Past Events on Neural Networks, Vision, and Speech in 1997.


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January 4-7, 1997, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Item #453
AISTATS-97 Sixth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.
David Madigan, Program Chair, 6th International Workshop on AI and Statistics, Dept. of Statistics, Box 354322, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Email: aistats@stat.washington.edu.

Topics:
 * automated data analysis and knowledge representation for
   statistics
 * meta data and design of statistical data bases
 * statistical strategy
 * multivariate graphical models, belief networks
 * causality
 * cluster analysis and unsupervised learning
 * predictive modeling: classification and regression
 * interpretability in modeling
 * model uncertainty, multiple models
 * probability and search
 * knowledge discovery in databases
 * integrated man-machine modeling methods
 * statistical methods in AI approaches to problems in vision,
   robotics, pattern recognition, software agents, planning,
   information retrieval, natural language processing, etc. 
 * AI methods applied to problems in statistics such as
   statistical advisory systems, experimental design,
   exploratory data analysis, causal modeling, etc.

January 7-10, 1997, Maui, Hawaii. Item #523
Software Technology Track of HICSS-30 the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Hesham El-Rewini, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA. Tel: 402 554 2852, fax: 402 554 2975, email: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu.

1) object-oriented methods for distributed applications
 2) distributed objects platforms
 3) parallel and distributed algorithms
 4) multi-threaded systems
 5) coordination languages, models, systems
 6) software engineering for distributed systems
 7) distributed persistent architectures
 8) partitioning and scheduling 
 9) distributed virtual reality environments
 10) distributed multimedia and collaboration over the web 

January 7-10, 1997, Maui, Hawaii. Item #582
Minitrack in the Software Technology Track of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-30.

Hesham El-Rewini, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, tel: 402 554 2852, fax: 402 554 2975, email: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu.

Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are:
        Coordination problems within concurrent, distributed, object
            oriented, functional, and logic programming;
        Concurrent computation, constraint programming, computation
            models based on the chemical reaction metaphor,
            on associative communication, and related areas;
        Software architectures and middleware
            for the development of coordination applications;
        Semantics and reasoning about coordination;
        Distributed simulation using a coordination language;
        Enhancing the WWW with coordination technology.

January 27-30, 1997, Houston, TX, USA. Item #694
ETCE'97 Symposium on Computers: Session on Neural Networks.

Dr. John Sullins, Youngstown State University, Dept. of Computer Science, 410 Wick Av. Youngstown, OH 44555-00001, USA. Tel: 216 742 1806, fax: 216 742 1998, email: john@cis.ysu.edu.

One of the sessions of this symposium will be concerned with
Applications of Neural Networks to Areas of Engineering.  This may 
include (but is not limited to):

	Decision support systems
	Automated classification and diagnosis
	Pattern recognition
	Control and scheduling
	Signal processing and machine vision
	Speech recognition

	We also welcome papers concerned with more theoretical areas 
of Neural Networks, as well as those concerned with applications of 
related areas, including:

	Fuzzy logic
	Evolutionary computing
	Expert networks
	Machine learning

January 28-30, 1997, Houston, TX. Item #773
Energy Week Conference and Exhibition; Session on Natural Language in Human-Computer Interfaces.

Susan Haller, Computer Science and Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Parkside, Kenosha, WI 53141-2000, USA. Email: haller@cs.uwp.edu, tel: (414) 595-2343, fax: (414) 595-2114.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

   * Empirical studies in designing human-computer interfaces with
     natural language
   * Multimodal interface designs that include natural language
   * Use of natural language in computer-supported cooperative work
   * Discussions of implemented systems that employ natural language
   * Knowledge representation and reasoning to support natural language in
     human-computer interfaces and cooperative work systems
   * Speech recognition and synthesis in interface design
   * Limitations and pitfalls of relying on natural language as an interface

February 1-8, 1997, Snowmass Conference Center, Snowmass, Colorado, USA. Item #703
Special Session on Neural Networks for Aerospace Applications at the 1997 IEEE Aerospace Conference.

David Woerner. Email: david.f.woerner@jpl.nasa.gov.

Februar, 1997, Stuttgart, Germany. Item #816
Neuronale Netze in Ingenieuranwendungen, ein Treffen junger Wissenschaftler.

Luft und Raumfahrtkonstruktionen ISD, Pfaffenwaldring 27, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany. Tel: ++49 711 685 3799, fax: ++49 711 685 3706, email: emrich@isd.uni-stuttgart.de.

Themen:

     Mathematische Modellierung Neuronaler Netze 
     Entwurf Neuronaler Netze 
     Lernverfahren fr Neuronale Netze 
     Generalisierung in Neuronalen Netzen 
     Neuronale Netze und Genetische Algorithmen 
     Neuro-Fuzzy-Systeme 
     Hardwareimplementierungen Neuronaler Netze 
     Anwendungen Neuronaler Netze 

February 5-7, 1997, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Item #698
IPCCC'97 IEEE Intl. Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference.

Prof. Jo Dale Carothers, Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, tel: (520) 621-8733, fax: (520) 621-8076, email: carothers@ece.arizona.edu.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

ATM/B-ISDN 
Mobile computing 
Multimedia 
Network management, control, & security 
High-speed networks 
Network architectures & design 
Optical computing 
Protocol, modeling, & analysis 
Optical networks 
Parallel & distributed algorithms/systems 
Video network systems 
Fault tolerance & reliability
Quality of service 
Performance analysis, modeling, & simulation 
Wireless communications 
Object-oriented communications 
Performance measurement 
Communication & multiprocessor systems 
VLSI implementations 
Computing & communications using the WWW 
Telecommunications 
Traffic modeling & performance evaluation 
Applications 
Internet & World Wide Web 
Network operating systems 
Mobile networks

February 5-8, 1997, Mariott Hotel, Marina del Rey, CA, USA. Item #712
Agents'97 First International Conference on Autonomous Agents.

email agents-97-info@isi.edu.

Application Areas:

        * autonomous robots
        * softbots
        * expert assistants
        * synthetic agents

Technical Issues:

        * agent architectures
        * coordinating perception, thought, and action
        * sensing and perception
        * selective perception
        * focus of attention
        * pattern recognition
        * diagnosis
        * action selection and planning
        * real-time performance
        * adaptation to run-time events
        * longer-term adaptation and learning
        * evolution of agents
        * knowledge acquisition and accumulation
        * integration and coordination of multiple activities
        * multi-agent communication
        * multi-agent collaboration
        * organization of agent colonies
        * communication between people and agents
        * collaboration between people and agents
        * modeling the environment
        * modeling the behavior of other agents
        * meta-modeling of an agent by itself
        * user modeling
        * believability
        * life-like qualities
        * models of emotion
        * models of motivation
        * models of personality
        * other human-like qualities
        * instructability
        * mind-body relationship
        * simulation versus implementation

February 10-12, 1997, Gold Coast, Australia. Item #738
ICCIMA'97 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications.

email: easbrij@ipnet.ins.gu.edu.au, tel: 55948592, fax: 55948679.

February 11, 1997, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. Item #722
ARS'97 First International Workshop on Approximate Reasoning in Scheduling.

Wolfgang Slany, Institut für Informationssysteme (E 184-2), Technische Universität Wien, Paniglg. 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria. Tel: +43 1 58801 6123, fax: +43 1 5055304, email: ars97@dbai.tuwien.ac.at.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

* partial constraint techniques in scheduling/constraint relaxation 
* plausible/defeasible/evidential reasoning methods for scheduling 
  (nonmonotonic, default, autoepistemic, temporal reasoning,
  circumscription, modal logic) 
* multiple criteria decision making for scheduling: modeling gradual  
  satisfaction, importance, and compromising
* probabilistic/Bayesian scheduling
* Dempster-Shafer based scheduling
* fuzzy scheduling and planning
* fuzzy/neuro/evolutionary/simulated-annealing/chaos and hybrid
  scheduling
* possibilistic scheduling
* scheduling based on Rough Sets
* uncertainty, islands of certitude, imprecision, and vagueness in
  scheduling  
* knowledge base/parameter acquisition and elicitation for scheduling
  tasks
* novel scheduling paradigms
* approximation in modeling and optimization of scheduling problems
* heuristic scheduling methods used in operations research/linear
  programming 
* iterative improvement methods (min conflicts/tabu search/random
  search) 
* benchmarking in approximate reasoning: comparative evaluation of 
  crisp and soft schedules
* complexity analysis of approximation algorithms usable for
  scheduling, including consideration of average case complexity 
* where are the really-hard scheduling problems, and can they be made 
  tractable by approximate reasoning?
* robustness of schedules
* reactive scheduling
* cooperative scheduling
* distributed scheduling and multi-agent planning related to
  approximate reasoning 
* man machine interfaces for scheduling tasks
* tools for approximate reasoning in scheduling
* solving real world scheduling problems using approximate reasoning: 
  implementation aspects, success stories from such fields as flexible
  manufacturing (including tool management, vehicle routing, resource
  balancing), database transaction scheduling, CPU instruction
  scheduling, scheduling in administration, industry, finance and
  commerce (including shiftplan scheduling, work-force rota assignment,
  investment scheduling) 
* soft scheduling applications in Japanese industry and research: case
  studies 
* related applications: planning, design, management, maintenance

February 12-14, 1997, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland. Item #594
ISFL'97 Second International ICSC Symposium on Fuzzy Logic and Applications.

ICSC Canada, P.O. Box 279, Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0, Canada. Email: icsc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca, fax: +1 403 387 4329, tel: +1 403 387 3546.

- 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                                  

February 12-14, 1997, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. Item #704
ISFL'97 Second International ICSC Symposium on Fuzzy Logic and Applications.

ICSC, International Computer Science Conventions, P.O. Box 279, Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0, Canada. Tel: +1 403 387 3546, fax: +1 403 387 4329, email: icsc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca.

Topics:             - 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 

February 17-20, 1997, Innsbruck, Austria. Item #720
MIC`97 Sixteenth IASTED International Conference Modelling, Identification and Control.

IASTED Secretariat MIC'97, #80, 4500 - 16 Avenue N.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3B 0M6. Tel: 403 288 1195, fax: 403 247 6851, email: iasted@cadvision.com.

SCOPE
        * MODELLING     * IDENTIFICATION        * CONTROL
        * SYSTEMS       * TECHNOLOGY            * APPLICATIONS

February 17-18, 1997, Waikiki, Hawaii. Item #912
Course on Modern Regression And Classification.

Prof. T. Hastie, fax: (415) 326-0854, email: to trevor@stat.stanford.edu.

A two-day course on widely applicable statistical methods for
modeling and prediction, featuring

Professor Trevor Hastie    and   Professor Robert Tibshirani
Stanford University              University of Toronto

PRICE: $750 per attendee if received by January 15, 1997. Full time
registered students receive a 40% discount.  Attendance is limited to
the first 60 applicants, so sign up soon!  These courses fill up
quickly.

February 21, 1997, Groningen, The Netherlands. Item #825
GRONICS '97.

GRONICS '97, University of Groningen, Dept. of Computing Science, P.O. Box 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, the Netherlands. Tel: 050 3633972 (Marco Diepenhorst), email: gronics@cs.rug.nl.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: 

Basic Fundamental Research, 
Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Systems, 
Formal Specification, Program Correctness, 
Human Interfacing, Expert Systems,  
High Performance Computing, Telematics, 
Signal Processing, Image Processing,   
Logic Programming, Artificial Intelligence. 

February 23-24, 1997, Singapore. Item #674
PAKDD97 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Dr. Hongjun Lu, Dept. of ISCS, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260. Email: pakdd97@iti.gov.sg.

Knowledge Representation and Acquisition in KDD
Data Mining and Data Warehousing
Data Cleaning, Preprocessing and Postprocessing
Data and Dimensionality Reduction
Knowledge Reuse and Role of Domain Knowledge
Data Mining Tools
KDD Framework and Process
Security and Privacy Issues in KDD
Mining in-the-Large vs Mining in-the-Small
Management Issues in KDD
Machine Learning, Statistical and Visualization Aspects of KDD
Successful/Innovative Applications in Science, Government, Business and Industry

February 24-27, 1997, Singapore. Item #587
PACES/SPICIS'97 The Joint Pacific Asian Conference on Expert Systems / Singapore International Conference on Intelligent Systems.

Dr. Graham Leedham, School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. Email: paces97@uranus.sas.ntu.ac.sg.

This conference is designed to fulfil the needs of a diverse body of
attendees, including: researchers, practitioners/developers, users,
educators, system managers, and product vendors. The focus of the
conference is on discovering and exploiting new opportunities afforded by
global networking and the internet using intelligent computing techniques
through

"Intelligence in and on the Information Superhighway."

Proposals for Tutorials and Panels are also invited.
Topics of interest include:

        - very large databases
        - intelligent navigation tools and techniques
        - intelligent executive information systems
        - distributed intelligent agents
        - user interfaces
        - distributed expert systems
        - distant ICAI learning
        - decision support systems
        - neural networks
        - fuzzy systems
        - genetic algorithms
        - multimedia systems
        - image and voice processing
        - virtual systems
        - database mining
        - case-based reasoning
        - other related topics of interest

February 28 - March 2, 1997, Holiday Inn, San Jose, California, USA. Item #697
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence on SAC'97.

Robert Inder, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, 2, Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW, Scotland. Email: R.Inder@ed.ac.uk, tel: +44 31 650 4449, fax: +44 31 650 4587.

Major topics of interest include the following:

     o Intelligent Front-Ends
     o Natural Language Processing
     o Diagram Interpretation
     o User Modelling
     o Integration with existing software or data systems, particularly GIS
     o Design or selection of information presentations (esp. multi-modal)
     o Automatic design of software interfaces or other tools

February 28 - March 2, 1997, Holiday Inn, Park Circle Plaza, San Jose, California, USA. Item #708
Fuzzy Applications Track on SAC'97.

Dr. E. Damiani, Polo Didattico e di Ricerca di Crema, Universita' di Milano, Via Matilde di Canossa 22, 26013 Crema, Italy. Tel: +39 373 85673, email: damiani@hermes.dsi.unimi.it.

> - Fuzzy control
> - Fuzzy techniques for image analysis and processing
> - Fuzzy information retrieval systems and databases
> - Fuzzy hardware systems
> - Fuzzy methods in software engineering

March 1-5, 1997, Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. Item #680
RSSC'97 The Fifth International Workshop on Rough Sets and Soft Computing.

T. Y. Lin, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192-0103, USA. Email: tylin@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu or tylin@calstate.bitnet, tel: 408 924 5121, fax: 408 924 5080.

Rough sets and fuzzy sets are complementary generalizations of classical 
sets.  Fuzzy sets allow partial set memberships to handle vagueness, while 
rough sets allow multiple set memberships to deal with indiscernibility.  
These two approaches to generalized sets form a beginning of a "soft 
mathematics" and provide a basis for "soft computing", which includes, along 
with rough sets, at least fuzzy logic, neural networks, probabilistic 
reasoning, belief networks, learning, connectionist computing, genetic 
algorithms, and chaos theory.

March 1-5, 1997, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. Item #701
JCIS'97 Third Joint Conference on Information Sciences.

Paul P. Wang, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Box 90291, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0291, USA. Tel: 919 660 5271, 660 5259, fax: 919 660 5293, 684 4860, email: ppw@ee.duke.edu.

Joinned Conferences:

  FT & T'97:  Fifth International Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology
                           Chair: Paul P. Wang

  CS & I'97:  Third International Conference on Computer Science & Informatics
                   Co-Chairs: Mohamed Gouda & Hussein Abdel-Wahab

  CI & N'97:  Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence & 
                                Neurosciences
                   Co-Chairs: Subhash C. Kak & Jeffrey P. Sutton

  RSSC'97: Fifth International Workshop on Rough Sets and Soft Computing
                   Co-Chairs: T. Y. Lin & Akira Nakamura

  SCS'97: First International Workshop on Semiotic Analysis and Design of 
                                Intelligent Systems
                          Chair: Alex Meystel

  FEA'97: First International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms 
                          Chair: Cezary Z. Janikow

March 1 is reserved for tutorials.

March 2-5, 1997, Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. Item #618
ICCIN'97 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.

George M. Georgiou, Computer Science Dept., California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397, USA. Email: georgiou@csci.csusb.edu.

Areas for which papers are sought include:

	o Artificial Life
	o Artificially Intelligent NNs
	o Associative Memory
	o Cognitive Science
	o Computational Intelligence
	o Efficiency/Robustness Comparisons
	o Evaluationary Computation for Neural Networks
	o Feature Extraction & Pattern Recognition
	o Implementations (electronic, Optical, Biochips)
	o Intelligent Control
	o Learning and Memory
	o Neural Network Architectures
	o Neurocognition
	o Neurodynamics
	o Optimization
	o Parallel Computer Applications
	o Theory of Evolutionary Computation

March 2-4, 1997, Hannover, Germany. Item #726
ICOBIP'97 International Conference on Biological Information Processing.

ICOBIP'97 - Organizing Committee, Dept. of Clinical Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover, D-30623 Hannover, Germany. Tel: +49 511 532 6529, fax: +49 511 532 3825, email: ndxdendo@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de.

Topics: Basic Principles of Information Processing
        Cellular Systems
        Endocrine Systems
        Neuronal Systems

March 2-5, 1997, Gstaad, Switzerland. Item #741
Dynamics Synergetics Autonomous Agents 1st Joint Conference on Complex Systems in Psychology.

University of Lausanne, Dept. of Psychology, BFSH 2, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Tel: ++41 21 692 32 60, fax: ++41 21 692 32 65.

March 2-5, 1997, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Item #884
Theoretical Approaches to Adaptive Intelligent Control session at the conference Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.

Csaba Szepesvari, szepes@math.u-szeged.hu.

March 5-7, 1997, Kharagpur, India. Item #662
SHOT '97 Conference on Ship and Ocean Technology.

Dept. of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, India. Telex: 06401-201 ITKG IN, tel: +91 3222 2221 Extn. 4460, fax: +91 3222 2303, email: misra@naval.iitkgp.ernet.in.

*   Design and production of marine vehicles and systems
*   Submerged and deep sea vehicles
*   High performance and novel marine crafts
*   Marine/Ocean hydrodynamics
*   Marine environment
*   Marine/Offshore structures
*   Marine materials and fabrications
*   Design and production of ocean systems
*   CAD/CAM and information system in marine/ocean industry
*   Managment and maintenance of coastal/ocean structures
*   Navigation and ship behaviour
*   Modelling techniques
*   Testing, instrumentation and measurement techniques

March 12-14, 1997, Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Item #636
AVBPA'97 First International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication.

Josef Bigun, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Features and Measurements:
- - Biometrics of face and voice
- - Still image based features
- - Multiple image based features
- - Motion/depth based features
- - Audio and lip-movements
- - Text dependent audio features
- - Text independent audio features

Decision Strategies for Audio- &Video-based Data:
- - Training procedures
- - Decision theory and strategies
- - Fusion of multiple decisions

System Architecture and Hardware:
- - Centralized versus distributed databases
- - Image and speech communication
- - Sensor resolution and recognition studies
- - Tracking cameras
- - Special sensors

March 12-14, 1997, Paderborn, Germany. Item #673
Fuzzy-Neuro Systems'97 4th International Workshop.

Prof. Dr. Adolf Grauel, Universität-Gesamthochschule Paderborn, Abteilung Soest, Fachbereich 16, Fachgebiet Mathematische Methoden und Systemtheorie, Steingraben 21, D-59494 Soest, Germany. Email: fns97@uni-paderborn.de.

Topics

- theory and principles of multivariate and fuzzy logic
- representation modes of fuzzy knowledge 
- approximate reasoning
- fuzzy control: theory and practice
- fuzzy logic: data analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition
- fuzzy classification systems
- fuzzy decision support systems
- fuzzy logic in non-technical areas: business administration, management etc.
- fuzzy databases
- theorie and principles of artificial neural networks
- hybrid learning algorithms
- neural networks: pattern recognition, classification, process monitoring
  and production control
- theory and principles of evolutionary algorithms: genetic algorithms
  and evolution strategies
- discrete parameter and structural optimization
- hybrid systems: neuro-fuzzy systems, connectionistic expert systems etc.
- special hardware and software

March 12-14, 1997, Rome, Italy. Item #707
CIAC'97 3rd Italian Conference on Algorithms and Complexity.

Phone: +39-6-4991-8352 (-8432, -8360), fax: +39-6-8841964, email: ciac97@dsi.uniroma1.it.

Papers are solicited describing original research contributions in 
theory and applications of algorithms, data structures
and computational complexity. Typical, but not exclusive areas of interest
are complexity theory, computational complexity, dynamic algorithms, 
computational geometry, graph algorithms, sequential, parallel and 
distributed algorithms, data structures, implementation and application 
of algorithms, approximated algorithms, analysis of algorithms.

March 17-21, 1997, Zinal, Valais, Switzerland. Item #776
2nd European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems.

ERSADS, c/o LSE, Departement d'Informatique, EPFL, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Email: ersads_info@lse.epfl.ch.

The Seminar is both an Advanced School and a research Workshop.  
It is intended to favour cross-fertilization of ideas and to address 
fundamental and practical aspects in distributed systems. It combines 
in-depth surveys on research topics of both practical and theoretical 
interest, by recognized experts, and presentations of ongoing work 
by the participants. The schedule leaves time for informal exchanges 
and outdoors activities. 

March 17-19, 1997, Kibbutz Ma'ale-Hachamisha CC, Jerusalem, Israel. Item #859
EuroCOLT'97 3rd European Conference on Computational Learning Theory.

Shai Ben-David, The Technion - Computer Science Faculty, Haifa 32000, Israel.

March 20-22, 1997, Bari, Italy. Item #831
European Symposium on Intelligent Techniques.

ERUDIT Service Center, Promenade 9, 52076 Aachen, Germany. Email: kl@mitgmbh.de, tel: +49 2408 94580, fax: +49 2408 94582.

Main Topics:

Basics and Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks in real world applications in:
- Primary Industry
- Process Industry
- Components and Capital
- Telecommunication and Traffic
- Medical and Healthcare
- Financial Engineering

March 23-26, 1997, Grenoble, France. Item #658
AIME'97 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe.

Catherine Garbay, Lab. TIMC - IMAG, Institut Bonniot, Domaine de la Merci, 38706 La Tronche, France. Tel: + 33 76 54 94 85, fax: + 33 76 54 95 49, email: Catherine.Garbay@imag.fr.

knowledge representation, acquisition & validation ; machine learning
uncertain, temporal, case-based reasoning
natural language understanding
KBS for image and signal interpretation
monitoring and control
AI and telemedicine
integration of KBS and patient medical record
resource allocation, planning and scheduling
other areas relevant to AI in Medicine

March 23-25, 1997, Crowne Plaza Manhattan, New York City, USA. Item #804
CIFEr'97 Computational Intelligence in Financial Eng.

Barbara Klemm, CIFEr'97 Secretariat, Meeting Management, IEEE/IAFE Computational Intelligence, for Financial Engineering, 2603 Main Street, Suite # 690, Irvine, California 92714, USA. Tel: 714 7528205 or 800 321 6338, fax: 714 752 7444, email: Meetingmgt@aol.com.

