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<font face="Arial"><b>Last Call for Oral Presentation, Poster
Presentation and/or Full </b><b>P</b><b>aper Contribution</b><br>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-right: 0.39in" align="center"><font
color="#0061ff"><font face="Arial"><b><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.icann2016.org"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.icann2016.org">www.icann2016.org</a></a></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-right: 0.39in" lang="en-GB"
align="center"> <font face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 14pt"
size="4"><b>ICANN 2016 </b></font></font> </p>
<blockquote align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font
face="Arial">25th Annual Conference on Artificial Neural
Networks</font></blockquote>
<font face="Arial"> BarcelonaTech (UPC), Barcelona, Spain</font><font
face="Arial"><br>
6 - 9 September 2016</font><font color="#0061ff"><font
face="Arial"><span lang="en-GB"><b><br>
Special event</b></span></font></font><font
color="#0061ff"><font face="Arial"><span lang="en-GB"> : </span></font></font><font
face="Arial">ENNS 25th Anniversary</font>
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial">============================================================</font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial"><i>The
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)
is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural
Network Society (ENNS). In 2016 the Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) will organis</i><i>e the 25th ICANN
Conference from </i><i>the </i><i>6th to </i><i>the </i><i>9th
</i><i>of </i><i>September 2016 in Barcelona, Spain, in
collaboration with the Universit</i><i>at</i><i> Pompeu Fabra
(UPF).</i><br>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#0061ff"><b>INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</b></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial">1. <b>Wlodek
Duch
</b>(Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland)<br>
2. <b>Erkki Oja </b>(Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland)<br>
3. <b>Joaquin Fuster </b>(University of California at Los
Angeles, USA)<br>
4. <b>Murray Shanahan</b> (Imperial College London, UK)<br>
5. </font><font face="Arial"><b>Günther Palm</b></font><font
face="Arial"> (University of Ulm, Germany)<br>
6. <b>Stephen Coombes </b>(University of Nottingham, UK)<br>
7. </font><font face="Arial"><b>Etienne Koechlin</b></font><font
face="Arial"> (</font> <font face="Arial">Pierre and Marie
Curie University, France)</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#0061ff"><font face="Arial"><b>IMPORTANT
DATES</b></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial"><i>Submission
of abstracts and papers: </i></font><font face="Arial">1
March 2016<br>
</font><font face="Arial"><i>Submission of </i></font><font
face="Arial"><i>d</i></font><font face="Arial"><i>emonstration
proposals: </i></font><font face="Arial">1 March 2016<br>
</font><font face="Arial"><i>Notification of acceptance:</i></font><font
face="Arial"> 8 May 2016<br>
</font><font face="Arial"><i>Camera-ready paper and registration:
</i></font><font face="Arial">15 May 2016<br>
</font><font face="Arial"><i>Conference dates:</i></font><font
face="Arial"> 6-9 September 2016</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#0061ff"><font face="Arial"><b>CONFERENCE
TOPICS</b></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Arial">ICANN 2016 will feature the main
tracks <i>Brain Inspired Computing</i> and <i>Machine Learning
Research</i>, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and
applications. All research fields dealing with Neural Networks
will be present at the conference.<br>
A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:</font></blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
<blockquote><font face="Arial">Brain Inspired Computing:
Cognitive models, Computational Neuroscience,
Self-organisation, Reinforcement Learning, Neural Control
and Planning, Hybrid Neural-Symbolic Architectures, Neural
Dynamics, Recurrent Networks, Deep Learning. </font> </blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<blockquote><font face="Arial">Machine Learning: Neural Network
Theory, Neural Network Models, Graphical Models, Bayesian
Networks, Kernel Methods, Generative Models, Information
Theoretic Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Relational
Learning, Dynamical Models. </font> </blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<blockquote><font face="Arial">Neural Applications for:
Intelligent Robotics, Neurorobotics, Language Processing,
Image Processing, Sensor Fusion, Pattern Recognition, Data
Mining, Neural Agents, Brain-Computer Interaction, Neural
Hardware, Evolutionary Neural Networks. </font> </blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<font color="#0061ff"><font face="Arial"><b> </b></font></font><font
color="#0061ff"><font face="Arial"><b><br>
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEE</b></font></font><font
color="#0061ff"><font face="Arial"><b>S</b></font></font>
