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Subject: Neuron Digest V11 #1 (conferences + CFP)
Date: 10 Jan 93 21:13:01 GMT
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Neuron Digest   Sunday, 10 Jan 1993
                Volume 11 : Issue 1

Today's Topics:
                 Administrivia - Welcome to a new Volume
               NATO ASI on Statistics and Neural Networks
                    CNE Workshop/USC Call For Papers
                                 CNS*93
                    CFP: Intl. Conf. on Tools for AI
                 CFP  - Turkish Sumposium on AI and ANNs
            CFP - DEFECT AND FAULT TOLERANCE IN VLSI SYSTEMS
               CFP - APPLICATION-SPECIFIC ARRAY PROCESSORS


Send submissions, questions, address maintenance, and requests for old
issues to "neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu". The ftp archives are
available from cattell.psych.upenn.edu (130.91.68.31). Back issues
requested by mail will eventually be sent, but may take a while.

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Subject: Administrivia - Welcome to a new Volume
From: "Neuron-Digest Moderator, Peter Marvit" <neuron@cattell.psych.upenn.edu>
Date:    Sun, 10 Jan 93 16:07:41 -0500

Faithful Readers,

Again, welcome to a new year and a new Volume number of Neuron Digest. We
now have over 1600 subscriber addresses, many of which are further
redistributed to many more people all over the world.  At the moment, the
Digest is gatewayed to the USENET grou comp.ai.neural-nets, though I
understand our gaateway may disappear soon. I will try to re-establish a
local connection, but would be grateful for someone to volunteer their
machine's services.

As always, I have quite a backlog of paper and conference announcements
(especially with my recent holiday). I thank you all for making this
Digest successful. I'm sure you join with me wishing our field great
success during this coming year...

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Subject: NATO ASI on Statistics and Neural Networks
From:    John Moody <moody@chianti.cse.ogi.edu>
Date:    Sat, 28 Nov 92 14:35:24 -0800




                  NATO Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) on 

                       Statistics and Neural Networks

                  June 21 - July 2, 1993, Les Arcs, France

Directors: 
  Professor Vladimir Cherkassky
  Department of Electrical Eng.
  University of Minnesota, 
  Minneapolis, MN 55455
  tel.(612) 625-9597
  fax (612) 625- 4583
  email: cherkass@ee.umn.edu

  Professor Jerome H. Friedman
  Statistics Department
  Stanford University
  Stanford, CA 94309 
  tel (415 )723-9329
  fax(415) 926-3329
  email: jhf@playfair.stanford.edu

  Professor Harry Wechsler
  Computer Science Department
  George Mason University
  Fairfax VA 22030
  tel (703) 993-1533
  fax (703) 993-1521
  email: wechsler@gmuvax2.gmu.edu

List of invited lecturers: I. Alexander, L. Almeida, A. Barron, A.  Buja,
E. Bienenstock, G. Carpenter, V. Cherkassky, T. Hastie, F. Fogelman, J.
Friedman, H. Freeman, F. Girosi, S. Grossberg, J. Kittler, R.  Lippmann, J.
Moody, G. Palm, R. Tibshirani, H. Wechsler, C. Wellekens.

Objective, Agenda and Participants: Nonparametric estimation is a problem
of fundamental importance for many applications involving pattern
classification and discrimination. This problem has been addressed in
Statistics, Pattern Recognition, Chaotic Systems Theory, and more recently
in Artificial Neural Network (ANN) research. This ASI will bring together
leading researchers from these fields to present an up-to-date review of
the current state-of-the art, to identify fundamental concepts and trends
for future development, to assess the relative advantages and limitations
of statistical vs neural network techniques for various pattern recognition
applications, and to develop a coherent framework for the joint study of
Statistics and ANNs. Topics range from theoretical modeling and adaptive
computational methods to empirical comparisons between statistical and
neural network techniques. Lectures will be presented in a tutorial manner
to benefit the participants of ASI. A two-week programme is planned,
complete with lectures, industrial/government sessions, poster sessions and
social events. It is expected that over seventy students (which can be
researchers or practitioners at the post-graduate or graduate level) will
attend, drawn from each NATO country and from Central and Eastern Europe.
The proceedings of ASI will be published by Springer-Verlag.

