Tuesday, April 9, 10:00 a.m., Great Festival Hall:
Wednesday, April 10, 9:00 a.m., Room 47:
Friday, April 12, 9:30 a.m., Room 47:
M.A.Carvallo (Netherlands)
Tuesday, April 9, 14:00 - 18:00, Room 41
Wednesday, April 10, 11:00 - 13:00, Room 41
Wednesday, April 10, 14:00 - 15:30, Room 50
W2 MAKING WATERSHEDS VISIBLE
R.Hough (USA)
Wednesday, April 10, 11:00 - 13:00, Room 48
Wednesday, April 10, 14:00 - 18:00, Room 48
W3 CYBERNETICS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND HEALING
M.Okuyama (Japan)
Friday, April 12, 14:00 - 18:00, Room 48
Chairpersons: C.Joslyn, USA, and G.J.Klir, USA
- 16.00-16.30
- On a New System Theory and Its New Paradigms
P.Zampa, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- 16.30-17.00
- An Internal Approach to Systems Description and Its Specification
for DEDS Relation Modelling
G.Juhas, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 17.00-17.30
- Towards a Differentiable Boolean Dynamics
F.Bazso, E.Labos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- 11.00-11.30
- The Generalized Concept of Hierarchy
M.Kalaidjieva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 11.30-12.00
- Evolutionary Hierarchies of Energy Processing in Nature
P.Winiwarter, C.Cempel, Bordalier Institute, Droue, France
- 12.00-12.30
- Cybernetic Communication and Control with Discrete Element Models
R.A.Gagliano, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 14.00-14.30
- Adapted Systems versus Systems in Equilibrium
F. Parra-Luna, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
- 14.30-15.00
- Discursive Systems Theory: Joining Hard and Soft Systems in Analytic
Tools
S.Leven, R.Smith, Neural Systems & Science, Coral Springs, FL, USA
- 15.00-15.30
- Building Intelligent Systems from General Systems Theory
A.Caselles, University of Valencia, Spain
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Upper and Lower Conditional Possibilities and Necessities Induced
by a Multivalued Mapping
E.Tsiporkova, B.de Baets, E.Kerre, University of Ghent, Belgium
- 16.30-17.00
- Observation, Memorization and Causal Operators
R.Vallee, Universitè Paris-Nord, France
- 17.00-17.30
- Use of Linguistic Scales in Qualimetry Examination of Objects
I.E.Tom, O.V.Krasko, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
Chairpersons: Y.Rav, France, and F.Pichler, Austria
- 9.00-9.30
- New System-Theoretical Methods in Design of Discrete Automation Systems
E.Schnieder, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
- 9.30-10.00
- Intelligent Systems Combining Reactive and Learning Capabilities
W.Jacak, B.Buchberger, S.Stifter, J.Kepler University, Linz, Austria
- 10.00-10.30
- A Petri Net Approach to Analysis of Complex Discrete Event Systems
and to Synthesis of their Control
F.Capkovic, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 10.30-11.00
- Coffee Break
- 11.00-11.30
- Modeling of Discrete Dynamical Systems by Neural Networks and Genetic
Algorithms
S.Dreiseitl, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, J.Kepler
University, Linz, Austria
- 11.30-12.00
- An Automata-Theory Approach to Design a Feedback Control Law for Autonomous Agents
I.Sierocki, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
- 12.00-12.30
- Emergence of Space-Time Structures from Diffusive Chaos in Pearl-Verhulst
and Lotka-Volterra Cellular Automata
D.M.Dubois, University of Liege, Belgium
- 12.30-13.00
- Walsh Harmonizable Processes in Linear System Theory
Y.Endow, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
- 14.00-14.30
- Chaotic Kolmogoroff-Flows for Image Encryption
J.Scharinger, F.Pichler, W.Kozek, H.G.Feichtinger, J.Kepler University,
Linz, Austria
- 14.30-15.00
- Parameters in a One-Dimensional Neuronal Diffusion Model with Reversal
Potentials
P.Lansky, V.Lanska, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague,
Czech Republic
- 15.00-15.30
- Recognition of Structural Changes in Stochastic Systems from the Data
of Small Samples
N.A.Nechval, Aviation University of Riga, Latvia
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Sensitive Control of Nonlinear Time Delay Systems
R.G.Tsoneva, T.D.Patarinska, I.P.Popchev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 16.30-17.00
- Sensitivity and Numerical Properties of Kalman Filters
M.M.Konstantinov, I.P.Popchev, V.A.Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 17.00-17.30
