From stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk Wed Jan 7 16:46:45 2009 From: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk (Stefan Wermter) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:48:09 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Natural Computing Forum on Intelligent Neural Robotics Message-ID: <4964CE65.20804@sunderland.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================== The Natural Computing Applications Forum Meeting on Intelligent Neural Robotics NCAF 2009 Date and Location: January 21-22, 2009, Sunderland, UK The forthcoming NCAF meeting will be held in Sunderland on the 21/22nd January, hosted by the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) group based at the University of Sunderland. This event will be set along the banks of the River Wear at the award winning Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter?s and a special evening event at Sunderland?s National Glass Centre. Programme summary: ? Stefan Wermter - Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics ? Jindong Liu - Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network ? Matthew Casey - Modelling the Sensory Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions ? Heidi Christenson - POPeye: Real-Time, Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-Visual Robot-Head ? Aneesh Chauhan - A Robotic Arm with Language Acquisition Capabilities ? Mark Ebden - Decentralized Predictive Sensor Allocation ? Harry Erwin - An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-Gated Channels ? Mark Elshaw - Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation ? John Murray - Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference between Robot and Human ? Mike Knowles - Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for supporting Human Robot Interaction ? Heidi Christenson - Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data If you would like to participate / register or find out more information on the event, please visit either http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ncaf09/ or http://www.ncaf.org.uk/ best wishes Stefan *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Department of Computing and Technology, FAS University of Sunderland St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter AT sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** From bassis at dsi.unimi.it Fri Jan 9 17:58:40 2009 From: bassis at dsi.unimi.it (Simone Bassis) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:48:09 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP: Erice School on Granular Computing 2009 Message-ID: <1231520320.6374.38.camel@micopiobackup> ======================================= * Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please pass this Call for Partecipation to interested Colleagues * Erice School on Granular Computing http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ Purpose of the Course The aim of the school is to assess the theoretical and computational tools at the basis of large families of algorithms for solving problems of: * feature extraction * classification * learning regression functions. The theoretical perspective is to fill-up ? at a given fuzziness degree ? the holes between observed points in a dimensional space. The goal is to supply a unifying reading to the vast variety of approaches and algorithms forming the tiles of a complex puzzle. The leading thread goes with the amount of information we have to align the data in a given order, ranging from a probabilistic framework in the best case to a connectionist one when you are left strictly alone with data. Relevant diversions will be connected to the tool you have for representing and processing data, spanning from pure connectionist paradigms to fully analytical frameworks, through various nuances of fuzziness, roughness and intermediate milieus. The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including computer science, physics, mathematics, biology, etc) who wish to learn the science of processing experimental data. List of Lectures ? Lofti Zadeh, Univ. of California, USA. ? Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada. ? Fernando Gomide, University of Camminas, Brazil. ? Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland. ? Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK. ? Vyacheslav Shkodirev, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia. ? Marco Gori, Universit? di Siena, Italy. ? Carlo Francesco Morabito, Universit? di Reggio Calabria, Italy. ? Simone Bassis, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Sabrina Gaito, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Bruno Apolloni, Universit? di Milano, Italy. The School is supported by IIASS, International Institute for High Scientific Studies, University of Milano University of Alberta SIREN, Italian Society for Neural Networks MIR, Machine Intelligence Research Network Deadline for application: October 1st 2009. The school is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of any nationality. Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of their supervisor. Places are limited to a maximum of 80 participants in addition to the lecturers. REGISTRATION FEE Full registration fee : 700,00 Euro The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 5 to 12 Dec), social dinner, an one day excursion to ancient temples, and a copy of the proceedings of the school. All the lecturers and participants will be accommodated in the EMCSC buildings in Erice. They can choose daily, in a lot of selected restaurants, the place where have the meals. Transportation from Palermo Airport (or train station) to the Erice Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form at least 10 days before your arrival in Palermo. A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and documented requests For any further information please visit the website http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ or contact Dr. Simone Bassis tel. 02 50316295 e.mail bassis@dsi.unimi.it From stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk Wed Jan 7 16:46:45 2009 From: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk (Stefan Wermter) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:55:39 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Natural Computing Forum on Intelligent Neural Robotics Message-ID: <4964CE65.20804@sunderland.