---------------------------------------------------- | | | ESANN'99 | | | | 7th European Symposium | | on Artificial Neural Networks | | | | Bruges (Belgium) - April 21-22-23, 1999 | | | | First announcement and call for papers | ---------------------------------------------------- The call for papers for the ESANN 99 conference is now available on the Web: http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related ANN sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list; thank you very much! We try as much as possible to avoid multiple sendings of this call for papers; however please apologize if you receive this e-mail twice, despite our precautions. You will find below a short version of this call for papers, without the instructions to authors (available on the Web). If you have difficulties to connect to the Web please send an e-mail to esann@dice.ucl.ac.be and we will send you a full version of the call for papers. ESANN'99 is organised in collaboration with the UCL (Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) and the KULeuven (Katholiek Universiteit Leuven), and is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Neural Networks Council, the IEEE Region 8, the IEEE Benelux section, and the INNS (International Neural Networks Society). Scope and topics ---------------- The aim of the ESANN series of conference is to provide an annual European forum for the presentation and discussion of recent advances in artificial neural networks. ESANN focuses on fundamental aspects of ANNs: theory, models, learning algorithms, mathematical aspects, approximation of functions, classification, control, time-series prediction, statistics, signal processing, vision, self-organization, vector quantization, evolutive learning, psychological computations, biological plausibility, etc. Papers on links and comparisons between ANNs and other domains of research (such as statistics, data analysis, signal processing, biology, psychology, evolutive learning, bio-inspired systems, etc.) are also encouraged. Papers will be presented orally (no parallel sessions) and in poster sessions; all posters will be complemented by a short oral presentation during a plenary session. It is important to mention that it is the topics of the paper which will decide if it better fits into an oral or a poster session, not its quality. The quality of posters will be the same as the quality of oral presentations, and both will be printed in the same way in the proceedings. Nevertheless, authors have the choice to indicate on the author submission form that they only accept to present their paper orally. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics which will be covered during ESANN'99: o theory o models and architectures o mathematics o learning algorithms o vector quantization o self-organization o RBF networks o Bayesian classification o recurrent networks o approximation of functions o time series forecasting o adaptive control o statistical data analysis o independent component analysis o signal processing o natural and artificial vision o cellular neural networks o fuzzy neural networks o hybrid networks o identification of non-linear dynamic systems o biologically plausible artificial networks o bio-inspired systems o formal models of biological phenomena o neurobiological systems o cognitive psychology o adaptive behavior o evolutive learning Special sessions ---------------- Special sessions will be organised by renowned scientists in their respective fields. Papers submitted to these sessions are reviewed according to the same rules as any other submission. Authors who submit papers to one of these sessions are invited to mention it on the author submission form; nevertheless, submissions to the special sessions must follow the same format, instructions and deadlines as any other submission, and must be sent to the same address. The special sessions organized during ESANN'99 are: o Information extraction using unsupervised neural networks Colin Fyfe, Univ. of Paisley (UK). o Spiking neurons Wulfram Gerstner, E.P.F. Lausanne (Switzerland). o Adaptive computation of structured information Marco Gori, Univ. di Siena (Italy) o Remote sensing spectral image analysis Erzsebet Merenyi, Univ. of Arizona (USA) o Large-scale recognition of sequential patterns Yves Moreau, K.U. Leuven (Belgium) o Support Vector Machines S. Canu, INSIA Rouen (France) Bernhard Schoelkopf, GMD FIRST Berlin (Germany) Location -------- The conference will be held in Bruges (also called "Venice of the North"), one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Bruges can be reached by train from Brussels in less than one hour (frequent trains). The town of Bruges is world-wide known, and famous for its architectural style, its canals, and its pleasant atmosphere. The conference will be organised in an hotel located near the centre (walking distance) of the town. There is no obligation for the participants to stay in this hotel. Hotels of all level of comfort and price are available in Bruges; there is a possibility to book a room in the hotel of the conference, or in another one (50 m. from the first one) at a preferential rate through the conference secretariat. A