WCNN'96: Call for Papers

[INNS Web Staff]

                                CALL FOR PAPERS
                   The 1996 World Congress on Neural Networks
                  San Diego, California September 15--20, 1996
                              Town & Country Hotel

  The following information is also available on the INNS WEB site:
		http://cns-web.bu.edu/INNS/index.html

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     Organizing Committee:
David Casasent, General Chair   Shun-Ichi Amari, President
Daniel L. Alkon, Program Chair  Walter J. Freeman, President, 1994
Bart Kosko, Program Chair       John G. Taylor, President, 1995

 1995 INNS Officers:                     1995 Governing Board:

President:            John G.          Daniel L. Alkon           Christof Koch
                      Taylor

President Elect:      Shun-Ichi        James A. Anderson         Bart Kosko
                      Amari

Past President:       Walter J.        David Casasent            Daniel S.
                      Freeman                                    Levine

Secretary:            Gail             Leon Cooper               Christoph von
                      Carpenter                                  der Malsburg
Treasurer:            Judy Dayhoff     Rolf Eckmiller            Alianna Maren

Headquarter Services: Stephanie        Francoise Fogelman-Soulie Harold Szu
                      Dickinson
                                       Kunihiko Fukushima        Paul Werbos
                                       Stephen Grossberg         Bernard Widrow
                                                                 Lofti A. Zadeh

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                                Call for Papers

Papers must be received, in English, by January 15, 1996. There is a four-page
limit, in English, with a $25 per page fee for papers over four pages.
Overlength charges can be paid by check (payable in U.S. Dollars and issued by
a U.S. Correspondent Bank, to WCNN'96), Visa or MasterCard. (Should a paper be
rejected, the fee will be refunded). Papers must be on 8-1/2" x 11" white paper
with 1" margins on all sides, one-column format, single spaced, in Times or
similar type style of 10 points or larger, one side of paper only. Faxes are
not acceptable. Centered at the top of the first page should be complete title,
author name(s), affiliation(s), and mailing and e-mail address(es), followed by
blank space, abstract (up to 15 lines), and text. The following information
must be included in an accompanying cover letter for the paper to be reviewed:
Full title of paper, corresponding author and presenting author name, address,
telephone and fax numbers; 1st and 2nd choices of technical sessions (see
below), oral or poster session preferred; and audio-visual requirements (for
oral presentation only). Papers submitted which do not meet these requirements
or with insufficient funds will be returned. The original and five copies of
each paper should be sent to:

WCNN'96 Program Chairs
875 Kings Highway, Suite 200
Woodbury, NJ 08096-3172
U.S.A.

The program committee will determine whether papers will be an oral or poster
presentation. All members of INNS in good standing have the right to designate
in their cover letters one (1) 15-line abstract with themselves as an author
for automatic acceptance for at least publication and a poster presentation;
this is in addition to any full paper submissions. Biological and engineering
papers are welcome for all sessions. Contributed papers are welcome for all
twenty-six sessions, including special sessions.

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           SESSION TOPICS

1.   Vision                     11. Neurodynamics & Chaos
2.   Speech                     12. Hardware Implementation
3.   Neurocontrol and Robotics  13. Associative Memory and Reinforcement
                                    Learning
4.   Supervised Learning        14. Applications
5.   Unsupervised Learning      15. Mathematical Foundations
6.   Pattern Recognition        16. Evolutionary/Genetic/Annealing Algorithms
7.   Prediction and System      17. Neural and Fuzzy Systems Identification
8.   Intelligent Systems        18. Fuzzy Approximation and Applications
9.   Computational Neuroscience 19. Medical Applications
10.  Signal Processing          20. Industrial Applications

          SPECIAL SESSIONS

A.   Consciousness & and Intentionality
B.   Biological Neural Networks
C.   Dynamical Systems in Financial Engineering
D.   Power Industry Applications
E.   Statistics & Neural Networks
F.   INNS Special Interest Groups (SIGINNS)
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