CFP IJCNN05 Special Session "Constructive/Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps"

[Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas]

Call for Papers for a Special Session
"Constructive/Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps"

International Joint INNS-IEEE Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2005
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 31- August 4, 2005, IJCNN 2005,
(http://faculty.uwb.edu/ijcnn05)

The aims of this session is to bring together researchers working on novel
constructive models based on Self-Organizing Maps (SOM). This area brings
together knowledge from Hierarchical Information Retrieval, Access Methods
such as Spatial and Metric Access Methods, Constructive Techniques, etc.

Topics include but are not restricted to:
* Hierarchical SOM
* Constructive SOM
* Self-evolving architectures
* Evolving and Evolutionary Self-Organizing Maps,
* Incorporating Access Methods on Self-Orgainzing Maps
* Techniques to find an appropriate SOM architecture
* Similarity Information Retrieval
* Bayesian Approaches

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas - ecuadros at spc.org.pe
Peruvian Computer Society, Peru and Prof. Dra. Roseli Ap. Francelin
Romero - rafrance at icmc.usp.br University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Submissions and deadlines:

26 October 2004:  An abstract (1 page) should be sent electronically to
the organizers
15 December 2004: A full paper (see the IJCNN'05 instructions for
submissions) sent to the organizers.
5 January 2005:  Reviews and a notification of acceptance/rejection sent 
to the authors.
31 January 2005:  Final paper submitted to the special session
electronically (IJCNN'05 portal)

All accepted papers will be published in the IJCNN 2005 Proceedings.
Papers not accepted for the special session can be submitted as
regular submissions for IJCNN'05 (the deadline is also January 31,
2005). Authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers to a special issue of an international journal.

Each paper must have the title, authors with e-mails/web sites, and
a detailed abstract as possible.  All accepted papers must be
presented at the conference.

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Prof. Dr. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas
Peruvian Computer Society
ecuadros at spc.org.pe
http://socios.spc.org.pe/ecuadros
Phone: +51-54-400416 (home) or +51-54-934-1932 (cellular)
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