Announcements

JNLRMI Vol. II Nr.2 July 2003

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS

10/30/2003 to 11/1/2003
Breakthroughs in Energy Psychology
Fifth Annual Energy Psychology Conference-EC
Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Key Topics: Energy Healing & Mind/Body Health
Type of Event: Health/Medical Industry-Conference/Convention

10/27/2003 to 10/31/2003
Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine
Training provides instruction and experience in the integrative practice of the foundational elements of mind/body medicine.
Boston, MA USA
Key Topics: Mind/Body Health & Integration of Health Approaches
Type of Event: Healthcare Professional Education/Training

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ICCS/ASCS-2003, 13 - 17 July, 2003

The 4th International Conference on Cognitive Science will take place at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia following previous meetings in Beijing 2001, Tokyo 1999 and Seoul 1997.

This meeting will be held jointly with the 7th Australasian Society for Cognitive Science.

Contributions and inquiries are invited from researchers and students in any relevant discipline including:
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropology
Psychology
Linguistics
Philosophy
Neurosciences
Proposals are invited for special streams and symposia. Check Proposed Symposia page for details, and email addresses of symposia organisers.

Planned symposia include:

Psychiatry,
Neuropsychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Music and Cognition
Cognitive Science & Education
Cognitive Science of science
Animal Cognition
Decision Making, Risk &
Behavioural Finance
Language and Cognition
Brain Imaging
Machine Learning
Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science

Inquiries:
Dr. Peter Slezak Email: iccs2003@unsw.edu.au
Program in Cognitive Science
School of History & Philosophy of Science - HPS (previously STS)
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2052

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Neural Information Processing Systems. NIPS 2003 Conference
Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Tutorials - December 8, 2003

Conference - December 9-11, 2003

Workshops - December 11-13, 2003

Call for Papers, Demonstrations and Workshops

2003 Meeting Information

Online Submissions

Submission Deadlines:

Papers: June 6, 2003

Demonstrations: August 1, 2003

Workshops: August 1, 2003

The Foundation: The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to foster the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. Neural information processing is a field which benefits from a combined view of biological, physical, mathematical, and computational sciences.

The primary focus of the NIPS Foundation is the presentation of a continuing series of professional meetings known as the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, held over the years at various locations in the United States and Canada.

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International Conference on Biophotons and Biophotonics
October 12-16, 2003 Beijing, China
Organized by the Commission for Photobiophysics, the Biophysical Society of China and the International
Institute of Biophysics

The Scope of the Conference

The Conference will provide a forum for exchanging and discussing the all-important advances in the fields
of Biophoton and the photonics in biomedical science and engineering. The photons from biological system
could be spontaneous chemiluminescence, bioluminescence, fluorescence, and transmitted or scattered light
within or through biological systems. Emphasis will be put on various advances imaging technology, as well as
their scientific bases and biomedical applications. The imaging technology for observing molecular events in
single live cells and the noninvasive imaging and monitoring systems with high optical sensitivity and spatial
resolution will be the hot topics to be discussed. The conference would also provide a good atmosphere
for interaction among physicists, chemists, optical engineers, biologists and medical doctors.

The Program will embrace nine special topics:

1. The physical, chemical and biological properties of biophotons.
2. Diagnostic application of biophotons in Medical, Agricultural and environmental sciences.
3. Physics on photon diffusion, scattering and reflection in biological system.
4. Innovative methods for fluorescence labeling of macromolecules.
5. Clinical application of new optical approaches for Noninvasive diagnosis, localization and treatment of tumors.
6. Optical tomography, such as OCT and Endoscopy.
7. Functional molecular imaging at cellular and subcellular level, especially the application of GFP and other
fluorescence proteins.
8. New optical technology for visualization, measurement, analysis, and manipulation in biomedical science.
9. Other optical imaging technology

Organizing Committee

Chairman: Xun Shen (China)
Co-Chairman: Fritz-Albert Popp (Germany)
Secretary-General: Yaning Liu (China)
Members:
Hanben Niu (China) Liangbi Li (China) Jiin-Ju Chang (China) Jianhua Yang (China) Xiaolin Ynag (China)
Hui Ma (China) Da Xing( China) Qingming Luo (China) L. Beloussov (Russia) R. Van Wijk (Netherlands)
I. Makino (Japan) H. Hiruma (Japan)

Registration

Registration will entitle participants to attend the Scientific Meetings, Welcome Reception, Conference
Banquet, and to receive Conference materials.

Call for Papers/Posters

The participants wishing to attend the Conference and present Oral talk or poster are requested to fill the
appropriate bow in the attached Reply Form and send to Conference secretariat by January 30, 2003. The
deadline for abstract submission will be indicated in the Second Announcement. In order to be preferentially
selected as oral presentation, you are kindly requested to submit your abstract to the Conference Secretariat
before March 15.

For reply and questions:
Reply Form
E-mail: sb@sun5.ibp.ac.cn
Conference Secretariat, Mrs. Shunyi Wei
The Biophysical Society of China
15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100101, China

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CASYS '03: Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

Li�ge, Belgium, August 11-16, 2003

HEC� LIEGE, Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Business School, 14 Rue Louvrex, B-4000 Li�ge

ORGANIZER: CHAOS, Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems,

asbl CHAOS, Institut de Math�matique, B37, Universit� de Li�ge,

Grande Traverse 12, B-4000 LIEGE 1, Belgium.

