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Neuron Digest   Tuesday, 22 Apr 1997                Volume 97 : Issue 19

Today's Topics:
                     Trajan 2.1. Product Announcement
        2 PhD positions/research assistants in neural computation
                PhD Studentship In Cognitive Science (UK)
                               Job openings
                          CIFEr'97 Press Release
                            SOFSEM '97 1st CFP
                      WSOM'97 Call For Participation


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Subject: Trajan 2.1. Product Announcement
From:    cs0ahu@isis.sunderland.ac.uk (Andy Hunter)
Date:    Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:52:34 +0000

12 March 1997
Chester-le-Street, England

Trajan Software Ltd. today launched Trajan 2.1. Professional and
Trajan 2.1. Shareware Neural Network Simulators.

Both are Windows-based (Professional also available on UNIX beginning
April) packages designed for application of NNs rather than
research into new paradigms. Features of Professional version
include v. fast training (Levenburg-Marquardt and Conjugate Gradient
Descent), built-in Principal Components Analysis, MLPs, RBFs, PNN,
GRNN, Linear, Kohonen, Neuro-Genetic Input Selection, Automatic
Network Design, full API via DLLs, statistical and graphical
analysis, and many more features at low cost.

Further details (and a demonstration version) available at:

http://www.trajan-software.demon.co.uk

Enquiries to:

andrew@trajan-software.demon.co.uk


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Subject: 2 PhD positions/research assistants in neural computation
From:    dario@lamisun9.epfl.ch (Dario Floreano)
Date:    Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:45:49 +0200

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2 PhD positions/research assistants in neural computation
*********************************************************
                  
                  available at the
                  
            Center for Neural Computation
   (Centre Mantra pour les systemes neuro-mimetiques)
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne
     (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
      DI-EPFL, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland


We seek outstanding candidates for two PhD positions 
at the Mantra Center for Neural Computation, an 
interdisciplinary research unit formally attached to 
the Department of Computer Science.

The positions will open up between April and August 1997.

(i) The first  position will be in the area of bio-inspired 
    approaches to navigation and path planning. Strategies 
    of neural network learning will be combined with 
    evolutionary approaches and will be implemented  on 
    mobile robots.

(ii) The second position will be in the field of computational 
     neuroscience and should address the problems of temporal 
     coding with spiking neurons. It will involve simulations 
     studies and mathematical analysis.

More informations available on the web page
http://diwww.epfl.ch/lami/team/floreano/jobs.html

We prefer candidates with a good theoretical/mathematical
background who have had a prior exposure to neural networks,
computational neuroscience, evolutionary computation, or robotics.
Candidates should have the equivalent of a diploma or master degree in
computer science, physics, engineering, or neural computation. 
Successful candidates will be hired as research assistants
(75% of a full salary).

Interested candidates should send, at this stage, a cv and a 
short statement of research experience/research interest
by email to

wulfram.gerstner@di.epfl.ch
or
dario.floreano@di.epfl.ch

with the subject line marked 
PhD-application


- ----------------------------------------------------
Dr. Wulfram Gerstner, Assistant Professor 
Dr. Dario Floreano, Researcher
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Center for Neural Computation
Mantra-LAMI
EPFL, IN-J
1015 Lausanne
Tel. +41-21-693 6713    
Fax. +41-21-693 5263     
http://diwww.epfl.ch/mantra/
http://diwww.epfl.ch/lami/learning/
- ----------------------------------------------------


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Subject: PhD Studentship In Cognitive Science (UK)
From:    Evan Heit <E.Heit@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Date:    Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:28:14 +0100

Department of Psychology
University of Warwick
Coventry, United Kingdom


The growing Cognitive Science group at Warwick has available a three-year
BBSRC Special Studentship, to commence October 1997, leading to a PhD in
Psychology.  The general topic is applications of neural network modelling
to experimental psychology results in learning, categorisation, and memory.
Applicants should have or expect a first degree or MSc in a field such as
Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Computer Science, and some experience in
experimental psychology or computer modelling (but not necessarily both).
The Research Committee Special Studentship is intended primarily for UK
residents, and it attracts a higher level of stipend than other Research
Council studentships.