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================== The Natural Computing Applications Forum Meeting on Intelligent Neural Robotics NCAF 2009 Date and Location: January 21-22, 2009, Sunderland, UK The forthcoming NCAF meeting will be held in Sunderland on the 21/22nd January, hosted by the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) group based at the University of Sunderland. This event will be set along the banks of the River Wear at the award winning Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter?s and a special evening event at Sunderland?s National Glass Centre. Programme summary: ? Stefan Wermter - Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics ? Jindong Liu - Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network ? Matthew Casey - Modelling the Sensory Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions ? Heidi Christenson - POPeye: Real-Time, Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-Visual Robot-Head ? Aneesh Chauhan - A Robotic Arm with Language Acquisition Capabilities ? Mark Ebden - Decentralized Predictive Sensor Allocation ? Harry Erwin - An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-Gated Channels ? Mark Elshaw - Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation ? John Murray - Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference between Robot and Human ? Mike Knowles - Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for supporting Human Robot Interaction ? Heidi Christenson - Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data If you would like to participate / register or find out more information on the event, please visit either http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ncaf09/ or http://www.ncaf.org.uk/ best wishes Stefan *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Department of Computing and Technology, FAS University of Sunderland St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter AT sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** From bassis at dsi.unimi.it Fri Jan 9 17:58:40 2009 From: bassis at dsi.unimi.it (Simone Bassis) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:55:39 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP: Erice School on Granular Computing 2009 Message-ID: <1231520320.6374.38.camel@micopiobackup> ======================================= * Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please pass this Call for Partecipation to interested Colleagues * Erice School on Granular Computing http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ Purpose of the Course The aim of the school is to assess the theoretical and computational tools at the basis of large families of algorithms for solving problems of: * feature extraction * classification * learning regression functions. The theoretical perspective is to fill-up ? at a given fuzziness degree ? the holes between observed points in a dimensional space. The goal is to supply a unifying reading to the vast variety of approaches and algorithms forming the tiles of a complex puzzle. The leading thread goes with the amount of information we have to align the data in a given order, ranging from a probabilistic framework in the best case to a connectionist one when you are left strictly alone with data. Relevant diversions will be connected to the tool you have for representing and processing data, spanning from pure connectionist paradigms to fully analytical frameworks, through various nuances of fuzziness, roughness and intermediate milieus. The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including computer science, physics, mathematics, biology, etc) who wish to learn the science of processing experimental data. List of Lectures ? Lofti Zadeh, Univ. of California, USA. ? Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada. ? Fernando Gomide, University of Camminas, Brazil. ? Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland. ? Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK. ? Vyacheslav Shkodirev, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia. ? Marco Gori, Universit? di Siena, Italy. ? Carlo Francesco Morabito, Universit? di Reggio Calabria, Italy. ? Simone Bassis, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Sabrina Gaito, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Bruno Apolloni, Universit? di Milano, Italy. The School is supported by IIASS, International Institute for High Scientific Studies, University of Milano University of Alberta SIREN, Italian Society for Neural Networks MIR, Machine Intelligence Research Network Deadline for application: October 1st 2009. The school is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of any nationality. Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of their supervisor. Places are limited to a maximum of 80 participants in addition to the lecturers. REGISTRATION FEE Full registration fee : 700,00 Euro The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 5 to 12 Dec), social dinner, an one day excursion to ancient temples, and a copy of the proceedings of the school. All the lecturers and participants will be accommodated in the EMCSC buildings in Erice. They can choose daily, in a lot of selected restaurants, the place where have the meals. Transportation from Palermo Airport (or train station) to the Erice Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form at least 10 days before your arrival in Palermo. A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and documented requests For any further information please visit the website http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ or contact Dr. Simone Bassis tel. 02 50316295 e.mail bassis@dsi.unimi.it From stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk Wed Jan 7 16:46:45 2009 From: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk (Stefan Wermter) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:18:27 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Natural Computing Forum on Intelligent Neural Robotics Message-ID: <4964CE65.20804@sunderland.