IWANN2003

7TH. INTERNATIONAL WORK CONFERENCE
ON ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL
NEURAL NETWORKS

Biological and Artificial Computation:
Methodologies, Neural Modeling
and Bioengineering Applications.

CLAUSTRO DEL CARMEN

Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

June 3-6, 2003

Call for Papers

ORGANIZED BY

Univers. Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Hospital Ramón y Cajal

IN COOPERATION WITH

Ajuntament de Maó (Menorca)
Balearic Islands UNED Associated Center

http://iwann.uned.es/

IWANN2003

The seventh International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, will take place in Menorca, Balearic Islands (Spain) June 3-6, 2003. This biennial meeting, with focus on the interplay between Neuroscience and Computation, without disciplinary boundaries, was held previously in Granada (1991 and 2001), Sitges, Barcelona (1993), Torremolinos, Málaga (1995) Lanzarote, Canary Islands (1997), and Alicante (1999), with a growing number of participants from more than 20 countries and with high quality papers published by Springer-Verlag (LNCS 540, 686, 930, 1240, 1606-1607, and 2084-2085).

Ramón y Cajal Tribute Session

After the recent 150th birth anniversary of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the IWANN2003 organizing committee includes a special session with emphasis on the heritage of such a creative mind and the present value in Computational Neuroscience of his avant-time results.

Scope

Under the basic idea that living beings and machines can be understood using the same experimental methodology and the same theoretical and formal tools, the interdisciplinary team of the IWANN2003 program committee recognizes the following global goals:

I. From artificial to natural:: Foundations and Methodology in neural modeling, Systems Theory, Electronics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to the understanding of nervous system and the cognitive processes.
II. From natural to artificial:: The understanding of nervous system and cognitive processes used for the formulation of bio-inspired models of artificial neurons and learning algorithms.
III. Biotechnology and the man-machine relations:: Bio-inspired formulations for tasks and methods of value in the context of Medicine, Neuroscience and Technology.

Invited Speakers

Prof. ERIK DE SCHUTTER. University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Prof. LUIGI M. RICCIARDI. Università di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Prof. MARLEY VELLASCO. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Topics

Contributions on the following topics are welcome:

Mathematical & Computational Methods in neural modeling.
Levels of analysis. Brain Theory. Neural coding. Mathematical Biophysics. Population Dynamics and Statistical modeling. Diffusion processes. Dynamical Binding. Synchronization. Resonance. Regulatory Mechanisms. Cellular Automata.
Neurophysiological data analysis and modeling.
Ionic channels. Synapses. Neurons. Circuits. Biophysical simulations.
Structural and functional models of neurons.
Analogue, non-linear, recurrent, RBF, PCA, digital, probabilistic, Bayesian, fuzzy and object oriented formulations.
Learning and other plasticity phenomena.
Supervised, non-supervised, reinforcement and statistical algorithms. Hybrid formulations. Incremental-decremental architectures. Biological mechanisms of adaptation and plasticity. Development and maturing.
Complex systems dynamics.
Statistical-mechanics. Attractors. Optimization, self-organization and cooperative-competitive networks. Evolutionary and genetic algorithms.
Cognitive Processes and Artificial Intelligence.
Perception (visual, auditive, tactile, proprioceptive). Multi-sensory integration. Natural language. Memory. Decision Making. Planning. Motor Control. Neuroethology. Knowledge modeling. Multi-agent systems. Distributed AI. Social systems.
Methodology for nets design, simulation and implementation.
Data analysis, task identification and recursive design. Development environments and editing tools. Implementation. Evolving hardware.
Bio-inspired systems and engineering.
Bio-cybernetics and Bionics. Signal processing, neural prostheses, retinomorphic systems, and other neural adaptive prosthetic devices. Molecular computing.
Applications.
Artificial vision, speech recognition, spatio-temporal planning and scheduling. Data mining. Sources separation. Applications of ANNs in Robotics, Astrophysics, Economy, Internet, Medicine, Education and Industry.

Call for Pre-organized Sessions

The Program Committee is soliciting proposals for pre-organized sessions in one of the above areas or related to the previous global scope. Also, new sessions in the interdisciplinary spirit of the Neurocybernetics are welcome. Prospective organizers should contact organization staff at iwann@dia.uned.es as soon as possible. Information about current pre-organized sessions and further details for prospective organizers can be found at our web site: http://iwann.uned.es/

Actual pre-organized session organizers will benefit of a discount on registration fees.

Official web site: http://iwann.uned.es/

Paper Submission

The Program Committee request original papers on the above mentioned topics. Authors (no more than four for each paper) must submit the camera-ready final version of papers written in English (official language of the conference), of up to 8 pages (including figures, tables and references) in electronic format by two ways:

Through a pre-organized session (refereed by session organizer and one external referee): Please, send 1 copy to the session organizer and then (after session organizer agree) register the paper in the submission web form.
Or directly to the general program (two external referees): Please, register directly the paper in the submission web form.

The only accepted format for submissions is Postscript (see web page for details). Papers must be sent, before February 28th (23:59h. UTC), through the submission web form found in a link from the main web site:

http://iwann.uned.es/

Please, do not send printed copies nor email attachments (except when required by the organization staff). All authors must fill (by themselves or by the contact author) the required data for the program database form as specified in the submission web form.

The proceedings will be published in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series from Springer-Verlag.

The format of the contributions must be A4 paper, in a Roman font, 10 point in size, with a printing area of 12.2 cm x 19.3 cm (4.8 in x 7.6 in). Please, make use of the L^ATEX2_e style file available in the Springer Author's instructions web page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. As alternative (not encouraged), Springer provides a MS Word template in the same site. All figures must be gray scale (not color).

