From owner-gann-list Thu Mar 21 03:57:20 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) id DAA27325 for gann-list-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 03:24:56 -0600 (CST) From: icsc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:54:35 -0700 (MST) To: GANN List Admin Subject: GANN: Announcement and Call for Papers ISFL'97 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: icsc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Announcement and Call for Papers Second International ICSC Symposium on FUZZY LOGIC AND APPLICATIONS ISFL'97 To be held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland February 12 - 14, 1997 I. SPONSORS Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland and ICSC, International Computer Science Conventions, Canada/Switzerland II. PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE This conference is the successor of the highly successful meeting held in Zurich in 1995 (ISFL'95) and is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of new developments in fuzzy logic and its applications. An invitation to participate is extended both to those who took part in ISFL'95 and to others working in this field. Applications of fuzzy logic have played a significant role in industry, notably in the field of process and plant control, especially in applications where accurate modelling is difficult. The organisers hope that contributions will come not only from this field, but also from newer applications areas, perhaps in business, financial planning management, damage assessment, security, and so on. III. TOPICS Contributions are sought in areas based on the list below, which is indicative only. Contributions from new application areas will be particularly welcome. - Basic concepts such as various kinds of Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Relations, Possibility Theory - Neuro-Fuzzy Systems and Learning - Fuzzy Decision Analysis - Image Analysis with Fuzzy Techniques - Mathematical Aspects such as non-classical logics, Category Theory, Algebra, Topology, Chaos Theory - Modeling, Identification, Control - Robotics - Fuzzy Reasoning, Methodology and Applications, for example in Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Cluster Analysis, Game Theory, Mathematical Programming, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing - Implementation, for example in Engineering, Process Control, Production, Medicine - Design - Damage Assessment - Security - Business, Finance, Management IV. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (ISC) - Honorary Chairman: M. Mansour, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich - Chairman: N. Steele, Coventry University, U.K. - Vice-Chairman: E. Badreddin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich - Members: E. Alpaydin, Turkey P.G. Anderson, USA Z. Bien, Korea H.H. Bothe, Germany G. Dray, France R. Felix, Germany J. Godjevac, Switzerland H. Hellendoorn, Germany M. Heiss, Austria K. Iwata, Japan M. Jamshidi, USA E.P. Klement, Austria B. Kosko, USA R. Kruse, Germany F. Masulli, Italy S. Nahavandi, New Zealand C.C. Nguyen, USA V. Novak, Czech Republic R. Palm, Germany D.W. Pearson, France I. Perfilieva, Russia B. Reusch, Germany G.D. Smith, U.K. V. ORGANISING COMMITTEE ISFL'97 is a joint operation between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich and International Computer Science Conventions (ICSC), Canada/Switzerland. VI. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by ICSC Academic Press. In addition, some selected papers may also be considered for journal publication. VII. SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS Prospective authors are requested to send two copies of their abstracts of 500 words for review by the International Scientific Committee. All abstracts must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. If authors believe that more details are necessary to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the International Scientific Committee. The abstract should also include: - Title of proposed paper - Authors names, affiliations, addresses - Name of author to contact for correspondence - E-mail address and fax number of contact author - Name of topic which best describes the paper (max. 5 keywords) Contributions are welcome from those working in industry and having experience in the topics of this conference as well as from academics. The conference language is English. Abstracts may be submitted either by electronic mail (ASCII text), fax or mail (2 copies) to either one of the following addresses: ICSC Canada P.O. Box 279 Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0 Canada Fax: +1-403-387-4329 Email: icsc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca or ICSC Switzerland P.O. Box 657 CH-8055 Zurich Switzerland VIII. OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Anyone wishing to