The Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS) division of C-DAC Mumbai
is organizing a two-day Workshop on Rule Based Expert Systems at the
Navi Mumbai (Kharghar) campus on 17th and 18th October, 2008. The
workshop is meant to provide a comprehensive introduction to Expert
Systems, focusing on the practical application. This workshop is
targeted at academicians, IT Managers, consultants, domain experts,
professionals working on advisory systems and potentially anyone who
feels a need for building systems with human expertise.

The brochure gives you a brief information on the workshop, which can
be located at the C-DAC Mumbai website, at this URL:
http://www.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/cdacmumbai/research_and_publications/research\
_groups/kbcs_artificial_intelligence/events
Kindly forward the details about the workshop to all those whom you
feel may be interested in participating in the workshop. You may also
go ahead and blog about it, post it to mailing lists, groups, and
communities etc. Do keep us informed about it.

(Apologies for multiple postings)

                     LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

                          NICSO 2008
            International Workshop on Nature Inspired
             Cooperative Strategies for Optimization

                       Puerto Palace Hotel
                   Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife
                      12-14 November  2008

                 http://www.gci.org.es/nicso2008

                      nicso2008@...


        *NEWS*: EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 12th, 2008

NICSO 2008 is the third edition of the International Workshop on
Nature Inspired  Cooperative Strategies for Optimization.
Its  aims are:
(1) to foster a deeper understanding of "cooperativity" in
         computational optimisation systems, and
(2) to encourage a vigorous exchange of ideas about emerging
         research areas in cooperative problem solving strategies.

The accepted papers will be published in the Springer book series on
Studies in Computational Intelligence.

The authors of the  best accepted  papers will be invited to revise
and expand their  contributions for  publication in a special issue in
the Memetic Computing Journal (Springer) shortly after the event.

All submissions (only pdf file) must be sent at nicso2008@....
The length of each contribution will not exceed 12 pages.

Produce a camera ready copy using NICSO2008 latex style found at
http://www.gci.org.es/nicso2008.

Each contribution must providing original results, insights and
experimental innovations.

All submitted papers will be blind reviewed and acceptance will be
based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity.

IMPORTANT DATES:
- *EXTENDED* submission deadline: September 12th, 2008
- Notification of Acceptance: September, 30
- Deadline for Camera-ready:  October, 20


--
Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD)
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
tel: 0039 095 7383038
fax: 0039 095 330094
Email: mpavone@...
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I've been researching short term investment stratigies using a number
of soft computing approaches. The resutls appear to be very positive.
Is anyone else looking into this type of application?

Jerry

The AI Mind in Win32Forth free online for robots at
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/mind4th.html
has just been updated with a KB-traversal
feature that traverses the knowledge base
and keeps the AI Mind thinking endlessly.

http://mind.sourceforge.net/mind4th.html
is another source of versions of MindForth.

http://AIMind-i.com is a progeny of MindForth.

Hi,

I am new to the group. Does anyone in to group know about JOONE
http://www.joone.org/

Cheers,
Bert Murry

Is there any body can access this paper?
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1192809&isnu\
mber=26746
<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1192809&isn\
umber=26746>
That paper is about AI on supply chain.
If any body can access, kindly share it to me.

Thank you very much.



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I've used JOONE in academic and professional settings.  Not sure if
I'll be able to help or not.  Do you have any specific questions?

T.R.


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<hcm1955@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to the group. Does anyone in to group know about JOONE
> http://www.joone.org/
>
> Cheers,
> Bert Murry
>

Please distribute
(Apologies for multiple posting)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

EvoMUSART 2009

7th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music,
Sound, Art and Design

15-17 April, 2009, Tubingen, Germany

http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoMUSART/EvoMUSART.html
http://www.evostar.org

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INTRODUCTION
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EvoMUSART 2009 is the seventh workshop of the EvoNet working group on
Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events
and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART
2009 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically
inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to
promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this area.

The workshop will be held from 15-17 April, 2009 in Tubingen, Germany
as part of the EvoStar event.

Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included
in the EvoWorkshops proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The papers should concern the use of biology inspired techniques -
e.g. Evolutionary  Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural
Networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc. - in the scope of the generation,
analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and
other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

- Generation
     o Biologically Inspired Design and Art-Systems that create
       drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text,
       objects, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.;
     o Biologically Inspired Sound and Music - Systems that create
       music, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound
       analysis, etc.;
     o Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music;
     o Other related generative techniques;
- Theory
     o Computational Aesthetics, Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty;
     o Representation techniques;
     o Surveys of the state-of-the-art in the area; identification of
       weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis; classification;
     o Validation methodologies;
     o Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related
       areas;
     o New models designed to promote the creative potential of
       biologically inspired computation;
- Computer Aided Creativity
     o Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to
       promote the creativity of a human user;
     o New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle;
     o Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biology
       inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to
       these approaches; the resulting artifacts;
     o Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;
- Automation
     o Techniques for automated fitness assignment;
     o Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks
       is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques
       to produce novel objects;
     o Systems that exploit biologically inspired computation to
       perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some
       other types of artistic object;

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format no later than November 5, 2008. Formatting instructions
available at:

http://www..springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of
the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the
results of the review by January 9, 2009.