Tel. : + 32 (0)4 366 00 28 Fax: + 32 (0)4 366 94 89 E-mail: Daniel.Dubois@ulg.ac.be

CHAOS is a Member of IFSR, The International Federation for Systems Research

President: Daniel M. Dubois (Belgium)

Vice-President: Robert Vall�e (France)

SPONSORS:

Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS),
Minist�re de la Communaut� Fran�aise de Belgique, H�tel de Ville de Li�ge,
Echevinat de la Culture, des Mus�es et du Tourisme de la Ville de Li�ge, HEC�
Li�ge, Euro View Services SA.

SPONSORSHIPS:

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC),
Systems Science European Union - Union Europ�enne de Syst�mique (UES),
Washington Evolutionary Systems Society (WESS)

SCOPE of CASYS'03

The scope of CASYS'03 will be oriented to theoretical developments and applications in the
modelling and computing of anticipatory systems in any fields of natural and artificial systems.

A computing anticipatory system is a system which computes its current states in taking into
account its past and present states but also its potential future states.

Strong anticipation refers to an anticipation of events built by or embedded in a system.

Weak anticipation refers to an anticipation of events predicted or forecasted from a model of a system.

A class of computing anticipatory systems deals with the differential difference equation with
retardation and anticipation dx(t)/dt = F(x(t), x(t - tr), x(t + ta)), where t is the current time, tr a
delayed time and ta an advanced time, is a strong anticipatory system.

Another class of computing anticipatory systems deals with discrete incursive and hyperincursive
equations. An incursive equation is an inclusive or implicit recursive equation such as, for example,
x(t+1) := F(x(t), x*(t+1)), where each iterate x(t+1) is computed at each time step t = 1,2,3,... from a
function F of x(t) and x*(t+1), where x*(t+1) is the anticipation of x(t) at the next time step t + 1,
computed from the system itself or from a model. A hyperincursive equation is an incursive equation
which generates multiple iterates at each computing step.

References:

Dubois Daniel M. (2000) Review of Incursive, Hyperincursive and Anticipatory Systems - Foundation of Anticipation in Electromagnetism. Computing Anticipatory Systems: CASYS'99 - Third International
Conference. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, Published by The American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference
Proceedings 517, pp. 3-30.

Copyright (2000) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in (Dubois Daniel M. (2000) Review of Incursive, Hyperincursive and
Anticipatory Systems - Foundation of Anticipation in Electromagnetism. Computing Anticipatory
Systems: CASYS'99 - Third International Conference. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, Published by
The American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 517, pp. 3-30.) and may be found at (http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/517.jsp).

Daniel M. Dubois, Theory of Incursive Synchronization and Application to the Anticipation of a Chaotic Epidemic. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, volume 10, pp. 3-18, 2001.
ISSN 1373-5411, ISBN 2-9600262-3-3. Published by asbl CHAOS, Belgium.

Copyright (2001) CHAOS asbl. This paper may be downloaded for personal use only.
Any other use requires prior permission of the author and CHAOS asbl.

CALL FOR PAPER CASYS'03

Potential authors are invited to submit a paper, related to the topics detailed below,
for presentation at CASYS'03.

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR THE FULL DRAFT PAPER: APRIL 30, 2003.
Notification of acceptance of the paper to be published in the proceedings: 1 month after receiving
the draft paper.

Final paper will be due on October 2003, after the conference.

Tentative Topics :

Anticipatory systems, Strong and Weak anticipation, Incursive and Hyperincursive Systems,
Systems with retardation and anticipation, Differential difference equation systems, Anticipatory synchronization, Self-referential Systems, Cybernetics, feedback, feedforward, General systems,
Predicting and Forecasting systems, Holistic Systems and Reductionism, Epistemology,

Mathematical systems, Differential systems, Discrete systems, Differential functional equations,
Delayed, Advanced, Neutral, Mixed equations, Dynamical systems, Chaos Theory, Fractal maps,
Category Theory, Catastrophe Theory,

Modelling of systems, Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation of systems,

Physical systems, Fluid mechanics, Wave equations, Advanced-retarded waves, Electromagnetism, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, Quantum Mechanics, E.P.R. Non-locality, Aharanov-Bohm potential,
Computing Quantum systems, Relativity, Berry's phase, Faster than light, Tachyons, Gravitation,

Computing systems, Automata, Networks (web), Recursive Systems, Software and Hardware, User
modeling, agent-based systems, evolutionary and adaptive computation, Algorithms for simulation,
implicit algorithms, predictor-corrector algorithms, Crisp and Soft Computing, Logical systems, Fuzzy
logic, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Computational intelligence, Artificial Intelligence,
Artificial Language, Music, Image, Artificial Life,

Cognitive systems, Neuronal brain, Neuro-psychanalysis, Psychology, Intention, Free will, Mind and Consciousness,

Biological systems, Ecosystems, development, evolution, adaptation, emergence,

Economical and Social systems, Management, Decision-making, Planning, Discrete event dynamic
systems, Information Systems, Operation research, Statistics, Probability theory, mono- and
multi-criteria analysis,

Engineering systems, Control Theory, Predictive and adaptive control, Robotics, Multi-agents,
manufactoring systems, Aesthetics and Architecture.

PRE-REGISTRATION AT CASYS'03 : CLICK HERE

All participants and authors of papers are asked to register to the conference CASYS'03 in filling
this form:

REGISTRATION FORM ON LINE: CLICK HERE

LOCATION OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference will be held at

HEC - LIEGE Business School,

rue Louvrex, 14, B-4000 Li�ge, Belgium - http://www.hec.be/