From owner-gann-list Thu Feb 1 16:21:01 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id PAA26331 for gann-list-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 15:54:53 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <9602012152.AA21854@chianti.cse.ogi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: John Moody Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 13:52:51 -0800 To: gann-list@cs.iastate.edu, csemlist@mundo.eco.utexas.edu Subject: GANN: CFP: NEURAL NETWORKS in the CAPITAL MARKETS 1996 Cc: moody Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: John Moody -- Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers -- NNCM-96 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEURAL NETWORKS in the CAPITAL MARKETS Wednesday-Friday, November 20-22, 1996 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Pasadena, California, U.S.A. Sponsored by Caltech and London Business School Neural networks have been applied to a number of live systems in the capital markets, and in many cases have demonstrated better performance than competing approaches. Because of the increasing interest in the NNCM conferences held in the U.K. and the U.S., the fourth annual NNCM is planned for November 20-22, 1996, in Pasadena, California. This is a research meeting where original and significant contributions to the field are presented. In addition, introductory tutorials will be included to familiarize audiences of different backgrounds with the financial and the mathematical aspects of the field. Areas of Interest: Price forecasting for stocks, bonds, commodities, and foreign exchange; asset allocation and risk management; volatility analysis and pricing of derivatives; cointegration, correlation, and multivariate data analysis; credit assessment and economic forecasting; statistical methods, learning techniques, and hybrid systems. Organizing Committee: Dr. Y. Abu-Mostafa, Caltech (Chairman) Dr. A. Atiya, Cairo University Dr. N. Biggs, London School of Economics Dr. D. Bunn, London Business School Dr. M. Jabri, Sydney University Dr. B. LeBaron, University of Wisconsin Dr. A. Lo, MIT Sloan School Dr. I. Matsuba, Chiba University Dr. J. Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute Dr. C. Pedreira, Catholic Univ. PUC-Rio Dr. A. Refenes, London Business School Dr. M. Steiner, Universitaet Munster Dr. A. Timermann, UC San Diego Dr. A. Weigend, University of Colorado Dr. H. White, UC San Diego Dr. L. Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Submission of Papers: Original contributions representing new and significant research, development, and applications in the above areas of interest are invited. Authors should send 5 copies of a 1000-word summary clearly stating their results to Dr. Y. Abu-Mostafa, Caltech 136-93, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A. All submissions must be received before May 1, 1996. There will be a rigorous refereeing process to select the high-quality papers to be presented at the conference. Location: The conference will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, within two miles from the Caltech campus. The hotel is a 35-minute drive from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with nonstop flights from most major cities in North America, Europe, the Far East, Australia, and South America. Mailing List: If you wish to be added to the mailing list of NNCM-96, please send your postal address, e-mail address, and fax number to Dr. Y. Abu-Mostafa, Caltech 136-93, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A. e-mail: yaser@caltech.edu , fax (818) 795-0326 Home Page: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~learn/nncm.html From owner-gann-list Thu Feb 1 16:21:01 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id QAA29288 for gann-list-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:03:44 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <9602012153.AA21866@chianti.cse.ogi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: John Moody Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 13:53:51 -0800 To: gann-list@cs.iastate.edu, csemlist@mundo.eco.utexas.edu Subject: GANN: Graduate Study at the Oregon Graduate Institute Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: John Moody OGI (Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology) has openings for a few outstanding students in its Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Masters and Ph.D programs in the areas of Neural Networks, Learning, Signal Processing, Time Series, Control, Speech, Language, Vision, and Computational Finance. OGI has 14 faculty, senior research staff, and postdocs in these areas. Short descriptions of our research interests are appended below. The primary purposes of this message are: 1) To invite inquiries and applications from prospective students interested in studying for a Masters or PhD Degree in the above areas. 