<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Call for papers: special session on "<span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-m_-448515694793978847gmail-im" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(80,0,80)">60 Years of Weightless Neural Systems<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">" at </span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">ESANN</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">2019</span><br></span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (</span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">ESANN</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span></span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">2019</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">).</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-aQJ">24-26 April<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il">2019</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">, Bruges, Belgium -<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.esann.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px">http://www.<span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il">esann</span>.org</a><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-m_-448515694793978847gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><br></div></span><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Mimicking biological neurons by focusing on the decoding performed by the dendritic trees is an attractive alternative to the integrate-and-fire McCullogh-Pitts neuron stylisation. RAM-based, or Boolean neurons, and weightless neural systems have been studied and applied in a broad spectrum of situations, resulting in theoretical findings and the development of exciting applications to an ample set of domains, ranging from natural language processing to game playing, including memory transfer mechanisms, biomedical applications, computational vision, hardware security, and quantum learning.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The year of<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il">2019</span><span> </span>marks the 60-years anniversary of the seminal paper on n-tuple classifiers by Bledsoe and Browning, as well as the 35-years of the WiSARD model, and the tenth anniversary of the first special session on weightless neural systems at<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-m_-448515694793978847gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il">ESANN</span></span>. This session invites original contributions on theoretical and practical aspects of weightless neural systems at all levels of abstraction, as well as their relationship to themes of current interest such as: deep learning, convolutional neural models, adversarial learning, etc.</div><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">SUBMISSION:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Prospective authors must submit their paper through the<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">ESANN</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>portal following the instructions provided in<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=submission" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px">https://www.elen.ucl.ac.be/<span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il"><wbr>esann</span>/index.php?pg=submission</a><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span><wbr> Each paper will undergo a peer reviewing process for its acceptance. Authors should send as soon as possible an e-mail with the tentative title of their contribution to the special session organisers.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">IMPORTANT DATES:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Submission of papers:<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-aQJ">19 November 2018</span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Notification of acceptance:<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-aQJ">31 January<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il">2019</span></span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">ESANN</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>conference:<span> </span></span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-aQJ">24 - 26 April<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_-2556542550917654048gmail-il">2019</span></span></span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">SPECIAL SESSION ORGANISERS:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Priscila M. V. Lima, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Felipe M. G. França, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Massimo De Gregorio, Ist. di Sci. Appl. e Sistemi Intelligenti (Italy)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Wilson R. de Oliveira, Univ. Fed. Rural Pernambuco (Brazil)</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word">–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word">Felipe M. G. França, PhD<br>Professor of Computer Science and Engineering<br>Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program, COPPE</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word">Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro<br>P.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