list of other smaller hotels is also available. The conference will be held at the Novotel hotel, Katelijnestraat 65B, 8000 Brugge, Belgium. Call for contributions ---------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit - six original copies of their manuscript (including at least two originals or very good copies without glued material, which will be used for the proceedings) - one signed copy of the author submission form before December 7, 1998. While this is not mandatory, authors are encouraged to join a floppy disk or CD with their contribution in (generic) PostScript or (preferred) PDF format. Sorry, electronic or fax submissions are not accepted. Working language of the conference (including proceedings) is English. The instructions to authors, together with the author submission form, are available on the ESANN Web server: http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann A printed version of these documents is also available through the conference secretariat (please use email if possible). Authors are invited to follow the instructions to authors. A LaTeX style file is also available on the Web. Authors must indicate their choice for oral or poster presentation on the author submission form. They must also sign a written agreement that they will register to the conference and present the paper in case of acceptation of their submission. Authors of accepted papers will have to register before February 28, 1999. They will benefit from the advance registration fee. Submissions must be sent to: Michel Verleysen UCL - DICE 3, place du Levant B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium esann@dice.ucl.ac.be All submissions will be acknowledged by fax or email before December 15, 1998. Deadlines --------- Submission of papers December 7, 1998 Notification of acceptance January 31, 1999 Symposium April 21-22-23, 1999 Registration fees ----------------- registration before registration after February 28, 1999 February 28, 1999 Universities BEF 15500 BEF 16500 Industries BEF 19500 BEF 20500 The registration fee include the attendance to all sessions, the lunches during the three days of the conference, the coffee breaks twice a day, the conference dinner, and the proceedings. Conference secretariat ---------------------- Michel Verleysen D facto conference services phone: + 32 2 420 37 57 27 rue du Laekenveld Fax: + 32 2 420 02 55 B - 1080 Brussels (Belgium) E-mail: esann@dice.ucl.ac.be http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann Steering and local committee ---------------------------- Franois Blayo Univ. Paris I (F) Marie Cottrell Univ. Paris I (F) Jeanny Herault INPG Grenoble (F) Henri Leich Fac. Polytech. Mons (B) Bernard Manderick Vrije Univ. Brussel (B) Eric Noldus Univ. Gent (B) Jean-Pierre Peters FUNDP Namur (B) Joos Vandewalle KUL Leuven (B) Michel Verleysen UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B) Scientific committee (to be confirmed) -------------------- Edoardo Amaldi Cornell Univ. (USA) Agnes Babloyantz Univ. Libre Bruxelles (B) Herve Bourlard IDIAP Martigny (CH) Joan Cabestany Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Holk Cruse Universitat Bielefeld (D) Eric de Bodt Univ. Lille II (F) & UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B) Dante Del Corso Politecnico di Torino (I) Wlodek Duch Nicholas Copernicus Univ. (PL) Marc Duranton Philips / LEP (F) Jean-Claude Fort Universite Nancy I (F) Bernd Fritzke Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (D) Stan Gielen Univ. of Nijmegen (NL) Manuel Grana UPV San Sebastian (E) Anne Guerin-Dugue INPG Grenoble (F) Martin Hasler EPFL Lausanne (CH) Laurent Herault CEA Grenoble (F) Christian Jutten INPG Grenoble (F) Juha Karhunen Helsinky Uniersity of Technology (FIN) Vera Kurkova Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ) Petr Lansky Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ) Mia Loccufier Univ. Gent (B) Hans-Peter Mallot Max-Planck Institut (D) Eddy Mayoraz IDIAP Martigny (CH) Jean Arcady Meyer Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie (F) Jose Mira Mira UNED (E) Jean-Pierre Nadal Ecole Normale Superieure Paris (F) Gilles Pages Universite Paris VI (F) Thomas Parisini University of Trieste (I) Helene Paugam-Moisy Univ. Lumiere Lyon 2 (F) Alberto Prieto Universitad de Granada (E) Leonardo Reyneri Politecnico di Torino (I) Tamas Roska Hungarian Academy of Science (H) Jean-Pierre Rospars INRA Versailles (F) John Stonham Brunel University (UK) Johan Suykens KUL Leuven (B) John Taylor King's College London (UK) Claude Touzet CESAR ONRL Oak Ridge (USA) Marc Van Hulle KUL Leuven (B) Christian Wellekens Eurecom Sophia-Antipolis (F) ===================================================== ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann * For submissions of papers, reviews,... Michel Verleysen Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Microelectronics Laboratory 3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 mailto:esann@dice.ucl.ac.be * Conference secretariat D facto conference services 45 rue Masui - B-1000 Brussels - Belgium tel: + 32 2 203 43 63 - fax: + 32 2 203 42 94 mailto:esann@dice.ucl.ac.be =====================================================