Connectionists: 2nd CFP: ICANN 2011 - Machine learning re-inspired by brain and cognition

Sun Dec 19 21:09:56 EST 2010

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Second Call for Papers: ICANN 2011

The Twentieth Anniversary ICANN is back at its roots:
Machine learning re-inspired by brain and cognition

International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
14 - 17 June 2011, Espoo, Finland
http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of full papers:    Jan 14, 2011
Notification of acceptance:   March 1, 2011
Camera-ready paper
and author registration:      April 1, 2011
Advance registration before:  April 15, 2011

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The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)
is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network
Society (ENNS). In 2011, ICANN returns to its roots after 20 years.
The very first ICANN in 1991 was organized at Helsinki University
of Technology in Espoo, Finland. We invite all neural network
researchers worldwide to join us in celebrating this 20th
anniversary of ICANN and to see the latest advancements in our fast
progressing field.

ICANN 2011 will have two tracks: Brain-inspired computing and
Machine learning research, with PC chairs from both worlds and a
renewed reviewing system. Keynote speakers and competitions will
highlight cross-disciplinary interactions and applications.

VENUE

ICANN 2011 will be held in the Dipoli Congress Center located on
the beautiful campus of Aalto University (former Helsinki
University of Technology), in Espoo (8km west from the city centre
of Helsinki). The time of the year is particularly suitable for
visiting Finland.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

ICANN 2011 will feature two main tracks: Brain inspired computing
and Machine learning research, with strong cross-disciplinary
interactions and applications. A non-exhaustive list of topics:

- Brain inspired computing: Connectionist cognitive science, Neural
   and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms, Neural control
   and planning, Reinforcement learning, Computational neuroscience,
   Neural dynamics and complex systems, Self-organization, Neuro-
   cognitive architectures, Recurrent networks

- Machine learning research: Graphical models, Bayesian networks,
   Kernel methods, Generative models, Information theoretic
   learning, Nonlinear projection, Relational learning, Online
   learning, Dynamical models, Reinforcement learning

- Applications and cross-disciplinary connections: Data analysis,
   Pattern recognition, Signal and time series processing, Blind
   source separation, Hardware implementations and embedded systems,
   Intelligent multimedia, Knowledge management, Multimodal
   interfaces, Vision and image processing, Biomedical image
   analysis, Speech and language processing, Robotics applications,
   Intelligent control, Neuroinformatics, Bioinformatics, Biomedical
   applications, Brain-computer interfaces, Critical infrastructure
   systems, Complex networks

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Tom Griffiths, University of California Berkeley
(http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/)

Riitta Hari, Aalto University
(http://ltl.tkk.fi/wiki/Riitta_Hari)

Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto
(http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/)

Aapo Hyvarinen, University of Helsinki
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/)

Josh Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html)

ORGANIZATION

General chair:                Erkki Oja
Program co-chairs:            Wlodzislaw Duch, Mark Girolami,
                               Timo Honkela, Samuel Kaski
Workshop chair:               Alexander Ilin
Local chair:                  Amaury Lendasse
Publicity chair:              Jaakko Peltonen
Organizing committee members: Francesco Corona, Krista Lagus,
                               Yoan Miche, Ilari Nieminen,
                               Mari-Sanna Paukkeri, Tapani Raiko,
                               Ricardo Vigario

CONFIRMED AREA CHAIRS

Peter Auer, Austria
Christian Bauckhage, Germany
Wray Buntine, Australia
Vince Calhoun, USA
Antonius Coolen, UK
Barbara Hammer, Germany
Giulio Jacucci, Finland
Kristian Kersting, Germany
Mikko Kurimo, Finland
Neil Lawrence, UK
Te-Won Lee, USA
Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Japan
Fernando Morgado Dias, Portugal
Klaus-Robert Muller, Germany
Klaus Obermayer, Germany
Cheng Soon Ong, Switzerland
Jan Peters, Germany
Marios Polycarpou, Cyprus
Jose Principe, USA
Volker Roth, Switzerland
Craig Saunders, UK
Alan Stocker, USA
Masashi Sugiyama, Japan
Ron Sun, USA
Peter Tino, UK
Alfred Ultsch, Germany
Koen Van Leemput, USA
Michel Verleysen, Belgium
Jean-Philippe Vert, France
Ole Winther, Denmark
Chang D. Yoo, South Korea

WORKSHOPS

Details of workshops and tutorials at ICANN 2011 will be available
at http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 .

WSOM 2011, the 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (13-15 June
2011) will be co-located with ICANN 2011.

COMPETITIONS

Mind reading competition on MEG data: classify from MEG signals
which type of video stimulus the subject is viewing such as football
match, movie, natural scenery, etc.

META-NET Multimodal Machine Translation Challenge: choose the
best translation from translations given by multiple machine
translation systems, using additional context information like
domain, surrounding text, etc.

See http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 for more details!

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submitted papers should be up to 8 pages in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science format. Papers will be submitted through
Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit (CMT). Further details
will be available soon at http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 .

Accepted papers will be published in a collected volume by Springer
in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, www.springer.com/lncs and
will also be available online through the SpringerLink digital
library.

SPONSORS

ICANN 2011 is supported by European Neural Network Society (ENNS),
Pattern Recognition Society of Finland and Finnish Artificial
Intelligence Society.

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