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on
the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a
camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources
and pictures, by January 21, 2009. The accepted papers will appear in
the workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which
will be available at the workshop.

Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be
found on the following pages:
     Evo*2009: http://www.evostar.org
     EvoMUSART2009:
http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoMUSART/EvoMUSART.html


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission:         5 November 2008
Notification:       9 January 2008
Camera ready:       21 January 2009
Workshop:           15-17 April 2009

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France
Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Andrew Gildfind, Google, Inc., Australia
Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Artemis Sanchez Moroni, Renato Archer Research Center, Brazil
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA
Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada
Carla Farsi, University of Colorado, USA
Christian Jacob , University of Calgary, Canada
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
David Hart, Independent Artist, USA
Eleonora Bilotta, University of Calabria, Italy
Erwin Driessens, Independent Artist, Netherlands
Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA
Gary Nelson, Oberlin College, USA
Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany
James McDermott, University of Limerick, Ireland
John Collomosse, University of Bath, UK
Jon Bird, University of Sussex, UK
Jonatas Manzolli , UNICAMP, Brasil
Jorge Tavares, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain
Luigi Pagliarini, Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting & University of Southern
Denmark, Italy
Maria Verstappen, Independent Artist, Netherlands
Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA
Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy
Nicolas Monmarché, University of Tours, France
Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Paul Brown, University of Sussex, UK
Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa , Portugal
Peter Bentley, University College London , UK
Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA
Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Rodney Waschka II, North Carolina State University, USA
Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Stephen Todd, IBM, UK
Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College,  University of London, UK
William Latham, Art Games Ltd, UK

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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Penousal Machado
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Machado AT dei DOT uc DOT pt

Juan Romero
University of A Coruna, Spain
jj AT udc DOT es

Jon McCormack
Monash University
Jon DOT McCormack AT infotech DOT monash DOT edu DOT au

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Penousal Machado
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Machado AT dei DOT uc DOT pt

Jon McCormack
Monash University
Jon DOT McCormack AT infotech DOT monash DOT edu DOT au

Workshop on Computational Intelligence Applied to Business
Jornada sobre Inteligencia Computacional Aplicada al Negocio
*** Early bird registration expires today ***

- JICAN2008 -
Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

September 25 2008

(+ complementary seminar on September 26)

http://jican.iti.upv.es


The Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica (ITI) organises the Workshop
on Computational Intelligence Applied to Business, JICAN2008. Its
purpose is twofold: on the one hand, to introduce this technology
among companies in any area; on the other, to show actual fields of
application to researchers in academia.

To achieve this we count on the participation of national and
international experts in Computational Intelligence, who will explain
the more relevant current tendencies in the area.

With this conference, the audience is expected to acquire a global
vision of the methodology that will help them introducing it in their
own companies.

With the support of the Spanish Chapter of IEEE-Computational
Intelligence Society.

PLEASE NOTE: The languages of the Workshop are English and Spanish.
Two-way simultaneous translation will be provided to those who require it.

Objectives
----------
The Workshop aims to introduce the key concepts in the field of
Computational Intelligence (CI) in a practical manner and with
particular emphasis in the applications in the industrial and
financial areas.

For this we will count on four outstanding keynote speakers plus ITI's
expert personnel, who will provide a basis of the different
methodologies in CI and a number of practical applications in which CI
was successfully employed.

Who should attend?
------------------
The workshop is aimed at :

- Companies: Project managers or directors (technical and non
technical) who, as part of their work, face complex problems related
to optimisation, prediction and decision making.

- Academia: Researchers and students interested in the practical
application of Computational Intelligence.

Talks
-----
See full programme in
http://jican.iti.upv.es/index.php/en/programme

List of Speakers
----------------
- Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide / SolveIT Software
- Carlos Cotta, Universidad de Malaga
- Helena R. Lourenço, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
- JJ Merelo, Universidad de Granada
- Anna Esparcia, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica (ITI)

Exhibition
----------
On Thursday 25th an all-day exhibition fair will be held showing
real world applications of Computational Intelligence.
If you are interested in presenting your application please have a
look at http://jican.iti.upv.es/index.php/en/exhibition for the
details.

Seminars
--------
There will be two seminars on Friday 26th complementing the topics
treated in the workshop.

Registration
------------
Prices

* General: 160 EUR + VAT
* ITI Associate: 30% discount
* Collaborator, IEEE or UPV member: 20% discount

20% additional discount for registrations done on or before
September 10th.

