Call For Papers: WSOM'03

[WSOM'03 Secretariat]

CALL FOR PAPERS

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                  Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'03)
          Hibikino, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan, 11-14 September 2003
                      http://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~wsom/
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Workshop Objectives:
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    The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) with its related extensions 
  is the most popular artificial neural algorithm for use in 
  unsupervised learning and data visualization. Over 5,000 
  publications have been reported in the open literature, and 
  many commercial projects employ the SOM as the tool for solving 
  hard real-world problems.
    WSOM'03 is the discussion forum where your ideas and 
  techniques are polished, and aims to unveil the results of hot 
  researches and popularize the use of the SOM for technical public.
    Following the highly successful meetings held in 1997 (WSOM'97), 
  1999 (WSOM'99), and 2001 (WSOM'01), a further workshop in this 
  established series, will bring together researchers and users 
  of the SOM and related techniques.

Important Dates:
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  Paper Submission: 15 May, 2003 
  Notification of Acceptance: 15 June, 2003 
  Final Paper Submission: 15 July, 2003 

Topics:
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Technical areas include, but are not limited to:
 *Self-organization
 *Unsupervised learning
 *Theory and extensions
 *Optimization
 *Hardware and architecture
 *Signal processing, image processing and vision 
 *Time-series analysis
 *Text and document analysis
 *Financial analysis
 *Data visualization and mining
 *Bioinformatics
 *Robotics 
 *Medical Engineering

Conference Committee:
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Honorary Conference Chair 
  Teuvo Kohonen, Finland 
Organizing Chair 
  Takeshi Yamakawa, Japan 
Organizing Committee Members 
  Erkki Oja, Finland
  Heizo Tokutaka, Japan 
Program Chair 
  Masumi Ishikawa, Japan 
Program Committee Members 
  Marie Cottrell, France
  Guido Deboeck, USA
  Shinto Eguchi, Japan
  Kikuo Fujimura, Japan
  Colin Fyfe, UK
  Masafumi Hagiwara, Japan
  Jaakko Hollmen, Finland
  Keiich Horio, Japan
  Marc M. Van Hulle, Belgium
  Toshimichi Ikemura, Japan
  Samuel Kaski, Finland
  Gerhard Kranner, Austria
  Thomas Martinetz, Germany
  Kiyotoshi Matsuoka, Japan
  Dieter Merkl, Austria
  Risto Miikkulainen, USA
  Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Japan
  Tsutomu Miyoshi, Japan
  Takashi Morie, Japan
  Junichi Murata, Japan
  Ikuko Nishikawa, Japan
  Klaus Obermayer, Germany
  Aiko Shibata, Japan
  Wataru Shiraki, Japan
  Olli Simula, Finland
  Eiji Uchino, Japan
  Alfred Ultsch, Germany
  Michel Verleysen, Belgium
  Thomas Villmann, Germany
  Lei Xu, China
  Shozo Yasui, Japan
  Hujun Yin, UK

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Organizing Chair
Takeshi Yamakawa
Professor
Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering
Kyushu Institute of Technology
2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu 808-0186 Japan
Tel: +81-93-695-6123
E-mail: yamakawa at brain.kyutech.ac.jp