Applications: Applications for participation at the ASI are sought. 

Prospective students, industrial or government participants should send a
brief statement of what they intend to accomplish and what form their
participation would take. Each application should include a curriculum
vitae, with a brief summary of relevant scientific or professional
accomplishments, and a documented statement of financial need (if funds are
applied for).

Optionally, applications may include a one page summary for making a 
short presentation at the poster session. Poster presentations focusing on 
comparative evaluation of statistical and neural network methods and 
application studies are especially sought. For junior applicants, support 
letters from senior members of the professional community familiar with the 
applicant's work would strengthen the application. Prospective participants 
from Greece, Portugal and Turkey are especially encouraged to apply.

Costs and Funding: The estimated cost of hotel accommodations and meals
for the two-week duration of the ASI is US$1,600. In addition,
participants from industry will be charged an industrial registration
fee, not to exceed US$1,000. Participants representing industrial
sponsors will be exempt from the fee.  We intend to subsidize costs of
participants to the maximum extent possible by available funding.
Prospective participants should also seek support from their national
scientific funding agencies. The agencies, such as the American NSF or
the German DFG, may provide some ASI travel funds upon the recommendation
of an ASI director. Additional funds exist for students from Greece,
Portugal and Turkey. We are also seeking additional sponsorship of ASI.
Every sponsor will be fully acknowledged at the ASI site as well as in
the printed proceedings.

Correspondence and Registration: Applications should be forwarded to Dr.
Cherkassky at the above address. Applications arriving after March 1,
1993 may not be considered. All approved applicants will be informed of
the exact registration arrangements. Informal email inquiries can be
addressed to Dr. Cherkassky at nato_asi@ee.umn.edu.


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Subject: CNE Workshop/USC Call For Papers
From:    Jean-Marc Fellous <fellous%hyla.usc.edu@usc.edu>
Date:    Sat, 05 Dec 92 11:42:41 -0800



                         CALL FOR PAPERS


   SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS: INTEGRATING SYMBOLIC AND SUBSYMBOLIC
                APPROACHES TO COOPERATIVE COMPUTATION

                    A Workshop sponsored by the

                   Center for Neural Engineering 
                University of  Southern  California
                     Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520

                     April 13th and 14th, 1993



Program  Committee:  Michael  Arbib  (Organizer),  John  Barnden,
George  Bekey,  Francisco  Cervantes-Perez,  Damian  Lyons,  Paul
Rosenbloom, Ron Sun, Akinori Yonezawa.


  To design complex technological systems and  to  analyze  complex
  biological and cognitive systems, we need a multilevel methodolo-
  gy which combines a coarse-grain analysis of  cooperative or dis-
  tributed  computation  (we shall refer to the computing agents at
  this level as "schemas") with a  fine-grain  model  of  flexible,
  adaptive  computation (for which neural networks provide a power-
  ful general paradigm).  Schemas provide  a language  for  distri-
  buted  artificial  intelligence,  perceptual  robotics, cognitive
  modeling, and brain theory which is "in the style of the  brain",
  but  at a relatively high level of abstraction relative to neural
  networks. The proposed workshop will provide a 2-hour introducto-
  ry  tutorial and problem statement by Michael Arbib, and sessions
  in which an invited paper will be followed by several contributed
  papers,   selected  from those submitted in response to this call
  for papers.  Preference will be given  to  papers  which  present
  practical  examples  of,  theory  of,  and/or methodology for the
  design and analysis of  complex  systems  in  which  the  overall
  specification  or  analysis is conducted in terms of schemas, and
  where some but not necessarily all of the schemas are implemented
  in neural networks.

