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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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SBRN'2002 - VII BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON NEURAL
NETWORKS
(http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~sbiarn02)
Recife, November 11-14, 2002
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The biannual Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (SBRN)
- of which this is the 7th event - is a forum dedicated to Neural
Networks
(NNs) and other models of computational intelligence. The emphasis of
the
Symposium will be on original theories and novel applications of these
computational models. The Symposium welcomes paper submissions from
researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide. The proceedings will
be
published by the IEEE Computer Society. Selected, extended, and revised
papers from SBRN'2002 will be also considered for publication in a
special
issue of the International Journal of Neural Systems and of the Journal
of
Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems.
SBRN'2002 is sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and
co-sponsored by SIG/INNS/Brazil Special Interest Group of the
International Neural Networks Society in Brazil. It will take place
November 11-14, and will be held in Recife at a beach resort. Recife,
located on the northeast coast of Brazil, is known as the "Brazilian
Venice"
because of its many canals and waterways and the innumerable bridges
that
span them. It is the major gateway to the Northeast with regular flights
to
all major cities in Brazil as well as Lisbon, London, Frankfurt, and
Miami.
See more information about the place (
http://www.braziliantourism.com.br/pe-pt1-en.html) that will host the
event.
SBRN'2002 will be held in conjunction with the XVI Brazilian Symposium
on Artificial Intelligence (http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~sbiarn02) (SBIA).
SBIA
has its main focus on symbolic AI. Crossfertilization of these fields
will be
strongly encouraged. Both Symposiums will feature keynote speeches and
tutorials by world-leading researchers. The deadline for submissions is
April 15, 2002. More details on paper submission and conference
registration will be coming soon.
Sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
Co-Sponsored by SIG/INNS/Brazil Special Interest Group of the
International Neural Networks Society in Brazil
Organised by the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)/Centre of
Informatics (CIn)
Published by the IEEE Computer Society
Deadlines:
Submission: 15 April 2002
Acceptance: 17 June 2002
Camera-ready: 22 August 2002
Non-exhaustive list of topics which will be covered during SBRN'2002:
Applications: finances, data mining, neurocontrol, time series analysis,
bioinformatics; Architectures: cellular NNs, hardware and software
implementations, new models, weightless models; Cognitive Sciences:
adaptive behaviour, natural language, mental processes; Computational
Intelligence: evolutionary systems, fuzzy systems, hybrid systems;
Learning: algorithms, evolutionary and fuzzy techniques, reinforcement
learning; Neurobiological Systems: bio-inspired systems, biologically
plausible networks, vision; Neurocontrol: robotics, dynamic systems,
adaptive control; Neurosymbolic processing: hybrid approaches, logical
inference, rule extraction, structured knowledge; Pattern Recognition:
signal processing, artificial/computational vision; Theory: radial basis
functions, Bayesian systems, function approximation, computability,
learnability, computational complexity.
Paper Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit 6-page, 11-point,
double-column
papers (postscript or pdf format) written in English, Portuguese or
Spanish
- see the style file at (http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm).
More
details on paper submission and conference registration will be coming
soon.
The first volume of the Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press, in time for distribution at the symposium. It will
include only
accepted papers written in English and abstracts of accepted papers
written
in Portuguese or Spanish. A second volume will be issued as a CD-ROM,
and will contain accepted papers originally written in Portuguese or
Spanish.
General Chair:
Teresa B. Ludermir (UFPE/CIn, Brazil)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Program Chair:
Marcilio C. P. de Souto (UFPE/CIn, Brazil)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Publications Chair:
Marley Vellasco (PUC-RJ, Brazil)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organising Committee
Teresa B. Ludermir (UFPE, BR)
Marc�lio C. P. de Souto (UFPE, BR)
Steering Committee:
Aluizio F. R. Araujo (USP-SC, BR)
Antonio de P. Braga (UFMG, BR)
Andre P. L. F. de Carvalho (USP-SC, BR)
Teresa B. Ludermir (UFPE, BR)
Carlos H. C. Ribeiro (ITA, BR)
Marcilio C. P. de Souto (UFPE, BR)
Marley Vellasco (PUC-RJ, BR)
Gerson Zaverucha (UFRJ, BR)
Program Committee (Preliminary)
Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, UK)
Aluizio F. R. Araujo (USP-SC, BR)
Pierre Baldi (Univ. of California at Irvine, USA)
Valmir Barbosa (UFRJ, BR)
Allan Kardec D. Barros (UFMA, BR)
Antonio de P. Braga (UFMG, BR)
Anne M. de P. Canuto (UFRN, BR)
Otavio Carpiteiro (EFEI, BR)
Andre P. L. F. Carvalho (USP-SC, BR)
Alejandro Ceccatto (Univ. of Rosario, AR)
Phillipe DeWilde (Imperial College, UK)
Paulo M. Engel (UFRGS, BR)
Felipe Franca (UFRJ, BR)
Fernando Gomide (UNICAMP, BR)
Maria Eunice Gonzales (UNESP-Marilia, BR)
Stephen Grossberg (Boston University, USA)
Bart Kosko (University of Southern California, USA)
Teresa B. Ludermir (UFPE, BR)
Wolfgang Maass (Technische Univ. Graz, AUSTRIA)
Marcio L. de Andrade Netto (UNICAMP, BR)
Jose R. C. Piqueira (USP, BR)
Jose Principe (Univ. of Florida, USA)
Carlos H. C. Ribeiro (ITA, BR)
Jude W. Shavlik (Univ. of Wisconsin, USA)
Marcilio C. P. de Souto (UFPE, BR)
Harold Szu (Univ. of SW Lousiana, USA)
Germano C. Vasconcelos (UFPE, BR)
Marley Vellasco (PUC-RJ, BR)
Takashi Yoneyama (ITA, BR)
Gerson Zaverucha (UFRJ, BR)
Jack M. Zurada (Univ. of Louisville, USA)
