Past Events on Neural Networks, Vision, and Speech in 1998.


Edited versions of these announcements are published under the title Current Events in Neurocomputing by Elsevier Science B.V. and as Calendar of Events in the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications by the Imperial College Press, UK


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January 1-2, 1998, Karachi, Pakistan. Item #1144
Workshop on Recent Advances in Computer Vision.
Prof. Javaid R. Laghari, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of, Science and Technology (SZABIST), 90 Clifton, Karachi, PAKISTAN, (laghari@biruni.erum.com.pk).

 *Motion-Based Recognition      *Motion Analysis    *Face Recognition
 *Gesture  Recognition          *Active Vision      *Edge Detection
 *Parallel Computer Vision      *Image Coding       *Medical Image
  Processing
 *Neural Networks for Vision    *Image Databases 
 *Hardware Implementations for Vision

January 3, 1998, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Item #1211
CAIVD'98 IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Databases.

Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, 128-30e, Xerox Webster Research Center, 800 Phillips Rd. Webster, NY 14580.

January 3, 1998, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Item #1218
IEEE International Workshop on MODEL-BASED 3D IMAGE ANALYSIS.

Girard Subsol <Gerard.Subsol@sophia.inria.fr>.

January 4-7, 1998, Mumbai, India. Item #1092
International Conference on Computer Vision.

Prof. M. Vidyasagar, Centre for AI & Robotics, Raj Bhavan Circle, High Grounds, Bangalore 560 001, India. Tel: +91 80 2256 803, fax: +91 80 2255 615, email: sagar@cair.ernet.in.

January 4-6, 1998, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Item #1127
Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.

email: amai@rutcor.rutgers.edu.

January 4-9, 1998, Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii. Item #1142
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing.

Russ Altman. russ.altman@stanford.edu.

January 4-6, 1998, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Item #1158
5th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (2 special sessions on Neural Networks).

Prof. Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic Univ., Dept. of Mathematics, P.O. Box 3091, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA, hoffman@acc.fau.edu.

Two special sessions on neural networks will be held.
One on combinatorial and complexity issues arising in neural networks.
The other on the computational power of 2-layer perceptrons with 
continuous inputs and threshold gates.

January 5-9, 1998, Ritz Carlton, Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii. Item #1001
Complexity and Information-Theoretic Approaches to Biology stream at PSB-98.

David L. Dowe, Stanford Univ. Medical School, MSOB X215, Stanford, CA 94305-5479, USA. Email: dld@cs.monash.edu.au.

January 5-9, 1998, Los Angeles, USA. Item #1174
Short Course: Digital Signal Processing: Theory, Algorithms and Implementations.

Marcus Hennessy. Tel: (310) 825 1047, fax: (310) 206 2815, email: mhenness@unex.ucla.edu.

DSP methods immediately at their workplace, as well as:
o	Analyze discrete time systems using time domain mathematics
o	Analyze discrete time systems using frequency domain/Z-domain 
mathematics
o	Understand the fundamental theory relating to sampling rate, 
quantization noise and the architecture of a generic DSP system
o	Design and implement FIR, IIR, and adaptive digital filters
for real-world applications in digital audio and acoustics and
telecommunications
o	Understand the theory of adaptive signal processing systems
and how to apply to real-world problems
o	Understand the DSP theory of signal coding and compression
o	Understand the key theory and achievable advantages of 
oversampling, multirate, noise shaping, and undersampling strategies
o	Undertake DSP system design using advanced analysis and
design software
o	Implement real-time digital filters, and adaptive digital
filters using DSP simulation software, and real-time DSP processor
hardware
o	Apply DSP theory and algorithms in the application domains
of modern computing, multimedia systems, and communication systems
o	Integrate theoretical and practical skills to undertake a DSP
design project.

January 6-9, 1998, Big Island, HI, USA. Item #1059
HICSS'31 Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Business Administration, 2404 Maile Way, B-101, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. Tel: 808 956 3251, fax: 808 956 9685, email: hicss@hawaii.edu.

January 8-11, 1998, Hong Kong. Item #932
ACCV'98 Third Asian Conference on Computer Vision.

Prof. Roland T. Chin, Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. Email: accv@cs.ust.hk, fax: +852 2358 1477.

Active and Real-Time Vision		Low-Level Processing
2D & 3D Scene Analysis			Stereo and Motion Analysis
Document Processing			Integration of Modules and Cues
Character Recognition			Object Recognition
Biomedical Image Analysis		Physics-Based Vision
Image Analysis for Multimedia		Industrial Visual Inspection
Feature Extraction			Image Segmentation
Texture Analysis			Applications

January 9-11, 1998, Bangalore, India. Item #1093
International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems.

Prof. M. Vidyasagar, Centre for AI & Robotics, Raj Bhavan Circle, High Grounds, Bangalore 560 001, India. Tel: +91 80 2256 803, fax: +91 80 2255 615, email: sagar@cair.ernet.in.

January 9-11, 1998, Agora for Biosystems, Sigtuna, Sweden. Item #1181
WORKSHOP ON HIPPOCAMPAL MODELING.

Hans Liljenstrom, Agora for Biosystems, Box 57, Sigtuna, Sweden, tel: +46 (0)8 592 50901, +46-(0)8-790 7172, email: hali@theophys.kth.se.

January 13-14, 1998, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Item #991
First AMS Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Rosemary M. Dyer, PL/GPAB, 29 Randolph Road, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-3010, USA. Tel: 617 377 2967, fax: 617 377 2984, email: dyer@plh.af.mil.

January 21-23, 1998, Madrid, Spain. Item #1025
6th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributes Processing.

Euromicro, P.O. Box 2346, 7301 EA Apeldoorn, THe Netherlands. Tel: +31 55 5795503, fax: +31 55 5795509, email: euromicro@standby.nl.

January 21-23, 1998, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. Item #1079
ICASE/LaRC Workshop on Computational Aerosciences in the 21st Century.

Emily Todd, Conference Manager, ICASE, Mail Stop 403, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681-0001, email: emily@icase.edu.

January 21-22, 1998, Malvern, UK. Item #1134
NCAF Neural Computing Applications Forum.

Sally Francis. Tel: +44 1784 477271, fax: 472879, email: ncafsec@brunel.ac.uk.

     Multi-Sensor Arrays - Mahesan Niranjan (Cambridge Univ.)
 
     Application of Perceptron Neural Networks to Tool State
     Classification in a Metal Turning Process - Dimla E Dimla, Jnr
     (Univ. of Wolverhampton)
 
     Classification of Molten Steel Quality using Pattern Recognition
     Techniques - Mark Brookes (British Steel)
 
     Neurocomputational Models of Auditory Perception and Speech
     Recognition - Sue McCabe (Plymouth Univ.)
 
     Transformation-Invariant Feature Recognition by Neural
     Self-Organisation - Chris Webber (DERA)
 
     A Homogeneity Analysis Approach to Nonlinear Principal
     Components Analysis - Andrew Webb (DERA)
 

February 9-11, 1998, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchill, Australia. Item #961
ICCIMA'98 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications.

Dr Henry Selvaraj, Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology, Monash Univ., Churchill, VIC - 3842, Australia, tel: +61 3 9902 6665, fax: +61 3 9902 6842, email: iccima98@fcit.monash.edu.au.

Conference Topics Include (but not limited to):
  Artificial Intelligence 
  Artificial Neural Networks 
  Artificial Intelligence and Logic Synthesis
  Functional decomposition
  Pattern Recognition
  Fuzzy Systems 
  Genetic Algorithms
  Intelligent Control 
  Intelligent Databases
  Knowledge-based Engineering 
  Learning Algorithms 
  Memory, Storage and Retrieval 
  Multimedia Systems
  Formal Models for Multimedia
  Interactive Multimedia
  Multimedia and Virtual Reality
  Multimedia and Telecommunications
  Multimedia Information Retrieval

February 9-10, 1998, Tenerife, Spain. Item #1062
I&ANN Independence and Artificial Neural Networks Workshop.

Dr Colin Fyfe, Dept. of Computing and Information Systems, Univ. of Paisley, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE, Scotland.

1.  Independent Component Analysis which has most recently been
successfully applied to the problem of  "blind separation of sources" 
such as the recovery of a single voice from a mixture/convolution of 
voices. Such methods normally use either information theoretic criteria 
or higher order statistics to perform the separation.
2.  Identification of independent sources: the seminal experiment in 
this field is the identification of single bars from an input grid 
containing mixtures of bars.
 Factor Analysis (or generative models)  has been a recent popular 
method for this problem.
3.  Using contextual information to identify structure in data.

The regular registration fee for the EIS'98 symposium (February 11-13, 1998)
is estimated at Ptas. 59,000 per person, but a reduction will be offered to
workshop participants.

February 11-13, 1998, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. Item #962
EIS'98 International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems.

ICSC Canada, P.O. Box 279, Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0, Canada. Fax: +1 403 387 4329, email: icsc@compusmart.ab.ca.

Topics:
Theory: Expert Systems, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms,
Machine Learning, Hybrid Systems, Chaos Theory.
Applications: Control, Industrial Diagnostics, Robotics, Signal Processing,
Estimation, Modeling, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Simulation, 
Remote Sensing, Multivariate Image Analysis, Business, Financial Planning,
Management, Damage Assessment, Security, Physics, Human- Medical and Healthcare,
Environment, Hardware Implementations, Speech Processing and Recognition.
Conference fees include attendance to all sessions, lunches, dinners, social
program, conference proceedings and daily transportation. Students may register
with a rebate by eliminating proceedings and the social program.

February 11-13, 1998, Brisbane, Australia. Item #1100
ACNN'98 Ninth Australian Conference on Neural Networks.

ACNN'98 Secretariat, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Univ. of Queensland, QLD. 4072, Australia. Email: acnn98@elec.uq.edu.au.

Applications: Examples Include: Signal processing and analysis;
Pattern recognition; Speech, Machine vision; Motor control; Robotics;
Forecasting; 

Medical Architectures and Learning Algorithms: New architectures and
learning algorithms; Hierarchy; Modularity; Learning pattern
sequences; Information integration; Evolutionary computation; Machine
learning

Cognitive Science: Models of perception and pattern recognition;
Memory; Concept formation; Problem solving and reasoning; Language
acquisition and production

Neuroscience: Vision, Audition, Motor Somatosensory and Autonomic
functions; Synaptic function; Cellular information processing

Theory: Learning; Generalisation; Complexity; Stability; Dynamics

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

February 12-13, 1998, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet, Magdeburg, Germany. Item #1151
NN'98 Neuronale Netze in der Anwendung.

NN'98, z.H. Dr. Detlef Nauck, Institut fuer Wissens- und Sprachverarbeitung, Fakultaet fuer Informatik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany. Tel: 0391 67 12700, fax: 0391 67 12018, email: nn98@fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de.

   * Neuronaler Netze in technischen Anwendungen
   * Neuronale Netze in wirtschaftlichen Anwendungen
   * Neuronale Netze in medizinischen Anwendungen
   * Neuronale Netze in der Bildverarbeitung
   * Lernverfahren f=FCr Neuronale Netze
   * Architekturen Neuronaler Netze
   * Entwurf Neuronaler Netze
   * Mathematische Grundlagen Neuronaler Netze
   * Biologische Aspekte Neuronaler Netze
   * Wissensverarbeitung mit Neuronalen Netzen
   * Neuro-Fuzzy-Systeme
   * Neuronale Netze und Evolution=E4re Algorithmen

February 12, 1998, London, UK. Item #1199
Self-Learning Robots II: Bio-Robotics.

Jon Maddison. Email: jmaddison@iee.org.uk.

February 12-13, 1998, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. Item #1219
NN'98 Neural Networks in Applications 3. International Workshop.

Dr. Detlef Nauck, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Institute of Knowledge Processing and Language Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, Univ. of Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, D-39106 Magdeburg, Germany . Tel: +49 391 67 12700, fax: +49 391 67 12018, email: Detlef.Nauck@cs.uni-magdeburg.de.

February 18-20, 1998, Grindelwald, Switzerland. Item #1094
17th IASTED International Conference - Modelling, Identification and Control.

IASTED, # 101, 1811 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92804, USA. Tel: 714 778 3230, fax: 714 778 5463, email: iasted@orion.oac.uci.edu.

February 18-20, 1998, Calcutta, India. Item #1110
ICCLSDP98 International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Speech and Document Processing.

Prof. B. B. Chaudhuri, General Chair, C.V.P.R Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B. T. Road, Calcutta - 700 035, India. Email: bbc@isical.ernet.in.

Computational Linguistics
    
      Corpus acquisition and analysis              Ambiguity analysis
      Language statistics                          Spell - checker design
      Morphological analysis                       Machine aided translation
      Syntactic and semantic analysis              Text retrieval
      Discourse structure analysis                 Other applications


Document Processing
    
     Document  layout  analysis              Cursive script  recognition
     Logical   structure  analysis           On-line character recognition
     Automatic  information  retrieval       Map diagram, drawing understanding
     Optical character  recognition          Document data compression
     Postal and office automation            Theoretical tools



Speech Processing

     Speech analysis                        Speech perception
     Speech  synthesis                      Spoken language processing
     Speech  and  hearing

February 23-25, 1998, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Item #1116
AI'98 Sixteenth IASTED International Conference APPLIED INFORMATICS.

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

A. Computer Architecture and Systems 
B. Networks, the Internet and the Web 
C. Parallel and Distributed Processing 
D. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems 
E. Software 
F. Multimedia and Hypermedia  

February 28-March 2, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Item #1104
Fuzzy and Soft Computing Applications Track at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.

Dr. E. Damiani, Polo Didattico e di Ricerca di Crema, Universitŕ di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013 Crema, Italy. Tel: (+39)-373-893240, edamiani@crema.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 2-6, 1998, University of Trieste, Italy. Item #1184
Third European Course on "Recent Advances in Image Processing and Analysis".

The Office, via San Nicolo` 14, I-34121 Trieste, Italy, tel: +39 (40) 368 343, fax: +39 (40) 368 808, email: theoffice@theoffice.it.

COURSE OUTLINE
Order statistics filters: theory and applications
Mathematical morphology and its applications
Polynomial-based operators
Pattern recognition
Advanced video image processing
Multimedia applications

March 2-6, 1998, UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, ITALY. Item #1188
Third European Course on "RECENT ADVANCES IN IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS".

The Office, via San Nicolo` 14, I-34121 Trieste, Italy, tel: +39 (40) 368 343, fax: +39 (40) 368 808, email: theoffice@theoffice.it.

COURSE OUTLINE

Order statistics filters: theory and applications
Mathematical morphology and its applications
Polynomial-based operators
Pattern recognition
Advanced video image processing
Multimedia applications

March 2-6, 1998, UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, ITALY. Item #1238
Third European Course on "RECENT ADVANCES IN IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS".

The Office, via San Nicolo` 14, I-34121 Trieste, Italy, tel: +39 (40) 368 343 - fax: +39 (40) 368 808, email: theoffice@theoffice.it.

COURSE OUTLINE

Order statistics filters: theory and applications
Mathematical morphology and its applications
Polynomial-based operators
Pattern recognition
Advanced video image processing
Multimedia applications

March 3-6, 1998, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Item #1296
1998 BISC-SIG-ES Workshop.

Masoud Nikravesh Earth Sciences Division, MS 90-1116, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720, tel: (510)486 7728 fax: (510)486 5686, email: MNikravesh@lbl.gov.

 

March 7-14, 1998, Guenne (near Dormund), Germany. Item #1156
Interdisziplinares Kolleg (Spring School on AI and Neural Networks).

Email: christine.harms@gmd.de, tel: +49 2241 142473, fax: +49 2241 142472.

This interdisciplinary school deals with AI, NN, Cognition and Neurobiology.

March 7-14, 1998, Guenne am Moehnesee, Germany. Item #1166
IK-98 spring school on neural networks, neuroscience, AI and cognition.

Christine Harms, c/o GMD, Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany. Tel: 02241 14 2473, fax: 02241 14 2472, email: christine.harms@gmd.de.

March 11-13, 1998, Marseilles, France. Item #1129
NEURAP'98 Fourth International Conference on Neural Networks and their Applications.

EURAP'98, DIAM - IUSPIM, Univ. of Aix-Marseille III, Domaine Universitaire de St Jerome, Av. Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France. Tel: ++33 4 91 05 60 60, fax: ++33 4 91 05 60 33, email: Claude.Touzet@iuspim.u-3mrs.fr.

Applications, or methods, techniques, Topics : tools that help to understand or develop neural networks applications 

Special sessions 

     Adaptive Robotics, Organizer: N. Sharkey (N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk)

     Applications of artificial neural networks to data mining, Organizer: Francois Blayo (fblayo@prefigure.com)

     Microelectronics for neural nets, Organizer: Karl E. Grosspietsch (grosspietsch@gmd.de)

     Neuro-Fuzzy Control, Organizers: Leonard Reyneri (reyneri@polito.it), Marcello Chiaberge (marcello@polimage.polito.it) and Dante
     Del Corso (delcorso@polito.it)

     Knowledge-based applications of artificial neural networks, Organizers: Ian Cloete (ian@cs.sun.ac.za) and Frederic Alexandre
     (falex@loria.fr)

     Medical applications of neural networks, Organizers: Leslie S. Smith (l.s.smith@cs.stir.ac.uk) and Claude Touzet
     (Claude.Touzet@iuspim.u-3mrs.fr)

     Neural Networks in System Identification and Control, Organizer: Maurizio Cirrincione (nimzo@cerisep1.diepa.unipa.it)

     Neural Networks Based on Wavelet Processing, Organizer: Ruy. L. Milidiu (milidiu@inf.puc-rio.br)

     Applications of Neural Networks in Industrial Engineering, Organizer: Agostino G. Bruzzone (bruzzone@linux.it)

     Third generation of neural networks: Beyond simple nodes and linear synapses, Organizers: Jaap Hoekstra
     (J.Hoekstra@et.tudelft.nl) and Leslie S. Smith (l.s.smith@cs.stir.ac.uk) 

     Learning dynamical data structures: From theory to applications, Organizer: Marco Gori (marco@McCulloch.ing.UNIFI.IT) 

     Formal limitations of neural networks in real-world applications, Organizer: Dominique Luzeaux (luzeaux@etca.fr) 

     Robots behaviour synthesis : towards task- fullfilled learning, Organizer: Anne Johannet (Anne.Johannet@eerie.fr)

March 18-20, 1998, Munich, Germany. Item #1149
5. International GI-Workshop: Fuzzy-Neuro Systems'98.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. W. Brauer, FNS'98, Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, D-80290 München, Germany.

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

March 19-20, 1998, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Item #1240
23rd SPEEDUP Workshop on Process Engineering.

Karsten M. Decker, decker@cscs.ch.

-- Separation technology and transport phenomena
-- Reaction engineering and catalysis
-- Process design, operation, integration and development
-- Dynamic simulation and process optimization
-- Design of process control strategies

March 20-22, 1998, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. Item #1216
MAICS-98 Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference.

Prof. Martha Evens, Computer Science Dept., Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 West 31st Street, Chicago, IL 60616, USA. Email: mwe@.math.nwu.edu, tel: 847 869 8537.

We invite papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and
Cognitive Science, including Cognitive Psychology, Computational 
Linguistics, Logic and Automated Reasoning, Machine Learning, and 
Philosophy of Mind.

March 23-25, 1998, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. Item #1167
Intelligent Environments Symposium.

Michael Coen, MIT AI Lab, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Tel: 617 253 8916, email: mhcoen@ai.mit.edu.

    Multimodal user-interfaces
    Speech recognition and understanding systems
    Software architectures for modular systems
    Computer vision systems for gesture, face, and object recognition
    Computer vision systems for people tracking
    Audio systems for sound localization
    Knowledge representation of real-world events
    Application areas for intelligent environments

March 23-27, 1998, London, UK. Item #1170
EXPO98 Practical Application.

The Practical Application Company, P.O. Box 137, Blackpool, Lancs FY2 9UN, UK. Tel: +44 1253 358081, fax: +44 1253 353811, email: info@pap.com.

PAAM98     23rd  -  25th March 1998
PAAM is the flagship event  of PA EXPO98. PAAM will address a number of key
issues. How can agent technology solve problems faced today? What are the
benefits, rewards, and return on investment? What developments are in the
pipeline for tomorrow? What are the opportunities, and the pitfalls for
software agents?
http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PAAM98/

PADD98     25th - 27th March 1998
With the rapid advance in data capture , transmission and storage,
companies will increasingly need to implement new and innovative ways to
use the knowledge hidden in their data.  PADD will demonstrate the wealth
of potential business opportunities that are available through the use of
this technology.
http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PADD98/

PAP/PACT98      25th - 27th March 1998
The premier forum for constraint and logic programming applications and
systems, PAP/PACT will explore the real world benefits for business and
future trends for these technologies.
http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PAPPACT98/

PAKeM98     23rd - 25th March 1998
PAKeM is the new event for 1998 initiated in recognition of the emerging
level of interest in Knowledge Management.  KM is rapidly being recognised
as an essential business tool and PAKeM will show how a wealth of
opportunities are available through the use of this technology.
http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PAKeM98/

March 23-24, 1998, Seville, Spain. Item #1201
ICV'98 IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Components for Vehicles.

Takeshi Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820, Japan. Tel: +81 948 297712, fax: +81 948 297742, email: yamakawa@ces.kyutech.ac.jp.

March 23-27, 1998, Colour & Imaging Institute, University of Derby, UK. Item #1308
Easter School and International Conference: Colour Science and Image Engineering for Multimedia Applications.

Linda Marshall, CII Week Administrator, 17 Nottingham Road, Keyworth, Nottingham, Notts, NG12 5FB, UK. Tel: +44 (0)115 9376070 fax: +44 (0)115 9375271 email: lmmarshall@compuserve.com.

The week will include three events of the highest academic quality:
    *  Easter School in Colour Science (2 days)
    *  Launch of the Colour & Imaging Institute (1 day)
    *  'Colour Imaging in Multimedia' Conference (2 days)

March 25-27, 1998, Madrid, Spain. Item #1026
3rd IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles.

Prof. Carlos Balaguer, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, C / Butarque 15, 28911 Leganes, Madrid, Spain. Fax: +34 1 6249430, email: iav98@ing.uc3m.es.

March 25-27, 1998, Mission Valley Marriott, San Diego, USA. Item #1044
EP98 The Seventh Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming.

A. E. Eiben, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Leiden Univ., Neils Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 71 5277060, email: gusz@wi.leidenuniv.nl.

The Seventh 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. 

March 25-27, 1998, London, UK. Item #1138
The Second International Conference and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

PADD97, 54 Knowle Avenue, Blackpool, Lancs FY2 9UD, UK.

        * Actual business benefits and business problems addressed

        * Either innovative KD and DM techniques applied to standard domains
          or significant new applications of standard techniques

        * Issues and methods of resolution to get the application
          implemented and deployed

        * why KDD was appropriate

        * How benefits are measured


Rule Induction
Classification
Clustering
Summarisation
Learning Systems
Inductive Logic Programming
Pattern Recognition
Predictive Modelling
Neural Networks
Client/Server Systems
Intelligent Agents
Knowledge Acquisition
Decisional Data Analysis
Visualisation
Dependency Detection
Uncertainty Handling
Sequence Processing
Regression Methods for Prediction
Database issues in Data Mining
Fuzzy Logic Approaches to Data Mining

March 25, 1998, Seville, Spain. Item #1157
LOMOLOCO Workshop on Local Modelling and Local Control.

Hugues Bersini. Email: bersini@ulb.ac.be, tel: +32 2 650 27 29, fax: +32 2 650 27 15.

Following the IFAC workshop on Intelligent Components for Vehicles
(ICV'98): One day Workshop on LOMOLOCO (Local Modelling Local Control)
approaches in Non-Linear Control in the context of the FAMIMO ESPRIT
Project.

March 29-31, 1998, New York City, USA. Item #1175
CIFEr98 Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering.

Mark Larson, Meeting Management, IAFE Administrative Office, 646-16 Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY 11777-2230, USA. Tel: 516 331 8069, fax: 516 331 8044, email: m.larson@iafe.org.

Financial Engineering Applications:

* Risk Management
* Pricing of Structured Securities
* Asset Allocation
* Trading Systems	
* Forecasting
* Risk Arbitrage
* Exotic Options 

Computer & Engineering Applications
& Models:

* Neural Networks
* Probabilistic Modeling/Inference
* Fuzzy Systems and Rough Sets 
* Genetic and Dynamic Optimization
* Intelligent Trading Agents
* Trading Room Simulation
* Time Series Analysis
* Non-linear Dynamics

March 30 - April 3, 1998, Mexico City, Mexico. Item #729
The Fourth World Congress on Expert Systems.

Rogelio Soto, Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM, Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada #2501 Sur, Monterrey, N.L. 64849, Mexico. Tel: 52 8 328 4197, fax: 52 8 328 4189, email: rsoto@campus.mty.itesm.mx.

Papers are being solicited in the following areas but not limited to:

     Applications of Expert Systems
     Business Re-Engineering using Expert Systems
     Chaos Theory
     Constraint Satisfaction Programming
     Distributed Expert Systems
     Expert Systems Development and Management Methodology
     Fuzzy Expert Systems
     Genetic Algorithms
     Hybrid Intelligent Systems
     Intelligent Agents on Information Superhighway
     Knowledge Acquisition
     Knowledge Sharing and Reuse
     Machine Learning
     Model-based Reasoning
     Neural Networks
     Operational Expert Systems
     Standardizing Expert Systems
     Unification of Expert Systems with Quantitative Techniques
     Verification and Validation

March 30, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal. Item #1163
VISUAL'98 International Workshop on Visualization Issues for Formal Methods.

Dr. Joachim Posegga, Deutsche Telekom AG, Technologiezentrum, FZ122h, Am Kavalleriesand 3, D-64295 Darmstadt, Germany. Tel: +49 6151 83 6715, fax: +49 6151 83 4090, email: posegga@tzd.telekom.de.

   - Application of visualization and  representation concepts to support
     domain-specific instantiations of formal methods

   - System architectures for enhanced graphical support

   - Graphical or visual methods and tools supporting automatic analysis,
     synthesis and verification methods

   - Effects  of  visual information on  productivity and performance in 
     formal methods

   - Case studies based on visually-oriented tools, or comparison studies
     between  visually  and  sententially  oriented  tools  and  their 
     applications.

March 30- April 3, 1998, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #1198
BioSP3 First Workshop on Biologically Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing Problems.

