| Wednesday 22 April 1998 | |
| 8H30 | Registration |
| 9H00 | Opening |
| Special session 1: Radial
basis networks Organised by: L. Reyneri (Polit. di Torino, Italy) |
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| 9H10 | "What are the main factors involved in
the design of a Radial Basis Function Network?" I. Rojas, M. Anguita, E. Ros, H. Pomares, O. Valenzuela, A. Prieto, Univ. de Granada (Spain) |
| 9H30 | "A supervised radial basis function network" S. Wu, C. Van den Broeck, Limburgs Univ. Centrum (Belgium) |
| 9H50 | "A comparison between weighted radial
basis functions and wavelet networks for function approximation" M. Sgarbi, Univ. of Pisa, V. Colla, Scuola Sup. Sant'Anna, L. Reyneri, Polit. di Torino (Italy) |
| 10H10 | "An incremental local radial basis function
network" M. Marinaro, S. Scarpetta, A. Esposito, Univ. di Salerno & Int. Inst. for Advanced Science Studies (Italy) |
| 10H30 | "A Tikhonov approach to calculate regularisation
matrices" C. Angulo, A. Catala, Polit. Univ. of Catalonia (Spain) |
| 10H50 | Coffee break |
| Session 2: Models
and architectures (1) Chairman: J. Mira Mira (UNED, Spain) |
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| 11H10 | "Analyses on the temporal patterns of
spikes of auditory neurons by a neural network and tree-based models" T. Takahashi, Massachusetts General Hospital (USA) |
| 11H30 | "Output jitter diverges to infinity, converges
to zero or remains constant?" J. Feng, Babraham Institute Cambridge (UK) |
| 11H50 | "Wavelet interpolation networks" C. Bernard, S. Mallat, J.-J. Slotine, Ecole Polytechnique (France) |
| 12H10 | "Generating arbitrary rhytmic patterns
with purely inhibitory neural networks" F. Franca, Z. Yang, Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| 12H30 | Lunch |
| Special session 3: Neural
networks for control Organised by: J. Vandewalle, J. Suykens (Kat. Univ. Leuven, Belgium) |
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| 14H00 | "Brain-like intelligent control: from
neural nets to larger-scale systems" P. Werbos, National Science Foundation (USA) |
| 14H40 | "Control of a subsonic electropneumatic
acoustic generator with dynamic recurrent neural networks" J.-P. Draye, L. Blondel, Fac. Polit. Mons, G. Cheron, Free Univ. of Brussels (Belgium) |
| 15H00 | "Lazy learning for control design" G. Bontempi, M. Birattari, H. Bersini, Free Univ. of Brussels (Belgium) |
| 15H20 | "Neural networks for the solution of information-distributed
optimal control problems" M. Baglietto, T. Parisini, R. Zoppoli, Univ. of Genoa & Univ. of Trieste (Italy) |
| 15H40 | Coffee break |
| 16H00 | "Parsimonious learning feed-forward control" T. de Vries, L. Idema, W. Velthuis, Univ. of Twente (The Netherlands) |
| 16H20 | "Fast orienting movements to visual targets:
neural field model of dynamic gaze control" A. Schierwagen, H. Werner, Univ. Leipzig (Germany) |
| 16H40 | "Improved generalization ability of neurocontrollers
by imposing NLq stability constraints" J. Suykens, J. Vandewalle, Kat. Univ. Leuven (Belgium) |
| 17H00 | "A RNN based control architecture for
generating periodic action sequences" T. Kolb, W. Ilg, J. Wille, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology at Cootbus & Research Center for Computer Science (Germany) |
| Poster session 4: spotlights | |
| 17H20 | "NAR time-series prediction: a Bayesian
framework and an experiment" M. Crucianu, Z. Uhry, J.-P. Asselin de Beauville, R. Bone, Univ. Tours (France) |
| 17H22 | "Application of a neural net in classification
and knowledge discovery" K. Schaedler, F. Wysotzki, Tech. Univ. Berlin (Germany) |
| 17H24 | "Extending the CMAC model: adaptive input
quantization" G. P. Klebus, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland) |
| 17H26 | "One or two hidden layers perceptrons" M. Fernandez, C. Hernandez, Jaume I Univ. (Spain) |
| 17H28 | "On the error function of interval arithmetic
backpropagation" M. Fernandez, C. Hernandez, Jaume I Univ. (Spain) |
| 17H30 | "A neural network for the identification
of the dynamic behaviour of a wheelchair" L. Boquete, R. Barea, M. Mazo, I. Aranda, Alcala Univ. (Spain) |
