From ted.carnevale at yale.edu Fri Jun 1 20:30:00 2007 From: ted.carnevale at yale.edu (Ted Carnevale) Date: Sat Jun 2 12:05:44 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Last minute chance to sign up for the NEURON 2007 Summer Course Message-ID: <466065A8.3050607@yale.edu> Unexpected cancellations have opened up a couple of seats in the NEURON 2007 Summer Course. If you are interested in applying, please see http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/sdsc2007/sdsc2007.html for the course description and application instructions. --Ted Carnevale From wi-iat at maebashi-it.org Sat Jun 2 17:33:02 2007 From: wi-iat at maebashi-it.org (Jia Hu) Date: Mon Jun 4 09:53:53 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] [IAT 2007] Deadline Extended: 16/06/2007! Message-ID: <200706021536.l52FaGom031453@mailer03.ua.ac.be> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Dear Colleague, In response to many requests for an extension, we are pleased to extend the paper submission deadline for IAT 2007 to ** June 16, 2007 **. Submission can be done online at: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/ We look forward to receiving your submissions soon. With best regards, Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin PC chair of WI-IAT'07 ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/ (to be collocated with WI'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07) Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ##################################################################### # Conference Chair # Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research # # Program Chair and Co-Chairs # T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA # Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA # Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany # Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia # # Organizing Chair # Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center # # IAT-WI Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative) # # Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner, # VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google # Richard M. Karp, Turing Award Winner, # University of California Berkeley # Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory # # (More IAT Invited Speakers will be announced) # # (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007) # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. ###################################################################### The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'07), and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The four conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the four conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas. IAT 2007 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2007 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing. +++++++++++ Highlights +++++++++++ The conference will be held in Silicon Valley, California. Many high-tech companies and three distinguished universities (Stanford, UC Berkely and UCSC) are just around the corner. The highlight of the conference is that a unique forum consisting of a half-day demo session and free discussion will be organized to link industries and academics. Leading IT companies like IBM, Google, and Yahoo etc will present at the conference. The area now known as Silicon Valley has been a center of technological development since the 1950's. The name Silicon Valley stems from the early 1970's, when the area had become the center for many semiconductor companies. While still hosting semiconductor and microprocessor companies, the region now hosts the headquarters of high tech companies of every kind, including many of the best known and most prestigious names in personal computers, Web search, Internet auctions, networking, storage, databases, etc. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) - Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development - Agent-Based Simulation - Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods - Behavioral Self-Organization - Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering - Emergent Behavior - Hard Computational Problem Solving - Nature-Inspired Paradigms - Self-Organized Criticality - Self-Organized Intelligence - Swarm Intelligence * Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents - Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining - Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing - Autonomous Information Services - Distributed Knowledge Systems - Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems - Evolution of Knowledge Networks - Human-Agent Interaction - Information Filtering Agents - Knowledge Aggregation - Knowledge Discovery - Ontology-Based Information Services * Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology - Agent Interaction Protocols - Cognitive Architectures - Cognitive Modeling of Agents - Emotional Modeling - Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems - Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems - Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems - Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems - Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols - Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures - Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques - Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems - Reinforcement Learning - Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems - Task-Based Agent Context - Task-Oriented Agents * Distributed Problem Solving - Agent-Based Grid Computing - Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving - Collective Group Behavior - Coordination and Cooperation - Distributed Intelligence - Distributed Search - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations - Efficiency and Complexity Issues - Market-Based Computing - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments * Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation - Agent-Based Marketplaces - Auction Markets - Combinatorial Auctions - Hybrid Negotiation - Integrative Negotiation - Mediating Agents - Pricing Agents - Thin Double Auctions * Applications - Agent-Based Assistants - Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise - Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications - Interface Agents - Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems - Perceptive Animated Interfaces - Scalability - Social Simulation - Socially Situated Planning - Software and Pervasive Agents - Tools and Standards - Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents - Ubiquitous Software Services - Virtual Humans - XML-Based Agent Systems ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the Author Guidelines of last year at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/iat06.xml). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that IAT'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'07 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. A selected number of IAT'07 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the IAT'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ IAT'07 Best Paper Awards +++++++++++++++++++++++++ The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. The full author list and paper title will be announced on the Web Intelligence Consortium homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html ++++++++++++++++++++ Industry/Demo-Track ++++++++++++++++++++ We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods. (1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track. (2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule. (3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option. That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration. For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at the homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley will be invited to attend this track. ++++++++++ Workshops ++++++++++ As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ---------------------- WI-IAT 2007 Workshops: ---------------------- Title: Educating the Web-Generation (Edu4WebGen 2007) Organisers: Elisabeth Heinemann Email: elisabeth.heinemann@googlemail.com Web page: http://www.effactory.com/Edu4WebGen/ Title: Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web (CISW 2007) Organisers: Geun Sik Jo; Jason J. Jung; Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Email: gsjo@inha.ac.kr; j2jung@intelligent.pe.kr; thanh@pwr.wroc.pl Web page: http://intelligent.pe.kr/CISW07/ Title: New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence and Brain Informatics (WImBI 2007) Organisers: Dr. Yuefeng Li; Dr. Yulin Qin, Prof. Dieter Fensel Email: y2.li@qut.edu.au; dieter.fensel@deri.org Web page: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wimbi07/WImBI2007.htm Title: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WPRS 2007) Organisers: Yue Xu Email: yue.xu@qut.edu.au Web page: http://www.wprs07.fit.qut.edu.au/ Title: Service Composition & SWS Challenge (SerComp & SWS Challenge 2007) Organisers: M. Brian Blake; Dumitru Roman; Charles Petrie Email: blakeb@cs.georgetown.edu; dumitru.roman@deri.org Web page: http://events.deri.at/sercomp2007/ Title: Biomedicine Applications of Web technologies (BMWT 2007) Organisers: Chun-Nan Hsu; Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng; Wen-Hsiang Lu Email: chunnan@iis.sinica.edu.tw; tsengsm@mail.ncku.edu.tw; whlu@mail.ncku.edu.tw Web page: http://chunnan.iis.sinica.edu.tw/BMWT2007.html Title: Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI 2007) 1st Organiser: Prof. Seiji YAMADA Email: seiji@nii.ac.jp Web site: http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/07/ Title: Cyberinfrastucture for e-Science (CyIneS 2007) Organisers: Prof. Vasant Honavar; A/prof. Kei Cheung Email: honavar@cs.iastate.edu; kei.cheung@yale.edu Web page: http://www.cild.iastate.edu/events/CyIneS2007/ Title: Social Media Analysis (SMA 2007) Organisers: Chun-hung Li, William K. Cheung, Quoping Qiu Email: sma@comp.hkbu.edu.hk Web page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~sma/ Title: Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust (WSIPT 2007) Organisers: Dr. Yiuming Cheung, Prof. Michael Chau, and Prof. Yong Zhang Email: ymc@Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK; mchau@business.hku.hk; zhangyong076@gmail.com Web page: http://isec.hitsz.edu.cn/wsipt07/ Title: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA 2007) Organisers: Christel Kemke Email: ckemke@cs.umanitoba.ca Web page: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/CHAA-07/ Title: Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems (RRS 2007) Organisers: Takayuki Ito Email: ito.takayuki@nitech.ac.jp Web page: http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/RRS2007/ Title: P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents (P2PAA 2007) Organisers: Tarek Helmy, Khaled Ragab Email: helmy@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa; helmy@kfupm.edu.sa Web Page: http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~helmy/P2PAA2007_WI.html Title: (Multi-)Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (MASeB 2007) Organisers: Costin Badica; Maria Ganzha; Marcin Paprzycki Email: badica_costin@software.ucv.ro; ganzha@euh-e.edu.pl; marcin.parzycki@swps.edu.pl Web page: http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin/maseb2007/ Title: Agent & Data Mining Interaction (ADMI 2007) Organisers: Pericles A. Mitkas, Longbing Cao, Vladimir Gorodetsky, Justin Zhan Email: mitkas@eng.auth.gr; lbcao@it.uts.edu.au Web page: http://issel.ee.auth.gr/ADMI For more information, please visit the conference website at http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/?index=workshop. ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ IAT'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'07 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop proposal submission: March 20, 2007 Electronic submission of full papers: ** June 1, 2007 ** Tutorial proposal submission: June 15, 2007 Notification of paper acceptance: July 22, 2007 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007 Conference: November 2-5, 2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chair: * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA Program Chair: * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA IAT Program Co-Chairs: * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia IAT Program Vice Co-chairs * Longbing cao University of Technology Sydney Australia * Joseph A. Giampapa Carnegie Mellon University USA * Maria Gini University of Minnesota USA * Vladimir Gorodetsky St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russia * Alessio Lomuscio Imperial College London UK * Zbigniew Ras University of North Carolina USA * Marius C. Silaghi Florida Institute of Technology USA * Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University Japan WI Program Co-Chairs: * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA WI Program Vice Co-chairs * Ajith Abraham Yonsei University South Korea * Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburgh USA * Ashish Goel Stanford University USA * Ramanathan V. Guha Google USA * Jane Yung-jen Hsu National Taiwan University Taiwan * Ravi Kumar Yahoo! Research USA * Jie Lu University of Technology Sydney Australia * Tsuyoshi Murata Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan * York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Germany * Pang-Ning Tan Michigan State University USA * Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas at Dallas USA * Mohammed Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA Organizing Chair: * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Workshop Co-Chairs: * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tutorial Chair: * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Industry/Demo-Track Chair: * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Local Accommodations Co-Chairs: * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA Publicity Chair: * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India IEEE-CS-TCII Chair: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan ACM-SIGART Chair * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada WIC Advisory Board: * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA * Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA * Philip Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA * L.A. Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee: * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck/Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Webmaster: * Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA Abbreviation: IAT 2007, IAT2007, IAT'2007, IAT'07, IAT07, IAT 07, IAT-07, IAT-2007 *** Contact Information *** Jia Hu International WIC Institute, China E-mail: hujia@kis-lab.com From Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu Sun Jun 3 06:24:00 2007 From: Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu (Eugene M. Izhikevich) Date: Mon Jun 4 09:53:55 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Jim Yorke elected author/curator of "Chaos" in Scholarpedia Message-ID: <46624260.9090401@nsi.edu> On behalf of Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, Scholarpedia conducted an election of authors for the article "Chaos". The letter below was sent to Dr. Jim Yorke, (University of Maryland, College Park), who already accepted the invitation and will write this article with Dr. Tim Sauer (George Mason University). See http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Chaos Dear Dr. Yorke, As you might know, Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems (hosted by Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia,) conducted election of authors for the article "Chaos" with the goal to identify the best living expert to invite to write such an article. The nominees (in the order of nomination by the public) were 1. James A. Yorke 2. Tien-Yien Li 3. Edward Ott 4. Robert L. Devaney 5. Robert C. Hilborn 6. Clark Robinson As the editor-in-chief, it is my great privilege to let you know that you were elected to write this article for Scholarpedia (http://www.scholarpedia.org). The election started on 14 May 2006 and ended today, engaging 121 participants. Rules of the election are described in http://scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:Election In summary, each participant can vote for no more than 3 candidates. Each vote is multiplied by the participant's Scholar Index, which reflects the expertise and usefulness of contributions of that person to Scholarpedia. (So that experts have greater weight in the election). Then, the weighted sum of the votes and a soft-max procedure is used to select the future author of the article. I am sending you a short explanation of this project and the instructions to reserve the article in a separate letter. Please, let me know whether you could write this article withing a reasonable period of time. Sincerely yours, Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief@scholarpedia.org PhD, Mathematics, Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology The Neurosciences Institute, http://www.izhikevich.com 10640 John J. Hopkins Drive tel:(858) 626-2063 San Diego, CA, 92121, USA fax:(858) 626-2099 From Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu Sun Jun 3 06:28:04 2007 From: Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu (Eugene M. Izhikevich) Date: Mon Jun 4 09:53:57 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] C. Koch elected author/curator for "Neural Correlates of Consciousness" in Scholarpedia Message-ID: <46624354.8030502@nsi.edu> On behalf of Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, Scholarpedia conducted an election of authors for the article "Neural Correlates of Consciousness". The letter below was sent to Dr. Christof Koch, (Caltech), who already accepted the invitation. --- Dear Dr. Koch, As you might know, Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia, conducted an election of authors for the article "Neural Correlates of Consciousness" with the goal to identify the best living expert to invite to write such an article. The nominees (in the order of nomination by the public) were 1 Christof Koch 2 David John Chalmers 3 Patricia S. Churchland 4 Thomas Metzinger 5 Valerie Gray Hardcastle As the editor-in-chief, it is my great privilege to let you know that you were elected to write this article for Scholarpedia (http://www.scholarpedia.org). The election started on 3 July 2006 and ended today, engaging 113 participants. Rules of the election are described in http://scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:Election In summary, each participant can vote for no more than 3 candidates. Each vote is multiplied by the participant's Scholar Index, which reflects the expertise and usefulness of contributions of that person to Scholarpedia. (So that experts have greater weight in the election). Then, the weighted sum of the votes and a soft-max procedure is used to select the future author of the article. I am sending you a short explanation of this project and the instructions to reserve the article in a separate letter. Please, let me know whether you could write this article withing a reasonable period of time. Sincerely yours, Eugene M. Izhikevich ? Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia. -- Eugene M. Izhikevich, Ph.D., http://www.izhikevich.com The Neurosciences Institute, Eugene.Izhikevich@nsi.edu 10640 John J. Hopkins Drive tel:(858) 626-2063 San Diego, CA, 92121, USA fax:(858) 626-2099 From hnx at brain.riken.jp Mon Jun 4 02:51:53 2007 From: hnx at brain.riken.jp (hiroyuki nakahara) Date: Mon Jun 4 09:53:59 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Positions available at RIKEN Brain Science Institute Message-ID: <20070604095036.44CD.HNX@brain.riken.jp> Dear All, Applications are invited for several opening positions for both postdoctoral and predoctoral researchers to work at the Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience (Lab Head: Hiro Nakahara), RIKEN Brain Science Institute. We seek enthusiastic and well-qualified individuals to join our research activities, in particular on the following topics: 1. Computational modeling of mechanisms of decision making and motivated behavior, e.g. using reinforcement and statistical learning, and decision theory. 2. Experiments in psychophysics and fMRI to study the above as well as topics in neuroeconomics and neural decoding. 3. Computation, coding and dynamics of neural populations and local neural circuits 4. Theory and analytical tools for a new era of massive neuroscience data in experiments (e.g. from multiunit recording, calcium imaging and fMRI). * Please refer to http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp for details of our research and available positions. For most of the research conducted by our laboratory, a strong theoretical background is expected, though for studies in psychophysics and fMRI experiments this requirement can be relaxed. Good computer programming skills are also expected. The successful applicants will be expected to conduct independent research as well as work closely in a team; thus, a good balance of independence and collegiality is required. Good communication skills are also essential. The RIKEN Brain Science Institute is located near Tokyo, Japan (working language is English). Starting salaries will be commensurate with relevant ability and experience. Subsequent contracts, including revised salaries, will be determined and renewed annually, upon review, for up to five years. Please send your application to itninfo@brain.riken.jp with the following, (1) a cover letter specifying the job opportunity you are interested in, (2) curriculum vitae including publications list, (3) research statement describing your past achievements and future interests, (4) the names and contact information of two or three references with a brief description of your relationship to each reference, and (5) (optional) any additional information you think might be useful (e.g. additional skills and background, general interests, and so on). Hiro Nakahara Lab for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience RIKEN Brain Science Institute http://www.itn.brain.riken.jp From Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu Tue Jun 5 01:07:39 2007 From: Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu (Eugene M. Izhikevich) Date: Tue Jun 5 09:39:34 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Michael Arbib elected author/curator of "Neural Networks" in Scholarpedia Message-ID: <46649B3B.5000101@nsi.edu> On behalf of Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, Scholarpedia conducted an election of authors for the article "Neural Networks". The letter below was sent to Dr. Michael Arbib, (University of South California), who already accepted the invitation. Dear Dr. Arbib, As you might know, Scholarpedia conducted election of authors for the article "Neural Networks" with the goal to identify the best living expert to invite to write such an article. The nominees (in the order of nomination by the public) were 1. Stephen Grossberg 2. Michael A. Arbib 3. Roman Borisyuk 4. Aapo Hyv?rinen 5. Geoffrey E. Hinton 6. Marvin Minsky As the editor-in-chief, it is my great privilege to let you know that you were elected to write this article for Scholarpedia (http://www.scholarpedia.org). The election started on 24 May 2006 and ended today, engaging 106 participants. Rules of the election are described in http://scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:Election In summary, each participant can vote for no more than 3 candidates. Each vote is multiplied by the participant's Scholar Index, which reflects the expertise and usefulness of contributions of that person to Scholarpedia. (So that experts have greater weight in the election). Then, the weighted sum of the votes and a soft-max procedure is used to select the future author of the article. In a separate letter, I am sending you the instructions on how to reserve this article. Sincerely yours, Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief@scholarpedia.org PhD, Mathematics, Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology The Neurosciences Institute, http://www.izhikevich.com 10640 John J. Hopkins Drive tel:(858) 626-2063 San Diego, CA, 92121, USA fax:(858) 626-2099 From Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu Wed Jun 6 04:09:14 2007 From: Eugene.Izhikevich at nsi.edu (Eugene M. Izhikevich) Date: Wed Jun 6 09:28:33 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Wulfram Gerstner elected author/curator of "STDP" in Scholarpedia Message-ID: <4666174A.60400@nsi.edu> On behalf of Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, Scholarpedia conducted an election of authors for the article "STDP". The letter below was sent to Dr. Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL), who already accepted the invitation. Dear Dr. Gerstner, As you might know, Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia, conducted an election of authors for the article "STDP" with the goal to identify the best living expert to invite to write such an article. The nominees (in the order of nomination by the public) were 1 Larry Abbott 2 Wulfram Gerstner 3 Per Jesper Sjostrom 4 Mark van Rossum 5 Robert C. Froemke 6 Henry Markram 7 W. B. Levy As the editor-in-chief, it is my great privilege to let you know that you were elected to write this article for Scholarpedia (http://www.scholarpedia.org). The election started on 4 May 2006 and ended today, engaging 190 participants. Rules of the election are described in http://scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:Election In summary, each participant can vote for no more than 3 candidates. Each vote is multiplied by the participant's Scholar Index, which reflects the expertise and usefulness of contributions of that person to Scholarpedia. (So that experts have greater weight in the election). Then, the weighted sum of the votes and a soft-max procedure is used to select the future author of the article. I am sending you a short explanation of this project and the instructions to reserve the article in a separate letter. Please, let me know whether you could write this article withing a reasonable period of time. Sincerely yours, Eugene M. Izhikevich ? Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia. -- Eugene M. Izhikevich, Ph.D., http://www.izhikevich.com The Neurosciences Institute, Eugene.Izhikevich@nsi.edu 10640 John J. Hopkins Drive tel:(858) 626-2063 San Diego, CA, 92121, USA fax:(858) 626-2099 From fidel.santamaria at utsa.edu Wed Jun 6 22:57:18 2007 From: fidel.santamaria at utsa.edu (Fidel Santamaria) Date: Thu Jun 7 07:34:39 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] New paper on Ca+2 feedback in cerebellar LTD Message-ID: <2768A5B569B1D54EA47861B9A05422E101A5BC2A@jade1604.UTSARR.NET> Dear colleagues, I would like to bring to your attention our recent paper on experiments and models on the Ca2+ dependence of LTD: Ca2+ Requirements for Cerebellar Long-Term Synaptic Depression: Role for a Postsynaptic Leaky Integrator Neuron, Vol 54, 787-800, 07 June 2007 Keiko Tanaka,1 Leonard Khiroug,1,2 Fidel Santamaria,1 Tomokazu Doi,4 Hideaki Ogasawara,4,5 Graham C.R. Ellis-Davies,3 Mitsuo Kawato,4 and George J. Augustine1, Photolysis of a caged Ca2+ compound was used to characterize the dependence of cerebellar long-term synaptic depression (LTD) on postsynaptic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i). Elevating [Ca2+]i was sufficient to induce LTD without requiring any of the other signals produced by synaptic activity. A sigmoidal relationship between [Ca2+]i and LTD indicated a highly cooperative triggering of LTD by Ca2+. The duration of the rise in [Ca2+]i influenced the apparent Ca2+ affinity of LTD, and this time-dependent behavior could be described by a leaky integrator process with a time constant of 0.6 s. A computational model, based on a positive-feedback cycle that includes protein kinase C and MAP kinase, was capable of simulating these properties of Ca2+-triggered LTD. Disrupting this cycle experimentally also produced the predicted changes in the Ca2+ dependence of LTD. We conclude that LTD arises from a mechanism that integrates postsynaptic Ca2+ signals and that this integration may be produced by the positive-feedback cycle. http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0896627307003716 -- Fidel Santamaria, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biology One UTSA circle University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249 Office: (210) 458-6910 http://bio.utsa.edu/faculty/santamaria.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20070606/14ddb470/attachment-0001.html From cgunay at emory.edu Thu Jun 7 23:52:27 2007 From: cgunay at emory.edu (Cengiz Gunay) Date: Fri Jun 8 09:54:00 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Workshop on Physiology Database and Analysis Software at CNS*2007 Message-ID: DEVELOPING DATABASES AND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE FOR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY: DESIGN, APPLICATION, AND VISUALIZATION 9am-5pm on Thursday July 12th, 2007. No pre-registration necessary. In conjunction with: Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2007 July 8th - 12th 2007, Toronto, Canada http://www.cnsorg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please forward to interested colleagues. INVITED TALKS: Peter Andrews - Chronux open source Matlab platform for neural signal processing. Cengiz Gunay - Neural database analysis with Pandora's Toolbox in Matlab. Adam Taylor - Mapping from model neuron parameters to functional output. William Lytton - Data mining algorithms in spike-wave detection and seizure classification. Jean-Marc Fellous - Discovering spatio-temporal spike patterns in multi-trial and multi-unit recordings. Gloster Aaron - The search for organization in the activity of neuronal networks. Padraig Gleeson - Using NeuroML and neuroConstruct to build neuronal network models for multiple simulators. Tom Morse - NeuronDB and ModelDB: accessing, validating and reusing published results. Horatiu Voicu - Time saving technique for developing and maintaining user interfaces by sending messages. SCOPE: Recording and simulation in electrophysiology result in ever growing amounts of data, making it harder for conventional manual sorting and analysis methods to keep pace. The amount of electrophysiological data is increasing as more channels can be sampled and recording quality improves, while rapid advances in computing speed and capacity (e.g., in grid computing) have enabled researchers to generate massive amounts of simulation data in very short times. As a result, the need for automated analysis tools and database systems has become widespread. This workshop aims to bring researchers interested in developing and using such tools. Its purpose is twofold: encouraging transfer of knowledge among software developers, and providing a review of available technologies for potential users. Following contributed talks, there will be a discussion session on one or more of the topics of database interfaces, query sytems, and/or platforms. SPECIFIC AIMS: - dialogue between software designers - sharing common software routines and approaches - sharing computational approaches to solving problems relating to electrophysiologic data analysis - sharing data - discussion of funding opportunities for developing software tools - choosing the right platform: C/C++, Java, LabVIEW, Matlab, Igor ORGANIZERS: Cengiz Gunay (1), Tomasz G. Smolinski (1), William W. Lytton (2) (1) Dept. of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, U.S.A. (2) Depts of Physiology/Pharmacology and Neurology, State University of NY - Downstate, Brooklyn, NY 11203, U.S.A. Sincerely, Workshop organizers Cengiz Gunay, Tomasz Smolinski, and William Lytton Email: cgunay@emory.edu From cgunay at emory.edu Fri Jun 8 20:46:59 2007 From: cgunay at emory.edu (Cengiz Gunay) Date: Sat Jun 9 10:20:15 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Workshop on Physiology Database and Analysis Software at CNS*2007 Message-ID: DEVELOPING DATABASES AND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE FOR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY: DESIGN, APPLICATION, AND VISUALIZATION 9am-5pm on Thursday July 12th, 2007. No pre-registration necessary. Apologies for the second post, but please bookmark the following address for more information and results of the workshop: http://www.biology.emory.edu/research/Prinz/Tomasz/cns_workshop Sincerely, Workshop organizers Cengiz Gunay, Tomasz Smolinski, and William Lytton Email: cgunay@emory.edu From vcu at cs.stir.ac.uk Sat Jun 9 10:55:39 2007 From: vcu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Vassilis Cutsuridis) Date: Sat Jun 9 11:29:08 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Workshop on Cortical Microcircuits: Structure, Function and Theory at CNS*2007 Message-ID: <001301c7aa73$f3eac9c0$6ffd998b@cs.ad.stir.ac.uk> CORTICAL MICROCIRCUITS: STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND THEORY 8:30am-12:30pm on Thursday July 12th, 2007 in Bahen Building. In conjunction with: Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2007 July 8th - 12th 2007, Toronto, Canada http://www.cnsorg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please forward to interested colleagues. INVITED TALKS: > Dr. Stefan Rotter, Relating Structure and Dynamics of Neocortical Networks > Dr. Hide Cateau, Interplay between a phase response curve and an activity-dependent rewiring rule of neurons leads to wireless clustering > Mr. Martin Spacek, Accounting for network states in cortex: are pairwise correlations sufficient? > Dr. Imre Vida, Synaptic propertis of interneuron networks promote gamma oscillations in cortical circuits > Dr. Paolo Di Prodi, A working memory model with three factor learning > Dr. Markus Butz, Modelling structural plasticity > Dr. Lynsey McCabe, Shaping STDP curve by interneuron and CA2+ dynamics SCOPE: To understand how perception, action, learning and memory work, we need to gather data from multiple levels of complexity and from various brain states (normal and diseased). We need to identify the neuronal groups involved in these functions, identify their different types of neurons, draw detailed circuit diagrams, determine the forms of synaptic transmission and plasticity between different neurons and study the dynamics of the cortical microcircuits at the cellular and synaptic level that comprise these neuronal groups. Mathematical and computer models are then essential in exploring how these microcircuits can account for a given function. The goal of the present workshop is to bring together experts from experimental and computational neuroscience in order to review some of the ongoing experimental and theoretical research concerning cortical microcircuits with particular emphasis on the functional roles of the various inhibitory interneurons in the pertinent information processing. SPECIFIC AIMS: > Microcircuit architectures (neocortex, hippocampus, sensory and motor systems) > Cross-comparison of architectures from different brain areas > Identified functionality of specific microcircuits > Identified functionality of specific neuronal types > Plasticity and learning ORGANIZERS: Vassilis Cutsuridis (1), Bruce P. Graham (1) (1) Dept. of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, U.K. Sincerely, Workshop organizers Vassilis Cutsuridis, Bruce P. Graham Email: vcu@cs.stir.ac.uk, b.graham@cs.stir.ac.uk -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. 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O'Reilly) Date: Mon Jun 11 10:53:46 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] CCNC 2007 Call-for-Abstracts Message-ID: <200706100105.04259.Randy.OReilly@colorado.edu> ~ Call-for-Abstracts ~ 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE www.ccnconference.org To be held in conjunction with the 2007 SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE CONFERENCE, November 3-7, 200 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA. * CONFERENCE DATES: Thu-Fri November 1 & 2, 2007 The inaugural CCNC 2005 meeting held prior to Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in Washington, DC was a great success, with approximately 250 attendees, 60 presented posters, and strongly positive reviews. For 2006, we went to Houston for the much smaller Psychonomics meeting and still had over 100 attendees and almost 50 posters. In future years, we still plan to continue to rotate among different neuroscience and psychology meetings. ____________________________________________________________________________ * DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Friday, July 13, 2007 Abstracts are to be submitted online via the website: www.ccnconference.org. Notice will be given by early June when the online submission form becomes operational. As in past years, there will be two categories of submissions: -Poster only -Poster, plus short talk (15 min) to highlight the poster Abstracts should be limited to 250 words. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Reviewing for posters will be inclusive and only to ensure appropriateness to the meeting. Short talks will be selected on the basis of research quality, relevance to conference theme, and expected accessibility in a talk format. Abstracts not selected for short talks will still be accepted as posters as long as they meet appropriateness criteria. * NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: Approx. August 15, 2007. __________________________________________________________________________ Program: * 2007 Keynote Speakers: Alex Pouget, University of Rochester Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine * 3 Symposia, each including a mixture of modelers and non-modelers and focused on a common theme or issue: ** Use of computational and cognitive models in functional brain-imaging Moderator: Todd Braver, Washington University - St. Louis ** Sequential structure learning Moderator: TBA ** Hippocampal neurogenesis in learning and memory Moderator: Janet Wiles, University of Queensland * Approximately 12 short talks will be chosen featuring selected posters * Poster sessions ____________________________________________________________________________ 2007 Planning Committee: Suzanna Becker, McMaster University Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University Nathaniel Daw, New York University David Noelle, University of California, Merced Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown University Medical Center Randall O'Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder (ex officio) Executive Organizer: Thomas Hazy, University of Colorado, Boulder For more information and to sign up for the mailing list visit: www.ccnconference.org From cnsorg at cnsorg.org Mon Jun 11 10:06:15 2007 From: cnsorg at cnsorg.org (cnsorg@cnsorg.org) Date: Mon Jun 11 11:59:50 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] CNS*2007 registration reminder In-Reply-To: <20070518233955.M24856@www.cnsorg.org> References: <20070518233955.M24856@www.cnsorg.org> Message-ID: <20070611080511.M91255@www.cnsorg.org> CNS*2007 REGISTRATION?REMINDER To register login at http://www.regonline.com/130067 !!! EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS JUNE?15th !!!? !!! Discounted hotel registration deadline extended !!! Oral program and Workshop schedule on the web Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2007 July?7 - July 12, 2007 Toronto, Canada http://www.cnsorg.org CNS*2007 will be held in Toronto, Canada from Sunday, July 7 to Thursday, July 12, 2007.? Opening of on-site registration and welcome reception?will be?on July 7th. The main meeting will be July 8-10 followed by two days of workshops on July 11 and 12.? The main meeting will take place in downtown Toronto at 89 Chestnut, a University of Toronto conference facility (http://89chestnut.com/) close to lots of shopping, dining, theatre and entertainment.? The workshops will take place on the University of Toronto downtown campus (www.utoronto.ca), which is walking distance from 89 Chestnut.? -- CNS - Organization for Computational Neurosciences Registration and Optional Fees Information Registration fees for CNS*2007:? (MM: main meeting; WS: workshop; in US dollars) a) Main meeting AND workshops (MM WS) Student - before June 15,?2007 $260 - after June 15, 2007: $310 Postdoc - before June 15, 2007: $310 - after June 15, 2007: $385 Faculty and other: before June 15, 2007: $475 - after June 15, 2007: $575 b) Main meeting ONLY (MM only) Student - before June 15, 2007: $200 - after June 15, 2007: $250 Postdoc - before June 15, 2007: $250 - after June 15, 2007: $325 Faculty and other: before June 15, 2007: $400 - after June 15, 2007: $500 c) Workshops ONLY (WS only) Student - before June 15, 2007: $125 - after June 15, 2007: $175 Postdoc - before June 15, 2007: $150 - after June 15, 2007: $225 Faculty and other: before June 15, 2007: $225 - after June 15, 2007: $275 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Optional fees (in US dollars): "Neuron Short-Course" materials fee: $35.00 Additional?boat cruise?ticket (dinner & dancing) for guests(one ticket for registrant is included in registration fee): $50.00 T-shirt (on-line ordering only available till June 15th): $10.00 Fees for accepted abstract publication in supplement to BMC Neuroscience are covered by OCNS through the main registration fees pre-meeting satellite at the Fields Institute?(http://www.cnsorg.org/cns_meeting_satellite.htm): Free (separate registration required) -- Organization for Computational Neuroscience, Inc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Coordination Office will support the activities of the NNCN as an independent institution that contributes to the overall efficiency and international visibility of the NNCN by the professional organization of joint activities, events and public relations. The Coordination Office also serves as a liaison body between the BMBF / PT- DLR and the NNCN. For the Coordination Office at the BCCN-Freiburg, the following positions are open: *1. Head of the Coordination Office (TV-L E14)* - As an experienced scientist, the successful applicant will play a leading role in independently representing and advancing the interests of the NNCN in collaboration with their scientists in relevant panels, particularly in interaction with international institutions. Furthermore, aspects such as scientific networking, promoting young researchers, coordinating public relations activities of the NNCN and cooperations with industry partners will be some of the tasks. *2. Junior Scientist (TV-L E13)* -- the post holder should have relevant experience in neuroscience and will support a regular exchange with scientists. His/her task will be to create relevant publications and briefs for the public audience, and support the Head of the Office in all above mentioned activities, especially in efficient communication within the NNCN as well as in public relations activities. *Both** *positions are currently limited to 5 year fixed-term contracts and involve travelling to network partners, funding organizations and conferences. For further information, please visit www.bccn.uni-freiburg.de/jobs/kos and www.bernstein-zentren.de. -- Please note: We are currently inviting applications for several PhD and PostDoc positions at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and in associated projects. For details please see www.bccn.uni-freiburg.de/news/jobs Dr. Simone Cardoso de Oliveira Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg Coordinator for Teaching and Training Programs Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Hansastr. 9A 79104 Freiburg, Germany phone: +49-761-203-9575 fax: +49-761-203-9559 www.bccn.uni-freiburg.de cardoso@bccn.uni-freiburg.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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V A L L ? E department of philosophy university of toronto benoithv@gmail.com http://decisis.net Natural Rationality Blog: http://naturalrationality.blogspot.com From pmiller at brandeis.edu Wed Jun 13 22:11:51 2007 From: pmiller at brandeis.edu (Paul Miller) Date: Thu Jun 14 10:21:44 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Postdoc Position available in the Boston Area: modeling and data analysis Message-ID: <46704F87.20104@brandeis.edu> I am looking to recruit someone to combine simulations and theoretical study of model neuronal microcircuits with data analysis of multielectrode recordings during taste processing. The goal is to understand the dynamics of the network, the computations carried out during taste processing and the plasticity generated during conditioning. The work is a collaboration between Don Katz and myself (Paul Miller) in the Volen Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University. Ideal candidates, as well as having a deep desire and motivation to understand the brain, should have strong computer programming skills and be comfortable with a variety of mathematical methods. Interested candidates should contact me by email at pmiller@brandeis.edu with a CV (include programming languages used) brief statement of research interests and the names and email contacts of references. Paul Miller From renaud.jolivet at epfl.ch Thu Jun 14 13:54:58 2007 From: renaud.jolivet at epfl.ch (Renaud Jolivet) Date: Thu Jun 14 14:09:19 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Announcement of International Symposium on Hot Topics in Neuroscience at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Message-ID: <46712C92.2010707@epfl.ch> Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 2nd Annual EPFL Life Sciences Symposium "Neuroscience: Molecules, Systems, and Diseases" August 29 -- 31, 2007 in Lausanne, Switzerland Organized by the EPFL School of Life Sciences http://sv.epfl.ch and coordinated by the Brain Mind Institute http://bmi.epfl.ch Location: EPFL Campus, Auditorium SG1 in building SG http://plan.epfl.ch/index.html?alias=SG&view=36 Topics and Confirmed Speakers: 1. Synapses and Networks : Thomas S?dhof, Rob Malenka, Misha Tsodyks, Jon Kaas 2. Neurodegeneration : Frank LaFerla, Ted Dawson 3. Genes and Psychiatry : Michael Meaney, Christina Alberini, Ahmad Hariri, Jean-Louis Mandel 4. Sensory Perception : Keiji Tanaka, Charles Gilbert, Ranulfo Romo 5. Consciousness : Steven Laureys, Larry Weiskrantz, Shaun Gallagher For more information see: http://lifesciences2007.epfl.ch Contact: brain_mind@epfl.ch On behalf of the scientific committee, Pierre Magistretti Co-director Brain Mind Institute -- Renaud Jolivet PhD Neuroscience, MSc Physics, EPFL EPFL Brain Mind Institute Station 15 CH-1015 Lausanne URL: http://icwww.epfl.ch/~rjolivet Tel: +41 21 693 1652 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.neuroinf.org/pipermail/comp-neuro/attachments/20070614/1293b243/attachment.html From chris at cprince.com Thu Jun 14 22:16:12 2007 From: chris at cprince.com (Christopher Prince) Date: Fri Jun 15 07:48:03 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] 2nd Call for Papers: Epigenetic Robotics 2007 (Extended Deadline) Message-ID: <4671A20C.70606@cprince.com> Call for Papers: Epigenetic Robotics 2007 (Extended Deadline) 5-7 November 2007, Piscataway, NJ, USA Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org Email: epirob07@epigenetic-robotics.org Location: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA *Extended* Submission Deadline: 1 August 2007 Keynote Speakers: Hod Lipson Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Computing & Information Science, Cornell University, USA Daniel Messinger Department of Psychology, University of Miami, USA Carolyn Rovee-Collier and Peter Gerhardstein (co-presenter) Department of Psychology, Rutgers, NJ, USA (Rovee-Collier) Department of Psychology, Binghamton University-SUNY, NY, USA (Gerhardstein) Conference Themes: In the past 6 years, the Epigenetic Robotics annual conference has established itself as a unique place where original interdisciplinary research from developmental sciences, neuroscience, biology, cognitive robotics, and artificial intelligence is being presented. Epigenetic systems, either natural or artificial, share a prolonged developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of the interaction of an embodied system with a physical and social environment. Epigenetic robotics has goals including: (1) understanding biological systems by the interdisciplinary integration of social and engineering sciences and (2) enabling robots and other artificial systems to autonomously develop skills for new environments (instead of programming them to solve problems in fixed environments). Psychological theory and empirical evidence is being used to inform epigenetic robotic models, and these models can be used as theoretical tools to make experimental predictions in developmental psychology. Epigenetic Robotics themes include, but are not limited to: * The development of emotion, imitation, synchrony processing, intersubjectivity, joint attention, intentionality, non-verbal and verbal communication, sensorimotor schemata, shared meaning and symbolic reference, social learning, social relationships, social cognition ("mind reading", "theory of mind"); * The scope and limits of maturation, the mechanisms of open-ended development; * The mechanisms of stage formation and stage transitions; * The epistemological foundations of using robots to study development; * The role of motivations, emotions, and value systems in development; * Interaction between innate structure, ongoing developing structure, and experience; * The interplay between embodiment, learning biases and environment; * The differences between learning and development; * Algorithms for self-supervision, autonomous exploration, representation making, and methods for evolving new representations during ontogeny; * Using robots as theoretical tools (e.g., to make predictions) in experiments with children; * Using robots in applied settings (e.g., autism therapy) with children; * Architectures for autonomous development; * Robots that can undergo morphological changes and how they can be used to study the interplay between cognitive and morphological development; Important Dates: 1 August 2007: Deadline for submission of papers & posters 12 Sept 2007: Notification of acceptance of papers & posters 12 Oct 2007: Deadline for camera ready papers 5-7 Nov 2007: EpiRob07 @ Rutgers Modes of Submission: (1) Regular Submission (8-page max). After review, regular submissions will either be accepted or rejected (no revision as short papers or posters). Regular submissions will be allocated 8 pages in the Proceedings. (2) Abstract Submission (1-page max). After review, selected authors will be invited to present a poster. Abstract submissions will be allocated 1 page in the Proceedings. Submission instructions will be available from the EpiRob website: http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org Related Events: IROS (Intelligent Robots and Systems) http://www.crim.ncsu.edu/iros2007 29 October - 2 November 2007 (San Diego) Organizing Committee: Christian Balkenius (Lund University, Sweden) Luc Berthouze (University of Sussex, UK) Hideki Kozima (NICT, Japan) Michael Littman (Rutgers, USA) Christopher G. Prince (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA) Program Committee: Pierre Andry (ENSEA, France) Minoru Asada (Osaka University, Japan) Christian Balkenius (Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden) Mark Bickhard (Lehigh University, USA) Alexander Bernardino (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal) Luc Berthouze (University of Sussex, UK) Nadia Berthouze (University College London, UK) Aude Billard (EPFL, Switzerland) Lola Canamero (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Robert Clowes (University of Sussex, UK) Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Yiannis Demiris (Imperial College, UK) Luciano Fadiga (University of Ferrara, Italy) Simone Fiori (Universit? Politecnica delle Marche, Italy) Paul Fitzpatrick (CSAIL, MIT, USA) Philippe Gaussier (Universite de Cergy-Pointoise & ENSEA, France) Lakshmi Gogate (SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, USA) Rod Grupen (University of Massachusetts, USA) George Hollich (Purdue University, USA) Fr?d?ric Kaplan (EPFL, Switzerland) Benjamin Kuipers (University of Texas, USA) Hideki Kozima (NICT, Japan) Max Lungarella (University of Tokyo, Japan) Lisa Meeden (Swarthmore college, USA) Giorgio Metta (LIRA-Lab, Genoa, Italy) Jacqueline Nadel (CNRS, France) Yukie Nagai (NICT, Japan) Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France) Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Christopher G. Prince (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA) Arnaud Revel (CNRS, ENSEA, University of Cergy Pontoise, France) Brian Scassellati (Yale University, USA) Matthew Schlesinger (Southern Illinois University, USA) Sylvain Sirois (Manchester University, UK) Michael Spratling (Birkbeck College, UK) Georgi Stojanov (SS Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia) Gert Westermann (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Tom Ziemke (University of Skovde, Sweden) For questions or more information, please contact: epirob07@epigenetic-robotics.org From ted.carnevale at yale.edu Fri Jun 15 00:51:29 2007 From: ted.carnevale at yale.edu (Ted Carnevale) Date: Fri Jun 15 07:48:05 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] NEURON 6.0.1 now available Message-ID: <4671C671.4000207@yale.edu> The latest standard release of NEURON is version 6.0.1, which is now available from http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/install/install.html This contains many performance improvements and bug fixes, plus new features for parallel simulation, and offers full access from Python to hoc. For more information see https://www.neuron.yale.edu/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=3088 --Ted From H.Bowman at kent.ac.uk Fri Jun 15 14:22:37 2007 From: H.Bowman at kent.ac.uk (H. Bowman) Date: Fri Jun 15 15:28:32 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Centre for cognitive neuroscience and cognitive Systems at Kent Message-ID: <4672848D.1050504@kent.ac.uk> ====================================================================== Academic Fellowship in Cognitive Science and Robotics in the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems at Kent and the Computing Laboratory at Kent ====================================================================== The Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (CCNCS) at Kent is seeking to appoint an Academic Fellow in Cognitive Science and Robotics, which is funded by Research Councils UK. The CCNCS is a cross-disciplinary research initiative at the junction of Cognitive Psychology and the Computational Sciences, which brings together a broad spectrum of techniques spanning a number of disciplines, including behavioural and electrophysiological experimentation, the construction of computational models and development of cognitive systems. The successful candidate will join the Computing Laboratory arm of the CCNCS. The CCNCS contains a number of ongoing research programmes including, an exploration of salience sensitive control in humans and artificial systems; development activities focused on human computer interaction and affective computing; empirical and computational studies of emotions, attention and addictive behaviour; investigations of face recognition and forensic imaging; methods for analysing EEG data (such as ICA); language research focused on cross-linguistic and morphological influences; and theoretical and applied memory research. The Centre also offers a broad spectrum of supporting infrastructure including, electrophysiological and physiological recording equipment, a robotics laboratory, and state of the art human computer interaction technology. The following are relevant websites, + The CCNCS: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/cncs. + Howard Bowman (Director of the CCNCS): http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/hb5. The appointment is at the postdoctoral level. Due to the cross-disciplinary nature of the research, a suitable candidate could have studied in any of the following areas: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Electronics or Physics. Most importantly, though, we seek an applicant who is open to cross-disciplinary influences. The following skills are all relevant to the position; please note: due to the diverse nature of this skill set, candidates should by no means expect to possess all these capabilities. + Experience of electrophysiological recording techniques: EEG and ERP. + Knowledge of robotics. + Research expertise in human computer interaction. + A background in experimental research. + Experience of computational modelling of cognition using neural networks, connectionism or symbolic approaches. The Centre is particularly keen to progress its research programme in electrophysiological recording. We would welcome applications from candidates who are able to bring existing research funding, although candidates with relevant qualifications and experience will also be considered. Candidates who already have, or have been promised, a permanent position are considered to have achieved the aims of the Academic Fellowship Scheme and are not able to apply. Further details of the scheme are available at http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/acfellow/. The Academic Fellowship appointment is for three years and will lead to a permanent academic position in the Computing Laboratory at the end of the three-year period, subject to satisfactory completion of probation. Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Howard Bowman, H.Bowman@kent.ac.uk, for an informal discussion. General information about the Computing Laboratory is available at http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/. Further particulars for the position are available at the following web-site, http://www.kent.ac.uk/jobs/academic/304.html. Closing date for the receipt of applications: 12 noon, Friday 6 July 2007. Interviews are likely to be held during the week beginning 30 July 2007. From J.C.A.Read at ncl.ac.uk Fri Jun 15 16:59:21 2007 From: J.C.A.Read at ncl.ac.uk (Jenny Read) Date: Sat Jun 16 10:18:41 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] 3yr postdoc in Newcastle, UK, on stereo vision Message-ID: <4672A949.1080805@ncl.ac.uk> I am currently inviting applications for a 3-year postdoctoral research position at Newcastle University, funded by a New Investigator Award from the Medical Research Council. Based in the School of Psychology within the Institute of Neuroscience, you will work with me investigating how the human visual system handles vertical disparity. The project aims to understand how the brain accounts for vertical disparities introduced by convergence and oblique gaze when solving the stereo correspondence problem. It involves human psychophysics experiments, followed by computer simulations aimed at implementing a detailed neuronal model of the stereo visual system. The successful candidate will have (or expect soon to obtain) a PhD in a scientific subject, plus excellent English. A background in visual neuroscience or psychophysics, while useful, is less important than the ability to work independently and master new material quickly. Strong maths/computing skills are important. Salary is in the range GB ?24,403 to ?34,792 depending on qualifications and experience, with potential for progression through the range. Newcastle's Psychology department is one of the top research groups in the UK, with the maximum 5* score on the last RAE (UK national Research Assessment Exercise). It is housed in the modern, attractive Henry Wellcome Building, funded by the largest Joint Infrastructure Fund award in the North-east. Neuroscience research in the department comes under the aegis of Newcastle's Institute of Neuroscience, created in 2002 as one of the University?s flagship research institutes and forming one of the largest neuroscience communities in the UK. The historic city of Newcastle on the River Tyne boasts a vibrant cultural, leisure, sporting and nightlife scene, within easy reach of the beautiful Northumbrian countryside and coast. For more information and details on how to apply, visit http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/postdoc. -- Jenny Read Office: +44 191 222 7559 Royal Society University Research Fellow Mobile: +44 794 401 5796 Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology, Fax: +44 191 222 5622 University of Newcastle, Framlington Place mailto:J.C.A.Read@ncl.ac.uk Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK. http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read From ale at sissa.it Fri Jun 15 18:39:10 2007 From: ale at sissa.it (Alessandro Treves) Date: Sat Jun 16 10:18:41 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] EBBS meeting - inexpensive student accomodation still available Message-ID: <1181925550.4672c0ae72c0c@webmail.sissa.it> For the European Brain and Behaviour Society 39th Annual General Meeting, Trieste, September 15-19, 2007 343 participants have already registered, including scientists from Argentina, Mexico, USA, Canada, Algeria, Iran, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and from all over Europe. ICTP, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics co-hosting the EBBS meeting, has kindly agreed to make available for student participants a number of inexpensive rooms (36 Euro/night, 50 Euro with a sea view) in its two guesthouses, Adriatico and Galileo. They are located within the Miramar campus, 8 km north of downtown Trieste, so that no transportation is needed to reach the meeting. They are reserved for students, and allocated on a first-come first-served basis. See the website http://people.sissa.it/~ale/EBBS2007/ and join us at Miramar! Alessandro Treves -- SISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience, now downtown in via Stock 2/2, V fl BUT NOTE, POSTAL ADDRESS: SISSA, via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy tel:39-040-3787623 fax:39-040-3787615 http://www.sissa.it/~ale/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- SISSA Webmail https://webmail.sissa.it/ Powered by Horde http://www.horde.org/ From L.Berthouze at sussex.ac.uk Fri Jun 15 22:49:17 2007 From: L.Berthouze at sussex.ac.uk (Luc Berthouze) Date: Sat Jun 16 10:18:43 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] 2nd CFP for Epigenetic Robotics 2007 (Extended Deadline) Message-ID: <9416BDF0-72A0-416A-937B-36C7856C86E2@sussex.ac.uk> Call for Papers: Epigenetic Robotics 2007 (Extended Deadline) 5-7 November 2007, Piscataway, NJ, USA Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org Email: epirob07@epigenetic-robotics.org Location: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA *Extended* Submission Deadline: 1 August 2007 Keynote Speakers: Hod Lipson Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Computing & Information Science, Cornell University, USA Daniel Messinger Department of Psychology, University of Miami, USA Carolyn Rovee-Collier and Peter Gerhardstein (co-presenter) Department of Psychology, Rutgers, NJ, USA (Rovee-Collier) Department of Psychology, Binghamton University-SUNY, NY, USA (Gerhardstein) Conference Themes: In the past 6 years, the Epigenetic Robotics annual conference has established itself as a unique place where original interdisciplinary research from developmental sciences, neuroscience, biology, cognitive robotics, and artificial intelligence is being presented. Epigenetic systems, either natural or artificial, share a prolonged developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of the interaction of an embodied system with a physical and social environment. Epigenetic robotics has goals including: (1) understanding biological systems by the interdisciplinary integration of social and engineering sciences and (2) enabling robots and other artificial systems to autonomously develop skills for new environments (instead of programming them to solve problems in fixed environments). Psychological theory and empirical evidence is being used to inform epigenetic robotic models, and these models can be used as theoretical tools to make experimental predictions in developmental psychology. Epigenetic Robotics themes include, but are not limited to: * The development of emotion, imitation, synchrony processing, intersubjectivity, joint attention, intentionality, non-verbal and verbal communication, sensorimotor schemata, shared meaning and symbolic reference, social learning, social relationships, social cognition ("mind reading", "theory of mind"); * The scope and limits of maturation, the mechanisms of open-ended development; * The mechanisms of stage formation and stage transitions; * The epistemological foundations of using robots to study development; * The role of motivations, emotions, and value systems in development; * Interaction between innate structure, ongoing developing structure, and experience; * The interplay between embodiment, learning biases and environment; * The differences between learning and development; * Algorithms for self-supervision, autonomous exploration, representation making, and methods for evolving new representations during ontogeny; * Using robots as theoretical tools (e.g., to make predictions) in experiments with children; * Using robots in applied settings (e.g., autism therapy) with children; * Architectures for autonomous development; * Robots that can undergo morphological changes and how they can be used to study the interplay between cognitive and morphological development; Important Dates: 1 August 2007: Deadline for submission of papers & posters 12 Sept 2007: Notification of acceptance of papers & posters 12 Oct 2007: Deadline for camera ready papers 5-7 Nov 2007: EpiRob07 @ Rutgers Modes of Submission: (1) Regular Submission (8-page max). After review, regular submissions will either be accepted or rejected (no revision as short papers or posters). Regular submissions will be allocated 8 pages in the Proceedings. (2) Abstract Submission (1-page max). After review, selected authors will be invited to present a poster. Abstract submissions will be allocated 1 page in the Proceedings. Submission instructions will be available from the EpiRob website: http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org Related Events: IROS (Intelligent Robots and Systems) http://www.crim.ncsu.edu/iros2007 29 October - 2 November 2007 (San Diego) Organizing Committee: Christian Balkenius (Lund University, Sweden) Luc Berthouze (University of Sussex, UK) Hideki Kozima (NICT, Japan) Michael Littman (Rutgers, USA) Christopher G. Prince (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA) Program Committee: Pierre Andry (ENSEA, France) Minoru Asada (Osaka University, Japan) Christian Balkenius (Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden) Mark Bickhard (Lehigh University, USA) Alexander Bernardino (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal) Luc Berthouze (University of Sussex, UK) Nadia Berthouze (University College London, UK) Aude Billard (EPFL, Switzerland) Lola Canamero (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Robert Clowes (University of Sussex, UK) Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Yiannis Demiris (Imperial College, UK) Luciano Fadiga (University of Ferrara, Italy) Simone Fiori (Universit? Politecnica delle Marche, Italy) Paul Fitzpatrick (CSAIL, MIT, USA) Philippe Gaussier (Universite de Cergy-Pointoise & ENSEA, France) Lakshmi Gogate (SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, USA) Rod Grupen (University of Massachusetts, USA) George Hollich (Purdue University, USA) Fr?d?ric Kaplan (EPFL, Switzerland) Benjamin Kuipers (University of Texas, USA) Hideki Kozima (NICT, Japan) Max Lungarella (University of Tokyo, Japan) Lisa Meeden (Swarthmore college, USA) Giorgio Metta (LIRA-Lab, Genoa, Italy) Jacqueline Nadel (CNRS, France) Yukie Nagai (NICT, Japan) Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France) Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Christopher G. Prince (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA) Arnaud Revel (CNRS, ENSEA, University of Cergy Pontoise, France) Brian Scassellati (Yale University, USA) Matthew Schlesinger (Southern Illinois University, USA) Sylvain Sirois (Manchester University, UK) Michael Spratling (Birkbeck College, UK) Georgi Stojanov (SS Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia) Gert Westermann (Oxford Brookes University, UK) Tom Ziemke (University of Skovde, Sweden) For questions or more information, please contact: epirob07@epigenetic-robotics.org From treur at cs.vu.nl Thu Jun 21 14:58:22 2007 From: treur at cs.vu.nl (Jan Treur) Date: Thu Jun 21 15:53:07 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: CfP First International Workshop Message-ID: <003c01c7b405$054395e0$88c87fd4@telephony.multikabel.net> First International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence URL: http://www.few.vu.nl/~treur/HAwsCfP.htm Darmstadt, Germany, November 10, 2007 Workshop at the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI?07) Call for Papers Background The environment in which humans operate has an important influence on their wellbeing and performance. For example, a comfortable workspace may improve the productivity of an employee, and an attentive partner or acquaintance may contribute to preventing more severe health problems by early detection. As another example, our car may warn us when we are falling asleep while driving or when we are too drunk to drive. Developments within Ambient Intelligence provide possibilities to contribute to such personal care. This can be based on the one hand on possibilities to acquire sensor information about humans and their functioning, but on the other hand, more far-reaching applications crucially depend on the availability of adequate knowledge for analysis of such information about human functioning. If such knowledge about human functioning is computationally available in devices in the environment, these devices can show more human-like understanding and contribute to such personal care based on this understanding. In recent years, scientific areas focusing on humans such as cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience and biomedical sciences have made substantial progress in providing an increased insight in the various physical and mental aspects of human functioning. Although much work still remains to be done, models have been developed for a variety of such aspects and the way in which humans (try to) manage or regulate them. From a more biomedical angle, examples of such aspects are (management of) heart functioning, diabetes, eating regulation disorders, and HIV-infection. From a more psychological and social angle, examples are emotion regulation, attention regulation, addiction management, trust management, stress management, and criminal behaviour management. If such models of human processes and their management are represented in a formal and computational format, and incorporated in the human environment in devices that monitor the physical and mental state of the human, then such devices are able to perform a more in depth analysis of the human?s functioning. This can result in an environment that has a human-like understanding of humans and that may more efffectively affect the state of humans by undertaking in a knowledgeable manner actions that improve their wellbeing and performance. For example, the workspaces of naval officers may include systems that, among others, track their eye movements and characteristics of incoming stimuli (e.g., airplanes on a radar screen), and use this information in a computational model that is able to estimate where their attention is focussed at. When it turns out that an officer neglects parts of a radar screen, such a system can either indicate this to the person, or arrange on the background that another person or computer system takes care of this neglected part. In applications like this, an ambience is created that has a more human-like understanding of humans, based on computationally formalised knowledge from the human-directed disciplines. For example, this may concern elderly people, criminals and psychiatric patients, but also, as the example shows, humans in highly demanding circumstances or tasks. Aims This workshop addresses multidisciplinary aspects of Ambient Intelligence with human-directed disciplines such as psychology, social science, neuroscience and biomedical sciences. The aim is to get people together from these disciplines or working on cross connections of Ambient Intelligence with these disciplines. The focus is on the use of knowledge from these disciplines in Ambient Intelligence applications, in order to take care of and support in a knowledgeable manner humans in their daily living in medical, psychological and social respects. The workshop can play an important role, for example, to get modellers in the psychological, neurological, social or biomedical disciplines interested in Ambient Intelligence as a high-potential application area for their models, and, for example, get inspiration for problem areas to be addressed for further developments in their disciplines. From the other side, the workshop may make researchers in Computer Science, and Artificial and Ambient Intelligence more aware of the possibilities to incorporate more substantial knowledge from the psychological, neurological social and biomedical disciplines in Ambient Intelligence architectures and applications, and may offer problem specifications that can be addressed by the human-directed sciences. Some