Last call for papers
International Workshop on
*** ADVANCED BLACK-BOX TECHNIQUES FOR NONLINEAR MODELING:
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS ***
Date: July 8-10, 1998
Place: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
On-line Info: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/
Organized at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SISTA) and the
Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Networks (ICNN) in the framework of the
project KIT and the Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Pole IUAP P4/02.
In cooperation with the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.
* GENERAL SCOPE
The rapid growth of the field of neural networks, fuzzy systems
and wavelets is offering a variety of new techniques for modeling
of nonlinear systems in the broad sense. These topics have been
investigated from differents points of view including statistics,
identification and control theory, approximation theory, signal
processing, nonlinear dynamics, information theory, physics and
optimization theory among others. The aim of this workshop is to serve
as an interdisciplinary forum for bringing together specialists in these
research disciplines. Issues related to the fundamental theory as well
as real-life applications will be addressed at the workshop.
* TIME-SERIES PREDICTION COMPETITION
Within the framework of this workshop a time-series prediction
competition has been held. The results of the competition will be
announced during the workshop, where the winner will be awarded.
Information about this contest is available at http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.
be/sista/workshop/ .
* INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed)
L. Feldkamp (Ford Research, USA) - Extended Kalman filtering
C. Micchelli (IBM T.J. Watson, USA) - Density estimation
U. Parlitz (Gottingen, Germany) - Nonlinear time-series analysis
J. Sjoberg (Goeteborg, Sweden) - Nonlinear system identification
S. Tan (Beijing, China) - Wavelet-based system modeling
V. Vapnik (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) - Support vector method of function
estimation
M. Vidyasagar (Bangalore, India) - Statistical Learning in Modelling,
Control and Matrix Theory
V. Wertz (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) - Fuzzy modeling
A workshop book containing the invited talks will be published by Kluwer
and will be available at the workshop.
* TOPICS include but are not limited to
Nonlinear system identification Backpropagation
Time series analysis Learning and nonlinear optimization
Multilayer perceptrons Recursive algorithms
Radial basis function networks Extended Kalman filtering
Fuzzy modelling Embedding dimension
Wavelets Subspace methods
Piecewise linear models Identifiability
Mixture of experts Model selection and validation
Universal approximation Simulated annealing
Recurrent networks Genetic algorithms
Regularization Forecasting
Bayesian estimation Frequency domain identification
Density estimation Classification
Information geometry Real-life applications
Generalization Software
* PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit five copies of the chairman
Johan Suykens (see below). Papers have to be submitted in camera-ready
form and should not exceed six pages (including references and figures).
Authors are asked to use the two-column LaTeX style file kit.sty
(see http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop).
* REGISTRATION
Registration fee: 6500 BF for IEEE members and students, and
7500 BF for others (1 US Dollar is approximately 37.5 BF).
It includes the workshop book, proceedings, lunches, dinners,
refreshments/coffee. For registration form and payment, see
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/ .
* HOTEL INFORMATION
A block of rooms has been reserved at Begijnhof Congreshotel,
New Damshire, Holiday Inn and Ibis. For more information in order
to contact the hotels, see http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/workshop/.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline paper submission: April 2, 1998 (camera-ready form)
Notification of acceptance: May 4, 1998
Workshop: July 8-10, 1998
* Chairman:
Johan Suykens
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Departement Elektrotechniek - ESAT/SISTA
Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94
B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium
Tel: 32/16/32 18 02
Fax: 32/16/32 19 70
Email: Johan.Suykens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
Program Committee:
B. De Moor, E. Deprettere, D. Roose, J. Schoukens, S. Tan,
J. Vandewalle, V. Wertz, Y. Yu