International Workshop on INDEPENDENCE & ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS / I&ANN'98=20 at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain February 9-10, 1998 http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/icsc/iann98.htm This workshop will take place immediately prior to the International ICSC Symposium on ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS / EIS'98 at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain February 11-13, 1998 http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/icsc/eis98.htm ****************************************** TOPICS Recent ANN research has developed from those networks which find correlations in data sets to the more ambitious goal of finding independent components of data sets. The workshop will concentrate on those neural networks which find independent components and the associated networks whose learning rules use contextual information to organize their learning. The topic falls then into (at least) three main streams of current ANN= research: 1. Independent Component Analysis which has most=20 recently been successfully applied to the problem=20 of "blind separation of sources" such as the=20 recovery of a single voice from a mixture/convolution=20 of voices. Such methods normally use either=20 information theoretic criteria or higher order=20 statistics to perform the separation. 2. Identification of independent sources: The seminal=20 experiment in this field is the identification of=20 single bars from an input grid containing mixtures=20 of bars. Factor Analysis (or generative models) has=20 been a recent popular method for this problem.=20 3. Using contextual information to identify structure=20 in data. We envisage a single track program over two days (February 9 - 10, 1998) with many opportunities for informal discussion. ****************************************** INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE - Luis Almeida, INESC, Portugal - Tony Bell, Salk Institute, USA - Andrew Cichocki, RIKEN Institute, Japan - Colin Fyfe, University of Paisley, U.K. - Mark Girolami, University of Paisley, U.K. - Peter Hancock, University of Stirling, U.K. - Juha Karhunen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Jim Kay, University of Glasgow, U.K. - Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ****************************************** INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND AUTHORS Registrations are available for the workshop only (February 9 - 10, 1998), or combined with the EIS'98 symposium (February 11 - 13, 1998). The registration fee for the 2-day workshop is estimated at approximately Ptas. 37,000 per person and includes: - Use of facilities and equipment - Lunches, dinners and coffee breaks - Welcome wine & cheese party - Proceedings in print (workshop only)=20 - Proceedings on CD-ROM (workshop and EIS'98 conference) - Daily transportation between hotels in Santa Cruz and workshop site The regular registration fee for the EIS'98 symposium (February 11-13, 1998) is estimated at Ptas. 59,000 per person, but a reduction will be offered to workshop participants. Separate proceedings will be printed for the workshop, but all respective papers will also be included on the CD-ROM, covering the I&ANN'98 workshop and the EIS'98 symposium. As a bonus, workshop participants will thus automatically also receive the conference proceedings (CD-ROM version). We anticipate that the proceedings will be published as a special issue of a journal. ****************************************** SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors are requested to send a 4-6 page report of their work for evaluation by the International Scientific Committee. All reports must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous= work.=20 The report should also include: - Title of workshop (I&ANN'98) - Title of proposed paper - Authors names, affiliations, addresses - Name of author to contact for correspondence - E-mail address and fax # of contact author - Topics which best describe the paper (max. 5 keywords) Submissions may be made by airmail or electronic mail to: Dr. Colin Fyfe Department of Computing and Information Systems The University of Paisley High Street Paisley, PA1 2BE Scotland Email: fyfe0ci@paisley.ac.uk Fax: +44-141-848-3542 ****************************************** SUBMISSION DEADLINE It is the intention of the organizers to have the proceedings available for the delegates. Consequently, the submission deadline of September 15, 1997 has to be strictly respected. ****************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Submission of reports: September 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance: October 15, 1997 Delivery of full papers: November 15, 1997 I&ANN'98 Workshop: February 9 - 10, 1998 EIS'98 Conference: February 11 - 13, 1998 =A0 ****************************************** =A0 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS For details about local arrangements, please consult the EIS'98 website at http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/icsc/eis98.htm ****************************************** FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please contact: - Dr. Colin Fyfe=20 Department of Computing and Information Systems The University of Paisley High Street Paisley PA1 2BE Scotland E-mail: fyfe0ci@paisley.ac.uk Fax: +44-141-848-3542 or - ICSC Canada International Computer Science Conventions P.O. Box 279 Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0 Canada E-mail: icsc@compusmart.ab.ca Fax: +1-403-387-4329=20 WWW: http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/icsc