Connectionists: ICONIP2007 Last Call for Papers: Submission deadline is May 1

[Masumi Ishikawa]

ICONIP2007 Last Call for Papers
14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing
Kitakyushu, Japan
November 13-16, 2007
http://www.iconip07.org/

Sponsors:
  Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA)
  Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)
  21st Century COE Program, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Co-sponsors:
  RIKEN Brain Science Institute
  Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
  Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (SOFT)
  IEEE CIS Japan Chapter
  Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute (FLSI) 

Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following five Tracks:
　1. Computational Neuroscience
　2. neural network models and learning
　　(learning algorithms, ICA, SVM, SOM, etc.)
　3. Vision and motor control
　　(robot vision, pattern recognition, motor control, visuomotor control, etc.)
　4. Hardware and Applications
　　(hardware, signal processing, medical applications, fuzzy, robotics, etc.)
　5. Novel approaches
　　(EC, BMI, cognitive science, hybrid systems, brain-like systems, 
adaptive intelligent systems, etc.)

A full paper of up to 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style is to be 
submitted by May 1, 2007. Ten pages in the Springer LNCS style is 
roughly equivalent in length to 6 pages in the IEEE Proceedings 
style. A duly revised accepted paper up to 10 pages in the Springer 
LNCS style and 1-page abstract are to be submitted by August 1, 2007. 
During the conference, the conference provides attendees printed 
abstracts and downloadable provisional electronic proceedings. After 
the conference, those who wish to revise full papers can resubmit 
revised version by December 15, 2007. Post conference CD-ROM 
proceedings and optional paper proceedings will be sent to attendees 
a few months after this.
Important dates:
・Deadline for submission of full papers : May 1, 2007
・Decision notification : July 1, 2007
・Camera-ready papers and 1 page abstract due : August 1, 2007
・Deadline for Authors’ registration : August 1, 2007
・Revision of papers due (if any) : December 15, 2007

Proceedings:
Presented papers will be published as post-conference proceedings by 
Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS)

Keynote Speech
  Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
  Title: Cerebellar Long Term Depression as a Supervised Learning 
Rule with All or Nothing Character at Each Synapse

Plenary Talks
  Shin Ishii, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
    Title: Modeling decision making in a partially observable domain
  Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Titie: Statistical mechanical approach to CDMA communication 
       -- an offspring of research on perceptrons and associative memory --
  Frederic Kaplan, EPFL, Switzerland
    Title: Curiosity-driven development
  Andrew Y. Ng, Stanford University
    Title: STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project
  Rajesh P. N. Rao, University of Washington
    Title: Brain-inspired models of Bayesian computation, with 
applications to humanoid robotics and brain-machine interfaces

Journal Special Issues:
  Cognitive Neurodynamics
  Neural Information Processing-Letters and Reviews
  Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing
  International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control
  Neural Networks (Selected papers will be recommended for publication)

Call for Tutorials
　ICONIP 2007 will feature pre-conference tutorials dedicated especially to 
young researchers and Ph.D. students. The tutorials cover fundamental and 
advanced topics in neural information processing (broardly defined). The 
proposal for tutorials are to be submitted by e-mail to the secretary of 
ICONIP at <secretary-ICONIP at brain.kyutech.ac.jp> with the name, 
affiliation, address, country of the speaker, the title of tutorials, 5-10 
keywords, 200-word abstract including motivation, appeal to the conference 
attendees, expected effectiveness, recommended fields, etc.
   Deadline for proposal of tutorials is extended to 1 May, 2007 and 
notification of acceptance will be done by 31 May, 2007. The selected 
tutorial speakers will be financially supported by the conference, 
concerning the international/domestic air flight, the accommodation and 
the registration.

Call for Demonstrations
  Important dates:
  Deadline for proposal :15 July, 2007
  Decision notification : 1 August, 2007
  Deadline for Demonstrators’registration : 15 August, 2007
  Final demonstraction abstract due : 1 September, 2007

Organizing Committees:
  General Chair: Takeshi Yamakawa (KIT, Japan)
  Organizing Committee Chair: Shiro Usui (RIKEN, Japan)
  Steering Committee Chair: Takeshi Yamakawa (KIT,Japan)
  Program Co-chairs: Masumi Ishikawa (KIT, Japan), Kenji Doya (OIST, Japan)
  Brain IT Special Sessions Chair: Hatsuo Hayashi (KIT, Japan)
  Tutorials Chair: Hirokazu Yokoi (KIT, Japan)
  Exhibitions Chair: Masahiro Nagamatsu (KIT, Japan)
  Local Arrangement Chair: Satoru Ishizuka (KIT, Japan)
  Web Master: Tsutomu Miki (KIT, Japan)
  Publications Chair: Hiroyuki Miyamoto (KIT, Japan)
  Publicity Chair: Hideki Nakagawa (KIT, Japan)
  Secretary: Katsumi Tateno (KIT, Japan)

Program Co-Chairs

Masumi Ishikawa <ishikawa at brain.kyutech.ac.jp>
Department of Brain Science and Engineering
Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering
Kyushu Institute of Technology
2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu 808-0196, Japan
Tel and Fax: +81-93-695-6106
http://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~ishikawa

Kenji Doya <doya at oist.jp>
Initial Research Project, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
12-22 Suzaki, Uruma, Okinawa 904-2234, Japan
Phone:+81-98-921-3843; Fax:+81-98-921-3873
http://www.irp.oist.jp/