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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=KO link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Dear manager of connectionist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>I would like to ask you to post the 2<sup>nd</sup> call for papers of ICONIP 2013 on your list and e-mailing to your members.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Please find the 2<sup>nd</sup> call for paper in the attachment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>If you have any request, please feel free to contact me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Nari Kim(Ms.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>--------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Nari KIM</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>DEXCO Co., Ltd / MICE 1 Team</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>6F, Sunghwa Bldg., #1356-51 Manchon1-dong, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Suseong-gu, Daegu 706-803, Korea</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Tel.</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'> +82-53-746-9965 / <b>Fax.</b> +82-53-742-9007</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>E-mail.</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:nari@dexco.co.kr"><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>nari@dexco.co.kr</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>, <a href="mailto:nari.dexco@gmail.com">nari.dexco@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-hangul'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Adobe 고딕 Std B","sans-serif";color:#002060'>2<sup>ND</sup> CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Download the 2<sup>nd</sup> call for papers</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>: </span><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://dexco.cafe24.com/ICONIP2013/ICONIP2013-2nd%20Call%20for%20Papers_Final_s.pdf"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>http://dexco.cafe24.com/ICONIP2013/ICONIP2013-2nd Call for Papers_Final_s.pdf</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2013), an annual conference of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA), will be held from 3 - 7 November 2013 at EXCO, <span style='color:black'>Daegu, Republic of Korea. We hope that you will take advantage of this unique opportunity to interact and share your experience with your colleagues and peers, and have a memorable and rewarding experience during your time in Daegu, Republic of Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>KEYNOTE / PLENARY SPEAKERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>The organizing committee is pleased to announce that outstanding keynote speaker and plenary speakers will give great speeches on ICONIP 2013 as below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>• Keynote Speaker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Prof. Shun-Ichi Amari</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>“Dreaming of Mathematical Neuroscience for Half a Century”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>• Plenary Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Prof. Yoshua Bengio</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>, University of Montreal, Canada</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd;text-indent:3.75pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>“Deep Learning of Representations”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Prof. Kunihiko Fukushima</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>, Kansai University, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd;text-indent:3.75pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>“How to design multi-layered neural networks for vision”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Prof. Soo-Young Lee</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>, KAIST, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>“<span style='letter-spacing:-.2pt'>Artificial Cognitive Systems with Active Learning and Situation Awareness Abilities: From Cognitive Science to Real-World Applications”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Prof. Naftali Tishby</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>, The Hebrew University, Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd;text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>“<span style='letter-spacing:-.2pt'>Balanced information flow in perception and action - the key principle of computational intelligence?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Prof. Zongben Xu</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>“Nonlinear Sparsitiy: Examples, Modeling and Applications”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>CONFERENCE SCOPE AND THEMES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers related to the topics listed below. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Theoretical, computational, or experimental studies of perception, psychophysics, learning and memory, inference and reasoning, problem solving, natural language processing, and neuropsychology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Learning Theory, Algorithms, and Architectures: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Stability and convergence analysis, statistical learning algorithms, neural network models, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, kernel methods, graphical models, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, statistical and information-theoretic methods, generalization, regularization and model selection, Gaussian processes and mixture models, matrix/tensor analysis, statistical physics of learning, and evolutionary algorithms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Computational Neuroscience and Brain Imaging: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Theoretical and experimental studies of processing and transmission of information in biological neurons and networks, spiking neurons, visual and auditory cortex, neural encoding and decoding, plasticity and adaptation, brain imaging, neuroimaging, brain mapping, and brain segmentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Vision, Speech and Signal Processing:</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'> </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Biological and machine vision, image processing and coding, visual perception and modeling, visual selective attention, visual coding and representation, object detection and recognition, motion detection and tracking, natural scene analysis, image processing, auditory perception and modeling, source separation, speech recognition and speech synthesis, speaker identification, and audio & speech retrieval.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Control, Robotics and Hardware Technologies: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Decision and control, exploration, planning, navigation, Markov decision processes, game playing, multi-agent coordination, neuro-fuzzy system, cognitive robotics, developmental robotics, analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS, neural prostheses, photonics, and molecular & quantum computing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Novel approaches and Applications:</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'> </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Innovative applications that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, systems biology, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, adaptive intelligent systems, brain-computer interfaces, granular computing, hybrid intelligent systems, neuroinformatics and neuroengineering, bioinformatics, information retrieval, data mining, and knowledge discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'>PAPER SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (8 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. It is also possible to submit extended abstracts which include the aim or rationale for the following specific topics: <b><span style='color:black'>Neuroscience, Neuro-psychology, Industrial applications, Cognitive science, and Demonstration.