A list of sample topics for contributions is as follows, where  a
hybrid  approach  means one in which the abstract schema level is
integrated with neural or other lower level models:

        Schema Theory as a description language for neural networks.
        Modular neural networks.
        Linking DAI to Neural Networks to Hybrid Architecture.
        Formal Theories of Schemas.
        Hybrid approaches to integrating planning & reaction.
        Hybrid approaches to learning. 
        Hybrid approaches to commonsense reasoning by integrating 
                neural networks and rule-based reasoning (using 
                schema for the integration).
        Programming Languages for Schemas and Neural Networks.
        Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming for Distributed AI 
                and Neural Networks.
        Schema Theory Applied in Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, 
                Robotics, AI and Neuroscience.

Prospective contributors should send a hard copy of  a  five-page
extended  abstract,   including figures with informative captions
and full references (either by regular mail or fax)  by  February
15,  1993   to: 

                  Michael Arbib
          Center for Neural Engineering 
        University of Southern California
         Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA 

              Tel: (213) 740-9220, 
              Fax: (213) 746-2863, 
              email: arbib@pollux.usc.edu.  
 
Please include your full address, including fax and email, 
on the paper.  

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by email  no
later  than March 1, 1993.  There are currently no plans to issue
a formal proceedings of full papers, but revised versions of  ac-
cepted abstracts received prior to April 1, 1993 will be collect-
ed with the full text of the Tutorial in a CNE  Technical  Report
which  will  be made available to registrants at the start of the
meeting.   [A useful way to structure  such  an  abstract  is  in
short  numbered sections, where each section presents (in a small
type face!) the material corresponding to one  transparency/slide
in  a  verbal presentation.  This will make it  easy for an audi-
ence to take notes if they have a copy of the  abstract  at  your
presentation.]

Hotel Information:  Attendees may register at the hotel of  their
choice,  but  the  closest hotel to USC is the University Hilton,
3540 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007, Phone:   (213)
748-  4141,  Reservation:  (800) 872-1104, Fax:  (213) 748- 0043.
A  single  room  costs  $70/night  while  a  double  room   costs
$75/night.   Workshop  participants  must  specify  that they are
"Schemas and Neural Networks Workshop" attendees to avail of  the
above rates.

The registration fee of $150 includes a copy  of  the  abstracts,
coffee  breaks,  and  a dinner to be held on the evening of April
13th.

Those wishing to register should send a check payable  to  Center
for  Neural Engineering, USC for $150 together with the following
information to: 

        Paulina  Tagle
 Center  for  Neural  Engineering
University  of Southern California
        University Park 
    Los Angeles CA 90089-2520
              USA


==---------------------------------------------------------------------


                SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS 
          Center for  Neural  Engineering,  USC
                    April 13 - 14, 1992


NAME:        ____________________________________________
ADDRESS:     ____________________________________________   
             ____________________________________________   
PHONE NO.:   _______________      FAX:___________________      
EMAIL:       ____________________________________________


        I intend to submit a paper: YES  [   ]      NO   [   ]


=---------------------------------------------------------------------



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Subject: CNS*93
From:    Jim Bower <jbower@cns.caltech.edu>
Date:    Tue, 08 Dec 92 13:23:40 -0800




                       CALL FOR PAPERS                        

                        Second Annual
             Computation and Neural Systems Meeting
                          CNS*93 

                     July 31 - August 8
                           1993

                       Washington D.C. 

    This is the second annual meeting of an inter-disciplinary  
    conference intended to address the broad range of research
    approaches and issues involved in the general field of 
    computational neuroscience.  Last year's meeting in 
    San Francisco brought 300 experimental and theoretical 
    neurobiologists along with engineers, computer scientists, 
    cognitive scientists, physicists, and  mathematicians
    together to consider the functioning of biological nervous 
    systems.  85 peer reviewed papers were presented at the
    meeting on a range of subjects related to understanding
    how biological neural systems compute.

