SBRN 2002 - PRELIMINARY CFP

[Marcilio C. Pereira de Souto]

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                         PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

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         SBRN'2002 - VII BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON NEURAL NETWORKS
                   (http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~sbiarn02)
                       Recife, November 11-14, 2002
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The biannual Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (SBRN) - of which this is the 7th event - is a forum dedicated to Neural Networks (NNs) and other models of computational intelligence. The emphasis of the Symposium will be on original theories and novel applications of these computational models. The Symposium welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Selected, extended, and revised papers from SBRN'2002 will be also considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Neural Systems and of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications.

SBRN'2002 is sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and
co-sponsored by SIG/INNS/Brazil Special Interest Group of the
International Neural Networks Society in Brazil. It will take place
November 11-14, and will be held in Recife. Recife, located on the
northeast coast of Brazil, is known as the "Brazilian Venice" because of
its many canals and waterways and the innumerable bridges that span them.
It is the major gateway to the Northeast with regular flights to all major
cities in Brazil as well as Lisbon, London, Frankfurt, and Miami. See more
information about the place
(http://www.braziliantourism.com.br/pe-pt1-en.html) and
about the hotel (http://www.hotelgavoa.com.br)that will host the event.

SBRN'2002 will be held in conjunction with the XVI Brazilian Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence (http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~sbiarn02) (SBIA). SBIA
has its main focus on symbolic AI.
Crossfertilization of these fields will be strongly encouraged. Both Symposiums will feature keynote speeches and tutorials by world-leading researchers. The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2002. More details on paper submission and conference registration will be coming soon.

Sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)

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

Organised by the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)/Centre of Informatics (CIn)

Published by the IEEE Computer Society

General Chair:
Teresa B. Ludermir (UFPE/CIn, Brazil)
tbl at cin.ufpe.br

Program Chair:
Marcilio C. P. de Souto (UFPE/CIn, Brazil)
mcps at cin.ufpe.br

Deadlines:
Submission:   15 April 2002
Acceptance:   17 June 2002
Camera-ready: 22 August 2002


Non-exhaustive list of topics which will be covered during SBRN'2002:

Applications: finances, data mining, neurocontrol, time series analysis,
bioinformatics; 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, computability,
learnability, computational complexity.