International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2007

International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2007

9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal

1st Call for Papers

The 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, will be held from September 9 through September 13 at the Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal. ICANN is an annual conference organized by the European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks.

ICANN 2007 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications in the following broad areas:

• Computational neuroscience;
• Connectionist cognitive science;
• Data analysis and pattern recognition;
• Graphical network models, Bayesian networks;
• Hardware implementations and embedded systems;
• Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web;
• Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms;
• Neural control, planning and robotics applications;
• Neural dynamics and complex systems;
• Neuroinformatics;
• Real world applications;
• Self-organization;
• Sequential and structured information processing;
• Signal and time series processing, blind source separation;
• Vision and image processing.

Committee

General-Chair: Joaquim Marques de S?, University of Porto, Portugal

Co-Chair: Lu?s Alexandre, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Program Chairs

• Wlodzislaw Duch, Torun, PL & Singapore, ENNS President
• Danilo Mandic, Imperial College London, UK

Honorary Chair: John G. Taylor, Kings College, London, UK

Program Committee

• Alessandro Sperduti, Univ. Padova, IT
• Alessandro Villa, Univ. Grenoble, FR
• Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
• Andreas Nuernberger, Univ. Magdeburg, DE
• Andreas Stafylopatis, NTUA, GR
• Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN Brain Sci. Inst., JP
• Bruno Apolloni, Univ. Milano, IT
• David Miller, Univ. Pennsylvania, USA
• Dragan Obradovic, Siemens Corp. Res., DE
• Erkki Oja, Helsinki University, FI
• Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK
• Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State Univ., USA
• Jacek Mandziuk, Warsaw University, PL
• Jo?o Lu?s Rosa, Catholic Univ. Campinas, BR
• Jose Dorronsoro, Univ. Aut. de Madrid, ES
• Jos? Pr?ncipe, Univ. Florida, USA
• Juergen Schmidhuber, Scuola Univ. Prof., CH
• Lefteris Tsoukalas, Purdue Univ., USA
• Marios Polycarpou, Univ.Cyprus, CY
• Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Inst., USA
• Michel Verleysen, Univ. Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
• Nikola Kasabov, Auckland Univ., NZ
• Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, TR
• Olli Simula, Helsinki University, FI
• Peter Andras, Univ. Newcastle, UK
• P?ter ?rdi, HU & Kalamazoo College, USA
• Stan Gielen, University of Nijmegen, NL
• Stefan Wermter, Univ.Sunderland, UK
• Stefanos Kolias, NTUA, GR
• Steve Gunn, Univ. Southampton, UK
• Thomas Martinetz, Univ. Luebeck, DE

Deadlines

• 16 Feb End of submission of special session and workshop proposals.
• 23 Mar End of submission of full papers.

Conference Proceedings: Published by Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

Neural Networks Special Issue: An extended version of selected ICANN 2007 papers will be published in a Special Issue of Elsevier's journal Neural Networks.

Sponsors: ENNS, INNS, JNNS, EURASIP, INEB, ISEP, UBI

Student support available (please see web page).

Web page: http://www.icann2007.org

ICANN 2007 Secretariat

Gabriela Afonso, INEB, Campus FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto, Portugal

gafonso(at)fe.up.pt