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<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Times New Roman">International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks</FONT> <FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Times New Roman">–</FONT><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Times New Roman"> ICANN 2007</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Times New Roman">9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Web page:</FONT></B> <A HREF="http://www.icann2007.org"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.icann2007.org</FONT></U></A><B></B></P>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Times New Roman">1st Call for Papers</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">ICANN 2007 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications in the following broad areas:</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Computational neuroscience;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Connectionist cognitive science;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Data analysis and pattern recognition;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Graphical network models, Bayesian networks;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Hardware implementations and embedded systems;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Neural control, planning and robotics applications;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Neural dynamics and complex systems;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Neuroinformatics;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Real world applications;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Self-organization;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Sequential and structured information processing;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Signal and time series processing, blind source separation;</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">•</FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Vision and image processing.</FONT>
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<P><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">General-Chair</FONT></I>
<BR> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Joaquim Marques de Sá, University of Porto, Portugal</FONT>
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<P><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Co-Chair</FONT></I>
<BR> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Luís Alexandre, University of Beira Interior, Portugal</FONT>
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<P><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Program Chairs</FONT></I>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Wlodzislaw Duch, Torun, PL & Singapore, ENNS President</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Danilo Mandic, Imperial College London, UK</FONT>
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<P><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Honorary Chair</FONT></I>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">John G. Taylor, Kings College, London, UK</FONT>
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<P><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Program Committee</FONT></I>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Alessandro Sperduti, Univ. Padova, IT</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Alessandro Villa, Univ. Grenoble, FR</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Andreas Nuernberger, Univ. Magdeburg, DE</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Andreas Stafylopatis, NTUA, GR</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN Brain Sci. Inst., JP</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Bruno Apolloni, Univ. Milano, IT</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">David Miller, Univ. Pennsylvania, USA</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Dragan Obradovic, Siemens Corp. Res., DE</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Erkki Oja, Helsinki University, FI</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State Univ., USA</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Jacek Mandziuk, Warsaw University, PL</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">João Luís Rosa, Catholic Univ. Campinas, BR</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Jose Dorronsoro, Univ. Aut. de Madrid, ES</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">José Príncipe, Univ. Florida, USA</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Juergen Schmidhuber, Scuola Univ. Prof., CH</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Lefteris Tsoukalas, Purdue Univ., USA</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Marios Polycarpou, Univ.Cyprus, CY</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Inst., USA</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Michel Verleysen, Univ. Louvain-la-Neuve, BE</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Nikola Kasabov, Auckland Univ., NZ</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, TR</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Olli Simula, Helsinki University, FI</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Peter Andras, Univ. Newcastle, UK</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Péter Érdi, HU & Kalamazoo College, USA</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Stan Gielen, University of Nijmegen, NL</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Stefan Wermter, Univ.Sunderland, UK</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Stefanos Kolias, NTUA, GR</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Steve Gunn, Univ. Southampton, UK</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Thomas Martinetz, Univ. Luebeck, DE</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Deadlines</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">16 Feb End of submission of special session and workshop proposals.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">23 Mar End of submission of full papers.</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Conference Proceedings</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Published by Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). </FONT>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Neural Networks Special Issue</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">An extended version of selected ICANN 2007 papers will be published in a Special Issue of Elsevier's journal Neural Networks. </FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Sponsors:</FONT></B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">ENNS, INNS, JNNS, EURASIP, INEB, ISEP, UBI</FONT>
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<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Student support available (please see web page)</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">ICANN 2007 Secretariat</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> Gabriela Afonso, INEB, Campus FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto, Portugal</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">(gafonso@fe.up.pt)</FONT>
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