| 17H32 | Poster preview |
| Thursday 23rd April 1998 | |
| Session 5: Models
and architectures (2) Chairman: S. Gielen (Univ. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) |
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| 9H00 | "What is observable in a class of neurodynamics?" J. Feng, The Brabaham Institute Cambridge (UK) |
| 9H20 | "Polyhedral mixture of linear experts
for many-to-one mapping inversion" A. Karniel, R. Meir, G.F. Inbar, Israel Inst. of Tech. (Israel) |
| 9H40 | "On-off intermittency in small neural
networks with synaptic noise" A. Krawiecki, Warsaw Unic. of Tech., R.A. Kosinski, Central Inst. for Labour Protection (Poland) |
| 10H00 | Coffee break |
| Special session 6: Self-organising maps for data
analysis Organised by: M. Cottrell (Univ. Paris 1, France) & E. de Bodt (Univ. Lille II, France, & Univ. Cat. Louvain, Belgium). |
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| 10H20 | "Recurrent SOM with local linear models
in time series prediction" T. Koskela, M. Varsta, J. Heikkonen, K. Kaski, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (Finland) |
| 10H40 | "Self-organization and convergence of
the one-dimensional Kohonen algorithm" A. Sadeghi, Univ. Kaiserslautern (Germany) |
| 11H00 | "Finding structures in text archives" A. Rauber, D. Merkl, Vienna Univ. of Technology (Austria) |
| 11H20 | "Methods for interpreting a self-organized
map in data analysis" S. Kaski, J. Nikkila, T. Kohonen, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (Finland) |
| 11H40 | "Magnification control in neural maps" T. Villmann, Univ. Leipzig, M. Herrmann, MPI fur Stromungsforschung (Germany) |
| Posters: spotlights | |
| 12H00 | "Self-organizing ANNs for planetary surface
composition research" E. Merenyi, Univ. of Arizona (USA) |
| 12H02 | "A new dynamic LVQ-based classifier and
its application to handwritten chracter recognition" S. Bermejo, J. Cabestany, M. Payeras, Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (Spain) |
| 12H04 | "The self-organising map, robustness,
self-organising criticality and power laws" J.A. Flanagan, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology (Switzerland) |
| 12H06 | "Invariant feature maps for analysis of
angles in image data" S. McGlinchey, C. Fyfe, Univ. of Paisley (Scotland) |
| 12H08 | "Forecasting time-series by Kohonen classification" A. Lendasse, M. Verleysen, E. de Bodt, M. Cottrell, P. Grégoire, Univ. Cat de Louvain (Belgium), Univ. Lille II, Univ. Paris 1 (France), Univ. of Namur (Belgium) |
| 12H10 | Poster preview |
| 12H45 | Lunch |
| Special session 7: ANN
for speech processing Organised by: C. Wellekens (Eurecom, France) |
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| 14H00 | "Introduction to speech recognition using
neural networks" C. Wellekens, Eurecom (France) |
| 14H20 | "Self-organization in mixture densities
of HMM based speech recognition" M. Kurimo, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (Finland) |
| 14H40 | "Speech recognition with a new hybrid
architecture combining neural networks and continuous HMM" D. Willett, G. Rigoll, Gerhard Mercator Univ. Duisburg (Germany) |
| 15H00 | "Hierarchies of neural networks for connectionist
speech recognition" J. Fritsch, Univ. of Karlsruhe (Germany), A. Waibel, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (USA) |
| 15H20 | Coffee break |
| Session 8: Learning Chairman: H. Paugam-Moisy (ENS Lyon, France) |
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| 15H40 | "Training a sigmoidal network is difficult" B. Hammer, Univ. Osnabrück (Germany) |
| 16H00 | "Weight saliency regularization in augmented
networks" P. Edwards, A. Murray, Edinburgh Univ. (UK) |
| 16H20 | "To stop learning using the evidence" D. Perrotta, EC Joint Research Centre (Italy) |
| 16H40 | "Selecting among candidate basis functions
by crosscorrelations" A. Poncet, A. Deiss, S. Holles, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 17H00 | "A multistage on-line learning rule for
multilayer neural network" P. Thomas, G. Bloch, C. Humbert, ESSTIN (France) |
