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NIPS 2006 Workshop

 


Call for Participation

NIPS 2006 Workshop
Revealing Hidden Elements of Dynamical Systems

Whistler, B.C - Canada
December 08 or 09, 2006
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/nips2006/

Program


Morning session: 07:30am – 10:30am
07:30am Predictive information and optimal biological adaptation,
N. Tishby
08:00am Reconstruction Deconstruction: A Brief History of Building Models of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems,
J. Crutchfield
08:30am Formulating inference problems for variable-structure dynamical systems,
E. Mjolsness
08:50am Active Learning with Hidden Factor Models in Collaborative Prediction and Systems Management,
I. Rish
09:10am Coffee break
09:30am Reconstructing dynamic regulatory maps,
Z. Bar-Joseph
09:50am MDP unfolding through hidden-state extraction,
S. Grunewalder, U. werner, and K. Obermayer
10:10am Projecting the Past into the Future: the State Space of Dynamical Systems as an Information Bottleneck,
F. Creutzig
Afternoon session: 3:30pm – 6:30pm
3:30pm Towards root-cause analysis in compression-based similarity,
E. Yom-Tov, M. Rosen-Zvi, Y. Xu, and J. Wong
3:50pm A Bayesian state-space model for genome-wide inference of transcriptional regulation,
G. Sanguinetti, N. Lawrence, and M. Rattray
4:10pm Structuring Information Flows through Embodiment,
D. Polani, A. Klyubin, C. Nehaniv, and L. Olsson
4:30pm Bayesian surprise in attention and learning,
P. Baldi and L. Itti
5:00pm Coffee break
5:10pm Panel discussion