduction of Large-scale Dynamical Systems Thursday 24 May 2001 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College, London http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/CAP/Events/short_course.html Lecturer: Prof. A.C. Antoulas (Rice University) Description: Model reduction aims at replacing a system of differential or difference equations of high complexity by one of much lower complexity. In so doing, one tries to preserve certain critical properties of the system (e.g. stability) and approximate well important features (e.g. the system response). During the last two decades, a lot of progress has been made in the theory of this approximation problem. The first part of the course will review the foundations of this theory and will present the key results of frequency and time domain approximations (Grammian based balanced truncation and Hankel norm approximation). More recently, the need has arisen to apply these methods to problems of very high complexity; in such cases the resulting computational complexity becomes prohibitively high and different approaches to the problem have to be developed. In the second part of the course we will present techniques that can be applied to large scale systems provided the models are sparse or structured (Pade like approximations and Krylov based methods). Objectives: Attendees will get an up-to-date account of this area with discussion of various application examples. The course should help them apply such ideas to their own area of research. Information and Contact: For further information please contact G. Kaliora (g.kaliora@ic.ac.uk) or A. Astolfi (a.astolfi@ic.ac.uk). Also, the wed-site: http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/CAP/Events/short_course.html Registration: The course is open to PhD students, Post-Docs and researchers. Please register by E-mail (g.kaliora@ic.ac.uk). The course is free for Imperial College members. A small fee for non-Imperial College attendees will be charged. Location: The course will be held at the Gabor Seminar Room (Level 6), in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Imperial College. Schedule: Morning: 9.00-12.00. Afternoon: 14.00-17.00. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Thanos Antoulas and Fathi Ghorbel, 2001 RICE DSG SHORT COURSE Course Title: ADAPTIVE CONTROL Where: Rice University When: May 7-11, 2001 The Dynamical Systems Group (DSG) at Rice University in collaboration with the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Civil Engineering and with support from the George R. Brown School of Engineering is organizing a short course entitled "Adaptive Control", May 7-11, 2001, to be held at Rice University. The lecturer is Prof. Rolf Johansson Department of Automatic Control Lund Institute of Technology Sweden This short course can be taken for credit by Rice students. The course is free for Rice faculty and students; there is a fee of .00 for students of other academic institutions, and a fee of .00 for all other participants. Pre-registration information is available at: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ghorbel/01sc.htm *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Carsten Scherer, DISC Summer School, June 12-15, 2001, Mierlo, The Netherlands The Impact of Optimization in Control Full program at: http://www.disc.tudelft.nl Main lectures: Pierre Bernhard, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis - From decision trees to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation - Numerical approaches to Bellman's equation - Minimax control and partial information control Stephen Boyd, Stanford University - Convex optimization - Interior-point methods - Applications of convex optimization Francis Clarke, Universite Lyon-I - Nonsmoothness in control theory - part I, II, III Manfred Morari, ETH-Zurich - A mathematical programming approach to feedback control: Overview - An explicit formulation of Model Predictive Control for continuous systems - A mathematical programming approach to the Analysis & Control of Hybrid Systems Additional lectures: Frank Allgower, Universitat Stuttgart - An introductory overview of nonlinear model predictive control Anders Helmersson, Linkoping University - LMI's in robust control - Building LFT models with low order Wolfgang Marquardt, RWTH Aachen - Scenario-integrated control and optimization of dynamic process systems Hans Schumacher, Tilburg University - Complementarity systems and dynamic programming Vassilis Vassiliadis, Cambridge University - The state-of-the-art in control vector parameterizations in optimal control problem solving, and applications Registration fee (including meals and accommodation): - Non-DISC members: 999,- Dutch guilders - DISC PhD students/DISC members: 799,- Dutch guilders Registration deadline: June 1, 2001. Participation is limited to about 50 people. Further information from: Marjolein van den Berg Mechanical Engineering System & Control Group Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 2 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands Email: secr@disc.tudelft.nl, Tel: +31 15 2787884 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Vincent Blondel, Call For Participation 5th Dynamics workshop DYNAMICS AND VERIFICATION Royal Academy of Sciences, Brussels, Belgium July 16-17, 2001 http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/dynamics/ OVERVIEW The purpose of the workshop is to bring together students and researchers from the computer science, dynamical systems, and control communities on the general theme of verification and hybrid systems. The workshop will emphasize dynamical aspect of verification methods. The first day of the workshop will be an introductory minicourse by Professor R. Alur (University of Pennsylvania, USA). The second day will consist of invited talks. All talks will be in tutorial format and informal discussions between participants will be encouraged throughout the two days. This is the fifth of a series of annual workshops held in Belgium on topics related to dynamical systems. The goal of this series is to gather researchers from different disciplines around the general theme of dynamical systems in a casual and informal athmosphere, see http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~blondel/workshops/ PROGRAM July 16. One day introductory minicourse: "Hybrid Systems: Modeling and Verification" Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania, USA). July 17. Invited lectures by: Eugene Asarin (VERIMAG, Grenoble, France). Ahmed Bouajjani (LIAFA, Universite Paris 7, France). Bernard Boigelot (Universite de Liege, Belgium). Laurent Fribourg (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France). Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark). REGISTRATION There are no registration fees. Registration is by email. If you wish to participate in the workshop, please send your name and surname, affiliation and email address to dynamics@inma.ucl.ac.be. The closing date for registrations is July 1, 2001. VENUE The workshop will be held in the main building of the Belgium Royal Academy of Sciences. The academy is located in central Brussels, at walking distance from most facilities. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Vincent Blondel, University of Louvain Bernard Boigelot, University of Liege Jean-Francois Raskin, University of Brussels Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Liege *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Sabine Van Huffel, 3rd International Workshop on TLS and ERRORS-IN-VARIABLES MODELING August 27--29, 2001 Arenberg castle, Leuven, Belgium This interdisciplinary workshop is a continuation of 2 previous workshops which were held in Leuven, Belgium, August 1991 and 1996, and aims to bring together numerical analysts, statisticians, engineers, economists, chemists, etc. in order to discuss recent advances in Total Least Squares (TLS) techniques and errors-in-variables modeling. The workshop is partially sponsored by the Fund for Scientifi Research -- Flanders (FWO) and the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). In total, 32 lectures will be presented in the following 9 sessions; 1. Basic Concepts and Analysis in Errors-in-Variables Modeling 2. Total Least Squares Algorithms 3. Structured Total least Squares Problems 4. Nonlinear Errors-in-Variables Models and Statistical Estimators 5. Errors-in-variables Modeling with Bounded Uncertainties 6. Orthogonal Curve Fitting 7. Errors-in-Variables Estimation in System Identification 8. Errors-in-Variables Estimation in Signal Processing 9. Errors-in-Variables Applications in other fields The complete advance program (and registration form) are available at the website http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/tls3.html All presented papers will be collected in the conference proceedings book, which will come out shortly after the workshop. Conference committee: Sabine Van Huffel and Philippe Lemmerling (chairpersons) Bart De Moor, Yasuo Amemiya, Leon Gleser, Gene Golub, Bjorn Ottersten, Rik Pintelon, G. W. (Pete) Stewart and Paul Van Dooren. Workshop secretariat: Ida Tassens Dept. of Electrical Engineering, ESAT-SISTA/COSIC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium tel : 32/16/32.17.09 fax : 32/16/32.19.70 DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: July 1, 2001 ****************************************** * * Positions * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Sirish Shah, Faculty Position at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada Applications are invited for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in the area of process control. The position will be available September 1, 2001 or earlier. Candidates must either hold a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering or related field or expect to receive one before September 1, 2001. Successful candidates will be expected to establish viable and productive research programs, and teach both graduate and undergraduate courses. The position is intended to complement our current strength in computer process control. One component of the research program will be applications of process control methods towards process and performance monitoring of industrial processes, to complement a recently awarded-NSERC Industrial Chair in Computer Process Control. For information about our Department, consult our web site at: http://www.ualberta.ca/CMENG/ For information on the NSERC industrial chair project go to: http://www.ualberta.ca/~slshah/NMA.htm Details of the CPC (Computer Process Control) group's recent research efforts can be accessed through electronic publications at: http://www.ualberta.ca/CMENG/research/groups/control/reports.html A resume, the names of three confidential referees and a statement of current research interests and plans for future research should be sent to: Dr. Sirish L. Shah Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G6. email: sirish.shah@ualberta.ca Applications are requested prior to July 31, 2001. The University of Alberta is committed to the principle of equity in employment. As an employer, we welcome diversity in the workplace and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Han-Pang Huang, National Taiwan University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty The ME Department seeks candidates for one to two faculty positions at all levels starting in February 2002. We are looking for candidates with backgrounds and interests in system and control, or newly developed engineering such as Opto-Mechtronics, Nano Technology, MEMS, Biomedical Engineering. A Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or its equivalent is required for tenure-track positions. All applicants should provide a curriculum vitae, a research plan in the immediate future, a teaching plan in the immediate future, reprints of selected publications, transcripts, and three different copies of letters of recommendation. All candidates should indicate citizenship and, in case of non-Taiwan citizens, describe their visa status. Application deadline is 7/31/2001. Send all applications to: Chairperson, Department of Mechanical Engineering National Taiwan University Roosevelt Rd. Sec. 4, No.1 Taipei 10660, Taiwan. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Keith Blow, ASTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE LECTURESHIPS in Electronic Engineering The Electronic Engineering Subject Group has several vacancies available at the Lecturer/Senior Lecturer levels. The Group is particularly keen to recruit young members of staff with research and teaching interests in Telecommunications networks Internet technology Digital circuit/system design We wish to recruit highly motivated individuals to take up posts by September of this year. Two posts will be particularly suited to candidates who have recently completed PhD degrees in areas relevant to the topics identified above. The School of Engineering & Applied Science hosts several world-class research groups: new members of staff are encouraged to pursue research collaboratively with these groups or to establish their own areas. Aston’s undergraduate programmes in electronic engineering are expanding, and there are opportunities for individuals to contribute to the further development of these programmes. Enquiries should be addressed to Prof I Bennion (Tel: 0121-359-4735 or 0121- 359-3611 ext 4943; Fax: 0121-359-0156; email: I.Bennion@aston.ac.uk) or Prof K J Blow (Tel: 0121-359-6987 or 0121-359-3611 ext 5273; Fax: 0121-359-0156; email: K.J.Blow@aston.ac.uk). *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Maurizio Cirrincione, PhD student for a Research Position in France Modelling and simulation of large electro-mechanical systems The Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Picardie (Amiens, FRANCE) and the Electrical Machines Laboratory launches a research project, by agreement with the Senlis unit of the Centre for Technical Studies for Mechanical Industries (CETIM), on modelling and simulation of large electro-mechanical systems. The problem is to build a virtual experiment using numerical simulation in order to predict the constraints observed in a complex system to improve its design and to prevent from destructive faults. The application of interest is a mechanical load driven by a static converter fed induction machine with interaction on the grid in the power range greater than 1MW (off-shore industries, cement workshops, ..) Duration: 3 years as a PhD student Funding : Grant of 1500 Euros/month and access to student facilities Location : The laboratory is located in Amiens a city of 150,000 with 20,000 students and 120 km north from Paris Pre-requisites : The candidate must have equivalent degree to allow registration in the PhD program in France (MSc in electrical engineering or equivalent). Possibilities are given for access to European PhD for students coming from the European Union. Basic knowledge on electrical machines, power electronics, power systems are mandatory. A previous experience in computer simulation using general purpose programs (MATLAB, EMTP, PSPICE) should be appreciated. The knowledge of French is not mandatory by will be considered as a plus. Application : The position has to be filled for October 1, 2001. The potential candidates have to apply by sending their curriculum plus the name and coordinate of 2 referees. Applications by E-mail are preferred. Contact : Richard Grisel, Professor Universite de Picardie Jules Verne - CREA - IUP GEII 33, rue Saint Leu - 80039 Amiens Cedex 1 - FRANCE Phone : +(33)3 22 82 70 55 Fax : +(33)3 22 82 78 22 Mobile : +(33)6 60 88 64 02 E-mail : Richard.Grisel@sc.u-picardie.fr and Richard.Grisel@free.fr Web page: http://richard.grisel.waika9.com/ Gerard-Andre Capolino, Professor University of Picardie Jules Verne - CREA - IUP GEII 33, rue Saint Leu - 80039 Amiens Cedex 1 - FRANCE Phone : +(33)3-22-82-78-20 Fax: +(33)3-22-82-78-22 Mobile: +(33)6-68-67-71-22 E-mail: Gerard.Capolino@ieee.org Web page: http://www.fortunecity.com/business/filthyrich/1634/index.htm *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Dr Sarah Spurgeon, Post-Doc and PhD Assistantship in Sliding Mode Control of Nonlinear Systems Control and Instrumentation Research Group Department of Engineering University of Leicester University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK A three year postdoctoral research associate position and a fully funded PhD research studentship are available to consider open problems in the area of sliding mode control of uncertain possibly nonminimum phase systems using output information. Candidates interested in the postdoctoral research associate position should possess, or be about to complete, a PhD in a relevant area of control. Candidates for the PhD studentship should possess, or be about to complete, a good honours degree, or equivalent qualification, in Engineering or Mathematics. Those interested in either position are encouraged to submit a CV in the first instance to Dr Sarah Spurgeon (eon@le.ac.uk) who will be happy to provide further details of either post on request. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Peter C. Mueller, Position of a scientific collaborator (BAT IIa/C1) is offered for probably 4 years by the group of safety control engineering at the Department of Safety Engineering, University of Wuppertal, Germany. We are looking for a scientist who takes part in the teaching and administrative duties of the group but who essentially work for the project "Optimal Control of Descriptor Systems". control of DAEs is still a field with open problems. The research task is especially directed to descriptor systems with non-proper system behaviour. Requirements: - German Diplom or equivalent Master degree in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science - good knowledge in Control Theory - good knowledge of German and English Contact: Prof. Dr. Peter C. Mueller Tel.: +49-(0)202-439-2017 Email: mueller@srm.uni-wuppertal.de *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Hiro Yoshida, A Research Associate position in 2D and 3D medical imaging is available immediately in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago. Research in the host laboratory focuses on the computer-aided diagnosis in medical imaging. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in computer science/engineering, bioengineering, or similar discipline. Technical area of experience should include computer graphics (in particular, volume rendering), image processing, and computer vision. He/She should have a strong skill in C/C++ programming. Medical imaging background is not required but desirable. Strong interests in medical imaging is essential. Appointment to the position is renewable every year. Research areas will include the development of a system for the detection of polyps in virtual colonoscopy (CT colonography) and lung nodules in chest radiography. This is an opportunity for a Ph.D. graduate from engineering discipline whose goal is to develop an academic career in medical imaging, or those who have already experiences in medical imaging to further advance their careers. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit, preferably via email, their C.V. to: Hiro Yoshida, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Radiology The University of Chicago 5841 S. Maryland Ave. MC2026 Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: 773-834-3154 Fax: 773-702-1161 E-mail: h-yoshida2@uchicago.edu ****************************************** * * Books * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Cornelis A. Los, This book grew out of an invited, and very well attended Public Lecture on "A Scientific View of Economic and Financial Data Analysis,which I delivered before the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City on March 11, 1992. The invitation came from Professors Lawrence Klein (Nobel memorial Prize winner), Edmund Phelps (Member of Academy of Sciences USA) and Dominick Salvatore. The Lecture applied the recommendations of the Kalman-Los’ 1986 Manifesto for Identification of Models from Inexact Data to Finance. The book corrects many of the common errors propagated in the financial literature. Starting from traditional fundamental financial analysis and using various algebraic and geometric tools, like 3- and 4-dimensional visualizations, the book is guided by the logic of science to explore information from uncertain financial data without prejudice. It is structured around the fundamental requirement of objective science that the (geometric) structure of the data equals the information (model) contained in the data. Numerous real world empirical examples, collected by me during my professional career, as a Senior and Chief Economist on Wall Street (Fed, Nomura, ING, etc.), elaborate on the points I make. Detailed footnotes introduce many historical characters, who have presented similar arguments in physics and mathematics. The intended readership consists of undergraduate (3rd year and Honours) and graduate (MBA, MA and Ph.D) students in finance, who have some knowledge of elementary calculus and linear algebra, as well as sophisticated practitioners in the financial engineering and services industries. This 336 page, well - illustrated book is available for US from World Scientific Publishers, Ltd, in Singapore (www.wspc.com) and is also distributed via the web pages of Amazon (www.amazon.com) and Barnes & Noble (www.bn.com). *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Jerry M. Mendel, "Uncertain Rule-Based Fuzzy Logic Systems: Introduction and New Directions," by Jerry M. Mendel, has been published by Prentice-Hall in 2001. This book provides new breakthrough fuzzy logic techniques for handling real-world uncertainties. It does this by using an expanded and richer fuzzy logic. The world is full of uncertainty that classical fuzzy logic can't directly model. Now, however, there is an approach to fuzzy logic that can model uncertainty: "type-2" fuzzy logic. This book demonstrates how type-2 fuzzy logic overcomes the limitations of classical fuzzy logic, enabling a wide range of applications from digital mobile communications, computer networking, video traffic classification, forecasting of time-series, to knowledge mining. For further information about this book, visit: http://sipi.usc.edu/~mendel/book *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Armen H. Zemanian, The book, ''Pristine Transfinite Graphs and Permissive Electrical Networks,'' Birkhauser, Boston, 2001, has appeared. Transfinite graphs and networks have been explored in some generality and complexity during the past dozen years. This book provides a simplified exposition of the subject that, while sacrificing some generality, captures its essential ideas. Moreover, it extends transfinitely Minty's powerful theory for nonlinear monotone networks, as well as aspects of graph theory, discrete potential theory, and random walks. The web page: www.ee.sunysb.edu/~zeman contains its Table of Contents and Preface. It will also contain an Errata as errors and misprints are discovered. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Warren Dixon, Authors: W. E. Dixon, D. M. Dawson, A. Behal, and E. Zergeroglu Publisher: Springer-Verlag London Ltd ISBN: 1-85233-414-2. Price: .80 USD. URL: http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=1-85233-414-2 This book examines control problems for wheeled mobile robots. Several novel control strategies are developed and the stability of each controller is examined utilizing Lyapunov-based techniques. The performance of each controller is either illustrated through simulation results or experimental results. The final chapter describes how the control techniques developed for wheeled mobile robots can be applied to solve other problems with similar governing differential equations (e.g., twin rotor helicopters, surface vessels). Several appendices are included to provide the reader with the mathematical background utilized in the control development and stability analysis. Two appendices are also included that provide specific details with regard to the modifications that were done to commercially available mobile robots (e.g., a K2A manufactured by Cybermotion Inc. and a Pioneer II manufactured by Activemedia) to experimentally demonstrate the performance of the torque input controllers. TOC 1. Model Development and Control Objectives 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Kinematic Model Development 1.3 Regulation Problem 1.4 Tracking Problem 1.5 Unified Problem 1.6 Incorporation of Dynamic Effects 1.7 Comparative Analysis 1.8 Notes 2. Robust Control 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Tracking Problem 2.3 Incorporation of Dynamic Effects 2.4 Experimental Implementation 2.5 Notes 3. Adaptive Control 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Tracking Problem 3.3 Global Exponential Tracking Problem 3.4 Regulation Problem 3.5 Incorporation of Dynamic Effects 3.6 Experimental Implementation 3.7 Notes 4. Output Feedback Control 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Tracking Problem 4.3 Simulation Results 4.4 Notes 5. Visual Servoing Control 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Kinematic Model 5.3 Camera-Space Tracking Problem 5.4 Incorporation of Dynamic Effects 5.5 Simulation and Experimental Implementation 5.6 Notes 6. Robustness to Kinematic Disturbances 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Regulation Problem 6.3 Tracking Problem 6.4 Control Development 6.5 Simulation 6.6 Notes 7. Beyond Wheeled Mobile Robots 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Model Development 7.3 Tracking Problem 7.4 Regulation Problem 7.5 Twin Rotor Helicopter 7.6 Simulation 7.7 Notes Appendix A: Mathematical Background Appendix B: Auxiliary Expressions and Proofs Appendix C: Modifications to the Cybermotion K2A Appendix D: Modifications to the ActivMedia Pioneer II ****************************************** * * Journals * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Huibert Kwakernaak, AUTOMATICA ONLINE PAPER SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS Authors can now submit their papers online to Automatica. Recently the new website www.autsubmit.com has opened where authors can submit their paper directly from their computer. After a transition period e-mail submissions will no longer be accepted. After having submitted their paper authors can log in to see the review status of their paper, update their paper information, and submit revised and final versions. The Pampus system allows Automatica editors and associate editors to manage the review process completely online. Reviewers may submit their evaluation electronically and upload their reviews if they wish. The site offers extensive information for authors as well as the list of recently accepted papers. Automatica's on-line cumulative table of contents 1963-present and the recent and advance editorials are still available at the Editor-in-Chief's website www.math.utwente.nl/eic. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Yaochu Jin, Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Special Issue on Soft Computing Techniques in Intelligent Vehicle Systems Scope The information age we are embracing is imposing great challenges to the Intelligent Vehicle Systems (IVS). Modern car drivers expect to be able to drive safely while exchanging information with the outside world. Vehicle safety technologies, such as collision warning, driver assistance and autonomous driving, as well as injury reduction in case of an accident are the basic concerns of intelligent vehicle systems. Information and connectivity is another essential aspect. Intelligent vehicle systems are supposed to be able to provide filtered information about local traffic conditions, navigation, and weather conditions and provide useful suggestions. With the help of Internet and telecommunication technologies, drivers can check emails, browsing Internet and even handle business without stepping out of the car. To meet the increasing demand for safety and connectivity, intelligent vehicle systems need to have stronger capability of understanding the environment, learning from the history, and making correct decisions with uncertain, partial or imprecise information. Soft Computing is an emerging field that consisting of complementary elements of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Computing, Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Probabilistic Reasoning. Due to their strong learning and cognitive ability and good tolerance of uncertainty and imprecision, Soft Computing techniques have found wide applications in Intelligent Vehicle Systems. This Special Issue will be dedicated to the publication of the latest advancements in theory and application of Soft Computing techniques to intelligent vehicle systems. Topics may include but are not limited to: Adaptive Cruise Control; Collision Avoidance and Obstacle Detection; Driver Behavior Modeling and Monitoring; Lane Detection and Tracking; Optimization of Vehicle Safety Equipments; In-Vehicle Navigation and Communication; Human-Machine Systems for IVS;Driver Information Systems; Traffic Modeling and Control Submission Four hard copies of each submitted papers should be sent to the one of the Guest Editors for the author's region at the addresses below. Electronic submissions in postscript or pdf format are encouraged. Submitted papers should be in the IEEE TIE format with a title page including a complete mailing address for each author plus an abstract of the paper. Please also email a copy of the title page in plain text to one of the Guest Editors. More information on style guidelines for a submission can be obtained at the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics' Website: http://www.trans-ie.uni-wuppertal.de/ Submission deadline 31 July 2001 Notification of acceptance 30 September 2001 Guest Editors: Sam Kwong Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong 83 Tatchee Avenue Kowloon, Hong Kong China Email: cssamk@cityu.edu.hk Yaochu Jin Future Technology Research Honda R&D Europe (D) GmbH Carl-Legien-Strasse 30 63073 Offenbach/Main Germany Email:yaochu_jin@de.hrdeu.com *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Li-Chen Fu, CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in PID Control: A Special Issue of Asian Journal of Control PROPORTIONAL-INTEGRAL-DERIVATIVE (PID) is a familiar term of high significance to many engineers, technicians and other practitioners involved in automatic control systems. Controllers of the PID type have existed for more than fifty years. Today, PID controllers can be found in virtually all control systems, with applications ranging from process conditions regulation to precision motion control for assembly and process automation. This is not surprising since the reliability of the PID controllers has been field proven by decades of successful applications. The wide acceptance and massive support from control engineers all over the world ensure they have remained the single most important tool in the control toolbox. The research and development efforts for the evergreen PID controllers have been undergoing a resurgence in recent years. A lot of effort has been devoted to capitalizing on the advances in mathematical control theory while still essentially retaining the decades-old classical control structure. New generation PID controllers are able to demonstrate very good control still essentially retaining the decades-old classical control structure. New generation PID controllers are able to demonstrate very good control characteristics such as higher performance robustness, tighter control performance, and a higher level of intelligence and autonomy in their operations with a correspondingly reduced reliance on manual operations. The application base of PID controllers has also been further expanded, with these controllers now being applied effectively to systems and processes never before possible under traditional PID control. The importance of PID controllers cannot be undermined as they provide the engines to millions of control systems operating around the world. This special issue on Advances in PID Control will help to serve as a forum to consolidate the latest advances and trends in this field. Priority will be given to original contributions which attempt to link the advances in control theory and artificial intelligence to obtain better performing PID controllers, with applications to complex systems including vaguely modeled, nonlinear, multivariable and time-delay systems. Papers should preferably include an application section, where the results from a practical application/case study are documented. Guest Editor: Dr. K. K. Tan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore Tel: +65-8742110, Fax +65-7791103 E-mail: eletankk@nus.edu.sg Important Dates: April 1, 2001 Call for Papers Sep. 15, 2001 Deadline for Paper Submission Feb. 1, 2002 Completion of first review May 1, 2002 Completion of final review Sep.30, 2002 Publication Potential authors can either submit four copies of manuscripts or send its electronic file in Postscript, PDF or WORD format to Prof. Li-Chen Fu, Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Control at the following address: Prof. Li-Chen Fu Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei 106, Taiwan National Taiwan University Taipei 106, Taiwan Tel: +886-2-2362-2209 Fax: +886-2-2365-7887 Email: lichen@ccms.ntu.edu.tw All submissions should include a title page containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliation, complete postal and electronic address, phone and fax number, an abstract, and a list of keywords. The contact author should be clearly identified. For more detailed information about manuscript preparation, please visit the web site of Asian Journal of Control at http://www.ajc.org.tw *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Li-Chen Fu, ASIAN JOURNAL OF CONTROL Vol. 3, No. 2 (June, 2001) (Special Issue : Trend and Advancement in Neural Networks Based Control Designs ) 1. Title: "Nonlinear Control via Generalized Feedback Linearization Using Neural Networks," Author Graham C. Goodwin, Osvaldo Rojas, and Hitoshi Takata 2. Title: "Fault Diagnosis Based on Fuzzy-Recurrent Neural Network," Author Zhao Xiang and Xiao Deyun 3. Title: "Neural Network Adaptive Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems in a Normal Form," Author J. Q. Gong and Bin Yao 4. Title: "Robust Adaptive Control of Robots Using Neural Network : Global Stability," Author C. Kwan, D. M. Dawson, and F. L. Lewis 5. Title: "On Approximation Capability of Neural Networks--Dynamic System Modeling and Control" Author Chu Kwong Chak, Gang Feng, and Jian Ma 6. Title: "Neural Network Based Algorithm for Dynamic System Optimization," Author Roseli Francelin Romero, Janusz Kacprzyk, and Fernando Gomide 7. Title: "Adaptive Neural Network Control for Smart Materials Robots Using Singular Perturbation Technique," Author S. S. Ge, T. H. Lee, and Z. P. Wang 8. Title: "Robust Adaptive Identification of Nonlinear System Using Neural Network," Author Q. Song, L. Yin, and Y. C. Soh 9. Title: "Nonlinear Fly-by-Throttle H-infinity Control Using Neural Networks," Author Gwo-Ruey Yu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Huibert Kwakernaak, AUTOMATICA Table of contents July, 2001 Volume 37, Issue 7 Regular papers P. R. Pagilla, M. Tomizuka An adaptive output feedback controller for robot arms: Stability and experiments L. Chisci, J. A. Rossiter, G. Zappa Systems with persistent disturbances: Predictive control with restricted constraints P. Chen, H. Qin, J. Huang Local stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems by dynamic output feedback K. Najim, A. S. Poznyak Adaptive policy for two finite Markov chain zero-sum stochastic game with unknown transition matrices and average payoffs J-X. Xu, W-J. Cao Learning variable structure control approaches for repeatable tracking control tasks Li Xu, Bin Yao Output feedback adaptive robust precision motion control of linear motors Brief papers Wei Lin, C. Qian Semi-global robust stabilization of MIMO nonlinear systems by partial state and dynamic output feedback M. Valeckov, M. Krn, E. L. Sutanto Bayesian M-T clustering for reduced parametrisation of Markov chains used for non-linear adaptive elements D. A. Lawrence Analysis and design of gain scheduled sampled-data control systems H. Y. Zhang, C. W. Chan, et al. Fuzzy ARTMAP neural network and its application to fault diagnosis of navigation systems U. Soverini, S. Beghelli Identification of static errors-in-variables models: The rank reducibility problem D. Angeli Almost global stabilization of the inverted pendulum via continuous state feedback M. Alamir Solutions of nonlinear optimal and robust control problems via a mixed collocation/DAE's based algorithm Z-J. Yang, M. Tateishi Adaptive robust nonlinear control of a magnetic levitation system A. Zavala-Rio, B. Brogliato Direct adaptive control design for one-degree-of-freedom complementary-slackness jugglers M. Egerstedt, C. F. Martin Optimal trajectory planning and smoothing splines B. De Schutter, T. van den Boom Model predictive control for max-plus-linear discrete event systems W. P. M. H. Heemels, B. de Schutter, A. Bemporad Equivalence of hybrid dynamical models Technical communiques M. Bodson Performance of an adaptive algorithm for sinusoidal disturbance rejection in high noise J. Gao, B. Huang, Z. Wang LMI-based robust H(infinity) control of uncertain linear jump systems with time-delay *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: George W Irwin (Editor in Chief), IFAC JOURNAL: CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4, APRIL 2001 Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00123 pp 357-366 Control of coating properties of LDPE through melt strength measurements K. Xiao, C. Tzoganakis, H. Budman pp 367-373 Electro-hydraulic proportional control of twin-cylinder hydraulic elevators K. Li, M.A. Mannan, M. Xu, Z. Xiao pp 375-385 Visual command of a robot using 3D-scene reconstruction in an augmented reality system M. Shaheen, M. Mallem, F. Chavand pp 387-391 A high-performance control system for spreading liquid manure A. Munack, E. Buning, H. Speckmann pp 393-394 Preface to the Special Section on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-time Control V. Hernandez, A.E. Ruano pp 395-402 Reference architecture for robot teleoperation: - development details and practical use B. Alvarez, A. Iborra, A. Alonso, J.A. de la Puente pp 403-409 On identifying and evaluating object architectures for real-time applications O.P. Dias, I.M. Teixeira, J.P. Teixeira, L.B. Becker, C.E. Pereira pp 411-423 Fuzzy predictive algorithms applied to real-time force control L.F. Baptista, J.M. Sousa, J.M.G. da Costa pp 425-438 Probability estimation algorithms for self-validating sensors A.W. Moran, P.G. O'Reilly, G.W. Irwin pp 439-447 DICOS: a real-time distributed industrial control system for embedded applications J.C. Campelo, P. Yuste, P.J. Gil, J.J. Serrano pp 449-457 Real-time control of air motors using a pneumatic H-bridge M.O. Tokhi, M. Al-Miskiry, M. Brisland pp 459-466 Real-time video for distributed control systems J.A. Clavijo, M.J. Segarra, C. Baeza, C.D. Moreno, R. Sanz, A. Jimenez, R. Vazquez, F.J. Daz, A. Dez pp 467-470 Calendar *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Lothar Reichel, Table of Contents, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA), vol. 11, 2000. ETNA is available at http://etna.mcs.kent.edu and several mirror sites as well as on CDROM. A. Toselli, Neumann-Neumann methods for vector field problems, pp. 1-24. M. A. Cawood and C. L. Cox, Perturbation analysis for eigenstructure assignment of linear multi-input systems, pp. 25-42. B. I. Wohlmuth, A multigrid method for saddle point problems arising from mortar finite element discretizations, pp. 43-54. S. Serra Capizzano and C. Tablino Possio, High-order finite difference schemes and Toeplitz based preconditioners for elliptic problems, pp. 55-84. P. Benner, R. Byers, H. Fassbender, V. Mehrmann, and D. Watkins, Cholesky-like factorizations of skew-symmetric matrices, pp. 85-93. K. Atkinson, D. D.-K. Chien and J. Seol, Numerical analysis of the radiosity equation using the collocation method, pp. 94-120. R. Gutie'rrez J. Rodriguez, and A. J. Sa'ez, Approximation of hypergeometric functions with matricial argument through their development in series of zonal polynomials, pp. 121-130. C. T. H. Baker and E. Buckwar, Continuous Theta-methods for the stochastic pantograph equation, pp. 131-151. Publication of volume 12 of ETNA is in progress. Presently the following papers are available: G. Meurant, Numerical experiments with algebraic multilevel preconditioners, pp. 1-65. H. Zhang, Numerical condition of polynomials in different forms, pp. 66-87. M. J. Castel, V. Migallo'n, and J. Penade's, On parallel two-stage methods for Hermitian positive definite matrices with applications to preconditioning, pp. 88-112. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Marc Bodson, Adaptive-Passive Control of Vibration Transmission in Beams Using Electro/Magnetorheological Fluid Filled Inserts N.R. Harland, B.R. Mace, and R.W. Jones Design and Implementation of a Hard Disk Drive Servo System Using Robust and Perfect Tracking Approach T. B. Goh, Z. Li, B.M. Chen, T. H. Lee, and T.C. Huang Geometric Analysis of Flight Control Command for Tactical Missile Guidance C.-Y. Kuo, D. Soetanto, and Y.-C. Chiou High Precision Linear Motor Control via Relay-Tuning and Iterative Learning Based on Zero-Phase Filtering K. K. Tan, H. Dou, Y. Chen, and T. H. Lee Real-Time Very Short-Term Load Prediction for Power System Automatic Generation Control D. J. Trudnowski, W. L. McReynolds, and J. M. Johnson Application of a Neural-Network Scheduler on a Real Manufacturing System G. A. Rovithakis, S. E. Perrakis, and M. A. Christodoulou A Neural-Network Based Approach to Determining a Robust Process Recipe for the Plasma-Enhanced Deposition of Silicon Nitride Thin Films I.G. Rosen, T. Parent, C. Cooper, P.Chen, and A. Madhukar Integrated Ssytem Identification and PID Controller Tuning by Frequency Loop-Shaping E. Grassi, K. S. Tsakalis, S. Dash, S.V. Gaikwad, W. MacArthur, and G. Stein Two Degree-of-Freedom Controller to Reduce the Vibration of Vehicle Engine-Body System J. Yang, Y. Suemastu, and Z. Kang Tracking Control of Unicycle-Modeled Mobile Robots Using a Saturation Feedback Controller T. -C. Lee, K.-T Song, C. -H. Lee, and C. -C. Teng Modeling and Robust Control Design for Aircraft Brake Hydraulics I. Tunay, E. Y. Rodin, and A. A. Beck Self-Tuning Control of a Low-Friction Pneumatic Actuator Under the Influence of Gravity R. Richardson, A. R. Plummer, and M. D. Brown New Parametric Affine Modeling and Control for Skid-to-Turn Missiles D. Chwa and J. Y. Choi BRIEF PAPERS Multivariable Fuzzy Supervisory Control for the Laminar Cooling Process of Hot Rolled Slab S. Guan, H. -X. Li, and S. K. Tso Detection of Abrupt Changes of Total Least Squares Models and Application in Fault Detection B. Huang Sliding Control of an Electropneumatic Actuator Using an Integral Switching Surface M. Bouri and D. Thomasset Experimental Application of Extended Kalman Filtering for Sensor Validation D. Del Gobbo, M. Napolitano, P. Famouri, and M. Innocenti Multivariable Feedback Relevant System Identification of a Wafer Stepper System R. A. de Callafon and P. M. J. Van de Hof Dissipative Design, Lossless Dynamics, and the Nonlinear TORA Benchmark Example G. Tadmor New Results in NPID Control: Tracking, Integral Control, Friction Compensation and Experimental Results B. Armstrong, D. Neevel, and T. Kusik Robust Stabilization of Tone Reproduction Curves for the Xerographic Printing Process P. Y. Li and S. A. Dianat Development of a Measurement Robot for Identifying all Inertia Parameters of a Rigid Body in a Single Experiment H. Hahn and M. Niebergall *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Martin Ruck, Journal of Process Control Contents of volume 11 issue 3 (June 2001) pp 251-264 Modelling of uncertain systems with application to robust process control T.K. Gustafsson, P.M. Makila pp 265-284 On-line tuning strategy for model predictive controllers A. Al-Ghazzawi, E. Ali, A. Nouh, E. Zafiriou pp 285-297 Robust regulation of the air distribution into an arc heater M. Mattei pp 299-310 Estimation of uncertain models of activated sludge processes with interval observers M.Z. Hadj-Sadok, J.L. Gouze pp 311-319 A two degree of freedom level control K.-L. Wu, C.-C. Yu, Y.-C. Cheng pp 321-328 Iterative learning control with Smith time delay compensator for batch processes J.-X. Xu, Q. Hu, T. Heng Lee, S. Yamamoto pp 329-341 Results analysis for trust constrained real-time optimization Y. Zhang, D. Nadler, J.F. Forbes Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jprocont Journal of Process Control is an IFAC affiliated journal. For more details about IFAC Publications, visit http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ifac. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Hans Schneider, Journal: Linear Algebra and its Applications ISSN : 0024-3795 Volume : 328 Issue : 1-3 Date : 01-May-2001 pp 1-55 Condensed forms of linear control system under output feedback J. Stefanovski http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500003359 pp 57-68 Perron-Frobenius theorem for matrices with some negative entries P. Tarazaga, M. Raydan, A. Hurman http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S002437950000327X pp 69-94 On positivity of analytic matrix functions in polydisks V. Bolotnikov, L. Rodman http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500003311 pp 95-119 The four-block Adamjan-Arov-Krein problem for discrete-time systems V. Ionescu, C. Oara http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500003256 pp 121-130 Distribution results on the algebra generated by Toeplitz sequences: a finite-dimensional approach S.S. Capizzano http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500003116 pp 131-152 Monotone matrix functions of two variables M. Singh, H.L. Vasudeva http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500003086 pp 153-160 de Caen's inequality and bounds on the largest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph J.-S. Li, Y.-L. Pan http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500003074 pp 161-202 Graph theoretic methods for matrix completion problems L. Hogben http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500002998 pp 203-222 The Hadamard core of the totally nonnegative matrices A.S. Crans, S.M. Fallat, C.R. Johnson http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500003372 pp 223 Author index http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501003020 Journal: Linear Algebra and its Applications ISSN : 0024-3795 Volume : 329 Issue : 1-3 Date : 15-May-2001 pp 1-8 On the spectral radius of trees G.J. Ming, T.S. Wang http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500003360 pp 9-47 On Stein's equation, Vandermonde matrices and Fisher's information matrix of time series processes. Part I: The autoregressive moving average process A. Klein, P. Spreij http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002312 pp 49-59 Stirling matrix via Pascal matrix G.-S. Cheon, J.