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<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Upon numerous
requests, the submission deadline is postponed to </span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:red">January 10, 2017</span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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tutorial/workshop will be arranged in Hakodate/Muroran on June 24-26, 2017.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The 14th International Symposium on
Neural Networks (ISNN 2017) will be held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan during
June 21-23, 2017, following the successes of previous events. Located in
northern island of Hokkaido, Sapporo is the fourth largest Japanese city and a
popular summer/winter tourist venue. ISNN 2017 aims to provide a high-level
international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the
state of the art of neural network research and applications in related fields.
The symposium will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars,
regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular
topics.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Authors are invited to submit full-length
papers by the submission deadline through the online submission system. The
submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been
submitted under review or is not copyright-protected elsewhere and will be
presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by
experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance,
quality, and clarity. Papers presented at ISNN 2017 will be published in the
EI-indexed proceedings in the Springer LNCS series and selected good papers
will be included in special issues of several SCI journals.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Extended Paper
submission deadline: <s>January 1, 2017</s>   </span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:red">January 10, 2017</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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acceptance: February 1, 2017<span></span></span></p>

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and author registration: March 1, 2017<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Conference: June
21-23, 2017<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-xmsonormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:red">Post-symposium
tutorial/workshop: June 24-26, 2017</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><span></span></span></p></div>