The price includes documentation plus coffee breaks and lunch on
Thursday

The Singularity Is Near -- at your local
science museum if it has the MindForth free AI
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/mind4th.html
on interactive display as an AI Mind Exhibit:

Albuquerque NM -- http://nmnaturalhistory.org
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

Baltimore MD -- http://www.marylandsciencecenter.org
Maryland Science Center

Berkeley CA -- http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org
Lawrence Hall of Science

Bloomingtown IN -- http://www.wonderlab.org
Wonderlab Museum of Science, Health, & Technology

Boston MA -- http://www.mos.org
Museum of Science

Brantford, Ontario, Canada -- http://www.pcmuseum.ca
Personal Computer Museum

Charlotte NC -- http://www.discoveryplace.org
Discovery Place

Chicago IL -- http://www.msichicago.org
Museum of Science and Industry

Columbus OH -- http://www.cosi.org
Center of Science and Industry (COSI)

Detroit MI -- http://www.detroitsciencecenter.org
Detroit Science Center

Jersey City NJ -- http://www.lsc.org
Liberty Science Center

Kansas City MO -- http://www.sciencecity.com
Science City at Union Station

Los Angeles CA -- http://www.californiasciencecenter.org
California Science Center

Louisville KY -- http://www.louisvillescience.org
Louisville Science Center

Manchester UK -- http://www.mosi.org.uk
Museum of Science and Industry (MoSI)

Mobile AL -- http://www.exploreum.net
Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center

Mountain View CA -- http://www.computerhistory.org
Computer History Museum

New York City NY -- http://www.nyscience.org
the New York Hall of Science

Norwich VT -- http://www.montshire.org
Montshire Museum of Science

Philadelphia PA -- http://www.fi.edu
the Franklin Institute Science Museum

Pittsburgh PA -- http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org
Carnegie Science Center

San Francisco CA -- http://www.exploratorium.edu
The Exploratorium

Santa Ana CA -- http://www.discoverycube.org
Discovery Science Center

Seattle WA -- http://www.pacsci.org
The Pacific Science Center

Shreveport LA -- http://www.sciport.org
Sci-Port Discovery Center

St. Louis MO -- http://www.slsc.org
St. Louis Science Center

Troy NY -- http://www.cmost.org
Children's Museum of Science and Technology

Tyler TX -- http://www.discoveryscienceplace.com
Discovery Science Place

Winston-Salem NC -- http://www.sciworks.org
Sci-Works

--
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/museum.html

Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia will give a presentation at the
RoboDevelopment Conference in Santa Clara, California (Wednesday,
November 19, 2008, 2:45 PM)

Brainstorm: A Learning Robotics Platform
-  Peter Nordin  -

To see the rest of the conference schedule:
http://www.robodevelopment.com/conference/agenda.html

Dear Colleagues
 
 
The 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09)
will be held in Tumkur (near Bangalore), India during December 16-18 2009. The
conference consists of paper presentations, special workshops, sessions, invited
talks and local tours, etc.  and it is one of
the biggest AI events in the world. We invite draft paper submissions. Please
see the website: www.iiconference.org  for more details of the conference.
 
Sincerely
 
 
Edward
Publicity Committee




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Superconductor Science and Technology is a multidisciplinary journal
for papers on all aspects of superconductivity.

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http://www.freewebs.com/mechanven/
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Hello,
   I would like to ask you to share in this group a list(s) of AI
research centers and independent researchers and their concrete fields
of AI research. I would like to keep a track of the newly created
approaches.

Sincerely,
Garo Garabedyan

i have to make an algo to find out connected friends.. similar to
linkedin and facebook.. any idea how?

--- In artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com, garo.garabedyan
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>   I would like to ask you to share in this group a list(s) of AI
> research centers and independent researchers and their concrete
fields
> of AI research. I would like to keep a track of the newly created
> approaches.
>
> Sincerely,
> Garo Garabedyan
>
As an independent researcher, I  am
preparing to exhibit AI Minds. See details at

http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/exhibit.html

A. T. Murray
--
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/kbsearch.html

EvoGames: First European Workshop on Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games

to be held as part of Evo*2009

Tübingen, Germany, 15-17 April 2009
www.evostar.org

__Introduction__

During the last years, games, and especially video games, have become
an important commercial factor within the software industry. They
provide an excellent test bed for and application of a wide range of
computational intelligence methods including evolutionary computation,
neural networks, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligence, and temporal
difference learning. There has been a rapid growth in research in this
area over the last few years, and this workshop aims to focus the
scientific developments onto Computational Intelligence techniques
that may be of practical value for utilization in existing or future
games.

__Topics of Interest__

We invite prospective participants to submit full papers covering
topics that include but are not limited to:
• Avatars and new forms of communication between game intelligence
and players
• Player satisfaction measurement and optimization
• Modelling player behaviour
• Evolutionary game theory
• Human-like artificial adversaries and emotion modeling
• Computational Intelligence in video games
• Learning in games
• Experimental methods for gameplay evaluation
• Evolutionary testing and debugging of games
• Games related to social, economic, and financial simulations
• Major challenges and emerging trends for various game genres
• General game intelligence (e.g. general purpose drop-n-play
Non-Player Characters, NPCs).

__EvoGAMES 2009 chairs__

Mike Preuss, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany
Anna I. Esparcia-Alcazar, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Spain

__EvoGAMES 2009 programme committee__

Lourdes Araujo, UNED, Spain
Wolfgang Banzhaf, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Luigi Barone, University of Western Australia
Nicola Beume, University of Dortmund, Germany
Simon Colton, Imperial College London, UK
Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos Cotta, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Marc Ebner, Universität Würzburg, Germany
Aniko Ekart, Aston University, UK
Antonio J. Fernandez Leiva, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Francisco Fernandez, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Mario Giacobini, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
David Hart, Fall Line Studio, USA
Philip Hingston, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Krzysztof Krawiec, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Oliver Kramer, University of Dortmund, Germany
Bill Langdon, University of Essex, UK
Simon Lucas, University of Essex, UK
Penousal Machado, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
JJ Merelo, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Steffen Priesterjahn, University of Paderborn, Germany
Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Terry Soule, University of Idaho, USA
Julian Togelius, IDSIA, Switzerland
Georgios N. Yannakakis, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

__Submission details and additional information__

Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format (instructions are downloadable from:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0)
using the online submission service no later than 5 November 2008.