- Incorporating Risk-Attitudes of Decision-Makers into Decisions
S.Benedikt, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- 17.30-18.00
- Dualrate Approach to the State and Disturbance Reconstruction
M.Huba, K.Zakova, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Chairpersons: J.W.Rozenblit, USA, and H.Prähofer,
Austria
- 11.00-11.30
- Qualitative Analysis of System Architectures
J.Schepers, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
- 11.30-12.00
- Hierarchical Design and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Complex Systems
C.Schaffer, J.Kepler University, Linz, Austria
- 12.00-12.30
- Constructed Complex Systems: Issues, Architectures and Wrappings
C.Landauer, K.L.Bellman, The Aerospace Corp., Herndon, USA
- 14.00-14.30
- Concepts for Computer Aided Support of Complex Engineering Projects
J.W.Rozenblit, L.Suantak, F.Bretschneider, University of Arizona,
Tucson, USA
- 14.30-15.00
- DERC: A Dialogue Based, Evolutionary and Recursive Design Strategy
for Complex, Learning and Adaptive Sociotechnical Systems
P.S.Agrell, V.Asproth, S.C.Holmberg, A.Hakansson, Mid-Sweden University, Oestersund, Sweden
- 15.00-15.30
- A Semiotic Approach to Business Systems Analysis
R.Smith, S.Leven, Arthur Andersen & Co., USA
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Simulation based Prediction of Energy Consumption for Steel Plants
M.Beneder, S.Hofer, G.Jahn, F.Blümelhuber, J.Kepler University,
Linz, Austria
- 16.30-17.00
- Object Oriented Modeling and Configuration of Simulation Programs
H.Prähofer, J.Kepler University, Linz, Austria
- 17.00-17.30
- Towards Combinatorial Engineering of Decomposable Systems
M.S.Levin, University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan
- 17.30-18.00
- System of Two Cyclic Processes with Common Resource: Modelling and
Performance Analysis
C.Chudy, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
Chairpersons: C.Carlsson, Finland, K.-P.Adlaßnig,
Austria, and E.P.Klement,Austria
- 14.00-14.30
- Fuzzy Programming Approaches to Multiobjective Optimal Control Problems
in Linear Distributed-Parameter Systems
M.Sakawa, K.Kato, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
- 14.30-15.00
- A Fuzzy System for Image Pixel Classification and its Genetic Optimization
P.Bauer, U.Bodenhofer, E.P.Klement, J.Kepler University, Linz, Austria
- 15.00-15.30
- Object Recognition with the Fuzzy-Hough-Transform, and Special Evaluation Strategies for Lines, Circles, and Patterns
H.Schmitzer, J.Kepler University, Linz, Austria
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- A Neuro-Fuzzy System for Portfolio Evaluation
C.Carlsson, R.Fuller, Abo Akademi University, Finland
- 16.30-17.00
- A Fuzzy Model of Data Interpretation for the Medical Expert System
MedFrame/CADIAG-4
H.Leitich, K.Bögl, G.Kolousek, T.E.Rothenfluh, K.-P.Adlassnig,
University of Vienna, Austria
- 17.00-17.30
- Knowledge-Based Algorithm for Performing Problem-Oriented Complex
Computational Jobs
I.Pozniak, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
- 9.00-9.30
- The Least Core and the Nucleolus in N-Person Cooperative Fuzzy Games
I.Nishizaki, M.Sakawa, Setsunan University, Osaka, Japan
- 9.30-10.00
- Using the Systemic U-Knowledge Framework for Modeling Ambiguity in
Human Expertise
N.J.Bashias, M.R.Tausner, City University of New York, Staten Island,
USA
- 10.00-10.30
- Consistency of Fuzzy Subsethood Based Knowledge: A Deductive Approach
B.Haddad, University of Vienna, Austria
- 10.30-11.00
- Coffee Break
- 11.00-11.30
- Suitability of Fuzzy Controller Fine-Tuning: A Case Study for a Chemical
Plant
J.Zhou, J.Eriksson, Umea University, Sweden
- 11.30-12.00
- A Method for Approximate Reasoning in Exploratory Data Analysis
M.Holena, University of Paderborn, Germany
- 12.00-12.30
- Query Optimization Properties of Modified Valuation-Based Systems
M.A.Klopotek, S.T.Wierzchon, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- 14.00-14.30
- First Results for a Mathematical Theory of Possibilistic Processes
H.J.Janssen, G.de Cooman, E.E.Kerre, State University of Ghent, Belgium
- 14.30-15.00
- Rating Alternatives Using Fuzzy Numbers
V.Peneva, I.Popchev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 15.00-15.30
- A Unified Algebraic Approach to Fuzzy Algebras and Rough Approximations
G.Cattaneo, University of Milano, Italy
Chairpersons: B.Banathy, USA, W.Gasparski, Poland, and G.Goldschmidt, Israel
- 16.00-16.30
- The Primacy of Design: On Design as a Guiding Paradigm
T.Mann, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
- 16.30-17.00
- Architectural Conception and CAD
F.Pousin, Lab.d'Architecturologie et de Recherche Epistèmologique
sur l'Architecture, Paris, France
- 17.00-17.30
- Assisting Creative Design by Visual Evaluation
E.Grabska, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
- 17.30-18.00
- Mental Imagery as a Design Tool
U.A.Athavankar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
- 11.00-11.30
- Design Problem Solving: The Effect of Problem Formulation on the Construction
of Solution Spaces
G.Goldschmidt, A.Ben Zeev, S.Levi, Technion, Haifa, Israel
- 11.30-12.00
- Designers as Knowledge Based Systems
M.Kavakli, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- 12.00-12.30
- Teaching/Learning How to Change and to Evolve Using Simulation
H.Löckenhoff, Polytechnique, Esslingen, Germany
- 12.30-13.00
- Creative Aspects of Maintainability Design System
W.Tarelko, Gdynia Maritime Academy, Poland
- 14.00-14.30
- From Hypertext to Hyperquestions: Informational Tools for Knowledge
Workers
B.A.Banathy, International Systems Institute, and Monterey Peninsula
College, Monterey, CA, USA
- 14.30-15.00
- Visualization of Object-Oriented Knowledge
C.Demmer, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- 15.00-15.30
- Designing Educational Systems Using the Model for Designing Technical
Systems
M.Gawrysiak, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Qualities We Seek in Designing Social Systems
B.H.Banathy, International Systems Institute and Saybrook Graduate
School, Carmel, CA, USA
- 16.30-17.00
- Preparing Educational Learning Communities for Change by Design
S.McCormick, T.Waters, Saybrook Institute and Learning Systems Design,
Snohomish, WA, USA
- 17.00-17.30
- Systems Motivations and Transformations - Inquiry of Informatic Integration
M.Bazewicz, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
Chairpersons: G.Pask, UK, and E.Prem, Austria
- 14.00-14.30
- NOAH: The Ark of Knowing in a Learning Environment (a Tribute to Gordon
Pask and Robin McKinnon-Wood)
R.Glanville, R.McKinnon-Wood, University of Portsmouth, England
- 14.30-15.00
- The Relevance of Naturalized Control Theory to Resolving Augustinian
Issues
I.D.Cole, Richmond, VA, USA
- 15.00-15.30
- Two Genetic Areas of Methodology for the Application of Cybernetics
to Human Science Research
A.Collen, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- A Paradoxical Perspective
R.B.Uribe, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
- 16.30-17.00
- Contradiction - from Causal Flow to Infinite Ontology
F.-G.Winkler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- 17.00-17.30
- Language Theory: Consensual Selection of Dynamics
C.Henry, L.M.Rocha, SUNY at Binghamton, USA
- 17.30-18.00
- Lost in the Information Flood: On the Problem of Relevant Information
Selection in Firms
E.Hanappi-Egger, H.Hanappi, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna,
Austria
Chairperson: L.M.Ricciardi, Italy
- 14.00-14.30
- A Boolean Neural Network Learning from a Random Environment
F.E.Lauria, M.Sette, S.Visco, University of Naples, Italy
- 14.30-15.00
- Error Transmission Based Connectivity Estimations on Neural Units
(An Optimization Strategy for Neural Network Associative Memory Storage)
L.Orzo, E.Labos, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary
- 15.00-15.30
- A Statistical Model of the CA3 Region of the Hippocampus
T.Gröbler, G.Barna, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Diffusion Approximation of Discrete Markov Chains with Binomial-like
Transition Probabilities
M.Abundo, University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- 16.30-17.00
- On the Straight Line Crossing Problem for Two-Dimensional Random Walks
A. Di Crescenzo, Universita di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy
- 17.00-17.30
- Some Remarks on First-Passage-Time for Jump-Diffusion Processes
M.T.Giraudo, L.Sacerdote, University of Torino, Italy
- 17.30-18.00
- On Asymptotic Behaviors of Stochastic Models for Single Neuron Activity
V.Giorno, A.G.Nobile, L.M.Ricciardi, University of Naples, Italy
- 11.00-11.30
- Two Types of Bistable Behaviour in Thalamocortical Neurons
