1st CFP - SBRN2000 Rio

[Carlos Henrique Costa Ribeiro]

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                        FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

       SBRN'2000 - VIth BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON NEURAL NETWORKS

                    http://www.iltc.br/sbrn2000/

                 Rio de Janeiro, November 22-25, 2000


SBRN'2000 is the 6th edition of a forum, held biannually in Brazil,
dedicated to neural networks (NNs) and to other models of 
computational intelligence. Rio de Janeiro, a city unique for its
natural beauty, is the location of SBRN'2000. Rio is a great place 
and has the rhythm to bring people together in a stimulating 
discussion about research, development, applications, new 
technologies and advances in neural networks.

Sponsored by SBC - The Brazilian Computer Society

Co-Sponsored by SIG/INNNS/Brazil Special Interest Group of the 
International Neural Networks Society in Brazil

Organised by COPPE/UFRJ and ILTC

Published by IEEE Computer Society

Deadlines: 
Submission:   19 June 2000; 
Acceptance:   31 July 2000; 
Camera-ready: 21 August 2000


Non-exhaustive list of topics which will be covered during SBRN'2000:

Applications: finances, data mining, neurocontrol, time series forecasting;
Architectures: cellular NNs, hardware and software implementations, new models,
weightless models;
Cognitive Sciences: adaptive behaviour, natural language, mental processes;
Computational Intelligence: evolutionary systems, fuzzy systems, hybrid
systems;
Learning: algorithms, evolutionary and fuzzy techniques, reinforcement
learning;
Neurobiological Systems: bio-inspired systems, biologically plausible
networks, vision;
Neurocontrol: robotics, dynamic systems, adaptive control;
Neurosymbolic processing: hybrid approaches, logical inference, rule
extraction, structured knowledge;
Pattern Recognition: signal processing, artificial/computational vision;
Theory: radial basis functions, Bayesian systems, function approximation;
  

Invited Speakers:

     Dana Ballard (University of Rochester, USA)*
     Ernesto Burattini (Istituto di Cibernetica-CNR, Italy)*
     Marie Cottrell (Universite d'Evry/SAMOS-Paris I, France)
     Jerome Feldman (ICSI-Berkeley, USA)* 
     Maria Eunice Gonzales (UNESP-RC, BR)* 
     Antonia J. Jones (Univ. of Wales at Cardiff, UK)
     Noel Sharkey (Univ. of Shefield, UK)* 
     Sebastian Thrun (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)* 

*(confirmed)


Paper Submission:

Prospective authors are invited to submit 10-pages, 12 point single 
column papers (postscript or pdf format) written in English, Portuguese 
or Spanish. 

Submission must be made electronically, according to the following 
procedure.

Use the last name of the contact author to name the postscript or pdf
file (e.g., einstein.ps); add numerals for submitting more than one
paper with the same contact author (e.g., einstein1.ps, einstein2.ps).
Large postscript files can be compressed as .zip, .gz or .Z file (in
this case, the file must have the corresponding extension , e.g.,
einstein.ps.gz). Submit the paper by email to sbrn2000 at comp.ita.cta.br
by sending a submission notice, with your (possibly compressed)
postscript or pdf file as an attachment. In the submission notice,
include ONLY the following information (please, put one item per line
to allow easy automatic processing): full title of the paper, authors'
first and last names, authors' affiliations, technical area, keywords,
corresponding author (name, postal address, e-mail address, phone and
fax numbers), preferred mode of presentation (oral or poster), and the
abstract of the paper. The submission notice must be in plain ASCII
text. Use the name of the submitted file as subject of the message. Do
not include in the paper any information concerning the authors, the 
presentation, or the technical area.

If you have any problem concerning this submission procedure, contact
the conference organisers by email.

The first volume of the Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press, in time for distribution at the symposium. It will
include only accepted papers written in English and abstracts of
accepted papers written in Portuguese or Spanish. A second volume will
be issued as a CD-ROM, and will contain accepted papers originally
written in Portuguese or Spanish.