| 17H20 | "Parameter-estimation-based learning for
feedforward neural networks: convergence and robustness analysis" A. Alessandri, Naval Automation Inst. (Italy), M. Maggiore, Ohio State Univ. (USA), M. Sanguineti, Univ. of Genoa (Italy) |
| 20H00 | Conference dinner |
| Friday 24th April 1998 | |
| Special session 9: Cellular
neural networks Organised by: Tamas Roska (Hungarian Acad. of Sciences, Hungary) |
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| 9H00 | "The CNN computer - a tutorial" T. Roska, Hungarian Acad. of Sciences (Hungary) |
| 9H40 | "On the robust design of uncoupled CNNs" B. Mirzai, D. Lim, G.S. Moschyts, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) |
| 10H00 | "Simulation of arrays of Chua circuits
by composition methods" Y. Moreau, J. Vandewalle, Kat. Univ. Leuven (Belgium) |
| 10H20 | "Cellular neural networks: from chaos
generation to compexity modelling" P. Arena, L. Fortuna, Univ. di Catania (Italy) |
| 10H40 | "Ultrasound medical image processing using
cellular neural networks" I. Aizenberg, N. Aizenberg, E. Gotko, J. Vandewalle, K.U. Leuven (Belgium) & State Univ. of Uzhgorod (Ukraine) |
| 11H00 | Coffee break |
| Session 10: Statistical
methods Chairman:E. Oja (Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland) |
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| 11H20 | "Separation of sources in a class of post-nonlinear
mixtures" C.G. Puntonet, M.R. Alvarez, A. Prieto, B. Prieto, Univ. Granada (Spain) |
| 11H40 | "Improving neural network estimation in
presence of non i.i.d. noise" S. Hosseini, C. Jutten, INPG (France) |
| Poster session 11: spotlights | |
| 12H00 | "A self-organising neural network for
modelling cortical development" M. Spratling, G. Hayes, Univ. of Edinburgh (UK) |
| 12H02 | "Learning sensory-motor cortical mappings
without training" M. Spratling, G. Hayes, Univ. of Edinburgh (UK) |
| 12H04 | "Perception and action selection by anticipation
of sensorimotor consequences" T. Seiler, V. Stephan, H.-M. Gross, Tech. Univ. of Ilmenau (Germany) |
| 12H06 | "Neural networks for financial forecast" G. Rotundo, B. Tirozzi, M. Valente, Univ. Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy) |
| 12H08 | "A neural approach to a sensor fusion
problem" V. Colla, M. Sgarbi, L.M. Reyneri, A.M. Sabatini, Sculoa Sup. Sant'Anna & Polit. Torino (Italy) |
| 12H10 | "Canonical correlation analysis using
artificial neural networks" Pei Ling Lai, C. Fyfe, Univ. Paisley (Scotland) |
| 12H12 | Poster preview |
| 12H45 | Lunch |
| Special session 12: ANN for the processing
of facial information Organised by: Manuel Grana (UPV San Sebastian, Spain) |
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| 14H | "ANN for facial information processing:
a review of recent approaches" R. Raducanu, M. Grana, A. D'Anjou, F.X. Albizuri, UPV San Sebastian (Spain) |
| 14H10 | "Hybrid Hidden Markow model / neural network
models dor speechreading" A. Rogozan, P. Deleglise, Univ. du Maine (France) |
| 14H30 | "Face recognition: pre-processing techniques
for linear autoassociators" E. Drege, F. Yang, M. Paindavoine, H. Abdi, Univ. de Bourgogne (France) |
| 14H50 | "Facial image retrieval using sequential
classifiers" S. Gutta, H. Wechsler, George Mason Univ. (USA) |
| 15H10 | "Grouping complex face parts by nonlinear
oscillations" S. Oka, M. Kitabata, Y. Ajioka, Y. Takefuji, Keio Univ. (Japan) |
| 15H30 | Coffee break |
| Session 13: Optimization and associative
networks Chairman: M. Hasler (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) |
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| 15H50 | "On a Hopfield net arising in the modelling
and control of over-saturated signalized intersections" F. Maghrebi, Univ. Paris I (France) & Univ. Tunis III (Tunisie) |
| 16H10 | "Construction of an interactive and competitive
artificial neural network for the solution of path planning problems" E. Mulder, H.A.K. Mastebroeck, Univ. Groningen (The Netherlands) |
| 16H30 | "Learning associative mappings from few
examples" J.A. Walter, Univ. Bielefeld (Germany) |