Connectionists: CFP FLAIRS-2007, Neural Networks Track, Key West, FL

[bisant@umbc.edu]

Call for Papers FLAIRS-2007
Special Track on Neural Networks

The 20th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2007)
  Casa Marina Resort and Beach Club, Key West, Florida
  May 7-9, 2007
 http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/FLAIRS/flairs2007/



Important Dates
  Paper submissions due November 20, 2006
  Notification letters sent January 21, 2007
  Camera ready copy due February 11, 2007

Papers are being solicited for a special track on Neural Networks at
the 20th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2007). 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 which is related to artificial intelligence.

FLAIRS is a respectable multidisciplinary conference in artificial
intelligence held yearly in the Florida area.

FLAIRS 2007 Confirmed Speakers
     Sebastian Thrun is Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he also serves
as the Director of the Stanford AI Lab. His research focuses on
robotics and artificial intelligence. Thrun has delivered numerous
invited plenary presentations at leading conferences and symposia.
Thrun was the leader of the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge
in 2005, was named one of the "Brilliant Ten" by Popular Science in
2005, and was elected an AAAI Fellow in 2006.

     Tim Finin is a Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering Department at UMBC, the University of Maryland Baltimore
County. Finin is a member of the UMBC ebiquity group where he is
working on projects involving intelligent agents, the semantic web,
pervasive computing , and mobile computing. He holds degrees from MIT
and the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the UMBC, he held
positions at Unisys, the University of Pennsylvania, and the MIT AI
Laboratory. He is the author of over 250 refereed publications and
has received research grants and contracts from a variety of sources.
He is currently on the editorial board of several journals and is an
editor in chief of the Journal of Web Semantics. Finin is a former
AAAI councilor and on the the board of directors of the Computing
Research Association.

(tentative) Rita Rodriguez is a Program Director at the National
Science Foundation.


Submission Guidelines
Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts by November 20,
2006. Submissions should be no more than 6 pages (4000 words) in
length, including figures. Papers should be formatted according to
AAAI Guidelines. Submission instructions can be found at the FLAIRS-07
website given above. Notification of acceptance will be mailed around
January 21, 2007. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to
submit the final camera-ready copies of their full papers by February
11, 2007 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 an international journal on
artificial intelligence.   Questions regarding the track should be
addressed to:  David Bisant at bisant at umbc.edu.



Initial Special Track Committee

  David Bisant (Chair),  Laboratory for Physical Sciences, USA
  Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, 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
  Luis Martí, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  Georgios Anagnostopoulos,  Florida Institute of Technology,  USA
  Costas Neocleous, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College, USA
  Sergio Roa Ovalle, University of Freiburg, Germany
  Roberto Santana, University of the Basque Country, Spain
  C. N. Schizas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  Chellu Chandra Sekhar, Indian Institute of Technology, India
  Fernando Niño, National University of Columbia, Columbia