Connectionists: ICONIP'09 - Final CFP

[Jonathan Chan]

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement)
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09)
Challenges and Trends of Neural Information Processing

Bangkok, Thailand, December 1-5, 2009
http://www.iconip09.org/

*** Due to the recent crash of the online submission system and numerous 
requests for further extension, the regular paper submission  deadline 
is extended to be the same as the special issue paper submission 
deadline of July 28, 2009. ***

Regular paper submission deadline: July 28, 2009 (extended)
Special session paper submission deadline:  July 28, 2009
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2009
Camera-ready manuscripts and early-bird registration: September 6, 2009


TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

- Keynote speech by Shun-ichi Amari
- Plenary talks by Jun Wang, Nik Kasabov, Kunihiko Fukushima, Ron Sun, 
DeLiang Wang, Chidchanok Lursinsap
- Invited talks by Soo-Young Lee, Wlodzislaw Duch, Shiro Usui, Masumi 
Ishikawa, Yuzo Hirai, Bao-Liang Lu, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Minho Lee, Andrew  
Chi-Sing Leung, Tom Gedeon, Paul S. Pang
- Six tutorials which are inclusive with an ICONIP'09 registration.  
- More details can be found at the conference website.


TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS

International Neural Network Society (INNS)
Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)
European Neural Network Society (ENNS)
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS)


ICONIP'09 solicits contributions from the following non-exclusive list 
of topics in neural information processing and related areas:

  - Cognitive science
  - Computational neuroscience
  - Mathematical Modeling and Analysis
  - Learning Algorithms
  - Support Vector Machines
  - Self-Organizing Map
  - Independent Component Analysis
  - Pattern Classification
  - Face Analysis and Processing
  - Image Processing
  - Signal Processing
  - Computer Vision
  - Hybrid Systems
  - Forecasting and Prediction
  - Evolutionary Computation
  - Hardware
  - Fuzzy Systems
  - Information Security
  - Data and Text Processing
  - Financial Applications
  - Manufacturing Systems
  - Control and Robotics
  - Other Emerging Computational Methods
  - Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications


PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high quality 
manuscripts of up to eight A4-pages electronically.  The submission 
must  conform to the Springer LNCS format.  All accepted papers will be 
able to be published in proceedings of ICONIP'09 as a Springer LNCS  
volume.  Extended version of selected papers will be invited for 
publication in special issues of international journals after the  
conference.

The ICONIP'09 online submission system is at Springer's Online 
Conference Service (OCS).  More information can be found at the paper  
submission site of ICONIP'09. (http://www.iconip09.org/submit.php)


SPECIAL ISSUES

The following special issues have been confirmed thus far:

- Int. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (American 
Scientific Publisher)
- Neural Computing and Applications (Springer)
- Neurocomputing (Elsevier)
- Evolving Systems (Springer)
- The Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (ANU)

More special issues in high quality journals will be announced at the 
conference website later on.


SPECIAL SESSIONS

All accepted papers will be able to be published in the ICONIP'09 
conference proceedings and/or special issues. There are currently nine 
approved special sessions:

* Intelligent Data Mining - http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~kwong/ICONIP/
* Data Mining for Cybersecurity (DMC at ICONIP 2009) - 
http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=5570&copyownerid=4822
* Towards brain-inspired systems - Keiichi Horio (horio [at] 
brain.kyutech.ac.jp)
* SOM and related subjects and its applications - Nobuo Matsuda (matsuda 
[at] oshima-k.ac.jp); Heizo Tokutaka (tokuhema [at] hal.ne.jp)
* Neural Networks for Data Mining (NNDM at ICONIP 2009) - 
http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=5741&copyownerid=5009
* Hybrid and Adaptive Systems for Computer Vision and Robot Control - 
Napoleon Reyes (N.H.Reyes [at] massey.ac.nz); Pitoyo Hartono (hartono 
[at]  fun.ac.jp)
* Artificial spiking neural systems: nonlinear dynamics and engineering 
applications - Toshimichi Saito (tsaito [at] k.hosei.ac.jp)
* Computational Advances in Bioinformatics (CAB 2009) - Asawin Meechai 
(asawin.mee [at] kmutt.ac.th); Santitham Prom-on (santitham [at]  
cpe.kmutt.ac.th)
* Intelligent Liar Competition - John Sum (pfsum [at] nchu.edu.tw)


POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

There is one approved post ICONIP'09 conference workshop at Kuala 
Lumpur, Malaysia, to be held on December 7, 2009:

Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Computing (http://waic09.utar.edu.my/)

Please direct your inquiries to the Workshops Chairs, Lai Weng Kin (lai 
[at] mimos [dot] my) or C. P. Lim (cplim [at] eng [dot] usm [dot] my).


COLLOCATED CONFERENCE

The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Information Technology 
(IAIT2009) will be collocated with The 16th International Conference  on 
Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'09) in Bangkok, Thailand.