WSOM'03 Paper Submission Deadline Extended

[WSOM'03 Secretariat]

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Paper Submission Deadline extended to 10 June, 2003. 

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Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'03)
11-14 September 2003
Hibikino, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
http://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~wsom/

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop Objectives:
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  The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) with its related extensions 
is the most popular artificial neural algorithm for use in 
unsupervised learning and data visualization. Over 5,000 
publications have been reported in the open literature, and 
many commercial projects employ the SOM as the tool for solving 
hard real-world problems.
  WSOM'03 is the discussion forum where your ideas and techniques 
are polished, and aims to unveil the results of hot researches 
and popularize the use of the SOM for technical public.
  Following the highly successful meetings held in 1997 (WSOM'97), 
1999 (WSOM'99), and 2001 (WSOM'01), a further workshop in this 
established series, will bring together researchers and users of 
the SOM and related techniques.

Topics:
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Technical areas include, but are not limited to:
 * Self-organization
 * Unsupervised learning
 * Theory and extensions
 * Optimization
 * Hardware and architecture
 * Signal processing, image processing and vision 
 * Medical Engineering
 * Time-series analysis
 * Text and document analysis 
 * Financial analysis
 * Data visualization and mining 
 * Bioinformatics
 * Robotics 

Important Dates:
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  Paper Submission: 10 June, 2003 
  Notification of Acceptance: 30 June, 2003 
  Final Paper Submission: 25 July, 2003 

Organizing Committee:
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Honorary Conference Chair 
  Teuvo Kohonen, Finland 
Organizing Committee 
  Organizing Chair 
    Takeshi Yamakawa, Japan 
  Organizing Committee Members 
    Erkki Oja, Finland
    Heizo Tokutaka, Japan 
Program Committee 
  Program Chair 
    Masumi Ishikawa, Japan 
  Program Committee Members 
    Marie Cottrell, France
    Guido Deboeck, USA
    Shinto Eguchi, Japan
    Kikuo Fujimura, Japan
    Colin Fyfe, UK
    Masafumi Hagiwara, Japan
    Jaakko Hollmen, Finland
    Keiich Horio, Japan
    Marc M. Van Hulle, Belgium
    Toshimichi Ikemura, Japan
    Samuel Kaski, Finland
    Gerhard Kranner, Austria
    Thomas Martinetz, Germany
    Kiyotoshi Matsuoka, Japan
    Dieter Merkl, Austria
    Risto Miikkulainen, USA
    Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Japan
    Tsutomu Miyoshi, Japan
    Takashi Morie, Japan
    Junichi Murata, Japan
    Ikuko Nishikawa, Japan
    Klaus Obermayer, Germany
    Aiko Shibata, Japan
    Wataru Shiraki, Japan
    Olli Simula, Finland
    Eiji Uchino, Japan
    Alfred Ultsch, Germany
    Michel Verleysen, Belgium
    Thomas Villmann, Germany
    Lei Xu, China
    Shozo Yasui, Japan
    Hujun Yin, UK 

Paper Submissions:
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  Authors are invited to submit full papers before 10 June, 
2003, by email to wsom at brain.kyutech.ac.jp. Detailed 
information will be available at the WSOM'03 webpage:
http://brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~wsom/


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WSOM'03 Secretariat
Keiichi Horio
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering
Kyushu Institute of Technology
2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu 808-0196 Japan
Tel: +81-93-695-6127
E-mail: horio at brain.kyutech.ac.jp