Connectionists: Second call for papers: WSOM 2011, 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps

[jaakko.peltonen@tkk.fi]

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                       Second Call for Papers

                                 for

           WSOM 2011, 8th WORKSHOP ON SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS

                  13 - 15 June 2011, Espoo, Finland
        Aalto University School of Science and Technology and
                      Dipoli Conference Center

               Website: http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission of full papers:    January 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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GENERAL INFORMATION

WSOM 2011 will bring together researchers and practitioners in the
field of self-organizing systems, with a particular emphasis on the
self-organizing maps. It will highlight key advances in these and
closely related fields. WSOM 2011 is the eighth conference in a
series of bi-annual international conferences started with WSOM'97
in Helsinki.

The event will be co-located with the ICANN 2011 conference that
will be organized from 14th to 17th of June, 2011. Conference
programmes, registrations and fees will be coordinated.


VENUE

WSOM 2011 will take place at the Aalto University School of Science
and Technology (former Helsinki University of Technology) and
Dipoli Conference Center. They are located in Espoo, in the close
vicinity of the Helsinki capital area. The area is one of the ICT
research and development hot spots in Europe as well as known for
its beautiful and easily accessible nature. The time of the year is
particularly suitable for visiting Finland.


CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University:
Topographic mapping for dissimilarity data

Teuvo Kohonen, Academy of Finland:
Linguistic roles of Chinese words displayed in self-organizing maps


TOPICS in THEORY, METHODS and APPLICATIONS

We expect contributions related to the theoretical and
methodological aspects of the self-organizing map including:

     * Data analysis and visualization with a special topic of
       modeling dynamic phenomena
     * Various mathematical approaches including information theory
       and mathematical statistics
     * Software and hardware implementations
     * Architectural solutions including hierarchical and growing
       networks, ensemble models and special metrics
     * Neuro-cognitive studies that compare modeling and empirical
       results at different levels

We also call for scientific and practice-oriented papers that
describe the use of self-organizing maps with variants in different
application areas including but not limited to:

     * Data mining
     * Pattern recognition
     * Signal processing
     * Knowledge management
     * Time series processing
     * Industrial applications
     * Bioinformatics
     * Biomedical applications
     * Telecommunications
     * Financial analysis
     * Cognitive modeling
     * Robotics and intelligent systems
     * Image processing and vision
     * Speech processing
     * Language modeling
     * Text and document analysis


ORGANIZERS

     * Honorary chair
       Teuvo KOHONEN
       Academy of Finland
     * General chair
       Timo HONKELA
       Aalto University School of Science and Technology
     * Program chair
       Jorma LAAKSONEN
       Aalto University School of Science and Technology
     * Local chair
       Olli SIMULA
       Aalto University School of Science and Technology
     * Publicity chair
       Jaakko PELTONEN
       Aalto University School of Science and Technology


STEERING COMMITTEE

     * Teuvo KOHONEN
     * Marie COTTRELL
     * Pablo ESTEVEZ
     * Timo HONKELA
     * Erkki OJA
     * Jose PRINCIPE
     * Helge RITTER
     * Takeshi YAMAKAWA
     * Hujun YIN


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

     * Guilherme BARRETO
     * Yoonsuck CHOE
     * Jean-Claude FORT
     * Tetsuo FURUKAWA
     * Colin FYFE
     * Barbara HAMMER
     * Samuel KASKI
     * Krista LAGUS
     * Amaury LENDASSE
     * Ping LI
     * Thomas MARTINETZ
     * Risto MIIKKULAINEN
     * Klaus OBERMAYER
     * Jaakko PELTONEN
     * Marina RESTA
     * Udo SEIFFERT
     * Olli SIMULA
     * Kadim TASDEMIR
     * Heizo TOKUTAKA
     * Carme TORRAS
     * Alfred ULTSCH
     * Marc VAN HULLE
     * Michel VERLEYSEN
     * Thomas VILLMANN
     * Lei XU


PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submitted papers should be up to 8-10 pages in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science format. Papers will be submitted through
Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit (CMT). Further details
are available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011 .

Accepted papers will be published in a collected volume by Springer
in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, www.springer.com/lncs .
Registered authors will receive a hard copy proceedings volume, and
the proceedings will also be available online in full-text
electronic format via the SpringerLink digital library.


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