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================== The Natural Computing Applications Forum Meeting on Intelligent Neural Robotics NCAF 2009 Date and Location: January 21-22, 2009, Sunderland, UK The forthcoming NCAF meeting will be held in Sunderland on the 21/22nd January, hosted by the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) group based at the University of Sunderland. This event will be set along the banks of the River Wear at the award winning Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter?s and a special evening event at Sunderland?s National Glass Centre. Programme summary: ? Stefan Wermter - Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics ? Jindong Liu - Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network ? Matthew Casey - Modelling the Sensory Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions ? Heidi Christenson - POPeye: Real-Time, Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-Visual Robot-Head ? Aneesh Chauhan - A Robotic Arm with Language Acquisition Capabilities ? Mark Ebden - Decentralized Predictive Sensor Allocation ? Harry Erwin - An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-Gated Channels ? Mark Elshaw - Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation ? John Murray - Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference between Robot and Human ? Mike Knowles - Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for supporting Human Robot Interaction ? Heidi Christenson - Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data If you would like to participate / register or find out more information on the event, please visit either http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ncaf09/ or http://www.ncaf.org.uk/ best wishes Stefan *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Department of Computing and Technology, FAS University of Sunderland St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter AT sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** From bassis at dsi.unimi.it Fri Jan 9 17:58:40 2009 From: bassis at dsi.unimi.it (Simone Bassis) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:18:27 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP: Erice School on Granular Computing 2009 Message-ID: <1231520320.6374.38.camel@micopiobackup> ======================================= * Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please pass this Call for Partecipation to interested Colleagues * Erice School on Granular Computing http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ Purpose of the Course The aim of the school is to assess the theoretical and computational tools at the basis of large families of algorithms for solving problems of: * feature extraction * classification * learning regression functions. The theoretical perspective is to fill-up ? at a given fuzziness degree ? the holes between observed points in a dimensional space. The goal is to supply a unifying reading to the vast variety of approaches and algorithms forming the tiles of a complex puzzle. The leading thread goes with the amount of information we have to align the data in a given order, ranging from a probabilistic framework in the best case to a connectionist one when you are left strictly alone with data. Relevant diversions will be connected to the tool you have for representing and processing data, spanning from pure connectionist paradigms to fully analytical frameworks, through various nuances of fuzziness, roughness and intermediate milieus. The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including computer science, physics, mathematics, biology, etc) who wish to learn the science of processing experimental data. List of Lectures ? Lofti Zadeh, Univ. of California, USA. ? Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada. ? Fernando Gomide, University of Camminas, Brazil. ? Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland. ? Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK. ? Vyacheslav Shkodirev, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia. ? Marco Gori, Universit? di Siena, Italy. ? Carlo Francesco Morabito, Universit? di Reggio Calabria, Italy. ? Simone Bassis, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Sabrina Gaito, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Bruno Apolloni, Universit? di Milano, Italy. The School is supported by IIASS, International Institute for High Scientific Studies, University of Milano University of Alberta SIREN, Italian Society for Neural Networks MIR, Machine Intelligence Research Network Deadline for application: October 1st 2009. The school is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of any nationality. Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of their supervisor. Places are limited to a maximum of 80 participants in addition to the lecturers. REGISTRATION FEE Full registration fee : 700,00 Euro The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 5 to 12 Dec), social dinner, an one day excursion to ancient temples, and a copy of the proceedings of the school. All the lecturers and participants will be accommodated in the EMCSC buildings in Erice. They can choose daily, in a lot of selected restaurants, the place where have the meals. Transportation from Palermo Airport (or train station) to the Erice Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form at least 10 days before your arrival in Palermo. A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and documented requests For any further information please visit the website http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ or contact Dr. Simone Bassis tel. 02 50316295 e.mail bassis@dsi.unimi.it From stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk Wed Jan 7 16:46:45 2009 From: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk (Stefan Wermter) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:20:13 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Natural Computing Forum on Intelligent Neural Robotics Message-ID: <4964CE65.20804@sunderland.