Connectionists: ICONIP2007 2nd Call for Papers

[Masumi Ishikawa]

ICONIP2007 2nd Call for Papers

14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing
Kitakyushu, Japan
November 13-16, 2007
http://www.iconip07.org/

Sponsors :
  Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA)
  Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)
  21st Century COE Program, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Co-sponsors:
  RIKEN
  Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
  Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (SOFT)
  IEEE CIS Japan Chapter
  Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute (FLSI) 

Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following five tracks:
　1. Computational Neuroscience
　2. neural network models and learning
　　(learning algorithms, ICA, SVM, SOM etc.)
　3. Vision and motor control
　　(robot vision, pattern recognition, motor control, visuomotor control etc.)
　4. Hardware and Applications
　　(hardware, signal processing, medical applications, fuzzy, robotics etc.)
　5. Novel approaches
　　(EC, BMI, cognitive science, hybrid systems, brain-like systems, 
adaptive intelligent systems)

Proceedings:
Presented papers will be published as post-conference proceedings by 
Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS)
Length of each paper: 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style

Important dates:
  Deadline for submission : 1 May, 2007
  Decision notification : 1 July, 2007
  Camera-ready papers due : 1 August, 2007
  Deadline for Authors’ registration : August 1, 2007
  Revision of papers due (if any) : December 15, 2007

Keynote Speech
  Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
  Title: Cerebellar Long Term Depression as a Supervised Learning 
Rule with All or Nothing Character at Each Synapse

Plenary Talks
  Shin Ishii, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
    Title: Modeling decision making in a partially observable domain
  Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Titie: Statistical mechanical approach to CDMA communication 
       -- an offspring of research on perceptrons and associative memory --
  Frederic Kaplan, EPFL, Switzerland
    Title: Curiosity-driven development
  Andrew Y. Ng, Stanford University
    Title: to be announced
  Rajesh P. N. Rao, University of Washington
    Title: to be announced

Journal Special Issues:
  Cognitive Neurodynamics
  Neural Information Processing-Letters and Reviews
  Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing
  International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control
  Neural Networks (Selected papers will be recommended for publication)

Call for proposals on Special Organized Sessions and Tutorials
  Important dates:
  Deadline for proposal : 1 April, 2007
  Decision notification : 15 April, 2007

Call for Demonstrations
  Important dates:
  Deadline for proposal :15 July, 2007
  Decision notification : 1 August, 2007
  Deadline for Demonstrators’registration : 15 August, 2007
  Final demonstraction abstract due : 1 September, 2007

Organizing Committees:
  General Chair: Takeshi Yamakawa (KIT, Japan)
  Organizing Committee Chair: Shiro Usui (RIKEN, Japan)
  Steering Committee Chair: Takeshi Yamakawa (KIT,Japan)
  Program Co-chairs: Masumi Ishikawa (KIT, Japan), Kenji Doya (OIST, Japan)
  Brain IT Special Sessions Chair: Hatsuo Hayashi (KIT, Japan)
  Tutorials Chair: Hirokazu Yokoi (KIT, Japan)
  Exhibitions Chair: Masahiro Nagamatsu (KIT, Japan)
  Local Arrangement Chair: Satoru Ishizuka (KIT, Japan)
  Web Master: Tsutomu Miki (KIT, Japan)
  Publications Chair: Hiroyuki Miyamoto (KIT, Japan)
  Publicity Chair: Hideki Nakagawa (KIT, Japan)
  Secretary: Katsumi Tateno (KIT, Japan)

For further information:
  http://www.iconip07.org/


Masumi Ishikawa
Department of Brain Science and Engineering
Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering
Kyushu Institute of Technology
2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu 808-0196, Japan
Tel and Fax: +81-93-695-6106
Email: ishikawa at brain.kyutech.ac.jp
URL: http://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~ishikawa
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