T.I.Toth, S.R.Williams, V.Crunelli, University of Wales, Cardiff,
England
- 11.30-12.00
- Multicompartmental Modeling of the Olfactory Bulb
I.Aradi, P.Erdi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- 12.00-12.30
- A Method for Analysing Transients in Dendritic Trees with Nonuniform
Segments
M. Ohme, A. Schierwagen, University of Leipzig, Germany
- 12.30-13.00
- Control of Plastic Neural Oscillators
H.Nagashino, Y.Kinouchi, University of Tokushima, Japan
- 16.00-16.30
- Cerebellar Involvement in the Control of Skilled Movements
F.Mechsner, University of Ulm, Germany
- 16.30-17.00
- Models of Spontaneous Oscillations in 'Simple' Animals
V.Di Maio, P.Lansky, Italian National Council for Research, Arco Felice,
Italy
- 17.00-17.30
- The Role of Genetic Redundancy in the Evolution of Genetic Systems
G.Nadori, L.Tornyi, I.Molnar, Lorand Eötvös University, Budapest,
Hungary
Chairpersons: M.Okuyama, Japan, and G.Porenta, Austria
- 9.00-9.30
- Search for Nonlinearity in the Heartbeat Time Series
A.Di Garbo, M.Barbi, S.Chillemi, R.Balocchi, C.Michelassi, C.Carpeggiani, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy
- 9.30-10.00
- An Analysis for the Plasma Disappearance Rate of Indocyanine Green
in a Turbid Media Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Diffusion Approximation
K.Awazu, University of Texas, USA
- 10.00-10.30
- A Computational Model of the Locus Coeruleus
A.C.M.Diogo, L.A.V.de Carvalho, COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 10.30-11.00
- Coffee Break
- 11.00-11.30
- Application of Non-Linear Classifiers to EEG at Rest for Identifying
Psychiatric Disorders
J.Magdolen, P.Rappelsberger, G.Dorffner, A.Flexer, G.Winterer, University
of Vienna, Austria
- 11.30-12.00
- The Generalised Preprocessing Perceptron for Medical Data Analysis:
A Case Study for the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
L.Anttila, P.Eklund, L.Kallin, P.Koskinen, T.-A.Penttilä, Umea
University, Sweden
- 12.00-12.30
- An Optimum Sampling Problem of Stochastic Processes and Its Application
in Endocrinology
X.Zhongjie, P.Zhang, C.Hseih, M.Xu, L.Xiamin, Peking University, China
- 14.00-14.30
- A Manipulator for 3D Ultrasonography - A Robotic Experience
I.Duleba, W.Ilczyszyn, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
- 14.30-15.00
- ACU - A Therapy Advice System Based on Acupuncture and Moxibustion
N.H.Phuong, L.D.Long, T.Q.Minh, Vietnam National Center for Natural
Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
- 15.00-15.30
- Emergence of Chaos in the Classical SIRS Epidemiologic Model
P.Sabatier, P.M.Guigal, D.M.Dubois, Ecole Vètèrinaire de Lyon,
France
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Epidemiological Monitor of Antenatal Screening for Down's Syndrome
V.Lanska, D.Stejskal, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine,
Prague, Czech Republic
- 16.30-17.00
- Normal and Pathological Adaptation of Children to Mental Effort
D.A. Napalkov, M.L. Sosenko, Moscow State University, Russia
- 17.00-17.30
- The Role of Time in Socialization, Mind Control and Psychotherapy
M.Okuyama, Ohmiya Child Health Center, Ohmiya-shi, Japan
- 17.30-18.00
- Performing Psychological Thinking: Psychotherapy between Systems Theory
and Postmodernity
J.Kooistra, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Chairpersons: K.Balkus, USA, P.Ballonoff, USA, and
S.A.Umpleby, USA
- 9.00-9.30
- A Comparison of the Stability of the Socio-Economic Systems of the
United States and Russia
S.A.Umpleby, P.A.Makeyenko, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
- 9.30-10.00
- Human Adaptation to a Changing Socio-Economic Environment: Transition
to the Openness
A.Dreimanis, Environmental State Inspectorate, Riga, Latvia
- 10.00-10.30
- Eastern Post-Cold War "Peace Dividend": General Typology of Components
C.Mesjasz, Academy of Economics, Cracow, Poland
- 10.30-11.00
- Coffee Break
- 11.00-11.30
- Total Quality Management, Reengineering or Something Else - A Basic
Tool of Cybernetics of the Socio-Economic Systems and Country Development
in Central and Eastern Europe
M.Mulej, S.Kajzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- 11.30-12.00
- Informal R&D and (Real) National Innovation Systems
M.S.Lipsett, R.K.Smith, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- 12.00-12.30
- Shouldn't We just Mind our own Business?
O.Forsgren, O.Henfridsson, Umea University, Sweden
- 12.30-13.00
- Does Structure Matter?
P.A.Ballonoff, Ballonoff Consulting Service, Washington, D.C., USA
- 14.00-14.30
- General Systems in the World of Systems
K.Balkus, Florida State University, Mexico Beach, FL, USA
- 14.30-15.00
- The Self-Organization of Socio-Economic Systems from an Information-Theoretic Approach: The Case of Industrial Districts
J.Such, Faculty of Economics, Valencia, Spain
- 15.00-15.30
- Virtual Structures in Sociocultural Systems
J.J.Hagen, University of Salzburg, Austria
- 11.00-11.30
- Some Problems of Evolution of Social Systems
V.Degtiar, Moscow State University, Russia
- 11.30-12.00
- The Interplay between Strategic, Political and Innovative Processes
of Management - The Case of Bennet BV
S.Ree, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- 12.00-12.30
- A Decision Support Approach for R & D Resource Allocation
A.Jakubowski, R.Kulikowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- 12.30-13.00
- The 'Optimal' Budget for Austria under Patience and Impatience
R.Neck, S.Karbuz, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Chairpersons: G.Broekstra, Netherlands, and R.Hough, USA
- 9.00-9.30
- A Complexity Perspective of Organizing
G.Broekstra, Nijenrode University, Breukelen, The Netherlands
- 9.30-10.00
- Against Evaluation?
A.Gregory, University of Humberside, Hull, United Kingdom
- 10.00-10.30
- The Change Process within the National Health Service, Using Darlington
Memorial Hospital as a Case Study.
S.Roberts, I.Sharratt, University of Teesside, Cleveland, England
- 10.30-11.00
- Coffee Break
- 11.00-11.30
- Cybernetics of Multinational Production Systems
B.Schiemenz, Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany
- 11.30-12.00
- Quality Management via Organisational Feedback-Loops
S.Haferkamp, C.Wunn, G.Strina, K.Henning, Institute of Entrepreneurial Cybernetics, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- 12.00-12.30
- Behavioral Systems Levels in the Business Firm
J.W.Henke, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA
- 12.30-13.00
- Does Modern Information Technology Increase Flexibility and Productivity?
J.D.M.Kruisinga, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 14.00-14.30
- Information Systems and Competitive Advantage
S.Treven, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- 14.30-15.00
- Knowledge Utilization Process in Business Environment
M.Verkasalo, P.Lappalainen, Nokia Telecommunications, Haukipudas,
Finland
- 15.00-15.30
- Parameterized Petri Nets for Organizing Human and Artificial Agents
G.Agimont, G.Libert, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Lean Management - through the Looking Glass of System Theory
B. Blöchl, Fachhochschule Lausitz, Senftenberg, Germany
- 16.30-17.00
- Systems Methodologies, Reference Systems and Science
D.Tsagdis, University of Humberside, Hull, England
- 17.00-17.30
- Business Ethics in Poland: Sketches to the Portrait
W.W.Gasparski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- 17.30-18.00
- Managing Stories: A Community Research Perspective on Water
M.Vahl, University of Humberside, Hull, England
Chairperson: A-M.Tjoa, Austria
- 11.00-11.30
- Query Processing in Object-Oriented Databases
L.Wang, M.Wing, C.Davis, N.Revell, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
- 11.30-12.00
- Optimal Partitioning of a Distributed Relational Database for Multistage
Decision-Making Support Systems
L.Borzemski, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
- 12.00-12.30
- How to Measure Cognitive Complexity in Human-Computer Interaction
M.Rauterberg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich,
Switzerland
- 14.00-14.30
- Design of Visual Interfaces to Coordinate Real-Time Decision Making
in Hierarchical Structures
S. Nishida, Osaka University, Japan
- 14.30-15.00
- A Block Approach for Flow-Shop Scheduling to Minimize Maximum Cost
J.Grabowski, C.Smutnicki, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
- 15.00-15.30
- Integrated Product Development: New Challenges for Engineering Cybernetics
R.Rohatynski, Technical University of Zielona Gora, Poland
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Compression and Reconstruction of Movie Sequences by Means of Loeve-Karhunen Expansion
L.Favella, N.Balossino, M.T.Reineri, Universita di Torino, Italy
- 16.30-17.00
- Three Dimensional Computer Vision for Computer Design and Manufacturing Applications
M.Milanova, R.Kunchev, J.Amat, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 17.00-17.30
- Long-Range Correlations in Computer Programs
P.Kokol, J.Brest, V.Zumer, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- 17.30-18.00
- An Exact Algorithm for Capacity and Flow Assignment in Wide Area Computer
Networks
M.Gola, A.Kasprzak, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
Chairpersons: F.Heylighen, Belgium, and S.A.Umpleby, USA
- 14.00-14.30
- Language and Metaphors of Cyberspace
G.J.Marshall, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
- 14.30-15.00
- Four Models from Cybernetics to Guide our Understanding of Cyberspace
S.A.Umpleby, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
- 15.00-15.30
- Electronic Agrarianism: Or Thomas Jefferson Gets a Modem
K.Howley, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- CYBERSTADT: Problems of Growth of Virtual Communities
M.J.Lipner, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- 16.30-17.00
- Of Mind, Body and Machine: Cyborg Cultural Politics in the Age of
Hypertext
J.M.Albright, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
USA
- 17.00-17.30
- The Distortion of the Outside/Inside Antonymy
A.Cecchi, Terni, Italy
- 17.30-18.00
- Fiction as Artificial Life: Exploring the Ideosphere
M.A.Taylor, Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan
- 11.00-11.30
- Meta-Portfolios: Fractal Maps of Cyber-Markets
M.F.Schreiber, University of Economics and Business Administration,
Vienna, Austria
- 11.30-12.00
- Semantic Webs: A Cyberspatial Representational Form for Cybernetics
C.Joslyn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- 12.00-12.30
- Algorithms for the Self-Organization of Distributed, Multi-User Networks.
Possible Application to the Future World Wide Web
J.Bollen, F.Heylighen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
- 12.30-13.00
- The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: From Metaphor to Model
F.Heylighen, J.Bollen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
- 14.00-14.30
- Global Brains and Communication in a Complex Adaptive World
G.Mayer-Kress, Beckman Institute, UIUC, Urbana, IL, USA
- 14.30-15.00
- Implementing Gibsonian Virtual Environments
D.Schmalstieg, M.Gervautz, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- 15.00-15.30
- A Logic for Networked Virtual World
P.Camargo Silva, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-18.00
- Panel Discussion
with all symposium contributors and other interested participants
Chairperson: Y.Kodratoff, France
- 14.00-14.30
- Discovering Causal Rules in Relational Databases
F.Esposito, D.Malerba, V.Ripa, G.Semeraro, Universita degli Studi
di Bari, Italy
- 14.30-15.00
- Efficient Algorithms for Mining and Manipulating Associations in Texts
R.Feldman, I.Dagan, W.Klösgen, GMD, St.Augustin, Germany
- 15.00-15.30
- Using SQL Primitives and Parallel DB Servers to Speed up Knowledge
Discovery in Large Relational Databases
A.A.Freitas, S.H.Lavington, University of Essex, Colchester, United
Kingdom
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Discovering Foreign Key Relations in Relational Databases
A.J.Knobbe, P.W.Adriaans, Syllogic, Houten, The Netherlands
- 16.30-17.00
- Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Mining in Warranty Cost Data
C.Legner, S.Ohl, G.Nakhaeizadeh, Daimler-Benz AG, Ulm, Germany
- 17.00-17.30
- On an Algorithm for Finding all Interesting Sentences
H.Mannila, H.Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 17.30-18.00
- An Original Environment for Cooperative Scientific Knowledge Test,
Revision and Discovery
P.Munteanu, B.Caillaud, J.F.Serignat, Universitè Stendhal, Grenoble,
France
- 11.00-11.30
- ARCII: A System for Inducing and Simplifying Dependence and Causal
Dependence Relationships
G.Pavillon, INSERM, Le Vesinet, France
- 11.30-12.00
- The Use of Statistics in Semantic Query Optimization
A.Sayli, B.Lowden, University of Essex, England
- 12.00-12.30
- A Discretization Method of Continuous Attributes in Induction Graphs
D.A. Zighed, R. Rakotomalala, S. Rabaseda, Universitè Lumiere
Lyon 2, Bron, France
Chairpersons: G.Palm, Germany, and G.Dorffner, Austria
- 14.00-14.30
- Statistical Evaluation of Neural Network Experiments: Minimum Requirements
and Current Practice
A.Flexer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Vienna, Austria
- 14.30-15.00
- Adaptive Analysis and Visualization in High Dimensional Data Spaces
G.Palm, F.Schwenker, University of Ulm, Germany
- 15.00-15.30
- Adaptive Learning Algorithm for Principal Component Analysis with
Partial Data
A.Cichocki, W.Kasprzak, W.Skarbek, Frontier Lab, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Reinforcement Learning for Cybernetic Control
M.Pendrith, M.Ryan, A.Hoffmann, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
- 16.30-17.00
- A Neural Circuit to Handle Passive Extinction in Conditioned Reinforcement
Learning
A.Gülöksüz, U.Halici, Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
- 17.00-17.30
- Truncated Temporal Differences with Function Approximation: Successful
Examples Using CMAC
P.Cichosz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- 17.30-18.00
- Adaptive Classification in Autonomous Agents
C.Scheier, D.Lambrinos, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 11.00-11.30
- A Study of the Adaptation of Learning Rule Parameters Using a Meta
Neural Network
C.McCormack, University College Cork, Ireland
- 11.30-12.00
- Lower Bounds on Identification Criteria for Perceptron-like Learning
Rules
M.Schmitt, Technical University of Graz, Austria
- 12.00-12.30
- Learning to Control Dynamic Systems
M.Riedmiller, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- 12.30-13.00
- Neuronal Adaptivity and Network Fault-Tolerance
D.Horn, N.Levy, E.Ruppin, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
- 14.00-14.30
- Tracking of Non-Stationary Time-Series Using Resource-Allocating RBF
Networks
A.McLachlan, D.Lowe, Aston University, United Kingdom
- 14.30-15.00
- Neural Networks: Do They Really Outperform Linear Models? Exchange
Rate Forecasting Using Weekly Data
T.H.Hann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- 15.00-15.30
- Hippocampal Two-Stage Learning and Memory Consolidation
A.Bibbig, T.Wennekers, University of Ulm, Germany
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Analog Computations with Mapped Neural Fields
A.Schierwagen, H.Werner, University of Leipzig, Germany
- 16.30-17.00
- The Role of Reinforcement in a Reading Model
H.Ruellan, LIMSI/CNRS, Orsay, France
- 17.00-17.30
- Quasi Mental Clusters: A Neural Model of Knowledge Discovery in Narrative
Texts
S.W.K.Chan, J.Franklin, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- 9.00-9.30
- An Application of the Saturated Attractor Analysis to Three Typical
Models
J. Feng, B. Tirozzi, University of Munich, Germany
- 9.30-10.00
- On a New Gauge-Theoretical Framework for Controlling Neural Network
Dynamics
E.Pessa, G.Resconi, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia,
Italy
- 10.00-10.30
- Investigation of the Attractor Structure in the Continuous Hopfield
Model
S.Amin, BT Laboratories, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Chairpersons: V.Marik, Czech Republic, and E.Buchberger, Austria
- 11.00-11.30
- Anxieties around AI - Philosophical and Practical, Educational Response
T.Vamos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- 11.30-12.00
- A Look at CLP - Theory and Application
J.Csonto, J.Paralic, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
- 12.00-12.30
- Modifying and Justifying Recursive Programs in Inductive Theorem Proving:
Why and How?
