From info at icann2008.org Mon Mar 3 18:05:35 2008 From: info at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:48:08 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Deadline Extended to March 10 Message-ID: <200803031705.m23H5ZZc077326@icann2008.org> ******************************************************************** ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleague Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for ICANN 2008 to March 10, 2008 for regular papers and to March 20, 2008 for papers intended for special sessions and workshops. Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at http://www.icann2008.org/submit The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ******************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing, algorithms and applications. Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to special sessions: * Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease * Constructive Neural Networks or workshops: * New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks * Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org Sincerely, Vera Kurkova Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008 From charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu Thu Mar 6 11:13:26 2008 From: charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu (Charlie Kemp) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:48:08 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICDL 2008: Call for Papers (revised) Message-ID: <47CFC3C6.5020909@bme.gatech.edu> 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: March 31 Full 6-page paper submissions due May 12 Notification for full papers (accept/reject) May 21 1-page poster abstracts due May 28 Notification for poster abstracts (accept/reject) June 2 Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 02:27:11 2008 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:48:08 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Final Call for Papers: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008), Sao Luis, Brazil, 24-27 June 2008 Message-ID: <3320.92.13.143.192.1205198831.squirrel@www.cs.stir.ac.uk> Please forward the final CFP (below) for the Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008) Conference to interested colleagues . Key Points: A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of ALL accepted BICS 2008 papers ? Submit your extended abstracts at: http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm Final Submission Deadline (for Extended Abstracts/Draft Papers): 20 March 2008; Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-Ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan), Jose Carlos Principe (University of Florida, USA); and, there will be several plenary discussions led by world-leading researchers - for more details, see the CFP below (or the Conference website: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008) Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Sao Luis, Brazil! Amir Hussain, Co-Chair BICS 2008 Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, E-mail: a.hussain@cs.stir.ac.uk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BICS 2008 -Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil June 24-27, 2008 http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ? Deadline: MARCH 20th 2008! ******************* This is the last chance to contribute to this biennial conference which brings to Brazil and the South American Continent the most up-to-date discussions on how knowledge of the brain both aids intelligent system design and is informed by it. It identifies the forefront of research in the area and points to the most exciting lines for future research. BICS 2008 presents a unique and timely opportunity for Brazilian and South American researchers to present their work to an international audience and for international researchers to showcase their work in Brazil. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-ichi Amari (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan) Jose Carlos Pri?ncipe (University of Florida Gainsville, USA) The conference will involve all attendees in plenary presentations and discussions of a quality for which biennial BICS conferences have become well known - previously in Scotland (BICS 2004), Greece (BICS 2006) and now Brazil (BICS 2008). The plenary discussions headed by symposium chairs are (provisionally): Ron Chrisley: 7 years of Machine Consciousness - what are the new insights? Igor Aleksander: 'How Computational Neuroscience dovetails with Computational Intelligence. Leslie Smith: Essential Neuromorphic Substrates for Intelligent Systems of the Future Amir Hussain: New Potential from Advances in Neural Systems Engineering. Overall Plenary (all will be encouraged to contribute): The real future for Brain Inspiration A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 General Chair: Allan Kardec Barros Depto. Eng. Eletrica, Universidad de Federal do Maranhao, Brazil. Confirmed speakers: Symposia Second International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2008) >From foundations to implementations Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2008) Design and implementation of biologically inspired and neuromorphic systems Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K. Third International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2008) Models of cognitive systems; Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC 2008) Progress in neural systems Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K. Why this conference, and who should attend: The biennial Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, formal or computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems, particularly the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance technology towards ever higher levels of cognitive competence. The four major symposia are organized in patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes that, following the success of BICS 2004 (Stirling, Scotland) and BICS 2006 (Greece), BICS 2008 will continue be a major point of contact for researchers and practitioners who can benefit from not only the major advances in their specialist fields but also from the diversity of each other's views. Each of the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be selected for their clear novelty and proven scientific impact, while the afternoons will provide scope for researchers to present their current work and discuss their aims and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite researchers with differing perspectives. Final Deadline for submissions: March 20th 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may submit your extended abstract at http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to): Models of consciousness: (MoC) Global Workspace Theory Imagination/synthetic phenomenology Virtual Machine Approaches Axiomatic Models Control Theory/Methodology Developmental/Infant Models Will/volition/emotion/affect Philosophical implications Grounding in neurophysiology Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) Attentional Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities CN of volition Affective Systems Language Cortical Models Sub-Cortical Models Cerebellar Models Event location in the brain Others Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS) Brain Inspired (BI) Vision BI Audition and sound processing BI Other sensory modalities BI Motion processing BI Robotics BI Evolutionary systems BI Oscillatory systems BI Signal processing BI Learning Neuromorphic systems Others Neural Computation (NC) Hybrid Systems NC Learning NC Control Systems NC Signal Processing Architectures Devices Pattern Classifiers Support Vector Machines Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Neural Networks Biological Neural Network Models Applications Others Important Dates: Conference Dates: 24-27 June 2008 Submission Deadline: 20 March 2008 Acceptance Notification: 20th April 2008 Publications: Expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers will be published in a follow-on Springer Book. For more details, contact the BICS 2008 Publications Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain (E-mail: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk). ORGANIZED BY: Planning Division ICSC Interdisciplinary Research NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization www.icsc.ab.ca Canada BICS 2008 Co-Sponsors: IEEE UK & RI Computational Intelligence Society Chapter IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Society Chapter Springer -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. 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The Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engin= eering" = is part of ISNN 2008. = This session will highlight various applications of artificial neural netwo= rks in = different fields of electrical and electronic engineering, and will bring t= ogether = leading researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to assess = the = current state and identify new directions. 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(*deadlines extended*) Message-ID: <47EE79D9.6010302@bme.gatech.edu> Due to numerous requests, the organizing committee for ICDL 2008 has decided to extend the submission deadline until April 14, 2008. All related deadlines have been moved back by two weeks. ============================================================== 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates (*extended*): April 14, 2008: Submission deadline for Full (6 page) papers May 26, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for full papers June 4, 2008: Submission deadline for 1-page poster abstracts June 11, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts June 16, 2008: Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From noreply at icann2008.org Sat Mar 29 21:52:45 2008 From: noreply at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:48:08 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Workshop Invitation Message-ID: <200803292052.m2TKqjxp084362@icann2008.org> Dear colleagues: It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in a New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop taking place on the last day of the ICANN 2008 conference. The keynote invited talk of the workshop is Abstracting Biological Development to Evolve Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks presented by Kenneth O. Stanley. In his talk Kenneth will focus on recent work in indirect encoding of neural networks through an abstraction of biological development called Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT). The primary conceptual focus will be on the critical role of abstraction in biologically-inspired systems. More can be found at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ Note that the program of the workshop will continue with plenary lectures and poster session. You can submit your workshop contribution through the conference system (http://icann2008.org/submit). Contributions will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer. If you have already submitted your paper to ICANN 2008 and you want to present your contribution at the workshop, indicate it in the the "Comments to the Chair" field in the submission system or by email to info@icann2008.org. Please note that the deadline for the submissions is April 7 2008. Sincerely, Organizers of the New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop, http://icann2008.org/workshop.php From info at icann2008.org Mon Mar 3 18:05:35 2008 From: info at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:55:38 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Deadline Extended to March 10 Message-ID: <200803031705.m23H5ZZc077326@icann2008.org> ******************************************************************** ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleague Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for ICANN 2008 to March 10, 2008 for regular papers and to March 20, 2008 for papers intended for special sessions and workshops. Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at http://www.icann2008.org/submit The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ******************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing, algorithms and applications. Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to special sessions: * Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease * Constructive Neural Networks or workshops: * New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks * Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org Sincerely, Vera Kurkova Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008 From charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu Thu Mar 6 11:13:26 2008 From: charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu (Charlie Kemp) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:55:38 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICDL 2008: Call for Papers (revised) Message-ID: <47CFC3C6.5020909@bme.gatech.edu> 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: March 31 Full 6-page paper submissions due May 12 Notification for full papers (accept/reject) May 21 1-page poster abstracts due May 28 Notification for poster abstracts (accept/reject) June 2 Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 02:27:11 2008 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:55:38 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Final Call for Papers: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008), Sao Luis, Brazil, 24-27 June 2008 Message-ID: <3320.92.13.143.192.1205198831.squirrel@www.cs.stir.ac.uk> Please forward the final CFP (below) for the Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008) Conference to interested colleagues . Key Points: A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of ALL accepted BICS 2008 papers ? Submit your extended abstracts at: http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm Final Submission Deadline (for Extended Abstracts/Draft Papers): 20 March 2008; Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-Ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan), Jose Carlos Principe (University of Florida, USA); and, there will be several plenary discussions led by world-leading researchers - for more details, see the CFP below (or the Conference website: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008) Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Sao Luis, Brazil! Amir Hussain, Co-Chair BICS 2008 Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, E-mail: a.hussain@cs.stir.ac.uk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BICS 2008 -Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil June 24-27, 2008 http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ? Deadline: MARCH 20th 2008! ******************* This is the last chance to contribute to this biennial conference which brings to Brazil and the South American Continent the most up-to-date discussions on how knowledge of the brain both aids intelligent system design and is informed by it. It identifies the forefront of research in the area and points to the most exciting lines for future research. BICS 2008 presents a unique and timely opportunity for Brazilian and South American researchers to present their work to an international audience and for international researchers to showcase their work in Brazil. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-ichi Amari (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan) Jose Carlos Pri?ncipe (University of Florida Gainsville, USA) The conference will involve all attendees in plenary presentations and discussions of a quality for which biennial BICS conferences have become well known - previously in Scotland (BICS 2004), Greece (BICS 2006) and now Brazil (BICS 2008). The plenary discussions headed by symposium chairs are (provisionally): Ron Chrisley: 7 years of Machine Consciousness - what are the new insights? Igor Aleksander: 'How Computational Neuroscience dovetails with Computational Intelligence. Leslie Smith: Essential Neuromorphic Substrates for Intelligent Systems of the Future Amir Hussain: New Potential from Advances in Neural Systems Engineering. Overall Plenary (all will be encouraged to contribute): The real future for Brain Inspiration A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 General Chair: Allan Kardec Barros Depto. Eng. Eletrica, Universidad de Federal do Maranhao, Brazil. Confirmed speakers: Symposia Second International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2008) >From foundations to implementations Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2008) Design and implementation of biologically inspired and neuromorphic systems Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K. Third International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2008) Models of cognitive systems; Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC 2008) Progress in neural systems Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K. Why this conference, and who should attend: The biennial Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, formal or computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems, particularly the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance technology towards ever higher levels of cognitive competence. The four major symposia are organized in patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes that, following the success of BICS 2004 (Stirling, Scotland) and BICS 2006 (Greece), BICS 2008 will continue be a major point of contact for researchers and practitioners who can benefit from not only the major advances in their specialist fields but also from the diversity of each other's views. Each of the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be selected for their clear novelty and proven scientific impact, while the afternoons will provide scope for researchers to present their current work and discuss their aims and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite researchers with differing perspectives. Final Deadline for submissions: March 20th 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may submit your extended abstract at http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to): Models of consciousness: (MoC) Global Workspace Theory Imagination/synthetic phenomenology Virtual Machine Approaches Axiomatic Models Control Theory/Methodology Developmental/Infant Models Will/volition/emotion/affect Philosophical implications Grounding in neurophysiology Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) Attentional Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities CN of volition Affective Systems Language Cortical Models Sub-Cortical Models Cerebellar Models Event location in the brain Others Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS) Brain Inspired (BI) Vision BI Audition and sound processing BI Other sensory modalities BI Motion processing BI Robotics BI Evolutionary systems BI Oscillatory systems BI Signal processing BI Learning Neuromorphic systems Others Neural Computation (NC) Hybrid Systems NC Learning NC Control Systems NC Signal Processing Architectures Devices Pattern Classifiers Support Vector Machines Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Neural Networks Biological Neural Network Models Applications Others Important Dates: Conference Dates: 24-27 June 2008 Submission Deadline: 20 March 2008 Acceptance Notification: 20th April 2008 Publications: Expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers will be published in a follow-on Springer Book. For more details, contact the BICS 2008 Publications Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain (E-mail: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk). ORGANIZED BY: Planning Division ICSC Interdisciplinary Research NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization www.icsc.ab.ca Canada BICS 2008 Co-Sponsors: IEEE UK & RI Computational Intelligence Society Chapter IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Society Chapter Springer -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. From tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be Mon Mar 17 16:58:20 2008 From: tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be (Dhaene Tom) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:55:38 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP - Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engineering" at ISSN 2008 Message-ID: <3F34B872B464254BBEF0FA434A75AA0D88EB68@xmail05.ad.ua.ac.be> ******************************************************************** = SPECIAL SESSION ON APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING ******************************************************************** ISNN 2008 SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 15 2008 ******************************************************************** The 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, will be held= on = September 24-28, 2008, in Beijing, China. The Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engin= eering" = is part of ISNN 2008. = This session will highlight various applications of artificial neural netwo= rks in = different fields of electrical and electronic engineering, and will bring t= ogether = leading researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to assess = the = current state and identify new directions. We welcome all papers describing= new = and original results in this field, and papers providing state-of-the-art o= verview = of a sub-area in the field. = Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Neural and Fuzzy Systems in circuit simulation * Computational modeling techniques in Electromagnetics * Design and optimization * Surrogate modeling techniques of passive and active devices * New applications of numerical techniques in Electrical Engineering For more information please visit : = - http://www.sumo.intec.ugent.be/?q=3Disnn2008_EEsession - http://www2.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 Sincerely, Tom Dhaene and Qi-Jun Zhang Organizers of the Special Session = = ******************************************************************** Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at - http://www2.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 > Paper submission Submission deadline : April 15 2008 ******************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Papers (*deadlines extended*) Message-ID: <47EE79D9.6010302@bme.gatech.edu> Due to numerous requests, the organizing committee for ICDL 2008 has decided to extend the submission deadline until April 14, 2008. All related deadlines have been moved back by two weeks. ============================================================== 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates (*extended*): April 14, 2008: Submission deadline for Full (6 page) papers May 26, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for full papers June 4, 2008: Submission deadline for 1-page poster abstracts June 11, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts June 16, 2008: Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From noreply at icann2008.org Sat Mar 29 21:52:45 2008 From: noreply at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 16:55:38 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Workshop Invitation Message-ID: <200803292052.m2TKqjxp084362@icann2008.org> Dear colleagues: It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in a New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop taking place on the last day of the ICANN 2008 conference. The keynote invited talk of the workshop is Abstracting Biological Development to Evolve Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks presented by Kenneth O. Stanley. In his talk Kenneth will focus on recent work in indirect encoding of neural networks through an abstraction of biological development called Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT). The primary conceptual focus will be on the critical role of abstraction in biologically-inspired systems. More can be found at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ Note that the program of the workshop will continue with plenary lectures and poster session. You can submit your workshop contribution through the conference system (http://icann2008.org/submit). Contributions will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer. If you have already submitted your paper to ICANN 2008 and you want to present your contribution at the workshop, indicate it in the the "Comments to the Chair" field in the submission system or by email to info@icann2008.org. Please note that the deadline for the submissions is April 7 2008. Sincerely, Organizers of the New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop, http://icann2008.org/workshop.php From info at icann2008.org Mon Mar 3 18:05:35 2008 From: info at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:18:26 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Deadline Extended to March 10 Message-ID: <200803031705.m23H5ZZc077326@icann2008.org> ******************************************************************** ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleague Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for ICANN 2008 to March 10, 2008 for regular papers and to March 20, 2008 for papers intended for special sessions and workshops. Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at http://www.icann2008.org/submit The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ******************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing, algorithms and applications. Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to special sessions: * Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease * Constructive Neural Networks or workshops: * New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks * Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org Sincerely, Vera Kurkova Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008 From charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu Thu Mar 6 11:13:26 2008 From: charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu (Charlie Kemp) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:18:26 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICDL 2008: Call for Papers (revised) Message-ID: <47CFC3C6.5020909@bme.gatech.edu> 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: March 31 Full 6-page paper submissions due May 12 Notification for full papers (accept/reject) May 21 1-page poster abstracts due May 28 Notification for poster abstracts (accept/reject) June 2 Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 02:27:11 2008 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:18:27 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Final Call for Papers: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008), Sao Luis, Brazil, 24-27 June 2008 Message-ID: <3320.92.13.143.192.1205198831.squirrel@www.cs.stir.ac.uk> Please forward the final CFP (below) for the Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008) Conference to interested colleagues . Key Points: A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of ALL accepted BICS 2008 papers ? Submit your extended abstracts at: http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm Final Submission Deadline (for Extended Abstracts/Draft Papers): 20 March 2008; Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-Ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan), Jose Carlos Principe (University of Florida, USA); and, there will be several plenary discussions led by world-leading researchers - for more details, see the CFP below (or the Conference website: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008) Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Sao Luis, Brazil! Amir Hussain, Co-Chair BICS 2008 Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, E-mail: a.hussain@cs.stir.ac.uk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BICS 2008 -Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil June 24-27, 2008 http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ? Deadline: MARCH 20th 2008! ******************* This is the last chance to contribute to this biennial conference which brings to Brazil and the South American Continent the most up-to-date discussions on how knowledge of the brain both aids intelligent system design and is informed by it. It identifies the forefront of research in the area and points to the most exciting lines for future research. BICS 2008 presents a unique and timely opportunity for Brazilian and South American researchers to present their work to an international audience and for international researchers to showcase their work in Brazil. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-ichi Amari (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan) Jose Carlos Pri?ncipe (University of Florida Gainsville, USA) The conference will involve all attendees in plenary presentations and discussions of a quality for which biennial BICS conferences have become well known - previously in Scotland (BICS 2004), Greece (BICS 2006) and now Brazil (BICS 2008). The plenary discussions headed by symposium chairs are (provisionally): Ron Chrisley: 7 years of Machine Consciousness - what are the new insights? Igor Aleksander: 'How Computational Neuroscience dovetails with Computational Intelligence. Leslie Smith: Essential Neuromorphic Substrates for Intelligent Systems of the Future Amir Hussain: New Potential from Advances in Neural Systems Engineering. Overall Plenary (all will be encouraged to contribute): The real future for Brain Inspiration A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 General Chair: Allan Kardec Barros Depto. Eng. Eletrica, Universidad de Federal do Maranhao, Brazil. Confirmed speakers: Symposia Second International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2008) >From foundations to implementations Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2008) Design and implementation of biologically inspired and neuromorphic systems Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K. Third International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2008) Models of cognitive systems; Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC 2008) Progress in neural systems Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K. Why this conference, and who should attend: The biennial Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, formal or computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems, particularly the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance technology towards ever higher levels of cognitive competence. The four major symposia are organized in patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes that, following the success of BICS 2004 (Stirling, Scotland) and BICS 2006 (Greece), BICS 2008 will continue be a major point of contact for researchers and practitioners who can benefit from not only the major advances in their specialist fields but also from the diversity of each other's views. Each of the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be selected for their clear novelty and proven scientific impact, while the afternoons will provide scope for researchers to present their current work and discuss their aims and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite researchers with differing perspectives. Final Deadline for submissions: March 20th 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may submit your extended abstract at http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to): Models of consciousness: (MoC) Global Workspace Theory Imagination/synthetic phenomenology Virtual Machine Approaches Axiomatic Models Control Theory/Methodology Developmental/Infant Models Will/volition/emotion/affect Philosophical implications Grounding in neurophysiology Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) Attentional Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities CN of volition Affective Systems Language Cortical Models Sub-Cortical Models Cerebellar Models Event location in the brain Others Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS) Brain Inspired (BI) Vision BI Audition and sound processing BI Other sensory modalities BI Motion processing BI Robotics BI Evolutionary systems BI Oscillatory systems BI Signal processing BI Learning Neuromorphic systems Others Neural Computation (NC) Hybrid Systems NC Learning NC Control Systems NC Signal Processing Architectures Devices Pattern Classifiers Support Vector Machines Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Neural Networks Biological Neural Network Models Applications Others Important Dates: Conference Dates: 24-27 June 2008 Submission Deadline: 20 March 2008 Acceptance Notification: 20th April 2008 Publications: Expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers will be published in a follow-on Springer Book. For more details, contact the BICS 2008 Publications Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain (E-mail: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk). ORGANIZED BY: Planning Division ICSC Interdisciplinary Research NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization www.icsc.ab.ca Canada BICS 2008 Co-Sponsors: IEEE UK & RI Computational Intelligence Society Chapter IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Society Chapter Springer -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. From tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be Mon Mar 17 16:58:20 2008 From: tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be (Dhaene Tom) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:18:27 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP - Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engineering" at ISSN 2008 Message-ID: <3F34B872B464254BBEF0FA434A75AA0D88EB68@xmail05.ad.ua.ac.be> ******************************************************************** = SPECIAL SESSION ON APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING ******************************************************************** ISNN 2008 SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 15 2008 ******************************************************************** The 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, will be held= on = September 24-28, 2008, in Beijing, China. The Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engin= eering" = is part of ISNN 2008. = This session will highlight various applications of artificial neural netwo= rks in = different fields of electrical and electronic engineering, and will bring t= ogether = leading researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to assess = the = current state and identify new directions. 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organizing committee for ICDL 2008 has decided to extend the submission deadline until April 14, 2008. All related deadlines have been moved back by two weeks. ============================================================== 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates (*extended*): April 14, 2008: Submission deadline for Full (6 page) papers May 26, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for full papers June 4, 2008: Submission deadline for 1-page poster abstracts June 11, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts June 16, 2008: Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From noreply at icann2008.org Sat Mar 29 21:52:45 2008 From: noreply at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:18:27 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Workshop Invitation Message-ID: <200803292052.m2TKqjxp084362@icann2008.org> Dear colleagues: It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in a New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop taking place on the last day of the ICANN 2008 conference. The keynote invited talk of the workshop is Abstracting Biological Development to Evolve Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks presented by Kenneth O. Stanley. In his talk Kenneth will focus on recent work in indirect encoding of neural networks through an abstraction of biological development called Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT). The primary conceptual focus will be on the critical role of abstraction in biologically-inspired systems. More can be found at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ Note that the program of the workshop will continue with plenary lectures and poster session. You can submit your workshop contribution through the conference system (http://icann2008.org/submit). Contributions will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer. If you have already submitted your paper to ICANN 2008 and you want to present your contribution at the workshop, indicate it in the the "Comments to the Chair" field in the submission system or by email to info@icann2008.org. Please note that the deadline for the submissions is April 7 2008. Sincerely, Organizers of the New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop, http://icann2008.org/workshop.php From info at icann2008.org Mon Mar 3 18:05:35 2008 From: info at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:20:13 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Deadline Extended to March 10 Message-ID: <200803031705.m23H5ZZc077326@icann2008.org> ******************************************************************** ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleague Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for ICANN 2008 to March 10, 2008 for regular papers and to March 20, 2008 for papers intended for special sessions and workshops. Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at http://www.icann2008.org/submit The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ******************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing, algorithms and applications. Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to special sessions: * Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease * Constructive Neural Networks or workshops: * New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks * Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org Sincerely, Vera Kurkova Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008 From charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu Thu Mar 6 11:13:26 2008 From: charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu (Charlie Kemp) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:20:13 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICDL 2008: Call for Papers (revised) Message-ID: <47CFC3C6.5020909@bme.gatech.edu> 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: March 31 Full 6-page paper submissions due May 12 Notification for full papers (accept/reject) May 21 1-page poster abstracts due May 28 Notification for poster abstracts (accept/reject) June 2 Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 02:27:11 2008 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:20:13 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Final Call for Papers: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008), Sao Luis, Brazil, 24-27 June 2008 Message-ID: <3320.92.13.143.192.1205198831.squirrel@www.cs.stir.ac.uk> Please forward the final CFP (below) for the Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008) Conference to interested colleagues . Key Points: A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of ALL accepted BICS 2008 papers ? Submit your extended abstracts at: http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm Final Submission Deadline (for Extended Abstracts/Draft Papers): 20 March 2008; Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-Ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan), Jose Carlos Principe (University of Florida, USA); and, there will be several plenary discussions led by world-leading researchers - for more details, see the CFP below (or the Conference website: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008) Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Sao Luis, Brazil! Amir Hussain, Co-Chair BICS 2008 Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, E-mail: a.hussain@cs.stir.ac.uk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BICS 2008 -Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil June 24-27, 2008 http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ? Deadline: MARCH 20th 2008! ******************* This is the last chance to contribute to this biennial conference which brings to Brazil and the South American Continent the most up-to-date discussions on how knowledge of the brain both aids intelligent system design and is informed by it. It identifies the forefront of research in the area and points to the most exciting lines for future research. BICS 2008 presents a unique and timely opportunity for Brazilian and South American researchers to present their work to an international audience and for international researchers to showcase their work in Brazil. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-ichi Amari (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan) Jose Carlos Pri?ncipe (University of Florida Gainsville, USA) The conference will involve all attendees in plenary presentations and discussions of a quality for which biennial BICS conferences have become well known - previously in Scotland (BICS 2004), Greece (BICS 2006) and now Brazil (BICS 2008). The plenary discussions headed by symposium chairs are (provisionally): Ron Chrisley: 7 years of Machine Consciousness - what are the new insights? Igor Aleksander: 'How Computational Neuroscience dovetails with Computational Intelligence. Leslie Smith: Essential Neuromorphic Substrates for Intelligent Systems of the Future Amir Hussain: New Potential from Advances in Neural Systems Engineering. Overall Plenary (all will be encouraged to contribute): The real future for Brain Inspiration A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 General Chair: Allan Kardec Barros Depto. Eng. Eletrica, Universidad de Federal do Maranhao, Brazil. Confirmed speakers: Symposia Second International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2008) >From foundations to implementations Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2008) Design and implementation of biologically inspired and neuromorphic systems Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K. Third International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2008) Models of cognitive systems; Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC 2008) Progress in neural systems Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K. Why this conference, and who should attend: The biennial Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, formal or computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems, particularly the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance technology towards ever higher levels of cognitive competence. The four major symposia are organized in patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes that, following the success of BICS 2004 (Stirling, Scotland) and BICS 2006 (Greece), BICS 2008 will continue be a major point of contact for researchers and practitioners who can benefit from not only the major advances in their specialist fields but also from the diversity of each other's views. Each of the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be selected for their clear novelty and proven scientific impact, while the afternoons will provide scope for researchers to present their current work and discuss their aims and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite researchers with differing perspectives. Final Deadline for submissions: March 20th 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may submit your extended abstract at http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to): Models of consciousness: (MoC) Global Workspace Theory Imagination/synthetic phenomenology Virtual Machine Approaches Axiomatic Models Control Theory/Methodology Developmental/Infant Models Will/volition/emotion/affect Philosophical implications Grounding in neurophysiology Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) Attentional Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities CN of volition Affective Systems Language Cortical Models Sub-Cortical Models Cerebellar Models Event location in the brain Others Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS) Brain Inspired (BI) Vision BI Audition and sound processing BI Other sensory modalities BI Motion processing BI Robotics BI Evolutionary systems BI Oscillatory systems BI Signal processing BI Learning Neuromorphic systems Others Neural Computation (NC) Hybrid Systems NC Learning NC Control Systems NC Signal Processing Architectures Devices Pattern Classifiers Support Vector Machines Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Neural Networks Biological Neural Network Models Applications Others Important Dates: Conference Dates: 24-27 June 2008 Submission Deadline: 20 March 2008 Acceptance Notification: 20th April 2008 Publications: Expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers will be published in a follow-on Springer Book. For more details, contact the BICS 2008 Publications Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain (E-mail: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk). ORGANIZED BY: Planning Division ICSC Interdisciplinary Research NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization www.icsc.ab.ca Canada BICS 2008 Co-Sponsors: IEEE UK & RI Computational Intelligence Society Chapter IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Society Chapter Springer -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. 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The Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engin= eering" = is part of ISNN 2008. = This session will highlight various applications of artificial neural netwo= rks in = different fields of electrical and electronic engineering, and will bring t= ogether = leading researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to assess = the = current state and identify new directions. We welcome all papers describing= new = and original results in this field, and papers providing state-of-the-art o= verview = of a sub-area in the field. = Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Neural and Fuzzy Systems in circuit simulation * Computational modeling techniques in Electromagnetics * Design and optimization * Surrogate modeling techniques of passive and active devices * New applications of numerical techniques in Electrical Engineering For more information please visit : = - http://www.sumo.intec.ugent.be/?q=3Disnn2008_EEsession - http://www2.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 Sincerely, Tom Dhaene and Qi-Jun Zhang Organizers of the Special Session = = ******************************************************************** Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at - http://www2.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 > Paper submission Submission deadline : April 15 2008 ******************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Papers (*deadlines extended*) Message-ID: <47EE79D9.6010302@bme.gatech.edu> Due to numerous requests, the organizing committee for ICDL 2008 has decided to extend the submission deadline until April 14, 2008. All related deadlines have been moved back by two weeks. ============================================================== 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates (*extended*): April 14, 2008: Submission deadline for Full (6 page) papers May 26, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for full papers June 4, 2008: Submission deadline for 1-page poster abstracts June 11, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts June 16, 2008: Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From noreply at icann2008.org Sat Mar 29 21:52:45 2008 From: noreply at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:20:13 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Workshop Invitation Message-ID: <200803292052.m2TKqjxp084362@icann2008.org> Dear colleagues: It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in a New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop taking place on the last day of the ICANN 2008 conference. The keynote invited talk of the workshop is Abstracting Biological Development to Evolve Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks presented by Kenneth O. Stanley. In his talk Kenneth will focus on recent work in indirect encoding of neural networks through an abstraction of biological development called Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT). The primary conceptual focus will be on the critical role of abstraction in biologically-inspired systems. More can be found at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ Note that the program of the workshop will continue with plenary lectures and poster session. You can submit your workshop contribution through the conference system (http://icann2008.org/submit). Contributions will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer. If you have already submitted your paper to ICANN 2008 and you want to present your contribution at the workshop, indicate it in the the "Comments to the Chair" field in the submission system or by email to info@icann2008.org. Please note that the deadline for the submissions is April 7 2008. Sincerely, Organizers of the New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop, http://icann2008.org/workshop.php From info at icann2008.org Mon Mar 3 18:05:35 2008 From: info at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:29:53 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Deadline Extended to March 10 Message-ID: <200803031705.m23H5ZZc077326@icann2008.org> ******************************************************************** ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleague Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for ICANN 2008 to March 10, 2008 for regular papers and to March 20, 2008 for papers intended for special sessions and workshops. Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at http://www.icann2008.org/submit The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ******************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing, algorithms and applications. Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to special sessions: * Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease * Constructive Neural Networks or workshops: * New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks * Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org Sincerely, Vera Kurkova Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008 From charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu Thu Mar 6 11:13:26 2008 From: charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu (Charlie Kemp) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:29:53 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICDL 2008: Call for Papers (revised) Message-ID: <47CFC3C6.5020909@bme.gatech.edu> 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: March 31 Full 6-page paper submissions due May 12 Notification for full papers (accept/reject) May 21 1-page poster abstracts due May 28 Notification for poster abstracts (accept/reject) June 2 Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 02:27:11 2008 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:29:53 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Final Call for Papers: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008), Sao Luis, Brazil, 24-27 June 2008 Message-ID: <3320.92.13.143.192.1205198831.squirrel@www.cs.stir.ac.uk> Please forward the final CFP (below) for the Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008) Conference to interested colleagues . Key Points: A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of ALL accepted BICS 2008 papers ? Submit your extended abstracts at: http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm Final Submission Deadline (for Extended Abstracts/Draft Papers): 20 March 2008; Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-Ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan), Jose Carlos Principe (University of Florida, USA); and, there will be several plenary discussions led by world-leading researchers - for more details, see the CFP below (or the Conference website: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008) Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Sao Luis, Brazil! Amir Hussain, Co-Chair BICS 2008 Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, E-mail: a.hussain@cs.stir.ac.uk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BICS 2008 -Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil June 24-27, 2008 http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ? Deadline: MARCH 20th 2008! ******************* This is the last chance to contribute to this biennial conference which brings to Brazil and the South American Continent the most up-to-date discussions on how knowledge of the brain both aids intelligent system design and is informed by it. It identifies the forefront of research in the area and points to the most exciting lines for future research. BICS 2008 presents a unique and timely opportunity for Brazilian and South American researchers to present their work to an international audience and for international researchers to showcase their work in Brazil. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-ichi Amari (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan) Jose Carlos Pri?ncipe (University of Florida Gainsville, USA) The conference will involve all attendees in plenary presentations and discussions of a quality for which biennial BICS conferences have become well known - previously in Scotland (BICS 2004), Greece (BICS 2006) and now Brazil (BICS 2008). The plenary discussions headed by symposium chairs are (provisionally): Ron Chrisley: 7 years of Machine Consciousness - what are the new insights? Igor Aleksander: 'How Computational Neuroscience dovetails with Computational Intelligence. Leslie Smith: Essential Neuromorphic Substrates for Intelligent Systems of the Future Amir Hussain: New Potential from Advances in Neural Systems Engineering. Overall Plenary (all will be encouraged to contribute): The real future for Brain Inspiration A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 General Chair: Allan Kardec Barros Depto. Eng. Eletrica, Universidad de Federal do Maranhao, Brazil. Confirmed speakers: Symposia Second International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2008) >From foundations to implementations Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2008) Design and implementation of biologically inspired and neuromorphic systems Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K. Third International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2008) Models of cognitive systems; Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC 2008) Progress in neural systems Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K. Why this conference, and who should attend: The biennial Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, formal or computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems, particularly the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance technology towards ever higher levels of cognitive competence. The four major symposia are organized in patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes that, following the success of BICS 2004 (Stirling, Scotland) and BICS 2006 (Greece), BICS 2008 will continue be a major point of contact for researchers and practitioners who can benefit from not only the major advances in their specialist fields but also from the diversity of each other's views. Each of the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be selected for their clear novelty and proven scientific impact, while the afternoons will provide scope for researchers to present their current work and discuss their aims and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite researchers with differing perspectives. Final Deadline for submissions: March 20th 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may submit your extended abstract at http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to): Models of consciousness: (MoC) Global Workspace Theory Imagination/synthetic phenomenology Virtual Machine Approaches Axiomatic Models Control Theory/Methodology Developmental/Infant Models Will/volition/emotion/affect Philosophical implications Grounding in neurophysiology Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) Attentional Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities CN of volition Affective Systems Language Cortical Models Sub-Cortical Models Cerebellar Models Event location in the brain Others Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS) Brain Inspired (BI) Vision BI Audition and sound processing BI Other sensory modalities BI Motion processing BI Robotics BI Evolutionary systems BI Oscillatory systems BI Signal processing BI Learning Neuromorphic systems Others Neural Computation (NC) Hybrid Systems NC Learning NC Control Systems NC Signal Processing Architectures Devices Pattern Classifiers Support Vector Machines Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Neural Networks Biological Neural Network Models Applications Others Important Dates: Conference Dates: 24-27 June 2008 Submission Deadline: 20 March 2008 Acceptance Notification: 20th April 2008 Publications: Expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers will be published in a follow-on Springer Book. For more details, contact the BICS 2008 Publications Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain (E-mail: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk). ORGANIZED BY: Planning Division ICSC Interdisciplinary Research NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization www.icsc.ab.ca Canada BICS 2008 Co-Sponsors: IEEE UK & RI Computational Intelligence Society Chapter IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Society Chapter Springer -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. 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The Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engin= eering" = is part of ISNN 2008. = This session will highlight various applications of artificial neural netwo= rks in = different fields of electrical and electronic engineering, and will bring t= ogether = leading researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to assess = the = current state and identify new directions. 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Papers (*deadlines extended*) Message-ID: <47EE79D9.6010302@bme.gatech.edu> Due to numerous requests, the organizing committee for ICDL 2008 has decided to extend the submission deadline until April 14, 2008. All related deadlines have been moved back by two weeks. ============================================================== 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates (*extended*): April 14, 2008: Submission deadline for Full (6 page) papers May 26, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for full papers June 4, 2008: Submission deadline for 1-page poster abstracts June 11, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts June 16, 2008: Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From noreply at icann2008.org Sat Mar 29 21:52:45 2008 From: noreply at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:29:53 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Workshop Invitation Message-ID: <200803292052.m2TKqjxp084362@icann2008.org> Dear colleagues: It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in a New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop taking place on the last day of the ICANN 2008 conference. The keynote invited talk of the workshop is Abstracting Biological Development to Evolve Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks presented by Kenneth O. Stanley. In his talk Kenneth will focus on recent work in indirect encoding of neural networks through an abstraction of biological development called Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT). The primary conceptual focus will be on the critical role of abstraction in biologically-inspired systems. More can be found at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ Note that the program of the workshop will continue with plenary lectures and poster session. You can submit your workshop contribution through the conference system (http://icann2008.org/submit). Contributions will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer. If you have already submitted your paper to ICANN 2008 and you want to present your contribution at the workshop, indicate it in the the "Comments to the Chair" field in the submission system or by email to info@icann2008.org. Please note that the deadline for the submissions is April 7 2008. Sincerely, Organizers of the New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop, http://icann2008.org/workshop.php From info at icann2008.org Mon Mar 3 18:05:35 2008 From: info at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:49:52 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Deadline Extended to March 10 Message-ID: <200803031705.m23H5ZZc077326@icann2008.org> ******************************************************************** ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleague Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for ICANN 2008 to March 10, 2008 for regular papers and to March 20, 2008 for papers intended for special sessions and workshops. Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at http://www.icann2008.org/submit The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ******************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing, algorithms and applications. Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to special sessions: * Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease * Constructive Neural Networks or workshops: * New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks * Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org Sincerely, Vera Kurkova Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008 From charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu Thu Mar 6 11:13:26 2008 From: charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu (Charlie Kemp) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:49:52 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICDL 2008: Call for Papers (revised) Message-ID: <47CFC3C6.5020909@bme.gatech.edu> 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: March 31 Full 6-page paper submissions due May 12 Notification for full papers (accept/reject) May 21 1-page poster abstracts due May 28 Notification for poster abstracts (accept/reject) June 2 Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 02:27:11 2008 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:49:52 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Final Call for Papers: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008), Sao Luis, Brazil, 24-27 June 2008 Message-ID: <3320.92.13.143.192.1205198831.squirrel@www.cs.stir.ac.uk> Please forward the final CFP (below) for the Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008) Conference to interested colleagues . Key Points: A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of ALL accepted BICS 2008 papers ? Submit your extended abstracts at: http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm Final Submission Deadline (for Extended Abstracts/Draft Papers): 20 March 2008; Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-Ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan), Jose Carlos Principe (University of Florida, USA); and, there will be several plenary discussions led by world-leading researchers - for more details, see the CFP below (or the Conference website: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008) Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Sao Luis, Brazil! Amir Hussain, Co-Chair BICS 2008 Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, E-mail: a.hussain@cs.stir.ac.uk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BICS 2008 -Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil June 24-27, 2008 http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ? Deadline: MARCH 20th 2008! ******************* This is the last chance to contribute to this biennial conference which brings to Brazil and the South American Continent the most up-to-date discussions on how knowledge of the brain both aids intelligent system design and is informed by it. It identifies the forefront of research in the area and points to the most exciting lines for future research. BICS 2008 presents a unique and timely opportunity for Brazilian and South American researchers to present their work to an international audience and for international researchers to showcase their work in Brazil. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-ichi Amari (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan) Jose Carlos Pri?ncipe (University of Florida Gainsville, USA) The conference will involve all attendees in plenary presentations and discussions of a quality for which biennial BICS conferences have become well known - previously in Scotland (BICS 2004), Greece (BICS 2006) and now Brazil (BICS 2008). The plenary discussions headed by symposium chairs are (provisionally): Ron Chrisley: 7 years of Machine Consciousness - what are the new insights? Igor Aleksander: 'How Computational Neuroscience dovetails with Computational Intelligence. Leslie Smith: Essential Neuromorphic Substrates for Intelligent Systems of the Future Amir Hussain: New Potential from Advances in Neural Systems Engineering. Overall Plenary (all will be encouraged to contribute): The real future for Brain Inspiration A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 General Chair: Allan Kardec Barros Depto. Eng. Eletrica, Universidad de Federal do Maranhao, Brazil. Confirmed speakers: Symposia Second International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2008) >From foundations to implementations Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2008) Design and implementation of biologically inspired and neuromorphic systems Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K. Third International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2008) Models of cognitive systems; Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC 2008) Progress in neural systems Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K. Why this conference, and who should attend: The biennial Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, formal or computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems, particularly the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance technology towards ever higher levels of cognitive competence. The four major symposia are organized in patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes that, following the success of BICS 2004 (Stirling, Scotland) and BICS 2006 (Greece), BICS 2008 will continue be a major point of contact for researchers and practitioners who can benefit from not only the major advances in their specialist fields but also from the diversity of each other's views. Each of the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be selected for their clear novelty and proven scientific impact, while the afternoons will provide scope for researchers to present their current work and discuss their aims and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite researchers with differing perspectives. Final Deadline for submissions: March 20th 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may submit your extended abstract at http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to): Models of consciousness: (MoC) Global Workspace Theory Imagination/synthetic phenomenology Virtual Machine Approaches Axiomatic Models Control Theory/Methodology Developmental/Infant Models Will/volition/emotion/affect Philosophical implications Grounding in neurophysiology Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) Attentional Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities CN of volition Affective Systems Language Cortical Models Sub-Cortical Models Cerebellar Models Event location in the brain Others Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS) Brain Inspired (BI) Vision BI Audition and sound processing BI Other sensory modalities BI Motion processing BI Robotics BI Evolutionary systems BI Oscillatory systems BI Signal processing BI Learning Neuromorphic systems Others Neural Computation (NC) Hybrid Systems NC Learning NC Control Systems NC Signal Processing Architectures Devices Pattern Classifiers Support Vector Machines Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Neural Networks Biological Neural Network Models Applications Others Important Dates: Conference Dates: 24-27 June 2008 Submission Deadline: 20 March 2008 Acceptance Notification: 20th April 2008 Publications: Expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers will be published in a follow-on Springer Book. For more details, contact the BICS 2008 Publications Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain (E-mail: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk). ORGANIZED BY: Planning Division ICSC Interdisciplinary Research NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization www.icsc.ab.ca Canada BICS 2008 Co-Sponsors: IEEE UK & RI Computational Intelligence Society Chapter IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Society Chapter Springer -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. From tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be Mon Mar 17 16:58:20 2008 From: tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be (Dhaene Tom) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:49:52 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP - Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engineering" at ISSN 2008 Message-ID: <3F34B872B464254BBEF0FA434A75AA0D88EB68@xmail05.ad.ua.ac.be> ******************************************************************** = SPECIAL SESSION ON APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING ******************************************************************** ISNN 2008 SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 15 2008 ******************************************************************** The 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, will be held= on = September 24-28, 2008, in Beijing, China. The Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engin= eering" = is part of ISNN 2008. = This session will highlight various applications of artificial neural netwo= rks in = different fields of electrical and electronic engineering, and will bring t= ogether = leading researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to assess = the = current state and identify new directions. We welcome all papers describing= new = and original results in this field, and papers providing state-of-the-art o= verview = of a sub-area in the field. = Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Neural and Fuzzy Systems in circuit simulation * Computational modeling techniques in Electromagnetics * Design and optimization * Surrogate modeling techniques of passive and active devices * New applications of numerical techniques in Electrical Engineering For more information please visit : = - http://www.sumo.intec.ugent.be/?q=3Disnn2008_EEsession - http://www2.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 Sincerely, Tom Dhaene and Qi-Jun Zhang Organizers of the Special Session = = ******************************************************************** Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at - http://www2.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 > Paper submission Submission deadline : April 15 2008 ******************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Papers (*deadlines extended*) Message-ID: <47EE79D9.6010302@bme.gatech.edu> Due to numerous requests, the organizing committee for ICDL 2008 has decided to extend the submission deadline until April 14, 2008. All related deadlines have been moved back by two weeks. ============================================================== 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates (*extended*): April 14, 2008: Submission deadline for Full (6 page) papers May 26, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for full papers June 4, 2008: Submission deadline for 1-page poster abstracts June 11, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts June 16, 2008: Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From noreply at icann2008.org Sat Mar 29 21:52:45 2008 From: noreply at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:49:52 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Workshop Invitation Message-ID: <200803292052.m2TKqjxp084362@icann2008.org> Dear colleagues: It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in a New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop taking place on the last day of the ICANN 2008 conference. The keynote invited talk of the workshop is Abstracting Biological Development to Evolve Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks presented by Kenneth O. Stanley. In his talk Kenneth will focus on recent work in indirect encoding of neural networks through an abstraction of biological development called Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT). The primary conceptual focus will be on the critical role of abstraction in biologically-inspired systems. More can be found at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ Note that the program of the workshop will continue with plenary lectures and poster session. You can submit your workshop contribution through the conference system (http://icann2008.org/submit). Contributions will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer. If you have already submitted your paper to ICANN 2008 and you want to present your contribution at the workshop, indicate it in the the "Comments to the Chair" field in the submission system or by email to info@icann2008.org. Please note that the deadline for the submissions is April 7 2008. Sincerely, Organizers of the New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop, http://icann2008.org/workshop.php From info at icann2008.org Mon Mar 3 18:05:35 2008 From: info at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:54:08 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Deadline Extended to March 10 Message-ID: <200803031705.m23H5ZZc077326@icann2008.org> ******************************************************************** ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleague Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for ICANN 2008 to March 10, 2008 for regular papers and to March 20, 2008 for papers intended for special sessions and workshops. Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at http://www.icann2008.org/submit The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ******************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing, algorithms and applications. Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to special sessions: * Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease * Constructive Neural Networks or workshops: * New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks * Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org Sincerely, Vera Kurkova Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008 From charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu Thu Mar 6 11:13:26 2008 From: charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu (Charlie Kemp) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:54:08 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICDL 2008: Call for Papers (revised) Message-ID: <47CFC3C6.5020909@bme.gatech.edu> 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: March 31 Full 6-page paper submissions due May 12 Notification for full papers (accept/reject) May 21 1-page poster abstracts due May 28 Notification for poster abstracts (accept/reject) June 2 Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 02:27:11 2008 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:54:08 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Final Call for Papers: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008), Sao Luis, Brazil, 24-27 June 2008 Message-ID: <3320.92.13.143.192.1205198831.squirrel@www.cs.stir.ac.uk> Please forward the final CFP (below) for the Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008) Conference to interested colleagues . Key Points: A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of ALL accepted BICS 2008 papers ? Submit your extended abstracts at: http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm Final Submission Deadline (for Extended Abstracts/Draft Papers): 20 March 2008; Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-Ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan), Jose Carlos Principe (University of Florida, USA); and, there will be several plenary discussions led by world-leading researchers - for more details, see the CFP below (or the Conference website: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008) Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Sao Luis, Brazil! Amir Hussain, Co-Chair BICS 2008 Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, E-mail: a.hussain@cs.stir.ac.uk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BICS 2008 -Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil June 24-27, 2008 http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ? Deadline: MARCH 20th 2008! ******************* This is the last chance to contribute to this biennial conference which brings to Brazil and the South American Continent the most up-to-date discussions on how knowledge of the brain both aids intelligent system design and is informed by it. It identifies the forefront of research in the area and points to the most exciting lines for future research. BICS 2008 presents a unique and timely opportunity for Brazilian and South American researchers to present their work to an international audience and for international researchers to showcase their work in Brazil. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-ichi Amari (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan) Jose Carlos Pri?ncipe (University of Florida Gainsville, USA) The conference will involve all attendees in plenary presentations and discussions of a quality for which biennial BICS conferences have become well known - previously in Scotland (BICS 2004), Greece (BICS 2006) and now Brazil (BICS 2008). The plenary discussions headed by symposium chairs are (provisionally): Ron Chrisley: 7 years of Machine Consciousness - what are the new insights? Igor Aleksander: 'How Computational Neuroscience dovetails with Computational Intelligence. Leslie Smith: Essential Neuromorphic Substrates for Intelligent Systems of the Future Amir Hussain: New Potential from Advances in Neural Systems Engineering. Overall Plenary (all will be encouraged to contribute): The real future for Brain Inspiration A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 General Chair: Allan Kardec Barros Depto. Eng. Eletrica, Universidad de Federal do Maranhao, Brazil. Confirmed speakers: Symposia Second International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2008) >From foundations to implementations Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2008) Design and implementation of biologically inspired and neuromorphic systems Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K. Third International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2008) Models of cognitive systems; Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC 2008) Progress in neural systems Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K. Why this conference, and who should attend: The biennial Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, formal or computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems, particularly the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance technology towards ever higher levels of cognitive competence. The four major symposia are organized in patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes that, following the success of BICS 2004 (Stirling, Scotland) and BICS 2006 (Greece), BICS 2008 will continue be a major point of contact for researchers and practitioners who can benefit from not only the major advances in their specialist fields but also from the diversity of each other's views. Each of the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be selected for their clear novelty and proven scientific impact, while the afternoons will provide scope for researchers to present their current work and discuss their aims and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite researchers with differing perspectives. Final Deadline for submissions: March 20th 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may submit your extended abstract at http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to): Models of consciousness: (MoC) Global Workspace Theory Imagination/synthetic phenomenology Virtual Machine Approaches Axiomatic Models Control Theory/Methodology Developmental/Infant Models Will/volition/emotion/affect Philosophical implications Grounding in neurophysiology Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) Attentional Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities CN of volition Affective Systems Language Cortical Models Sub-Cortical Models Cerebellar Models Event location in the brain Others Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS) Brain Inspired (BI) Vision BI Audition and sound processing BI Other sensory modalities BI Motion processing BI Robotics BI Evolutionary systems BI Oscillatory systems BI Signal processing BI Learning Neuromorphic systems Others Neural Computation (NC) Hybrid Systems NC Learning NC Control Systems NC Signal Processing Architectures Devices Pattern Classifiers Support Vector Machines Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Neural Networks Biological Neural Network Models Applications Others Important Dates: Conference Dates: 24-27 June 2008 Submission Deadline: 20 March 2008 Acceptance Notification: 20th April 2008 Publications: Expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers will be published in a follow-on Springer Book. For more details, contact the BICS 2008 Publications Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain (E-mail: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk). ORGANIZED BY: Planning Division ICSC Interdisciplinary Research NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization www.icsc.ab.ca Canada BICS 2008 Co-Sponsors: IEEE UK & RI Computational Intelligence Society Chapter IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Society Chapter Springer -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. From tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be Mon Mar 17 16:58:20 2008 From: tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be (Dhaene Tom) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:54:08 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP - Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engineering" at ISSN 2008 Message-ID: <3F34B872B464254BBEF0FA434A75AA0D88EB68@xmail05.ad.ua.ac.be> ******************************************************************** = SPECIAL SESSION ON APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING ******************************************************************** ISNN 2008 SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 15 2008 ******************************************************************** The 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, will be held= on = September 24-28, 2008, in Beijing, China. The Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engin= eering" = is part of ISNN 2008. = This session will highlight various applications of artificial neural netwo= rks in = different fields of electrical and electronic engineering, and will bring t= ogether = leading researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to assess = the = current state and identify new directions. 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Papers (*deadlines extended*) Message-ID: <47EE79D9.6010302@bme.gatech.edu> Due to numerous requests, the organizing committee for ICDL 2008 has decided to extend the submission deadline until April 14, 2008. All related deadlines have been moved back by two weeks. ============================================================== 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates (*extended*): April 14, 2008: Submission deadline for Full (6 page) papers May 26, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for full papers June 4, 2008: Submission deadline for 1-page poster abstracts June 11, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts June 16, 2008: Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From noreply at icann2008.org Sat Mar 29 21:52:45 2008 From: noreply at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 17:54:09 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Workshop Invitation Message-ID: <200803292052.m2TKqjxp084362@icann2008.org> Dear colleagues: It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in a New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop taking place on the last day of the ICANN 2008 conference. The keynote invited talk of the workshop is Abstracting Biological Development to Evolve Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks presented by Kenneth O. Stanley. In his talk Kenneth will focus on recent work in indirect encoding of neural networks through an abstraction of biological development called Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT). The primary conceptual focus will be on the critical role of abstraction in biologically-inspired systems. More can be found at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ Note that the program of the workshop will continue with plenary lectures and poster session. You can submit your workshop contribution through the conference system (http://icann2008.org/submit). Contributions will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer. If you have already submitted your paper to ICANN 2008 and you want to present your contribution at the workshop, indicate it in the the "Comments to the Chair" field in the submission system or by email to info@icann2008.org. Please note that the deadline for the submissions is April 7 2008. Sincerely, Organizers of the New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop, http://icann2008.org/workshop.php From info at icann2008.org Mon Mar 3 18:05:35 2008 From: info at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 19:17:57 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Deadline Extended to March 10 Message-ID: <200803031705.m23H5ZZc077326@icann2008.org> ******************************************************************** ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleague Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for ICANN 2008 to March 10, 2008 for regular papers and to March 20, 2008 for papers intended for special sessions and workshops. Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at http://www.icann2008.org/submit The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ******************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing, algorithms and applications. Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to special sessions: * Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease * Constructive Neural Networks or workshops: * New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks * Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org Sincerely, Vera Kurkova Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008 From charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu Thu Mar 6 11:13:26 2008 From: charlie.kemp at bme.gatech.edu (Charlie Kemp) Date: Mon Feb 16 19:17:57 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICDL 2008: Call for Papers (revised) Message-ID: <47CFC3C6.5020909@bme.gatech.edu> 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates: March 31 Full 6-page paper submissions due May 12 Notification for full papers (accept/reject) May 21 1-page poster abstracts due May 28 Notification for poster abstracts (accept/reject) June 2 Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Mar 11 02:27:11 2008 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr. Amir Hussain) Date: Mon Feb 16 19:17:57 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] Final Call for Papers: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008), Sao Luis, Brazil, 24-27 June 2008 Message-ID: <3320.92.13.143.192.1205198831.squirrel@www.cs.stir.ac.uk> Please forward the final CFP (below) for the Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008) Conference to interested colleagues . Key Points: A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of ALL accepted BICS 2008 papers ? Submit your extended abstracts at: http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm Final Submission Deadline (for Extended Abstracts/Draft Papers): 20 March 2008; Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-Ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan), Jose Carlos Principe (University of Florida, USA); and, there will be several plenary discussions led by world-leading researchers - for more details, see the CFP below (or the Conference website: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008) Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in Sao Luis, Brazil! Amir Hussain, Co-Chair BICS 2008 Centre for Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, E-mail: a.hussain@cs.stir.ac.uk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BICS 2008 -Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil June 24-27, 2008 http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ? Deadline: MARCH 20th 2008! ******************* This is the last chance to contribute to this biennial conference which brings to Brazil and the South American Continent the most up-to-date discussions on how knowledge of the brain both aids intelligent system design and is informed by it. It identifies the forefront of research in the area and points to the most exciting lines for future research. BICS 2008 presents a unique and timely opportunity for Brazilian and South American researchers to present their work to an international audience and for international researchers to showcase their work in Brazil. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Shun-ichi Amari (Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan) Jose Carlos Pri?ncipe (University of Florida Gainsville, USA) The conference will involve all attendees in plenary presentations and discussions of a quality for which biennial BICS conferences have become well known - previously in Scotland (BICS 2004), Greece (BICS 2006) and now Brazil (BICS 2008). The plenary discussions headed by symposium chairs are (provisionally): Ron Chrisley: 7 years of Machine Consciousness - what are the new insights? Igor Aleksander: 'How Computational Neuroscience dovetails with Computational Intelligence. Leslie Smith: Essential Neuromorphic Substrates for Intelligent Systems of the Future Amir Hussain: New Potential from Advances in Neural Systems Engineering. Overall Plenary (all will be encouraged to contribute): The real future for Brain Inspiration A Book will be published by Springer based on expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: http://www.ufma.br/bics2008 General Chair: Allan Kardec Barros Depto. Eng. Eletrica, Universidad de Federal do Maranhao, Brazil. Confirmed speakers: Symposia Second International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2008) >From foundations to implementations Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K. Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2008) Design and implementation of biologically inspired and neuromorphic systems Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K. Third International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2008) Models of cognitive systems; Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC 2008) Progress in neural systems Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K. Why this conference, and who should attend: The biennial Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, formal or computational methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of biological systems, particularly the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance technology towards ever higher levels of cognitive competence. The four major symposia are organized in patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes that, following the success of BICS 2004 (Stirling, Scotland) and BICS 2006 (Greece), BICS 2008 will continue be a major point of contact for researchers and practitioners who can benefit from not only the major advances in their specialist fields but also from the diversity of each other's views. Each of the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be selected for their clear novelty and proven scientific impact, while the afternoons will provide scope for researchers to present their current work and discuss their aims and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite researchers with differing perspectives. Final Deadline for submissions: March 20th 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may submit your extended abstract at http://www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to): Models of consciousness: (MoC) Global Workspace Theory Imagination/synthetic phenomenology Virtual Machine Approaches Axiomatic Models Control Theory/Methodology Developmental/Infant Models Will/volition/emotion/affect Philosophical implications Grounding in neurophysiology Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) Attentional Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities CN of volition Affective Systems Language Cortical Models Sub-Cortical Models Cerebellar Models Event location in the brain Others Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS) Brain Inspired (BI) Vision BI Audition and sound processing BI Other sensory modalities BI Motion processing BI Robotics BI Evolutionary systems BI Oscillatory systems BI Signal processing BI Learning Neuromorphic systems Others Neural Computation (NC) Hybrid Systems NC Learning NC Control Systems NC Signal Processing Architectures Devices Pattern Classifiers Support Vector Machines Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Neural Networks Biological Neural Network Models Applications Others Important Dates: Conference Dates: 24-27 June 2008 Submission Deadline: 20 March 2008 Acceptance Notification: 20th April 2008 Publications: Expanded and revised versions of all accepted BICS2008 papers will be published in a follow-on Springer Book. For more details, contact the BICS 2008 Publications Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain (E-mail: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk). ORGANIZED BY: Planning Division ICSC Interdisciplinary Research NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization www.icsc.ab.ca Canada BICS 2008 Co-Sponsors: IEEE UK & RI Computational Intelligence Society Chapter IEEE UK & RI Industry Applications Society Chapter Springer -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. From tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be Mon Mar 17 16:58:20 2008 From: tom.dhaene at ua.ac.be (Dhaene Tom) Date: Mon Feb 16 19:17:57 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] CFP - Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engineering" at ISSN 2008 Message-ID: <3F34B872B464254BBEF0FA434A75AA0D88EB68@xmail05.ad.ua.ac.be> ******************************************************************** = SPECIAL SESSION ON APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING ******************************************************************** ISNN 2008 SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 15 2008 ******************************************************************** The 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, will be held= on = September 24-28, 2008, in Beijing, China. The Special Session on "Applications of Neural Networks in Electronic Engin= eering" = is part of ISNN 2008. = This session will highlight various applications of artificial neural netwo= rks in = different fields of electrical and electronic engineering, and will bring t= ogether = leading researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to assess = the = current state and identify new directions. We welcome all papers describing= new = and original results in this field, and papers providing state-of-the-art o= verview = of a sub-area in the field. = Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Neural and Fuzzy Systems in circuit simulation * Computational modeling techniques in Electromagnetics * Design and optimization * Surrogate modeling techniques of passive and active devices * New applications of numerical techniques in Electrical Engineering For more information please visit : = - http://www.sumo.intec.ugent.be/?q=3Disnn2008_EEsession - http://www2.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 Sincerely, Tom Dhaene and Qi-Jun Zhang Organizers of the Special Session = = ******************************************************************** Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at - http://www2.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 > Paper submission Submission deadline : April 15 2008 ******************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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organizing committee for ICDL 2008 has decided to extend the submission deadline until April 14, 2008. All related deadlines have been moved back by two weeks. ============================================================== 7th International Conference on Development and Learning Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, California August 9th-12th, 2008, http://www.icdl08.org/ Call for Papers The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. ICDL 2008 will accept two types of submissions: 1) Full six-page paper submissions. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or as a featured poster presentation. Featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser" presentation as part of the main conference session and will be showcased in the poster sessions. Authors of accepted 6-page papers (whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation) will have the OPTION of archiving their papers through IEEE Xplore. 2) One-page poster abstract submissions. To encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, ICDL will accept 1-page abstracts. These submissions will NOT be included in the conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the evening poster sessions. Important dates (*extended*): April 14, 2008: Submission deadline for Full (6 page) papers May 26, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for full papers June 4, 2008: Submission deadline for 1-page poster abstracts June 11, 2008: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts June 16, 2008: Camera-ready papers due Plenary Speakers: * Richard Aslin, U. of Rochester * Terry Jernigan, UCSD * Andrew Ng, Stanford General Chairs: * Jay McClelland, Stanford * Juyang Weng, Michigan State Program Chairs: * Gedeon Deak, UCSD * Brian Scassellati, Yale Sponsored by: * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society * Cognitive Science Society For more information please check the conference web site: http://www.icdl08.org/ From noreply at icann2008.org Sat Mar 29 21:52:45 2008 From: noreply at icann2008.org (ICANN 2008) Date: Mon Feb 16 19:17:57 2009 Subject: [Neuro-IT] ICANN 2008 Workshop Invitation Message-ID: <200803292052.m2TKqjxp084362@icann2008.org> Dear colleagues: It is our great pleasure to invite you to take part in a New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop taking place on the last day of the ICANN 2008 conference. The keynote invited talk of the workshop is Abstracting Biological Development to Evolve Large-Scale Artificial Neural Networks presented by Kenneth O. Stanley. In his talk Kenneth will focus on recent work in indirect encoding of neural networks through an abstraction of biological development called Hypercube-based NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (HyperNEAT). The primary conceptual focus will be on the critical role of abstraction in biologically-inspired systems. More can be found at: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/ Note that the program of the workshop will continue with plenary lectures and poster session. You can submit your workshop contribution through the conference system (http://icann2008.org/submit). Contributions will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer. If you have already submitted your paper to ICANN 2008 and you want to present your contribution at the workshop, indicate it in the the "Comments to the Chair" field in the submission system or by email to info@icann2008.org. Please note that the deadline for the submissions is April 7 2008. Sincerely, Organizers of the New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks workshop, http://icann2008.org/workshop.php