2) To notify prospective PhD students who are U.S. Citizens or U.S. Nationals of various fellowship opportunities at OGI. Fellowships provide full or partial financial support while studying for the PhD. OGI is a young, but rapidly growing, private research institute located in the Silicon Forest area west of downtown Portland, Oregon. OGI offers Masters and PhD programs in Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Management. The Portland area has a high concentration of high tech companies that includes major firms like Intel, Hewlett Packard, Tektronix, Sequent Computer, Mentor Graphics, Wacker Siltronics, and numerous smaller companies like Planar Systems, FLIR Systems, Flight Dynamics, and Adaptive Solutions (an OGI spin-off that manufactures high performance parallel computers for neural network and signal processing applications). The admissions deadline for the OGI PhD programs is March 1. Masters program applications are accepted year-round. Inquiries about these programs and admissions for either Computer Science or Electrical Engineering should be addressed to: Office of Admissions and Records Oregon Graduate Institute PO Box 91000 Portland, OR 97291 Phone: (503)690-1028, or (800)685-2423 (toll-free in the US and Canada) Worldwide Web: http://www.ogi.edu/webtest/admissions.html Internet: admissions@admin.ogi.edu Due to the late time in the PhD applications season, though, informal applications should be sent directly to the CSE Department. For these informal applications, please include a letter specifying your research interests, photocopies of your GRE Scores, TOEFL Scores, and College transcripts, and indicate your interest in either the PhD or Masters programs. Please send these materials to: Betty Shannon, Academic Coordinator Department of Computer Science and Engineering Oregon Graduate Institute PO Box 91000 Portland, OR 97291-1000 Phone: (503)690-1255 Internet: bettys@cse.ogi.edu +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics Research Interests of Faculty, Research Staff, and Postdocs in Neural Networks, Signal Processing, Control, Speech, Language, Vision, Time Series, and Computational Finance (Note: Additional information is available on the Web at http://www.ogi.edu/ ) Etienne Barnard (Associate Professor, EEAP): Etienne Barnard is interested in the theory, design and implementation of pattern-recognition systems, classifiers, and neural networks. He is also interested in adaptive control systems -- specifically, the design of near-optimal controllers for real- world problems such as robotics. Ron Cole (Professor, CSE): Ron Cole is director of the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at OGI. Research in the Center currently focuses on speaker- independent recognition of continuous speech over the telephone and automatic language identification for English and ten other languages. The approach combines knowledge of hearing, speech perception, acoustic phonetics, prosody and linguistics with neural networks to produce systems that work in the real world. Mark Fanty (Research Assistant Professor, CSE): Mark Fanty's research interests include continuous speech recognition for the telephone; natural language and dialog for spoken language systems; neural networks for speech recognition; and voice control of computers. Dan Hammerstrom (Associate Professor, CSE): Based on research performed at the Institute, Dan Hammerstrom and several of his students have spun out a company, Adaptive Solutions Inc., which is creating massively parallel computer hardware for the acceleration of neural network and pattern recognition applications. There are close ties between OGI and Adaptive Solutions. Dan is still on the faculty of the Oregon Graduate Institute and continues to study next generation VLSI neurocomputer architectures. Hynek Hermansky (Associate Professor, EEAP); Hynek Hermansky is interested in speech processing by humans and machines with engineering applications in speech and speaker recognition, speech coding, enhancement, and synthesis. His main research interest is in practical engineering models of human information processing. Todd K. Leen (Associate Professor, CSE): Todd Leen's research spans theory of neural network models, architecture and algorithm design and applications to speech recognition. His theoretical work is currently focused on the foundations of stochastic learning, while his work on Algorithm design is focused on fast algorithms for non-linear data modeling. John Moody (Associate Professor, CSE): John Moody does research on the design and analysis of learning algorithms, statistical learning theory (including generalization and model selection), optimization methods (both deterministic and stochastic), and applications to signal processing, time series, economics, and computational finance. David Novick (Associate Professor, CSE): David Novick conducts research in interactive systems, including computational models of conversation, technologically mediated communication, and human-computer interaction. A central theme of this research is the role of meta-acts in the control of interaction. Current projects include dialogue models for telephone-based information systems. Misha Pavel (Associate Professor, EEAP): Misha Pavel does mathematical and neural modeling of adaptive behaviors including visual processing, pattern recognition, visually guided motor control, categorization, and decision making. He is also interested in the application of these models to sensor fusion, visually guided vehicular control, and human-computer interfaces. Hong Pi (Senior Research Associate, CSE) Hong Pi's research interests include neural network models, time series analysis, and dynamical systems theory. He currently works on the applications of nonlinear modeling and analysis techniques to time series prediction problems and financial market analysis. Thorsteinn S. Rognvaldsson (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, CSE): Thorsteinn