-S. Kim http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002348 pp 61-75 Numerical ranges, Poncelet curves, invariant measures B. Mirman, V. Borovikov, L. Ladyzhensky, R. Vinograd http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002336 pp 77-88 Bounds for determinants of meet matrices associated with incidence functions I. Korkee, P. Haukkanen http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002385 pp 89-96 On upper bound for the quantum entropy W. Hebisch, R. Olkiewicz, B. Zegarlinski http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002440 pp 97-136 The linearization of boundary eigenvalue problems and reproducing kernel in Hilbert spaces B. Curgus, A. Dijksma, T. Read http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002373 pp 137-156 Asymmetric algebraic Riccati equation: Ahomeomorphic parametrization of the set of solutions A. Ferrante, M. Pavon, S. Pinzoni http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002415 pp 157-169 n-Transitivity and the complementation property L. Livshits, G. MacDonald http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002464 pp 171-174 On the orbit of invariant subspaces of linear operators in finite-dimensional spaces (new proof of a Halmos's result) A. Faouzi http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002397 pp 175-187 Automorphisms of the Lie algebra of strictly upper triangular matrices over certain commutative rings Y. Cao http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002294 pp 189 Author index http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501003111 Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/07738 ****************************************** * * Conferences * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Douglas L. Jones, THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL ALLERTON CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND COMPUTING, October 3-5, 2001 The Thirty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing will be held from Wednesday, October 3 through Friday, October 5, 2001, at the Allerton House, the conference center of the University of Illinois. Allerton House is located twenty-six miles southwest of the Urbana- Champaign campus of the University, in a wooded area on the Sangamon River. It is part of the fifteen-hundred acre Robert Allerton Park, a complex of natural and man-made beauty designated as a National natural landmark. The Allerton Park has twenty miles of well-maintained trails and a living gallery of formal gardens, studded with sculptures collected from around the world. Papers presenting original research are solicited in the areas of communication systems, communication and computer networks, detection and estimation, information theory and error-correcting codes, source coding and data compression, multiple-access communications, queueing networks, control systems, robust and nonlinear control, adaptive control, optimization, dynamic games, large scale systems, robotics and automation, manufacturing systems, discrete event systems, intelligent control, multivariable control, computer vision based control, learning theory, neural networks, VLSI architectures for communications and signal processing, and automated highway systems. Also solicited are organized sessions for the Conference; prospective organizers should discuss their plans with the Conference co- chairs before sending a formal proposal. This year the plenary lecture will be delivered by Professor John C. Doyle of the California Institute of Technology. It is scheduled for Friday, October 5, and is entitled "Robustness and Network Complexity." Information for authors: Regular papers, suitable for presentation in twenty minutes, as well as short papers, suitable for presentation in ten minutes, are solicited. The purpose of the short paper category is to encourage authors to present preliminary results of their work. Regular papers will be published in full (subject to a maximum length of ten 8.5x11in pages) in the Conference Proceedings, while short papers will be limited to two-page summaries in the Proceedings. For regular papers, a title and a five-to-ten page extended abstract, including references and sufficient detail to permit careful reviewing, are required. For short papers, a title and a three-to-five page summary are required. Manuscripts that are submitted as regular papers but cannot be accommodated in that category will be considered in the short paper category, unless the authors indicate otherwise. Three copies of the manuscript should be mailed to: 39th Annual Allerton Conference Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois 1308 West Main Street Urbana, Illinois 61801-2307, USA in time to be received by July 6, 2001. Submissions by e-mail or fax will not be accepted. Submissions should specify the name, e-mail address, and postal address of the author who is to receive all subsequent correspondence. Authors will be notified of acceptance via e-mail by August 10, 2001, at which time they will also be sent detailed instructions for the preparation of their papers for the Proceedings. Full camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be due the last day of the Conference. Conference Co-Chairs: Douglas L. Jones and Petros G. Voulgaris Email: allerton@csl.uiuc.edu; URL: http://www.comm.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: M. Guay , The 51st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference is being held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 14-17, 2001. Vibrant, romantic and exciting, Halifax is a modern city steeped in history, with a captivating international flair. Experience maritime hospitality in the lobster capital of the world! Abstracts for the Systems and Control Engineering sessions are now being solicited. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 30th May, 2001. The Systems and Control Engineering Division is planning sessions in the following areas, but encourage abstract submissions from all areas of systems and control. * Large Scale System Optimization * Fault Detection and Isolation * Control * System Identification * Distributed Parameter Systems * Simulation The Call for Abstracts for the 51st Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers Conference (CSChE) is open at http://www.chemeng.ca/halifax2001/ For more information, please see the conference website or contact: Conference Chair Department of Chemical Engineering Dalhousie University (902) 494-3953 CSChE.Conference@Dal.Ca http://www.chemeng.ca/halifax2001/ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Jeanny Ryffel, International Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems (ICAIS) http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/icais2002/index.html Autonomous intelligent systems can be described as intelligent entities that are capable of independent action in dynamic, unpredictable environments. This is a very fast growing research area attracting the attention of many researchers around the globe. The aim of the International Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems (ICAIS) is to bring the researchers, system developers and users both from industry and academia together to exchange their views and receive the very latest information on on-going research and development. This will be carried out through a series of keynote addresses, technical sessions, workshops and exhibitions. The International Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems welcomes submissions of original and high quality papers. Accepted papers will be formally published in the ICSC Journal of Autonomous Systems Honorary General Chair: Dr. Charles R. Weisbin, JPL, NASA, USA General Chair: Professor Saeid Nahavandi, Deakin University, Australia Co-Chair (Asia): Professor T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan Co-Chair (USA): Dr. Shawn Toumodge, Raytheon Systems Co., USA Co-Chair (Europe): Tutorial/Workshop Chair: Dr. Uwe Zimmer, The ANU, Canberra, Australia Sponsors: Deakin University, Australia IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEE The Institution of Electrical Engineers IEAust The Institution of Engineers, Australia ITS Transnational, The Netherlands Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not restricted to: Evolution of Agents; Agent-Based Software Engineering; Distributed Architecture For Mobile Navigation; Autonomous Robots; Autonomous Mobile Robots; Path Planning And Obstacle Avoidance With Nonholonomic Robots; Cooperative Autonomous Robots For Hazardous Environments; Fault-Tolerant Algorithms And Architectures For Robotics; Adaptive Path Planning; Intelligent Navigation and Guidance; Design and Control of Autonomous Underwater Robots; A Control Architecture For An Autonomous Mobile Robot; Action Selection and Planning; Adaptation and Learning; Agent Architectures; Agent Communication Languages; Artificial Market Systems and Electronic Commerce; Autonomous Robots; Designing Agent Systems; Expert Assistants; Fusion of Sensory Systems; Real Time Vision; Distributed Systems; Multi-Agent Systems; Machine Learning; Intelligent Manufacturing; Integration And Coordination Of Multiple Activities; Knowledge Acquisition And Management; Modeling The Behavior Of Agents; Models Of Emotion, Motivation, Or Personality; Multi-Agent Teams; Multi-Agent Communication, Coordination, And Collaboration; Multi-Agent Simulation, Verification, And Validation Scientific program: ICAIS 2002 will include invited plenary talks, contributed sessions, invited sessions, workshops and tutorials. updated information available on ICAIS home page. Important dates: Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: Sept.15th, 2001 Delivery of Manuscripts: Nov. 30th, 2001 Conference: Feb. 12th - 15th, 2002 General Chair of ICAIS 2001: Professor Saeid Nahavandi Deakin University Waurn Ponds Campus Geelong 3217 Australia nahavand@deakin.edu.au *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Gang Tao, Call for Submission and Participation in 2001 International Symposium on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems & Control University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Thursday, June 28, 2001 (Submission deadline has been extended to May 15, 2001) For more information about the symposium please see: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~avt9c/UVA_control.html For information about planned presentations at the symposium please see: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~gt9s/prog01.html PURPOSE As researches in adaptive systems and control and that in intelligent systems and control have experienced tremendous successes in both theory and applications and are developing rapidly with emergence of new encouraging solutions to open challenging problems, this symposium is aimed at acting as an international forum for researchers in these areas to present recent results, discuss new ideas, and expand future directions. The symposium is to take place on the day after the 2001 American Control Conference to be held on Monday, June 25 - Wednesday, June 27, 2001, in Arlington, Virginia, USA. PLENARY TALK Recent Advances in Adaptive and Intelligent Control by Professor K. S. Narendra SCOPE Any topics in theory and applications of adaptive system and control. See conference website for more details. SCHEDULE Submission of extended abstracts (2 pages): before May 15, 2001 (please send your aubmission to gt9s@virginia.edu) Conference time: June 28, 2001 (Thursday, the next day after ACC2001) A proceedings of abstracts for all presentations will be distributed. Selected full papers are to be published as a monograph if interested. CONTACT Organizer and Chair: Professor Gang Tao Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA Tel: 804-924-4586 Fax: 804-924-8818 Email: gt9s@virginia.edu LOCATION City of Charlottesville, where the 1981 Joint Automatic Control Conference was held on University of Virginia's campus, is located in Central Virginia, approximately 100 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. (Arlington, Virginia) and 70 miles northwest of Richmond, Virginia. It is situated at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and near the Shenandoah National Park, with a local area population 150,000. More information on tourist attarctions can be found at: http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~gt9s/che.html http://www.virginia.edu/wlcm.html *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Abraham Haddad, CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2002 THE AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE May 8-10, 2002 William A. Egan Civic & Convention Center Anchorage Hilton Hotel Anchorage, Alaska, USA The American Control Conference (ACC) is an annual, 3-day event, presenting about 800 papers, with over 1200 participants from the measurement and automation communities. This premier conference and associated workshops focus on advances in the theory and practice associated with automatic control. Topics include: industrial applications, robotics, manufacturing, guidance and flight control, power systems, process control, measurement and sensing, identification and estimation, signal processing, modeling and advanced simulation, fault detection, model validation, multivariable control, adaptive and optimal control, robustness, intelligent control, expert systems, neural nets, control engineering education, and computer aided design. Notice that the ACC 2002 will convene in early May, 2002 instead of June, its normal time of the year. Be sure to keep these modified dates in mind as you are making your plans to submit and attend the ACC 2002. For more information about the 2002 ACC, please visit our web-sit at http://www.ent.ohiou.edu/~acc2002/. Schedule Summary September 15, 2001: Submission of Invited Session Proposals to Vice-Chair, Invited Sessions Submission of Tutorial Session Proposals to Vice-Chair, Industry and Applications Submission of Workshop Proposals to Workshop Chair Electronic Submission of Contributed Regular Papers Electronic Submission of Contributed Short Papers Nominations for Student Best Paper Award to Program Chair January 7, 2002: Author notification February 15, 2002: Final manuscript due for the Conference Proceedings The conference is sponsored by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), and topics span the scope of the 8 member societies of AACC: AIAA, AIChE , AISE , ASCE, ASME, IEEE, ISA, and SCS. The 2002 ACC is being held in cooperation with IFAC (the International Federation of Automatic Control) and SICE (the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers). *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Eduardo Gomez-Ramirez, CALL FOR PAPERS IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2001) November 19-22, 2001 Tampa, Florida, USA SPONSORS The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on Control Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems and Control PURPOSE The International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2001) is a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research, results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of control and intelligent systems. It aims to strengthen relations between industry, research laboratories, and universities. ISC 2001 will include keynote addresses, contributed papers, and tutorials. The full papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, and originality. SCOPE Topics will include (broad scope within) but are not limited to: Intelligent and Hybrid Control Systems System Identification, Optimization and Automation Intelligent Data Systems and Computing Applications SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submit your paper via our Web site at http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2001/tampa/submit-345.htm. Files larger than 2MB must be submitted to our FTP site at www.actapress.com (user name: actaftp; password: journals). If you submit a paper to our FTP site, please send a notification e-mail with your contact information to calgary@iasted.com. All submissions should be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Postscript (.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format. The IASTED Secretariat must receive your paper by July 15, 2001. Do not send hard copies of your paper. Receipt of paper submissions will be confirmed by e-mail. Notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail by August 15, 2001. Registration payments and final manuscripts are due by September 15, 2001. Late registration fees or paper submissions received after that date will result in the papers being excluded from the conference proceedings. Please send final manuscripts via the Web or FTP site using the same procedure as described above. TUTORIALS Proposals for half-day tutorials (three hours) should be submitted online by July 15, 2001, via the following Web site address: http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2001/tampa/tutorialsubmit-345.htm A tutorial proposal should clearly indicate the topic, background knowledge expected of the participants, objectives, time allocations for the major course topics, and the qualifications of the instructor(s). SPECIAL SESSIONS Persons wishing to organize a special session should submit a proposal to the IASTED Secretariat by July 15, 2001. Proposals should include a minimum of five papers, a session title, a list of the topics covered, and qualifications of the session organizer(s). The name of the session organizer will appear in the program and proceedings, provided five papers are presented. Special session proposals should be submitted online at the following address: http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2001/tampa/sessionsubmit-345.htm. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submissions due July 15, 2001 Notification of acceptance August 15, 2001 Registration, full payment, and final papers due September 15, 2001 For more information or to be placed on our mailing list, please contact: IASTED Secretariat - ISC 2001 E-mail: calgary@iasted.com Web Site: http://www.iasted.com *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Jeanny Ryffel, CALL FOR PAPERS: NEURO-FUZZY 2002 During the past decade, paradigms and benefits from neuro fuzzy systems have been growing tremendously. Today, not only does NF solve scientific problems, but its applications are also appearing in our daily lives. In order to discuss the state of the art in NF and the future of these exciting topics; we are honored to invite you to Neuro-Fuzzy 2002. We believe it will be an excellent opportunity to share our knowledge on NF and contribute to its development in this century. This major international conference will be held in a very enjoyable location: Havana, the Capital of Cuba, where we hope you will experience the famous Cuban hospitality. Organizing Committee Honorary Chair: Prof. Hans-Juergen Zimmermann, Germany. General Chair : Hans-Heinrich Bothe, Denmark Special Scientific Events Chair: Alberto Ochoa,Cuba Scientific Program Chair : Hans Hellendoorn, The Netherlands Scientific Program Co-Chair: Pedro González Lanza,Cuba Local Committee Chair: Orestes Llanes-Santiago, Cuba Local Committee Co-Chair: Abelardo del Pozo Quintero, Cuba Publication Chair: Antonio Di Nola, Italy Publication Committee Co-Chair: Vincenzo Loia,Italy Administration and Finance:ITS Transnational. Sponsored/supported by: IFSA: International Fuzzy Systems Association Technical University of Denmark ISPJAE: Instituto Superior Politecnico Jose Antonio Echeverria ICIMAF: Instituto de Cibernetica, Matematica y Fisica UCLV: Universidad de Las Villas UO: Universidad de Oriente RAC: Red de Automatica de Cuba Ministerio de Educacion Superior de la Republica de Cuba Ministerio de la Informatica y las Comunicaciones de la Republica de Cuba Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Medio Ambiente de la Republica de Cuba. ICSC/NAISO Canada/The Netherlands Topics suggested (not limited to): 1.Advanced Neuro and Fuzzy Paradigms 2.Data Granulation and Fuzzy Rule Extraction 3.Advanced Training Algorithms 4.Evolutionary Computation (GA, GP, ET) and Graphical Models 5.Chaotic Behavior and Fractals 6.Applications in signal processing, control, robotics, etc. Of particular interest are applications from the following fields: Sound and image processing, pattern recognition, image understanding, feature binding, perception, sensor fusion, controller design, state observation, motor control, mobile robotics, autonomous navigation, deliberation and planning, active anchoring, gain-scheduling, fault detection, hardware solutions, data mining, financing, e-commerce. Suggestions for workshops, panel sessions, invited/special sessions, tutorials are welcome. Please contact respective member of the organizing committee or planning@icsc.ab.ca IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: May 31, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2001 Delivery of Final Manuscripts: October 31, 2001 Conference NF'2002: January 16/19, 2002 Please visit the conference web site for updates and more details. http://www.icsc-naiso.org/nf2002/nf2002.html *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Sophie Curwen, ON-LINE CONFERENCE on "Active Control Of Sound And Vibration" http://www.iee.org.uk/Control/Inter-Active2001/ CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS This is the second in the series of INTER-ACTIVE conferences, built on the success of the first event held in 1999. Inter-Active 2001 will report on new research findings in the area of active sound and vibration control through exploiting the available technological advances of electronic communication provided by the Internet. This exciting mode of communication will enable participants from all over the world to interact with one another from the comfort of their own office/desk. The conference will cover topics on analysis, design and implementation methodologies; new applications; as well as practical experiences with industrial applications of active sound and vibration control. For a list of general topics please visit the website. SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS Prospective authors are invited to submit a summary/abstract of their paper of approximately 3-4 A4 sides in length. The summary should be in MS Word or .pdf format. Please email your abstract to Michelle Swift: mswift@iee.org.uk by 31 May 2001. To register your interest and to find more detailed information on Inter- Active 2001, please click here: http://www.iee.org.uk/Control/Inter-Active2001/ ****************************************** * * End of Eletter 153 * * ****************************************** From Lamnabhi@lss.supelec.fr Thu May 3 07:08:36 2001 Received: from courrier.lss.supelec.fr (courrier.lss.supelec.fr [160.228.200.20]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10493 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 07:08:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [160.228.202.100] (sys00.lss.supelec.fr [160.228.202.100]) by courrier.lss.supelec.fr (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f43ATkf08923; Thu, 3 May 2001 12:29:46 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: lamnabhi@courrier.lss.supelec.fr (Unverified) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:34:18 +0200 To: absil@montefiore.ulg.ac.be, dirk.aeyels@rug.ac.be, agrachev@sissa.it, dalonso@criba.edu.ar, altafini@math.kth.se, edo@wfw.wtb.tue.nl, earanda@mail.cinvestav.mx, a.astolfi@ic.ac.uk, vayala@socompa.ucn.cl, migbotto@dem.ist.utl.pt, bacciotti@polito.it, rbaheti@nsf.gov, abanos@dif.um.es, baras@isr.umd.edu, abarreiro@uvigo.es, bastin@csam.ucl.ac.be, bicchi@ing.unipi.it, blanken@mailhost.math.utwente.nl, Pierre-Alexandre.Bliman@inria.fr, cbonivento@deis.unibo.it, boscain@sissa.it, jbroe@physik3.gwdg.de, ChrisByrnes@seas.wustl.edu, ceragiol@calvino.polito.it, charlotg@topolog.u-bourgogne.fr, sontag@hilbert.rutgers.edu, ychitour01@cybercable.fr, chou@caor.ensmp.fr, jesus@mailhost.math.utwente.nl, colaneri@elet.polimi.it, paolo@ian.ge.cnr.it, colonius@math.uni-augsburg.de, contice@sssup.it, mbdamico@criba.edu.ar, andrea@caor.ensmp.fr, dedona@montefiore.ulg.ac.be, depersis@zach.wustl.edu, rdesan@dis.uniroma1.it, ddomitilla@hotmail.com, ellouze@caor.ensmp.fr, ludovic.faubourg@sophia.inria.fr, feki@loria.fr, T.Fliegner@maths.bath.ac.uk, frankows@viab.ufrmd.dauphine.fr, fuji@robot.kuass.kyoto-u.ac.jp, denis.gillet@epfl.ch, gruene@math.uni-frankfurt.de, mguerra@iseg.utl.pt, Mohamed.Hammami@fss.rnu.tn, simon.hecker@gmx.de, gh17@sun.engg.le.ac.uk, Christian.Hintz@ei.tum.de, h.j.c.huijberts@qmw.ac.uk, jacquet@mat.ua.pt, jakubczy@panim.impan.gov.pl, fjean@ensta.fr, Cedric.Join@cran.u-nancy.fr, Philippe.Jouan@univ-rouen.fr, g.kaliora@ic.ac.uk, mkelemen@ele.etsmtl.ca, kellett@seidel.ece.ucsb.edu, kiss@cas.ensmp.fr, kohlraus@Rcs1.urz.tu-dresden.de, a.jafari@sheffield.ac.uk, mathmod@bmstu.ru, levaggi@dima.unige.it, loewis@erss11.et.tu-dresden.de, alanl@erss11.et.tu-dresden.de, malrait@cas.ensmp.fr, delfim@mat.ua.pt, lmarconi@deis.unibo.it, joerg.mareczek@ei.tum.de, marigo@sissa.it, Marino@ing.uniroma2.it, martin@cas.ensmp.fr, matignon@tsi.enst.fr, r.e.mills@sheffield.ac.uk, r.j.mondragon@qmw.ac.uk, montseny@mirza.laas.fr, lmoreau@ensmain.rug.ac.be, moya@lss.supelec.fr, mulhaupt@cas.ensmp.fr, h.nijmeijer@tue.nl, Nkwawo@iutv.univ-paris13.fr, pallott@piaggio.ccii.unipi.it, elena.panteley@mageos.com, epaw@cksr.ac.bialystok.pl, mpelleti@u-bourgogne.fr, pengov@caor.ensmp.fr, paulo@lac.usp.br, petit@cas.ensmp.fr, piccoli@sissa.it, pisano@diee.unica.it, pomet@sophia.inria.fr, pommaret@cermics.enpc.fr, Richard.Pothin@ircyn.ec-nantes.fr, praly@cas.ensmp.fr, prieur@dptmaths.ens-cachan.fr, quadrat@cermics.enpc.fr, cesareo@uvigo.es, rantzer@control.lth.se, Martin.Rau@ei.tum.de, eugenio@mat.ua.pt, Lionel.Rosier@math.u-psud.fr, rouchon@cas.ensmp.fr, rudolph@erss11.et.tu-dresden.de, sachkov@sissa.it, asaez@wamba.cpd.uva.es, santosuosso@ing.uniroma2.it, ansar@mat.ua.pt, j.c.scarratt@sheffield.ac.uk, j.m.a.scherpen@its.tudelft.nl, kurt@regpro.mechatronik.uni-linz.ac.at, schneider@wias-berlin.de, g.schreier@ieee.org, r.sepulchre@ulg.ac.be, serrani@ee.unian.it, anton@mip.sdu.dk, fleite@mat.uc.pt, hsira@mail.cinvestav.mx, sontag@hilbert.rutgers.edu, spadini@poincare.dma.unifi.it, mps@mecheng.strath.ac.uk, stefani@dma.unifi.it, sussmann@math.rutgers.edu, atesi@dsi.unifi.it, trelat@topolog.u-bourgogne.fr, vdboom@control-lab.et.tudelft.nl, a.j.vanderschaft@math.utwente.nl, r.vepa@qmw.ac.uk, p.vettori@dei.unipd.it, fabian@math.uni-bremen.de, dirk@wollherr.de, pzezza@cce.unifi.it, zhang@irisa.fr, A.Zinober@sheffield.ac.uk From: Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue Subject: Fwd: NACO2 Workshop Automotive Control, Lund, May 18-19 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1223236108==_ma============" Status: O --============_-1223236108==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0 >Sender: rolfj@control.lth.se >Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:01:36 +0200 >From: "Dr. Rolf Johansson" >Organization: Lund University >X-Accept-Language: en >To: >Subject: NACO2 Workshop Automotive Control, Lund, May 18-19 > >Dear Colleagues, > >This message is to inform you on our forthcoming symposium >"NACO2 Workshop on Automotive Control" in Lund, May 18-19. > >http://www.control.lth.se/cgi-bin/= NACO2 >http://www.con= trol.lth.se/seminars/NACO2/Naco2Workshop.html > >This symposium is arranged by our research network >"Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (NACO2)" >http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/naco2/ >but is open to other participants. > >Sincerely > >Rolf Johansson >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dr. Rolf Johansson > Professor, Control Science > > Dept. of Automatic Control URL: >http://www.control.lth.se/ > Lund Institute of Technology > Lund University Phone: +46 46 222 8791 > P.O. Box 118 Fax: +46 46 138118 > S-221 00 Lund, Sweden Email: Rolf.Johansson@control.lth.se >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Network (NACO 2) > >Workshop on Automotive Control > >Lund, May 18-19 , 2001 > ><> > ><> > ><>Objectives. ><>Program. ><>Contact address. ><>Location. ><>Accomodation. ><>Abstracts >Objectives: > >To present and discuss the application of nonlinear and adaptive >control in automotive application. > > ><>Go Up >Program: > >Friday May 18 >Saturday May 19 >9.00-9.15 Welcome and Introduction > Rolf Johansson, Anders Rantzer & Carlos Canudas-de= -Wit >9.00-10.30 Modeling >-Hilding Elmqvist (Dynasim) "Automotive Modeling using Modelica" >-G. Golo, A.J. van der Schaft, P.C. Breedveld (Twente) and B.M. >Maschke "Hamiltonian formulation of bond graphs" >9.15-1015 Invited Lecture "Active control with preview for >off-road vehicles" > J. Karl Hedrick and Mark A. Donahue, UC Berkeley > >10.15- 10.30 Coffee break >10.30- 10.45 Coffee break >10.30-12.00 Vehicle Dynamics >-Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge "Active suspension problem >and nonlinear control" > -S. Bittanti, S.M. Savaresi, E. Valtolina, Politecnico di Milano, >A.Visconti (Ferrari S.p.A.) "A multi-device system for road vehicles >yaw control" >-Naomi Leonard (Princeton), E. Fiorelli and T. Smith "Coordinated >Control of Autonomous Vehicle Groups Using Artificial Potentials" >10.45-12.15 Vehicle Dynamics and Control >-Jens Kalkk=FChl, Jens L=FCdemann (Daimler Chrysler), Tor Arne Johansen >(NTNU) "Improving Transients in Nonlinear Adaptive Backstepping >Using Multiple-Model Based Resetting Strategies" >-Carlos Canudas de Wit (CNRS LAG) " Modeling and estimation of >tire/road friction" >12.00-13.15 Lunch >12.15-13.15 Lunch >13.30- 15.00 Combustion Engine Control >-P Tunest=E5l, J-O Olsson, Bengt Johansson (Lund University)" Closing >the loop on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) " >-Elbert Hendricks (DTU) "Nonlinear Observer Control of Internal >Combustion Engines" >13.30- 15.00 Combustion Engine Control >-Giovanni Fiengo, Luigi Glielmo, and Stefania Santini (Uni Napoli), >"Modeling the Dynamic Behavior of Three-Way Catalytic Converters >for Exhaust Emission Control and On-Board Diagnosis" >-Lars Nielsen, Lars Eriksson, Per Andersson, Raymond Reinmann >(Link=F6ping) "A new variable-size engine - controls and >possibilities" >15.00-15.15 Coffee break >15.00-15.30 Coffee break > 15.30-17.00 NACO-2 Network meeting Lab visit Dept Automatic >Control Lab visit Div Combustion Eng >15.15-17:30 Vehicle Dynamics >-William Pasillas-L=E9pine (LSS CNRS-Sup=E9lec), E. Fenaux (PSA) and F. >Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue (LSS CNRS-Sup=E9lec) "Observing the state of a >vehicle" >-J. Bengtsson, R. Johansson (Lund), Agneta Sj=F6gren (Volvo) >"Driver Models and Adaptive Cruise Control" >18.00 Bus for banquet from LTH via Bishop Palace and Grand Hotel >19.00 Banquet Trolleholm Castle > >17.30 Closing > > ><>Go Up >Contact address: > >For additional information, get in touch with: > >Rolf Johansson, Anders Rantzer, Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, Eva Schildt >Dept. Automatic Control, PO Box 118, Lund >University, SE-22100 Lund >Phone: (+46) 46 222 8780 >Fax: (+46) 46 138118 >E-mail: Rolf.Johansson@control.lth.se, >Anders.Rantzer@control.lth.se, Canudas@lag.ensieg.inpg.fr, >Eva.Schildt@control.lth.se > >Carlos Canudas-de-Wit >Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble >BP. 46, 38 402, ST. Martin d'H=E8res, France >Tel. + (4).76.82.63.80 >Fax + (4).76.82.63.88 >e-mail:canudas@lag.ensieg.inpg.fr >http://www-lag.ensieg.inpg.fr/canudas/ ><>Go Up >Location: > >The workshop will take place at the Bishop's Palace, Biskopsgatan >1, Lund (map of central >Lund). > > ><>Go Up >Accomodation: > >Hotel reservations are made on an individual basis. Pre-reservations >at Grand Hotel are accessible until April 22 referring to NACO/CS >511. Further options are available on our list of hotels in Lund. >May is a busy month in Lund, so please make reservations well in >advance. > > > >Abstracts: >Karl Hedrick, Berkeley (plenary lecture) > > Sergio Bittanti, Milano > Carlos Canudas de Wit, Grenoble > Hilding Elmqvist, Dynasim, Lund > Luigi Glielmo, Naples > Elbert Hendricks, Copenhagen > Bengt Johansson, Lund > Jens Kalkk=FChl, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart > Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Paris > Lars Nielsen, Link=F6ping > Naomi Leonard, Princeton > Arjan van der Schaft, Twente > Malcolm Smith, Cambridge > > >Karl Hedrick and Mark A. Donahue (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA): >khedrick@newton.Berkeley.EDU >"Active control with preview for off-road vehicles" > >Malcolm C. Smith (University of Cambridge, UK, mcs@eng.cam.ac.uk) >and Fu-Cheng Wang >"Active and Passive Suspension Control for Vehicle Dive and Squat" > >Performance capabilities of passive and active vehicle suspension >systems will be examined from a mechanical networks point of view. >It is known that the reduction of effects of road disturbances is a >conflicting requirement with the reduction of effects of inertial >loads in a quarter-car model when passive control is used, but not >with active control of suitable structure. The extension of these >ideas to a half-car trailing-arm model will be considered. It will >be shown that the choice of suspension geometry does not remove the >basic trade-offs for passive suspensions. An active control >structure to allow the road and load transmission paths to be >optimised independently will be presented. > >Dr. Malcolm C. Smith, >Department of Engineering, >University of Cambridge, >Trumpington Street, >Cambridge CB2 1PZ, >U.K. >Tel: 01223 332745 >Fax: 01223 332662 >e-mail: mcs@eng.cam.ac.uk > > >S. Bittanti (bittanti@elet.polimi.it), S.M. Savaresi, E. Valtolina >(Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione) >A.Visconti (Ferrari S.p.A., Divisione Innovazione) >"A multi-device system for road vehicles yaw control" > >Abstract. The handling, safety and comfort of the road vehicles must >be always improved. In recent years, many researchers, from both >university and industry, have >addressed complicated modelling and control problems arising in >recent years. Their works are described in a large numbers of >papers. In this preliminary work we >propose a framework for the integration of different devices which >can be used to control the vehicle lateral dynamic. A quick overview >on previous work on the topic >is also given. > >Sergio M. Savaresi >Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione >Piazza L. da Vinci, 32, 20133 MILANO, ITALY. >Phone: +39.02.2399.3545 (+39.335.8185344) >Fax: +39.02.2399.3412 >e-mail: savaresi@elet.polimi.it > > >Naomi Leonard (Princeton University, naomi@Princeton.EDU), Edward >Fiorelli and Troy Smith: >"Coordinated Control of Autonomous Vehicle Groups Using Artificial Potentia= ls" > > >P Tunest=E5l, J-O Olsson, Bengt Johansson (Div. Combustion Engines, >Lund Inst Technology, Lund Unversity, Bengt.Johansson@vok.lth.se ) >"Closing the loop on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) > > >Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI), is a novel and very >promising combustion concept. Using premixed homogeneous, lean >mixtures, the gas temperature in the cylinder can be kept low enough >during combustion to avoid formation of NOX. By using high >compression ratio and controlling the load without using a throttle, >thermal efficiency comparable to Diesel CI operation can be achieved. > >Since fuel and air are premixed and supposed to self ignite due to >compression, the ignition angle is determined by inlet conditions >and is very sensitive to changes in operating conditions. Closed >loop control of ignition timing is essential for stable operation of >an HCCI engine. One powerful source of feedback is cylinder pressure >measurements, sampled at high speed on a crank angle basis. A means >of controlling the conditions governing auto ignition is also >necessary, e.g. intake temperature, fuel composition, compression >ratio, valve timing or EGR. > >In the present study a six-cylinder diesel engine, converted to >HCCI, is operated with pre-heated inlet air and dual fuel. The >mixture is brought to auto-ignition at correct crank angle by >changing the fuel composition or inlet temperature. Two fuels with >big differences in ignition characteristics, i.e. octane rating, are >used to control ignition timing under closed-loop operation. The >fuels used are different combinations of n-heptane, iso-octane, >ethanol and regular RON 98 octane gasoline. The combustion is >monitored using in cylinder pressure sensors, sampled at 900 samples >per revolution, which corresponds to 30 kS/s and cylinder at 2000 >rpm. > >The measured cylinder pressure is used for calculating the rate of >heat release and torque contribution for each cycle. The heat >release profile is used for determining the angle of 50% cumulative >heat release, which is the quantitative measure characterizing >ignition angle. The control task is solved by implementing two PID >controllers for each cylinder. One controls the ignition angle, by >adjusting the fuel composition, the other controls load by adjusting >the total amount of fuel. > >The control system is tuned and verified experimentally. Step >changes in set point of ignition angle shows a typical response time >of 15 cycles. Two factors limit the closed-loop bandwidth - time >delay from measured cylinder pressure to physical change in >injection parameters and the uncertainty of the ignition-timing >sensitivity to fuel composition. The observed time delay is a result >of the specific setup of communications between the controlling PC >and the A/D-converter and fuel actuator. > >This system is the first to demonstrate closed-loop control of HCCI >combustion. It shows the potential of closed-loop control of HCCI, >but the performance is not yet good enough for automotive >applications. > > >Elbert Hendricks (DTU Copenhagen) >"Nonlinear Observer Control of Internal Combustion Engines" > >Abstract >The increased requirements of engine control systems with respect to >accuracy, complexity, functionality and emission levels have lead to >a new generation of control strategies. In contrast to earlier >systems, these control systems are based on dynamic physical engine >models (Mean Value Engine Models) and nonlinear estimation (Extended >Kalman Filters). In fact the new third generation of Engine Control >Units (ECUs) is just going into production and represents the first >mass market application of nonlinear observers. > >The purpose of this paper is to review the design principles behind >the newest ECUs. An attempt will also be made to indicate the >general direction of development of the newest systems and possible >new application for this methodology. > > >Hilding Elmqvist: Elmqvist@Dynasim.se Hilding.Elmqvist@dynasim.se >"Automotive Modeling using Modelica" > > >G. Golo, A.J. van der Schaft, P.C. Breedveld (Twente) and B.M. Maschke. >"Hamiltonian formulation of bond graphs" >(ps/pdf) > >Bond graph theory ([10], [1]) is a powerful and elegant way of >physical system modelling. This technique is graphically oriented >and its outcome, the bond graph model, represents a multiport >system involving energy ows [10]. This approach supports one of the >most important concepts in physical system theory, the concept of >what Paynter calls reticulation and Kron tearing. In other words, >through the use of bond graphs we can reduce the modelling effort to >the modelling of component pieces and then assembling the pieces, >having been tested individually, into a system model [3]. > >Once the bond graph model is obtained, we can start with its >analysis and the derivation of equations. The tool used for these >purposes is causal analysis. However, with respect to the >preparation for numerical simulation, the causal analysis is prone >to generate a redundant set of equations. The main reason for this, >as has often been observed, is an unadequate description of >junction structure [7, 8, 6]. The junction structure is the topology >of energy ows, which displays the invariants of the physical system >according to Tellegen's and Kirchhoff's theorems for networks, but >corresponds to an additional abstraction level [9]. > > >Jens Kalkk=FChl, Jens L=FCdemann (DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology) >Tor Arne Johansen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, >Trondheim, Norway) >"Improving Transients in Nonlinear Adaptive Backstepping Using >Multiple-Model Based Resetting Strategies" > > Abstract >The transient performance of adaptive controllers of the >backstepping type is essentially conditioned by the initial >parameter estimation error and the choice of a set of design >parameters such as controller gain adaptation gain and gain of the >nonlinear damping. There is a number of applications where >increasing those gains is impossible due to the non-robustness of >the approach with respect to sampled implementation and unmodelled >dynamics. Instead we propose the use of a multiple model based >observer/estimator resetting strategy. This strategy will reset the >parameter estimate of the Lyapunov based nonlinear adaptive >controller whenever this leads to an improvement of the transients. >In adaptive output tracking this is combined with asimultaneous >reset of the reference signal. The advantage is that transient >performance can be improved without increasing the gain while >performance of the controller with respect to disturbances can be >considerably improved. The benefits of the approach are demonstrated >by applying it to an automotive wheel slip control problem. > > >Carlos Canudas de Wit (Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, >canudas@lag.ensieg.inpg.fr) >" Modeling and estimation of tire/road friction" > >In this paper we present a recently derived dynamic friction force >model for road/tire interaction for wheeled ground vehicles. The >model is based on a similar dynamic friction model for contact >developed previously for contact-point friction problems, called the >LuGre model. We show that the dynamic LuGre friction model is able >to accurately capture velocity and road/surface dependence of the >tire friction force. > These models are also relevant to estimate changes in the >tire/road characteristics throughout a general class of nonlinear >observers. Tire force information is relevant to problems like: >optimization of Anti-look brake systems (ABS) and traction system, >diagnostic of the road friction conditions, etc. We also review >several formulations leading to alternative observers structures. >We conclude the paper by presenting some results on time-optimal >breaking. This work result from a collaboration with X. Claeys (LAG) >, P. Tsiotras from the School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia >Institute of Technology, and Roberto Horowitz of the Department of >Mechanical Engineering, University of California. > > >Giovanni Fiengo, Luigi Glielmo, and Stefania Santini >"Modeling the Dynamic Behavior of Three-Way Catalytic Converters >for Exhaust Emission Control and On-Board Diagnosis" > >Abstract >Nowadays, every new gasoline car sold in USA, Japan and Europe is >equipped with a three-way catalytic converter (TWC) in combination >with a fuel control system to reduce the pollutant in the exhaust >emissions. The converter enables the removal of carbon monoxide, >oxides of nitrogen and hydrocarbons. Actually, to let the catalytic >reactions proceed simultaneously, the TWC has to be sufficiently >`hot' and the exhaust gas composition has to be kept close to the >stoichiometric point by a fuel control system which controls the >air-to-fuel ratio fed to the engine. Future stricter regulations >will require a new generation of sophisticated controllers for >the on - line optimization of engine fueling strategies in every >driving conditions, such as, for example, fast accelerations, >decelerations, cold start and TWC warm-up. The proper design of >these controllers requires good fidelity dynamic models of the >engine as well as of the catalyst. Many detailed physics- and >chemistry-based TWC models were developed in this years. While >these model seem to be useful for catalyst design, they do not seem >suitable for use in the control field where reduced order models >have to be employed. In this perspective, in this work we present >some dynamical models of TWC, different for accuracy and >computational complexity and suitable for the design and test of >control strategies. The developed models are identified and >validated on experimental data. In addition to its utility in >controller design, a dynamic TWC model may be useful in the >development of diagnosis strategies. The government regulations >(On-board diagnosis, OBD II), in USA and Europe, impose to monitor >vehicles emissions and alert the driver if the exhaust >after-treatment system is not properly working. To meet these >specifications, sophisticated diagnosis algorithms have to be >developed. Here we present a model-based stochastic approach for >fault detection strategy with application to automotive exhaust >after-treatment system in order to fulfill the above mentioned OBD >II. The algorithm, based on a relatively simple control-oriented >models of the three-way catalytic converter and the oxygen sensor, >is suitable for real time applications. The overall strategy has >been tuned and validated on the basis of experimental data. > > >Lars Nielsen, Lars Eriksson, Per Andersson, Raymond Reinmann >"A new variable-size engine - controls and possibilities" > >Abstract: >Technical development in and introduction of control systems and on >board computers for engines have played a crucial role in the >development of more efficient and environmental friendly cars. >However clever the designers are, there are physical laws that >impose restrictions and limit the range possible solutions. In the >end, the result is a compromise. In a gasoline engine one such >compromize is made up of the compression ratio, which will be >further explained below. Another compromize which affects the >customer is the size of the engine. A small engine give good fuel >economy but poor driving performance and a big engine gives a good >performance but increases the fuel consumption. The solution to >these two seemingly different compromizes are actually tied together. > >A key contribution of Nicholas August Otto was that he found out >that by compressing the air and fuel mixture prior to combustion the >efficiency increases. It is easy to show that for an ideal "Otto" >cycle the theoretical efficiency is $\eta=3D1-1/r_c^{\gamma-1}$, where >$r_c$ is the compression ratio. Current engines have a compression >ratio around 10, and the question is why is it not 100, since higher >compression ratio give higher efficiency? The answer is auto >ignition of the air and fuel mixture. The phenomenon is also called >knock. Autoignition occurs when the air and fuel mixture has been >exposed to high temperatures for a certain time. The link between >temperature and compression ratio is easy to see by considering an >isentropic compression process: $T_{end}=3DT_{initial} >r_c^{\gamma-1}$, where $T_{inital}$ is the inital temperature and >$T_{end}$ is the temperature at the end of the compression. By >increasing the compression the temperature at the end of compression >will be increased. For current fuels the trade off for the engine >designs typically result in compression ratios of about 10. > >The new engine presented, the Saab SVC engine, has variable >compression i.e. variable size. This alone adds a new control input, >that affects almost every other aspect of engine control. The engine >is also equipped with a compressor for supercharging, with some >additional associated control inputs. The research is in its early >stages, but some control problems will be discussed and some >preliminary experimental results will be presented. > > >William Pasillas-L=E9pine (LSS CNRS-Sup=E9lec), E. Fenaux (PSA) and F. >Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue (, LSS CNRS-Sup=E9lec). >Title : "Observing the state of a vehicle". > >Abstract >We will consider the problem of reconstructing the dynamics of a >vehicle (longitudinal velocity, side-slip angle, tire forces, etc.) >from measurements available on a standard vehicle (rotational wheel >velocities, yaw rate, lateral acceleration, brake pressures, >steering wheel angle, etc.). Our approach is based on nonlinear >observers. The results that will be presented have been obtained >within the 'Global Chassis Control (CGC)' project, initiated by E. >Fenaux and now directed by V. Abadie. Our research has been >completely supported by the French company Peugeot Citro=EBn >Automobiles S.A. > > >J. Bengtsson, R. Johansson (Lund University), Agneta Sj=F6gren (Volvo >Technical Development) >"Driver Models and Adaptive Cruise Control" > >Abstract >In the last years, many vehicle manufacturers have introduced >advance driver support in some of their automobiles. One of those >new features is Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), which extends the >conventional cruise control system to control of relative speed and >distance to other vehicles. In order to design an ACC controller it >is suitable to have a model on drivers' behavior. Our approach to >find dynamical models of the drivers' behavior was to use system >identification. Basic data analysis was made by means of system >identification methodology, and several models of drivers' >longitudinal behavior are proposed, including both linear regression >models and subspace based models. Detection when a driver is >changing his behavior in various situations to a deviant behavior is >useful. To that purpose a GARCH model was used to model the driver >in arousal situations, where the driver changes behavior, is >proposed. > > > > > -- =46rancoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Address: LSS, CNRS SUPELEC 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, FRANCE Phone : 33 1 69 85 17 27 =46ax : 33 1 69 85 17 65 e-mail: lamnabhi@lss.supelec.fr http://www.supelec.fr/lss/perso/lamnabhi http://www.supelec.fr/lss/NCN (Nonlinear Control Network) --============_-1223236108==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Fwd: NACO2 Workshop Automotive Control, Lund, May 18-1

