Connectionists: call-for-paper: WCCI'06-IJCNN'06 Special Session on Natural Computation for Temporal Data Processing

[Ke CHEN]

Dear Coordinators,

I would appreciate it if you could help us solicit our call-for-paper by 
including it in your maillist.

Best regards,

Ke


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                                             CALL for 
Papers                          

                              WCCI'06- IJCNN'06 Special Session on
                       Natural Computation for Temporal Data Processing
        
                               Ke Chen, Kar-Ann Toh and Peter Tino


Aims and scope
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Temporal/sequential data are ubiquitous in the real world. Proper 
treatment of data with temporal dependencies
is essential in many application areas ranging from multimedia data 
processing to bioinformatics.The field has
attracted a substantial amount of interest from a wide range of 
disciplines. This special session attempts
to explore/exploit the natural computation approaches, e.g. neural 
computation, statistical learning,
evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems and various hybrid methods, for 
coping with diverse forms of time
dependency and data types as well as their applications in real world 
problems, e.g. multimedia data processing,
biometrics, bioinformatics and financial data processing.


The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners working in the area from
various disciplines of natural computation. The session serves as a 
forum enabling experience exchange
between academia and industry, as well as between researchers working 
in  different research branches.

Topics  
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * biologically plausible/natural methods for temporal data processing
    * clustering/classification techniques for temporal data
    * feature extraction and representations of temporal data
    * time-series modeling/forecasting
    * temporal information processing and fusion
    * representation/analysis/recognition of actions and events from 
temporal data
    * temporal information indexing and retrieval
    * temporal data mining and knowledge discovery
    


Paper submission
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The paper format should be the same as that required for a regular paper 
submission in WCCI'06.
For details, see http://www.wcci2006.org/WCCI-Web_ifa.html. Papers 
should be submitted via the
conference on-line web submission system under the title of this session 
(please follow the above
link to find instructions). All submissions will go through a 
peer-review process based on similar
criteria used for contributed papers in WCCI'06.

Important dates
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Paper Submission: January 31, 2006
Decision Notification: March 15, 2006
Camera-Ready Submission: April 15, 2006

Session organizers
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Ke Chen
School of Informatics
The University of Manchester
Manchester M60 1QD
United Kingdom
Email: Ke.Chen at manchester.ac.uk
Tel: +44 161 306 4565
Fax: +44 161 306 1281

Kar-Ann Toh
Biometrics Engineering Research Center
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Email: katoh at yonsei.ac.kr
Tel: +82-2-2123-5864
Fax: +82-2-312-4584

Peter Tino
School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom
Email: P.Tino at cs.bham.ac.uk
Tel: +44 121 414 8558
Fax: +44 121 414 4281