Departamento de Tecnologías de las Comunicaciones
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Learning 98

Madrid, Spain
16-18 September 1998

 

FINAL PROGRAMME

Wednesday Thursday Friday

Wednesday September 16, 1998

 

09h 00 Welcome Addresses

Dr. Francisco Rubia Vila

General Director of Research

Comunidad de Madrid

 

09h 15 Inaugural Conference

"Learning in Navigating Animats"

Dr. Jean-Arcady Meyer

Département de Biologie, Ecole Normale Superieure

Paris, France

10h 15 Session 1: "Human & Machine Learning"
10h 15 Invited Lecture
(Suspended due to illness)

"Models of Behaviour, Models of the Brain: A Computational Approach to the Neurophysiology of Animal Learning and Cognition"

Dr. N. Schmajuk

Dept. of Psychology (Experimental), Duke University, Durham, UC, USA

11h 15 Coffee Break

 

11h 35 Oral Presentations

 

12h 15 Posters
13h 00 Lunch

 

15h 00 Session 2: "Mathematical Models of Learning"
15h 00 Invited Lecture

"Problem of Learning and Cognition"

Dr. V. Vapnik

AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

16h 00 Oral Presentations
16h 40 Coffee Break

 

17h 00 Posters
  • "Fuzzy Decision Trees"; A. Suárez* and J.F. Lutsko**; *Escuela Técnica Superior de Informática, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; **i2 Technologies, Belgium.

 

18h 30 Welcome Cocktail

 

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09h 00 Session 3: "Facing the Principal Learning Difficulties"
09h 00 Invited Lecture

"Would-be Worlds"

Dr. J. Casti

Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA

10h 00 Oral Presentations
10h 40 Coffee Break

 

11h 00 Posters

 

12h 00 Round Table

"Points of Tangency among Learning Problems & Approaches"

13h 00 Lunch

 

 

15h 00-24h 00 Trip to Toledo: Visit to the City and Official Dinner

 

 

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09h 00 Session 4: "Applications"
09h 00 Invited Lecture

"Learning in and with Multi-Agents Systems"

Dr. Y. Demazeau

Institut IMAG, Grenoble, France

10h 00 Oral Presentations
10h 40 Coffee Break

 

11h 00 Posters

 

12h 00 Round Table

"Lines, Methods, and Schemes for Transnational and Transdisciplinary Cooperation"

 

12h 50 Closing Ceremony

Prof. Dr. Gregorio Peces-Barba Martínez

Rector, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

13h 00 Lunch