Special Issue of Neural Networks

[Masumi Ishikawa]

Call for Papers
2004 Special Issue of Neural Networks
New Developments in Self-Organizing Systems

Research on self-organizing systems including self-organizing maps (SOMs) 
is an important area of unsupervised learning and has been rapidly growing 
in various directions: theoretical developments, applications in various 
fields, in-depth  analysis of self-organizing systems in neuroscience and 
so forth. The Workshop  on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM) has been held 
biennially since 1997. In October, 2002, a Special Issue on Self-Organizing 
Maps was published in the journal Neural Networks selected from 
presentations at WSOM'01. The next workshop, WSOM'03, is scheduled to be 
held in September 2003 in Kitakyushu, Japan (for submission and 
participation details, see http://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~wsom). 
Considering the extensive growth of this area, we plan another special 
issue related to self-organization in 2004, ranging from theoretical 
aspects to various applications. We will select papers from those submitted 
to this special issue of Neural Networks; papers will be either revisions 
of those presented at WSOM'03 or those directly submitted to the special 
issue. A limited number of invited papers by leading scientists are also planned.

Technical areas include, but are not limited to:
- Theory of self-organizing systems
- Data visualization and mining
- Applications to WEB intelligence
- Applications to text and document analysis
- Applications to robotics
- Applications to image processing and vision
- Applications to pattern recognition
- Hardware and architecture
- Self-organizing systems in neuroscience

Co-Editors
Masumi Ishikawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Risto Miikkulainen, The University of Texas at Austin
Helge Ritter, University of Bielefeld

Submission
Deadline for submission: December 10, 2003
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2004
Deadline for submission of accepted papers: June 20, 2004
Deadline for submission of final papers: August 30, 2004
Format: as normal papers in the journal

Address for Papers:
Dr. Mitsuo Kawato
ATR Human Information Science Laboratories
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan