Dear colleagues: It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in a New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop taking place on the last day of the ICANN 2008 conference. The keynote invited talk of the workshop is
Abstracting Biological Development to Evolve Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks presented by Kenneth O. Stanley. In his talk Kenneth will focus on recent work in indirect encoding of neural networks through an abstraction of biological development called Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT). The primary conceptual focus will be on the critical role of abstraction in biologically-inspired systems. More can be found at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ Note that the program of the workshop will continue with plenary lectures and poster session. You can submit your workshop contribution through the conference system (http://icann2008.org/submit). Contributions will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer. If you have already submitted your paper to ICANN 2008 and you want to present your contribution at the workshop, indicate it in the the "Comments to the Chair" field in the submission system or by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that the deadline for the submissions is April 7 2008. Sincerely, Organizers of the New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop, http://icann2008.org/workshop.php _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
