CFP: ICANN2005

[Marc de Kamps]

 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
11-15 September 2005
Warsaw, Poland

ICANN 2005 Preliminary Call for Papers

The 15th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2005,
will be held from September 11 to September 14, 2005, at the Gromada Hotel
Conference Center, near the airport in Warsaw, Poland. ICANN is an annual
meeting organized by the European Neural Network Society in cooperation with
the International Neural Network Society, Japanese Neural Network Society,
and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and is a premier European
event in all topics related to the neural networks.

ICANN 2005 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms, applications
and implementations in the following broad areas:

    * Computational neuroscience;
    * Connectionist cognitive science;
    * Data analysis and pattern recognition;
    * Graphical networks models, Bayesian networks;
    * Hardware implementations and embedded systems;
    * Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms;
    * Neural control, reinforcement learning and robotics applications;
    * Neuroinformatics;
    * Neural dynamics and complex systems;
    * Real world applications;
    * Robotics, control, planning;
    * Signal and time series processing;
    * Self-organization;
    * Vision and image processing.

Professor Teuvo Kohonen is Honorary Chairman of ICANN 2005. We are pleased
to announce the following plenary speakers, whose talks will cover various
topics in neuroscience, neural theory and applications:

    * Christopher Bishop (Microsoft, Cambridge, UK)
    * Hojjat Adeli (Columbus, OH, USA)
    * John Taylor (King's College London, UK)
    * John Shawe-Taylor (Southampton, UK)
    * Juergen Schmidhuber (Lugano, Switzerland)
    * Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
    * Rolf Ktter (Dsseldorf, Germany)
    * Stephen H. Koslow (NIH, USA)

Ideas and nominations for interesting tutorials, special sessions, workshops
and experts willing to organize various session tracks are called for. Most
active experts will be included in the scientific committee of the
conference.

Each special session should have at least 5 presentations and a conference
track about twice as many. Special session chairs will be responsible for
all aspects of their sessions, including soliciting, reviewing, and
selecting the papers. To ensure quality of the papers the program committee
of ICANN 2005 will provide final review and approval for all sessions.
Proposals to organize special sessions/tracks/workshops should include: the
title and form of the proposed session (track/special session/workshop);
name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address of the proposer(s);
description of the topic of the session, not exceeding 100 words, or 1000
words for tutorials.


Proceedings of ICANN will be published in Springer's "Lecture Notes in
Computer Science". Paper length is restricted to a maximum of 6 pages,
including figures. Instructions for authors are given here .

The deadlines and conference dates are:

6.01	Submission page opens
28.02	End of submission of papers to regular sessions
30.03	End of submission of papers to special sessions
30.04	Acceptance/rejection notification
15.06	Deadline for camera ready papers
1.07 	Deadline for early registration
11.09	Tutorials - first day of the conference
12-14.09	The main part of the conference
15.09	Workshops

For further information and/or contacts, send inquiries to
icann-2005 at ibspan.waw.pl or to the
ICANN 2005 Conference Secretariat
Mrs. Krystyna Warzywoda
Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Newelska 6, 01-447 Warszawa, Poland

WWW page: www.ibspan.waw.pl/ICANN-2005

General Program Chairs:
Wlodzislaw Duch, Nicholaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland, and Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
Janusz Kacprzyk, System Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland