Washington,DC, July 12-17, 1999

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation of the USA and Applied Computational Intelligence Lab, TTU

Associated with the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN'99

USA - Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

Neurocomputing Opportunities Workshop

The workshop is intended to get together leading researchers in the field of Neural Networks studies from USA and New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.

It is well known, that the USSR indeed have had great potential in science and technology, evidenced by outstanding technological achievements (first sputniks, etc.). At the break of 80-s a bunch of Research and Technological programs in general direction of Neural Bionics has been launched in the USSR. This move of Soviet authorities was undertaken a bit ahead of the world Neural Network Boom of the late 80-s – early 90-s. Interesting pioneering results were obtained and substantial scientific potential has been attracted into this field. However, the new development began in the epoch of dramatic political changes the former USSR, and former Soviet scientists in the new field have had few chances to meet colleagues from International community. Since that time Russian Neural Network science (i.e. Russian speaking science of the former USSR) is tremendously under-represented in all International (excluding rare events in Russia) Neural Network Forums.

In spite of the fact that many Russian researchers have flown abroad, the science in Neural Networks still survives and makes progress in the Former Soviet Union. There are working groups in Moscow, Kiev, Minsk, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhnij Novgorod and at least in a dozen of other cities, where more or less intense NN research are on the way. There are annual conferences and other national forums on this topic in Moscow and Krasnoyarsk and less frequent, than annual, conferences in Yalta (Crimea, Ukraine), St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and other cities. The aim of the USA – NIS workshop is to get together leading researchers in the field in both countries in order to identify one or several research and technological topics, where joint efforts could be of maximal use. Publication of the forum proceedings will be provided in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and a bunch of proposals for joint research is anticipated to result from the meeting.

General Chair: Donald C. Wunsch II, Applied Computational Intelligence Lab, Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3102, USA.
e-mail: Dwunsch@aol.com
Co-Chair: Alexander N. Gorban, Institute of Computational Modeling, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Science,  Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia.
e-mail: gorban@post.krascience.rssi.ru
Program Chair: Witali L. Dunin-Barkowski, Applied Computational Intelligence Lab, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3102, USA, and Information Transmission Problems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Problems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
e-mail: wldb@coe.ttu.edu

The Workshop Schedule

Technical Program