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DYNN'2000 Call for papers

Emmanuel Dauce dauce at cert.fr
Tue Sep 5 08:26:47 EST 2000



                         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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