NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE   
                                     on
                     SOFT COMPUTING AND ITS APPLICATIONS

ORGANIZED BY
        
Director :      Okyay KAYNAK (Bogazici University, Istanbul, TURKEY)
Co-directors :  Lotfi A. ZADEH (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
                Burhan TURKSEN (University of Toronto, CANADA)
                Imre J. RUDAS (Banki Donat Polytechnic, HUNGARY)
        
                
TOPICS TO BE COVERED

        Fuzzy Logic
        Artificial Neural Networks
        Neuro-Fuzzy Control
        Probabilistic Reasoning
        Hardware Realizations

OBJECTIVES

The planned NATO Advanced Study Institute aims at creating an opportunity
for the engineers and the scientists working in the area of Soft Computing
to come together in an informal atmosphere and to discuss and disseminate
knowledge on the application asp ects of soft computing techniques,
especially in intelligent control systems and mechatronics. Two particular
areas that the institute will put a special emphasis on are (1) how to
achieve a synergetic combination of the three constituents of soft
computing (2) how can such a combination be applied to achieve a high
Machine Intelligence Quotient. The latter will include a critical
investigation of existing applications. Hardware realization possibilities
in the form VLSI chips will also be addressed. 

WHAT IS AN ASI?

The objectives of ASIs is to disseminate advanced knowledge not yet in
university curricula and foster scientific contacts through high level
teaching courses.  An ASI is a post doctoral-level teaching activity
lasting ten days; the meeting normally has 12-15 lecturers and 60-80 ASI
students of different nationalities. Financial support is available to 
qualified students from NATO or cooperating countries.

FACULTY OF ASI

James BEZDEK, University of West Florida, USA
Daniel M. DUBOIS, Universitede Liege, Belgium
Toshio FUKUDA, Nagoya University, Japan
Okyay KAYNAK,Bogazici University, Turkey (Director of ASI)
James M. KELLER, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Rudolf KRUSE, Technische UniversittBraunschweig, Germany
Rinaldo POLUZZI, SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, Italy
Germano RESCONI, Universita Cattolica, Italy
Imre RUDAS, Banki DonatPolytechnic, Hungary (Co-director of ASI)
Enrique H. RUSPINI, SRI Institute, USA
Burhan TURKSEN, University of Toronto, Canada (Co-director of ASI)
Ronald R. YAGER, Iona College, USA
Lotfi A. ZADEH, University of California, Berkeley, USA (Co-director of ASI)
Hans-Jurgen ZIMMERMANN, Rheinisch-Westfalische Techn. Hoch., Aachen, Germany

WHEN AND WHERE?

The institute will be held at Hotel Kaya in Titreyengol region (near 
Side) of Antalya, Turkey, during August 21 - 31, 1996.

APPLICATION FOR PARTICIPATION

For more information on participation please apply to

Okyay KAYNAK
Fax :           +90-212-287 2465
e-mail :        kaynak@boun.edu.tr