Connectionists: 3rd CFP ICONIP'09 - 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing

[Jonathan Chan]

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement)
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3rd CALL FOR PAPERS
16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09)
Challenges and Trends of Neural Information Processing

Bangkok, Thailand, December 1-5, 2009
http://www.iconip09.org/

*** Due to numerous requests for extension and some minor difficulties 
with our handling of the (relatively new) Springer online submission system, the paper submission 
and special sessions proposal deadline is extended to June 30, 2009. ***

Full manuscript submission deadline: June 30, 2009 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2009 (extended)
Camera-ready manuscripts and early bird registration: September 6, 2009 (extended)


TECHNICAL HILIGHTS

- Keynote speech by Shun-ichi Amari
- Plenary talks by Jun Wang, Nik Kasabov, Kunihiko Fukushima, Ron Sun, 
DeLiang Wang, Chidchanok Lursinsap
- Invited talks by Soo-Young Lee, Wlodzislaw Duch, Shiro Usui, Masumi 
Ishikawa, Yuzo Hirai, Bao-Liang Lu, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Minho Lee, Andrew 
Chi-Sing Leung
- Six tutorials which are inclusive with an ICONIP'09 registration. 
- More details can be found at the conference website. (http://www.iconip09.org/)


TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS

International Neural Network Society (INNS)
Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)
European Neural Network Society (ENNS)
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS)


ICONIP'09 solicits contributions from the following non-exclusive list 
of topics in neural information processing and related areas:

- Cognitive science
- Computational neuroscience
- Mathematical Modeling and Analysis
- Learning Algorithms
- Support Vector Machines
- Self-Organizing Map
- Independent Component Analysis
- Pattern Classification
- Face Analysis and Processing
- Image Processing
- Signal Processing
- Computer Vision
- Hybrid Systems
- Forecasting and Prediction
- Evolutionary Computation
- Hardware
- Fuzzy Systems
- Information Security
- Data and Text Processing
- Financial Applications
- Manufacturing Systems
- Control and Robotics
- Other Emerging Computational Methods
- Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications


PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high quality 
manuscripts of up to eight A4-pages electronically.  The submission must 
conform to the Springer LNCS format.  All accepted papers will be able 
to be published in proceedings of ICONIP'09 as a Springer LNCS volume.  
Extended version of selected papers will be invited for publication in 
special issues of international journals after the conference.

The ICONIP'09 online submission system is at Springer's Online 
Conference Service (OCS).  More information can be found at the paper 
submission site of ICONIP'09. (http://www.iconip09.org/submit.php)


SPECIAL ISSUES

The following special issues have been confirmed thus far:

- Int. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (American 
Scientific Publisher)
- Neural Computing and Applications (Springer)
- Neurocomputing (Elsevier)
- Evolving Systems (Springer)

More special issues in high quality journals will be announced at the 
conference website later on.


CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS

Proposals are solicited for ICONIP'09 special sessions. The special 
sessions will consist of both invited and contributed papers. In 
addition to the core fields of neural information processing, specific 
areas such as cognitive modeling, computational neuroscience, 
bioinformatics, computer vision, financial applications, and so on, are 
strongly encouraged. All accepted papers will appear in the ICONIP'09 
conference proceedings. Each
proposal for special sessions should include the following information:

    * Title of the special session
    * Special session organizer and affiliation
    * Subject areas to be covered by the special session
    * Potential authors

Important Dates (deadlines extended):

     Deadline for special session proposal submission: June 30, 2009
     Notification of acceptance: July 7, 2009
     Deadline for special session papers submission: July 28, 2009
     Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2009
     Camera-ready manuscripts and pre-registration: September 6, 2009

The proposal should be submitted to one of the following Special 
Sessions Chairs:

     Masumi Ishikawa (ishikawa [at] brain.kyutech.ac.jp)
     Tom Gedeon (tom [at] cs [dot] anu [dot] edu [dot] au)
     Shaoning Pang (spang [at] aut [dot] ac [dot] nz)


CALL FOR COMPETITIONS

Please submit proposals to John Sum, Competitions Chair (pfsum [at] nchu 
[dot] edu [dot] tw) by June 15, 2009 (deadline extended).  Decision on 
the competition proposals will be made by June 30, 2009.


POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

There is currently one approved post ICONIP'09 conference workshop at 
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to be held on December 7, 2009:

Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Computing (http://waic09.utar.edu.my/)

Please direct your inquiries to the Workshops Chairs, Lai Weng Kin (lai 
[at] mimos [dot] my) or C. P. Lim (cplim [at] eng [dot] usm [dot] my).


COLLOCATED CONFERENCE

The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Information Technology 
(IAIT2009) will be collocated with The 16th International Conference on 
Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09) in Bangkok, Thailand.