ICCIN'97: Call for papers

[georgiou@csci.csusb.edu]

			  First Announcement

		   2nd International Conference on

	     COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE
		  (http://www.csci.csusb.edu/iccin)

	     Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center
		Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
			   March 2-5, 1997

			Conference Co-chairs:

	      Subhash C. Kak, Louisiana State University
		Jeffrey P. Sutton, Harvard University

This conference is part of the Third Joint Conference Information Sciences.

Plenary Speakers include the following:

James S. Albus
Jim Anderson
Roger Brockett
Earl Dowell
David E. Goldberg
Stephen Grossberg
Y. C. Ho
John H. Holland
Zdzislaw Pawlak
Lotfi A. Zadeh

Organizing Committee:

Grigorios Antoniou, Griffith University, Australia
Catalin Buiu, Romania
Ian Cresswell, U.K.
S. Das, University of California, Berkeley
S.C. Dutta Roy, India
Laurie Fausett, FAU
George M. Georgiou, California State University
Paulo Gaudiano, Boston, University
Ugur Halici, METU, Turkey
Akira Hirose, University of Tokyo
Arun Jagota, University of North Texas
Jonathan Marshall, University of N. Carolina
Bimal Mathur, Rockwell CA
Kishan Mehrotra, Syracuse
Haluk Ogmen, University of Houston
Ed Page, South Carolina
W.A. Porter, University of Alabama
Ed Rietman, Bell Labs
Christos Schizas, University of Cyprus
Harold Szu, USL
M. Trivedi, UCSD
E. Vityaev, Russia
Paul Wang, Duke University

Areas for which papers are sought include:

	o Artificial Life
	o Artificially Intelligent NNs
	o Associative Memory
	o Cognitive Science
	o Computational Intelligence
	o Efficiency/Robustness Comparisons
	o Evaluationary Computation for Neural Networks
	o Feature Extraction & Pattern Recognition
	o Implementations (electronic, Optical, Biochips)
	o Intelligent Control
	o Learning and Memory
	o Neural Network Architectures
	o Neurocognition
	o Neurodynamics
	o Optimization
	o Parallel Computer Applications
	o Theory of Evolutionary Computation

Summary Deadline: November 15, 1996

Proposals for sessions: November 15, 1996

Decision & Notification: January 5, 1997

Send summaries to:

George M. Georgiou
Computer Science Department
California State University
San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397
georgiou at csci.csusb.edu

Papers will be accepted based on summaries.  A summary shall not exceed 4
pages of 10-point font, double-column, single-spaced text, (1 page minimum)
with figures and tables included.  Any summary exceeding 4 pages will be
charged $100 per additional page.  Three copies of the summary are required by
November 15,1996.  A deposit of $150 check must be included to guarantee the
publication of your 4 pages summary in the Proceedings.  $150 can be deducted
from registration fee later.  

NSF funding has been requested to support women, minorities, recent
Ph.D. recipients, and graduate students.

Conference Web site: http://www.csci.csusb.edu/iccin