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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">Preliminary Announcement <o:p class=""></o:p></font><span style="font-size: 12.8px;" class="">[Apologies for cross-postings]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">===========================================================<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" class=""><a href="http://www.icann2017.org/" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);" class="">www.icann2017.org</span></b></a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 19pt;" class="">ICANN 2017</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Alghero/Sassari, Sardinia, Italy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">11th - 15th September 2017</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><i class="">The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). In 2017, the 26<sup class="">th</sup> ICANN will be organised from the 11th
to the 15th of September 2017 in Alghero/Sassari, Sardinia, Italy. </i><o:p class=""></o:p></font><span style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><i class="">Conference proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 68, 255);" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><i class="">Special session / workshop proposals: </i>
15 January 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><i class="">Proposals for competitions and tutorials:</i> 31 January 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><i class="">Submission of demonstration proposals:
</i>1 March 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Submission of abstracts and papers:
</i></b><b class="">19 March 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><i class="">Notification of acceptance:</i> 30 April 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><i class="">Camera-ready paper and registration: </i>
15 May 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><i class="">Conference dates:</i> 11 - 15 September 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 68, 255);" class="">CONFERENCE TOPICS</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">ICANN 2017 will feature the main tracks <i class="">
Brain Inspired computing</i> and <i class="">Machine Learning research</i>, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications. All research fields dealing with Neural Networks will be present at the conference.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><font face="Arial" class="">•<span style="font-size: 7pt;" class=""> </span>
<!--[endif]-->Brain Inspired Computing: Cognitive models, Computational Neuroscience, Self-organization, Reinforcement Learning, Neural Control and Planning, Hybrid Neural-Symbolic Architectures, Neural Dynamics, Recurrent Networks, Deep Learning.
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><font face="Arial" class="">•<span style="font-size: 7pt;" class=""> </span>
<!--[endif]-->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.
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<!--[endif]-->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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- To bring together researchers from two worlds: Information Sciences and Neurosciences<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- To keep a wide scope, ranging from Machine Learning Algorithms to models of real nervous systems<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- To facilitate discussions and interactions in the effort towards developing more intelligent computational systems and increasing our understanding of neural and cognitive processes in the brain.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- To help researchers to meet, mingle and network with colleagues from all over the world.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- To be the meeting point between research and business.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- To be a global interdisciplinary meeting encompassing Machine Learning and Neural Computation.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 68, 255);" class="">BENEFITS OF ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- A solid cutting-edge scientific programme including talks from the world experts in the field of artificial neural networks.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- A conference schedule tailored to encourage interaction between the attendees, with time for networking and discussion.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- The publication of all accepted contributions in the peer-reviewed book of conference proceedings, in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- The opportunity to vote and to be considered for the best paper awards, presented during the final ceremony of ICANN.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- A top-level conference in the field with a reasonable registration fee, thanks to the not-for-profit policy of the ENNS organisation. Students can apply for ENNS funded travel grants to attend.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- An overly attractive conference location in the beautiful setting of the Sardinian coast, with social events to explore the area.
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<font face="Arial" class="">Early registration fees have been kept particularly low for this kind of event because ENNS and ICANN aim at full implementation of the academic </font><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">not-for-profit policy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">Undergraduate students (Bachelor and Master level): 100 EUR<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">PhD Students: 240 EUR<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">Regular delegates: 290 EUR<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">ENNS members have a reduction of 40 EUR</b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" class="">Students can apply for ENNS funded travel grants to attend (see the conference website).</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">All scientific communications presented at ICANN 2017 will be reviewed and scientifically evaluated by a panel of experts. The conference will </font><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">feature three categories of communications:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- oral communications (15'+5')<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- poster communications (on permanent display and 2 hours presentation)<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- demonstrations</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">Authors willing to present original contributions for any category must submit a manuscript of maximum 8 pages length that will be refereed to international standards by at least three referees. 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.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">Authors willing to present a contribution for oral communications and posters without submitting a full manuscript must submit a 1-page abstract that will also be refereed by at least three referees. The abstracts will
be published all together in a proceedings section without an author index.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">In case of program constraints the priority will be given to original contributions accompanied by a full paper submission.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(5, 68, 255);" class="">WORKSHOPS, SPECIAL SESSIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS,</span> </font><b style="font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 68, 255);" class="">COMPETITION PROPOSALS and TUTORIALS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">ICANN 2017 invites proposals for workshops, special sessions, demonstrations, competitions and tutorials to be held during the conference. </font><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">For more information, please refer to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 68, 255);" class="">BEST PAPER AWARDS</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">ENNS will sponsor several best paper awards, in the Brain Inspired Computing track and in the Machine Learning research track. All awardees will be presented during the final ceremony.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 68, 255);" class="">ORGANISATION</span></b></font><b class=""><font face="Arial" class=""> </font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">General Chair:</b><i class=""> </i>Alessandro E.P. Villa</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">General Co-chairs: </b>Alessandra Lintas, Věra Kůrková, Stefano Rovetta, Paul F.M.J. Verschure</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Local Co-chairs: </b>Eugenio Lintas, Anna Mura</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Program and Workshop Committee: </b>Cesare Alippi, Jérémie Cabessa, Barbara Hammer, Petia Koprinkova-Hristova, Jaako Peltonen, Antonio J. Pons, Yifat Prut, Stefano Rovetta, Igor V. Tetko, Paul F.M.J. Verschure, Alessandro
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Communications Chair: </b>Paolo Masulli<b class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Organisation</font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">University of Lausanne, Switzerland<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">ENNS Secretariat, Switzerland<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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