of the areas of interest * computational modelling of psychological, neurological, social and biomedical processes for Ambient Intelligence * collecting and analysing histories of behaviour * computational modelling of mind reading, Theory of Mind * building profiles; user modelling in Ambient Intelligence * sensoring; e.g., tracking physiological states, gaze, body movements, gestures * analysis of sensor information; e.g., voice and skin analysis with respect to emotional states, gesture analysis, heart rate analysis * environmental modelling and awareness * analysis of applications to care of humans in need of support for physical and mental health; e.g., elderly or psychiactric care, surveillance, penitentiary care, humans in need of regular medical or psychological care, support for psychotherapeutical/selfhelp communities * analysis of applications to support humans in demanding circumstances and tasks, such as warfare officers, air traffic controllers, crisis and disaster managers, humans in space missions. * responsive and adaptive systems; agent system approaches * human interaction with devices * handling aspects of privacy and security; philosophical and ethical aspects Submission and Proceedings Papers can be submitted of at most 18 pages in Springer LNCS format (as for the AmI?07 conference). Proceedings will be available at the workshop. The intention is to realise publication of extended postproceedings as a book on the workshop theme by a recognized publisher after the workshop. More submission details will follow at the workshop?s Website: http://www.few.vu.nl/~treur/HAwsCfP.htm. Important Dates Submission Deadline August 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance September 20, 2007 Camera ready papers October 25, 2007 Workshop November 10, 2007 Coordination Commitee Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft, Man-Machine Interaction) Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing) Jan Treur (contact person, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group) Programme Committee (partly to be confirmed) Gerhard Andersson (Link?ping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences), Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, School of Computing and Mathematics), Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group), Antonio Camurri (University of Genoa, InfoMus Lab), Nick Cassimatis(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cognitive Science Department), Cristiano Castelfranchi (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies), James L. Crowley (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Perception and Integration for Smart Spaces Group), Pim Cuijpers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Clinical Psychology), Henk Elffers (Institute for Criminology and Law; Antwerp University, Faculty of Law), Rino Falcone (CNR Rome, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies), Dirk Heylen (University of Twente, Human Media Interaction), Ingrid Heynderickx (Philips Research Netherlands), Anthony Jameson (DFKI, Human-Computer Interaction), Paul Lukowicz (Austrian University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology), Isaac Marks (King?s College London, Institute of Psychiatry/Maudsley Hospital), Silvia Miksch (Danube University Krems, Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering), Scott Moss (Manchester Metropolitan University, Centre for Policy Modelling), Mark Neerincx (TNO Human Factors; Technical University Delft, Man-Machine Interaction), Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, Department of Computing), Matthias Scheutz (University of Notre Dame, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory), Elizabeth Sklar (City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Dept of Computer and Information Science), Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cognitive Science Department), Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Agent Systems Research Group), Robert L. 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The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2007 joint conference is organized by San Jose State University, and sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART. Homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/?index=tutorial and http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/?index=tutorial WI 2007 and IAT 2007 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The following is a *non-exclusive* list of preferred topic areas for tutorial proposals: Web Intelligence: - Intelligent/Semantic Web Services - Intelligent Wireless Web and Ubiquitous Computing - Rules and Inference Engines for the Web - Semantic Web Concepts and Techniques for Security and Trust - Service-Oriented Computing - Social Networks and Social Intelligence - e-learning and e-science - Web Intelligence and Education Intelligent Agent Technology: - Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation - Agent Technologies in e-Business Systems - Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems - Agent-Based Grid Computing Submission Details: Proposals for tutorials should consist of an outline and background information on the presenter(s). The tutorial outline should be limited to 2 pages and contain the following information: 1. Title and abstract of the tutorial 2. Proposed duration: 2 hours or half-day 3. Intended audience: to whom is the tutorial of interest 4. Prerequisite knowledge: what the attendees should already know 5. Detailed outline The background information on the presenter(s) should be limited to 1-2 pages and contain: 1. Names, affiliations, homepages and contact details 2. Short biographies 3. Information about previous tutorials given by the same presenters (title, location, number of attendees, etc.) Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included if already available, but are not required for submission. Please send your proposal to pawan@cs.smu.ca or Pawan.Lingras@smu.ca Important Dates: July 1, 2007 Tutorial submissions July 10, 2007 Acceptance notices October 1, 2007 Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts November 2-5, 2007 WI-IAT'07 tutorials Tutorial Chair: Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Email: pawan@cs.smu.ca or Pawan.Lingras@smu.ca +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From prodrigues at liacc.up.pt Fri Jun 22 12:50:58 2007 From: prodrigues at liacc.up.pt (Pedro Pereira Rodrigues) Date: Sat Jun 23 13:49:28 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Call for Papers - Knowledge Discovery Ubiquitous Data Streams Message-ID: <200706221143.49461.prodrigues@liacc.up.pt> *** Apologies for cross-posting *** Knowledge Discovery from Ubiquitous Data Streams ================================= Workshop in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2007 17 September 2007 - Warsaw, Poland Web Page: http://www.niaad.liacc.up.pt/~iwkduds/ Important Dates =========== * Paper submission deadline: June 30th, 2007 * Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 21st, 2007 * Camera-ready deadline: July 28th, 2007 Goals ==== The goal of this workshop is to promote an interdisciplinary forum for researchers who deal with sequential learning, anytime learning, real-time learning, online learning, etc. from ubiquitous and distributed data streams. Distributed Learning from Data Streams is a recent and increasing research area with challenging applications and contributions from fields like Data Bases, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Visualization. Motivation ========== Advances in miniaturization and sensor technology lead to sensor networks, collecting detailed spatio-temporal data about the environment. How to learn from these distributed continuous streaming data? Which are the main characteristics of a learning algorithm acting in sensor networks? What are the relevant issues, challenges, and research opportunities? Which emerging applications? The goal of this workshop is to convene researchers (from both academia and industry) who deal with decision rules, decision trees, association rules, clustering, filtering, preprocessing, post processing, feature selection, visualization techniques, etc. from distributed data streams and related themes. Special emphasis in constrained algorithms designed to handle limited bandwidth, limited computing and storage capabilities, limited battery power, and specific network-communication protocols. Topics ==== A data stream is an ordered sequence of instances that can be read only once or a small number of times using limited computing and storage capabilities. Topics include but are not restricted to: * Distributed Data Stream Models * Learning in Ubiquitous environments * Learning from Sensor Networks * Learning from Social Networks * Clustering from Distributed Data Streams * Decision Trees from Distributed Data Streams * Association Rules from Data Streams * Visualisation Techniques for Distributed Data Streams * Incremental on-line Learning Algorithms * Single-Pass and Scalable Algorithms * Real-Time and Real-World Applications using Stream data * Adaptive mining techniques in data streams * Resource-aware distributed data stream mining * Theoretical frameworks for distributed data stream mining Submitting Information =============== * Papers should be in PDF format * Papers should be at most 10 pages long * All papers should be formatted in the LNCS style of the Springer * Papers should be submitted electronically by email to the program chairs: jgama@fep.up.pt Mohamed.Gaber@csiro.au -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This will involve using an advanced software tool, neuroConstruct created in the Silver Lab, for constructing biologically realistic neural networks in 3D space (http://www.neuroConstruct.org ). Development of large scale network models will also require software development, particularly in a parallel computing environment. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team of experimental biologists, physicists and computational biologists. Related papers include: Gleeson, P. Steuber, V. and Silver, R.A. (2007). neuroConstruct: A tool for modeling networks of neurons in 3D space. Neuron, 54, 219-35 Mitchell SJ, Silver RA. (2003) Shunting inhibition modulates neuronal gain during synaptic excitation. Neuron. 38, 433-45. Steuber, V., Mittmann, W., Hoebeek, F.E., Silver, R.A., De Zeeuw, C.I., Hausser, M. and De Schutter, E. (2007). Cerebellar LTD and pattern recognition by Purkinje cells. Neuron 54, 121-136. Applicants should have excellent computational skills and a good degree in mathematics, computer science, physics or biological sciences. Previous experience in neuroscience is not required but would be an advantage. Applications including a CV, the contact details of two referees and a short statement of research interests should be sent by email to Angus Silver (a.silver@ucl.ac.uk). Professor R. Angus Silver Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Neuroscience. Department of Physiology, University College London, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Tel: +44 207 679 7830 Fax: +44 207 916 8522 http://www.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/research/silver_a/index.