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Dear Colleagues,

This message is to inform you on our forthcoming symposium

"NACO2 Workshop on Automotive Control" in Lund, May 18-19.

http://www.control.lth.se/cgi-bin/NACO2
http://www.control.lth.se/seminars/NACO2/Naco2Workshop.html

This symposium is arranged by our research network
"Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (NACO2)" http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/naco2/
but is open to other participants.

Sincerely

Rolf Johansson

-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Rolf Johansson Professor, Control Science Dept. of Automatic Control URL: http://www.control.lth.se/ Lund Institute of Technology Lund University Phone: +46 46 222 8791 P.O. Box 118 =46ax: +46 46 138118 S-221 00 Lund, Sweden Email: Rolf.Johansson@control.lth.se ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Network (NACO 2)

Workshop on Automotive Control

Lund, May 18-19 , 2001

Objectives.
Program.
Contact address.
Location.
Accomodation.
Abstracts

Objectives:

To present and discuss the application of nonlinear and adaptive control in automotive application.

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Program:

Friday May 18

Saturday May 19

9.00-9.15 Welcome and Introduction
Rolf Johansson, Anders Rantzer & Carlos Canudas-de-Wit

9.00-10.30 Modeling
-Hilding Elmqvist (Dynasim) "Automotive Modeling using Modelica"
-G. Golo, A.J. van der Schaft, P.C. Breedveld (Twente) and B.M. Maschke "Hamiltonian formulation of bond graphs"

9.15-1015 Invited Lecture "Active control with preview for off-road vehicles"

J. Karl Hedrick and Mark A. Donahue, UC Berkeley

10.15- 10.30 Coffee break

10.30- 10.45 Coffee break

10.30-12.00 Vehicle Dynamics
-Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge "Active suspension problem and nonlinear control"
-S. Bittanti, S.M. Savaresi, E. Valtolina, Politecnico di Milano, A.Visconti (Ferrari S.p.A.) "A multi-device system for road vehicles yaw control"
-Naomi Leonard (Princeton), E. Fiorelli and T. Smith "Coordinated Control of Autonomous Vehicle Groups Using Artificial Potentials"

10.45-12.15 Vehicle Dynamics and Control
-Jens Kalkk=FChl, Jens L=FCdemann (Daimler Chrysler), Tor Arne Johansen (NTNU) "Improving Transients in Nonlinear Adaptive Backstepping Using Multiple-Model Based Resetting Strategies"
-Carlos Canudas de Wit (CNRS LAG) " Modeling and estimation of tire/road friction"

12.00-13.15 Lunch

12.15-13.15 Lunch

13.30- 15.00 Combustion Engine Control
-P Tunest=E5l, J-O Olsson, Bengt Johansson (Lund University)" Closing the loop on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) "
-Elbert Hendricks (DTU) "Nonlinear Observer Control of Internal Combustion Engines"

13.30- 15.00 Combustion Engine Control
-Giovanni Fiengo, Luigi Glielmo, and Stefania Santini (Uni Napoli), "Modeling the Dynamic Behavior of Three-Way Catalytic Converters for Exhaust Emission Control and On-Board Diagnosis"
-Lars Nielsen, Lars Eriksson, Per Andersson, Raymond Reinmann (Link=F6ping) "A new variable-size engine - controls and possibilities"

15.00-15.15 Coffee break

15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.00 NACO-2 Network meeting Lab visit Dept Automatic Control Lab visit Div Combustion Eng

15.15-17:30 Vehicle Dynamics
-William Pasillas-L=E9pine (LSS CNRS-Sup=E9lec), E. Fenaux (PSA) and =46. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue (LSS CNRS-Sup=E9lec) "Observing the state of a vehicle"

-J. Bengtsson, R. Johansson (Lund), Agneta Sj=F6gren (Volvo)
"Driver Models and Adaptive Cruise Control"

18.00 Bus for banquet from LTH via Bishop Palace and Grand Hotel
19.00 Banquet Trolleholm Castle

17.30 Closing

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Contact address:

For additional information, get in touch with:

Rolf Johansson, Anders Rantzer, Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, Eva Schildt

Dept. Automatic Control, PO Box 118, Lund University, SE-22100 Lund

Phone: (+46) 46 222 8780
Fax: (+46) 46 138118

E-mail: Rolf.Johansson@control.lth.se, Anders.Rantzer@control.lth.se, Canudas@lag.ensieg.inpg.fr, Eva.Schildt@control.lth.se

Carlos Canudas-de-Wit

Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble

BP. 46, 38 402, ST. Martin d'H=E8res, =46rance
Tel. + (4).76.82.63.80
Fax + (4).76.82.63.88
e-mail:canudas@lag.ensieg.inpg.fr
http://www-lag.ensieg.inpg.fr/canudas/

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Location:

The workshop will take place at the Bishop's Palace, Biskopsgatan 1, Lund (map of central Lund).

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Accomodation:

Hotel reservations are made on an individual basis. Pre-reservations at Grand Hotel are accessible until April 22 referring to NACO/CS 511. Further options are available on our list of hotels in Lund. May is a busy month in Lund, so please make reservations well in advance.

Abstracts:

Karl Hedrick, Berkeley (plenary lecture)

    Sergio Bittanti, Milano
    Carlos Canudas de Wit, Grenoble
    Hilding Elmqvist, Dynasim, Lund
    Luigi Glielmo, Naples
    Elbert Hendricks, Copenhagen
    Bengt Johansson, Lund
    Jens Kalkk=FChl, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart
    Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Paris
    Lars Nielsen, Link=F6ping
    Naomi Leonard, Princeton
    Arjan van der Schaft, Twente
    Malcolm Smith, Cambridge

Karl Hedrick and Mark A. Donahue (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA): khedrick@newton.Berkeley.EDU
"Active control with preview for off-road vehicles"

Malcolm C. Smith (University of Cambridge, UK, mcs@eng.cam.ac.uk) and Fu-Cheng Wang
"Active and Passive Suspension Control for Vehicle Dive and Squat"

Performance capabilities of passive and active vehicle suspension systems will be examined from a mechanical networks point of view. It is known that the reduction of effects of road disturbances is a conflicting requirement with the reduction of effects of inertial loads in a quarter-car model when passive control is used, but not with active control of suitable structure. The extension of these ideas to a half-car trailing-arm model will be considered. It will be shown that the choice of suspension geometry does not remove the basic trade-offs for passive suspensions. An active control structure to allow the road and load transmission paths to be optimised independently will be presented.

Dr. Malcolm C. Smith,
Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
Trumpington Street,
Cambridge CB2 1PZ,
U.K.
Tel: 01223 332745
=46ax: 01223 332662
e-mail: mcs@eng.cam.ac.uk

S. Bittanti (bittanti@elet.polimi.it), S.M. Savaresi, E. Valtolina
(Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione)
A.Visconti (Ferrari S.p.A., Divisione Innovazione)
"A multi-device system for road vehicles yaw control"

Abstract. The handling, safety and comfort of the road vehicles must be always improved. In recent years, many researchers, from both university and industry, have
addressed complicated modelling and control problems arising in recent years. Their works are described in a large numbers of papers. In this preliminary work we
propose a framework for the integration of different devices which can be used to control the vehicle lateral dynamic. A quick overview on previous work on the topic
is also given.

Sergio M. Savaresi
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Piazza L. da Vinci, 32, 20133 MILANO, ITALY.
Phone: +39.02.2399.3545 (+39.335.8185344)
=46ax: +39.02.2399.3412
e-mail: savaresi@elet.polimi.it

Naomi Leonard (Princeton University, naomi@Princeton.EDU), Edward Fiorelli and Troy Smith:
"Coordinated Control of Autonomous Vehicle Groups Using Artificial Potentials"

P Tunest=E5l, J-O Olsson, Bengt Johansson (Div. Combustion Engines, Lund Inst Technology, Lund Unversity, Bengt.Johansson@vok.lth.se )
"Closing the loop on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI)

Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI), is a novel and very promising combustion concept. Using premixed homogeneous, lean mixtures, the gas temperature in the cylinder can be kept low enough during combustion to avoid formation of NOX. By using high compression ratio and controlling the load without using a throttle, thermal efficiency comparable to Diesel CI operation can be achieved.

Since fuel and air are premixed and supposed to self ignite due to compression, the ignition angle is determined by inlet conditions and is very sensitive to changes in operating conditions. Closed loop control of ignition timing is essential for stable operation of an HCCI engine. One powerful source of feedback is cylinder pressure measurements, sampled at high speed on a crank angle basis. A means of controlling the conditions governing auto ignition is also necessary, e.g. intake temperature, fuel composition, compression ratio, valve timing or EGR.

In the present study a six-cylinder diesel engine, converted to HCCI, is operated with pre-heated inlet air and dual fuel. The mixture is brought to auto-ignition at correct crank angle by changing the fuel composition or inlet temperature. Two fuels with big differences in ignition characteristics, i.e. octane rating, are used to control ignition timing under closed-loop operation. The fuels used are different combinations of n-heptane, iso-octane, ethanol and regular RON 98 octane gasoline. The combustion is monitored using in cylinder pressure sensors, sampled at 900 samples per revolution, which corresponds to 30 kS/s and cylinder at 2000 rpm.

The measured cylinder pressure is used for calculating the rate of heat release and torque contribution for each cycle. The heat release profile is used for determining the angle of 50% cumulative heat release, which is the quantitative measure characterizing ignition angle. The control task is solved by implementing two PID controllers for each cylinder. One controls the ignition angle, by adjusting the fuel composition, the other controls load by adjusting the total amount of fuel.

The control system is tuned and verified experimentally. Step changes in set point of ignition angle shows a typical response time of 15 cycles. Two factors limit the closed-loop bandwidth - time delay from measured cylinder pressure to physical change in injection parameters and the uncertainty of the ignition-timing sensitivity to fuel composition. The observed time delay is a result of the specific setup of communications between the controlling PC and the A/D-converter and fuel actuator.

This system is the first to demonstrate closed-loop control of HCCI combustion. It shows the potential of closed-loop control of HCCI, but the performance is not yet good enough for automotive applications.

Elbert Hendricks (DTU Copenhagen)
"Nonlinear Observer Control of Internal Combustion Engines"

Abstract
The increased requirements of engine control systems with respect to accuracy, complexity, functionality and emission levels have lead to a new generation of control strategies. In contrast to earlier systems, these control systems are based on dynamic physical engine models (Mean Value Engine Models) and nonlinear estimation (Extended Kalman Filters). In fact the new third generation of Engine Control Units (ECUs) is just going into production and represents the first mass market application of nonlinear observers.

The purpose of this paper is to review the design principles behind the newest ECUs. An attempt will also be made to indicate the general direction of development of the newest systems and possible new application for this methodology.

Hilding Elmqvist: Elmqvist@Dynasim.se Hilding.Elmqvist@dynasim.se
"Automotive Modeling using Modelica"

G. Golo, A.J. van der Schaft, P.C. Breedveld (Twente) and B.M. Maschke.
"Hamiltonian formulation of bond graphs" (ps/pdf)

Bond graph theory ([10], [1]) is a powerful and elegant way of physical system modelling. This technique is graphically oriented and its outcome, the bond graph model, represents a multiport system involving energy ows [10]. This approach supports one of the most important concepts in physical system theory, the concept of what Paynter calls reticulation and Kron tearing. In other words, through the use of bond graphs we can reduce the modelling effort to the modelling of component pieces and then assembling the pieces, having been tested individually, into a system model [3].

Once the bond graph model is obtained, we can start with its analysis and the derivation of equations. The tool used for these purposes is causal analysis. However, with respect to the preparation for numerical simulation, the causal analysis is prone to generate a redundant set of equations. The main reason for this, as has often been observed, is an unadequate description of junction structure [7, 8, 6]. The junction structure is the topology of energy ows, which displays the invariants of the physical system according to Tellegen's and Kirchhoff's theorems for networks, but corresponds to an additional abstraction level [9].

Jens Kalkk=FChl, Jens L=FCdemann (DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology)
Tor Arne Johansen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
"Improving Transients in Nonlinear Adaptive Backstepping Using Multiple-Model Based Resetting Strategies"

Abstract
The transient performance of adaptive controllers of the backstepping type is essentially conditioned by the initial parameter estimation error and the choice of a set of design parameters such as controller gain adaptation gain and gain of the nonlinear damping. There is a number of applications where increasing those gains is impossible due to the non-robustness of the approach with respect to sampled implementation and unmodelled dynamics. Instead we propose the use of a multiple model based observer/estimator resetting strategy. This strategy will reset the parameter estimate of the Lyapunov based nonlinear adaptive controller whenever this leads to an improvement of the transients. In adaptive output tracking this is combined with asimultaneous reset of the reference signal. The advantage is that transient performance can be improved without increasing the gain while performance of the controller with respect to disturbances can be considerably improved. The benefits of the approach are demonstrated by applying it to an automotive wheel slip control problem.

Carlos Canudas de Wit (Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, canudas@lag.ensieg.inpg.fr)
" Modeling and estimation of tire/road friction"

In this paper we present a recently derived dynamic friction force model for road/tire interaction for wheeled ground vehicles. The model is based on a similar dynamic friction model for contact developed previously for contact-point friction problems, called the LuGre model. We show that the dynamic LuGre friction model is able to accurately capture velocity and road/surface dependence of the tire friction force.
These models are also relevant to estimate changes in the tire/road characteristics throughout a general class of nonlinear observers. Tire force information is relevant to problems like: optimization of Anti-look brake systems (ABS) and traction system, diagnostic of the road friction conditions, etc. We also review several formulations leading to alternative observers structures.
We conclude the paper by presenting some results on time-optimal breaking. This work result from a collaboration with X. Claeys (LAG) , P. Tsiotras from the School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Roberto Horowitz of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California.

Giovanni Fiengo, Luigi Glielmo, and Stefania Santini
"Modeling the Dynamic Behavior of Three-Way Catalytic Converters for Exhaust Emission Control and On-Board Diagnosis"

Abstract
Nowadays, every new gasoline car sold in USA, Japan and Europe is equipped with a three-way catalytic converter (TWC) in combination with a fuel control system to reduce the pollutant in the exhaust emissions. The converter enables the removal of carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and hydrocarbons. Actually, to let the catalytic reactions proceed simultaneously, the TWC has to be sufficiently `hot' and the exhaust gas composition has to be kept close to the stoichiometric point by a fuel control system which controls the air-to-fuel ratio fed to the engine. =46uture stricter regulations will require a new generation of sophisticated controllers for

the on - line optimization of engine fueling strategies in every driving conditions, such as, for example, fast accelerations, decelerations, cold start and TWC warm-up. The proper design of these controllers requires good fidelity dynamic models of the engine as well as of the catalyst. Many detailed physics- and chemistry-based TWC models were developed in this years. While these model seem to be useful for catalyst design, they do not seem suitable for use in the control field where reduced order models have to be employed. In this perspective, in this work we present some dynamical models of TWC, different for accuracy and computational complexity and suitable for the design and test of control strategies. The developed models are identified and validated on experimental data. In addition to its utility in controller design, a dynamic TWC model may be useful in the development of diagnosis strategies. The government regulations (On-board diagnosis, OBD II), in USA and Europe, impose to monitor vehicles emissions and alert the driver if the exhaust after-treatment system is not properly working. To meet these specifications, sophisticated diagnosis algorithms have to be developed. Here we present a model-based stochastic approach for fault detection strategy with application to automotive exhaust after-treatment system in order to fulfill the above mentioned OBD II. The algorithm, based on a relatively simple control-oriented models of the three-way catalytic converter and the oxygen sensor, is suitable for real time applications. The overall strategy has been tuned and validated on the basis of experimental data.

Lars Nielsen, Lars Eriksson, Per Andersson, Raymond Reinmann
"A new variable-size engine - controls and possibilities"

Abstract:
Technical development in and introduction of control systems and on board computers for engines have played a crucial role in the development of more efficient and environmental friendly cars. However clever the designers are, there are physical laws that impose restrictions and limit the range possible solutions. In the end, the result is a compromise. In a gasoline engine one such compromize is made up of the compression ratio, which will be further explained below. Another compromize which affects the customer is the size of the engine. A small engine give good fuel economy but poor driving performance and a big engine gives a good performance but increases the fuel consumption. The solution to these two seemingly different compromizes are actually tied together.

A key contribution of Nicholas August Otto was that he found out that by compressing the air and fuel mixture prior to combustion the efficiency increases. It is easy to show that for an ideal "Otto" cycle the theoretical efficiency is $\eta=3D1-1/r_c^{\gamma-1}$, where $r_c$ is the compression ratio. Current engines have a compression ratio around 10, and the question is why is it not 100, since higher compression ratio give higher efficiency? The answer is auto ignition of the air and fuel mixture. The phenomenon is also called knock. Autoignition occurs when the air and fuel mixture has been exposed to high temperatures for a certain time. The link between temperature and compression ratio is easy to see by considering an isentropic compression process: $T_{end}=3DT_{initial} r_c^{\gamma-1}$, where $T_{inital}$ is the inital temperature and $T_{end}$ is the temperature at the end of the compression. By increasing the compression the temperature at the end of compression will be increased. For current fuels the trade off for the engine designs typically result in compression ratios of about 10.

The new engine presented, the Saab SVC engine, has variable compression i.e. variable size. This alone adds a new control input, that affects almost every other aspect of engine control. The engine is also equipped with a compressor for supercharging, with some additional associated control inputs. The research is in its early stages, but some control problems will be discussed and some preliminary experimental results will be presented.

William Pasillas-L=E9pine (LSS CNRS-Sup=E9lec), E. Fenaux (PSA) and F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue (<Lamnabhi@lss.supelec.fr>, LSS CNRS-Sup=E9lec).
Title : "Observing the state of a vehicle".

Abstract
We will consider the problem of reconstructing the dynamics of a vehicle (longitudinal velocity, side-slip angle, tire forces, etc.) from measurements available on a standard vehicle (rotational wheel velocities, yaw rate, lateral acceleration, brake pressures, steering wheel angle, etc.). Our approach is based on nonlinear observers. The results that will be presented have been obtained within the 'Global Chassis Control (CGC)' project, initiated by E. Fenaux and now directed by V. Abadie. Our research has been completely supported by the French company Peugeot Citro=EBn Automobiles S.A.

J. Bengtsson, R. Johansson (Lund University), Agneta Sj=F6gren (Volvo Technical Development)
"Driver Models and Adaptive Cruise Control"

Abstract
In the last years, many vehicle manufacturers have introduced advance driver support in some of their automobiles. One of those new features is Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), which extends the conventional cruise control system to control of relative speed and distance to other vehicles. In order to design an ACC controller it is suitable to have a model on drivers' behavior. Our approach to find dynamical models of the drivers' behavior was to use system identification. Basic data analysis was made by means of system identification methodology, and several models of drivers' longitudinal behavior are proposed, including both linear regression models and subspace based models. Detection when a driver is changing his behavior in various situations to a deviant behavior is useful. To that purpose a GARCH model was used to model the driver in arousal situations, where the driver changes behavior, is proposed.

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=46rancoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue
Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,

Address: LSS, CNRS
         SUPELEC
         91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, FRANCE
Phone : 33 1 69 85 17 27
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e-mail: lamnabhi@lss.supelec.fr
http://www.supelec.fr/lss/perso/lamnabhi
http://www.supelec.fr/lss/NCN (Nonlinear Control Network)

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Horio and T. Yamakawa Learning of Fuzzy Automata W. Pedrycz and A. Gacek Hybrid Instance-Based System for Predicting Ocean Temperatures J. M. Corchado, B. Lees and J. Aiken Modular Connectionist Modelling and Classification Approaches for Local Diagnosis in Telecommunication Traffic Management Y. Bennani and F. Bossaert Using Case Retrieval to Seed Genetic Algorithms S. Oman and P. Cunningham The Application of Feedforward Neural Networks in VLSI Fabrication Process Optimization W. Xiangdong and W. Shoujue An Enhanced Genetic Algorithm for Solving the High-Level Synthesis Problems of Scheduling, Allocation, and Binding G. W. Grewal and T. C. Wilson Calendar of Events Book Review: Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language -- Prof. Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho Associate Professor Computational Intelligence Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Statistics University of Sao Paulo Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil www.icmc.sc.usp.br/~andre From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri May 4 04:36:46 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA17244 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 04:36:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa06710; 3 May 2001 23:14 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa06705; 3 May 2001 23:08 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa05282; 3 May 2001 23:07 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa18283; 3 May 2001 23:06 EDT Received: from FORT-POINT-STATION.MIT.EDU by edrc.cmu.edu id aa28798; 3 May 2001 23:05 EDT Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.75]) by fort-point-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA10787 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 23:05:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA15043; Thu, 3 May 2001 23:05:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from superior-temporal-sulcus.mit.edu (SUPERIOR-TEMPORAL-SULCUS.MIT.EDU [18.42.1.149]) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA06894; Thu, 3 May 2001 23:05:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from giese@localhost) by superior-temporal-sulcus.mit.edu (8.9.3) id XAA19989; Thu, 3 May 2001 23:05:36 -0400 Message-Id: <200105040305.XAA19989@superior-temporal-sulcus.mit.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu cc: giese@MIT.EDU Subject: research positions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 23:05:36 -0400 From: Martin A Giese Status: O IN THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE AND COMPUTER VISION / ROBOTICS The research group for Action Representation and Learning at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Department of Cognitive Neurology at the University Hospital in Tuebingen (Germany) offers following research positions in theoretical neuroscience and computer vision / robotics: 1 postdoc position (BAT IIa) 2 PhD positions (BAT IIa / 2) The group investigates how complex movements and actions are represented in the brain, and how the underlying learning principles can be exploited for technical applications in computer vision, robotics and biomedical systems. One focus of the group is the development and experimental testing of models for action representation in the brain. This work includes the development of neural models and testing them in psychophysical, neurophysiological and fMRI experiments in close collaboration with different well established experimentalists in Tuebingen and the USA. The second focus is the development of technical applications of learning-based representations of actions for medical diagnosis, computer animation and movement programming in robots. Technical applications will be developed in collaboration with companies in robotics and biomedical technology and the Dept. for Neurology at the University Hospital in Tuebingen. Close collaborations exist with the Center for Biological and Computational Learning, M.I.T., Cambridge (USA), Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University (USA). The postdoctoral position will be available for 3 years (salary BAT IIa), extendable to 5 years. The ideal candidate has a background in computer science, engineering, physics or mathematics and previous experience in computer vision / graphics, robotics or machine learning. She / he will be in charge of developing technical applications and new methods in machine learning for the representation of actions. Both PhD positions are available for 3 years (salary BAT IIa/2). One PhD will focus on neural modeling of the recognition of complex movements in humans and primates. He / she will be closely involved in experiments to evaluate the theory. Ideally, this candidate has a strong interest in neuroscience and good mathematical skills and previous training in physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science or psychology. Tuebingen offers a new graduate program in neuroscience. The second PhD will take part in the development of medical diagnosis systems and computer graphics applications exploiting methods from machine learning and computer vision. Ideally, this candidate has good mathematical and programming skills and previous training in physics, mathematics, engineering, or computer science. All Positions are funded by the German Volkswagen Foundation. For further information please contact: Dr. Martin Giese Center for Biological and Computational Learning Massachusetts Institute of Technology E 25-206 45, Carleton Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 USA email: giese@mit.edu Tel: +001-617-253 0549 (office) +001-617-253 0551 (lab secretary) Fax: +001-617-253 2964 Applicants are asked to submit their CV, bibliography and the names of two references. Applications should be sent by email to the same address. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Giese Center for Biological and Computational Learning Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room E25 - 206 45, Carleton Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 USA email: giese@mit.edu Tel: +001-617-253 0549 (office) +001-617-253 0551 (lab secretary) +001-617-491 5538 (home) Fax: +001-617-253 2964 ---------------------------------------------------- From seminar-request@EE.Princeton.EDU Fri May 4 10:19:09 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23603 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 10:19:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hermod.ee.princeton.edu (daemon@hermod.ee.Princeton.EDU [128.112.48.183]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17302; Fri, 4 May 2001 10:19:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hermod.ee.princeton.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f44EGuw05373 for seminar-redist; Fri, 4 May 2001 10:16:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ee.princeton.edu (ele-jessie [128.112.49.20]) by hermod.ee.princeton.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f44EGoe05365 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 10:16:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3AF2B9D2.24C9F204@ee.princeton.edu> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 10:16:50 -0400 From: Pat Koss Organization: Princeton University X-Sender: "Pat Koss" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD Princeton University 05-99 (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: seminar@EE.Princeton.EDU Subject: EMD SEMINAR, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: O EMD SEMINAR, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 Name: Dr. Karl Leo, Insitut für Angewandte Photophysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Title: Electrically doped organic semiconductors: Physics and applications Place: J-401, E-Quad Time: 1:30 p.m. Host: Professor Antoine Kahn --- You received this message because you are included in the "seminar" list at Princeton's Electrical Engineering department. 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Arleo (2000). "Spatial Learning and Navigation in Neuro-Mimetic Systems - Modeling the Rat Hippocampus", Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Inst.of Technology Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland. http://diwww.epfl.ch/~arleo/PUBLICATIONS/PhD.html ======================================================= A. Arleo and W. Gerstner (2000). "Place Cells and Spatial Navigation based on Vision, Path Integration, and Reinforcement Learning", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13, MIT-Press, pp. 89-95 http://diwww.epfl.ch/~arleo/PUBLICATIONS/nips00.pdf.Z ======================================================= A. Arleo and W. Gerstner (2001). "Spatial Orientation in Navigating Agents: Modeling Head-direction Cells". Neurocomputing (to appear) http://diwww.epfl.ch/~arleo/PUBLICATIONS/NeuroComputing00.pdf.Z ======================================================= Comments and suggestions are particularly welcome. Best regards, Angelo Arleo ______________________________________________________________________ ____/ __ / ____/ / Dr. Angelo Arleo. / / / / / Lab. of Computational Neuroscience (LCN) ____/ ____/ ____/ / Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology Lausanne / / / / CH-1015 Lausanne EPFL _____/ _/ _/ _____/ Tel/Fax: ++41 21 693 6696 / 5263 E-mail: angelo.arleo@epfl.ch Web: http://diwww.epfl.ch/~arleo ______________________________________________________________________ From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri May 4 18:30:04 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA11487 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 18:30:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa09329; 4 May 2001 13:50 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa09300; 4 May 2001 13:39 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa06348; 4 May 2001 13:39 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa23412; 4 May 2001 10:20 EDT Received: from firewall.dii.unisi.it by edrc.cmu.edu id aa03979; 4 May 2001 10:20 EDT Received: from alpha.dii.unisi.it (alpha.dii.unisi.it [10.1.0.1]) by firewall.dii.unisi.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20F23C0AC for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 15:21:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dii.unisi.it (michael.dii.unisi.it [10.6.1.14]) by alpha.dii.unisi.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941261826C for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 16:36:00 +0200 (CEST) Sender: fabrizio@dii.unisi.it Message-ID: <3AF2B9C9.702136AD@dii.unisi.it> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 16:16:41 +0200 From: Santini Fabrizio Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Universit=E0?= di Siena X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.16 alpha) X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: LFTNC 2001 Advanced Research Workshop - NATO Grants Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O LFTNC 2001 NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Limitations and Future Trends in Neural Computation -------------------------------------------------------------- We are very pleased to announce that, within the framework of the ARW LFTNC 20001, NATO provides limited additional funds to support the partecipation of scientists from Greece, Portugal and Turkey. Please refer either to the European official site or the America mirror for further details: www.ims.unico.it/2001/lftnc www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/im/2001/lftnc -------------------------------------------------------------- Fabrizio Santini Universita' di Siena - Facolta' di Ingegneria Informatica web: http://www.dii.unisi.it/~santini -------------------------------------------------------------- From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri May 4 18:30:04 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA11496 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 18:30:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab09329; 4 May 2001 13:50 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab09300; 4 May 2001 13:40 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa06355; 4 May 2001 13:39 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa25399; 4 May 2001 13:28 EDT Received: from CONDOR.CNBC.CMU.EDU by cs.cmu.edu id aa28596; 4 May 2001 13:27 EDT Received: from cnbc.cmu.edu (DUNNOCK.CNBC.CMU.EDU [128.2.244.176]) by condor.cnbc.cmu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17264; Fri, 4 May 2001 13:27:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3AF2E678.9DD92390@cnbc.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 13:27:21 -0400 From: "David E. Rumelhart Prize" Organization: CNBC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: derprize@cnbc.cmu.edu Subject: First Recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize Announced Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O Geoffrey E. Hinton Chosen as First Recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition The Glushko-Samuelson Foundation and the Cognitive Science Society are pleased to announce that Geoffrey E. Hinton has been chosen as the first recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize for contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition. Hinton was chosen for his many important contributions to the analysis of neural networks, elucidating the nature of representation, processing, and learning in the brain. In a landmark early book with James Anderson (1), he pioneered the use of distributed representations and described how they can be used for semantic knowledge representation (2). With Terrence J. Sejnowski (3), he introduced the Boltzmann Machine, an important neural network architecture for finding globally optimal solutions to difficult constraint satisfaction problems, and with Sejnowski and Ackley (4) he proposed a learning algorithm for use in such networks. With David Rumelhart and Ronald Williams (5), he introduced the back-propagation learning algorithm and made clear how it could be used to discover useful representations capturing the underlying structure of a body of structured propositional information. He has gone on from this important early work to make many further contributions to the field of neural networks, including studies of mixtures of experts (6) and Helmholtz machines (7). His publication list includes more than 100 articles on these and a wide range of other topics. Beyond these contributions, Hinton is an outstanding mentor and advisor: 18 graduate students have earned the Ph. D. degree under his supervision. Hinton to Deliver Prize Lecture at the Edinburgh Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in August, 2001 Geoffey Hinton will receive the First David E. Rumelhart Prize and deliver the first Rumelhart Prize Lecture in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, to be held August 1-4 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Prize itself will consist of a certificate, a citation of the awardee's contribution, and a monetary award of $100,000. Information on this year's meeting is available at http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/cogsci2001/. The David E. Rumelhart Prize to be Awarded Annually When established in August of 2000, the David E. Rumelhart Prize was to be awarded bienially for outstanding contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition. Upon reviewing the pool of individuals nominated to receive the prize, the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation, in consultation with the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society, came to the conclusion that an annual prize is warranted. With the aid of the Prize Selection Committee (listed below), the foundation determined that there exists a large pool of outstanding candidates representing each of the approaches to the formal analysis of human cognition identified in the prize announcement: mathematical modeling of human cognitive processes, formal analysis of language and other products of human cognitive activity, and computational analyses of human cognition using symbolic and non-symbolic frameworks. Awarding the prize annually should facilitate the timely recognition of major contributions arising within each of these approaches. The recipient of the second David E. Rumelhart Prize will be announced at the Cognitive Science Society Meeting in Edinburgh, with the second prize lecture to be given at the following meeting of the society at George Mason University in July, 2002. Prize Selection Committee The membership of the prize selection committee was selected in consultation with the Distinguished Advisory Board (William Estes, Barbara Partee, and Herbert Simon). The members of the prize selection committee are Allan Collins, Bolt, Beranek and Newman and Northwestern University; Robert J. Glushko, Glushko-Samuelson Foundation; Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania; Anthony J. Marley, McGill University; and James L. McClelland (Chair), Carnegie Mellon. Brief Biography of Geoffrey E. Hinton Geoffrey Hinton received his BA in experimental psychology from Cambridge in 1970 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978. He did postdoctoral work at Sussex University and the University of California, San Diego and spent five years as a faculty member in the Computer Science department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He then moved to Toronto where he was a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a Professor in the Computer Science and Psychology departments. He is a former president of the Cognitive Science Society, and he is a fellow of the Royal Society (UK), the Royal Society of Canada, and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In 1992 he won the ITAC/NSERC award for contributions to information technology. Hinton is currently Director of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London, where he leads an outstanding group of faculty, post-doctoral research fellows, and graduate students investigating the computational neural mechanisms of perception and action with an emphasis on learning. His current main interest is in unsupervised learning procedures for neural networks with rich sensory input. Cited Publications by Geoffrey E. Hinton (1) Hinton, G. E. and Anderson, J. A. (1981) Parallel Models of Associative Memory, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. (2) Hinton, G. E. (1981) Implementing semantic networks in parallel hardware. In Hinton, G. E. and Anderson, J. A. (Eds.), Parallel Models of Associative Memory, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. (3) Hinton, G. E. and Sejnowski, T. J. (1983) Optimal perceptual inference. Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington DC. (4) Ackley, D. H., Hinton, G. E., and Sejnowski, T. J. (1985) A learning algorithm for Boltzmann machines. Cognitive Science, 9, 147--169. (5) Rumelhart, D. E., Hinton, G. E., and Williams, R. J. (1986) Learning representations by back-propagating errors. Nature, 323, 533--536. (6) Jacobs, R., Jordan, M. I., Nowlan. S. J. and Hinton, G. E. (1991) Adaptive mixtures of local experts. Neural Computation, 3, 79-87 (7) Hinton, G. E., Dayan, P., Frey, B. J. and Neal, R. (1995) The wake-sleep algorithm for unsupervised Neural Networks. Science, 268, pp 1158-1161. Visit the David E. Rumelhart Prize Website at: http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/derprize From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue May 8 00:57:12 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA01709 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 00:57:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa20428; 7 May 2001 20:32 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa20424; 7 May 2001 20:24 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa12867; 7 May 2001 20:23 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa18421; 7 May 2001 10:45 EDT Received: from mbox.wins.uva.nl by ri.cmu.edu id aa15704; 7 May 2001 10:44 EDT Received: from carol.wins.uva.nl [146.50.1.20] by mbox.wins.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.10.2/config 11.9). id f47Egfj11770; Mon, 7 May 2001 16:42:41 +0200 (MET DST) X-URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/ Received: from squid.science.uva.nl [146.50.1.51] by carol.wins.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.10.2/config 9.4). id f47Egei12509; Mon, 7 May 2001 16:42:41 +0200 (MEST) X-Organisation: Faculty of Science University of Amsterdam The Netherlands X-Address: See http://www.science.uva.nl/location Sender: vlassis@science.uva.nl Message-ID: <3AF6B460.86DB8DB6@wins.uva.nl> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 16:42:40 +0200 From: Nikos Vlassis Organization: University of Amsterdam, Dept. of Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, el MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: some papers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O Dear Connectionists, The following three papers have been accepted for publication and might be of interest. N. Vlassis, Y. Motomura, Ben Krose Supervised Dimension Reduction of Intrinsically Low-dimensional Data Neural Computation (to appear) ftp://ftp.science.uva.nl/pub/computer-systems/aut-sys/reports/Vlassis01nc.ps.gz Abstract: High-dimensional data generated by a system with limited degrees of freedom are often constrained in low-dimensional manifolds in the original space. In this paper we investigate dimension reduction methods for such intrinsically low-dimensional data through linear projections that preserve the manifold structure of the data. For intrinsically one-dimensional data this implies projecting to a curve on the plane with as few intersections as possible. We are proposing a supervised projection pursuit method which can be regarded as an extension of the single-index model for nonparametric regression. We show results from a toy and two robotic applications. Keywords: dimension reduction, feature extraction, intrinsic dimensionality, projection pursuit, simple curve, single-index model, multiple-index model, appearance modeling, mobile robot localization. ---- N. Vlassis and Y. Motomura Efficient Source Adaptivity in Independent Component Analysis IEEE Trans. Neural Networks (to appear) ftp://ftp.science.uva.nl/pub/computer-systems/aut-sys/reports/Vlassis01tnn.ps.gz Abstract: A basic element in most ICA algorithms is the choice of a model for the score functions of the unknown sources. While this is usually based on approximations, for large data sets it is possible to achieve `source adaptivity' by directly estimating from the data the `true' score functions of the sources. In this paper we describe an efficient scheme for achieving this by extending the fast density estimation method of Silverman (1982). We show with a real and a synthetic experiment that our method can provide more accurate solutions than state-of-the-art methods when optimization is carried out in the vicinity of the global minimum of the contrast function. Keywords: Independent component analysis, blind signal separation, source adaptivity, score function estimation. ---- N. Vlassis, A. Likas A greedy EM algorithm for Gaussian mixture learning Neural Processing Letters (to appear) ftp://ftp.science.uva.nl/pub/computer-systems/aut-sys/reports/Vlassis01npl.ps.gz Abstract: Learning a Gaussian mixture with a local algorithm like EM can be difficult because (i) the true number of mixing components is usually unknown, (ii) there is no generally accepted method for parameter initialization, and (iii) the algorithm can get stuck in one of the many local maxima of the likelihood function. In this paper we propose a greedy algorithm for learning a Gaussian mixture which tries to overcome these limitations. In particular, starting with a single component and adding components sequentially until a maximum number k, the algorithm is capable of achieving solutions superior to EM with k components in terms of the likelihood of a test set. The algorithm is based on recent theoretical results on incremental mixture density estimation, and uses a combination of global and local search each time a new component is added to the mixture. -- http://www.science.uva.nl/~vlassis From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue May 8 00:57:12 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA01713 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 00:57:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa20445; 7 May 2001 20:34 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa20432; 7 May 2001 20:27 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa12878; 7 May 2001 20:26 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa22610; 7 May 2001 17:23 EDT Received: from [164.109.16.81] by cs.cmu.edu id aa22482; 7 May 2001 17:23 EDT Received: from failmail by www.bbsonline.org with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14wsT4-0005pM-00 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Mon, 07 May 2001 17:22:58 -0400 Subject: BBS Call for Commentators A SENSORIMOTOR ACCOUNT OF VISION AND VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Reply-To: calls@bbsonline.org From: Stevan Harnad (Editor)- Behavioral & Brain Sciences Errors-To: failmail@bbsonline.org Message-Id: Sender: failmail@bbsonline.org MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 17:22:58 -0400 Status: O Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article [Please note that this paper was in fact accepted and archived to the web in October 2000 but the recent move of BBS to New York delayed the Call until now.] A SENSORIMOTOR ACCOUNT OF VISION AND VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS by J. Kevin O'Regan Alva Noe http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/ORegan/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls@bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 8000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to nominate someone to comment. 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To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below. _____________________________________________________________ A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness J. Kevin O'Regan Laboratoire de Psychologie Exprimentale Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Universit Ren Descartes, 92774 Boulogne Billancourt, France oregan@ext.jussieu.fr http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr Alva Noe Department of Philosophy University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064 anoe@cats.ucsc.edu http://www2.ucsc.edu/people/anoe/ KEYWORDS: Sensation, Perception, Action, Consciousness, Experience, Qualia, Sensorimotor, Vision, Change blindness ABSTRACT: Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical and psychological approaches to vision rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the world. The activation of this internal representation is assumed to give rise to the experience of seeing. The problem with this kind of approach is that it leaves unexplained how the existence of such a detailed internal representation might produce visual consciousness. An alternative proposal is made here. We propose that seeing is a way of acting. It is a particular way of exploring the environment. Activity in internal representations does not generate the experience of seeing. The outside world serves as its own, external, representation. The experience of seeing occurs when the organism masters what we call the governing laws of sensorimotor contingency. The advantage of this approach is that it provides a natural and principled way of accounting for visual consciousness, and for the differences in the perceived quality of sensory experience in the different sensory modalities. Several lines of empirical evidence are brought forward in support of the theory, in particular: evidence from experiments in sensorimotor adaptation, visual "filling in", visual stability despite eye movements, change blindness, sensory substitution, and color perception. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/ORegan/ ___________________________________________________________ Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. We will then let you know whether it was possible to include your name on the final formal list of invitees. _______________________________________________________________________ *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENTS *** (1) The authors of scientific articles are not paid money for their refereed research papers; they give them away. 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From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue May 8 00:57:13 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA01719 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 00:57:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab20445; 7 May 2001 20:34 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab20432; 7 May 2001 20:27 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa12882; 7 May 2001 20:26 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab22511; 7 May 2001 17:05 EDT Received: from [164.109.16.81] by edrc.cmu.edu id aa11608; 7 May 2001 17:05 EDT Received: from failmail by www.bbsonline.org with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14wsCF-0005hw-00 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Mon, 07 May 2001 17:05:35 -0400 Subject: BBS re BBSPrints Logins To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Reply-To: bbs@bbsonline.org From: Stevan Harnad (Editor)- Behavioral & Brain Sciences Errors-To: failmail@bbsonline.org Message-Id: Sender: failmail@bbsonline.org MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 17:05:35 -0400 Status: O Dear Connectionists List User, This list regularly receives Calls for Commentators from Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) journal. 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From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed May 9 17:50:48 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA12976 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 17:50:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa28571; 9 May 2001 15:17 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa28568; 9 May 2001 15:10 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa16038; 9 May 2001 15:10 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa09124; 9 May 2001 7:35 EDT Received: from sunu422.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de by ri.cmu.edu id aa13444; 9 May 2001 7:34 EDT Received: (qmail 22049 invoked from network); 9 May 2001 11:34:49 -0000 Received: from monk.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (134.147.72.34) by mi-1.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with SMTP; 9 May 2001 11:34:49 -0000 Received: from byrd.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de by monk.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id NAA20143; Wed, 9 May 2001 13:36:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by byrd.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03777; Wed, 9 May 2001 13:34:54 +0200 (MET DST) Sender: mschmitt@monk.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Message-ID: <3AF92B5E.BAC2BCF3@lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 13:34:54 +0200 From: Michael Schmitt Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Preprint on Radial Basis Function Neural Networks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O Dear Colleagues, a preprint of the paper "Radial basis function neural networks have superlinear VC dimension" by Michael Schmitt, accepted for the 14th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory COLT'2001, is available on-line from http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lmi/mschmitt/rbfsuper.ps.gz (19 pages gzipped PostScript). Regards, Michael Schmitt ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Radial basis function neural networks have superlinear VC dimension AUTHOR: Michael Schmitt ABSTRACT We establish superlinear lower bounds on the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension of neural networks with one hidden layer and local receptive field neurons. As the main result we show that every reasonably sized standard network of radial basis function (RBF) neurons has VC dimension $\Omega(W\log k)$, where $W$ is the number of parameters and $k$ the number of nodes. This significantly improves the previously known linear bound. We also derive superlinear lower bounds for networks of discrete and continuous variants of center-surround neurons. The constants in all bounds are larger than those obtained thus far for sigmoidal neural networks with constant depth. The results have several implications with regard to the computational power and learning capabilities of neural networks with local receptive fields. In particular, they imply that the pseudo dimension and the fat-shattering dimension of these networks is superlinear as well, and they yield lower bounds even when the input dimension is fixed. The methods presented in this paper might be suitable for obtaining similar results for other kernel-based function classes. -- Michael Schmitt LS Mathematik & Informatik, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany Phone: +49 234 32-23209 , Fax: +49 234 32-14465 http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lmi/mschmitt/ From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed May 9 22:06:47 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA18621 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 22:06:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab28593; 9 May 2001 15:19 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa28573; 9 May 2001 15:11 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa16046; 9 May 2001 15:10 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa13946; 9 May 2001 14:41 EDT Received: from phy.ucsf.edu by ri.cmu.edu id aa19295; 9 May 2001 14:40 EDT Received: from coltrane.ucsf.edu (IDENT:root@coltrane.ucsf.edu [128.218.66.81]) by phy.ucsf.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f49IeBe06314; Wed, 9 May 2001 11:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by coltrane.ucsf.edu (8.11.0) id f49IeBE31168; Wed, 9 May 2001 11:40:11 -0700 From: Ken Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15097.36619.21538.1324@coltrane.ucsf.edu> Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 11:40:11 -0700 To: Connectionists list , Comp-Neuro Mailing List Subject: Paper available: Origins of cortical temporal tuning X-Mailer: VM 6.91 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Status: O A preprint of the following article is now available, from http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/~ken (click on 'publications', then on 'Models of Neuronal Integration and Circuitry') or directly from ftp://ftp.keck.ucsf.edu/pub/ken/krukowski-miller01.pdf (there is also a web supplement to the article, ftp://ftp.keck.ucsf.edu/pub/ken/krukowski-miller01-websupp.pdf) Krukowski, A.E. and K.D. Miller (2001). ``Thalamocortical NMDA conductances and intracortical inhibition can explain cortical temporal tuning.'' Nature Neuroscience 4, 424-430. Abstract: Cells in cerebral cortex fail to respond to fast-moving stimuli that evoke strong responses in the thalamic nuclei that provide input to cortex. The reason for this behavior has remained a mystery. We study an experimentally-motivated model of the thalamic input-recipient layer of cat primary visual cortex that we have previously shown accounts for many aspects of cortical orientation tuning. In this circuit, inhibition dominates over excitation, but temporal modulations of excitation and inhibition occur out of phase with one another, allowing excitation to transiently drive cells. We show that this circuit provides a natural explanation of cortical low-pass temporal frequency tuning, provided N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are present in thalamocortical synapses in proportions measured experimentally. This suggests a new and unanticipated role for NMDA conductances in shaping the temporal response properties of cortical cells, and suggests that common cortical circuit mechanisms underly both spatial and temporal response tuning. Ken Kenneth D. Miller telephone: (415) 476-8217 Associate Professor fax: (415) 476-4929 Dept. of Physiology, UCSF internet: ken@phy.ucsf.edu 513 Parnassus www: http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/~ken San Francisco, CA 94143-0444 From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Thu May 10 20:29:16 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA11834 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 20:29:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa03418; 10 May 2001 16:40 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa03410; 10 May 2001 16:24 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa18059; 10 May 2001 16:24 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa23759; 10 May 2001 8:27 EDT Received: from gatsby.ucl.ac.uk by cs.cmu.edu id aa15627; 10 May 2001 8:25 EDT Received: from crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (IDENT:root@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk [192.168.213.21]) by axon.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24994; Thu, 10 May 2001 13:25:29 +0100 (BST) Received: (from maneesh@localhost) by crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA30337; Thu, 10 May 2001 13:25:29 +0100 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:25:29 +0100 Message-Id: <200105101225.NAA30337@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk> X-Authentication-Warning: crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk: maneesh set sender to maneesh@crick.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk using -f From: Maneesh Sahani To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, cneuro@bbb.caltech.edu Subject: CNS*2001 Workshops: Call for Proposals cc: cns2001workshops@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk reply-to: cns2001workshops@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Status: O CALL FOR PROPOSALS CNS*2001 Workshops July 4 and 5, 2001 Pacific Grove, California Workshops focusing on current issues in computational neuroscience will be held on July 4 and 5, 2001, as part of the CNS*2001 conference in Pacific Grove, California. Potential organizers are invited to submit proposals for specific workshop topics. Workshops may fall into one of three formats: 1. Discussion Workshops (formal or informal); 2. Tutorials; and 3. Mini-symposia, or they may combine more than one of these formats. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum within the CNS meeting for focused discussion of recent or speculative research, novel techniques, and open issues in computational neuroscience. Discussion workshops, whether formal (i.e., held in a conference room with projection and writing media) or informal (held elsewhere), should stress interactive and open discussions in preference to sequential presentations. Tutorials and mini-symposia provide a format for a focused exploration of particular issues or techniques within a more traditional presentation framework; in these cases too, adequate time should be reserved for questions and general discussion. The organizers of a workshop should endeavor to bring together as broad a range of pertinent viewpoints as possible. In addition to recruiting participants and moderating discussion, workshop organizers should be prepared to submit a short report, summarizing the presentations and discussion, to the workshop coordinator shortly after the conference. These reports will be included on the CNS*2001 web site. ------------------------- How to propose a workshop ------------------------- To propose a workshop, please submit the following information to the workshop coordinator at the address below (1) the name(s) of the organizer(s) (2) the title of the workshop (3) a description of the subject matter, indicating clearly the range of topics to be discussed (4) the format(s) of the workshop; if a discussion session, please specify whether you would like it to be held in a conference room or in a less formal setting (5) for tutorials and mini-symposia, a provisional list of speakers (6) whether the workshop is to run for one or two days Please submit proposals as early as possible by email to cns2001workshops@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk or by post to Dr. Maneesh Sahani Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Alexandra House 17, Queen Square London, WC1N 3AR, U.K. The descriptions of accepted workshops will appear on the CNS*2001 web site as they are received. Attendees are encouraged to check this list, and to contact the organizers of any workshops in which they are interested in participating. From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Thu May 10 20:29:17 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA11837 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 20:29:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa03469; 10 May 2001 16:43 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa03420; 10 May 2001 16:25 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa18068; 10 May 2001 16:25 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa24621; 10 May 2001 9:49 EDT Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk by cs.cmu.edu id aa16942; 10 May 2001 9:48 EDT Received: from zappa.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 14:48:37 +0100 Message-ID: <3AFA9827.528AC379@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:31:19 +0100 From: Sean Holden X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, dmanet@math.utwente.nl, colt@cs.uiuc.edu Subject: MSc in Intelligent Systems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O MSc in Intelligent Systems -------------------------- Department of Computer Science University College London London, UK A Masters Training Package funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). This new, 12 month advanced Masters programme covering all aspects of Intelligent Systems has extensive industrial involvement and is available to applicants having a good degree in Computer Science or a similar subject and/or appropriate industrial experience. Applicants will be expected to have completed final year courses in, or to have experience of, for example, neural networks, expert systems or artificial intelligence. The programme is available by full-time study for one year, or by part-time study for two years (day-release). A number of studentships are available for suitably qualified applicants. Courses, in addition to a substantial project, are planned to include: - Supervised Learning - Unsupervised Learning - Advanced Artificial Intelligence - Pattern Recognition & Machine Vision - Programming and Management Issues - Fundamental skills in Mathematical Methods and Statistics - Evolutionary Systems - Intelligent Text Handling - Advanced Database and Information Systems - Intelligent Systems in Business and Commerce - Intelligent Systems in Bioinformatics The Department of Computer Science at UCL has an excellent research group in Intelligent Systems, and the new programme has the active involvement of many leading researchers. For further information and application forms please contact the Admissions and General inquiries Office/Friends' Room, University College London (UCL), Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)207 679 3000 Fax: (0)207 679 3001 e-mail: degree-info@ucl.ac.uk. Alternatively, consult our web site: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/MTPIS From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri May 11 04:40:35 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA18894 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 04:40:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa03788; 10 May 2001 18:08 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa03785; 10 May 2001 18:03 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa18209; 10 May 2001 18:03 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa23776; 10 May 2001 8:28 EDT Received: from caird.scri.sari.ac.uk by edrc.cmu.edu id aa20530; 10 May 2001 8:28 EDT Received: from bioss.ac.uk (castle.scri.sari.ac.uk [134.36.144.28]) by caird.scri.sari.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18348 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 13:27:35 +0100 (BST) Sender: dhusme@scri.sari.ac.uk Message-ID: <3AFA8550.3F1799E7@bioss.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:10:56 +0100 From: Dirk Husmeier Organization: BioSS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Paper on HMMs in Bioinformatics Status: O Dear Connectionists The following paper has just been accepted for publication in JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY and might be of interest to researchers who apply machine learning techniques to problems in BIOINFORMATICS. TITLE: Detection of Recombination in DNA Multiple Alignments with Hidden Markov Models AUTHORS: Dirk Husmeier and Frank Wright PAGES: 56 DOWNLOAD FROM: http://www.bioss.sari.ac.uk/~dirk/My_publications.html FORMAT: PDF SYNOPSIS The recent advent of multiple-resistant pathogens has led to an increased interest in interspecies recombination as an important, and previously underestimated, source of genetic diversification in bacteria and viruses. The discovery of a surprisingly high frequency of mosaic RNA sequences in HIV-1 suggests that a substantial proportion of AIDS patients have been coinfected with HIV-1 strains belonging to different subtypes, and that recombination between these genomes can occur in vivo to generate new biologically active viruses. A phylogenetic analysis of the bacterial genera Neisseria and Streptococcus has revealed that the introduction of blocks of DNA from penicillin-resistant non-pathogenic strains into sensitive pathogenic strains has led to new strains that are both pathogenic and resistant. Thus interspecies recombination raises the possibility that bacteria and viruses can acquire biologically important traits through the exchange and transfer of genetic material. In the present article, a hidden Markov model (HMM) is employed to detect recombination events in multiple alignments of DNA sequences. The emission probabilities in a given state are determined by the branching order (topology) and the branch lengths of the respective phylogenetic tree, while the transition probabilities depend on the global recombination probability. The present study improves on an earlier heuristic parameter optimization scheme and shows how the branch lengths and the recombination probability can be optimized in a maximum likelihood sense by applying the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm. The novel algorithm is tested on a synthetic benchmark problem and is found to clearly outperform the earlier heuristic approach. The paper concludes with an application of this scheme to a DNA sequence alignment of the argF gene from four Neisseria strains, where a likely recombination event is clearly detected. Best Wishes Dirk -- ---------------------------------------------- Dirk Husmeier Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) SCRI, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, United Kingdom http://www.bioss.ac.uk/~dirk/ From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri May 11 04:40:35 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA18897 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 04:40:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab03788; 10 May 2001 18:09 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab03785; 10 May 2001 18:03 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa18213; 10 May 2001 18:03 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab26052; 10 May 2001 11:48 EDT Received: from dv.go.dlr.de by cs.cmu.edu id aa19064; 10 May 2001 11:47 EDT Received: from euphrat.robotic.dlr.de (euphrat.robotic.dlr.de [129.247.189.80]) by dv.go.dlr.de (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4AFlMw69530 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 17:47:22 +0200 Received: from dlr.de (leine [129.247.189.23]) by euphrat.robotic.dlr.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20057 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 17:47:21 +0200 (MET DST) Sender: Ulrich.Hillenbrand@dlr.de Message-ID: <3AFAB807.104B6A85@dlr.de> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:47:21 +0200 From: Ulrich Hillenbrand Organization: German Aerospace Center/DLR, Robotic Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP22) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Thesis and articles on thalamocortical information processing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O Dear colleagues, you can find my doctoral thesis Spatiotemporal Adaptation in the Corticogeniculate Loop Ulrich Hillenbrand Technical University of Munich (2001) (see abstract below) for download at http://tumb1.biblio.tu-muenchen.de/publ/diss/ph/2001/hillenbrand.pdf You may also be interested in two related articles, Spatiotemporal adaptation through corticothalamic loops: A hypothesis Ulrich Hillenbrand and J. Leo van Hemmen Visual Neuroscience 17, 107-118 (2000) http://www.journals.cup.org/bin/bladerunner?REQUNIQ=989495926&REQSESS=156885&118200REQEVENT=&REQINT1=40136&REQAUTH=0 and Does Corticothalamic Feedback Control Cortical Velocity Tuning? Ulrich Hillenbrand and J. Leo van Hemmen Neural Computation 13, 327-355 (2001) http://neco.mitpress.org/cgi/content/full/13/2/327 Reprints are available upon request (by e-mail or to the address below). Please feel free to comment. Regards, Ulrich Hillenbrand ------------------------------------------------------------- Spatiotemporal Adaptation in the Corticogeniculate Loop Abstract The thalamus is the major gate to the cortex for almost all sensory signals, for input from various subcortical sources such as the cerebellum and the mammillary bodies, and for reentrant cortical information. Thalamic nuclei do not merely relay information to the cortex but perform some operation on it while being modulated by various transmitter systems and in continuous interplay with their cortical target areas. Indeed, cortical feedback to the thalamus is the anatomically dominant input to relay cells even in those thalamic nuclei that are directly driven by sensory systems. While it is well-established that the receptive fields of cortical neurons are strongly influenced by convergent thalamic inputs of different types, the modulation effected by cortical feedback in thalamic response has been difficult to interpret. Experiments and theoretical considerations have pointed to a variety of operations of the visual cortex on the visual thalamus, the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), such as control of binocular disparity for stereopsis (Schmielau & Singer, 1977), attention-related gating of relay cells (Sherman & Koch, 1986), gain control of relay cells (Koch, 1987), synchronizing firing of neighboring relay cells (Sillito et al., 1994; Singer 1994), increasing visual information in relay cells' output (McClurkin et al., 1994), and switching relay cells from a detection to an analyzing mode (Godwin et al., 1996; Sherman, 1996; Sherman & Guillery, 1996). Nonetheless, the evidence for any particular function is still sparse and rather indirect to date. Clearly, detailed concepts of the interdependency of thalamic and cortical operation could greatly advance our knowledge about complex sensory, and ultimately cognitive, processing. Here we present a novel view on the corticothalamic puzzle by proposing that control of velocity tuning of visual cortical neurons may be an eminent function of corticogeniculate processing. The hypothesis is advanced by studying a model of the primary visual pathway in extensive computer simulations. At the heart of the model is a biophysical account of the electrical membrane properties of thalamic relay neurons (Huguenard & McCormick, 1992; McCormick & Huguenard, 1992) that includes 12 ionic conductances. Among the different effects that corticogeniculate feedback may have on relay cells, we focus on the modulation of their relay mode (between tonic and burst mode) by control of their resting membrane potential. Employing two distinct temporal-response types of geniculate relay neurons (lagged and nonlagged), we find that shifts in membrane potential affect the temporal response properties of relay cells in a way that alters the tuning of cortical cells for speed. Given the loop of information from the LGN to cortical layer 4, via a variable number of synapses to layer 6, and back to the LGN, the question arises, what are likely implications of adaptive speed tuning for visual information processing? Based on some fairly general considerations concerning the nature of motion information, we devise a simple model of the corticogeniculate loop that utilizes adaptive speed tuning for the fundamental task of segmentation of objects in motion. A detailed mathematical analysis of the model's behavior is presented. Treating visual stimulation as a stochastic process that drives the adaptation dynamics, we prove the model's object-segmentation capabilities and reveal some non-intended properties, such as oscillatory responses, that are consequences of its basic design. Several aspects of the dynamics in the loop are discussed in relation to experimental data. -- Dr. Ulrich Hillenbrand Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics German Aerospace Center/DLR Postfach 1116 82230 Wessling Germany Phone: +49-8153-28-3501 Fax: +49-8153-28-1134 From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri May 11 04:40:36 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA18903 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 04:40:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ac03788; 10 May 2001 18:09 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ac03785; 10 May 2001 18:03 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa18217; 10 May 2001 18:03 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa29771; 10 May 2001 17:26 EDT Received: from socrates.Berkeley.EDU by cs.cmu.edu id aa25071; 10 May 2001 17:25 EDT Received: from [192.168.1.7] (adsl-64-165-204-125.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.165.204.125]) by socrates.Berkeley.EDU (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f4ALPIC19383 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 14:25:18 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:24:20 -0700 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu From: "Donald A. Glaser" Subject: post-doc positions in computational neuroscience (UC Berkeley) Status: O POST-DOC POSITIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE We are developing computational models of primate visual cortex based on the properties of two-dimensional arrays of interconnected model neurons and multiple layers of such arrays. These models are designed to mimic the anatomy and functioning of visual cortex as closely as practical and to make predictions of observable phenomena via psychophysical, electrophysiological, and fMRI techniques. Experiments being planned now will involve the new Berkeley Brain Imaging Center with its 4-Tesla fMRI system in studying patterns of cortical excitation resulting from various visual stimuli. Psychophysical experiments to test our models will continue in our own laboratory. Candidates will be expected to perform some combination of analysis, refinement, and elaboration of these or new, related, computer models, and participate in design and implementation of psychophysical and neuroimaging tests of these models. A strong background in mathematics, physics, or computer science and a continuing interest in neuroscience are required. Experience with Matlab, Mathematica, and Linux are desirable as we will shortly install a Linux-based Beowulf system for large computations in addition to the computers now in use. A supercomputer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is also available for these studies. Sample Publications: 1) Motion detection and characterization by an excitable membrane: The "bow wave" model, by Donald A. Glaser, Davis Barch, Neurocomputing 26-27 (1999) 137-146 2)Characterization of activity oscillations in an excitable membrane model and their potential functionality for neuronal computations by Davis Barch, Neurocomputing 32-33 (2000) 25-35 3)Multiple matching of features in simple stereograms, by T. Kumar, Vision Res. Vol 36, No. 5 pp 675-698, (1996) 4) To be presented at CNS 2001, the Tenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting at Pacific Grove, California, June 30-July 5, 2001 1) Nearby edges and lines interfere very little with width discrimination of rectangles, by T. Kumar, Ilya Khaytin, and D. A. Glaser 2) Interactions among cortical maps, by Kirill N. Shokhirev and Donald A. Glaser 3) Synaptic depression and facilitation can induce motion aftereffects in an excitable membrane model of of visual motion processing, by D. Barch, and D.A.Glaser 4) Slowly moving visual stimuli induce characteristic periodic activity waves in an excitable membrane model of visual motion processing, by D. Barch and D.A.Glaser Please send your CV, a brief statement of your interests, and letters of recommendation to: Donald A. Glaser PhD. Nobel Laureate in Physics Professor of Physics and of Neurobiology in the Graduate School University of California at Berkeley 41 Hill Road, Berkeley CA 94708 W 510-642-7231, F 510-841-2563 glaser@socrates.berkeley.edu From seminar-request@EE.Princeton.EDU Fri May 11 10:56:01 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26670 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:56:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hermod.ee.princeton.edu (daemon@hermod.ee.Princeton.EDU [128.112.48.183]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24596; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:56:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hermod.ee.princeton.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4BEr6f09553 for seminar-redist; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:53:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ee.princeton.edu (ele-jessie [128.112.49.20]) by hermod.ee.princeton.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4BEr5e09541 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:53:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3AFBFCD1.B4C3A9A7@ee.princeton.edu> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:53:05 -0400 From: Pat Koss Organization: Princeton University X-Sender: "Pat Koss" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD Princeton University 05-99 (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: seminar@EE.Princeton.EDU Subject: EMD SPECIAL SEMINAR, TUESDAY, MAY 15 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O EMD SPECIAL SEMINAR, TUESDAY, MAY 15 Speaker: Dr. Willi Graupner, eMagic Corporation Hopewell Junction, New York Title: From Organic Light Emitting Diodes to Active Matrix Microdisplays Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 Time: 4:00 p.m. Place: D-221, E-Quad Host: Prof. Antoine Kahn/Dr. Norbert Koch --- You received this message because you are included in the "seminar" list at Princeton's Electrical Engineering department. 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(If your mail reader supports html, you can send your request by clicking on this link: mailto:seminar-request@ee.princeton.edu?subject=List%20Change%3A%20seminar) From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri May 11 11:00:50 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA27041 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 11:00:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa05884; 11 May 2001 4:47 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa05882; 11 May 2001 4:41 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa19665; 11 May 2001 4:41 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa04302; 11 May 2001 3:46 EDT Received: from at-vie-mail-02-2.nextra.at by edrc.cmu.edu id aa03110; 11 May 2001 3:46 EDT Received: from FTCRD02 (at01i01-dial-033.nextranet.at [195.170.86.33]) by mail.nextra.at (8.11.1/8.9.3/nextra) with SMTP id f4B7kCt01803 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 09:46:13 +0200 (MEST) X-nextra-mail02-rcpt: Reply-To: schittenkopf@ftc.co.at MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu From: "Christian Schittenkopf (FTC Research)" To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Subject: ICANN 2001 WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:42:53 +0200 Message-ID: <000001c0d9ed$fccf8970$6bfda8c0@FTCRD02> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Status: O [ Moderator's note: Thanks to Christian Schittenkopf for preparing this summary of the ICANN workshops. The CONNECTIONISTS list doesn't carry announcements for individual workshops associated with a conference where we have also carried the call for papers and call for registrations, because we were being flooded with too many of these and they are usually only of interest to conference attendees. However, we are happy to carry a summary of a conference's entire workshop program as a single posting. -- Dave Touretzky, CONNECTIONISTS moderator ] Following the regular program of the ICANN 2001 conference (Aug. 21-24), four workshops on current topics will be held on Aug. 25 in Vienna. CONTRIBUTIONS to the WORKSHOPS listed below are highly welcome. More details on tutorials, conference and workshops can be found at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/icann/ Christian Schittenkopf (Workshop Chair) Workshop: RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS AND ONLINE SEQUENCE LEARNING Organizers: Douglas Eck and Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA OVERVIEW: A full-day workshop. We define the topic broadly and include presentations from related areas, although the focus will remain on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). RNNs are of interest as they can implement almost arbitrary sequential behavior. They are biologically more plausible and computationally more powerful than feedforward networks, support vector machines, hidden Markov models, etc. Making RNNs learn from examples used to be difficult though. Recent progress has overcome fundamental problems plaguing traditional RNNs - now there exist online learning RNNs that efficiently learn previously unlearnable solutions to numerous tasks, using not more than O(1) computations per weight and time step: Recognition of temporally extended, noisy patterns Recognition of regular, context free and context sensitive languages Recognition of temporal order of widely separated events Extraction of information conveyed by the temporal distance between events Generation of precisely timed rhythms Stable generation of smooth periodic trajectories Robust storage of high-precision real numbers across extended time intervals The workshop is intended to discuss recent advances as well as future potential of RNNs and alternative approaches to online sequence learning. WORKSHOP FORMAT: Like all ICANN 2001 workshops, this session will take place in a particularly nice venue, a traditional Heuriger ['hoy-ri-guer] in Vienna. A "Heuriger" provides a typically Viennese where one can drink local wine and eat schnitzel while sitting on wooden seats at wooden tables. SPEAKERS: We might be able to add one or two additional speakers. If you are interested in presenting, please contact Doug Eck (doug@idsia.ch) with a suggested title and abstract. Here is a *tentative* list. Marco Gori (Universita degli Studi di Siena, Italy) Steve Grossberg (Boston University, USA) Sepp Hochreiter (University of Colorado, USA) Juan Antonio Perez-Ortiz (Universidad di Alicante, Spain) Nicol Schraudolph (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Sebino Stramaglia (Istituto Nazionale di Fiscia Nucleare, Italy) Ron Sun (University of Missouri, USA) Hans Georg Zimmermann (Siemens AG, Germany) For details and abstracts see the workshop website at http://www.idsia.ch/~doug/icann/index.html For registration see the ICANN website at http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/icann/ Workshop: KERNEL & SUBSPACE METHODS FOR COMPUTER VISION Co-organizers: Ales Leonardis, Horst Bischof http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/~bis/kernelws/ Scope of the workshop: This half-day workshop will be held in conjunction with ICANN 2001 on August 25, 2001 in Vienna. In the past years, we have been witnessing vivid developments of sophisticated kernel and subspace methods in neural network and pattern recognition communities on one hand and extensive use of these methods in the area of computer vision on the other hand. These methods seem to be especially relevant for object and scene recognition. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together scientists from the neural network (pattern recognition) and computer vision community to analyze new developments, identify open problems, and discuss possible solutions in the area of kernel & subspace methods such as: Support Vector Machines Independent Component Analysis Principle Component Analysis Canonical Correlation Analysis, etc. for computer vision problems such as: Object Recognition Navigation and Robotics 3D Vision, etc. Contributions in the above mentioned areas are welcome. The program will consist of invited and selected contributed papers. The papers selected for the workshop will appear in a Workshop Proceedings which will be distributed among the workshop participants. It is planned that selected papers from the workshop will be published in a journal. Important dates: Submission Deadline: 31.5.2001 Notification of Acceptance: 29.6.2001 Final Papers Due: 3.8.2001 Submission instructions: A complete paper, not longer than 12 pages including figures and references, should be submitted in the LNCS page format. The layout of final papers must adhere strictly to the guidelines set out in the Instructions for the Preparation of Camera-Ready Contributions to LNCS Proceedings. Authors are asked to follow these instructions exactly. In order to reduce the handling effort of papers we allow only for electronic submissions by ftp (either ps or pdf files). ftp ftp.prip.tuwien.ac.at [anonymous ftp, i.e.: Name: ftp Password: ] cd kernelws binary put .ext quit Workshop Registration: Registration for the Workshop can be done at the ICANN 2001 Homepage http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/icann/ Workshop: ADVANCES TOWARDS LIFE-LIKE PERCEPTION SYSTEMS Organizer: Leslie Smith The aim of the workshop is to discuss neuromorphic systems in sensory perception: mechanisms, coding schemes, scene analysis (whether visual, auditory, polfactory other sense), top-down and bottom up processing. We are particularly interested in the the nature of biological relevance (and indeed, whether this is really necessary) and the sensing-perception-action loop. We seek 1 page contributions by May 31. We are considering organising publication of the workshop. For further information, see http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/icann/txt/workshop-lps.html Leslie S Smith lss@cs.stir.ac.uk tel: +44 1786 46 7435 fax: +44 1786 46 4551 Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK From owner-administrative_all@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU Sat May 12 17:30:48 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00406 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 17:30:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mouston.rutgers.edu (mouston.rutgers.edu [165.230.4.99]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00450 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 17:31:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 13194 invoked from network); 12 May 2001 21:25:33 -0000 Received: from mouston.rutgers.edu (HELO mouston) (165.230.4.99) by mouston.rutgers.edu with SMTP; 12 May 2001 21:25:33 -0000 Received: from EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU by EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 5004206 for ADMINISTRATIVE_ALL@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU; Sat, 12 May 2001 17:25:19 -0400 Approved-By: russell@HR.RUTGERS.EDU Delivered-To: administrative_all@email.rutgers.edu Received: (qmail 20036 invoked from network); 10 May 2001 15:07:07 -0000 Received: from amenti.rutgers.edu (@165.230.116.133) by mouston.rutgers.edu with SMTP; 10 May 2001 15:07:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 20930 invoked by uid 27449); 10 May 2001 15:04:42 -0000 X-Sender: souren@amenti.rutgers.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:04:42 -0400 Reply-To: David SOUREN Sender: All University Faculty and Staff From: David SOUREN Subject: Dell Inspiron Battery Recall To: ADMINISTRATIVE_ALL@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU Status: O I am writing on behalf of the RUCS Computer Store to provide you with information concerning a potential safety problem with the Dell Inspiron 5000 series laptop. The article below from Information Week describes the issue and how to contact Dell for a replacement battery. Individuals or departments who would like assistance in determining whether their Inspiron is effected by the recall may contact RUCS Computer Repair at (732) 445-5000. Computer Repair will inspect the system in their repair center for no charge and provide advice concerning the status of the battery. Interested clients may contact Bob Schwarz at the number above to schedule an appointment. Dell Recalls Batteries Dell Computer is recalling more than 284,000 batteries used in its Inspiron 5000 and 5000e notebooks, after discovering a defect that can cause the computers to overheat. In an incident reported in late March, one of the batteries caused a notebook to catch fire. Damage was minimal and there were no injuries, a Dell spokesman said. 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Souren- Associate Director Rutgers University Computing Services 35 Berrue Circle, Livingston Campus Piscataway, N.J. 08854 souren@rci.rutgers.edu Voice-(732) 445-4114 FAX-(732) 445-2764 From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Sat May 12 22:05:24 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA03696 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 22:05:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa12418; 12 May 2001 17:34 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa12412; 12 May 2001 17:19 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa22452; 12 May 2001 17:18 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa19421; 12 May 2001 16:22 EDT Received: from smtp2.libero.it by edrc.cmu.edu id aa23196; 12 May 2001 16:21 EDT Received: from daredevil (151.21.192.49) by smtp2.libero.it (5.5.025) id 3AE981AF00351845 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Sat, 12 May 2001 22:21:44 +0200 Reply-To: ai4bio@dsi.unifi.it MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu From: Paolo Frasconi To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Call for participation: NATO ASI on AI and Bioinformatics Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 22:28:28 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Status: O The following meeting may be of interest to researchers interested in neural networks applied to computational biology. Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Methods for Bioinformatics A NATO Advanced Studies Institute San Miniato, Italy October 1-11, 2001 www.dsi.unifi.it/ai4bio Application deadline: July 25, 2001 Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics (e.g., machine learning and data mining, pattern recognition, cluster analysis, search, knowledge representation) can provide key solutions for the new challenges posed by the progressive transformation of biology into a data-massive science. This school is targeted to scientists who want to learn about the most recent advancements in the application of intelligent systems to computational biology. Topics: Computational analysis of biological data. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and heuristic methods, including neural and belief networks. Prediction of protein structure (secondary structure, contact maps). The working draft of the human genome. Genome annotation. Computational tools for gene regulation. Analysis of gene expression data and their applications. Computer assisted drug discovery. Knowledge discovery in biological domains. Lecturers: Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine) Soeren Brunak (CBSA, The Technical University of Denmark) Rita Casadio (CIRB, University of Bologna) Antonello Covacci (Chiron Italia) Paolo Frasconi (DSI, University of Florence) Terry Gaasterland (Rockefeller University) Dan Geiger (Technion, Israel) Mikhail Gelfand (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow) David Haussler (University of California, Santa Cruz) Nikolay A. Kolchanov (Inst. of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk) Richard H. Lathrop (University of California, Irvine) Heiko Mueller (Pharmacia & Upjohn, Milano) Steve Muggleton (Imperial College, London) Burkhard Rost (Columbia University)=A0 Roberto Serra (Montecatini SpA, Ravenna) Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv University) Co-directors: Paolo Frasconi (University of Florence) Email: paolo@dsi.unifi.it www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv University) Email: rshamir@ tau.ac.il www.math.tau.ac.il/~rshamir Limited grants have been made available by NATO to cover the accommodation and/or travel expenses of selected attendees. A limited number of travel awards will be made available by the National Science Foundation for U.S. citizens or permanent residents. For APPLICATION, CONTRIBUTING PAPERS, GRANTS, FEES, and further information please visit http://www.dsi.unifi.it/ai4bio From it_training0011@yahoo.com Sun May 13 14:12:08 2001 Received: from yahoo.com (ppp-boonet2-101.boo.net [208.184.99.101]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA14645; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:12:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Subject: IT_TRAINING_SCHOLARSHIPS Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 14:17:15 Message-Id: <243.75110.108463@yahoo.com> Reply-To: scholars@boo.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: O COMPUTER AND IT TRAINING SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FACULTY, STAFF & STUDENTS Dear Faculty/Staff/Student, National Education Foundation (NEF) CyberLearning, a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the Digital Divide since 1994, is offering tuition-free on-line training in Information Technology to the first 10,000 applicants. 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From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Sun May 13 21:42:40 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21135 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 21:42:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa15668; 13 May 2001 18:34 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa15666; 13 May 2001 18:22 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa23670; 13 May 2001 18:22 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa24003; 13 May 2001 7:48 EDT Received: from ludens.elte.hu by edrc.cmu.edu id aa29047; 13 May 2001 7:48 EDT Received: from valerie.inf.elte.hu by ludens.elte.hu (MX V4.2 AXP) with SMTP; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:47:05 +0200 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:47:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: LORINCZ Andras Reply-To: LORINCZ Andras To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: TR on Event Learning and Robust Policy Heuristics Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O A technical report is now available, from http://people.inf.elte.hu/lorincz/NIPG-ELU-14-05-2001.ps.gz TITLE Event Learning and Robust Policy Heuristics ABSTRACT In this paper we introduce a novel form of reinforcement learning called event-learning or E-learning. In our method an event is an ordered pair of two consecutive states. We define event-value function and derive learning rules which are guaranteed to converge to the optimal event-value function. Combining our method with a well-known robust control method, the SDS algorithm, we introduce Robust Policy Heuristics (RPH). It is shown that RPH, a fast-adapting non-Markovian policy, is particularly useful for coarse models of the environment and for partially observed systems. As such, RPH alleviates the `curse of dimensionality' problem. Fast adaptation can be used to separate time scales of learning the value functions of a Markovian decision making problem and adaptation, the utilization of a non-Markovian policy. We shall argue that (i) the definition of modules is straightforward for E-learning, (ii) E-learning extends naturally to policy switching, and (iii) E-learning promotes planning. Computer simulations of a two-link pendulum with coarse discretization and noisy controller are shown to demonstrate the principle. Comments are more than welcome. Andras Lorincz www.inf.elte.hu/~lorincz From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Sun May 13 21:42:41 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21139 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 21:42:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa15704; 13 May 2001 18:37 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa15670; 13 May 2001 18:22 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa23677; 13 May 2001 18:22 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa24112; 13 May 2001 8:24 EDT Received: from pantheon-po03.its.yale.edu by ri.cmu.edu id aa07700; 13 May 2001 8:23 EDT Received: from yale.edu (tedc@net166-245.its.yale.edu [130.132.166.245]) by pantheon-po03.its.yale.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11807; Sun, 13 May 2001 08:23:42 -0400 (EDT) Sender: tedc@pantheon.yale.edu Message-ID: <3AFE7D08.B58203CC@yale.edu> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:24:40 -0400 From: Ted Carnevale Organization: Psychology Dept., Yale University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Connectionists group Subject: NEURON 2001 Summer Course Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O The registration deadline for the NEURON 2001 Summer Course is rapidly approaching (May 25), but a few seats remain available. For more information and an application form see http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/sdsc2001/sdsc2001.htm --Ted From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Mon May 14 18:50:36 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA18886 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:50:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa19513; 14 May 2001 15:44 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa19509; 14 May 2001 15:36 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa24862; 14 May 2001 15:36 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa03220; 14 May 2001 14:55 EDT Received: from coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk by edrc.cmu.edu id aa11920; 14 May 2001 14:53 EDT Received: from cogito.ecs.soton.ac.uk (cogito.ecs.soton.ac.uk [152.78.70.179]) by coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA23039; Mon, 14 May 2001 19:57:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (harnad@localhost) by cogito.ecs.soton.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA15570; Mon, 14 May 2001 20:03:24 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: cogito.ecs.soton.ac.uk: harnad owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:03:23 +0100 (BST) From: Stevan Harnad To: behanal , Cognitive Science List , philos-l Subject: BBS Call for Commentators: VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article [Please note that this paper was accepted and archived to the web in October 2000 but the recent move of BBS to New York delayed the Call until now.] A SENSORIMOTOR ACCOUNT OF VISION AND VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS by J. Kevin O'Regan Alva Noe http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/ORegan/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls@bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 8000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to nominate someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. A full electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the online BBSPrints Archive, at the URL that follows the abstract below. _____________________________________________________________ A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness J. Kevin O'Regan Laboratoire de Psychologie Expirimentale Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Universiti Reni Descartes, 92774 Boulogne Billancourt, France oregan@ext.jussieu.fr http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr Alva Noe Department of Philosophy University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064 anoe@cats.ucsc.edu http://www2.ucsc.edu/people/anoe/ KEYWORDS: Sensation, Perception, Action, Consciousness, Experience, Qualia, Sensorimotor, Vision, Change blindness ABSTRACT: Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical and psychological approaches to vision rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the world. The activation of this internal representation is assumed to give rise to the experience of seeing. The problem with this kind of approach is that it leaves unexplained how the existence of such a detailed internal representation might produce visual consciousness. An alternative proposal is made here. We propose that seeing is a way of acting. It is a particular way of exploring the environment. Activity in internal representations does not generate the experience of seeing. The outside world serves as its own, external, representation. The experience of seeing occurs when the organism masters what we call the governing laws of sensorimotor contingency. The advantage of this approach is that it provides a natural and principled way of accounting for visual consciousness, and for the differences in the perceived quality of sensory experience in the different sensory modalities. Several lines of empirical evidence are brought forward in support of the theory, in particular: evidence from experiments in sensorimotor adaptation, visual "filling in", visual stability despite eye movements, change blindness, sensory substitution, and color perception. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/ORegan/ ___________________________________________________________ Please do not prepare a commentary yet. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. We will then let you know whether it was possible to include your name on the final formal list of invitees. _______________________________________________________________________ *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENTS *** (1) The authors of scientific articles are not paid money for their refereed research papers; they give them away. 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Meantime please see: http://www.bbsonline.org/help/ and http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- (3) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). From warfield@ias.edu Tue May 15 14:38:25 2001 Received: from mailgate.ias.edu (mailgate.ias.edu [192.16.204.20]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12958; Tue, 15 May 2001 14:38:20 -0400 (EDT) From: warfield@ias.edu Received: from prague.math.ias.edu (prague.math.ias.edu [192.108.106.25]) by mailgate.ias.edu (8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13715; Tue, 15 May 2001 14:38:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from warfield@localhost) by prague.math.ias.edu (8.9.3+Sun/Pro-8.9.3) id OAA09831; Tue, 15 May 2001 14:38:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:38:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200105151838.OAA09831@prague.math.ias.edu> To: carlk@cs.princeton.edu, deturck@math.upenn.edu, kazdan@math.upenn.edu, mpugh@math.upenn.edu, muckenho@math.rutgers.edu, sahi@math.rutgers.edu, speer@math.rutgers.edu, sussmann@math.rutgers.edu, taylor@math.rutgers.edu, tilla@math.rutgers.edu, treves@math.rutgers.edu, vinod@research.nj.nec.com, vogelius@math.rutgers.edu, weinan@cims.nyu.edu, wheeden@math.rutgers.edu, wsweeney@math.rutgers.edu, xinz@cims.nyu.edu, xiu@math.princeton.edu, yang@math.princeton.edu Subject: Computational Complexity Reading Seminar for May 22, 2001 Status: O INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY School of Mathematics Princeton, NJ 08540 Mathematics Seminars Week of May 21, 2001 COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY READING SEMINAR Tuesday 10:15-12:15 Speaker: Yaoyun Shi, Princeton University May 22 SH-101 Paper: "Quantum circuits that can be simulated classically in polynomial time" by L. Valiant _____________________________ IAS Math Seminars are on our Home Page: http://www.math.ias.edu From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue May 15 17:12:48 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA18105 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 17:12:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa23423; 15 May 2001 13:58 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa23420; 15 May 2001 13:43 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa27236; 15 May 2001 13:42 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa10752; 15 May 2001 8:37 EDT Received: from platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk by ri.cmu.edu id aa29399; 15 May 2001 8:37 EDT Received: from sartre.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (sartre.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.188.2]) by platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA01316; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:37:25 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:37:24 +0100 (BST) From: John Shawe-Taylor X-X-Sender: To: community@mlnet.org, Connectionists Mailing List , colt@cs.uiuc.edu MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Applications of learning to text and images In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O Research Assistant Opening in Kernel Based Methods (see also web site: www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/vacancies/RAkernels.shtml ) Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London Three year postdoctoral appointment available immediately Royal Holloway, University of London invites applications for a research assistant position in computer science. The salary is competitive and the work is associated with a new European-funded project directed by John Shawe-Taylor. The project involves developing kernel based methods for the analysis of multi-media documents provided by Reuters, who are collaborators on the project. The project is financed by the EU and also involves partners in France (Xerox), Italy (Genova University, Milano University) and Israel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). We are seeking a researcher with experience in corpus based methods of information retrieval and document categorisation, and a strong programming background. Experience with kernel methods is desirable but not required. Salary is in the range 20,865 to 27,347 per annum inclusive of London Allowance. Please contact John Shawe-Taylor by email at jst@cs.rhul.ac.uk for more information. From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed May 16 01:26:02 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA27673 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 01:26:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa23477; 15 May 2001 14:06 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa23425; 15 May 2001 13:43 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa27243; 15 May 2001 13:43 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa11084; 15 May 2001 9:34 EDT Received: from bionix.biols.susx.ac.uk by cs.cmu.edu id aa07333; 15 May 2001 9:34 EDT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=biols.susx.ac.uk ident=ncpw7) by bionix.biols.susx.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #5) id 14zey2-00NtGB-00; Tue, 15 May 2001 14:34:26 +0100 Sender: ncpw7@skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Message-ID: <3B013060.997D52FB@biols.susx.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:34:25 +0100 From: neural computation workshop Organization: Sussex University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX64 6.5 IP27) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, ncpw7@biols.susx.ac.uk Subject: Call for papers for NCPW7 (Brighton, England) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: O Dear Connectionists I wish to bring peoples attention to the first call for papers: The Seventh Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW7) at Sussex University, Brighton Connectionist models of Cognition and Perception University of Sussex, Falmer, England >From Monday morning 17th,September, ending mid afternoon 19th September ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Roland Baddeley (Sussex University) William Lowe (Harvard University) John Bullinaria (Reading University) Samantha Harltley (Liverpool University) CONTACT DETAILS For any problems or questions, please send e-mail to Roland Baddeley (ncpw7@biols.susx.ac.uk) URL: http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/Roland_Baddeley/NCPW7/NCPW7.html AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The Seventh Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW7) will be held in Brighton, England from September 17-19, 2001. Each year this highly focused conference attracts a select group of (mostly, but not exclusively, European) neural network modellers specifically interested in psychology and neuropsychology. The theme of this year's workshop is neural network modelling in the areas of Cognition and Perception. Between 25-30 papers will be accepted as oral presentations. In addition to the high quality of the papers presented, this Workshop is always of limited size and takes place in an informal setting, both of which are explicitly designed to encourage interaction among the researchers present. Although we are particularly interested in models of cognition and perception, we will consider all papers that have something to do with the announced topic, even if rather tangentially. The organisation of the final program will depend on the submissions received. As in previous years, the Workshop will be reasonably small and hopefully very friendly, with no parallel sessions and plenty of time to enjoy Brighton. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS There will be approximately 30-35 paper presentations. Abstracts (approximately 200 words) are due by July 14 and should be emailed to ncpw7@biols.susx.ac.uk. Notification of acceptance for a paper presentation will be by July 31st. REGISTRATION, ETC. The cost for Registration will be 60.00. This will include breakfast, lunch, tea and biscuits, but not evening meals (with Brighton- why?). Accommodation will be 84 for three nights in ?superior? student accommodation. From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed May 16 05:25:59 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA00190 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 05:25:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab23477; 15 May 2001 14:06 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa23427; 15 May 2001 13:44 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa27252; 15 May 2001 13:43 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa11774; 15 May 2001 10:42 EDT Received: from dulce.mic.dundee.ac.uk by ri.cmu.edu id aa00915; 15 May 2001 10:41 EDT Received: from lagavulin (lagavulin.dyn.computing.dundee.ac.uk [134.36.34.38]) by dulce.mic.dundee.ac.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id K3P38QCC; Tue, 15 May 2001 15:39:49 +0100 Message-ID: <052c01c0dd4c$c42ed370$26222486@dyn.computing.dundee.ac.uk> From: Stephen McKenna To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Potsdoc position in vision and learning Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:38:54 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Status: O The following postdoc position may be of interest. UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, UK, School of Engineering Department of Applied Computing POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN COMPUTER VISION (Grade RA1A : 18,731 - 23,256) Candidates are invited to apply for a 2 year Postdoctoral position in the Department of Applied Computing at the University of Dundee. The post is funded by an EPSRC project "Advanced Sensors for Supportive Environments for the Elderly". The successful candidate will conduct research in the area of computer vision-based monitoring, learning and recognition of human action within the context of this application. The Department of Applied Computing was awarded a "5A" rating in the UK RAE. Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline (e.g. computer vision, machine learning). Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Stephen McKenna,tel: (01382) 344732; e-mail: stephen@computing.dundee.ac.uk Further details of the department and this post can be found at http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/projects/supportiveenvironments Applications by CV & covering letter (2 copies of each), complete with the names, addresses, telephone/fax numbers/e-mail addresses of 2 referees should be sent to Personnel Services, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN. Further Particulars are available for this post, tel: (01382) 344015. Please quote Reference: SE/151/1. Applicants will only be contacted if invited for interview. Closing date: 7 June 2001. The University of Dundee is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/ From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed May 16 11:20:02 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA07959 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 11:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa25185; 16 May 2001 0:02 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa25183; 15 May 2001 23:50 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa27775; 15 May 2001 23:49 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa13487; 15 May 2001 13:26 EDT Received: from mercure.IRO.UMontreal.CA by edrc.cmu.edu id aa24859; 15 May 2001 13:25 EDT Received: from neumann.IRO.UMontreal.CA (IDENT:kegl@neumann.IRO.UMontreal.CA [132.204.26.55]) by mercure.IRO.UMontreal.CA (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4FHPVS12431; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:25:31 -0400 Message-Id: <200105151725.f4FHPVS12431@mercure.IRO.UMontreal.CA> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu cc: kegl@IRO.UMontreal.CA Subject: Principal Curves page updated and moved From: Balazs Kegl Reply-To: Balazs Kegl Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:25:31 -0400 Sender: kegl@neumann.IRO.UMontreal.CA Status: O Dear connectionists, I updated my Principal Curves web page and moved it to http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~kegl/research/pcurves/ Recent references are included, and a new version of the java implementation of the Polygonal Line Algorithm [1,2] is available. The most important new features are - arbitrary-dimensional input data - loading/downloading your own data and saving the results - adjusting the parameters of the algorithm in an interactive fashion [1] B. Kgl, A. Krzyzak, T. Linder, and K. Zeger "Learning and design of principal curves" IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 281-297, 2000. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~kegl/research/publications/keglKrzyzakLinderZeger99.ps [2] B. Kgl "Principal curves: learning, design, and applications," Ph. D. Thesis, Concordia University, Canada, 1999. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~kegl/research/publications/thesis.ps Comments are welcome. Balazs Kegl -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balzs Kgl Assistant Professor E-mail: kegl@iro.umontreal.ca Dept. of Computer Science and Op. Res. Phone: (514) 343-7401 University of Montreal Fax: (514) 343-5834 CP 6128 succ. Centre-Ville http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~kegl/ Montreal, Canada H3C 3J7 From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed May 16 18:08:47 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA22029 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 18:08:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa28199; 16 May 2001 14:51 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa28196; 16 May 2001 14:42 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa28811; 16 May 2001 14:42 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa26887; 16 May 2001 11:20 EDT Received: from tesla.salk.edu by cs.cmu.edu id aa23252; 16 May 2001 11:19 EDT Received: from moniz.salk.edu (moniz.salk.edu [198.202.70.26]) by tesla.salk.edu (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f4GFJiO19136 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 08:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from scott@localhost) by moniz.salk.edu (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f4GFGuU41667 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Wed, 16 May 2001 08:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:16:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Makeig Message-Id: <200105161516.f4GFGuU41667@moniz.salk.edu> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Call for Papers ICA2001 Status: O CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS ICA2001 http://ica2001.org Third International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation San Diego, California December 9-13, 2001 Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is emerging as a new standard area of signal processing and data analysis. ICA attempts to solve the blind source separation problem in which sensor signals are unknown mixtures of unknown source signals. While there are no general analytical solutions, in the last decade researchers have proposed good approximate methods based on simple assumptions about the source statistics and using maximum likelihood, information maximization and minimization of higher-order moments. ICA theory has received attention from several research communities including machine learning, neural networks, statistical signal processing and Bayesian modeling. More recently numerous applications of ICA have appeared including applications to adaptive speech filtering, speech signal coding, biomedical signal processing, image compression, text modeling and financial data analysis. ICA2001 will feature the latest developments in the new field of blind source separation. The Workshop will feature internationally respected keynote speakers, poster sessions, and symposia on theory, on algorithms and on applications to a wide range of fields and data types. The Conference recreational program includes an informal banquet and a unique opening cocktail party / unmixer. This, the third international meeting in this series, is being hosted by the Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD. The previous two meetings were held in Aussois, France (December, 1999) and Helsinki, Finland (June, 2000). This year's event will be held December 9-13, 2001 immediately following the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Vancouver, Canada and its post-conference workshops. 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--MuLtIpArT_BoUnDaRy-- From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Thu May 17 00:52:06 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA00205 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 00:52:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa28238; 16 May 2001 14:54 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa28201; 16 May 2001 14:43 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa28820; 16 May 2001 14:43 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa22331; 16 May 2001 3:05 EDT Received: from taku.hut.fi by ri.cmu.edu id aa11815; 16 May 2001 3:05 EDT Received: from neuro.hut.fi (ojensen@neuro.hut.fi [130.233.172.1]) by taku.hut.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21637 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 10:05:20 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from localhost (ojensen@localhost) by neuro.hut.fi (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA24324 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 10:05:19 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:05:19 +0300 (EET DST) From: Ole Jensen Reply-To: Ole Jensen To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: papers on phase coding Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to two papers on phase coding and information transfer between rhythmically coupled networks. The papers area available in PDF at http://boojum.hut.fi/~ojensen/ or contact me for hard copies. Ole Jensen ========================================================================= Jensen. O. (in press) Information transfer between rhythmically coupled networks: reading the hippocampal phase code. Neural Computation Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 2200, FIN-02015 Espoo, Finland There are numerous reports on rhythmic coupling between separate brain networks. It has been proposed that this rhythmic coupling indicates exchange of information. So far, few computational models have been proposed which explore this principle and its potential computational benefits. Recent results on hippocampal place cells of the rat provide new insight: it has been shown that information about space is encoded by the firing of place cells with respect to the phase of the ongoing theta rhythm. This principle is termed phase coding and suggests that upcoming locations (predicted by the hippocampus) are encoded by cells firing late in the theta cycle, whereas current location is encoded by early firing at the theta phase. A network reading the hippocampal output must inevitably also receive an oscillatory theta input in order to decipher the phase coded firing patterns. In this work I propose a simple physiologically plausible mechanism implemented as an oscillatory network which can decode the hippocampal output. By changing only the phase of the theta input to the decoder, qualitatively different information is transferred: the theta phase determines whether representations of current or upcoming locations are read by the decoder. The proposed mechanism provides a computational principle for information transfer between oscillatory networks and might generalize to brain networks beyond the hippocampal region. ========================================================================== Jensen O. and J.E. Lisman (2000) Position reconstruction from an ensemble of hippocampal place cells: contribution of theta phase coding. Journal of Neurophysiology 83:2602-2609 Department of Biology, Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454 Previous analysis of the firing of individual rat hippocampal place cells has shown that their firing rate increases when they enter a place field and that their phase of firing relative to the ongoing theta oscillation (7-12 Hz) varies systematically as the rat traverses the place field, a phenomenon termed the theta phase precession. To study the relative contribution of phased-coded and rate-coded information, we reconstructed the animal's position on a linear track using spikes recorded simultaneously from 38 hippocampal neurons. Two previous studies of this kind found no evidence that phase information substantially improves reconstruction accuracy. We have found that reconstruction is improved provided epochs with large, systematic errors are first excluded. With this condition, use of both phase and rate information improves the reconstruction accuracy by >43% as compared with the use of rate information alone. Furthermore, it becomes possible to predict the rat's position on a 204-cm track with very high accuracy (error of <3 cm). The best reconstructions were obtained with more than three phase divisions per theta cycle. These results strengthen the hypothesis that information in rat hippocampal place cells is encoded by the phase of theta at which cells fire. ============================================================================== Ole Jensen, Ph.D. Helsinki University of Technology Low Temperature Laboratory Otakaari 3A P.O. 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I don't use any automatic email harvesting programs or buy any email address lists. * In case your email is being forwarded, the address I sent this to is: Hector Sussmann From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue May 22 02:27:59 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA11978 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 02:27:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa16940; 22 May 2001 0:32 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa16929; 22 May 2001 0:28 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa09973; 22 May 2001 0:27 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa14017; 21 May 2001 23:38 EDT Received: from fe7.southeast.rr.com by cs.cmu.edu id aa05306; 21 May 2001 23:38 EDT Received: from [24.162.231.193] ([24.162.231.168]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 21 May 2001 23:38:00 -0400 X-Sender: skemp@pop.unc.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 23:38:10 -0400 To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu From: "Steven M. 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If the problem is that you don't have Adobe Acrobat, you can get it (for free) here: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Situational Descriptions of Behavioral Procedures: The In Situ Testbed Steven M. Kemp and David A. Eckerman, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (2001), vol. 75, pp. 135-164. Abstract We demonstrate In Situ testbed, a system that aids in evaluating computational models of learning, including artificial neural networks. The testbed models contingencies of reinforcement using an extension of Mechner's notational system for the description of behavioral procedures. These contingencies are input to the model under test. The model's output is displayed as cumulative records. The cumulative record can then be compared to one produced by a pigeon exposed to the same contingencies. The testbed is tried with three published models of learning. Each model is exposed to up to three reinforcement schedules (testing ends when the model does not produce acceptable cumulative records): continuous reinforcement/extinction, fixed ratio, and fixed interval. The In Situ testbed appears to be a reliable and valid testing procedure for comparing models of learning. Key words: neural networks, reinforcement schedules, situated action, cumulative records, learning theory, Mechner diagrams, extinction, key peck, computer simulation, Markov decision process, POMDP. -- Steve Kemp [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Steven M. 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--MuLtIpArT_BoUnDaRy-- From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed May 23 03:12:22 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA14744 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 03:12:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa21464; 23 May 2001 0:39 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa21460; 23 May 2001 0:32 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa12247; 23 May 2001 0:32 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id ab26310; 23 May 2001 0:21 EDT Received: from pisun.pi.titech.ac.jp by ri.cmu.edu id aa04928; 23 May 2001 0:20 EDT Received: from aska.pi.titech.ac.jp (aska.pi.titech.ac.jp [131.112.138.129]) by pisun.pi.titech.ac.jp (8.8.8/3.7W01042714) with SMTP id NAA01485 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 13:20:26 +0900 (JST) Received: (qmail 7439 invoked from network); 23 May 2001 04:22:57 -0000 Received: from ohtipp24.pi.titech.ac.jp (HELO titech42lg8r0u) (131.112.138.152) by aska.pi.titech.ac.jp with SMTP; 23 May 2001 04:22:57 -0000 Message-ID: <000701c0e340$7fdbd7a0$988a7083@titech42lg8r0u> From: Sumio Watanabe To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Geometry and Statistics in NN Learning Theory Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:26:12 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Status: O Dear Connectionists, We are very grad to inform that we have a special session, "Geometry and Statistics in Neural Network Learning Theory" http://watanabe-www.pi.titech.ac.jp/~swatanab/kes2001.html in the International Conference KES'2001, which will be held in Oska and Nara in Japan, 6th - 8th, September, 2001. http://www.bton.ac.uk/kes/kes2001/ In our session, we study the statistical problem caused by non-identifiability of layered learning machines. Information : * Date: September, 8th (Saturday), 2001, 14:40-16:45. * Place: Nara New Public Hall, Nara City, Japan. * Schedule: The time for each presentation is 25 minutes. * (Remark) Before this session, Professor Amari gives an invited talk, 13:40-14:40. ********** The authors and papers: You can get these papers from the cite, http://watanabe-www.pi.titech.ac.jp/~swatanab/kes2001.html (1) S. Amari, T.Ozeki, and H.Park (RIKEN BSI) "Singularities in Learning Models:Gaussian Random Field Approach." (2) K. Fukumizu (ISM) "Asymptotic Theory of Locally Conic Models and its Application to Multilayer Neural Networks." (3) K.Hagiwara (Mie Univ.) "On the training error and generalization error of neural network regression without identifiablity." (4) T. Hayasaka, M.Kitahara, K.Hagiwara, N.Toda, and S.Usui (TUT) "On the Asymptotic Distribution of the Least Squares Estimators for Non-identifiable Models." (5) S. Watanabe (TIT) "Bayes and Gibbs Estimations, Empirical Processes, and Resolution of Singularities." ********** A Short Introduction: [Why Non-identifiability ?] A parametric model in statistics is called identifiable if the mappning from the parameter to the probability distribution is one-to-one. A lot of learning machines used in information processing, such as artificial neural networks, normal mixtures, and Boltzmann machines are not identifiable. We do not yet have mathematical and statistical foundation on which we can research such models. [Singularities and Asymptotics ] If a non-identifiable model is redundant compared with the true distribution, then the set of true paramters is an analytic set with complex singularities, and the rank of the Fisher information matrix depends on the parameter. The behaviors of the training and generalization errors of layered learning machines are quite different from those of regular statistical models. It should be emphasized that we can not apply the standard asymptotic methods constructed by Fisher, Cramer, and Rao to these models. Either we can not use AIC, MDL, or BIC in statistical model selection for design of artificial neural networks. [Geometry and Statistics ] The purpose of this special session is to study and discuss the geometrical and statistical methodology by which non-identifiable learning machines can be analyzed. Remark that conic singularities are given by blowing-downs, and normal crossing singularities are found by blowing-ups. These algebraic geometrical methods take us to the statistical concepts, the order statistic and the empirical process. We find that a new perspective in geometry and statistics is opened. [Results which will be reported] (1) Professor Amari, et. al. clarify the generaliztion and traning errors of learning models of conic singularities in both the maximum likelihood method and the Bayesian method using the gaussian random field approach. (2) Dr. Fukumizu proves that a three layered neural network can be understood as a locally conic model, and that the asymptotic likelihood ratio is in proportion to (log n), where n is the number of training samples. (3) Dr. Hagiwara shows that the training and generalization errors of radial basis functions with gaussian units are in proportion to (log n) based on the assumption that the inputs are fixed. (4) Dr. Hayasaka, et.al. claim that the training error of three-layer perceptron is closely related to the expectation value of the order statistic. (5) Lastly, Dr.Watanabe studies the Bayes and Gibbs estimations for the case of statistical models with normal crossing singularities, and shows all general cases result in this case by resolution theorem. We expect that mathematicians, statisticians, information scientists, and theoretical physists will be interested in this topic. ********** Thank you very much for your interest in our special session. For questions or comments, please send an e-mail to Dr. Sumio Watanabe, P&I Lab., Tokyo Institute of Technology. E-mail: swatanab@pi.titech.ac.jp http://watanabe-www.pi.titech.ac.jp/~swatanab/index.html [Postal Mail] 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503 Japan. From iccta@vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg Wed May 23 21:21:28 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18679 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 21:21:28 -0400 (EDT) From: iccta@vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg Received: from vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg (root@vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg [137.132.165.78]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29453; Wed, 23 May 2001 21:21:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from iccta@localhost) by vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f4O1Alt04931; Thu, 24 May 2001 09:10:47 +0800 Message-Id: <200105240110.f4O1Alt04931@vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg> Subject: Final Call for Papers (ICCTA'01) To: iccta@vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:10:47 +0800 (SGT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O > THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS > > Final Call for Papers > > The Third International Conference on Control Theory and Applications, > ICCTA'01, will be held at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, the > Administrative Capital of South Africa, December 12-14, 2001. The > conference is jointly organised by the IEEE Control Chapter, Singapore > and the IEEE South African Section. It creates a forum for scientists, > engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest > research, results and ideas in the area of control theory and > applications. > > Three keynote addresses, > > * Practical Aspects of Nonlinear Control > Professor Graham C. Goodwin > Fellow IEEE > The University of Newcastle > > * Control and Observation of Quantum Systems > Professor Tzyh-Jong Tarn > Fellow IEEE > Washington University at St. Louis > > * University-Industry Collaborative Research: Observations, Criticism, > and Suggestions through Personal Experience > Professor Clarence W. de Silva > Fellow IEEE > The University of British Columbia > > and contributed papers will be included. 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--MuLtIpArT_BoUnDaRy-- From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri May 25 20:56:55 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA17124 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 20:56:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa03165; 25 May 2001 18:35 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa03157; 25 May 2001 18:21 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa16841; 25 May 2001 18:21 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa17353; 25 May 2001 6:54 EDT Received: from postbox.dai.ed.ac.uk by edrc.cmu.edu id aa05907; 25 May 2001 6:53 EDT Received: from curlew (curlew.dai.ed.ac.uk [129.215.41.194]) by postbox.dai.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA15175 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 11:53:50 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:53:45 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Williams To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: PhD opportunities at the University of Edinburgh, UK Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O PhD opportunities at the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, UK The Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC, http://anc.ed.ac.uk) is part of the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. The Institute fosters the study of adaptive processes in both artificial and biological systems. It encourages interdisciplinary and collaborative work involving the traditional disciplines of neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, computational science, mathematics and statistics. Many of the information-processing tasks under study draw on a common set of principles and mathematical techniques for their solution. Combined study of the adaptive nature of artificial and biological systems facilitates the many benefits accruing from treating essentially the same problem from different perspectives. A principal theme is the study of artificial learning systems. This includes theoretical foundations (e.g. statistical theory, information theory), the development of new models and algorithms, and applications. A second principal theme is the analysis and modelling of brain processes at all levels of organization with a particular focus on theoretical developments which span levels. Within this theme, research areas are broadly defined as the study of the neural foundations of perception, cognition and action and their underlying developmental processes. A secondary theme is the construction and study of computational tools and methods which can support studies in the two principal themes, such as in the analysis of brain data, simulation of networks and parallel data mining. Currently we have PhD studentships available as from 1 October 2001. These are supported by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). In addition, the Division of Informatics receives a number of EPSRC studentships for which students wishing to study within the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation will be considered. PLEASE NOTE: Full funding under these studentships is only available to persons who satisfy a UK residence requirement (see www.epsrc.ac.uk/Documents/Guides/Students/Annex1.htm for more details). Under these studentships funding of university fees (but not maintenance) is available for EU nationals. To qualify for funding candidates must also have (or expect to receive) a good honours degree (1st or upper second class) (or equivalent). APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Formal applications should be made using the University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Application Form available via http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/research.html and should be sent to the Faculty of Science and Engineering office. We wish to award these studentships as soon as possible, therefore applications should be received by June 15. Informal enquiries should be made to the contacts given below. * MRC Ph.D. studentship in Neuroinformatics and Functional MRI (see http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/CFIS/hiring/MRC-PhD2.html for more details). Includes realtime methods in functional MRI, reproducibility of functional MRI brain imaging, and Bayesian Methods for the analysis of fMRI data. Contact: Dr. Nigel Goddard, Nigel.Goddard@ed.ac.uk * BBSRC studentship in the analysis of DNA microarray data (see http://www.bioss.ac.uk/student/newphdcag3.html for more details) Issues include: image analysis, to reduce noise and extract spot intensities; identification of differential gene expression between pairs of samples on a single microarray; exploratory graphical methods for analysing sets of arrays; and Bayesian networks to describe gene interactions. In collaboration with Dr. Chris Glasbey (Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland), c.glasbey@bioss.ac.uk. Applicants should have, or shortly expect to obtain, a first or upper second class degree in mathematics, statistics, physics informatics, mathematical biology, or a related subject. Please send a CV and names of three academic referees to: Chris Glasbey Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland JCMB, King's Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland email: c.glasbey@bioss.ac.uk Tel: (44) +131 650 4899 Fax: (44) +131 650 4901 * The EPSRC studentships are not specifically targeted, and can potentially support work in all areas that ANC works in. These include: theoretical and practical issues in machine learning and probabilistic modelling (including applications areas such as astronomical data mining, analysis of proteomics data, condition monitoring of premature babies, etc.); developing computational and mathematical models for the analysis of particular neural systems, in particular (i) models for the functioning of the basal ganglia (ii) models for the growth of optic projections in three-dimensional space; study of human cognitive processes, particularly language-related, using computational modeling and/or brain imaging approaches; software architectures and computational methods for neuroscience and cognitive science, including simulation, visualisation, and databases; connectionist cognitive modelling and cognitive modelling based on large language corpora, applied to modelling normal and impaired visual word recognition and spoken language processing. Informal enquiries may be made to Fiona Jamieson, fiona@anc.ed.ac.uk From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Mon May 28 02:28:06 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA22500 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 02:28:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa09457; 28 May 2001 0:08 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa09452; 27 May 2001 23:55 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa20929; 27 May 2001 23:54 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa32631; 27 May 2001 12:25 EDT Received: from morgana.elet.polimi.it by ri.cmu.edu id aa00994; 27 May 2001 12:25 EDT Received: from host pc-piu.elet.polimi.it and sender pc-piu.elet.polimi.it [131.175.21.51]; by mail relay Morgana.Elet.PoliMi.IT (Sendmail Ver. 8.x.x / 2 Nov. 1998); with protocol ESMTP and identifier SAA15240; for recipient ; on date and time Sun, 27 May 2001 18:24:53 +0200 (MET DST). Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010527182221.02e13230@morgana.elet.polimi.it> X-Sender: piuri@morgana.elet.polimi.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 18:26:31 +0200 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu From: Vincenzo Piuri Subject: NIMIA 2001 and LFTNC 2001: two great opportunities for phd students and researchers in the neural areas! do not miss them!!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: O Dear Colleague, Do not miss the opportunity to come to Italy once and attend at the following two international meetings!!!!!! - the NATO ASI NIMIA 2001 - NATO Advanced Study Institute on Neural Networks for Instrumentation, Measurement and Related Industrial Applications, to be held on 9-20 October 2001, in Crema, Italy. - the NATO ARW LFTNC 2001 - NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Limitations and Future Trends of Neural Computation, to be held on 22-24 October 2001, in Siena, Italy. Please forward this announcement to everybody who you feel could be interested in attending the meetings, especially to people working application areas! Since the attendance has to be approved by NATO, applications to attend should be submitted 15 JUNE 2001. Detailed information and the application forms are available at http://www.ims.unico.it/2001/ or at the mirror site at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/im/2001/ You are allowed to withdraw your application at any time. Submitting earlier will give us more time to look for possible additional funding if the grants which are now available will not be sufficient to cover all attendees. 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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of interest via email by July 8, 2001. Proposals should include title, description of what the workshop is to address and accomplish, proposed workshop length (1 or 2 days), planned format (e.g., lectures, group discussions, panel discussion, combinations of the above, etc.), and proposed speakers. Names of potential invitees should be given where possible. Preference will be given to workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for open discussion or panel discussion, as opposed to pure ``mini-conference'' format. An example format is: * Tutorial lecture providing background and introducing terminology relevant to the topic. * Two short lectures introducing different approaches, alternating with discussions after each lecture. * Discussion or panel presentation. * Short talks or panels alternating with discussion and question/answer sessions. * General discussion and wrap-up. We suggest that organizers allocate at least 50% of the workshop schedule to questions, discussion, and breaks. Past experience suggests that workshops otherwise degrade into mini-conferences as talks begin to run over. For the same reason, we strongly recommend that each workshop include no more than 12 talks. The proposal should motivate why the topic is of interest or controversial, why it should be discussed, and who the targeted group of participants is. It also should include a brief resume of the prospective workshop chair with a list of publications to establish scholarship in the field. We encourage workshops that build, continue, or arise from one or more workshops from previous years. Please mention any such connections. NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. In addition, the organizers of each accepted workshop can name up to four people (six people for 2-day workshops) to receive free registration for the workshop program. Submissions should include contact name (if there is more than one organizer, please designate one organizer as the ``contact person'') as well as addresses, email addresses, phone and fax numbers for all organizers. Proposals should be emailed as plain text to nips-workshop-proposal@cs.unm.edu. Please do not use attachments, Microsoft Word, postscript, html, or pdf files. Questions may be addressed to nips-workshop-admin@cs.unm.edu. Information about the main conference and the workshop program can be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS. Virginia de Sa, University of California, San Francisco Barak Pearlmutter, University of New Mexico NIPS*2001 Workshops Co-Chairs PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY JULY 8, 2001 -Please Post- From naiso@ITStransnational.com Fri Jun 1 20:36:47 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11108 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:36:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gco-exchange.194.151.89 ([194.151.89.23]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08742 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:37:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:37:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200106020037.UAA08742@hilbert.rutgers.edu> Received: from mail.global-conf.org ([194.151.89.23]) by gco-exchange.194.151.89 with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id LBKKLF7W; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:40:17 +0200 From: ICSC-NAISO To: sussmann@hamilton.rutgers.edu Subject: Call for papers and extended deadlines Reply-To: naiso@ITStransnational.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O The Call for papers hereafter is aimed at the scientific community interested in Networked Learning: World Conference NL 2002 - Networked Learning in a Global Environment: Challenges and Solutions for Virtual Education http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/nl2002 Sponsors of NL 2002 Virtual Global University for Worldwide Education http://www.vg-u.de Counsil of European Professional Informatics Societies http://www.cepis.org Gesellschaft für Informatik E.V. http://www.gi-ev.de Technical University of Berlin, Germany http://www.tu-berlin.de European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de ICSC-NAISO http://www.icsc-naiso.org Venue and Date May 1 - 4, 2002, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Background and Scope Telecommunications, computer networks, multimedia technologies, and the World Wide Web have opened up entirely new ways of teaching and learning ( across institutions, physical locations, countries, continents, and time zones. Students may work distributed worldwide and nevertheless interact in a virtual community. Academic programs are no longer provided by single institutions only but can be established by networked organizations like virtual universities or virtual faculties. Best-of-breed programs are created in the Internet by bringing together top experts from different schools in a virtual program. Powerful wireless technologies will accelerate these developments in the future. Distance education is no longer a matter of "learning in isolation". Collaborative tools like discussion groups, chatrooms, videoconferencing, etc. support immediate interaction between students and teachers and among students in virtual communities. In-company training does not require travelling and physical presence but can be done at the workplace. Geographical locations of students and teachers loose importance. Education in the 21st century is shifting from "real" to "virtual". Physical classes are more and more replaced by virtual networks of students and teachers. NL 2002 aims to bring together content providers, course developers, educators, persons responsible for academic programs or corporate education, platform and tools providers, researchers and system developers from academia and industry to exchange their ideas and experiences, to share the best practices and to foster further development in networked learning. Conference Topics The conference focuses on technological and organizational aspects of networked learning and teaching. Topics include, but are not restricted to: Organization of networked learning * Virtual universities and networked e-learning organizations * Corporate virtual universities, in-company training in distributed enterprises * Integrated e-learning systems, portals, marketplaces, and providers * New academic programs by virtual organizations and cooperation projects * E-learning for business professionals * Open source initiatives for e-learning * Pricing and business models for virtual distance learning * Success stories and pitfalls in e-learning Technology * Enabling technologies for networked learning: telecommunications and computer networks * Internet suited multimedia technologies: Audio and video streaming etc., learning on demand * Mobile learning: Wireless technologies, UMTS, GPRS, WAP * Leading edge and emerging technologies: Virtual reality, software agents, artificial intelligence tools * Integration of collaborative tools: Discussion groups, chatrooms, whiteboards, shared workspaces, e-mail, videoconferencing * Virtual classrooms for worldwide classes, virtual learning communities * Virtual management games * Quality assurance for virtual education Content production and delivery * Architectures and platforms for distributed teaching and learning * Multimedia production tools, authoring tools, delivery tools * E-learning life cycle models Globalization * The role of traditional educational institutions in global virtual learning * Cross-cultural learning * Networked learning and developing countries * Legal aspects and security of networked learning Contributions describing novel approaches to networked learning, practical experience, best practices, and cutting-edge future developments are encouraged. Contributions NL 2002 will include technical sessions as well as special events, such as keynote presentations, invited plenary talks, tutorials, workshops, panels, and exhibition. Regular Papers Prospective authors are requested to submit a paper of max. 7 pages to the address below (conference organizer). All papers must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. Poster Presentations Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer feedback for their work. Practical examples of applied research are particularly welcome. Papers discussing the respective posters will be included in the conference proceedings. (max 4 pages) Panels Proposals for panels should include a concise outline of the topics to be addressed (2-3 pages) and list the panel members and their affiliations. Workshops Proposals for workshops are encouraged. However, workshops should be clearly distinct from paper sessions, focussing on experimental work, hands-on experience, case studies, games, interactive exercises, and open discussions. Proposals should include a concise outline of the nature of the workshop and the expected outcome (2-3 pages). Tutorials Proposals for half-day tutorials (three hours) should clearly indicate the topic, background knowledge expected of the participants, objectives, time allocations for the major course topics, and the qualifications of the instructor(s). Exhibition NL 2002 will be accompanied by a professional exhibition. Interested organisations are requested to contact the conference organizers (see below). Submission of papers can be done through our web site. *Submissions have to be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Postscript (.