<blockquote align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Early
registration fees have been kept particularly low for this kind of
event because ENNS and ICANN aim to fully implement the academic<font
face="Arial"> not-for-profit policy.<br>
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font
face="Arial">Undergraduate students (Bachelor and Master level):
90 EUR<br>
PhD Students: 200 EUR<br>
Regular delegates: 250 EUR</font></blockquote>
<blockquote align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font
face="Arial"><b>ENNS members have a reduction of 40 EUR</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote align="justify" style="margin-right: 0.4in; text-indent:
0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;
page-break-before: auto"> <font face="Arial">Students can apply
for ENNS funded travel grants to attend (see the conference
website).</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#0061ff"><font face="Arial"><b>CALL FOR
CONTRIBUTED SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS</b></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial">All
scientific communications presented at ICANN 2016 will be
reviewed and scientifically evaluated by a panel of experts. The
conference will<br>
feature three categories of communications:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial">- oral
communications (15'+5')<br>
- poster communications (on permanent display and with a 2-hour
presentation)<br>
- demonstrations<br>
<br>
Authors willing to present original contributions for any
category must submit a manuscript of a maximum length of </font><font
face="Arial"><font face="Arial"> 8 pages.</font></font><font
face="Arial"> Accepted papers of contributing authors will be
published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series. Selected papers will be invited after the
conference for a full journal paper submission.</font> </blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial">Authors
willing to present a contribution for oral communications and
posters without submitting a full manuscript must submit a
1-page abstract. The abstracts will be published all together in
a proceedings section without an author index.</font> </blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Arial">In case of programme constraints the
priority will be given to original contributions accompanied by
a full paper submission.<br>
<br>
Submission of communications will be online. More details are
available on the conference website (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://icann2016.org/index.php/contributors/submission">http://icann2016.org/index.php/contributors/submission</a>).<br>
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<font color="#0061ff"><b>BEST PAPER AWARDS</b></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Arial">ENNS will sponsor a maximum of four
best paper awards, two in the Brain Inspired Computing track
(one poster and one oral communication) and, analogously, two
in the Machine Learning Research track. All awardees will be
presented during the final ceremony.<br>
</font><br>
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<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#0061ff"><font
face="Arial"><b>ORGANISATION</b></font></font><font
face="Arial"><b><br>
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General Chair:</b><i><br>
Antonio J. Pons Rivero</i></font><font face="Arial"> (UPC
Barcelona, Spain)<b><br>
<br>
Local</b></font><font face="Arial"> </font><font face="Arial"><b>co-Chairs:</b></font><font
face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Arial"><i>Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo</i></font><font
face="Arial"> (UPF Barcelona, Spain),</font> <font face="Arial"><i>Paul
Verschure</i></font><font face="Arial"> (UPF Barcelona, Spain)</font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial"><b>Organising
Committee
Chairs:</b><i><br>
Daniel Malagarriga</i></font><font face="Arial"> (UPC
Barcelona, Spain), </font><font face="Arial"><i>Lara Escuain</i></font><font
face="Arial"> (UPC Barcelona, Spain), </font><font face="Arial"><i>Caroline
Kleinheny</i></font><font face="Arial"> (ENNS Lausanne,
Switzerland)</font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial"><b>Honorary
Chair: <br>
</b>Alessandro E. P. Villa <br>
<b><br>
Communication</b></font> <font face="Arial"><b>Chair:</b><i><br>
Paolo Masulli</i></font><font face="Arial"> (ENNS Lausanne,
Switzerland)</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font face="Arial">Antonio J. Pons Rivero<br>
General Chair of ICANN 2016<br>
Terrassa School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering
(ETSEIAT)<br>
Nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear optics and lasers Group<br>
BarcelonaTech (UPC)<br>
Edifici GAIA<br>
Rbla. Sant Nebridi, 22<br>
08222 Terrassa, Spain<br>
<br>
Caroline Kleinheny<br>
Secretary of the European Neural Network Society<br>
University of Lausanne<br>
Internef 137k, Quartier UNIL Dorigny<br>
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland<br>
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