ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS

                        1st International Symposium on
           "Brain, Vision and Artificial Intelligence" (BV&AI 2005)
                       Naples-Italy, October 19-21, 2005

BV&AI 2005 is organised by the research group Neural, Visual and Cognitive
Models of Natural and Artificial Systems of the Institute of Cybernetics
"E. Caianiello" of the Italian National Research Council, and will be held
in Naples, Italy, 19-21 October 2005.

The scientific program will include, besides six invited talks, contributed
papers that will be presented in plenary oral or poster sessions. Original
and unpublished papers on BV&AI 2005 main research areas and related topics
are welcome. Main research areas are: Brain Basics, Natural Vision,
Artificial Vision, and Artificial Intelligence.

Visit the WWW BV&AI 2005 Page  http://bvai.cib.na.cnr.it/BVAI2005 for
more details and updated information.

Invited Speakers:

        Igor Aleksander (UK)            Dana Ballard (USA)
        György Buzsáki (USA)            Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy)
        Nikos Logothetis (Germany)      Peter Erdi (USA)

Important Dates:
        Paper Submission                15 March 2005
        Acceptance Notification         30 May 2005
        Camera-ready Papers             30 June 2005

BV&AI 2005 Proceedings, including all accepted contributions, will be
published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer
Science. In addition, two special issues of international journals are
planned, which will include extended versions of selected BV&AI 2005
papers.

                Email Contact: contact@bvai.cib.na.cnr.it