NIPS 2009 Call For Workshops
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) -- Natural and Synthetic NIPS*2009 Post-Conference Workshops -- December 11 and 12, 2009 Whistler Resort & Spa and Westin Hilton, BC, CANADA http://nips.cc/ Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, workshops on a variety of current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 11 and 12, 2009, in Whistler, BC, Canada. We invite researchers interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit proposals for workshops. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are also particularly encouraged. Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks, Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Biophysics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Complexity, Control, Genetic/Evolutionary Algorithms, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Human-Computer Interfaces, Implementations, Kernel Methods, Mean-Field Methods, Music, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Neuromorphic Systems, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Perceptual Learning, Robotics, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Speech, Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Time Series, Topological Maps, and Vision. Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008/Program/schedule.php?Session=Workshops There will be six hours of workshop meetings per day, split into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time between the sessions for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Selected workshops may be invited to submit proceedings for publication in the post-NIPS workshops monographs series published by the MIT Press. Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including: * Coordinating workshop participation and content, including arranging short informal presentations by experts, arranging for expert commentators to sit on discussion panels, formulating discussion topics, etc. * Moderating the discussion, and reporting its findings and conclusions to the group during the evening plenary sessions. * Writing a brief summary and/or coordinating submitted material for post-conference electronic dissemination. Submission Instructions Interested parties must submit a proposal for a workshop via email to the address below by July 17, 2009 (note that this deadline is earlier than previous years, in order to allow more time to prepare the workshop programs). Proposals should include a title, description of what the workshop is to address and accomplish, proposed workshop length (1 or 2 days), planned format (e.g., lectures, group discussions, panel discussion, combinations of the above, etc.), and proposed speakers. Names of potential invitees should be given where possible. Preference will be given to workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for open discussion or panel discussion, as opposed to a pure “mini-conference” format. An example format is: * Tutorial lecture providing background and introducing terminology relevant to the topic. * Discussion or panel presentation. * Short talks or panels alternating with discussion and question/answer sessions. * General discussion and wrap-up. We suggest that organizers allocate at least 50% of the workshop schedule to questions, discussion, and breaks. Past experience suggests that workshops otherwise degrade into mini-conferences as talks begin to run over. For the same reason, we strongly recommend that each workshop include no more than 12 talks per day. The proposal should motivate why the topic is of interest, why it should be discussed, and the targeted group of participants. It should include a brief résumé of the prospective workshop chair with a list of publications to establish scholarship in the field. We encourage workshops that build, continue, or arise from one or more workshops from previous years. Please mention any such connections. NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. In any case, the organizers of each accepted workshop can name two individuals to receive free registration for the workshop program. Submissions should include the name, address, email address, phone and fax numbers for all organizers. If there is more than one organizer, please designate one organizer as the primary contact. Proposals or questions should be emailed as plain text to nips.works...
NIPS 2009 Call For Papers
NIPS 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are solicited for the Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in all aspects of neural and statistical information processing and computation. The conference is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Submissions by authors who are new to NIPS are encouraged. Preceding the main conference will be one day of tutorials (December 7), and following will be two days of workshops at the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (December 11-12). Deadline for Paper Submissions: Friday June 5, 2009, 23:59 Universal Time (UTC, 4:59pm Pacific Daylight Time). Technical Areas: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information processing and statistical learning, including, but not limited to: * Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, neural networks, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, combinatorial optimization, relational and structured learning. * Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, systems biology, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics. * Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG (electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG (magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), brain mapping, brain segmentation, brain computer interfaces. * Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: theoretical, computational, or experimental studies of perception, psychophysics, human or animal learning, memory, reasoning, problem solving, natural language processing, and neuropsychology. * Control and Reinforcement Learning: decision and control, exploration, planning, navigation, Markov decision processes, game playing, multi-agent coordination, computational models of classical and operant conditioning. * Hardware Technologies: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS, neural prostheses, photonics, molecular and quantum computing. * Learning Theory: generalization, regularization and model selection, Bayesian learning, spaces of functions and kernels, statistical physics of learning, online learning and competitive analysis, hardness of learning and approximations, statistical theory, large deviations and asymptotic analysis, information theory. * Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of processing and transmission of information in biological neurons and networks, including spike train generation, synaptic modulation, plasticity and adaptation. * Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding, synthesis, denoising, segmentation, source separation, auditory perception, psychoacoustics, dynamical systems, recurrent networks, language models, dynamic and temporal models. * Visual Processing: biological and machine vision, image processing and coding, segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion detection and tracking, visual psychophysics, visual scene analysis and interpretation. Papers that balance new algorithmic contributions with a more applied focus, with substantial evaluation on real-world problems, are particularly encouraged. Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Submission Instructions: All submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format. As in previous years, reviewing will be double-blind -- the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. Papers are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the NIPS style. However, this year an additional ninth page containing only cited references is allowed. Complete submission and formatting instructions, including style files, are available from the NIPS website, http://nips.cc. Electronic submissions will be accepted until June 5, 2009, 23:59 Universal Time (UTC, 4:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time). Note that this year, final papers will be due in advance of the conference. Demonstrations: There is a separate Demonstration track at NIPS. Authors wishing to submit to the Demonstration track should consult the Call for Demonstrations. Policy on Dual Submissions: Submissions that are substantially similar to papers that have been previously published or accepted for publication, in either a journal or conference proceedings, are not acceptable. During the NIPS review period, a submitted paper may not be under r
NIPS 2009 Call For Papers