Prof. Stephan Olariu, Dept. of Computer Science, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA 23529-0162, USA. Tel: +1 757 683 4417, fax: +1 757 683 4900, email: olariu@cs.odu.edu.

        o Biologically-based methods for solving parallel processing 
          problems (e.g. ant algorithms, genetic algorithms, cellular 
          automata, DNA and molecular computing, neural networks) for 
          solving parallel processing problems (scheduling, data organisation 
          and partitioning, communication and routing, VLSI layout etc.)

        o Other Methods based on natural phenomena such as simulated 
          annealing and other artifical life techniques applied to solve 
          problems in parallel processing are also of interest

        o Parallel/Distributed Platforms for biologically-based computations 

        o Techniques for integrating conventional parallel and 
          biologically-based Paradigms

        o Tools and algorithms for parallelizing biologically-based techniques 

        o Applications and case studies combining traditional parallel and 
          distributed computing and biologically-based techniques

        o Theoretical work related to solution optimality, convergence 
          issues, and time/space complexities of parallel algorithms that 
          employ biolgically-based methods

April 1-4, 1998, Nabeul-Hammamet. Item #947
CESA'98 2nd IMACS International Multiconference: Computational Engineering in Systems Applications.

CESA'98 Secretary, Ecole Centrale de Lille, BP 48, Cite scientifique, 59651 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. Fax: +33 3 20 33 54 99, email: cesa98@ec-lille.fr.

     The aim of this important meeting is to make the state of the art
of the various theoretical and practical aspects of computational
engineering involved in system theory and its applications.

     The main application areas considered during the multiconference
will be : Aeronautics and Astronautics. Automation. Bank and Finance.
Biomedical Engineering. Car Industry. Chemical Engineering. Components and
Instrumentation. Economy and Management. Electrical Engineering. Energy
Systems. Environmental Systems. Food Industry. Integrated
Manufacturing. Management. Marine and Off-Shore Control. Medicine. Production
Industry. Robotics. Telecommunications. Textile Industry. Transportation
Systems. Utilities...

April 1-4, 1998, Nabeul-Hammamet, Tunisia. Item #1052
Session on Intelligent Prognostic Methods in Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Planning at CESA'98.

Ameen Abu-Hanna, Dept. of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Univ. of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Email: A.Abu-Hanna@amc.uva.nl, tel: +31 20 5664511, fax: +31 20 6912432.

o Modelling and Reasoning 
o Knowledge Acquisition  
o Use and Reuse of Prognostic Models  
o Formalisation 
o Medical Applications 

April 1-4, 1998, Nottingham, England. Item #1111
ECCM-98 Second European Conference on Cognitive Modelling.

Frank Ritter. Email: ritter@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk.

The conference will cover all areas of cognitive modelling, including
symbolic and connectionist models, evolutionary computation,
artificial neural networks, grammatical inference, reinforcement
learning, and data sets designed to test models.  Papers that present
a running model and its comparison with data are particularly
encouraged.  This meeting is open for work on cognitive modelling
using general architectures (such as Soar and ACT) as well as other
kinds of simulation models.

April 5-7, 1998, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Item #1283
1998 IEEE SOUTHWEST SYMPOSIUM ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION.

Jeff Rodriguez, rodriguez@ece.arizona.edu.

April 5-7, 1998, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Item #1304
1998 IEEE SOUTHWEST SYMPOSIUM ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION.

Jeff Rodriguez, rodriguez@ece.arizona.edu.

    Image Segmentation		    Face Recognition
    Image Enhancement		    SAR Image Analysis
    Image Reconstruction	    Texture Classification
    Wavelets and Fractals	    Document Image Analysis
    Compressed-Domain Processing    Biomedical Image Analysis
    Multiresolution Image Analysis  Color Image Analysis
    Multispectral Image Analysis    Remote Sensing

April 6-9, 1998, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Item #1056
MPCS'98 The Third International Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems.

email: Euromicro@standby.nl.

	- Massively parallel architectures
	- Application-specific architectures
	- Memory organization and management
	- Heterogeneous and distributed computer systems
	- Artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms
	- Highly parallel cellular automata
	- Programming environments for MPCS
	- Languages, compilers and operating systems
	- Theoretical foundations of massive parallelism
	- Arithmetics
	- Communications in MPCS
	- MPCS in telecommunications
	- MPCS in image processing, graphics and computer vision
	- Performance evaluation
	- Applications in finance, bio-chemistry, medicine, etc.

April 14-17, 1998, London, England. Item #1131
CNNA'98 5th IEEE International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and their Applications.

Prof. Vedat Tavsanoglu, School of Electrical, Electronic & Information Engineering, South Bank Univ., Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK. Tel: +44 171 815 7526, fax: +44 171 815 7599, email: cnna98@sbu.ac.uk.

Basic theory, cellular nonlinear spatiotemporal phenomena; 
     Applications including computing, communications and multimedia; 
     Learning; 
     Physical implementations (VLSI, optical, nanotechnology); 
     CNN development systems, software implementations and simulators; 
     CNN chip sets and CNN computers; 
     Cellular and sparsely connected dynamic processor systems; 
     Biologically relevant models and neuromorphic implementations. 

April 14-15, 1998, Paris, France. Item #1133
EUROGP'98 First European Workshop on Genetic Programming.

Wolfgang Banzhaf, International Computer Science Institute, 1947, Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA. Tel: +1 510 643 9153, fax: +1 510 643 7684, email: banzhaf@icsi.berkeley.edu.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  Theoretical developments
  Experimental results on performance and behaviour of GP runs
  New algorithms, representations and operators
  Novel applications of GP to real-life problems
  Hybrid architectures including GP components
  Comparisons with other machine learning or program-induction techniques
  New libraries and implementations


The workshop will consist of:

  A tutorial on GP for beginners 
  An invited talk by John Koza 
  Oral and poster sessions with periods for discussion
  Software demos and industrial stands

April 14-17, 1998, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Item #1137
Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems.

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

          - online learning of neural network applications facing
            changing data distributions
          - transfer of neural network solutions to
            related but different domains
          - application of neural networks for
            adaptive autonomous systems
          - "phylogenetic" vs. "ontogenetic" adaptivity
            (e.g. adaptivity of connectivity and architecture vs.
             adaptivity of coupling parameters or weights)
          - short term vs. long term adaptation
          - adaptive reinforcement learning
          - adaptive pattern recognition
          - localized vs. distributed approximation (in terms of
            overlap of decision regions) and adaptivity

April 15-17, 1998, Melbourne, Australia. Item #1036
PAKDD-98 The Second Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Dr Xindong Wu, Dept. of Software Development, Monash Univ., 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Melbourne 3145 Australia. Tel: +61 3 9903 1025, fax: +61 3 9903 1077, email: xindong@insect.sd.monash.edu.au.

- Data and Dimensionality Reduction
- Data Mining Algorithms and Tools
- Data Mining and Data Warehousing
- Knowledge Acquisition in Software Re-Engineering and Software Information Systems
- Induction of Rules and Decision Trees
- Management Issues in KDD
- Machine Learning, Statistical and Visualization Aspects of KDD(including Neural Networks and Inductive Logic Programming)
- Mining in-the-large vs Mining in-the-small
- Noise Handling
- Security and Privacy Issues in KDD... (and more topics)

April 15-17, 1998, Napa, California. Item #1186
The Sixth Annual IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines.

Jeffrey M. Arnold, 10686 Mira Lago Terrace, San Diego, CA 92131, tel: 619 547 9257, fax: 619 547 9010, jmarnold@znet.com.

Architecture of reconfigurable computing devices and systems,
including coprocessors, attached processors, and hybrids.

Languages, compilation techniques, tools, and environments for
programming and run time support;

Application domains;

Prototyping for architecture emulation.

April 16-17, 1998, Paris, France. Item #1178
EVOROBOT'98 First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics.

Philip Husbands, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, England. Email: evorob@cogs.susx.ac.uk.

Genotype to Phenotype mappings
Analysis of evolutionary processes and of evolved robots
Adaptation to changing environments
Co-evolution of control architectures and body plans
Interactions of evolution, development and learning
Evolvable Hardware in Robotics
Fundamental methodological issues
Simulation-reality transference
Comparison of Evolutionary Robotics methodologies
Scaling to complex behaviors
Fitness formula analysis
Role of Evolutionary Robotics in Cognitive Science
Neuroethological uses of Evolutionary Robotics

April 17-19, 1998, University of Chicago, USA. Item #1169
CLS34 Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

Chicago Linguistic Society, 1050 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, tel: 773 702 8529, cls@tuna.uchicago.edu.

April 20-25, 1998, Hannover Messe, Hannover, Germany. Item #1072
Third Joint Presentation of Applied Neurosciences and Artificial Intelligence.

Arno A. Evers, Föhringer Allee 11, 85774 Unterföhring, Germany. Email: arno@fair.pr.m.eunet.de, tel: ++49 89 958 1724, fax: ++49 89 958 1923.

April 21-23, 1998, Adelaide, Australia. Item #1009
KES'98 Second International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems.

L.C. Jain, Knowledge-based Intelligent Engineering Systems, Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide, The Levels, S.A. 5095, Australia. Email: etLCJ@Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au.

     .  ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETS
     .  FUZZY SYSTEMS
     .  EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING
     .  CHAOS THEORY
     .  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MULTIMEDIA

April 21-24, 1998, Chemnitz, Germany. Item #1065
ECML-98 Tenth European Conference on Machine Learning.

Claire Nedellec, LRI, Bat 490, Universite Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay, France. Email: cn@lri.fr, fax: +33 1 69 15 65 86, tel: +33 1 69 15 66 26.

  Submissions are  invited that describe empirical, theoretical research
  in  all areas of machine learning.   In  addition, papers from related
  disciplines (for instance, information retrieval, pattern recognition,
  cognitive  modeling,    evolutionary computation,  artificial   neural
  networks, grammatical  inference, reinforcement  learning, etc.)  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 (for instance, natural language
  processing, robotics, data  mining, etc.), but such submissions should
  speak  of  general issues  of  machine learning,  perhaps illustrating
  novel  learning methods  or demonstrating  the utility of  established
  methods in previously unexplored settings.

April 21-23, 1998, Plymouth Engineering Design Centre, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK. Item #1073
ACDM'98 Third International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture.

Dr. I C Parmee, Plymouth Engineering Design Centre, Univ. of Plymouth, Drake Circus, plymouth, UK, PL4 8AA. tel: +44 1752 233509, fax: +44 1752 233529, email: iparmee@plymouth.ac.uk.

A major objective
is the identification of fundamental problem areas that can be 
generically supported by appropriate adaptive computing strategies. Areas of
specific interest include: 

     the integration of adaptive computing with each stage of the design process 
     the development of co-operative frameworks supporting the utilisation of appropriate combinations of evolutionary/adaptive search
     and CI technologies within a design/manufacturing environment 
     the application of novel adaptive computing techniques and strategies that address specific design/analysis problems of high
     complexity. 
     constraint satisfaction and constrained optimisation 
     the integration of evolutionary/adaptive search and other CI technologies with current design/manufacturing team practice 
     novel application to or integration with complex manufacturing systems eg control, planning and scheduling etc 
     AS and CI support for multi-disciplinary decision-making 
     the inclusion of manufacturing aspects and related criteria within AS-based design scenarios ie an investigation of the utility of AS &
     CI within integrated product development 
     the potential contribution of AS and CI to design concurrency 
     GP, NN and Fuzzy models / fitness function representations and subsequent AS manipulation 
     reducing the computational expense associated with population-based search and optimisation 
     human-centred aspects of AS/CI integration and application 

April 21-23, 1998, Adelaide, Australia. Item #1098
Hardware Implementation of Neural Networks. A session at KES'98.

Prof. Yuzo Hirai, Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, Univ. of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Ten-nodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan. Tel: +81 298 53 5519, fax: +81 298 53 5206, email: hirai@is.tsukuba.ac.jp.

* Learning and Classification
* Feature Extraction and Dimension Reduction
* Self-organization and Clustering
* Principal Component Analysis and Independent Component Analysis
* Associative Memory and Constraint Processings
* Sensory Processings
* Fault Tolerance in Hardware Neural Networks

April 22-24, 1998, High Tatras, Slovakia. Item #1046
Artificial Intelligence in Industry: From Theory to Practice.

Dr. Marián Mach, Dept. of Cybernetics and AI, Technical Univ. of Kosice, Letná 9/B, 041 20 Kosice, Slovak Republic. Fax: ++421 95 57864, tel: ++421 95 6253574, email: aiii@ccsun.tuke.sk.

        * Expert Systems        * Evolutionary Algorithms
        * Fuzzy Systems	        * Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
        * Neural Networks       * Constraint Satisfaction
        * Machine Learning      * Image Processing
        * Speech Recognition    * Special Algorithms

April 22-24, 1998, Bruges, Belgium. Item #1130
ESANN98 6th European Symposium Artificial Neural Networks.

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

* theory
* models and architectures
* mathematics
* learning algorithms
* vector quantization
* self-organization
* RBF networks
* Bayesian classification
* recurrent networks
* approximation of functions
* time series forecasting
* adaptive control
* statistical data analysis
* independent component analysis
* signal processing
* natural and artificial vision
* cellular neural networks
* fuzzy neural networks
* hybrid networks
* identification of non-linear dynamic systems
* biologically plausible artificial networks
* bio-inspired systems
* formal models of biological phenomena
* neurobiological systems
* cognitive psychology
* adaptive behavior
* evolutive learning

April 23-24, 1998, Berlin, Germany. Item #886
CANCELED!!!!! BioNet'98 Fourth Berlin Workshop 'Biology Oriented Neural Networks: Delaying Networks'.

Dr. G. Heinz, GFaI e.V. Rudower Chaussee 5, Geb. 13.7, 12487 Berlin, Germany. Tel: +49 30 6392 1600, fax: 1602. Email: heinz@gfai.FTA-Berlin.de.

April 24, 1998, Chemnitz, Germany. Item #1234
ECML'98 Workshop Upgrading Learning to the Meta-level: Model Selection and Data Transformation.

Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1UB, United Kingdom, tel: +44 117 954 5145, fax: +44 117 954 5208, email: cgc@cs.bris.ac.uk.

April 24, 1998, Chemnitz, Germany. Item #1281
HUMAN LEARNING MEETS MACHINE LEARNING a One-day workshop at ECML'98.

Dolores Canamero, Instituto de Investigacion en Inteligencia Artificial (IIIA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Campus U.A.B. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain, fax: 34 3 580 96 61, email: lola@iiia.csic.es.

- Cognitive and non-cognitive models of learning
- Collaborative learning
- Human metaphors in machine learning
- Human-like learning agents (humanoid robots, believable agents, etc.)
- Machine learning in education
- Machine learning models and implementations of human learning
- Representation and learning: representation changes, learning with
        multiple goals and representations, deictic and active
        representations, etc.
- Sequencing and order effects in learning
- Situated learning in humans and artefacts
- Sociality and communication in learning

April 24, 1998, Chemnitz, Germany. Item #1311
Workshop: Application of Machine Learning and Data Mining in Finance at ECML-98.

Dr. Elmar Steurer, Daimler-Benz AG, Research and Technology, Postfach 2360, 89013 Ulm, Germany. Tel: 0049 731 505 2868, fax: 0049 731 505 4210, email: elmar.steurer@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM.

Application aspects:

- Scoring systems: Application and Behavioural Scoring
- Trading- and forecasting models
- Volatility models
- Value at Risk
- Financially motivated objective functions

Methodological aspects:

- Symbolic Learning in financial engineering
- Neural Networks for financial applications
- Aspects and dependencies of data transformation and model selection
- Backtest procedures: Advantages and bottlenecks
- Pre-testing as an alternative to backtest 
- Data Mining process model for financial applications

April 27 - May 1, 1998, Zakopane, Poland. Item #1050
9th International Symposium on System Modelling Control.

Mrs Beata Anna Ostrowska, Institute of Computer Science, Technical Univ. of Lodz, ul. Sterlinga 16/18, 90-217 Lodz, Poland. Tel: +48 42 329757, fax: +48 42 303414, email: beaostro@lodz1.p.lodz.pl.

Topics
------
Progress and current trends in:

1. system theory
2. modelling and simulation
3. control
4. diagnosis
5. computational intelligence

Applications of 1 - 5 in:

A. engineering
B. ecology
C. biomedicine
D. socioeconomics
E. education

April 27- May 2, 1998, TUCSON, ARIZONA. Item #1276
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 1998.

The University of Arizona, Extended University, Attention: Registration, P.O. Box 210158, Tucson, AZ 85721-0158. Email: extuniv@ccit.arizona.edu.

May 4-9, 1998, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Item #1049
WCCI'98 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.

Steve Marlin, Meeting Managment, 2603 Main Street, Suite 690, Irvine, CA 92714, USA. Tel: 714 752 7866, fax: 714 752 7444, email: MeetingMgt@aol.com.

 combines

IJCNN'98            FUZZ-IEEE'98            ICEC'98  

May 10-14, 1998, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Item #1005
Session on Learning Cyclic Control/Behavior in Robots at ISORA'98.

Gary B. Parker, Lindley Hall 215, Computer Science Dept., Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN 47405-4101, USA. Email: gaparker@cs.indiana.edu.

Learning methods can be  (but are not limited to):

   Genetic Algorithms 
   Cyclic Genetic Algorithms
   Genetic Programming
   Evolutionary Strategies 
   Classifier Systems
   Evolutionary Programming
   Neural Networks
   Fuzzy Logic
   Probabilistic Reasoning

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the use of these 
methods to produce:

   Legged Robot Gaits
   Finite State Machine Controllers
   Multi-Sensor Monitoring Cycles
   Real-Time Robot Navigation
   Cyclic Behaviors in Multiple Robots
   Movement Cycles of Robot Manipulators
   Emergent Cyclic Behaviors of Multiple Agents

May 10-14, 1998, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Item #1030
Pattern Recognition Section of ISSCI'98.

Homayoon Beigi, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218 - Room 36-219, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA, tel: (914) 945 1894, fax: (914) 243 4965, email: beigi@watson.ibm.com.

May 10-14, 1998, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Item #1031
ISSCI Second International Symposium on Soft Computing for Industry.

Zeungman Bien, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon, 305-701, Korea. Tel: 82 42 869 3438, fax: 82 42 869 3410, email: zbien@ee.kaist.ac.kr.

     Learning, Fault tolerance, Supervised learning, Neurodynamics, Cognitive sciences, Radial
     basis function nets, Associate memories, Principle component nets, Multilayered
     perceptrons, Fuzzy-neural systems, Evolved neural systems, Software / Hardware
     implementations, applications in control, robotics, manufacturing, pattern recognition,
     medicine, communication, finance, economics, Speech, Signal / Image Processing,
     Manufacvturing, Automation, Energy/environment systems, etc. 

     Fuzzy sets, Rough sets, Fuzzy data analysis, Fuzzy resoning, Fuzzy control, Fuzzy
     modeling, software/Hardware implementations, fuzzy logic applications in roboticsd,
     manufacturing, automation, complex systems, Pattern recognition, Medicien, Image/signal
     processing, Finance and economics, Statistics, hybrid systems : Fuzzy-Neural Nets,
     Evolved fuzzy systems, etc. 

     Evolutionary computing theory, genetic algorithms, applications of evolutionary
     computationo automation, roboticsd, control, manufacturing, multimedia, image processing
     and medicine, Artificial life, etc. 

     Fuzzy logic system techniques, 
     Applications of fuzzy logic in automotive,manufacturing,food and other industrial fields 
     Neural systems and neuro-fuzzy systems 
     Genetic algorithms, programming and evolutionary strategy 
     Artificial Intelligence,distributed intelligence and expert systems 
     Probabilistic reasoning and learning systems 
     Hybridization of soft computing techniques and intelligent systems 
     Man-machine interface/communications 
     Machine vision and pattern recognition 
     Applications of soft computing in medical, biological and other scientific fields 
     Chaotic Engineering methods and rough sets techniques. 

May 11-13, 1998, Singapore. Item #1082
IMCC'98 The Eighth International Manufacturing Conference.

Conference Secretariat, IMCC'98, Faculty of Engineering, Dean's office, National Univ. of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, SINGAPORE, tel: No: (65) 772 2142, fax: No: (65) 777 3847, email: address: mpeongsk@nus.sg.

A.	Conventional and Non-Conventional Machining
		Mechanics of machining, machinability
		Machining of ceramic/composite materials
		Tooling equipment and materials

B.	Automation
		CNC, CAD/CAM, FMS, CIM
		Robotics
		Automated assembly, inspection
		Imaging and vision system

C.	Manufacturing System
		Design for manufacture
		Manufacturing management & information systems
		Quality and reliability management
		Product engineering
		Business process re-engineering

D.	Advanced Manufacturing Processes
		Forming/casting processes for conventional and new materials
		Modelling of manufacturing processes
		Expert system in processing
		Rapid prototyping

May 11-14, 1998, Munster, France. Item #1263
IXčmes JOURNÉES NSI'98 NEUROSCIENCES et SCIENCES de L'INGÉNIEUR.

Joelle HUI - NSI98, CNRS Formation - bat 31, av de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, tel: 01 69 82 44 93, fax: 01 69 82 44 89, email: joelle.hui@cf.cnrs-gif.fr.

May 12-15, 1998, Seattle, USA. Item #1084
Beyond Toy-Problems: Real-World Signal Processing Applications using Neural Networks. A special session at ICASSP.

Jan Larsen. Email: jl@imm.dtu.dk.

May 13-16, 1998, Pittsburgh, PA USA. Item #1119
IASTED International Conference Modelling and Simulation.

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 

  * Modelling             * Animation 
  * Simulation            * Visualization 
  * Hardware              * Multimedia 
  * Languages             * Bond graphs 
  * Numerical methods     * Petri nets 
  * Analysis and Design   * Stochastic processes 
  * Neural networks       * Parallel and distributed processing 
  * Software Engineering and CASE 

APPLICATIONS 
  * Aerospace              * Economics               * Biotechnology 
  * Control                * Reliability             * Nuclear                                                      Reactors 
  * Computers              * Quality control         * VLSI 
  * Networks               * Robotics                * Heat Transfer 
  * Biomedical systems     * Manufacturing           * Biomechanics 
  * Healthcare             * Circuits and systems    * Fluid flow 
  * Chemical engineering   * Signal processing       * Flight simulators 
  * Civil engineering      * Transportation          * Airports 
  * Energy systems         * Education               * Harbours 
  * Power systems          * Risk Assessment         * Others 
  * Environmental systems  * Operations research 

May 13-15, 1998, Roskilde University, Denmark. Item #1327
FQAS'98 International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems.

FQAS'98 Conference Chair, Henning Christiansen, Dept. of Computer Science, Roskilde University, bldg. 20.1, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, tel: (+45) 4674 2576, fax: (+45) 4674 3072, email: henning@ruc.dk.

May 14-16, 1998, Chicago, USA. Item #1325
IEEE Computer Society 1998 International Conference on Computer Languages.

David Schmidt, Kansas State University, schmidt@cis.ksu.edu.

May 15-16, 1998, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. Item #1075
TIME-98 Fifth International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning.

Robert Morris or Lina Khatib, TIME-98 Program Chairs, Computer Science Program, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 Univ. Blvd. Melbourne, FL 32901.

              temporal logics and ontologies
              temporal constraint reasoning
              temporal languages and architectures
              expressive power versus tractability
              belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge
              temporal databases
              temporal learning and discovery
              reasoning about actions and events
              time and nonmonotonism
              time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling,...)
              time in multiple agents, communication, and synchronization
              other applications

May 17-20, 1998, Sanibel Island, FL, USA. Item #1069
Special Track on Neural Network Applications at FLAIRS-98.

Ingrid Russell, Dept. of Computer Science, Dana Hall, Room 230, Univ. of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117, USA. Fax: 860 768 5244, tel: 860768 4191, email: irussell@uhavax.hartford.edu.

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

May 17-20, 1998, Sanibel Island, FL, USA. Item #1070
FLAIRS-98.

Lawrence O. Hall, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. Tel: 813 974 3652, fax: 813 974 5456, email: hall@csee.usf.edu.

The Eleventh International FLAIRS conference seeks high quality paper submissions in all areas of AI, including
planning, learning, uncertainty reasoning, computer vision, expert systems, multiagent systems, logic, knowledge
representation, and AI education. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and selected
authors will be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition
and Artificial Intelligence.

May 17-20, 1998, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. Item #1107
Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning at FLAIRS-98.

Eric Neufeld, Dept. of Computer Science, Engineering Building, Univ. of Saskatchewan, 57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9. Email: unc-flairs@rdony.wlu.ca.

 Many uncertainty formalisms have been developed, including:
graphical models, probabilistic logics, fuzzy logic, defeasible reasoning,
belief functions. and Bayes' nets. As well, the AI community is using
traditional probabilistic and statistical techniques to efficiently solve AI
problems such as: decision support systems, temporal reasoning, planning,
diagnosis, logic paradoxes, and natural language processing. Papers on all
aspects of uncertain reasoning are invited. Papers of particular interest to
this track are:

   * practical applications of uncertainty reasoning formalisms
   * inference of models from data
   * efficient algorithms for uncertainty formalisms
   * probabilistic approaches to traditional AI problems
   * construction of probabilistic models
   * qualitative probabilistic reasoning
   * uncertain temporal reasoning
   * probability logics
   * decision-theoretic planning.
   * systems of argumentation or defeasible reasoning

May 17-20, 1998, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. Item #1125
Special Track on Natural Language Processing and Human-Computer Interaction at FLAIRS-98.

Dr. Susan Haller, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin - Parkside, 241 Molinaro Hall, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141-2000, USA. Tel: 414 595 2343, fax: 414 595 2114, email: haller@cs.uwp.edu.

   * Empirical studies in specifying, designing, implementing, and/or
     evaluating Natural Language Interfaces
   * Multimodal Interfaces with Natural Language modalities
   * Natural Language Processing and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
   * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Natural
     Language/Human-Computer Interfaces and Cooperative Work systems
   * Symbolic, connectionist, statistical, and hybrid architectures for
     Natural Language/Human-Computer Interfaces
   * Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis in Human-Computer
Interfaces
   * Demonstrations of implemented NLP/HCI systems (video, on-site, or
     Internet)

May 18-20, 1998, Arras, France. Item #1165
Thirteenth French-speaking Conference on Machine Learning.

Jacques Nicolas, IRISA - INRIA, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France. Tel: +33 2 99 84 73 12, email: jnicolas@irisa.fr.

