Connectionists: Call for Papers, FLAIRS06 Nnet Special Track, Melbourne Beach, FL, May 11-13

[D Bisant]

Neural Networks Special Track at the 19th International FLAIRS Conference
In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Holiday Inn - Melbourne Oceanfront, Melbourne Beach, Florida
May 11-13, 2006

Call for Papers
     Papers are being solicited for a special track on Neural Network 
Applications at the 19th International Florida Artificial Intelligence 
Society Conference (FLAIRS-2006). http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06/  The 
special track will be devoted to Neural Networks with the aim of 
presenting new and important contributions in this area. The areas 
include, but are not limited to, the following: applications such as 
Pattern Recognition, Control and Process Monitoring, Biomedical 
Applications, Robotics, Text Mining, Diagnostic Problems, 
Telecommunications, Power Systems, Signal Processing; algorithms such as 
new developments in Back Propagation, RBF, SVM, Ensemble Methods, Kernel 
Approaches; hybrid approaches such as Neural Networks/Genetic 
Algorithms, Neural Network/Expert Systems, Causal Nets trained with 
Backpropagation, and Neural Network/Fuzzy Logic; or any other area of 
Neural Network research related to artificial intelligence.

     FLAIRS is a respectable multidisciplinary conference in artificial 
intelligence.  This special track will feature a double-blind review.

Submission Guidelines
     Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts by November 
30, 2005. Submissions should be no more than 6 pages (4000 words) in 
length, including figures, and contain no identifying reference to self 
or organization. Papers should be formatted according to AAAI 
Guidelines. Submission instructions can be found at FLAIRS-06 website at 
http:// www.indiana.edu/~flairs06. Notification of acceptance will be 
mailed around January 20, 2006. Authors of accepted papers will be 
expected to submit the final camera-ready copies of their full papers by 
February 13, 2006 for publication in the conference proceedings which 
will be published by AAAI Press. Authors may be invited to submit a 
revised copy of their paper to a special issue of the International 
Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). Questions regarding 
the track should be addressed to: David Bisant at bisant at umbc.edu.

FLAIRS 2006 Invited Speakers
    * Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
    * Bob Morris, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
    * Mehran Sahami, Stanford University and Google, USA
    * Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland

Important Dates

    * Paper submissions due: November 30, 2005
    * Notification letters sent: January 20, 2006
    * Camera ready copy due: February 13, 2006

Special Track Committee

Ingrid Russell (Co-Chair), University of Hartford, USA
David Bisant (Co-Chair), The Laboratory for Physical Sciences, USA
Georgios Anagnostopoulos, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Jim Austin, University of York, UK
Geof Barrows, Centeye Corporation, USA
Serge Dolenko, Moscow State University, Russia
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK
Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida, USA
Gary Kuhn, Department of Defense, USA
Luis Martí, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Costas Neocleous, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Sergio Roa Ovalle, National University of Colombia, Columbia
Roberto Santana, University of the  Basque Country, Spain
C. N. Schizas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Chellu Chandra Sekhar, Indian Institute of Technology, India