Further details are available at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~pssak/st.html .
Apply by sending a CV, names of two referees, and a statement of research
interests and experience to Dr E Heit, Department of Psychology, University
of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, or E.Heit@warwick.ac.uk .  Please direct
informal enquiries to these same addresses.  Closing date 9 May 1997.

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Evan Heit                                 Email: E.Heit@warwick.ac.uk
Department of Psychology                  Office: +44|0 1203 523183
University of Warwick                     Fax: +44|0 1203 524225
Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom          http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~pssak



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Subject: Job openings
From:    juergen@idsia.ch (Juergen Schmidhuber)
Date:    Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:29:23 +0200


   1 POSTDOC POSITION                     1 PHD STUDENT POSITION 

                     RECURRENT NEURAL NETS

The Swiss machine learning research institute IDSIA offers 2-year
positions for one postdoc and one PhD student.  Both will be funded by
a research grant on recurrent neural networks.  Intended application
areas include speech recognition and music composition. The grant's
initial focus will be on "Long Short-Term Memory" (LSTM) - see
reference below. Ideal candidates should fully understand the LSTM
paper, have strong mathematical and programming skills, outstanding
research potential, experience with neural nets, excellent ability to
communicate research results, and be willing to build on previous work.
BEGIN: around October 1997.

SWITZERLAND tends to be nice to scientists. It boasts the highest super-
computing capacity pc (per capita), the most Nobel prizes pc (4-5 times
the US value), the highest GNP pc, and the best chocolate.

IDSIA's research focuses on artificial neural nets, reinforcement
learning in partially observable environments, MDL, complexity and
generalization issues, unsupervised learning and information theory,
forecasting, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation, and
metalearning. IDSIA is small but visible, competitive, and influential.
It employs about a dozen active researchers and supervises students at
several European universities. Its 1997 scientific output so far includes
9 journal publications (published or in press).

LOCATION: beautiful Lugano, the capital of Ticino, the scenic
southernmost province of Switzerland (pictures in my home page). Milano,
Italy's center of fashion and finance, is 1 hour away, Venice 3 hours.
CSCS, the Ticino supercomputing center, is nearby - we have a direct
connection.

SALARY: commensurate with experience. Postdoc: SFR 60-70K/year (US$
41-48K).  PhD student: SFR 25-30K. Subtract ~20% for taxes & social
security. There is travel funding in case of papers accepted at important
conferences.

INSTRUCTIONS: please send HARDCOPIES (no email!) of CV, list of
publications, cover letter, and your 3 best papers (if applicable) to
Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900-Lugano, Switzerland.
Also send a brief email message listing email addresses of three
references to juergen@idsia.ch.  Please use your full name as subject
header.  EXAMPLE: subject: John_Smith

DEADLINE: MAY 31 1997. Earlier applications preferred.

RECURRENT NET REFS (more in http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/onlinepub.html)
- -S.Hochreiter & JS: Long Short-Term Memory. Neural Comp. (accepted 1997)
 See ftp://ftp.idsia.ch/pub/juergen/lstm.ps.gz
- -JS:  A fixed size storage O(n^3) time complexity learning algorithm for 
 fully recurrent continually running nets. Neural Comp.4(2):243-248,1992.
- -JS: Learning complex, extended sequences using the principle of history 
 compression.  Neural Comp.4(2):234-242,1992.
- -JS: Learning to control fast-weight memories: An alternative to 
 recurrent nets. Neural Comp.4(1):131-139,1992.

                         Juergen Schmidhuber, research director,  IDSIA
                         juergen@idsia.ch  http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen


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Subject: CIFEr'97 Press Release
From:    Payman Arabshahi <payman@u.washington.edu>
Date:    Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:42:59 -0800

Financial Engineers To Meet Electrical Engineers at CIFEr Conference

NEW YORK -- Once a year, electrical engineers and financial professionals
get together to compare notes and exchange techniques. The occasion is
CIFEr, the annual conference on Comuptational Intelligence for Financial
Engineering. Sponsored jointly by the International Association of
Financial Engineers (IAFE) and the Neural Networks Council of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), CIFEr �97 will be
held in New York City at the Crowne Plaza Manhattan, March 23-25. 