The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the
program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results
of the review by December 2008.

The authors of accepted papers may have to improve their paper on the
basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera
ready version of their manuscripts, including all source files (text
and images), by January 2009. All accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings, published in the Springer LNCS series, which
will be available at the workshop.

The authors of papers that receive the best reviews will be nominated
for the 'Best paper Award'.

__Important Dates__

Submission deadline: 5 November 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 2008
Camera ready papers due: early January 2009
Workshop (within Evo*): 15-17 April 2009

__Web Addresses__

Conference web page

http://www.evostar.org

Workshop web page

http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoGAMES/EvoGAMES.html

There is a nice compilation of AI Institutes in INDIA at the following
URL: http://sigai.cdacmumbai.in/AI_India_compilation.pdf More
information can be located at http://sigai.cdacmumbai.in/

Though this list seems to be prepared in the first half of 2007, it
still provides adequate information including major focus areas under
AI, people involved, significant publications, and systems being
worked upon.

In hope, the information is useful. By the way, C-DAC Mumbai, INDIA is
organizing a two day workshop on rule based expert systems. More
details at:
http://www.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/cdacmumbai/research_and_publications/research\
_groups/kbcs_artificial_intelligence/events


--- In artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com, garo.garabedyan
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>   I would like to ask you to share in this group a list(s) of AI
> research centers and independent researchers and their concrete fields
> of AI research. I would like to keep a track of the newly created
> approaches.
>
> Sincerely,
> Garo Garabedyan
>

 CALL FOR PAPERS
 
International Journal of Imaging (IJI)
http://www.ceser.res.in/iji.html
ISSN 0974-0627
The main aim of the International Journal of Imaging (ISSN 0974-0627) is to
publish refereed, well-written original research articles, and studies that
describe the latest research and developments in the area of imaging. This is a
broad-based journal covering all branches of imaging, it’s application in
technology and interdisciplinary research. International Journal of Imaging
(IJI) is a peer-reviewed online journal and is published in Spring and Autumn
i.e. two times a year. The areas of interest include but are not limited to:
Image processing & reconstructions,
Statistical Imaging & Tomography,
Signal Processing
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) & Magnetic Resonance Tomography (MRT),
Positron Emission Tomography (PET),
Inverse Problem & Imaging,
Reconstruction, Restoration, and Enhancement,
Image Understanding, Tracking, Segmentation and Classification,
Face Recognition and Facial Expression Analysis,
Human-Machine Interfaces,
Image Acquisition and Calibration,
Pattern Analysis and Recognition,
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality,
Feature Extraction and Detection,
Neural Networks,
Speech Processing,
Telecommunication,
Filters, Algorithms, Video Coding and Watermarking,
Video Processing and Analysis,
Data Modelling and Visualization
Telecommunication
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Geophysical Diffraction Tomography (GDT),
Modelling, Simulation and Control,
Seismology,
Bio-Medicine,
Artificial Intelligence,
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Geophysical Diffraction Tomography (GDT),
Education, Databases & Knowledge Engineering,
Internet and Applications,
Parallel and Distributed Computing and
Inter-disciplinary nature of applications.
Manuscripts can also be sent to the Editor-in-Chief International Journal of
Imaging, via e-mail (tavares[at]fe.up.pt). Detailed instructions on how to
prepare your manuscript are available at Author Instructions
http://www.ceser.res.in/iji.html.
 
Sincerely,
 
João Manuel R. S. Tavares
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Imaging (IJI)
http://www.ceser.res.in/iji.html
E-mail: tavares[at]fe.up.pt




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Dear world AI lovers,

Here I would like to let you know that Shanghai Robotics Society has been set
up.

Robotics fans are often the minority, let alone in China. Anyway I have just
created the Shanghai Robotics Society in the Yahoo group and would like to
invite robot lovers currently based in China to join in. You will receive
information from time to time about meetings, events and so on (but not very
often in the beginning, forgive me). The link is below:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/shanghai_robotics_society/

Do pass the link to your friends in China who are interested in robotics,
artificial intelligence, computer sciences, engineering, Hi-tech... or even
Lego.