NIPS 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are solicited for the Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in all aspects of neural and statistical information processing and computation. The conference is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Submissions by authors who are new to NIPS are encouraged. Preceding the main conference will be one day of tutorials (December 7), and following will be two days of workshops at the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (December 11-12). Deadline for Paper Submissions: Friday June 5, 2009, 23:59 Universal Time (UTC, 4:59pm Pacific Daylight Time). Technical Areas: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information processing and statistical learning, including, but not limited to: * Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, neural networks, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, combinatorial optimization, relational and structured learning. * Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, systems biology, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics. * Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG (electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG (magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), brain mapping, brain segmentation, brain computer interfaces. * Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: theoretical, computational, or experimental studies of perception, psychophysics, human or animal learning, memory, reasoning, problem solving, natural language processing, and neuropsychology. * Control and Reinforcement Learning: decision and control, exploration, planning, navigation, Markov decision processes, game playing, multi-agent coordination, computational models of classical and operant conditioning. * Hardware Technologies: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS, neural prostheses, photonics, molecular and quantum computing. * Learning Theory: generalization, regularization and model selection, Bayesian learning, spaces of functions and kernels, statistical physics of learning, online learning and competitive analysis, hardness of learning and approximations, statistical theory, large deviations and asymptotic analysis, information theory. * Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of processing and transmission of information in biological neurons and networks, including spike train generation, synaptic modulation, plasticity and adaptation. * Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding, synthesis, denoising, segmentation, source separation, auditory perception, psychoacoustics, dynamical systems, recurrent networks, language models, dynamic and temporal models. * Visual Processing: biological and machine vision, image processing and coding, segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion detection and tracking, visual psychophysics, visual scene analysis and interpretation. Papers that balance new algorithmic contributions with a more applied focus, with substantial evaluation on real-world problems, are particularly encouraged. Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Submission Instructions: All submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format. As in previous years, reviewing will be double-blind -- the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. Papers are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the NIPS style. However, this year an additional ninth page containing only cited references is allowed. Complete submission and formatting instructions, including style files, are available from the NIPS website, http://nips.cc. Electronic submissions will be accepted until June 5, 2009, 23:59 Universal Time (UTC, 4:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time). Note that this year, final papers will be due in advance of the conference. Demonstrations: There is a separate Demonstration track at NIPS. Authors wishing to submit to the Demonstration track should consult the Call for Demonstrations. Policy on Dual Submissions: Submissions that are substantially similar to papers that have been previously published or accepted for publication, in either a journal or conference proceedings, are not acceptable. During the NIPS review period, a submitted paper may not be under review in parallel for another conference with a published Proceedings; the NIPS review perio
NIPS 2009 Call For Demonstrations
http://nips.cc Demo Sessions: -- December 8 - 9, 2009; 7pm - midnight Hyatt Regency Vancouver, BC, CANADA Demonstration Proposal Deadline: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 23:59 UT (4:59 PM PDT) Demonstrations can bring ideas alive like no other form of presentation. This is an opportunity to showcase your novel software, hardware, or wetware technology at the NIPS 2009 Conference. Have people interact with your robot, try out your software library, or let them play your game. The Neural Information Processing Systems Conference has a Demonstration Track that will run in parallel with the popular evening Poster Sessions. Demonstrators have a chance to show their live interactive demos in any of the technical areas covered by NIPS (see Call for Papers) and can be in the form of: * Hardware technology * Software systems * Neuromorphic and biologically-inspired systems * Robotics The only hard constraints are that a demo must show novel technology and must be live, preferably with some interactive parts! A demo is not just another poster presentation - the action part is important. Submissions: Submission of demo proposals at the following URL: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/DemoForm.php Describe clearly: * What is the technology that is being demonstrated and what is novel about it? * What is the live part; what actions are taking place? * What is the interactive part; what can the viewer do? * What equipment is brought by the demonstrator? * What equipment is required at the place of the demo? Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, live action, potential for interaction. Demo Chair: Hans Peter Graf (NEC Laboratories America) -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
NIPS 2009 Call For Mini-Symposia
CALL FOR MINI-SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) -- Natural and Synthetic NIPS*2009 Mini-symposia December 10, 2009 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver, BC, CANADA http://nips.cc/ Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, up to four mini-symposia will be held in parallel during the afternoon of December 10, 2009, in the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada. We invite researchers interested in chairing a mini-symposium to submit proposals. The goal of the mini-symposia is to present topical material on a single theme, well suited to the main conference audience. Controversial issues, emerging topics, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as symposium topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints are also particularly encouraged. Possible topics for symposia include, but are not limited to: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks, Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Biophysics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Complexity, Control and Reinforcement Learning, Data Mining, Game Theory, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Human-Computer Interfaces, Independent Component Analysis, Information Theory, Kernel Methods, Large Scale Implementations and Software, Learning Theory, Mean-Field Methods, Mechanism Design, Music, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Neuromorphic Systems, Nonparametric Models, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Randomized Algorithms, Robotics, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Speech, Statistical Inference, Unsupervised Learning and Information Extraction, Time Series, Vision and Scene Understanding. Each of the four mini-symposia will run for three hours in the afternoon of December 10 after the end of the main conference. Organizers may consider proposing a mini-symposium in conjunction with a one- or two-day workshop proposed to be held subsequently in Whistler. In such a case proposers should take into account the more polished nature of the symposium, and, as the attendees might differ, should ensure that each stands alone programmatically. Detailed descriptions of previous symposia and workshops can be found at http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008/. We encourage neuroscience-related proposals, and are especially interested in those bridging areas of neuroscience and machine learning. Selected mini-symposia may be invited to submit proceedings for publication in the post-NIPS workshops monographs series published by the MIT Press. More details and instructions for submission of proposals may be found online at http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/CallForMiniSymposia. Proposals must be received by August 28, 2009. Richard Zemel (University of Toronto) Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta) Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) NIPS*2009 Symposia Co-Chairs PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 28, 2009 -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