M.Franova, CNRS & Universitè Paris Sud, Orsay, France
- 14.00-14.30
- A New Approach for the Unsupervised Parity Problem
T.Y.T.Chan, University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan
- 14.30-15.00
- Structural Regression Trees: First Steps
S.Kramer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Vienna, Austria
- 15.00-15.30
- An Urn Model for Autonomous Learning
C.Liu, B.Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- A Data Preparation for Relational Inductive Learning in Robotics
A.Rieger, University of Dortmund, Germany
- 16.30-17.00
- A Navigation System for Mobile Robots Using Visual Feedback and Artificial
Potential Fields
F.Serradilla, D.Maravall, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain
- 17.00-17.30
- On the Cognition of Synthetic Characters
P.Petta, R.Trappl, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Vienna, Austria
- 11.00-11.30
- Multi-Agent Systems as Support of Consensual Knowledge Bases for the
Development of Cooperative Environments
A.Quintero, M.E.Ucros, S.Takahashi, Universidad de los Andes, Santafe
de Bogota, Colombia
- 11.30-12.00
- Engineering Design Support and Intelligent Agents
B.Lees, University of Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom
- 12.00-12.30
- Multi-Agent System with Qualitative Simulation Unit
V.Marik, O.Stepankova, O.Flek, Czech Technical University, Prague,
Czech Republic
- 12.30-13.00
- Control of an Autonomous Agent by Applying Selected Hypotheses Tracking
B.Kreczmer, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
- 14.00-14.30
- Natural Language Explanations for Constraint-Based Expert Systems
H.Horacek, University of Konstanz, Germany
- 14.30-15.00
- The Generation of Idiomatic and Collocational Expressions
J.Matiasek, Austrian Research Institute f. Artificial Intelligence,
Vienna, Austria
- 15.00-15.30
- Decision Techniques in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System
J.Psutka, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Towards Logical Analysis of Rule-Based Systems: Quality and Reliability
Verification
A.Ligeza, P.Fuster Parra, Technical University, Cracow, Poland
- 16.30-17.00
- Evaluation of the Quality of a Rule Base
I.Aguilo-Pons, G.Fiol-Roig, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma
de Mallorca, Spain
- 17.00-17.30
- A Model for Representing Causal Diagnostic Reasoning
P.Fuster Parra, A.Ligeza, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de
Mallorca, Spain
- 17.30-18.00
- Intelligent Search Algorithms in Scheduling
E.Dudek-Dyduch, T.Dyduch, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Cracow, Poland
WORKSHOP 1:
System, the Quantum, and Complexity
- 14.00-14.30
- System, the Quantum, and Complexity: General Introduction
M.E.Carvallo, Groningen, The Netherlands
- 14.30-15.00
- Quantum Cybernetics: Systemic Modelling instead of Magical Mystifications
of Quantum Theory
G.Grössing, Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies, Vienna,
Austria
- 15.00-15.30
- Time Generated by Intrinsic Observers
K.Svozil, University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
- 15.30-16.00
- Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.30
- Quanta, Incompleteness, and Levels of Constructivity
L.Löfgren, University of Lund, Sweden
- 16.30-17.00
- Is There Empirical Evidence that Psychology Requires a Quantum Theoretical Description?
W.von Lucadou, Institut f.Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, Freiburg/Br., Germany
- 17.00-17.30
- Geometric Analysis: The Double-Slit Interference Experiment and Magnetic
Resonance Imaging
W.Schempp, University of Siegen, Germany
- 17.30-18.00
- Cybernetics and Evolution: A Philosophical Examination in a Wittgensteinian
Light
G.L.Farre, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
- 11.00-11.30
- Hierarchically Emergent Fractal Evolution
S. Fussy, G. Grössing, H. Schwabl, Austrian Institute for Nonlinear
Studies, Vienna, Austria
- 11.30-12.00
- Autonomous Systems: Description and Construction
E.von Goldammer, C.Kennedy, J.Paul, H.Lerchner, R.Swik, Institute
for Cybernetics and Systems Theory, Bochum, Germany
- 12.00-12.30
- On a Semantics for Cooperative Agents Scenarios
J.Pfalzgraf, V.Sofronie, K.Stokkermans, RISC-Linz, J.Kepler University,
Linz, Austria
- 12.30-13.00
- Introducing and Modeling Polycontextural Logics
R.Kaehr, T.Mahler, Institute for Cybernetics and Systems Theory, Bochum,
Germany
- 14.00-14.30
- Dead and Living Systems: Their Relation to Formal Logical Descriptions
E.von Goldammer, J.Paul, C.Kennedy, Institute for Cybernetics and
Systems Theory, Bochum, Germany
- 14.30-15.30
- Panel Discussion
with all workshop contributors and other interested participants