    As last year, the meeting is intended to equally emphasize 
    experimental, model-based, and more abstract theoretical 
    approaches to understanding neurobiological computation.
    The first day of the meeting will be devoted to tutorial 
    presentations and workshops focused on particular technical
    issues confronting computational neurobiology.  The main body 
    of the meeting will include plenary, contributed and poster 
    sessions.  There will be no parallel sessions and the full 
    text of presented papers will be published in a proceedings
    volume. Following the regular session, there will be 
    two days of focused workshops at a rural site outside of the D.C.
    area.  
          
    With this announcement we solicit the submission of presented 
    papers to the meeting.  All papers will be refereed.

    Submission Procedures: Original research contributions are
    solicited. Authors must submit a 1000-word (or less) summary 
    and a separate single page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating 
    their results.  Accepted abstracts will be published in the 
    conference program.  Summaries are for program committee use only.  
    At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first summary page, 
    indicate preference for oral or poster presentation and specify 
    at least one appropriate category and theme from the following 
    list:

    Presentation categories:
        A. Theory and Analysis
        B. Modeling and Simulation
        C. Experimental
        D. Tools and Techniques 

    Themes:
        A. Development
        B. Cell Biology
        C. Excitable Membranes and Synaptic Mechanisms
        D. Neurotransmitters, Modulators, Receptors
        E. Sensory Systems
           1. Somatosensory
           2. Visual
           3. Auditory
           4. Olfactory
           5. Other
        F. Motor Systems and Sensory Motor Integration
        G. Behavior
        H. Cognitive 
        I. Disease      


    Include addresses of all authors on the front of the summary and the
    abstract including email for each author. Indicate on the front of
    the summary to which author correspondence should be
    addressed.  Program committee decisions will be sent to the
    correspondence author only.  Submissions will not be considered 
    that lack category information, separate abstract sheets, 
    author addresses, or are late.

    Submissions can be made by either surface mail or email.  Authors
    submitting via surface mail should send 6 copies of the abstract
    and summary to:     

       Chris Ploegaert
       CNS*93 Submissions 
       Division of Biology
       216-76
       Caltech
       Pasadena, CA. 91125

    email submissions should be sent to:

        cp@smaug.cns.caltech.edu

        (asci, postscript, or latex files accepted)

    in each case, submissions must be postmarked (emailed) by
    January 26th, 1993.


    Registration information: All submitting authors will be sent 
    registration material automatically. Others interested in 
    obtaining registration material once they become available should 
    contact Chris Ploegaert at the above address or via email at:

        cp@smaug.cns.caltech.edu

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   CNS*93 Organizing Committee: 

        Meeting Coordination:  
                Dennis Glanzman, National Institute of Mental Health
                Frank Eeckman, Lawrence Livermore Labs
        Program Co-Chairs:  
                James M. Bower, Caltech
                Eve Marder, Brandeis University
                John Rinzel, National Institute of Health
        Finances: 
                John Miller, University of California, Berkeley 
                Gwen Jacobs, University of California, Berkeley
        Workshop Chair:  
                Bartlett Mel, Caltech
        European Liaison:
                Herbert Axelrad, Faculte de Medecine Pitie-Salpetriere Paris
          
======================================================================

    Potential participants interested in the content of last year's
    meeting can ftp last year's agenda using the following procedure
    (you enter ""):

        yourhost% "ftp 131.215.137.69"
           220 mordor FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.

          Name (131.215.137.69:<yourname>): "ftp"
           331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.

