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The following meeting may be of interest to researchers interested in artificial intelligence, biology, neural networks and psychology FROM SYNAPSES TO RULES: DISCOVERING SYMBOLIC RULES FROM NEURAL PROCESSED DATA A course of INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON NEURAL NETS "E. R. CAIANIELLO" ETTORE MAJORANA CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE ERICE-SICILY: 25 FEBRUARY - 7 MARCH 2002 Application deadline: December 15, 2001 The school aims at fixing a theoretical and applicatry framework for extracting formal rules from data. To this end the modern approaches will be expounded that collapse the two typical goals of the conventional AI and connectionism - respectively, deducing within an axiomatic shell formal rules about a phenomenon and inferring the actual behavior of it from examples - into a challenging inferential framework where we learn from data and understand what we have learnt. The target reads as a translation of the subsymbolic structure of the data - stored in the synapses of a neural network - into formal properties described by rules. To capture this trip from synapses to rules and then render it manageable for affording real world learning tasks, the Course will deal in depth with the following aspects: i. theoretical foundations of learning algorithms and soft computing, ii. intimate relationships between symbolic and subsymbolic reasoning methods, iii. integration of the related hosting architectures in both physiological and artificial brain. TOPICS Inferential bases for learning Theoretical foundations for soft computing Integration of symbolic-subsymbolic reasoning methods Physics and metaphysics of learning Toward applications LECTURERS * B. Apolloni, University of Milan, I * D. Malchiodi, University of Milan, I * D. Mundici, University of Milan, I * M. Gori, University of Siena, I * F. Kurfess, California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, CA , USA * A. Roy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA * R. Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA * L. Agnati, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, S * G. Basti, Pontificia Universit� Lateranense, Rome, I * G. Biella, C.N.R. LITA, Milan, I * J. G. Taylor, King's College, London, UK * A. Esposito, Istituto Italiano Alti Studi Scientifici, Vietri, I * A. Moise, Boise State University, ID, USA DIRECTORS OF THE COURSE B. APOLLONI, A. MOISE DIRECTORS OF THE SCHOOL M. J. JORDAN, M. MARINARO DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE A. ZICHICHI APPLICATIONS Interested candidates should send a letter to: * Professor Bruno Apolloni - Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione Universit� degli Studi di Milano Via Comelico 39/41 20135 Milano, Italy Tel: ++39.02.5835.6284, Fax: ++39.02.5835.6228 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] specifying: i) date and place of birth and present activity; ii) nationality. Thanks to the generosity of the sponsoring Institutions, partial support can be granted to some deserving students who need financial aid. Requests to this effect must be specified and justified in the letter of application. Notification of acceptance will be sent within the end of January 2002. For APPLICATION, CONTRIBUTING PAPERS, GRANTS, FEES, and further information please visit http://laren.usr.dsi.unimi.it/ericeSchool.html. For information about the Ettore Majorana Centre please visit http://www.ccsem.infn.it.
