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<p class=bifei align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>****************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=bifei align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Call
for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=bifei align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Third
International Symposium on Neural Networks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=bifei align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>May
29-31, 2006, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Chengdu</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Sichuan</st1:State>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region></st1:place><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2006">http://www.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2006</a>
or <a href="http://cilab.uestc.edu.cn/isnn2006">http://cilab.uestc.edu.cn/isnn2006</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=bifei align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>****************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> The
Third International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2006) will be held in <st1:City
w:st="on">Chengdu</st1:City>, as a sequel of ISNN 2005 in <st1:City w:st="on">Chongqing</st1:City>
and ISNN 2004 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Dalian</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">China</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Chengdu is the capital of
Sichuan (Szechwan) Province in southwestern China, a modern metropolitan with
2310-year history and rich cultural heritage, featuring relaxing lifestyle,
spicy Szechwan cuisine, and numerous historic and scenery sites nearby<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>including three UNESCO World
Heritages (two cultural heritages: Dujiangyan--<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Qingcheng</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Emei</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>--Leshan
Giant Buddha, one natural heritage: Jiuzhaigou--Huanglong). ISNN 2006 aims to
provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and
educators to present the state of the art of neural network research and
applications in diverse fields. The symposium will feature plenary speeches
given by worldwide renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and
some special sessions focus<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>ing</span></font>
on popular topics.<br>
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length
papers (6 pages normally and 10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline.
Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or more papers with
cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies
that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or copyright
protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All
submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria
of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted
papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration
of the referees' comments and suggestions. All papers accepted and presented at
ISNN2006 will be published by Springer as multiple volumes of Lecture Notes in
Computer Science which are indexed by SCI-Expanded.<br>
ISNN2006 has teamed up with the International Journal
of Neural Systems (IJNS), one of the distinguished journals on neural networks,
for publishing a Special Issue on Advances in Neural Networks. All submitted
papers will have opportunities for consideration for this Special Issue. The
selection will be carried out during the review process as well as at the
conference presentation stage. The Editor-in-Chief of IJNS and the guest
editors of the Special Issues will make decisions on submitted papers based
referees' comments and recommendations, as well as quality and presentation of
the papers, and select around twenty five papers. Authors of selected
outstanding papers will be asked to substantially extend and revise their
papers with additional original materials for further rounds of peer review
under the practice of IJNS. These papers must be extended and updated in a
significant and substantive way so that the amount of overlap between symposium
paper and journal submission is no more than 50%. Prospective authors should
submit their manuscripts directly to the guest editors before the deadline with
a copy to the Editor-in-Chief. Submitted papers must not be under consideration
by any other journal for publication. The final decision will be made based on
peer review reports by the guest editors of the special issue and the
Editor-in-Chief jointly. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><span class=style16><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Special session proposal
(ISNN2006):
</span></font></span><strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'>November 1, 2005</span></font></b></strong><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br>
<span class=style16>Paper submission (ISNN2006):
</span><span class=style8>November
15, 2005</span><br>
<span class=style16>Notification of acceptance (ISNN2006): </span><span
class=style8>
</span><span class=style16> December 15,
2005</span><br>
<span class=style16>Final paper submission
(ISNN2006):
</span><span
class=style8>January 15, 2006</span><br>
<span class=style16>Paper submission (IJNS Special Issue): </span><span
class=style22>
June 30, 2006</span><br>
<span class=style16>Notification of acceptance (IJNS Special Issue): </span><span
class=style22>
December 31, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
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