Learning Systems Seminar

and

SNNS 99 Annual Meeting

Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999.
Place: VI (Sveriges Verkstadsindustrier), Storgatan 5, Stockholm.
Registration Fee: The registration fee is 1500 kr (plus "moms"). Students and researchers pay 500 kr (plus "moms"). The fee covers lunch and coffee. Registration is binding. The fee will be billed after the event.
Registration: To register, send a mail, fax, or email, containing:
your name and department,
the company/research institution,
whether you are from industry or academia,
and the address for the bill
to :
Ulla Magnusson
Sveriges Verkstadsindustrier
Box 5510
11485 Stockholm
fax: 782 0980
email: ulla.magnusson@vi.se
Everyone interested is welcome to participate at the LEARNING SYSTEMS seminar 1999.

The theme of the seminar is Learning Systems. This includes techniques such as artificial neural networks, statistical modeling, belief networks, induction of rules and decision trees, case based systems, genetic algorithms, heuristic search methods, fuzzy logic, various hybrids of these, and much more.

The technical program will include 5 invited speakers from different disciplines in the learning systems field. There will also be a panel discussion about learning systems.

At the end of the day the formal annual SNNS meeting is held, to which members and potential members of SNNS are welcome. One subject will be the widening of the field of interest from artificial neural networks to learning systems in general, and if this also should be reflected in the name of the present SNNS.

The PROGRAM of the day is this:

09.00 Registration and coffee
09.30 Invited talks:

Stefan Arnborg, NADA, KTH:
How to compute with uncertainties

Jacob Carlström, DOCS, Uppsala University:
Reinforcement learning and Markov decision problems

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Lars Asker, DSV, Stockholm University:
Feature representation and volcanos on Venus

12.15 Lunch
13.30 Invited talks continued:

Danny Roobaert, CVAP, KTH:
Support Vector Machines: theory and applications

Arne Andersson, CSD, Uppsala University:
Better learning without neural networks

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15.30 Panel Discussion:

Learning systems; a theoretical beast or an applicational marvel?
Moderator: Lars Niklasson, University of Skövde

16.30 SNNS meeting
17.00 Closing