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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Special Issue of Neural Networks
on
Neural Networks and Kernel Methods for Structured Domains
Co-editors:Barbara Hammer, Craig Saunders, Alessandro Sperduti
(http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/barbara/specialNN/)
>>>>> Deadline for submission October 11, 2004 <<<<<
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In recent years several researchers have started to consider the
adaptive processing of structured data. This interest is motivated by
two main reasons:
i) several very important computational problems in Bioinformatics,
Chemistry, document classification and filtering (just to name a few),
require the use of some Machine Learning procedure to be properly
treated because their complexity does not allow a formal and precise
definition of the problem and thus no algorithmic solution to the
problem is known; on the other hand experimental data is available and
usable by a Machine Learning approach;
ii) in many of the above problems, the objects of interest are more
naturally represented via varying-size structured representations,
such as sequences, strings, trees, directed or undirected graphs.
Moreover, it is commonly believed that any computational process
representing these objects via flat fixed-size vectorial
representations, risks to discard structural information relevant for
solving the task at hand.
The aim of the special issue is to bring together recent works
developed mainly into the fields of Recurrent and Recursive Neural
Networks, and Kernel Methods, with the hope to function as a
conceptual support for the improvement of current technologies and the
growth of new integrated methodologies for learning in structured
domains.
TOPICS:
Recurrent and Recursive Neural Networks, Self-Organizing Maps for
Structures, Support Vector Machines and Kernel Methods for Structured
Domains, Fisher Kernels, Probabilistic Models for Structured Domains,
Applications of the above methods to Structured Domains, other
relevant topics.
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I M P O R T A N T D A T E S
Deadline for submission October 11, 2004
Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2005
Deadline for final paper: June 6, 2005
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P A P E R S U B M I S S I O N
Format: http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/barbara/specialNN/
Papers must be submitted in electronic form (either Postscript or PDF)
to the following
e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard-paper submissions are accepted only if the authors do not have
access to electronic facilities, and should be mailed to the following
address:
Prof. Alessandro Sperduti
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata
Via Belzoni 7
35131 Padova
ITALY
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