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format. *Submissions must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work, as well as a list of references. Contributions are welcome from those working in the industry as well as from academics. Conference Organization Honorary Chair: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Maurer Chief Scientist of KNOW Head of IICM and HMS Graz University of Technology Austria hmaurer@iicm.edu General Co-Chairs: Karl Kurbel Europe University, Germany kurbel@euv-frankfurt-o.de Hermann Krallmann Technical University of Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Berlin, Germany krallm@cs.tu-berlin.de Program Chair: Wolffried Stucky University of Karlsruhe, Germany stucky@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Regional Chair America: Thomas Hilton Utah State University, USA hilton@cc.usu.edu Regional Chair Asia-Pacific: Saeid Nahavandi Deakin University Geelong, Australia nahavand@deakin.edu.au Regional Chair Europe: Peter Gerard KarstadtQuelle AG Essen, Germany Local Committee Chair: Marten Schoenherr Technical University of Berlin, Germany MSchoenherr@sysedv.cs.tu-berlin.de Conference Organizer: ICSC/NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division) P.O. Box 1091 3360 BB Sliedrecht The Netherlands Phone: +31-184-496999, Fax: +31-184-421065 Email: nl2002@ITStransnational.com International Program Committee * Abramowicz, Witold, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Aggarwal, Anil, University of Baltimore, USA * Ayala, Gerardo, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico * Becker, Joerg, University of Muenster, Germany * Beuschel, Werner, University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany * Bodendorf, Freimut, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany * Bourdeau, Jacqueline, Centre de recherche LICEF, Télé-université Montréal, Canada * De Marco, Marco, Università Cattolica Milano, Italy * Doukidis, Georgios, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece * Eicker, Stefan, University of Essen, Germany * Euler, Dieter, University of St. Gallen HSG, Switzerland * Hars, Alexander, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA * Jantzen, Jan, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark * Jayaram, Narayana, University of North London, U.K. * Karagiannis, Dimitris, University of Vienna, Austria * Kashihara, Akihiro, I.S.I.R., Osaka University, Japan * Keyvan, Shahla, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, USA * Kinshuk Dr., Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand * Klein, Michel, HEC School of Management Jouy-en-Josas, France * Knolmayer, Gerhard, University of Bern, Switzerland * Krallmann, Hermann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany * Kurbel, Karl, Europe University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany * Kurfess, Franz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA * Lesjak, Dusan, University of Maribor, Slovenia * Maire, Frederic, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia * Nahavandi, Saeid, Deakin University Geelong, Australia * Neumann, Gustaf, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria * Nicholls, Howard, Alchemy Group Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand * Nord, Daryl, Oklahoma State University, USA * Oberweis, Andreas, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Ogata, Hiroaki, Tokushima University, Japan * Pernul, Guenther, University of Essen, Germany * Pham, Hanh, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA * Rada, Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA * Rautenstrauch, Claus, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany * Riis, Jens O., Aalborg University, Denmark * Roeck, Hans, University of Rostock, Germany * Rolstadas, Asbjoern, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway * Sandulescu, Gheorghe M., IPA SA, Research Institute, Bucharest, Romania * Scholz-Reiter, Bernd, BIBA, University of Bremen, Germany * Sebaaly, Milad Fares, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates * Stickel, Eberhard, Europe University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany * Stucky, Wolffried, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Chair) * Swain, Philip, Purdue University West Lafayette, USA * Szczepaniak, Piotr S., Technical University of Lodz, Poland * Szczerbicki, Edward, University of Newcastle, Australia * Taudes, Alfred, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria * Turowski, Klaus, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany * Unland, Rainer, University of Essen, Germany * Ustimenko, Vasyl, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands * Valenti, Salvatore, University of Ancona, Italy * Winter, Robert, University of St. Gallen HSG, Switzerland Important Dates - Submission deadline: September 20, 2001 - Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2001 - Final manuscripts: January 31, 2002 End Call for Papers NL 2002 ----------------------------------------- Additional information from ICSC-NAISO Extension of deadlines World Manufacturing Congress (WMC 2001) Pre-registration: July 15, 2001 Registration: August 15, 2001 http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/wmc2001 Neuro-Fuzzy (NF 2002) Submission Deadline: 30 Juni 2001 (extended) http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/nf2002 Autonomous Intelligent Systems (ICAIS 2002) Submission Deadline 31 July 2001 (extended) http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/icais2002 Submission of papers for NF2002 and ICAIS2002 can also be done through our website. For more futher conferences see our website http://www.icsc-naiso.org -------------- The message was sent by Mass e-Mailer --------------- Download from Intelliquis International http://www.intelliquis.com From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri Jun 1 22:00:18 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA12185 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:00:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa24053; 1 Jun 2001 17:40 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa24036; 1 Jun 2001 17:30 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa28803; 1 Jun 2001 17:30 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa14822; 1 Jun 2001 13:01 EDT Received: from mailsvr.central.cranfield.ac.uk by cs.cmu.edu id aa05371; 1 Jun 2001 13:01 EDT Received: from oulton.sims.cranfield.ac.uk ([138.250.107.128]) by noether.central.cranfield.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 155sIc-000WIZ-00 for Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:01:22 +0100 Received: by oulton.sims.cranfield.ac.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:01:22 +0100 Message-ID: <2812AF10DCF1D41192DD0008C74C244C199DBB@oulton.sims.cranfield.ac.uk> From: "Roy, Rajkumar" To: "'Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu'" Subject: CFP: Applied Soft Computing Journal Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:01:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Status: O ================================================== APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING Publisher: Elsevier Science The Official Journal of the World Federation on Soft Computing (WFSC) Journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/asoc/ =================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ Applied Soft Computing is an international journal promoting an integrated view of soft computing to solve real life problems. Soft computing is a collection of methodologies, which aim to exploit tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth to achieve tractability, robustness and low solution cost. The focus is to publish the highest quality research in application and convergence of the areas of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing, Rough Sets and other similar techniques to address real world complexities. Applied Soft Computing is a 'rolling' publication: articles are published as soon as the editor in chief has accepted them. Therefore, the web site will continuously be updated with new articles and the publication time will be short. Major topics ------------ The scope of this journal covers the following soft computing and related techniques, interactions between several soft computing techniques, and their industrial applications: * Fuzzy Computing * Neuro Computing * Evolutionary Computing * Probabilistic Computing * Immunological Computing * Hybrid Methods * Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory * Causal Models * Case-based Reasoning * Chaos Theory * Interactive Computational Models The application areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Decision Support * Process and System Control * System Identification and Modelling * Optimisation * Signal or Image Processing * Vision or Pattern Recognition * Condition Monitoring * Fault Diagnosis * Systems Integration * Internet Tools * Human-Machine Interface * Time Series Prediction * Robotics * Motion Control and Power Electronics * Biomedical Engineering * Virtual Reality * Reactive Distributed AI * Telecommunications * Consumer Electronics * Industrial Electronics * Manufacturing Systems * Power and Energy * Data Mining * Data Visualisation * Intelligent Information Retrieval * Bio-inspired Systems * Autonomous Reasoning * Intelligent Agents Publication ----------- Authors are invited to submit technical papers(no limit on max. number of pages), state of the art survey papers, industry reports (max. 5 pages) and book reviews. Authors are encouraged to utilise the opportunity given by this on-line publication to include animations, software demonstrations, and video clips etc. The papers will be published on Elsevier Science Web Site as soon as they are accepted, which enables authors to publish their work FAST and readers get the latest work in Soft Computing on their desktop! There will be a free hardcopy of volume available to authors by the end of the year. So have your latest research published on the Applied Soft Computing Website and get a FREE hardcopy of the volume that includes your paper later. For any further queries, paper submission and special issue proposals, please contact: Dr. Rajkumar Roy Editor in Chief 'Applied Soft Computing' Department of Enterprise Integration, School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)1234 754072 or +44 (0)1234 750111 Ext. 2423 , Fax: +44 (0)1234 750852 Email: asoc@cranfield.ac.uk Journal Website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/asoc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- From naiso@ITStransnational.com Fri Jun 1 22:02:46 2001 Received: from gco-exchange.194.151.89 ([194.151.89.23]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12234 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:02:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:02:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200106020202.WAA12234@math.rutgers.edu> Received: from mail.global-conf.org ([194.151.89.23]) by gco-exchange.194.151.89 with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id LBKKLF7Y; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:40:17 +0200 From: ICSC-NAISO To: sussmann@math.rutgers.edu Subject: Call for papers and extended deadlines Reply-To: naiso@ITStransnational.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O The Call for papers hereafter is aimed at the scientific community interested in Networked Learning: World Conference NL 2002 - Networked Learning in a Global Environment: Challenges and Solutions for Virtual Education http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/nl2002 Sponsors of NL 2002 Virtual Global University for Worldwide Education http://www.vg-u.de Counsil of European Professional Informatics Societies http://www.cepis.org Gesellschaft für Informatik E.V. http://www.gi-ev.de Technical University of Berlin, Germany http://www.tu-berlin.de European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) http://www.euv-frankfurt-o.de ICSC-NAISO http://www.icsc-naiso.org Venue and Date May 1 - 4, 2002, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Background and Scope Telecommunications, computer networks, multimedia technologies, and the World Wide Web have opened up entirely new ways of teaching and learning ( across institutions, physical locations, countries, continents, and time zones. Students may work distributed worldwide and nevertheless interact in a virtual community. Academic programs are no longer provided by single institutions only but can be established by networked organizations like virtual universities or virtual faculties. Best-of-breed programs are created in the Internet by bringing together top experts from different schools in a virtual program. Powerful wireless technologies will accelerate these developments in the future. Distance education is no longer a matter of "learning in isolation". Collaborative tools like discussion groups, chatrooms, videoconferencing, etc. support immediate interaction between students and teachers and among students in virtual communities. In-company training does not require travelling and physical presence but can be done at the workplace. Geographical locations of students and teachers loose importance. Education in the 21st century is shifting from "real" to "virtual". Physical classes are more and more replaced by virtual networks of students and teachers. NL 2002 aims to bring together content providers, course developers, educators, persons responsible for academic programs or corporate education, platform and tools providers, researchers and system developers from academia and industry to exchange their ideas and experiences, to share the best practices and to foster further development in networked learning. Conference Topics The conference focuses on technological and organizational aspects of networked learning and teaching. Topics include, but are not restricted to: Organization of networked learning * Virtual universities and networked e-learning organizations * Corporate virtual universities, in-company training in distributed enterprises * Integrated e-learning systems, portals, marketplaces, and providers * New academic programs by virtual organizations and cooperation projects * E-learning for business professionals * Open source initiatives for e-learning * Pricing and business models for virtual distance learning * Success stories and pitfalls in e-learning Technology * Enabling technologies for networked learning: telecommunications and computer networks * Internet suited multimedia technologies: Audio and video streaming etc., learning on demand * Mobile learning: Wireless technologies, UMTS, GPRS, WAP * Leading edge and emerging technologies: Virtual reality, software agents, artificial intelligence tools * Integration of collaborative tools: Discussion groups, chatrooms, whiteboards, shared workspaces, e-mail, videoconferencing * Virtual classrooms for worldwide classes, virtual learning communities * Virtual management games * Quality assurance for virtual education Content production and delivery * Architectures and platforms for distributed teaching and learning * Multimedia production tools, authoring tools, delivery tools * E-learning life cycle models Globalization * The role of traditional educational institutions in global virtual learning * Cross-cultural learning * Networked learning and developing countries * Legal aspects and security of networked learning Contributions describing novel approaches to networked learning, practical experience, best practices, and cutting-edge future developments are encouraged. Contributions NL 2002 will include technical sessions as well as special events, such as keynote presentations, invited plenary talks, tutorials, workshops, panels, and exhibition. Regular Papers Prospective authors are requested to submit a paper of max. 7 pages to the address below (conference organizer). All papers must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. Poster Presentations Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer feedback for their work. Practical examples of applied research are particularly welcome. Papers discussing the respective posters will be included in the conference proceedings. (max 4 pages) Panels Proposals for panels should include a concise outline of the topics to be addressed (2-3 pages) and list the panel members and their affiliations. Workshops Proposals for workshops are encouraged. However, workshops should be clearly distinct from paper sessions, focussing on experimental work, hands-on experience, case studies, games, interactive exercises, and open discussions. Proposals should include a concise outline of the nature of the workshop and the expected outcome (2-3 pages). Tutorials Proposals for half-day tutorials (three hours) should clearly indicate the topic, background knowledge expected of the participants, objectives, time allocations for the major course topics, and the qualifications of the instructor(s). Exhibition NL 2002 will be accompanied by a professional exhibition. Interested organisations are requested to contact the conference organizers (see below). Submission of papers can be done through our web site. *Submissions have to be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Postscript (.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format. *Submissions must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work, as well as a list of references. Contributions are welcome from those working in the industry as well as from academics. Conference Organization Honorary Chair: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Maurer Chief Scientist of KNOW Head of IICM and HMS Graz University of Technology Austria hmaurer@iicm.edu General Co-Chairs: Karl Kurbel Europe University, Germany kurbel@euv-frankfurt-o.de Hermann Krallmann Technical University of Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Berlin, Germany krallm@cs.tu-berlin.de Program Chair: Wolffried Stucky University of Karlsruhe, Germany stucky@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Regional Chair America: Thomas Hilton Utah State University, USA hilton@cc.usu.edu Regional Chair Asia-Pacific: Saeid Nahavandi Deakin University Geelong, Australia nahavand@deakin.edu.au Regional Chair Europe: Peter Gerard KarstadtQuelle AG Essen, Germany Local Committee Chair: Marten Schoenherr Technical University of Berlin, Germany MSchoenherr@sysedv.cs.tu-berlin.de Conference Organizer: ICSC/NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division) P.O. Box 1091 3360 BB Sliedrecht The Netherlands Phone: +31-184-496999, Fax: +31-184-421065 Email: nl2002@ITStransnational.com International Program Committee * Abramowicz, Witold, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Aggarwal, Anil, University of Baltimore, USA * Ayala, Gerardo, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico * Becker, Joerg, University of Muenster, Germany * Beuschel, Werner, University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany * Bodendorf, Freimut, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany * Bourdeau, Jacqueline, Centre de recherche LICEF, Télé-université Montréal, Canada * De Marco, Marco, Università Cattolica Milano, Italy * Doukidis, Georgios, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece * Eicker, Stefan, University of Essen, Germany * Euler, Dieter, University of St. Gallen HSG, Switzerland * Hars, Alexander, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA * Jantzen, Jan, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark * Jayaram, Narayana, University of North London, U.K. * Karagiannis, Dimitris, University of Vienna, Austria * Kashihara, Akihiro, I.S.I.R., Osaka University, Japan * Keyvan, Shahla, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, USA * Kinshuk Dr., Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand * Klein, Michel, HEC School of Management Jouy-en-Josas, France * Knolmayer, Gerhard, University of Bern, Switzerland * Krallmann, Hermann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany * Kurbel, Karl, Europe University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany * Kurfess, Franz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA * Lesjak, Dusan, University of Maribor, Slovenia * Maire, Frederic, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia * Nahavandi, Saeid, Deakin University Geelong, Australia * Neumann, Gustaf, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria * Nicholls, Howard, Alchemy Group Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand * Nord, Daryl, Oklahoma State University, USA * Oberweis, Andreas, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Ogata, Hiroaki, Tokushima University, Japan * Pernul, Guenther, University of Essen, Germany * Pham, Hanh, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA * Rada, Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA * Rautenstrauch, Claus, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany * Riis, Jens O., Aalborg University, Denmark * Roeck, Hans, University of Rostock, Germany * Rolstadas, Asbjoern, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway * Sandulescu, Gheorghe M., IPA SA, Research Institute, Bucharest, Romania * Scholz-Reiter, Bernd, BIBA, University of Bremen, Germany * Sebaaly, Milad Fares, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates * Stickel, Eberhard, Europe University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany * Stucky, Wolffried, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Chair) * Swain, Philip, Purdue University West Lafayette, USA * Szczepaniak, Piotr S., Technical University of Lodz, Poland * Szczerbicki, Edward, University of Newcastle, Australia * Taudes, Alfred, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria * Turowski, Klaus, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany * Unland, Rainer, University of Essen, Germany * Ustimenko, Vasyl, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands * Valenti, Salvatore, University of Ancona, Italy * Winter, Robert, University of St. Gallen HSG, Switzerland Important Dates - Submission deadline: September 20, 2001 - Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2001 - Final manuscripts: January 31, 2002 End Call for Papers NL 2002 ----------------------------------------- Additional information from ICSC-NAISO Extension of deadlines World Manufacturing Congress (WMC 2001) Pre-registration: July 15, 2001 Registration: August 15, 2001 http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/wmc2001 Neuro-Fuzzy (NF 2002) Submission Deadline: 30 Juni 2001 (extended) http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/nf2002 Autonomous Intelligent Systems (ICAIS 2002) Submission Deadline 31 July 2001 (extended) http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/icais2002 Submission of papers for NF2002 and ICAIS2002 can also be done through our website. For more futher conferences see our website http://www.icsc-naiso.org -------------- The message was sent by Mass e-Mailer --------------- Download from Intelliquis International http://www.intelliquis.com From pradeep.misra@wright.edu Sun Jun 3 14:08:56 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13834 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 14:08:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailserv.wright.edu (mailserv.wright.edu [130.108.128.60]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA10369 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 04:56:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.mailserv.wright.edu by mailserv.wright.edu (PMDF V6.0-24 #45557) id <0GEA00701OUBDU@mailserv.wright.edu> for sussmann@hilbert.rutgers.edu; Sat, 02 Jun 2001 04:56:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unixapps1.wright.edu (unixapps1.wright.edu [130.108.128.55]) by mailserv.wright.edu (PMDF V6.0-24 #45557) with ESMTP id <0GEA0070MOUAC2@mailserv.wright.edu> for sussmann@hilbert.rutgers.edu; Sat, 02 Jun 2001 04:56:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from w002pxm@localhost) by unixapps1.wright.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id EAA27296; Sat, 02 Jun 2001 04:56:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 04:56:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Pradeep Misra Subject: Eletter 153, May 2001 To: sussmann@hilbert.rutgers.edu Reply-to: eletter Message-id: <200106020856.EAA27296@unixapps1.wright.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Status: O E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing Issue 154, June, 2001 Editor: Pradeep Misra Dept. of Electrical Engineering Wright State University Dayton, OH 45435 USA Tel +937 775 5062 Fax +937 775 3936 Submit articles at http://www.eeecss.org/PAB/eletter Submission deadline for July Eletter: June 30, 2001 Contents 0. Editorial 1. Personals 1.1 E. Sontag Founding Editor of eletter Honored 1.2 New Address: Dr. ir. Georgo Z. Angelis 1.3 New Contact Information for Mujdat Cetin 2. General Announcements 2.1 Invited Session on Agent-based Control 2.2 Seminar on Robust Control Seminar 3. Positions 3.1 Lecturer in Control Engineering UK 3.2 PDF: Embedded Real Time Systems - Notre Dame USA 3.3 PhD Studentship: Intelligent Modelling & Control UK 3.4 Research Assistant Oxford UK 3.5 Research Positions: Nonlinear Control UK 3.6 Research Positions Univ of Magdeburg Germany 3.7 Research Positions at Ohio Univ USA 4. Books 4.1 New Book: Industrial Control Systems Design 4.2 New book: Adaptive Method of Lines 5. Journals 5.1 CFP: Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Proc 5.2 Call for Papers: Asian Journal of Control 5.3 Contents: Asian Journal of Control 5.4 Contents: Automatica 5.5 Contents: European Journal of Control 5.6 Contents: IEEE Trans Control Syst Technology 5.7 Contents: International Journal of Control 5.8 Contents: Journal MCSS 5.9 Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications 5.10 Contents: Modeling Identification and Control 5.11 Control Engineering Practice 5.12 Special Issue on Switching and Logic in Adaptive Control 6. Conferences 6.1 10th Medit. Conf on Control and Automation Portugal 6.2 CFP: 3rd Int Conf on Control Theory and Applications 6.3 CFP: Information Decision and Control 2002 6.4 CIFA 2002 Int Conf on Automatic Control France +----------------------------------------+ | | Editorial | | +----------------------------------------+ Welcome to the 154-th issue of the E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing. As always, search for .** to navigate. 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Please try and keep your announcements to less than 100 lines of text. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- +----------------------------------------+ | | Personals | | +----------------------------------------+ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Pradeep Misra, SIAM Honors Eduardo Sontag, Founding (co)Editor of Eletter SIAM has announced that its 2001 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics will be awarded to Professor Eduardo Sontag of Rutgers University. The prize is awarded for research in, or other contributions to, the broadly defined areas of differential equations and control theory. The selection committee (comprised of John A. Burns as chair, Ruth F. Curtain, James G. Glimm, and John Guckenheimer) cited Sontag's many contributions to nonlinear control theory. Professor Sontag will receive the Reid Medal and a ,000 cash award at the SIAM Annual Meeting in San Diego in July. Sontag will deliver the Reid lecture on Wednesday, July 11, at 5:20 p.m. in the Town and Country Room of the Town and Country Resort Hotel. The title of his talk will be "The central themes of systems and control theory, and their role in postgenomic molecular biology." The prize is named for William T. and Idalia Reid, William T. having been a renowned mathematics professor at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Iowa, and University of Oklahoma. Previous Reid Prize recipients are Wendell H. Fleming, Roger W. Brockett, Constantine M. Dafermos, and the late Jacques-Louis Lions. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Georgo Angelis, New Address: Dr. ir. Georgo Z. Angelis Dr. ir. Georgo Z. Angelis Philips Centre for Industrial Technology Mechatronics Research / Semiconductor Equipment Research, SAQ 1132 P.O. Box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands Phone: +31-(0)40-2739247 / Fax: +31-(0)40-2733201 email: georgo.angelis@philips.com *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Mujdat Cetin, New Contact Information for Mujdat Cetin Please note my new contact information: Mujdat Cetin MIT - Room 35-427 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139, USA E-mail : mcetin@mit.edu Phone : +1 (617) 253-3816 Fax : +1 (617) 258-8364 Web : http://ssg.mit.edu/~mcetin *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** +----------------------------------------+ | | General Announcements | | +----------------------------------------+ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Kingsley Fregene, Invited Session on Agent-based Control We are currently in the process of organizing an invited session on "Intelligent agents for control" or something along those lines at the 2002 ACC. Papers/extended abstracts reporting work in the area are highly solicited. It is necessary that the schemes or methods by which control infrastructure is embedded in the agent or by which control agents are synthesized be explicitly developed, preferably with some analytical control-theoretic flavour. The objective of the invited session is to introduce the wider control systems community to the field of intelligent agents and the promise they may hold for control applications. A nice blend of application-type papers and others of a more foundational nature would be sufficient for this purpose. Please respond to: Kingsley Fregene Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Waterloo, Ont. N2L 3G1 CANADA fax: (519)746-3077 email: kocfrege@uwaterloo.ca *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Michael Muhler, Seminar Announcement: on Robust Control Theory, Software Tool, Application to Car Steering and Flight Control Carl-Cranz-Gesellschaft e.V. Scientific Coordination Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Ackermann DLR, German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen Date: September 17-21, 2001 Location: Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany For detailed summary, please visit: http://www.op.dlr.de/FF-DR-RR/paradise/seminar.html After the seminar the participants should be able to * understand the theoretical foundations of robust control, in particular the parameter space approach, * understand simple and transparent robust control system structures, * develop such controller system structures, set up design specifications and find feasible robust controller parameters for their own problems, * perform a robustness analysis with respect to various specifications. Target Audience Engineers and scientists from industry, research institutions, government agencies and universities, who are involved in the analysis and design of robust control systems and interested in software tools that support this process. Prerequisites Analysis and design of controllers for linear plants with known nominal parameter values. Basic knowledge of MATLAB/SIMULINK. Language The seminar and all course material will be given in English. Fee DM 2.640,37/Euro 1.350,- is payable upon receipt of the invoice (the fee does not include accommodations). CCG members will receive a 10% discount. Upon request, university students may be entitled to a 75% discount. Registration Please write or call (up to 10 days before the seminar ) to Carl-Cranz-Gesellschaft e.V. Postfach 1112, D-82230 Wessling phone: +49-8153-282413, fax: +49-8153-281345 e-mail: ccg@ccg-ev.de http://www.op.dlr.de/FF-DR-RR/paradise/seminar.html *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** +----------------------------------------+ | | Positions | | +----------------------------------------+ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Professor Ian Postlethwaite, Lecturer in Control Engineering, UK Department of Engineering University of Leicester Ref:A5425 The successful candidate will have a strong research record in control engineering. An interest in teaching in the area of mechanical systems or engineering design would be an advantage. Closing date: 8 June 2001. Further particulars are available at: http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/a5425.htm An aplication form is available at: http://www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/formnc.doc Application forms and further particulars are available via the links above or from the Personnel Office, tel +44 (0)116 252 5114, fax +44 (0)116 252 5140, email personnel@le.ac.uk *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Panos Antsaklis, PDF: Embedded Real Time Systems - Notre Dame, USA A postdoctoral research position is available in the context of a new project on Real-Time Reconfiguration of Networked Embedded Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Notre Dame. Applications are invited from candidates with background and interest in real-time embedded systems, discrete-event systems, distributed computer control systems. The project involves the use of hybrid system and supervisory control methods in the dynamic software reconfiguration and fault-tolerant synchronization of real-time clocks in a fine-grained embedded system network. The successful candidate will have experience in the supervisory control of computer hardware or software systems. Experience with micro-controller real-time operating systems, network programming or systems level programming experience with RT-LINUX, QNX, or VxWorks is highly desirable. The appointment can be extended up to three years starting in the Summer or the Fall 2001. Visit the homepages of our hybrid systems group members (www.nd.edu/~pantsakl and www.nd.edu/~lemmon) for more information regarding our current research activities. Please email inquiries and applications to both: antsaklis.1@nd.edu and to lemmon@nd.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Dr. S. McLoone, PhD Studentship: Intelligent Modelling & Control, UK British Pounds 14k/year Seagate CAST PhD studentship A 3 year PhD studentship (tax-free) is available in the Intelligent Systems and Control Research Group at Queen's University Belfast to conduct research into Intelligent Modelling and Control of disk media production. The research project, which is funded by Seagate Technology Media (Ireland) and the Northern Ireland Department of Higher and Further Education Training and Employment (DHFETE), will commence in October 2001. Seagate, the world's largest supplier of disc media, produces advanced magnetic disc media and substrates at locations in California, Northern Ireland, and Singapore. Central to their success is the use of state-of-the-art processes and equipment at all stages of production. The aim of the research is to investigate the application of leading-edge learning systems approaches (neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic, multiple models/controllers, intelligent instrumentation) to modelling and control of advanced production processes at Seagate Technology Media, Ireland as a means of achieving tighter manufacturing tolerances, improved product capability and greater process optimisation. Applicants must have, or be about to obtain, at least a 2:1 degree or equivalent in electrical and electronic engineering, control engineering, mathematics, physics or related discipline. CAST studentships provide fees and a maintenance allowance to candidates from the United Kingdom. Funding of fees will be provided for candidates from other EU countries. UK students: British Pounds 13,500-15,000 per year + fees EU students: British Pounds 7,500 - 9,000 per year + fees International students: Please enquire For further information contact: Prof. G.W. Irwin, g.irwin@ee.qub.ac.uk Dr. S.F. McLoone, s.mcloone@ee.qub.ac.uk www: http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/control/ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Basil Kouvaritakis, Research Assistant in Nonlinear Predictive Control & Industrial Applications University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science Applications are invited for the position of post-doctoral research assistant. He/she will be responsible to Professor B. Kouvaritakis for performing research on the development and testing of predictive control algorithms for nonlinear systems. Candidates should have a degree or doctorate, at an appropriately high level of performance, in a suitable subject such as engineering science, physics, computer science, mathematics or control. They should also have a proven research record and/or evidence of capacity to undertake research, consistent with age and experience, in a relevant field. Expertise in writing mathematically based software is desirable as is proven experience in programming using packages such as MATLAB. Evidence of high self-motivation, excellent communication skills and ability to work well in a group of graduate students, research assistants and academics is also required. The salary will be on the RA1A scale in the range of BP16,775 - BP21,435 per annum (according to age and experience). The appointment will be for 24 months in the first instance. Further particulars may be obtained from Mr C.J. Scotcher, Senior Administrator, University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK; to whom written applications should be made, enclosing a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of two referees. Please quote reference RA/BK/DF/01/032 in all correspondence. The closing date for applications is 22nd June 2001. The University is an Equal Opportunities Employer. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Prof M.J. Grimble, Research Opportunities in Nonlinear Control Theory and Industrial Applications, UK A new research programme is being funded by the EPSRC in the Industrial Control Centre of the University of Strathclyde. The funding is to enable a fundamental shift in the research activity of the Centre to take place, moving towards nonlinear control theory and applications. A senior and a more junior research post is available and the senior post is to assist in the management and administration of the new initiative. This will involve both basic theoretical developments and co-operation with industry. The second post is suitable for a research engineer who may wish to register for a higher degree. Both posts are available for a three-year period and they will involve leading researchers within the Industrial Control Centre (ICC ) and links to the Advanced Control Technology Club. The research staff of the Centre include, Professor Michael J. Grimble, Professor Michael A. Johnson, Professor William E. Leithead, Dr. Reza Katebi, Dr. Jacqueline Wilkie, Dr. Akis Petropoulakis, Dr. Andrzej Ordys. One of the dissemination mechanisms for the research work is through the Advanced Control Technology Club, which has meetings at leading universities and companies about every two months. For the Senior Research Position a higher degree and some industrial experience is desirable. Both positions require good mathematical skills and an interest in real engineering design. Further particular may be obtained from: Professor M.J. Grimble University of Strathclyde, Industrial Control Centre Level 7, Graham Hills Building, 50, George Street, Glasgow, G1 1QE. Scotland, U.K. Tel: 0141 548 2378/2098 Fax: 0141 548 4203 E-mail: m.grimble@eee.strath.ac.uk Professor M.A. Johnson University of Strathclyde, Industrial Control Centre Level 7, Graham Hills Building, 50, George Street, Glasgow, G1 1QE. Scotland, U.K. Tel: 0141 548 2279 Fax: 0141 548 4203 E-mail: m.johnson@eee.strath.ac.uk *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Christiane Zalewski, Research Positions, Univ of Magdeburg, Germany A research assistant position and a research associate position in systems and control theory are available at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Magdeburg (Lehrstuhl fuer Systemtheorie technischer Prozesse, Prof. Joerg Raisch). Possible research topics include hybrid control systems, hierarchical control, plantwide control systems, and control of multipurpose batch plants. A survey of our group's current research interests can be found at: http://ifatwww.et.uni-magdeburg.de/systemtheorie In all our research projects, we cooperate closely with the recently founded Max-Planck-Institut fuer Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme. Magdeburg is the capital of Sachsen-Anhalt; it is located at the river Elbe and within a one hour train ride from Berlin. It is an emerging centre for science and technology, with a university, a university of applied sciences (Fachhochschule) and renowned institutions for fundamental and applied research (Max-Planck-Institut, Fraunhofer Institut). Both positions are initially for three years, with the possibility of a two year extension (research assistant) or a three year extension (research associate). Salaries, according to the German public sector wage scale, depend on age and marital status. Approximate figures are DM 65,000 (32,500 Euros) p.a. for the research assistant position (BAT IIa), slightly more for the research associate position (C1). The research assistant is expected to work towards a Ph.D. degree, the research associate may work towards a "Habilitation" degree. Requirements: MSc or equivalent (for the research assistant position) or Ph.D. (for the research associate position) in Engineering or Mathematics. Thorough knowledge of systems and control theory. Fluency in English or German. For further details please contact J. Raisch (raisch@mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de). Please send your applications - preferably in electronic form - to Joerg Raisch Lehrstuhl fuer Systemtheorie technischer Prozesse Otto-von Guericke Universitaet Magdeburg Postfach 41 20 D-39016 Magdeburg Germany email: raisch@mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de Closing date is July 1st, 2001. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: J. Jim Zhu, Research Positions at Ohio Univ, USA Three (3) Ph. D. Research Assistantships in Nonlinear Flight Control The Avionics Engineering Center (AEC) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) of the Ohio University (OU) has 3 Graduate Research Assistantships available immediately leading to Ph. D. degrees within 4-5 years. The research will be focused on developing integrated guidance and flight control systems for NASA's next generation reusable launch vehicles (Space Shuttle replacement) using advanced nonlinear control theory. The assistantships include a tuition waiver plus ,400 per calendar year for MS students and ,000 per year for Ph. D. candidates. US citizenship or Permanent Residency is required. Qualified candidates should contact Prof. J. Jim Zhu by email immediately to expedite the OU Graduate School application process. One (1) MS or Ph. D. Research Assistantship in Nonlinear Flow Control The OU School of EECS has a Graduate Research Assistantship for a MS or Ph. D. student available immediately. The research will be focused on closed-loop flow control using advanced nonlinear control theory. The student will have an opportunity to work on-site at the Wright-Paterson Air Force Base. The assistantship includes a tuition waiver plus ,400 per calendar year for an MS student and ,000 per year for a Ph. D. candidate. US citizenship or Permanent Residency is required. Qualified candidates should contact Prof. J. Jim Zhu by email immediately to expedite the OU Graduate School application process. One (1) Post Doctoral Fellowship in Advanced Nonlinear Flight Control The OU School of EECS has an immediate opening for a Post Doctoral Research Associate in the area of advanced nonlinear flight control systems. The qualified candidate will be working on selected topics in guidance and control systems, such as, but not limited to, robust and fault tolerant flight controllers, adaptive and autonomous abort guidance algorithms for reusable launch vehicles, nonlinear flight control system validation, and reactive flow control as aircraft attitude control effectors. The candidate will also be assisting the Principal Investigators to supervise a group of graduate students as mentioned above, and will have an opportunity to teach related courses at undergraduate or graduate level. The initial appointment will be for one year, beginning as soon as possible, with the possibility of extension up to four years. The salary will be ,000 per year. US Citizenship or Permanent Residency is desired, but not required. Qualified candidates should submit applications with contact information for at least three references electronically to Prof. J. Jim Zhu. The Ohio University is the oldest university in the Northwest Territory. Located in the scenic Appalachian foothills of southeastern Ohio, its classic residential campus is one of the most attractive in the nation. Ohio University is designated a Research University II by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and gives high priority to research. The research activities and funding level in the School of EECS and the AEC are nationally competitive. The FY2000-01 research funding level of AEC will exceed M, and that of EECS, excluding AEC's funding, will exceed M. Research sponsors include NSF, AFRL, NASA, FAA, Ohio Board of Regents and a variety of government and industry sponsors. For more information, visit www.ent.ohiou.edu/avn and webeecs.ent.ohiou.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** +----------------------------------------+ | | Books | | +----------------------------------------+ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Prof M.J. Grimble, New Book: Industrial Control Systems Design Industrial Control Systems Design by M.J. Grimble Publisher; John Wiley, Chichester, U.K. This book is concerned with both state space and frequency domain multivariable design methods. The text is aimed at industrial applications and is sprinkled liberally with design examples taken from real application studies. Four of the chapters are solely concerned with industrial design problems, these include, Electrical power systems, Metal processing, Aerospace and Marine applications. The introduction to the text provides a wide ranging overview of systems design issues, such as systems integration and fault monitoring. Both H2 and H-infinity design approaches are discussed and subjects such as two degrees of freedom tracking control and feed forward control are described. The synthesis of predictive optimal controllers is considered and this provides a useful way to compare both frequency domain and state space methods of predictive control design. One of the main objectives of the text is to demonstrate the insights and benefits advanced control design techniques could bring to real industrial applications. the point is made that even for classically designed systems there are things to learn from the advanced control studies. For example, a much better understanding of transport delay compensation methods is achieved by linking together the Smith predictor with optimal design methods. The text also includes a comprehensive big bibliography. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Alain Vande Wouwer, New book: Adaptive Method of Lines ADAPTIVE METHOD OF LINES A. Vande Wouwer, P. Saucez and W.E. Schiesser (Eds.) Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2001 ISBN: 1-58488-231-X The general Method Of Lines (MOL) procedure provides a flexible format for the solution of all the major classes of partial differential equations (PDEs) and is particularly well suited to evolutionary, nonlinear PDEs. Despite its utility, however, there are relatively few texts that explore it at a more advanced level and reflect the method's current state of development. Written by distinguished researchers in the field, Adaptive Method of Lines reflects the diversity of techniques and applications related to the MOL. Most of its chapters focus on a particular application but also provide a discussion of underlying philosophy and technique. Particular attention is paid to the concept of both temporal and spatial adaptivity in solving time- dependent PDEs. The purpose of the book is threefold: -to provide an introduction to the MOL and the concepts of time and space adaptation; -to present a variety of applications from physics and engineering science; -to describe new methods and codes and to highlight current research. Hence, this book is intended for engineers, physicists and applied mathematicians who are not familiar with the MOL, as well as for numerical analysts interested in recent research results. Contents of the book: -Introduction (A.Vande Wouwer, P. Saucez and W.E. Schiesser) -Application of the Adaptive Method of Lines to Nonlinear Wave Propagation Problems (A. Vande Wouwer, P. Saucez and W.E. Schiesser) -Numerical Solutions of the Equal width Wave Equation Using An Adaptive Method of Lines (S. Hamdi, J.J. Gottlieb and J.S. Hansen) -Adaptive MOL for Magneto-Hydrodynamic PDE Models (P.A. Zegeling and R. Keppens) -Development of a 1-D Error-Minimizing Moving Adaptive Grid Method (M. Borsboom) -An Adaptive Method of Lines Approach for Modelling Flow and Transport in Rivers (G. Steinebach and P. Rentrop) -An Adaptive Mesh Algorithm for Free Surface Flows in General Geometries (M. Sussman) -The Solution of Steady PDEs on Adjustable Meshes in Multidimensions Using Local Descent Methods (M.J. Baines) -Adaptive Linearly Implicit Methods for Heat and Mass Transfer Problems (J. Lang and B. Erdmann) -Linearly Implicit Adaptive Schemes for Singular Reaction-Diffusion Equations (Q. Sheng and A. Q. M. Khaliq) -Unstructured Mesh MOL Solvers for Reacting Flow Problems (M. Berzins) -Two-Dimensional Model of a Reaction Bonded Aluminum Oxide Cylinder (M.J. Watson, H.S. Caram, H. M. Chan, M. P. Harmer, P. Saucez, A. Vande Wouwer and W. E. Schiesser) -Method of Lines within the Simulation Environment DIVA for Chemical Processes (R. Köhler, K.D. Mohl, H. Schramm, M. Zeitz, A. Kienle, M. Mangold, E.Stein and E.D. Gilles) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** +----------------------------------------+ | | Journals | | +----------------------------------------+ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: A.J. Jerri, ANNOUNCING A NEW JOURNAL: Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing CALL FOR PAPERS Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing (ISNN:1530-6429) is published in January, May and September. It publishes refereed, original research articles on the development and applications of sampling and interpolation theory, wavelets, tomography, and other closely related topics. Applications in signal and image processing with Fourier analysis or wavelets are particularly welcome. To be published in this journal, a paper must be correct non-trivial, novel and of interest to a large number of our readers. Occasionally, the journal will publish high quality survey and expository articles. For instructions to authors and paper submission process, please visit: http://www.clarkson.edu/~jerria/STSIP-Journal.html Subscription Subscription rate per volume: US for libraries, for individuals. Postage US , US for abroad (please add US for airmail). For subscription and other inquiries write to the Managing editor, the Executive editor, Sampling Publishing or Clarkon University Book Store. 69 Leroy Street; Potsdam, NY 13676. Tel. (315) 265-1005, 268-2373 Fax (315) 268-2371, 265-2755. Email: jerria@clarkson.edu http://www.clarkson.edu/~jerria/STSIP-Journal.html To Order Contact: Clarkson University Book Store 39 Market Street Potsdam, NY 13676 USA Tel. (315) 265-9260 Fax (315) 265-9296 email:clarkson@bkstore.com *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Li-Chen Fu, CALL FOR PAPERS: ASIAN J. OF CONTROL Advances in PID Control: A Special Issue of Asian Journal of Control PROPORTIONAL-INTEGRAL-DERIVATIVE (PID) is a familiar term of high significance to many engineers, technicians and other practitioners involved in automatic control systems. Controllers of the PID type have existed for more than fifty years. Today, PID controllers can be found in virtually all control systems, with applications ranging from process conditions regulation to precision motion control for assembly and process automation. This is not surprising since the reliability of the PID controllers has been field proven by decades of successful applications. The wide acceptance and massive support from control engineers all over the world ensure they have remained the single most important tool in the control toolbox. The research and development efforts for the evergreen PID controllers have been undergoing a resurgence in recent years. A lot of effort has been devoted to capitalizing on the advances in mathematical control theory while still essentially retaining the decades-old classical control structure. New generation PID controllers are able to demonstrate very good control still essentially retaining the decades-old classical control structure. New generation PID controllers are able to demonstrate very good control characteristics such as higher performance robustness, tighter control performance, and a higher level of intelligence and autonomy in their operations with a correspondingly reduced reliance on manual operations. The application base of PID controllers has also been further expanded, with these controllers now being applied effectively to systems and processes never before possible under traditional PID control. The importance of PID controllers cannot be undermined as they provide the engines to millions of control systems operating around the world. This special issue on Advances in PID Control will help to serve as a forum to consolidate the latest advances and trends in this field. Priority will be given to original contributions which attempt to link the advances in control theory and artificial intelligence to obtain better performing PID controllers, with applications to complex systems including vaguely modeled, nonlinear, multivariable and time-delay systems. Papers should preferably include an application section, where the results from a practical application/case study are documented. Guest Editor: Dr. K. K. Tan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore Tel: +65-8742110, Fax +65-7791103 E-mail: eletankk@nus.edu.sg Important Dates: April 1, 2001 Call for Papers Sep. 15, 2001 Deadline for Paper Submission Feb. 1, 2002 Completion of first review May 1, 2002 Completion of final review Sep.30, 2002 Publication Potential authors can either submit four copies of manuscripts or send its electronic file in Postscript, PDF or WORD format to Prof. Li-Chen Fu, Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Control at the following address: Prof. Li-Chen Fu Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei 106, Taiwan Tel: +886-2-2362-2209 Fax: +886-2-2365-7887 Email: lichen@ccms.ntu.edu.tw All submissions should include a title page containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliation, complete postal and electronic address, phone and fax number, an abstract, and a list of keywords. The contact author should be clearly identified. For more detailed information about manuscript preparation, please visit the web site of Asian Journal of Control at: http://www.ajc.org.tw *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Li-Chen Fu, Contents: Asian Journal of Control Vol. 3, No. 2 (June, 2001) (Special Issue : Trend and Advancement in Neural Networks Based Control Designs ) 1. Title: "Nonlinear Control via Generalized Feedback Linearization Using Neural Networks," Author Graham C. Goodwin, Osvaldo Rojas, and Hitoshi Takata 2. Title: "Fault Diagnosis Based on Fuzzy-Recurrent Neural Network," Author Zhao Xiang and Xiao Deyun 3. Title: "Neural Network Adaptive Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems in a Normal Form," Author J. Q. Gong and Bin Yao 4. Title: "Robust Adaptive Control of Robots Using Neural Network : Global Stability," Author C. Kwan, D. M. Dawson, and F. L. Lewis 5. Title: "On Approximation Capability of Neural Networks--Dynamic System Modeling and Control" Author Chu Kwong Chak, Gang Feng, and Jian Ma 6. Title: "Neural Network Based Algorithm for Dynamic System Optimization," Author Roseli Francelin Romero, Janusz Kacprzyk, and Fernando Gomide 7. Title: "Adaptive Neural Network Control for Smart Materials Robots Using Singular Perturbation Technique," Author S. S. Ge, T. H. Lee, and Z. P. Wang 8. Title: "Robust Adaptive Identification of Nonlinear System Using Neural Network," Author Q. Song, L. Yin, and Y. C. Soh 9. Title: "Nonlinear Fly-by-Throttle H-infinity Control Using Neural Networks," Author Gwo-Ruey Yu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Huibert Kwakernaak, AUTOMATICA Table of contents August, 2001 Volume 37, Issue 8 Editorials Kumpati S. Narendra, Frank L. Lewis Introduction to the Special issue on Neural Network Feedback Control Special issue papers R. R. Selmic, F. L. Lewis Neural net backlash compensation with hebbian tuning using dynamic inversion A. S. Poznyak, L. Ljung On-line identification and adaptive trajectory tracking for nonlinear stochastic continuous time systems using differential neural networks R. Padhi, S. N. Balakrishnan, T. Randolph Adaptive-critic based optimal neuro control synthesis for distributed parameter systems J. Q. Gong, B. Yao Neural network adaptive robust control of nonlinear systems in semi-strict feedback form G. A. Rovithakis Stable adaptive neuro-control design via Lyapunov function derivative estimation A. J. Calise, N. Hovakimyan, M. Idan Adaptive output feedback control of nonlinear systems using neural networks G. Arslan, T. Basar Disturbance attenuating controller design for strict-feedback systems with structurally unknown dynamics T. Parisini, S. Sacone Stable hybrid control based on discrete-event automata and receding-horizon neural regulators Y. Li, N. Sundararajan, P. Saratchandran Neuro-controller design for nonlinear fighter aircraft maneuver using fully tuned RBF networks J. Wang, J. Huang Neural network enhanced output regulation in nonlinear systems L-X. Wang, F. Wan Structured neural networks for constrained model predictive control Y. Zhang, J. Wang Recurrent neural networks for nonlinear output regulation L. Chen, K. S. Narendra Nonlinear adaptive control using neural networks and multiple models *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Gabriela Stroian, Contents: European Journal of Control Vol.6, no. 6, 2000 Editorial A contribution to the validation of grafcet controlled systems J. Zaytoon Discussions on the paper by J.S. Ostroff, H. Alla and K.E. Arzen. Solving transient scheduling problems with constraint programming O. Korbaa, P. Yim and J.-C. Gentina Discussions on the paper by P. Lopez and H. Alla. Idle speed control of an automotive engine using a robust nonlinear controller-observer pair A.I. Bhatti, S.K. Spurgeon and R. Dorey Discussion on the paper by J.P. Barbot. Balanced tuning of PI controllers P. Klan and R. Gorez Discussions on the paper by S. Strmcnik and D. Vrancic. Design, flight simulation and handling qualities evaluation of an LPV gain- scheduled helicopter flight control system I. Postlethwaite, I.K. Konstantopoulos, X.-D. Sun, D.J. Walker and A.G. Alford Control of unicycle-type robots in the presence of sliding effects with only absolute longitudinal and yaw velocities measurements M. Ellouze and B. d’Andréa-Novel Discussion on A Sliding Mode Observer Based FDI Scheme for the Ship Benchmark by C. Edwards and S.K. Spurgeon – final comments by the authors. INFORMATION Information on European Journal of Control is available at its home page: http://www-ejc.ensieg.inpg.fr Address for submissions: I.D. Landau European Journal of Control Laboratoire d'Automatique ENSIEG, BP 46 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères France E-mail : Ioan-Dore.Landau@inpg.fr *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Marc Bodson, Contents: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology May 2001 Volume 9 Number 3 PAPERS: Extracting Physical Parameters from System Identification of a Natural Gas Engine A. Gangopadhyay and P. H. Meckl Model-Based Predictive Control Studies for a Continuous Pulp Digester P. A Wisnewski and F. J. Doyle,III Hierarchial Adaptive and Supervisory Control of Continous Venovenous Hemofiltration E. O Morales, M. M. Polycarpou, N. Hemasilpin, and J. J. Bissler Improved Control of Pneumatic Lumber - Handling Systems X. G. Wang and C. K.-H. Kim A Sensorless Approach to Control of a Turbodynamic Left Ventricular Assist System S. Choi, J. F. Antaki, J. R. Boston, and D. Thomas Robust Liquid Container Transfer Control for a Complete Sloshing Suppression K. Yano and K. Terashima Stable Fault Tolerant Adaptive Fuzzy/ Neural Control for a Turbine Engine Y. Diao and K. M. Passino A Sample Path Approach for Solving the Ground - Holding Policy Problem in Air Traffic Control C. G. Panayiotou and C. G. Cassandras Optimal Control Techniques for Assessing Feasibilty and Defining Subsystem Level Requirements: An Automative Case Study I. V. Kolmanovsky and A. G. Stefanopoulou BRIEF PAPERS: Self - Tuning IMC - PID Control with Interval Gain and Phase Margins Assignments W. K. Ho , T. H. Lee, H. P. Han, and Y. Hong Pitch Control of the Space Shuttle Training Aircraft H. R. Berenji, S. Saraf, P.- W. Chang, and S. R. Swanson *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Sharron Lawrence, Contents: International Journal of Control (Taylor and Francis Ltd) Volume 74, Number 8, May 2001 761 - 775 Non-linear adaptive robust control of electro-hydraulic systems driven by double-rod actuators Bin Yao; Fanping Bu; George T. C. Chiu 776 - 782 Complexity of nonholonomic motion planning Frédéric Jean 783 - 810 On output regulation for linear systems Ali Saberi; Anton A. Stoorvogel; Peddapullaiah Sannuti 811 - 828 Lyapunov recursive design of robust adaptive tracking control with L2-gain performance for electrically-driven robot manipulators Chiharu Ishii; Tielong Shen; Zhihua Qu 829 - 844 Generalized frequency response function matrix for MIMO non-linear systems A. K. Swain; S. A. Billings 845 - 856 D-stability of polynomial matrices Didier Henrion; Olivier Bachelier; Michael Sebek 857 - 872 On the design of a position feedback control law for a simple mechanical system subject to impacts Marina Indri; Antonio Tornambe SharronL@tandf.co.uk http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/00207179.html *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: J.H. van Schuppen, Contents: Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS) Volume 14 (2001), Number 1 F. Albertini, P. Dai Pra and C. Prior Small parameter limit for ergodic, discrete-time, partially observed, risk-sensitive control problems. MCSS 14 (2001), 1-28. P. Kunkel, V. Mehrmann and W. Rath, Analyses and numerical solution of control problems in descriptor form. MCSS 14 (2001), 29-61. M. Boue and P. Dupuis, Risk-sensitive and robust escape control for degenerate processes. MCSS 14 (2001), 62-85. R. Banning and W.L. de Koning, Spectral analysis of stochastically sampled dynamic systems. MCSS 14 (2001), 86-107. INFORMATION Information on MCSS including tables of contents is available at its home pages: www.cwi.nl/~schuppen/mcss/mcss.html www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/mcss.html Address for submissions: J.H. van Schuppen (Co-Editor MCSS) CWI P.O.Box 94079 1090 GB Amsterdam The Netherlands Bradley Dickinson, Eduardo Sontag, Jan van Schuppen (Editors) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Hans Schneider, Journal: Linear Algebra and its Applications ISSN : 0024-3795 Volume : 331 Issue : 1-3 Date : 01-Jul-2001 Please note: The access restrictions on articles/abstracts vary. Many journals have free access to abstracts, but in general access to full text PDFs is restricted to subscribers. The contents of LAA through volume 330 are available at: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/07738 The contents of volume 331 are expected shortly. pp 1-9 An interpolation approach to Hardy-Littlewood inequalities for norms of operators on sequence spaces B. Osikiewicz, A. Tonge http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379500001841 pp 11-20 On the spectrum and pseudoinverse of a special bordered matrix J. Ding, W.C. Pye http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002610 pp 21-30 Consimilarity of quaternion matrices and complex matrices H. Liping http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S002437950100266X pp 31-41 The product of two quadratic matrices F. Bunger, F. Knuppel, K. Nielsen http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002774 pp 43-59 Hyperspheres and hyperplanes fitted seamlessly by algebraic constrained total least-squares Y. Nievergelt http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002634 pp 61-74 Numerical ranges of composition operators V. Matache http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002622 pp 75-87 Linear preservers for matrix inequalities and partial orderings A. Guterman http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002804 pp 89-100 An order preserving inequality via Furuta inequality, II C. Yang http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002816 pp 101-112 On G-invariant norms T.