CALL FOR PAPERS -- NIPS*97 ***** DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 23, 1997 ***** Neural Information Processing Systems -- Natural and Synthetic Monday December 1 - Saturday December 6, 1997 Denver, Colorado This is the eleventh meeting of an interdisciplinary conference which brings together cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. The conference will include invited talks and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. The conference is single track and is highly selective. Preceding the main session, there will be one day of tutorial presentations (Dec. 1), and following will be two days of focused workshops on topical issues at a nearby ski area (Dec. 5-6). Major categories for paper submission, with example subcategories (by no means exhaustive), are as follows: Algorithms and Architectures: supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, model selection algorithms, feedforward and recurrent network architectures, localized basis functions, online learning algorithms, active learning algorithms, algorithms for combining classifiers, belief networks, combinatorial optimization. Applications: handwriting recognition, DNA and protein sequence analysis, expert systems, fault diagnosis, financial analysis, medical diagnosis, music processing, time-series prediction. Artificial Intelligence: inductive reasoning, problem solving and planning, natural language understanding, hybrid symbolic-subsymbolic systems. Cognitive Science: perception and psychophysics, development, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, language, human learning and memory, attention. Implementation: analog and digital VLSI, optical neurocomputing systems, novel neuro-devices, simulation tools, parallelism. Neuroscience: functional imaging, systems physiology, neural coding, synchrony, synaptic plasticity, neuromodulation, dendritic computation, calcium dynamics, inhibition, computational models. Reinforcement Learning and Control: exploration, dynamic programming, planning, navigation, robotic motor control, process control, Markov decision processes. Speech and Signal Processing: speech recognition, speech coding, speech synthesis, rapid adaptation, robust processing, auditory scene analysis, models of human speech perception. Theory: computational learning theory, statistical mechanics of learning, dynamics of learning algorithms, learning of dynamical systems, approximation and estimation theory, combining predictors, model selection, complexity theory. Visual Processing: image processing, image coding and classification, object recognition, stereopsis, motion detection and tracking, visual psychophysics. Review Criteria: All submitted papers will be thoroughly refereed on the basis of technical quality, significance, and clarity. Novelty of the work is also a strong consideration in paper selection, but to encourage interdisciplinary contributions, we will consider work which has been submitted or presented in part elsewhere, if it is unlikely to have been seen by the NIPS audience. Authors should not be dissuaded from submitting recent work, as there will be an opportunity after the meeting to revise accepted manuscripts before submitting final camera-ready copy. Paper Format: Submitted papers may be up to seven pages in length, including figures and references, using a font no smaller than 10 point. Submissions failing to follow these guidelines will not be considered. Authors are encouraged to use the NIPS LaTeX style files obtainable by anonymous FTP at the site given below. Papers must indicate (1) physical and e-mail addresses of all authors; (2) one of the nine major categories listed above, and, if desired, a subcategory; (3) if the work, or any substantial part thereof, has been submitted to or has appeared in other scientific conferences; (4) the authors' preference, if any, for oral or poster presentation (this preference will play no role in paper acceptance); and (5) author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Submission Instructions: Send eight copies of submitted papers to the address below; electronic or FAX submission is not acceptable. Include one additional copy of the abstract only, to be used for preparation of the abstracts booklet distributed at the meeting. SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MAY 23, 1997. From within the U.S., submissions will be accepted if mailed first class and postmarked by May 20, 1997. Mail submissions to: Michael Kearns NIPS*97 Program Chair AT&T Laboratories Research Room 2A-423 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 USA Mail general inquiries and requests for registration material to: NIPS*97 Registration Conference Consulting Associates 451 N. Sycamore Monticello, IA 52310 fax: (319) 465-6709 (attn: Denise Prull) phone: (319) 465-5585 e-mail: nipsinfo@salk.edu Copies of the LaTeX style files for NIPS are available via anonymous ftp at ftp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.206.173) in /afs/cs/Web/Groups/NIPS/formatting The style files and other conference information may also be retrieved via World Wide Web at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS NIPS*97 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Michael Jordan, MIT; Program Chair, Michael Kearns, AT&T Labs Research; Publications Chair, Sara Solla, Northwestern University; Tutorial Chair, Satinder Singh, University of Colorado; Workshops Co-Chairs, Steven Nowlan, Lexicus, and Richard Zemel, University of Arizona; Publicity Chair, Anthony Bell, Salk Institute; Local Arrangements, Arun Jagota, University of California, Santa Cruz; Treasurer, Bartlett Mel, University of Southern California; Web Master, Doug Baker, Carnegie Mellon University; Government Liaison, John Moody, OGI; Contracts, Steve Hanson, Rutgers University, Scott Kirkpatrick, IBM, Gerry Tesauro, IBM. Conference arrangements by Conference Consulting Associates, Monticello, IA. NIPS*97 Program Committee: Sue Becker, McMaster University; Joachim Buhmann, University of Bonn; Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University; Michael Kearns, AT&T Labs Research (chair); Richard Lippmann, MIT Lincoln Lab; Larry Saul, AT&T Labs Research; Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin; Rich Sutton, University of Massachusetts; Tali Tishby, Hebrew University; Michael Turmon, Jet Propulsion Lab; Paul Viola, MIT; John Wawrzynek, UC Berkeley; Tony Zador, Salk Institute. DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 23, 1997