 Applications of Machine Learning 
                                Case-based Learning 
 Computational Learning Theory 
                                Data Mining 
 Evolutionary Computation 
                                Hybrid Learning Systems 
 Inductive Learning 
                                Inductive Logic Programming 
 Knowledge Discovery in Databases 
                                Language Learning 
 Learning and Problem Solving 
                                Learning by Analogy 
 Learning in Multi-Agent Systems 
                                Learning in Dynamic Domains 
 Learning to Search 
                                Multistrategy Learning 
 Neural Networks 
                                Reinforcement Learning 
 Robot Learning 
                                Scientific Discovery 

May 18-22, 1998, Zurich, Switzerland. Item #1209
AFPAEC98 2nd International Conference on Advanced Focal Plane Arrays and Electronic Cameras.

email: afpaec98@etca.fr.

| *  Phototransduction technology and circuits (visible, IR, UV, X ...)   |
| *  Optics, microoptics, optical processing and FPAs                     |
| *  3-D or stacking technologies suitable for FPAs                       |
| *  High performance and application specific FPAs                       |
| *  Active pixel sensors, retinomorphic sensors, computational image     |
|    sensors, using analog and/or digital circuit techniques              |
| *  Readout mechanisms and alternative information extraction schemes    |
| *  Integration of sensors within cameras or vision systems              |
| *  Association of FPAs with FPGAs, DSPs and other processing chips      |
| *  Embedded image- processing, compression, conversion, formatting      |
| *  Interfaces of sensors and cameras with computers                     |
|    or image/video storage/transmission equipment                        |
| *  Application in inspection, robotics, telecommunication ...           |

May 21-23, 1998, Washington, DC, USA. Item #1086
International IEEE Joint Symposia on Intelligence and Systems.

N.G. Bourbakis. Tel: 607 777 2165, email: bourbaki@binghamton.edu.

May 21-23, 1998, Washington, DC, USA. Item #1088
INBS 3rd IEEE Symposium on Intelligence in Neural and Biological Systems.

James R. Gattiker, TA3, SM43, MSF645, DP13S, XCM, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA. Tel: 505 665 0604, email: gatt@xdiv.lanl.gov.

Is a part of the 
International IEEE Joint Symposia on    Intelligence and Systems    

May 21-23, 1998, Washington, DC, USA. Item #1089
ISNLS 3rd IEEE Symposium on Image, Speech, Natural Language Systems.

Johannes S. Mertoguno, M/S 353, Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. 50 Rio Robles, San Jose, CA 95134, USA. Email: jmertogu@fmi.fujitsu.com, tel: 408 922 9599.

Is a part of the 
International IEEE Joint Symposia on Intelligence and Systems   

  SOME TOPICS: Image (Coding, Compression, Encryption, Segmentation,             
         Enhancement, Restoration, Skeletonization, Analysis, Morphology,       
         Databases, Video, Pattern Recognition, OCR, Image Understanding        
         & Interpretations, Mathematical Methods);                              
         Speech (Coding, Compression, Processing, Analysis, Synthesis,          
         Recognition, Understanding);                                           
         Natural Language (NL) Processing, Computational Linguistics,           
         Document Processing, NL Translation, NL Understanding,                 
         Multimedia, etc.                                       

May 21-23, 1998, Washington, DC. Item #1090
IAR 3rd IEEE Symposium on Intelligence in Automation and Robotics.

Anya L. Tascillo, 16886 Elwell Road, Belleville, MI 48111, USA. Tel: 313 845 7427, email: anya@email: com.

 SOME TOPICS: Robot Path Planning, Multiple Robot Motion Planning,              
    Autonomous Navigation, Arm/Leg Control, Robot Vision, Visual                
    Tracking, Human-Robot Symbiosis, Telerobotics, Micro and                    
    Nano Robotics, Robot Cooperation, Assembly Strategies, Sensors,             
    Walking/Running Robots, Task Planning, Process Planning,                    
    Scheduling, Intelligent Control, etc.           

May 21-23, 1998, Bled, Slovenia. Item #1128
IAD'98 IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Assembly and Disassembly.

Ass.Prof. Dr. Dragica Noe, LASIM, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Askerceva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, tel: +386 61/1771-727, fax: +386 61/218-567, email: dragica.noe@fs.uni-lj.si.

     - IAS concepts
     - Integration of IAS into the IMS
     - Computer aided planning of IAS and IDAS
     - Design for assembly and disassembly
     - Recycling and reuse aspects of disassembly
     - Assembly modelling and simulation
     - Virtual manufacturing and assembly systems
     - Modules for IAS
     - Design of workplaces and work organisation
     - Advanced  sensors
     - Tolerancing and assembly
     - Knowledge based systems
     - Fuzzy logic
     - IMS, IAS and logistics
     - Robotics.

May 21-23, 1998, Vietri Sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. Item #1206
WIRN VIETRI-98 The 10th 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    

22.- 24. Mai, 1998, Freiburg im Breisgau, D. Item #1253
Mittelbauern 98 - interdisziplinaerer Neuro-Workshop.

mbauer@theo-physik.uni-kiel.de, M. Hoffmann, tel: 49 761 270 4192, fax: 49 761 270 4104.

Der Mittelbauern-Neuroworkshop bietet Diplomanden, Doktoranden,
Postdocs und Assistenten aus allen Disziplinen der 
Neurowissenschafft die Moeglichkeit zum informellen 
Informationsaustausch. Entsprechend breit ist das Themenspektrum: 
Neurophysiologie, statistische Modelle neuronaler Netze,
biologisch motivierte Computer Vision, explorative Datenanalyse
und vieles mehr.

May 24-27, 1998, Sea Crest Resort, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Item #1232
DX-98 Ninth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis.

P. Pandurang Nayak and Brian C. Williams, NASA Ames Research Center, MS 269-2, Moffett Field, CA 94035. USA, email: nayak, williams @ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov.

Theories of diagnosis, repair, closed loop systems: abductive,
  consistency-based, causal, probabilistic, constraint-based, temporal,
  predictive, contingent.
Computational issues: controlling combinatorial explosion,
  focusing strategies, controlling inference in complex systems, use of
  structural knowledge, hierarchies.
Modeling: multiple, approximate, incomplete, probabilistic,
  functional, qualitative, and hybrid discrete/continuous models,
  integration of heuristics with model-based diagnosis, principles of
  modeling, modeling dynamic systems, knowledge acquisition.
The diagnosis process: repair strategies, monitoring, sensor
  placement, test selection, resource-bounded reasoning, real time
  diagnosis, on-board autonomous operations, active testing, experiment
  design, predictive diagnosis, contingency planning.
Connections between diagnosis and other areas: FDI techniques,
  control theory, logic programming, machine learning, planning, execution,
  Bayesian reasoning, Markov modeling, real time languages, software V
  debugging, synthesis, testing.
Principled Applications: relationship between computational models of
  diagnosis and practical techniques used in real-world applications in a
  wide range of fields, including medicine, chemical, mechanical,
  electrical, and electronics systems.

May 26-29, 1998, Cannes, France. Item #1347
COOP'98 Third International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems.

Monique Simonetti, INRIA, COOP'98, Bureau des Relations Exterieures, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06 902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France, tel: +33 4 93 65 78 64, fax: +33 4 93 65 79 55, email: Monique.Simonetti@sophia.inria.fr.

May 27-30, 1998, Boston, MA, USA. Item #1095
CNS'98 Second International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.

CNS'98, c/o Cynthia Bradford, Boston Univ., Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Fax: 617 353 7755, email: to cindy@cns.bu.edu.

	*vision	
	*object recognition
	*image understanding
	*audition	
	*speech and language
	*unsupervised learning
	*supervised learning
	*reinforcement and emotion
	*cognition, planning, and attention
	*sensory-motor control
	*spatial mapping and navigation
	*neural circuit models
	*neural system models
	*mathematics of neural systems
	*robotics
	*neuromorphic VLSI
	*hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital)
	*industrial applications
	*other

May 27-30, 1998, Cancun, Mexico. Item #1115
ASC'98 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.

     - 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 

June 1-4, 1998, Hotel Intur Orange, Benicassim, Castellon, Spain. Item #1048
IEA-98-AIE 11th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems.

Francisco Toledo Lobo, UJI, Dept. of Informatics, Jaume-I Univ., Campus de Penyeta Roja, E-12071 Castellon, Spain. Fax: 34 64 345 848, email: iea98@titan.inf.uji.es.

TOPICS

1. Methodological Aspects
1.1 Knowledge modeling
1.2 KBS development methods and tools
1.3 KADS related approaches
1.4 Reverse engineering

2. Formal Tools
2.1 Analytic and logic models
2.2 Fuzzy knowledge representation and inference 2.3 Uncertainty and causal=
 reasoning tools 2.4 Bayesian networks
2.5 Qualitative reasoning
2.6 Neural networks
2.7 Genetic algorithms & genetic programming 2.8 Object oriented formulatio=
ns
2.9 Hybridization techniques

3. Generic Tasks of Analysis in IEA/AIE
3.1 Computer vision, intelligent sensors and multisensor perception 3.2 Spe=
ech recognition
3.3 Natural Language Understanding
3.4 System identification
3.5 Monitoring
3.6 Heuristic and connectionist classification 3.7 Fault diagnosis
3.8 Predictive models
3.9 Design recovery

4. Synthesis Tasks in IEA/AIE
4.1 CAD/CAM functionalities
4.2 Spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal planning and scheduling 4.3 Robot=
ic manipulators
4.4 Incremental design
4.5 System configuration

5. Modification Tasks
5.1 Knowledge-based control systems
5.2 Intelligent supervision
5.3 Communication systems (modems-codecs, network management and=20
digital communications)
5.4 Fault tolerant and self-repair systems 5.5 Predictive and model-based c=
ontrol systems 5.6 Visuo-motor coordination
5.7 Real time in AI applications (architectures, tools and case=20
studies)
5.8 Perceptual robotics

6. Machine Learning
6.1 Inductive and deductive strategies
6.2 Analogy and case-based learning
6.3 Multistrategy and hybrid formulations 6.4 Learning in neural nets (supe=
rvised and non-supervised) 6.5 Self organization, synergetics and evolutive=
 optimization=20

7. Applied AI and KBS's in Specific Domains=20
7.1 Development environments in KBS's and neural nets 7.2 Knowledge editing=
 tools
7.3 Multimedia
7.4 Human-computer interaction
7.5 Decision support systems
7.6 Tutoring systems
7.7 Exploratory prototypes
7.8 Reports on real applications with significant findings=20

8. Validation & Evaluation Criteria
8.1 Simulation
8.2 Validation & Verification
8.3 Reliability, validity, acceptance and legal reasons in=20
different fields of application (aviation, nuclear power plants, alarms, me=
dicine)
8.4 Benchmarks
8.5 Acceptability
8.6 Explanatory capacity

June 1-4, 1998, Halifax, Canada. Item #1117
ISC'98 IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control.

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

Active Control 
Artificial Intelligence 
Identification 
Control System Analysis and Design 
Nonlinear Systems 
Robust Control 
Adaptive Control 
Optimization 
Stochastic Systems 
Intelligent Control 
Intelligent Systems 
Fuzzy Systems 
Neural Networks 
Discrete Event Systems 
Education 
Modelling and Simulation 
Applications 
     - Power Systems 
     - Manufacturing 
     - Robotics 
     - Chemical Processes 
     - Automotive and Transportation Systems 
     - Water Resources 
     - Environmental Systems 
     - Software 
     - Oceanic Engineering 
     - Signal and Image Processing 
     - Networks, Internet/Intranets 
Others 

June 1-4, 1998, Sapporo, Japan. Item #1202
IAS-5 5th Internatioal Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems.

S. Mikami, Hokkaido Univ., Fac. of Eng., Complex Systems Eng., North-13, West-8, Sapporo 060, Japan. Tel: +81 11 706 7150, fax: +81 11 706 7225, email: ias5sec@complex.hokudai.ac.jp.

June 2-5, 1998, Trento, Italy. Item #1064
KR'98 Sixth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

Enrico Franconi, IRST-ITC, Trento, Italy. Email: franconi@irst.itc.it.

  * Representational Formalisms            * Implemented KR&R Systems
       o Representations of                     o Reports
            + Belief                            o Updates
            + Intention                         o Comparisons
            + Time                              o Evaluations
            + Space                        * Significant Applications
            + Action                            o Planning
            + Events                            o Robotics
       o Nonmonotonic Logics                    o Diagnosis
       o Description Logics                     o Natural Language
  * Reasoning Techniques                        o Multi-Agent
       o Deduction                                Environments
       o Induction                              o Knowledge Bases
       o Abduction                         * Implications for/of
       o Reasoning under Uncertainty            o Machine Learning
       o Parallel and Distributed               o Decision Theory
       o Implementations                        o Databases
       o Efficiency Measures and                o Software Engineering
         Complexity

June 2-5, 1998, Dusseldorf, Germany. Item #1102
31st ISATA International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation.

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

The special session on "Neural identification, prediction and control for 
automotive embedded systems" will be a forum for analyzing, comparing and 
evaluating the capabilities and the effectiveness of neural techniques with 
specific reference to the automotive area. The use of such technologies in
heterogeneous embedded system, composed by digital dedicated ASIC devices or microprocessor-based structures and neural components, is in fact becoming 
more and more attractive to realize advanced flexible, efficient and smart 
vehicles due to their "intelligent" and adaptive features. For example, typical
application areas are fuel injection, engine efficiency, guide control, asset 
balancing, exhausted emissions control, assisted navigation, sensor enhancement 
and fusion, system diagnosis.

June 2-6, 1998, Freiburg, Germany. Item #1172
ECCV98 European Conference on Computer Vision.

Email: eccv98@informatik.uni-freiburg.de.

June 2, 1998, Granada, Spain. Item #1291
EMNLP-3 Third Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

Nancy Ide, Chair, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA, tel: (+1 914) 437 5988, fax: (+1 914) 437 7498, email: ide@cs.vassar.edu.

      - robust parsing, phrase structure analysis
      - part of speech tagging
      - term and name identification
      - word sense disambiguation
      - morphological analysis
      - anaphora resolution
      - event categorization
      - discourse structure identification
      - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
      - language modelling
      - lexicography
      - machine translation
      - spelling and grammar correction

June 3-5, 1998, Zagreb, CROATIA. Item #1259
IWSSIP'98 5th International Workshop of Systems, Signals and Image Processing.

email: mgrgic@zea.cc.fer.hr.

June 3-4, 1998, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Item #1292
Two-day short course: Empirical Modeling Using Neural Networks.

Tel: ++1 302 774 2484, email: Aaron.J.Owens@usa.dupont.com.

   * Amount and types of data needed 
   * Pre-processing of data 
   * Using neural networks as an empirical nonlinear regression
       tool 
   * Model development using statistically-motivated
       methodology to obtain the optimum network structure 
   * Application areas will include classification, formulation,
       process modeling and control, and time series analysis 
   * Summary example workshop * Opportunity to analyze your own
       data [bring data on 3.5in PC diskette in flat ASCII format]

June 3-5, 1998, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Item #1335
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing IV.

Mrs. L.M. v.d. Eersten-Schultze, CWI, Kruislaan 413, NL 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, email: lieke@cwi.nl, tel: +31 20 592 4189, fax: +31 20 592 4199.

June 3-5, 1998, Zagreb, Croatia. Item #1352
IWSSIP'98 5th International Workshop of Systems, Signals and Image Processing.

email: mgrgic@zea.cc.fer.hr.

June 4-6, 1998, Washington DC, USA. Item #1159
Second International Workshop on Neural Modeling of Brain and Cognitive Disorders.

Cecilia Kullman, UMIACS, A. V. Williams Bldg. Univ. of, Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA. Tel: 301 405 0304, fax: 301 314 9658, email: cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu.

This meeting will focus on artificial neural network models
used to study disorders in neurology, neuropsychology and
psychiatry, such as Alzheimer's disease, amnesia, aphasia,
depression, epilepsy, neglect, parkinsonism, schizophrenia,
and stroke.

June 4-6, 1998, CENTER FOR VISUAL SCIENCE, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA. Item #1319
21st CVS Symposium: Environmental Structure, Statistical Learning & Visual Perception.

Barbara Arnold at barba@cvs.rochester.edu or 716-275-8659.

June 6, 1998, Freiburg, Germany. Item #1288
Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision in conjunction with ECCV'98.

email: jan@cs.uni-bonn.de.

* Supervised Learning and its application to classification, 
  support vector networks and model learning
* Unsupervised Learning for structure detection in images
* Robustness of Computer Vision algorithms and generalization
* Probabilistic model estimation and selection, 
  e.g. Bayesian inference for vision

June 7-10, 1998, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Item #1140
AIPS-98 The Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems.

Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 525-3660, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA. Email: AIPS98+info@cs.cmu.edu.

June 8-10, 1998, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, USA (date tentative). Item #1220
COMPUTER ANIMATION '98 CONFERENCE.

Dimitris Metaxas, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33rd St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389, USA. Tel: 215 898 0945, fax: 215 898 0587, email: dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu.

. Motion control                               . Animation for scientific 
  						 visualization
. Keyframe techniques                          . Animation in engineering
. Motion Capture                               . Motion blur and temporal 
					         antialiasing
. Path planning                                . A.I.-based animation
. Physics-based animation                      . Robotics and animation
. Virtual humans and avatars                   . Virtual reality
. Image rendering in animation                 . Autonomous characters and actors
. Animation languages and systems              . Sound and speech synchronization
. Behavioral animation                         . Vision techniques in animation
. Artificial Life                              . Special hardware for animation
. VCE (Virtual Collaborative Environments)     . Medical applications
. Real-time simulation, animation and 
  visualization

June 10-12, 1998, Gibraltar, Spain. Item #1177
EANN'98 International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks.

email: eann98@ctima.uma.es.

Proposals for special tracks are welcome

The 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, biomedical systems, and environmental
engineering. 

June 11-13, 1998, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Item #1261
CONALD Conference on Automated Learning and Discovery.

email: conald@cs.cmu.edu.

___Plenary speakers________________________________________________

        * Tom Dietterich
        * Stuart Geman
        * David Heckerman
        * Michael Jordan
        * Daryl Pregibon
        * Herb Simon
        * Robert Tibshirani


___Workshops_______________________________________________________

        * Visual Methods for the Study of Massive Data Sets
                organized by Bill Eddy and Steve Eick
        * Learning Causal Bayesian Networks
                organized by Richard Scheines and Larry Wasserman
        * Discovery in Natural and Social Science
                organized by Raul Valdes-Perez
        * Mixed-Media Databases
                organized by Shumeet Baluja, Christos Faloutsos, 
                Alex Hauptmann, and Michael Witbrock
        * Learning from Text and the Web
                organized by Yiming Yang, Jaime Carbonell,
                 Steve Fienberg, and Tom Mitchell
        * Robot Exploration and Learning
                organized by Howie Choset, Maja Mataric
                and Sebastian Thrun
        * Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning for 
                Manufacturing
                organized by Sridhar Mahadevan and Andrew Moore
        * Large-Scale Consumer Databases
                organized by Mike Meyer, Teddy Seidenfeld
                and Kannan Srinivasan

June 11-13, 1998, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. Item #1278
CALD Workshop on Mixed Media Databases.

Shumeet Baluja (baluja@jprc.com).

    Vision: Image, Video, and VRML 
    Speech and Audio 
    Text, including OCR, Closed-Captioning,
    handwriting, and web-documents 
    Olfactory perception 
    Haptic and Touch sensing 

June 11-13, 1998, Desenzano del Garda, Brescia, Italy. Item #1286
MSL'98 The Fourth International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning.

email: msl98@di.unito.it.

* Comparative studies of learning strategies, methods and paradigms
* Cognitive models of learning, inference, and discovery
* Knowledge extraction from data, texts and/or images
* Multistrategy methods for learning and/or mining WWW
* Multistrategy learning systems
* Methods for integrating learning strategies
* Control in multistrategy learning systems
* Applications

June 13-21, 1998, Ile de Berder, Bretagne, France. Item #1190
Third IEEE EMBS International Summer School on BIOMEDICAL IMAGING.

Jean-Louis Dillenseger, LTSI, Universiti de Rennes1, Rennes, France, fax: +33 2 99 28 69 17 email: Jean-Louis.Dillenseger@univ-rennes1.fr.

* Fuzzy Techniques in Medical Image Processing, Isabelle Bloch, Ecole
Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France
* Mammographic Image Processing, Mike Brady, Oxford University, UK
* Quantification of Cardiac Function from 3D Image Sequences, James Duncan,
University of Yale, New Haven, USA
* Biomedical Applications of Digital Geometry, Gabor Herman, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
* Multimedia Computing Technologies in Medical Imaging, Yongmin Kim,
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
* Physics-Based Techniques for Segmentation, Modeling and Analysis of
Internal Organs, Dimitris Metaxas, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, USA
* Computer Assisted Surgery, Jocelyne Troccaz, TIMC/IMAG, CNRS, Universiti
J. Fourier, Grenoble, France
* Multimodal Image Integration, Max Viergever, Utrecht University, The
Netherlands

June 15-19, 1998, Martigny, Switzerland. Item #1139
JEP-98 XXIIemes Journees d'Etude sur la Parole.

email: jep98@idiap.ch, tel: +41 27 721 77 11, fax: +41 27 721 7712.

- Production and perception of Speech
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Prosody
- Language recognition and understanding
- Language and Speaker Recognition/Identification
- Synthesis
- Language models for Automatic Speech Processing
- Dialog 

June 15-18, 1998, Basel, Switzerland. Item #1353
The 3rd International Conference on Microplate Technologies & The 7th International Conference on Automation, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence.

MipTec/ICAR'98, Burece AG, Stadtweg 4/Postfach, CH-4310 Rheinfelden, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 831 3313, fax: +41 61 831 6794, email: bureco@miptec.com.

June 16-19, 1998, Manchester, UK. Item #1203
Simulation in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

Dr Ulrich Nehmzow, Univ. of Manchester, Dept. of Computer Science, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. Tel: +44 161 2756169, fax: +44 161 2756202, email: u.nehmzow@cs.man.ac.uk.

June 16-19, 1998, Manchester, United Kingdom. Item #1264
12th European Simulation Multiconference.

The Society for Computer Simulation International, c/o Philippe Geril, Univ. of Ghent, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, tel: (Office): ++32 9 2337790, fax: ++32 9 2234941, email: philippe.geril@rug.ac.be.

- Tools and Methodology 
- Military Applications 
- Biology, Medicine and Health Care 
- AI and Robotics 
- Education, McLeod Centres 
- Multibody Systems 
- Operations Research 
- Analytical and Numerical Modelling Techniques 
- The History of Simulation 
- Student Papers, Partners for Projects Sessions and Tutorials 

June 17-20, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Item #1193
ICCI'98 The 9th International Conference on Computing and Information.

Ken Barker, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2, tel: (204) 474 8832, fax: (204) 474 7609, email: barker@cs.umanitoba.ca.

 The conference will be organized in 4 concurrent streams:

     Stream A: Theory: Data Theory and Logic, Information and Coding
       Theory, Theory of Programming, Algorithms, Theory of Computation

     Stream B: Distribution/Parallelism: Distributed Computing and
       Communications, Concurrency and Parallelism, Mobile Computing

     Stream C: Systems/Development: Database Systems, Software/Data
       Engineering and CASE Methodology

     Stream D: Applications: AI Methodologies, Expert Systems, UI and
       Knowledge Engineering, WWW

June 17, 1998, Simon Fraser University. Item #1207
12th Canadian Conference on AI: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation.

Franz Oppacher, School of Computer Science, Carleton Univ., oppacher@scs.carleton.ca.

	- genetic operator design
	- formal or experimental analysis 
	- representation choices
	- inspiration from natural systems
	- comparison of algorithms
	- applications to real-world problems
	- applications to AI system sub-modules
	- practitioner insights
	- distributed or parallel implementations
	- hybridized optimization systems
	- evolving neural nets
	- artificial life

June 18-20, 1998, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Item #1063
AI/GI/VI'98 Twelfth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Robert Mercer, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada. Fax: 519 661 3515, tel: 519 679 2111, email: mercer@csd.uwo.ca

June 18-21, 1998, Masan / Tongyoung, Kyungnam, Korea. Item #1162
AFSS'98 The 3rd Asian Fuzzy Systems Symposium.

Prof. Yong Gi Kim, Dept. of Computer Science, Kyungsang National Univ., 900 Gajwa, chinju, Kyungnam, 660-701 Korea. Tel: +82 591 751 5997 fax: +82 591 762 1944, email: ygkim@nongae.gsun.ac.kr.

     Soft computing
     Fundamentals of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
     Approximate reasoning
     Qualitive and approximate modeling
     Learning and acquisition of opproximate models
     Integration of fuzzy logic and neural networks
     Integration of fuzzy logic and evolutionary computing
     Hardware implementation of fuzzy logic and algorithms
     Design and synthesis of fuzzy logic controllers
     Applications to
          System modeling and control
          Computer vision
          Robotics and manufacturing
          Signal processing
          Image understanding
          Decision systems
          Finance
          Databases
          Information systems
          Virtual reality
          Man-machine interfaces
      etc.

June 18- July 1, 1998, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. Item #1302
Computational Neuroscience: Vision - Summer Course.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The Meetings & Courses Office, P.O. Box 100, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724-2213, USA. Tel: 516 367 8346, fax: 516 367 8845.

June 20, 1998, Manchester, UK. Item #1372
LPSC'98 Post-Conference Workshop on LOGIC PROGRAMMING and SOFT COMPUTING.

Trevor Martin at Trevor.Martin@bristol.ac.uk, Francesca Arcelli at arcelli@ponza.dia.unisa.it.

ˇ Fuzzy Extensions of Logic Programming		ˇ Implementations and Applications
ˇ Theorem Proving in Approximated Reasoning	ˇ Hybrid Systems
ˇ Fuzzy Logic and Knowledge-based Systems	ˇ Semantics
ˇ Query Answering Process			ˇ Fuzzy Unification and Resolution
ˇ Fuzzy Deductive Databases 		        ˇ Theoretical Foundations
. Soft Computing and Inductive Logic Programming 

June 21-30, 1998, on the Internet. Item #1148
3rd Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing.

Rajkumar Roy, The CIM Institute, Cranfield Univ., Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK. Tel: +44 1234 750111 Ext. 2860, fax: +44 1234 750852, email: rroy@cim.cranfield.ac.uk.

     The scope of this conference covers the following soft computing and
     related techniques and their application to engineering design and
     manufacturing:
     
          Fuzzy Logic
          Neural Networks
          Evolutionary Computing
          Other Stochastic Optimisation Techniques
          Hybrid Methods
          Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory
          Causal Models
          Data Mining
          Probabilistic Reasoning
          Case-based Reasoning
          Chaos Theory
          Interactive Computational Models
     
     The application areas of interest include but are not limited to :
     
          Decision Support
          Process and System Control
          System Identification and Modelling
          Optimisation
          Signal or Image Processing
          Vision or Pattern Recognition
          Condition Monitoring
          Fault Diagnosis
          Systems Integration
          Innovation
          Collaborative Work
          Internet Tools
          Extended Enterprise
     
     Conference tracks will cover the following THEMES:
     
          1. General problem solving issues in different areas of
          engineering design and manufacturing and how Soft Computing can
          address those issues more effectively than the conventional
          techniques.
     
          2. Successful industrial applications and case studies;
          application methodologies; Good Practice Guides on soft computing
          applications.
     
          3. Soft computing architectures; practical models of soft
          computing; computational costs.
     
          4. Prototypes and tools for soft computing; Internet-accessible
          tools; distributed soft agents.
     
          5. Human-computer interaction (HCI), social and Legal issues
          (copyright, IPR), international standards.
     

June 21-22, 1998, Santa Barbara, California. Item #1187
IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision.