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================== The Natural Computing Applications Forum Meeting on Intelligent Neural Robotics NCAF 2009 Date and Location: January 21-22, 2009, Sunderland, UK The forthcoming NCAF meeting will be held in Sunderland on the 21/22nd January, hosted by the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) group based at the University of Sunderland. This event will be set along the banks of the River Wear at the award winning Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter?s and a special evening event at Sunderland?s National Glass Centre. Programme summary: ? Stefan Wermter - Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics ? Jindong Liu - Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network ? Matthew Casey - Modelling the Sensory Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions ? Heidi Christenson - POPeye: Real-Time, Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-Visual Robot-Head ? Aneesh Chauhan - A Robotic Arm with Language Acquisition Capabilities ? Mark Ebden - Decentralized Predictive Sensor Allocation ? Harry Erwin - An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-Gated Channels ? Mark Elshaw - Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation ? John Murray - Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference between Robot and Human ? Mike Knowles - Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for supporting Human Robot Interaction ? Heidi Christenson - Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data If you would like to participate / register or find out more information on the event, please visit either http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ncaf09/ or http://www.ncaf.org.uk/ best wishes Stefan *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Department of Computing and Technology, FAS University of Sunderland St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter AT sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** From bassis at dsi.unimi.it Fri Jan 9 17:58:40 2009 From: bassis at dsi.unimi.it (Simone Bassis) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:20:13 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP: Erice School on Granular Computing 2009 Message-ID: <1231520320.6374.38.camel@micopiobackup> ======================================= * Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please pass this Call for Partecipation to interested Colleagues * Erice School on Granular Computing http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ Purpose of the Course The aim of the school is to assess the theoretical and computational tools at the basis of large families of algorithms for solving problems of: * feature extraction * classification * learning regression functions. The theoretical perspective is to fill-up ? at a given fuzziness degree ? the holes between observed points in a dimensional space. The goal is to supply a unifying reading to the vast variety of approaches and algorithms forming the tiles of a complex puzzle. The leading thread goes with the amount of information we have to align the data in a given order, ranging from a probabilistic framework in the best case to a connectionist one when you are left strictly alone with data. Relevant diversions will be connected to the tool you have for representing and processing data, spanning from pure connectionist paradigms to fully analytical frameworks, through various nuances of fuzziness, roughness and intermediate milieus. The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including computer science, physics, mathematics, biology, etc) who wish to learn the science of processing experimental data. List of Lectures ? Lofti Zadeh, Univ. of California, USA. ? Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada. ? Fernando Gomide, University of Camminas, Brazil. ? Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland. ? Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK. ? Vyacheslav Shkodirev, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia. ? Marco Gori, Universit? di Siena, Italy. ? Carlo Francesco Morabito, Universit? di Reggio Calabria, Italy. ? Simone Bassis, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Sabrina Gaito, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Bruno Apolloni, Universit? di Milano, Italy. The School is supported by IIASS, International Institute for High Scientific Studies, University of Milano University of Alberta SIREN, Italian Society for Neural Networks MIR, Machine Intelligence Research Network Deadline for application: October 1st 2009. The school is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of any nationality. Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of their supervisor. Places are limited to a maximum of 80 participants in addition to the lecturers. REGISTRATION FEE Full registration fee : 700,00 Euro The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 5 to 12 Dec), social dinner, an one day excursion to ancient temples, and a copy of the proceedings of the school. All the lecturers and participants will be accommodated in the EMCSC buildings in Erice. They can choose daily, in a lot of selected restaurants, the place where have the meals. Transportation from Palermo Airport (or train station) to the Erice Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form at least 10 days before your arrival in Palermo. A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and documented requests For any further information please visit the website http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ or contact Dr. Simone Bassis tel. 02 50316295 e.mail bassis@dsi.unimi.it From stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk Wed Jan 7 16:46:45 2009 From: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk (Stefan Wermter) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:29:54 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Natural Computing Forum on Intelligent Neural Robotics Message-ID: <4964CE65.20804@sunderland.