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<font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Special Session on Reservoir Computing: algorithms, implementations, and applications</b></span></font></font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center; margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt">IEEE World
Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center; margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt">International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2022)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center; margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt">18 - 23rd
July 2022, Padoua (Italy)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0px 0px 13.3pt"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt">Papers submission
deadline:</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt"><b>31 January
2022</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="2" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt">More info at:</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/reservoir-computing-tf/activities/wcci-2022-special-session" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk889654" previewremoved="true"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="2"><span id="LPlnk889654" lang="en-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">https://sites.google.com/view/reservoir-computing-tf/activities/wcci-2022-special-session</span></font></span></font></a><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="2" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt">Submission link:</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span></font><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcmt3.research.microsoft.com%2FIEEEWCCI2022%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEgQe5nwVZ75lPrJ735mU0rz7thRw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IEEEWCCI2022/</span></font></span></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">Claudio Gallicchio (University
of Pisa, Italy), Fatemeh Hadaeghi (</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt">Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">(UKE)</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt">,
Germany), Miguel Cornelles Soriano (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt"><b>Description</b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div align="justify" style="margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">Reservoir Computing (RC)
approach for designing and training Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">has</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">attracted</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">a
lot of</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">attention</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">in
various fields of research due to its</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">straightforward
and</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">efficient</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">training</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">process.
Besides,</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">RC neural networks are distinctively
amenable to hardware implementations (including in neuromorphic unconventional substrates, like photonics), enable clean mathematical analysis (rooted, e.g., in the field of random matrix theory), and find natural applications i</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">n</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">resource-constrained
contexts, such as edge AI systems. Moreover, in the broader picture of Deep Learning development, RC is a breeding ground for testing innovative ideas, e.g. biologically plausible training algorithms beyond gradient back-propagation. Noticeably, although established
in the Machine Learning field, RC lends itself naturally to interdisciplinarity, where ideas coming from diverse areas such as computational neuroscience, complex systems, and non-linear physics can lead to further developments and new applications.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">This session intends to
strongly encourage RC research within the international neural networks community, bringing ideas from other connected interdisciplinary fields. We then invite the researchers to submit papers on all aspects of RC research, targeting contributions on new algorithms,
implementations, and applications.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Topics of Interests</b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div align="justify" style="margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">A list of relevant </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">topics</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> for
this session includes, without being limited to, the following:</span></font></span></font></div>
<div align="justify" style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Wingdings,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">§</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">New
Reservoir Computing models and architectures, including Echo State Networks and Liquid State Machines</span></font></span></font></div>
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physical and neuromorphic implementations, including spintronics, photonics, and quantum Reservoir Computing</span></font></span></font></div>
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Computing in Computational Neuroscience</span></font></span></font></div>
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Computing on the edge systems</span></font></span></font></div>
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learning algorithms rooted in Reservoir Computing concepts</span></font></span></font></div>
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applications of Reservoir Computing, e.g., to images, video, and structured data</span></font></span></font></div>
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and Continual Learning in Reservoir Computing</span></font></span></font></div>
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Reservoir Computing</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">N</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">eural</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">N</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">etworks</span></font></span></font></div>
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of complex and dynamical systems in Reservoir Computing</span></font></span></font></div>
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of the Reservoir Computing framework, such as Conceptors</span></font></span></font></div>
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dimensionality reduction</span></font></span></font></div>
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reservoir hyper-parameter search</span></font></span></font></div>
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Dates</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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submission deadline:</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>January</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="red"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>31</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>,</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"><b>20</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>22
(11:59 pm AoE) strict deadline</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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notification:</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>April</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="red"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>26</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>,
2022</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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paper:</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>May</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="red"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>23</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>,
2022</b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<div align="justify" style="margin:15pt 0px 0px"><font size="3" color="#2F5496" style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:13pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt"><b>Submission</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#191919"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Guidelines
and Instructions</b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div align="justify" style="margin:0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">Papers submission for this
Special Session follows the same process as for the regular sessions of WCCI 2022 (see</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwcci2022.org%2Fsubmission%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEIPJshOJyX8nHUid72_cJPl-rLiQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">https://wcci2022.org/submission/</span></font></span></font></a><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">),
which uses Microsoft CMT.</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:9pt 0px 0px; white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">Submit your
paper at </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">the following link:
</span></font><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcmt3.research.microsoft.com%2FIEEEWCCI2022%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEgQe5nwVZ75lPrJ735mU0rz7thRw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IEEEWCCI2022/</span></font></span></font></a><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#006580"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u>:</u></span></font></span></font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt"> </span></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">1)</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">In
the Author Console, click on Create Submission</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">2)</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">In
the drop-down menu, choose "IJCNN"</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt; margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">3)</span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">In
the Subject Areas section, please indicate "IJCNN-SS-12 Reservoir Computing: algorithms, implementations, and applications" as the primary area.</span></font></span></font></div>
<font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="red"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt">*</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="red"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="red"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Important
note:</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="red"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">differently from previous editions,</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>the
review process for WCCI/IJCNN 2022 will be double-blind</b></span></font><font size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt">.</span></font><font size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt">For
prospected authors, </span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>it is therefore mandatory to anonymize</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"> their</span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="#212121"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b> manuscripts.</b></span></font>
<div style="margin:9pt 0px 0px"><font size="3" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Paper Publication</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b><br>
</b></span></font><font face="Optima,serif,EmojiFont" size="4" color="black"><span style="font-size:14pt">Accepted papers will be published in the IJCNN conference proceedings (to be published by IEEE).</span></font></span></font></div>
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