Kevin Bowyer, Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, ENB 326, Tampa, FL 33620-5399, kwb@csee.usf.edu.

June 22, 1998, Santa Barbara, CA. Item #1143
IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Techniques for Multimedia Compression.

Dr. Carlo Tomasi - CVTMC'98, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford Univ., Gates Building 1A, Room 156, Stanford, CA 94305.

 * Layered representation of images
 * Clustering of video shots
 * Texture representation and segmentation for image coding
 * 3-D segmentation and representation 
 * Compact combined description of shape and motion
 * Registration of panoramic imagery
 * Automatic facial conformation for model-based videophone
 * Stereo and multiview image coding
 * Parametric surface and volume description
 * Speech-lip synchronization
 * Contour-based coding
 * Content-based scalability

June 22-26, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. Item #1222
VI-DYNN'98 Workshop on Virtual Intelligence - Dynamic Neural Networks.

Thomas Lindblad (KTH), Conf. Chairman. Email: lindblad@particle.kth.se tel: +46 8 16 11 09, ClarkS. Lindsey (KTH), Conf. Secretary. Email: lindsey@particle.kth.se tel: +46 8 16 10 74, Switchboard: +46 8 16 10 00, fax: +46 8 15 86 74.

                 VI-DYNN'98 Topics:
Dynamic NN                     Fuzzy Systems
Spiking Neurons                Rough Sets
Brain Image                   Genetic Algorithms
Virtual Reality
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                   Applications:
Medical   Defense & Space          Others
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Special sessions:

PCNN - Pulse Coupled Neural Networks  
                   exciting new artificial neural networks  
                   related to real biological neural systems
PCNN applications:  
                   pattern recognition  
                   image processing  
                   digital x-ray imaging devices, CCD's & SAR
Biologically inspired neural network models  
                   why, how and where to use them
The mammalian visual system  
                   smart sensors benefit from their knowledge
The Electronic Nose

June 22, 1998, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Item #1303
IEEE Computer Society Workshop on INTERPRETATION OF VISUAL MOTION.

Aaron Bobick, MIT Media Laboratory, E15-383, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, tel: 617 253 8307, fax: 617 253 8874, Internet: bobick@media.mit.edu.

 * Representation of time for action understanding 
 * Detecting activities involving multiple interacting agents 
 * Segmentation of video into space-time regions for additional processing 
 * Use of context in understanding action 
 * Qualitative or logical representation of motion 
 * Behavior recognition 
 * Gait detection and identification 
 * Applciations such as sports or surveillance with novel solutions

June 23-25, 1998, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Item #1145
1998 Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Prof. Dmitry Goldgof, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620.

Applications 
     Image and Video Libraries 
     Learning in Vision 
     Low-Level Vision, Color & Texture 
     Medical Image Analysis 
     Motion Analysis 
     Object Recognition and Indexing 
     Pattern Analysis 
     Physics-Based vision 
     Real-Time and Active Vision 
     Segmentation, Grouping 
     Shape Representation and Recovery 
     Vision and Graphics 
     Vision-Based computer Interfaces 

June 24-26, 1998, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Item #1153
TAINN'98 The Seventh Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks.

TAINN'98, Dept. of Computer Engineering and Information Science, Bilkent Univ., 06533 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey. Email: ilyas@cs.bilkent.edu.tr, tel: 90 312 2664000 ext. 1589, fax: 90 312 2664126.

    AI Architectures, Artificial Life, Automated Modeling, Automated
Reasoning,
    Control, Causality, Cognitive Modeling, Common Sense Reasoning,
    Computer-Aided Education, Decision Theory, Decision Trees, Design,
Diagnosis,
    Discourse, Discovery, Distributed AI, Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic,
    Game Playing, Genetic Algorithms, Geometric or Spatial Reasoning,
    Information Retrieval, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge
Representation,
    Logic Programming, Machine Learning, Machine Translation,
Mathematical
    Foundations, Multi-agent Systems, Multimedia, Natural Language
Processing,
    Neural Networks, Non-monotonic Reasoning, Pattern Recognition,
Perception,
    Philosophical Foundations, Planning, Problem Solving, Qualitative
Reasoning,
    Real-Time Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Scheduling,
Search,
    Simulation, Software Agents, Speech Understanding, Temporal
Reasoning,
    User Interfaces, Vision.

June 25-26, 1998, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland. Item #1247
IRISH SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE.

Dr. A. O'Dwyer, School of Control Systems and Electrical Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin St. Dublin 8. Tel: +353 1 4024875, Telefax: +353 1 4024992, email: aodwyer@dit.ie.

Topics and themes include:
1. 	Signal Processing
a. 	Speech, audio, image, video, sonar, radar and biomedical
signals.
b. 	Signal analysis, estimation, modelling and prediction, pattern
recognition.
c. 	VLSI for signal processing;
	VLSI architectures and chip design; 
	CAD for VLSI implementation; 
	use of FGPA's in signal processing.
	
2. 	Control
a. 	Robust and Adaptive Control.
b. 	System Identification and Modelling.
c. 	Control Theory.
d. 	Biomedical Applications.
e. 	Industrial Applications / Robotic Systems.
f. 	Non-linear and chaotic system theory.
g. 	Applications of neural networks, fuzzy systems and genetic
algorithms.

3. 	Communications
a. 	Modulation and detection, echo cancelling, equalisation,
telemetry, mobile communications, multiple access technologies.
b. 	Broadband: ATM, services (video, audio, data, multimedia),
network provision.
	
4. 	Special Theme 1
	Education: Algorithms, methods and tools for teaching
communications, signal processing and control to undergraduate and
postgraduate students.

5.   Special Theme 2
       Industrial applications of control (kindly being organised by Dr.
J.V. Ringwood, Dublin City University).

June 26-27, 1998, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Item #1217
WBIA IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis.

Dr. Ravikanth Malladi, 50A-2152 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Email: malladi@euphrates.lbl.gov.

Motion Analysis of Biomedical Images
Deformable Models
Stereoscopic Techniques
Inter and Intra-modal Image Registration
PDE-based Methods of Image Analysis
Multidimensional Image Segmentation
Multidimensional Surface and Volume Models
Biomedical Image Databases
Measurements of Anatomical Structures
Multidimensional Data Visualization
Simulation and Augmented Reality
 

June 26, 1998, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Item #1580
Second IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance.

Steve Maybank S.J.Maybank@reading.ac.uk.

   * High level scene interpretation
    * Tracking
    * Modelling and recognition of gestures and actions
    * Multi-camera data fusion
    * Detection of abnormal or unusual behaviour
    * System training and learning=20
    * Object detection and recognition

June 26, 1998, Santa Barbara, California. Item #1257
IEEE Computer Society Workshop on PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION in COMPUTER VISION.

Sudeep Sarkar, Computer Science and Engineering, 4202 E Fowler Ave. ENB 118, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, US, email: sarkar@csee.usf.edu, tel: 813 974 2113.

June 29- July 19, 1998, Telluride, Colorado, USA. Item #1208
Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop.

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

June 29- July 2, 1998, Technion, Israel. Item #1380
Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation Non-linear Time Series for Learning, Prediction and Control.

Dr. Ron Meir, rmeir@dumbo.technion.ac.il.

June 30 - July 1, 1998, Derby, England. Item #1384
NCAF Neural Computing Applications Forum Conference.

email: NCAFsec@brunel.ac.uk, tel: (+44/0)1784 477271.

July 1-3, 1998, Thistle Hotel, Glasgow, UK. Item #1189
NMBIA '98 Workshop on Non-Linear Model Based Image Analysis.

NMBIA98, Signal Processing Division, Dept of Electronic and Elect Eng, Univ. of Strathclyde, 204 George Street, Glasgow G1 1XW, Scotland.

*Object Oriented Coding
*Segmentation
*Database Retrieval
*Image/Video Restoration
*Image Models
*Video Pre/Postprocessing
*Colour in Image Processing

July, 1998, Item #1233
SIGGRAPH98 Emerging Technologies Program.

Janet McAndless, Chair, SIGGRAPH 98 Enhanced Realities, Sony Pictures Imageworks, 9050 W. Washington Blvd. #367, Culver City, CA 90232, +1.310.840.8172, +1.310.840.8256 fax, mcandless@siggraph.org.

This program explores the foundation of computer graphics for a new 
medium. It envisions our augmented future. It showcases innovations in 
intelligent graphics that apply emerging technologies to produce 
achievements in:

        -   Multimodal interface design 
        -   Graphical autonomous agents 
        -   Interactive entertainment 
        -   Things that learn

July 1-3, 1998, Glasgow Thistle Hotel, Scotland. Item #1284
SPECIAL SESSION ON COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING WORKSHOP ON NON-LINEAR MODEL BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS.

Moncef Gabbouj. Email: Moncef@cs.tut.fi.

              - color image restoration and enhancement
              - color image interpolation
              - color image segmentation and analysis
              - multichannel signal processing

July 2-3, 1998, Leicester, UK. Item #1053
Recent Advances in Soft Computing.

Bob John, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, De Montfort Univ., Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK. Email: rij@dmu.ac.uk, tel: +44 116 2551551 ext 8473.

Topics of interest include:


       *  Fuzzy Logic
       *  Fuzzy Control
       *  Fuzzy Decision Making
       *  Neural Networks
       *  Neuro Fuzzy Systems
       *  Genetic Algorithms
       *  Genetic Programming
       *  Hybrid Systems

Application areas may include, but are not limited to:

       *  Manufacturing
       *  Robotics
       *  Financial Services
       *  Engineering
       *  Architecture
       *  Information Systems
       *  Design
       *  Data Analysis and Signal Processing
       *  Databases
       *  Medicine

July 2-8, 1998, Paris, France. Item #1066
ICMAS'98 Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems.

Alexis Drogoul, Laboratoire LIP6, Universite de Paris 6 et CNRS, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France. drogoul@laforia.ibp.fr.

Interaction capabilities, constraints, and prefererences :
 *  Communication languages and protocols (semantics, pragmatics, etc.)
 *  Organization and social structure (agent roles, social laws, etc.)
 *  Cooperative problem solving (collective goals driving individual
choices)
 *  Decentralized systems (individual choices driving collective
behavior)
 *  Mechanism design (incentives for aligning individual and group
goals)

Reasoning about coordinated interactions
 *  Conflict resolution and negotiation
 *  Multi-agent planning
 *  Coalition formation and organization self-design
 *  Agent modeling and plan recognition
 *  Multi-agent learning
 *  Distributed search and constraint satisfaction
 *  Foundations (multi-agent logics, game-theory, economics, philosophy,
etc.)

Engineering, deploying, and evaluating multiagent systems
 *  Agent programming languages
 *  Multi-agent programming frameworks
 *  Agent models and architectures
 *  Standards for multi-agent technology (interaction protocols,
languages)
 *  Development and engineering methodologies
 *  Evaluation of multi-agent systems
 *  Testbeds and development environments
 *  User interfaces and personalizable agents

Practical applications
 *  Agents in electronic commerce
 *  Cooperative information systems
 *  Distributed resource allocation
 *  Information agents on the internet
 *  Multi-agent simulations of social and biological systems
 *  Multiagent vision and robotics
 *  Believable agents in multi-agent settings
 *  Interacting personal digital assistants
 *  ...and many others...

July 2-8, 1998, Cite des Sciences- La Villette, Paris, France. Item #1266
The Fifth International Workshop on AGENT THEORIES, ARCHITECTURES, AND LANGUAGES.

Anand Rao, Australian AI Institute, Level 6, 171 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia. Email: anand@aaii.oz.au, fax: (+61 3) 663 7937, tel: (+61 3) 663 7922.

   * Agent theories: What approaches (e.g., game theory, temporal/modal
     logic) are appropriate for agent theory? How do these approaches relate
     to one another?

   * Agent architectures: What architectures are appropriate for autonomous
     agents? How can such architectures be given a formal semantics? How can
     different agent architectures be evaluated and compared? What
     methodologies can be used to build agent-based applications? How close
     are these methodologies to existing formal specification languages or
     object-oriented analysis and design methods?

   * Agent languages: What programming paradigms are most suitable for
     agents? How do agent-oriented languages differ from object-oriented and
     logic programming languages? What are efficient implementation
     mechanisms for these languages? What design tools and methodologies are 
     appropriate for the development of agent-based systems?

   * Development techniques: What software engineering techniques are
     most appropriate for developing agent-based systems? Can
     object-oriented techniques be adapted?  What specification,
     refinement, and verification techniques are appropriate?

July 6-10, 1998, Paris, France. Item #875
IPMU'98 The Seventh Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems.

IPMU'98, LAFORIA-IBP, case 169, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France. Tel: +33 1 44 27 47 21, fax: +33 1 44 27 70 00 or +33 1 45 75 08 90, email: ipmu@laforia.ibp.fr.

Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Fuzzy Methods, Mathematical Theory of
Evidence, Belief Networks, Possibility theory, Chaos Theory, Measures of
Information and Uncertainty, Rough Sets

Non-standard Logics, Non-monotonic Logics, Approximate Reasoning,
Multivalued Logics, Modal Logics, Temporal Reasoning, Default Reasoning

Knowledge Acquisition and Representation, Machine Learning, Inductive
Methods, Commonsense Knowledge, Intelligent Databases and Information
Systems, Neural Networks, Database Mining, Uncertainty in Cognition

Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary
Computation, Uncertainty in Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems,
Multicriteria and Group Decision Making, Pattern Recognition, Clustering,
Classification, Data Analysis, Image Processing, Robotics, Belief Updating
and Inconsistency Handling, Information Retrieval, Multi-media Management,
Hybrid Systems, Financial Engineering, Intelligent agents

July 6-9, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #1196
ECIS´98 Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Imaging Science at CISST'98.

Dr. Guenther R. Raidl, Institute of Computer Graphics, Algorithms and Programming Methodology Group, Karlsplatz 13/1861, 1040 Vienna, Austria. Tel: +43(1)58801 4110, fax: +43(1)5042583, email: raidl@eiunix.tuwien.ac.at.

       Evolutionary Computation for...
       O  image/animation generation, acquisition, and processing
       O  image segmentation
       O  pattern recognition
       O  classification
       O  compression, coding, and encryption
       O  shape optimization
       O  layout optimization
       O  CAD/CAM systems
       O  geometric modeling
       O  color quantization
       O  color mapping
       O  optimization of filters
       O  visualization
       O  neural network techniques and fuzzy logic
       O  fractals, IFS
       O  applications in medicine, robotics, GIS, remote sensing,...

July 6-9, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #1249
CISST'98 The 1998 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology.

Prof. James Farison, Univ. of Toledo, Dept. of Bioengineering, Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390, USA, tel: (419) 530 8168, fax: (419) 530 8076, jfarison@eng.utoledo.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  Optical image processing systems
       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  Animation
       O  Geometric modeling and Fractals
       O  CAD/CAM systems
       O  Rendering techniques
       O  Applications including: medicine, robotic, GIS,
          remote sensing, industrial inspection (or machine vision),
          nondestructive evaluation (or NDE), ...
       O  Multi-resolution and multi-spectral image processing
       O  Image sequence processing
       O  Other aspects and applications relating to imaging science

July 6-7, 1998, University of Leeds, UK. Item #1260
Medical Image Understanding and Analysis.

Liz Berry, Organiser MIUA98, miua98@medphysics.leeds.ac.uk.

July 6-9, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #1323
The 1998 International Conference on Multisource-Multisensor Information Fusion.

Dr. Dongping (Daniel) Zhu, Zaptron Systems, Inc. CA, USA. Tel: (408) 732 7779 fax: (408)490 2729, email: dan@zaptron.com.

July 7-9, 1998, Galway, Ireland. Item #1204
AIENG98 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering.

Dr. R.A. Adey, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton SO4 2AA, UK. Tel: +44 1703 293223, fax: +44 1703 292853, email: wit@wessex.ac.uk.

July 8-10, 1998, Leuven, Belgium. Item #1192
International Workshop on Advanced Black-Box Techniques for Nonlinear Modeling: Theory and Applications.

Johan Suykens, Dept. of Electr. Eng. ESAT-SISTA, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94, B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium. Tel: +32 16 32 18 02, fax: +32 16 32 19 70, email: Johan.Suykens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be.

July 9, 1998, Savoy Place, London, UK. Item #1416
IEE Colloquim on COMPUTER VISION FOR VIRTUAL HUMAN MODELLING.

The Event Office, IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL, tel: 0171 240 1871 ext 2205/2206, fax: 0171 497 3633, email: events@iee.org.uk.

July 12-15, 1998, Brussels, Belgium. Item #1113
EURO XVI European Conference on Operational Research.

EURO XVI SECRETARIAT, c/o Jacques Teghem, MATHRO, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, 9, rue de Houdain, 7000 Mons, BELGIUM. Fax: +32 65 37 46 89, email: euro@mathro.fpms.ac.be.

July 12-14, 1998, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. Item #1120
ICGI-98 Fourth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference.

Vasant Honavar. Email: honavar@cs.iastate.edu.

   * Different models of grammar induction: e.g., learning from examples,
     learning using examples and queries, incremental versus non-incremental
     learning, distribution-free models of learning, learning under various
     distributional assumptions (e.g., simple distributions), impossibility
     results, complexity results, characterizations of representational and
     search biases of grammar induction algorithms.
   * Algorithms for induction of different classes of languages and
     automata: e.g., regular, context-free, and context-sensitive languages,
     interesting subsets of the above under additional syntactic
     constraints, tree and graph grammars, picture grammars,
     multi-dimensional grammars, attributed grammars, parameterized models,
     etc.
   * Theoretical and experimental analysis of different approaches to
     grammar induction including artificial neural networks, statistical
     methods, symbolic methods, information-theoretic approaches, minimum
     description length, and complexity-theoretic approaches, heuristic
     methods, etc.
   * Broader perspectives on grammar induction -- e.g., acquisition of
     grammar in conjunction with language semantics, semantic constraints on
     grammars, language acquisition by situated agents and robots,
     acquisition of language constructs that describe objects and events in
     space and time, developmental and evolutionary constraints on language
     acquisition, etc.
   * Demonstrated or potential applications of grammar induction in natural
     language acquisition, computational biology, structural pattern
     recognition, information retrieval, text processing, adaptive
     intelligent agents, systems modelling and control, and other domains.

July 12-16, 1998, Orlando, USA. Item #1268
Invited Special Session on Neural Networks at World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, and International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis.

Prof. Soo-Young Lee, Brain Science Research Center, LG SEmicon Hall 3rd Floor, KAIST, 373-1 Kusong-song, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea (South). Email: sylee@ee.kaist.ac.kr, tel: +82 42 869 3431, fax: +82 42 869 8570.

The World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI'98) is a truly multi-disciplinary conference, which covers systems, cybernetics, information theory, neural networks, financial systems, art, biology and medicine, social system, etc.
The Invited Special Session on Neural Networks will consists of about 15 papers on all aspects of neural networks such as theory, applications, and implementations. Scientist, engineers, and medical doctors are expected to come  together to make interesting discussions.

July 12-16, 1998, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, USA. Item #1289
SCI'98 World Multiconference on Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics and, the International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis.

IIIS, 6220 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Suite 173, Orlando, Fl. 32809, USA. Email: WMSCI98@aol.com.

July 12, 1998, Item #1306
International Symposium: "Advances on Signal, Image Processing, Computer Vision and Graphics" at SCI'98.

T. Yang, Dept. of Computer Science, Linkoping University, 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden, tel: +46 13 281763, fax: +46 13 282666, email: tiaya@ida.liu.se.

July 12, 1998, Item #1307
International Symposium: "Advances on Signal, Image Processing, Computer Vision and Graphics" at SCI'98.

T. Yang, Dept. of Computer Science, Linkoping University, 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden, tel: +46 13 281763, fax: +46 13 282666, email: tiaya@ida.liu.se.

July 13-16, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #1236
PDPTA'98 The 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications.

Hamid R. Arabnia, The Univ. 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  Parallel/Distributed applications:
          Numerical computations/methods, neural networks and fuzzy
          logic, medicine, remote sensing, GIS, computer vision,
          computer graphics and virtual reality, parallel/distributed
          databases, banking, ...

       O  Parallel/Distributed architectures:
          MIMD, SPMD, SIMD, Systolic, vector/pipeline (supercomputers),
          shared memory, distributed memory, general- and special-purpose
          architectures, ...

       O  Building block processors:
          Applications of processors that can be used as basic building
          blocks for multicomputer systems.

       O  Networks and Interconnection networks:
          Scalable networks, Reconfigurable networks, routing issues,
          general-purpose network performance for distributed
          applications, ...

       O  Reliability and fault-tolerance:
          Software and hardware fault-tolerance (system- and
          application-level), fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance
          measurement.

       O  Performance analysis and evaluation.

       O  Real-time and embedded systems:
          Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance control,
          data acquisition, and analysis; configuration, routing,
          scheduling, performance guarantees.

       O  Parallel/Distributed algorithms:
          Algorithms exploiting MIMD, SPMD, SIMD, Systolic,
          vector/pipeline, shared memory, distributed memory, ...

       O  Mobile computation and communication.

       O  Object Oriented Technology and related issues.

       O  Heterogeneous and multimedia systems.

       O  Software tools and environments for parallel computers:
          Operating systems, compilers, languages, debuggers, ...

       O  High-performance computing in Computational Science:
          Intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research programs
          and applications.

       O  Other aspects and applications relating to high-performance
          computations.

July 13-16, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #1267
Special Technical Session on High Performance Computing for Pattern Recognition at the 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications.

Manavendra Misra, Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO-80401, USA, tel: (303) 273 3873, fax: (303) 273 3875, email: mmisra@mines.edu.

                        * Neural Networks
                       * Fuzzy techniques
                    * Statistical techniques
                  * other appropriate methods.

July 13-16, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #1312
Technical Session on Parallel Neurocomputing at PDPTA'98.

Gilbert H. Young, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin. N.T. Hong Kong. Email: young@cse.cuhk.edu.hk, tel: (852)2609 8401.

- Algorithmic Mapping to Parallel Architecture
- Implementation Issues of Parallel Neural Network
- Parallel Neuro-computer architecture
- Parallel Learning/Pruning algorithm
- Applications
- FPGA
- Recurrent neural network and Feedforward neural network

July 13-17, 1998, Brisbane, Australia. Item #1315
AI'98 11th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Grigoris Antoniou. Email: ga@cit.gu.edu.au.

July 13-17, 1998, Tours, France. Item #1329
EVONET SUMMER SCHOOL ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION.

ESSEC'98, E3i, Universite de Tours, 64 avenue Jean Portalis, 37200 Tours, France. Tel: +33 2 47 36 14 14, fax: +33 2 47 36 14 22, email: essec98@univ-tours.fr.

* Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms, Th. Baeck (Dortmund University,
   Germany),

* Genetic Programming, W. Banzhaf (Dortmund University, Germany),

* Evolutionary Computation: Where We are and Where We're Headed, K. De Jong
  (George Mason University, USA),

* Ant Colony Optimization, M. Dorigo (Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
   Belgium),

* Dynamic, Adaptive and Self-adaptive Parameter Control in EAs, A.E. Eiben
  (Leiden University, The Netherlands),

* Artificial life, P. Husbands (University of Sussex, UK),

* Heuristic Methods in Evolutionary Algorithms, Z. Michalewicz (University
   of North Carolina, USA),

* Demonstrations and Hands-on Experience, B. Paechter (Napier University,
   UK),

* Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms, M. Schoenauer (Ecole
   Polytechnique, France),

* Evolution Strategies - Origin, Contemporary Incarnations, and
  Applications, H.-P. Schwefel (Dortmund University, Germany),

* Machine Learning, M. Sebag (Ecole Polytechnique, France).

July 13-17, 1998, Portland, Oregon. Item #1393
Intensive Course on Image and Video Compression: Fundamentals, Standards and Applications.

Portland State University, EE, Portland, OR 97207-0751, USA, tel: (503) 725 3806 fax: (503) 725 3807 email: eed@ee.pdx.edu.

July, 1998, Europe (quite possibly London). Item #1101
Second Autonomous Robot Football Tournament.

adamb@cogs.susx.ac.uk.
No deadlines. 
No fees.

July 16-18, 1998, Budapest, Hungary. Item #1255
NDES'98 NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS.

Dr. Geza Kolumban, Dept. of Measurement and Information Systems, Technical Univ. of Budapest, H-1521 Budapest, HUNGARY.

July 19-31, 1998, Oxford, UK. Item #1164
Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling.

Mrs Sue King, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, South Parks Road, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. Tel: +44 1865 271 353, email: sking@psy.ox.ac.uk.

July 19-31, 1998, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Item #1344
EC SUMMER SCHOOL : BAYESIAN SIGNAL PROCESSING.

h.hughes@newton.cam.ac.uk.

- Bayesian methods in general and numerical methods in particular;
- Nonlinear and nonstationary time series estimation;
- Forecasting and changepoint modelling;
- Nonlinear signal processing in econometrics and financial time series;
- Dynamical systems and statistics;
- Environmental applications and spatial data analysis.

July 20-23, 1998, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. Item #1231
AID'98 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design.

Fay Sudweeks, Key Centre of Design Computing, Univ. of Sydney, Room 284, Wilkinson Building, 148 City Road, Chippendale, Australia. Tel: +61 2 351 5933, fax: +61 2 351 3031.

Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:

     case-based reasoning in design
     cognitive design models
     collaborative design
     design process models
     distributed design
     evolutionary systems in design
     integrated design environments
     knowledge-based design systems
     knowledge representation for design
     learning for design
     models of creative design
     qualitative reasoning in design
     representing designs
     visual reasoning in design

July 20, 1998, Hotel du Parc, Montreal, Canada. Item #1418
IEEE MASCOTS '98 Tutorial: Distributed Real-Time Systems.

Albert M.K. Cheng. cosc12lh@menudo.uh.edu.

     *  Introduction to parallel and distributed real-time systems

     *  Formal specification methodology and requirements analysis

     *  Analysis tools for performance evaluation

     *  System decomposition and scheduling techniques

     *  Programming languages and tools

     *  Real-time databases

     *  Scheduling and resource management

     *  Formal analysis, verification, and validation techniques

     *  Self-stabilizing and fault-tolerant systems

     *  Real-time rule-based systems

     *  Semantics-based static and dynamic response time analysis

     *  Parallel rule-based execution

     *  Optimization and synthesis

     *  Case studies of actual systems

July 21-23, 1998, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Item #1309
6th International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems.

Judith Gordon, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, Scotland, UK. Tel: +44 131 650 3094.

	Mobile Robotics 
	Active Perception 
	3D Reconstruction 
	Learning and Control
	Cooperation 
	Control Architectures 
	Robotic Applications 
	Planning and Plan Execution 
	Fuzzy and Neural Network Techniques for Control
	Miniature Robotics

July 22-25, 1998, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Item #1080
GP-98 Third Annual Genetic Programming Conference.