          Password:  "yourname@yourhost.yourside.yourdomain"
           230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.

          ftp> "cd cns93"
           250 CWD command successful.

          ftp> "get cns92.agenda"
           200 PORT command successful.
           150 ASCII data connection for cns92.agenda (131.215.137.69,1363) 
           226 ASCII Transfer complete.
           local: cns92.agenda remote: cns92.agenda
           17598 bytes received in 0.33 seconds (53 Kbytes/s) 

          ftp> "quit"
           221 Goodbye.

        yourhost% (use any editor to look at the file) 

====================================================================

   **DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS January 26, 1993**

                       please post




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Subject: CFP: Intl. Conf. on Tools for AI
From:    Cris Koutsougeras <ck@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date:    Mon, 14 Dec 92 12:32:34 -0600


=======================================================================
                      CALL FOR PAPERS


5th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence

                      November 8-11, 1993
                      Boston, Massachusetts

This conference encompasses the technical aspects of specifying,
designing, implementing and evaluating computer tools which use
artificial intelligence techniques as well as tools for artificial 
intelligence applications. The topics of interest include the 
following aspects:

o Machine learning, Theory and Algorithms
o AI and Software Engineering
o Intelligent Multimedia Systems
o AI Knowledge Base Architecture
o AI Algorithms
o AI Language Tools
o Reasoning Under Uncertainty, Fuzzy Logic
o Logic and Intelligent Databases
o Expert Systems and Environments
o Artificial Neural Networks
o Parallel Processing and Hardware Support
o AI and Object-Oriented Systems
o AI Applications

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Authors are requested to submit five copies (in English) of their
doubled-spaced typed manuscript (maximum of 25 pages) with an abstract to
the program chair by April 15, 1993. The conference language is English
and the final papers are restricted seven IEEE model pages. A submission
letter that indicates which of the conference areas is most relevant to
your paper and the postal address, electronic mail address, telephone
number, and fax number(if available) of the contact author must accompany
the paper. Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 15, 1993 and
will be given instructions for final preparation of their papers at than
time. Outstanding papers will be eligible for publication in the
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools.

Submit papers and panel proposals by April 15, 1993 to:


      Jeffrey J.P. Tsai
      Dept. of EECS (M/C 154)     (312)996-9324 (office)
      P.O. Box 4348               (312)996-3422 (secretary)
      University of Illinois      (312)413-0024 (fax)
      Chicago, IL 60680           tsai@bert.eecs.uic.edu


An internet computer account is maintained to provide periodically
updated information regarding the conference.  Send a message to
"tai@rex.cs.tulane.edu" to obtain the latest information including:
registration forms, advanced program, tutorials, hotel info, etc. 

For more information please contact:

Conference Chair                   Steering Committee Chair

 John Mylopoulos                     Nikolaos G. Bourbakis
 Dept. of Computer Science           Dept. of Electrical Engineering
 University of Toronto               SUNY at Binghamton
 6 King's College Road               Binghamton, NY 13902
 Toronto, Ontario                    Tel: (607)777-2165
 Canada M5S 1A4                      
 Tel: (416)978-5180                                     
 jm@cs.toronto.ca                                    


Program Vice-Chairs

Machine Learning
Bernard Silver
GTE Lab

AI and Software Engineering 
Matthias Jarke
Technical University of Aachen

Logic and Intelligent Database
Clement Yu
University of Illinois at Chicago

AI Knowledge Base Architectures
Robert Reynolds
Wayne State University

Intelligent Multimedia Systems
Forouzan Golshani
Arizona State University

Artificial Neural Networks  
Ruediger W. Brause
J.W.Goethe University

Parallel Processing and Hardware Support
Ted Lewis
Oregon State University

AI Applications
Kiyoh Nakamura
Fujitsu Limited

Expert Systems and Environments
Philip Sheu
Rutgers University 

Natural Language Processing
Fernando Gomez
Florida Central University

AI Algorithms 
Jun Gu
University of Calgary

AI and Object-Oriented Systems
Mamdouh H. Ibrahim
EDS Corporation

Reasoning under Uncertainty, Fuzzy Logic
John Yen
Texas A&M University

Registration and Publication Chair

C.Koutsougeras
Tulane University

Publicity Chairs

Mark Perlin
Carnegie Mellon University

A. Delis
University of Maryland  

E. Kounalis
University de NICE 

Mikio Aoyama
Fujitsu Limited

J.Y. Juang
National Taiwan University

Local Arrangement Chairs

John Vittall, GTE Lab
M.Mortazavi, SUNY Binghamton

Steering Committee

Nikolaos G. Bourbakis
SUNY-Binghamton
C.V. Ramamoorthy
University of California-Berkeley
Harry E. Stephanou 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Wei-Tek Tsai 
University of Minnesota 
Benjamin. W. Wah 
University of Illinois-Urbana 




