Connectionists: [CfP] WCCI 2018 Special Session -- Complex-Valued and Quaternionic Neural Networks

[Marcos Eduardo Valle]

***Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers.***

Call for Papers:

Complex-Valued and Quaternionic Neural Networks
Special Session for the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational 
Intelligence (WCCI 2018)
http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~valle/IJCNN2018

Important Dates:
  15th January 2018 – Paper Submission
  15th March 2018 – Paper Acceptance
  1st May 2018 – Final Paper Submission and Early Registration
  8-13 July 2018 – IEEE WCCI 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Aim and Scope:

Complex-valued neural networks (CVNNs) and quaternionic neural networks 
(QNNs) constitute a growing research area that has attracted continued 
interest for the last decade. One of the most important characteristics 
of CVNNs is the proper treatment of phase and the information contained 
in phase, e.g., the treatment of wave- and rotation-related phenomena 
such as electromagnetism, light waves, quantum waves, and oscillatory 
phenomena. QNNs, which have potential applications in three- and 
four-dimensional data modeling, have been effectively used for 
processing and analysis of multivariate images such as color and 
polarimetric SAR images.

More generally, hypercomplex-valued neural networks – which include 
CVNNs and QNNs, treat multidimensional data as a single entity. There 
are several new directions in hypercomplex-valued neural networks: from 
formal generalization of the commonly used algorithms to the 
hypercomplex case that are mathematically richer than regular neurons, 
to the use of original activation functions that can increase 
significantly the neuron and network functionality. There are also many 
interesting applications of HVNNs in pattern recognition and 
classification, nonlinear filtering, intelligent image processing, 
brain-computer interfaces, time-series prediction, bioinformatics, 
robotics, etc.

The CVNNs special session, which indeed covers hypercomplex-valued 
models, has become a traditional event of the IJCNN conference. The 2018 
IJCNN, which is an integrated part of 2018 IEEE WCCI, will be a very 
attractive forum for complex-valued and quaternionic neural networks. It 
will be possible to organize a systematic and comprehensive exchange of 
ideas in the area, to present the recent research results, and to 
discuss future trends. We hope the proposed session will attract not 
only potential speakers, but also many researches interested in joining 
the hypercomplex-valued neural network community. We expect that this 
session would be very beneficial for computational intelligence 
researchers and other specialties that are in need of the sophisticated 
neural networks tools.

List of Topics:

Papers that are, or might be, related to all aspects of the 
hypercomplex-valued neural networks, including CVNNs and QNNs, are 
invited. We welcome contributions on theoretical advances as well as 
contributions of applied nature. We also welcome interdisciplinary 
contributions from other areas that are on the borders of the proposed 
scope. Topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Theoretical Aspects of CVNNs and QNNs
2. Complex-Valued and Quaternion Activation Functions
3. Learning Algorithms for CVNNs
4. Complex-Valued and Quaternionic Associative Memories
5. Pattern Recognition, Classification and Time Series Prediction using 
CVCNNs and QNNs
6. CVNNs and QNNs in Nonlinear Filtering
7. Dynamics of Complex-Valued and Quaternionic Neurons
8. Learning Algorithms for CVCNNs and QNNs
9. Chaos in Complex Domain
10. Feedforward CVCNNs
11. Spatiotemporal CVNNs Processing
12. Frequency Domain CVNNs Processing
13. Phase-Sensitive Signal Processing
14. Applications of CVNNs and QNNs in Image Processing, Speech 
Processing and Bioinformatics
15 . Quantum Computation and Quantum Neural Networks
16. CVNN in Brain-Computer Interfaces
17. CVNNs and QNNs in Robotics
18. Clifford and Hypercomplex-valued Neural Networks

Special Session Organizers:
  Marcos Eduardo Valle (University of Campinas, Brazil)
  Igor Aizenberg (Manhattan College, USA)
  Akira Hirose (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  Danilo Mandic (Imperial College, London, UK)

We are looking forward to see you in Rio!

-- 
Marcos Eduardo Valle
Address: Departamento de Matemática Aplicada
Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 651
Cidade Universitária "Zeferino Vaz" - Distr. Barão Geraldo
CEP 13083-859, Campinas - São Paulo, Brazil
Phone: (+55) 019 3521-5992
Homepage: http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~valle