Call for Papers
The deadline for submission has now passed. This was the call for papers.
Major categories for paper submission, with example subcategories (by no means exhaustive), are listed below.
Algorithms and Architectures: supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, feedforward and recurrent network architectures, kernel methods, committee models, graphical models, support vector machines, Gaussian processes, decision trees, factor analysis, independent component analysis, model selection algorithms, combinatorial optimization, hybrid symbolic-subsymbolic systems.
Applications: innovative applications of neural computation including data mining, web and network applications, intrusion and fraud detection, bio-informatics, medical diagnosis, handwriting recognition, industrial monitoring and control, financial analysis, time-series prediction, consumer products, music and video applications, animation, virtual environments.
Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence: perception and psychophysics, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, development, human learning and memory, conditioning, categorization, attention, language, natural language, reasoning, spatial cognition, emotional cognition, neurophilosophy, problem solving and planning.
Implementations: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, microelectromechanical systems, optical systems, vision chips, head-eye systems, cochlear implants, roving robots, computational sensors and actuators, molecular and quantum computing, novel neurodevices, simulation tools.
Neuroscience: neural encoding, spiking neurons, synchronicity, sensory processing, systems neurophysiology, neuronal development, synaptic plasticity, neuromodulation, dendritic computation, channel dynamics, population codes, temporal codes, spike train analysis, and experimental data relevant to computational issues.
Reinforcement Learning and Control: exploration, planning, navigation, computational models of classical and operant conditioning, Q-learning, TD-learning, state estimation, dynamic programming, robotic motor control, process control, game-playing, Markov decision processes, multi-agent cooperative algorithms.
Speech and Signal Processing: speech recognition, speech coding, speech synthesis, speech signal enhancement, auditory scene analysis, source separation, applications of hidden Markov models to signal processing, models of human speech perception, auditory modeling and psychoacoustics.
Theory: computational learning theory, statistical physics of learning, information theory, Bayesian methods, prediction and generalization, regularization, online learning (stochastic approximation), dynamics of learning, approximation and estimation theory, complexity theory.
Visual Processing: image processing, image coding, object recognition, face recognition, visual feature detection, visual psychophysics, stereopsis, optic flow algorithms, motion detection and tracking, spatial representations, spatial attention, scene analysis, visual search, visuo-spatial working memory.
All submitted papers will be thoroughly refereed on the basis of technical quality, significance, and clarity. Novelty of the work is also a strong consideration in paper selection, but to encourage interdisciplinary contributions, we will consider work which has been submitted or presented in part elsewhere, if it is unlikely to have been seen by the NIPS audience. Authors new to NIPS are strongly encouraged to submit their work, and will be given preference for oral presentations. Authors should not be dissuaded from submitting recent work, as there will be an opportunity after the meeting to revise accepted manuscripts before submitting a final camera-ready copy for the proceedings.
Submitted papers may be up to seven pages in length, including figures and references, using a font no smaller than 10 point. Text is to be confined within a 8.25in by 5in rectangle. Click for the full formatting instructions including the NIPS LaTeX style files which authors are required to use. Submissions failing to follow these guidelines will not be considered. The style files are unchanged from NIPS*2000 (which were unchanged from NIPS*99).
NIPS is now accepting electronic paper submissions, as of June 6, 2001. Click here to submit a paper. NIPS accepts only electronic submissions. Click here for full submission instructions. The mechanics of the submission process has changed somewhat since NIPS*2000, so we encourage authors to read the instructions for 2001.
Deadline: Submissions must be finalized by midnight June 20, 2001 Pacific daylight time (08:00 GMT June 21, 2001).
Authors will be notified about the outcome of the review process in early September.