organise a workshop, tutorial or discussion, is requested to contact the chairman of the conference, Prof. Nigel Steele (e-mail: nsteele@coventry.ac.uk / phone: +44-1203-838568 / fax: +44-1203-838585) before August 31, 1996. IX. DEADLINES AND REGISTRATION It is the intention of the organisers to have the conference proceedings available for the delegates. Consequently, the deadlines below are to be strictly respected: - Submission of Abstracts: May 31, 1996 - Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 1996 - Delivery of full papers: October 31, 1996 X. ACCOMMODATION Block reservations will be made at nearby hotels and accommodation at reasonable rates (not included in the registration fee) will be available upon registration (full details will follow with the letters of acceptance) XI. SOCIAL AND TOURIST ACTIVITIES A social programme, including a reception, will be organized on the evening of February 13, 1997. This acitivity will also be available for accompanying persons. Winter is an attractive season in Switzerland and many famous alpine resorts are in easy reach by rail, bus or car for a one or two day excursion. The city of Zurich itself is the proud home of many art galleries, museums or theatres. Furthermore, the world famous shopping street 'Bahnhofstrasse' or the old part of the town with its many bistros, bars and restaurants are always worth a visit. XII. INFORMATION For further information please contact either of the following: - ICSC Canada, P.O. Box 279, Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0, Canada E-mail: icsc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Fax: +1-403-387-4329 Phone: +1-403-387-3546 - ICSC Switzerland, P.O. Box 657, CH-8055 Zurich, Switzerland Fax: +41-1-761-9627 - Prof. Nigel Steele, Chairman ISFL'97, Coventry University, U.K. E-mail: nsteele@coventry.ac.uk Fax: +44-1203-838585 Phone: +44-1203-838568 From owner-gann-list Thu Mar 21 11:01:38 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) id KAA17254 for gann-list-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:49:29 -0600 (CST) From: vnissen Message-Id: <9603181246.AA01044@gwdu03.gwdg.de> Subject: GANN: CfP book on fuzzy set theory in management applications To: ttp@cs.nott.ac.uk Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:46:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: gasched@acse.shef.ac.uk, neuron@hplabs.hpl.hp.com, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, gann@cs.iastate.edu, neuro-evolution@cse.ogi.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: vnissen >>> Call for Papers <<< >>> Management Applications of Fuzzy Set Theory <<< Editors: J. Biethahn, A. Hvnerloh, V. Nissen The aim of this book is to document current applications and application- oriented research on fuzzy-technology in the management domain, such as: * production planning * inventory management * personnel scheduling * data mining * classification * forecasting * decision support Obviously, hybrid approaches including combinations of fuzzy systems with evolutionary algorithms, neural nets etc. are also of interest in this context. The book follows our successful 2nd Symposium on Soft Computing, which took place on 29th Feb. at the University of Goettingen. Physica-Verlag (subdivision of Springer-Verlag) has agreed to publish the book, though the contract is not signed yet. The book will consist of mixed German and English contributions and appear under a German title. We are seeking high-quality application-oriented papers. The formated paper should have between 10 and 20 pages (12 pt), and include an abstract, address of authors, and keywords. Detailed formating requirements will be issued later. It would make things easier for us if you worked with the textsystem WinWord. IMPORTANT DATES: Full papers due : May 15 th (arrival at Goettingen; no e-mail submissions, please) Notification of acceptance: Aug. 1st Revised, camera-ready papers due: Oct. 1st Please send three copies of your manuscript to the following address: Dr. Volker Nissen Universitaet Goettingen Abt. Wirtschaftsinformatik I Platz der Goettinger Sieben 5 D-37073 Goettingen Germany e-mail: vnissen@gwdg.de ************************************************************************** From owner-gann-list Thu Mar 21 11:02:13 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) id KAA17244 for gann-list-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:48:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 17:02:15 GMT From: carlos@robinson.ugr.es (J.C. Cubero) Message-Id: <9603191702.AA20566@robinson.ugr.es> To: gannadm@cs.iastate.edu Subject: GANN: More Information about Ipmu'96 International Conference Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: carlos@robinson.ugr.es (J.C. Cubero) Dear Colleague, You can find enclosed new information about IPMU'96 International Conference. As you can see in the topics, we hope it is an important contribution to the mailing-list. Yours sincerely Juan-Carlos Cubero. --------- Mail Contribution to the List begin here -------- Registration and Payment forms, Instructions for Authors and additional information ***************************************************** * IPMU'96 * * * * Information Processing and Management of * * Uncertainty * * in Knowledge Based Systems * * * * Granada, Spain, July 1-5, 1996 * * * * URL: http://decsai.ugr.es/ipmu96.html * ***************************************************** New URL location! =================================================================== SECRETARIAT ADDRESS =================================================================== IPMU'96 Dpto. Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial E.T.S. Informatica. Avda. Andalucia, 38. Universidad de Granada. 18071 Granada. Spain. Fax: +34 243317 Phone: +34 244078 E-mail: ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es URL: http://decsai.ugr.es/ipmu96.html =================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES =================================================================== April 15 1996: Reception of final camera-ready. May 15 1996: Deadline for early registration. July 1-5 1996: CONFERENCE. =================================================================== INVITED SPEAKERS =================================================================== Opening Session: Lecture by L.A. Zadeh: 'The Central Role of Information Granularity in Human Reasoning and Concept Formation' Plenary talks: Prof. T. Terano (Japan). Kampe de Feriet Award. 'Fuzzy Systems. Support of Intelligent Activity' Prof. A. F. Rocha (Brazil). 'Toward a Theory of Molecular Computing' Prof. H.J. Zimmermann (Germany). 'Engineering Applications of Fuzzy Technology' Prof. P. Bonissone (U.S.A.) 'Soft Computing for Train Handling' Prof. R. Scozzafava (Italy) 'Processing uncertainty in a coherent conditional probability setting: a survey' =================================================================== L.A. ZADEH. DR. HONORIS CAUSA =================================================================== Professor L.A. Zadeh will be investited Dr. Honoris Causa by the University of Granada on June 28th 1996. =================================================================== REGISTRATION FORM =================================================================== If you are going to attend the conference (submitting or not a paper), please send the following registration form, preferably by electronic mail (ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es) to the Secretariat. ......................... cut here ............................. Registration Form Surname......................................................... First Name ..................................................... Affiliation..................................................... Address ........................................................ City .................... Zip Code.......... Country ........ Phone: ................. Fax: ............................... E-mail ......................................................... ......................... cut here ............................. ================================================================ PAYMENT FORM ================================================================ Send the following payment form, by surface mail to the Secretariat. For security reasons, electronic submissions are not accepted. If you choose the bank transfer option, please include the payment receipt in your form. Conference Fees (including proceedings, reception party, coffee breaks and banquet) Before May 15 60.000.- Pesetas After May 15 70.000.- Pesetas Special fee for students (not including proceedings, reception party and Banquet) 25.000.- Pesetas ......................... cut here ............................. 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Two line spaces precede the Abstract. \end{abstract} \section{GENERAL FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS} Papers are 6 pages limit in 2 columns with the overall line width of 17 cm. Each column is 8.25 cm wide. The space between the columns is .7cm wide. The left margin is 2.8cm and the right margin is 1 cm. Paper title is centered. Authors' names are centered. The lead author's name is to be listed first (left-most), and the Co-authors' names (if different address) are set to follow. If only one co-author, center both the author and co-author, side-by-side. \section{CITATIONS, FIGURES, REFERENCES} \subsection{CITATIONS IN TEXT} Citations within the text should include reference number between brackets, e.g \cite{first}. \subsection{FOOTNOTES} Indicate footnotes with a number\footnote{Sample of the first footnote} in the text. Place the footnotes at the bottom of the page on which they appear. \subsection{FIGURES} All artwork must be