Many apologizes for cross-posting
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, extended to January 20, 2002.
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
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Dec 27 2001 - 11:32:11 PST