-Y. Tam, W.C. Hill http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002701 pp 113-130 Principal majorization ideals and optimization G. Dahl http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002683 pp 131-144 Comparison results for parallel multisplitting methods with applications to AOR methods W. Li, W. Sun http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002762 pp 145-153 Automorphisms of certain forms of higher degree over ordered fields A. Chlebowicz, A. Sladek, M. Wolowiec-Musial http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002725 pp 155-164 A matrix algorithm towards solving the moment problem of Sobolev type F. Marcellan, F. Hugon Szafraniec http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002713 pp 165-179 Polynomial Bezoutian matrix with respect to a general basis Z.H. Yang http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002828 pp 181-192 Extension of an approximate orthogonalization algorithm to arbitrary rectangular matrices C. Popa http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002865 pp 193-202 Totally positive matrices and totally positive hypergraphs G. Kubicki, J. Lehel, M.x. Morayne http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S002437950100252X pp 203-209 On Pappus' configuration in non-commutative projective geometry G. Donati http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501002877 pp 211 Author index http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0024379501003597 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Lars Imsland, TABLE OF CONTENTS Modeling, Identification, and Control (MIC), Vol. 22, No. 1, January 2001 page 1 Editorial page 3 H. Ludvigsen, A. Shiriaev and O. Egeland, "Stabilization of Stable Manifold of Upright Position of the Spherical Pendulum" page 15 T. A. Johansen, "Computational Performance Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Semi-infinite Programming" page 29 O. Slupphaug, L. Imsland and B. A. Foss, "Uncertainty Modeling and Robust Output Feedback Control of Nonlinear Discrete Systems: A Mathematical Programming Approach" Accumulated index and more information about MIC is available at http://www.itk.ntnu.no/publikasjoner/mic/mic.html. MIC is now available online for subscribers and for others on a pay-per-view basis, at EBSCO Online, http://www.ebsco.com/online/ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: George W Irwin (Editor in Chief), Contents: Control Engineering Practice ISSN : 0967-0661 Volume : 9 Issue : 6 Date : Jun-2001 Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00123 pp 589-606 Intelligent control system of an industrial lime kiln process M. Jarvensivu, K. Saari, S.-L. Jamsa-Jounela pp 607-620 Sloshing analysis and suppression control of tilting-type automatic pouring machine K. Terashima, K. Yano pp 621-630 Implementing machine-directional basis weight control for a pilot paper machine H. Baki, H. Wang, M.T. Soylemez, N. Munro pp 631-638 Adaptive predictive control of combustor NO"x emissions G.P. Liu, S. Daley pp 639-645 Observer based estimation of parameter variations and its application to tyre pressure diagnosis T. Umeno, K. Asano, H. Ohashi, M. Yonetani, T. Naitou, T. Taguchi pp 647-657 Least squares and genetic algorithms for parameter identification of induction motors F. Alonge, F. D'Ippolito, F.M. Raimondi pp 659-671 Rainfall-runoff multi-modelling for sensor fault diagnosis A. Boukhris, S. Giuliani, G. Mourot pp 673-682 Multi-leak detection and isolation in fluid pipelines C. Verde pp 683-693 Minimization of blocking time in component-based software architecture for control systems Y. Jeon, C.-H. Choi *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Joao Hespanha, Announcement: Special Issue on Switching and Logic in Adaptive Control International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing Special Issue on Switching and Logic in Adaptive Control Issue Edited by Joao Hespanha, Daniel Liberzon Volume 15, Issue 3, 2001. http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0890-6327/ 211-212 Editorial João Hespanha, Daniel Liberzon 213-238 On a class of switched, robustly stable, adaptive systems Felipe M. Pait, Fuad Kassab Jr 239-263 Model reference adaptive control using a low-order controller Daniel E. Miller 265-286 Designing predictors for MIMO switching supervisory control Edoardo Mosca, Francesco Capecchi, Alessandro Casavola 287-317 Stochastic adaptive control using multiple models for improved performance in the presence of random disturbances Kumpati S. Narendra, Osvaldo A. Driollet 319-334 Unfalsified direct adaptive control of a two-link robot arm Tung-Ching Tsao, Michael G. Safonov 335-352 Effects of the design parameters of multimodel adaptive control on the performance of a flexible transmission system Alireza Karimi, Ioan Doré Landau, Nader Motee 353-375 Supervisory field-oriented control of induction motors with uncertain rotor resistance G. W. Chang, J. P. Hespanha, A. S. Morse, M. S. Netto, R. Ortega *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** +----------------------------------------+ | | Conferences | | +----------------------------------------+ *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Michael Athans, CALL FOR PAPERS 10th MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON CONTROL AND AUTOMATION (MED2002) Campus of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal July 9-12, 2002 We solicit regular papers and proposals for invited sessions in all aspects of the theory, algorithms, and applications of systems, control, automation, robotics, operations research, intelligent systems, signal processing, communication networks and related disciplines. Papers and Proposals for Invited Sessions due: Feb. 1, 2002 Author Notification: April 15, 2002 Final Manuscript due: May 7, 2002 Conference Starts: July 9, 2002 INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS: 1. Prof. John C. Doyle, California Inst of Technology, Calif., USA Complex Systems 2. Prof. Pravin P. Varaiya, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA Hierarchical Control of Autonomous Systems 3. Prof. David G. Luenberger, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., USA Systems Theory and Financial Engineering Systems 4. Prof. Edward R. Crawley, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA Control of Precision Optical Systems 5. Prof. Henrik I. Christensen, Royal Inst of Technology, SWEDEN Advances in Robotic Systems 6. Prof. Olivier Faugeras, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE and MIT, USA Advances in Image Processing and Computer Vision 7. Prof. Munther A. Dahleh, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA Robust Control for Linear and Nonlinear Systems 8. Prof. P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA Wireless Networks: Problems, Prospects and Protocols Updates and details can be found at: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/med2002/ Contact us at: med2002@isr.ist.utl.pt *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Ben M. Chen, CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Conference on Control Theory and Applications Pretoria, South Africa, December 12-14, 2001 Final Call for Papers The Third International Conference on Control Theory and Applications, ICCTA'01, will be held at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, the Administrative Capital of South Africa, December 12-14, 2001. The conference is jointly organised by the IEEE Control Chapter, Singapore and the IEEE South African Section. It creates a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research, results and ideas in the area of control theory and applications. Along with contributed papers, three keynote addresses will be given: Practical Aspects of Nonlinear Control Professor Graham C. Goodwin, Fellow IEEE, The University of Newcastle Control and Observation of Quantum Systems Professor Tzyh-Jong Tarn, Fellow IEEE, Washington University at St. Louis University-Industry Collaborative Research: Observations, Criticism, and Suggestions through Personal Experience Professor Clarence W. de Silva, Fellow IEEE, The University of British Columbia Topics of interest include but not limited to: + Modeling of Complex Systems + Linear Systems + Robust and H-infinity Control + Nonlinear Systems and Control + Fuzzy and Neural Systems + Estimation and Identification + Fault Detection + Process Control and Instrumentation + Motion Control + Optimal Control + Discrete Event Systems + Adaptive and Learning Control + Intelligent and AI Based Control + Real-time Systems + Sensor and Data Fusion + Robotics + Control Education + Applications Prospective authors are invited to submit 3 copies of a manuscript or an extended summary of about 1000 words to: Professor Ben M. Chen Technical Chair, ICCTA’01 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering The National University of Singapore Singapore 117576 Email: bmchen@nus.edu.sg Fax: (65)-779-1103 Softcopy submission by email are also acceptable. The organising committee is also soliciting proposals for invited and special sessions in the related areas. All materials must be written in English, and a paper should be submitted only if you intend to present the paper in the conference. The extended summary should contain sufficient details including key concepts and novel features of the work. It should include the title, name(s) of author(s), mailing address, affiliation, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address, wherever possible. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Extended Summary: July 1, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2001 Submission of Final Papers: Septerber 30, 2001 Conference: December 12-14, 2001 Conference web site: http://vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg/~iccta Email: iccta@vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Dr Jimmy Li, CALL FOR PAPERS Information, Decision and Control 2002 Adelaide, Australia, 11 - 13 February 2002 IDC 2002 is sponsored by the IEEE South Australian Section and also is supported by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP). IDC 2002 will bring together scientists, engineers and mathematicians working across the disciplines of signal processing and communications, decision and control, and data and information fusion. Progress in these disciplines is critical to the successful implementation of large interconnected and distributed systems such as military C4I systems, communication networks, distributed sensor networks, large scale distributed control systems, and multi-platform autonomous vehicle applications. In particular, IDC 2002 will attempt to highlight interfacing issues between fundamental technology and algorithms (low level) and applications (high level) aspects of system design. IDC 2002 is structured along the lines of similar multi-conferences held over recent years around the world. It is planned to provide technically strong symposia for each of the core disciplines with significant opportunity for overlap and interaction between the various groups. The IDC 2002 Organising Committee invites researchers and practitioners in academia, industry and government to submit papers for one or more of the symposia of IDC 2002 as detailed overleaf. All submitted papers are peer reviewed on their originality, relevance, significance and clarity. The accepted papers will be invited for presentation at oral/poster sessions and published in the IDC 2002 Proceedings. SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers should be no more than six A4 pages. A cover sheet should indicate: the paper title, all authors and affiliations, a point of contact (telephone, fax and email), the symposia of submission and (to facilitate the reviewing process) a topic area addressed by the submission chosen from the lists overleaf. Electronic submission in pdf format is preferred and strongly recommended to all participants. Submitted papers are to use the IEEE LaTeX or Word style files (available at http://www.ieee.org/pubs/authors.html). Electronic submissions must be received at IDC@cssip.edu.au by June 29, 2001. If you cannot submit electronically please contact the Conference Secretariat by 31 May 2001 to make alternative arrangements. Authors will be notified by September 28, 2001. Camera-ready papers will be due on November 30, 2001. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about IDC 2002 is also available on the IDC 2002 web site IDC.cssip.edu.au, or by contacting the IDC 2002 Secretariat electronically at plevin@camtech.net.au or in writing at IDC 2002, Plevin & Associates, PO Box 54 Burnside, SA 5066 Australia. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Claude Moog, CALL FOR PAPERS: CIFA 2002, Int Conf on Automatic Control Nantes, France 8-10 july 2002. This is the second french speaking international conference on automatic control. The first conference CIFA was successfully organized in Lille, France in july 2000 and attracted 220 participants from 22 countries. The second edition of CIFA will be organized on the campus of Ecole Centrale de Nantes from 8 to 10 july 2002. The scope of the conference covers all aspects of the area, from basic and fundamental to various application domains. Pluri-disciplinary issues are particularly encouraged since they become mandatory for the development research in automatic control. Deadline for submission of regular papers, invited sessions is 15 december 2001. The official language is french. 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--MuLtIpArT_BoUnDaRy-- From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue Jun 5 16:24:58 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA14307 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:24:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa05589; 5 Jun 2001 13:35 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa05587; 5 Jun 2001 13:24 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa05091; 5 Jun 2001 13:23 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa13399; 5 Jun 2001 10:29 EDT Received: from aladin.elf.stuba.sk by edrc.cmu.edu id aa07940; 5 Jun 2001 10:28 EDT Received: (from benus@localhost) by elf.stuba.sk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA02821; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:28:25 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:28:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Lubica Benuskova To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Paper on experience-dependent cortical plasticity Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: O Dear Connectionists, the preprint of the following article: "Theory for normal and impaired experience-dependent plasticity in neocortex of adult rats" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98(5): 2797-2802, 2001. by Benuskova L, Rema V, Armstrong-James M and Ebner FF can be downloaded from http://www.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~benus/#publications Abstract: We model experience-dependent plasticity in the cortical representation of whiskers (the barrel cortex) in normal adult rats, and in adult rats that were prenatally exposed to alcohol. Prenatal exposure to alcohol (PAE) caused marked deficits in experience-dependent plasticity in a cortical barrel-column. Cortical plasticity was induced by trimming all whiskers on one side of the face except two. This manipulation produces high activity from the intact whiskers which contrasts with low activity from the cut whiskers while avoiding any nerve damage. By a computational model we show that the evolution of neuronal responses in a single barrel-column following this sensory bias is consistent with the synaptic modifications that follow the rules of the Bienenstock, Cooper and Munro (BCM) theory. The BCM theory postulates that a neuron possesses a moving synaptic modification threshold, $\theta_M$, which dictates whether the neuron's activity at any given instant will lead to strengthening or weakening of its input synapses. The current value of $\theta_M$ changes proportionally to the square of the neuron's activity averaged over some recent past. In the model of alcohol impaired cortex, the effective $\theta_M$ has been set to a level unattainable by the depressed levels of cortical activity. Abnormally low activity leads to ``impaired'' synaptic plasticity that is consistent with experimental findings. Based on experimental and computational results we discuss how elevated $\theta_M$ may be related to the abnormally low expression of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) and the membrane translocation of Ca$^{2+}$/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) in adult rat cortex subjected to prenatal alcohol exposure. Lubica Benuskova, PhD ------------------------------------------------------- Slovak Technical University Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Ilkovicova 3, 812 19 Bratislava 1, Slovakia ------------------------------------------------------- Phone: (+421 7) 602 91 696 Fax: (+421 7) 654 20 587 E-mail: benus@elf.stuba.sk, benus@dcs.elf.stuba.sk http://www.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~benus From ems+HLD7VT2LRMZDGN@bounces.amazon.com Tue Jun 5 16:27:22 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14369 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:27:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm-outgoing-9.amazon.com (mm-outgoing-9.amazon.com [208.33.217.127]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25124 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:27:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-ems-2.amazon.com by mm-outgoing-9.amazon.com with ESMTP (crosscheck: mail-ems-2.amazon.com [10.16.42.120]) id KAA-240259-05668; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ems-2.amazon.com id AAA-240259-26684,822; 5 Jun 2001 10:06:27 -0700 Date: 5 Jun 2001 10:06:27 -0700 Message-ID: <.AAA-240259-26684,822.991760787@mail-ems-2.amazon.com> X-AMAZON-TRACK: 240259 To: sussmann@hilbert.rutgers.edu From: "Amazon.com" Subject: Gifts for Dad, Deals for You Bounces-to: ems+HLD7VT2LRMZDGN@bounces.amazon.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative;boundary=MuLtIpArT_BoUnDaRy Status: O --MuLtIpArT_BoUnDaRy Content-Type: text/plain Dear Amazon Customer, Since you haven't shopped with us recently (using this e-mail address), we wanted to make sure you knew about our new Father's Day Store. 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Your e-mail address is not associated with a completed MyVT Personal Preferences. ________________________________________________________________________ Volume 1, Edition 4.1, June 2001 IN THIS NEWSLETTER Destination of the Month: * New York City Timely Travel News: * Stuck at the Airport Tips and Advice: * Getting into the City * Hotels in New York * Suggestions for Gratuities * Business Travel Tips * Mobile Phones and High Rises * Staying Fit on the Road * Using SVT Features ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESTINATION OF THE MONTH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESTINATION: NEW YORK CITY Unparalleled Energy and Diversity New York City generates more energy than any other place on the planet. 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Each terminal offers different dining options. Terminal 1 has a brewpub, coffeehouse, bistro, wine bar and Chinese food. Terminal 2 has croissants, a golf-themed cafe and a Cybercafe. Terminal 3 features bagels, a pub, an American grill and Chinese food. Terminal 4 has a deli, international buffet and full-service restaurant. Terminal 5 has fast food and coffee shops. Sausages and hot dogs dominate the food choices in Terminal 6. Terminal 7 has cafeterias, coffee shops, Italian food and a full-service restaurant. Terminal 8 offers Chinese food, a bakery, yogurt and Italian food. An American grill is in Terminal 9. 3. Escape. Visit the interdenominational chapel in Terminal 4. 4. Pamper yourself. Have a facial at Clinique in Terminal 1. 5. Play. If you have children (or miss yours), head to the waterfalls and sculpture in Terminal 1 or the Lego-sponsored play area near Gates 5 and 7. 6. Sightsee. Terminal 5 is a historic landmark. Terminal 1's abstract sheet metal and aluminum sculpture, soaring ceilings and great views of a wildlife refuge and the Manhattan skyline embody the vitality of flight. Terminal 8 has the largest stained-glass window in the world. LaGuardia: 1. Take a brisk walk between terminals. Ask for an airport map at one of the information booths. 2. Eat! The choices are endless and far better than airline food. The LaGuardia Marketplace has a deli, Asian food, Godiva chocolate and a sit-down restaurant. You'll find numerous fast food and yogurt shops throughout the airport. 3. Vegetate. Grab a seat and watch the planes taking off (yes, some are--just not yours) from areas in the Central Terminal or grab an airport shuttle to the Marine Air Terminal where there's a landscaped area with benches. 4. Shop. Airport shops can't charge you more for their products than you'd pay anywhere else in town. 5. Work out. Nearby hotels offer day rates for access to health clubs, pools and exercise rooms. Ask someone in an information booth for a list. Newark: 1. Take a brisk walk between terminals. Ask for an airport map at any information booth. 2. Eat! This airport boasts classic New Jersey road food, New York hot dogs and an on-site Marriott with an English-style pub, an American grill and a French restaurant. 3. Be quiet. Head for the Meditation Room in Terminal C located opposite the monorail station. 4. Explore. Check out the community art showcase and periodic exhibits in Terminal B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TIPS AND ADVICE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GETTING INTO THE CITY The most convenient transportation options from the three airports (JFK, LaGuardia and Newark) to Manhattan are shuttles, taxis and car services. Shuttles The Gray Line Air Shuttle (800-451-0455 or 212-315-3006) and Super Shuttle Manhattan (800-258-3826) are shared mini-buses that run on demand and make hotel stops from all three airports. Gray Line Air Shuttle services the area between Battery Park and 125th Street, and Super Shuttle Manhattan covers all of Manhattan. When you arrive in New York, find one of the shuttles outside in the designated transportation area. When returning to the airport, make a reservation for pick up at your hotel on a specific date and time. The cost ranges from $13 and up. Shuttles generally run from 7 a.m.-11 p.m. (some run as late as midnight; call to verify). Taxis Taxis are available 24/7. Always order through a uniformed dispatcher. Fares from JFK to Manhattan cost a flat fare of $30 (plus tolls and gratuity). Fare after the first stop is metered. Fares from LaGuardia to Manhattan range from $16-$26 (plus tolls and gratuity). 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You arrive at the airport and realize you haven't charged the batteries for your laptop, mobile phone, etc. Check the wall space in lounges overlooking the tarmac and near support beams. They often have electrical outlets that you can use to charge your batteries. Make sure you have your hotel's direct telephone number. If your flight is running late, phone the hotel on their direct number to keep them informed of your expected arrival. This call could prevent you from losing your reservation. Tape an alternative telephone number to your mobile phone (or laptop, etc). That way, if someone finds an item that you've lost while traveling, they'll know how to contact you. You may want to mention a reward for the return of your property next to the phone number. Make a note of your cellular service provider's customer service number. If your mobile phone is lost or stolen, inform your service provider as soon as possible. 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Contact: Esther Koning mailto:e.koning@elsevier.nl From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed Jun 6 08:34:18 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA27785 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:34:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa08698; 6 Jun 2001 4:45 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa08696; 6 Jun 2001 4:40 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa06651; 6 Jun 2001 4:40 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa24035; 6 Jun 2001 4:10 EDT Received: from DEEP-THOUGHT.TANDF.CO.UK by edrc.cmu.edu id aa22734; 6 Jun 2001 4:10 EDT Received: from [193.117.119.169] by deep-thought.tandf.co.uk (NTMail 6.03.0009/NT2053.00.0d80651e) with ESMTP id tvjouaaa for Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:13:25 +0100 Reply-To: JaneD@tandf.co.uk MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu From: Jane Dawson To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Subject: OPAL/Cognitive Neuropsychology Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:09:45 +0100 Message-ID: <001801c0ee60$0cc82bd0$a97775c1@tandf.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Status: O Dear Colleague I am pleased to announce that Psychology Press, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, have just launched OPAL - Online Psychology Alerting - a FREE service for those with a specific interest in behavioural sciences. This is a special email service designed to deliver tables of contents for any Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis, Brunner-Routledge, or Carfax behavioural science journal in advance of publication, to anyone who has requested the information. All you need to do is register, and you will be sent contents pages of the journal(s) of your choice from that point onwards, in advance of the printed edition. You can request contents pages either for any number of individual titles, or for one or more of our sub-categories or a main category, and you may unsubscribe at any time. For each of your choices, you will receive the relevant bibliographic information: journal title, volume/issue number and the ISSN. You will also receive full contents details, names of authors and the appropriate page numbers from the printed version. This will give you advance notice of what is being published, making it easier for you to retrieve the exact information you require from the hard copy once it arrives in your library, or electronically from the online version of the journal. Titles that may be of interest are: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Cognitive Neuropsychology European Journal of Cognitive Psychology Thinking and Reasoning Visual Cognition Laterality Memory To register for this complimentary service, please visit: http://www.psypress.co.uk/opal/ and click on the OPAL button. For further information on the above titles, please visit: http://www.psypress.co.uk/journals.html To find out more about online journals in behavioral science, please see the Psychology Online section of the Psychology Press website: http://www.psypress.co.uk If you have any questions regarding this service, please email: OPAL@psypress.co.uk From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Wed Jun 6 20:09:04 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA18504 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:09:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa11457; 6 Jun 2001 17:26 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa11449; 6 Jun 2001 17:13 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa07350; 6 Jun 2001 17:13 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa31917; 6 Jun 2001 17:08 EDT Received: from egeo.unipg.it by edrc.cmu.edu id aa03706; 6 Jun 2001 17:07 EDT Received: from netmaster (ppp-144-254.27-151.libero.it [151.27.254.144]) by egeo.unipg.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA82930 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:06:58 +0200 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20010606210628.01811d00@unipg.it> X-Sender: sfr@unipg.it X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 23:06:28 +0200 To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu From: "Simone G.O. Fiori (Pg)" Subject: Papers on neural and neuromorphic blind signal processing. Status: O Dear Connectionists, I would like to draw your attention to three new papers of potential interest to people working on unsupervised artificial neural networks and neuromorphic adaptive filtering for blind signal processing. Best regards, Simone Fiori Hybrid Independent Component Analysis by Adaptive LUT Activation Function Neurons ================================================================== by S. Fiori - Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems Research Group University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy) Journal: Neural Networks (Pergamon press) Download at: http://www.unipg.it/~sfr/publications/nnt2001.ps Abstract The aim of this paper is to present an efficient implementation of unsupervised adaptive-activation function neurons dedicated to one-dimensional probability density estimation, with application to independent component analysis. The proposed implementation is a computationally light improvement to adaptive pseudo-polynomial neurons, recently presented in (Fiori, 2000a), and bases upon the concept of `look-up table' (LUT) neurons. Keywords: Adaptive activation function neurons; Look-up-table neurons; Independent component analysis; Minimal mutual information principle; Kullback-Leibler divergence; Natural gradient. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Notes on Cost Functions and Estimators for `Bussgang' Adaptive Blind Equalization ================================================================== by S. Fiori - Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems Research Group University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy) Journal: European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT) Download at: http://www.unipg.it/~sfr/publications/ett2001.ps Abstract The aim of this paper is to present some remarks on the cost functions for blind channel equalization by `Bussgang' algorithms recently discused in the literature; also, some possible associated non-Bayesian estimators are considered with details, and the effects of the choice of such estimators in relation to `Bussgang' neuromorphic filtering are briefly investigated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Contribution to (Neuromorphic) Blind Deconvolution by Flexible Approximated Bayesian Estimation ================================================================= by S. Fiori - Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems Research Group University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy) Journal: Signal Processing (Elsevier) Download at: http://www.unipg.it/~sfr/publications/SIGPROC2001.ps Abstract `Bussgang' deconvolution techniques for blind digital channels equalization rely on a Bayesian estimator of the source sequence defined on the basis of channel/equalizer cascade model which involves the definition of deconvolution noise. In this paper we consider four `Bussgang' blind deconvolution algorithms for uniformly-distributed source signals and investigate their numerical performances as well as some of their analytical features. Particularly, we show that the algorithm, introduced by the present author, provided by a flexible (neuromorphic) estimator is effective as it does not require to make any hypothesis about convolutional noise level and exhibits satisfactory numerical performances. =================================================== Dr Simone Fiori (EE, PhD)- Assistant Professor Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems Research Group DIE - University of Perugia - Perugia (Italy) eMail: sfr@unipg.it Fax: +39 0744 492925 Web: http://www.unipg.it/~sfr/ =================================================== From seminar-request@EE.Princeton.EDU Thu Jun 7 09:29:05 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28555 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:29:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hermod.ee.princeton.edu (daemon@hermod.ee.Princeton.EDU [128.112.48.183]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03868; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:29:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hermod.ee.princeton.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f57DONY16365 for seminar-redist; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:24:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ee.princeton.edu (poem-office [128.112.48.209]) by hermod.ee.princeton.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f57DOHe16356 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:24:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B1F8081.963F9590@ee.princeton.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:24:17 -0400 From: Debra R Warren Reply-To: dwarren@EE.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University X-Sender: "Debra R Warren" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD Princeton University 05-99 (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: seminar@EE.Princeton.EDU Subject: OOE Seminar Tuesday June 12, 2001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O SPEAKER: Dr. Klemens Brunner Philips Research Labs Eindhoven WB 623 Prof Holstlaan 4 5656 AA Eindhoven The Netherlands +31 40 27 42964 (phone) +31 40 27 43350 (fax) klemens.brunner@philips.com DATE: Tuesday June 12, 2001 TIME: 4:00pm ROOM: J323 E-Quad Polymer LED activities at PHILIPS An overview of the current activities of Philips in the field of flat polymeric displays (PLEDs) will be given with a special (short) focus on two research projects: ink jet printing and dye doping of polymers. The mobile display market is currently shifting rapidly from monochrome to full colour displays and all major display manufactures develop strategies to achieve full colour emissive displays. Philips sees multi-nozzle ink jet printing of polymeric inks as a cost effective and efficient way to achieve large, high-resolution panels. Considerable effort is invested together with a variety of partners in process and materials development. The method of ink jet printing is introduced and examples of printed display are given in this presentation. Recently Philips started to investigate the possibility of "single" ink colour printing: that is using a suitable (e.g. blue) polymer as backbone, which determines the macroscopic properties (e.g. viscosity), and achieving green and red by e.g. excited state energy transfer (EET) to acceptors. 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Tsui Abstract: Double quantum dots have been suggested as an ideal model system for studying interactions between localized impurity spins in addition to the Kondo effect. We demonstrate a Kondo effect in a series-coupled double quantum dot. When the many body molecular states are formed, we observe a splitting of the Kondo resonance peak in the differential conductance. The occurrence of the Kondo resonance and its magnetic field dependence agree with a simple interpretation of the spin status of a double quantum dot. --- You received this message because you are included in the "seminar" list at Princeton's Electrical Engineering department. To unsubscribe or to change your email address, please send a note to seminar-request@ee.princeton.edu. (If your mail reader supports html, you can send your request by clicking on this link: mailto:seminar-request@ee.princeton.edu?subject=List%20Change%3A%20seminar) From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Thu Jun 7 22:00:03 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA23417 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:00:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa15854; 7 Jun 2001 19:35 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa15852; 7 Jun 2001 19:24 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa08960; 7 Jun 2001 19:23 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa04310; 7 Jun 2001 4:45 EDT Received: from sunu422.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de by cs.cmu.edu id aa24364; 7 Jun 2001 4:45 EDT Received: (qmail 27697 invoked by alias); 7 Jun 2001 08:45:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 27690 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 08:45:11 -0000 Received: from monk.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (134.147.72.34) by mi-1.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 08:45:11 -0000 Received: from byrd.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de by monk.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id KAA27782; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:46:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by byrd.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15214; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:45:16 +0200 (MET DST) Sender: mschmitt@monk.lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Message-ID: <3B1F3F1C.E1CF5ABA@lmi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 10:45:16 +0200 From: Michael Schmitt Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Preprint on Local Receptive Field Neural Networks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O Dear Connectionists, a preprint of the paper "Neural networks with local receptive fields and superlinear VC dimension" by Michael Schmitt is available on-line from http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lmi/mschmitt/receptive.ps.gz (39 pages gzipped PostScript). This paper has been accepted by Neural Computation in its first submitted version. (They say that this is the first time that they have accepted a first time submission.) Regards, Michael Schmitt ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Neural networks with local receptive fields and superlinear VC dimension AUTHOR: Michael Schmitt ABSTRACT Local receptive field neurons comprise such well-known and widely used unit types as radial basis function neurons and neurons with center-surround receptive field. We study the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension of feedforward neural networks with one hidden layer of these units. For several variants of local receptive field neurons we show that the VC dimension of these networks is superlinear. In particular, we establish the bound $\Omega(W\log k)$ for any reasonably sized network with $W$ parameters and $k$ hidden nodes. This bound is shown to hold for discrete center-surround receptive field neurons, which are physiologically relevant models of cells in the mammalian visual system, for neurons computing a difference of Gaussians, which are popular in computational vision, and for standard radial basis function (RBF) neurons, a major alternative to sigmoidal neurons in artificial neural networks. The result for RBF neural networks is of particular interest since it answers a question that has been open for several years. The results also give rise to lower bounds for networks with fixed input dimension. Regarding constants all bounds are larger than those known thus far for similar architectures with sigmoidal neurons. The superlinear lower bounds contrast with linear upper bounds for single local receptive field neurons also derived here. -- Michael Schmitt LS Mathematik & Informatik, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany Phone: +49 234 32-23209 , Fax: +49 234 32-14465 http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lmi/mschmitt/ From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri Jun 8 03:59:57 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA27283 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 03:59:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa16912; 8 Jun 2001 1:29 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa16910; 8 Jun 2001 1:24 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa09475; 8 Jun 2001 1:23 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa14083; 8 Jun 2001 1:17 EDT Received: from phy.ucsf.edu by edrc.cmu.edu id aa29803; 8 Jun 2001 1:17 EDT Received: from coltrane.ucsf.edu (IDENT:root@coltrane.ucsf.edu [128.218.66.81]) by phy.ucsf.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f585HM514508; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by coltrane.ucsf.edu (8.11.0) id f585HMG32156; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:17:22 -0700 From: Ken Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15136.24546.194623.9937@coltrane.ucsf.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:17:22 -0700 To: Connectionists list Subject: Research Scientist Position: Probabilistic Modeling for Spike-Sorting X-Mailer: VM 6.91 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid cc: Philip Sabes Status: O RESEARCH SCIENTIST NEEDED: PROBABILISTIC MODELING FOR SPIKE SORTING Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience UCSF San Francisco, CA We have an opening for a research scientist to work on developing methods for sorting "spikes" (action potentials) in neurophysiological recordings. This position pays a competitive professional salary. The problem of spike sorting is a challenging one of signal processing, time-series analysis, and unsupervised clustering, We plan to apply the methods of probabilistic modeling and model comparison. A starting point for our work will be the thesis work of Sahani, http://www.vis.caltech.edu/~maneesh/thesis/. The PI's on the project are Ken Miller (www.keck.ucsf.edu/~ken) and Philip Sabes (www.keck.ucsf.edu/~sabes), UCSF. The scientist will be expected to implement spike sorting algorithms, and in collaboration with the PI's to systematically test alternative algorithms and devise and test improved algorithms. Understanding of and experience with statistical inference and probabilistic modeling, or sufficient theoretical training to quickly master the same, is required; experience applying theoretical methods to analyze real data is strongly preferred. Sufficient scientific programming abilities to easily implement and test alternative algorithms is required. Prototyping will typically be done in Matlab, implementation in C or C++. It is expected that the candidate will have a Ph.D. in a quantitative field. The scientist will work closely with a programmer who will also be working fulltime on this project. The position is expected to run for approximately two years. Please send a CV and arrange to have two letters of reference sent to: Paul Puri Spikesorting Search Dept. of Physiology UCSF San Francisco, CA 94143-0444 or to spikesort@phy.ucsf.edu From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri Jun 8 09:14:23 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA00698 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:14:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa17749; 8 Jun 2001 5:38 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa17747; 8 Jun 2001 5:32 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa10024; 8 Jun 2001 5:31 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa16625; 8 Jun 2001 5:21 EDT Received: from dsna1.na.infn.it by ri.cmu.edu id aa29490; 8 Jun 2001 5:21 EDT Received: from na.infn.it (pclauria.na.infn.it [192.84.149.155]) by dsna1.na.infn.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22306; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:18:20 +0200 Message-ID: <3B20A28E.D5F278CB@na.infn.it> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:01:53 +0200 From: Roberto Prevete X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu CC: lauria@na.infn.it Subject: Preprint on AN ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO THE AUTONOMOUSLY SELF-ADAPTABLE BOOLEAN NEURAL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by dsna1.na.infn.it id LAA22306 Status: O Dear Connectionists, a preprint of the book "AN ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO THE AUTONOMOUSLY SELF-ADAPTABLE BOOLEAN NEURAL" by Francesco E. Lauria and Roberto Prevete is available on-line from http://www.na.infn.it/Gener/cyber/report.html, into the folder NeuralNetworks/News (zipped Word file) This book is in print by Liguori Ed. Via Posillipo 394 I-80123 Napoli, Italy (EU) ++39 081 720 61 11 phone Regards, Roberto Prevete ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: AN ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO THE AUTONOMOUSLY SELF-ADAPTABLE BOOLEAN NEURAL AUTHORS: Francesco E. Lauria and Roberto Prevete INFM & Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universit=E0 di Napoli Federico II Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant=92 Angelo, Via Vicinale Cupa Cintia 16 I-80126 Napoli, Italy (EU) lauria@na.infn.it CONTENTS Chapter 1 THE BOOLEAN NEURAL NET, OR BNN. Chapter 2. THE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION IN THE BNN. Chapter 3. THE DATA STRUCTURE EMBEDDED IN A BNN. Chapter 4. THE BNN AND THE HEBBIAN RULE. Chapter 5. THE ADAPTABLE BNN, OR ABNN Chapter 6. A GABNN AS AN AUTONOMOUSLY SELF-TRAINABLE CONTROL SYSTEM. Chapter 7. 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Today, not only does NF solve scientific problems, but its applications are also appearing in our daily lives. In order to discuss the state of the art in NF and the future of these exciting topics; we are honored to invite you to Neuro-Fuzzy 2002. We believe it will be an excellent opportunity to share our knowledge on NF and contribute to its development in the next century. This major international conference will be held in a very enjoyable location: Havana, the capital of Cuba, where we hope you will experience the famous Cuban hospitality. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary Chair: Prof. Hans-Juergen Zimmermann, Germany (zi@or.rwth-aachen.de) General Chair: Hans-Heinrich Bothe, Denmark (hhb@oersted.dtu.dk) Special Scientific Events Chair: Alberto Ochoa, Cuba (aa8ar@yahoo.com) Scientific Program Chair: Hans Hellendoorn, The Netherlands (hans.hellendoorn@siemens.nl) Scientific Program Co-Chair: Pedro Gonzalez Lanza, Cuba (pedro@cidet.icmf.inf.cu) Local Committee Chair: Orestes Llanes-Santiago, Cuba (orestes@electrica.ispjae.edu.cu) Local Committee Co-Chair: Abelardo del Pozo Quintero, Cuba (pozo@cidet.icmf.inf.cu) Publication Chair: Antonio Di Nola, Italy (dinola@unina.it) Publication Committee Co-Chair: Vincenzo Loia, Italy (loia@unisa.it) Administration and Finance Chair: ICSC-NAISO Operating Division The Netherlands (nf2002@ITStransnational.com) TOPICS SUGGESTED (not limited to) - Advanced Neuro and Fuzzy Paradigms - Data Granulation and Fuzzy Rule Extraction - Advanced Training Algorithms - Evolutionary Computation (GA, GP, ET) and Graphical Models - Chaotic Behavior and Fractals - Apllications in signal processing, control, robotics, etc. Of particular interest are applications from the following fields: Sound and image processing, pattern recognition, image understanding, feature binding, perception, sensor fusion, controller design, state observation, motor control, mobile robotics, autonomous navigation, deliberation and planning, active anchoring, gain-scheduling, fault detection, hardware solutions, data mining, financing, e-commerce. INTERNATIONAL STEERING / PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anderson P., USA Antonsson A.K., USA Baldwin J.F., United Kindom Bandemer H., Germany Bezdek J., USA Bonnisone P., USA Bosc P., France Carlsson Ch., Finland Dubois D., France Esogbue A. O., USA Fyfe C., United Kindom Gallard R., Argentina Gottwald S., Germany Grabisch M., France Halmague S.K., Australia Heiss-Czedik D., Austria Heiss M., Austria Hoehle U., Germany Jentzen Jan, Denmark Kalaykov Ivan, Sweden Kandel A.,Tampa, USA Kacprzyk J., Poland Klement E. P., Austria Kruse R., Germany Kuncheva L., United Kindom Mamdani E., United Kindom Marichal G.N., Spain Nauck Detlef, United Kindom Pap E., Yugoslavia Pedrycz W., Canada, Roubens M., Belgium Runkler Th., Germany Steele N., United Kindom Suemitsu W. I., Brasil Sugeno M., Japan Surmann H., Germany Takagi T., Japan TYrksen I. B., Toronto, Canada Ulieru M., Canada Vasilakos T., Greece Verdegay, J. L., Spain Zamarre-o J., Spain SPONSORED / SUPPORTED BY DTU: Technical University of Denmark IFSA: International Fuzzy Systems Association ISPJAE: Instituto Superior Politecnico Jose Antonio Echeverria ICIMAF: Instituto De Cibernetica, Matematica y Fisica UCLV: Universidad de Las Villas UO: Universidad de Oriente RAC: Red de Automatica de Cuba Ministerio de Educacion Superior de la Republica de Cuba Ministerio de la Informatica y las Comunicaciones de la Republica de Cuba Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Medio Ambiente de la Republica de Cuba ICSC-NAISO Canada / The Netherlands SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Updated information on special events such as keynotes / plenary presentations, tutorials, workshops, panel sessions, invited / plenary sessions will be available on the NF2002 web site: http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/nf2002 CALL FOR INVITED SESSIONS The organization of invited sessions is encouraged. Prospective organizers are requested to send a session proposal (consisting of 4-5 invited papers, the recommended session-chair and co-chair, as well as a short statement describing the title and the purpose of the session) to the respective symposium chair or the congress organizer. Invited sessions should preferably start with a tutorial paper. The registration fee of the session organizer will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited papers register to the conference. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer feedback, and practical examples of applied research are particularly welcome. Poster sessions will allow the presentation and discussion of respective papers, which will also be included in the conference proceedings. CALL FOR TUTORIALS Pre-conference tutorials on specific relevant topics are planned. Proposals for a tutorial must include the title, topics covered, proposed speakers, targeted audience and estimated length (preferably 2 or 4 hours). The proposal must be submitted to the general chair, the scientific program chair and the congress organizer by June 30, 2001. Tutorial papers of max 15 pages can be included in the conference proceedings. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Interested scientists are encouraged to organize a workshop on their particular field of research. Workshops consist of several presentations or open discussions on a specific subject. The proposal must include the title, the topics covered, the proposed speakers, the targeted audience and the estimated length. It should be submitted to the general chair, the scientific program chair and the congress organizer by June 30, 2001. Joint or edited workshop papers of max 35 pages can be included in the conference proceedings. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submission of papers can be done through our web site. If you submit a paper you will receive a notification e-mail with your paper number. Please use this reference number in the subject line in all correspondence and send us a draft paper by email for review by the International Program Committee. Please do not send us any hard copies. Please check our website for further instructions. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 30, 2001 (extended) Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2001 (extended) Delivery of Final Manuscripts: October 31, 2001 Conference NF'2002: January 16-19, 2002 CONGRESS ORGANIZER ICSC- NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division) P.O. Box 1091 3360 BB Sliedrecht The Netherlands Phone:+31-184-496999 Fax: +31-184-421065 Email:nf2002@ITStransnational.com (NF'2002 Congress) General information: operating@ITStransnational.com (Operating Division) planning@icsc.ab.ca (Planning Division) If you wished to be added to/removed from the mailing list, please write to: naiso@ITStransnational.com -------------- The message was sent by Mass e-Mailer --------------- Download from Intelliquis International http://www.intelliquis.com From cfp@ITStransnational.com Fri Jun 8 14:14:44 2001 Received: from comserver.194.151.89 ([194.151.89.26]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09087 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:14:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:14:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200106081814.OAA09087@math.rutgers.edu> Received: from GCO-EXCHANGE ([194.151.89.23]) by comserver.194.151.89 with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id MMLF7NJM; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:54:33 +0200 From: ICSC-NAISO To: sussmann@math.rutgers.edu Subject: Second call for papers NF 2002 Reply-To: cfp@ITStransnational.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Neuro-Fuzzy First International ICSC Conference on Neuro-Fuzzy Technologies NF 2002 to be held in Havana, Cuba January 16 - 19, 2002 http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/nf2002 International Computing Sciences Conventions (ICSC) Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization (NAISO) INTRODUCTION During the past decade, paradigms and benefits from neuro fuzzy systems (NF) have been growing tremendously. Today, not only does NF solve scientific problems, but its applications are also appearing in our daily lives. In order to discuss the state of the art in NF and the future of these exciting topics; we are honored to invite you to Neuro-Fuzzy 2002. We believe it will be an excellent opportunity to share our knowledge on NF and contribute to its development in the next century. This major international conference will be held in a very enjoyable location: Havana, the capital of Cuba, where we hope you will experience the famous Cuban hospitality. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary Chair: Prof. Hans-Juergen Zimmermann, Germany (zi@or.rwth-aachen.de) General Chair: Hans-Heinrich Bothe, Denmark (hhb@oersted.dtu.dk) Special Scientific Events Chair: Alberto Ochoa, Cuba (aa8ar@yahoo.com) Scientific Program Chair: Hans Hellendoorn, The Netherlands (hans.hellendoorn@siemens.nl) Scientific Program Co-Chair: Pedro Gonzalez Lanza, Cuba (pedro@cidet.icmf.inf.cu) Local Committee Chair: Orestes Llanes-Santiago, Cuba (orestes@electrica.ispjae.edu.cu) Local Committee Co-Chair: Abelardo del Pozo Quintero, Cuba (pozo@cidet.icmf.inf.cu) Publication Chair: Antonio Di Nola, Italy (dinola@unina.it) Publication Committee Co-Chair: Vincenzo Loia, Italy (loia@unisa.it) Administration and Finance Chair: ICSC-NAISO Operating Division The Netherlands (nf2002@ITStransnational.com) TOPICS SUGGESTED (not limited to) - Advanced Neuro and Fuzzy Paradigms - Data Granulation and Fuzzy Rule Extraction - Advanced Training Algorithms - Evolutionary Computation (GA, GP, ET) and Graphical Models - Chaotic Behavior and Fractals - Apllications in signal processing, control, robotics, etc. Of particular interest are applications from the following fields: Sound and image processing, pattern recognition, image understanding, feature binding, perception, sensor fusion, controller design, state observation, motor control, mobile robotics, autonomous navigation, deliberation and planning, active anchoring, gain-scheduling, fault detection, hardware solutions, data mining, financing, e-commerce. INTERNATIONAL STEERING / PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anderson P., USA Antonsson A.K., USA Baldwin J.F., United Kindom Bandemer H., Germany Bezdek J., USA Bonnisone P., USA Bosc P., France Carlsson Ch., Finland Dubois D., France Esogbue A. O., USA Fyfe C., United Kindom Gallard R., Argentina Gottwald S., Germany Grabisch M., France Halmague S.K., Australia Heiss-Czedik D., Austria Heiss M., Austria Hoehle U., Germany Jentzen Jan, Denmark Kalaykov Ivan, Sweden Kandel A.,Tampa, USA Kacprzyk J., Poland Klement E. P., Austria Kruse R., Germany Kuncheva L., United Kindom Mamdani E., United Kindom Marichal G.N., Spain Nauck Detlef, United Kindom Pap E., Yugoslavia Pedrycz W., Canada, Roubens M., Belgium Runkler Th., Germany Steele N., United Kindom Suemitsu W. I., Brasil Sugeno M., Japan Surmann H., Germany Takagi T., Japan TYrksen I. B., Toronto, Canada Ulieru M., Canada Vasilakos T., Greece Verdegay, J. L., Spain Zamarre-o J., Spain SPONSORED / SUPPORTED BY DTU: Technical University of Denmark IFSA: International Fuzzy Systems Association ISPJAE: Instituto Superior Politecnico Jose Antonio Echeverria ICIMAF: Instituto De Cibernetica, Matematica y Fisica UCLV: Universidad de Las Villas UO: Universidad de Oriente RAC: Red de Automatica de Cuba Ministerio de Educacion Superior de la Republica de Cuba Ministerio de la Informatica y las Comunicaciones de la Republica de Cuba Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Medio Ambiente de la Republica de Cuba ICSC-NAISO Canada / The Netherlands SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Updated information on special events such as keynotes / plenary presentations, tutorials, workshops, panel sessions, invited / plenary sessions will be available on the NF2002 web site: http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/nf2002 CALL FOR INVITED SESSIONS The organization of invited sessions is encouraged. Prospective organizers are requested to send a session proposal (consisting of 4-5 invited papers, the recommended session-chair and co-chair, as well as a short statement describing the title and the purpose of the session) to the respective symposium chair or the congress organizer. Invited sessions should preferably start with a tutorial paper. The registration fee of the session organizer will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited papers register to the conference. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer feedback, and practical examples of applied research are particularly welcome. Poster sessions will allow the presentation and discussion of respective papers, which will also be included in the conference proceedings. CALL FOR TUTORIALS Pre-conference tutorials on specific relevant topics are planned. Proposals for a tutorial must include the title, topics covered, proposed speakers, targeted audience and estimated length (preferably 2 or 4 hours). The proposal must be submitted to the general chair, the scientific program chair and the congress organizer by June 30, 2001. Tutorial papers of max 15 pages can be included in the conference proceedings. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Interested scientists are encouraged to organize a workshop on their particular field of research. Workshops consist of several presentations or open discussions on a specific subject. The proposal must include the title, the topics covered, the proposed speakers, the targeted audience and the estimated length. It should be submitted to the general chair, the scientific program chair and the congress organizer by June 30, 2001. Joint or edited workshop papers of max 35 pages can be included in the conference proceedings. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submission of papers can be done through our web site. If you submit a paper you will receive a notification e-mail with your paper number. Please use this reference number in the subject line in all correspondence and send us a draft paper by email for review by the International Program Committee. Please do not send us any hard copies. Please check our website for further instructions. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 30, 2001 (extended) Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2001 (extended) Delivery of Final Manuscripts: October 31, 2001 Conference NF'2002: January 16-19, 2002 CONGRESS ORGANIZER ICSC- NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division) P.O. 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Please distribute this announcement to all interested parties. ================================================================== NIC Winter School "Quantum Simulations of Complex Many-Body Systems: From Theory to Algorithms" 25 February - 1 March 2002 Rolduc / Kerkrade (NL) http://www.fz-juelich.de/wsqs First Announcement ================================================================== Scope of the Winter School -------------------------- This Winter School continues a recently lauched series of schools and conferences in Computational Science organized by the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC). It will cover modern quantum simulation techniques and their implementation on high-performance computers, in particular on parallel systems. The focus clearly is on numerical methods which are tailored to treat large quantum systems with many coupled degrees of freedom ranging from superfluid Helium to chemical reactions. Among others, the following topics will be covered: * Diffusion and Green's function Monte Carlo * Path integral Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics * Car-Parrinello / ab initio molecular dynamics * Real-time quantum dynamics for large systems * Lattice and continuum algorithms * Exchange statistics for Bosons and Fermions / sign problem * Parallel numerical techniques and tools * Numerical integration and random numbers This strongly interdisciplinary School aims at bridging three "gaps" in the vast field of large-scale quantum simulations: The first one between chemistry and physics, the second one between typical graduate courses in these fields and state-of-the-art research, and finally the one between the Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics communities. The participants - being mostly graduate students, postdocs as well as young researchers in the area of theoretical/computational physics and chemistry - are expected to have basic knowledge of quantum, classical, and statistical mechanics. They will benefit from this School by learning about recent methodological advances within and outside their field of specialization. In addition, they will get insights into recent software development and implementation issues involved, in particular in the context of high-performance computing. Programme --------- The programme with list of speakers, scheduled lectures (titles are preliminary) and timetable may be found on the home page of the Winter School http://www.fz-juelich.de/wsqs which will be updated continuously. General Information =================== For details see --------------- http://www.fz-juelich.de/wsqs Venue ----- The Winter School will be held at the Rolduc Conference Centre Heyendahllaan 82 6464 EP Kerkrade The Netherlands The conference site, Rolduc/Kerkrade is located near Aachen on the Dutch side of the border. There will be bus transfers to Rolduc for those arriving by public transport. See http://www.rolduc.com for a picture gallery of this marvelous 900 year old monastery. Beginning of the Winter School: Monday, 25 February 2002, 9:00 h End of the Winter School: Friday, 1 March 2002, 18:00 h Arrival day is February 24 (Sunday) and departure is March 2 (Saturday). Organization ------------ The Winter School is organized by the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (Forschungszentrum Juelich), Lehrstuhl fuer Theoretische Chemie (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum), and Institut fuer Theoretische Physik III (Universitaet Stuttgart). It is supported by the Conference Service of the Forschungszentrum Juelich. Scientific Programme Committee Johannes Grotendorst, Forschungszentrum Juelich Dominik Marx, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum Alejandro Muramatsu, Universitaet Stuttgart The organizing team at Forschungszentrum Juelich includes Dietrich Bartel Ruediger Esser Monika Marx Bernd Krahl-Urban Proceedings ----------- Self-contained lecture notes will be published as proceedings. This book in the publication series of NIC will serve as a state-of-the-art reference on quantum simulations. It will be distributed free of charge to all participants at the beginning of the school in addition to being published online in the web. Posters ------- All participants are kindly invited to submit posters on topics from research and development in their working group or on their own work. Deadline for the submission of posters is 18 January 2002. A one-page abstract will be included in a Book of Abstracts. The abstract should be formatted in LaTeX and sent to wsqs-proceedings@fz-juelich.de Registration and further announcements -------------------------------------- If you want to pre-register for the Winter School without obligation, please use the online registration form on the home page of the Winter School http://www.fz-juelich.de/wsqs A confirmation will be sent via e-mail and you will receive a printed programme with registration form as soon as it is available. Details about accommodation at Rolduc Conference Centre will be announced later. The total number of participants is limited. If you want to receive further announcements please use the same pre-registration form or send an e-mail to wsqs@fz-juelich.de Financial --------- Participants are expected to cover their travel expenses and to contribute to the local costs which will be subsidized. There is no registration fee and the lecture notes will be distributed free of charge. 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Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable, and they turned the tide of the conflict. So say John S.D. Eisenhower, one of today's most acclaimed military historians, in his sweeping history of the Great War and the men who won it: the Yanks of the American Expeditionary Force. --From the publisher

