WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR POSTERS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1994 IEEE Information Theory Workshop ``INFORMATION THEORY AND STATISTICS'' XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX October 27--29, 1994 Alexandria, Virginia GENERAL CHAIRMAN Stamatis Cambanis, University of North Carolina INQUIRIES gorsak@tejas.gmu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The exchange of ideas between information theorists and statisticians has grown steadily over time, underscoring the deep connections between the two disciplines. The objective of the Workshop is to nurture this process by providing both communities with a forum for interaction. The program includes five plenary talks, six invited sessions (each jointly organized by members of the Information Theory and the Statistics communities) and two poster sessions. A tentative list of plenary speakers, invited sessions and session organizers is given below. INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS T. Cover (Stanford) D. Geman (U. Mass/Brown) R. Gray (Stanford) J. Rissanen (IBM San Jose) M. Vetterli (Berkeley) INVITED SESSIONS 1. ``Stochastic complexity and universal data compression'' IT: J. Ziv (Technion) STAT: P. Shields (Toledo) 2. ``Randomization complexity and information theory'' IT: S. Verdu (Princeton) STAT: M. Burnashev (Moscow) 3. ``Markov random fields'' IT: M. Miller (Washington U.) STAT: L. Pitt (U. Va) 4. ``Vector quantization, classification and regression trees'' IT: R. Gray (Stanford) STAT: R. Olshen (Stanford) 5. ``Theory and applications of wavelets'' IT: S. Mallat (NYU) STAT: D. Donoho (Stanford) 6. ``Nonparametric function estimation'' IT: E. Masry (UCSD) STAT: I. Johnstone (Stanford) POSTER SESSIONS Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts of no more than one thousand words encompassing research topics relevant to this workshop. All submissions should be sent directly to the Chairman of the Technical Committee (address below) by no later than JUNE 15, 1994. Notification of acceptance of papers will be made by JULY 15, 1994. Professor Prakash Narayan Department of Electrical Engineering University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 email: prakash@eng.umd.edu TRAVEL GRANTS A limited number of travel grants may be available for young participants or those whose resources will not enable them to attend the Workshop. Inquiries on travel grants, registration and other matters related to the Workshop should be addressed to the Chairman of the Organizing Committee: Professor Geoffrey C. Orsak Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 email: gorsak@tejas.gmu.edu WORKSHOP SPONSORS IEEE Information Theory Society Institute of Mathematical Statistics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CONFERENCE HOTEL The Workshop will be held in the Holiday Inn, Old Town Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia: Holiday Inn 1-703-549-6080 480 King Street 1-800-368-5047 Old Town Alexandria Virginia, 22314 Rooms have been reserved at the reduced rates of $115 per single room per night $130 per double room per night ($15 per extra person per night) When making reservations, please inform the Hotel that you are with the IEEE Information Theory Workshop. (Hotel Check in time is 3:00) ABOUT ALEXANDRIA Alexandria, located on the west bank of the Potomac River six miles south of Washington, D.C., was established in 1749 as a seaport and commercial center. This heritage is reflected today in the Old Town Alexandria historic district where one can find cobblestone streets lined with museums, historic architecture, fine restaurants and hotels. These and other attractions draw more than 1.5 million international and domestic visitors each year. The Alexandria Holiday Inn is located right in the heart of the historic district. All of the major activities of Old Town Alexandria are within walking distance to the workshop hotel. TRANSPORTATION The Workshop Hotel offers free shuttle service from Washington National Airport. The shuttle can be accessed by calling the Holiday Inn upon your arrival. In addition, for those wishing to visit Washington, D.C., the workshop hotel offers free shuttle service to the nearest metro stop. The metro rail system offers quick transportation to all the major points of interest within the metropolitan area. ------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION 1994 Information Theory Workshop October 27-29, 1994 Alexandria, VA Conference Registration Form First Name: _________________ Middle Initial: ___ Last Name: ______________________________________ Position/Title: _________________________________ Affiliation: ____________________________________ Address: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ City: __________________ State: _________________ Postal Code: __________ Country: ________________ Telephone: ______________________________________ E-mail: __________________ Fax: _________________ Conference Fees Before After Aug. 31, 94 Aug. 31, 94 IEEE/IMS Member: _ US $130 _ US $190 Membership #: __________ Expiration Date: ______ Non-member: _ US $190 _ US $250 Student (attach evidence): _ US $80 Total Registration Fee: ............US $________ All payments must be made in US $ in the form of personal check or bank check (credit cards can not be accepted), payable to: 1994 Information Theory Workshop Payment should be sent together with the registration form to: Professor Bernd-Peter Paris Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 e-mail: pparis@gmu.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Ken Hunt (hunt@DBresearch-berlin.de) IEE Colloquium on Advances in Neural Networks for Control and Systems ------------------------------------ Date: 25-27 May 1994 Venue: Systems Technology Research, Daimler-Benz AG, Berlin, Germany Co-sponsors: IEE German Centre The Michael Faraday Institution e.V. Daimler-Benz AG Provisional Programme --------------------- Wednesday 25 May ---------------- 18:30 -- 20:30 Welcoming reception and buffet Thursday 26 May --------------- 8:30 Registration 9:30 -- 10:15 Supervised learning and divide-and-conquer via the EM algorithm EM = Expectation-Maximization M. Jordan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 10:15 -- 10:45 The TACOMA algorithm for reflective growing of neural networks TACOMA = TAsk decomposition, COrrelation Measures and local Attention neurons J. Lange, H-M. Voigt and D. Wolf (Center for Applied Computer Science, and Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany) Pause 11:15 -- 12:00 The ASMOD algorithm - some theoretical and practical results ASMOD = Adaptive Spline Modelling of Observation Data T. Kavli and E. Weyer (SINTEF SI, Oslo, Norway) 12:00 -- 12:30 Semi-empirical modelling of non-linear dynamical systems T. A. Johansen (Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway) Lunch 14:00 -- 14:45 Neural networks for control of industrial processes B. Schuermann (Siemens AG, Munich, Germany) 14:45 -- 15:15 Data analysis by means of Kohonen feature maps for load forecast in power systems S. Heine and I. Neumann (Hochschule fuer Technik, Leipzig, and BEST Data Engineering GmbH, Germany) Pause 15:45 -- 16:15 Improved prediction of the corrosion behaviour of car body steel using a Kohonen self-organising map W. Kessler, R. Kessler, M. Kraus (Fachhochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft, Reutlingen, Germany), and R. Kuebler (Mercedes-Benz AG, Sindlefingen, Germany) 16:15 -- 16:45 Adaptive neural network control of the temperature in an oven O. Dubois, J. Nicolas and A. Billat (UFR Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Reims, France) 16:45 -- 17:15 Exothermic heat estimation using fuzzy-neural nets for a batch reactor temperature control system E. Cuellar, J. Coronado, C. Moreno and J. Izquierdo (University of Valladolid, Spain) 19:30 Colloquium Dinner Friday 27 May ------------- 9:00 -- 9:45 On interpolating memories for learning control H. Tolle (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany) 9:45 --10:15 Comparison of optimisation techniques for training feedforward networks G. Irwin and G Lightbody (Queen's University of Belfast, UK) 10:15 -- 10:45 Dynamic systems in neural networks K. Warwick, C Kambhampati(University of Reading, UK) and P. Parks (University of Oxford, UK) Pause 11:15 -- 12:00 Adaptive neurocontrol of MIMO systems based on stability theory MIMO = Multi-input Multi-Output J-M Renders, M. Saerens, and H. Bersini (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) 12:00 -- 12:30 Learning in neural networks and stochastic approximation with averaging P. Shcherbakov, S. Tikhonov (Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow, Russia) and J. Mason (University of Reading, UK) Lunch 14:00 -- 14:45 Adaptive neurofuzzy systems for difficult modelling and control problems M. Brown and C. Harris (University of Southampton, UK) 14:45 -- 15:15 Constructive training - industrial perspectives R. Murray-Smith, K. Hunt and F. Lohnert (Daimler-Benz AG, Berlin, Germany) Pause 15:45 -- 16:15 Equalisation using non-linear adaptive clustering C. 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