John Koza, Computer Science Dept., Stanford Univ.. Email: koza@cs.stanford.edu.

July 22-25, 1998, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Item #1141
SGA-98 Symposium on Genetic Algorithms.

GP-98 Conference (SGA-98), c/o American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Tel: 415 328 3123, fax: 415 321 4457.

July 24-26, 1998, University of Wisconsin Business School, Madison, WI, USA. Item #1161
UAI98 The Fourteenth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

email: uai98@cbmi.upmc.edu.

>> Foundations

* Theoretical foundations of uncertain belief and decision
* Uncertainty and models of causality
* Representation of uncertainty and preference
* Generalization of semantics of belief
* Conceptual relationships among alternative calculi
* Models of confidence in model structure and belief
* Knowledge revision and combination

>> Principles and Methods

* Planning under uncertainty
* Temporal reasoning
* Markov processes and decisions under uncertainty
* Qualitative methods and models
* Automated construction of decision models
* The representation and discovery of causal relationships
* Uncertainty and methods for learning and data mining
* Abstraction in representation and inference
* Computation and action under limited resources
* Control of computational processes under uncertainty
* Time-dependent utility and time-critical decisions
* Uncertainty and economic models of problem solving
* Integration of logical and probabilistic inference
* Statistical methods for automated uncertain reasoning
* Hybridization of methodologies and techniques
* Algorithms for uncertain reasoning
* Advances in diagnosis, troubleshooting, and test selection
* Formal languages to represent uncertain information
* Data structures for representation and inference
* Fusion of models
* Uncertain reasoning and information retrieval
* Enhancing the human-computer interface with uncertain reasoning
* Automated explanation of results of uncertain reasoning

>> Empirical Study and Applications

* Empirical validation of methods for planning, learning, and diagnosis
* Uncertain reasoning in embedded, situated systems (e.g., softbots)
* Nature and performance of architectures for real-time reasoning
* Experimental studies of inference strategies
* Experience with knowledge-acquisition methods
* Comparison of representation and inferential adequacy of different
calculi
* Methodologies for problem modeling

July 24-26, 1998, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Item #1191
COLT'98 Eleventh Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory.

email: colt98@anu.edu.au.

 * 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 24-26, 1998, Madison, WI, USA. Item #1214
ICML-98 The Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning.

Jude Shavlik, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. Email: icml98@cs.wisc.edu.

Submissions are invited that describe empirical, theoretical, and
cognitive-modeling research in all areas of machine learning.
Submissions that present algorithms for novel learning tasks, 
interdisciplinary research involving machine learning, or innovative
applications of machine learning techniques to challenging, real-world 
problems are especially encouraged.

July 26-27, 1998, Madison, WI, USA. Item #1147
AAAI 1998 Workshops.

David B. Leake, Computer Science Dept., Lindley Hall 215, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. Tel: 812 855 9756, fax: 812 855 4829, leake@cs.indiana.edu.

July 26-27, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Item #1245
From Control to Information/Intelligent Systems: New Application Domains of Fuzzy Logic at the Fifteenth AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Senen Barro (Co-chair), Electronics and Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, 15706, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, +34-81-563100 Ext. 13560, fax: +34 81 599412, senen@dec.usc.es.

July 26-27, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin. Item #1280
SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium at the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Janyce M. Wiebe, Dept. of Computer Science, Box 30001/Dept. CS, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, wiebe@cs.nmsu.edu.

July 26-30, 1998, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Item #1392
CNS*98 Seventh Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting.

cns98@bbb.caltech.edu.

July 27, 1998, Madison, WI, USA. Item #1224
AAAI/ICML 1998 Workshop: The Methodology of Applying Machine Learning.

Robert Engels, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. Email: engels@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, tel: +49 721 608 6558, fax: +49 721 693 717.

* Frameworks for creating ML applications and reusing parts of
  previously developed applications
* Methodologies for applying ML techniques
* The roles of knowledge necessary for applying ML
* Matching problem definitions to specific technique configurations
* Relating and characterizing ML techniques with problem types
* Embedding the ML application process in knowledge
  acquisition and system development methodologies
* Comparing ML applications with applications of related techniques
* Approaches that combine human and automated learning agents

August 1-4, 1998, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Item #1180
CogSci98 Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

CogSci98, c/o Dr. Morton Ann Gernsbacher, 1202 W. Johnson Street, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1611, USA. Email: cs98prog@macc.wisc.edu.

We are pleased to announce CogSci98, the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, August 1-4,
1998. Because the field of cognitive science exists to promote
cross-disciplinary integration of concepts, methods, epistemologies, and
data, and the empirical and theoretical base of cognitive science can shed
light on the nature of such an interdisciplinary enterprise, CogSci98 will
focus on Interdisciplinarity.

This focus will be manifested in the following four ways: First, one
plenary session will be dedicated to the topic of interdisciplinarity.
Second, several invited tutorial symposia designed to provide breadth of
interest will be offered. Third, presentations from the Cognitive Science
Society membership that address interdisciplinarity as an object of
empirical and theoretical research are hereby encouraged for one strand of
the conference program. And fourth, all submissions for spoken
presentations (i.e., symposia and spoken papers) will be evaluated for
their ability to transcend their disciplinary boundaries and truly address
the breadth of the community of cognitive scientists, in addition to being
evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit (see review criteria
below); thus, more general papers and symposia will have a higher priority
for scheduling on the spoken program, and more specialized topics will be
assigned to poster sessions. This call solicits submissions for four forms
of presentation:

August 1-5, 1998, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Item #1383
THE NEURON SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT, an intensive hands-on course.

Ted Carnevale. Email: ted.carnevale@yale.edu, tel: 203 432 7363.

Course description is posted at 
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/sdsc98/course.htm
The registration fee is $525, 
which covers expenses that include room and board (does 
NOT include transportation).

August 5-7, 1998, Prince of Wales Hotel, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. Item #1122
9th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation.

Chrysanne DiMarco. Email: cdimarco@logos.uwaterloo.ca, tel: +1 519 888 4443.

Of interest are papers on all topics relating to the automated
production of natural language, including but not limited to: discourse
structure; grammar; lexis and lexical choice; text planning and schemas
(macroplanning); sentence planning (microplanning); semantics and
knowledge representation; register, genre, and pragmatics; generator
architecture; realization; generator applications; system descriptions;
generator evaluation; planning of text formatting; generation in
multimedia planning and presentation systems; speech synthesis.

Also welcomed are demonstrations of generation systems, or modules of
systems, running either via the Web or on a Sun computer to be provided
at the workshop.

August 6-7, 1998, Sakarya, Turkey. Item #1182
IMS'98 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems.

Burhan Turksen. Email: turksen@drill.me.utoronto.ca.

Conference topics include but not limited to:
Agile manufacturing
Artificial intelligence technologies
Automation, CNC & robot programming languages, Computational  Intelligence,
Computer vision, Decision support systems, Data mining, Expert systems,
Fuzzy logic, Genetic algorithms, Intelligent agents in manufacturing,
Intelligent systems perspectives, Modeling & simulation, Neural networks,
Process technologies, Robotics, Semiotics,
Inspection and testing, Lean production, Manufacturing systems engineering
Manufacturing systems /strategies
Product design
CAE/CAD/CAM, Group Technologies, Work Planning
Production planning / scheduling / control
CIM - Computer integrated manufacturing, FMS - Flexible manufacturing
systems
Rapid prototyping, Simultaneous engineering / Concurrent engineering,
Storage & retrieval systems, System design  & integration, Quality control =
/
Reengineering, Virtual manufacturing

August 6-7, 1998, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA. Item #1314
Fourth International Conference on Expert Systems for Numerical Computing.

Anupam Joshi, Conference Program Chair, Dept. of Computer Engineering & Computer Science, 201 Engineering Building West, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. Email: joshi@cecs.missouri.edu, tel: 573 882 9443, fax: 573 882 8318.

    Expert Systems for Numerical Computing 
    Computational Intelligence Applications in Numerical Computing 
    Agent Based Systems for Numerical Computing 
    Intelligent Problem Solving Environments 
    Intelligent Systems for Numerical Metacomputing 
    Knowledge Based Systems for Scientific Applications 
    Intelligent HCI Systems in Scientific Computing 
    Knowledge Acquisition about Scientific Computing 

August 7, 1998, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Item #1435
Adaptive Processing of Structures - A Joint Australian and Italy Workshop.

ahchung@uow.edu.au.

August 9-11, 1998, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA. Item #1197
IRREGULAR'98 Fifth International Symposium on: Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel.

R. Boucher. Email: RLBoucher@lbl.gov.

o  abstract parallel models 
o  applications
o  approximation
o  automatic program synthesis
o  combinatorial optimization
o  compiler optimization
o  computational geometry
o  data structures
o  graph algorithms
o  load balancing
o  mapping, and scheduling
o  memory management
o  mesh computations
o  numerical algorithms
o  parallel I/O
o  parallel languages
o  randomization
o  sparse matrix computations
o  symbolic computation 
o  particle simulations

August 10-19, 1998, Niels Bohr Institute. Item #1381
SOL`98 SUMMER SCHOOL: The Spontaneous Order of Life.

hnchristen@nbi.dk, telefax (+45) 35325400.

*The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
*Solving Problems with Collective, Distributed Self-Organizing Systems
*The Nonlinear Dynamics of Collective Behavior in Animals
*The Technological and Commercial Perspectives of Applied Molecular
Evolution
*The Origin of Life from Interactions of Amino Acids and Membranes
*Cosmological Natural Selection

August 11-13, 1998, Swiss Grand Hotel, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. Item #905
SSPR'98 7th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition.

email: amin@cse.unsw.edu.au.

* Grammar and language based methods
* Structural matching: string, trees, graphs, etc..
* Machine learning and grammatical inference
* Mathematical morphology in SSPR
* Neural-net based structural recognition
* Object-Oriented and Object-Process Methodologies
* Graph based methods and representations
* Graph transformations for pattern recognition
* Image structure from graphs
* Shape and motion analysis and planning
* Pattern-based information retrieval from image document databases and 
  knowledge bases
* Pattern-based 2D and 3D object recognition
* Pattern-based search on the Internet and other distributed heterogeneous 
  databases
* Applications  of SSPR to multimedia systems
* Structured document image analysis and recognition
* Pattern-based speech recognition

August 11-13, 1998, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. Item #1096
SPR'98 Second International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition.

SPR'98 Secretariat, c/o Adnan Amin, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia. Email: spr98@cse.unsw.edu.au, fax: 61 2 9385 5995.

* General methodology
* Statistical Classification Techniques
* Feature Extraction and Feature Selection
* Density Estimation
* Approximation by Mixtures
* Neural Networks
* Clustering Techniques
* Contextual Methods
* Syntactical and Hybrid Methods
* Learning Systems
* Random Fields
* 2D and 3D Object Recognition
* Statistical techniques in image processing
* Speech and one-dimensional signal analysis.
* techniques on document image analysis: handwriting, maps,etc... 

August 13-14, 1998, Hong Kong. Item #1282
MINAR'98 IAPR International Workshop on Multimedia Information Analysis & Retrieval.

Horace H S Ip, Image Computing Group, Dept. of Computer Science, City Univ. of Hong Kong. Email: cship@cityu.edu.hk.

  o  Indexing methods: theoretical foundation and performance analysis
  o  Content-based media retrieval
  o  Dynamic composition of multimedia content
  o  Invariant and multi-resolution techniques for image/video retrieval
  o  Multimedia information visualization
  o  Content analysis and analysis tools
  o  System integration
  o  Multimedia databases and information management
  o  Applications

August 17-20, 1998, Brisbane, Australia. Item #930
ICPR'98 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.

14th ICPR'98, c/o Conventions Queensland, P.O. Box 4044, St. Lucia South, Queensland 4067, Australia. Tel: +61 7 3870 8831, fax: +61 7 3371 9514, email: icpr14@convqld.org.au.

CPR'98 is the international conference sponsored by the International Association for
Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The conference is held every two years and, in 1998, it will be
held in Brisbane, Australia. In the tradition of the IAPR organization, ICPR'98 covers a broad
range of topics related to the development of representations and techniques for the encoding,
recognition and interpretation of information in most sensing modalities, primarily visual
information. Presentations will be made by experts from many different countries and the
conference has a strong multicultural flavour.

August 17-21, 1998, Zurich, Switzerland. Item #1083
SAB98 From Animals to Animats. Fifth International Conference of the Society for Adaptive Behavior.

email: sab98@ifi.unizh.ch.

- Action selection
- Characterization of environments
- Learning and development
- Evaluation of robot/simulation models
- Perception and motor control
- Neural correlates of behavior
- Evolutionary approaches
- Coevolutionary models
- Emergent structures and behaviors
- Navigation
- Motivation and emotion
- Collective and social behavior
- Internal models and representation
- Autonomous robots
- Applied adaptive behavior
- Morphology/morphofunctional machines
- Software agents, virtual creatures and digital pets
- Application of animat models in psychology
- Philosophical issues in animat research

August 17-21, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany. Item #1241
ESSLLI-98 Workshop on PROBABILISTIC LOGIC AND RANDOMISED COMPUTATION as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information.

Alessandra Di Pierro, adp@cs.city.ac.uk.

 o philosophical foundations of probability   o probabilistic logics
 o probabilistic proof systems                o probabilistic proof checking
 o probabilistic knowledge representation     o probabilistic games
 o randomised automata                        o randomised algorithms
 o semantics of probabilistic languages       o probabilistic non-determinism
 o probabilistic reasoning                    o fuzzy and belief systems
 o inexact matching                           o constraints and probability
 o Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods           o practical applications
 o randomised optimisation (e.g. simulated annealing, genetic algorithms)
 o (stochastic) approximation algorithms (for NP problems)

August 19-21, 1998, Dublin, Ireland. Item #1359
AICS-98 Artificial Intelligence/ Cognitive Science.

email: aics@ucd.ie.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The theme of the artificial intelligence strand of AICS-98 is Agents
and Media: Intelligent Access, Navigation and Presentation.  With
the current information explosion that we are witnessing, the demand
for systems incorporating personal assistants that support
intelligent filtering, navigation, retrieval, and information
presentation is ever increasing.  This necessitates the use of
techniques such as, planning, learning, natural language processing,
and user modelling.  Papers addressing these and other key enabling
technologies are invited.  Submissions supported by application
descriptions and case studies are particularly welcome.

August 20-21, 1998, Pensacola Beach, Florida, USA. Item #1223
The 17th Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society.

Jim Bezdek, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of West Florida, Pensacola, Fl. 32514, USA. jbezdek@argo.cs.uwf.edu, (904)-474-2784.

The  topics:   Fundamentals  of  fuzzy  sets and  Fuzzy  logic,  Approximate
Reasoning,  Possibility Theory,  Learning, Non-monotonic Logic,  Fuzzy neural
networks, integrating  fuzzy logic  and evolutionary computing,  fuzzy logic
hardware,  Applications  in  Computer  Vision,  Signal  Processing,  Systems
Modeling  and Control,  Robotics,  Decision systems,  Databases, Information
systems, Finance, and Engineering.

August 23-28, 1998, Brighton, UK. Item #1205
ECAI-98 13th Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Univ. of Sussex, Cen. for Advanced Software Applications, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK. Tel: +44 1273 678448, fax: +44 1273 671320, email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk.

August 23-28, 1998, Brno, Czech Republic. Item #1316
CSL '98 Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic.

Prof. Georg Gottlob, CSL '98, Institute of Information Systems, TU Vienna, Paniglgasse 16, A - 1040 VIENNA/AUSTRIA, fax: +43 1 5055304, tel: +43 1 58801 6120, email: csl98-subm@dbai.tuwien.ac.at.

August 24-28, 1998, Namur, Belgium. Item #1146
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy for Social Progress.

email: cyb@info.fundp.ac.be.

The symposium has three main goals:

(a) to analyse how the studies in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Cognitive Science may contribute to social progress;
(b) to demonstrate the benefits of interdisciplinary approaches for
the theory and practice;
(c) to contribute to extending the sphere of application of effective
ideas.

August 24-28, 1998, Vienna, Austria. Item #1210
International Workshop on Storage and Retrieval issues in Image and Multimedia Databases.

Prof Bala Srinivasan, DEXA' 98 Workshop, Dept. of Computer Technology, Monash Univ., Caulfield East, VIC - 3145, Australia. Email: dexa98@pluto.ct.monash.edu.au.

   * Appropriate and efficient representation methods for images need to be
     established.
   * As these images and other multimedia objects are very large in size,
     we need better models and techniques for compressing these objects.
   * One of the most important aspects of image communications is the
     quality of the image. The basic arbiter of image quality is the human
     visual system. Due to the complexity of the human visual system, it is
     hard to find an automated measure which accurately reflects human
     judgement. Therefore, we need to define some measures which can be
     used to evaluate the quality of an image more precisely.
   * Better data structures have to be defined for storing and accessing
     images efficiently.
   * Proper query languages have to be designed and implemented for
     retrieving images.
   * Automatic object recognition techniques are needed to help in the
     process of feature based image extraction.
   * Images need to be classified into seperate groups in order to allow
     for better query performance.

August 24-25, 1998, Brigthon, UK. Item #1248
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Building, Maintaining, and Using Organizational Memories.

Andreas Abecker, DFKI GmbH, Postfach 2080, D-67608 Kaiserslautern, Germany, Andreas.Abecker@dfki.de.

   * Identification and Analysis of a company's knowledge-intensive work
     processes (e.g., product design or strategic planning). Knowledge
     Engineering and Enterprise Modeling techniques can contribute to this
     topic. the analysis of information flow and involved knowledge sources,
     to the identification of business process shortcomings, and to the
     specification of IT support requirements.

   * Central prerequisite for IT support is the Organizational Memory (OM)
     as the means for knowledge conservation, distribution, and reuse. It
     enables organizational learning and continuous process improvement. An
     OM has to meet a bunch of distinctive requirements and possible
     solutions, which make it different from conventional knowledge-based
     systems:

August 25-27, 1998, Vaesteraas, Sweden. Item #1071
Euromicro Workshop on Computational Intelligence.

Monica Alderighi, IFCTR-CNR, via Bassini, 15, I-20133 Milano, Italy. Tel: +39 2 23699 332, fax: +39 2 2362946, monica@ifctr.mi.cnr.it.

    -   Artificial neural networks;
    -   Evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, genetic programming,
        evolutionary strategies, evolving cellular automata);
    -   Fuzzy systems, including adaptive and evolutionary aspects;
    -   Evolutionary computation and neural networks;
    -   Fuzzy neural networks and neuro-fuzzy systems;
    -   Intelligent computing;
    -   Intelligent databases;
    -   Adaptive and intelligent control;
    -   Machine learning and machine intelligence;
    -   Knowledge modelling;
    -   Methodologies for knowledge manipulation.

August 26-28, 1998, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #1227
BASYS '98 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS IN MANUFACTURING.

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical Univ., Technicka 2, 166 27 Praha 6, Czech Republic, tel: +420 2 24357276, fax: +420 2 24357224, email: marik@lab.felk.cvut.cz.

Main topic: Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing

Preferred Subtopics:
        1. Information Management in Manufacturing
        2. Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
        3. Knowledge-Based Systems in Manufacturing
        4. Soft Computing in Automation
        5. Virtual Enterprises
        6. Anthropocentric Approaches to Manufacturing 

Workshops:
        1. Softcomputing for Automation
        2. Learning in Multi-Agent Systems
        3. Theoretical Problems in Manuf. Systems Design & Control

August 26-28, 1998, Brno, Czech Republic. Item #1272
RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS. A Satellite Workshop to MFCS'98.

rand@cclu.lv.

-design and analysis of randomized algorithms,
-randomized complexity,
-derandomization techniques,
-design and analysis of approximation algorithms,
-complexity of approximation problems,
-parallel and network algorithms,
-randomized learning,
-quantum computation versus randomized computation,
-various applications.

August 28, 1998, Melbourne, Australia. Item #1368
ACM SIGIR'98 Post-Conference Workshop MULTIMEDIA INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL.

Prof. Rohini K. Srihari, CEDAR/SUNY at Buffalo, UB Commons, 520 Lee Entrance, Suite 202, Amherst, NY 14228 - 2583, rohini@cedar.buffalo.edu.

 We will focus on the following specific topics:
 - content analysis and retrieval from various media 
    (text, images, video, audio)
 - interaction of modalities (e.g. text, images) in indexing, retrieval 
 - effective user interfaces (permitting query refinement etc.)
 - evaluation methodologies for multimedia information. We have 
   found that researchers pay insufficient attention to it.
 - techniques for relevance ranking
 - multimodal query formation/decomposition
 - logic formalisms for multimodal queries 
 - indexing and retrieval from scanned documents - e.g extracting text 
   from images, word spotting - as a retrieval technique for 
   both handwritten and printed documents.
 - testbeds for evaluating multimodal retrieval: it would be nice to
    have some resource sharing here since annotating these, and coming
    up with a good query set are difficult

August 31- September 3, 1998, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England. Item #1195
NNSP98 The 1998 IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing.

Dr. Mahesan Niranjan, Cambridge Univ., Engineering Dept., Cambridge CB2 1PZ, England. Tel: +44 1223 332720, fax: +44 1223 332662, email: niranjan@eng.cam.ac.uk.

			Paradigms
artificial neural networks, Markov models, graphical models,
dynamical systems, 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,
probabilistic inference, parameter estimation, and
network architectures

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

August 31- September 4, 1998, Aachen, Germany. Item #1225
IECON98 The 24th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

Prof. Paul Drews, RWTH-Aachen, Reutershagweg 4, 52074 Aachen, Germany. Tel: +49 241 8864127, fax: +49 241 875717, email: iecon98@aps.rwth-aachen.de.

August 31, 1998, New York City. Item #1341
KDD-98 Workshop on DISTRIBUTED DATA MINING at The the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Hillol Kargupta, Faculty of Computer Science, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA 99164-2752, email: hillol@eecs.wsu.edu.

August 31, 1998, Marriott Marquis, New York City. Item #1349
Workshop: Data Mining in Finance in conjunction with The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 98).

Tae Horn Hann, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany, email: THH@VWL3SUN1.WIWI.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE.

Application oriented approaches include:

* Volatility models and derivatives pricing
* Risk and liability management
* Portfolio selection and optimization
* Fixed income and term-structure models
* client credit risk and fraud detection

September 1-4, 1998, Southampton, UK. Item #1237
Euro-Par'98.

Dr Paul H. Lewis, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science, The Univ. of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, tel: 01703 593715, fax: 01703 592865, email: phl@ecs.soton.ac.uk.

        Support Tools and Environments
        Performance Evaluation and Prediction
        Scheduling and Load Balancing 
        Automatic Parallelisation 
        Parallel and Distributed Databases
        Object-Oriented Programming
        Symbolic Computation 
        Real-Time Control and Data Fusion
        Data Warehousing and Data Mining
        Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation
        Grand Challenge and High Performance
        Soft Computing
        Routing and Communications Networks
        Parallel Computer Architecture
        Distributed Systems and Algorithms
        Parallel Languages
        Vision
        Programming Models and Methods
        Quantum Computing
        Numerical Algorithms
        Parallel I/O
        Interactive Visualisation and Computational Steering
        Esprit Projects 

September 2-4, 1998, Skovde, Sweden. Item #1152
ICANN98 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.

ICANN98 Conference Secretariat, Hogskolan Skovde, P.O. Box 408, S-54128 Skovde, Sweden. Email: icann98@ida.his.se, fax: +46 500 464725.

ICANN 98 will cover the following areas of ANN research:

* Theory
* Applications
* Computational Neuroscience and Brain Theory
* Connectionist Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
* Autonomous Robotics and Adaptive Behavior
* Hardware/Implementations

September 2-4, 1998, Pisa, Italy. Item #1230
NNESMED98 3rd International Conference on Neural Networks and Expert Systems in Medicine and Healthcare.

Prof. Antonina Starita, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Pisa, Corso Italia 40, 56126 Pisa, Italy. Tel: +39 50 887215, fax: +39 50 887226, email: nnesmed@di.unipi.it.

September 3-4, 1998, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Item #1305
1998 Workshop on Computer Vision.

Professor H.T. Tsui, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin. N.T. HONG KONG, email: httsui@ee.cuhk.edu.hk, fax: (852)2603 5558.

 Active and Real-Time Vision   Vision-Based Computer Interface
 2D & 3D Scene Analysis        Stereo and Motion Analysis
 Document Processing           Integration of Modules and Cues
 Learning in Vision            Object Recognition and Indexing
 Medical image analysis        Physics-Based Vision
 Image and Video Libraries     Shape Representation and Recovery
 Vision and Graphics           Segmentation, Grouping
 Applications                  Invariance in vision
 Low Level Vision,Color and Texture

September 3-5, 1998, Sigtuna, Sweden. Item #1406
Third Sigtuna Workshop Random Events in Biological Systems.

Hans Liljenstr=F6m, Theoretical Biophysics Group, Dept. of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN. Email: hali@theophys.kth.se, tel: +46 (0)8 790 9423, fax: +46 (0)8 10 48 79.

In this meeting we wish to address questions concerning various forms of
fluctuations and disorder in biological systems. By bringing together
experimentalists and theoreticians with knowledge and insights from
different disciplines, such as biology, physics, and computer science,
we hope to shed more light on problems, which we think are profound for
understanding the phenomenon of life. Topics will include
synchronization, oscillations, chaos, noise, and stochastic resonance in
e.g. the origin and evolution of life, biomolecular kinetics, neural
information processing, and organ system functioning. Both experimental
data and theory from the frontiers of science will be discussed.

September 6-8, 1998, Riga, Latvia. Item #1364
The International Workshop Modelling and Simulation within a Maritime Environment.

Prof Yuri Merkuryev, Dept. of Modelling and Simulation, Riga Technical Univ., 1, Kalku Street, LV-1658 Riga, LATVIA, tel: +371 7089514, fax: +371 7820094, email: merkur@itl.rtu.lv.

The workshop will deal with various aspects of modelling and simulation for
maritime applications. It is aimed to discuss the role of simulation in
increasing efficiency of maritime operations, and to share already existing
experiences in that area. The list of topics includes (but is not limited
to) modelling and simulation activities along the following main lines :

    * Container Terminals                     * Naval Training Equipment
    * Harbour Management                      * Navigation Line Management
    * In-Harbour Traffic Control              * Safety in Maritime Environment
    * Maritime Traffic Control                * Ship Building
    * Multimodal Transportation               * Transportation and Logistics
    * Naval Architecture                      * ...

September 7-9, 1998, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #1132
The 3rd IEEE European Workshop on Computer-Intensive Methods in Control and Data Processing.

M. Karny, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, P.O. Box 18, 182 08 Prague, Czech Republic. Tel: +420 2 688 3421, fax: +420 2 668 4903, email: school@utia.cas.cz.