Papers out of format will be automatically rejected, until the deficiencies are corrected in time before referee process. Draft versions of the papers will not be accepted at all.

All received papers will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers must be presented either orally (overhead, slide, data projectors and a PC with standard presentation software will be available) or as poster panels (size 90 cm. width x 150 cm. height), however all accepted contributions will be published at full length using directly the camera ready electronic file sent by the authors. It is required at least one author registration for each accepted paper.

Also, authors must fill and sign the copyright form required by Springer, that can be found through a link in the Author's instructions web page, and after paper acceptation send it through postal mail or fax (+34-91-398-6697).

Important dates

Second and final Call for Papers	September 2002
Final Date for Submission	February 28, 2003
Acceptance notification and start of registration	March 31, 2003
End of reduction fee for early registration	April 30, 2003
Congress date	June 3-6, 2003

Registration fees

The registration fee includes attending to the sessions, coffee breaks, lunches, social events, gala dinner and the Proceedings of the Work-Conference.

Type	Before Apr. 30	After Apr. 30
Standard	420 euros	480 euros
Session Organizer	240 euros	270 euros
Accompanying person (*)	210 euros	240 euros

(*) Accompanying person registration fee only includes lunches, social events and gala dinner.

Registration fees of at least one author for each accepted paper should be paid in full before submission to press (April 30, 2003).

Official web site: http://iwann.uned.es/

Congress venue

CLAUSTRO DEL CARMEN

Plaza Miranda, s/n.

E-07701 Maó - Menorca (Spain)

General Chairman

José Mira Mira

Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial, UNED

Senda del Rey, 9

E-28040 Madrid, (Spain)

Phone: +34-91-398-7155 Fax: +34-91-398-6697

Email: jmira@dia.uned.es

Congress Board

Alberto Prieto Espinosa, Univ. de Granada (Sp)

Joan Cabestany i Moncusi, Univ. P. de Catalunya (Sp)

Francisco Sandoval Hernández, Univ. de Málaga (Sp)

Local Organizing Committee

Oscar Herreras, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (Sp)

Miguel Angel Vázquez Segura, UNED (Sp)

José Ramón Álvarez Sánchez, UNED (Sp)

Organization Staff

Félix de la Paz López, UNED (Sp)

Technical Secretariat

ESOC, s.l.

Poeta Vila y Blanco, nº 8 - 1º

E-03003 Alicante (Spain)

Phone: +34-965-22-99-40 Fax: +34-965-92-23-46

Email: info@esoc.es http://www.esoc.es/

Scientific Committee

Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State Univ. (USA)

Moonis Ali, Univ. Texas (USA)

Amparo Alonso, Univ. A Coruña (Sp)

Igor Aleksander, Imperial College (UK)

Shun-Ichi Amari, Univ. of Tokyo (Jp)

Antonio Bahamonde, Univ. de Oviedo en Gijón (Sp)

Senén Barro, Univ. de Santiago (Sp)

François Blayo, Univ. Paris 1 (Fr)

Marie Cottrell, Univ. Paris 1 (Fr)

Trevor Clarkson, King's College London (UK)

Werner DePauli, Univ. of Wien (At)

Angel P. del Pobil, Univ. Jaume I. de Castellón (Sp)

Ana E. Delgado, UNED (Sp)

José Dorronsoro, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid (Sp)

Richard Duro, Univ. A Coruña (Sp)

Reinhard Eckhorn, Philipps-Univ. (Ge)

Javier de Felipe, Instituto Cajal (Sp)

Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka Univ. (Jp)

José M. Ferrández, Univ. Politécnica de Cartagena (Sp)

Tamás (Tom) D. Gedeon, Murdoch University (Au)

Karl Goser, Univ. Dortmund (Ge)

Manuel Graña, Univ. Pais Vasco (Sp)

Anne Guérin-Dugué, Inst. N. P. Grenoble (Fr)

Jeanny Hérault, Inst. N. P. Grenoble (Fr)

Oscar Herreras, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (Sp)

Gonzalo Joya, Univ. de Málaga (Sp)

Christian Jutten, Inst. N. P. Grenoble (Fr)

Shahla Keyvan, Univ, Missouri-Columbia (USA)

Elka Korutcheva, UNED (Sp)

Jordi Madrenas, Univ. P. de Catalunya (Sp)

Dario Maravall Gomez-Allende, Univ. P. Madrid (Sp)

Pierre Marchal, CSEM (CH)

Daniel Mange, EPFL (CH)

Eve Marder, Univ. of California, San Diego (USA)

Juan M. Moreno Aróstegui, Univ. P. de Catalunya (Sp)

Roberto Moreno-Díaz, Univ. Las Palmas de G. C. (Sp)

Christian Omlin, Univ. of Western Cape (ZA)

Julio Ortega, Univ. Granada (Sp)

Francisco J. Pelayo, Univ. Granada (Sp)

Franz Pichler, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz (At)

Leonardo Reyneri, Politecnico di Torino (It)

Luigi M. Ricciardi, Univ. di Napoli Federico II (It)

John Rinzel, New York Univ. (USA)

Juan V. Sanchez-Andrés, Univ. La Laguna (Sp)

José Santos, Univ. A Coruña (Sp)

Shunsuke Sato, Osaka Univ. (Jp)

Erik de Schutter, Univ. of Antwerp (Be)

Igor Shevelev, Russian Academy of Science (Ru)

Wolf Singer, Max Planck Inst. for Brain Research (Ge)

Juan A. Sigüenza, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid (Sp)

Cloe Taddei-Ferretti, Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR (It)

Marley Vellasco, Pontif. Univ. Católica Rio de Janeiro (Bz)

Michel Verleysen, Univ. Cath. de Louvain-la-Neuve (Be)

Changjiu Zhou, Singapore Polytechnic (Sg)