Breast Cancer Wars : Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
by Barron H. Lerner, M.D.
The "war on breast cancer" is a euphemism for the bitter, costly, and deadly battles fought not so much against this disease as its methods of treatment. From the rise and fall of the Halsted radical mastectomy to the introduction of mammography and genetic testing, Barron H. Lerner details how difficult it has been for women to gain control of their choices of treatment and how this has affected job discrimination, the raising of insurance premiums, and the importance of early detection. Sure to be controversial, this is a provocative and important book.

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When Africa makes international news, it is usually because war has broken out or some bizarre natural disaster has taken a large number of lives. Westerners are appallingly ignorant of Africa otherwise, a condition that the great Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuœciñski helps remedy with this book based on observations gathered over more than four decades. Constantly surprising and eye-opening, Kapuœciñski's book teaches us much about contemporary events and recent history in Africa.

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During Mobutu Sese Seko's 30 years as president of Zaire (now the Congo), he managed to plunder his nation's economy and live a life of excess unparalleled in modern history. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz is a brilliantly conceived and written work, sharply observant and richly described with a necessary sense of the absurd. Michela Wrong paints a far more nuanced picture of the wily autocrat than we've seen before, and of the blatant greed and paranoia of the many players involved in the country's self-destruction.

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The Civil War made America a modern nation, unleashing forces of industrialism and expansion that had been kept in check for decades by the quarrel over slavery. The Civil War swept away the slave civilization of the South, but almost the whole intellectual culture of the North went with it. It took nearly half a century for Americans to develop a set of ideas, a way of thinking, that would help them cope with the conditions of modern life. That struggle is the subject of this book. --From the publisher

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This is a very fast growing research area attracting the attention of many researchers around the globe. The aim of the International Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems (ICAIS) is to bring the researchers, system developers and users both from industry and academia together to exchange their views and receive the very latest information on the on-going research and development. This will be carried out through a series of keynote addresses, technical sessions, workshops and exhibitions. Organizing committee Honorary General Chair Dr. Charles R. Weisbin JPL, NASA, USA General Chair Professor Saeid Nahavandi Deakin University, Australia Co-Chair (Asia) Professor T. Fukuda Nagoya University, Japan Co-Chair (USA) Dr. Shawn Toumodge Raytheon Systems Co., USA Co-Chair (Europe) Professor Paolo Dario ARTS Lab, Italy Tutorial/Workshop Chair Dr. Uwe Zimmer The Australian National University Canberra, Australia Administration and Finance ICSC-NAISO Operating Division The Netherlands Local organizing committee members Abbas Kouzani (Chair) Matthew Joordens Dejan Djukic Lingxue Kong Hieu Trinh Jingxin Zhang Saeid Nahavandi The International Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems welcomes submissions of original and high quality papers. Accepted papers will be formally published in the ICSC Journal of Autonomous Systems. Congress topics Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not restricted to: Evolution of Agents Agent-Based Software Engineering Distributed Architecture For Mobile Navigation Autonomous Robots Autonomous Mobile Robots Path Planning And Obstacle Avoidance With Nonholonomic Robots Cooperative Autonomous Robots For Hazardous Environments Fault-Tolerant Algorithms And Architectures For Robotics Adaptive Path Planning Intelligent Navigation and Guidance Design and Control of Autonomous Underwater Robots A Control Architecture For An Autonomous Mobile Robot Action Selection and Planning Adaptation and Learning Agent Architectures Agent Communication Languages Artificial Market Systems and Electronic Commerce Designing Agent Systems Expert Assistants Fusion of Sensory Systems Real Time Vision Distributed Systems Multi-Agent Systems Machine Learning Intelligent Manufacturing Integration And Coordination Of Multiple Activities Knowledge Acquisition And Management Modeling The Behavior Of Agents Models Of Emotion, Motivation, Or Personality Multi-Agent Teams Multi-Agent Communication, Coordination, And Collaboration Multi-Agent Simulation, Verification, And Validation Evolutionary Computing Data Mining Bayesian and Belief Information Fusion Fusion Applications to Management Fusion Applications to Situation Assessment Diagnostic Information Fusion Data Fusion Evaluation and Test Beds Management / Business Information Fusion Image Fusion / Exploitation Target Recognition / Tracking / Identification` Discrimination Machine Vision International technical committee [itc] Abachi H. Monash University, Australia Adeli H. The Ohio State University, USA Aleksander I. Imperial College of Science & Technology London, UK Apte Chid IBM Watson Research Center, USA Arkin R. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Bazargan M. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Billingsley J. University of Southern Queensland, Australia Alberto Broggi University of Pavia/Parma, Italy Brugali D. Politecnico di Torino, Italy Choset H. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Dario P. ARTS Lab, Italy Di Febbraro Angela Politecnico di Torino, Italy Durrant-White H.F. University of Syndey, Australia Erkman E. Middle East Technical University, Turkey Fiorini P. California Institute of Technology, USA Fukuda T. Nagoya University, Japan Hewit J. University of Dundee, UK Holland O. California Institute of Technology, USA Jarvis Ray Monash University, Australia Kasabov Nik University of Otago, New Zealand Khosla P. Carnegie Mellon University, USA Koivo A. Purdue University, USA Kosuge K. Tohoku University, Japan Kozlowski Chr. Poznan University of Technology, Poland Lee K.-M. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Luo R. National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC Mamdani E. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U.K. Marichal G.N. La Laguna University Tenerife, Spain Maynard C. Curtin University of Technology, Australia Miller D. University of Oklahoma, USA Moore P. De Montfort University, UK Naghdy F. University of Wollongong, Australia Nemes L. CSIRO, Australia Nguyen Ch. Catholic University of America, USA Ogihara M. Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA Papanikolopoulos N. University of Minnesota, USA Prassier E. University of Ulm, Germany Saadat M. University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Schenker P. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Sebaaly Milad American University of Dubai, U.A.E. Shirinzadeh Bijan. Monash University, Australia Sobh T. M. University of Bridgeport, USA Szczerbicki E. University of Newcastle, Australia Tarn T.J. Washington University, USA Huaglori Tianfield Gloucestershire Business School, UK Trevelyan J. University of Western Australia, Australia Webb G. Deakin University, Australia Yuh J. University of Hawaii, USA Zaki Mohammed J. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Zelinky A. Australian National University, Australia Zimmermann H. J. Aachen, Germany Sponsors - Deakin University, Australia - IEEE, The Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEE, Institution of Electrical Engineers - The Institution of Engineers, Australia - ICSC- NAISO Scientific program ICAIS 2002 will include invited plenary talks, contributed sessions, invited sessions, workshops and tutorials. Updated information available on ICAIS home page Call for invited sessions The organization of invited sessions is encouraged. Prospective organizers are requested to send a session proposal - consisting of 4-5 invited papers - to the general chair and respective area co-chair. Invited sessions should preferably start with the title and the purpose of the session and a tutorial paper. The registration fee of the session organizer will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited papers register to the conference. Poster presentations Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer feedback, and practical examples of applied research are particularly welcome. Poster sessions will allow the presentation and discussion of respective papers, which will also be included in the conference proceedings. Call for workshops, tutorials, and other contributions Several workshops/tutorials are planned for ICAIS 2002. Each workshop/tutorial will focus on a particular topic, and consist of several presentations and open discussions. The proposal for a workshop/tutorial should include the title, topics covered, proposed speakers, targeted audiences, and estimated length (hours) of the workshop/tutorial. The proposal should be submitted to the general chair and respective area co-chair by July 31, 2001 Submission of papers Submission of papers can be done through our web site. If you submit a paper you will receive a notification e-mail with your paper number. Please use this reference number in the subject line in all correspondence and send us a draft paper by email for review by the International Program Committee. Please do not send us any hard copies. Please check our website for further instructions. Important dates Submission Deadline: July 31, 2001 (Extended) Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2001 (Extended) Delivery of Manuscripts: November 30, 2001 Conference: February 12 - 15, 2002 General chair of ICAIS`2002 Professor Saeid Nahavandi Deakin University Waurn Ponds Campus Geelong 3217, Australia email: nahavand@deakin.edu.au Congress organizer ICSC- NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division) P.O. Box 1091 3360 BB Sliedrecht The Netherlands Phone: +31-184-496999 Fax: +31-184-421065 Email: icais02@ITStransnational.com (ICAIS`2002 Congress) General information: operating@ITStransnational.com (Operating Division) planning@icsc.ab.ca (Planning Division) If you wish to be added/removed from this mailing list, please send an email to: naiso@itstransnational.com From cfp@ITStransnational.com Mon Jun 11 13:42:36 2001 Received: from hilbert.rutgers.edu (hilbert.rutgers.edu [128.6.62.12]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06694 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:42:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from comserver.194.151.89 ([194.151.89.26]) by hilbert.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25865 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:43:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:43:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200106111743.NAA25865@hilbert.rutgers.edu> Received: from GCO-EXCHANGE ([194.151.89.23]) by comserver.194.151.89 with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id MMLF0G3R; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:55:06 +0200 From: ICSC-NAISO To: sussmann@hamilton.rutgers.edu Subject: Second call for papers ICAIS 2002 Reply-To: cfp@ITStransnational.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ICAIS 2002 First International ICSC Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems Deakin University, Waterfront Campus Geelong, Australia 12 - 15 February 2002 www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/icais2002 General information Autonomous intelligent systems can be described as intelligent entities that are capable of independent action in dynamic, unpredictable environments. This is a very fast growing research area attracting the attention of many researchers around the globe. The aim of the International Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems (ICAIS) is to bring the researchers, system developers and users both from industry and academia together to exchange their views and receive the very latest information on the on-going research and development. This will be carried out through a series of keynote addresses, technical sessions, workshops and exhibitions. Organizing committee Honorary General Chair Dr. Charles R. Weisbin JPL, NASA, USA General Chair Professor Saeid Nahavandi Deakin University, Australia Co-Chair (Asia) Professor T. Fukuda Nagoya University, Japan Co-Chair (USA) Dr. Shawn Toumodge Raytheon Systems Co., USA Co-Chair (Europe) Professor Paolo Dario ARTS Lab, Italy Tutorial/Workshop Chair Dr. Uwe Zimmer The Australian National University Canberra, Australia Administration and Finance ICSC-NAISO Operating Division The Netherlands Local organizing committee members Abbas Kouzani (Chair) Matthew Joordens Dejan Djukic Lingxue Kong Hieu Trinh Jingxin Zhang Saeid Nahavandi The International Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems welcomes submissions of original and high quality papers. Accepted papers will be formally published in the ICSC Journal of Autonomous Systems. Congress topics Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not restricted to: Evolution of Agents Agent-Based Software Engineering Distributed Architecture For Mobile Navigation Autonomous Robots Autonomous Mobile Robots Path Planning And Obstacle Avoidance With Nonholonomic Robots Cooperative Autonomous Robots For Hazardous Environments Fault-Tolerant Algorithms And Architectures For Robotics Adaptive Path Planning Intelligent Navigation and Guidance Design and Control of Autonomous Underwater Robots A Control Architecture For An Autonomous Mobile Robot Action Selection and Planning Adaptation and Learning Agent Architectures Agent Communication Languages Artificial Market Systems and Electronic Commerce Designing Agent Systems Expert Assistants Fusion of Sensory Systems Real Time Vision Distributed Systems Multi-Agent Systems Machine Learning Intelligent Manufacturing Integration And Coordination Of Multiple Activities Knowledge Acquisition And Management Modeling The Behavior Of Agents Models Of Emotion, Motivation, Or Personality Multi-Agent Teams Multi-Agent Communication, Coordination, And Collaboration Multi-Agent Simulation, Verification, And Validation Evolutionary Computing Data Mining Bayesian and Belief Information Fusion Fusion Applications to Management Fusion Applications to Situation Assessment Diagnostic Information Fusion Data Fusion Evaluation and Test Beds Management / Business Information Fusion Image Fusion / Exploitation Target Recognition / Tracking / Identification` Discrimination Machine Vision International technical committee [itc] Abachi H. Monash University, Australia Adeli H. The Ohio State University, USA Aleksander I. Imperial College of Science & Technology London, UK Apte Chid IBM Watson Research Center, USA Arkin R. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Bazargan M. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Billingsley J. University of Southern Queensland, Australia Alberto Broggi University of Pavia/Parma, Italy Brugali D. Politecnico di Torino, Italy Choset H. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Dario P. ARTS Lab, Italy Di Febbraro Angela Politecnico di Torino, Italy Durrant-White H.F. University of Syndey, Australia Erkman E. Middle East Technical University, Turkey Fiorini P. California Institute of Technology, USA Fukuda T. Nagoya University, Japan Hewit J. University of Dundee, UK Holland O. California Institute of Technology, USA Jarvis Ray Monash University, Australia Kasabov Nik University of Otago, New Zealand Khosla P. Carnegie Mellon University, USA Koivo A. Purdue University, USA Kosuge K. Tohoku University, Japan Kozlowski Chr. Poznan University of Technology, Poland Lee K.-M. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Luo R. National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC Mamdani E. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U.K. Marichal G.N. La Laguna University Tenerife, Spain Maynard C. Curtin University of Technology, Australia Miller D. University of Oklahoma, USA Moore P. De Montfort University, UK Naghdy F. University of Wollongong, Australia Nemes L. CSIRO, Australia Nguyen Ch. Catholic University of America, USA Ogihara M. Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA Papanikolopoulos N. University of Minnesota, USA Prassier E. University of Ulm, Germany Saadat M. University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Schenker P. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Sebaaly Milad American University of Dubai, U.A.E. Shirinzadeh Bijan. Monash University, Australia Sobh T. M. University of Bridgeport, USA Szczerbicki E. University of Newcastle, Australia Tarn T.J. Washington University, USA Huaglori Tianfield Gloucestershire Business School, UK Trevelyan J. University of Western Australia, Australia Webb G. Deakin University, Australia Yuh J. University of Hawaii, USA Zaki Mohammed J. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Zelinky A. Australian National University, Australia Zimmermann H. J. Aachen, Germany Sponsors - Deakin University, Australia - IEEE, The Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEE, Institution of Electrical Engineers - The Institution of Engineers, Australia - ICSC- NAISO Scientific program ICAIS 2002 will include invited plenary talks, contributed sessions, invited sessions, workshops and tutorials. Updated information available on ICAIS home page Call for invited sessions The organization of invited sessions is encouraged. Prospective organizers are requested to send a session proposal - consisting of 4-5 invited papers - to the general chair and respective area co-chair. Invited sessions should preferably start with the title and the purpose of the session and a tutorial paper. The registration fee of the session organizer will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited papers register to the conference. Poster presentations Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer feedback, and practical examples of applied research are particularly welcome. Poster sessions will allow the presentation and discussion of respective papers, which will also be included in the conference proceedings. Call for workshops, tutorials, and other contributions Several workshops/tutorials are planned for ICAIS 2002. Each workshop/tutorial will focus on a particular topic, and consist of several presentations and open discussions. The proposal for a workshop/tutorial should include the title, topics covered, proposed speakers, targeted audiences, and estimated length (hours) of the workshop/tutorial. The proposal should be submitted to the general chair and respective area co-chair by July 31, 2001 Submission of papers Submission of papers can be done through our web site. If you submit a paper you will receive a notification e-mail with your paper number. Please use this reference number in the subject line in all correspondence and send us a draft paper by email for review by the International Program Committee. Please do not send us any hard copies. Please check our website for further instructions. Important dates Submission Deadline: July 31, 2001 (Extended) Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2001 (Extended) Delivery of Manuscripts: November 30, 2001 Conference: February 12 - 15, 2002 General chair of ICAIS`2002 Professor Saeid Nahavandi Deakin University Waurn Ponds Campus Geelong 3217, Australia email: nahavand@deakin.edu.au Congress organizer ICSC- NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division) P.O. 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------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C0F28E.B4FE0CC0-- From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue Jun 12 07:46:49 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA24273 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:46:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01521; 12 Jun 2001 5:01 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01519; 12 Jun 2001 4:43 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa15965; 12 Jun 2001 4:42 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa06390; 11 Jun 2001 11:31 EDT Received: from siufuxsun03.unifr.ch by edrc.cmu.edu id aa17185; 11 Jun 2001 11:30 EDT Received: from ufps25.unifr.ch ([134.21.40.225]) by siufuxsun03.unifr.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 159Te5-00051S-00 for Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:30:25 +0200 Received: (from aperezu@localhost) by ufps25.unifr.ch (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f5BFUPo25196 for Connectionists@CS.CMU.EDU; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:30:25 +0200 (MEST) From: Andres Perez-Uribe Message-Id: <1010611173025.ZM25192@ufps25> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:30:25 +0200 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0.1 13Jan97) To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: postdoc position in Fribourg, Switzerland Status: O Post-Doctoral Research Position The position ------------ The position is intended for an enthusiastic postgraduate, who have terminated her/his PhD studies. The candidate will participate in the research activities that are conducted within the WELCOME project. Her/his duties may concern : (i) the use of learning and evolutionary techniques to provide adaptation to the new network-oriented computing frameworks (ubiquitous computing and intelligent networks), (ii) the development of adaptable Agent-based methodologies for Internet-based infrastructures and mobile robots/devices, (iii) the tackling of Human Machine Interaction issues, together with supervision of two Ph.D research works. As far as possible she/he will build contacts with external academic or commercial organizations, and promote industrial applications of her/his research. Moreover, she/he will follow student projects realted to her/his topics of research. An open-mind to interdisciplinary approaches and to non-standard innovation techniques will be appreciated. The position is to be taken September 1st, 2001 (or at convenience). It is granted for two years by the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research (with a possibility of renewal once). Job location is Fribourg, a french-german bilingual middle-size city in Switzerland. The requirements ---------------- *Education: Ph.D in Computer Science (or a related area) *Ability to speak, read and write French or German or English *Proficient in one or several topics, such as: * Autonomous mobile robots, Adaptive Systems * Agent Technology, Multi-Agent Systems * Artificial Neural Networks, Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computing * Intelligent Networks, Distributed Systems and/or Coordination Languages, * Human Computer Interaction, Immersive and Ubiquitous Computing, Force-feedback interaction, Augmented or virtual reality * Object-Oriented design techniques, Java programming, Jini technology The research group ------------------ The Parallelism and Artificial Intelligence (PAI) group is a rapidly growing and dynamic research group that concentrates its research on hot topics related to new information and communication technologies. His interests encompass namely the methodologies of Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Collective Intelligence, Evolutionary Computing, Agent Technology, Massively Distributed Systems, and Intelligent Networks, but also the field of Human Computer Interaction, where it addresses specifically the Immersive trend and Ubiquitous Computing. Research resources ------------------ The group holds a UNIX workstation environment, and PC and Macintosh machines. In particular, it possesses about 20 Khepera robots: 7 of them are equipped with radio communication modules, grippers (arms), and linear vision, and one of them has a CCD color camera. We have explored both single-robot learning tasks and collective robotic behaviors (See the description of the CALIMA and AMOC projects). Moreover, we are acquiring new mobile devices (wearable eyeglasses, PALM devices, etc.) for our research in Ubiquitous computing, human-machine interfaces, and intelligent networks. Applications with CV and research paper list must be sent to (Email submissions are encouraged): Prof. Bat Hirsbrunner University of Fribourg, ch. du Muse 3, CH-1700 Fribourg Tel.: +41 (0)26 300 8465 (secretariat - morning) Email: beat.hirsbrunner@unifr.ch URL: http://www-iiuf.unifr.ch/pai/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Andres PEREZ-URIBE Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer Parallelism and Artificial Intelligence Group (PAI) Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Ch. du Musee 3, CH-1700 Fribourg, Office 2.76b Perolles Tel. +41-26-300-8473, Fax +41-26-300-9731 Email:Andres.PerezUribe@unifr.ch, http://www-iiuf.unifr.ch/~aperezu/ From ml-connectionists-request@mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu Tue Jun 12 13:15:53 2001 Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu (MLIST-0.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.105]) by math.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA03575 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:15:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01581; 12 Jun 2001 5:05 EDT Received: from SKINNER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by mlist-0.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa01523; 12 Jun 2001 4:44 EDT Received: from skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu by skinner.boltz.cs.cmu.edu id aa15976; 12 Jun 2001 4:44 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa07029; 11 Jun 2001 12:20 EDT Received: from merle.acns.nwu.edu by edrc.cmu.edu id aa18043; 11 Jun 2001 12:20 EDT Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by merle.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA04646; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:20:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from manip (manip.smpp.nwu.edu [165.124.30.88]) by merle.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma003063; Mon, 11 Jun 01 11:19:13 -0500 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20010611110945.00ac8be0@merle.acns.nwu.edu> X-Sender: pattn@merle.acns.nwu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:18:31 -0500 To: Haptics-L@cim.mcgill.ca, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu From: Jim Patton Subject: Preprint: Linear combinations of nonlinear models Status: O The following paper has been accepted by Biological Cybernetics. Preprints are available from: LINEAR COMBINATIONS OF NONLINEAR MODELS FOR PREDICTING HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE FORCES James L. Patton & Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi Sensory Motor Performance Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Medical School In press, Biological Cybernetics, May, 2001 ABSTRACT This study presents a computational framework that capitalizes on known human neuromechanical characteristics during limb movements in order to predict man-machine interactions. A parallel-distributed approach, the mixture of nonlinear models, fits the relationship between the measured kinematics and kinetics at the handle of a robot. Each element of the mixture represented the arm and its controller as a feedforward nonlinear model of inverse dynamics plus a linear approximation of musculotendonous impedance. We evaluated this approach with data from experiments where subjects held a handle of a planar manipulandum robot and attempted to make point-to-point reaching movements. We compared the performance to the more conventional approach of a constrained, nonlinear optimization of the parameters. On average, the mixture of nonlinear models accounted for 0.79 0.11 (1 SD), and force errors were 0.73% 0.20% of the maximum exerted force. Solutions were acquired in half the time with significantly better fit. However, both approaches equally suffered from the simplifying assumptions, namely, that the human neuromechanical system consisted of a feedforward controller coupled with linear impedances and a moving state equilibrium. Hence, predictability was best limited to the first half of the movement. The mixture of nonlinear models may be useful in man-machine tasks such as in telerobotics, fly-by-wire vehicles, robotic training and rehabilitation. ______________________________________________________________________ J A M E S P A T T O N , P H . D . Research Scientist Sensory Motor Performance Prog., Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Physical Med & Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Med School 345 East Superior, Room 1406, Chicago, IL 60611 312-238-1277 (OFFICE) -2208 (FAX) -1232 (LAB) -3381 (SECRETARY)

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The workshop will be held from August 20-24, 2001 at the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Registration is open to students and researchers from academic, corporate, and industrial organizations. Space is limited, and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. **Topics and Format** Participants may attend the workshop for three or five days. The first three days cover material necessary for the most common applications in neuroscience research and education. The fourth and fifth days deal with advanced topics of users whose projects may require problem-specific customizations. Windows and Linux platforms will be used on computers provided by IBM. Days 1 - 3 "Fundamentals of Using the NEURON Simulation Environment" The first three days will cover the material that is required for informed use of the NEURON simulation environment. The emphasis will be on applying the graphical interface, which enables maximum productivity and conceptual control over models while at the same time reducing or eliminating the need to write code. Participants will be building their own models from the start of the course. By the end of the third day they will be well prepared to use NEURON on their own to explore a wide range of neural phenomena. Topics will include: Integration methods --accuracy, stability, and computational efficiency --fixed order, fixed timestep integration --global and local variable order, variable timestep integration Strategies for increasing computational efficiency. Using NEURON's graphical interface to --construct models of individual neurons with architectures that range from the simplest spherical cell to detailed models based on quantitative morphometric data (the CellBuilder). --construct models that combine neurons with electronic instrumentation (i.e. capacitors, resistors, amplifiers, current sources and voltage sources) (the Linear Circuit Builder). --construct network models that include artificial neurons, model cells with anatomical and biophysical properties, and hybrid nets with both kinds of cells (the Network Builder). --control simulations. --display simulation results as functions of time and space. --analyze simulation results. --analyze the electrotonic properties of neurons. Adding new biophysical mechanisms. Uses of the Vector class such as --synthesizing custom stimuli --analyzing experimental data --recording and analyzing simulation results Managing modeling projects. Days 4 and 5 "Beyond the GUI" The fourth and fifth days deal with advanced topics for users whose projects may require problem-specific customizations. Topics will include: Advanced use of the CellBuilder, Network Builder, and Linear Circuit Builder. When and how to modify model specification, initialization, and NEURON's main computational loop. Exploiting special features of the Network Connection class for efficient implementation of use-dependent synaptic plasticity. Using NEURON's tools for optimizing models. Parallelizing computations. Using new features of the extracellular mechanism for --extracellular stimulation and recording --implementation of gap junctions and ephaptic interactions Developing new GUI tools. **Registration** For academic or government employees the registration fee is $155 for the first three days and $245 for the full five days. These fees are $310 and $490, respectively, for corporate or industrial participants. Registration forms can be obtained at www.compneuro.umn.edu/NEURONregistration.html or from the workshop coordinator, Kathleen Clinton, at clinton@compneuro.umn.edu or (612) 625-8424. **Lodging** Out-of-town participants may stay at the Holiday Inn Metrodome in Minneapolis. It is within walking distance of the Supercomputing Institute. Participants are responsible for making their own hotel reservations. When making reservations, participants should state that they are attending the NEURON Workshop. A small block of rooms is available until July 28, 2001. Reservations can be arranged by calling (800) 448-3663 or (612) 333-4646. 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IDSIA, http://www.idsia.ch Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Galleria 2, 6928 Manno-Lugano, Switzerland APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 30th 2001 STARTING: October 2001: We are looking for two Post Doctoral candidates to work on the new European Project SWARM-BOTS starting October 2001. SWARM-BOTS is about the design and implementation of self-organising and self assembling artifacts called swarm-bots. The approach is inspired by recent studies in swarm intelligence, i.e., by studies of the self-organising and self-assembling capabilities shown by social insects and other animal societies. The main scientific goal of the project is a better understanding of swarm intelligence principles and of the use of these principles in engineering, while the main tangible goal is the demonstration of the validity of the approach followed by means of the construction of at least one such artifact. The expected results are therefore the further development of the swarm intelligence discipline and the design and construction of a first example of swarm-bots, that is, an artifact composed of a number of simpler robots capable of self-assembling and self-organising to adapt to its environment. The project will last 36 months and will see the combined effort of scientists from four European laboratories (IRIDIA Bruxelles, IDSIA Lugano, EPFL Lausanne, CNR-IP Rome) ====================== CONTACT INFORMATION ===================== If you wish to apply, please send (i) Detailed curriculum vitae (ii) List of three references (and their email addresses) (iii) Transcripts of undergraduate and graduate (if applicable) studies (iv) Concise statement of your research interests (two pages max). Candidates are also encouraged to submit their scores in the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) general test (if available). 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