Topics relevant to the Workshop: 
Models of complex systems 
Techniques of uncertainty management 
Control design and optimization techniques 
Software and hardware issues 
Real-life applications 

September 7-10, 1998, Aachen, Germany. Item #1213
EUFIT'98.

EUFIT '98, c/o ELITE-Foundation, Promenade 9, 52076 Aachen, Germany. Tel: +49 2408 6969, fax: +49 2408 94582, email: eufit@mitgmbh.de.

1.Basics of Fuzzy Set Theory and Uncertainty Modeling 
   2.Neural Networks - Basics and Applications 
   3.Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing 
   4.Fuzzy Sets in Artificial Intelligence 
   5.Neural-Fuzzy Systems and Learning 
   6.Fuzzy Databases and Information Retrieval 
   7.Fuzzy Control - Methodology and Applications 
   8.Decision Support Systems 
   9.Data Analysis and Signal Processing 
  10.Pattern Recognition and Image Processing 
  11.Applications in Process Industry and Production Planning 
  12.Applications in Traffic and Telecommunication 
  13.Medicine and Biomedical Applications 
  14.Financial Engineering and Forecasting 
  15.Software, Hardware, and Standards 

September 7-10, 1998, Aachen, Germany. Item #1262
Invited Session "Interpretation and Optimization of Neural Systems" at EUFIT '98.

Prof. Dr. H. Gemmeke, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, FZK, (Research Centre Karlsruhe), POB 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany, fax: ++49 7247 82 3560, tel: ++49 7247 82 5537, email: eppler@hpe.fzk.de.

September 7-11, 1998, Antwerp, Belgium. Item #1354
International Congress on Imaging Science.

IS&T, 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA. Tel: (703) 642 9090, fax: (703) 642 9094, email: info@imaging.org.

September 8-10, 1998, University of Birmingham, England. Item #1226
5th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop: Connectionist Models in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Prof. Glyn W. Humphreys, School of Psychology, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 121 414 4930, fax: +44 212 414 4897, email: humphreg@psycho1.bham.ac.uk.

September 8-11, 1998, Rhodes, Greece. Item #1355
Eusipco-98 9th European Signal Processing Conference.

Univ. of Athens, Dept. of Informatics, Panepistimioupolis, TYPA, Athens 15784, Greece, tel: +30 17211119, fax: +30 17219561, email: eusipco@di.uoa.gr.

September 9-11, 1998, Skovde, Sweden. Item #1160
Mechatronics'98, Special Session Applications of novel computing methods.

Prof. Philip Moore, Dept. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, De Montfort Univ., Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK, tel: +44 116 2577053, fax: +44 116 2577099, email: prmoore@dmu.ac.uk.

Papers on Applications of Artificial Neural Networks within complex Engineering / Mechatronic Systems
are solicited

September 9-10, 1998, Huddersfield, UK. Item #1318
17th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group.

Lee McCluskey, 17th UK Planning and Scheduling SIG, Dept. of Computing Science, School of Computing and Mathematics, Univ. of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, West Yorks HD1 3DH, UK, tel: +44 1484 472247, fax: +44 1484 421106, email: lee@zeus.hud.ac.uk.

Topics of interest include:

Applications:  empirical studies of existing planning/scheduling 
systems; domain-specific techniques; heuristic techniques;  
user interfaces for planning and scheduling.
 
Architectures: real-time support for planning/scheduling/control; 
mixed-initiative planning and user interfaces.
 
Environmental and task models: analyses of the dynamics of 
environments, tasks, and domains with regard to different models of 
planning and execution.
 
Formal Models: reasoning about knowledge, action, and time; 
representations and ontologies for planning and scheduling; search 
methods and analysis of algorithms; formal characterisation of 
existing planners and schedulers.
 
Intelligent Agency: resource-bounded reasoning; distributed problem
solving; integrating reaction and deliberation.
 
Learning: learning in the context of planning and execution; 
learning new plans and operators; learning in the context of 
scheduling and schedule maintenance.
 
Memory Based Approaches: case-based planning/scheduling; plan and 
operator learning and reuse; incremental planning.
 
Planning and Perception: integration of planning and perceptual 
systems.
 
Reactive Systems: environmentally driven devices/behaviours;  
reactive control; behaviours in the context of minimal representations;  
schedule maintenance.
 
Robotics: Motion and path planning; planning and control;  planning 
and perception.
 
Constraint-based Planning/Scheduling and Control Techniques:
constraint/preference propagation techniques, variable/value  
ordering heuristics, intelligent backtracking/RMS-based techniques, 
iterative repair heuristics, etc.
 
Coordination Issues in Decentralised/Distributed planning/scheduling:
coordination issues in both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, 
system architecture issues, integration of strategic and tactical 
decision making.
 
Iterative Improvement Techniques for Combinatorial Optimisation: 
genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, neural nets, 
etc applied to scheduling and/or planning.
 
Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research: comparative studies 
and innovative applications combining AI and OR techniques, applied 
to scheduling and/or planning.

September 10-13, 1998, Cambridge, UK. Item #1375
Digital Biota 2: The Second Annual Conference on Cyberbiology.

Sarah Reardon. Email: sarah.reardon@cyberlife.co.uk.

Scope includes:
  Artificial evolution of whole agents 
  Artificial biochemistry and physiology 
  Sensors and effectors 
  Biologically inspired robotics 
  Biologically inspired neural networks 
  Synthetic ecology 
  Social behaviour, communication and co-operative learning 
  The evolution of natural complexity 
  Distributed, physics-based virtual environments 
  Morphogenetic processes 
  Detailed physiological modelling of natural species

September 10, 1998, Aachen, Germany. Item #1414
Second International Data Analysis Symposium.

email: info@mitgmbh.de.

September 13- October 9, 1998, Forth Institute, Crete, Greece. Item #1298
Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience.

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

The Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience is designed for advanced 
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in a variety of disciplines, 
including neuroscience, physics, electrical engineering, computer science 
and psychology.  Students are expected to have a basic background in 
neurobiology as well as some computer experience.  A total of 28 students 
will be accepted with an age limit of 35 years.  We will accept students
of any nationality, but the majority will be from the European Union
and affiliated countries (Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein and Norway).  
We specifically encourage applications from researchers who work in 
less-favoured regions of the EU, from women and from researchers from 
industry.  

September 14-16, 1998, The Astrid Park Plaza Hotel, Antwerp, Belgium. Item #1081
FLINS'98 Third International FLINS Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies for Nuclear Science and Industry.

Dr. Da RUAN, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK.CEN), Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium. Tel: +32 14 33 22 72, fax: +32 14 32 15 29, email: flins@sckcen.be.

Following FLINS'94 and FLINS'96, the first and second international workshops 
on this topic, FLINS'98 aims to bring together scientists, researchers, and
people from industry and to introduce the principles of intelligent systems
and soft computing such as fuzzy logic (FL), neural network (NN), genetic
algorithms (GA) and any combinations of FL, NN, and GA, knowledge-based
expert systems and complex problem-solving techniques within nuclear
industry and related research fields.

September 14-17, 1998, Le Regent, Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Item #1126
NOLTA'98 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications.

Prof. Tohru Kohda, Dept. of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Kyushu Univ., 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812, Japan. Tel: +81 92 642 4043, fax: +81 92 632 5204, email: nolta98@kairo2.csce.kyushu-u.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 Circuits        Image & Signal Processing     Analog & Digital ICs
Control                Neuro Dynamics                Distributed Networks
Complex Systems        Evolutionary Computation      Power Systems
Fractals               Optimization                  Optics
Soliton                Fuzzy                         Chemistry & Physics
Applied Mathematics    Biocybernetics                Economics

September 14-16, 1998, Portland, Oregon, USA. Item #1239
SSAP-98 9th IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOP ON STATISTICAL SIGNAL AND ARRAY PROCESSING.

email: ssap-98@ee.pdx.edu.

      Real and complex multivariate statistics 
      Covariance and spectrum estimation 
      Higher-order spectrum estimation 
      Nonstationary signals and time-varying systems 
      Non-Gaussian signals and nonlinear systems 
      Parameter estimation on differential manifolds 
      System identification and calibration 
      Sensor array processing 
      Signal processing for communications 
      Signal processing for mechanical systems
      (special session) 
      Computational and implementation issues 
      Applications in all areas 

September 14-17, 1998, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Item #1250
ISIC/CIRA/ISAS'98 A Joint Conference on the Science and Technology of Intelligent Systems.

ISIC/CIRA/ISAS98, NIST, Intelligent Systems Division, Building 220, Room B124, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA. Tel: 301 975 3418, fax: 301 990 9688, email: is98.submit@cme.nist.gov.

Joined conferences:
IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC)
International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA)
Intelligent Systems and Semiotics (ISAS)

CONFERENCE TOPICS *Theory of intelligent systems * Intelligent system architectures *
Engineering principles for intelligent control systems * Intelligent control
applications * Performance measures * Goals, skills, and behavior generation *
Deliberative, reactive, and emergent behavior * Planning and problem solving *
Perception, cognition, and symbol grounding * Knowledge representation and world
modeling * Entities, events, attributes, and relationship * Multi-level range and
resolution in time and space * Sensing and acting * Sensory processing and situation
assessment * Complexity (in the controller and in the world) * Attention, grouping,
filtering. estimation, and recognition * Game theory and decision making * Values,
motives, and behavior * Learning, adaptation, and optimization * Self-reference,
introspection, and consciousness * Hybrid systems * Simulation, modeling, and
prediction * Semiotics * Language, communication, meaning, and pragmatics * Inference,
deduction, probability, and uncertainty * Symbolic manipulation vs. connectionist
vs. control theory approaches * Modern control methods for intelligent systems *
Multi-agent systems * Human-machine interfaces * Real-time control and computational
resources 

September 14-17, 1998, University of Southampton, UK. Item #1258
BMVC 98 British Machine Vision Conference.

BMVC98 Secretariat, ISIS Research Group, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.

Contributions are sought on novel aspects in  machine vision and pattern
analysis, including:
: image processing and feature extraction     : practical applications 
: object recognition and scene analysis       : model-based coding 
: 3D shape reconstruction                     : architectures
: computational issues in perception          : active vision
: robotic vision and sensory fusion           : motion analysis 
: advanced pattern analysis                   : neural networks
: vision-based biometrics                     : early vision

September 14-18, 1998, Pisa, Italy. Item #1356
SAS'98 5th International Static Analysis Symposium.

Mr Roberto Bagnara, SAS'98, tel: +39 565 828 310, fax: +39 521 902 350, email: bagnara@di.unipi.it.

September 16-18, 1998, University of Connecticut- Stamford Campus, Stamford, CT, USA. Item #1294
AI meets the Real World'98 Lessons Learned.

Eugene Santos, Jr. [ATTN: AIMTRW-98], Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Univ. of Connecticut, UTEB, 191 Auditorium Rd. U-155, Storrs, CT 06269-3155, tel: 860 486 1458, email: eugene@cse.uconn.edu.

Papers and presentations should be based on systems developed (or in
progress) for real world use.  Among the issues that might be of interest
in such a presentation we would expect to find the following:

 -- What characteristics of the domain and the application lead to your choice
    of solution method?  What alternative methods were considered and rejected? 
    Were these choices revisited (and revised?) at some later point?  
 
 -- What difficulties did you encounter?  Which ones were expected? Unexpected?
 
 -- What was the final outcome?  What qualifications or modifications of the
    original statement of the problem or system requirements were made?
 
 -- What lessons can be drawn from this experience, regarding:
   +++ domains where particular AI techniques are or aren't useful?
   +++ how to go about determining the utility of a technique in a new
       domain?
   +++ pitfalls to beware in system design, implementation, etc., that are
       peculiar to intelligent systems?

September 16-18, 1998, Kyoto, Japan. Item #1441
7th Symposium on Analysis, Design & Evaluation of Man-Machine Systems.

Technical Committee for Human Interface, Gosho Kaido-cho, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606, Japan. Tel: 075 701 7391, fax: 075 701 7211, email: hio@hisol.dj.kit.ac.jp.

September 16-17, 1998, Karlsruhe, Germany. Item #1489
Professional course on "Image and Data Analysis: the Multiscale Approach".

multires@hotmail.com.

September 17-18, 1998, Freiberg, Sachsen, Germany. Item #1254
3rd International Workshop on Boolean Problems.

Prof. Dr.Ing. habil. B. Steinbach, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institut für Informatik, Akademiestr. 6, D-09596 Freiberg, Germany, tel: +49(03731) 39 2568, fax: +49(03731) 39 2645, email: steinb@informatik.tu-freiberg.de.

  Theory
  - Properties and applications of Boolean Algebras

  Data Structures and Algorithms
  - Modeling
  - Specification of data structures/Algorithms
  - Complexity

  Program Systems/Software
  - Fundamental software for the solution of Boolean Problems
  - Comparison of efficiency

  Practical Applications
  - Modeling
  - Solution of real-world problems

September 17-19, 1998, Vienna, Austria. Item #1277
INES'98 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems.

Peter Kopacek, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Institute for Handling Devices and Robotics, Floragasse 7A, A-1040 Vienna, Austria. Tel: +43 1 504 1835 fax: +43 1 504 1835 9, email: kopacek@ihrt1.ihrt.tuwien.ac.at.

Intelligent Robotics: Control, Perception and Recognition, Reasoning, Learning,
 Robotic Systems, Human-Robotic Interaction, Service Robots.
Intelligent Mechatronics: Sensing and Sensor Data Fusion, Intelligent Sensors,
 Intelligent Motion Control.
Computational Intelligence: Machine Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Nets,
 Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy and Neuro-fuzzy Control.
Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Based Systems, Expert Systems.
CAD/CAM/CAE Systems: Product Modeling, Manufacturing Process Planning, 
Advanced Modeling Techniques, Shape Modeling.
Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Production 
Planning and Scheduling, System Simulation, Diagnosis and Performance 
Monitoring, Rapid Prototyping, Concurrent Engineering, Virtual Reality.
Man-Machine Systems: Human Computer Interaction, Collaborative
 Engineering, Decision Making.
Systems Engineering: Systems Methodology, Self Organizing Systems,
 Systems Integration, Large Scale Systems, Systems Analysis.

September 17-18, 1998, Bochum, Germany. Item #1338
3rd German Workshop on Artificial Life.

German Workshop on Artificial Life, Institut fuer Neuroinformatik ND04, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, email: gwal98@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.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. 

September 21-23, 1998, Sozopol, Bulgaria. Item #1183
AIMSA'98 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications.

Christo Dichev, Institute for Information Technologies, Bl. 29A, Acad. G. Bonchev St. 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. Email: cdichev@iinf.acad.bg, fax: +359 2 720 497, tel: +359 2 707 586.

AIMSA'98 will be  mainly (but not only) centered around the the use of
REASONING in AI, and in particular: Case-based Reasoning, Multi-Agent
Systems, Planning & Temporal reasoning, SAT & Decision Procedures,
Inductive Reasoning. Other topics of interest will be: Abduction,
Constraint Based Reasoning, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Based
Systems, Learning, Natural Language Processing, Temporal and Causal
Reasoning. This is not an exhaustive list, and papers from other areas
are also encouraged.

September 21-25, 1998, Herrsching, Germany. Item #1404
The 5th Open German-Russian Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Image Understanding.

Prof. B. Radig, FORWISS München, Orleansstr. 34, 81667 München, Germany, tel: +49 / 89 / 48095 202, fax: +49 / 89 / 48095 203, email: to radig@forwiss.de, fax: +49 / 89 / 48095 203.

Topics of Interest: 
           
         Mathematical Theory of Pattern Recognition 
         Mathematical Theory of Image Processing,  Analysis,  Recognition and Understanding 
         Mathematical Theory of Speech Processing,  Analysis, Recognition and Understanding 
         Formalization and Representation of Raw Data in PR&IU 
         Image Simulation and Image Models 
         Computer Vision 
         Machine Learning 
         Model Based Recognition and Interpretation 
         Knowledge Based Recognition and Interpretation 
         Knowledge Based Applications 
         Data Bases and Knowledge Bases for PR&IU 
         Neural Nets 
         Representation of Temporal Processes in Image Sequences 
         3D Object Recognition and Localization 
         Applications in Industry, Medicine and Traffic Systems 
         New Architectures, Specialized Computers, Applied and System Software for PR&IU 

September 22-24, 1998, Durban, South Africa. Item #1176
SSCC'98 International Conference on Systems, Signals, Control, Computers.

SACAN, P.O. Box 1428, Link Hills 3652, South Africa. Tel: +27 31 204 2560, +27 31 204-2736, fax: +27 31 204 2560, +27 31 204-2063, email: sscc98@umfolozi.ntech.ac.za.

The Conference is broad in scope and will provide a forum for the 
exchange of the latest research results as applied to different branches 
of science and technology. The areas of interest include concepts, 
techniques and paradigms associated with systems, signals, control 
and/or computers. Domains of application include informatics, bio-
medical technology, economics, management, diverse engineering and 
science fields and applied mathematics. Artificial intelligence 
techniques are of particular interest, as well as reports on industrial 
applications.  

September 22-24, 1998, Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, UK. Item #1461
VRI '98 Workshop on Visual Representations & Interpretations.

beth@csc.liv.ac.uk.

September 23-25, 1998, Vienna, Austria. Item #1013
NC'98 International Symposium on Neural Computation.

ICSC International Computer Science Conventions, P.O. Box 279, Millet, AB T0C 1Z0 / Canada. Email: icsc@compusmart.ab.ca, fax: +1 403 387 4329, tel: +1 403 387 3546.

Topics: Neural Network Theory
     Mathematical, computational background 
     Mathematical theories of networks in dynamical systems 
     Neural network architectures and algorithms 
     Neural models for cognitive science and brain functions 
     Convergence 
     Numerical aspects 
     Statistical properties 
     Artificial associative memories 
     Self-organization 
     Hybrid systems 
     Neuro-Fuzzy 
     Knowledge extraction from neural networks 
     Genetic algorithms 
     Optimization 
     Radial basis function networks 
     CMAC 
     Pre-filtering and pre-selection of input-data 
     Chaos-theoretical methods for data evaluation 
     Vector quantization
   Tools

     Rapid prototyping tools 
     Graphical programming tools 
     Simulation and analyzation tools 
     Heuristics for neural network design 
     Neuro-computers 
     Electronic and optic implementations 
     Neuro-chips 
     Parallel processing
   Applications
     Pattern recognition 
     Signal processing 
     Neural filters 
     Speech recognition 
     Robotics 
     Control 
     System Identification 
     Time series prediction 
     Sales forecast 
     Electrical power load forecast 
     X-ray image analysis

September 23-26, 1998, Brno, Czech Republic. Item #1279
TSD'98 A Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOG.

Dana Komarkova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk Univ., Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno, Czech republic, tel: +420 5 41 512 359, email: dkomar@fi.muni.cz.

- Corpora, texts and transcription
- Speech analysis, recognition and synthesis
- Their intertwining within NL dialog systems.

September 24-26, 1998, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #1010
ICES98 Second International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware.

Andres Perez-Uribe, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

    o Evolving hardware systems.  
    o Evolutionary hardware design methodologies.  
    o Evolutionary design of electronic circuits. 
    o Self-replicating hardware. 
    o Self-repairing hardware. 
    o Neural hardware.  
    o Adaptive hardware platforms.
    o Autonomous robots.  
    o Evolutionary robotics.  
    o Bio-robotics.
    o Applications of nanotechnology. 
    o Biological- or chemical-based systems. 
    o DNA computing.

September 26-29, 1998, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California, USA. Item #1271
AES 105th Convention.

Brian Link, Joint E-mu/Creative Technology Center, 1600 Green Hills Rd. P.O. Box 660015, Scotts Valley, CA 95067 USA, tel: +1 408 439 0304, fax: +1 408 439 0392, email: 105th_papers@aes.org.

     Microphones
     Loudspeakers
     Multichannel Sound
     Psychoacoustics, Perception, and Listening Tests
     Signal Processing for Audio
     Analysis and Synthesis of Sound
     Room Acoustics
     Spatial Perception and Processing
     Instrumentation and Measurements
     Sound Reinforcement
     Low-Bit Rate Audio Coding
     Audio Networking
     Audio Restoration and Enhancement
     Recording and Reproduction of Audio
     Desktop Computer Audio
     Internet Audio

September 27 - October 1, 1998, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Item #1051
PPSN V The Fifth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature.

Thomas Baeck, Informatik Centrum Dortmund, CASA, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 20, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany. Email: baeck@icd.de, tel: +49 231 9700 366, fax: +49 231 9700 959.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, genetic algorithms,
genetic programming and classifier systems, other forms of
evolutionary computation, simulated annealing, neural and immune
networks, DNA-computing and evolvable hardware, machine learning and
optimization using these methods, their relations to other learning
paradigms and mathematical description of their behavior.

September 28-30, 1998, Minsk, Byelorussia. Item #1275
SSIT'98 Intelligent Technologies.

Prof. V. Krasnoproshin, Belarussian State Univ., Faculty of Applied Mathematics, 4, Fr. Scorina Av, 220050 Minsk, Byelorussia. Tel: +375 17 2208821, fax: +375 17 2265548, email: kras@fpm.bsu.unibel.by.

October 2-4, 1998, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Item #1346
FroCoS'98 Frontiers of Combining Systems.

Maarten de Rijke, attn: FroCoS'98, ILLC, Univ. of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, frocos98@wins.uva.nl.

Papers on the following topics are especially welcome:
  + combination of constraint solving techniques and combination of 
    decision procedures
  + integration of data structures deduction processes
  + integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems
  + combinations of logics and of term rewriting systems
  + hybrid systems in computational linguistics, knowledge representation, 
    natural language processing, and HCI
  + logical modeling of multi-agent systems.
Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

October 4-7, 1998, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Item #1185
ICIP-98 International Conference on Image Processing.

Billene Mercer, Conference Management Services, 3109 Westchester Avenue, College Station, TX 77845-7919, USA. Tel: 409 693 6000, fax: 409 693 6000, email: mercer@conf-mgmt.com.

1. General Techniques and Algorithms

                 Filtering, Enhancement, Restoration, Coding, Segmentation,
                 Multiresolution Processing, Multispectral Processing, Image
                 Representation, Image Analysis, Image Understanding, Interpolation
                 and Spatial Transformations, Neural Networks for Image Processing,
                 Architectures and Software. 

                 2. Computed Imaging

                 Acoustic, Radar, Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, Geophysical and
                 Seismic, Speckle Imaging, Radio Astronomy, Computer Holography,
                 Confocal, Electron Microscopy, X-ray Crystallography,
                 Coded-Aperture Imaging, Real-Aperature Arrays. 

                 3. Image Scanning Display and Printing

                 Scanning and Sampling, Quantization and Halftoning, Color
                 Reproduction, Rendering, Graphics and Fonts, Image Quality,
                 Visualization. 

                 4. Video and Multimedia

                 Multimedia, HDTV, Enhanced Quality TV, Packet Video, Motion
                 Detection, Analysis and Estimation, Image Sequence Processing,
                 Video Data Base, Low Bit Rate and Very Low Bit Rate Coding, Video
                 over Wireless Channels, Video Signal Processor Chips, Access to and
                 Retrieval from Multimedia. 

                 5. Applications

                 Application of image processing technology to any field, including the
                 biomedical sciences, astronomy, geosciences, and environment and
                 document processing. 

October 5-9, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal. Item #910
IBERAMIA-98 Sixth Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Departamento de Informatica, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre, 2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal. Tel: 351 1 294 85 36, fax: 351 1 294 85 41, email: gpl@di.fct.unl.pt.

Agent-oriented programming
Case-based reasoning
Computer vision
Constraint programming
Database mining tools and aplications
Explanation mechanisms
Foundations issues
Genetic algorithms
Hypothetical reasoning
Intelligent information retrieval
Intelligent tutoring and learning environments
Knowledge acquisition
Knowledge representation
Knowledge-based systems validation
Model-based reasoning
Multi-agent and distributed problem-solving
Natural language processing
Neural nets
Robotics
Temporal and spatial reasoning
Symbolic learning

October 5-7, 1998, University of Bonn, Germany. Item #1290
KONVENS 98 Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech.

Gisela von Neffe, Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, der Universitaet Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Allee 47, D-53115 Bonn, Germany. Email: konvens98@uni-bonn.de, tel: +49 228 735638, fax: +49 228 735639.

October 5-14, 1998, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. Item #1299
Summer School on Speech, Recognition, and Neural Networks.

Email: annesp@vaxsa.csied.unisa.it or iiass@tin.it, tel: +39 89 761167, fax: +39 89 761189.

AIMS:

        The aim of this school is to present the experiments,
        the theories and the perspectives of acoustic phonetics,
        as well as to discuss recent results in the speech literature.
        The school aims to provide a background for further
        study in many of the fields related to speech science
        and linguistics, including automatic speech recognition.
        The school will bring together leading researchers
        and selected students in the field of speech science
        and technology to discuss and disseminate the latest techniques.
        The school is devoted to an international audience and
        in particular to all students and scientists who are
        working on some aspects of speech and want to learn other
        aspects of this discipline.

THE PLACE

Vietri (from "Veteri", its ancient Roman name) sul Mare ("on sea")
is located within walking distance from Salerno and marks the
beginning of the Amalfi coast. Short rides take to Positano, Sorrento,
Pompei, Herculaneum, Paestum, Vesuvius, or by boat, the islands of
Capri, Ischia, and Procida. Velia (the ancient "Elea" of Zeno and
Parmenide) is a hundred kilometers farther down along the coast.

October 5-7, 1998, Hyatt Regency Houston, Houston, TX, USA. Item #1442
Arma Information And Image Technology.

Jennifer Hoff, National Trade Productions, 313 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3567, USA. Tel: (703) 683 8500, fax: (703) 836 4486.

October 6-7, 1998, Abbey Hotel, Great Malvern, UK. Item #1387
EuroFusion98 Conference.

Conference General Chair, Jane O'Brien, Pattern and Information Processing, DERA, St. Andrews Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3PS, UK . Tel: +44 1684 895618, fax: +44 1684 894384, email: job@signal.dera.gov.uk.

Bayesian methods
Dempster-Shafer techniques
Probability Fusion
Decision-level Fusion
Neural networks
Medical applications
Condition monitoring
Aerospace applications
Financial applications
Defence applications
Security applications
Transport applications
Remote sensing
Demining

October 7-9, 1998, Marriott City Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Item #1285
IEEE-SP International Symposium on TIME-FREQUENCY AND TIME-SCALE ANALYSIS.

General Chair, Pat Loughlin, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 348 Benedum Hall, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, pat@ee.pitt.edu.

1. Signal  densities/distributions/representations
1.1 Time-Frequency
1.2 Time-Scale
1.3 Space-Spatial frequency
1.4 Ambiguity / characteristic functions
1.5 Other (specify)

2. Signal transforms, expansions and reconstruction
2.1 Gabor transforms
2.2 Scale/Mellin transforms
2.3 Wavelet transforms
2.4 Fractional Fourier transforms
2.5 Best basis / pursuit methods
2.6 Denoising
2.7 TFD decompositions
2.8 Other (specify)

3. Instantaneous quantities and related concepts
3.1 Instantaneous frequency
3.2 Instantaneous bandwidth
3.3 Instantaneous scale
3.4 Group delay
3.5 AM / FM
3.6 Other (specify)

4. Time-varying signals and systems
4.1 Linear time-varying systems modeling and identification
4.2 Time-varying spectra (e.g., Evolutionary Spectrum, parametric)
4.3 Time-varying filtering (linear and nonlinear)
4.4 Multiresolution methods, filterbanks, wavelets
4.5 Other (specify)

5. Decision making in time-frequency / time-scale
5.1 Classification
5.2 Detection and estimation
5.3 Subspace methods
5.4 Other (specify)

6. Applications
6.1 Speech and audio
6.2 Image processing
6.3 Biomedical and biological
6.4 Acoustics
6.5 Physics and astronomy
6.6 Radar / sonar
6.7 Machine/process monitoring, fault analysis
6.8 Seismic / geophysics
6.9 Other (specify)

October 8-10, 1998, Otzenhausen, Germany. Item #1321
ALT 98 The 9th International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory.

email: alt98@informatik.uni-kl.de.

We invite submissions to ALT'98 in all areas related to algorithmic
learning theory including (but not limited to): the design and analysis
of learning algorithms, the theory of machine learning, machine
discovery, inductive inference, case-based learning, learning via
queries, Bayesian-/MDL-/MML-estimation, statistical learning,
inductive logic programming, applications of learning e.g. to databases
and biological sequence analysis.

October 8-9, 1998, Urbana, IL, USA. Item #1443
VLBV98 Image Coding.

Keven Haggerty, Univ. of Illinois, Beckman Institute, 405 N. Methews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Email: haggerty@beckman.uiuc.edu.

October 8-10, 1998, Barcelona, Spain. Item #1474
RANDOM'98 2nd. International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science.

RANDOM '98 Workshop Secretariat, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Modul C6 - Campus Nord, Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain, fax: +34 93 4017014, email: random98@lsi.upc.es.

October 9-11, 1998, Carnegie Mellon University. Item #1408
The 29th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives.

Mary Anne Cowden, Administrative Coord. Psychology Dept, Carnegie Mellon Univ., tel: 412/268-3151, fax: 412/268-3464.

October 10-13, 1998, Item #1444
MICCAI - Medical Image.

E. Grimson, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

October 11-14, 1998, San Diego, California, USA. Item #1246
Special Session on Soft Computing Methods for Advanced Control at SMC'98.

Prof. Seppo J. Ovaska, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Institute of Intelligent Power Electronics, Otakaari 5 A, FIN-02150 Espoo, Finland. Email: Seppo.Ovaska@hut.fi.

* Adaptive and learning systems
* Reinforcement learning control
* Neural network-based control
* Fuzzy logic control
* Nonlinear systems and control
* Novel applications
* Other (specify)

October 12-14, 1998, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Item #1269
WCRE 98 5th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering.

wcre@computer.org.

The Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) is the premier
research-oriented conference dedicated to the theory and practice of
recovering information from existing software and systems.  The purpose
of WCRE is to explore innovative methods of extracting the many
kinds of information that can be recovered from software, software
engineering documents, and systems artifacts, and to examine innovative
ways of using this information, for example, to aid in system renovation.

October 12-15, 1998, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Item #1310
JELIA'98 6th European Workshop on Logics in AI.

Juergen Dix, dix@informatik.uni-koblenz.de, Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Koblenz-Landau, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany. Tel: +49 261 9119 420, fax: +49 261 9119 496.

    o  foundations of logic programming and knowledge-based systems
    o  automated theorem proving
    o  knowledge representation
    o  non-classical logics
    o  nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision
    o  abductive and inductive reasoning
    o  program verfication
    o  hybrid reasoning systems
    o  applications of logic-based systems
    o  logics in machine learning

October 12, 1998, Leipzig, Germany. Item #1320
Workshop on Applied Learning Theory.

Dr. Steffen Lange, Univ. of Leipzig, Institute for Computer Science, Augustus-Platz 10-11, 04109 Leipzig, Germany. Email: slange@informatik.uni-leipzig.de.

Algorithmic Learning Theory emerged roughly 30 years ago but real applications
of it are still rare. This workshop aims to stimulate fruitful discussions
between people working on real applications and in theory. Ideally,
people in theory should benefit by learning about challenging research
problems which arose in practice, and people in application may benefit
by getting answers to their problems from theoreticians. We therefore
kindly invite:

- people who are studying applications of algorithmic learning theory
  to a real domain,

- people who are using empirical learning techniques and who are interested
  in a formal analysis of their techniques,

- people who have problems which might be solved using machine learning
  techniques.

October 12-15, 1998, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #1345
MMM'98 The International Conference on Multimedia Modeling.

MMM'98 Secretariat, ComputerGraphics Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), tel: +41 21 693 5214, fax: +41 21 693 5328, email: MMM98@lig.di.epfl.ch.

* Formal Support for Multimedia          * Interactive Multimedia
* Model-based Video/Vision/Graphics      * Multimedia and Virtual
* Standards: MPEG4-SNHC, VRML 2               Reality
* Representation of Multimedia           * Multimedia Operating
     Information                                 System Information
* Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia   * Networked Multimedia and
     Information                                 Virtual Environments
* Talking heads and virtual actors in    * Multimedia Database
     Multimedia systems                          Modeling
* Integration of Graphics and Vision     * Speech and Music Modeling
* Integration of Multimedia Information  * Hypermedia
* Synchronization o Multimedia Modeling  * Education and Applications
     Information                                 of Multimedia

October 12-16, 1998, Beijing, China. Item #1351
ICSP'98 Fourth International Conference on Signal Processing.

Prof. YUAN Baozong, Institute of Information Science, Northern Jiaotong Univ., Beijing 100044, China.

A. Digital Signal Processing(DSP)
B. Spectrum Estimation & Modeling
C. Nonlinear & Chaotic Signal Processing
D. TF Spectrum Analysis & Wavelet
E. Multidimensional Signal Processing
F. Array Signal Processing
G. Morphological Signal Processing
H. Higher Order Spectral Analysis
I. Adaptive Filtering
J. VLSI for Signal Processing
K. Speech Coding
L. Speech Synthesis & Recognition
M. Image Processing & Video
N. Multimedia
O. Pattern Recognition
P. AI & Neural Networks
Q. Audio & Electroacoustics
R. Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing
S. Radar Signal Processing
T. Application & Others

October 12-17, 1998, Novosibirsk, Russia. Item #1445
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: New Information Technologies.

PRIA-4-98 Secretariat, Cybernetics, 40 Vavilov Street, Moscow GSP-1, Russia, tel: +7 095 129 0797, fax: +7 095 129 0797, email: igourevi@ccas.ru.

October 13-16, 1998, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Item #1270
ASE'98 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.

Alex Quilici, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, 2504 Dole Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA, tel: +1 808 956 9735, fax: +1 808 956 3427, email: alex@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu.

* Architecture
* Automating software design and synthesis
* Automated software specification and analysis
* Computer-supported cooperative work, groupware
* Domain modeling
* Education
* Knowledge acquisition
* Maintenance and evolution
* Process and workflow management
* Program understanding
* Re-engineering
* Requirements engineering
* Reuse
* Testing
* User interfaces and human-computer interaction
* Verification and validation

October 15-17, 1998, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T, Hong Kong. Item #1295
IDEAL'98 International Symposium on Intelligent Data Engineering and Learning.

IDEAL'98 Secretariat, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong. Fax: (852) 2603 5024, email: ideal98@cse.cuhk.edu.hk.

      FINANCIAL ENGINEERING                   DATA & KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
      ---------------------                   ----------------------------
o Portfolio Management & Asset Allocation  o Statistical Learning Theory
o Derivative & Term Structure Models       o Machine Learning
o Bond and Stock Valuation and Trading     o Probabilistic Modeling
o Models for Equity Investment             o Graphical Models
o Retail Finance                           o Neural Networks
o Exotic Options                           o Bayesian Model and Analysis
o Risk Management                          o High Dimensional Indexing & 
o Hedging and Arbitrage Strategies           Retrieval Methods
o Co-integration                           o Content-based Media Retrieval
o Correlation & Volatility                 o Interactive Data Exploration
o Corporate Distress                         & Discovery
o Trading Strategies and Systems           o Data & Knowledge Visualization
  & Risk Models                            o Knowledge Engineering & Discovery
o Modeling and Forecasting                 o Multimedia Database
o Model Identification, Selection          o Geoinformatic System
  and Specification                        o System Integration Issues
o Non-parametric Statistics &              o Applications and Tools
  Econometrics                             o Other Related Areas
o Non-linear Time Series & 
  Cross-sectional Analysis       

October 15-16, 1998, Brussels, Belgium. Item #1373
ANTS'98 From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: First International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization.

Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA CP 194/6, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. Tel: +32 2 6503169, fax: +32 2 6502715, Secretary +32 2 6502729, email: mdorigo@ulb.ac.be.

October 16-20, 1998, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan. Item #1200
IIZUKA'98 5th International Conference on Soft Computing.

Prof. Takeshi Yamakawa, c/o Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute (FLSI), 680-41 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820 Japan. Tel: +81 948 24 2771, fax: +81 948 24 3002, email: iizuka98@flsi.cird.or.jp.

*Fuzzification and Defuzzifications
*Fuzzy Chips, Fuzzy Hardware and Fuzzy Logic Computers
*Fuzzy Clustering
*Dynamical Fuzzy Systems
*Fuzzy Logic Control
*Fuzzy Mathematics
*Fuzzy Modeling
*Neural Network Design and Evaluation
*Neural Chips, Neural Hardware and Neuro Computers
*Recurrent Neural Networks
*System Identifications by Neural Networks
*Chaos Engineering
*Chaotic Complexity       
*Chaos and Computing
*Fuzzy Neural Networks  
*Fuzzy Neural Computing Systems
*Chaotic Fuzzy Systems
*Novel Devices for Fuzzy, Neural and Chaotic Systems
*Safety, Reliability and Noise Immunity of Fuzzy/Neural Systems   
*Approximate Reasoning
*Cognition               
*Diagnostic Systems
*Difference Aspects of Approximate Reasoning
*Emotional Information Processing
*Genetic Algorithm
*Gradual Rules as a Tool for Qualitative Modeling
* Indistinguishabilities
*Knowledge Acquisition and Tools for Expert Systems Technology                  
*Learning Algorithms
*Man-Machine Communication
*Multiple-Valued Logic
*Natural Language        
*Uncertainty Measures and Applications
*Applications of Fuzzy, Neural, Chaotic Systems G.A. and Other Soft Computing
          Industry
          Control
          Image Processing
          Biomedicine
          Education
          Economics
          Others

October 16-20, 1998, Thessaloniki, Greece. Item #1432
First International Workshop on Current Trends and Developments in Fuzzy Logic.

Apostolos Syropoulos (apostolo@obelix.ee.duth.gr).

October 17-20, 1998, Fukuoka, Japan. Item #1251
IIZUKA'98 Special Session on Soft Computing in Medical Image Processing.

Prof. Dr. Yutaka Hata (BISC-MED Chairman), Computer Engineering Dept., Himeji Institute of Technology, 2167, Shosha, Himeji, 671-22, Japan, tel: (+81)-792-66-1661 fax: (+81)-792-66-8868, hata@comp.eng.himeji-tech.ac.jp.

October 19-21, 1998, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Item #1168
WACV'98 Fourth IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision.

Dr. Rakesh Kumar, 201 Washington Road, CN5300, Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. Tel: 609 734 2832, fax: 609 734 2662, email: rkumar@sarnoff.com.

*visual database                   *image based rendering
*video mosaicing                  *cartography and GIS
*surveillance                         *3D sensing
*security & law enforcement
*space operations                 *object recognition
*highway/vehicle systems      *robotics
*human-computer interaction *medical  image analysis
*manufacturing                      *industrial inspection
*augmented reality                *remote sensing
*document analysis & OCR  *face & gesture image analysis

October 19-23, 1998, NAS Cybernetics Centre, Kiev, Ukraine. Item #1447
Ukrobraz'98 Information Processing and Pattern Recognition.

Taras Vintsiuk, UNESCO/IIP, Speech Science Dept., 40 Academician Hlushov Avenue, Kiev 252022, Ukraine. Tel: +380 44 2664356, fax: +380 44 2661570, email: vintsuik@uasoiro.freenet.kiev.ua.

October 20-23, 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Item #1228
SIBGRAPI'98 - 1998 International Symposium on Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Vision.

Prof. Luciano da Fontoura Costa, Cybernetic Vision Research Group, DFI-IFSC, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Caixa Postal 369, Sao Carlos, SP, 13560-970, Brazil. Fax: +55 162 71 3616, mailto:luciano@ifsc.sc.usp.br, http://www.ifqsc.sc.usp.br/visao/group/members/luciano/luciano.htm.

     Geometric modeling
     Computational geometry
     Image synthesis
     Visualization
     Graphical user interfaces
     Animation and Simulation
     Virtual reality
     Multimedia and Hypermedia
     Graphical databases
     Medical imaging
     Mathematical Morphology
     Computer architectures for Computer Graphics, 
         Image Processing, and Vision
     Statistical signal processing
     Multiresolution signal processing and analysis
     Multidimensional signal processing and analysis
     Video processing and analysis
     Remote sensing
     Image compression
     Pattern recognition
     Image segmentation
     Robotic vision
     Active vision
     Dynamic contours
     Selective attention
     Neural networks for visual computation
     Artificial intelligence for visual computation
     Visual neuroscience
     Visual perception and cognition
     Applications

October 21-23, 1998, Kitakyushu, Japan. Item #1043
ICONIP'98.

M. Matsue, Japan Technical Information Service, Sogo Kojimachi No.3 Bldg. 1-6 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan. Tel: +81 3 3239 4565, fax: +81 3 3239 4714, email: KYD00356@niftyserve.or.jp.

Topics of Interest 
	Track : Neurobiological Basis of Brain Functions
	Track : Mathematical Theory of Brain Functions
	Track : Cognitive and Behavioral Aspects of Brain Functions
	Track : Theoretical and Technical Aspects of Neural Networks
	Track : Distributed Processing Systems
	Track : Applications of Neural Networks
	Track : Implementations of Neural Networks

October 21-23, 1998, Wuhan, China. Item #1256
ISMIP'98 International Symposium on MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE PROCESSING.

Prof. Mingyue Ding, Institute for Pattern recognition & Artificial Intelligence, State Education Commission Laboratory for Image Processing & Intelligence Control, Huazhong Univ. of Science & Technology, Wuhan, P.R.China 430074, tel: +86 27 7543476, fax: +86 27 7545438, email: myding@server20.hust.edu.cn.

A. Multispectral image acquisition: 
   Active 3-D imaging
   Noncooled infrared imaging technology 
   Medical imaging 
   Advanced synthetic aperture radar imaging 
   Characterization of targets and backgrounds 
   Other photoelectronic sensor imaging 

B. Multispectral image processing and analysis: 
   Spectral and spatial feature extraction 
   Spectral and spatial pattern recognition 
   Dissimilar sensor image matching 
   Nonlinear image processing 
   Wavelet analysis and applications 
   Fractal analysis and applications 
   Artificial neural networks and applications 
   Multisensor fusion pattern analysis 
   Medical image analysis 
   Parallel processing 

C. Intelligent system:
   Multispectral image-based visualization techniques and systems 
   Multispectral image-based virtual environments 
   Active vision 
   Multisensor-based robots 
   Mission planning and vehicle guidance 
   Automatic target recognition and tracking systems 
   DSP-based architecture and applications 

October 22, 1998, Savoy Place, London. Item #1336
IEE Colloquium on "Neural Networks in Multimedia Interactive Systems".

Dr. Niall Griffith, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Science, Univ. of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Email: niall.griffith@ul.ie, tel: +353 61 202785, fax: +353 61 330876.

Adaptive and plastic behaviour in multi-media systems
Concept and behaviour learning and acquisition
Browsing mechanisms
Preference and strategy identification and learning
Data mining
Image processing in multimedia systems
Cross modal and media representations and processes
Intelligent agents

October 23-28, 1998, Item #1124
Fourth Joint Conference on Information Sciences.

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

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 * INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS & COMPLEXITY: 					    *
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 *                SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS AND SPECTRUM OF APPLICATIONS       *


  FT & T'98:  Sixth International Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology
		   Co-Chairs: George J. Klir & I. Burhan Turksen

  CS & I'98:  Fourth International Conference on Computer Science & Informatics
	           Co-Chairs: Keqin Li & Pan Yi

  CI & N'98:  Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence & 
				Neurosciences
 	           Co-Chairs: Subhash C. Kak & Jeffrey P. Sutton

  RSSC'98: Sixth International Workshop on Rough Sets and Soft Computing
		   Co-Chairs: T. Y. Lin & Wesely Chu

  IC'98: Second International Workshop on Intelligent Control
			  Chair: John Baillieul

  FEA'98: Second International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms 
			  Chair: Cezary Z. Janikow

  CVPRIP'98: First International Workshop on Computer Vision, Pattern 
             Recognition and Image Processing.
			  Chair: H. D. Cheng

October 23-28, 1998, RTP, North Carolina, USA. Item #1136
RSDMGrC'98 The Sixth International Workshop on Rough Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing.

T.Y. Lin, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, California 95192, USA, tel: 408 924 5121, email: tylin@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU.

Is a part of JCIS'98 http://www.ee.duke.edu/JCIS98/

October 23-28, 1998, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. Item #1215
CVPRIP'98 First International Workshop on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing as part of Joint Conference On Information Sciences.

P. P. Wang, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Duke Univ., P. O. Box 90291, 130 Hudson Hall, Science Drive, Durham, NC27708-0291, USA.

1.Algorithms: 
         Image enhancement, segmentation, filtering, restoration, texture, analysis, understanding, compression, color
         image processing, etc. 
         Feature Extraction, Feature Selection, statistical approach, syntactic approach, clustering, etc. 
         Motion, Stereo vision, physics-based vision, CAD-based vision, target/object recognition, etc. 
         Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm, Wavelet, Fractal, Morphology to CVPRIP 
   2.Architectures: VLSI and application-driven architectures for CVPRIP. 
   3.Applications: Applying CPPRIP to medical science, industry, finance, environment, agriculture, transportation, etc. 

October 23-28, 1998, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. Item #1332
ICCIN'98 3nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.

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

	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

October 23-25, 1998, Orlando, Florida. Item #1350
1998 AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Link Analysis.

David Jensen, CS Dept., Box 34610 LGRC, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA, (413-538-9728). jensen@cs.umass.edu.

Computer-based link analysis is increasingly used in law 
enforcement investigations, fraud detection, telecommunications 
network analysis, pharmaceuticals research, epidemiology, and 
many other specialized applications.  Link analysis explores 
associations among large numbers of objects of different types.  
For example, a law enforcement application might examine familial 
relationships among suspects and victims, the addresses at which 
those persons reside, and the telephone numbers that they called 
during a specified period.  The ability of link analysis to 
represent relationships and associations among objects of 
different types has proven crucial in assisting human 
investigators to comprehend complex webs of evidence and draw 
conclusions that are not apparent from any single piece of 
information.

October 23-24, 1998, Lahore, Pakistan. Item #1376
FISC'98 Fast IEEE Student Conference on CS and IT.

email: info.fastsc@fast.edu.pk.

- Artificial Intelligence
- Database Systems
- Expert Systems
- Software Engineering
- Information Retrieval
- Human and Machine Systems
- Data mining
- System Engineering
- Graphics
- Multimedia
- Neural Network
- Communication
- Cognitive Systems

October 23-24, 1998, Toulouse, France. Item #1429
FAUST 1998 VIIémes RENCONTRES POUR OUVRIR LE XXIčme SIČCLE.

Forum des Arts de l'Univers Scientifique et Technologique, Secrétariat Général: FAUST, Mairie de Toulouse, 34, rue Pargaminičres, F-31000 Toulouse, tel: 33 (0)5 61 21 44 74, fax: 33 (0)5 61 29 86 11, email: faust@medialogic.fr.

October 25-30, 1998, Nashua, NH. Item #1394
Second International Conference on Complex Systems.

email: necsi@necsi.org.

EMERGENCE, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: substructure, the
relationship of component to collective behavior, the
relationship of internal structure to external influence.

INFORMATICS: structuring, storing, accessing, and
distributing information describing complex systems.

COMPLEXITY: characterizing the amount of information
necessary to describe complex systems, and the dynamics
of this information.

DYNAMICS: time series analysis and prediction, chaos,
temporal correlations, the time scale of dynamic processes.

SELF-ORGANIZATION: Pattern formation, evolution,
development and adaptation.

October 26-30, 1998, Pisa, Italy. Item #1242
CP98 Fourth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming.

Francesca Rossi, Univ. of Pisa.

Scope of the conference: ------------------------ Constraints have
emerged as the basis of a representational and computational paradigm
that draws from many disciplines and can be brought to bear on many
problem domains. The conference is concerned with all aspects of
computing with constraints including: algorithms, applications,
environments, languages, models, systems. Contributions are welcome from
any discipline concerned with constraints, including: artificial
intelligence, combinatorial algorithms, computational logic, concurrent
computation, databases, discrete mathematics, operations research,
programming languages, symbolic computation. We also solicit papers from
any domain employing constraints, including:  computational linguistics,
configuration, decision support, design, diagnosis, graphics, hardware
verification, molecular biology, planning, qualitative reasoning,
real-time systems, resource allocation, robotics, scheduling, software
engineering, temporal reasoning, vision, visualization, user interfaces.
Papers that bridge disciplines or combine theory and practice are
especially welcome.

October 26-29, 1998, St-Petersburg, Russia. Item #1293
SPECOM'98 International Workshop SPEECH AND COMPUTER.

Dr.Y.Kosarev, SPIIRAS, 39, 14th line, St-Petersburg, 199178, RUSSIA, tel: +7 812 218 7081, fax: +7 812 218 0685, email: specom@mail.iias.spb.su.

- Conceptual models for natural spoken language;
- Models for spoken language semantic interpretation;
- Integration of diverse knowledge in the speech understanding process;
- Using prosodical knowledge in speech semantic interpretation;
- Speech-to-speech translation;
- Telephone natural language response generation;
- Speech dialogue models creation;
- Spontaneous speech perception modeling;
- Multi-lingual and multi-modal systems;
- Psychological approaches to speech understanding;
- Applied systems.

October 26-28, 1998, The Nottingham Trent University. Item #1326
10th EUROPEAN SIMULATION SYMPOSIUM.

Philippe Geril, SCS European Office, Univ. of Ghent, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, tel: (Office): +32 9 2337790, fax: +32 9 2334941, Tel/fax: (Private): +32 59 800 804, email: philippe.geril@rug.ac.be.

October 26-28, 1998, Altis Golf Hotel, Belek close to the beautiful Mediterranean city of Antalya, Turkey. Item #1342
ISCIS'98 The 13th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences.

email: iscis98@cs.bilkent.edu.tr.

   * Artificial Intelligence
   * Computer Architecture and Systems
   * Computer Graphics
   * Computer Networks
   * Database Management Systems
   * Distributed Systems
   * Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
   * Information Retrieval
   * Neural Networks
   * Parallel Processing and Parallel Algorithms
   * Performance Evaluation
   * Software Engineering

October 27-30, 1998, Beijing, China. Item #1112
NN&B'98 International Conference on Neural Network and Brain.

Dr. Qun Zhao, Center for Information Science, National Lab on Machine Perception, Peking Univ., Beijing 100871, China. Tel: 86 10 6275 1937, fax: 86 10 6275 5654, email: zhao@cis.pku.edu.cn.

	           General Topics

Adaptive Filtering            Architectures          Associative Memory
Brain Functions               Cognitive Science      Cellular Neural Networks
Computational Intelligence    Data Analysis          Fuzzy Neural Systems
Genetic and Annealing Algorithms                     Hybris Systems
Image Signal Processing       Industrial Automation
Intelligent Control and Robotics                     Learning and Memory
Machine Vision                Model Identification
Motion Analysis               Motion Vision
Neurobiology                  Neurocognition
Neural Modeling               Neurosensors and Wavelets
Neurodynamics and Chaos       Optimization
Parameter Estimation          Pattern Recognition and signal Processing
Prediction                    Sensation and Perception
Sensorimotor Systems          Speech, Hearing, and Language 
Supervised/Unsupervised Learning                     System Identification
Time Series Analysis

                   Implementations

Hardware Implementation 
Optical Implementation
Parallel and Distributed Computing Environment 
Simulation

       	           Applications Areas

Business, Chemical Engineering,  Communications, Economics and 
Finance, Industry, Manufacture, Medical, OCR,etc.

October 29-30, 1998, Basel, Switzerland. Item #1339
PAKM98 The Second International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management.

Ulrich Reimer, Swiss Life, Information Systems Research Group, Postfach, CH-8022 Zurich, Switzerland, email: Ulrich.Reimer@swisslife.ch.

October 29-30, 1998, Basel, Switzerland. Item #1340
PAKM98 The Second International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management.

Ulrich Reimer, Swiss Life, Information Systems Research Group, Postfach, CH-8022 Zurich, Switzerland, email: Ulrich.Reimer@swisslife.ch.

November 1-4, 1998, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Item #1328
ANNIE'98 Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering.

Dr. Cihan H. Dagli, Smart Engineering Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Engineering Management, Univ. of Missouri - Rolla, 1870 Miner Circle, Rolla, MO 65409-0370, USA. Tel: (573) 341 6576, fax: (573) 341 6567, email: annie@umr.edu.

November 1, 1998, Champaign, Illinois. Item #1491
Professional course on "Image and Data Analysis: the Multiscale Approach".

multires@hotmail.com.

November 3-7, 1998, Washington D.C., USA. Item #1337
CIKM'98 Seventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

Niki Pissinou. pissinou@cacs.usl.edu.

Intelligent Search and Data Mining	
Data Cleaning and Noise Modeling 
Uncertainty Management  		
Data Mining Methods 
Automated Discovery Agents 		
Privacy and Security Issues 
Interactive Data Exploration 		
Knowledge and Resource Discovery 
Multimedia  Database Systems 		
Mobile Databases and Wireless Computing
Digital Libraries 
Information Representation and Modeling
Modeling Database Dynamics  
Information Structures and Interaction 
Hypertext and Hypermedia 
Distributed Object Management
Query Languages Transaction and Workflow Management  
Data and Knowledge Sharing 
Heterogeneous and Distributed Systems
High Performance Algorithms 
Design Techniques for Object Databases 
Intelligent Agents and Network Mediators
Temporal/Spatial Databases
Active and Extensible Databases
Engineering, Scientific and Design Databases 
Intelligent Information Systems 
User and Application Interfaces  
Time, Event and Change Management and Monitoring 
Dynamic Databases 
Tuning, Benchmarking and Performance 
New Experimental, Commercial and Educational Systems 
Integrating Databases and Information Retrieval 
Cooperating and Interoperable Federated Systems  
Parallelism and Distribution  
Object Storage and Servers
Imprecise and Uncertain Information 

November 5-6, 1998, San Francisco, CA. Item #1395
PUI'98 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces.

