=================================================================== Third Call for Papers: ICANN 2011 The Twentieth Anniversary ICANN is back at its roots: Machine learning re-inspired by brain and cognition International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks 14 - 17 June 2011, Espoo, Finland http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline extended! Submission of full papers: February 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2011 Camera-ready paper and author registration: April 15, 2011 Advance registration: April 15, 2011 =================================================================== The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). In 2011, ICANN returns to its roots after 20 years. The very first ICANN in 1991 was organized at Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo, Finland. We invite all neural network researchers worldwide to join us in celebrating this 20th anniversary of ICANN and to see the latest advancements in our fast progressing field. ICANN 2011 will have two tracks: Brain-inspired computing and Machine learning research, with PC chairs from both worlds and a renewed reviewing system. Keynote speakers and competitions will highlight cross-disciplinary interactions and applications. To welcome everyone to participate in ICANN's twentieth anniversary conference, we are happy to announce an extension to the submission deadline: full papers may be submitted until February 15, 2011. VENUE ICANN 2011 will be held in the Dipoli Congress Center located on the beautiful campus of Aalto University (former Helsinki University of Technology), in Espoo (8km west from the city centre of Helsinki). The time of the year is particularly suitable for visiting Finland. CONFERENCE TOPICS ICANN 2011 will feature two main tracks: Brain inspired computing and Machine learning research, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications. A non-exhaustive list of topics: - Brain inspired computing: Connectionist cognitive science, Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms, Neural control and planning, Reinforcement learning, Computational neuroscience, Neural dynamics and complex systems, Self-organization, Neuro- cognitive architectures, Recurrent networks - Machine learning research: Graphical models, Bayesian networks, Kernel methods, Generative models, Information theoretic learning, Nonlinear projection, Relational learning, Online learning, Dynamical models, Reinforcement learning - Applications and cross-disciplinary connections: Data analysis, Pattern recognition, Signal and time series processing, Blind source separation, Hardware implementations and embedded systems, Intelligent multimedia, Knowledge management, Multimodal interfaces, Vision and image processing, Biomedical image analysis, Speech and language processing, Robotics applications, Intelligent control, Neuroinformatics, Bioinformatics, Biomedical applications, Brain-computer interfaces, Critical infrastructure systems, Complex networks CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS Tom Griffiths, University of California Berkeley (http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/) Riitta Hari, Aalto University (http://ltl.tkk.fi/wiki/Riitta_Hari) Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/) Aapo Hyvarinen, University of Helsinki (http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/) John Shawe-Taylor, University College London (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/j.shawe-taylor/) Josh Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html) ORGANIZATION General chair: Erkki Oja Program co-chairs: Wlodzislaw Duch, Mark Girolami, Timo Honkela, Samuel Kaski Workshop chair: Alexander Ilin Local chair: Amaury Lendasse Publicity chair: Jaakko Peltonen Organizing committee members: Francesco Corona, Krista Lagus, Yoan Miche, Ilari Nieminen, Mari-Sanna Paukkeri, Tapani Raiko, Ricardo Vigario CONFIRMED AREA CHAIRS Peter Auer, Austria Christian Bauckhage, Germany Wray Buntine, Australia Vince Calhoun, USA Antonius Coolen, UK Barbara Hammer, Germany Giulio Jacucci, Finland Kristian Kersting, Germany Mikko Kurimo, Finland Neil Lawrence, UK Te-Won Lee, USA Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Japan Fernando Morgado Dias, Portugal Klaus-Robert Muller, Germany Klaus Obermayer, Germany Cheng Soon Ong, Switzerland Jan Peters, Germany Marios Polycarpou, Cyprus Jose Principe, USA Volker Roth, Switzerland Craig Saunders, UK Alan Stocker, USA Masashi Sugiyama, Japan Ron Sun, USA Peter Tino, UK Alfred Ultsch, Germany Koen Van Leemput, USA Michel Verleysen, Belgium Jean-Philippe Vert, France Ole Winther, Denmark Chang D. Yoo, South Korea WORKSHOPS Details of workshops and tutorials at ICANN 2011 will be available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 . WSOM 2011, the 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (13-15 June 2011) will be co-located with ICANN 2011. COMPETITIONS Mind reading competition on MEG data: classify from MEG signals which type of video stimulus the subject is viewing such as football match, movie, natural scenery, etc. META-NET Multimodal Machine Translation Challenge: choose the best translation from translations given by multiple machine translation systems, using additional context information like domain, surrounding text, etc. See http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 for more details! PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submitted papers should be up to 8 pages in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Papers will be submitted through Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit (CMT). Further details are available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 . Accepted papers will be published in a collected volume by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, www.springer.com/lncs and will also be available online through the SpringerLink digital library. SPONSORS ICANN 2011 is supported by European Neural Network Society (ENNS), Pattern Recognition Society of Finland and Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society. ====== See http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 for more details! ======