Regards,

Shen-ying Tung


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Please post
Thank you.
Colin Schmidt

The Philosophy of Identity in the Virtual
<http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=\
113&Itemid=209http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&\
task=view&id=113&Itemid=209http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option\
=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=209http://www.laval-virtual.org/ind\
ex.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=209http://www.laval-vi\
rtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=209>
Symposium 6, April 23, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM

Site:
http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1\
13&Itemid=209
<http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=\
113&Itemid=209>

For information on the venue and related Symposiums:
http://www.laval-virtual.org/ <http://www.laval-virtual.org/>


Topic:
Difference, Relation and Identity are three notions that are
fundamentals for the success of Virtual Reality technologies (VR and
AR). The aim of this symposium is to conceptualise the Identity of an
individual as a scientific concept whilst acknowledging the fact that
Identity cannot be studied without considering the other two notions.
The pros and cons of designing identities for or within VR become
obvious upon admitting that representing any Self will be interpreted at
some point by someone having his own values, opinions and experience in
life. Members of our society that self-procure, attribute or
redistribute Identity in the Virtual World bring about psychological
enquiries in relation to user intentionality, specific uses of VR
applications or general modifications to our ways of communicating.
Usability issues addressing the problem of Identity have not yet been
integrated into long-term visions of society and our needs. The Chair of
the session is thus open to all existential, ethical and epistemological
issues having to do with Identity in Virtual Communities.

**Important Dates**
Online papers submission opens       **November 30, 2008**
Submission of full papers               **January 19, 2009**
Notification of acceptation           **February 27, 2009**
Deadline for final revisions            **March 16, 2009**

Symposium chair: Colin Schmidt, colin.schmidt@...
<mailto:colin.schmidt@...>



For more information, see the Call for Paper
<http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=\
59&Itemid=111>
<http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=\
59&Itemid=111>

**Advanced Program**
Coming soon...

**Scientific Committee **

Jean-Paul BAQUIAST, Expert in Politics of Information Technologies.
Editor of AutomatesIntelligent.com & Member of PanEurope France (FR)
Mark BISHOP, Computer Science, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
Kerstin DAUTENHAHN, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Adaptive
Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
Charles ESS, Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies (Ethics, Global
Perspectives), Drury University USA & President of the Association of
Internet Researchers (USA)
Viorel GULICIUC, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Semiotics and Digital
Aesthetics, Stefan cel Mare University, Romania (RO)
Pierre LIVET, Director of CEPERC & Professor of Epistemology,
Aix-Marseille University (FR)
Lorenzo MAGNANI, Professor & Director of the Computational Philosophy
Laboratory, University of Pavia (IT)
Nadia MAGNENAT-THALMANN, Professor & Director of MIRALab, University of
Geneva (CH)
Maria-Caterina MANES-GALLO, Professor of Information and Communication
Sciences, Bordeaux University (FR)
Philippe QUEAU, Imagina & Director of the Information and Computing
Division at UNESCO (CH)
Shahid RAHMAN, Professor of Logic and Epistemology, MSH du Nord-Pas de
Calais & Lille III University (FR)
Francis ROUSSEAU, Professor of Computer Science, IRCAM Paris & IEEE
Computer France Section (FR)
Kevin WARWICK, Professor of Cybernetics, Reading University (UK)