Rognvaldsson studies both applications and theory of neural networks and other non-linear methods for function fitting and classification. He is currently working on methods for choosing regularization parameters and also comparing the performance of neural networks with the performance of other techniques for time series prediction and financial markets. Pieter Vermeulen (Senior Research Associate, CSE): Pieter Vermeulen is interested in the theory, design and implementation of pattern-recognition systems, neural networks and telephone based speech systems. He currently works on the realization of speaker independent, small vocabulary interfaces to the public telephone network. Current projects include voice dialing, a system to collect the year 2000 census information and the rapid prototyping of such systems. Eric A. Wan (Assistant Professor, EEAP): Eric Wan's research interests include learning algorithms and architectures for neural networks and adaptive signal processing. He is particularly interested in neural applications to time series prediction, adaptive control, active noise cancellation, and telecommunications. Lizhong Wu (Senior Research Associate, CSE): Lizhong Wu's research interests include neural network theory and modeling, time series analysis and prediction, pattern classification and recognition, signal processing, vector quantization, source coding and data compression. He is now working on the application of neural networks and nonparametric statistical paradigms to finance. From owner-gann-list Tue Feb 6 00:06:33 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id XAA15831 for gann-list-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 23:43:47 -0600 (CST) From: Hugo de Garis Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 14:42:51 JST Message-Id: <9602060542.AA05052@cam8> To: gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Subject: GANN: 2 POSTDOCS REQUIRED AT ATR's BRAIN BUILDER GROUP Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Hugo de Garis 2 POSTDOCS REQUIRED AT ATR's BRAIN BUILDER GROUP, EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS DEPT, KYOTO, JAPAN ATR's Brain Builder Group, Kyoto, Japan, needs 2 US postdocs in the fields of A) Mini-Robotics/Mechatronics (to build a robot kitten for ATR's Artificial Brain) B) Evolvable Hardware (to apply Genetic Algorithms to FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays)) (e.g. Xilinx's XC6200) ATR's Evolutionary Systems Dept (ESD) is (arguably) the strongest ALife group in the world with people such as Tom Ray (of Tierra fame) and Chris Langton (father of ALife, and regular ESD visitor and collaborator). One of the highlights of the ESD is the CAM-Brain Project, which builds/grows/evolves a billion neuron artificial brain using cellular automata based neural modules which will grow inside our cellular automata machine (a hundred billion cell updates a second). This artificial brain requires a body to house it, hence our group needs a body builder. If you have extensive experience in building minirobots with off the shelf components, then you might like to join our brain builder group. Ideally, we want to grow/evolve our neural circuits directly in hardware at hardware speeds. We are looking for a second postdoc in the new field of evolvable hardware. If you have extensive experience in FPGA use, and are familiar with genetic algorithms and neural networks, then please join us. Applicants should have a PhD, be US citizens (or have a green card). The working period is from 3 months to 2 years, preferably 2 years, granted by the US NSF (National Science Foundation). The actual money comes from the Japanese "Japan Foundation" and their Center for Global Partnership. The grants cover salary, airfare, rent, but not research costs. Selection will be a two phase process. The first is to be recommended by us. Then your application has to be sent to the NSF in Washington DC by April 1 1996. (Applications are received twice yearly, April 1 and November 1). The NSF people say that if the candidate and the project are good, the odds of selection are 50%. Probable starting date in Japan would be about September 1996. If you do a good job, there's a possibility that you could stay on at ATR on a long term basis. Sabbatical leave grants are also possible for more senior candidates. The type of candidates we are looking for need to be big egoed dreamers with strong vision and creativity. The senior members of ESD are all pioneers. If you are a CD type (i.e. competent dullard, meaning high in analytical skills, but lacking in vision and creativity), then this spot is not for you). If you are interested, please send your resume by email to - Dr. Hugo de Garis, Brain Builder Group, Evolutionary Systems Dept., ATR Human Information Processing Research Labs, 2-2 Hikari-dai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kansai Science City, Kyoto-fu, 619-02, Japan. tel. + 81 774 95 1079, fax. + 81 774 59 1008, email. degaris@hip.atr.co.jp For more information from the NSF, contact - email. info@nsf.gov tel. 703 306 1234 or 703 306 0090 web. http://www.nsf.gov/ If you have friends you might be interested, please forward this to them. From owner-gann-list Tue Feb 6 20:36:30 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id UAA09820 for gann-list-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:24:06 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199602070223.VAA08101@design.ecn.purdue.edu> From: Anantha Subject: GANN: GA-NN software To: gann-list@cs.iastate.edu (gann) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 21:23:59 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Anantha I will be working on a NN application for lubricant design. I would appreciate it if someone can guide me on the commercially available packages (for the PC) that provide for evolutionary construction of NN architectures. Also, if there are any public domain programs (in C/C++ - UNIX/PC) for this that are extensively used, I would appreciate any guidance in the right direction. Thanks much in advance. -- Anantha (anantha@lips.ecn.purdue.edu) PS: Please send me E-mail rather than post to the list. Thanks. From owner-gann-list Fri Feb 9 10:49:24 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id KAA18829 for gann-list-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:20:52 -0600 (CST) From: bs@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Bernhard Sendhoff) Message-Id: <199602091620.RAA20384@kol.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: GANN: ICANN 96 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION To: gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 17:20:23 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: bs@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Bernhard Sendhoff) ***************************************************** ** ** ** I C A N N 1 9 9 6 ** ** ** ** 16 - 17 July, 1996 ** ** ** ** International Conference ** ** on ** ** Artificial Neural Networks ** ** 1996 ** ** ** ***************************************************** ** ** ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PAPERS ** ** ** ***************************************************** ** ** ** Information on the World-Wide-Web ** ** http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ ** ** icann96/ ** ** ** ***************************************************** The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks 1996 sponsored by the European Neural Network Society, continues the successful series begun in Helsinki (1991), which has become the premier meeting of the European scientific community interested in the design, development and application of natural and artificial neural networks. In 1996, the venue will be at the University of Bochum, Germany and the conference will be hosted by the Institut fuer Neuroinformatik. ****************************** ***** Content ****** ****************************** Submission of papers Tutorials Invited lectures Addresses Important Dates Information for students Registration Form ******************************************** ****** Submission of papers ****** ******************************************** Submission of papers related, but not limited, to the following topics are invited Theory (e.g., algorithms & architectures, learning, self-organizing networks, dynamical systems) Applications (e.g., data analysis, process control, robotics, optimization & prediction) Sensory processing (e.g., image & sound analysis, sensory integration) Cognitive science and AI (e.g., modeling in psychology & psychophysics, integration of neural & symbolic processing) Implementations (e.g., software, parallel, digital & analog VLSI, optical) Neurobiology (e.g., dynamics of single neurons, self-organization, cortex modelling, sensory-motor integration) Papers must be received by 3 March 1996. Papers received after that date will be returned unopened. All submissions will be acknowledged by post or electronic mail. Five copies (one original and four copies) of the paper must be submitted. Four pages are encouraged; however, the paper must not exceed six pages,including figures , tables and references. It should be written in English on A4 paper, in a Roman font at least 10 and preferable 12 point in size, without page numbers. If possible, please make use of the latex/plaintex style file which is available via email or WWW. There is also a separate page with more detailed information on the typing instructions. Indicate in the accompanying letter the topical area into which the paper fits best, presentation preferred (oral or poster), and the corresponding author (name, postal and e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers). All submissions will be reviewed by researchers in the field, and authors will be notified of the decision by 15 April 1996. A limited number of papers will be accepted for oral and poster presentations. Accepted papers can be revised and must be received in camera-ready form by 13 May 1996. Proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science series of Springer Verlag, and will likely include an on-line version that will be available to registered conference participants well before the conference date. ********************************* ****** Tutorials ****** ********************************* The conference will be proceded by a day of tutorials on 16 July. You can participate in either one of the full-day tutorials(F1-F2) or in one or two half-day tutorials (H1-H13): * F1 Growing self-organizing networks: from theory to implementation, B. Fritzke & J.Steffens, U Bochum * F2 Industrial & economical experiences with neural networks: face recognition, process control, forecasting, optimization, S.Gehlen & J.Kopecz, ZN Bochum GmbH * H1 Theory of self-organizing networks: convergence, stability, learning, K. Kurata, U. Osaka * H2 Fast