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Call for Participation and Conference Program

ICANN 2014: 24th Annual Conference on Artificial Neural Networks 15 - 19 September 2014, University of Hamburg, Germany http://icann2014.org/

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We invite you to attend the 2014 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), which is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). In 2014 the University of Hamburg will organize the 24th ICANN Conference from 15th to 19th September 2014 in Hamburg, Germany.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

The main conference program is now available. The program includes 72 oral presentations, 33 posters and 2 live Demonstrations.

http://icann2014.org/program/

REGISTRATION:

The ICANN 2014 registration is open. The full registration costs 490 € and 390 € for students. ENNS members pay a reduced rate of 440 €, and 340 € for students. The registration includes access to scientific sessions and plenary talks, coffee breaks during the main conference, welcome event, conference dinner, one copy of the proceedings (USB), one conference bag. Additional tickets for the conference dinner can be purchased for 70 €.

http://icann2014.org/registration/

VENUE AND TRANSPORTATION:

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany, home to over 1.8 million people. Situated at the river Elbe, the port of Hamburg is the second-largest port in Europe. The University of Hamburg is the largest institution for research and education in the north of Germany.

The venue of the conference is the ESA building of the University of Hamburg, situated at Edmund-Siemers-Allee near the city centre and easily reachable from Dammtor Railway Station. Hamburg Airport can be reached easily via public transport.

ACCOMMODATION:

For the accomodation we arranged guaranteed rates for a couple of hotels in Hamburg for ICANN 2014.

http://icann2014.org/accommodation/

CHAIRS and ORGANISATION:

General Chair: Stefan Wermter (Hamburg, Germany)

Program co-Chairs Alessandro E.P. Villa (Lausanne, Switzerland, ENNS President) Wlodzislaw Duch (Torun, Poland, ENNS Past-President) Timo Honkela (Helsinki, Finland) Petia Koprinkova-Hristova (Sofia, Bulgaria) Günther Palm (Ulm, Germany) Cornelius Weber (Hamburg, Germany)

Local Organizing Committee Chairs: Sven Magg, Johannes Bauer, Jorge Chacon, Stefan Heinrich, Doreen Jirak, Katja Koesters, Erik Strahl

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Christopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) Jun Tani (KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea) Paul Verschure (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) Yann LeCun (New York University, NY, USA) Barbara Hammer (Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany) Kevin Gurney (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

ICANN 2014 will feature the main tracks Brain Inspired Computing and Machine Learning research, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications. All research fields dealing with Neural Networks will be present at the conference. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:

Brain Inspired Computing: Cognitive models, Computational Neuroscience, Self-organization, Reinforcement Learning, Neural Control and Planning, Hybrid Neural-Symbolic Architectures, Neural Dynamics, Recurrent Networks, Deep Learning.

Machine Learning: Neural Network Theory, Neural Network Models, Graphical Models, Bayesian Networks, Kernel Methods, Generative Models, Information Theoretic Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Relational Learning, Dynamical Models.

Neural Applications for: Intelligent Robotics, Neurorobotics, Language Processing, Image Processing, Sensor Fusion, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Neural Agents, Brain-Computer Interaction, Neural Hardware, Evolutionary Neural Networks.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE:

http://www.icann2014.org

*********************************************** Professor Dr. Stefan Wermter Chair of Knowledge Technology Department of Computer Science University of Hamburg Vogt Koelln Str. 30 22527 Hamburg, Germany

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~wermter/ http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/WTM/ ***********************************************