Connectionists: CFP: ESANN'2007 European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks

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                     ESANN'2007

15th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks
 Advances in Computational Intelligence and Learning 

      Bruges (Belgium) - April 25-26-27, 2007

         Announcement and call for papers

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The call for papers for the ESANN'2007 conference is now available on the Web:
       http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann
For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related ANN sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list; thank you very much!

We make all possible efforts to avoid sending multiple copies of this call for papers; however we apologize if you receive this e-mail twice, despite our precautions.

You will find below a short version of this call for papers, without the instructions to authors (available on the Web).  

ESANN'2007 is organized in collaboration with the UCL (Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) and the KULeuven (Katholiek Universiteit Leuven).  The conference is technically co-sponsored by the International Neural Networks Society, the European Neural Networks Society, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the IEEE Region 8, the IEEE Benelux Section (sponsors to be confirmed).


Scope and topics
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Since its first happening in 1993, the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks has become the reference for researchers on fundamentals and theoretical aspects of artificial neural networks, computational intelligence, learning and related topics. Each year, around 100 specialists attend ESANN, in order to present their latest results and comprehensive surveys, and to discuss the future developments in this field.

The ESANN'2007 conference will follow this tradition, while adapting its scope to the new developments in the field.  Artificial neural networks are viewed as a branch, or subdomain, of machine learning, statistical information processing and computational intelligence.  Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of machine learning, computational intelligence and artificial neural networks topics covered during the ESANN conferences:

THEORY and MODELS
Statistical and mathematical aspects of learning
Feedforward models
Kernel machines
Graphical models, EM and Bayesian learning
Vector quantization and self-organizing maps
Recurrent networks and dynamical systems
Blind signal processing
Ensemble learning
Nonlinear projection and data visualization
Fuzzy neural networks
Evolutionary computation
Bio-inspired systems

INFORMATION PROCESSING and APPLICATIONS
Data mining
Signal processing and modeling
Approximation and identification
Classification and clustering
Feature extraction and dimension reduction
Time series forecasting
Multimodal interfaces and multichannel processing
Adaptive control
Vision and sensory systems
Biometry
Bioinformatics
Brain-computer interfaces
Neuroinformatics

Papers will be presented orally (single track) and in poster sessions; all posters will be complemented by a short oral presentation during a plenary session. It is important to mention that the topics of a paper decide if it better fits into an oral or a poster session, not its quality. The selection of posters will be identical to oral presentations, and both will be printed in the same way in the proceedings. Nevertheless, authors must indicate their preference for oral or poster presentation when submitting their paper.  


Special sessions
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Special sessions will be organized by renowned scientists in their respective fields. Papers submitted to these sessions are reviewed according to the same rules as submissions to regular sessions. They must also follow the same format, instructions, deadlines and submission procedure.

The special sessions organized during ESANN'2007 are:

1)	Fuzzy and Probabilistic Methods in Neural Networks and Machine Learning
	B. Hammer, Clausthal Univ. Tech. (Germany), T. Villmann, Univ. Leipzig
	(Germany)
2)	Reinforcement Learning
	V. Heidrich-Meisner, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, M. Lauer, Univ. Osnabrück, 
	C. Igel, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, M. Riedmiller, Univ. Karlsruhe (Germany)
3)	Convex Optimization for the Design of Learning Machines
	K. Pelckmans, J.A.K. Suykens, Katholieke Univ. Leuven (Belgium)
4)	Learning causality
	P. F. Verdes, Heidelberg Acad. of Sciences (Germany), 
	K. Hlavackova-Schindler, Austrian Acad. of Sciences (Austria)
5)	Reservoir Computing
	D. Verstraeten, B. Schrauwen, Univ. Gent (Belgium)


Location
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The conference will be held in Bruges (also called "Venice of the North"), one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe.  Bruges can be reached by train from Brussels in less than one hour (frequent trains).  The town of Bruges is world-wide known, and famous for its architectural style, its canals, and its pleasant atmosphere.

The conference will be organized in a hotel located near the centre (walking distance) of the town. There is no obligation for the participants to stay in this hotel. Hotels of all levels of comfort and price are available in Bruges; there is a possibility to book a room in the hotel of the conference at a preferential rate through the conference secretariat. A list of other smaller hotels is also available.

The conference will be held at the Novotel hotel, Katelijnestraat 65B, 8000 Brugge, Belgium.


Proceedings and journal special issue
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The proceedings will include all communications presented to the conference (tutorials, oral and posters), and will be available on-site. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in the Neurocomputing journal (Elsevier).


Call for contributions
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Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions before December 1, 2006.  The electronic submission procedure is described on the ESANN portal http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann/.

Authors must also commit themselves that they will register to the conference and present the paper in case of acceptation of their submission (one paper per registrant).  Authors of accepted papers will have to register before February 28, 2007; they will benefit from the advance registration fee.  The ESANN conference applies a strict policy about the presentation of accepted papers during the conference: authors of accepted papers who do not show up at the conference will be blacklisted for future ESANN conferences, and the lists will be communicated to other conference organizers.


