CFP: ESANN'2001 European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks
Fri Sep 22 11:26:15 EDT 2000
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| ESANN'2001 |
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| 9th European Symposium |
| on Artificial Neural Networks |
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| Bruges (Belgium) - April 25-26-27, 2001 |
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| First announcement and call for papers |
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Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Neural Networks Council (TBC), the IEEE
Region 8, the IEEE Benelux Section, and the International Neural Networks
Society.
The call for papers for the ESANN'2001 conference is now available on the
Web:
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann
For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related ANN
sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list;
thank you very much!
We try as much as possible to avoid multiple sendings of this call for
papers; however please apologize if you receive this e-mail twice, despite
our precautions.
You will find below a short version of this call for papers, without the
instructions to authors (available on the Web). If you have difficulties to
connect to the Web please send an e-mail to
esann at dice.ucl.ac.be
and we will send you a full version of the call for papers.
ESANN'2001 is organised in collaboration with the UCL (Universite catholique
de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) and the KULeuven (Katholiek Universiteit
Leuven).
Scope and topics
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Since its first edition in 1993, the European Symposium on Artificial Neural
Networks has become the reference for researchers on fundamentals and
theoretical aspects of artificial neural networks. Each year, around 100
specialists attend ESANN, in order to present their latest results and
comprehensive surveys, and to discuss the future developments in this field.
The ESANN'2001 conference will focus on fundamental aspects of ANNs: theory,
models, learning algorithms, mathematical aspects, approximation of
functions, classification, control, time-series prediction, statistics,
signal processing, vision, self-organization, vector quantization, evolutive
learning, psychological computations, biological plausibility, etc. Papers
on links and comparisons between ANNs and other domains of research (such as
statistics, data analysis, signal processing, biology, psychology, evolutive
learning, bio-inspired systems, etc.) are encouraged.
Papers will be presented orally (no parallel sessions) and in poster
sessions; all posters will be complemented by a short oral presentation
during a plenary session. It is important to mention that it is the topics
of the paper which will decide if it better fits into an oral or a poster
session, not its quality. The selection of posters will be identical to oral
presentations, and both will be printed in the same way in the proceedings.
Nevertheless, authors have the choice to indicate on the author submission
form that they only accept to present their paper orally.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered during the ESANN
conferences:
* theory
* models and architectures
* mathematics
* learning algorithms
* vector quantization
* self-organization
* RBF networks
* Bayesian classification
* recurrent networks
* support-vector machines
* approximation of functions
* time series forecasting
* adaptive control
* statistical data analysis
* independent component analysis
* signal processing
* cellular neural networks
* fuzzy neural networks
* natural and artificial vision
* hybrid networks
* identification of non-linear dynamic systems
* biologically plausible artificial networks
* bio-inspired systems
* adaptive behavior
* evolutive learning
Special sessions
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Special sessions will be organized by renowned scientists in their
respective fields. Papers submitted to these sessions are reviewed according
to the same rules as any other submission. Authors who submit papers to one
of these sessions are invited to mention it on the author submission form;
nevertheless, submissions to the special sessions must follow the same
format, instructions and deadlines as any other submission, and must be sent
to the same address.
* Neural networks applications in finance
M. Cottrell, Univ. Paris I (France), E. de Bodt (Univ. Lille II (France) &
UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
* Artificial neural networks and early vision processing
C. Fyfe, D. Charles, Univ. of Paisley (Scotland)
* Artificial neural networks for web computing
M. Maggini, Univ. di Siena (Italy)
* Dedicated hardware implementations: perspectives on systems and
applications
D. Anguita, M. Valle, Univ. of Genoa (Italy)
* Novel neural transfer functions
W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus Univ. (Poland)
* Neural networks and evolutionary/genetic algorithms - hybrid approaches
T. Villmann, Univ. Leipzig (Germany)
Location
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The conference will be held in Bruges (also called "Venice of the North"),
one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Bruges can be reached
by train from Brussels in less than one hour (frequent trains). The town of
Bruges is world-wide known, and famous for its architectural style, its
canals, and its pleasant atmosphere.
The conference will be organised in a hotel located near the centre (walking
distance) of the town. There is no obligation for the participants to stay
in this hotel. Hotels of all level of comfort and price are available in
Bruges; there is a possibility to book a room in the hotel of the conference
at a preferential rate through the conference secretariat. A list of other
smaller hotels is also available.
The conference will be held at the Novotel hotel, Katelijnestraat 65B, 8000
Brugge, Belgium.