The conference begins on Sunday the 23rd with a day of tutorial sessions
designed to introduce financial people to new engineering techniques, and
to introduce engineers to key problems in finance. Presentations on a wide
range of topics and techniques continue for the next two days. 

CIFEr is all about communication between the engineering and financial
communities, said Jack Marshall, conference co-chair and Executive
Director of the IAFE. Our first conference brought together people who
know these computational techniques, people who understand the problem
domain, and practitioners who have discovered how to apply these
techniques to finance. We have discovered that there are a large number of
people in finance interested in learning these techniques and a large
number in engineering who want to understand how the techniques that they
understood could be applied in finance. CIFEr is a forum for bringing
these people together.

Presentations at the conference address a broad range of topics in finance
and tools from engineering. People in finance want to understand how
techniques like neural networks, fuzzy logic, Monte-Carlo simulation, and
chaos theory, might be applied to problems like risk management, portfolio
optimization, pricing, trading and estimating volatility, continued
Marshall. The conference is designed to help them understand what others
have done and to start them on the road to further innovation. 

The program committee, Co-chaired by Alan Tucker, a Financial Engineer,
and Ronald Yager, Professor at the Machine Intelligence Institute at Iona
College, includes some of the best known names in Mathematical Finance and
Financial Engineering. What distinguishes this group, said Tucker, is
that they have all been leaders in applying ideas originally developed in
mathematics to the field of finance.

The Tutorials begin with concurrent morning sessions on Time Series Tools
for Finance, presented by Professor Andreas Weigend, of NYU�s Stern School
of Business; An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation presented by
David Fogel, Chief Scientist at Natural Selection, Inc.;  Models for
Stochastic Volatility presented by Nuno Crato of the New Jersey Institute
of Technology and Pedro J.F. de Lima of Johns Hopkins University. The
afternoon sessions feature An Introduction to OTC Derivatives and Their
Application presented by John Marshall, and GARCH Modeling for Financial
Time Series presented by Douglas Martin, of the University of Washington.

For registration and further information, contact the CIFEr �97 Conference
Office: Phone 800-321-6338 or 714-752-8205. They are also reachable by FAX
at 714-752-7444 or by email at MeetingMgt@aol.com. The conference web
site is at http://www.ieee.org/nnc/cifer97


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Subject: SOFSEM '97 1st CFP
From:    Jan Staudek <staudek@informatics.muni.cz>
Date:    Sun, 16 Mar 1997 15:52:06 +0100

  1st CALL FOR PAPERS                                         :=

  +------------------------------------------------------------+
  |                         SOFSEM'97                          |
  |                                                            |
  |              XXIV-th Seminar on Current Trends             |
  |            in Theory and Practice of Informatics           |
  +------------------------------------------------------------+

                  November 22 - November 29, 1997
                    Devet-skal hotel, Milovy 
                        Czech Republic

Organized by

  Czech Society for Computer Science
  Slovak Society for Computer Science
  Czech ACM Chapter
  Czech Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics 

    In Cooperation with: 

    CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK 
    Department of Computer Science, Comenius University, Bratislava
    Department of Software Engineering, Charles University, Prague
    Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Prague
    Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, Brno
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno

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Subject
- -------
SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is an eight-day international seminar devoted
to the theory and the practice of software systems. Its program consists
of a series of invited talks given by prominent academic professionals
and researchers.  Contributed talks and posters of participants are also
included in the program of SOFSEM. The working language is English.
                   -------------------------------
Invited talks and contributed talks are published by Springer-Verlag in
the  "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series and distributed at the
seminar.

 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | Sofsem'97 is the 24th in the series of Sofsem seminars held annually.|
 | It is intended to foster cooperation among people working in various |
 |   areas of computer science. Its scientific program offers a unique  |
 |       opportunity to gain a relatively quick and representative      |
 |        overview about the selected parts of computer science,        |
 |                    presented by top researchers.                     |
 |   Its social program provides an optimal framework for discussions,  |
 |  meetings, contact establishing, and socializing. Especially suited  |
 |                 for young computer scientists.                       |
 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

TABLE OF CONTENTS
=================
Topics
Committees
Program of Invited Talks
Submissions
   Contributed Talks
   Posters
   Deadlines
Contact Addresses, Sofsem www-page
Fees
   Cancellation
   Financial support
Exhibitions
Sponsors
Local Arrangements, Venue, History
Registration
REGISTRATION FORM AND PAYMENT NOTICE

- ------
Topics
- ------
  A. Fundamentals,
  B. Distributed and parallel systems,
  C. Software engineering and methodology,
  D. Databases and Information Systems.

- ----------
Committees
- ----------

  Preliminary Program Committee
  -----------------------------
  Chair
    Frantisek Plasil,     Charles University, Prague, CZ, 
  Vice-Chair
    Keith G. Jeffery,     CLRC RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK

  Patrizia Asirelli,      I.E.-E.N.R., Pisa, IT
  Robert. G. Babb. II     University of Denver, US
  Michel Banatre,         Irisa/Inria, Rennes, FR             
  Viliam Geffert          UPJS Kosice, SK
  Jane Grimson,           Trinity College, Dublin, IR  
  Eduard Groeller         Vienna University of Technology, AT 
  Bernard Guy,            INT, Evry, FR                       
  Petr Jancar,            Ostrava Univ, CZ              
  Martin Kersten,         CWI, Amsterdam, NL
  Petr Kroha              TU Chemnitz, DE
  Antonin Kucera,         Charles Univ, Prague, CZ            
  Hanspeter Moessenboeck, Univ Linz, AT
  Borivoj Melichar,       Czech Tech Univ, Prague, CZ        
  Lenka Motyckova,        Masaryk University Brno, CZ         
  Mogens Nielsen,         Aaurhus Univ, DK
  Vaclav Rajlich,         Wayne State Univ, Detroit, US       
  Peter Ruzicka,          Comenius Univ, Bratislava, SK
  Anton Scheber,          SOFTEC Bratislava, SK
  Arne Solvberg,          The Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology, NO 
  Jiri Sima,              Czech Academy of Sci, Prague, CZ    
  Santosh Shrivastava,    Univ of Newcastle, UK               
  Hava Siegelmann,        Technion Haifa, IL
  Gerard Tel,             Utrecht Univ, NL                   
  Volker Tschammer,       GMD Fokus, Berlin, DE               
  Krzysztof Zielinski,    Univ of M&M, Krakow, PL             

  Secretary
    Jiri Sochor,          Masaryk University, Brno, CZ

Advisory Board
- --------------
D. Bjorner, (UN University, IIST, Macau),               
P. van Emde Boas, (CWI Amsterdam, NL),
M. Broy, (TU Munich, DE),
M. Chytil, (ANIMA Praha, Prague, CZ),    
G. Gottlob, (TU Vienna, A),
K. G. Jeffery, (CLRC RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK),
M. Zemankova, (NSF, Washington DC, USA)

Endowment Board 
- ---------------
J. Wiedermann, Chair (Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)
B. Rovan, Vice-Chair (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia)
K. G. Jeffery (CLRC RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK)
J. Pavelka (DCIT, Prague, Czech Republic)
F. Plasil (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
I. Privara (Institute of Informatics and Statistics, Bratislava, Slovakia)
J. Staudek (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

- ---------------------------------
Program of Invited Talks includes
- ---------------------------------

  A. Fundamentals

      Reiner Feldmann, University of Paderborn, DE 
            Computer Chess: The Importance of a Deep Look into the Future
      Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, NL 
            Algorithms for Trangulated Terrains 
      Klaus-Joern Lange, University of Tuebingen, DE 
            On the Distributed Realisation of Parallel Algorithms 
      Johann Makowsky, Technion, Haifa, IL 
            The Fundamental Problem of Data Modeling 
      Jaroslav Nesetril, Daniel Turzik, VSCHT, Prague, CZ 
            Travelling Salesman and MAX-CUT - key problems of Combinatorial
            Optimization 
      Pekka Orponen, University of Jyvaskyla, FI 
            A Survey of Continuous-Time Computation Theory 
      Klaus Weihrauch, Fernuniversitaet, Hagen, DE 
            A Foundation for Computable Analysis
      Jiri Wiedermann, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of
                       Sciences, Prague, CZ 
            Towards Machines That Can Think 
      Henryk Wozniakowski, University of Warsaw/Columbia University, PL/USA 
            Complexity of Multivariate Problems 
      Shmuel Zaks, Technion, Haifa, IL 
            Path layout in ATM Networks 

  B. Distributed and Parallel Systems

      Barret Bryant, Prakash Kumar Muthukrishnan, University of Alabama at
                                                  Birmingham, USA 
            Automatic Generation of Parallelizing Compilers for Object-Oriented
            Programming Languages from Denotational Semantics Specifications 
      David Duce, CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK 
            Theory and practice in interactionally rich distributed systems 
      Valerie Issarny, INRIA/IRISA Rennes, F 
            Configuration-Based programming Systems 

  C. Software Engineering and Methodology

      Dines Bjorner, International Institute for Software Technology, 
                     United Nations, University, Macau 
            Signatures of Large-scale Infrastructure Systems 
      Annie Kuntzmann-Combelles, Objectif Technologie, F 
            Software Process Improvement 
      Helmut Krcmar, University Hohenheim, Stuttgart, DE 
            Telecooperation and Workflow Architecture
      Wolfgang Pree, JKU Linz, A 
            Design Patterns for Object-Oriented Software Development 

  D. Databases and Information Systems

      Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich, CH 
            Object-oriented database systems and beyond 
      Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AUS 
            Distributed Databases - From Theory to Practice 
      Howard Williams, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK 
            From OO through deduction to active DB - ROCK, ROLL and RAP 
      Jiri Zara, Czech Technical University, Prague, CR 
            An Introduction to Virtual Reality Modeling Language 
      Jiri Zlatuska, Masaryk University, Brno, CR 
            The information Society   

For Abstracts of invited talks and CVs of invited speakers 
see Sofsem www-page.

- -----------
Submissions
- -----------
  The categories for submissions include Contributed Talks and Posters.
  Each submission should have a title giving the following information:

  - name, address, e-mail address, and phone/fax number of each author;
  - specification of one of the authors as the contact person.

  To submit, please send via e-amil a postscript file or via s-mail five
  printed copies of your contribution. With each submission, please
  e-mail also an abstract in plain ASCII.  Any other form of electronic
  submission should be consulted in advance with the PC sectretary.

  Contributed Talks
  -----------------
  8-page drafts in English are expected.  A full camera-ready copy of
  contributed talks on current topics in Computer Science should be no
  longer than 8-pages.  Presentation time for contributed talks is 25
  minutes. Contributed talks will be included in the Proceedings of
  SOFSEM '97, published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series 
  by Springer-Verlag.

  The Organizing Committee will supply the authors of accepted
  contributed talks with detailed technical instructions and the LaTeX
  style file for the preparation of the camera-ready copy.

  Posters
  -------
  We actively encourage posters describing work in progress.  
  Final versions of two A4 page poster are expected.

  Deadlines
  ---------
  Submission of the contributed talk/poster     May  15, 1997 
  Notification of acceptance/rejection          July 10, 1997
  Camera-ready copy of the contributed talk     Aug. 31, 1997

- -----------------
Contact Addresses
- -----------------
  Sofsem www-page
  ---------------
  http://www.ics.muni.cz/sofsem/sofsem.html

  Communications and enquires should be adressed to:
  -------------------------------------------------
  sofsem@ics.muni.cz

  Submissions should be adressed to:
  ---------------------------------
  sofsemct@ics.muni.cz

  or

  Jiri Sochor
  Faculty of Informatics
  Masaryk University
  Botanicka 68a,  
  602 00 Brno
  Czech Republic

- ----
Fees
- ----
  Kc stands for Czech Crowns. USD for US dollars.

  Total cost covers the registration fees, accommodation, and
  meals for the whole (eight-day) seminar as well as the Proceedings:

  Full fees:

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  type     single_room  double_room  Explanation
  of fee
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  S1       8 660  Kc    7 300  Kc    total costs for CZ/SK participants  
  S3         395  USD     340  USD   total costs for others
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------

  IMPORTANT!

  If payment is made by 1st September 1997 
  the following reductions apply:

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  type     single_room  double_room  Explanation
  of fee
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  S0 *)    6 860  Kc    5 500  Kc    total costs for CZ ACM, CSCS, SSCS
  S1       7 360  Kc    6 000  Kc    total costs for CZ/SK participants
  S2 **)     325  USD     270  USD   total costs for others ACM members
  S3         345  USD     290  USD   total costs for others
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   *)  only for members of CZ ACM, 
                           Czech Society for Computer Science (CSCS)
                           Slovak Society for Computer Science (SSCS),
   **) only for other ACM members,
  ---------------------------------------

  PLEASE NOTE: 

     SOFSEM '96 was booked fully to capacity by the end of Aug. 1996 so 
     REGISTER EARLY

  ---------------------------------------
  Note for CZ/SK participants:

  Accommodation - daily rates single room         - 410,- Kc  
                            one prsn in dble room - 240,- Kc 
                            meals                 - 110,- Kc 
  =====================================================================

  Banking           : Ceska sporitelna Brno - mesto, Brno, Czech Rep.
  Account Name      : Ceska informaticka spolecnost, pobocka Brno
  Account Number    : 6851659-628/0800
  Details of Payment: Fill in your name, organization and the purpose of
                      payment: Sofsem'97 conference fee'.
                      (Czech/Slovak participants: variabilni symbol, 
                       if allocated) 

  Cancellation
  ------------
  Before 1-st November, 80% of the total cost will be refunded;
  after  1-st November, 50% of the total cost will be refunded.
  No refund will be made once the seminar has started.

  Financial support
  -----------------
  You may apply for financial support to partially cover your
  accommodation expenses.  A strong preference will be given to
  undergraduate and graduate students whose submissions for contributed
  talks and/or posters have been accepted. Your application for financial
  support must reach the Organizing Committee by 1-st August. We will let
  you know by 15-th August whether requested support will be granted for
  you.

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Sponsors
- --------
ApS Brno, s.r.o., Digital Equipmnet, s.r.o., Help Service Mapping, s.r.o, 
Hewlett-Packard, s.r.o., IBM CR, s.r.o., ORACLE Czech, s.r.o, 

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Exhibitions
- -----------
1) presenting non profit results

  Organizations and individuals are invited to participate with
  demonstrations of non-profit research results and literature
  exhibitions.  

2) presenting non profit results

  Organizations are invited to submit exhibitions of commercial software
  systems, organisation profiles, literature exhibitions, etc.

  Please submit a description of the demonstration and
  exhibitions to the address at the end of this page.  It is the
  responsibility of the demonstrator to provide suitable equipment.
  Exhibitors should contact the following address for further details:

  J. Staudek - SOFSEM '97
  FI MU Brno
  Botanicka 68a
  602 00 Brno
  Czech Republic
  phone:   +420-5-4151 2354
  FAX:     +420-5-4121 2747
  e-mail: sofsem@ics.muni.cz

- -----------------------------------
Local Arrangements, Venue, History 
- -----------------------------------
  For more information regarding SOFSEM'97 and Local Arrangements,
  Venue and SOFSEM History see Sofsem www-page

  http://www.ics.muni.cz/sofsem/sofsem.html


- ------------
Registration
- ------------
  To register, please mail the filled-in registration form and the
  notification of your payment to the OC secretary:

