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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">ESANN 2021 - 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">Online event, 6-8 October 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE"><a href="https://www.esann.org">https://www.esann.org</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Call for participation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Registration is open until 30.09.2021 at </span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE"><a href="https://www.esann.org">https://www.esann.org</a>. Reduced registration fees apply until 24.08.2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Program<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The full conference program is available as
<a href="https://www.esann.org/node/8">https://www.esann.org/node/8</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Online format<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The conference will keep its traditional single-track format. An online conference platform will be used, providing live streams and pre-recorded videos accessible through both desktop and mobile interfaces.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The program includes full talks with Q/A slots, and short spotlights introducing poster presentations. Posters sessions will be organized in an interactive and live environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Scope and topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">The ESANN conferences cover machine learning, artificial neural networks, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and
tools, and applications are covered. In addition to regular sessions, 6 special sessions will be organized on the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">- Complex Data: Learning Trustworthily, Automatically, and with Guarantees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">- Federated Learning – Methods, Applications and Beyond<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">- Deep learning for graphs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">- Interpretable Models in Machine Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">- Machine Learning for Measuring and Analyzing Online Social Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">- Machine learning and data mining for urban mobility intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-BE">ESANN 2021 builds upon a successful series of conferences organized each year since 1993. ESANN has become a major scientific event in the machine learning, computational intelligence
and artificial neural networks fields over the years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">========================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.esann.org/">http://www.esann.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">* For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Michel Verleysen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">UCLouvain - Machine Learning Group
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:esann@uclouvain.be">mailto:esann@uclouvain.be</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">* Conference secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">d-side conference services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:esann@uclouvain.be">mailto:esann@uclouvain.be</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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