ICONIP'96 - Call for Participation

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		 ICONIP'96 -- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

		    http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/iconip96
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		    1996 International Conference
				  on
		    Neural Information Processing
  
  The Annual Conference of the Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly
		  ICONIP'96, September 24 - 27, 1996

   Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

			 In cooperation with

              IEEE / NNC --IEEE Neural Networks Council
              INNS - International Neural Network Society
              ENNS - European Neural Network Society
              JNNS - Japanese Neural Network Society
              CNNC - China Neural Networks Council
  
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The goal of ICONIP'96 is to provide a forum for researchers and
engineers from academia and industry to meet and to exchange ideas on
the latest developments in neural information processing.  The
conference also further serves to stimulate local and regional
interests in neural information processing and its potential
applications to industries indigenous to this region.  

The conference consists of one-day Financial Engineering tutorial
given by well known experts in the field and a three-day program with
only four parallel sessions. The overall program covers major topics
in neural information processing and reflects the latest progress
with a good balance between scientific studies and industrial
applications, as well as featured neural information processing
approaches on Financial Engineering.

The conference contains a high quality contributed program and a very
strong invited program. For the contributed program, we received 314
submissions from 33 countries, including Asia-Pacific areas, Europe,
North and South America. Each submitted paper was sent to three
experts in the related fields from all over the world for
reviewing. With their rigorous and timely efforts, a high quality
technical program has been achieved with around 60% overall
acceptance rate (20% oral presentation, 20% spotlight presentation,
20% poster presentation).  The spotlight presentation is a poster
presentation plus a 5-minute oral presentation which highlights the
contribution of the poster paper. For the invited program, we have 5
keynote speakers, 3 honored speakers, and 22 invited speakers by well
known international neural information processing scientists and
experts. The invited program is also featured by 8 special sessions on
interesting current topics.

Hong Kong is one of the most dynamic and international cities in the
world.  She is a major financial center and has world-class
facilities, easy accessibility, exciting entertainment, delicious
cuisine and high levels of service and professionalism.  Hong Kong
people are known of their talent and aggressiveness.  Come to Hong
Kong! Visit this Eastern Pearl in this historical period, in
transition from a British colony into a special administration zone of
China in 1997.  Hong Kong is a place where you can find the
traditional Chinese culture and the Western culture.  The mid-autumn
festival will be on the last day of the conference.  You will
experience how the people in Hong Kong celebrate this festival by
eating delicious moon-cakes and lighting up marvelous paper lanterns
everywhere in the evening.  You will also see the nearly completed
Tsing Ma Bridge -- the world's longest span road-rail suspension
bridge.  Do not miss this opportunity to take part in ICONIP'96 and
visit Hong Kong.


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		  Tutorials On Financial Engineering
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1. Professor John Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
     "Time Series Modeling: Classical and Nonlinear Approaches"

2. Professor Halbert White, University California, San Diego, USA
     "Option Pricing In Modern Finance Theory and the Relevance Of 
      Artificial Neural Networks"

3. Professor A-P. N. Refenes, London Business School, UK
      "Neural Networks in Financial Engineering"


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			    Keynote Talks
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1. Professor Shun-ichi Amari, Tokyo University.
     "Information Geometry of Neural Networks"

2. Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa, California Institute of Technology, USA
     "The Bin Model for Learning and Generalization"

3. Professor Leo Breiman, University California, Berkeley, USA
     "Democratizing Predictors"

4. Professor Christoph von der Malsburg, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
     "Scene Analysis Based on Dynamic Links" (tentatively)

5. Professor Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
     "Blind Signal Separation by Neural Networks"


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			    Honored  Talks
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 1. Professor Rolf Eckmiller, University of Bonn,  Germany
     "Concerning the Development of Retina Implants with Neural Nets"

 2. Professor Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Human Information Processing Research Lab,
    Japan
     "Generalized Linear Model Analysis of Cerebellar Motor Learning"
 
 3. Professor Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka University,  Japan
     "Neural Network Model of Spatial Memory"


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			    INVITED TALKS
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Yoshua Bengio, Robert L. Fry, Hecht-Nielsen, Nathan Intrator, Arun
Jagota, Bart Kosko*, John Moody, Barak Pearlmutter, A-P. N. Refenes,
Michael P. Perrone, Juergen Schmidhuber, Sara A. Solla, Harold Szu*,
Andreas Weigend*, Halbert White, Alan L. Yuille, Laiwan Chan, Nikola
Kasabov, Soo-Young Lee, Yousou Wu, Ah Chung Tsoi
                                             *Tentatively Confirmed


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		    CONFERENCE'S REGISTRATION FEE
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      On & Before July 1, 1996         Member        HKD $2,800
      On & Before July 1, 1996         Non-Member    HKD $3,200 
      Late & On-Site                   Member        HKD $3,200 
      Late & On-Site                   Non-Member    HKD $3,600 
      Student Registration Fee                       HKD $1,000

For registration and other related ICONIP'96 information please browse
our WWW site at http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/iconip96.

Please send your inquiries to:
  
          ICONIP'96 Secretariat   
          Department of Computer Science  and Engineering
          The Chinese University of Hong Kong  
          Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong  
          Fax (852) 2603-5024  
          E-mail: iconip96 at cs.cuhk.hk  
          http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/iconip96