centered, neat, clean, and legible. Figure number and caption always appear below the figure. Each figure should be numbered consecutively. \begin{figure}[h] \vspace{1cm} \caption{Sample Figure Caption} \end{figure} \subsection{TABLES} All tables must be centered, neat, clean, and legible. Do not use hand-drawn tables. Table number and title always appear above the table. See Table~\ref{sample-table}. \begin{table}[h] \caption{Sample Table Title} \label{sample-table} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{ll} \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf PART} &\multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf DESCRIPTION} \\ \hline \\ Dendrite &Input terminal \\ Axon &Output terminal \\ Soma &Cell body (contains cell nucleus) \\ \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{table} \subsection*{Acknowledgements} Use unnumbered headings for the acknowledgements. All acknowledgements go at the end of the paper. \begin{thebibliography}{abcdefg} \bibitem{first} G.~Tesauro (1989). Neurogammon wins computer Olympiad. {\it Neural Computation} {\bf 1}(3):321-323. \end{thebibliography} \end{document} =================================================================== TRAVELLING TO GRANADA =================================================================== Granada, a world-famous city, whose history spans over thousand years, also has outstanding features as a modern conference town. The Alhambra, the city's monuments, cultural and University traditions, as well as excellent leisure facilities, good restaurants, lively night life, the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Coast, all attract thousand of visitors to Granada every year. >From June 21th to July 7th, the 45th Dance and Music International Festival is held in Granada. For more information, please contact with: Apartado de Correos 64. E-18080, Granada (SPAIN). Phone: +34.58.222111. Fax. +34.58.224111. 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In recognition of the association between the IPMU community and the journal, the editors of World Scientific Publishing are pleased to inform all the members of the IPMU community, that there is a special subscription rate of US$60 per year for the journal. This special rate remains the same as previous years, despite the increase in frequency. So then, subscribe the journal today! All you need to do is to write/fax in to: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. Block 1022 Tai Seng Avenue #05-3520 Tai Seng Industrial Estate Singapore 538890 Republic of Singapore Tel: 65-3825663, Fax: 65-3825919 or simply send an email message to any one of the following addresses: worldscp@singnet.com.sg (Singapore office) wsped@singnet.com.sg (Editorial Dept, Singapore) wspmkt@singnet.com.sg (Marketing Dept., Singapore) In any case, please include the acceptance notification of your paper to IPMU'96, or the payment receipt if you are attending to the conference. --------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement of: International Conference on Intelligent Technologies in Human Related Sciences University of Leon, Spain, July 5-7 1996 Please mail to the Organizing Committee: Secretariat of the International Conference on Intelligent Technologies in Human Related Sciences Facultad de CCEE y Empresariales University of Leon Campus de Vergazana, s/n E-24071 Leon, Spain Ph: +34 87 291 742 Fax: +34 87 291 454 ---------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-gann-list Thu Mar 28 16:02:16 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) id PAA18869 for gann-list-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:34:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 08:34:14 +0100 From: juergen@idsia.ch (Juergen Schmidhuber) Message-Id: <9603280734.AA07926@fava.idsia.ch> To: gann@cs.iastate.edu Subject: GANN: IDSIA postdoc job opening Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: juergen@idsia.ch (Juergen Schmidhuber) IDSIA POSTDOC POSITION IDSIA, the Swiss machine learning research institute, offers a 2-year postdoc position with possibility for renewal. Goal of the corresponding research project is to analyze, compare, extend, and apply `neural' algorithms for unsupervised learning and redundancy reduction. A main focus will be on `predictability minimization' (see refs below). Application areas include adaptive image pre-processing, classification, data compression. The ideal candidate combines strong mathematical skills (relevant areas include statistics and information theory), strong programming skills, and experience in unsupervised learning. Applicants should be willing to build on our previous work. Begin: as soon as possible. Switzerland tends to be nice to scientists. It boasts the highest supercomputing capacity per capita, the most Nobel prizes per capita (with Sweden), the highest gross national product per capita (with