THE SYMPOSIUM ABOVE IS PART OF VRIC'09 AT LAVAL VIRTUAL

Website: • http://www.laval-virtual.org
<http://www.laval-virtual.org/>

22 - 24 APRIL 2009 LAVAL, FRANCE

Important Dates
Online papers submission opens November 10, 2008
Submission of full papers January 19, 2009
Notification of acceptation February 27, 2009
Deadline for final revisions of full papers March 16, 2009
Office : Laval Virtual - 6 rue Léonard de Vinci - BP 0119 - 53001
LAVAL Cedex, T +33 (0)2 43 49 75 57, F +33 (0)2 43 49 75 98,
contact@... <mailto:contact@...>
Recognized or Potential Virtual Reality User, The most renowned
international specialists and the principal users of Virtual Reality
technology share the very latest techniques from their fields of
expertise.
VRIC'09 - Virtual Reality International Conference - will be held during
the 11th edition of Laval Virtual,
first European event devoted to Virtual Reality, Realtime 3D and
Interactive Techniques.
Spread the word!
Prof. Simon RICHIR
VRIC Conference Chair
Program: • Digital Factory - April 22, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
• Digital Art - April 22, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
• Virtual Humans in Psychological Science and Therapy: How, When and
Why? - April 23, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
• Mixed and Augmented Reality - April 23, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
• The Philosophy of Identity in the Virtual - April 23, 9-12 AM /
2-5 PM
• Laval Virtual Awards Ceremony & Best Paper Award - April 24, 12.30
PM (Exhibition Hall)
• Laval Virtual, Professional Exhibition & Demonstration Forum -
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Location: • VRIC - Théâtre de Laval (Conference Hall) - 32 rue de
la Paix, LAVAL
• Laval Virtual - Salle Polyvalente (Exhibition Hall) - Place de
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> Symposium 6, April 23, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
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>
>
>
> Site:
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> For information on the venue and related Symposiums:
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>
>
> Topic:
> Difference, Relation and Identity are three notions that are
> fundamentals for the success of Virtual Reality technologies (VR and
> AR). The aim of this symposium is to conceptualise the Identity of an
> individual as a scientific concept whilst acknowledging the fact that
> Identity cannot be studied without considering the other two notions.
> The pros and cons of designing identities for or within VR become
> obvious upon admitting that representing any Self will be interpreted
> at some point by someone having his own values, opinions and
> experience in life. Members of our society that self-procure,
> attribute or redistribute Identity in the Virtual World bring about
> psychological enquiries in relation to user intentionality, specific
> uses of VR applications or general modifications to our ways of
> communicating. Usability issues addressing the problem of Identity
> have not yet been integrated into long-term visions of society and our
> needs. The Chair of the session is thus open to all existential,
> ethical and epistemological issues having to do with Identity in
> Virtual Communities.
>
> **Important Dates**
> Online papers submission opens       **November 30, 2008**
> Submission of full papers               **January 19, 2009**
> Notification of acceptation           **February 27, 2009**
> Deadline for final revisions            **March 16, 2009**
>
> Symposium chair: Colin Schmidt, colin.schmidt@...
>
>
>
> For more information, see the Call for Paper
>
<http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemi\
d=111>
>
>
> **Advanced Program**
> Coming soon...
>
> **Scientific Committee **
>
> Jean-Paul BAQUIAST, Expert in Politics of Information Technologies.
> Editor of AutomatesIntelligent.com & Member of PanEurope France (FR)
> Mark BISHOP, Computer Science, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
> Kerstin DAUTENHAHN, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Adaptive
> Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
> Charles ESS, Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies (Ethics, Global
> Perspectives), Drury University USA & President of the Association of
> Internet Researchers (USA)
> Viorel GULICIUC, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Semiotics and
> Digital Aesthetics, Stefan cel Mare University, Romania (RO)
> Pierre LIVET, Director of CEPERC & Professor of Epistemology,
> Aix-Marseille University (FR)
> Lorenzo MAGNANI, Professor & Director of the Computational Philosophy
> Laboratory, University of Pavia (IT)
> Nadia MAGNENAT-THALMANN, Professor & Director of MIRALab, University
> of Geneva (CH)
> Maria-Caterina MANES-GALLO, Professor of Information and Communication
> Sciences, Bordeaux University (FR)
> Philippe QUEAU, Imagina & Director of the Information and Computing
> Division at UNESCO (CH)
> Shahid RAHMAN, Professor of Logic and Epistemology, MSH du Nord-Pas de
> Calais & Lille III University (FR)
> Francis ROUSSEAU, Professor of Computer Science, IRCAM Paris & IEEE
> Computer France Section (FR)
> Kevin WARWICK, Professor of Cybernetics, Reading University (UK)
>
>
>
> *THE SYMPOSIUM ABOVE IS PART OF *The Philosophy of Identity in the
> Virtual*
> AT LAVAL VIRTUAL
>
> *Website: . http://www.laval-virtual.org
>
> 22 - 24 APRIL 2009 LAVAL, FRANCE
>
> Important Dates
> Online papers submission opens November 10, 2008
> Submission of full papers January 19, 2009
> Notification of acceptation February 27, 2009
> Deadline for final revisions of full papers March 16, 2009
> Office : Laval Virtual - 6 rue Léonard de Vinci - BP 0119 - 53001
> LAVAL Cedex, T +33 (0)2 43 49 75 57, F +33 (0)2 43 49 75 98,
> contact@...
> Recognized or Potential Virtual Reality User, The most renowned
> international specialists and the principal users of Virtual Reality
> technology share the very latest techniques from their fields of
> expertise.
> VRIC'09 - Virtual Reality International Conference - will be held
> during the 11th edition of Laval Virtual,
> first European event devoted to Virtual Reality, Realtime 3D and
> Interactive Techniques.
> Spread the word!
> Prof. Simon RICHIR
> VRIC Conference Chair
> Program: . Digital Factory - April 22, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
> . Digital Art - April 22, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
> . Virtual Humans in Psychological Science and Therapy: How, When and
> Why? - April 23, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
> . Mixed and Augmented Reality - April 23, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
> . The Philosophy of Identity in the Virtual - April 23, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM
> . Laval Virtual Awards Ceremony & Best Paper Award - April 24, 12.30
> PM (Exhibition Hall)
> . Laval Virtual, Professional Exhibition & Demonstration Forum - April
> 22-24 (Exhibition Hall)
> Location: . VRIC - Théâtre de Laval (Conference Hall) - 32 rue de la
> Paix, LAVAL
> . Laval Virtual - Salle Polyvalente (Exhibition Hall) - Place de
> Hercé, LAVAL



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EvoNUM 2009 - 2nd European Workshop on Bio-inspired algorithms for
continuous parameter optimisation

incorporated in Evo* 2009

Tuebingen, Germany, 15-17 April 2009
---------------------------------

__Introduction__

Many engineering problems of both theoretical and practical interest
involve choosing the best configuration of a set of parameters to
achieve a specified objective. Numerical optimisation refers to the
case when these parameters take continuous real values, as opposed to
combinatorial optimisation, which deals with discrete values. Examples
include designing production processes for maximum efficiency, optimal
parameter adjustment for controllers and many others. EvoNUM focuses
on such problems.

We seek high quality papers involving the application of bio-inspired
algorithms (genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution
strategies, differential evolution, particle swarm optimization,
evolutionary programming, simulated annealing... and their hybrids) to
continuous optimisation problems in engineering. We also welcome
cross-fertilisation between Nature-inspired algorithms and more
classical numerical optimisation algorithms.

