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***********************CONFERENCE INFORMATION*******************************

		       From Animals to Animats
		The Fourth International Conference on
	       Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB96)

		       September 9th-13th, 1996
		  North Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA

FULL DETAILS ON THE WEB PAGE: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/conferences/sab96
GENERAL CONTACT: sab96@cs.brandeis.edu

The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers in
ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial
life, robotics, and related fields so as to further our understanding
of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and
artificial animals to adapt and survive in uncertain environments.

***************************PROGRAM**************************************
The conference will consist of a single track of invited speakers,
refereed presentations and posters, and demonstrations. 
The invited speakers are James Albus, Jelle Atema, Daniel Dennett, 
Randy Gallistel, Scott Kelso, and David Touretzky.

***********************REGISTRATION IS OPEN*****************************
EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS JUNE 30, 1996
Regular $350; Discounts for early registration, students and members
of the International Society for Adaptive Behavior.

***************************HOTEL****************************************
HOTEL DEADLINE FOR BLOCKED ROOMS IS AUGUST 8TH
The entire conference will take place at the Sea Crest in North
Falmouth on Cape Cod.  All participants are responsible for making
their own reservations with the hotel.

************************STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS****************************
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JUNE 24th
Thanks to funding from the Office of Naval Research and the Bauer
Foundation, we will be able to assist about 15 students by lowering
their costs for attending the conference.  $400 scholarships will be
available for the selected North American students, and $600
scholarships for selected overseas students.

*************************************************************************
ALL DETAILS ON THE WEB PAGE: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/conferences/sab96





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                               Call for Papers


                               Special Issue on


            Computational Intelligent Diagnostic Systems in Medicine


                                    in the 

                        Journal of Intelligent Systems
                   http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~hs92jis/


As medicine becomes more specialised and complex, and the technology
succeeds in offering more possibilities in gathering related medical data,
doctors are faced with the challenge of processing vast amounts of data. 
The development of useful intelligent systems has always been a goal for
scientists and engineers.  Artificial Intelligence has been providing a
shed to the above efforts for many years.  However, artificial
Intelligence is traditionally concerned with symbolic manipulation and
rule-based systems.  Although advanced practical systems have been
constructed based on these traditional methods, the incentive to continue
along these lines can be enhanced by the development of stronger links to
human intelligence.  It is anticipated that the proper connection to
human intelligence will maintain the focus and inspiration for building
even "smarter" systems. 

Computational Intelligence (CI) was introduced in this field for providing
solutions or an alternative methodology, and it is claimed that one of the
major research areas in CI is the modelling of human problem-solving and
decision making.  Some of the components of this field that are related
to medicine are for example, the acquisition of medical knowledge, the
problem-solving system, a decision making strategy by capturing the
abilities of the expert doctors, a means of adding new knowledge and
modifying previous knowledge, and the development of a friendly user
interface with the system.  The breadth of clinical knowledge is an
impediment to the development of symbolic knowledge bases, that are
comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with reality.  It has been
lately demonstrated that neural networks, genetic algorithms, and fuzzy
systems can offer new hope for allowing computers to assist in the
challenging and expensive process of medical diagnosis.  What turns these
new propositions into promising tools are their natural fault-tolerant
properties, and their capability of finding near-optimum solutions from
limited or incomplete data.  In this context, new propositions are
introduced as tools for building intelligent diagnostic systems.  Such
systems do not mean to replace the physician from being the decision
maker but, rather, they attempt to enhance ones abilities to reach a
correct decision. 

Original papers regarding the theory and application of Computational
Intelligent Diagnostic Systems in Medicine are solicited for a Special
Issue of the Journal of Intelligent Systems for April 1997.  Topics
include, but are not limited to, artificial neural systems, evolutionary
computing, genetic-based machine learning, fuzzy systems, combinatorial
optimization, pattern recognition, and the relationship or combination of
these topics for forming hybrid diagnostic/prognostic systems. 

By November 1st, 1996, prospective authors should submit 5 copies of 
their papers to the guest Editor:

Christos N. Schizas
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus
75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.Box 537
CY-1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

Tel: +357-2-338705	Fax +357-2-339062
email: schizas@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy





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 	Call for Participation

 	TAINN'96, Istanbul
 
 	5th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and 
 	Neural Networks
 
 	To be held at Istanbul Technical University, Macka Campus
 	June 27 - 28, 1996
  
 	Jointly-organized by Bogazici University and
	Istanbul Technical University 

	Invited talk by Prof Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki University of
		Technology 

	Full program, registration and accommodation information can be
	e-received by

 	Email:	tainn96@boun.edu.tr
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First, I would like to thank all the interested and supporters 
of the CarbNet project.  Since the announcement of the system a 
few weeks ago, we have had over 300 users, and over 400 spectra  
submitted for identification.  For those of you who hear this 
for the first time;  CarbNet is a Neural Network based service 
available via the World Wide Web.  (The initial announcement of 
the system is attached) 