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           Call for Papers		  Conference Topics

     Conference on Computational	  ------------------------------------
     Intelligence for Financial			
             Engineering		  Topics in which papers, panel
					  sessions, and tutorial proposals are
               (CIFEr)			  invited include, but are not limited
					  to, the following:
  Crowne Plaza Manhattan, New York		
                City			  Financial Engineering Applications:

          March 23-25, 1997		     * Risk Management
					     * Pricing of Structured
              Sponsors:			       Securities
  The IEEE Neural Networks Council,	     * Asset Allocation
  The International Association of	     * Trading Systems	
         Financial Engineers		     * Forecasting
					     * Hedging Strategies
 The IEEE/IAFE CIFEr Conference is	     * Risk Arbitrage
 the third annual collaboration		     * Exotic Options
 between the professional engineering
 and financial communities, and is	  Computer & Engineering Applications
 one of the leading forums for new	  & Models:
 technologies and applications in the
 intersection of computational		     * Neural Networks
 intelligence and financial		     * Probabilistic Modeling/Inference
 engineering. Intelligent		     * Fuzzy Systems and Rough Sets 
 computational systems have become	     * Genetic and Dynamic Optimization
 indispensable in virtually all		     * Intelligent Trading Agents
 financial applications, from		     * Trading Room Simulation
 portfolio selection to proprietary	     * Time Series Analysis
 trading to risk management.		     * Non-linear Dynamics
						   

March 24-26, 1997, Stanford University. Item #801
AAAI Spring Symposium: Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management.

Brian Gaines, Knowledge Science Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4. Email: gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, tel: 403-220-5901 fax: 403-284-4707.

Submissions are requested from those with in-depth knowledge and experience
in AI topics relevant to knowledge management. Papers and presentations
should address the issues of the requirements and foundations for KM, the
applicability of existing AI theories, methodologies and tools to KM, and
the future development of KM in relation to AI. Of particular interest are
requirements analyses from those responsible for the development and
implementation of knowledge management systems.

March 24-26, 1997, Stanford University, California, USA. Item #823
Symposium on Ontological Engineering.

Adam Farquhar, Gates Building 2A, MC 9020, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Tel: 001-415-723-9770, fax: 001-415-725-5850, email: afarquhar@ksl.stanford.edu.

This symposium will focus on practical experience in the design and
construction of ontologies in a variety of different domains. Domains of
interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

   * Medicine
   * Natural Language
   * Materials Science and Engineering
   * Enterprise Modeling (including process, product, and organization
     modeling).

The goals of the symposium will be to achieve greater understanding of the
following issues:

   * What are the roles that implemented ontologies play. Do they support
     automated reasoning and problem-solving? Are they used as an
     interlingua to achieve interoperabilty, reuse, or sharing? Are they
     used 'merely' to ensure communication of a shared understanding between
     people?
   * What methodologies can we use to design and evaluate ontologies? Will
     these methodologies differ according to the different intended uses?
   * How can tools best provide assistance for the design and implementation
     of ontologies?
   * To what extent are the ontologies designed in different domains
     shareable and reusable? How can we structure ontologies to support
     sharing and reuse?
   * Do we require a suite of generic ontologies to support the more
     domain-specific ones? If so, what are these generic ontologies? How can
     they be related to existing standards?
   * What are the obstacles to the integration of different ontologies?
   * What lessons have people learned from the implementation of their
     ontologies?

March 24-26, 1997, Stanford. Item #828
AAAI Spring Symposia Series: Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction.

Susan Haller, Computer Science and Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Parkside, Kenosha, Wiconsin 53141-2000, USA. haller@cs.uwp.edu.

March 28, 1997, Ft Wayne, Indiana. Item #980
Symposium on Neural Networks and Brain Signals.

Esther Gerken . Email: gerken@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu, tel: (219) 481 6306.

March 31 - April 3, 1997, Georgetown University Conference Center, Washington, DC, USA. Item #821
ICMCM Eleventh International Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modelling and Scientific Computing.

Scientific Program Committee, 11th ICMCM & SC, P.O. Box 31670, St. Louis, MO 63131, USA. Tel: 573 341 4585, fax: 573 364 3351, email: avula@umr.edu.

The topics of interest are broadly categorized into:

Modelling and Computation in Engineering and Sciences; Computational
Sciences and Technologies; Applied Mathematics and Modelling
Methodologies; Systems Theory; Computational Control, Self-Organizing
Systems, Fuzzy and Neuro-Control, Neural Networks - Theory and
Applications; Biomedical Sciences; Computational Physics; Computational
Chemistry; Computational Biology; Environmental Sciences and
Engineering; Econometrics and Decision Sciences; Fuzzy Logic; Defense
Related Problems; Resources; Process Modelling; Stochastic Processes;
Statistical Modelling; Financial Modelling and Computations; Model
Validations; Modelling Philosophy; Educational Issues.

April 1-4, 1997, Norwich, England, UK. Item #657
ICANNGA97 Third International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms.

Dr. George D Smith, Computing Science Sector, School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. Tel: + 44 1603 593260, fax: + 44 1603 503344, email: gds@sys.uea.ac.uk.

Contributions are sought in the following topic areas, which is not exhaustive:

-       Theoretical and Computational Aspects of Artificial Neural
Networks: including computational learning, approximation theory, novel
paradigms and training methods, dynamical systems, hardware implementation

-       Practical Applications of Artificial Neural Networks: including
pattern recognition, speech and signal processing, visual processing, time
series prediction, medical and other diagnostic systems,  fault and anomaly
detection, financial applications, data compression, datamining, machine
learning

-       Theoretical and Computational Aspects of Genetic Algorithms:
including schema theory developments, Markov models, convergence analysis,
no free lunch theorem, computational  analysis, novel sequential and
parallel GA systems

-       Practical Applications of Genetic Algorithms; including function
and combinatorial optimisation, machine learning, classifier and agent
systems, datamining, real-world industrial and commercial applications

-       Hybrid and related topics: including genetic programming,
evolutionary programming and evolution strategies, fuzzy logic and control,
neuro-fuzzy systems, simulated annealing and tabu search, hybrid search
algorithms, hybrid ANN/GA systems

April 1-5, 1997, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Item #700
IPPS'97 11th International Parallel Processing Symposium.

Viktor K. Prasanna, Dept. of EE-Systems, EEB 244, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2562, USA. Tel: +1 213 740 4483, fax: +1 213 740 4418, email: ipps97@ganges.usc.edu.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Parallel Architectures
- Memory Hierarchies 
- Parallel Algorithms
- Scientific Computing
- Parallel Languages
- Programming Environments
- Parallelizing Compilers
- Special Purpose Processors
- VLSI Systems
- Performance Modeling/Evaluation
- Signal & Image Processing Systems
- Parallel Implementations of Application Tasks
- Interconnection Networks and Implementation Technologies

April 4-6, 1997, University of Edinburgh. Item #814
GALA '97 International Conference on Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing.

GALA '97, HCRC, University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, Scotland. Email: gala97@ling.ed.ac.uk.

April 6-10, 1997, Stouffer Renaissance Waverly Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. Item #782
HighPerformance Computing'97.

Dr. Adrian Tentner, Chairman, High Performance Computing '97, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, email: tentner@anl.gov.

Topics to be addressed include:

   -   High Performance Computing applications;
   -   Parallel Algorithms and Numerical Methods;
   -   Methodologies to Exploit HPC architectures and 
                Communication Networks;
   -   Visualization and Validation of Large Scale 
                Computer Simulations.

April 7-9, 1997, Marriott Hotel at Key Bridge, Arlington, Virginia. Item #818
KB&KS'97 The Third International Conference on Knowledge Building & Knowledge Sharing: Principles of Information Technology.

James Hendler, Program Co-Chairs, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. Email: jhendler@cs.umd.edu.

  Networked Information Repositories and Information Infrastructure
  Knowledge Infrastructure and Media for Corporate Memory
  Knowledge Acquisition, Discovery, and Refinement
  Knowledge Sharing in Collaborative Environment
  Information and Knowledge Life Cycle 
  Self-Organizing Information and Knowledge Bases
  Intelligent Agents and Ontology Engineering
  Uncertainty Management of Incomplete Information
  Empirical Aspects of Knowledge Building and Sharing
  Human Factors in Knowledge Building and Sharing
  Applications of Knowledge Building and Sharing

April 7-8, 1997, University of Manchester, England. Item #843
Fourth Workshop on Evolutionary Computing.

David Corne, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Reading, P.O. Box 225, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AY, UK. Tel: 01734 318983, fax: 01734 751994, email: D.W.Corne@reading.ac.uk.

Subjects
--------

Evolutionary Programming, Evolution Strategies, Genetic Algorithms,
Classifier Systems, Genetic Programming, Computation by Evolving
Populations.

April 7-9, 1997, Cambridge, UK. Item #860
Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition.

Mrs Tina Persson, CEI-Europe, P.O. Box 910, S-612 25 Finspong, Sweden. Tel: +46 122 175 70, fax: +46 122 143 47, email: cei.europe@one.se.

April 7-9, 1997, Liverpool, UK. Item #876
Brain Research Association 14th National Meeting.

Dr Y S Allen, BRA 97, Dept. of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK. Tel: 0151 794 5449, fax: 0151 794 5517, email: Y.Allen@liverpool.ac.uk.

April 8-9, 1997, Manchester University, Manchester, UK. Item #838
AISB-97 Spatial Reasoning in Mobile Robots and Animals a Workshop on Robot Navigation.

Noel Sharkey, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK.

- Mapbuilding and mapinterpretation
- Localisation (e.g. by landmarks, dead reckoning, global navigation
  systems, etc.)
- Landmark identification (e.g. through pattern recognition)
- Dynamic sensing and prediction
- Spatial reasoning in navigation
- Exploration strategies
- Path planning
- Robot learning and adaptive systems applications to navigation
- Route learning and route following
- Recovery from error in navigation, robust navigation systems 
- Hardware issues (e.g. sensors)
- Artificial neural network applications to navigation

April, 1997, Canada. Item #981
NeTcon `97 Caravan.

events@plesman.com.

Single City Exhihitor $2,645
Five City Single Booth $12,000

April 9-11, 1997, University of London, London, England. Item #909
4th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop on Connectionist Representations : Theory and Practice.

John Bullinaria, NCPW4, Centre for Speech and Language, Dept. of Psychology, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. Tel: +44 171 631 6330, fax: +44 171 631 6587, email: j.bullinaria@psyc.bbk.ac.uk.

* Understanding representations developed in trained networks.
* Merits of local v. distributed representations.
* Semantic representation and hierarchies.
* The problem of serial order.
* The representation of time.
* Neural networks and the neurophysiology/neuropsychology of representation.

April 13-16, 1997, Indianapolis, USA. Item #696
IEEE ICEC'97.

X. Yao, School of Computer Science, University College, UNSW, Australia Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia. Email: xin@csadfa.cs.adfas.oz.au.

As in previous years, IEEE ICEC'97 will organise a number of special sessions. 
The following special sessions have been accepted by IEEE ICEC'97: 
        Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks
        Constrained Optimisation and Satisfaction by Evolutionary Algorithms 
        Evolutionary Algorithms and Fuzzy Systems 
        Evolutionary Robotics and Automation 
        Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Design 
        Sefl-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms 
        Be Darwinian: Make Your Evolutionary-Based Optimisation Algorithm
                Compete With All Others 

April 13-16, 1997, University Palace Hotel and Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN, USA. Item #826
EP'97 The Sixth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming.

Robert G. Reynolds, Dept. of Computer Science, Wayne State University, 431 State Hall, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. reynolds@cs.wayne.edu.

       The Sixth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming will
serve as a forum for researchers investigating applications and theory
of evolutionary programming and other related areas in evolutionary
and natural computation. Authors are invited to submit papers which
describe original, unpublished research in evolutionary programming,
evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, genetic programming,
artificial life, cultural algorithms, and other models that rely on
evolutionary principles.  Specific topics include, but are not limited
to, the use of evolutionary simulations in optimization, neural
network and filter design, automatic control, image processing and
computer graphics. Other topics of interest include mathematical
theory or empirical analysis providing insight into the behavior of
evolutionary algorithms. Of particular interest are applications of
simulated evolution to problems in biology and operations research.

April 14 - May 9, 1997 Item #1000
Electronic Workshop on the Future of Higher Education and Learning.

Dr. Ken Tsutsumibayashi. Email: tsutsumibayashi@ias.unu.edu.

Send an e-mail to listserv@msias.ias.unu.edu and write the message:
                SUBSCRIBE IAS-CR4 yourfirstname yourlastname, organization
                e.g. subscribe ias-cr4 Ken Tsutsumibayashi, UNU/IAS Tokyo

April 14-17, 1998, Vienna, Austria. Item #1006
EMCSR Fourteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research.

G. Helscher, Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3, Austria. Tel: +43 1 53532810, fax: +43 1 5320652, email: sec@ai.univie.ac.at.

April 16-18, 1997, Bruges, Belgium. Item #802
ESANN'97: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks.

D facto conference services, 45 rue Masui, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium, tel: + 32 2 203 43 63, fax: + 32 2 203 42 94, email: esann@dice.ucl.ac.be.

The fifth ESANN symposium will concentrate on fundamental and 
theoretical aspects of artificial neural networks, and on the links 
between neural networks and other domains of research, such as 
statistics, data analysis, biology, psychology, evolutive learning, 
bio-inspired systems,... 

See the ESANN WWW server or contact the organizers by e-mail for further
details.

April 16-17, 1997, Computer Science Department, School of Engineering, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Item #805
III ICIE International Congress on Information Engineering.

Program Committee, Computer Science Dept., School of Engineering, University of Buenos Aires, Paseo Colon 850. 4to PISO, (1063) Capital Federal, Argentina. Email: icie96@mara.fi.uba.ar.

AREAS OF APPLICATION include but are not limited to: manufacturing,
automation, control systems, planning, design, production, distribution,
marketing, human resources, finance, stock exchange, international
business, environmental control, communication media, legal aspects,
decision support. 

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER include but are not limited to: strategies for
introducing and institutionalising Information Engineering Technology,
human resources formation in Information Engineering, justification of
Information Engineering Projects, cooperation projects, impact of
Information Engineering in the social environment of the company,
standards. 

INFORMATION TECHNIQUES include but are not limited to: knowledge-based
systems, neural networks, fuzzy systems, artificial intelligence, data
bases, computational algebra, computer languages, object oriented
technology, multimedia, computer vision, robotics, computer human
interface, tutoring systems, networking, software engineering, operational
research. 

April 16-18, 1997, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Item #919
CEE' 97 International Conference on Concurrent Engineering & Electronic Design Automation.

Philippe Geril, The Society for Computer Simulation International, European Simulation Office, University of Ghent, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, tel: (Office) : +32.9.2337790, tel: +fax: (Private): +32.59.800.804, fax: +32.9.2234941, email: philippe.geril@rug.ac.be.

April 17-18, 1997, Dortmund, Germany. Item #911
GWAL'97 Second German Workshop on Artificial Life.

German Workshop on Artificial Life, Lehrstuhl fuer Systemanalyse (LS 11), Fachbereich Informatik, Universitaet Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, email: gwal@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de.

    * Modelling biological processes and living systems, such as
      evolution, ecology, morphogenesis, immune systems, neuronal
      systems, perception and pattern recognition, intelligence,
      adaptive behaviour, learning, and others.
    * Emergence of biological complexity.
    * Dynamics of information in living and life-like systems.
    * Self-organization in living and life-like systems (e.g. swarms,
      hypercycles, multicellular systems, artificial multi-agent systems).
    * Applications of principles and features of living systems, such
      as intelligence, self-organization, evolution, adaptation,
      learning, for the design of artificial systems and technical
      solutions such as robots, computer programs, and hardware.
    * Philosophical and ethical issues.
    * Other issues relevant to Artificial Life.

April 21-25, 1997, Marriott's Orlando World Center Resort and Convention Center, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #775
Applications and Science of Artificial Neural Networks; Part of SPIE's 1997 International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls.

email: rogers@afit.af.mil.

Sessions will concentrate on:

	--- innovative applications of artificial neural networks  
	to solve real-world problems 
	--- comparative performance in applications of target  
	recognition, object recognition, speech processing, speaker  
	identification, speaker normalization, cochannel processing, signal  
	processing in realistic environments, robotics, process control, and  
	image processing 
	--- demonstrations of properties and limitations of  
	existing or new artificial neural networks as shown by or related to  
	an application 
	--- hardware implementation technologies that are either  
	general purpose or application specific 
        --- knowledge acquisition and representation 
	--- biologically inspired visual representation techniques 
	--- decision support systems
        --- artificial life 
	--- cognitive science 
	--- hybrid systems (fuzzy, neural, genetic) 
	--- neurobiology 
	--- optimization 
	--- sensation and perception 
	--- system identification 
	--- financial applications 
	--- time series analysis and prediction 
	--- pattern recognition 
	--- medical applications 
	--- intelligent control 
	--- robotics
	--- information warfare applications
	--- sensation, perception and cognitive neuropsychology.

April 21-23, 1997, London, UK. Item #777
PAAM97 - The Second International Conference and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology.

email: agents@pap.com.

We invite you to submit a paper or industrial report describing 
fielded applications which exploit agent technology. Papers can be of 
any length, and on virtually any agent related topic, which might 
include, but are not limited to the following:

Personal agents for:
Email
PDA's
Finding & retrieving information / WWW
Scheduling/diary management
Mobility management

Business/service agents for:
Workflow management
Network Management and control
Buying & selling services
Information Management, Retrieval & Understanding
Information Customisation
WWW and Internet
Negotiation
Price Discovery
Information Arbitrage
Manufacturing Planning & Control

Tools and Techniques 
Process Control
Traffic Control
Process Re-engineering
Languages for developing agent systems
Coordination standards
Standards for information transfer
Identity Management
Monetary Instrument Standards

April 23-26, 1997, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #721
ECML-97 9th European Conference on Machine Learning.

Gerhard Widmer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, email: gerhard@ai.univie.ac.at.

RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS:
    abduction                         analogy
    applications of machine learning  artificial neural networks
    case-based learning               computational learning theory
    evolutionary computation          inductive learning
    inductive logic programming       knowledge base refinement
    knowledge discovery in databases  knowledge-intensive learning      
    language learning                 learning and problem solving
    models of human learning          multi-agent learning
    multistrategy learning            reinforcement learning
    revision and restructuring        robot learning
    scientific discovery              statistical approaches            

April 24-25, 1997, Mons, Belgium. Item #939
Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications.

pirlot@mathro.fpms.ac.be.

April 26, 1997, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #892
Workshop on Learning in Dynamically Changing Domains.

email: nakhaeizadeh@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM.

Topics:  Structural change, CUSUM tests/ Quality control,
Dynamic learning, dynamic models, Incremental learning,  
Context learning, Theory revision

April 28 - May 2, 1997, Delta Whistler Resort, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Item #463
ISESS 1997 Second International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems.

Ralf Denzer, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, des Saarlandes, Goebenstr. 40, 66117 Saarbrücken, Germany. denzer@htw.uni-sb.de.

Topics of ISESS 1997 include all application areas of
  environmental protection and all informatics methods like

  Applicaitons                    Methods
  ------------                    -------

  Monitoring                      Measurement networks
  Waste management                Remote sensing
  Water resources                 Digital image processing
  Impact assessment               Information systems
  Public information systems      Modeling and simulation
  Global change                   Visualization
  Ecosystem research              GIS
  Chemical databases              Spatial databases
  Process control                 Distributed systems
  Ecological management           Knowledge based methods
  Ecobalances                     System integration

April 28 - May 2, 1997, Delta Whistler Resort, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Item #588
ISESS 1997 Second International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems.

Ralf Denzer, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, Goebenstr. 40, 66117 Saarbrücken, Germany. Email: denzer@htw.uni-sb.de.

Topics of ISESS 1997 include all application areas of
  environmental protection and all informatics methods 
  thereof, like

  Applicaitons                    Methods
  ------------                    -------
  Monitoring                      Measurement networks
  Waste management                Remote sensing
  Water resources                 Digital image processing
  Impact assessment               Information systems
  Public information systems      Modeling and simulation
  Global change                   Visualization
  Ecosystem research              GIS
  Chemical databases              Spatial databases
  Process control                 Distributed systems
  Ecological management           Knowledge based methods
  Ecobalances                     System integration

April 28-30, 1997, Hong Kong. Item #665
ICMA'97 International Conference on Manufacturing Automation.

Dr. S.T. Tan, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. Tel: 852 2859 2645, fax: 852 2858 5415, email: hkucon@hkucc.hku.hk.

        Computer-Aided Design
        Feature Technology
        Geometric Modelling
        Intelligent and Knowledge-Based Systems
        Process Planning, CIM and Concurrent Engineering
        Rapid Prototyping and Tooling
        Reverse Engineering
        Robotics-Based Manufacturing

April 28-30, 1997, Dortmund, Germany. Item #742
5th Fuzzy Days. Theme: Computational Intelligence.

Ms. U. Lippe, University of Dortmund, Computer Science I, D - 44221 Dortmund, Germany. Tel: +49 231 755 6223, fax: +49 231 755 6555, email: fd5@ls1.informatik.uni-dortmund.de.

Major topics of interest include, but are not 
limited to the following: 
     Fuzzy Control 
     Fuzzy Decision Making and Optimisation
     Fuzzy Systems and Hardware 
     Fuzzy Image Analysis 
     Neural Networks 
     Fuzzy Neural Networks 
     Evolutionary Strategies 
     Genetic Algorithm 
     Evolutionary Programming 
     Sub-symbolic Learning 

April 28- May 2, 1997, Delta Whistler Resort, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Item #749
ISESS 1997 Second International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems.

Prof. Dr. Roman Lenz, Fachhochschule Nuertingen. Email: Roman.Lenz@t-online.de.

         Agriculture and Information

         Forestry and Information

         Ecology and Information

May 10-14, 1997, Daytona Beach, FL, USA. Item #744
FLAIRS-97 Special Track on Neural Network Applications.

Ingrid Russell, Department of Computer Science, Dan Hall, Room 230, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117, USA. Fax: 860 768 5244, tel: 860 768 4191, email: irussell@uhavax.hartford.edu.

The special track will be devoted to the 
applications of Neural Networks, with the aim of presenting new and important 
contributions in this area.  These application areas include, but are not 
limited to, the following:

- Vision
- Pattern Recognition      
- Process Monitoring and Control
- Biomedical Applications
- Robotics
- Speech Recognition
- Diagnostic Problems
- Signal Processing
- Image Processing

May 10-11, 1997, Daytona Beach, FL, USA. Item #810
TIME-97 Fourth International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning.

Lina Khatib, Computer Science Program, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 University Blvd. Melbourne, FL 32901, USA. Tel: 407 768 8000, Ext. 7290, email: lina@cs.fit.edu.

