ICANN 2001: Call for Participation

[ICANN 2001 conference]

                  Call for Participation

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                        ICANN 2001
   International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks

                      Aug. 21-25, 2001
                      Vienna,  Austria
             http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/icann

                the annual conference of the
              European Neural Network Society

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Deadline for early registration fees: June 15, 2001


Invited Speakers:
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  Eric Baum, NEC Research Institute
  Vladimir S. Cherkassky, Univ. of Minnesota
  Stephen Grossberg, Boston Univ.
  Wolfgang Maass, Graz Univ. of Technology
  Kim Plunkett, Oxford Univ.
  Stephen Roberts, Oxford Univ.
  Alessandro Sperduti, Univ. of Pisa
  Florentin Woergoetter, Univ. of Stirling


Program (Aug 22-24):
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72 oral presentations and around 100 posters on the following
topics:

  - Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition
    (Algorithms, Theory, Hardware, Applications)
  - Support Vector Machines, Kernel Methods
  - Independent Component Analysis
  - Topographic Mapping
  - Time Series and Signal Processing
  - Agent-based Economic Modeling (special session)
  - Computational Neuroscience
  - Vision and Image Processing
  - Robotics and Control
  - Selforganization and Dynamical Systems
  - Connectionist Cognitive Science


Tutorials (Aug 21):
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  - Bioinformatics - The Machine Learning Approach
    Pierre Baldi
  - Predictive Learning and Modelling Financial=20
    Markets
    Vladimir Cherkassky
  - Extraction of Knowledge from Data using
    Computational Intelligence Methods
    Wlodek Duch
  - Support Vector Machines
    Alex Smola

  - Sequential Learning of Nonlinear Models
    Mahesan Niranjan
  - Identification and Forecasting of Dynamical
    Systems
    Hans Georg Zimmermann
  - Neuroscience for Engineers and Computer
    Scientists
    Peter Erdi
  - Independent Component Analysis
    Aapo Hyv=E4rinen


Workshops (Aug 25):
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  - Advances in EEG Analysis
    B. Blankertz, A. Flexer, J. Kohlmorgen,=20
    K.R. M=FCller, S. Roberts, P. Sykacek
  - Processing Temporal Patterns with Recurrent
    Networks
    D. Eck, J. Schmidhuber
  - Kernel and Subspace Methods for
    Computer Vision
    A. Leonardis, H. Bischof
  - Advances toward Lifelike Perception Systems
    L. Smith


Program chairs:
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Georg Dorffner (general chair)
Horst Bischof
Kurt Hornik

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Please see our web page for more details and for
online registration.

http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/icann