learning algorithms, R.Rojas, U Halle * H3 Neural network engineering, R.Braham, U Riad * H4 Recurrent networks for sequential processing, M. Gori, U Firenze * H5 Neural networks for data analysis in physics, M. Kunze, U Bochum * H6 Neural networks in robotics: rationale & case studies, A. Baader, R. K"oppe & G. Wei, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen * H7 Self-organization in visual systems, M. P"otzsch & C. von der Malsburg, U Bochum * H8 Evolutionary-based design of neurofuzzy systems, W.Wienholt & W. von Seelen, U Bochum * H9 The binding problem and the searchlight hypothesis for cognitive systems, G.J. Dalenoort, Groningen * H10 Spatial and temporary coding in sensory systems: experiments and models, R. Eckhorn, U Marburg * H11 Neural network models for navigation & cognitive maps, H. Mallot, MPI T"ubingen * H12 The dynamics of on-line learning, S. Solla, AT&T, Holmdel * H13 Unsupervised learning technique for data clustering, J. Buhmann, U.Bonn The tutorials are subject to a minimum number of eight paticipants. For fees, see registration form; registration deadline is 30 June 1996. Abstracts of all tutorials will be available via WWW. ********************************************************** ****** Invited lectures will be held by: ****** ********************************************************** Theory: H.P.Schwefel, Dortmund Applications: H. Kolanoski, Zeuthen Sensory Processing: C. Anderson, St. Louis Cognitive Science & AI: D. Perret, St. Andrews Implementations: U. Ramacher, Dresden Neurobiology: M. Abeles, Jerusalem *************************************** ****** Evening events ****** *************************************** On 17 July, a panel session on Temporal Binding in Neurobiology will be held. An industry panel is also planned. On evening of 18 July, a buffet dinner will take place, with P. Fromherz (MPI Martinsried) as the after-dinner speaker. ********************************** ****** Addresses ****** ********************************** Conference secretariat ICANN 96 Secretariat Institut f"ur Neuroinformatik, ND 03/34 Ruhr-Universit"at Bochum 44780 Bochum, Germany Phone: +49 234 700 7997 Fax: +49 234 7094 210 icann96@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Program Co-Chairs Prof. Werner von Seelen Prof. Christoph von der Malsburg Institut f"ur Neuroinformatik, ND 03/34 Ruhr-Universit"at Bochum 44780 Bochum, Germany icann96@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Tutorials Chair Dr. J"org Kopecz Zentrum f"ur Neuroinformatik GmbH Universit"atsstr. 160 44801 Bochum, Germany kopecz@zn.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Publications Chair Dr. Jan Vorbr"uggen Institut f"ur Neuroinformatik, ND 03/34 Ruhr-Universit"at Bochum 44780 Bochum, Germany jan@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de **************************************** ****** Important dates ****** **************************************** Submission of papers: 3 March 1996 Submission of camera-ready copy: 13 May 1996 Proposals for tutorials: 15 January 1996 ************************************************* ****** Informations for students ****** ************************************************* Information for students is available via the WWW conference server. ***************************************** ****** Registration Form ****** ***************************************** ------8<--------------BEGIN REGISTRATION FORM ---------8<----- Name __________________________________ Affiliation __________________________________ Address __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ Phone __________________________________ Fax __________________________________ E-mail __________________________________ (Please tick) Conference Fee Before 30.04 Before 30.06 On site ___Regular ___DM 600 ___DM 680 ___DM 750 ___Student ___DM 180 ___DM 250 ___DM 300 Tutorials half day full day or two half days ___Industrial ___DM 550 ___DM 700 ___Academic ___DM 250 ___DM 300 Choice of tutorials ___F1 ___F2 ___H1 ___H2 ___H3 ___H4 ___H5 ___H6 ___H7 ___H8 ___H9 ___H10 ___H11 ___H12 ___H13 ___H14 Accommodation ___Single room ___with breakfast ___Double room ___without breakfast ___Double room, shared ___Student accommodation Price categories single ___DM 90 ___DM 100 ___DM 120 ___DM 148 double ___DM 120 ___DM 135 ___DM 150 ___DM 180 (prices are per person) Arrival date ___________________ Departure ___________________ Deposit via ___credit card ___eurocheque to 150 DM (Deposit only refundable until 21 days before indicated arrival date, the deposit cheque is independent from the payment cheque) Buffet Dinner Please send me ___ tickets at DM 45 each = DM ____ ** TOTAL AMOUNT DUE: DM _____ Payment by ___eurocheque made out to ICANN'96 Conference Organization, net of all bank charges ___charge my credit account, credit number ______________________ ___Eurocard/Master Card ___American Express ___Visa ___Diners Club Expiry date ___/___ Card holder __________________________________ Date/Signature __________________________________________ --------8<--------------END REGISTRATION FORM ----------8<-------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bernhard Sendhoff Institut fuer Neuroinformatik Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum 44780 Bochum Germany Fon: ++49 (0)234 7005558 Fax: ++49 (0)234 7094209 WWW: http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de eM : bs@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de