EvoNUM deals with engineering applications where continuous parameters
or functions have to be optimised, in fields such as control,
chemistry, agriculture, electricity, building and construction,
energy, aerospace engineering, design optimisation...

The workshop will be part of Evo* 2009, a joint event which will
incorporate EuroGP 2009, the 12th European Conference on Genetic
Programming, EvoCOP 2009, the 9th European Conference on Evolutionary
Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation, EvoBIO 2009, the 7th
Conference on Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and EvoWorkshops 2009, a
set of twelve thematic workshops on the applications of Evolutionary
Computation.

__Topics of Interest__

EvoNUM aims to cover areas that include but are not limited to:
- Local learning of parameters
- Mechanisms to incorporate constraints
- Theoretical developments
- Performance measures and performance analysis
- Benchmark problems

__EvoNUM chairs__

Anna I Esparcia-Alcazar, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Spain
Aniko Eckart, Aston University, United Kingdom

__Submission details and additional information__

Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format (instructions are downloadable from:

http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html)
using the online submission service no later than 5 November 2008.

The papers will be peer reviewed  by at least two members of the
program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results
of the review by December 2008.

The authors of accepted papers may have to improve their paper on the
basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera
ready version of their manuscripts, including all source files (text
and images), by January 2009. All accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings, published in the Springer LNCS series, which
will be available at the workshop.

The authors of papers that receive the best reviews will be nominated
for the 'Best paper Award'.

__Important Dates__

Submission deadline: 5 November 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 2008
Camera ready papers due: early January 2009
Workshop (within Evo*): 15-17 April 2009


__Web Addresses__

Conference web page
http://www.evostar.org

Workshop web page
http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoWorkshops.html

The BeVerb module is part of the MindExpansion beyond the
ProofOfConcept AI, which could think only in the format
of subject-verb-object (SVO). In the SVO syntax, a transitive
verb mediates the relationship between a subject operating on
a direct object. The KnowledgeBase of even a simple AI may
contain numerous propositions stated in the SVO format.
In the ProofOfConcept Forthmind, a chain of SVO ideas may
cause a looping sequence of repetitive thoughts, such as
the following.

  Cats eat fish.
  Fish eat bugs.
  Bugs eat germs.
  Germs kill cats.
  Cats eat fish...

The performance of the AI in learning the above ideas and in
thinking them in a potentially infinite loop was a useful tool
in debugging the AI software and completing the ProofOfConcept
phase.

In the MindExpansion phase of AI development, the VerbPhrase
module must permit the AI Mind to think not only with
transitive verbs of action but also with intransitive verbs
of being. It is more difficult for an AI programmer to get
the AI to think with verbs of being rather than with verbs
of action, because it is hard to implement the factors and
reasons for VerbPhrase to use a verb of being. Typically
a human user may cause the AI to think with a verb of being
by stating a fact or asking a question like, "Who are you?"
Then it is a simple choice for the AI software to respond
with a verb of being in a sentence like "I am Andru".

However, it is not so simple for the AI to get the correct
verb-form right. Like the proverbial engineering student
who said, "Last week I did not know what an engineer was;
now I are one," the emerging AI mentality was often saying
"I are Andru" instead of "I am Andru."

The problem was ameliorated by the coding of a minor
intervention in the BeVerb module, where any attempt by the
AI to use the wrong form of "to be" after a personal
pronoun was thwarted by the software substitution of the
correct form instead of the wrong form. Since there are
only a few personal pronouns and only a few (but highly
irregular) forms of "to be", it is not hard to intercept
the linkage of the pronoun with the verb-form and force
the thinking of the correct verb-form. However, the
practice of not letting the AI use the first form it
comes up with smacks of MindControl and ThoughtPolice.
How is it justified for a MindMaker to intervene in
the FreeWill of an AI to choose whatever VerbForm it
feels like -- even a wrong one?

The answer is that the choice of a verb-form is a two-step
process. In the first step, SpreadingActivation leads the
software to select a verb such as "to be." In the second step,
which is selecting the verb-form that will express an idea,
it is legitimate for the MindMaker to code an intervention
that steers the AI to the correct verb-form, because
arriving first at the wrong verb-form in conceptual
memory was nevertheless a successful step in the right direction.
It only needed straightening out so that the AI would not
think like the proverbial engineer but rather like a
well-educated liberal arts major.

--
http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/wiki/BeVerb

http://code.google.com/p/mindforth is an artificial Mind
written in a specific version of Win32Forth by Tom Zimmer.
The cognitive architecture of MindForth includes module-
stubs for future expansion into a robot motorium, exotic
sensory inputs and polyglot linguistic superstructures for
machine translation. MindForth is descended from the obsolete
Commodore Amiga AI program Mind.REXX from 1994. Mind for MSIE,
a tutorial AI Mind written in JavaScript for Microsoft Internet
Explorer (MSIE), shows how MindForth uses spreading activation
among concepts to generate chains of thought in English,
and potentially in other natural languages.

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindforth.txt is AI source code
with the names of the mind-modules changed to wiki format.
For instance, the HCI module is now called TuringTest, and
the Think module has been renamed as CogitoErgoSum in Latin.