Luxembourg), and the best chocolate. IDSIA is located in beautiful Lugano, capital of scenic Ticino (the southern part of Switzerland). Pictures in my home page. Milano, Italy's center of fashion and finance, is one hour away. CSCS, the Ticino supercomputing center, is nearby. Salary is competitive. To obtain an overview of IDSIA's activities, see our home page. If interested, please send CV, list of publications, and cover letter with brief statement of research interests plus email addresses of three references to juergen@idsia.ch Send them as separate, uncompressed ASCII or postscript files. ASCII greatly preferred. Please call subject headers of ASCII files: name.cv, name.pub, name.cover, respectively, where `name' stands for your name. Please call subject headers of postscript files: name.cv.ps, name.pub.ps, name.cover.ps, respectively. Please also send HARDCOPIES of 3 representative papers by PHYSICAL mail (no problem if they arrive after the deadline). DEADLINE: APRIL 10, 1996. Earlier applications preferred. Juergen Schmidhuber research director IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900-Lugano, Switzerland juergen@idsia.ch http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen --------- Refs on predictability minimization -------- - J.Schmidhuber, M.Eldracher, and B.Foltin. Semilinear predictability minimization produces well-known feature detectors. Neural Computation, in press, 1996. - J.Schmidhuber and D.Prelinger. Discovering predictable classifications. Neural Computation, 5(4):625-635, 1993. - J.Schmidhuber. Learning factorial codes by predictability minimization. Neural Computation, 4(6):863-879, 1992. From owner-gann-list Fri Mar 29 18:06:49 1996 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) id RAA15000 for gann-list-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 17:34:15 -0600 (CST) From: omlinc@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 17:00:21 EST Message-Id: <9603292200.AA27037@colossus.cs.rpi.edu> To: INDUCTIVE@hermes.csd.unb.ca, annrules@fit.qut.edu.au, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, empiricists@CSLI.Stanford.EDU, gannadm@cs.iastate.edu, ml@ics.uci.edu, neuron@CATTELL.psych.upenn.edu Subject: GANN: TR available - fuzzy recurrent neural networks Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: omlinc@cs.rpi.edu The following Technical Report is available via the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science and the NEC Research Institute archives: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fuzzy Finite-state Automata Can Be Deterministically Encoded into Recurrent Neural Networks Christian W. Omlin(a), Karvel K. Thornber(a), C. Lee Giles(a,b) (a)NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ 08540 (b)UMIACS, U. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 U. of Maryland Technical Report CS-TR-3599 and UMIACS-96-12 ABSTRACT There has been an increased interest in combining fuzzy systems with neural networks because fuzzy neural systems merge the advantages of both paradigms. On the one hand, parameters in fuzzy systems have clear physical meanings and rule-based and linguistic information can be incorporated into adaptive fuzzy systems in a systematic way. On the other hand, there exist powerful algorithms for training various neural network models. However, most of the proposed combined architectures are only able to process static input-output relationships, i.e. they are not able to process temporal input sequences of arbitrary length. Fuzzy finite-state automata (FFAs) can model dynamical processes whose current state depends on the current input and previous states. Unlike in the case of deterministic finite-state automata (DFAs), FFAs are not in one particular state, rather each state is occupied to some degree defined by a membership function. Based on previous work on encoding DFAs in discrete-time, second-order recurrent neural networks, we propose an algorithm that constructs an augmented recurrent neural network that encodes a FFA and recognizes a given fuzzy regular language with arbitrary accuracy. We then empirically verify the encoding methodology by measuring string recognition performance of recurrent neural networks which encode large randomly generated FFAs. In particular, we examine how the networks' performance varies as a function of synaptic weight strength. Keywords: Fuzzy logic, automata, fuzzy automata, recurrent neural networks, encoding, rules. **************************************************************************** http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/giles.html http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/omlin/omlin.html http://www.cs.umd.edu/TRs/TR-no-abs.html ftp://ftp.nj.nec.com/pub/giles/papers/ UMD-CS-TR-3599.fuzzy.automata.encoding.recurrent.nets.ps.Z ******************************************************************************