Call for contributions
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Prospective authors are invited to submit
* six copies of their manuscript (including at least two originals or very
good copies without glued material, which will be used for the proceedings)
* one signed copy of the author submission form
* a floppy disk or a CD (PC format preferred) containing their
contribution in (generic) PostScript format before December 8, 2000.
Sorry, electronic or fax submissions are not accepted.
The working language of the conference (including proceedings) is English.
The instructions to authors, together with the author submission form, are
available on the ESANN Web server:
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann
Authors must indicate their choice for oral or poster presentation on the
author submission form. They must also sign a written agreement that they
will register to the conference and present the paper in case of acceptation
of their submission. Authors of accepted papers will have to register
before February 28, 2001. They will benefit from the advance registration
fee.
Submissions must be sent to:
Michel Verleysen
UCL - DICE
3, place du Levant
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
esann at dice.ucl.ac.be
All submissions will be acknowledged by fax or email before December 22,
2000.
Deadlines
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Submission of papers December 8, 2000
Notification of acceptance February 5, 2001
Symposium April 25-27, 2001
Registration fees
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registration before registration after
March 16, 2001 March 16, 2001
Universities BEF 16500 BEF 17500
Industries BEF 20500 BEF 21500
The registration fee includes the attendance to all sessions, the ESANN'2001
dinner, a copy of the proceedings, daily lunches (25-27 April 2001), and the
coffee breaks.
Conference secretariat
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Michel Verleysen
D facto conference services phone: + 32 2 420 37 57
27 rue du Laekenveld Fax: + 32 2 420 02 55
B - 1080 Brussels (Belgium) E-mail: esann at dice.ucl.ac.be
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann
Steering and local committee (to be confirmed)
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Francois Blayo Prefigure (F)
Marie Cottrell Univ. Paris I (F)
Jeanny Herault INPG Grenoble (F)
Henri Leich Fac. Polytech. Mons (B)
Bernard Manderick Vrije Univ. Brussel (B)
Eric Noldus Univ. Gent (B)
Jean-Pierre Peters FUNDP Namur (B)
Joos Vandewalle KUL Leuven (B)
Michel Verleysen UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B)
Scientific committee (to be confirmed)
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Edoardo Amaldi Politecnico di Milano (I)
Herve Bourlard IDIAP Martigny (CH)
Joan Cabestany Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E)
Colin Campbell Bristol Univ. (UK)
Stephane Canu Inst. Nat. Sciences App. (F)
Holk Cruse Universitat Bielefeld (D)
Eric de Bodt Univ. Lille II & UCL Louv.-la-N. (B)
Dante Del Corso Politecnico di Torino (I)
Wlodek Duch Nicholas Copernicus Univ. (PL)
Marc Duranton Philips / LEP (F)
Richard Duro Univ. Coruna (E)
Jean-Claude Fort Universite Nancy I (F)
Bernd Fritzke Dresden Univ. of Technology (D)
Colin Fyfe Univ. Paisley (UK)
Stan Gielen Univ. of Nijmegen (NL)
Marco Gori Univ. Siena (I)
Bernard Gosselin Fac. Polytech. Mons (B)
Manuel Grana UPV San Sebastian (E)
Anne Guerin-Dugue INPG Grenoble (F)
Martin Hasler EPFL Lausanne (CH)
Laurent Herault CEA-LETI Grenoble (F)
Gonzalo Joya Univ. Malaga (E)
Christian Jutten INPG Grenoble (F)
Juha Karhunen Helsinky Univ. of Technology (FIN)
Vera Kurkova Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ)
Jouko Lampinen Helsinki Univ. of Tech. (FIN)
Petr Lansky Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ)
Mia Loccufier Univ. Gent (B)
Erzsebet Merenyi Rice Univ. (USA)
Jean Arcady Meyer Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (F)
Jose Mira UNED (E)
Jean-Pierre Nadal Ecole Normale Superieure Paris (F)
Gilles Pages Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (F)
Thomas Parisini Politecnico di Milano (I)
Helene Paugam-Moisy Univ. Lumiere Lyon 2 (F)
Alberto Prieto Universitad de Granada (E)
Leonardo Reyneri Politecnico di Torino (I)
Tamas Roska Hungarian Academy of Science (H)
Jean-Pierre Rospars INRA Versailles (F)
Jose Santos Reyes Univ. Coruna (E)
John Stonham Brunel University (UK)
Johan Suykens KUL Leuven (B)
John Taylor King's College London (UK)
Claude Touzet IUSPIM Marseilles (F)
Marc Van Hulle KUL Leuven (B)
Thomas Villmann Univ. Leipzig (D)
Christian Wellekens Eurecom Sophia-Antipolis (F)
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