Departamento de Tecnologías de las Comunicaciones
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Learning 00

Madrid, Spain
25-27 October 2000
 
 

FINAL PROGRAMME

Wednesday October 25, 2000

 
 

09h 00

Welcome Addresses

Prof. Dr. Aníbal R. Figueiras-Vidal
Director, Dept. of Communication Technologies
Chairman, Learning'00
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Chairman:    Prof. Dr. Antonio Artés-Rodríguez
                        Dept. of Communication Technologies
                        Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

• " Automatic Classification and Artificial Life Models"; Xavier Llorà and Josep M. Garrell"; Computer Science Department at Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona Spain

• "Learning to Classify Objects from Real Visual Images: a Biologically Inspired Approach"; Manuel A. Sánchez-Montañés, Luis F. Lago-Fernández, Fernando Corbacho; Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN

• "Boosting Interval-Based Time Series Classifiers"; Carlos J. Alonso González, Juan J. Rodríguez Diez; Departmento de Informática, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

• "Perception and Representation in a Multistrategy Learning Process"; M.Dolores del Castillo, M.Paz Sesmero; Instituto de Automática Industrial, Arganda del Rey,  Madrid, Spain.

• "Teaching a new dog old tricks – The Assumption Architecture"; Jakob Fredslund; LEGO Lab,  Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark

• "Iterative VQQL for Learning Skills"; Fernando Fernández and Daniel Borrajo, Departamento de Informática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Chairman:    Prof. Dr. Carlos Bousoño-Calzón
                        Dept. of Communication Technologies
                        Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

• "Selection of the Free Parameters in the Support Vector Method Using Bootstrap Resampling"; José Luis Rojo-Álvarez, Antonio Artés-Rodríguez, DTSC, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

• "Growing Support Vector Classifiers via Architecture Boosting"; Emilio Parrado-Hernández, Francisco Fariña-Angueira and Angel Navia-Vázquez; Departamento de Tecnologías de las Comunicaciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 

• "Blind Source Separation of Sources with Different Magnitudes"; J.-P. Nadal1, E. Korutcheva² and F. Aires¹

¹Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’ENS. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
²Departamento de Física Fundamental, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Madrid, Spain

• "Weighting methods for a Case-Based Classifier System"; Maria Salamó,  Elisabet Golobardes,   David Vernet ,   Mireya Nieto; Computer Science Department, Computer Science Department, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

• "Local performance and margins in fuzzy classification trees"; Alberto Suárez¹ and James F. Lutsko²

¹Escuela Técnica Superior de Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
²i2 Technologies  Sint-Stevens-Woluwe , Belgium

• "Weigth saliency in NLDA networks"; José R. Dorronsoro, Ana M. González and Carlos Santa Cruz; Department of Computer Engineering and Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Madrid, Spain

• "Structural Risk Minization and Fuzzy ARTMAP"; Stephen J. Verzi¹, Gregory L. Heileman², Michael Georgiopoulos³, Michael J. Healy⁴

¹Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
²Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
³Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
⁴The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, USA

Thursday October 26, 2000

 
 

09h 00

Session 3: "Facing the Main Learning Difficulties"

Chairman:    Prof. Dr. Francisco Valverde-Albacete
                        Dept. of Communication Technologies
                        Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

• "The Multiple Representation Problem in Genetic Approaches for Index Assignment in Vector Quantization Codebook Design"; Armando Malanda Trigueros¹, Jesús M. Val Bueno¹, Aníbal-R. Figueiras Vidal²

¹Universidad Pública de Navarra D.I.E.E., Pamplona,  Spain
²Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, DTC-EPS, Madrid, Spain

• "A natural approach to sample selection in binary classification"; Jesus Cid Sueiro, Alicia Guerrero Curieses; Departamento de Tecnologías de las Comunicaciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 

• "Recurrent Support Vector Classifier for Channel Equalization"; Fernando Pérez Cruz, Pedro L. Alarcón Diana and Antonio Artés Rodríguez; Dpto. Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones, Escuela Politécnica, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain.

• "Searching General Cellular Automata Rules using Evolutionary Computation"; Berlanga, P. Isasi, A. Sanchis. J.M. Molina; Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

• "Learning Speech Structure: A Dynamical System Perspective"; Ramos-Cabello, J. Quiñonero-Candela, A. Gallardo-Antolín and F. Díaz-de-María; Departamento de Tecnologías de las Comunicaciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

• "Social Supervision for Parallel Genetic Algorithms"; Harold Molina-Bulla, Aníbal R. Figueiras-Vidal; Departamento de Tecnologías de las Comunicaciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 

"A Multilingual Internet Portal to Education"

Belén Gallego

SEMA GROUP

Chairman:    Prof. Dr. Jesús Cid-Sueiro
                        Dept. of Communication Technologies
                        Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

"Points of Tangency among Learning Problems & Approaches"

Friday October 27, 2000

 
 

09h 00

Session 4: "Applications"

Chairman:    Prof. Dr. Daniel Borrajo-Millán
                        Dept. of Computing Engineering
                        Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
 

• "Prediction in an Educational Environment using Case-Based Reasoning"; Elisabet Golobardes i Ribé , David Vernet i Bellet,  Maria Salamó i Llorente; Computer Science Department, Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

• "Internet Course Delivery – Making It Easier and More Effective"; M. Hayes, J. Jackson, and D. Anderson; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

 

• "Image Compression via Independent Component Analysis"; Mónica F. Bugallo, Adriana Dapena, Luis Castedo; Departamento de Electrónica y Sistemas, Universidad de La Coruña, La Coruña, Spain

• "Are cognitive principles useful in data mining? A case study in unsupervised learning"; Luis Talavera; Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 

• "Student Failures:   A Knowledge Discovery Application"; Ricardo Aler, Daniel Borrajo and Agapito Ledezma; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés – Madrid, Spain

 

• "An assessment of the technological needs for a competence-based, computer-assisted course in Electrical Engineering"; Andrés Flores-Perojo y Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete; Departamento de Tecnologías de las Comunicaciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 

• "A Quasi-Bayesian approach to Exploration in Reinforcement Learning"; Jeremy Wyatt; School of Computer Science, Birmingham University, Birmingham, UK

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Aníbal R. Figueiras-Vidal
Director, Dept. of Communication Technologies
Chairman, Learning'00
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

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