Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!ucbvax!HPLABS.HP.COM!neuron From: neuron@HPLABS.HP.COM (Neuron-Digest Moderator Peter Marvit) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Neuron Digest V4 #6 Message-ID: <8809250246.AA02504@hplpm.HPL.HP.COM> Date: 25 Sep 88 02:46:39 GMT Article-I.D.: hplpm.8809250246.AA02504 Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Neuron-RequestOrganization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 273 Neuron Digest Saturday, 24 Sep 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 6 Today's Topics: Request for Proceedings San Diego '88 proc. INNS Neural nets in economics Neural networks in epidemiological studies?? Congress on Cybernetics and Systems Call for Topic: Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning neural network solution of subgraph isomorphism problem temporal domain in vision Send submissions, questions, mailing list maintenance and requests for back issues to "Neuron-request@hplabs.hp.com" ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Request for Proceedings San Diego '88 From: MEMAGEI%DHVRRZN1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Manfred Geilert) Date: Mon, 05 Sep 88 15:58:26 -0500 Hello Neuron-community, is there somebody who can tell me where I can get the Proceedings of the second international conference on neural networks in San Diego? Thanks in advance Manfred Geilert e-mail: memagei@dhvrrzn1.bitnet Inst. of Theor. Elect. University of Hannover (West Germany) Appelstr. 9a 3 Hannover 1 Tel.: +511/762-3250 [[ See my answer in the next message. -PM]] ------------------------------ Subject: proc. INNS From: Date: Wed, 07 Sep 88 13:51:00 +0100 Dear moderator, I am interested in the proceedings of the INNS conference (6-10 sep. '88) What should I do ? Best regards, Han Geurdes Unit of Methodology of Social Siences (M & T) Hooigracht 15 GEURDES@HLERUL55 [[As I understand it, Proceddings should be available around December of this year, although last year they sold out very quickly and so had to make a reprint. The cost will be around $100, more if you are not an IEEE member. International shipping tends to be a bit more also. However, you should get complete pricing and ordering information from the following address: IEEE Service Center 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854 Tel: (201) 981-0060 Good luck. -PM]] ------------------------------ Subject: Neural nets in economics From: aam9n@uvaee.ee.virginia.EDU (Ali Minai) Date: Wed, 07 Sep 88 19:54:47 +0000 Does anyone on the net know of instances where neural networks (or related systems) have been used in economics modeling/prediction or other applications of this sort? Also, has any work been done to see what functions (mappings) are unlearnable by, say, a multi-layer net running backprop (or any other sort of net)? I am specifically interested in pathologies here. I will be extremely grateful for any references. Thanks in advance. Ali Minai Dept. of Electrical Engg. Thornton Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Va 22901 aam9n@uvaee.ee.Virginia.EDU [[ A quick scan of ICNN from last August shows "Economic Prediction Using Neural Networks: The Case of IBM Daily Stock Returns" by H. White, plus a paper each on "Bond Rating: A Non-Conservative Application of Neural Networks" by S. Dutta and S. Shekhar, and "Mortgage Underwriting" by E. Collins, et al. I'm sure there are others; check recent mathematically-oriented conferences in the field you're interested (e.g., Econometrics, etc.). Often, neural nets are being used for subject-specific application, but not reported in the mainstream NN literature but in the domain-specific literature; a very relevent case in point was the considerable number of papers in "Cognitive Science" (although some wags may argue that it's really the mainstream). -PM]] ------------------------------ Subject: Neural networks in epidemiological studies?? From: kilis@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Danny Kilis) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 88 20:04:06 +0000 Is anyone aware of any neural network applications in epidemiological studies or similar areas? Any reference is appreciated. Please reply via e-mail. I'll summarize should the need arise. Danny Kilis ARPANET: kilis@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu CSNET: kilis@umn-cs.CSNET USENET: ....!umn-cs!kilis BITNET: danny@simvax [[ Hmm. This is an intriguing one? Spreading activation models for disease transmissions? I wonder if the author had anything specific in mind? -PM]] ------------------------------ Subject: Congress on Cybernetics and Systems From: SPNHC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Date: Fri, 09 Sep 88 20:13:56 +0000 WORLD ORGANIZATION OF SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS 8 T H I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O N G R E S S O F C Y B E R N E T I C S A N D S Y S T E M S to be held June 11-15, 1990 at Hunter College City University of New York New York, U.S.A. This triennial conference is supported by many international groups concerned with management, the sciences, computers, and technology systems. The 1990 Congress is the eighth in a series, previous events having been held in London (1969), Oxford (1972), Bucharest (1975), Amsterdam (1978), Mexico City (1981), Paris (1984) and London (1987). The Congress will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of current research. Several specialized sections will focus on computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, psychocybernetics and sociocybernetics. Suggestions for other relevant topics are welcome. Participants who wish to organize a symposium or a section, are requested to submit a proposal ( sponsor, subject, potencial participants, very short abstracts ) as soon as possible, but not later than September 1989. All submissions and correspondence regarding this conference should be addressd to: Prof. Constantin V. Negoita Congress Chairman Department of Computer Science Hunter College City University of New York 695 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021 U.S.A. ------------------------------ Subject: Please post... From: segre@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Alberto M. Segre) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 88 10:51:22 -0400 Call for Topics: Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning Cornell University Ithaca, New York; U.S.A. June 29 - July 1, 1989 The Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning will be held at Cornell University, from June 29 through July 1, 1989. The workshop will be divided into four to six disjoint sessions, each focusing on a different theme. Each session will be chaired by a different member of the machine learning community, and will consist of 30 to 50 participants invited on the basis of abstracts submitted to the session chair. Plenary sessions will be held for invited talks. People interested in chairing one of the sessions should submit a one-page proposal, stating the topic of the session, sites at which research is currently done on this topic, estimated attendance, format of the session, and their own qualifications as session chair. Proposals should be submitted by November 1, 1988 to the program chair: Alberto Segre Department of Computer Science Cornell University, Upson Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-7501 USA Telephone: (607) 255-9196 Electronic mail should be addressed to "ml89@cs.cornell.edu" or "segre@gvax.cs.cornell.edu". The organizing committee will evaluate proposals on the basis of perceived demand and their potential impact on the field. Topics will be announced by early 1989, at which time a call for papers will be issued. Partial travel support may be available for some participants. ------------------------------ Subject: neural network solution of subgraph isomorphism problem From: dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 88 17:27:19 +0000 I am looking for references on neural network solution of the subgraph isomorphism problem. C. von der Malsburg mentions this in his paper ``Pattern Recognition by Labeled Graph Matching,'' _Neural Networks_, vol.1, no. 2. One of his important references is in press, (i.e., Kree and Zippelius, ``Recognition of topological features of graphs and images in neural networks''). I would like to know if this paper has appeared yet and where. I would also appreciate any leads on neural networks in graph-theoretic problems. Thank you. Please reply via e-mail, I will post a summary. Dan Mocsny Internet: dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU ------------------------------ Subject: temporal domain in vision From: dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 88 17:34:09 +0000 In Science News, vol. 134, July 23, 1988, C. Vaughan reports on the work of B. Richmond of NIMH and L. Optican of the National Eye Institute on their multiplex filter model for encoding data on neural spike trains. The article implies that real neurons multiplex lots of data onto their spike trains, much more than the simple analog voltage in most neurocomputer models. I have not seen Richmond and Optican's papers and the Science News article was sufficiently watered down to be somewhat baffling. Has anyone seen the details of this work, and might it lead to a method to significantly increase the processing power of an artificial neural network? Dan Mocsny Internet: dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU ------------------------------ End of Neurons Digest *********************