Submission of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work
are invited for all areas of temporal representation and reasoning, including,
but not limited to:

              temporal logics and ontologies
	      temporal constraint reasoning
              temporal languages and architectures
              continuous versus discrete time
              point versus interval representations
              expressive power versus tractability
              belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge
              temporal databases and knowledge bases
              temporal learning and discovery
              reasoning about actions and events
              time and nonmonotonism
              time and constraints
              time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, qualitative physics,...)
              multiple agents, communication, and synchronization
              applications

May 10-14, 1997, Daytona Beach, FL, USA. Item #820
AAIAA - Application of Artificial Intelligence in Aviation and Aerospace.

Andrew J. Kornecki, Computer Science Dept., Embry Riddle University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA. Email: korn@erau.db.erau.edu.

Special Track to be held during
The Tenth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium 
(FLAIRS '97)

May 10-14, 1997, Daytona Beach, FL, USA. Item #832
Special Track on Real-Time Planning and Reacting on FLAIRS97.

Rhonda Eller-Meshreki, Dept. of Computer Science, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA 23005, USA. Email: eller@cs.rmc.edu, tel: 804 752 7272, fax: 804 752 7231.

May 10-14, 1997, Daytona, FL, USA. Item #833
ROBOLEARN-97: Evaluating Robot Learning.

Henry Hexmoor, Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. Email: hexmoor@cs.buffalo.edu.

May 10-14, 1997, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA. Item #872
Reasoning About Function Special Track on FLAIRS '97.

Amruth Kumar (amruth@ramapo.edu).

May 11-14, 1997, Zichron-Ya'akov, Israel. Item #711
FUZZY'97 International Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Applications.

M. Schneider, Fuzzy'97 Conference Management, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel. Tel: 972 3 640 8056, fax: 972 3 640 7095, email: schneid@eng.tau.ac.il.

TOPICS
Qualitative and Approximate Reasoning
Mathematical Foundations
Learning
Decision Making Models
Hardware Implementations of Fuzzy-Logic Algorithms
Design, Analysis and Synthesis of Fuzzy Logic
Controllers
Hybrid Systems
Fuzzy Neural Networks
Integration of Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Computing
Image Processing and Understanding
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Applications: Aerospace, Transportation, Bio-medicine,
Communications, etc.

May 13-16, 1997, Vienna, Austria. Item #817
NTCS '97 International Workshop on New Trends in Cognitive Science.

Markus Peschl, Dept. for Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna, Sensengasse 8/10, A-1090 Wien, Austria. Tel: +43 1 402 7601/41, fax: +43 1 408 8838, email: franz-markus.peschl@univie.ac.at.

The conference is centered around but not restricted to the following
topics:

  1. Representation - epistemological concepts and findings from
     (computational) neuroscience, cognitive science (recurrent neural
     architectures, top-down processing, etc.), and philosophy;

  2. Alternatives to representation - applying constructivism to cognitive
     systems;

  3. Modeling language, communication, and semantics as a dynamical,
     evolutionary and/or adaptive process;

  4. Representation and cognition in artificial life;

  5. What is the role of simulation in understanding cognition?

May 14-16, 1997, Venice, Italy. Item #719
ISHM XI European Microelectronics Conference.

arxinfo@mbox.vol.it, tel: 0039-382-302859, fax: 0039-382-27697.

Design, manufacturing technologies, packaging, interconnection, ISHM

May 18-23, 1997, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Item #682
ICSE 97 International Conference on Software Engineering.

Alfonso Fuggetta, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, P.za Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy. Email: fuggetta@elet.polimi.it, tel: +39 2 2399 3540, fax: +39 2 2399 3411.

The theme of the 1997 International Conference on Software Engineering
is "Pulling Together."  Pulling together denotes coordinated action of
many individuals in achieving a common goal.  It also describes the
coming together of many different perspectives, concerns, and abilities
to find a common ground and a way of achieving cooperation.  Pulling
together is fundamentally dynamic in nature, and is often a matter of
explicit negotiation and communication.  Major changes have been
instituted in ICSE 97 to help the software engineering community pull
together, in the full sense of that phrase.

May 21-23, 1997, Adelaide, South Australia. Item #562
KES'97 First International Conference on Conventional and Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems.

L.C.Jain, Technical Chair, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Engineering Systems, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Levels, 5095, Australia. Email: ETLCJ@Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au.

Topics include theory and applications of
Knowledge-Based Intelligent Systems,Neural
Nets,Fuzzy Systems,Evolutionary Computation
in Electronic Engineering and other areas.

May 21-23, 1997, Venice, Italy. Item #663
EMMCVPR'97 Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Marcello Pelillo, Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata e Informatica, Universita' "Ca' Foscari" di Venezia, Via Torino 155, 30173 Venezia Mestre, Italy. Email: pelillo@dsi.unive.it.

Theory: (e.g., Bayesian contextual methods, biology-inspired methods,
discrete optimization, information theory and statistics, learning 
and parameter estimation, Markov random fields, neural networks,
relaxation processes, statistical mechanics approaches, stochastic methods,
variational methods)

Methodology: (e.g., deformable models, early vision, matching, motion,
object recognition, shape, stereo, texture, visual organization)

Applications: (e.g., character and text recognition, face processing,
handwriting, medical imaging, remote sensing)

May 21-23, 1997, Vienna, Austria. Item #691
Sixth Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games, Nonlinear Dynamics and Adaptive Systems.

Prof. Gustav Feichtinger, Dept. of Operations Research and Systems Theory, Vienna University of Technology, Argentinierstrae 8/119, A-1040 Vienna, Austria. Fax: +43 1 5054524, email: ws_vie97@e119ws1.tuwien.ac.at.

1       Stochastic optimal control 
2       Deterministic optimal control 
3       Dynamic programming 
4       Differential games 
5       Nonlinear dynamic modelling 
6       Complex systems and chaos 
7       Evolutionary game theory 
8       Adaptive learning
9       AI Methods in Economics and OR/MS

May 21-23, 1997, Adelaide, Australia. Item #877
Knowledge Extraction from and with Neural Networks, a session at KES'97.

Georg Thimm, IDIAP, Rue de Simplon 4, C.P. 592, CH-1920 Switzerland. Email: thimm@idiap.ch, tel: ++41 27 721 77 39, fax: ++41 27 721 77 12.

Suggested topics for papers are:

     Knowledge extraction techniques from neural networks. 
     Neural network architectures designed for knowledge extraction. 
     Applications in which extracted knowledge plays a role. 
     Ways to represent knowledge extracted from neural networks. 
     Performance estimation of neural networks using extracted knowledge. 
     Methods that use knowledge extracted from a neural network (but not the network). 

May 21-23, 1997, Ankara, Turkey. Item #890
6th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks.

email: tainn97@ceng.metu.edu.tr, tel: ++90 312 234 1010-ext. 1077, fax: ++90 312 244 7247.

SCOPE: Theory-Search, Knowledge Representation, Computational Learning Theory,
Combinatorial Optimization, Function Approximation, Fuzzy Set Theory,
Fuzzy Logic, Many-valued Logic.
Algorithms and Architecture-Learning Algorithms, Multilayer Perceptrons,
Recurrent Networks, Decision Trees, Evolutionary Algorithms, Symbolic Reasoning
Applications-Expert Systems, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision,
Image Processing, Handwriting Recognition, Time Series Prediction, 
Medical Processing, Financial Analysis, Music Processing, Robotics
Cognitive and Near Sciences-Human Learning, Memory and Language, Perception,
Psycophysics, Computational Models
Implementation-Simulation Tools, Parallel Processors, Analog and Digital
VLSI, Neurocomputing Systems

May 21-23, 1997, Adelaide, South Australia. Item #899
Modifications and Extensions of Self-organizing Maps and their Applications Solving Engineering Problems, Special Track at KES `97.

U. Seiffert, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Inst. for Measurement Technology and, Electronics, P.O. Box 4120, 39016 Magdeburg, Germany. Email: seiffert@ipe.et.uni-magdeburg.de.

This special track will consist of contributions dealing with
Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) including:

   * theory of Self-Organizing Maps
   * modifications and extensions of the standard algorithm
   * applications of Self-Organizing Maps.

May 21-24, 1997, Moscow, International Trading Center (Congress-Center), Krasnaya Presnya. Item #1019
GRAPHICON'97 The 7-th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Visualization in Russia.

The Conference Secretariat: P.O. Box 33, Protvino, Moscow region, 142284, Russia, tel: +7 095 187 19 42, +7 095 187-00-88, +7 095 187-19-42, fax: +7 095 187 19 42, +7 095 187-75-60, E.mail: klimenko@mx.ihep.su, lisina@mx.ihep.su (secretary), anigraph@joy.msk.su, Web-server: http://www.anigraph.ru, http://www.keldysh.ru/graphicon97, http://www.keldysh.ru/Graphicon97/Hotel.htm, http://www.keldysh.ru/Graphicon97/map.jpg.

May 22-24, 1997, Vietri Sul Mare, Salerno,Italy. Item #885
WIRN VIETRI-97 The 9-th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets.

I.I.A.S.S, Via G.Pellegrino, 19, 84019 Vietri Sul Mare (SA), Italy. Tel: +39 89 761167, fax: +39 89 761189, email: robtag@udsab.dia.unisa.it.

 	Mathematical Models
	Architectures and Algorithms   
 	Hardware and Software Design
 	Hybrid Systems   
 	Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing
 	Industrial and Commercial Applications 
 	Fuzzy Tecniques for Neural Networks    

May 26-27, 1997, Paris, France. Item #950
1st International Workshop on Computational Semiotics.

Irne Ludman - IWCS'97, Ple Universitaire Lonard de Vinci, 92916 PARIS-LA DEFENSE-CEDEX, FRANCE . Tel: (33) 01 41 16 73 05, fax: (33) 01 41 16 73 35, email: irene.ludmann@devinci.fr.

May 26-28, 1997, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. Item #861
TANC-97 Hong Kong International Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Neural Computation: A Multidisciplinary Perspective.

TANC-97 Secretariat, Dept. of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Fax: +852 2358 1652, email: tanc97@usthk.ust.hk.

    Neuroscience
    Computational and Mathematical
    Statistical Physics

May 26-27, 1997, Brasov, Romania. Item #1035
Top Neural Research Priorities in Data Transmission and EDA.

Razvan Andonie, General Chairman. Tel: +40 68 310009, fax: +40 68 152630, andonie@vega.unitbv.ro, http://vega.unitbv.ro/~andonie.

Main topics:  
- "Neural Function Approximations for Data Compression"
- "Hardware Implementations of Neural Networks
For more information please read the above web address. 
Attendance is free and opened to anyone with an interest in neural networks modeling and/or their hardware
implementations. The local organizing committee has the possibility to offer financial support (accommodation
and travel) for a limited number of participants.

May 28-30, 1997, Dearborn, Michigan, USA. Item #785
IWPC'97 5th International Workshop on Program Comprehension.

Vaclav Rajlich, Dept. of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. Email: rajlich@cs.wayne.edu, tel: +1 313 577 5423, fax: +1 313 577 6868.

Papers related, but not limited, to the following topics are invited:

- Theories and models for software comprehension;
- Program comprehension processes and strategies;
- Cognitive processes in program comprehension;
- Experiments with comprehension models;
- Knowledge, program representation forms and
  repositories for program comprehension;
- Tools facilitating software comprehension;
- Comprehension during large scale maintenance;
- Comprehension during software reengineering;
- Reuse reengineering and concept assignment processes;
- Reverse engineering to support comprehension;
- Innovative technologies for reverse engineering;
- Case studies in reverse engineering, reengineering and maintenance
  with focus to program comprehension;
- Guidelines for facilitating program comprehension (based on observation
  and experimentation);
- User interfaces, program visualisation and animation;

May 28-31, 1997, Cancun, Mexico. Item #852
1997 IASTED Int. Conf. on Robotics and Manufacturing.

IASTED Secretariat - RM'97, #80, 4500 - 16 Ave. N.W. Calgary, AB, Canada T3B 0M6. Tel: 403 288 1195, fax: 403 247 6851, email: iasted@cadvision.com.

SCOPE: Topics to be covered include:
     * Adaptive Control
     * AI Techniques
     * Architectures
     * Autonomous Systems
     * Bionics/Biomechanics
     * Design Automation
     * Expert Systems
     * Flexible Manufacturing Systems
     * Fuzzy Control
     * Human/Machine Interface
     * Industrial Automation
     * Industrial Robots
     * Intelligent/Self-organizing Systems
     * Knowledge-Based Systems
     * Learning/Reasoning Systems
     * Manufacturing Systems
     * Mechatronics
     * Microrobotics
     * Mobile Robots
     * Modelling
     * Motion Planning
     * Multirobot Systems
     * Neural Networks
     * Process Control
     * Reliability/Safety/Stability
     * Robot Dynamics
     * Robot Control
     * Robot Kinematics
     * Robot Mechanisms
     * Robot Safety
     * Robust Control
     * Scheduling
     * Sensors
     * Sensor Data Fusion
     * Simulation
     * Space Robotics
     * Teleoperation
     * Virtual Reality
     * Applications - all areas

May 28-31, 1997, Bucharest, Romania. Item #913
The 11th International Conference on Control System and Computer Science.

CSCS 11, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of Control and Computers, 313 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest, RO-77206, Romania. Email: CSCS11@lnx.cib.pub.ro, or: dumi@deca.cpru.pub.ro, fax: +40 1 311 32 42.

Topics on control systems: * adaptive & optimal control * robust control * advanced control 
algorithms * intelligent control * distributed & multiprocessor control systems * artificial 
vision and AI techniques * flexible manufacturing cells * computer integrated manufacturing 
* parallel systems * computer networks.
Topics on computer science: * programming languages and environments * software engineering
& applications * advanced operating systems * VLSI structure design * computer aided software 
design * natural languages * neural systems * modelling and simulation * cognitive & learning 
systems * evolutionary computation.

May 29-31, 1997, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Item #748
International Conference on Vision, Recognition, Action: Neural Models of Mind and Machine.

Neural Models of Mind and Machine, c/o Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Fax: 617 353 7755, email: cindy@cns.bu.edu.

May 30 - June 1, 1997, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Item #914
MAICS'97 Eighth Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference.

Eugene Santos Jr. Tel: 937 255 6565 x4304, email: esantos@afit.af.mil.

      We invite papers in all areas of artificial intelligence and cognitive
science, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and
human factors engineering.  Graduate students in particular are encouraged to
submit.  We also welcome proposals for symposia on particular topics and well
as volunteers to assist in reviewing the submissions.

 

June 1-4, 1997, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #918
ESM 97 11th European Simulation Multiconference.

Philippe Geril, The Society for Computer Simulation International, European Simulation, Office, University of Ghent, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Tel: (Office): +32.9.233.77.90, tel: Fax(Private): +32.59.800.804, Fax(Office): +32.9.223.49.41, email: Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be.

CONFERENCE THEME: GAINING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE THROUGH 
SIMULATION TECHNOLOGIES

June 1-4, 1997, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Item #935
15th Annual Workshop of the European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems.

Dr. G.J. Dalenoort, Dept. of Psychology, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 41 096, 9701 CB Groningen, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 50 3636448, fax: +31 50 3636304, email: G.J.Dalenoort@PPSW.RUG.NL.

- psychology (cognitive, developmental), perception,
- artificial intelligence (general aspects),
- associative memory and neural networks, neuroscience,
- linguistics (also computational), disorders of language,
- education and instruction,
- philosophy, history of concepts.

June 2-5, 1997, Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy. Item #736
UM97 Sixth International Conference on User Modeling.

Alessandro Micarelli, email: um97-organization@cs.uni-sb.de, fax: +39-6-5573030.

Construction of models of users' ...

  * knowledge, beliefs, and misconceptions,
  * preferences,
  * goals and plans,
  * typical behaviors,
  * cognitive styles, ....

Exploitation of user models to achieve ...

  * adaptive information filtering and retrieval,
  * tailored information presentation,
  * transfer of task performance from user to system,
  * selection of instructional interventions,
  * interface adaptation, ....

Inference techniques involving ...

  * neural networks,
  * psychometric methods,
  * numerical uncertainty management,
  * epistemic logic or other logic-based formalisms,
  * default reasoning and truth maintenance,
  * stereotype hierarchies, ....

Practical issues of ...

  * privacy and user model inspectability,
  * user model consistency,
  * empirical evaluation,
  * standardization of user modeling shell systems, ....

Systems for adaptive ...

  * tutoring and provision of learning environments,
  * explanation of system actions,
  * on-line aiding,
  * hypermedia and multimodal interaction,
  * knowledge-based presentation design,
  * product presentation,
  * information management on the Internet,
  * support of end-user programming,
  * accommodation of users with special needs,
  * support of collaboration, ....

June 4-6, 1997, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. Item #690
IWANN'97 International Work-conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks.

Prof. J. Mira Mira, IWANN'97, Dept. Informática y Automática, Facultad de Ciencias, UNED, Senda del Rey, s/n, E-28040 Madrid, Spain. Tel: +34 1 398 7155, fax: +34 1 398 6697, email: iwann97@dia.uned.es.

This is a biennial meeting with focus on biologically
inspired and more realistic models of natural neurons and
neural nets and new hybrid computing paradigms.
Previous meetings were called International Workshop on 
Artificial Neural Networks, and held in Granada (1991),
Sitges, Barcelona (1993), and Torremolinos, M,Aa(Blaga (1995).

June 4-6, 1997, University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland. Item #855
WSOM Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps.

Teuvo Kohonen, WSOM Chairman, Erkki Oja, Program Chairman, Olli Simula, Organization Chairman.

The scope of the Workshop is the Self-Organizing Map with its
variants, including but not limited to

  - theory and analysis;

  - engineering applications like pattern recognition, process
    control, and telecommunications;

  - data analysis and financial applications;

  - information retrieval and natural language processing applications;

  - implementations.

June 9-11, 1997, Annecy, France. Item #613
3rd IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control Applications.

SICICA'97, Annecy-Congres, 1 rue Jean-Jaures, F-74000 Annecy, France. Tel: +33 50 45 00 70, fax: +33 50 51 87 20, email: sicica97@esia.univ-savoie.fr.

TOPICS

  Functionalities of intelligent components and instruments :
    - diagnosis - autoconfiguration - measurement validation
    - data fusion - learning.

  Techniques for intelligent components and instruments :
    - conventional methods - fuzzy logic - neural networks
    - genetic algorithms - rule-based approach.
    
  Modeling and implementation of  :
    - microsensors - microactuators - integrated sensors
    - integrated actuators - virtual instruments - intelligent 
    controllers - multi sensor systems.
    
  Communication networks and industrial standard field-buses :
    - FIP - CAN - VAN - wireless networks - automation network
    instruments - real-time constraints.
    
  Software and hardware tools :
    - specialized architecture - simulation - analysis - design
    - decision support systems - assessment support systems.
    
  Applications :
    - process control - perception systems - decentralized control
    - robotics - environmental systems - education training
    - automotive systems.

June 9-11, 1997, Lappeenranta, Finland. Item #764
SCIA'97 The 10th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis.

SCIA'97, Dept. of Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O. Box 20, FIN-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland. Fax: +358 53 621 3456.

Conference Topics

   Image analysis                  Industrial applications
   Computer vision                 Multimedia
   Pattern recognition             Biomedical applications
   Neural networks                 Remote sensing
   Systems and architectures       Future technologies

June 9-11, 1997, Melbourne, Australia. Item #784
IWANNT*97 International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks (and other intelligent systems) to Telecommunications.

Helen Alspector, IWANNT Conference Administrator, Univ. of Colorado at Col. Springs, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., P.O. Box 7150, Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150, USA. Tel: 719 593 3351, fax: 719 593 3589, email: neuranet@mail.uccs.edu.

Suggested topics include:

Internet Services
Intelligent Agents
Database Mining
Network Management
ATM Networking
Wireless Networks
Modulation and Coding Techniques
Congestion Control
Adaptive Equalization
Speech Recognition
Security Verification
Adaptive User Interfaces
Language ID/Translation
Multimedia Networking
Information Filtering
Dynamic Routing
Propagation Path Loss Modeling
Dynamic Frequency Allocation
Software Engineering
Telecom Market Prediction
Fault Identification and Prediction
Character Recognition
Adaptive Control
Data Compression
Credit Management
Customer Modeling

June 9-11, 1997, Annecy, France. Item #798
SICICA'97 3rd IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control Applications.

SICICA'97, Annecy-Congres, 1 rue Jean-Jaures, F-74000 Annecy, France. Tel: +33 50 45 00 70, fax: +33 50 51 87 20, email: sicica97@esia.univ-savoie.fr.

                      TOPICS

  Functionalities of intelligent components and instruments :
    - diagnosis - autoconfiguration - measurement validation
    - data fusion - learning.

  Techniques for intelligent components and instruments :
    - conventional methods - fuzzy logic - neural networks
    - genetic algorithms - rule-based approach.
    
  Modeling and implementation of  :
    - microsensors - microactuators - integrated sensors
    - integrated actuators - virtual instruments - intelligent 
    controllers - multi sensor systems.
    
  Communication networks and industrial standard field-buses :
    - FIP - CAN - VAN - wireless networks - automation network
    instruments - real-time constraints.
    
  Software and hardware tools :
    - specialized architecture - simulation - analysis - design
    - decision support systems - assessment support systems.
    
  Applications :
    - process control - perception systems - decentralized control
    - robotics - environmental systems - education training
    - automotive systems.

June 9-12, 1997, Seminaris, Bad Honnef, Germany. Item #857
ECSQARU / FAPR '97 International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning.

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kruse, Dept. of Computer Science, TU Braunschweig, Bueltenweg 74 - 75, 38102 Braunschweig, Germany. Tel: +49 531 391 3289, fax: +49 531 391 5936, email: kruse@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de.

                  Areas of Contribution

     Theories of agents
     Theories of actions
     New logics (informal, dialogue, etc.)
     Argumentation theory
     Belief functions
     Aggregating arguments
     Combining reasoning mechanisms
     Case studies
     Formal models for reasoning
     Non-monotonic practical reasoning mechanisms
     Application of agent oriented programming
     Fallacies and their role in practical reasoning
     Inconsistency and actions
     Temporal and spatial practical reasoning
     Tools for the practical reasoner
     Practical reasoning application in robotics
     Practical reasoning application in knowledge bases
     Logic programming and practical reasoning
     Legal reasoning
     User modelling
     The numerical aspects of handling
           imperfect knowledge as uncertainty
     Vagueness, imprecision, incompleteness,
          and partial inconsistency.
     Probability theory
     Possibility theory
     Fuzzy logic
     Evidence or Dempster-Shafer theory
     Uncertainty in knowledge-based systems
     Data fusion
     Knowledge discovery from data bases
     Data mining
     Graphical models
     General concepts of belief change.
     Theoretical results, algorithms,
          and applications that address the unification and
     integration of different approaches
          are especially encouraged.

June 9-12, 1997, Seminaris, Bad Honnef, Germany. Item #870
ECSQARU / FAPR '97 International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning.

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kruse, Faculty of Computer Science (FIN), University of Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany. Tel: +49 391 67 18706, fax: +49 391 67 12018, email: kruse@iik.cs.uni-magdeburg.de.

                   Areas of Contribution

     Theories of agents
     Theories of actions
     New logics (informal, dialogue, etc.)
     Argumentation theory
     Belief functions
     Aggregating arguments
     Combining reasoning mechanisms
     Case studies
     Formal models for reasoning
     Non-monotonic practical reasoning mechanisms
     Application of agent oriented programming
     Fallacies and their role in practical reasoning
     Inconsistency and actions
     Temporal and spatial practical reasoning
     Tools for the practical reasoner
     Practical reasoning application in robotics
     Practical reasoning application in knowledge bases
     Logic programming and practical reasoning
     Legal reasoning
     User modelling
     The numerical aspects of handling
           imperfect knowledge as uncertainty
     Vagueness, imprecision, incompleteness,
          and partial inconsistency.
     Probability theory
     Possibility theory
     Fuzzy logic
     Evidence or Dempster-Shafer theory
     Uncertainty in knowledge-based systems
     Data fusion
     Knowledge discovery from data bases
     Data mining
     Graphical models
     General concepts of belief change.
     Theoretical results, algorithms,
          and applications that address the unification and
     integration of different approaches
          are especially encouraged.

June 9-12, 1997, Westin Galleria Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA. Item #879
Special Session on Neural Networks Applications for Monitoring Complex Systems at ICNN 1997.

Ms. Leanne Zindler, Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, P.O. Box 30, North Atherton Street, State College, PA 16804-0030, USA. Tel: +1 814 863 4344.

June 11-13, 1997, University of Paderborn, Germany. Item #806
IRREGULAR'97 4th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel.

R. Lueling, U. of Paderborn. Email: rl@uni-paderborn.de.

                                   TOPICS

Papers are solicited in all research areas related to the parallelism of
irregular problems, including, but not limited to:

* algorithms and model
* applications
* approximation and randomization
* automatic program synthesis
* combinatorial optimization
* compiling
* imagery
* load balancing
* memory management
* parallel data structures
* scheduling and mapping
* sparse matrices
* symbolic computation
* tree-structured computations

June 11-13, 1997, Melbourne Parkville, Australia. Item #835
ACNN'97 Eighth Australian Conference on Neural Networks.

ACNN'97 Secretariat, Telstra Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 249 Rosebank MDC, Clayton Vic. 3169, Australia.

The major categories for paper submissions include:

1.	Applications: Application of neural nets to signal processing and
	analysis; Pattern recognition: Speech, Machine vision; Motor control;
	Robotics; Forecasting; Medical.  

2.	Architectures and Learning Algorithms: New architectures and learning
	algorithms; Hierarchy; Modularity; Learning pattern sequences;
	Information integration; Evolutionary Computation; Artificial Life; 

3.	Cognitive Science and AI: Computational models of perception and
	pattern recognition; Memory; Concept formation; Problem solving and
	reasoning; Visual and auditory attention; Language acquisition and
	production; Neural network implementation of expert systems;   

4.	Computational Neuroscience: Integrative function of neural networks 
	in Vision, Audition, Motor, Somatosensory and Autonomic functions; 
	Synaptic function; Cellular information processing;  

5.	Implementation: Hardware implementation of neural nets; Analog and
	digital VLSI implementation; Optical implementation;  

6.	Theory: Learning; Generalisation; Complexity; Scaling; Stability;
	Dynamics; 

June 11-14, 1997, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Item #983
Simulations in Computational Neuroscience.

email: biomed@psc.edu, tel: (412)268 4960.

Participants in this workshop will learn to use PGENESIS, a parallel
version of the GENESIS simulator, and PNEURON (under development), a
parallel version of the NEURON simulator.  This course will be of
interest to active modelers who perceive the need for large simulations
which are beyond the effective capabilities of single-cpu workstations.

June 16-18, 1997, Stockholm, Sweden. Item #809
EANN'97 International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks.

email: eann97@kth.se.

he conference is a forum for presenting the latest results on neural
network applications in technical fields. The applications may be in
any engineering or technical field, including but not limited to
systems engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics, process
engineering, metallurgy, pulp and paper technology, aeronautical
engineering, computer science, machine vision, chemistry, chemical
engineering, physics, electrical engineering, electronics, civil
engineering, geophysical sciences, biotechnology, and environmental
engineering. 

June 16-19, 1997, Florence, Italy. Item #824
International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation: Special Session on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles and Autonomous Robots.

ISATA Secretariat, 32A Queen Street, Croydon, London, CRO 1SY, UK, tel: +44 181 681 3069, fax: +44 181 686 1490, email: 100270.1263@compuserve.com.

ADDRESSED TOPICS

* Image Segmentation
* Image Sequence Analysis
* Active and Real-Time Vision
* Low-level Vision
* Object Recognition
* Pattern Analysis
* Vision-based Real-time Robot and Vehicle Navigation
* Massively Parallel Architectures for Low-level Vision
* Intelligent Sensors for Low-level Vision
* Vision-based Guidance of Unmanned Vehicles
* Hardware Neural Solutions
* Applications

June 16-18, 1997, Stockholm, Sweden. Item #894
Special Track on Neural Networks for Computer Vision Applications at the Int. Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks.

Jukka Heikkonen, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Miestentie 3, FIN-02150 Espoo, Finland, tel: +358-9-4514829, fax: +358-9-4514830, email: jukka.heikkonen@hut.fi.

June 16-18, 1997, Stockholm, Sweden. Item #926
EANN'97 Special track on Biomedical Systems.

Georg Dorffner. Email: georg@ai.univie.ac.at.

June 17 - July 19, 1997, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, USA. Item #940
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference.

Dan Huttenlocher, Cornell University, Computer Science Dept., 5157 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Tel: 607 255 3036.

June 18-20, 1997, Madrid, Spain. Item #684
SEKE'97 The Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

Natalia Juristo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte, 28660 Madrid, Spain. Email: natalia@fi.upm.es, fax: +34-1-3367412, tel: +34-1-3366922.

- - Knowledge Acquisition
- - Requirements Elicitation
- - Domain Modelling
- - Software Process Modelling
- - Automated Software Design
- - Automated Reasoning
- - Knowledge Representation
- - Program Understanding
- - Software Reuse
- - Reverse Software Engineering
- - Intelligent CASE Tools
- - Validation and Verification
- - Education

June 21-25, 1997, Halkidiki, Greece. Item #887
ISMB-97 The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology'97.

email: ismb97@embl-ebi.ac.uk.

The ISMB conference provides a general forum for disseminating the
latest developments in bioinformatics.  ISMB is a multidisciplinary
conference that brings together scientists from computer science,
molecular biology, mathematics, and statistics.  Its scope includes
the development and application of advanced computational methods for
biological problems.  Relevant computational techniques include, but
are not limited to: machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge
representation, databases, combinatorics, stochastic modeling, string
and graph algorithms, linguistic methods, robotics, constraint
satisfaction, and parallel computation.  Biological areas of interest
include molecular structure, genomics, molecular sequence analysis,
evolution and phylogenetics, metabolic pathways, regulatory networks,
developmental control, and molecular biology generally. Emphasis is
placed on the validation of methods using real data sets, on practical
application in the biological sciences, and on development of novel
computational techniques.

June 22-24, 1997, The Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Canada. Item #866
MPPOI'97 The Fourth International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing using Optical Interconnections.

Dr. Eugen Schenfeld, MPPOI'97 Conference, NEC Research Institute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. Tel: (609)951-2742, fax: (609)951-2482, email: MPPOI@RESEARCH.NJ.NEC.COM.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

- Optical interconnections, Reconfigurable Architectures,
- Embedding and mapping of applications and algorithms,
- Packaging and layout of optical interconnections,
- Electro-optical, and opto-electronic components,
- Relative merits of optical technologies (free-space, fibers, wave guides),
- Passive optical elements, Algorithms and applications exploiting,
- Data distribution and partitioning,
- Characterizing parallel applications,
- Cost/performance studies. 

June 23 - July 13, 1997, Telluride, Colorado, USA. Item #923
Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop.

Prof. Terrence Sejnowski, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, San Diego, CA 92037, USA. Email: terry@salk.edu, fax: (619) 587 0417.

June 23-27, 1997, On the Internet (World-Wide Web). Item #924
WSC2 2nd Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing.

Rajkumar Roy, The CIM Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1234 754073 Ext. 2860, fax: +44 1234 750852, email: rroy@cim.cranfield.ac.uk or r.roy@ieee.org.

Alternative servers:
                       http://www.zen.co.uk/cim.inst/wsc2/
               http://www.bath.ac.uk/Departments/Eng/wsc2/home.html
              http://www.iitb.ernet.in/~soy/iitb/144.16.105.2/wsc2/
                         http://isl.cps.msu.edu/GA/wsc2/

        Neural Networks
        Genetic Algorithms
        Other Stochastic Optimisation Techniques
        Fuzzy Logic
        Hybrid Methods
        Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory
        Causal Models
        Data Mining
        Probabilistic Reasoning
        Case-based Reasoning
        Chaos Theory
        Interactive Computational Models
        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
        Innovation
        Collaborative Work
        Internet Tools

June 23-26, 1997, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Item #933
AIDRI'97 Learning: From Natural Principles to Artificial Methods.

AIDRI97, Group THEMES, Dept. of Econometrics, University of Geneva, bd Carl-Vogt 102, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. Tel: +4122 705 8229, fax: +4122 705 8299, email: aidri97@themes.unige.ch.

 - the analysis of natural learning processes of living beings;
 - the elaboration of learning helping tools;
 - the development of artificial learning processes.

June 25-29, 1997, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #874
IFSA'97 Reasoning , Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent information Systems.

IFSA'97, Action M Agency, Milena Zeithamlova, Vrsovicka 68, 101 00 Prague 10, Czech Republic . Tel: +42 2 6731 2333 4, fax: +42 2 6731 0503, email: actionm@cuni.cz.

-   Fuzzy and non-standard logics and  approximate reasoning
-   Mathematical foundations
-   Uncertainty and belief mesures
-   Information and data analysis
-   Natural language processing
-   Applications in social and economical sciences
-   Industrial applications
-   New  hardware developments
-   Decision-making and control
-   Artificial intelligence and robotics
-   Neural networks and learning
-   Genetic algorithms and computational optimization
-   Chaos and its engineering
-   Classification and image processing

June 25-27, 1997, Brno, Czech Republic. Item #938
MENDEL'97 3rd International Mendel Conference on Genetic Algorithms, Optimization Problems, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Rough Sets.

MENDEL'97 Secretary, Technical University of Brno, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Automation and Information Technology, Technicka 2, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic. Tel: +42 5 41143334, fax: +42 5 744979, email: mendel97@kinf.fme.vutbr.cz.

The scope of the Conference includes, but is not limited to:
Innovation and Theory
- genetic operators and representations
- hybrid and distributed algorithms
- genetic algorithms for neural networks
- parallel genetic algorithms
- genetic programming
- evolutionary programming
- mathematical techniques and analysis
- biological aspects of GAs
- fuzzy logic
- neural networks
- rough sets

Applications
- optimization problems     - machine learning
- scheduling algorithms         - signal processing
- robotics          - vision system/applications
- process industry      - control systems
- manufacturing         - system identification
- decision-making       - economics
- biomedical

June 26-27, 1997, University of Ulster, Derry, Northern Ireland. Item #849
ISSC'97 Irish Signals and Systems Conference.

Jonathan Campbell. Tel: +44 1504 375367, fax: 370040, email: JG.Campbell@ulst.ac.uk.

Signal Processing. Including speech, audio, image, video, multimedia,
sonar, radar and biomedical signals. Signal analysis, estimation,
modelling, and prediction, pattern recognition. VLSI for Signal
Processing: VLSI architectures and chip design; CAD for VLSI
implementations; use of FPGAs in signal processing. Theory &
Applications of Fast Fourier Transforms (in honour of 32nd anniversary
of the Cooley-Tukey paper).

Control. Robust and adaptive control. Control Systems: design
methodologies and applications. Applications of neural networks, fuzzy
systems and genetic algorithms. Modelling and System identification.
Non-linear and chaotic System theory

Communications. Modulation and detection, echo cancellation,
equalisation, telemetry, mobile communications, multiple access
technologies. Broadband communications: ATM, services (video, audio,
data, multimedia), network provision.

June 26-28, 1997, Leuven, Belgium. Item #902
EUROVAV-97 European Symposium on Validation and Verification of Knowledge Based Systems.

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Dept. of Applied Economics, Leuven Institute for Research in Information Systems (LIRIS), Naamsestraat 69, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. Tel: +32 16-32.66.12, fax: +32 16-32.67.32, email: jan.vanthienen@econ.kuleuven.ac.be.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

 - modeling, verification and validation of hybrid systems
 - V&V of integrated/embedded architectures
 - verification of OO knowledge bases
 - formal modeling of intelligent systems
 - V&V of fuzzy systems, uncertainty and soft computing
 - new validation issues raised from new AI systems, e.g. multi-agent
systems and web-based knowledge systems
 - knowledge acquisition & representation issues for knowledge
validation
 - KBS refinement, revision and debugging
 - use of conventional software engineering techniques for KBS
validation
 - certification/assurance of knowledge based systems or components 
 - lessons drawn from practical applications 

June 30- July 12, 1997, Cargese, Corse du Sud, France. Item #957
Summer School on Neuronal Information Processing : from Biological Data to Modelling and Applications.

Olivier Parodi, Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS-Luminy, case 907, F 13288 Marseille CEDEX 09, France. Tel: +33 4 91 26 95 30, fax: +33 4 91 26 95 53, email: parodi@cpt.univ-mrs.fr.

June 30 - July 3, 1997, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Item #781
Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Carole Hafner, College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Email hafner@ccs.neu.edu, tel: 617 373 5116, fax: 617 373 5121.

The field of AI and law covers:

   * the investigation of legal reasoning using computational methods

   * applications which use AI techniques to support tasks in the
     legal domain

   * the investigation of AI techniques using law as the example domain.


Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not
limited to:

     * Legal Expert Systems
     * Representation of Legal Knowledge
     * Applications of Machine Learning to Law
     * Case-Based Reasoning
     * Conceptual Information Retrieval
     * Intelligent Legal Tutoring systems

June 30 - July 2, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #920
CISST'97 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology.

Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, Dept. of Computer Science, 415 Graduate Studies Research Center, Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA. Tel: 706 542 3480, fax: 706 542 2966, email: hra@cs.uga.edu.

       O  Image generation, acquisition, and processing.
       O  Image display techniques.
       O  Image data structures and databases.
       O  Convergence of imaging media (video and computer).
       O  Virtual reality.
       O  Image compression, coding, and encryption.
       O  Tools for multimedia production and services.
       O  Digital imaging for film and television.
       O  Visualization.
       O  Scene and object modeling.
       O  Knowledge acquisition.
       O  Visual inspection.
       O  Document image understanding.
       O  Image algebra.
       O  Mathematical morphology.
       O  Architecture of imaging and vision systems (including
          parallel architectures and algorithms).
       O  Neural network techniques and fuzzy logic.
       O  Performance analysis and evaluation.
       O  Software tools and environments for imaging.
       O  Applications including: medicine, robotic, GIS,
          remote sensing, ...
       O  Other aspects and applications relating to imaging science.

June 30- July 12, 1997, Cargese, Corse du Sud, France. Item #995
Summer School on Neuronal Information Processing: From Biological Data to Modelling and Applications.

email: cargese@cpt.univ-mrs.fr.

July 1-5, 1997, Barcelo Sants Hotel, Barcelona, Spain. Item #822
FUZZ-IEEE 1997 Sixth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems.

M. Mar Cunado, IIIA, CSIC, Campus UAB, s/n. 08193 Bellaterra, Spain. Email: fuzzieee@iiia.csic.es, ftp: ftp.iiia.csic.es/fuzzieee97.

* Foundational aspects of Fuzzy Logic
* Basic Concepts and Tools
* Fuzzy Logic versus other Approximate Reasoning Models
* Fuzzy hardware and Software
* Real world Applications of Fuzzy Logic
* Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing
* Applications of Fuzzy Logic to:
        - System Control
        - Intelligent Information Systems
        - Decision Support Systems
        - Pattern Recognition
        - Signal Processing
        - Image Understanding
        - Robotics and Automation
        - Learning and Knowledge Acquisition
        - Human Interface
        - Data Mining

July 4-5, 1997, Cesena, Italy. Item #900
AIN'97 Second International Workshop on Advanced Intelligent Networks.

Prof. Roberto Gorrieri, Universita' di Bologna - DSI, Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, I-40127 Bologna (Italy), tel: + 39 51 354.509, fax: + 39 51 354.510, email: ain97@cs.unibo.it.

- Application of Intelligent Network concepts for providing new and 
  advanced services in telecommunication networks

- Service interaction issues, e.g. dynamic vs. static analysis;
  interaction detection and resolution in the base network, SSP, SCP,
  SCEP; methods and tools for service interaction analysis, detection 
  and resolution

- Methods and tools for the integrated specification and implementation 
  of new Services

- Methods and tools for the operation and control of installed IN services

- Standardization efforts for Intelligent Networks

- Security and availability issues in the provision of IN services 

July 6-11, 1997, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Item #650
XXVI Interamerican Congress of Psychology.

Eduardo Nicenboim. Email: nuno@pccp.com.ar, fax: 54 1 784 3563.

July 6-9, 1997, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Item #862
COLT'97 Tenth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory.

email: colt97@research.att.com.

  * design and analysis of learning algorithms;
  * sample and computational complexity of learning specific model
    classes;
  * frameworks modeling the interaction between the learner, teacher
    and the environment (such as learning with queries, learning
    control policies and inductive inference);
  * learning using complex models (such as neural networks and
    decision trees);
  * learning with minimal prior assumptions (such as mistake-bound
    models, universal prediction, and agnostic learning).

July 7-11, 1997, Caracas, Venezuela. Item #863
SCI'97 Neural Networks Session at World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

Email: sylee@eekaist.kaist.ac.kr.

    The Neural Networks sessions will cover following topics:
     * Neural network models (biological and artificial)
     * Hybrid systems (Neuro, fuzzy, GA, EP, etc.)
     * Applications (Speech, Time-series, controls, etc.)
     * Artificiasl life

July 7-10, 1997, Madrid, Spain. Item #883
ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference: 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Harald Trost, ACL/EACL Workshop Chair, Austrian Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien, Austria, tel: +43 1-535 32 810, fax: +43 1-532 06 52, email: harald@ai.univie.ac.at.

July 7-9, 1997, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Item #888
IEE ANN 97 Fifth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.

ANN97 Secretariat, IEE Conference Services, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL, UK. Fax: +44 171 240 8830, email: nashley@iee.org.uk OR joconnell@iee.org.uk.

Architectures and Learning Algorithms:
     Computational Learning Theory
     Learning Algorithms
     Function Approximation
     Approaches to Model Selection
     Density Estimation
     Model validation and verification
     Comparisons with classical techniques.

Applications:
     Vision and Robotics,
     Speech and Language Processing,
     Monitoring Complex systems such as Engines
     Medical diagnostics
     Financial Systems Modelling

Advances in Implementation:
     Parallel Hardware,
     Software Systems

July 7-9, 1997, Monterey, CA, USA. Item #989
ICAR'97 8th International Conference on Advanced Robotics.

Paolo Fiorini, JPL / Caltech, USA. Tel: 818 354 9061, fax: 818 393 5007, email: fiorini@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov.

July 7-11, 1997, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Item #1011
Connectionist Models of Cognition: a Workshop.

BrainWave Workshop (c/o Dr. Devin McAuley), School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. Email: brainwav@psy.uq.edu.au, fax: +61 7 3365 4466.

The workshop has three primary objectives:

   * to provide training in specific connectionist models of cognition.
   * to introduce instructors to the BrainWave simulator and course
     materials.
   * to support the development of new models by the participants.

July 8-12, 1997, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Item #856
ICML-97 The Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning.

email: icml97@vuse.vanderbilt.edu.

Submissions are invited that describe empirical, theoretical,
and cognitive modeling research in all areas of machine 
learning. In addition, papers from related disciplines (e.g.,
information retrieval, statistics, pattern recognition) that 
deal with adaptive intelligence, (semi-)automated knowledge 
acquisition, or (semi-)automated knowledge organization are 
welcome. Submissions that describe the application of machine
learning methods to real-world problems are encouraged, but 
such submissions should speak to general issues of machine
learning, perhaps illustrating novel learning methods or 
demonstrating the utility of established methods in 
previously unexplored settings.

July 10-11, 1997, Hyatt Regency, Monterey, CA, USA. Item #750
CIRA'97 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation.

Prof. Antti Koivo, School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285, USA. Email: koivo@ecn.purdue.edu, tel: 317 494 3436, fax: 317 494 0880.

      The theme of CIRA'97 will be "Toward New Computational Principles for
Robotics and Automation".
      Neural and fuzzy information processing, evolutionary computation,
artificial life, chaos, etc., referred often collectively as computational
intelligence, have by nature a strong connection to robotics and
automation.  During the past decade, numerous applications of computational
intelligence to robotics and automation have appeared as partial or full
alternatives to conventional approaches.  A potentially explosive growth of
applications is expected in the near future with many practical as well
theoretical contributions, as research and practice of computational
intelligence mature.  Researchers are paying close attention to the
emergence of new computational principles as they are applied in particular
to robotics and automation.  Indeed, the computational intelligence enables
real-time and robust connections between sensing and action through
learning. However, many research results as well as the growing level of
interest in computational intelligence by the robotics and automation
community have been scattered around various conferences and symposiums of
more general themes.  CIRA'97 will provide an international forum which
draws together researchers and practitioners working on different aspects
of computational intelligence in robotics and automation to exchange their
ideas, concepts, and results.  Participants will enjoy high quality,
focused, and in-depth discussions on the subject matters of their interest.

July 11-12, 1997, University of Bologna, Bologna,Italy. Item #904
RANDOM'97 1st International Symposium on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science.

J. Rolim, RANDOM'97, Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, 24 rue General Dufour, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. Email: random97@cui.unige.ch.

* design and analysis of randomized algorithms
* randomized complexity
* derandomization techniques
* design and analysis of approximation algorithms
* complexity of approximation problems
* parallel and network algorithms
* various applications

July 12, 1997, Nashville, TN, USA. Item #929
Workshop ML Application in the Real World: Methodological Aspects and Implications at ICML-97.

ICML Workshop "ML APPLICATION IN THE REAL WORLD", p/o ATO-DLO, Floor Verdenius, Postbus 17, 6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands. Email: MLApplic.ICML@ato.dlo.nl.

July 13-16, 1997, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. Item #731
GP-97 Genetic Programming Conference.

GP-97 Conference, c/o American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. Tel: 415 328 3123. Fax: 415 321 4457, email: gp@aaai.org.

