Call for papers
DYNN'2000
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
"DYNAMICAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS"
Bielefeld, November 20-24, 2000
http://www.cert.fr/anglais/deri/dauce/DYNN2000
OBJECTIVE
Dynamics is a major feature of neural modeling. The study of neural
networks
viewed as dynamical systems evolving under environmental pressure is an
attractive perspective to overcome the limitations of classical
artificial
neural networks especially in the fields of vision and control.
Different disciplines are involved, such as dynamical systems theory,
statistical physics, neurobiology, information theory and adaptive
control.
The DYNN workshop is a place where neurobiologists, theoreticians and
engineers can exchange ideas and transfer knowledge.
The first international workshop DYNN'96 took place in ONERA in
Toulouse,
France, and was the occasion to compare theoretical studies and models
of
visual cortex with more general perceptual devices. The second workshop
VI'DYNN'98 in Stockholm focused on Pulse Coupled Neural Networks and was
dedicated to more applied tasks of image processing and computervision.
The
oncoming edition DYNN'2000 keeps all these themes and will introduce new
concepts from the physics of "Self-organized Criticality" which
describes
the spatio-temporal self-organization of coupled automata. DYNN'2000
will
take place at the ZIF in Bielefeld University from 11/20/2000 to
11/24/2000
in the frame of the Forschungsgruppe "The Sciences of Complexity: From
Mathematics to Technology to a Sustainable World."
Interested researchers are invited to participate to the workshop and to
present their contribution.
TOPICS
Submissions of papers related, but not limited, to the technical areas
and subareas listed below are invited.
1.Neural Networks Dynamics and Self Organization.
2.Mean Field Theory for Large Stochastic Networks.
3.Information Properties of Dynamical Neural Networks.
4.Spiking Neurons and Temporal Coding.
5.Applications of Dynamical Neural Networks for Planning and Control
6.Applications of Dynamical Neural Networks to computer vision.
ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP
The workshop is organized during five days and will reserve plenty of
time
for discussion and interaction among attendants. Special attention will
be
provided to the formation of young researchers and doctorate students.
To
fulfill this objective, there will be one day reserved to tutorials and
then three types of presentations:
* Invited conferences (one hour) will give a large review of the
subject and will introduce to ongoing research. They will be designed
to allow all the participants coming from different fields to follow
all
the sessions.
* Regular presentations (40 minutes including questions) will be
dedicated
to present relatively mature work and will be given mostly by invited
lecturers.
* Short presentations (20 minutes) are specially designed to allow
young
researchers to present the main ideas of their research project and
favor
discussion and exchange. Normally short presentations will be
associated
with posters that allow further interaction between participants.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Manuel SAMUELIDES,Chairman
ONERA/ENSAE, Toulouse, France. Manuel.Samuelides at supaero.fr
Philippe BLANCHARD
Bielefeld, Germany. blancblanchard at Physik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Bruno CESSAC
INLN, Nice, France. cessac at inln.cnrs.fr
Jacques DEMONGEOT
IUF/CNRS Grenoble, France. Celine.Fontant at imag.fr
Philippe GAUSSIER
Cergy-Pontoise, France. gaussier at ensea.fr
John JOHNSON
US Army, Germany. science at hq.c5.army.mil
Jean-Pierre NADAL
ENS/CNRS, Paris, France. nadal at lps.ens.fr
Simon THORPE
CERCO/CNRS, Toulouse, France. thorpe at cerco.ups-tlse.fr
John TAYLOR
King's college, London, UK. john.g.taylor at kcl.ac.uk
CALENDAR
Expression of interest : from now on
Extended abstract submission deadline: September 29, 2000
Notification to the authors : October 14, 2000
Early registration : Until october 31, 2000
Date of the workshop : November 20. to 24., 2000
SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION
The overall submission mode is electronic.
Fill the expression of interest form to be informed about the workshop.
The abstracts will be refereed and the accepted papers will be available
on the WEB. We are currently investigating the possibility of publishing
selected papers in the form of a collective book. Send extended
abstract,
with respect to format recommandations , 2 pages max, in electronic form
(see recommandations) before September 29th, 2000 to perrinet at cert.fr
along
with a submission form.
The workshop fees include workshop attendance, furniture of the
conference
book, five days of on-site lunch and the workshop banquet. Registration
fees
will be paid to the CNRS to the order of "Agent comptable du CNRS
Midi-Pyrénnées" after acknowledgement of electronic registration.
Early registration has to be performed before October 31st.
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