General Chair: 
Felipe M. G. Franca (UFRJ/ILTC, Brazil) 
felipe at cos.ufrj.br

Program Chair: 
Carlos H. C. Ribeiro (ITA, Brazil) 
carlos at comp.ita.cta.br

Tutorials Chair: 
Antonio C. S. Branco (ILTC, Brazil) 
branco at iltc.br

Steering Comittee: 
Aluizio F. R. Araujo (USP-SC, BR) 
Antonio de P. Braga (UFMG, BR) 
Walmir M. Caminhas (UFMG, BR) 
Andre P. L. F. Carvalho (USP-SC, BR) 
Edson Costa B.C. Filho (UFPE, BR) 
Felipe M. G. Franca (UFRJ, BR) 
Teresa B. Ludermir (UFPE, BR) 
Carlos H. C. Ribeiro (ITA, BR) 
Germano Vasconcelos (UFPE, BR) 
Gerson Zaverucha (UFRJ, BR)

Program Comittee (temptative): 
Paulo J. L. Adeodato (UFPE, BR)
Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, UK)
Nigel M. Allinson (UMIST, UK)
James A. Anderson (Brown Univ., USA)
Aluizio F. R. Araujo (USP-SC, BR)
Dana Ballard (Univ. of Rochester, USA)
Valmir C. Barbosa (UFRJ, BR)
Valeriu Beiu (Los Alamos Lab., USA)
Amit Bhaya (UFRJ, BR)
Antonio de P. Braga (UFMG, BR)
Ernesto Burattini (I. di Cibernetica-CNR, IT)
Euvaldo Cabral (USP, BR)
Walmir M. Caminhas (UFMG, BR)
Andre P. L. F. Carvalho (USP-SC, BR)
Edson Costa B.C. Filho (UFPE, BR)
Marie Cottrell (Univ. d'Evry/Paris I, FR)
Massimo De Gregorio (I. di Cibernetica-CNR, IT)
Phillipe DeWilde (Imperial College, UK)
Max S. Dutra (UFRJ, BR)
Alexandre Evsukoff (UFRJ/ILTC, BR)
Jerome Feldman (ICSI-Berkeley, USA)
Felipe M. G. Franca (UFRJ/ILTC, BR)
Sergio E. Goncalves (UFRJ, BR)
Maria Eunice Gonzales (UNESP-RC, BR)
Helge Ritter (Bielefild Univ., DE)
Antonia J. Jones (Univ. of Wales, UK)
Lokesh Kalia (Imperial College, UK)
Nikola Kasabov (Univ. of Otago, NZ)
Eugenius Kaskurewicz (UFRJ, BR)
Priscila M. V. Lima (ILTC-RJ, BR)
Teresa B. Ludermir (UFPE, BR)
Weber Martins (UFG, BR)
Helen Morton (Brunel Univ., UK)
Cairo L. Nascimento Jr (ITA, BR)
Wilson R. de Oliveira Jr (UFPE, BR)
Nizam Omar (ITA, BR)
Marco A. Pacheco (PUC-RJ, BR)
Luiz A. Pessoa (NIH, USA)
Carlos H. C. Ribeiro (ITA, BR)
Roseli A. F. Romero (USP-SC, BR)
Sandra Sandri (INPE, BR)
Jose M. Seixas (UFRJ, BR)
Amanda Sharkey (Univ. of Shefield, UK)
Noel Sharkey (Univ. of Shefield, UK)
Jude W. Shavlik (Univ. of Wisconsin, USA)
Marcilio C. P. de Souto (UFPE, BR)
Csaba Szepesvari (Mindmaker Ltd., HG)
Harold Szu (U. of SW Lousiana, USA),
Guglielmo Tamburrini (Univ. di Pisa, IT)
Sebastian Thrun (Carnegie Mellon, USA)
Antonio C. G. Thome (UFRJ, BR)
Germano Vasconcelos (UFPE, BR)
Marley Vellasco (PUC-RJ, BR)
Vincent Vigneron (Univ. d'Evry/Paris I, FR)
Takeshi Yamakawa (Kyushu, JP),
Takashi Yoneyama (ITA, BR)
Gerson Zaverucha (UFRJ, BR)
Jack M. Zurada (Univ. of Louisville, USA)

Organizing Comittee: 
Antonio C. S. Branco (ILTC-RJ) 
Max S. Dutra (UFRJ) 
Alexandre Evsukoff (UFRJ/ILTC-RJ) 
Felipe M. G. Franca (UFRJ/ILTC-RJ) 
Cassiano L. Froes da Silva (Uniway/Citybank-RJ) 
Marco A. Pacheco (PUC-RJ) 
Marley Vellasco (PUC-RJ) 
Zhijun Yang (UFRJ)