--- GENETIC ALGORITHMS 
--- CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS 
--- EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING 
--- EVOLUTION STRATEGIES
--- EVOLVABLE HARDWARE


Tutorials will be held on Sunday July 13, 1997.  Brief proposals for 
tutorials are hereby solicited and should be sent to 
koza@cs.stanford.edu    

July 13-17, 1997, Townsville, Australia. Item #808
CADE-14 The 14th International Conference on Automated Deduction.

William McCune, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439-4844, USA. Tel: +1 630 252 3065, fax: +1 630 252 5986, email: cade14-chair@mcs.anl.gov.

                     Topics

 Logics of interest  include propositional,  first
 order,   equational,  higher  order,   classical,
 intuitionistic,    constructive,   type   theory,
 nonstandard, and meta-logics. Methods of interest
 include resolution,  paramodulation, unification,
 term rewriting,  tableaux, constraints,  decision
 procedures, induction,  interactive systems,  and
 frameworks.  Applications  of  interest   include
 hardware   and  software   development,   systems
 verification, artificial intelligence, logic, set
 theory, mathematics, applicative programming, and
 logic  programming.  Special  topics of  interest
 include   proof    translation,    human-computer
 interfaces,  distributed  deduction,  and  search
 heuristics.  Papers on applications of  automated
 deduction are especially encouraged.

July 14-18, 1997, Holiday Inn, King's Cross, London, UK. Item #774
STEP'97 Software Technology and Engineering Practice, 8th International Workshop.

Alan Brown, Object Technology Branch, Texas Instruments Inc, P.O. Box 655303, M/S 8373, Dallas, Texas 75265, USA . Tel: +1 214 997 5950, fax: +1 214 997 5568, email: awb@csc.ti.com.

a.      Process, method and tool support: requirements specification, 
system development methods, rapid application development, 
prototyping, complex databases, business process re-engineering, 
systems re-engineering, reverse engineering, design recovery, 
program understanding and analysis. 
 
b.      Organisational issues: support for team working, distributed 
working, end-user computing, stakeholder and developer co-operative 
working, multi-site multi-team development and 24-hour global 
product development. 
 
c.      Enabling technologies:  architectures, networking, 
client/server,  multimedia, repositories, OO database, tool integration 
mechanisms, groupware. 
 
d.      Management processes: software process modelling, process 
assessment and improvement, software quality, software metrics,  
configuration management, product evaluation. 
 
e.      Cultural and organisational issues: human resource 
management in  software engineering, enabling creativity, ensuring 
business integrity, client-developer organisational structures. 
 
f.      Software engineering education: form and content of software 
engineering laboratories, the role of support tools, needs of the 
software industry, teaching software development and evolution, 
experiences in group working and group working models. 
 
g.      Time-to-market technology: processes for projecting products 
very quickly in to prospective markets, maintaining traditional 
quality under such conditions. 
 
h.      Methods: improving practices for software development 
activities. 
 
i.      Needs for the year 2000 onwards: tools, methods, processes, 
timing, difficulties with the transition to new systems, legacy code 
implications, program comprehension aspects. 

July 14-17, 1997, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Item #827
Australasia-Pacific Forum on Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing of Materials.

Prof. Chandra or, Dr M. B. Balachandran, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2500, Australia. Tel: +61-42-213-801, fax: +61-42-213-801, email: bala@cs.uow.edu.au.

	Theme: Intelligent Systems for the 21st Century

	Diagnostics            	Process Scheduling 
   	Extrusion		Material Selection                  
 	Extraction            	Forging
   	Material Design  	Shaping/Forming                      
    	Heat-Treatment          Monitoring and Control           
   	Casting and Solidification     
	Welding
   	Process Planning    	Sheet-Metal Forming                    
	Metal Removal                   
   	Simulation and Modelling        Environmental  Issues
	Advanced Manufacturing and Control
	Intelligent manufacturing
	AI applications in manufacturing

July 14-18, 1997, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Item #845
NAECON'97 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference.

Prof. Keqin Li, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, State University of New York, New Paltz, New York 12561-2499, USA. Tel: 914 257 3534, fax: 914 257 3571, email: li@mcs.newpaltz.edu.

     * Parallel and Distributed Architectures
     * Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
     * High-Performance Scientific Computing
     * Software Systems/Environments/Tools
     * Fault Tolerance and Reliability Prediction
     * Load Sharing and Task Scheduling
     * Resource Allocation and Management
     * Network Routing and Communication Algorithms
     * Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
     * Modeling and Simulation
     * Signal and Image Processing
     * Performance Monitoring and Visualization
     * Application Studies
     * Neural Networks

July 14-16, 1997, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. Item #880
ASAP'97 11th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors.

email: asap@tik.ee.ethz.ch.

July 14-16, 1997, Tokyo, Japan. Item #1020
I-SAIRAS'97 International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and.

Ichiro Nakatani, Inst. of Space & Astronautical Science, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Pref. 229, Japan. Tel: +81 427 513911, fax: +81 427 513988, email: nakatani@nnl.isas.ac.jp.

July 19-23, 1997, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. Item #778
ICGA-97 The Seventh International Conference on Genetic Algorithms.

email: icga97@icd.de.

			     EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION,

i.e., algorithms gleaned from the model of natural evolution. Examples of such
algorithms are 

	Evolutionary Programming, Evolution Strategies, Genetic Algorithms,
	Genetic Programming, Learning Classifier Systems,

and similar paradigms as used in evolving e.g.,

	Artificial Life,     Cellular Automata,  Computational Ecosystems,
	Cultural Algorithms, Fuzzy Systems,      Immune Networks, 
	Machine Learning,    Multiagent Systems, Neural Networks, 
	Simulated Annealing.

July 21-24, 1997, Florianopolis, Brazil. Item #996
III Brazilian Congress on Neural Networks and IV Brazilian School on Neural Networks.

email: cbrn-bar@inf.ufsc.br, tel: +55 21 590 0441 or +55 21 590 9049.

July 27-31, 1997, Providence, Rhode Island. Item #949
AAAI-97 Workshop on On-Line Search.

Sven Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, USA. Tel: (412) 268-3076, fax: (412) 268-5576, email: skoenig@cs.cmu.edu.

Topics:

Questions that we hope to see addressed during the workshop include,
but are not limited to

- what information to gather in the limited time available,
- when to stop collecting information and commit to an action, and
- what action to commit to given the information collected.

We are especially interested in the trade-offs between

- thinking versus acting, and
- acting to exploit existing knowledge versus 
    acting to acquire further knowledge.

July 27 - August 1, 1997, Banff, Canada. Item #854
IASTED International Conference Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing.

IASTED Secretariat, #80, 4500-16 Avenue NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3B 0M6. Tel: 403 288 1195, fax: 403 247 6851, email: iasted@cadvision.com.

SCOPE
     - Artificial intelligence
     - Expert systems
     - Neural networks
     - Knowledge acquisition 
     - Knowledge representation
     - Knowledge engineering
     - Object-oriented techniques
     - Expert systems design procedures and tools
     - Natural languages
     - Computational linguistics
     - Architectures for natural languages
     - Algorithms
     - Intelligent databases
     - Intelligent control
     - Intelligent agents
     - Distributed artificial intelligence
     - Image understanding
     - Logic programming
     - Advisory systems
     - User interface
     - Machine learning
     - Fuzzy expert systems
     - Approximate reasoning
     - Automated reasoning
     - Reasoning methods
     - Temporal and spatial reasoning
     - Fuzzy logic
     - Fuzzy systems 
     - Verification, validation
     - Testing
     - Theory of neural networks
     - Modelling
     - Simulation
     - Architecture
     - Learning algorithms
     - Planning and scheduling
     - Applications, all areas including:
          Engineering, Science, Business, Economics,
          Power systems, Transportation, Decision making,
          Management, Environmental systems, Banking,
          Government, Education
     - Others

July 27-31, 1997, Providence, RI, USA. Item #898
AAAI 97 - 14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Annette Eldredge, AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Tel: 415 328 3123, fax: 415 321 4457, email: sss@aaai.org.

July 27-28, 1997, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Item #916
AAAI Workshop on Perceiving and Interpreting Action.

PIA97 c/o Matthew Brand, MIT Media Lab E15-385, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA. Email: pia97@media.mit.edu, tel: 617.253.0608, fax: 617.253.8874.

    Visual representations for motion interpretation. 
    Motion pattern classification for articulating bodies. 
    The spatiotemporal structure of actions. 
    Interpreting gestures in context. 
    Inferring context (tasks and activities) from
video/audio/proprioception. 
    Temporal inference over approximate and noisy data. 
    Learning and recognizing procedures from video. 
    High-level models of action and intention. 
    Inferring plans and goals from sensing via high-level models.
    Systems capable of sustained human-computer cooperation. 
    Other perceptual modalities. 

July 28-31, 1997, Brighton, UK. Item #807
ECAL97 4th European Conference on Artificial Life.

email: ecal97@cogs.susx.ac.uk.

Self-organisation. Origins of Life. Prebiotic evolution. RNA Systems. Fitness
Landscapes. Natural Selection. Sexual Selection. Ecosystem evolution.
Evolutionary Optimisation. Evolutionary Computation. Immune Networks. Neural
Networks. Multicellular Development. Natural and Artificial Morphogenesis.
Learning and Development. Communication. Artificial Worlds. Simulations of
Ecological and Evolving Systems. Mobile Agents. Autonomous Robots.
Evolutionary Robotics. Software Agents. Collective Behaviour. Swarm
Intelligence. Cooperation. Evolution of Social Behaviour. Philosophical Issues
in Alife. Ethical problems.

July 28-31, 1997, Brighton, UK (evenings). Item #844
Robotics Football Tournament During the 4th. European Conference on Artificial Life.

Fred Gruau. Email: gruau@cwi.nl.

July 28-30, 1997, Rhode Island Conv. Center, Providence, RI, USA. Item #1021
IAAI 97 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Program.

Annette Eldredge, AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Tel: 415 328 3123, fax: 415 321 4457, email: iaai@aaai.org.

July 29-30, 1997, Singapore. Item #931
SISCTA'97 IEEE Singapore International Symposium on Control Theory and Applications.

Dr Shaohua Tan, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260. Tel: 65 772 6326, fax: 65 779 1103, email: eletansh@nus.sg.

  System Theory                         Optimal Control
  Robust and H-infinity Control         Discrete Event Systems
  Nonlinear Systems and Control         Robotics
  Fuzzy and Neural Control              Adaptive Control
  Modeling and Identification           Process Control
  Intelligent and AI based Control      Motion Control                      
  Control Technology and Applications   Time Delay Systems

August 1-3, 1997, Providence, RI, USA. Item #896
UAI 97 - 13th Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

Eric Horvitz, Decision Theory and Adapt. Systems Group, Microsoft Research, 9S, Redmond, WA 98052, USA. Tel: 206 936 2127, fax: 206 936 0502, email: horvitz@microsoft.com.

August 1, 1997, Brighton, UK. Item #928
EWLR-6 Sixth European Workshop on Learning Robots.

EWLR-6, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building G 10 room 725, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. Email: cyrano@arti.vub.ac.be.

  * Learning and Adaptivity in robot control
  * Reinforcement Learning
  * Evolutionary Learning in robots
  * Architectures for learning
  * Machine Learning techniques applied to robot problems
  * Learning from Interaction with Humans
  * Learning by Observation, Imitation, and Cooperation
  * Learning in Multi-Robot Systems
  * Industrial applications of Robot Learning
  * Hardware issues in Learning Robots including Evolware
  * Robot-Learning and Cognition

August 4-6, 1997, Birkbeck College, London, UK. Item #668
IDA-97 Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis.

Xiaohui Liu, Dept. of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. Email: hui@dcs.bbk.ac.uk, tel: +44 171 631 6711, fax: +44 171 631 6727.

Topics 

- - Analysis of IDA algorithms
- - applications (e.g., commerce, medicine, engineering, finance,
                      legal, manufacturing, public policy)
- - assistants, intelligent agents for data analysis
- - Bayesian inference and influence diagrams
- - bias
- - bootstrap, randomization, computer-intensive methods
- - causal modeling
- - censored data
- - classification
- - clustering
- - data mining
- - data visualisation
- - data cleaning, pre-processing and post-processing
- - decision analysis
- - evaluation of IDA systems
- - exploratory data analysis
- - experiment design
- - fuzzy logic
- - graphical models
- - human-computer interaction in IDA
- - information extraction, information retrieval, textual systems
- - knowledge-based systems
- - machine learning and statistics
- - model specification, selection, estimation
- - neural/evolutionary approaches
- - reasoning under uncertainty
- - representation of statistical knowledge
- - search
- - statistical pattern recognition
- - statistical strategy
- - time series and temporal data
- - uncertainty and noise in data
- - visualization

August 4-8, 1997, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA. Item #853
ICCS'97 Fifth International Conference on Conceptual Structures.

Harry S. Delugach (General Chair), Computer Science Dept., University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA. Tel: (205) 890-6614, fax: (205) 890-6239, email: delugach@cs.uah.edu.

   * Conceptual Graph Theory
   * Reasoning with Conceptual Structures and Conceptual Graphs 
  	o Deduction
  	o Induction
  	o Abduction
  	o Inference 
   * Relationship of Conceptual Structures and cognitive science
   * Comparison of Conceptual Graphs with other representational formalisms
   * Relationship of Conceptual Graphs to other "logics"
        o Extending Conceptual Graphs beyond first order logic
        o Peirce Logic
        o Modal Logic in Conceptual Graphs
        o Non-monotonic Logic in Conceptual Graphs
        o Functional Relations and their uses
   * Exploiting the visual representation of Conceptual Structures
        o Human factors (HCI) studies
        o Graph grammars and/or visual operators
        o Visual representations of reasoning in linguistics and cognitive
          science
        o Experience with tools and/or interactive/feedback environments
   * Case Studies and Applications using Conceptual Graphs 
        o Information Retrieval
        o Natural Language Processing
        o Machine Translation
        o Enterprise Modeling
        o Database Integration
	o Expert Systems
	o Information Extraction
   * Implementations of Conceptual Graphs
        o Implementation Strategies
        o Reusable Architectures
        o Integration Strategies
        o Scaling up of conceptual graph architectures to large systems
   * Knowledge Engineering 
	o Conceptual Analysis
	o Knowledge/Skill Modelling
	o Knowledge/Skill Acquisition/Elicitation
	o Knowledge Re-organisation
        o Knowledge Management using Conceptual Graph
	o Machine Learning and Conceptual Structures
   * Theories of Ontology and Higher Taxonomic Structures
   * Software Tools for Conceptual Graphs 

August 4-15, 1997, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, U.K. Item #988
Generalization in Neural Networks and Machine Learning.

Heather Dawson. Email: h.dawson@newton.cam.ac.uk.

August 7-10, 1997, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. Item #893
Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Cognitive Science 1997, CSLI / Computational Learning Laboratory, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Email: cogsci97@csli.stanford.edu.

August 10-12, 1997, Berkeley, California, USA. Item #927
CPL'97 Conference on Computational Psycholinguistics.

email: cpl@ccp.uchicago.edu.

This conference is intended to bring together researchers who work on
psychologically motivated computational models of human language.  We
solicit contributions on models of linguistic processing, acquisition,
or representation at every level: phonetic, phonological,
morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic.  The goal of the
conference is to build bridges between computationally oriented
researchers who have focused on different aspects of human language
processing.

August 15-16, 1997, Seoul, Korea. Item #993
First International Conference on Cognitive Science.

Myung Won Kim, Dept. of Computer Science, Soongsil University, Seoul 156-743, Korea. Email: mkim@computing.soongsil.ac.kr, fax: +82 2 822 3622.

The First International Conference on Cognitive Science Program
Committee invites abstracts for papers presenting research on
mind and cognition in the core areas of Cognitive Science such as
Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Artificial
Intelligence, as well as pioneering interdisciplinary fields such
as Cognitive Anthropology, Computer Human Interaction, Computer
Vision, Connectionism, Imagery, Language Acquisition and
Development, Learning, Memory, Natural Language Processing,
Psycholinguistics, and Neurolinguistics. Dedre Gentner, Gregory Ward,
Ken Forbus, Charles Ling, and Erich Harth will be invited for 
plenary talks.

August 18-20, 1997, Helsinki, Finland. Item #847
SCAI'97 Sixth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

SCAI'97, Paivi Kuuppelomaki, Dept. of Computer Science, P. O. Box 26, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: kuuppelo@cs.helsinki.fi, fax: + 358 9 708 44441, tel: +358 9 708 44248.

We solicit papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, and in
particular in the area of Intelligent Agents. Agents have a clear
potential in commercial and practical use, and industry is therefore
encouraged to submit papers.

August 18-20, 1997, Helsinki, Finland. Item #976
SCAI'97 Sixth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

SCAI'97, Paivi Kuuppelomaki, Dept. of Computer Science, P. O. Box 26, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: kuuppelo@cs.helsinki.fi, fax: +358 9 708 44441, tel: +358 9 708 44248.

The major theme for SCAI'97 will be Intelligent Agents. The concept of
an agent has become important in both artificial intelligence and
mainstream computer science. An agent is a hardware or software system
that is automonous, interactive with and reactive to its environment and
other agents. An agent can also be pro-active in taking the initiative
in goal-directed behaviour.

August 18-20, 1997, Ulm, Germany. Item #1022
4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition.

Daimler Benz Research Center Ulm, Wilhelm Runge Str. 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany. Tel: +49 731 5052151, fax: +49 731 5054105, email: icdar97@dbag.ulm.daimlerbenz.com.

August 18-23, 1997, Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium, Baden-Baden, Germany. Item #1029
9th International Conference on Systems Research Informatics and Cybernetics.

Dr. George E. Lasker, Hauptpostlagernd, 7001 Stuttgart, Germany.

August 18-22, 1997, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan. Item #1060
8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Riichiro Mizoguchi. Fax: +81 6 879 2123, email: miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp.

August 19-22, 1997, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan. Item #740
AI-ED97 8th World Conference of the Artificial Intelligence and Education Society.

Riichiro Mizoguchi, ISIR, Osaka University. Fax: +81 6 879 2123, email: miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Agents
Architectures
Authoring systems and tutoring shells
Case-based systems
Cognitive development
Cognitive diagnosis
Collaboration and collaborative tools
Computer-assisted language learning
Conceptual change
Educational robotics
Evaluation of instructional systems
Human factors and interface design
Intelligent multimedia and hypermedia systems
Intelligent tutoring systems
Knowledge and skill acquisition
Knowledge representation for instruction
Learning environments and microworlds
Modelling pedagogical interactions
Motivation
Natural language interfaces
Networked learning and teaching systems
Non-standard and innovative interfaces
Principles and tools for instructional design
Social and cultural aspects of learning
Student modelling
Higher-order thinking skills and metacognition
Theories of teaching
Visual and graphical interfaces

August 19-29, 1997, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Item #1014
SIAN KA'AN 97 The Second Joint Mexico-US International Workshop on Neural Networks and Neurocontrol.

Nydia Lara Zavala, Laboratorio de Neurocomputacion, Centro de Instrumentos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, A.P. 70-186, Mexico, 04510, D.F. Tel: 525 652 5920, fax: 622 8620, email: nydia@aleph.cinstrum.unam.mx.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Architecture
- ANN Paradigms
- Associative Memories
- Hybrid Systems

Learning
- Gradient-Based Learning
- Stochastic Learning
- Adaptive Methods
- Supervised Learning
- Reinforcement Learning

Systems Analysis
- Time Series
- Signal Processing
- Systems Modeling
- Process Monitoring
- Fuzzy Models

Control & Design
- Optimization
- Neurocontrol
- Adaptive Control
- Learning Control
- Fuzzy Control
- Intelligent Control


August 20-22, 1997, Troy, Michigan, USA. Item #922
ISPE/CE97 Fourth ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications.

Dr. Subra Ganesan, Prof. and Chair, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA. Email: ganesan@oakland.edu, tel: (810) 370 2206, fax: (810) 370 4625.

Planning & Scheduling in CE :Enterprise integration, assessing
an organization's readiness, CE process
characterization, workflow tracking and management, CE assessment
models, planning and scheduling of
activities, re-engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics,
barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual
enterprises.

Collaborative Decision Making in CE :Cooperative work, team
coordination, Decision Support and
Design Assessment, monitoring progress of product development,
change notification across perspectives,
cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure,
Project & Team coordination.

Information Modeling in CE : Information modeling and simulation,
integrated process capture, design
intent capture, data version control and management, PDES/STEP,
multi-level user access, capturing
corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design
rationale, integrated database and knowledge-
base management systems.

Teaming and Sharing in CE: Information sharing, Communication
tools, computer-based video and
audio conferring and consulting, multimedia electronic mail,
network-wide sharing of tools, graphical
collaborative user interfaces for inter-operability,
networked collocation.

Networking and Distribution in CE :Integrated frameworks,
architectures for building CE systems, CE
Languages & Tools, integration of design and manufacturing,
knowledge-based integration, virtual team
support environments, Tools for multi-media conference on the
networks, Distributed Computing
Environment.


Organization and Management of CE :Principles of CE,
emerging standards and practices, Life cycle
engineering, design for X, integrated product and
process development, environmentally conscious
manufacturing, life-cycle cost and quality.

Reasoning & Negotiation in CE :Conflict Resolution
Techniques, Constraint Management, Negotiation.
Blackboard and Agent-based architecture, Corporate Technical
Memory.

August 19-22, 1997, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan. Item #740
AI-ED97 8th World Conference of the Artificial Intelligence and Education Society.

Riichiro Mizoguchi, ISIR, Osaka University. Fax: +81 6 879 2123, email: miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Agents
Architectures
Authoring systems and tutoring shells
Case-based systems
Cognitive development
Cognitive diagnosis
Collaboration and collaborative tools
Computer-assisted language learning
Conceptual change
Educational robotics
Evaluation of instructional systems
Human factors and interface design
Intelligent multimedia and hypermedia systems
Intelligent tutoring systems
Knowledge and skill acquisition
Knowledge representation for instruction
Learning environments and microworlds
Modelling pedagogical interactions
Motivation
Natural language interfaces
Networked learning and teaching systems
Non-standard and innovative interfaces
Principles and tools for instructional design
Social and cultural aspects of learning
Student modelling
Higher-order thinking skills and metacognition
Theories of teaching
Visual and graphical interfaces

August 19-29, 1997, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Item #1014
SIAN KA'AN 97 The Second Joint Mexico-US International Workshop on Neural Networks and Neurocontrol.

Nydia Lara Zavala, Laboratorio de Neurocomputacion, Centro de Instrumentos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, A.P. 70-186, Mexico, 04510, D.F. Tel: 525 652 5920, fax: 622 8620, email: nydia@aleph.cinstrum.unam.mx.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Architecture
- ANN Paradigms
- Associative Memories
- Hybrid Systems

Learning
- Gradient-Based Learning
- Stochastic Learning
- Adaptive Methods
- Supervised Learning
- Reinforcement Learning

Systems Analysis
- Time Series
- Signal Processing
- Systems Modeling
- Process Monitoring
- Fuzzy Models

Control & Design
- Optimization
- Neurocontrol
- Adaptive Control
- Learning Control
- Fuzzy Control
- Intelligent Control


August 20-22, 1997, Troy, Michigan, USA. Item #922
ISPE/CE97 Fourth ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications.

