TAINN'98
                      The Seventh Turkish Symposium on
                 Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks

                                   June 24-26 1998
                   Bilkent University, Ankara, TURKEY
 

                       PRELIMANARY PROGRAM
 

JUNE 24, 1998   WEDNESDAY

 9:00 --  9:30  Opening Remarks

 9:30 -- 10:30  Invited Talk
                            Ivan Bratko

10:30 -- 11:00  BREAK

11:00 -- 12:30  SESSION 1

Making Use of Symmetries in Spurious Prediction Elimination in Qualitative
Simulation
A. C. Cem Say and Tolga Konik

Q-III: Generilazation of Experiences for Reinforcement Learning
M. Emin Aydin and Ercan Oztemel

Extending Explanation Based Learning Using Mathematical Induction
Tolga  Konik

12:30 -- 14:00  LUNCH

14:00 -- 15:30  SESSION 2

Stability Analysis of a Class Dynamical Neural Networks
Sabri  Arik

Stability Analysis of Delayed Neural Networks
Sabri  Arik

Test Pattern Generation for VLSI Neural Networks
I. Faik Baskaya and  Gunhan  Dundar

15:30 -- 16:00  BREAK

16:00 -- 17:30  SESSION 3

Logical Radial Basis Function Networks (LRBF) A Hybrid Intelligent Approach
for Function Approximation
Hesham A. Hefny, Ashraf H. Abdel Wahab, Ahmed A. Bahnasawi and Samir I. Shaheen

Does Diploidy Affect Evaluations of Hopfield Associative Memory
Akira Imada and Keijiro Araki

Analysis of Input-Output Clustering for Determining Centers of RBFN
Zekeriya Uykan, Cuneyt Guzelis, M. E. Celebi and H. Koivo

19:30           RECEPTION
 
 

JUNE 25, 1998   THURSDAY

 9:00 -- 10:30  SESSION 4

Genetic Combinators Modeling and Micro-Machine Architectures
Karim  Jaber

A New Bandwidth Expression Obtained by Using a Modified Genetic Algorithm
for Electrically-Thick Rectangular Microstrip Antennas
Ali Akdagli, Kerim Guney and  Nurhan Karaboga

A Prabolic Approximation to Speed up Evolutionary Algorithm
Ugur Halici, L. C. Jain, Kemal  Leblecioglu, B. Lazzerini and L. I. Kuncheva

10:30 -- 11:00  BREAK

11:00 -- 12:30  SESSION 5

An Ellipsis Resolution Algorithm Based on ATN Clause Parser
Kais  Haddar and Abdelmajid  Ben Hamadou

Using Path Voting Constraints for Tagging English
Gukhan  Tur and Kemal Oflazer

Assigning Confidence Factors to Translation Templates
Zeynep  Oz

12:30 -- 14:00  LUNCH

14:00 -- 15:00  POSTER SESSION

Convergence of Nonsymmetric Discrete-Time Cellular Neural Networks
Sabri  Arik

A Comparison Between Least Square and Genetic Algorithms in the Identification
of Dynamical Systems
Alaa F. Sheta

Multi-Agent Based Digital Library Systems
Ayse Nur Zincir and  N. Yasemin Topaloglu

Neural System for a Route Planning for the Mobile Robot
Vladamir  Golovko and Valentin  Dimakov

Form Document Representation and Identification
Pinar  Duygulu, Volkan  Atalay and  Ebru Dincel

Neural Computing of the Radiation Patterns of Electrically Thin and Thick
Rectangular Microstrip Antennas
Seref  Sagiroglu, Kerim Guney and Mehmet Erler

15:30 -- 17:30  SESSION 6

A Model for Artificial Life Based on Cambrian Era and Cognition
Umur Ozkul and H. Levent Akin

A Combining Approach to Path Planning of Mobile Vehicles
S. Deniz  Koprulu and H. Levent Akin

A Form Document  Image Parser
Ebru  Dincel, Volkan  Atalay and Pinar  Duygulu

Application of the Dimensionality Reduction Techniques to Digit Recognation
Cuneyt Argun Genc and  Ethem Alpaydin
 
 

JUNE 26, 1998   FRIDAY

 9:00 -- 10:30  SESSION 7

An Approach Based on Fuzzy Rules and Neural Networks for Information Retrieval
Abdelouahab Mekaouche

Fuzzy Control Approach for the Crane Arm of Ammunition Transport Vehicles
Atila Bostan and Adnan  Yazici

Neural Network Approach to Backward Inference in a Fuzzy Rule-Based System
Arzou  Babaev and  Bulent  Guler

10:30 -- 11:00  BREAK

11:00 -- 12:30  SESSION 8

Refinements of Fuzzy Operators Weights
Milos Manic and  Slobadan Milutinovic

Rule Based Controllers, A Structural Approach
Turhan  Ciftcibaci

A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach to Dynamic Systems Identification
Ieroham  Baruch, Todor  Arsenov, Elena  Gortcheva and Rubben Garrido

12:30 -- 14:00  LUNCH

14:00 -- 15:30  SESSION 9

Gradient-like Systems As Continuous Methods for Approximating Maximum Clique
N. Sengor, Y. Cakir, M. Ucer, C. Guzelis, F. Pekergin and O. Morgul

Artificial Neural Networks for Activation Function Nonlinearity Parameter
Adjustment
Yeugenij  Bodyanskiy, Sergius  Vorobyov and Natalija Lamonova

Automatic Radial Basis Function Network and its Application in Process Fault
Diagnosis
Sergius  Vorobyov and  Irina  Skrypnik