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The following meeting may be of interest to researchers interested in
artificial intelligence, biology, neural networks and psychology
FROM SYNAPSES TO RULES: DISCOVERING SYMBOLIC RULES FROM NEURAL PROCESSED
DATA
A course of INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON NEURAL NETS "E. R. CAIANIELLO"
ETTORE MAJORANA CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
ERICE-SICILY: 25 FEBRUARY - 7 MARCH 2002
Application deadline: December 15, 2001
The school aims at fixing a theoretical and applicatry framework for
extracting formal rules from data. To this end the modern approaches
will
be expounded that collapse the two typical goals of the conventional AI
and connectionism - respectively, deducing within an axiomatic shell
formal rules about a phenomenon and inferring the actual behavior of it
from examples - into a challenging inferential framework where we learn
from data and understand what we have learnt. The target reads as a
translation of the subsymbolic structure of the data - stored in the
synapses of a neural network - into formal properties described by
rules.
To capture this trip from synapses to rules and then render it
manageable
for affording real world learning tasks, the Course will deal in depth
with the following aspects: i. theoretical foundations of learning
algorithms and soft computing, ii. intimate relationships between
symbolic
and subsymbolic reasoning methods, iii. integration of the related
hosting
architectures in both physiological and artificial brain.
TOPICS
Inferential bases for learning
Theoretical foundations for soft computing
Integration of symbolic-subsymbolic reasoning methods
Physics and metaphysics of learning
Toward applications
LECTURERS
* B. Apolloni, University of Milan, I
* D. Malchiodi, University of Milan, I
* D. Mundici, University of Milan, I
* M. Gori, University of Siena, I
* F. Kurfess, California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, CA ,
USA
* A. Roy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
* R. Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA
* L. Agnati, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, S
* G. Basti, Pontificia Università Lateranense, Rome, I
* G. Biella, C.N.R. LITA, Milan, I
* J. G. Taylor, King's College, London, UK
* A. Esposito, Istituto Italiano Alti Studi Scientifici, Vietri, I
* A. Moise, Boise State University, ID, USA
DIRECTORS OF THE COURSE
B. APOLLONI, A. MOISE
DIRECTORS OF THE SCHOOL
M. J. JORDAN, M. MARINARO
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE
A. ZICHICHI
APPLICATIONS
Interested candidates should send a letter to:
* Professor Bruno Apolloni - Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione
Università degli Studi di Milano
Via Comelico 39/41 20135 Milano, Italy
Tel: ++39.02.5835.6284, Fax: ++39.02.5835.6228
e-mail: apolloni@dsi.unimi.it
specifying:
i) date and place of birth and present activity;
ii) nationality.
Thanks to the generosity of the sponsoring Institutions, partial support
can be granted to some deserving students who need financial aid.
Requests
to this effect must be specified and justified in the letter of
application. Notification of acceptance will be sent within the end of
January 2002.
For APPLICATION, CONTRIBUTING PAPERS, GRANTS, FEES, and further
information
please visit http://laren.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ericeSchool.html. For
information
about the Ettore Majorana Centre please visit http://www.ccsem.infn.it.
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