</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The submission <span style='color:black'>of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review, or copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be reviewed by area experts based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the reviewers' comments and suggestions. The proceedings of ICONIP 2013 will be published by Springer in its series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Selected papers will be included in special issues of the following international journals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.75pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>• Neural Networks<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.75pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>• Neurocomputing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.75pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>• Cognitive Computation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.75pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>• Cognitive Systems Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.75pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>• Neural Processing Letters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:3.75pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Adobe 고딕 Std B","sans-serif";color:#002060'>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:2.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Deadline for Special session, Tutorials and Workshops proposals ------------------- <b><span style='color:#17365D'>15 May 2013</span></b><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Deadline for extended abstract, regular and special session paper ------------------- <b><span style='color:#17365D'>15 June 2013</span></b><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Notification of acceptance ---------------- <b><span style='color:#17365D'>1 August 2013</span></b><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Deadline for Camera-ready final paper submission -------------- <b><span style='color:#17365D'>15 August 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#FF6600'>CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION / WORKSHOP PROPOSALS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>ICONIP2013 welcomes proposals for special sessions/workshop. Special session will be held during the conference. The aim of a special session is to provide the state-of-the-art and current research direction in specific fields of neural information processing. The special sessions devoted to emerging topics with growing attention are particularly encouraged. We also invite proposals for full-day or half-day workshops in relevant and current topics in neural information processing. Workshops will be held on 3 November 2013, the first day of the conference. A workshop should include an introductory talk on the topic and will have final discussions at the end of the workshop. Apart from the introductory talk and the discussion, workshop should preferably include six or more additional presentations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Researchers and prospective organizers are invited to submit a one-page proposal for a special session/workshop to the ICONIP 2013 secretariat or each chair via the following emails before </span></u><b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>15 May 2013</span></u></b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>• ICONIP 2013 Secretariat</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>: </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>iconip2013@gmail.com</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>• Special session Chairs</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>:</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd;text-indent:7.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Prof. Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea / sbcho@cs.yonsei.ac.kr<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd;text-indent:7.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Prof. Seiichi Ozawa, Kobe University, Japan / ozawasei@kobe-u.ac.jp<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd;text-indent:7.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Prof. Liqing Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China / </span><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:zhang-lq@cs.sjtu.edu.cn"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>zhang-lq@cs.sjtu.edu.cn</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>• Workshop Chairs</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd;text-indent:7.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Prof. Seong-Whan Lee, Korea University, Korea / swlee@image.korea.ac.kr<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd;text-indent:7.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Prof. Daijin Kim, POSTECH, Korea / dkim@postech.ac.kr <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd;text-indent:7.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Mr. Kyunghwan Kim, NT Research, Korea / kimk@ntresearch.net<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd;text-indent:6.15pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Each proposal should include the following information:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>- The title of the special session or workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>- The organizers with their affiliations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>- A description of why the topic is of special interest and how it fits to the scope of ICONIP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>- A list of potential authors or contributors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>- The name(s) of the presenter(s) of the introductory talk (Only for workshop proposal)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>- A theme for the discussion (Only for workshop proposal)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>For more details for special session/workshop proposals, please visit the ICONIP 2013 website (</span><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://www.iconip2013.org"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>www.iconip2013.org</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#00B0F0'>Conference Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Honorary Chair</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Shun-ichi Amari</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, RIKEN, Japan</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060'> </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Soo-Young Lee</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, KAIST, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>General Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>Minho Lee</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Kyungpook National University, Korea</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Program Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.2pt'>Akira Hirose</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.2pt'>, The University of Tokyo, Japan</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>Zeng-Guang Hou</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Rhee Man Kil</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Advisory Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Jonathan H. Chan</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Thailand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Wlodzislaw Duch</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Poland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Kunihiko Fukushima</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Tom Gedeon</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Aike Guo</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Akira Iwata</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Nik Kasabov</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Irwin King</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Noboru Onishi</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Ron Son</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Il Hong Suh</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Shiro Usui</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>DeLiang Wang</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Lipo Wang</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Jun Wang</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Lei Xu</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Takeshi Yamakawa</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Byoung-Tak Zhang</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Li-Ming