Dr. Subra Ganesan, Prof. and Chair, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA. Email: ganesan@oakland.edu, tel: (810) 370 2206, fax: (810) 370 4625.

Planning & Scheduling in CE :Enterprise integration, assessing
an organization's readiness, CE process
characterization, workflow tracking and management, CE assessment
models, planning and scheduling of
activities, re-engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics,
barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual
enterprises.

Collaborative Decision Making in CE :Cooperative work, team
coordination, Decision Support and
Design Assessment, monitoring progress of product development,
change notification across perspectives,
cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure,
Project & Team coordination.

Information Modeling in CE : Information modeling and simulation,
integrated process capture, design
intent capture, data version control and management, PDES/STEP,
multi-level user access, capturing
corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design
rationale, integrated database and knowledge-
base management systems.

Teaming and Sharing in CE: Information sharing, Communication
tools, computer-based video and
audio conferring and consulting, multimedia electronic mail,
network-wide sharing of tools, graphical
collaborative user interfaces for inter-operability,
networked collocation.

Networking and Distribution in CE :Integrated frameworks,
architectures for building CE systems, CE
Languages & Tools, integration of design and manufacturing,
knowledge-based integration, virtual team
support environments, Tools for multi-media conference on the
networks, Distributed Computing
Environment.


Organization and Management of CE :Principles of CE,
emerging standards and practices, Life cycle
engineering, design for X, integrated product and
process development, environmentally conscious
manufacturing, life-cycle cost and quality.

Reasoning & Negotiation in CE :Conflict Resolution
Techniques, Constraint Management, Negotiation.
Blackboard and Agent-based architecture, Corporate Technical
Memory.

August 23-29, 1997, Nagoya, Japan. Item #660
IJCAI-97 Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Procom International Co., Ltd., Shuwa Kioicho Park Bldg 1F, 3-6 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan. Tel: +81 3 3234 2361, fax: +81 3 3234 4456, email: procomiwajpn@twics.com.

AI architectures, applications, art and music, artificial life,
automated modeling, automated reasoning, control, belief revision,
case-based reasoning, causality, cognitive modeling, common sense
reasoning, computational complexity, computer-aided education,
constraint satisfaction, decision theory, decision trees, design,
description logics, diagnosis, discourse, discovery, distributed AI,
enabling technologies, expert systems, game playing, genetic
algorithms, geometric or spatial reasoning, information retrieval,
knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, lifelike characters,
machine learning, machine translation, mathematical foundations,
multiagent systems, multimedia, natural language processing, neural
networks, nonmonotonic reasoning, ontologies, perception,
philosophical foundations, planning, probabilistic reasoning, problem
solving, qualitative reasoning, reactive control, real-time systems,
reinforcement learning, robotics, scheduling, scientific discovery,
search, simulation, software agents, speech understanding, syntax,
temporal reasoning, theorem proving, user interfaces, virtual reality,
vision

August 23-29, 1997, Nagoya, Japan. Item #948
Workshop on Business Applications of AI.

Aditya Ghose, Dept. of Business Systems, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia. Email: a.ghose@uow.edu.au.

AREAS OF INTEREST/WORKSHOP GOALS:
Papers relating to AI applications in the following domains are of
interest to the workshop:
* business process reengineering/workflow management. 
* electronic commerce. 
* finance and investment. 
* marketing and retailing. 
* accounting and auditing. 
* scheduling. 
* data warehousing and mining 
* corporate memory 

August 24-29, 1997, Berlin, Germany. Item #693
Special Session on Neural Networks for Identification and Diagnosis on 15th IMACS World Congress.

Gerard Bloch, Cran Esstin, rue Jean Lamour, F 54500 Vandoeuvre, France. Tel: (direct) +33 83 50 33 76, tel: (secret.) +33 83 50 33 64, tel: (general) +33 83 50 33 33, fax: +33 83 57 21 73, email: gerard.bloch@cran.esstin.u-nancy.fr.

August 24-29, 1997, Berlin, Germany. Item #715
Session on Simulation of Artificial Neural Networks on the 15th IMACS World Congress.

Dr. Nikola Serbedzija, GMD FIRST, Rudower Chaussee 5, D - 12489 Berlin, Germany. Email: nikola@first.gmd.de, tel: +49 30 6392 1873.

Both, software and hardware approaches are solicited. Topics of 
interest are, but not limited to:

 * General Aspects of Neural Simualations
   - design issues for simulation tools
   - inherent parallelism of ANNS
   - general-purpose neural simulations
   - special-purpose neural simulations
   - fault tolerance  aspects
   
 * Parallel Implementation of ANNs
   - data parallel implementations 
   - control parallel implementations 

 * Hardware Emulation of ANNs
   - silicon technology
   - optical technology
   - molecular technology

 * General Simulation Tools
   - graphic/menu bases tools
   - module libraries
   - specific programming languages

 * Applications
   - applications using/demanding parallel 
     implementations or hardware emulations
   - applications using/demanding analysis tools or 
     graphical representations provided by simulation tools

 * Hybrid Systems
   - the topics from above are of interest also with respect
     to related hybrid systems (neuro-fuzzy, genetic algorithms)

August 24-29, 1997, Berlin, Germany. Item #716
Special Sessions on Neural Technologies for Control and Signal/Image Processing at the 15th IMACS World Congress.

Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy. Fax: +39 2 2399 3411, email: piuri@elet.polimi.it.

Session 1: "Neural Architectures and Implementations"
Topics of interest are, but not limited to: theoretical aspects 
of neural architectures, optimization of neural architectures, 
design and implementation of digital, analog and mixed structures, 
software implementations, fault tolerance, architectural 
sensitivity and design issues. Particular enphasis will be given 
to architectures and implementations for control and signal 
processing.

Session 2: "Neural Applications for Identification and Control"
Topics of interest are, but not limited to: theoretical models 
for identification and control, methodologies for neural 
identification, strategies for neural control, architectures 
for identification and control, forecasting, applications, 
adaptability, sensitivity. 

Session 3: "Neural Techniques for Signal/Image Processing"
Topics of interest are, but not limited to: theoretical models 
for signal/image analysis, methodologies for neural signal/image 
analysis, dedicated architectures, software implementations, 
optimization of neural paradigms, applications.

August 24-29, 1997, Berlin, Germany. Item #858
Special Session on Neural and Evolutionary Algorithms for Intelligent Control at the 15th IMACS World Congress.

Prof. Dimitri C. Dracopoulos, Laboratoire de l' Informatique du Parallelisme (LIP), Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, 46 Allee d'Italie, 69364 Lyon - Cedex 07, France.

-Neurocontrollers
  * optimization over time
  * adaptive critic designs
  * brain-like neurocontrollers

-Evolutionary techniques as pure controllers
  * genetic algorithms
  * evolutionary programming
  * genetic programming

-Hybrid methods (neural nets + evolutionary algorithms)

-Theoretical and Stability issues for neuro-evolutionary 
 control

-Advanced Control Applications 

August 24-29, 1997, Berlin, Germany. Item #878
Neural and Evolutionary Algorithms for Intelligent Control, a session on IMACS'97.

Prof. Dimitri C. Dracopoulos, Laboratoire de l' Informatique du Parallelisme (LIP), Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, 46 Allee d'Italie, 69364 Lyon - Cedex 07, France.

-Neurocontrollers
  * optimization over time
  * adaptive critic designs
  * brain-like neurocontrollers

-Evolutionary techniques as pure controllers
  * genetic algorithms
  * evolutionary programming
  * genetic programming

-Hybrid methods (neural nets + evolutionary algorithms)

-Theoretical and Stability issues for neuro-evolutionary 
 control

-Advanced Control Applications 

August 25-28, 1997, University of Aizu, Japan. Item #990
CT'97 Second International Conference on Cognitive Technology.

email: CT97@u-aizu.ac.jp.

August 25-29, 1997, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Turku, Finland. Item #1003
SNAC School on Natural Computation.

Sirpa Nummila. Email: snac@abo.fi.

       DNA Computing
                 Tom Head (Binghamton, NY, USA)
         Genetic Algorithms
                 Thomas Baeck (Dortmund, D/Leiden NL)
                 Volker Nissen (Goettingen, D)
         Neural Networks
                 Teuvo Kohonen (Espoo, FIN)
                 Erkki Oja (Espoo, FIN)
         Quantum Computing
                 Gilles Brassard (Montreal, C)
 

August 26-27, 1997, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK. Item #1067
Workshop on Pulsed Neural Networks.

H.Dawson@newton.cam.ac.uk.

August 29-31, 1997, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland. Item #850
EWNS: 1st European Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems.

Dr. Leslie Smith, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, email: lss@cs.stir.ac.uk, fax: +44 1786 464551.

Papers are requested in the following areas:

Design issues in sensorineural neuromorphic systems:
auditory, visual, olfactory, proprioception, sensorimotor systems.

Designs for silicon implementations of neural systems.

September 1-4, 1997, Beirut, Lebanon. Item #558
ICCS'97 Second LAAS International Conference on Computer Simulation.

Miss Joumana Hermez, Lebanese Association for the Advancement of Science, P.O. Box 14-7142, Beirut, Lebanon. Tel: +961 1 631 265, fax: +961 1 344 668, email: cnrs10@calvacom.fr.

Simulation Methodologies: Simulation validation, object-oriented  
simulation, event-oriented languages, continuous system languages, 
optimization  and simulation algorithms. 

Computer Performance and Advanced Processing: Circuit  simulation,  
processor simulation, network and distributed systems simulation, 
computer system simulation, performance evaluation through 
simulation.

Intelligent Simulation Environments: Fuzzy set theory and simulation, 
AI  in simulation, neural-network-based systems.

Environmental Modeling: Soil  and water  simulations, environmental
monitoring and change, and energy systems.

Applications: Simulation in civil, electrical, and mechanical 
engineering (thermodynamics  and  mechanical  systems, computational 
fluid dynamics, control systems, bioengineering, robotics, CAD, 
transportation systems, construction operations, manufacturing, 
power systems, radar simulation techniques, simulation of 
communication systems, etc.). Simulation in  medical sciences, 
physical and chemical sciences, and economic models.

September 1-3, 1997, Berlin, Germany. Item #724
COORDINATION'97 Second International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages.

Edwin de Jong, Hollandse Signaalapparaten b. v. Zuidelijke Havenweg 40, 7554 RR Hengelo, Netherlands. Tel: +31 74 24 82 851, fax: +31 74 24 84 018, email: edejong@signaal.nl.

Topics of interest:

   * Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component
     composition; concurrency; dynamic aspects of coordination.
   * Specification, refinement and analysis of software architectures;
     verification of functional and non-functional properties.
   * Coordination, software architecture, and interface definition
     languages; implementation issues; interoperability and heterogeneity.
   * Tools and environments for the development of coordinated applications;
     integration within the development process; maintenance, evolution and
     reuse of software architectures; patterns and architecture styles;
     knowledge-based techniques for software architectures; integration
     tests.
   * Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures;
     programming in the large; domain-specific software architectures and
     coordination models; case studies.

September 1-2, 1997, Skovde, Sweden. Item #851
BCEC97 Bio-Computing and Emergent Computation.

email: bcec@ida.his.se, tel: +46 500 464715, 464716, fax: +46 500 464725.

Topics: Computational biology, Biologically based neural computation,
Artificial life, Implications for cognitive science and artificial
intelligence, Biologically inspired evolutionary computation 

September 3-4, 1997, Budapest, Hungary. Item #743
Euromicro Workshop on Computational Intelligence.

Chiquita Snippe-Marlisa, Euromicro, P.O. Box 2346, 7301 EA Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Tel: +31 55 5795 503, fax: +31 55 5795 509, email: euromicro@stanby.nl.

September 4-6, 1997, University of Ulster, Magee College, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Item #978
IMVIP'97 Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference.

email: imvip97@ulst.ac.uk.

- General techniques and algorithms: image filtering, enhancement;
  pattern recognition, neural networks, fuzzy sets.

- Industrial inspection for manufacturing and processing.

- Biomedical image processing.

- Document image processing.

- Remote sensing and space applications.

- Multimedia, including WWW-based image processing.

- Image analysis in security and surveillance, transport.

- Digital images in video, television, telephony.

- Systems: software, hardware, architectures.

September 6-14, 1997, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. Item #999
Caianiello Summer School on Adaptive Processing of Sequences.

Prof. Marco Gori, IIASS "Eduardo R. Caianiello", via Pellegrino, 19, 84019 Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy. Tel: +39 89 761167, fax: +39 89 761189, email: marco@mcculloch.ing.unifi.it.

September 7 - October 3, 1997, University of Crete, Greece. Item #921
Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience.

Prof. E. De Schutter, Born-Bunge Foundation, University of Antwerp - UIA, Universiteitsplein 1, B2610 Antwerp, Belgium. Fax: +32 3 8202669, email: crete_course@bbf.uia.ac.be.

September 8-9, 1997, Kiel, Germany. Item #889
AFPAC'97 Algebraic Frames for the Perception-Action Cycle.

Prof. Dr. Gerald Sommer, Institut f"ur Informatik, Christian-Albrechts Universitat Kiel, Preusserstr. 1-9, 24105 Kiel, Germany. Email: afpac@informatik.uni-kiel.de, tel: +49 431 560473, fax: +49 431 560481.

  basis functions for early visual processes
  representation of geometry in signal theory and neural networks
  unifying geometry for vision and robotics 
  invariances emerging from the perception-action cycle
  representation bias versus ability of learning invariances  
  symmetry in visual recognition and action
  group theoretical frames in robotics, vision and neurocomputing
  taxonomy of behavior
  metrics, scale and causality in physical and perceptual space-time
  structural primitives of visual perception and action
  representation gap -- continuous to discrete
  symbolic versus numeric complexity in PAC representations

September 8-10, 1997, Paris, France. Item #936
SAS'97 International Static Analysis Symposium.

Pascal Van Hentenryck, Dept. of Computer Science, Box 1912, 115 Waterman St. 4th floor, Providence, RI 02906, USA. Email: sas97@cs.brown.edu, tel: + 1 401 863 76 34, fax: + 1 401 863 76 57.

Abstract Interpretation         &       Optimising Compilers 
Complexity                      &       Theoretical Frameworks  
Experimental Evaluation         &       Verification Systems    
Specific Analyses               &       Type Inference 
Partial Evaluation              &       Abstract Domains  

September 8-11, 1997, Rostock. Item #1039
ARCS'97 14. ITG/GI-Conference Architecture of Computer Systems.

email: arcs97@informatik.uni-rostock.de.

September 8-12, 1997, Aachen, Germany. Item #1097
EUFIT 97.

eufit@mitgmbh.de, tel: +49 2408 6969, fax: +49 2408 94582.

September 9-12, 1997, Singapore. Item #767
ICICS'97 International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing.

ICICS'97 Secretariat, c/o Research Lab. III, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798. Tel: 65 7991287, fax: 65 7920415, email: icics@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg.

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS: Media generation and storage, Indexing and retrieval,
Multimedia databases, Hypermedia and user interface, Teleconferencing,
Groupware and collaborative systems,  Digital libraries.

COMPUTER SYSTEMS: High performance computing, Databases, Computer
architectures, Optical storage systems, Visualization, Neural computing,
Real-time systems, Software engineering, Object oriented technology,
Distributed computing , Fault-tolerant systems, Intelligent systems.

SIGNAL PROCESSING: Speech processing and coding, Signal detection and
reconstruction, System identification and modeling, Array processing,
Spectrum estimation, Higher order spectrum, Time-frequency and time-scale
analysis, Wavelets, Image processing and analysis,  Image and Video coding
application and implementation, Filter design and structures, Adaptive
signal processing, VLSI for signal processing.

COMMUNICATIONS: Coding, Modulation, Spread spectrum, Equalization, Wireless
networks, Mobile, Cellular, PCN, Optical fiber, Satellite, Microwave circuits
and systems, Propagation, Neural networks, System simulation, EMI/EMC.

NETWORKING: ISDN/Broadband networking, Multimedia networks, Internetworking,
Network management, Protocol analysis and design, Flow, Congestion control&
routing, ATM-Optical networks, Optical networks, Traffic characterisation,
High speed networks, Network security & analysis.

September 9-12, 1997, Freiburg, Germany. Item #906
KI'97 21st German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Institut fuer Informatik, Am Flughafen 17, 79110 Freiburg, Germany. Email: nebel@informatik.uni-freiburg.de.

Contributions from all aspects of AI are welcome, especially those
(but not exclusively) which address the subjects: knowledge
representation, knowledge acquisition; deduction, inference systems;
diagnosis, classification, planning, configuration and expert systems;
cognition and cognitive systems; image processing and image
understanding; natural language processing; neural networks and connec
tionism; agents and multi agent systems; robotics, social impacts.

September 10-12, 1997, Kiel, Germany. Item #897
CAIP'97 - 7th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns.

Prof. Dr. Gerald Sommer, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel, Institut fur Informatik, Preusserstr. 1-9, 24105 Kiel, Germany. Tel: +49 431 560473, fax: +49 431 560481, email: caip97@informatik.uni-kiel.de.

September 10-13, 1997, University of Ulster, Ulster, Northern Ireland. Item #1054
IMVIP'97 Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference.

IMVIP'97 Secretariat, School of Information & Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Magee College, Londonderry, BT48 7JL, Northern Ireland. Email: imvip97@ulst.ac.uk.

- General techniques and algorithms: image filtering, enhancement;
  pattern recognition, neural networks, fuzzy sets.

- Industrial inspection for manufacturing and processing.

- Biomedical image processing.

- Document image processing.

- Remote sensing and space applications.

- Multimedia, including WWW-based image processing.

- Image analysis in security and surveillance, transport.

- Digital images in video, television, telephony.

- Systems: software, hardware, architectures.

September 11-13, 1997, Reggio Calabria, Italy. Item #986
ISIS'97- International Symposium on Intelligent Systems: Special Session on Neural Networks for Signal Processing.

Prof. Francesco Piazza, Dipart. Elettronica ed Automatica, Universita' di Ancona, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy. Email: upf@eealab.unian.it, tel: +39 71 2204 453, fax: +39 71 2204 464.

September 11-13, 1997, Apex Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #1055
AMLaP-97 Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing.

Matt Crocker, AMLAP, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW, Scotland. Fax: +44 131 650 4587, email: amlap@cogsci.ed.ac.uk.

September 15-19, 1997, Ecole d'Ingenieurs Electriciens, Grenoble, France. Item #829
GRETSI 97 Sixteenth GRETSI Symposium on Signal and Image Processing.

Jeanne Malbos, secretariat du colloque GRETSI'97, Cephag-Ensieg, bp 46, 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres cedex, France. Tel: +33 04 76 82 62 74, fax: +33 04 76 82 63 84, email: gretsi97@cephag.observ-gr.fr, ftp: ftp-gretsi97-cephag.observ-gr.fr.

1. Theory and models
2. Communication and coding
3. Processing and analysis
4. Interpretation and decision
5. Hardware and software
6. Applications

September 15-17, 1997, Budapest, Hungary. Item #942
INES'97 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems.

Imre J. Rudas, Banki Donat Polytechnic, H-1081 Budapest, Nepszinhaz u. 8, Hungary. Tel: +36 1 133 4513, fax: +36 1 133 9183, email: rudas@zeus.banki.hu.

September 15-16, 1997, Bath, UK. Item #1123
NCAF Neural Computing Applications Forum.

Tom Harris, NCAF, P.O. Box 73, EGHAM, Surrey, UK, TW20 0YZ. Tel: +44 1784 477271, email: ncafsec@brunel.ac.uk.

September 16-19, 1997, Rom, Italy. Item #915
Fifth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Maurizio Lenzerini, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Email: lenzerini@dis.uniroma1.it.

   * Automated Reasoning
   * Cognitive Modeling
   * Connectionist Models
   * Distributed Artificial Intelligence
   * Knowledge-based Systems
   * Knowledge Representation
   * Learning
   * Natural Language
   * Perception and Vision
   * Planning
   * Qualitative Reasoning
   * Robotics
   * Applications in the following fields
        o Automated design
        o Automated production
        o Autonomous systems and robots
        o Control and diagnosis of processes and plants
        o Information systems
        o Insurance and finance
        o Man-machine interfaces
        o Public administration
        o Software engineering

September 16-18, 1997, Krnov, Czech Republic. Item #1057
MOSYS'97 Modelling and Simulation of Systems.

Jan Stefan, FEI-VSB TU, tr. 17. listopadu, CZ 70833 Ostrava, Portuba, Czech Republic.

September 17-19, 1997, Nîmes, France. Item #841
SOCO'97 Second International ICSC Symposium on Soft Computing.

ICSC Canada, P.O. Box 279, Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0, Canada. Email: icsc@compusmart.ab.ca, fax: +1 403 387 4329, tel: +1 403 387 3546.

Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms

September 17-19, 1997, Nîmes, France. Item #842
IIA'97 Second International ICSC Symposium on Intelligent Industrial Automation.

ICSC Canada, P.O. Box 279, Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0, Canada. Email: icsc@compusmart.ab.ca, fax: +1 403 387 4329, tel: +1 403 387 3546.

Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms

September 17-19, 1997, Florence, Italy. Item #895
International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing.

Prof. A. Del Bimbo, Universita di Firenze, Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Via S Marta 3, I-50139 Firenze, Italy. Email: iciap97@dsi.ing.unifi.it.

September 18-19, 1997, University of Brighton, UK. Item #1018
Writing the Future: Writing and Computers 10.

Simon Shurville, W & C 10, The Language Centre, University of Brighton, Falmer, East Sussex, UK. Tel: 01273 643330. Email: WandC10@bton.ac.uk.

web-based writing courses and materials 
computer supported collaborative writing 
gender, computers and writing
computer-assisted writing environments and tools 
environments and tools for second-language writing 
writing for multimedia applications 
writing on paper and writing for the screen 
computers and the professional writer 
computer-based writing support for the communication-disabled 
cognitive models of writing 
new computer based genres 
hypertext 
designing software for writers 
interactive fiction 
story generation 
computers and non-Roman scripts 
social implications of writing with computers 

September 21-24, 1997, Sheraton University Hotel and Conference Center, Syracuse, New York, USA. Item #836
NAFIPS'97 Annual Meeting of North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society.

Can Isik, General Chair, Syracuse University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse, NY 13244-1240, USA. Email: cisik@syr.edu, tel: 315 443 1125, fax: 315 443 2583.

Fundamentals of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
Approximate reasoning
Possibility theory
Learning and nonmonotonic logic
Integration of fuzzy logic and neural networks
Integration of fuzzy logic and evolutionary computing
Fuzzy logic hardware
Object oriented and distributed approaches
Applications in
                    System modeling and control
                    Computer vision
                    Robotics and manufacturing
                    Signal processing
                    Decision systems
                    Finance
                    Databases
                    Information systems
                    Engineering

September 22-25, 1997, Siena, Italy. Item #751
ICCS&SS International Conference on Computer Simulation and the Social Sciences.