Because of a name conflict with an european organization, also 
called CarbNet, we have decided to change the name of the 
Software to CCRCNet.  The www adress to our homepage remains the 
same: http://www.ccrc.uga.edu.  For those of you who have 
created a direct link to CarbNet, it's web adress now is 
http://www/ccrc.uga.edu/ParsKimi.first.html.  Both of these 
adresse are case sensitive.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Initial announcement for CCRCNet with some corrections:
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The Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) of the
University of Georgia is announcing an analytical
glyco-chemistry service via the World Wide Web.  The software is
called CCRCNet (Complex Carbohydrate Research Center Neural 
Networks), and is available
at http://www.ccrc.uga.edu/ CCRCNet is an analytical tool for
identification and verification of carbohydrate spectra.  The
system uses a neural network pattern matching engine to match
spectra of unknown compounds submitted by the user with spectra
of compounds from CCRC's databases.  Each search of CCRCNet
produces a ranked "hit list" of compounds in our library whose
spectra most closely match the unknown spectrum, and a graphical
presentation of both the submitted spectrum and the "best match"
sample spectrum from CCRCNet.  Each compound in the hit list is
associated with a score that represents the closeness of the
match.  The graphical presentation assists in the visual
verification of the search result.  A capability is provided for
"static" zooming into a certain region of the spectra.

The CCRC currently offers analytical services for two types of
complex carbohydrates.  These are: combined Gas
chromatography-electron impact mass spectra (GC-EIMS) of
partially methylated alditol acetates (PMAAs), and for 500-MHz
NMR spectra of xyloglucan subunit oligosaccharides.

The CCRCNet software is currently a prototype.   We hope that,
after using this prototype, your feedback will assist us in
developing an improved version.  Some improvements such as
"dynamic" zooming capability will be incorporated as soon as
JAVA (or an alternative such as OLE) compatible web browsers
become more comon.  CarbNet currently uses some extensions to
HTML 2.0.  Therefor, it is best presented by Netscape's or
Microsoft's web browsers.

If you have a spectrum of the above-mentioned types, we
encourage you to submit it to CCRCNet and let us know how well
CarbNet performs in helping to identify your compound.  We
especially encourage you to send us an e-mail message if you
encounter a problem or receive an incorrect response from
CCRCNet.  You should be aware that these spectral libraries are
not complete; we plan to add spectra to each of these libraries
and to introduce libraries of other types of complex
carbohydrates.  If either library does not produce a "match" for
your submitted spectrum, we ask that you contact us by e-mail at
the address below so that we can arrange to add your spectrum to
our library.  Thereby increasing the value of the library to the
scientific community.

On the system, we have sample spectra for above mentioned
libraries.  If you do not have a spectrum to submit, we
encourage you to use these spectra to initiate a search, and
observe the functionality of the system.  We welcome any
comments that you might have.

For further inquiries or any problems with CCRCNet, please
contact faramarz@mond1.ccrc.uga.edu.

PS:  We are soliciting proposals for expanding the CCRCNet
library system within the carbohydrate field and beyond.  If you
use a library of data that you often refer to, and could benefit
from a Neural Network pattern matching engine, we would like you
to send us an email.  We are looking to expand the current
system beyond carbohydrates, into recognition and analysis of
various types of medical data, as well as fields such as
synthetic Chemistry.  The new libraries will be available for
public use via the world wide web. 
----------------------------------------------------
End Inclusion
--------------------

Faramarz Valafar
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
University of Georgia
USA

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*****************************************************************
        1st On-line Workshop on SOFT COMPUTING (WSC1)
             August 19 (Mon.) - 30 (Fri.), 1996

                    Special Session on

      ENGINEERING PROBLEM SOLVING USING SOFT COMPUTING
               
*****************************************************************

                    Call for Papers and 

         Invitation to take part in the Discussion
        
*****************************************************************

On behalf of Engineering Design Centre and Neurodynamics 
Research Group, School of Computing, University of Plymouth,  
Plymouth, UK, we call for your papers for the special session on 
'Engineering Problem Solving using Soft Computing'. The session is 
planned to integrate experience from different engineering 
applications of Soft Computing. The objective of the special
session is to put forward a common forum where people from 
different engineering disciplines can talk to each other and share 
their experiences. 

The session is intended to discuss the following aspects of Soft 
Computing Applications in Engineering:

      1. General issues in different fields of engineering and how 
         Soft Computing can address those issues more effectively 
         than conventional techniques. 
      2. Successful industrial applications.
      3. Any 'Good Practice Guide' on the Soft Computing 
         Applications. 
      4. Legal issues involved in protecting an application (that is 
         copyright, patent issues, international law etc.).
      5. Social issues involved in effective implementation of the 
         technology.

