Connectionists: 2nd Call for Papers for 17th ICANN 2007, Porto, Portugal, 9-13 Sep 2007

[Dr. Amir Hussain]

Please forward the Call below to friends and colleagues...
Thank you in advance and please accept our apologies for any
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Kind regards,
Amir Hussain, PhD
Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience
University of Stirling
Scotland, UK
Email: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk
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International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2007

9-13 September 2007,  Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal

Web page: http://www.icann2007.org


2nd Call for Papers


Deadlines

16 Feb  End of submission of special session and workshop proposals.

23 Mar  End of submission of full papers.


The 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN
2007,
will be held from September 9 through September 13 at the Ipanema Park
Hotel, Porto, Portugal. ICANN is an annual conference organized by the
 European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International
Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to
neural networks.

ICANN 2007 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and
applications in the following broad areas:

- Computational neuroscience;
- Connectionist cognitive science;
- Data analysis and pattern recognition;
- Graphical network models, Bayesian networks;
- Hardware implementations and embedded systems;
- Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web;
- Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms;
- Neural control, planning and robotics applications;
- Neural dynamics and complex systems;
- Neuroinformatics;
- Real world applications;
- Self-organization;
- Sequential and structured information processing;
- Signal and time series processing, blind source separation;
- Vision and image processing.


General-Chair
Joaquim Marques de Sá, University of Porto, Portugal


Co-Chair
Luís Alexandre, University of Beira Interior, Portugal


Program Chairs
Wlodzislaw Duch, Torun, PL & Singapore, ENNS President
Danilo Mandic, Imperial College London, UK


Honorary Chair
John G. Taylor, Kings College, London, UK


Program Committee
Alessandro Sperduti, Univ. Padova, IT
Alessandro Villa, Univ. Grenoble, FR
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
Andreas Nuernberger, Univ. Magdeburg, DE
Andreas Stafylopatis, NTUA, GR
Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN Brain Sci. Inst., JP
Bruno Apolloni, Univ. Milano, IT
David Miller, Univ. Pennsylvania, USA
Dragan Obradovic, Siemens Corp. Res., DE
Erkki Oja, Helsinki University, FI
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK
Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State Univ., USA
Jacek Mandziuk, Warsaw University, PL
João Luís Rosa, Catholic Univ. Campinas, BR
Jose Dorronsoro, Univ. Aut. de Madrid, ES
José Príncipe, Univ. Florida, USA
Juergen Schmidhuber, TU Munich (DE) and IDSIA (CH)
Lefteris Tsoukalas, Purdue Univ., USA
Marios Polycarpou, Univ.Cyprus, CY
Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Inst., USA
Michel Verleysen, Univ. Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland Univ., NZ
Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, TR
Olli Simula, Helsinki University, FI
Peter Andras, Univ. Newcastle, UK
Péter Érdi, HU & Kalamazoo College, USA
Stan Gielen, University of Nijmegen, NL
Stefan Wermter, Univ.Sunderland, UK
Stefanos Kolias, NTUA, GR
Steve Gunn, Univ. Southampton, UK
Thomas Martinetz, Univ. Luebeck, DE


Conference Proceedings
Published by Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).



Neural Networks Special Issue
An extended version of selected ICANN 2007 papers will be published in a
Special Issue of Elsevier's journal Neural Networks.


 Sponsors: ENNS, INNS, JNNS, EURASIP, IEEE-CIS, MICROSOFT, INEB, ISEP,
UBI


Student support available (please see web page)


ICANN 2007 Secretariat
Gabriela Afonso, INEB, Campus FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto,
Portugal
(gafonso at fe.up.pt)