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 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2007
 9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal

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

 *** Last Call for Papers***

June, 29 - Early registration

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

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

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

 List of Special Sessions and Organizers

 1. Complex-Valued Neural Networks
 Aizenberg, Igor; Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA
 Hirose, Akira; University of Tokyo, Japan
 M. Zurada, Jacek; University of Louisville, USA

 2. Emotion and Attention: Empirical Findings and Neural Models
 Korsten, Nienke; King's College London, UK
 Taylor, John; King's College London, UK

 3. Meta-Learning
 Duch, Wlodzislaw; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
 Grabczewski, Krzysztof; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
 Jankowski, Norbert; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

 4. Understanding and Creating Cognitive Systems
 Taylor, John; King's College London, UK

 Workshops


 Workshop 1
 Cognitive Systems
 Taylor, John G.; King's College, UK

 Worshop 2
 Neural Networks in Biomedical Engineering and BioInformatics
 Cortez, Paulo; University of Minho, Portugal
 Hochreiter,Sepp; Johannes Kepler University, Linz

 Worshop 3
 What it means to communicate 
 Elshaw, Mark; University of Sunderland, UK
 Gallese, Vittorio; University of Parma, Itália 
 Knowles, Mike; University of Sunderland, UK
 Page, Martin; University of Sunderland, UK
 Panchev, Christo; University of Sunderland, UK
 Pulvermuller, Friedemann; MRC, Cambridge, UK
 Wermter, Stefan; University of Sunderland, UK


 ICANN 2007 Conference

 General-Chair
 Marques de Sá, Joaquim; University of Porto, Portugal

 Co-Chair
 Alexandre, Luís; University of Beira Interior, Portugal

 Program Chairs
 Duch, Wlodzislaw; Torun, PL & Singapore, ENNS President
 Mandic, Danilo; Imperial College London, UK

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


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

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

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

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

 Student support available (please see web page)

 ICANN 2007 Secretariat
 Gabriela Afonso, INEB, Campus FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto, Portugal
 (gafonso@fe.up.pt)