ICONIP-2000 Special Session

[Ramin Yasdi]

CALL FOR PAPERS

ICONIP-2000 Special Session

ON NEURAL NETWORKS FOR INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES

User interfaces that adapt themselves to individual needs,
preferences, and knowledge of their users are becoming more and more
important.  Personalized interfaces are of special importance to deal
with information overload and navigation by personalizing and
improving the quality of information retrieval and filtering,
information restructuring and annotation, as well as information
visualization. The development of these new intelligent user
interfaces require techniques that enable computer programs to learn
how to serve the user most efficiently.  Neural networks are not yet
widely used within this challenging domain.  But the domain seems to
be an interesting new application area for neural networks due to
availability of large sets of data and the required automatic
adaptation to new situations and users. Therefore, growing interest in
using various powerful learning methods known from neural network
models for intelligent user interfaces is arising among researchers.

The scope of the session includes but is not limited to following
topics:

* user models

* adaptive hyper media

* classifying and recognizing users, emotions and situations

* information retrieval

* adapting complex user interfaces

* intelligent student systems

* representation of application domains

We solicit reports on actual neural networks applications, and
discussion
contributions on their usefulness. Since most successful applications
in this area use symbolic AI methods, it is under debate if and how
neural networks can contribute to this area.

SESSION FORMAT:

The session will give participants possibility of short presentations
(talks or demos, about 20 minutes ) on their vision or work in the
area. Most of the session, however, will have the format of an open
discussion forum. At the end of the session, a discussion will take
place to deal with questions on how to combine research efforts and
how to link the community.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Please send your paper to: ramin.yasdi at gmd.de

by the submission deadline below. See guideline for authors for more
details.

http://braintech.kaist.ac.kr/ICONIP2000

Letter of interest in submitting a paper to the special session: May1,
2000.
Deadline for paper submission: June 15, 2000.
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2000.
Camera-ready papers due: August 15, 2000.

SESSION ORGANIZERS:

Ramin Yasdi

German National Research Centre for Information Technology (GMD)

Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany

Email: Ramin.Yasdi at gmd.de