ISNN2009 CALL FOR PAPERS The Sixth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2009) will be held in Wuhan, following the successes of previous events. Composed of three parts (Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang), Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province in central China with a long history and rich heritages. During the warrior-states period (481-221 BC), Wuhan is a part in Chu Kingdom It began to prosper as a commercial town about two-thousand years ago, when it was called Yingwuzhou (Parrot beach). During the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), the region became one of the most prosperous commercial centers along the Yangtze River. By the end of the Ming Dynasty (1368-164 AD), Hankou was one of the four most famous cities in China. Today, Wuhan is an educational and industrial center and a hub of water and rail transportation in China. ISNN 2009 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of neural network research and applications in related fields. The symposium will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics. Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ISNN 2009. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the symposium are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ISNN 2009. 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. Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or is not copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. 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 ISNN 2009 will be published in the EI-indexed proceedings (Springer LNCS) and some selected good papers will be included in special issues of several SCI-indexed journals. ************************************************ PROGRAM TOPICS ************************************************ 1. Theories Computational neuroscience Connectionist theory Cognitive science Mathematical modeling of neural systems Neurodynamic analysis Neurodynamic optimization Adaptive dynamic programming Neuroinformatics Bioinformatics Self-organization and goal-oriented learning Embodied intelligence 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 Neural models in finance Fuzzy neural networks Hierarchical memory organizations Incremental learning models Swarm intelligence and optimization Bio-inspired intelligent models Associative memory models Adaptive sensory-motor coordination Cellular neural network models Self-organizing map models 3. Algorithms Probabilistic methods information-theoretic methods Supervised and unsupervised learning Semi-supervised learning Reinforcement learning Support vector machines Kernel methods Principal component analysis Independent component analysis Boosting and adaptive boost algorithms Multi-resolution algorithms Assembly learning algorithms Autonomous mental development Hybrid optimization algorithms Evolutionary computation algorithms Fuzzy modeling and fuzzy systems Statistical learning methods 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 Multi-agent learning systems Planning and scheduling Decision-making support systems Computational intelligence for power systems Sensor networks Multimedia systems Biomedical data analysis Human-robot interaction Intelligent navigation systems Speech and language processing Sequence learning and sequential behaviors Computational intelligence for text mining Computational intelligence for Web mining ************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES ************************************************ Special session proposals deadline: November 1, 2008 Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: January 1, 2009 Camera-ready copy and author registration: February 1, 2009 More information can be found at: http: http://isnn2009.hust.edu.cn or http://www.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2009 For inquiries, please contact the secretariat at: isnn2009@mae.cuhk.edu.hk or isnn2009@mail.hust.edu.cn