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Subject: CFP - Turkish Sumposium on AI and ANNs
From:    akin02%TRBOUN.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU
Date:    Mon, 14 Dec 92 13:53:11 -0500



                                 CALL FOR PAPERS


                              2nd Turkish Symposium on
                              Artificial Intelligence and
                              Artificial Neural Networks

                              Bogazici University
                              Istanbul, Turkey
                              June 24-25, 1993

Supported by :
Bogazici University, Istanbul; Bilkent University, Ankara;
IEEE Computer Society Turkiye Section; Middle East Technical University,
Ankara; TUBITAK, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey.

Scope

Commonsense Reasoning, Knowledge Representation, Learning, Natural Language
Processing, Control and Planning, Expert Systems, Theorem Proving,
Intelligent Databases, Signal Processing, Speech Processing,
Vision and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Robotics,
Programming Languages, Simulation Environments, Theoretical Foundations,
Hardware Implementations, Industrial Applications,
Social, Legal, and Ethical Aspects,


Paper submissions
Deadline for full papers limited to 6 single spaced (12 point) A4 pages:
March 1, 1993.
Author notification: April 1, 1993.
Camera ready copies: May 1, 1993.

Send submissions (in English or Turkish) to
Dr. L. Akin, Department of Computer Engineering,
Bogazici University, TR-80815 Istanbul, Turkey.
Tel (voice): +90 1 263 15 00 x 1323     (fax): +90 1 265 84 88
E-mail: yz@trboun.bitnet

Symposium Chair: Selahattin Kuru, Bogazici Univ.

Program Committee:
Levent Akin, Bogazici Univ.; Varol Akman, Bilkent Univ.;
Ethem Alpaydin, (chair) Bogazici Univ.; Isil Bozma, Bogazici Univ.;
M. Kemal Ciliz, Bogazici Univ.; Fikret Gurgen, Bogazici Univ.;
H. Altay Guvenir, Bilkent Univ.; Ugur Halici METU; Yorgo Istefanopulos,
Bogazici Univ.; Sakir Kocabas, TUBITAK Gebze Res. Center; Selahattin Kuru,
Bogazici Univ.; Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent Univ.; A. C. Cem Say, Bogazici Univ.;
Nese Yalabik, METU

Local Organizing Committee:
Levent Akin (chair); Ethem Alpaydin; Hakan Aygun; Sema Oktug; A. C. Cem Say;
Mehmet Yagci


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Subject: CFP - DEFECT AND FAULT TOLERANCE IN VLSI SYSTEMS
From:    PIURI@IPMEL1.POLIMI.IT
Date:    14 Dec 92 19:19:45 +0001

============================================= =   = =     =   ===
                                             =     =  ==         
1993 IEEE International Workshop on            ==    =  =        
DEFECT AND FAULT TOLERANCE IN VLSI SYSTEMS       =       = =     
                                                            ==   
27-29 October 1993, Venice, Italy

=============================================================  =

Sponsored by the EUROMICRO Association and 
          by the IEEE Computer Society (pending).
In cooperation with IFIP WG 10.5, AEI (pending), AICA (pending).

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>    CALL FOR PAPERS     <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

The  goal of this workshop is to provide a discussion  forum  for 
researchers  and practitioners dealing with digital,  analog  and 
mixed   VLSI   integrated  circuits.  All  aspects   of   design, 
manufacturing,  test,  reliability, and  availability  which  are 
affected  by  defects during manufacturing and by  faults  during 
system operation are of interest.