  Z. Walletzka, SOFSEM '97
  UVT MU, Botanicka 68a,
  602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  phone:  +420-5-4121 1646
  fax:    +420-5-4121 2747
  e-mail: sofsem@ics.muni.cz

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                REGISTRATION FORM AND PAYMENT NOTICE

        Please e-mail or fax to:

                Z. Walletzka --- SOFSEM '97
                UVT MU
                Botanicka 68, 602 00 Brno
                Czech Republic
                fax: +420-5-4121 2747
                e-mail: sofsem@ics.muni.cz

        Family name (Mr, Ms) :  ........................

        First name:             ........................

        Organization:           ........................

        Current position:       ........................

        Address:                ........................

        Phone:                  ........................

        E-mail:                 ........................

        Amount of Payment:      ........................

        Date of Payment:        ........................

        Details of Payment:     ........................

        Vegetarian Meals:       YES     NO

        Type of Fee:            S0      S1     S2     S3

        ACM member number:      ........................

        Member of CIS/SIS       YES     NO

        Passport:               ........................
        (CZ/SK participants
          "rodne cislo / COP"   ........................)

        Comments:               ........................

                                ........................

        Date:                   ........................

=====================================================================


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Subject: WSOM'97 Call For Participation
From:    Timo Honkela <tho@nucleus.hut.fi>
Date:    Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:00:52 +0300


================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =======================

 W O R K S H O P   O N   S E L F - O R G A N I Z I N G   M A P S

           Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
                         June 4-6, 1997

- -------------------------     WWW:     --------------------------

                 http://nucleus.hut.fi/wsom97/
   
- -----------------------------------------------------------------

WSOM'97 is the first international meeting to be entirely dedicated
to the theory and applications of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM). 
The SOM is a new powerful software tool for hard real-world
problems listed below. Highlights of the program:

  - TUTORIAL SHORT COURSE:  prof. Teuvo Kohonen

  - PLENARIES:  prof. Helge Ritter: Learning with the parameterized
                                    self-organizing map

                prof. Karl Goser: Self-organizing map for
                                  intelligent process control

                prof. Marie Cottrell: Theoretical aspects of
                                      the SOM algorithm

  - INVITED:    prof. Risto Miikkulainen: SOM research in the USA

                prof. Heizo Tokutaka: Condensed review of SOM and
                                      LVQ research in Japan

  - SESSIONS:   Pattern recognition and        Optimization      
                signal processing

                Monitoring and data mining     Financial analysis

                Temporal sequence processing   Image analysis and vision
               
                Theory and extensions          Probabilistic
                                               interpretations

                Text and document maps         Hardware  

  - PANEL:      Document search

  - SOM CLINIC: Practical advice is given during the breaks

  - BANQUET:    Dinner speech by Robert Hecht-Nielsen:
                A neural network saga

  - DEMONSTRATIONS


WSOM'97 is a unique occasion for anyone who

  - is looking for efficient means for analyzing and visualizing
    complex real-world data, or

  - wishes to gain new insight into the newest applications of the SOM.


REGISTRATION

General registration fee is FIM 1200 for the workshop and FIM 700
for the tutorial. Reduced registration fees are available for
students as well as for early registration before May 1.

Please see http://nucleus.hut.fi/wsom97/ for the program.
On the page there is also information on the registration,
accomodation, travel, and other practical arrangements.
For further information, please contact wsom97@nucleus.hut.fi


CO-OPERATING SOCIETIES

WSOM'97 is a satellite workshop of the 10th Scandinavian Conference
on Image Analysis (SCIA) to be held on June 9 to 11 in Lappeenranta,
Finland, arranged by the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland. 
Other co-operating societies are the European Neural Network Society
(ENNS), IEEE Finland Section, and the Finnish Artificial Intelligence
Society.


Teuvo Kohonen, WSOM'97 Chairman

Erkki Oja, Program Chairman

Olli Simula, Organization Chairman



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