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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>WIRN 2016 – PRELIMINAY CALL FOR PAPERS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>The Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (WIRN) is the annual conference of the Italian Society of Neural Networks (SIREN). The conference is organized, since 1989, in co-operation with the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS) of Vietri S/M (Italy), and is a traditional event devoted to the discussion of novelties and innovations related to field of Artificial Neural Networks. In recent years, it also became a multidisciplinary forum on psychological and cognitive theories for modelling human behaviours. The 26<sup>th</sup> Edition of the Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (<i>WIRN 2016</i>) will be held at the IIASS of Vietri sul Mare, near Salerno, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>CALL FOR PAPERS, SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>: Prospective authors are invited to contribute high quality papers in the topic areas listed below and proposals for special sessions. Special sessions aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Each special session should include at least 3 contributing papers. A proposal for a special session should include a summary statement (1 page long) describing the motivation and relevance of the proposed special session, together with the article titles and author names of the papers that will be included in the track. Contributions should be high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period.. Papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee, and may be accepted for oral or poster presentation. All accepted contributions will be published in a special volume printed by Springer and indexed by SCOPUS. Please visit the web site for further details of the required paper format <a href="http://www.springer.com/series/8767">http://www.springer.com/series/8767</a>. Authors will be limited to one paper per registration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>Manuscripts should not exceed the limits of 8 pages. The The submission Web site for WIRN 2016 is <a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wirn2016">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wirn2016</a>. You can log in through you Easy Chair account or register for an Easy Chair account and then log in.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>TOPIC AREAS</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>:<b> </b></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>Suggested topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#282A55'> research and application areas</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>General Topics of Interest about Computational Intelligence:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence, Support Vector Machines, Complex Networks, Bayesian and Kernel Networks, Consciousness and Models of Emotion Cognitive and Psychological Models of Human Behavior<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:4.55pt'><td valign=top style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:4.55pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:-1.5pt;text-autospace:none'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#282A55'>Algorithms & Architectures:</span></u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>Among others: Opportunist Networks, Metabolic Networks, ICA and BSS, Deep Neural Networks, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Bio-inspired Neural Networks, Wavelet Neural Networks, Intelligent Algorithms for Signal (Speech, Faces, Gestures, Gaze, etc) Processing and Recognition</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#282A55'>Implementations:</span></u><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#282A55'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#282A55'>Among others: Hardware Implementations and Embedded Systems, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Neuromorphic Circuits and Hardware, Spike-based VLSI NNs, Intelligent Interactive Dialogue Systems, Embodied </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>Conversational Agents</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#282A55'>Applications</span></u><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Among others: Finance and Economics, Big Data Analysis, <span style='color:#282A55'>Neuroinformatics and Bioinformatics, Brain-Computer Interface and Systems, </span>Data Fusion,<span style='color:#282A55'> Time Series Modelling and Prediction, Intelligent Infrastructure and </span></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>Transportation </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#282A55'>Systems, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Sensors and Network of Sensors</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>, Smart Grid, Process Monitoring and Diagnosis, Intelligent and Adaptive Systems for Human-Machine Interaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif'>PAPER SUBMISSION: </span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Important Dates (Preliminary) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:19.7pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><img border=0 width=11 height=10 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0"></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'> <strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Special Session/Workshop proposals: </span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:normal'>March 10, 2016</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:19.7pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><img border=0 width=11 height=10 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0"></span><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'> <strong><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Paper Submission deadline:</span></strong><span lang=EN-GB> April 16, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:19.7pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><img border=0 width=11 height=10 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0"></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'> <strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Notification of acceptance: </span></strong>May 1, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:19.7pt'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><img border=0 width=11 height=10 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0"></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'> <strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Camera-ready copy: </span></strong>May 15, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:19.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><img border=0 width=11 height=10 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01D16E5F.5B9FC1C0"></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'> <strong><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Conference Dates: </span></strong>May 18-20, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>More details will follow soon on the SIREN home page <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.associazionesiren.org">www.associazionesiren.org</a> </span><span lang=EN-GB 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