From honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!gatech!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!info-sparc1.info.ucl.ac.be!news Wed Sep 1 16:35:52 EDT 1993 Article: 12078 of comp.ai.neural-nets Xref: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai.neural-nets:12078 Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!gatech!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!info-sparc1.info.ucl.ac.be!news From: esann@dice.ucl.ac.be Subject: ESANN'94 - call for papers Message-ID: <1993Sep1.131139.29753@info.ucl.ac.be> Sender: news@info.ucl.ac.be (News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.104.32.22 Reply-To: esann@dice.ucl.ac.be Organization: UCL Belgium Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 13:11:39 GMT Lines: 234 ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks Brussels - April 20-21-22, 1994 First announcement and call for papers ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ----------------------- Scope of the conference ----------------------- ESANN'93 was held in Brussels, in April 1993. It gathered more than 80 scientists, from about 15 countries, who wanted to learn more about the last developments in the theory of neural networks. The European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks will be organized for the second time in April 1994, and, as in 1993, will focus on the fundamental aspects of the artificial neural network research. Today, thousands of researchers work in this field; they try to develop new algorithms, to mimic properties found in natural networks, to develop parallel computers based on these properties, and to use artificial neural networks in new application areas. But the field is new, and has expanded drastically in about ten years; this lead to a lack of theoretical works in the subject, and also to a lack of comparisons between new methods and more classical ones. The purpose of ESANN is to cover the theoretical and fundamental aspects of neural networks; the symposium is intended to give to the participants an up-to-date and comprehensive view of these aspects, by the presentation of new results and new developments, of tutorial papers covering the relations between neural networks and classical methods of computing, and also by round tables confronting views of specialists and non-specialists of the field. The program committee of ESANN'94 welcomes papers in the following aspects of artificial neural networksÊ: . theory . models and architectures . mathematics . learning algorithms . biologically plausible artificial networks . neurobiological systems . adaptive behavior . signal processing . statistics . self-organization . evolutive learning Accepted papers will cover new results in one or several of these aspects or will be of tutorial nature. Papers insisting on the relations between artificial neural networks and classical methods of information processing, signal processing or statistics are encouraged. ---------------------- Call for contributions ---------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit six originals of their contribution before November 26, 1993. Working language of the conference (including proceedings) is English. Papers should not exceed six A4 pages (including figures and references). Printing area will be 12.2 x 19.3 cm (centered on the A4 page); left, right, top and bottom margins will thus respectively be 4.4, 4.4, 5.2 and 5.2 cm. 10-point Times font will be used for the main text; headings will be in bold characters, (but not underlined), and will be separated from the main text by two blank lines before and one after. Manuscripts prepared in this format will be reproduced in the same size in the book. The first page will begin by a heading, indented 1cm left and right with regards to the main text (the heading will thus have left and right margins of 5.4 cm). The heading will contain the title (Times 14 point, bold, centered), one blank line, the author(s) name(s) (Times 10 point, centered), one blank line, the affiliation (Times 9 point, centered), one blank line, and the abstract (Times 9 point, justified, beginning by the word "Abstract." in bold face). Originals of the figures will be pasted into the manuscript and centered between the margins. The lettering of the figures should be in 10-point Times font size. Figures should be numbered. The legends also should be centered between the margins and be written in 9-point Times font size as follows: The pages of the manuscript will not be numbered (numbering decided by the editor). A separate page (not included in the manuscript) will indicate: . the title of the manuscript . author(s) name(s) . the complete address (including phone & fax numbers and E-mail) of the corresponding author . a list of five keywords or topics On the same page, the authors will copy and sign the following paragraph: "in case of acceptation of the paper for presentation at ESANN 94: - at least one of the authors will register to the conference and will present the paper - the author(s) give their rights up over the paper to the organizers of ESANN 94, for the proceedings and any publication that could directly be generated by the conference - if the paper does not match the format requirements for the proceedings, the author(s) will send a revised version within two weeks of the notification of acceptation." Contributions must be sent to the conference secretariat. Prospective authors are invited to ask examples of camera-ready contributions by writing to the same address. ------------- Local details ------------- The conference will be held in the center of Brussels (Belgium). Close to most great European cities, Brussels is exceptionally well served by closely-knit motorway and railway systems, and an international airport. Besides an artistic and cultural center of attraction, Brussels is also renowned for its countless typical cafŽs, form the most unassuming to the most prestigious. Belgian food is typical and famous, and the night life in Brussels is considerable. --------- Deadlines --------- Submission of papers November 26, 1993 Notification of acceptance January 17, 1994 Symposium April 20-22, 1994 ------ Grants ------ A limited number of grants (registration fees and economic accommodation) will be given to young scientists coming from the European Community (Human Capital and Mobility program, European Community - DG XII). Grants will also probably be available for scientists from Central and Eastern European countries. Please write to the conference secretariat to get an application form for these grants. ---------------------- Conference secretariat ---------------------- Dr. Michel Verleysen D Facto Conference Services 45 rue Masui B - 1210 Brussels (Belgium) phone: + 32 2 245 43 63 Fax: + 32 2 245 46 94 E-mail: esann@dice.ucl.ac.be ---------- Reply form ---------- If your contact address is incomplete or has been changed recently, or if you know a colleague who might be interested in ESANN'94, please send this form, with your or his/her name and address, to the conference secretariat: '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Name: ..................................................... First Name: ............................................... University or Company: .................................... ............................................................ Address: .................................................. ............................................................ ............................................................ ZIP: ...................................................... Town: ..................................................... Country: .................................................. Tel: ...................................................... Fax: ...................................................... E-mail: ................................................... '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ------------------ Steering committee ------------------ Franois Blayo EERIE, N”mes (F) Marie Cottrell Univ. Paris I (F) Nicolas Franceschini CNRS Marseille (F) Jeanny HŽrault INPG Grenoble (F) Michel Verleysen UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B) -------------------- Scientific committee -------------------- Luis Almeida * INESC - Lisboa (P) Jorge Barreto UCL Louvain-en-Woluwe (B) HervŽ Bourlard L. & H. Speech Products (B) Joan Cabestany Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Dave Cliff University of Sussex (UK) Pierre Comon Thomson-Sintra Sophia (F) Holk Cruse UniversitŠt Bielefeld (D) Dante Del Corso Politecnico di Torino (I) Marc Duranton Philips / LEP (F) Jean-Claude Fort UniversitŽ Nancy I (F) Karl Goser UniversitŠt Dortmund (D) Martin Hasler EPFL Lausanne (CH) Philip Husbands University of Sussex (UK) Christian Jutten INPG Grenoble (F) Petr Lansky Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ) Jean-Didier Legat UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B) Jean Arcady Meyer * Ecole Normale SupŽrieure - Paris (F) Erkki Oja Helsinky University of Technology (SF) Guy Orban KU Leuven (B) Gilles Pags * UniversitŽ Paris I (F) Alberto Prieto Universitad de Granada (E) Pierre Puget LETI Grenoble (F) Ronan Reilly University College Dublin (IRE) Tamas Roska Hungarian Academy of Science (H) Jean-Pierre Rospars INRA Versailles (F) AndrŽ Roucoux UCL Louvain-en-Woluwe (B) John Stonham Brunel University (UK) Lionel Tarassenko University of Oxford (UK) John Taylor KingÕs College London (UK) Vincent Torre Universita di Genova (I) Claude Touzet EERIE N”mes (F) Joos Vandewalle KUL Leuven (B) Eric Vittoz CSEM Neuch‰tel (CH) Christian Wellekens Eurecom Sophia-Antipolis (F) (* tentatively)