Zhang</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Organizing Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hyeyoung Park</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Kyungpook National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Workshop Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Daijin Kim</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, POSTECH, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Kyunghwan Kim</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, NT Research, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt'>Seong-Whan Lee</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt'>, Korea University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Special Session Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sung-Bae Cho</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Yonsei University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Seiichi Ozawa</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Kobe University, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.4pt'>Liqing Zhang</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.4pt'>, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Tutorial Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Seungjin Choi</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, POSTECH, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Publication Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt'>Yoonsuck Choe</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt'>, Texas A&M University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Hyung-Min Park</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>, Sogang University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Seong-Bae Park</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>Kyungpook National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Publicity Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Kazushi Ikeda</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, NAIST, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Chi-Sing Leung</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Shaoning Pang</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Registration Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Min-Young Kim</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Kyungpook National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Financial Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Sang-Woo Ban</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.3pt'>, Dongguk University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Local Arrangement Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>Doo-Hyun Choi</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>, Kyungpook National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Jong-Seok Lee</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>, Yonsei University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>Rammohan Mallipeddi</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>, Kyungpook National University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-left:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.0gd;text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>iconip2013@gmail.com</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:.5gd'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#FF6600'>DAEGU, KOREA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Daegu Metropolitan City is the third largest city in Korea and is located in the southeastern part of the Korean peninsula. With an efficient transportation network linked in all directions, Daegu Metropolitan City is a gateway to numerous cultural heritages and tourist attractions, all proudly displaying the unique Korean culture. The organizing committee of ICONIP 2013 welcomes you to experience and enjoy the following tour programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Historical/Cultural Tour - “UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Andong Folk Village, Yangdong Folk Village, Seokguram Grotto, Bulguksa Temple and Tripitaka Koreana.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Industrial Tour <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The hub of knowledge-based industry in northeast Asia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>: Daegu Metropolitan City is a place where industry thrives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'>Korean Waive Tour - Korean drama/movie Theme<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Which is your favorite Korean drama or movie?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>If you are not sure, come and join us in this tour that includes the filming locations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>of drama ‘Love Rain’, movie ‘Dae Jang-Geum’ and ‘Queen Seon Deok’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#FF6600'>ACCOMMODATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>For all participants of ICONIP 2013, the organizing committee is pleased to offer sufficient rooms at hotels listed on ICONIP 2013 website with discount rates. To take advantage of these discounts, participants are kindly advised to make an on-line hotel reservation via the ICONIP 2013 website.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#FF6600'>TRANSPORTATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>International Travel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>The major arrival points in Korea are the Incheon International Airport (Seoul), the Gimhae International Airport (Busan), and the Daegu International Airport (Daegu). For those who arrive at Incheon Airport, to take domestic airline or KTX (Korean train express) train is highly recommended. From Gimhae International<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Airport, you can also take KTX train as well as limousine buses heading to Daegu.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>Incheon International Airport (Seoul)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:15.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>57 countries 174 cities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>Daegu International Airport (Daegu)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:15.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>2 countries 5 cities / <span style='letter-spacing:-.2pt'>Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Shenyang, Bangkok</span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.2pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.3pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>Gimhae International Airport (Busan)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-left:15.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:1.5gd;text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>11 countries 25 cities / <span style='letter-spacing:-.2pt'>USA, Germany, Japan, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Russia, Thailand, Taiwan</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Domestic Transportation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>From Incheon Int’l Airport (Seoul)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:18.45pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Domestic Flight: 50 minute, 2 flights/day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:6.3pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.3pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.9pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.3pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:18.45pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.3pt'>KTX: 140 minute, every 30 minute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:6.3pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.3pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:18.45pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Limousine bus: 4 hours, 33 times/day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:2.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>From Gimhae Int’l Airport (Busan)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;text-indent:17.3pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.3pt'>Limousine bus: 70 minute, every 40 minute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>*</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>For more details, please visit the ICONIP 2013 website (www.iconip2013.org)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>