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================== The Natural Computing Applications Forum Meeting on Intelligent Neural Robotics NCAF 2009 Date and Location: January 21-22, 2009, Sunderland, UK The forthcoming NCAF meeting will be held in Sunderland on the 21/22nd January, hosted by the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) group based at the University of Sunderland. This event will be set along the banks of the River Wear at the award winning Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter?s and a special evening event at Sunderland?s National Glass Centre. Programme summary: ? Stefan Wermter - Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics ? Jindong Liu - Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network ? Matthew Casey - Modelling the Sensory Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions ? Heidi Christenson - POPeye: Real-Time, Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-Visual Robot-Head ? Aneesh Chauhan - A Robotic Arm with Language Acquisition Capabilities ? Mark Ebden - Decentralized Predictive Sensor Allocation ? Harry Erwin - An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-Gated Channels ? Mark Elshaw - Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation ? John Murray - Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference between Robot and Human ? Mike Knowles - Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for supporting Human Robot Interaction ? Heidi Christenson - Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data If you would like to participate / register or find out more information on the event, please visit either http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ncaf09/ or http://www.ncaf.org.uk/ best wishes Stefan *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Department of Computing and Technology, FAS University of Sunderland St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter AT sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** From bassis at dsi.unimi.it Fri Jan 9 17:58:40 2009 From: bassis at dsi.unimi.it (Simone Bassis) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:29:54 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP: Erice School on Granular Computing 2009 Message-ID: <1231520320.6374.38.camel@micopiobackup> ======================================= * Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please pass this Call for Partecipation to interested Colleagues * Erice School on Granular Computing http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ Purpose of the Course The aim of the school is to assess the theoretical and computational tools at the basis of large families of algorithms for solving problems of: * feature extraction * classification * learning regression functions. The theoretical perspective is to fill-up ? at a given fuzziness degree ? the holes between observed points in a dimensional space. The goal is to supply a unifying reading to the vast variety of approaches and algorithms forming the tiles of a complex puzzle. The leading thread goes with the amount of information we have to align the data in a given order, ranging from a probabilistic framework in the best case to a connectionist one when you are left strictly alone with data. Relevant diversions will be connected to the tool you have for representing and processing data, spanning from pure connectionist paradigms to fully analytical frameworks, through various nuances of fuzziness, roughness and intermediate milieus. The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including computer science, physics, mathematics, biology, etc) who wish to learn the science of processing experimental data. List of Lectures ? Lofti Zadeh, Univ. of California, USA. ? Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada. ? Fernando Gomide, University of Camminas, Brazil. ? Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland. ? Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK. ? Vyacheslav Shkodirev, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia. ? Marco Gori, Universit? di Siena, Italy. ? Carlo Francesco Morabito, Universit? di Reggio Calabria, Italy. ? Simone Bassis, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Sabrina Gaito, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Bruno Apolloni, Universit? di Milano, Italy. The School is supported by IIASS, International Institute for High Scientific Studies, University of Milano University of Alberta SIREN, Italian Society for Neural Networks MIR, Machine Intelligence Research Network Deadline for application: October 1st 2009. The school is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of any nationality. Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of their supervisor. Places are limited to a maximum of 80 participants in addition to the lecturers. REGISTRATION FEE Full registration fee : 700,00 Euro The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 5 to 12 Dec), social dinner, an one day excursion to ancient temples, and a copy of the proceedings of the school. All the lecturers and participants will be accommodated in the EMCSC buildings in Erice. They can choose daily, in a lot of selected restaurants, the place where have the meals. Transportation from Palermo Airport (or train station) to the Erice Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form at least 10 days before your arrival in Palermo. A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and documented requests For any further information please visit the website http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ or contact Dr. Simone Bassis tel. 02 50316295 e.mail bassis@dsi.unimi.it From stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk Wed Jan 7 16:46:45 2009 From: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk (Stefan Wermter) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:49:53 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Natural Computing Forum on Intelligent Neural Robotics Message-ID: <4964CE65.20804@sunderland.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================== The Natural Computing Applications Forum Meeting on Intelligent Neural Robotics NCAF 2009 Date and Location: January 21-22, 2009, Sunderland, UK The forthcoming NCAF meeting will be held in Sunderland on the 21/22nd January, hosted by the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) group based at the University of Sunderland. This event will be set along the banks of the River Wear at the award winning Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter?s and a special evening event at Sunderland?s National Glass Centre. Programme summary: ? Stefan Wermter - Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics ? Jindong Liu - Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network ? Matthew Casey - Modelling the Sensory Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions ? Heidi Christenson - POPeye: Real-Time, Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-Visual Robot-Head ? Aneesh Chauhan - A Robotic Arm with Language Acquisition Capabilities ? Mark Ebden - Decentralized Predictive Sensor Allocation ? Harry Erwin - An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-Gated Channels ? Mark Elshaw - Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation ? John Murray - Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference between Robot and Human ? Mike Knowles - Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for supporting Human Robot Interaction ? Heidi Christenson - Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data If you would like to participate / register or find out more information on the event, please visit either http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ncaf09/ or http://www.ncaf.org.uk/ best wishes Stefan *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Department of Computing and Technology, FAS University of Sunderland St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter AT sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** From bassis at dsi.unimi.it Fri Jan 9 17:58:40 2009 From: bassis at dsi.unimi.it (Simone Bassis) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:49:53 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP: Erice School on Granular Computing 2009 Message-ID: <1231520320.6374.38.camel@micopiobackup> ======================================= * Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please pass this Call for Partecipation to interested Colleagues * Erice School on Granular Computing http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ Purpose of the Course The aim of the school is to assess the theoretical and computational tools at the basis of large families of algorithms for solving problems of: * feature extraction * classification * learning regression functions. The theoretical perspective is to fill-up ? at a given fuzziness degree ? the holes between observed points in a dimensional space. The goal is to supply a unifying reading to the vast variety of approaches and algorithms forming the tiles of a complex puzzle. The leading thread goes with the amount of information we have to align the data in a given order, ranging from a probabilistic framework in the best case to a connectionist one when you are left strictly alone with data. Relevant diversions will be connected to the tool you have for representing and processing data, spanning from pure connectionist paradigms to fully analytical frameworks, through various nuances of fuzziness, roughness and intermediate milieus. The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including computer science, physics, mathematics, biology, etc) who wish to learn the science of processing experimental data. List of Lectures ? Lofti Zadeh, Univ. of California, USA. ? Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada. ? Fernando Gomide, University of Camminas, Brazil. ? Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland. ? Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK. ? Vyacheslav Shkodirev, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia. ? Marco Gori, Universit? di Siena, Italy. ? Carlo Francesco Morabito, Universit? di Reggio Calabria, Italy. ? Simone Bassis, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Sabrina Gaito, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Bruno Apolloni, Universit? di Milano, Italy. The School is supported by IIASS, International Institute for High Scientific Studies, University of Milano University of Alberta SIREN, Italian Society for Neural Networks MIR, Machine Intelligence Research Network Deadline for application: October 1st 2009. The school is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of any nationality. Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of their supervisor. Places are limited to a maximum of 80 participants in addition to the lecturers. REGISTRATION FEE Full registration fee : 700,00 Euro The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 5 to 12 Dec), social dinner, an one day excursion to ancient temples, and a copy of the proceedings of the school. All the lecturers and participants will be accommodated in the EMCSC buildings in Erice. They can choose daily, in a lot of selected restaurants, the place where have the meals. Transportation from Palermo Airport (or train station) to the Erice Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form at least 10 days before your arrival in Palermo. A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and documented requests For any further information please visit the website http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ or contact Dr. Simone Bassis tel. 02 50316295 e.mail bassis@dsi.unimi.it From stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk Wed Jan 7 16:46:45 2009 From: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk (Stefan Wermter) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:54:09 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Natural Computing Forum on Intelligent Neural Robotics Message-ID: <4964CE65.20804@sunderland.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================== The Natural Computing Applications Forum Meeting on Intelligent Neural Robotics NCAF 2009 Date and Location: January 21-22, 2009, Sunderland, UK The forthcoming NCAF meeting will be held in Sunderland on the 21/22nd January, hosted by the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) group based at the University of Sunderland. This event will be set along the banks of the River Wear at the award winning Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter?s and a special evening event at Sunderland?s National Glass Centre. Programme summary: ? Stefan Wermter - Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics ? Jindong Liu - Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network ? Matthew Casey - Modelling the Sensory Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions ? Heidi Christenson - POPeye: Real-Time, Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-Visual Robot-Head ? Aneesh Chauhan - A Robotic Arm with Language Acquisition Capabilities ? Mark Ebden - Decentralized Predictive Sensor Allocation ? Harry Erwin - An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-Gated Channels ? Mark Elshaw - Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation ? John Murray - Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference between Robot and Human ? Mike Knowles - Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for supporting Human Robot Interaction ? Heidi Christenson - Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data If you would like to participate / register or find out more information on the event, please visit either http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ncaf09/ or http://www.ncaf.org.uk/ best wishes Stefan *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Department of Computing and Technology, FAS University of Sunderland St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter AT sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** From bassis at dsi.unimi.it Fri Jan 9 17:58:40 2009 From: bassis at dsi.unimi.it (Simone Bassis) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:54:09 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP: Erice School on Granular Computing 2009 Message-ID: <1231520320.6374.38.camel@micopiobackup> ======================================= * Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please pass this Call for Partecipation to interested Colleagues * Erice School on Granular Computing http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ Purpose of the Course The aim of the school is to assess the theoretical and computational tools at the basis of large families of algorithms for solving problems of: * feature extraction * classification * learning regression functions. The theoretical perspective is to fill-up ? at a given fuzziness degree ? the holes between observed points in a dimensional space. The goal is to supply a unifying reading to the vast variety of approaches and algorithms forming the tiles of a complex puzzle. The leading thread goes with the amount of information we have to align the data in a given order, ranging from a probabilistic framework in the best case to a connectionist one when you are left strictly alone with data. Relevant diversions will be connected to the tool you have for representing and processing data, spanning from pure connectionist paradigms to fully analytical frameworks, through various nuances of fuzziness, roughness and intermediate milieus. The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including computer science, physics, mathematics, biology, etc) who wish to learn the science of processing experimental data. List of Lectures ? Lofti Zadeh, Univ. of California, USA. ? Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada. ? Fernando Gomide, University of Camminas, Brazil. ? Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland. ? Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK. ? Vyacheslav Shkodirev, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia. ? Marco Gori, Universit? di Siena, Italy. ? Carlo Francesco Morabito, Universit? di Reggio Calabria, Italy. ? Simone Bassis, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Sabrina Gaito, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Bruno Apolloni, Universit? di Milano, Italy. The School is supported by IIASS, International Institute for High Scientific Studies, University of Milano University of Alberta SIREN, Italian Society for Neural Networks MIR, Machine Intelligence Research Network Deadline for application: October 1st 2009. The school is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of any nationality. Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of their supervisor. Places are limited to a maximum of 80 participants in addition to the lecturers. REGISTRATION FEE Full registration fee : 700,00 Euro The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 5 to 12 Dec), social dinner, an one day excursion to ancient temples, and a copy of the proceedings of the school. All the lecturers and participants will be accommodated in the EMCSC buildings in Erice. They can choose daily, in a lot of selected restaurants, the place where have the meals. Transportation from Palermo Airport (or train station) to the Erice Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form at least 10 days before your arrival in Palermo. A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and documented requests For any further information please visit the website http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ or contact Dr. Simone Bassis tel. 02 50316295 e.mail bassis@dsi.unimi.it From stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk Wed Jan 7 16:46:45 2009 From: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk (Stefan Wermter) Date: Mon Feb 16 19:17:58 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Natural Computing Forum on Intelligent Neural Robotics Message-ID: <4964CE65.20804@sunderland.