Connectionists: CFP: 1st Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing

[Masashi Sugiyama]

CALL for PAPERS

1st Workshop on *Cognitive Information Processing*
June 9-10, 2008, Santorini, Greece

http://cip2008.di.uoa.gr

Sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recogntion (IAPR)
In co-operation with the IEEE Signal Processing Society
and the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)

General Co-Chairs: Prof. Simon Haykin
                            Prof. Sergios Theodoridis

Program Co-Chairs: Prof. Tulay Adali
                             Prof. Eleftherios Kofidis

Plenary Speakers: Prof. Simon Haykin (McMaster University, Canada)
                           Prof. Timo Honkela (Helsinki University of
Technology, Finland)
                           Prof. Jose Principe (University of Florida, U.S.A.)
                           Prof. Ali Sayed (University of California LA, U.S.A)
                           Prof. Bernhard Scholkopf (Max Planck
Institute, Germany)
                           Prof. Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University, Israel)

Important Dates:
                          Submission of full paper: January 5, 2008
                          Notification of acceptance: March 5, 2008
                          Camera-ready paper: March 31, 2008

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Overview
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Over the recent years there is an increased need for *Cognitive
Information Processing *(CIP) that extends
the current systems engineering paradigm to one with the ability to
perceive, learn, reason and interact
robustly in open-ended changing environments. Real world problems and
large digital environments (such
as Internet) usually are too complex to be modelled within a limited set
of predifined specifications. Thus,
there will inevitably  be a need for robust decisions and behaviour in
novel situations based on the capability
and knowledge of artificial cognitive systems. Further, there will be
a need for automatic extraction and
organization of meaning, purpose and intentions in interplay with the
environment, beyond current systems,
with  built-in semantic representations and ontologies.

Research in CIP is widely interdisciplinary. The aim of this series of
workshops is to bring together researchers
from the Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and
Communications communities, in an
effort to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas and tools.

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Topics of Interest
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   * Learning theory and modelling
   * Bayesian learning and models
   * Information theoretic learning
   * Graphical and kernel methods
   * Adaptive learning algorithms
   * Ensembles: committees, mixtures, boosting, etc.
   * Data representation and analysis, PCA, ICA, CCA, etc.
   * Other related topics

   * Cognitive radio
   * Cognitive component analysis
   * Cogntive dynamical systems
   * Distributed, cooperative and adaptive processing
   * Other related topics



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Masashi Sugiyama (Ph.D)

Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
2-12-1-W8-74 O-okayama, Meguro-ku,
Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.

E-Mail:     sugi at cs.titech.ac.jp
URL:        http://sugiyama-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~sugi/
TEL & Fax: +81-3-5734-2699