Connectionists: ICONIP2011 Submission Deadline extended

[James Kwok]

Apologies for multiple postings.

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Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline of ICONIP2011 has been 
extended to June 22, 2011.

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18th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2011)

November 14-17, 2011
Majesty Plaza Hotel (http://majestyplazashanghai.com/), Shanghai, China

Website: http://iconip2011.sjtu.edu.cn/index.html

The 2011 International Conference on Neural Information Processing 
(ICONIP 2011) will be held in Shanghai, China. It is an annual event, 
organized since 1994 by the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly 
(APNNA). ICONIP 2011 aims to provide a high-level international forum 
for scientists, engineers, educators, and students to address new 
challenges, share solutions, and discuss future research directions in 
neural information processing and real-world applications. Several  
post-conference workshops, including the 4th International Cybersecurity 
and Data Mining workshop (CDM2011) and the 2nd Shanghai Workshop on 
Brain-Computer Interface and Its Applications, will be held on November 
18, 2011 at the Xizi Hotel (http://xizihotel.com) in Hangzhou, China.

Shanghai is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. It sits 
on the Yangtze River Delta on China's eastern coast, and is roughly 
equidistant from Beijing and Hong Kong. The city is an emerging tourist 
destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as the Bund and 
Xintiandi, its modern and ever-expanding Pudong skyline including the 
Oriental Pearl Tower, and its new reputation as a cosmopolitan center of 
culture and design. Today, Shanghai is the largest center of commerce 
and finance in mainland China, and has been described as the "showpiece" 
of the world's fastest-growing economy.

Hangzhou is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern 
china and is located on the Hangzhou Bay 180 kilometers (110 mi) 
southwest of Shanghai. It has also been one of the most renowned and 
prosperous cities of China for much of the last 1,000 years, due in part 
to its beautiful natural scenery; the city's West Lake is its most 
well-known attraction. Hangzhou is serviced by the Hangzhou Xiaoshan 
International Airport. The Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway service 
was opened on October 26, 2010, shortening the duration of the 202 km 
trip between the two cities to 45 minutes.

Accepted papers will be published by Springer in its series of Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science. Extended versions of selected good papers 
will be included, subject to another peer review acceptance/rejection 
process, in special Issues of "Neurocomputing" and "Neural Computing and 
Applications".

Topics for the conference include, but not limited to:

- Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
- Models, Methods and Inference
- Vision and Auditory Modeling
- Control, Robotics and Hardware
- Novel approaches and Applications

Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (10 pages maximum) by 
the submission deadline through the online submission system. The 
submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not 
been submitted under review or copyright-protected elsewhere and will be 
presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be 
refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, 
significance, quality, and clarity.

Important Date:
Full Paper Submission Deadline -  June 22, 2011
Notification of Acceptance  - August 1, 2011

ICONIP Secretariat: iconip2011 at sjtu.edu.cn