note: Schedule follows registration form.
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REGISTRATION FOR CONFERENCE ON
OPTIMALITY IN BIOLOGICAL AND
ARTIFICIAL NETWORKS?
FEBRUARY 6 TO 8, 1992,
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
Sponsored by Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (MIND),
Texas SIG of International Neural Network
Society (INNS), and the University of Texas at Dallas
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Registration fee (please enclose check payable to MIND):
Non-student members of MIND or INNS, $70 _______
or UTD faculty or staff
Other non-students $80 _______
Student members of MIND or INNS, $10 _______
or UTD students
Other students $20 _______
Presenters (oral or poster) from outside
Dallas-Ft. Worth FREE _______
(Note: Registration does not include meals)
Hotel:
Please check if you need a reservation card ______
(Rooms at the Richardson Hilton are $59 a night)
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Reduced fares are available to Dallas-Fort Worth on American Airlines.
Call the airline and ask for StarFile S14227D, under the name of MIND.
Preregistrants whose forms and payment checks are received by January 31 will
be mailed a preregistration package with a confirmation. This will include
a complete schedule with times of presentations and directions to the hotel
and conference site.
Please send this form to:
Professor Daniel S. Levine
Department of Mathematics
Box 19408
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-0408
Office: 817-273-3598; FAX: 817-794-5802;
e-mail b344dsl at utarlg.uta.edu
TENTATIVE schedule for Optimality Conference, UT Dallas, Feb. 6-8, 1992
ORAL PRESENTATIONS --
Thursday, Feb. 6, AM:
Daniel Levine, U. of Texas, Arlington -- Don't Just Stand There,
Optimize Something!
Samuel Leven, Radford U. -- Man as Machine? Conflicting Optima, Dynamic Goals,
and Hope
Wesley Elsberry, Battelle Research Labs -- Putting Optimality in its Place:
Argument on Context, Systems, and Neural Networks
Graham Tattersall, U. of East Anglia -- Optimal Generalisation in
Artificial Neural Networks
Thursday, Feb. 6, PM:
Steven Hampson, U. of Cal., Irvine -- Problem Solving in a Connectionist
World Model
Richard Golden, U. of Texas, Dallas -- Identifying a Neural Network's
Computational Goals: a Statistical Optimization Perspective
Harold Szu, Naval Surface Warfare Center -- Why Do We Study Neural Network
Formations on VLSI Chips and Why Are Wavelets More Natural for
Brain-Style Computing?
Arun Jagota, SUNY at Buffalo -- Efficient Optimizing Dynamics in a
Hopfield-style network
Friday, Feb. 7, AM:
Gershom Rosenstein, Hebrew U. -- For What are Brains Striving?
Gail Carpenter, Boston U. -- Fuzzy ARTMAP: Adaptive Resonance for
Supervised Learning
Stephen Grossberg, Boston U. -- Vector Associative Maps: Self-Organizing
Neural Networks for Error-based Learning, Spatial Orientation,
and Sensory-Motor Control
Haluk Ogmen, U. of Houston -- Self-Organization via Active Exploration
in Robotics
Friday, Feb. 7, PM:
David Stork, Ricoh California Research Center -- Non-optimality in
Neurobiological Systems
Ian Parberry, U. of North Texas -- Neural Networks and Computational Complexity
David Chance, Central Oklahoma U. -- Real-time Neuronal Models Compared Within
a Classical Conditioning Framework
Samy Bengio, Universite de Montreal -- On the Optimization of a Synaptic
Learning Rule
Saturday, Feb. 8, AM:
Karl Pribram, Radford U. -- The Least Action Principle: Does it Apply to
Cognitive Processes?
Paul Prueitt, Georgetown U. -- Control Hierarchies and the Return to Homeostasis
Herve Abdi, U. of Texas, Dallas -- Generalization of the Linear Auto-Associator
Sylvia Candelaria de Ram, New Mexico State U. -- Interactive Sub-systems of
Natural Language and the Treatment of Specialized Function
Saturday, Feb. 8, PM:
Panel discussion on the basic themes of the conference
POSTERS
Basari Bhaumik, Indian Inst. of Technology, New Delhi -- A Multilayer Network
for Determining Subjective Contours
John Johnson, U. of Mississippi -- The Genetic Adaptive Neural Network Training
Algorithm for Generic Feedforward Artificial Neural Systems
Subhash Kak, Louisiana State U. -- State Generators and Complex Neural Memories
Brian Telfer, Naval Surface Warfare Center -- Moving Beyond LMS Energy for
Natural Classifiers
