ICONIP96

[Dr. Xu Lei]

			FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS  
  
		    1996 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  
				  ON  
		    NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING  
  
  The Annual Conference of the Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly  
  
		 ICONIP'96, September 24 - 27, 1996  
  
   Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong  
  
The goal  of  ICONIP'96 is  to  provide a  forum  for  researchers and  
engineers from academia and industry to  meet and to exchange ideas on  
the   latest developments  in   neural   information processing.   The  
conference further serves to stimulate local and regional interests in  
neural   information processing  and   its  potential  applications to  
industries indigenous to this region.  
  
			  CONFERENCE TOPICS  
			  =================  
   * Theory         * Algorithms & Architectures       * Applications  
   * Supervised/Unsupervised Learning      * Hardware Implementations   
   * Hybrid Systems   * Neurobiological Systems  * Associative Memory   
   * Visual & Speech Processing      * Intelligent Control & Robotics    
   * Cognitive Science & AI                * Recurrent Net & Dynamics  
   * Image Processing     * Pattern Recognition     * Computer Vision  
   * Time Series Prediction   * Financial Engineering  * Optimization    
   * Fuzzy Logic    * Evolutionary Computing    * Other Related Areas  
  
  
			CONFERENCE'S SCHEDULE  
			=====================  
              Submission of paper           February 1, 1996  
              Notification of acceptance    May 1, 1996  
              Early registration deadline   July 1, 1996  
  
SUBMISSION INFORMATION  
======================  
Authors are invited  to  submit  one  camera-ready original  and  five  
copies  of the manuscript written in  English on A4-format white paper  
with one inch margins on all four sides, in one column format, no more  
than six pages  including  figures and references,  single-spaced,  in  
Times-Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, and printed on one  
side   of the  page   only.   Electronic or   fax   submission  is not  
acceptable.  Additional pages will be charged at USD $50 per page.  
  
Centered at the  top of the  first page should  be the complete title,  
author(s), affiliation, mailing, and  email addresses, followed  by an  
abstract  (no more  than 150  words)  and the  text.  Each  submission  
should be  accompanied  by a cover   letter  indicating the contacting  
author, affiliation, mailing  and  email addresses, telephone  and fax  
number, and   preference  of technical     session(s) and format    of  
presentation,  either  oral   or  poster  (both are   published).  All  
submitted papers will be  refereed  by experts  in the field  based on  
quality, clarity, originality, and significance.  
  
Authors may    also  retrieve the   ICONIP  style, "iconip.tex"   and   
"iconip.sty"  files for the   conference   by   anonymous  FTP   at     
ftp.cs.cuhk.hk in the directory /pub/iconip96.  
  
For  further  information,  inquiries,  and paper   submissions please  
contact  
  
ICONIP'96 Secretariat   
Department of Computer Science  
The Chinese University of Hong Kong  
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong  
Fax (852) 2603-5024  
E-mail: iconip96 at cs.cuhk.hk  
http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/iconip96  
  
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General Co-Chairs  
=================  
Omar Wing, CUHK  
Shun-ichi Amari, Tokyo U.  
  
Advisory Committee  
==================  
International  
-------------  
Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech  
Michael Arbib, U. Southern Cal.  
Leo Breiman, UC Berkeley  
Jack Cowan, U. Chicago  
Rolf Eckmiller, U. Bonn  
Jerome Friedman, Stanford U.  
Stephen Grossberg, Boston U.  
Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNC  
Geoffrey Hinton, U. Toronto  
Anil Jain, Michigan State U.  
Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki U. of Tech.  
Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton U.  
Robert Marks, II, U. Washington  
Thomas Poggio, MIT  
Harold Szu, US Naval SWC  
John Taylor, King's College London  
David Touretzky, CMU  
C. v. d. Malsburg, Ruhr-U. Bochum  
David Willshaw, Edinburgh U.  
Lofti Zadeh, UC Berkeley  
  
Asia-Pacific Region  
-------------------  
Marcelo H. Ang Jr, NUS, Singapore  
Sung-Yang Bang, POSTECH, Pohang  
Hsin-Chia Fu, NCTU., Hsinchu  
Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya U., Nagoya  
Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka U., Osaka  
Zhenya He, Southeastern U., Nanjing  
Marwan Jabri, U. Sydney, Sydney  
Nikola Kasabov, U. Otago, Dunedin  
Yousou Wu, Tsinghua U., Beijing  
  
Organizing Committee  
====================  
L.W. Chan (Co-Chair), CUHK  
K.S. Leung (Co-Chair), CUHK  
D.Y. Yeung (Finance), HKUST  
C.K. Ng (Publication), CityUHK  
A. Wu (Publication), CityUHK  
K.P. Lam (Publicity), CUHK  
M.W. Mak (Local Arr.), HKPU  
C.S. Tong (Local Arr.), HKBU  
T. Lee (Registration), CUHK  
M. Stiber (Registration), HKUST  
K.P. Chan (Tutorial), HKU  
H.T. Tsui (Industry Liaison), CUHK  
I. King (Secretary), CUHK  
  
Program Committee  
=================  
Co-Chairs  
---------  
Lei Xu, CUHK  
Michael Jordan, MIT  
Erkki Oja, Helsinki Univ. of Tech.  
Mitsuo Kawato, ATR  
  
Members  
-------  
Yoshua Bengio, U. Montreal  
Chris Bishop, Aston U.  
Leon Bottou, Neuristique  
Gail Carpenter, Boston U.  
Laiwan Chan, CUHK  
Huishen Chi, Peking U.  
Peter Dayan, MIT  
Kenji Doya, ATR  
Scott Fahlman, CMU  
Francoise Fogelman, SLIGOS  
Lee Giles, NEC Research Inst.  
Michael Hasselmo, Harvard U.  
Kurt Hornik, Technical U. Wien  
Steven Nowlan, Synaptics  
Jeng-Neng Hwang, U. Washington  
Nathan Intrator, Tel-Aviv U.  
Larry Jackel, AT&T Bell Lab  
Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Australia  
Soo-Young Lee, KAIST  
Todd Leen, Oregon Grad. Inst.  
Cheng-Yuan Liou, National Taiwan U.  
David MacKay, Cavendish Lab  
Eric Mjolsness, UC San Diego  
John Moody, Oregon Grad. Inst.  
Nelson Morgan, ICSI  
Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Lab  
Ting-Chuen Pong, HKUST  
Paul Refenes, London Business School  
Hava Siegelmann, Technion  
Ah Chung Tsoi, U. Queensland  
Benjamin Wah, U. Illinois  
Andreas Weigend, Colorado U.  
Ronald Williams, Northeastern U.  
John Wyatt, MIT  
Alan Yuille, Harvard U.  
Richard Zemel, CMU