ICA'99 call for papers

[Aapo Hyvarinen]

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                           First Call for Papers:

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                         International Workshop on

                       INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS
                                    and
                          BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION

                            January 11-15, 1999
                              Aussois, France

                         http://sig.enst.fr/~ica99

                     Submission deadline: July 15, 1998

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SCOPE
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The workshop is devoted to recent advances in Independent Component Analysis
and   Blind  Separation  of  Signals.   It  is  intended  to bring  together
researchers   from  the  fields    of  artificial   neural networks,  signal
processing,   statistics,  data analysis and  all other domains connected to
information processing.

We are soliciting contributions covering all aspects of ICA and BSS: theory,
methods,  implementation and recent experimental  results. The workshop will
feature  poster  and oral  presentations  (no  parallel sessions)   and many
opportunities for exchanges and informal discussions.

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SPECIAL  SESSIONS  
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Three special sessions will be organized on ICA applications:

T. Sejnowski,  Salk Institute,  USA:   Biomedical applications
K. Torkkola, Motorola, Phoenix, USA:   Speech and audio applications
Y. Deville,  UPS,  Toulouse, France:   General applications of ICA and BSS

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VENUE
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This  one-week   workshop  will be  held  in   Aussois,  a small ski  resort
(alt. 1500m) in the magnificent mountains of La Vanoise in  the heart of the
French Alpes. The venue offers all the  workshop facilities and we expect an
enjoyable and productive `workshop atmosphere'.

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SUBMISSION  and  PUBLICATION 
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Submission information will be available from our web site:
http://sig.enst.fr/~ica99

Important dates:

    July 15, 1998     Submission of *full* paper
    Sep. 30, 1998     Notification of acceptance
    Jan. 11-15, 1999  Workshop

All  papers  presented at the  workshop will be  collected  in a  volume of
proceedings, which will be distributed to the participants on site.

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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Shun-ichi Amari        Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan
Tony Bell              Salk Institute, USA
Andrzej Cichocki       Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan
Pierre Comon           Eurecom, France
Gustave Deco           Siemens Research, Germany.
Lieven De Lathauwer    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Colin Fyfe             University of Paisley, UK
Simon Godsill          University of Cambridge, UK
Jean-Louis Lacoume     Institut Nat. Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
Ruey-Wen Liu           University of Notre Dame, USA
Odile Macchi           CNRS/LSS, France
Jean-Pierre Nadal      Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Erkki Oja              Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Dinh-Tuan Pham         CNRS/IMAG, France
Jitendra Tugnait       Auburn University, USA

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ORGANIZATION
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Organizers:
Jean-Francois Cardoso  CNRS and ENST, Paris, France
Christian Jutten       Institut Nat. Polytechnique de Grenoble, France 
Philippe Loubaton      Universite de la Marne la Vallee, France

Publicity:
Aapo Hyvarinen         Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Lieven De Lathauwer    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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For more information contact:
Jean-Francois Cardoso, ENST/SIG, 46 rue Barrault
F-75634 Paris Cedex 13, France

Internet:
web site               http://sig.enst.fr/~ica99
email                  ica99 at sig.enst.fr

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