Rosaria Conte, PSCS, IP/CNR, V. le Marx 15, 00137 Roma, Italy. Tel: +39 6 86090210, fax: +39 6 86090214, email: rosaria@pscs2.irmkant.rm.cnr.it.

The topic areas to be covered will be all the classical issues of
social theory addressed by means of computer simulation and related
technological-methodological questions. Relevant disciplines include
but are not limited to: Computer Science, Sociology, Political
Science, (Social) Psychology, Economics, Decision Science,
Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Demography, Geography,
Linguistics, Biology, Ecology and Ethology. Scholars of all these
disciplines are invited to submit papers.

September 22-25, 1997, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Item #952
Special Session on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems at IFAC International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control.

Dr San Murugesan, Faculty of Business and Technology, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, P.O. Box 555, Campbelltown NSW 2560, Australia. Tel: +61-46-203 513, fax: +61-46-266 683, email: s.murugesan@uws.edu.au.

The special session on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems is primarily designed 
to  bring together researchers and practicing professionals from academia, 
industry and government laboratories to discuss about applications of 
artificial intelligence technologies -knowledge-based systems, neural 
networks, fuzzy logic, intelligent software agents, soft computing, genetic 
algorithms, machine learning, decision support systems, etc. -  in various 
facets of manufacturing and industrial automation in different sectors.

September 22-25, 1997, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Item #953
AIRTC97 IFAC International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control.

Chairman of Organizing Committee, IFAC Symposium on AI in Real-Time Control, Centre for AI and Robotics (CAIRO), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur 54100, Malaysia. Tel: +603 2904892/ 2904816, fax: +603 2911294/ 2904892, E-mails: marzuki@klred.utm.my.

Expert shells embedded in real-time environment
Applicable programming languages
Temporal reasoning
Knowledge elicitation and acquisition
Intelligent control system modeling and simulation
Knowledge bases and representation
Intelligent identification techniques and control
Parallel and distributed knowledge processing
AI-based decision making techniques
Process monitoring and supervision
Fault detection and emergency control
Management on the use of expert systems
Multi-sensor fusion and image understanding
Autonomous vehicle control
Intelligent control systems
Distributed AI architectures and control
Qualitative reasoning
Intelligent supervisory control
Industrial applications
Benchmark problems for AI based control approaches
Dynamic scheduling and planning using AI techniques 
Learning and adaptation algorithms
Intelligent management systems and policies
Intelligent building systems
Computer-aided control system analysis and design
Evolutionary algorithms
Neural network applications in control and pattern recognition
Applications of genetic algorithms
Adaptive fuzzy control
Fuzzy-neural modeling and control
New applications in fuzzy logic control
Intelligent sensors

September 22-24, 1997, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK. Item #1037
Seventh Cambridge Neural Networks Summer School.

Lynda Bryers, University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, 1 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QA, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1223 302233, fax: +44 (0)1223 301122, email: CPI@hermes.cam.ac.uk.

September 24-26, 1997, Toulouse, France. Item #637
ECP'97 Fourth European Conference on Planning.

Sam Steel, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1206 872786, fax: +44 1206 872788, email: sam@essex.ac.uk.

- Classical AI planning
  - Planning and reasoning on action and change
  - Plan recognition
  - Planning and perception
  - Planning and learning
  - Planning and temporal reasoning
  - Planning under uncertainty
  - Decision theoretic planning
  - Scheduling
  - Multi-agent planning
  - Reactive Systems
  - Applications and domain-specific techniques

September 24-26, 1997, Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, Florida, USA. Item #768
NNSP*97 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing.

Ms. Sharon Bosarge. Telephone: 352 392 2585, fax: 352 392 0044, email: sharon@ee1.ee.ufl.edu.

Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following topics:

   * Paradigms
     artificial neural networks, Markov models, fuzzy logic, inference net,
     evolutionary computation, nonlinear signal processing, and wavelets

   * Application areas
     speech processing, image processing, OCR, robotics, adaptive filtering,
     communications, sensors, system identification, issues related to RWC,
     and other general signal processing and pattern recognition

   * Theories
     generalization, design algorithms, optimization, parameter estimation,
     and network architectures

   * Implementations
     parallel and distributed implementation, hardware design, and other
     general implementation technologies

September 24-26, 1997, Amelia Island Plantation, Florida, USA. Item #917
Special Session on Applications of Neural Networks in Biomedical Signal Processing at NNSP'97.

IEEE NNSP'97, Attn: Special Session ANN-BSP, 444 CSE Bldg #42, P.O. Box 116130, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

	 * pattern recognition and feature extraction for 
		   computer aided diagnosis and prognosis
	 * signal analysis (quantification, segmentation, etc.)
	 * signal enhancement/restoration
	 * data compression
	 * reconstruction
	 * data fusion/registration
	 * biological system modeling

September 24-26, 1997, Dresden, Germany. Item #955
6th International Conference on Microelectronics for Neural Networks, Evolutionary & Fuzzy Systems.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ramacher. Tel: +49 351 463 7686, email: mneuro97@iee.et.tu-dresden.de.

 Potential technologies           VLSI adequate design of neural algorithms
 Neural interfaces and sensors    Bio-inspired signal processing systems
 VLSI circuits and system         Intelligent robots
 architectures     	           

September 26-28, 1997, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Item #960
Fourth Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society.

Prof. Hooker. Email: PLCAH@cc.newcastle.edu.au.

This conference involves multidisciplinary participation from a broad
spectrum of researchers interested in cognitive processes and artificial
intelligence from a variety of cognate disciplines, such as Psychology,
Philosophy, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Engineering and Human
Factors. The Conference emphasises the common interest among these
disciplines towards advancing our knowledge of brain/mind function.

September 26-27, 1997, Rhodes, Greece. Item #1004
Speech Technology Workshop. Speech Technology in the Public Telephone Network: Where are we today.

J.P. Martens, ELIS-RUG, St-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. Email: martens@elis.rug.ac.be.

September 27-28, 1997, Rhodes, Greece. Item #908
AVSP'97 European Tutorial & Research Workshop on Audio-Visual Speech Processing: Computational & Cognitive Science Approaches.

Christian Benoit, ICP, Grenoble, France (benoit@icp.inpg.fr).

-  Multimodal integration of spoken events
-  Multisensory perception of biological events
-  Visible speech (lipreading)
-  Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology of audition and vision
-  Modeling of facial gestures
-  Audio-visual speech synthesis
-  Automatic recognition of audio-visual speech

September 29-30, 1997, Hiroshima, Japan. Item #943
IWPIA'97 The Fifth International Workshop on Parallel Image Analysis.

Kenichi Morita, Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739, Japan . Email: iwpia@ke.sys.hiroshima-u.ac.jp.

Theories:  
  array, graph and parallel grammars, 2D/3D and cellular automata, 
  digital topology 
Algorithms:  
  parallel algorithms for image processing, complexity analysis of 
  algorithms 
Architectures:  
  parallel architectures for image processing, neural networks 
Applications:  
  image processing systems based on parallel architecture 

September 30 - October 2, 1997, Cottbus, Germany. Item #1058
DAIS'97 IFIP International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems.

H. Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Computer Networks & Comm. Systems, P.O. Box 101344, D-03013 Cottbus, Germany. Tel: +49 355 692101, fax: +49 355 692236, email: dais97@informatik.tu-cottbus.de.

September 30 - October 3, 1997, Oxford, UK. Item #1099
Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Dr Peter Hansen, Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology Laboratory, Oxford University . Tel: (01865) 282163.

DAY 1   ATTENTION: FROM PERCEPTION TO SINGLE CELLS 
Lecturers: S Judge (Oxford), M Goldberg (Bethesda, USA), M Husain, 
J Driver (London), G Humphreys (Birmingham), J Duncan, C Spence
(Cambridge), G Fink (Cologne) 

DAY 2   NEURAL TRANSPLANTATION AND RESTORATION OF FUNCTION
Lecturers: J Gray, H Hodges, J Sinden (IOP, London) S Dunnett, 
R Franklin, C Svendsen, L Annett, A Rosser (Cambridge), G Raisman (NIMR,
London), J Mallet (Paris) 

DAY 3   DYNAMIC IMAGING OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
Lecturers: A Nobre, E Wilding, E Rolls, V Walsh (Oxford), P Fletcher,
K Friston (London), R Mangun (Davis, USA), W Singer (Frankfurt) 

DAY 4   MOTOR FUNCTION: FUNCTIONAL IMAGING AND PSYCHOPHYSICAL APPROACHES
Lecturers: J Stein, C Miall, P Matthews, R Passingham (Oxford), J Wann
(Reading), P Haggard (UCL), D Brooks (Hammersmith), S Jackson (Bangor), 
G Stelmach (Phoenix, USA) 

October 1997, Nimes, France. Item #641
Khepera Contest on Adaptive Robot Behaviour.

Olivier Michel. Email: om@alto.unice.fr.

INTRODUCTION

This contest intends to confront various controller systems driving the mobile
robot Khepera and exhibiting adaptive behavior. A Khepera simulator sofware is
provided to the competitors. The live confrontation will occur on both real
robot and simulator during Evolution Artificielle conference in Nimes, 1997.
The first prize will be a Khepera robot (or an extension module for Khepera,
if the winner already owns a Khepera).

CONTEST GOAL 

To build up the most interesting robot controller that exhibit adaptive
behavior, using learning or evolutionary methods (or both).

CONSTRAINTS

All possible forms of controller are accepted including:
   Artificial neural networks.
   Classifiers systems.
   Subsumption architectures.
   Fuzzy logic systems.
   Blackboard based systems.
   Anything else you can imagine.

Evolutionary and learning methods are:
   Genetic algorithms.
   Evolutionary Programming.
   Reinforcement learning.
   Bucked brigad algorithm.
   Any other evolutionary or learning technique you just designed.

October 3-5, 1997, Montreux, Switzerland. Item #1041
HELNET 1997 International Workshop on Neural Networks.

Marcel van der Heyden. Tel: +31 71 5276751, fax: +31 71 5276782, email: helnet97@dds.nl.

- Optimal complexity in reduced connectivity neural network 
  paradigms
- Speech recognition by neural networks
- Neural networks and statistical inference
- The emergence of consciousness in neural networks
- Applications of differential geometric system theory in 
  dynamic neural networks
- Circuit and VLSI complexity issues
- VLSI friendly learning
- Neural network applications in control
- Visualization by neural networks
- Markov modelling of sensory neural spike trains 
- An application of neural networks in cellular wireless networks

October 6-9, 1997, Coimbra, Portugal. Item #752
EPIA'97 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

EPIA'97, Dep. Eng. Informatica, Universidade de Coimbra - Polo II, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030 Coimbra, Portugal. Tel: +351 39 7000004, fax: +351 39 701266, email: epia97@alma.uc.pt.

Original papers are solicited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence,
including but not limited to:
o Agent-Oriented Programming        o Automated Reasoning
o Artificial Life                   o Belief Revision
o Case-Based Reasoning              o Common Sense Reasoning
o Constraint Programming            o Distributed AI
o Expert Systems                    o Genetic Algorithms
o Hybrid Systems                    o Intelligent Tutoring Systems
o Knowledge Representation          o Logic Programming
o Machine Learning                  o Model-Based Reasoning
o Natural Language Understanding    o Neural Networks
o Nonmonotonic Reasoning            o Planning and Scheduling
o Qualitative Reasoning             o Robotics
o Spatial Reasoning                 o Temporal Reasoning
o Theorem Proving                   o Theory of Computation

October 6-8, 1997, Sendai, Japan. Item #881
ALT 97 The Eighth International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory.

email: alt97@maruoka.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp.

October 6-8, 1997, Act-City Hamamatsu Convention Center, Hamamatsu, Japan. Item #1032
NICROSP'97 International Workshop on Neural Networks for Identification, Control, Robotics, and Signal/Image Processing.

Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, Dept. Electronics & Information, Politecnico di Milano, piazza L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy. Tel: +39 2 2399 3606, fax: +39 2 2399 3411, email: piuri@elet.polimi.it.

This international workshop is a unique synergetic discussion forum
and a strong link between theoretical researchers and practitioners
in the application fields of neural networks. The three-day single-
session forum will provide an ideal environment for in-depth analyses
and discussions on the following topics of neural network
applications: Architectures, Cellular Neural Networks, Data Analysis,
Fuzzy Neural Systems, Genetic and Annealing Algorithms, Hardware
Implementation, Image and Signal Processing, Industrial Application,
Intelligent Control, Machine and 3D Vision, Model Identification,
Motion Analysis, Optimization, Robotics, System Identification, Time
Series Analysis. Paper related, but not limited, to these topics are
solicited.

October 7-10, 1997, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #1015
Special Session on Adaptive Autonomous Agents at ICANN'97.

Dario Floreano, email: dario@lamisun9.epfl.ch.

- Learning robots
- Evolutionary robotics
- Co-evolutionary systems
- Reinforcement Learning Agents
- Hybrid robots
- Bio-inspired control
- Adaptive Behavior
- Neurocontrollers for sensory-motor agents
- Complex navigation
- Goal-directed behavior
- Artificial Life 

October 9-10, 1997, Duke University, Durham, NC. Item #997
Workshop on Stochastic Model Building and Variable Selection.

Giovanni Parmigiani, email: gp@stat.Duke.EDU.

October 13-15, 1997, Sofia, Bulgaria. Item #1034
INCON`97 International Workshop on Intelligent Control.

Mrs. M. Grigorova, INCON'97 Workshop Union for Automation and Informatics, Rakovsky Str. 108, Sofia - 1000, Bulgaria. Tel: +359 2 876 169, fax: +359 2 879 360, email: sai@bgcict.acad.bg.

The International Workshop on Intelligent Control INCON'97 is organized 
by the Union for Automation and Informatics (UAI), the Technical University 
of Sofia and other Bulgarian/international companies. It is a part of 
the National Conference of Automation and Informatics together with:
  - IFIP TC6 International Symposium on Network Information Processing Systems,
  - International Workshop on Bioprocess Systems,
  - Workshop on Control in Power Systems,
  - Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Technical Diagnostics.
Topics:

  knowledge-based control systems,
  fuzzy control,
  neural networks for control and simulation,
  expert control systems,
  genetic algorithms in control systems,
  analysis and design of intelligent controllers,
  direct and supervisory control.

October 15-18, 1997, Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania, USA. Item #797
COSIT'97 Conference on Spatial Information Theory.

Stephen Hirtle, School of Information Sciences, 135 N. Bellefield Ave. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Tel: +1 412 624-9434, fax: +1 412 624-2788, email: cosit97@sis.pitt.edu.

COSIT will bring together researchers from different disciplines, e.g.

   * Geography
   * Engineering
   * Geodesy
   * Computer Science
   * Cognitive Sciences
   * Environmental Psychology
   * Artificial Intelligence
   * Administration
   * History
   * Sociology
   * Anthropology

October 15-17, 1997, Washington, DC, USA. Item #1023
Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop.

Heidi Jacobus, Cybernet, 727 Airport Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA. Tel: 313 668 2567.

October 12-15, 1997, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #975
Special Session on "Artificial Immune Systems and Their Applications" at SMC'97.

Dipankar Dasgupta, Computer Science Division, Mathematical Science Dept. The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152-6429, USA. Tel: 901 678 4147, fax: 901 678 2480, email: dasgupta@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu.

     * Computational methods based on Immunological principles 
     * Artificial Immune systems for Pattern Recognition
     * Immunity-based system for Anomaly or fault detection
     * Immune Network Models and their applications
     * Immunity-based system as a multi-agent system
     * Multi-agent approach for modeling and simulating immune systems
     * Immunity-based systems for self-diagnosis and self-organization
     * Immunity-based approach for collective intelligence
     * Immunity-based systems for optimization and search
     * The immune system as a prototype of Autonomous Decentralized Systems
     * Immunity-based approach for Artificial Life
     * Immunity-based approach for security of information systems
     * Immunological approach against computer viruses and internet worms
     * The immune system as a metaphor for computer based learning systems
     * Immunity-based systems as a distributed learning system
     * Immunological Computation for data mining

October 19-22, 1997, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, New York, USA. Item #907
1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.

Eric Lindemann <eric@audiologic.com>, AudioLogic Inc. +1 (303) 581-9556.

 - Active Echo and Noise Control        - Digital Audio on Networks
 - Aids for Auditory Impairment         - High-Quality Audio Coding
 - Array Processing for Transducers     - Room Acoustics
 - Audio Perception and Quality         - Sound Analysis and Synthesis
   Evaluation                           - Sound Editing, Restoration, and
 - Audio & Telecommunications             Enhancement
   VLSI, Hardware, and Software         - Spatial Perception and Processing
 - Auditory Scene Analysis              - Surround Sound, 3-D Sound
 - Computer Music                       - Time-Frequency Analysis and
 - Digital Audio Broadcast                Filterbanks

October 20-24, 1997, Beijing, China. Item #839
IEEE ICIPS First International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems.

Richard Zurawski, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan. Tel: 81 3 3402 6231, fax: 81 3 3423 1484, email: zurawski@vss.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

TOPICS (but not limited to): 

Machine intelligence and applications    Expert systems 
Intelligent communications networks      Intelligent transportation systems
Computer vision systems                  Evolutionary computing and systems
Fuzzy systems                            Operational systems
Softcomputing and applications           Intelligent agent   
Knowledge-based signal processing        Decision support systems
Robotics and applications                Computer databases 
Intelligent process control              Multimedia applications
Diagnostic system                        Intelligent manufacturing 
Intelligent engineering design           Computer networks and applications
Image information processing             Software development
Design and development systems           Medical information processing
Resource management                      Environment care
Agricultural processing and management   Virtual reality
Intelligent GIS and GPS                  Scheduling and planning
Natural language understanding systems   Neural networks
Biomedical systems

October 20-22, 1997, Boston, MA, USA. Item #903
CAMP'97 Fourth International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception.

Charles Weems, Computer Science Dept., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA. Email: weems@cs.umass.edu.

The following topics are suggested; however other topics are also welcome.
Architectures for image understanding, sound recognition, and other senses
Signal and image processing architectures
Configurable and FPGA-based perception architectures
Parallel architectures and algorithms for machine perception
Coprocessors and Instruction Set Architecture extensions
Smart sensors and sensor fusion
Inference engines and machine intelligence architectures
Rule-based systems and knowledge-based machines
VLSI perception systems
Embedded use of perception systems
Architectural performance evaluation
Distributed processing for perception systems
Languages, software environments and programming tools
Neural network and genetic algorithm applications in machine perception
Vision and multisensor perception

October 22-24, 1997, Brest, France. Item #934
LMO'97 Languages and Models with Objects.

email: LMO97@enst-bretagne.fr.

1- Object-oriented Representation:

     Object-oriented KR models (description logics, conceptual graphs, 
     composite objects, frames, etc.); data models; semantics and
     inference mechanisms of these models (classification, inheritance,
     filtering, etc.); reification.

2- Object-oriented Programming:

    Objects and types (inheritance, sub-typing, etc.); objects and
    behaviours; object specifications; parallelism and objects;
    actors; reflexivity; etc.

3- Objets and Persistence:

    Object-oriented data base management systems; data mining;
    indexing by classification; etc.

4- Objects-Oriented Engineering:

    Object life cycle; object evolution and versioning; software security;
    analysis and design methods; formal and semi-formal
    specifications; frameworks, etc.

5- Orthogonal topics:

     Constraints and objects; rules and objects; case-based
    reasoning and objects, etc.

6- Applications:

    Objects and algorithms; objects for chemistry, music, life sciences, CAD,
    intelligent tutoring systems, telecommunications, etc.

October 27-29, 1997, Antalya, Turkey. Item #951
ISCIS XII The Twelfth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences.

ISCIS XII, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Bebek, Istanbul, 80815 Turkey. Tel: +90 212 263 1540 ext. 1323, fax: +90 212 287 2461, email: iscis@www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr, anonymous ftp: www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/iscis.

*    Computer Networks
*    Parallel Processing and Parallel Algorithms
*    Theoretical Computer Science
*    Computer Architecture and Systems
*    Artificial Intelligence
*    Neural Networks
*    Computer Graphics
*    Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
*    Real Time Computing
*    Performance Evaluation
*    Software Engineering
*    Databases
*    Programming Languages
*    Distributed Systems
*    Formal Methods
*    Computer Vision
*    Computational Mathematics
*    Information Retrieval

October 27, 1997, Lev Auditorium, Tel-Aviv University. Item #1108
Symposium on Particle Physics and Neural Computation in Honor of David Horn's 60th Birthday.

email: michal@neuron.tau.ac.il, fax: 972 3 6407932.

October 27, 1997, Tel-Aviv University. Item #1150
Symposium on Particle Physics and Neural Computation in Honor of David Horn's 60th Birthday.

michal@neuron.tau.ac.il, fax: 972 3 6407932.

November 1, 1997, Schloss Hagenberg, Austria. Item #1076
CP97 Workshop on Constraints and Bioinformatics/Biocomputing.

David Gilbert, Dept. of Computer Science, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK. Email: drg@cs.city.ac.uk.

   * sequencing and sequence analysis
   * languages for the description of biomolecular structures (primary,
     secondary and tertiary)
   * description of sequences and patterns in biomolecular databases
   * algorithms for locating structures in biomolecular databases
   * discovery and data mining of biostructures
   * neural networks
   * genetic algorithms
   * genetic programs
   * DNA computing
   * Protein folding problems

November 3-5, 1997, Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nevada, USA. Item #956
ASE'97 Automated Software Engineering.

Alex Quilici, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2504 Dole Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA. alex@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu.

   * Applications
   * Automating software design and synthesis
   * Domain modeling
   * Knowledge acquisition
   * Maintenance and evolution
   * Process management
   * Program understanding
   * Re-engineering
   * Requirements
   * Reuse
   * User interfaces and human interaction
   * Testing
   * Verification & validation

November 3-5, 1997, Krakow, Poland. Item #1002
EuroPVM-MPI'97 The Fourth European PVM - MPI Users' Group Meeting.

Marian Bubak, PVM-MPI'97, Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet - Krakow, ul. Nawojki 11, 30-950 Krakow 61, P.O. Box 386, Poland. Email: pvmpi97@cyf-kr.edu.pl, tel: (48 12) 341 766, 173 964, fax: (48 12) 341 084, 338 054.

The Conference  will include 
----------------------------

- tutorials on advanced usage of PVM and MPI,
- invited talks on PVM, MPI and their applications, 
- contributed  presentations from the PVM and MPI users community,
- technical presentations by developers of PVM and MPI,
- vendor presentations on PVM, MPI and related products,
- round table discussions on future of PVM and MPI,
- birds-of-feather session,
- conference dinner and other social events.


Main topics of the Conference  will be
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- algorithms using message-passing paradigm,
- applications in science and engineering based on message-passing,
- evaluation of PVM and MPI,
- performance of PVM and MPI,
- extensions and improvements to PVM and MPI,
- tools for PVM and MPI,
- HPF/MPI extensions,
- implementation issues.

