Cfp: Special Issue

[Alessandro Sperduti]

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		    C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S


		   Special Issue of Neural Networks

				  on

      Neural Networks and Kernel Methods for Structured Domains


    Co-editors:Barbara Hammer, Craig Saunders, Alessandro Sperduti

     (http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/barbara/specialNN/)

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In  recent years  several  researchers have  started  to consider  the
adaptive processing of structured  data. This interest is motivated by
two main reasons:
i)  several very important  computational problems  in Bioinformatics,
Chemistry, document classification and filtering (just to name a few),
require  the use  of some  Machine Learning  procedure to  be properly
treated because their  complexity does not allow a  formal and precise
definition  of the  problem and  thus no  algorithmic solution  to the
problem is known; on the other hand experimental data is available and
usable by a Machine Learning approach;
ii) in  many of the above  problems, the objects of  interest are more
naturally  represented  via  varying-size structured  representations,
such  as sequences,  strings,  trees, directed  or undirected  graphs.
Moreover,  it  is commonly  believed  that  any computational  process
representing   these    objects   via   flat    fixed-size   vectorial
representations, risks to  discard structural information relevant for
solving the task at hand.
The  aim  of the  special  issue is  to  bring  together recent  works
developed  mainly into the  fields of  Recurrent and  Recursive Neural
Networks,  and  Kernel  Methods,  with  the  hope  to  function  as  a
conceptual support for the improvement of current technologies and the
growth  of new  integrated  methodologies for  learning in  structured
domains.

TOPICS:
Recurrent  and  Recursive Neural  Networks,  Self-Organizing Maps  for
Structures, Support Vector Machines  and Kernel Methods for Structured
Domains, Fisher Kernels,  Probabilistic Models for Structured Domains,
Applications  of  the  above  methods  to  Structured  Domains,  other
relevant topics.
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		    I M P O R T A N T   D A T E S

           Deadline for submission    October 11, 2004
           Notification of acceptance:  March 14, 2005
           Deadline for final paper:      June 6, 2005

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		   P A P E R   S U B M I S S I O N


Format: http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/barbara/specialNN/

Papers must be submitted in electronic form (either Postscript or PDF)
to the following

	  e-mail address: specialNN.structure at math.unipd.it

Hard-paper submissions  are accepted only  if the authors do  not have
access to electronic facilities, and should be mailed to the following
address:

Prof. Alessandro Sperduti
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata
Via Belzoni 7
35131 Padova
ITALY
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