The  scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited  to,  the 
following topics:

Defect and fault tolerant VLSI architectures
Defect and fault tolerant memories
Defect and fault tolerant analog and mixed ICs
Case studies of defect and fault tolerance
Fault models and defect models
Techniques for yield enhancement
Statistical yield modeling
Defect and fault tolerant VLSI systems
Repair and restructuring techniques
Technology issues for defect tolerant architectures
Packaging techniques for WSI, 3-d VLSI, and MCMs
On-line reconfiguration
Run-time fault modeling
Self-testable designs for DFT in VLSI and WSI
Multiple-fault diagnosis
Parametric testing for DFT

Manuscripts  describing novel results from industry are  strongly 
encouraged.   Presentations  will consist of regular  papers  (20 
min. talk, 10 min. discussion) and short papers (15 min. talk,  5 
min.  discussion).  In addition, evening working groups  for  the 
continuation  of  discussion initiated during  the  presentations 
will be organized.

GENERAL CHAIRPERSONS

prof. Fabrizio LOMBARDI           prof. Mariagiovanna SAMI
Dept. of Computer Science         Dept. Electronics & Information 
Texas A&M University              Politecnico di Milano 
College Station                   piazza L. da Vinci 32
TX 77843-3112, USA                I-20133 Milano, Italy
phone no. (409) 845-8641          phone no. (39-2) 2399-3516
fax no. (409) 847-8578            fax no. (39-2) 2399-3411
e-mail lombardi@cs.tamu.edu       e-mail sami@ipmel1.polimi.it

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSONS

prof. Yvon SAVARIA                prof. Renato STEFANELLI
Dept. of Electrical Engineering   Dept. Electronics & Information
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal   Politecnico di Milano
Room A-330.11                     piazza L. da Vinci 32
Campus de l'Universite Montreal   I-20133 Milano, Italy
PO Box 6079, Station A            phone no. (39-2) 2399-3513
2900, Edouard Montpetit           fax no. (39-2) 2399-3411      
Montreal, Canada                  e-mail stefanelli@ipmel1.polimi.it
phone no. (514) 340-4737
fax no. (514) 340-4147
e-mail savaria@vlsi.polymtl.ca

FINANCIAL & REGISTRATION CHAIRMAN

prof. Vincenzo PIURI
Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
piazza L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
phone no. (39-2) 2399-3606, fax no. (39-2) 2399-3411
e-mail piuri@ipmel1.polimi.it

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Authors are invited to submit 5 copies of the summary of a  paper 
no  later than APRIL 16, 1993 to the Program Chairpersons  (prof. 
Savaria for Americas, Australia, and Japan; prof. Stefanelli  for 
Europe,  Africa,  and  the rest of the  Asia).  Paper  submission 
should  be  an  extended  summary of 5  pages  of  text  plus  an 
unlimited number of figures.

Proposals  and requests for panel discussions and working  groups 
should  be  sent to one of the Program Chairpersons  as  soon  as 
possible, but no later than APRIL 10, 1993. 

Notification of acceptance will be posted by June 10, 1993. 

Final  manuscripts (10 pages including figures) must be  received 
by  AUGUST  1, 1993 for inclusion in  the  workshop  proceedings. 
Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
                                                            =  
                                                 ===   =    ===
                                                ====  ===  == ==   
=================================================================


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Subject: CFP - APPLICATION-SPECIFIC ARRAY PROCESSORS
From:    PIURI@IPMEL1.POLIMI.IT
Date:    14 Dec 92 19:20:05 +0001

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1993 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 
APPLICATION-SPECIFIC ARRAY PROCESSORS

ASAP'93

25-27 October 1993, Venice, Italy

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Sponsored by the EUROMICRO Association.  
In cooperation with IEEE Computer Society (pending), 
IFIP WG 10.5, AEI,  AICA  (pending). 

.................::::::  CALL FOR PAPERS  ::::::.................

ASAP'93  is an international conference encompassing the  theory, 
design,  implementation, and evaluations of  application-specific 
computing.   This  conference  is  a  successor  to   the   First 
International  Workshop  on  Systolic  Arrays  held  in   Oxford, 
England, in July 1986. The title has been modified to reflect the 
expanded interest in highly-parallel  algorithmically-specialized 
processors   as   well  as  the  application-driven   nature   of 
contemporary systems.

Since application-specific array-processor research represents  a 
cross-disciplinary  field of interest to a broad  audience,  this 
conference  will  present a balanced program  covering  technical 
subjects encompassing conceptual design, programming  techniques, 
electronic   and  optical  implementations,  and   analysis   and 
evaluation  of  final systems. It is expected  that  participants 
will  include  people from research institutions  in  government, 
industry, and academia around the world.

The conference will feature an opening keynote address, technical 
presentations,  a panel discussion, and poster displays.  One  of 
the  poster  sessions will be reserved for very  recent  results, 
ongoing  projects and exploratory work. The official language  is 
English.

The  themes emphasized at this conference include  architectures, 
algorithms,   applications,   hardware,  software,   and   design 
methodology for application-specific parallel computing  systems. 
Papers  are  expected to address both theoretical  and  practical 
aspects of such systems. Of particular interest are contributions 
that  achieve large performance gains  with  application-specific 
parallel  processors,  introduce  novel  architectural  concepts, 
propose  formal and practical frameworks for  the  specification, 
design  and  evaluation  of  these  systems,  discuss  technology 
dependencies  and  the  integration  of  hardware  and   software 
components,  and describe fabricated systems and  their  testing. 

The  topics  of  interest include, but are not  limited  to,  the 
following:

Application-Specific Architectures
- - systolic, SIMD, MIMD, dataflow systems
- - homogeneous, heterogeneous, reconfigurable systems
- - intelligent memory systems and interconnection network
- - embedded systems and interfaces

Algorithms for Application-Specific Computing
- - matrix operations
- - transformations (e.g., FFT, Hough)
- - sorting algorithms
- - graph algorithms

Applications that Require Specialized Computing Systems
- - signal processing
- - image processing and vision
- - communications
- - robotics and manufacturing
- - neural networks
- - scientific computing
- - artificial intelligence and data bases

Software for Application-Specific Computing
- - languages
- - operating systems
- - optimizing compilers

Hardware for Application-Specific Computing
- - VLSI/WSI systems
- - optical systems
- - custom and commercial processors
- - implementation and testing issues
- - fabricated systems
- - synchronous vs asynchronous systems

Design Methodology for Application-Specific Systems
- - mapping algorithms onto architectures
- - partitioning large problems
- - design tools
- - fault tolerance (hardware and software)
- - benchmarks and performance modeling

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Authors are invited to send a one-page abstract, the title of the 
paper  and the author's address by electronic or postal  mail  to 
the Program Chair by MARCH 27, 1993.

Authors  must  submit five copies of  their  double-spaced  typed 
manuscript  (maximum 5000 words) with an abstract to the  Program 
Chair  by APRIL 16, 1993. In the submission letter,  the  authors 
should  indicate which conference areas are most relevant to  the 
paper,  and  the author responsible for  correspondence  and  the 
camera-ready version. Papers submitted should be unpublished  and 
not currently under review by other conferences. 

Notification of acceptance will be posted by JUNE 10, 1993.
The   camera-ready  version  must  arrive  by  AUGUST  1,   1993. 
Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

GENERAL CHAIR

Prof. Luigi DADDA
Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
p.za L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
phone no. (39-2) 2399-3405, fax no. (39-2) 2399-3411
e-mail dadda@ipmel2.elet.polimi.it

PROGRAM CHAIR

Prof. Benjamin W. WAH
Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois
1308 West Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
phone no. (217) 333-3516, fax no. (217) 244-7175
e-mail wah@manip.crhc.uiuc.edu

FINANCIAL & REGISTRATION CHAIR

Prof. Vincenzo PIURI
Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
p.za L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
phone no. (39-2) 2399-3606, fax no. (39-2) 2399-3411
e-mail piuri@ipmel1.polimi.it



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