Registration for the 2009 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference Is Open
Registration: https://nips.cc/Register/ Conference Program: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/Program/ The last day for early registration pricing is November 6, 2009. Tutorials: December 7, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Main Conference: December 7 - 10, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Workshops: December 11-12, 2009 in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada The tutorials will offer a choice of six two-hour tutorials by leading scientists. The topics span a wide range of subjects including Neuroscience, Learning Algorithms and Theory, Bioinformatics, Image Processing, and Data Mining. The NIPS Conference features a single track program, with contributions from a large number of intellectual communities. Presentation topics include: Algorithms and Architectures; Applications; Brain Imaging; Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence; Control and Reinforcement Learning; Emerging Technologies; Learning Theory; Neuroscience; Speech and Signal Processing; and Visual Processing. All papers are rigorously reviewed. The Poster Sessions will take place Monday through Wednesday evenings, December 7 9, 2009, during the Conference. The sessions offer high-quality posters and an opportunity for researchers to share their work and exchange ideas in a collegial setting. The majority of contributions accepted at NIPS are presented as posters. The Demonstrations enable researchers to highlight scientific advances, systems, and technologies in ways that go beyond conventional poster presentations. It provides a unique forum for demonstrating advanced technologies both hardware and software and fostering the direct exchange of knowledge. Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, four mini-symposia will be held in parallel during the afternoon of Thursday, December 10, 2009, in the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada. The Post-Conference Workshop Program takes place in Whistler, B.C. at the Westin Resort and Spa and the Hilton Whistler Resort and Spa Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12, 2009. There will be 28 workshops covering a wide range of topics from Neuroscience to Machine Learning. The workshop program schedule allows time for informal discussions, skiing and other winter sports. http://nips.cc -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
NIPS 2010 Call For Papers
NIPS 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/CallForPapers Submissions are solicited for the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in all aspects of neural and statistical information processing and computation. The conference is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Submissions by authors who are new to NIPS are encouraged. This year we are encouraging our reviewers to favor papers that open new avenues of research as well papers with solid applications. Preceding the main conference will be one day of tutorials (December 6), and following will be two days of workshops at the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (December 10-11). Deadline for Paper Submissions: Thursday June 3, 2010, 23:59 Universal Time (4:59pm Pacific Daylight Time) please note the change of day to Thursday from the usual Friday deadline. submit here: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NIPS2010/ Technical Areas: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information processing and statistical learning, including, but not limited to: * Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, neural networks, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, combinatorial optimization, relational and structured learning. * Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, systems biology, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics. * Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG (electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG (magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), brain mapping, brain segmentation, brain computer interfaces. * Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: theoretical, computational, or experimental studies of perception, psychophysics, human or animal learning, memory, reasoning, problem solving, natural language processing, and neuropsychology. * Control and Reinforcement Learning: decision and control, exploration, planning, navigation, Markov decision processes, game playing, multi-agent coordination, computational models of classical and operant conditioning. * Hardware Technologies: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS, neural prostheses, photonics, molecular and quantum computing. * Learning Theory: generalization, regularization and model selection, Bayesian learning, spaces of functions and kernels, statistical physics of learning, online learning and competitive analysis, hardness of learning and approximations, statistical theory, large deviations and asymptotic analysis, information theory. * Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of processing and transmission of information in biological neurons and networks, including spike train generation, synaptic modulation, plasticity and adaptation. * Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding, synthesis, denoising, segmentation, source separation, auditory perception, psychoacoustics, dynamical systems, recurrent networks, language models, dynamic and temporal models. * Visual Processing: biological and machine vision, image processing and coding, segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion detection and tracking, visual psychophysics, visual scene analysis and interpretation. Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Submission Instructions: All submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format. As in previous years, reviewing will be double-blind -- the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. Papers are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the NIPS style. An additional ninth page containing only cited references is allowed. Complete submission and formatting instructions, including style files, are available from the NIPS website, http://nips.cc. Supplementary Material: Authors can submit up to 10 MB of material, containing proofs, audio, images, video, or even data or source code. Note that the reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper solely on the basis of the 9 pages of the paper; looking at any extra material is up to the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. Electronic submissions will be accepted until Thursday June 3, 2010, 23:59 Universal Time (4:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time). Note that as with last year, final papers will be due in advance of the conference. Dual Submis
NIPS 2010 Call For Workshops
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/CallForWorkshops Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) --- Natural and Synthetic NIPS*2010 Post-Conference Workshops --- December 10 and 11, 2010 Whistler Resort & Spa and Westin Hilton, BC, CANADA Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2010 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, workshops on a variety of current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 10 and 11, 2010, in Whistler, BC, Canada. We invite researchers interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit proposals for workshops. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are also particularly encouraged. Potential workshop topics include, but are not limited to: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks, Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Biophysics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Complexity, Control, Genetic/Evolutionary Algorithms, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Human-Computer Interfaces, Implementations, Kernel Methods, Mean-Field Methods, Music, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Neuromorphic Systems, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Perceptual Learning, Robotics, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Speech, Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Time Series, Topological Maps, and Vision. Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/Program/schedule.php?Session=Workshops There will be six hours of workshop meetings per day, split into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time between the sessions for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Selected workshops may be invited to submit proceedings for publication in the post-NIPS workshops monographs series published by the MIT Press. Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including: * Coordinating workshop participation and content, including arranging short informal presentations by experts, arranging for expert commentators to sit on discussion panels, formulating discussion topics, etc. * Providing the program for the workshop in a timely manner for the workshop booklet. * Moderating the discussion, and reporting its findings and conclusions to the group during the evening plenary sessions. * Writing a brief summary and/or coordinating submitted material for post-conference electronic dissemination. Submission Instructions A nips.cc account is required to submit the Workshops application. Please follow the url below and check the required format for the application well before the deadline for workshop proposals. You can edit your application online right up until the deadline. Interested parties must submit a proposal by 23:59 UTC on July 2, 2010 (note that this deadline is earlier than previous years, to allow workshops more time for their calls for submissions). Proposals should be submitted electronically at the following url: https://nips.cc/Workshops Preference will be given to workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for open discussion or panel discussion, as opposed to a pure "mini-conference" format. We suggest that organizers allocate at least 50% of the workshop schedule to questions, discussion, and breaks. Past experience suggests that workshops otherwise degrade into mini-conferences as talks begin to run over. For the same reason, we strongly recommend that each workshop include no more than 12 talks per day. NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. In any case, the organizers of each accepted workshop can name two individuals to receive free registration for the workshop program. Neil D. Lawrence University of Manchester NIPS*2010 Workshops Chair -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
NIPS 2010 Call For Papers Reminder
This is a reminder about the upcoming deadline for NIPS-2010 papers. Submissions are due by Thursday June 3rd, 23:59 Universal Time (4:59pm Pacific Daylight Time). Please go to http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/CallForPapers for more information. Also, pay special attention to the Author/Submission Information, and the Style Files and Keywords. For the style files, make sure you are using nips2010 style files. One way to tell that you are using the latest style is that your submission should have line numbers. http://nips.cc/PaperInformation/ -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
NIPS 2010 Call For Demonstrations
= NIPS 2010 DEMONSTRATIONS = http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/CallForDemonstrations Demonstration Proposal Deadline: Monday September 20, 2010 The Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2010 http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/ has a Demonstration Track running in parallel with the evening Poster Sessions, December 6-8, 2010, in Vancouver, Canada. Demonstrations are an opportunity to showcase: Hardware technology Software systems Neuromorphic and biologically-inspired systems Robotics or other systems, which are relevant to the technical areas covered by NIPS (see Call for Papers http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/CallForPapers) . Demonstrations must show novel technology and must be live, preferably with some interactive parts. A demonstration is not just another poster presentation or a slide show, the action part is important. Submissions: Submission of demo proposals at the following URL: https://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/DemoForm.php You will be asked to fill a questionnaire and describe clearly: the technology demonstrated the elements of novelty the live part the interactive part the equipment brought by the demonstrator the equipment required at the place of the demo Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, live action, potential for interaction. Demonstration chair: Isabelle Guyon -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
NIPS 2010 Registration Open
NIPS 2010 Registration for the Tutorials and Conference Sessions in Vancouver and the Workshops in Whistler is now open: https://nips.cc/Register/ Please note: early registration pricing ends after November 6. For planning purposes, we'd tremendously appreciate if you participate in a survey about the 2011 NIPS conference in Spain: https://nips.cc/Surveys/survey.php?id=8 For students or Post Docs seeking financial support, both travel support applications and volunteer applications are now open: http://nips.cc/ConferenceInformation/TravelSupport http://nips.cc/ConferenceInformation/Volunteering The demonstrations proposal deadline is approaching: September 20, 2010 23:59 PDT http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/CallForDemonstrations We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver and Whistler! -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
NIPS 2011 Call For Papers
Submissions are solicited for the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in all aspects of neural and statistical information processing and computation, and their applications. The conference is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Submissions by authors who are new to NIPS are encouraged. In a switch from its previous Vancouver venue, the 2011 conference will be held on December 13-15 in Granada, Spain. One day of tutorials (December 12) will precede the main conference, and two days of workshops (December 16-17) will follow it at the Sierra Nevada ski resort. Deadline for Paper Submissions: Thursday June 2, 2011, 23:59 Universal Time (4:59pm Pacific Daylight Time). Submit at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NIPS2011/ Technical Areas: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information processing and statistical learning, including, but not limited to: *Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, neural networks, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, combinatorial optimization, relational and structured learning. *Applications: innovative applications that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, systems biology, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics. *Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG (electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG (magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), brain mapping, brain segmentation, brain computer interfaces. *Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: theoretical, computational, or experimental studies of perception, psychophysics, human or animal learning, memory, reasoning, problem solving, natural language processing, and neuropsychology. *Control and Reinforcement Learning: decision and control, exploration, planning, navigation, Markov decision processes, game playing, multi-agent coordination, computational models of classical and operant conditioning. *Hardware Technologies: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS, neural prostheses, photonics, molecular and quantum computing. *Learning Theory: generalization, regularization and model selection, Bayesian learning, spaces of functions and kernels, statistical physics of learning, online learning and competitive analysis, hardness of learning and approximations, statistical theory, large deviations and asymptotic analysis, information theory. *Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of processing and transmission of information in biological neurons and networks, including spike train generation, synaptic modulation, plasticity and adaptation. *Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding, synthesis, denoising, segmentation, source separation, auditory perception, psychoacoustics, dynamical systems, recurrent networks, language models, dynamic and temporal models. *Visual Processing: biological and machine vision, image processing and coding, segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion detection and tracking, visual psychophysics, visual scene analysis and interpretation. Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Submission Instructions: All submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format. As in previous years, reviewing will be double-blind -- the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. Papers are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the NIPS style. An additional ninth page containing only cited references is allowed. Complete submission and formatting instructions, including style files, are available from the NIPS website, http://nips.cc. Supplementary Material: Authors can submit up to 10 MB of material, containing proofs, audio, images, video, or even data or source code. Note that the reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper solely on the basis of the 9 pages of the paper; looking at any extra material is up to the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. Electronic submissions will be accepted until Thursday June 2, 2011, 23:59 Universal Time (4:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time). As was the case last year, final papers will be due in advance of the conference. Dual Submissions Policy: Submissions that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or during the NIPS review period are in submission to another peer-reviewed and published venue are not appropriate for NIPS, with three exceptions listed bel