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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FIAS strongly encourages interdisciplinary collaboration. It cooperates with the Max Planck Institutes for Brain Research and for Biophysics in Frankfurt, the Gesellschaft f?r Schwerionenforschung (GSI Darmstadt) and various institutes at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Additional information on FIAS can be found at the website http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de. Applicants for the postdoctoral positions are expected to have a strong theoretical background and experience with quantitative mathematical and numerical methods. Applications in the following research areas are especially invited: a) Theoretical Biology: 1) Development of new mathematical concepts for systems biology and cell biology; 2) Applications to complex systems in biology of relevance in immunology and medicine: (i) modelling adaptive immune responses, (ii) theory of neuro-immune-interactions, (iii) modelling diabetes, (iv) theory of irradiation cancer therapy, (v) magnetoreception in animals and magnetic maps. b) Theoretical Neuroscience: Modeling of functions related to perception, attention, subsystem integration, sensori-motor coupling and learning. Development of analysis tools for high-dimensional time series obtained with parallel recordings. Implementation of brain-inspired algorithms in robotic devices. Candidates should have a strong background in computational neuroscience. Experience with experimental approaches is desirable but not obligatory. c) Theoretical Chemistry: Development of new methods: Electroweak and relativistic quantum chemistry; vibronic structure theory. Application of large-scale methods and of highly accurate ab initio approaches: Fundamental symmetries and their violation, molecular chirality; material properties (optical properties, magnetic properties, ionic liquids, liquid crystals); reaction mechanisms (catalysis, ion chemistry). For more details see http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~berger. d) Theoretical and Computational Soft Matter and Biophysics: Positions are available for simulations of ionic liquids, ferrofluids, charged hydrogels, polyelectrolytes, and the study of heterogeneous nucleation in binary colloidal systems. Experience with C/mpi and with efficient MD/MC strategies for mesoscopic and atomistic simulations are expected. We will mainly use our own simulation package ESPResSo (www.espresso.mpg.de. More details about the research environment can be found under http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~simbio. e) Theoretical Meso-Bio-Nano-Science: The MBN theory group (see http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~mbn) studies the structure formation and properties of a diversity of biomolecular, nano- and mesoscopic systems. This includes biological macromolecules, atomic and molecular clusters, fullerenes, nanotubes, nanofractals, endohedral objects, periodic structures, microundulators, microdroplets, instabilities in meso-bio-nano systems, optical, electric and magnetic properties. Under study are the dynamics, folding, conformational changes and fragmentation of these systems induced by collisions, fission and fusion processes, temperature variation, by exposure to external electric, magnetic, laser fields, clustering in systems of varied degrees of complexity, clustering in biological systems, on surfaces, in thin films, and in nanostructured materials. The work involves studies within the frame of quantum many-body and density functional theories, quantum and classical dynamics, electrodynamics, statistical mechanics, with a strong emphasis on theoretical-physics methods and numerical calculations. f) Theoretical Heavy-Ion Physics and Astrophysics: 1) Development of nonequilibrium dynamical models for relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Study of phase transitions in strongly interacting matter and their menifestations in heavy-ion collisions and compact stars. 2) Study of complex hadronic systems (exotic nuclei, superheavy elements) and quark-gluon plasma in terrestrial and astrophysical environments. 3) Structure of the vacuum in strong fields. The Postdoctoral Fellows will conduct research in collaboration with the FIAS Fellows, with scientists from cooperating institutions, and with Ph.D. students. The appointments are for up to three years. A tax-free scholarship of 30.000 EUR per year will be offered. Alternatively, research assistant positions in externally funded projects remunerated according to the German BAT scale may be available. Exceptionally qualified students interested in the above research areas are invited to apply for the three-year interdisciplinary Ph.D. program of the Frankfurt International Graduate School for Science (FIGSS). The students should hold a very good diploma or M.Sc. degree or an exceptional honors B.Sc. They will be supervised by scientists from FIAS and of the faculties of science at Goethe University. All courses will be held in English; a TOEFL certificate is required. A tax-free stipend of 1200 EUR per month (plus health insurance) can be offered to successful applicants. For more information see http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/figss. For interested students on the B.Sc. level a Master's program Computational Science is available, which can serve as a preparatory course for the Ph.D. program (see http://www.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/mpcs). Applicants should send a statement of research interests naming one or two of the FIAS Fellows whom they would like to interact with, a CV, and a complete list of publications to: Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Max-von-Laue-Str. 1 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany e-mail: fias@uni-frankfurt.de (for Postdoctoral applications) or figss@uni-frankfurt.de (for Graduate School applications). In addition, 1 to 3 letters of reference should be sent to the above address. The review of incoming complete applications will begin immediately. -- Jochen Triesch, Fellow Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Web: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~triesch/ Tel: +49 (0)69 798-47531 Fax: +49 (0)69 798-47611 From bajajketan at yahoo.com Wed Jun 27 08:24:52 2007 From: bajajketan at yahoo.com (Ketan Bajaj) Date: Wed Jun 27 09:32:09 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Paper on "orientation adaptation induced plasticity" Message-ID: <191628.97047.qm@web55702.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Dear All, I'd like to bring to your attention our paper on orientation adaptation induced plasticity in adult primary visual cortex. Title: Adaptation-induced suppression and facilitation: Effect of intra- and extracellular ionic disturbances, Neurocomputing, 70, 1695-1701, 2007. Keywords: Adaptation, Calcium, Extracellular, Mitochondria, Orientation plasticity URLs: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1241225 http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0925231206003651 Abstract: Adaptation to drifting-oriented gratings has been shown to cause orientation plasticity. To study adaptation induced responses we have developed a V1 population model having isotropic intracortical synaptic connections, incorporating sub-cellular and intrinsic membrane mechanisms. The model captures the finer details of recently reported experimental results on orientation plasticity and shows that pinwheel centers are foci of orientation plasticity. The model captures the tilt aftereffect and further explains how orthogonal adaptation can lead to sharpening of orientation tuning curves. We report here for the first time that adaptation not only causes response suppression but can simultaneously increase the excitability of the local neural tissue due to accumulated extracellular ionic disturbances. The increased excitability can lead to response facilitation for cells having the least intracellular ionic disturbances. Regards, Ketan Bajaj http://www.geocities.com/bajajketan/index.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 From arjen.van.ooyen at falw.vu.nl Wed Jun 27 15:37:06 2007 From: arjen.van.ooyen at falw.vu.nl (Arjen van Ooyen) Date: Wed Jun 27 16:04:32 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical Neuroscience at CNCR, Amsterdam Message-ID: <46826802.7010205@falw.vu.nl> Applications are invited for a 3-year postdoctoral research position in the Neuroinformatics Group of the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The position is funded by a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Exact Sciences (EW). The project, which is a collaboration between CNCR and the Vision and Cognition Group of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), will investigate a novel, biologically inspired learning algorithm called attention-gated reinforcement learning (AGREL; Roelfsema and Van Ooyen, Neural Computation 17 (2005): 2176-2214). The computational power of the new learning scheme derives from two factors known to influence synaptic plasticity: a global reward-related signal and an attentional signal that is fed back from the network?s output layer to earlier processing levels. For simple deterministic categorization tasks, we have previously shown that AGREL is both biologically plausible and as powerful as the widely used but biologically implausible error-backpropagation algorithm for training artificial neural networks. The present project will explore whether AGREL can serve as a general learning algorithm in complex input-output mappings, regression tasks, and delayed and sequential decision tasks. Applicants should have a PhD degree, a strong background in machine learning, neural networks or computational neuroscience, excellent computer skills, and a good command of written and spoken English. A good general knowledge of neuroscience would be an advantage. For further information about this position, please contact Dr. Arjen van Ooyen (CNCR), arjen.van.ooyen@falw.vu.nl, or Prof. Dr. Roelfsema (NIN), p.roelfsema@nin.knaw.nl. Application letters including a CV, research experience, a short statement of research interests, and contact details of two referees should be sent by email to Dr. Arjen van Ooyen. -- Dr. Arjen van Ooyen Department of Experimental Neurophysiology Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1085 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands E-mail: arjen.van.ooyen@falw.vu.nl Phone: +31.20.5987090 Fax: +31.20.5987112 Room: C454 Web: http://www.bio.vu.nl/enf/vanooyen From uwe.graichen at tu-ilmenau.de Thu Jun 28 16:28:20 2007 From: uwe.graichen at tu-ilmenau.de (Uwe Graichen) Date: Thu Jun 28 16:49:40 2007 Subject: [Comp-neuro] 2nd Summer School in Biomedical Engineering, Aug 10 - 16, Naumburg & Schoenburg, Germany Message-ID: <4683C584.9020503@tu-ilmenau.de> Five places are still available for the 2nd Summer School in Biomedical Engineering Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Principles and Applications August, 10-16, 2007 Schoenburg, Germany Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DWMRI) is one of the fastest growing areas in medical imaging. It provides a detailed (i.e. voxel based) view onto the anisotropic diffusion in the living brain. This allows for numerous applications such as the anatomical analysis of fiber geometries, the study of connectivity in the brain, and the inclusion of anisotropic conductivity information into EEG/MEG source localization both in patients and volunteers. However, although there is a fast growing interest in these applications, in-depth knowledge of the theoretical basis of DWMRI techniques seems sometimes limited. The objective of the International Summer School is to provide in-depth education on DWMRI techniques covering both the theoretical foundations and its practical applications. The lectures will aim at a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanisms of DWMRI and thus will develop a critical view on current applications and possible future developments. In particular, the use of DWMRI for the revelation of the anatomical organization of the brain and for modelling electrophysiological measurements of brain activity (EEG, MEG) will be covered. Another main topic will be the validation DWMRI based results. Moreover, the International Summer School is expected to facilitate the exchange of ideas on latest developments in the field. Target Group: - PhD students - Advanced Master students - Researchers entering the field of diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Invited speakers: Farida Grinberg (University Leipzig) Peter Basser (NIH Bethesda, Maryland) Robert Turner (MPI Leipzig) Daniel Alexander (UCL London) Maxime Descoteaux (INRIA Nizza) Cameron McIntyre (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) Daniel G?llmar (University Jena) Carsten Wolters (Universtity Muenster) Ulrich Katscher (Philips Hamburg) Saad Jbabdi (FMRIB Oxford) Patric Hagmann (EPFL Lausanne) Daniel Gembris (University Heidelberg) Pierre Fillard (INRIA Nizza) Mario Hlawitschka (University Leipzig) Marc Tittgemeyer (MPI K?ln) Hubertus Axer (University Jena) Simon Eickhoff (FZ J?lich) Further Information about the 2nd International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering http://wcms1.rz.tu-ilmenau.de/fakia/fileadmin/template/startIA/biomed/summerschool_07/Prospekt_Version_3.pdf