Deadlines
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Submission of papers		December 1, 2006
Notification of acceptance		January 26, 2007
Symposium			April 25-27, 2007


Conference secretariat
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       ESANN'2007   
       d-side conference services        phone: + 32 2 730 06 11
       24 av. L. Mommaerts               Fax: + 32 2 730 06 00
       B - 1140 Evere (Belgium)          E-mail: esann at dice.ucl.ac.be
                     http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann


Steering and local committee
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François Blayo		Ipseite (CH)
Gianluca Bontempi		Univ. Libre Bruxelles (B)
Marie Cottrell		Univ. Paris I (F)
Jeanny Hérault		INPG Grenoble (F)
Mia Loccufier		Univ. Gent (B)
Bernard Manderick		Vrije Univ. Brussel (B)
Jean-Pierre Peters		FUNDP Namur (B)
Joos Vandewalle		KUL Leuven (B)
Michel Verleysen		UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B)

Scientific committee (to be confirmed)
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Cecilio Angulo		Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) 
Miguel Atencia		Univ. Malaga (E) 
Pierre Bessière		CNRS (F)
Hervé Bourlard                	IDIAP Martigny (CH)
Joan Cabestany                	Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E)
Stéphane Canu                 	Inst. Nat. Sciences App. (F)
Valentina Colla		Scuola Sup. Sant'Anna Pisa (I)
Holk Cruse                    	Universität Bielefeld (D)
Eric de Bodt                  	Univ. Lille II (F) & UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B)
Dante Del Corso               	Politecnico di Torino (I)
Georg Dorffner		University of Vienna (A)
Wlodek Duch                   	Nicholas Copernicus Univ. (PL)
Marc Duranton                 	Philips Semiconductors (USA)
Richard Duro                  	Univ. Coruna (E)
André Elisseef		IBM Research (CH)
Deniz Erdogmus		Oregon Health & Science University (USA)
Anibal Figueiras-Vidal	Univ. Carlos III Madrid (E)
Simone Fiori		Univ. Perugia (I)
Jean-Claude Fort              	Université Nancy I (F)
Leonardo Franco		Univ. Malaga (E) 
Colin Fyfe                    	Univ. Paisley (UK)
Stan Gielen                   	Univ. of Nijmegen (NL)
Mirta Gordon		IMAG Grenoble (F)
Marco Gori                    	Univ. Siena (I)
Bernard Gosselin             	Fac. Polytech. Mons (B)
Manuel Grana                  	UPV San Sebastian (E)
Anne Guérin-Dugué             	INPG Grenoble (F)
Barbara Hammer                	Univ. of Osnäbruck (D)
Martin Hasler                 	EPFL Lausanne (CH)
Tom Heskes		Univ. Nijmegen (NL) 
Christian Igel		Ruhr-Univ. Bochum (D) 
Jose Jerez		Univ. Malaga (E) 
Gonzalo Joya                  	Univ. Malaga (E)
Christian Jutten              	INPG Grenoble (F)
Juha Karhunen		Helsinki Univ. of Tech. (FIN)
Stefanos Kollias		National Tech. Univ. Athens (GR)
Jouko Lampinen		Helsinki Univ. of Tech. (FIN)
Petr Lansky		Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ)
Beatrice Lazzerini		Univ. Pisa (I)
Erzsebet Merenyi              	Rice Univ. (USA)
Jean-Pierre Nadal            	Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (F)
Erkki Oja			Helsinki Univ. of Technology (FIN)
Arlindo Oliveira		INESC-ID (P)
Gilles Pagès                  	Univ. Paris 6 (F)
Thomas Parisini               	Univ. Trieste (I)
Hélène Paugam-Moisy           	Université Lumière Lyon 2 (F)
Alberto Prieto                	Universitad de Granada (E)
Didier Puzenat                	Univ. Antilles-Guyane (F)
Leonardo Reyneri              	Politecnico di Torino (I)
Jean-Pierre Rospars           	INRA Versailles (F)
Fabrice Rossi		INRIA (F) 
Francisco Sandoval		Univ.Malaga (E) 
Jose Santos Reyes             	Univ. Coruna (E)
Craig Saunders		Univ.Southampton (UK)
Udo Seiffert                  	IPK Gatersleben (D)
Bernard Sendhoff		Honda Research Institute Europe (D) 
Peter Sollich		King's College (UK) 
Jochen Steil                  	Univ. Bielefeld (D)
John Stonham                  	Brunel University (UK)
Johan Suykens                 	K. U. Leuven (B)
John Taylor                   	King’s College London (UK)
Claude Touzet                 	Univ. Provence (F)
Marc Van Hulle                	KUL Leuven (B)
Thomas Villmann               	Univ. Leipzig (D)
Axel Wismüller                	Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München (D)
Bart Wyns 		Univ.Gent (B)
Michalis Zervakis		Technical Univ. Crete (GR)


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ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann

* For submissions of papers, reviews,...
Michel Verleysen
Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group
3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium
tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 
mailto:esann at dice.ucl.ac.be

* Conference secretariat
d-side conference services
24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium
tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 
mailto:esann at dice.ucl.ac.be ========================================================




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