NIPS 2011 Call For Workshops
NIPS 2011 Call For Workshops Natural and Synthetic NIPS*2011 Post-Conference Workshops December 16 and 17, 2011 Hotel Meliá Sol y Nieve and Sierra Nevada, Granada, SPAIN Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2011 conference in Granada, Spain, workshops on a variety of current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 16 and 17, 2011, in Sierra Nevada, Spain. We invite researchers interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit proposals for workshops. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are also particularly encouraged. Potential workshop topics include, but are not limited to: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks, Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Biophysics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Complexity, Control, Genetic/Evolutionary Algorithms, Graph Theory, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Human-Computer Interfaces, Implementations, Kernel Methods, Mean-Field Methods, Music, Natural Language Processing, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Neuromorphic Systems, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Perceptual Learning, Robotics, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Signal Processing, Social Networks, Spike Timing, Speech, Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Time Series, Topological Maps, and Vision. Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2010/Program/schedule.php?Session=Workshops There will be seven hours of workshop meetings per day, split into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time between the sessions for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Selected workshops may be invited to submit proceedings for publication in the post-NIPS workshops monographs series published by the MIT Press. Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including: *Coordinating workshop participation and content, including arranging short informal presentations by experts, arranging for expert commentators to sit on discussion panels, formulating discussion topics, etc. *Providing the program for the workshop in a timely manner for the workshop booklet. *Moderating the discussion, and reporting its findings and conclusions to the group during the evening plenary sessions. *Writing a brief summary and/or coordinating submitted material for post-conference electronic dissemination. Submission Instructions A nips.cc account is required to submit the Workshops application. Please follow the url below and check the required format for the application well before the deadline for workshop proposals. You can edit your application online right up until the deadline. Interested parties must submit a proposal by 23:59 UTC on July 1st, 2011. Proposals should be submitted electronically at the following URL: https://nips.cc/Workshops/ Preference will be given to workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for open discussion or panel discussion, as opposed to a pure "mini-conference" format. We suggest that organizers allocate at least 50% of the workshop schedule to questions, discussion, and breaks. Past experience suggests that workshops otherwise degrade into mini-conferences as talks begin to run over. For the same reason, we strongly recommend that each workshop include no more than 12 talks per day. This year we'd like to attempt to partially unify the NIPS workshop important dates across all of the workshops. Therefore, please consider using the following date guidelines for your workshop: * Your workshop call should be publicized on or before August 30th, 2011. * Submission deadline should be on or before September 23rd, 2011. * Acceptance decisions mailed out on or before October 15th, 2011. We stress that these are not mandatory, rather suggestions. If there are circumstances that would make your workshop difficult using these dates, you may use other dates. Also a call for contributions is not required and is orthogonal to the decision about workshop acceptance. NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. In any case, the organizers of each accepted workshop can name two individuals to receive free registration for the workshop program. Jeff Bilmes and Fernando Perez-Cruz NIPS*2011 Workshops Chairs Call URL: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2011/CallForWorkshops -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/cs
NIPS 2012 Call for Papers
Neural Information Processing Systems Conference and Workshops December 3-8, 2012 Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/ Deadline for Paper Submissions: Friday, June 1, 2012, 11 pm Universal Time (4 pm Pacific Daylight Time). Submit at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NIPS2012/ Submissions are solicited for the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in all aspects of neural and statistical information processing and computation, and their applications. The conference is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Submissions by authors who are new to NIPS are encouraged. The 2012 conference will be held on December 3-6 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. One day of tutorials (December 3) will precede the main conference, and two days of workshops (December 7-8) will follow it at the same location. Technical Areas: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information processing and statistical learning, including, but not limited to: * Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, neural networks, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, combinatorial optimization, relational and structured learning. * Applications: innovative applications that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, systems biology, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics. * Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG (electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG (magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), brain mapping, brain segmentation, brain computer interfaces. * Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: theoretical, computational, or experimental studies of perception, psychophysics, human or animal learning, memory, reasoning, problem solving, natural language processing, and neuropsychology. * Control and Reinforcement Learning: decision and control, exploration, planning, navigation, Markov decision processes, game playing, multi-agent coordination, computational models of classical and operant conditioning. * Hardware Technologies: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS, neural prostheses, photonics, molecular and quantum computing. * Learning Theory: generalization, regularization and model selection, Bayesian learning, spaces of functions and kernels, statistical physics of learning, online learning and competitive analysis, hardness of learning and approximations, statistical theory, large deviations and asymptotic analysis, information theory. * Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of processing and transmission of information in biological neurons and networks, including spike train generation, synaptic modulation, plasticity and adaptation. * Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding, synthesis, denoising, segmentation, source separation, auditory perception, psychoacoustics, dynamical systems, recurrent networks, language models, dynamic and temporal models. * Visual Processing: biological and machine vision, image processing and coding, segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion detection and tracking, visual psychophysics, visual scene analysis and interpretation. Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Submission Instructions: All submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format. As in previous years, reviewing will be double-blind: the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. Papers are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the NIPS style. An additional ninth page containing only cited references is allowed. Complete submission and formatting instructions, including style files, are available from the NIPS website, http://nips.cc. Supplementary Material: Authors can submit up to 10 MB of material, containing proofs, audio, images, video, data or source code. Note that the reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper solely on the basis of the 9 pages of the paper; looking at any extra material is up to the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. Submission process: Electronic submissions will be accepted until Friday, June 1, 2012, 11 pm Universal Time (4 pm Pacific Daylight Time). As was the case last year, final papers will be due in advance of the conference. Dual Submissions Policy: Submissions that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or during the NIPS review period are in
NIPS 2012 Call for Workshops
NIPS 2012 Call For Workshops Natural and Synthetic NIPS*2012 Post-Conference Workshops December 7 and 8, 2012 Hotel Harrahs and Harveys Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 2012 conference, workshops on a variety of current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 7 and 8, 2012, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA. We invite researchers interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit proposals for workshops. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are not only encouraged but preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are also particularly encouraged. Potential workshop topics include, but are not limited to: Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks, Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Biophysics, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computational Complexity, Control, Graph Theory, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Human-Computer Interfaces, Implementations, Kernel Methods, Mean-Field Methods, Music, Natural Language Processing, Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Neuromorphic Systems, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Perceptual Learning, Robotics, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Signal Processing, Social Networks, Spike Timing, Speech, Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Time Series, Topological Maps, and Vision. Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2011/Program/schedule.php?Session=Workshops There will be seven hours of workshop meetings per day, split into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time between the sessions for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including: Coordinating workshop participation and content, including arranging short informal presentations by experts, arranging for expert commentators to sit on discussion panels, formulating discussion topics, etc. Providing the program for the workshop in a timely manner for the workshop booklet. The expected deadline for submitting final workshop programs is October 14th, 2012. The publication date for the booklet is November 12, 2012. Moderating the discussion, and reporting its findings and conclusions to the group during the evening plenary sessions. Writing a brief summary and/or coordinating submitted material for post-conference electronic dissemination. Submission Instructions A nips.cc account is required to submit the Workshops application. Please follow the url below and check the required format for the application well before the deadline for workshop proposals. You can edit your application online right up until the deadline. Interested parties must submit a proposal by **23:59 UTC on July 6th, 2012**. Proposals should be submitted electronically at the following URL: https://nips.cc/Workshops/ Preference will be given to workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for open discussion or panel discussion, as opposed to a pure "mini-conference" format, and to workshops with a greater fraction of confirmed speakers. We suggest that organizers allocate at least 50% of the workshop schedule to questions, discussion, and breaks. Past experience suggests that workshops otherwise degrade into mini-conferences as talks begin to run over. For the same reason, we strongly recommend that each workshop includes no more than 12 talks per day. We would like to attempt to partially unify the NIPS workshop important dates across all of the workshops. Therefore, please consider using the following date guidelines for your workshop in order to provide program information in time for publication: * Your workshop call should be publicized on or before August 19th, 2012. * Submission deadline should be on or before September 16th, 2012. * Acceptance decisions mailed out on or before October 7th, 2012. We stress that these dates are not mandatory, rather suggestions. If there are circumstances that would make your workshop difficult using these dates, you may use other dates. Also a call for contributions is not required and is orthogonal to the decision about workshop acceptance. NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. In any case, the organizers of each accepted workshop can name two individuals to receive free registration for the workshop program. Raquel Urtasun and Máté Lengyel NIPS*2012 Workshops Chairs Web URL: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/CallForWorkshops -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classifica
NIPS 2012 Call for Demonstrations
Demonstration Proposal Deadline: Monday September 17, 2012 11:59 (UTC) The Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2012 http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/ has a Demonstration Track running in parallel with the evening Poster Sessions, December 3-5, 2012, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA. Demonstrations offer a unique opportunity to showcase: * Hardware technology * Software systems * Neuromorphic and biologically-inspired systems * Robotics * or other systems, which are relevant to the technical areas covered by NIPS (see Call for Papers http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/CallForPapers). Demonstrations must show novel technology and must be run live, preferably with some interactive parts. Unlike poster presentations or slide shows, live action and interaction with the audience are critical elements. Submissions Submission of demo proposals at the following URL: https://nips.cc/Demonstrators/ You will be asked to fill a questionnaire and describe clearly: * the technology demonstrated * the elements of novelty * the live action part * the interactive part * the equipment brought by the demonstrator * the equipment required at the place of the demo Evaluation Criteria Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, live action, and potential for interaction. Demonstration chair: Thore Graepel Web URL: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/CallForDemonstrations -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
NIPS 2012 Registration Open
Neural Information Processing Systems 2012 registration is open: https://nips.cc/Register/ NIPS 2012 Dates: Tutorials December 3, 2012 Conference Sessions December 3-6, 2012 Workshops December 7-8, 2012 Program Highlights can be found here: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/Program/ Accepted Papers are here: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/Program/accepted-papers.php Additional Information can be found here: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/ Early Registration Deadline: In order to qualify for reduced, early registration, pricing you must register and pay before November 9, 2012 23:59 PST. What's New in 2012: Venue: NIPS 2012 will be held in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA for the first time. Conveniently, the tutorials, conference, and workshops venue are in the hotels we are staying at (Harrah's and Harveys). An additional convenience, the main conference is at the same venue as the workshops. This means that Thursday afternoon does not need to be spent traveling for those attending both the conference and the workshops. Transportation: We highly recommend you reserve a private bus or shuttle seat with our transportation partner, Destination Tahoe. Please make your reservation by Monday, November 19 - after this date seating is not guaranteed but is distributed as available. **Deadline: Monday, November 19** For reservation details see our transportation page: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/Transportation Pricing: The price of tutorials has been reduced from $200 Regular / $120 Student to $175 Regular / $75 Student. Volunteering: Students can apply to volunteer at the conference in exchange for free registration: https://nips.cc/Volunteers/ Travel Support: Students and PostDocs can apply for travel support: https://nips.cc/TravelSupport/ You can register here: https://nips.cc/Register/ -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
CfP: Neural Information Processing Systems 2013
Neural Information Processing Systems Conference and Workshops December 5-10, 2013 Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA http://nips.cc/Conferences/2013/ Deadline for Paper Submissions: Friday, May 31, 2013, 11 pm Universal Time (4 pm Pacific Daylight Time). Submit at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NIPS2013/ Submissions are solicited for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in all aspects of neural and statistical information processing and computation, and their applications. The conference is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes oral and poster presentations of refereed papers as well as invited talks. The 2013 conference will be held on December 5-8 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. One day of tutorials (December 5) will precede the main conference, and two days of workshops (December 9-10) will follow it at the same location. Note that differently from previous years, the conference will start on a Thursday. Submission process: Electronic submissions will be accepted until Friday, May 31, 2013, 11 pm Universal Time (4 pm Pacific Daylight Time). As was the case last year, final papers will be due in advance of the conference. However, minor changes such as typos and additional references will still be allowed for a certain period after the conference. Reviewing: As in previous years, reviewing will be double-blind: the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. However, differently from previous years, anonymous reviews and meta-reviews of accepted papers will be made public after the end of the review process. Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Dual Submissions Policy: Submissions that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences are not appropriate for NIPS and violate our dual submission policy. Exceptions to this rule are the following: 1. Submission is permitted of a short version of a paper that has been submitted to a journal, but has not yet been published in that journal. Authors must declare such dual-submissions either through the CMT submission form, or via email to the program chairs at program-cha...@nips.cc. It is the authors responsibility to make sure that the journal in question allows dual concurrent submissions to conferences. 2. Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Previously published papers with substantial overlap written by the authors must be cited so as to preserve author anonymity (e.g. the authors of [1] prove that ). Differences relative to these earlier papers must be explained in the text of the submission. It is acceptable to submit to NIPS 2013 work that has been made available as a technical report (or similar, e.g. in arXiv) without citing it. While this could compromise the authors' anonymity, reviewers will be asked to refrain from actively searching for the authors identity or disclose to the area chairs if their identity is known to them. The dual-submission rules apply during the NIPS review period which begins May 31 and ends September 5, 2013. Submission Instructions: All submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format. Papers are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the NIPS style. An additional ninth page containing only cited references is allowed. Complete submission and formatting instructions, including style files, are available from the NIPS website, http://nips.cc. Supplementary Material: Authors can submit up to 10 MB of material, containing proofs, audio, images, video, data or source code. Note that the reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper solely on the basis of the 9 pages of the paper; looking at any extra material is up to the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. Technical Areas: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information processing and statistical learning, including, but not limited to: * Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, Bayesian methods, neural networks, deep learning, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, combinatorial optimization, relational and structured learning. * Applications: innovative applications that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, systems biology, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics. * Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG (electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG (magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnet
NIPS 2013 Call for Workshops
NIPS*2013 Post-Conference Workshops Mon December 9 and Tue December 10, 2013 Hotels Harrah's and Harveys Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA Following the NIPS*2013 main conference, workshops on a variety of current topics will be held on Monday December 9 and Tuesday December 10, 2013, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA. We invite researchers interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit workshop proposals. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are encouraged as workshop topics. There will be seven hours of workshop meetings per day, split into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time between the sessions for individual exchange or outdoor activities. Potential workshop topics range from Neuroscience to Bayesian Methods to Representation Learning to Kernels to Clustering, and include Application Areas such as Computational Biology, Speech, Vision or Social Networks. Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2012/Program/schedule.php?Session=Workshops Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including: Coordinating workshop participation and content as well as providing the program for the workshop in a timely manner for the workshop booklet. The expected deadline for submitting final workshop programs is October 30, 2013. The booklet will be submitted for hardcopy printing a few days after this deadline. Hence it is important for the workshop schedules to be as complete as possible by that time. Submission Instructions A nips.cc account is required to submit the Workshops application. Please follow the URL below and check the required format for the application well before the proposal deadline. You can edit your application online right up until this deadline. We have funding to video record a limited number of workshops for later online viewing. Workshop proposals should state if they wish their workshop to be recorded. Interested parties must submit a proposal by **23:59 UTC on Friday August 2nd, 2013**. Proposals should be submitted electronically at the following URL: https://nips.cc/Workshops/ Preference will be given to one-day workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for open discussion or panel discussion and to workshops with a greater fraction of confirmed speakers. We suggest that organizers allocate at least 50% of the workshop schedule to questions, discussion, and breaks. Past experience suggests that workshops otherwise degrade into mini-conferences as talks begin to run over. Organizers should explicitly state the expected fraction of time for discussion & questions and the expected number of talks per day at the end of the proposal. We would like to attempt to partially unify the NIPS workshop important dates across all of the workshops. Therefore, please consider using the following date guidelines for your workshop in order to provide program information in time for publication: We suggest workshop organizers to adopt the following schedule: * Workshop acceptance notification will be on August 14th, 2013 * Your workshop should be publicized on or before August 21st, 2013. * Submission deadline should be on or before October 9th, 2013. * Acceptance decisions should be mailed out on or before October 23th, 2013. * Submit finalized workshop program on or before October 30th, 2013. NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. The organizers of each accepted workshop can name two individuals to receive free workshop registration. Please note that unlike previous years, this year the main conference runs Thursday-Sunday and the workshops will be held on Monday and Tuesday. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions: Rich Caruana and Gunnar Rätsch NIPS*2013 Workshops Chairs Web URL: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2013/CallForWorkshops -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
NIPS 2014 Call for Papers
Neural Information Processing Systems Conference and Workshops December 8-13, 2014 Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Canada http://nips.cc/Conferences/2014/ Deadline for Paper Submissions: Friday, June 6, 2014, 11 pm Universal Time (4 pm Pacific Daylight Time). Submit at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NIPS2014/ Submissions are solicited for the Twenty-Eigth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in all aspects of neural and statistical information processing and computation, and their applications. The conference is a highly selective, single track meeting that includes oral and poster presentations of refereed papers as well as invited talks. The 2014 conference will be held on December 8-11 at Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Canada. One day of tutorials (December 8) will precede the main conference, and two days of workshops (December 12-13) will follow it at the same location. Submission process: Electronic submissions will be accepted until Friday, June 6, 2014, 11 pm Universal Time (4 pm Pacific Daylight Time). As was the case last year, final papers will be due in advance of the conference. However, minor changes such as typos and additional references will still be allowed for a certain period after the conference. Reviewing: As in previous years, reviewing will be double-blind: the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. However, differently from previous years, anonymous reviews and meta-reviews of accepted papers will be made public after the end of the review process. Evaluation Criteria: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, potential impact, and clarity. Dual Submissions Policy: Submissions that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences are not appropriate for NIPS and violate our dual submission policy. Exceptions to this rule are the following: Submission is permitted of a short version of a paper that has been submitted to a journal, but has not yet been published in that journal. Authors must declare such dual-submissions either through the CMT submission form, or via email to the program chairs at program-cha...@nips.cc. It is the authors responsibility to make sure that the journal in question allows dual concurrent submissions to conferences. Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Previously published papers with substantial overlap written by the authors must be cited so as to preserve author anonymity (e.g. the authors of 1 prove that ). Differences relative to these earlier papers must be explained in the text of the submission. It is acceptable to submit to NIPS 2014 work that has been made available as a technical report (or similar, e.g. in arXiv) without citing it. While this could compromise the authors' anonymity, reviewers will be asked to refrain from actively searching for the authors identity or disclose to the area chairs if their identity is known to them. The dual-submission rules apply during the NIPS review period which begins June 6 and ends September 10, 2014. Submission Instructions: All submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format. Papers are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the NIPS style. An additional ninth page containing only cited references is allowed. Please refer to the complete submission and formatting instructions: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2014/PaperInformation/AuthorSubmissionInstructions and to the style files: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2014/PaperInformation/StyleFiles for further details. Supplementary Material: Authors can submit up to 10 MB of material, containing proofs, audio, images, video, data or source code. Note that the reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper solely on the basis of the 9 pages of the paper; looking at any extra material is up to the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. Technical Areas: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information processing and statistical learning, including, but not limited to: * Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, Bayesian methods, neural networks, deep learning, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, combinatorial optimization, relational and structured learning. * Applications: innovative applications that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, systems biology, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics. * Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG (electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG (magnetoe
NIPS 2014 Call for Workshops
NIPS*2014 Post-Conference Workshops Friday December 12 and Saturday December 13, 2014 Palais des Congrès de Montréal/Convention and Exhibition Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Following the NIPS*2014 main conference, workshops on a variety of current topics will be held on Friday December 12 and Saturday December 13, 2014, in Montreal, Canada. We invite researchers interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit workshop proposals. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing approaches are encouraged as workshop topics. There will be seven hours of workshop meetings per day, split into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time between the sessions for individual exchange or outdoor activities. Note that this year, there is no skiing at NIPS; the workshop schedule will thus differ from past NIPS workshops (the morning session will be 8:30am-12pm, and the afternoon session will be 3pm-6:30pm). Potential workshop topics range from Neuroscience to Bayesian Methods to Representation Learning to Kernels to Clustering, and include Application Areas such as Computational Biology, Speech, Vision or Social Networks. Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2013/Program/schedule.php?Session=Workshops Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including: Coordinating workshop participation and content as well as providing the program for the workshop in a timely manner. Submission Instructions A nips.cc account is required to submit the Workshops application. Please follow the URL below and check the required format for the application well before the proposal deadline. You can edit your application online right up until this deadline. We have funding to video record a limited number of workshops for later online viewing. Workshop proposals should state if they wish their workshop to be recorded. Interested parties must submit a proposal by **23:59 UTC on Friday August 2nd, 2014** Proposals should be submitted electronically at the following URL: https://nips.cc/Workshops/ Preference will be given to one-day workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for open discussion or panel discussion and to workshops with a greater fraction of confirmed speakers. We suggest that organizers allocate sufficient time for questions, discussion, and breaks. Past experience suggests that workshops otherwise degrade into mini-conferences as talks begin to run over. Organizers should explicitly state the expected fraction of time for discussion & questions and the expected number of talks per day at the end of the proposal. We strongly recommend that each workshop include no more than 12 talks per day. We would like to attempt to partially unify the NIPS workshop important dates across all of the workshops. Therefore, please consider using the following date guidelines for your workshop in order to provide program information in time for publication: We suggest workshop organizers to adopt the following schedule: * Workshop acceptance notification will be on August 14th, 2014 * Your workshop should be publicized on or before August 21st, 2014. * Internal submission deadline should be on or before October 9th, 2014. * Internal acceptance decisions should be mailed out on or before October 23rd, 2014. * Submit finalized workshop organizers, abstract, and URL on or before October 30th, 2014. NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. The organizers of each accepted workshop can name four individuals per day of workshop to receive free workshop registration. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions: Francis Bach and Amir Globerson NIPS*2014 Workshops Chairs Web URL: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2014/CallForWorkshops -- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
