************************************************ Third CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS ************************************************ FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NEURAL NETWORKS (ISNN 2008) September 24-28, 2008, Beijing, China http://www.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 or http://203.91.120.151/~isnn2008/ Upon numerous requests for postponing the deadlines of paper submissions and special session proposals, we extended deadlines to: Special session proposal submission: March 30, 2008 Paper submission: April 15, 2008 Other deadlines remain unchanged as before. Following the successes of previous events, the fifth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN2008) will be held in Beijing, which has been the capital of China for about five hundred years, and is now one of the largest international cities in the world. Nowadays, as the cultural, educational and high-tech centre of the nation, Beijing possesses many world-class conference facilities, communication infrastructures, and hotels, and has successfully hosted many important international conferences. In addition, Beijing is an ideal place for sightseeing. Its rich culture and historical attractions such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Temple of Heaven will provide participants with unique opportunities for social activities. Besides, the 29th Olympic Games will be held in Beijing during Aug. 8-24 and the Paralympic Games will be held during Sept. 6-17. You are cordially invited to witness these great feasts. We will organize participants to visit the Olympic venues during or after the Symposium. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. Papers presented at ISNN2008 will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and will be indexed by EI Compendex. Some selected top papers will be included in special issues of several journals. Up to now, the following journals have approved to publish special issues for ISNN2008: Neurocomputing, Cognitive Neurodynamics, International Journal of Computational Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Systems Control and Communications, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence. Tsinghua Science and Technology (English Version), In addition, we are negotiating with the following journals for possible special issues: Information Science Soft Computing Neural Computation & Applications KES Journal IES Journal B--Intelligent Devices and Systems ISNN 2008 Program Committees also solicit proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the symposium. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information and brief biographical information on the organizers. Potential organizers are invited to enlist five or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. ************************************************ PROGRAM TOPICS ************************************************ 1. Theories Computational neuroscience Connectionist theory Cognitive science Mathematical modeling of neural systems Neurodynamic analysis Neurodynamic optimization Adaptive dynamic programming Neuroinformatics Bioinformatics 2. Models Embedded neural systems Forward neural networks Recurrent neural networks Gene regulatory network Consensus in neural networks Competitive networks Coupled network model Hybrid intelligent systems Hardware implementation Evolving neural networks Complex neural models Neural networks models in economics and marketing Neual models in finance Fuzzy neural networks 3. Algorithms Probabilistic methods information-theoretic methods Supervised and unsupervised learning Reinforcement learning Support vector machines Kernel methods Principal component analysis Independent component analysis Boosting and adaboost algorithms Multi-resolution algorithms Assembly learning algorithms Autonomous mental development Hybrid optimization algorithms 4. Applications Brain imaging Medical imaging processing Data mining and knowledge discovery Pattern recognition Machine learning and learning control systems Time series analysis Financial data prediction Image and signal processing Intelligent control system Expert system Computer Vision Robotics Games Telecommunications Transportation systems Intrusion detection Information security Fault diagnosis Real-world applications 5. Emerging Areas ************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES ************************************************ Special session proposals deadline: March 30, 2008 Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2008 Camera-ready copy and author registration: June 15, 2008 More information can be found at: http://www.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2008 or http://203.91.120.151/~isnn2008/ For inquiries, please contact the secretariat at: isnn2008@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
