Connectionists: CFP IJCNN06 Special Session "Constructive/Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps"

[Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas]

Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Session about "Constructive/Hierarchical 
Self-Organizing Maps"
at the International Joint INNS-IEEE Conference on Neural Networks 
(IJCNN) 2006 in Vancouver, Canada

Please send this message to your colleagues working on this topic.

Best regards
ernesto

*Call for Papers for a Special Session
"Constructive/Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps"*
** 
International Joint INNS-IEEE Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2006
as part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligenc (WCCI2006)
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
July 16- 21, 2006, IJCNN 2006,
(http://www.wcci2006.org/)

The aims of this session is to bring together researchers working on novel
constructive models based on Self-Organizing Maps (SOM). This area brings
together knowledge from Hierarchical SOMs, Information Retrieval, Access 
Methods
such as Spatial and Metric Access Methods, Constructive Techniques, etc.

Topics include but are not restricted to:
* Hierarchical SOM
* Constructive SOM
* Self-evolving architectures
* Evolving and Evolutionary Self-Organizing Maps,
* Incorporating Access Methods on Self-Orgainzing Maps
* Techniques to find an appropriate SOM architecture
* Similarity Information Retrieval
* Bayesian Approaches

Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas - ecuadros at spc.org.pe 
<mailto:ecuadros at spc.org.pe>
and Prof. Dra. Roseli Ap. Francelin Romero - rafrance at icmc.usp.br 
<mailto:rafrance at icmc.usp.br>

Submissions and deadlines:
Paper Submission: January 31, 2006
Decision Notification: March 15, 2006
Camera-Ready Submission: April 15, 2006

All accepted papers will be published in the IJCNN 2006 Proceedings.

Each paper must have the title, authors with e-mails/web sites, and
a detailed abstract as possible.  All accepted papers must be
presented at the conference.

Please be sure to choose this special session as the MAIN RESEARCH TOPIC 
when submit a paper through respective Paper Submission System.

We encourage contributing authors to take a prompt action to avoid 
last-minute traffic.

Best regards
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Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. PhD
Head of School of Computer Science (Informatica)
Universidad Catolica San Pablo
Arequipa-Peru
Peruvian Computer Society, President
http://socios.spc.org.pe/ecuadros
+51-54-934-1932 (mobile) +51-54-400416 (home)
+51-54-281517 (Fax)
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Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas. PhD
Head of School of Computer Science (Informatica)
Universidad Catolica San Pablo
Arequipa-Peru
Peruvian Computer Society, President
http://socios.spc.org.pe/ecuadros
+51-54-934-1932 (mobile) +51-54-400416 (home)
+51-54-281517 (Fax)
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