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DMMD 2011 Symposium: Distributed machine learning and sparse representation with massive data sets
Web page: http://research.ict.csiro.au/conferences/machine-learning/

The symposium will take place at the CSIRO Campus in Sydney (Marsfield), Australia.

The exponentially increasing demand for computing power as well as physical and economic limitations has contributed to a proliferation of distributed and parallel computer architectures. To make better use of current and future high-performance computing, and to fully benefit from these massive amounts of data, we must discover, understand and exploit the available parallelism in machine learning. Simultaneously, we have to model data in an adequate manner while keeping the models as simple as possible, by making use of a sparse representation of the data or sparse modelling of the respective underlying problem.

The invited speakers are:

Samy Bengio (Google Research, CA, USA)
Barbara Hammer (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Yann LeCun (New York University, NY, USA)
Michael Mahoney (Stanford University, CA, USA)

Call for Papers / Extended Abstracts

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The Third International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2010) will be held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 4-6 September 2010.

The workshop is comprised of a group of researchers with diverse yet related interests, overlapping in the area of self-organizing systems and methods for characterizing those systems in ways that may ultimately allow them to be guided toward prespecified goals. Information theory and graph theory are core to many of these methods; quantifying complexity and its sources a common theme.

If interested in participating, send an extended abstract to the email addresses on the workshop web site.  Selected works from the workshop will likely be published in a special journal issue (as has been the case in the past).  More information on the GSO-2010 web site.

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You are invited to submit to and/or attend The First Australasian Workshop on Computation in Cyber-Physical Systems (CompCPS-2010).
We are organising this event here in Sydney, on the 15-16 July, in the Lecture Theatre at the CSIRO Marsfield site.

The name “cyber-physical system” (CPS) was chosen by the NSF and other United States federal agencies for systems that coherently combine computational and physical elements.

The CPS field builds up on knowledge and practical experiences of embedded systems, sensor networks, multi-robot teams, modular/swarm robotics, amorphous computing, programmable materials, evolvable/adaptive hardware, etc., and yet promise to form a unique field.

This Workshop will focus on distributed computation in CPS – the computation processes that integrate multiple data streams, compress and structure high-dimensional information, synchronise the distributed dynamics, adapt to topological changes within networks, optimise multiple sensorimotor loops, etc.

Several prominent invited speakers from Australia, Spain and USA will present different aspects of this rapidly developing research field.

Anyone interested in participating in the workshop is encouraged to submit a two-page extended abstract by May 16, 2010. Notifications will be sent by June 11, 2010 to all those who will be invited to the workshop. All accepted submissions will be allocated an oral presentation slot. See the Workshop Web Page for details.

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There’s a special session at AHS-2008: the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (June 22-25, 2008, Noordwijk, The Netherlands) on “Evolutionary and Self-Organizing Sensors, Actuators and Processing Hardware” (ESOSAPH). Recent technology has witnessed the advent of cheap ubiquitous sensing, processing and actuating capabilities for isolated, distributed or collective robotic systems. These appear in the form of intelligent materials, nano-motors and -sensors, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), grid processors, Avogadro-scale digital circuits and similar structures. Established conventional AI computation paradigms do not harness the full potential of this new type of technological ability that includes dynamic reconfiguration, addition or removal of sensors, actuators or processing hardware. Classical AI paradigms are inadequate to deal with the requirements of (more…)

The ProMAS workshop series aims to address the theoretical and practical programming issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. In particular, ProMAS aims to address how multi-agent systems designs or specifications can be effectively implemented. The main areas of interest of the ProMAS workshop concern the development and programming of Multi-Agent Systems, ranging from tools, (new) agent and organizational programming concepts to semantics and formal verification. Paper submission deadline: February 1st, Workshop date 12th/13th May on AAMAS 2008. For details, see the ProMAS 2008 webpage.

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The workshop will review and discuss the available technologies, their limitations, their adaptability to different environmental natural or artificial calamities (humanitarian demining obviously but also Earthquake, fire, chemical pollution, natural disaster, CBRN-E threat, etc) and discusses the development efforts to automate tasks related  to demining / detection / interventions  processes wherever possible through the use of Robotics Systems and other technologies.  Abstract deadline is December 15, the workshop takes place 28-30 March, 2008, at the American University in Cair, Egypt. For details, go to www.iarp-robotics.org.