I'm kind of jumping the gun with my daughter -- she's a little young
yet -- but I was planning to teach her basic programming early and I
was just wondering if people more knowledgeable than me could offer
their opinions on what the best language would be to start her off.

I know that some people switch languages really easily, but I'm not
one of them. I programmed in Pascal for an embarrassingly long time --
well into grad school -- before finally switching to C++ (which I
never really liked for mnemonic and aesthetic reasons that most other
programmers don't seem to share). Now I mostly write in Java. I have a
younger friend who always tells me I need to check out Python (among
lots of other languages he advocates from one day to another).

So if anyone has an opinion, I'd be curious. If you were going to
teach a first programming class to youngsters -- prehighschoolers --
with the hope that they would become creative researchers someday in a
field like evolutionary programming, what language do you think would
be best to start them out in now?

Both practical considerations (like, say a language likely to be
useful to know in 20 years) and pedagogical considerations (a language
that teaches good programming habits and good habits of mind) are both
important to me.

[By the way, what I'm not interested is flames about why such-and-such
language sucks. I've heard most of those jokes, anyway...]

AIPR-09 call for papers
 
The 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern
Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during
July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The
conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other
international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include:
·         International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems
(ARCS-09)
·         International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology,
Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09)
·         International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web
Technologies (EISWT-09)
·         International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and
Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09)
·         International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09)
·         International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology
and Applications (RAITA-09)
·         International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice
(SETP-09)
·         International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational
Science (TACS-09)
·         International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations
of Computer Science (TMFCS-09)
 
The website www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details.
 
Sincerely
John Edward
Publicity committee
 
 

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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:39 PM, pixeltwistalpha
<pixeltwistalpha@...> wrote:
> I'm kind of jumping the gun with my daughter -- she's a little young
> yet -- but I was planning to teach her basic programming early and I
> was just wondering if people more knowledgeable than me could offer
> their opinions on what the best language would be to start her off.

You didn't say how old she is?

More to the point, what sorts of projects is she likely to be learning
with? The best tool depends on the job, and this is true for beginners
as well as for experts. Probably she's not fascinated by mathematical
abstraction for its own sake -- few people are. Is she passionate
about videogames? Does she want to build her own website? Is she
impatient to jump straight into her own attempt at creating AI?

Even if neither of you has an application in mind yet, one needs to be
selected before she can start writing any code, and that's what should
dictate the choice of language.

My suggestion is for C or BASIC.
 

--- On Fri, 17/10/08, pixeltwistalpha <pixeltwistalpha@...> wrote:
From: pixeltwistalpha <pixeltwistalpha@...>
Subject: [Artificial Intelligence Group] Best programming language to start in
To: artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 17 October, 2008, 11:39 PM











             I'm kind of jumping the gun with my daughter -- she's a little young

yet -- but I was planning to teach her basic programming early and I

was just wondering if people more knowledgeable than me could offer

their opinions on what the best language would be to start her off.



I know that some people switch languages really easily, but I'm not

one of them. I programmed in Pascal for an embarrassingly long time --

well into grad school -- before finally switching to C++ (which I

never really liked for mnemonic and aesthetic reasons that most other

programmers don't seem to share). Now I mostly write in Java. I have a

younger friend who always tells me I need to check out Python (among

lots of other languages he advocates from one day to another).



So if anyone has an opinion, I'd be curious. If you were going to

teach a first programming class to youngsters -- prehighschoolers --

with the hope that they would become creative researchers someday in a

field like evolutionary programming, what language do you think would

be best to start them out in now?



Both practical considerations (like, say a language likely to be

useful to know in 20 years) and pedagogical considerations (a language

that teaches good programming habits and good habits of mind) are both

important to me.



[By the way, what I'm not interested is flames about why such-and-such

language sucks. I've heard most of those jokes, anyway...]


























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Hi Jerry,

I tried some years ago, I did a software for modelling and try
to "guess" future market values of shares, commodities, etc.

It didn't work, I abandoned, but Im still convinced that such a system
could be good for investment.

The problems that I found are:
- a result depends on the amount of data that you have, the more years
of stock-commodities-currencies you have, the better. The information
is available on internet (to pay for it)
- Ia models need time to develop a good investment behaviour, and, with
the great amount of data, it will take more than a few hours to get
some convincing result
- markets are more unpredictable that I thought. I read a japanese
analist who said something like markets are not moved by intelligence,
but are moved by ignorance and fear. I made me think a lot !
- keep the system simple, that was I think my big mistake, I included
more that 1000 prices of stocks, transactions, commodities prices,
bonds, etc. etc., with so much data, and a little horizon of data, IA
would get results that appear to be good, but in fact are a disaster.

I am convinced that it can work (with some considerable error margin)
because I remember from my finance courses there was people who made
lot of money analysing graphs, yes market graphs curves, they
classified different kind of curves and they could predict some
behaviour. A software can analize a graph.

Carlos



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Nowatzke" <nowatzke60130@...> wrote:
>
> I've been researching short term investment stratigies using a number
> of soft computing approaches. The resutls appear to be very positive.
> Is anyone else looking into this type of application?
>
> Jerry
>