Matthew Turk, email: mturk@MICROSOFT.com.

 Topics of interest include speech and sound recognition, vision-based
 interfaces, haptics, multimodal interfaces, learning and user modeling,
 cognitive studies, integrating multiple sources of information, and systems
 issues associated with perceptual user interfaces.

November 7, 1998, Los Angeles, CA. Item #1472
Short course: Using the NEURON Simulation Environment.

Ted Carnevale. Email: ted.carnevale@yale.edu.

Speakers:  N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, 
           J.W. Moore, and G.M. Shepherd

Description

NEURON, which runs under UNIX/Linux, MSWindows, and MacOS, 
is an advanced simulation environment that handles realistic 
models of biophysical mechanisms, individual neurons, and 
networks of cells. In lectures with live computer 
demonstrations, this course will present information 
essential for teaching and research applications of NEURON. 
It will emphasize practical issues that are key to the most 
productive use of this powerful and convenient modeling tool. 

November 7, 1998, Los Angeles, CA. Item #1472
Short course: Using the NEURON Simulation Environment.

Ted Carnevale. Email: ted.carnevale@yale.edu.

Speakers:  N.T. Carnevale, M.L. Hines, 
           J.W. Moore, and G.M. Shepherd

Description

NEURON, which runs under UNIX/Linux, MSWindows, and MacOS, 
is an advanced simulation environment that handles realistic 
models of biophysical mechanisms, individual neurons, and 
networks of cells. In lectures with live computer 
demonstrations, this course will present information 
essential for teaching and research applications of NEURON. 
It will emphasize practical issues that are key to the most 
productive use of this powerful and convenient modeling tool. 

November 9, 1998, Chien Tan Youth Activity Center Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Item #1322
KDEX'98 IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop.

Jonathan Lee, National Central Univ. Taiwan, Dept. of Computer Science & Information Engineering, National Central Univ., Chungli, Taiwan . Tel: 886 3 422 7151 ext.4510, fax: 886 3 422 2681, email: yjlee@se01.csie.ncu.edu.tw.

Data sharing, data warehousing and meta-data management  
Distributed intelligent mediators and agents  
Distributed object management  
Information structures and interaction  
Intelligent search, data mining and content-based retrieval  
Knowledge and data engineering systems  
Quality assurance for knowledge and data engineering systems
(correctness, reliability, security, survivability and performance)  
Software re-engineering and intelligent software information systems  
Spatio-temporal, active, mobile and multimedia data  
Emerging applications (biomedical systems, decision support,
geographical databases, Internet technologies and applications,
digital libraries, etc.)  

November 10-12, 1998, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. Item #1179
ICTAI'98 10th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence.

John Yen, Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX 77843-3112, USA. Email: yen@cs.tamu.edu, tel: 409 845 5466, fax: 409 847 8578.

AI algorithms  
Cognitive Modeling   
Environmental Applications  
Genetic Algorithms  
Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems  
Intelligent Interface Agents   
Knowledge Sharing   
Planning and Scheduling 
Qualitative Reasoning 
Collaborative Software Agents
Fuzzy Logic and Reasoning Under Uncertainty
Intelligent Control
Intelligent Internet Agents
Intelligent Databases and Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Robotics
Vision and Image Processing
AI in Software Engineering
Natural Language Processing and Speech Understanding

November 16-17, 1998, Virginia, USA. Item #1334
EXPERSYS-98.

Dr. A. NIKU-LARI, IITT-International, 24 rue des Mimosas, F-93460 Gournay sur Marne, France. Tel: +33 1 64683600, fax: +33 1 64685480, email: Niku-Lari@iitt.com.

INTERNET APPLICATIONS : Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert
Systems for the Internet, and Knowledge Management on Information Highways.
                        
                                
MANAGEMENT : Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Management, and Strategies  
and Tools       , Knowledge Representation Approaches, Managing Expert
System Projects.                                
                        
ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS : Neural Network Applications, Genetic Algorithms, Speech
Recognition, Natural Language Processing, and Human-Machine Interaction.   

                        
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT : Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications,     

Expert System Shells    And Development Environments, Learning Systems,
System Validation, Real Time Analysis of Processes, Object-Oriented
Database Systems, Knowledge-Based Statistical Analysis, Modeling,
Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems, Knowledge Sharing, Multi-Agent
Intelligent Systems.            
                        
BUSINESS : Applications in Finance, Insurance, Law, and Cost-Benefit
Analysis.                       
                        
ENGINEERING  AND MANUFACTURING : Symbolic and Numeric Applications in
Engineering,  Architecture, Environment, Telecommunications, CAD/CAM,
Robotics and Flexible Manufacturing.    
                   

November 17-19, 1998, Makuhari, Japan. Item #1448
MVA'98 Machine Vision Applications.

K. Ikeuchi, Univ. of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan. Tel: +81 3 3401 1433, fax: +81 3 3401 1433, email: ki@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

November 22-27, 1998, Singapore. Item #958
PRICAI'98 5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

PRICAI'98 Secretariat, Japan-Singapore AI Centre, Information Technology Institute, 11 Science Park Road, Singapore Science Park II, Singapore 117685. Tel: 65 770 5080, fax: 65 779 1827, email: pricai98@iti.gov.sg.

November 22-23, 1998, Singapore. Item #1379
PKAW98 The 1998 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop.

Hiroshi Motoda, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka Univ., 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki 567-0047, Japan. Email: motoda@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp.

 o Fundamental views on knowledge that affect the knowledge
   acquisition process and the use of knowledge in knowledge
   engineering
 o Algorithmic approaches to knowledge acquisition
 o Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge
   maintenance and knowledge validation
 o Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques, tools and methods
 o Knowledge acquisition, machine learning and knowledge discovery
 o Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modeling
 o Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with wider
   information systems or decision support systems
 o Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge
 o Distributed knowledge acquisition through infrastructures such as
   the Internet

November 22-27, 1998, Singapore. Item #1470
APWISE'98 First Asia-pacific Workshop on Intelligent Software Engineering.

Dr. Aditya Ghose, Decision Systems Lab, Dept. of Business Systems, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522 Australia. Email: aditya@uow.edu.au.

To be held in conjunction with the Fifth Pacific Rim International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence

- During analysis:
	**  Knowledge acquisition methods for requirements elicitation 
	**  Knowledge representation methods for expressing the business
	    knowledge.
	**  Formal reasoning with non-classical logics for requirements 
	    engineering and evolution.

- During design and coding
	**  Knowledge base verification techniques can critique the
	    structure of a knowledge base/specification.
	**  Knowledge-based validation techniques can detect bad
	    semantics in a knowledge base/specification
	**  Classical theorem proving and related formal reasoning
	    techniques are being widely applied in the context of
	    formal specification languages, as well as in managing
	    changing specifications for reuse-oriented software
	    maintenance.
	**  Formal languages for planning in the AI context are being
	    reincarnated as languages for software process modelling.

- During maintenance:
	**  Tools from AI can assist in maintaining declarative and
	    procedural knowledge.
	**  AI techniques for program comprehension and reverse engineering of
	    legacy systems. This has been reinforced by recent successes in 
            applying methods such as constraint satisfaction and plan 
	    recognition to reverse engineering legacy systems.

November 23-25, 1998, Copthorne Hotel, Plymouth, UK. Item #1460
International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition.

Barbara Davies, ICAPR secretary, School of Computing, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK, tel: +44 1752 232 558, fax: +44 1752 232 540, email: espaa@soc.plym.ac.uk.

November 23-24, 1998, Chicago, Illinois. Item #1480
Modern Regression and Classification course.

Prof. Trevor Hastie, Stanford University, Phone/fax: (650) 326 0854, email: trevor@stat.stanford.edu, or tibs@stat.stanford.edu.

                            COURSE OUTLINE

                              DAY ONE:

Overview of regression methods: Linear regression models and least
squares. Ridge regression and the ``lasso''. Flexible linear models and
basis function methods. linear and nonlinear smoothers; kernels,
splines, and wavelets. Bias/variance tradeoff- cross-validation and
bootstrap. Smoothing parameters and effective number of parameters.
Non-linear and adaptive time series methods. Surface smoothers.

                               ++++++++

Structured Nonparametric Regression: Problems with high dimensional
smoothing. Structured high-dimensional regression: additive models.
project pursuit regression. CART, MARS. radial basis functions. neural
networks. applications to time series forecasting.

                               DAY TWO:

Classification: Statistical decision theory and classification rules.
Linear procedures: Discriminant Analysis.
Logistic regression. Quadratic discriminant analysis,
parametric models. Nearest neighbor
classification, K-means and LVQ. Adaptive nearest neighbor methods. 

                               ++++++++
The Discrete choice model. Nonparametric classification: Classification
trees: CART.  Flexible/penalized discriminant analysis. Multiple
logistic regression models and neural networks.  Kernel methods.

November 24-27, 1998, Canberra, Australia. Item #1301
SEAL'98 The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning.

X. Yao, School of Computer Science, Univ. College, UNSW, ADFA, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia. Email: seal98@cs.adfa.oz.au, tel: +61 2 6268 8184, fax: +61 2 6268 8581.

evolutionary learning, evolutionary optimisation,
hybrid learning, adaptive systems, evolutionary economics and games,
theoretical issues in evolutionary computation, evolvable hardware,
evolutionary neural networks, applications

November 20, 1998, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Item #1409
Fifth International Meeting on Connectionist Approaches in Economics and Management Sciences.

ACSEG98, Centre d'Etudes en Gestion Financičre, Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Universite catholique de Louvain, 1 place, des Doyens, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium . Fax: +32 10 47 83 24.

Since the beginning of the 80s, important advances have been made in
developing diverse new approaches of bio-mimetic inspiration (neural nets,
genetic algorithms, cellular automata, ...). These approaches are of prime
interest for researcher both in Economics and in Management Sciences. The
ACSEG  International Meetings give the opportunity to assess the
state-of-the-art in the domain, to delineate future developments, and to
evidence the contribution of bio-mimetic methods to Economics and Management
Sciences. They also allow the researchers to present their recent work, to
exchange know-how, and to discuss the problems encountered in their
research.

November 26-27, 1998, Geneva, Switzerland. Item #1396
CAPTECH'98 IFIP Workshop on Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques.

IFIP Workshop on Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments, CAPTECH'98, 26-27 November 1998, Geneva, Switzerland.

 - Video Capturing
 - Vision-based Motion Capture
 - Motion Analysis
 - Integration of Graphics and Vision
 - Laser-based Technologies
 - Ultrasound-based Technology
 - Infrared-based Technology
 - Augmented Reality
 - Networked Virtual Collaborative Environment (NVCE)
 - Networked Multimedia and Virtual Environments
 - 2D/3D Teleconferencing
 - Real-time Virtual Humans Systems
 - Automatic 3D Cloning of Faces and Bodies
 - Real-time Mixing of Real and Synthetic Pictures
 - Telecommunications networked methods
 - Audio in NVCE
 - Speech Analysis and Synthesis in Real-time

November 26, 1998, Edinburgh, UK. Item #1556
Joint Symposium on Computational Models of Brain, Language and Reasoning.

Fairouz Kamareddine, fairouz@cee.hw.ac.uk.

*       Models of the brain as a computational device.      

*       Formal and computational models of language and reasoning.

November 30 - December 4, 1998, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. Item #985
ICSLP 1998 The 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.

ICSLP Secretariat, TourHosts, GPO Box 128, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia, fax: +61 2 9262 3135, email: tourhosts@tourhosts.com.au.

November 30 - December 4, 1998, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Item #1243
COMPLEX SYSTEMS'98 Complexity Between the Ecos - From Ecology to Economics.

Dr. Russell Standish. Email: R.Standish@unsw.edu.au.

apers may be on any topic related to complex systems, including the following fields: 

     Artificial Life 
     Cellular Automata 
     Complexity 
     Dynamical Systems and Chaos 
     Evolution 
     Ecology 
     Economics 
     Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Programming 
     Neural Networks 
     Traffic and other Network Simulations 

November 30 - December 5, 1998, Denver, Colorado, USA. Item #1331
NIPS*98 Neural Information Processing Systems - Natural and Synthetic.

NIPS Foundation, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Fax: (619)587 0417, email: nipsinfo@salk.edu.

Algorithms and Architectures: supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms,
model selection algorithms, active learning algorithms, feedforward and 
recurrent network architectures, localized basis functions, mixture models, 
belief networks, graphical models, Gaussian processes, factor analysis, 
topographic maps, combinatorial optimization.

Applications: handwriting recognition, DNA and protein sequence analysis,
expert systems, fault diagnosis, medical diagnosis, analysis of medical 
images, data analysis, database mining, network traffic, music processing, 
time-series prediction, financial analysis.

Artificial Intelligence: inductive reasoning, problem solving and planning,
natural language, hybrid symbolic-subsymbolic systems.

Cognitive Science: perception and psychophysics, neuropsychology, cognitive 
neuroscience, development, conditioning, human learning and memory, attention, 
language. 

Implementation: analog and digital VLSI, optical neurocomputing systems,
novel neurodevices, simulation tools.

Neuroscience: neural encoding, spiking neurons, synchronicity, sensory 
processing, systems neurophysiology, neuronal development, synaptic 
plasticity, neuromodulation, dendritic computation, channel dynamics. 

Reinforcement Learning and Control: exploration, planning, navigation, 
Q-learning, TD-learning, dynamic programming, robotic motor control, 
process control, Markov decision processes.

Speech and Signal Processing: speech recognition, speech coding, speech
synthesis, auditory scene analysis, source separation, hidden Markov 
models, models of human speech perception.

Theory: computational learning theory, statistical physics of learning,
information theory, prediction and generalization, regularization, 
Boltzmann machines, Helmholtz machines, decision trees, support vector 
machines, online learning, dynamics of learning algorithms, approximation 
and estimation theory, learning of dynamical systems, model selection, 
complexity theory.

Visual Processing: image processing, image coding, object recognition, 
visual psychophysics, stereopsis, motion detection and tracking.

November 30 - December 3, 1998, University of Sydney, Australia. Item #1479
DCNet'98 First International Online Conference on DESIGN COMPUTING ON THE NET.

Mary Lou Maher, University of Sydney, Australia, mary@arch.usyd.edu.au.

DCNet'98 will reflect IJDC's themes and include presentations in the
following streams:

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DESIGN
    Program Chair:
    David Brown, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, dcb@cs.wpi.edu

    COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN DESIGN
    Program Chair:
    Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia, fay@arch.usyd.edu.au

    DESIGN COMPUTING IN EDUCATION
    Program Chair:
    Tom Kvan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, tkvan@arch.hku.hk

    MULTIMEDIA IN DESIGN
    Program Chair:
    Gerhard Schmitt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, schmitt@arch.ethz.ch

December 2, 1998, London, UK. Item #1468
BMVA Technical Meeting Multi-media Data Compression.

Dr. Margaret Varga, Defence Evaluation & Research Agency, Room E305, St Andrews Road, Malvern. WR14 3PS. UK, email: varga@signal.dera.gov.uk.

December 4-5, 1998, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Item #1330
NIPS*98 Post Conference Workshops.

NIPS*98 Workshops, c/o Richard Zemel, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Email: zemel@u.arizona.edu.

   Active Learning, Architectural Issues, Attention, Audition,
   Bayesian Analysis, Bayesian Networks, Benchmarking, Brain Imaging,
   Computational Complexity, Computational Molecular Biology, Control,
   Genetic Algorithms, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory,
   Hybrid HMM/ANN Systems, Implementations, Music, Neural Plasticity,
   Language Processing, Lexical Acquisition, Network Dynamics, On-Line
   Learning, Optimization, Recurrent Nets, Robot Learning, Rule
   Extraction, Self-Organization, Sensory Biophysics, Signal
   Processing, Support Vectors, Speech, Time Series, Topological Maps,
   and Vision Models and Applications.

December 4-5, 1998, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Item #1531
International Nips Workshop on Hybrid Neural Symbolic Integration.

Professor Stefan Wermter, Research Chair in Intelligent Systems, University of Sunderland, School of Computing & Information Systems, St Peters Way, Sunderland SR6 0DD, United Kingdom, tel: +44 191 515 3279, fax: +44 191 515 2781, email: stefan.wermter@sunderland.ac.uk.

December 6-18, 1998, Charles Sturt University, Australia. Item #1477
Summer School in Complex Systems.

Dr Tim Cranny, Research Fellow in Complex Systems, School of Information Technology, Charles Sturt University, Australia. Email: Tim.Cranny@csu.edu.au.

   self-organisation 
   fractals 
   non-linear dynamics and chaos 
   artificial life 
   cellular automata 
   evolutionary computation 
   neural dynamics 
   graph theory 
   parallel and distributed computing 
   applications in economics, ecology, internet and many more 

December 7-9, 1998, Singapore. Item #1407
ISCSLP'98 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CHINESE SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

iscslp98@krdl.org.sg.

1. Automatic Speech Recognition 
2. Speech Synthesis and Text-to-Speech Systems
3. Speech Coding
4. Speaker Verification and Identification
5. Spoken Language Processing and Dialog Systems
6. Speech and Language Understanding
7. Speaker Adaptation and Normalization
8. Language Modelling in Speech Processing
9. Databases,Tools and Evaluation
10. Robust Speech Recognition

December 8-10, 1998, Manila, The Philippines. Item #1361
ASIAN98 Asian Computing Science Conference.

Jieh Hsiang, Dept. of Computer Science, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan . Tel: +886 2 2362 2704, fax: +886 2 2365 8741, email: hsiang@csie.ntu.edu.tw.

 * Formal Reasoning and Verification
 * Programming Languages
 * Data and Knowledge Representation
 * Networking and Web Computing

December 9-11, 1998, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Item #1382
Vth Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks.

Antonio de Padua Braga. Email: apbraga@cpdee.ufmg.br.

Submissions of papers related to the following areas are wellcome : 
Theory, Applications, Architectures, Associative memories, Associative 
memories, Cognitive science, Electronic and optical implementation, 
Hybrid systems, Learning, Neurobiology, Neurodynamics and Chaos, 
Pattern recognition, Signal Processing, Prediction, Inteligent control,
Robotics, Identification, Image processing, Other themes related to 
artificial neural networks. 

December 10-12, 1998, Berlin, Germany. Item #1540
Winterschool: Networks with Spiking Neurons and Synaptic Plasticity.

kolleg@zedat.fu-berlin.de.

December 11, 1998, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ferrite Room of Centennial Memorial Hall, Oookayama Campus. Item #1537
The Ninth T.I.T. Brain Research Symposium.

Dr.Yukio Kosugi, email: kosugi@pms.titech.ac.jp.

December 14-16, 1998, Aqua Plaza, Hotel Uminonakamichi, Fukuoka, Japan. Item #1235
DS'98 The First International Conference on Discovery Science.

Prof. Hiroshi Motoda, Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka Univ., 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki City, Osaka 567-0047, Japan. Email: motoda@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Topics of interest within the scope of this conference include, but
not limited to, the following areas: Logic for/of knowledge discovery,
knowledge discovery by inferences, knowledge discovery by learning
algorithms, knowledge discovery by heuristic search, scientific
discovery, knowledge discovery in databases, data mining, knowledge
discovery in network environments, inductive logic programming,
abductive reasoning, machine learning, constructive programming as
discovery, intelligent network agents, knowledge discovery from
unstructured and multimedia data, statistical methods for knowledge
discovery, data and knowledge visualization, knowledge discovery and
human interaction, and human factors in knowledge discovery.

December 14-17, 1998, Toulouse, France. Item #1300
International Workshop on Applications of Artificial Neural Networks to Ecological Modelling.

Dr. Jean-François Guégan, ORSTOM, Département Biologie, Ecologie & Evolution, Laboratoire d'Hydrobiologie marine et Continentale, Université de Montpellier II (USTL), C.C. 093, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France. Tel: 33 4 67 14 37 51, fax: 33 4 67 14 46 46, email: guegan@crit.univ-montp2.fr.

December 17-19, 1998, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. Item #1358
ICS'98 International Computer Symposium.

ICS'98 Program Chair, Prof. Yung-Nien Sun, Dept. of Computer Science and, Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung Univ., No. 1, Ta-Hsueh Road, Tainan, TAIWAN 70101, R.O.C. Tel: 886 6 2747076, fax: 886 6 2084461 or 886-6-2747076, email: ynsun@vision.iie.ncku.edu.tw.

A. Workshop on Algorithms
fÜ -Algorithm Design and Analysis
fÜ -Applications of Algorithms
fÜ -Approximation Algorithms
fÜ -Automata and Formal Languages
fÜ -Data Structures
fÜ -Complexity and Computability
fÜ -Combinatorial Optimization
fÜ -Computational Geometry
fÜ -Discrete Mathematics
fÜ -Graph Algorithms
fÜ -On-line Algorithms
fÜ -Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
fÜ -Other Related Topics

B. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence
fÜ -AI Applications
fÜ -AI Architectures
fÜ -Automated Reasoning
fÜ -Cognitive Modeling
fÜ -Common-Sense Reasoning
fÜ -Distributed AI
fÜ -Fuzzy and Neural Networks
fÜ -Hybrid Systems
fÜ -Intelligent Agents
fÜ -Knowledge Representation
fÜ -Knowledge-Based Systems
fÜ -Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition
fÜ -Natural Language Processing
fÜ -Pattern Recognition
fÜ -Probabilistic and Uncertainty Reasoning
fÜ -Problem Solving and Search
fÜ -Planning
fÜ -Robotics
fÜ -Speech Recognition and Synthesis
fÜ -Vision
fÜ -Other Related Topics

C. Workshop on Computer Architecture
fÜ -Processor, Cache, Memory, and I/O Architectures
fÜ -Multithreading, Multiprocessing, and Multicomputing
fÜ -Technology Impact on Computer Architecture
fÜ -Compiler Techniques of Fine, Medium, and Coarse Gain Parallelism
fÜ -Fault-Tolerant Architecture
fÜ -Processor Microarchitecture
fÜ -Interconnection Networks
fÜ -Performance Modeling, Simulation, Benchmarking and Evaluation
fÜ -VLSI and CAD for System Design
fÜ -Other Related Topics

D. Workshop on Cryptology and Information Security
fÜ -Cipher System Design and Theory
fÜ -User and Message Authentication
fÜ -Key Distribution and Management
fÜ -Secret Sharing
fÜ -Digital Signatures
fÜ -Zero-Knowledge Protocols
fÜ -Secure Broadcasting and Electronic Conferencing
fÜ -Network Security
fÜ -Database Security
fÜ -Distributed System Security
fÜ -Open System Security
fÜ -Secure Electronic Voting
fÜ -One-way Functions
fÜ -Applications of Information Security Technology
fÜ -Other Related Topics

E. Workshop on Software Engineering and Database Systems
fÜ -Distributed Systems
fÜ -OO Techniques and Applications
fÜ -Database Systems and Management
fÜ -Programming Languages
fÜ -Software Engineering
fÜ -Operating Systems
fÜ -Information Retrieval and Processing
fÜ -System Simulation
fÜ -Other Related Topics

F. Workshop on Image Processing and Character Recognition
fÜ -Image Processing
fÜ -Signal Processing
fÜ -Pattern Recognition
fÜ -Computer Vision
fÜ -Medical Image Analysis
fÜ -Document Processing
fÜ -Optical Character Recognition
fÜ -Applications and Systems
fÜ -Other Related Topics

G. Workshop on Computer Networks, Internet, and Multimedia
fÜ -Real Time Communications
fÜ -ATM Technologies
fÜ -Protocol Engineering
fÜ -Wireless/Mobile Communications
fÜ -Personal Communication Services
fÜ -Multicast Communications
fÜ -Next Generation Internet
fÜ -Internet II
fÜ -Computer Telephone Integration
fÜ -Interactive Communication
fÜ -World Wide Web
fÜ -Computer Aided Instruction
fÜ -Internet Telephony
fÜ -On-Demand Systems 
fÜ -Data Compression
fÜ -Multimedia Database
fÜ -Multimedia Networks
fÜ -Other Related Topics

H. Workshop on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
fÜ -Computer Animation
fÜ -Real Time Graphics
fÜ -Virtual Reality and Applications,
fÜ -Image-Based VR, Collision Detection and LOD Technologies
fÜ -Multimedia Modeling
fÜ -Geometric Modeling
fÜ -Synthetic Worlds
fÜ -Computational Geometry
fÜ -Interactive Techniques
fÜ -Visualization
fÜ -Graphics Hardware
fÜ -Rendering Techniques
fÜ -Parallel and Network Rendering
fÜ -Other Related Topics

December 17-18, 1998, National Centre for Software Technology, Mumbai, India. Item #1417
KBCS-98 International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems.

KBCS-98 Secretariat, National Centre for Software Technology, Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049, India. Tel: +91 22 620 1606, fax: +91 22 621 0139, email: kbcs@konark.ncst.ernet.in.

 o AI Applications              o AI Architectures
 o Automatic Programming        o Cognitive Modeling
 o Expert Systems               o Foundations of AI
 o Genetic Algorithms           o Information Retrieval
 o Intelligent Agents           o Intelligent Tutoring Systems
 o Knowledge Acquisition        o Knowledge Representation
 o Machine Learning             o Machine Translation
 o Natural Language Processing  o Neural Networks
 o Planning and Scheduling      o Reasoning
 o Robotics                     o Search Techniques
 o Speech Processing            o Theorem Proving
 o Uncertainty Handling         o Vision

December 21-23, 1998, New Delhi, India. Item #1343
ICVGIP-98 Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing.

K. K. Biswas, ICVGIP-98, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 110016, INDIA, email: kkb@cse.iitd.ernet.in.

 Sensors,Segmentation, Grouping
 Physics-based Vision
 Low-level Image Processing, Processing of Satellite data
 Texture Analysis
 Camera Calibration 
 Stereo and Multiple-Views Geometry, Un-calibrated vision
 Motion Analysis and Structure from Motion 
 Integration of Modules and Cues 
 Shape and Object Representation 
 Geometric Invariants for Computer Vision
 Object Recognition
 Learning in Computer Vision
 Knowledge based Image Understanding Active and Real-Time Vision 
 Content-based image retrieval 
 Video Data Proceesing
 Multi-Sensor Image Analysis
 Spatial Reasoning
 Computer Graphics - Synthesis, Modeling, Rendering and Animation
 Visualization
 Virtual Reality, Applications
 Pattern Analysis, Fuzzy and Neural methods
 Document Image Processing
 Medical Image Analysis
  


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