International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2007 9-13 September 2007, Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal Web page: http://www.icann2007.org 1st Call for Papers The 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, will be held from September 9 through September 13 at the Ipanema Park Hotel, Porto, Portugal. ICANN is an annual conference organized by the European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2007 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications in the following broad areas: • Vision and image processing. • Computational neuroscience; • Connectionist cognitive science; • Data analysis and pattern recognition; • Graphical network models, Bayesian networks; • Hardware implementations and embedded systems; • Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web; • Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms; • Neural control, planning and robotics applications; • Neural dynamics and complex systems; • Neuroinformatics; • Real world applications; • Self-organization; • Sequential and structured information processing; • Signal and time series processing, blind source separation; General-Chair Joaquim Marques de Sá, University of Porto, Portugal Co-Chair Luís Alexandre, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Program Chairs Wlodzislaw Duch, Torun, PL & Singapore, ENNS President Danilo Mandic, Imperial College London, UK Honorary Chair John G. Taylor, Kings College, London, UK PROGRAM Committee Alessandro Sperduti, Univ. Padova, IT Alessandro Villa, Univ. Grenoble, FR Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK Andreas Nuernberger, Univ. Magdeburg, DE Andreas Stafylopatis, NTUA, GR Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN Brain Sci. Inst., JP Bruno Apolloni, Univ. Milano, IT David Miller, Univ. Pennsylvania, USA Dragan Obradovic, Siemens Corp. Res., DE Erkki Oja, Helsinki University, FI Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State Univ., USA Jacek Mandziuk, Warsaw University, PL João Luís Rosa, Catholic Univ. Campinas, BR Jose Dorronsoro, Univ. Aut. de Madrid, ES José Príncipe, Univ. Florida, USA Juergen Schmidhuber, Scuola Univ. Prof., CH Lefteris Tsoukalas, Purdue Univ., USA Marios Polycarpou, Univ.Cyprus, CY Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Inst., USA Michel Verleysen, Univ. Louvain-la-Neuve, BE Nikola Kasabov, Auckland Univ., NZ Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, TR Olli Simula, Helsinki University, FI Peter Andras, Univ. Newcastle, UK Péter Érdi, HU & Kalamazoo College, USA Stan Gielen, University of Nijmegen, NL Stefan Wermter, Univ.Sunderland, UK Stefanos Kolias, NTUA, GR Steve Gunn, Univ. Southampton, UK Thomas Martinetz, Univ. Luebeck, DE Deadlines 16 Feb End of submission of special session and workshop proposals. 23 Mar End of submission of full papers. Conference Proceedings Published by Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Neural Networks Special Issue An extended version of selected ICANN 2007 papers will be published in a Special Issue of Elsevier's journal Neural Networks. Sponsors: ENNS, INNS, JNNS, EURASIP, INEB, ISEP, UBI Student support available (please see web page) ICANN 2007 Secretariat Gabriela Afonso, INEB, Campus FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto, Portugal ( mailto:gafonso@fe.up.pt )