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================== The Natural Computing Applications Forum Meeting on Intelligent Neural Robotics NCAF 2009 Date and Location: January 21-22, 2009, Sunderland, UK The forthcoming NCAF meeting will be held in Sunderland on the 21/22nd January, hosted by the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) group based at the University of Sunderland. This event will be set along the banks of the River Wear at the award winning Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St.Peter?s and a special evening event at Sunderland?s National Glass Centre. Programme summary: ? Stefan Wermter - Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics ? Jindong Liu - Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation using a Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Network ? Matthew Casey - Modelling the Sensory Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions ? Heidi Christenson - POPeye: Real-Time, Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-Visual Robot-Head ? Aneesh Chauhan - A Robotic Arm with Language Acquisition Capabilities ? Mark Ebden - Decentralized Predictive Sensor Allocation ? Harry Erwin - An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-Gated Channels ? Mark Elshaw - Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation ? John Murray - Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference between Robot and Human ? Mike Knowles - Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for supporting Human Robot Interaction ? Heidi Christenson - Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-Centered, Binaural Data If you would like to participate / register or find out more information on the event, please visit either http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ncaf09/ or http://www.ncaf.org.uk/ best wishes Stefan *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Centre for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Department of Computing and Technology, FAS University of Sunderland St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter AT sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** From bassis at dsi.unimi.it Fri Jan 9 17:58:40 2009 From: bassis at dsi.unimi.it (Simone Bassis) Date: Mon Feb 16 19:17:58 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP: Erice School on Granular Computing 2009 Message-ID: <1231520320.6374.38.camel@micopiobackup> ======================================= * Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * * Please pass this Call for Partecipation to interested Colleagues * Erice School on Granular Computing http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ Purpose of the Course The aim of the school is to assess the theoretical and computational tools at the basis of large families of algorithms for solving problems of: * feature extraction * classification * learning regression functions. The theoretical perspective is to fill-up ? at a given fuzziness degree ? the holes between observed points in a dimensional space. The goal is to supply a unifying reading to the vast variety of approaches and algorithms forming the tiles of a complex puzzle. The leading thread goes with the amount of information we have to align the data in a given order, ranging from a probabilistic framework in the best case to a connectionist one when you are left strictly alone with data. Relevant diversions will be connected to the tool you have for representing and processing data, spanning from pure connectionist paradigms to fully analytical frameworks, through various nuances of fuzziness, roughness and intermediate milieus. The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with different scientific background (including computer science, physics, mathematics, biology, etc) who wish to learn the science of processing experimental data. List of Lectures ? Lofti Zadeh, Univ. of California, USA. ? Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada. ? Fernando Gomide, University of Camminas, Brazil. ? Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland. ? Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK. ? Vyacheslav Shkodirev, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia. ? Marco Gori, Universit? di Siena, Italy. ? Carlo Francesco Morabito, Universit? di Reggio Calabria, Italy. ? Simone Bassis, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Sabrina Gaito, Universit? di Milano, Italy. ? Bruno Apolloni, Universit? di Milano, Italy. The School is supported by IIASS, International Institute for High Scientific Studies, University of Milano University of Alberta SIREN, Italian Society for Neural Networks MIR, Machine Intelligence Research Network Deadline for application: October 1st 2009. The school is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of any nationality. Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of their supervisor. Places are limited to a maximum of 80 participants in addition to the lecturers. REGISTRATION FEE Full registration fee : 700,00 Euro The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 5 to 12 Dec), social dinner, an one day excursion to ancient temples, and a copy of the proceedings of the school. All the lecturers and participants will be accommodated in the EMCSC buildings in Erice. They can choose daily, in a lot of selected restaurants, the place where have the meals. Transportation from Palermo Airport (or train station) to the Erice Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form at least 10 days before your arrival in Palermo. A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and documented requests For any further information please visit the website http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ or contact Dr. Simone Bassis tel. 02 50316295 e.mail bassis@dsi.unimi.it