2004 Special Issue of Neural Networks

[Masumi Ishikawa]

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Call for Papers
2004 Special Issue of Neural Networks
New Developments in Self-Organizing Systems

Research on self-organizing systems including self-organizing maps (SOMs) 
is an important area of unsupervised learning and has been rapidly growing 
in various directions: theoretical developments, applications in various 
fields, in-depth  analysis of self-organizing systems in neuroscience and 
so forth. The Workshop  on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM) has been held 
biennially since 1997. In October, 2002, a Special Issue on Self-Organizing 
Maps was published in the journal Neural Networks selected from 
presentations at WSOM'01. The latest workshop, WSOM'03, was held in 
September 2003 in Kitakyushu, Japan (for details, see 
http://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~wsom). Considering the extensive growth of 
this area, we plan another special issue related to self-organization in 
2004, ranging from theoretical aspects to various applications. We will 
select papers from those submitted to this special issue of Neural 
Networks; papers will be either revisions of those presented at WSOM'03 or 
those directly submitted to the special issue. A limited number of invited 
papers by leading scientists are also planned.

Technical areas include, but are not limited to:
- Theory of self-organizing systems
- Data visualization and mining
- Applications to WEB intelligence
- Applications to text and document analysis
- Applications to robotics
- Applications to image processing and vision
- Applications to pattern recognition
- Hardware and architecture
- Self-organizing systems in neuroscience

Guest-Editors
Masumi Ishikawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Risto Miikkulainen, The University of Texas at Austin
Helge Ritter, University of Bielefeld

Submission
Deadline for submission: December 10, 2003
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2004
Deadline for submission of accepted papers: June 20, 2004
Deadline for submission of final papers: August 30, 2004
Format: as normal papers in the journal

Address for Papers:
Dr. Mitsuo Kawato
ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan