5th Anniversary
                          First Announcement

                       International Workshop on
           Parallel Applications in Statistics and Economics

                      Non-linear Data Analysis 

                         Trier - Mainz, Germany
                      August 29 - September 2, 1995

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PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP:

  The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested
  in innovative information processing systems and their applications in the
  areas of statistics, finance and economics. The focus will be on in-depth
  presentations of state-of-the-art methods and applications as well as on
  communicating current research topics. This workshop is intended for
  industrial and academic persons seeking new ways of comprehending the
  behavior of complex dynamic systems. The PASE'95 workshop is concerned
  with but not restricted to the following topics:

   o  Applications in finance, economics, and natural science
   o  Statistical tests for finding deterministic and chaotic behavior
   o  Statistical tests for measuring stability and stationarity
   o  Sampling and retrieving techniques for high frequency data
   o  Modeling and analysis of non-linear multivariate time series
   o  Statistical use of neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy
   systems

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WORKSHOP SITE:

  The workshop will be held on a comfortable ship running from Trier to
  Mainz on the scenic rivers Mosel and Rhine in Germany. The best connection
  to Trier is to fly to Frankfurt and then to take the train. It will take
  about 2 1/2 hours. From Mainz there are direct trains to Frankfurt Airport
  (~ 30 minutes). Detailed traveling possibilities will be announced later.

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ACCOMMODATION AND REGISTRATION:

  All participants will be accommodated on the ship. The price of the
  accommodation in a double room for 4 nights is Sfr 870.- for the main
  deck (920.- for the upper deck) including breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
  The welcome and workshop dinner are also included. The service begins
  on Tuesday afternoon, August 29th, in Trier with registration and ends
  on Saturday morning, September 2nd in Mainz. Since the facilities of
  the ship are dedicated to the workshop the price is unique and no
  reductions can be provided for a shorter participation. Since the number
  of participants is limited to about 100 persons, early registration is
  recommended. All applications will be handled on the basis "first come
  first serve". Registration will only be accepted after a pre-payment of
  Sfr 300.-. The rest of the accommodation expenses of Sfr 570.- or 620.-,
  respectively, and the workshop fees must be transferred to our account

             PASE Workshop - Dr. Diethelm Wuertz
             Schweizerischer Bankverein, Zurich, Switzerland
             Number of Account: P0-206066.0

  before May 31st 1995. No currencies other than Swiss Francs will be
  accepted.  In the case of a later remittance we cannot guarantee your
  application.

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WORKSHOP FEE AND PROCEEDINGS:

  The workshop fee is Sfr 580.- for profit-making companies and Sfr 230.-
  for others. It includes the Proceedings, published as a Special Issue of
  the Journal "Neural Network World - International Journal on Neural and
  Mass-Parallel computing and Information Systems".

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WORKSHOP SCHOLARSHIPS:

  For students and a limited number of participants from "post-communist"
  European countries some support and scholarships will be available:
  please contact the organizers.

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ABSTRACTS AND DEADLINES:

  Regular abstracts of one page (approximately 30 lines with 60 characters)
  must be submitted before December 1st, 1994.  All contributions will be
  refereed. The deadline for the full papers (about 10 pages) is April 1st,
  1995. We cannot guarantee that papers submitted later will be printed in
  the proceedings. The proceedings will be available at the conference. It
  is also possible to submit an extended abstract of 4 pages. From these
  contributions we will select, besides the regular invited speakers,
  3 further speakers for an invited talk. The deadlines are the same as
  in the case of regular abstracts. If you plan a soft- or hardware
  demonstration please contact the organizers. Please send the abstracts
  and full papers to:

    Hynek Beran, ICS Prag
    Pod vodarenskou vezi 2                FAX:    +42 2 858 57 89
    182 07 PRAGUE 8, Czech Republic       E-mail: pase@uivt.cas.cz

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ORGANIZATION:

  The Workshop will be organized by the Interdisciplinary Project Center
  for Supercomputing (ETH Zurich), Olsen & Associates (Research Institute
  for Applied Economics, Zurich) and the Institute of Computer Science
  (Academy of Sciences, Prague)
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FURTHER INFORMATION:

  Further information will be available from anonymous ftp "maggia.ethz.ch"
  (129.132.17.1) or world wide webb
  "http://www.ips.id.ethz.ch/PASE/pase.html"