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CFA: Erice School on Granular Computing, December 2009
A few more scholarships available
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ERICE SCHOOL ON GRANULAR COMPUTING
Erice-Sicily (Italy), December 6-13, 2009
School Website: http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it
On-line Application Form avalable on the web site
4 grants are available covering the school fee and accommodation, seethe
website for the request.
PURPOSE OF THE COURSE
The aim of the school is to assess the theoretical and computational
tools at the basis of large families of algorithms for solving
problems of:
* feature extraction
* classification
* learning regression functions.
The theoretical perspective is to fill up - at a given fuzziness degree
- the holes between observed points in a feature space. The goal is
to supply a unifying reading to the vast variety of approaches and
algorithms forming the tiles of a complex puzzle. The leading thread
goes with the amount of information we have to align the data in a given
order, ranging from a probabilistic framework in the best case to a
connectionist one when you are left strictly alone with data. Relevant
diversions will be connected to the tool you have for representing and
processing data, such as ICA, spanning from pure connectionist paradigms
to fully analytical frameworks through various nuances of fuzziness,
roughness and intermediate milieus.
The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with
different scientific background (including computer science, physics,
mathematics, biology, etc) who wish to learn the science of processing
experimental data.
Student presentations may also constitute the test for credit
acquisition within PhD programs.
LIST OF LECTURERS
* Lofti Zadeh, Univ. of California, USA.
* Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada.
* Fernando Gomide, University of Camminas, Brazil.
* Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland.
* Hujun Yin, University of Manchester, UK.
* Vyacheslav Shkodirev, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University,
Russia.
* Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy.
* Carlo Francesco Morabito, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy.
* Simone Bassis, University of Milano, Italy.
* Bruno Apolloni, University of Milano, Italy.
THE SCHOOL IS SUPPORTED BY
IIASS, International Institute for High Scientific Studies,
University of Milano
University of Alberta
SIREN, Italian Society for Neural Networks
ENNS, European Neural Networks Society
MIR, Machine Intelligence Research Network
APPLICATION
Deadline expired. A few late applications may be considered.
The school is open to all motivated students and research scientists, of
any nationality.
Applicants with few experience should include a recommendation letter of
their supervisor.
Places are limited to a maximum of 80 participants in addition to the
lecturers.
REGISTRATION FEE
Full registration fee : 700,00 Euro
A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and
documented requests.
The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 6 to
13 Dec), social dinner, a one day excursion to ancient temples, and a
copy of the proceedings of the school. All the lecturers and
participants will be accommodated in the Ettore
Majorana Center for Scientific Culture (EMCSC)
buildings in Erice.
Transportation from Palermo Airport (or train station) to the Erice
Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form at least 10
days before your arrival in Palermo.
FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION
please visit the website
http://smirnov.usr.dsi.unimi.it/
or contact
Dr. Simone Bassis
tel: 02 50316295
e.mail: bas...@dsi.unimi.it
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