The session also welcomes survey  and tutorial style papers.
The application areas of interest include but are not limited to :

        a. Biotechnology
        b. Chemical Engineering
        c. Computer Aided Design, Control and Manufacturing
        d. Engineering Economics and Management
        e. Systems Engineering
        f. Vision and Pattern Recognition
        g. Electronics and Telecommunications
        h. Medicine and Medical Engineering
        i. Military Applications
        j. Food Technology
        k. Industrial Applications
        l. Internet Tool Development
        
The contributions can be in the form of :

     a) 6 page (max) Original paper, to be published in the workshop
        proceedings. In the case of survey or tutorial style papers 
        authors are encouraged to submit the paper in several 
        parts (such as part I and part II with the same title).     
     b) 6 page (max) paper on your already published work 
     c) YOUR PARTICIPATION in the discussion during the workshop

PLEASE NOTE: 
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE SESSION SHOULD BE DIRECTLY
SENT TO WSC1 ORGANISERS IN JAPAN. PLEASE MENTION 
THE NAME OF THE SESSION ON TOP OF YOUR COVER LETTER.

Please refer to the ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS below for the
submission and further details.

For any queries about the special session (only) 
please send email to:

    wscplym@soc.plym.ac.uk

The Joint Session Organisers from School of Computing, 
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK:

RAJKUMAR ROY
Engineering Design Centre

RAJU BAPI
Neurodynamics Research Group

IAN PARMEE
Engineering Design Centre


==============================================================
                    ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
===============================================================

From: furuhashi@nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Takeshi FURUHASHI)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:46:10 +0900
Subject: WSC1

 This is the preliminary CFP for the 1st Online Workshop on Soft 
Computing. This is also available on WWW. The URL is

    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/

        CALL FOR PAPERS

     The 1st Online Workshop on Soft Computing (WSC1)

         Aug. 19 (Mon) - Aug. 30 (Fri)

    On Internet (WWW (World Wide Web) ) Served by Nagoya University

 We call for your papers for online discussions using the Internet.
The purpose of this workshop is to give its attendees opportunities to
exchange informaiton and ideas on various aspects of Soft Computing
and  "save travel expenses" without having to visit foreign countries.
We aim to have ample discussion time between the authors and attendees
make them visible to everyone on the Internet.

 This is the 3rd workshop of On-line Workshop series on Internet. The 
first on-line workshop(WEC1) was held on Oct. 9 - 20, 1995. In spite 
of the very short preparation time ( 2 weeks ) for the workshop, 22 
papers were submitted and great many people visited the home page:

    http://www.bioele.nuee nagoya-u.ac.jp/wec

 Encouraged by the unprecedented repercussions, we held the second on-
line workshop(WEC2) on March 4 - 22, 1996. More people showed great 
interest into the workshop. You can still visit the home page at:

    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wec2

 The scope of the 3rd on-line workshop is expanded from those of the 
preceding workshops. We call for your papers on Soft Computing. The 
great merit of this workshop series is that you can save travel 
expenses without having to visit and attendees and make them visible 
to everyone on the Internet.

 The WSC1 will welcome original contributions. The proceedings is 
planned to be published. We all look forward to your active 
participation.

TOPICS:
 Fuzzy Logic
 Neuro - Computing
 Genetic Computing
 Probabilistic Reasoning
 Chaos Computing
 Hybrid Systems

IMPORANT DATES:
 Deadline for Submission of Abstracts and Main Text: Aug. 5, 1996
 Opening the papers to the public:                   Aug. 12, 1996
 Workshop Weeks:                                     Aug. 19-30, 1996

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
 Send an abstract and main text to the address below.

    mail address is : wsc@bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp

   The abstract should be in text file. The main text should be in 
text file or in ps ( PostScript ) file. The size of the paper should 
be either A4 ( metric ) or letter size. Papers should be written in 
Times or similar font style, 10 points or larger with 2.5 cm margins 
on all four sides. If you write your paper with LaTeX, you can use 
"IEEEtran.sty" and "wscsample.tex" which is available from

    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/form/IEEEtran.sty
    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/form/wscsample.tex

   Another alternative is that if you prepare a WWW page for your 
main text, please send us only the abstract and tell us the Internet 
address ( URL ), and yours will be linked to our WWW page.

   The steering committee will make your abstracts visible on the 
Internet. The home page address is:

    URL: http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/

  *Note:
    This workshop will accept papers both original and already 
published. If your paper is not original, please clarify the 
source of your paper. Your paper will not be included in the 
proceedings.

    If your paper is an original one, you need to send ps file or 
camera - ready manuscript of your main text. The paper should not 
exceed 6 pages in length. Please also send us the copyright form by 
postal mail or facsimile. The proceedings including your original 
contribution will be published. The copyright form is available 
also from

    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/form/copyright.ps
    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/form/copyright.txt

DISCUSSION PROCEDURE:
 1. Read the abstracts.
 2. Copy the main texts ( ps files ) of interested papers.
 3. Send questions and comments to
    wsc@bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp
 (The steering committee will send the questions to the authors and 
receive answers from the authors, and make the Q&A visible on the 
Internet.) 
 4. Read the answers from the authors on
    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/
 5. Repeat the above steps 3 and 4 until you are satisfied.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: English
 (Notice should be made that the main texts in ps files should not 
include any fonts other than English.)

SESSION ORGANIZERS WANTED:
 Steering committee would appreciate your contribution as a session 
organizer. Your job will be to call your colleagues and friends to 
submit papers and organize a session. If you need further 
information, please mail to    

    wsc@bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp

 For further information, contact:
    Takeshi Furuhashi
    Dept. of Information Electronics
    Nagoya University,
    Furo-cho, Chikusaku
    Nagoya 464-01, Japan
    Tel. +81-52-789-2792
    Fax. +81-52-789-3166


        Paper Submission Form
Title :
Authors :
Affiliation :
Address :
Phone :
Fax :
e-mail :
Source(if your paper is already published):
Keywords :
Link(if you have a WWW home page of the paper) :
Abstract :

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**********************************************************************
Rajkumar Roy
Plymouth Engineering Design Centre
Charles Cross Centre
University of Plymouth
Plymouth
PL4 8AA
UK

Email : r.roy@ieee.org, rroy@plymouth.ac.uk
Tel. : 01752 233508

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Subject: GANN: Neural Computing PhD Studentship available
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			   PHD STUDENTSHIP
			   ---------------

		   Neural Computing Research Group

		   Aston University, Birmingham, UK


	  *  Full details at http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/  *


We are seeking highly motivated candidates for a PhD studentship funded
by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Funding covers 
tuition fees and living expenses for a student with British citizenship, or 
fees only for students from European Community countries. The studentship
is for a period of three years and the student is expected to gain a PhD in 
Neural Computing at the end of this period. 

The successful candidate will be supervised by a member of staff of the
Neural Computing Research Group, on a topic to be agreed between the student
and supervisor, and will be expected to take taught modules from the "MSc 
in Pattern Analysis and Neural Networks" degree during the first term.

The student will need to be mathematically and computationally proficient,
and should hold a first degree (either first class or upper second class
honours or equivalent) in mathematics, physics, engineering, statistics,
computer science or a similar discipline. 

The Neural Computing Research Group is one of the largest of its kind in 
Europe, and currently comprises the following members:

  Professors:
    Christopher Bishop 
    David Lowe 
  Visiting Professors:
    Geoffrey Hinton
    Edward Feigenbaum
    David Bounds     
  Lecturers:
    Richard Rohwer   
    Ian Nabney 
    David Saad
    Chris Williams
    1 further post currently being appointed
  Postdoctoral Research Fellows:
    David Barber 
    Paul Goldberg 
    Neep Hazarika 
    Alan McLachlan 
    Mike Tipping 
    Huaiyu Zhu
    5 further posts currently being appointed
  Personal Assistant:
    Hanni Sondermann 
  System Administrator:
    Richard Lister 
  Research Programmer:
    Andrew Weaver 
  20 Research Students


How to Apply
------------

Candidates should submit a completed application form. This may be done 
via the web from:

    http://www.ncrg.aston.ac.uk/

Alternatively a paper application form is obtainable from:

    Hanni Sondermann
    Neural Computing Research Group
    Aston University
    Birmingham B4 7ET, U.K.
    Tel: (+44 or 0) 121 333 4631
    Fax: (+44 or 0) 121 333 4586
    e-mail: H.E.Sondermann@aston.ac.uk

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We are pleased to announce the publication of the book

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION 
Volume 1063 of LNCS - Springer Verlag
396p. ISBN 3-540-61108-8

This book contains selected papers (in english) from both Conferences
Evolution Artificielle 94 and Evolution Artificielle 95,
the two first French conferences on ... Artificial Evolution
(Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life and related topics).

All useful information (the preface, and ToC in ASCII, LaTeX and 
BibTex formats) can be found at URL

http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/www.eark/ea95.html

The Editing Committee:
Jean-Marc Alliot (ENAC Toulouse) - Evelyne Lutton (INRIA Rocquencourt) - 
Edmund Ronald (CMAP Palaiseau) - Marc Schoenauer (CMAP Palaiseau) - 
Dominique Snyers (TELECOM Bretagne) 