November 4-7, 1997, Newport Beach, California, USA. Item #987
ICTAI 1997 9TH IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Daniel Cooke, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Texas, El Paso, TX, USA. Email: dcooke@cs.utep.edu, tel: 915 747 6956, fax: 915 747 5030.

  Adaptive Systems and Process Control
  AI algorithms
  AI in Software Engineering
  Automated Reasoning
  Cognitive Modeling
  Constraint Satisfaction
  Distributed AI and Intelligent Agents
  Environmental Applications
  Genetic Algorithms
  Instructional Environments
  Intelligent Internet Services
  Intelligent User Interfaces and Multimodal HC Interaction
  Knowledge Base Technology, intelligent Databases
  Knowledge-Based Systems
  Knowledge Representation
  Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning
  Natural Language Processing and Speech Understanding
  Neural Networks
  Non-Standard Logic(s) for AI
  Planning and Temporal Reasoning 
  Robotics
  Qualitative Reasoning and Diagnosis
  Reasoning Under Uncertainty
  Vision and Image Processing

November 4-6, 1997, Fukuoka, Japan. Item #998
International Symposium on High Performance Computing.

Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Nara, 630-01, Japan. Tel: +81 7437 2 5232, fax: +81 7437 2 5239, email: ishpc97@dontaku.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp.

Software: Parallelizing compilers, data partitioning and scheduling,
  operating systems, programming languages, parallel and distributed
  programming environments and their design, performance evaluation
  and measurements, visualization</LI>

Architecture: Instruction level parallelism, multi-threaded
  architecture, massively parallel systems, scalable shared memory
  multiprocessor systems, interconnection networks, memory system and
  management, parallel I/O, computer networks, multimedia distributed
  systems

Applications: Parallel and distributed algorithms, database systems,
  artificial intelligence application studies, artificial life
  application studies, high performance scientific computing, neural
  computing

November 7-9, 1997, Boston, MA, USA. Item #937
AAAI Symposium: Frontiers in Soft Computing and Decision Systems.

Larry Medsker, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, American University, Washington, DC 20016-8116, USA. Tel: 202 885 3306, email: medsker@american.edu.

   * the need for methods and tools to deal with high levels of complexity,
     organization and manipulation of information, and the limitations in
     the application of formal methods.
   * strengths and limitations of methods such as expert systems and other
     intelligent technologies
   * integration and interface of humans as components of decision systems
   * the nature and specific challenges in application areas such as
     financial planning and project management.
   * challenges in decision systems such as incorporation of learning,
     dynamic knowledge bases, integration of multiple methods, and
     affordable tools that are effective for complex systems.
   * prospects for application of emerging concepts such as granularization
     and computing with words.

November 7-9, 1997, Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Item #954
AAAI Fall Symposium on Socially Intelligent Agents.

Kerstin Dautenhahn (chair), The University of Reading, Dept. of Cybernetics, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 225, Reading, RG6 6AY, United Kingdom, fax: +44 (0) 118-9318220, tel: +44 (0) 118-9318219, +44 (0) 118-9316372, email: K.Dautenhahn@cyber.reading.ac.uk.

November 9-12, 1997, Marriott Pavilion Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Item #941
ANNIE'97 Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering.

Dr. Cihan H. Dagli, Smart Engineering Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Engineering Management, University Missouri - Rolla, 1870 Miner Circle, Rolla, Mo 65409-0370, USA. Tel: 573 341 6576, fax: 573 341 6567, email: annie@umr.edu or dagli@umr.edu.
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Contact Dr. Dagli at above email address for paper submittal
instructions.

November 9-12, 1997, Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic. Item #1135
PASE'97 6th International Workshop on Parallel Applications in Statistics and Economics.

Martin Hanf, SCSC, CLU B1, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. Email: pase@scsc.ethz.ch, fax: +41 1 632 1104.

November 11-14, 1997, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Wanchai, Hong Kong. Item #979
APSCOM97 International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation & Management.

Dr. T. S. Chung, Technical Programmes Chairman, APSCOM-97, c/o Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, HONG KONG. Fax: # (852) 2330 1544, tel: # (852) 2766 6160, email: eetschun@polyu.edu.hk.

1. POWER SYSTEM CONTROL
1.1 Control centre communication
1.2 Distribution automation
1.3 Intelligent control applications
1.4 Alarm processing
1.5 Expert systems
1.6 ANN, GA, Fuzzy Logic.
1.7 Monitoring and measurement

2. POWER SYSTEM OPERATION
2.1 Security and reliability assessment
2.2 Economic and optimal operation
2.3 Dynamic and transient stability
2.4 Voltage stability and VAr planning
2.5 Plant operation experiences
2.6 Renewable energy penetration
2.7 Harmonics and interference

3. POWER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
3.1 Energy management
3.2 Electricity industry restructuring
3.3 Demand side management
3.4 Project management
3.5 Corporate management and planning

4. EQUIPMENT AND APPLICATIONS
4.1 FACTS devices and control
4.2 T & D equipment
4.3 Protection equipment
4.4 Generation equipment
4.5 Power system simulators & training
4.6 Power system education

5. LOW VOLTAGE SYSTEMS
5.1 Distribution in buildings
5.2 Intelligent buildings
5.3 Energy utilisation

November 12-14, 1997, Valparaiso, Chile. Item #848
XVII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society.

Organizacion CLEI'97, Depto. de Informatica, Univ. Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile. Email: clei97@inf.utfsm.cl, fax: +56-32-625-217, tel: +56-32-626-364.

   o  Algorithms and Data Structures  o  Complexity Theory
   o  Artificial Intelligence         o  Distributed Systems
   o  Computer Algebra                o  Human-Computer Interaction
   o  Computer Architecture           o  Office Automation
   o  Computer Graphics               o  Operating Systems
   o  Databases                       o  Performance Evaluation
   o  Data Communications             o  Programming Languages
   o  Data Security and Cryptography  o  Software Engineering

November 12-14, 1997, Málaga, Spain. Item #945
TTIA'97 Second Meeting on Technology Transfer and Artificial Intelligence.

email: cruz@apolo.lcc.uma.es.

The TTIA-97 Program Committee invites submissions of technical 
papers for TTIA-97 Submissions are invited on original and 
previously unpublished papers describing the application of
any AI technique in a real world field, including -but not 
limited to- the following areas:
     Public Administration 
     Bank and Finance 
     Education 
     Law 
     Industry 
     Medicine 
     Military 

November 12-14, 1997, Málaga, Spain. Item #946
CAEPIA-97 The Conference of the Spanish Association for the Artificial Intelligence.

email: cruz@apolo.lcc.uma.es.

The TTIA-97 Program Committee invites submissions of technical 
papers for TTIA-97 Submissions are invited on original and 
previously unpublished papers describing the application of
any AI technique in a real world field, including -but not 
limited to- the following areas:
     Public Administration 
     Bank and Finance 
     Education 
     Law 
     Industry 
     Medicine 
     Military 

November 12-13, 1997, Item #982
NeTcon`97.

events@plesman.com.

NeTcon shows are Canada's premiere trade events dedicatd exclusively to networking and connectivity.

November 12-13, 1997, Antwerp, Belgium. Item #1091
NAIC-97 9th Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference.

Bolesian B.V., NAIC-97, Steenovenweg 19, 5708 HN Helmond, the Netherlands. Email: naic@bolesian.nl.

November 18-21, 1997, Auckland, New Zealand. Item #901
WMC'97 World Manufacturing Congress.

ICSC International Computer Science Conventions, P.O. Box 279, Millet AB T0C 1Z0, Canada, email: icsc@compusmart.ab.ca, Web-Site: http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/icsc, fax: +1-403-387-4329, tel: +1-403-387-3546.

November 18-20, 1997, Sao Jose' dos Campos- SP, Brazil. Item #1007
VIII Brazilian Symposium on Computers in Education.

Nizam Omar (Chairman, SBIE'97), VIII Brazilian Symposium on Computers in Education, CTA-ITA-IEC/Computer Science Dept., Pca Mal Eduardo Gomes, 50, Sao Jose' dos Campos - SP, 12228-900 - Brazil. Fax: +55 (012) 340 5899, email: sbie97@comp.ita.cta.br.

   . Education, Computers, and Society
   . Computer-based Learning Environments
   . Cooperative/Collaborative Learning
   . Evaluation of Educational Software
   . Development of Educational Software and Hardware
   . Distance Education and Training
   . Internet/Intranet/WWW Tools
   . Training in Computers in Education
   . Hypermedia and Virtual Reality in Education
   . Distributed Learning Environments in Education
   . Computers in Special Education
   . Computers in Primary School
   . Artificial Intelligence in Education
   . Pedagogical Issues of Computers in Education
   . Educational Experiences Based on Computers
   . Policies for Computers in Education
   . Online and Networked Education
   . Sociological Issues in Computers in Education

November 21-22, 1997, Canberra, Australia. Item #1105
The Australia-Japan Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems.

Dr. Mitsuo Gen, Intelligent Systems Engineering Lab. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engg. Ashikaga Institute of Technology, 268 Ohmae-cho, Ashikaga, 326 Japan, tel: +81(284)62 0605, ext. 376, fax: +81(284)64 1071, email: gen@genlab.ashitech.ac.jp.

(1) Intelligent and Adaptive Systems:

The emphasis is on designing and developing intelligent and adaptive systems 
using machine learning and/or evolutionary computation techniques, although 
other artificial intelligence techniques will also be considered. Examples of 
the topics include, but not limited to, evolutionary learning, neural network 
learning, autonomous agents/robots, artificial life, evolutionary games, 
hybrid learning systems, and other machine learning systems.

(2) Optimisation:

Both numerical and combinatorial optimisation will be considered. Examples of
the topics include, but not limited to, analysis of algorithms (e.g.,
convergence and complexity), characterisation of fitness landscapes, novel
optimisation algorithms, and applications (e.g., scheduling, facility layout, 
optimal design, etc.).

November 22-29, 1997, Devet-skal Hotel, Milovy, Czech Republic. Item #992
SOFSEM'97 XXIV-th Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics.

Jiri Sochor, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic. Email: sofsem@ics.muni.cz.

Topics
------
  A. Fundamentals,
  B. Distributed and parallel systems,
  C. Software engineering and methodology,
  D. Databases and Information Systems.

November 24-28, 1997, Dunedin, Queenstown, New Zealand. Item #994
ICONIP'97 Special Session on System Monitoring, Modeling, and Analysis.

Prof. Olli Simula, Special Session Organizer, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Rakentajanaukio 2 C, FIN-02150 Espoo, Finland.

November 24-28, 1997, Dunedin, Queenstown, New Zealand. Item #1040
Special Session on "Hybrid Evolutionary Learning Systems" at ICONIP'97.

Prof. Sung-Bae Cho, Dept. of Computer Science, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Sudaemoon-ku, Seoul 120-749, Korea. Tel: +82 2 361 2720, fax: +82 2 365 2579, email: sbcho@csai.yonsei.ac.kr.

November 27-30, 1997, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. Item #1106
AMPC97 Eighth Australasian Mathematical Psychology Conference.

mathpsych@psy.uwa.edu.au.

AMPC97 provides an opportunity for researchers interested in the application
of mathematical analysis to psychology to meet and exchange views. Relevant
domains include Experimental Psychology (particularly computational models),
Cognitive Science, Connectionist Modelling, Scaling, Psychological Methods,
Statistics and Test Theory. 

Papers are invited from researchers in all areas of mathematical psychology.
Contributors are encouraged to propose topics for focused symposia,
consisting of three to six papers, to present their work. The following
symposia have been accepted. If you wish to present a paper at any of these,
please contact the relevant convenor, listed below. Requests for additional
symposia should be directed to the conference organisers at
mathpsych@psy.uwa.edu.au.

November 24-28, 1997, Queenstown, New Zealand. Item #723
ICONIP'97 Fourth International Conference on Neural Information Processing.

Conference Secretariat, Dept. of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. Tel: +64 3 479 8142, fax: +64 3 479 8311, email: iconip97@otago.ac.nz.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Stream1: Neural Information Processing
*     Neurobiological systems
*     Cognition
*     Cognitive models of the brain
*     Dynamical modelling, chaotic processes in the brain
*     Brain computers, biological computers
*     Consciousness, awareness, attention
*     Adaptive biological systems
*     Modelling emotions
*     Perception, vision 
*     Learning languages 
*     Evolution

Stream2: Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
*     Artificial neural networks: models, architectures, algorithms
*     Fuzzy systems
*     Evolutionary programming and genetic algorithms
*     Artificial life
*     Distributed AI systems, agent-based systems
*     Soft computing--paradigms, methods, tools
*     Approximate reasoning
*     Probabilistic and statistical methods 
*     Software tools, hardware implementation

Stream3: Intelligent Information Systems and their Applications 
*     Connectionist-based information systems
*     Hybrid systems
*     Expert systems
*     Adaptive systems
*     Machine learning, data mining and intelligent databases
*     Pattern recognition and image processing
*     Speech recognition and language processing
*     Intelligent information retrieval systems
*     Human-computer interfaces
*     Time-series prediction
*     Control
*     Diagnosis
*     Optimisation
*     Application of intelligent information technologies in:
      manufacturing, process control, quality testing, finance,
      economics, marketing, management, banking, agriculture,
      environment protection, medicine, geographic information
      systems, government, law, education, and sport
*     Intelligent information technologies on the global networks

November 28 - December 5, 1997, Trieste, Italy. Item #1085
EUROGEN A short course on Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies in Computational Science and Engineering.

Eurogen97, c/o Poloni, Dipartimento di Energetica CIRA, Via Valerio 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy . Fax: +39 40 6763812, tel: +39 40 6763808, email: poloni@univ.trieste.it, email: eurogen@cira.it.

Objectives of the course 

To present a compendium of state of the art lectures about theoretical
aspects, numerical implementation and practical results obtainable using
Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies for discrete, continuous and
combinatorial optimisation problems. To present the existing connection
between evolution algorithms and other techniques like Fuzzy logic and
Neural Networks. To provide a bridge, with the rising impact of distributed
parallel computers, between Artificial Intelligence and Scientific
Computing looking at real life problems. 

Targeted applications are Fluid Dynamics, Structure Mechanics,
Electromagnetism, Automation Control, Resource Optimisation, Image
Processing and Economics. 

Multi-disciplinary applications are featured, among others, in Engineering
and Applied Sciences where evolution works impressively well with
computer programs.

November 29 - December 3, 1997, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Hawaii. Item #882
NOLTA'97 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications.

email: nolta97@mamoru.ee.sophia.ac.jp.

Chaos & Bifurcation    Chaotic Neural Networks       Circuits & Systems
Oscillation            Cellular Neural Networks      Self-Validating Numerics
Synchronization        Learning & Memory             Modeling & Simulation
Communication          Prediction & Identification   Large-Scale Networks
Chua's Circuit         Image & Signal Processing     Analog and Digital ICs
Control                Neuro Dynamics                Distributed Networks
Complex Systems        Evolutionary Computation      Power Systems
Fractals               Optimization                  Optics
Soliton                Fuzzy                         Chemistry & Physics

December 1-6, 1997, Denver, Colorado. Item #984
NIPS*97 Neural Information Processing Systems - Natural and Synthetic.

NIPS*97 Registration, Conference Consulting Associates, 451 N. Sycamore, Monticello, IA 52310, USA. Fax: 319 465 6709 (attn: Denise Prull), email: nipsinfo@salk.edu.

Applications: handwriting recognition, DNA and protein sequence analysis,
expert systems, fault diagnosis, financial analysis, medical diagnosis,
music processing, time-series prediction.

Artificial Intelligence: inductive reasoning, problem solving and planning,
natural language understanding, hybrid symbolic-subsymbolic systems.

Cognitive Science: perception and psychophysics, development, neuropsychology,
cognitive neuroscience, language, human learning and memory, attention.

Implementation: analog and digital VLSI, optical neurocomputing systems,
novel neuro-devices, simulation tools, parallelism.

Neuroscience: functional imaging, systems physiology, neural coding, synchrony,
synaptic plasticity, neuromodulation, dendritic computation, calcium dynamics,
inhibition, computational models.

Reinforcement Learning and Control: exploration, dynamic programming,
planning, navigation, robotic motor control, process control, Markov
decision processes.

Speech and Signal Processing: speech recognition, speech coding, speech
synthesis, rapid adaptation, robust processing, auditory scene analysis,
models of human speech perception.

Theory: computational learning theory, statistical mechanics of learning,
dynamics of learning algorithms, learning of dynamical systems, approximation
and estimation theory, combining predictors, model selection, complexity
theory.

Visual Processing:  image processing, image coding and classification, object
recognition, stereopsis, motion detection and tracking, visual psychophysics.

December 1, 1997, Perth, WA, Australia. Item #1061
Workshop on Evolutionary Computation at AI'97.

Robert Hinterding, Dept. of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, P.O. Box 14428, MCMC, Melbourne, VIC 8001, Australia. Email: rhh@matilda.vut.edu.au, tel: +61 3 9688 4686, fax: +61 3 9688 4050.

Topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to: 
	+ Classifier Systems and Other Evolutionary Learning Systems 
	+ Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks 
	+ Hybrid Learning Systems
	+ Comparisons Between Different Learning Systems
	+ Evolutionary Optimisation
	+ Self-Organisation
	+ Adaptive Systems
	+ Collective Behaviour
	+ Emergence
	+ Complexity in Evolutionary Systems
	+ Artificial Life
	+ Evolutionary Approach to Autonomous Robots
	+ Theories of Evolutionary Computation
	+ Parallel Implementations
	+ Applications

December 2-4, 1997, Perth, Western Australia. Item #925
Tenth Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

email: ai97@cs.curtin.edu.au.

Tutorials and Workshops on 1 December 1997.

This year's theme is: AI: Real Problems and Real Solutions.

The invited speakers will be:
	Ruud Bole, IBM, USA
	Hector Levesque, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
	Leon Stirling, Melbourne, Australia

December 3-5, 1997, Goiana, GO, Brazil. Item #944
IVth Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks.

email: sbrn97@eee.ufg.br (or dibio@eee.ufg.br), fax: +55 62 202 0325.

Topics: * biological perspectives * cognitive modeling * dynamic systems
* evolutionary computation * fuzzy logic * hardware implementation * hybrid
systems * learning models * neural network algorithms and architectures
* neural network applications * optimization * pattern recognition and 
image processing * robotics and control * signal processing * theoretical 
models.

December 4-6, 1997, Unzenn, Nagasaki, Japan. Item #1047
IWAM'97 2nd International Workshop on Advance Mechatronics.

IWAM'97 Seretariat, Mechanical Systems Engineering Dept., Nagasaki Univ., Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852, Japan. Tel: +81 958 47 3842, fax: +81 958 47 3247, email: iwam97@welcome.mech.nagasaki-u.ac.jp.

	Adaptive Control		Process Control
	Fuzzy Control			Neural Network
	Robotics			Motion & Actuator
	Machine Vision			Signal Processing
	Measurement			Bio-Medical
	Navigation & Guidance		Mobile Robot

December 4-6, 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Item #1118
SIP '97 International Conference on Signal and Image Processing.

IASTED Secretariat, #80, 4500-16 Avenue NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3B 0M6, tel: 403 288 1195, fax: 403 247 6851, email: iasted@cadvision.com.

December 5-6, 1997, Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Item #1103
Imitation Learning. A NIPS*97 Post-Conference Workshop.

email: nips97_imitation@hip.atr.co.jp.

The goal of this 1-day workshop is to identify and discuss the complex
information processes of imitation learning in short presentations and panel
discussions. The hope is to outline a strategy of how imitation learning
could be studied systematically by bringing together researchers with a
broad range of expertise. Topics of the workshop include:

 -  how learning methods can profit from (i.e., can be biased by) a
    demonstration of a teacher,
 -  how the recognition process of a demonstration could interact with
    the generative process of motor control (e.g., connecting to ideas of
    reciprocally constrained learning processes, as in Helmholtz machines),
 -  how memory and attentional processes operate during imitation,
 -  segmentation and recognition of the teacher's demonstration,
 -  extracting the intent of a demonstration,
 -  psychophysical experiments on imitation learning,
 -  mapping imitation learning onto the functional structure in
    primate brains,
 -  robot and simulation studies of imitation learning,
 -  representations supporting imitation learning.

December 6, 1997, Breckenridge, CO. Item #1154
Can Artificial Cerebellar Models Compete to Control Robots? A NIPS*97 post-conference workshop.

Contact: Patrick van der Smagt, smagt@dlr.de, tel: +49 8153 281152, fax: +49 8153 281134.

December 8-10, 1997, Grand Bahama Island, The Bahamas. Item #864
Special Session on Adaptive Behavior in Animats on IASTED International Conference Intelligent Information Systems.

Jean-Arcady Meyer, AnimatLab, Ecole Normale Superieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France. Email: meyer@wotan.ens.fr, fax: +33 1 44 32 39 01.

   Action selection			Learning and development
   Perception and motor control         Evolutionary computation
   Neural correlates of behavior        Coevolutionary models
   Emergent structures and behaviors    Parallel and distributed models
   Motivation and emotion               Collective and social behavior
   Internal world models                Autonomous robots

December 9-11, 1997, Kathmandu, Nepal. Item #959
ASIAN'97 Asian Computing Science Conference.

email: asian97@tcs.tifr.res.in.

  - Programming Languages and Compilation Technology
  - Formal Reasoning and Constraints
  - Real-Time Computing
  - Network/Mobile Computing

December 11-13, 1997, Taipei, Taiwan. Item #1038
ISMIP'97 International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing.

Dr. Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science, Taipei, Taiwan. Tel: 886 2 788 3799 ext.1811, fax: 886 2 782 4814, email: liao@iis.sinica.edu.tw.

December 15-17, 1997, London Business School, London, England. Item #1008
The Fifth International Conference on Neural Networks in the Capital Markets.

Ms Busola Oguntula, London Business School, Sussex Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4SA, UK. Email: boguntula@lbs.ac.uk, tel: +44 171 262 50 50, fax: +44 0171 724 78 75.

                           Methodologies

 Neural networks & Machine learning
 Fuzzy Logic & Expert systems
 Genetic algorithms & multi-criteria Optimisation
 Non-parametric statistics & Econometrics
 Non-linear time series & Cross-sectional analysis
 Adaptive/Kalman filtering techniques
 Hybrid models
 Model identification, selection and specification
 Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals
 Parameter sensitivity and prediction uncertainty
 Robust model estimation
 Stochastic Analysis, Monte Carlo


                           Applications  areas

 Portfolio management / asset allocation
 Derivative & term structure models
 Models for equity investment
 Bond and stock valuation and trading
 Currency models, forecasting & hedging
 Trading strategies
 Hedging and Arbitrage Strategies
 Cointegration
 Modelling & hedging correlation & volatility
 Portfolio replication: simulation & optimisation
 Retail finance
 Corporate distress & risk models

December 17-20, 1997, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Item #1017
AC97 The Eleventh Amsterdam Colloquium.

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