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INNS-WC2012 – INNS Winter Conference 2012 (text) (pdf)
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INNS Symposium on Nature Inspired Creativity (SoNIC2012) (text) (pdf) (link)
INNS Symposium on Vision and Image Processing (SoVIP2012) (text) (pdf) (link)
INNS Symposium on Data Analytics and Competitions (SoDAC2012) (text) (pdf) (link)
INNS Symposium on Autonomous Learning (Autonomous Learning C2012) (link)

Bangkok, Thailand, October 3-5, 2012
http://inns.sit.kmutt.ac.th/wc2012/

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2012
Camera-ready paper: August 1, 2012

The board of governors of INNS decided in 2006 to establish a series of symposia or winter conferences devoted to new developments in neural networks. The first of the INNS Symposia Series was held in Auckland, New Zealand back on November 24-25, 2008 – http://www.aut.ac.nz/nnn08/. The theme was “Modeling the brain and the nervous system” and comprised of two symposia: 1) Development and Learning; and 2) Computational Neurogenetic Modelling. The second in the series was the INNS International Education Symposium on Neural Networks (INNS-IESNN) held in Lima, Peru on January 25-27, 2011 – http://eventos.spc.org.pe/inns-iesnn/index.html. The third Symposia Series will cover a much broader context of “Natural and Machine Intelligence”.

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

* Keynote talks by Fredric Ham (Florida Institute of Technology)
   and Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
* Four diverse symposium tracks + main conference track
* Data competitions, panel session, and more

Paper Submission

The INNS-WC2012 online submission system is open at EasyChair here (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=innswc2012). Please submit to one of the following tracks:

* INNS-WC general track: Trends in Natural and Machine Intelligence
* INNS Symposium on Nature Inspired Creativity (SoNIC2012)
* INNS Symposium on Vision and Image Processing (SoVIP2012)
* INNS Symposium on Data Analytics and Competitions (SoDAC2012)
* INNS Symposium on Autonmous Learning (Autonomous Learning 2012)

Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high quality manuscripts of up to twelve (12) pages electronically. Short papers of 4-6 pages will also be considered. The submission must conform to the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of INNS-WC2012 as an Elsevier Procedia Computer Science open access volume (indexed by EI, Scopus and Conference Proceedings Citation Index - formerly ISI Proceedings). Extended version of selected papers may be invited for publication in special issues of international journals after the conference. All submissions will be checked by VeriGuide for originality.

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The range of topics for the general conference track on "Trends in Natural and Machine Intelligence" includes but is not limited to

* Autonomous machine learning
* Neural network theory & models
* Computational neuroscience
* Cognitive models
* Brain-machine interfaces
* Embodied robotics
* Evolutionary neural systems
* Neurodynamics
* Neuroinformatics
* Neuroengineering
* Neural hardware
* Neural network applications
* Pattern recognition
* Machine vision
* Collective intelligence
* Hybrid systems
* Self-aware systems
* Data mining
* Sensor networks
* Agent-based systems
* Computational biology
* Bioinformatics
* Artificial life

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The range of topics for the INNS Symposium on Nature Inspired Creativity (SoNIC2012) includes but is not limited to

* Application of Nature Inspired Computing in Creative Industries:

   - Creative computing for digital media
   - Computer aided design
   - Computer generated special effects for film
   - Cartoon animation
   - Games
   - Music
   - Edutainment, etc.

* Art and Cognition:

   - Art and the Brain
   - Creative process
   - Emotion and meaning in paintings, music, sculptures, poetry, etc.

* Generative Art:

   - Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, graphic designs, musical pieces, sound-fonts, sound effects, film music, etc.

* Aesthetic evaluation:

   - Aesthetic analysis of film, image, music, sound, sculpture, etc.

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The range of topics for the INNS Symposium on Vision and Image Processing (SoVIP2012) includes but is not limited to

* Low-level image processing
* Feature extraction and image description
* Image classification and clustering
* 3D sensing and depth measuring systems
* 3D object modeling and reconstruction
* Tracking and surveillance
* Motion estimation
* Human gesture recognition
* Human motion analysis
* Human face detection and tracking
* Human-robot interactions
* Robot intelligence
* Humanoid and mobile robotics
* Video indexing and retrieval
* Intelligent compression of massive imaging data
* Bio-medical imaging applications
* Bio-robotics
* Biometrics

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The range of topics for the INNS Symposium on Data Analytics and Competitions (SoDAC2012) includes but is not limited to

* Business intelligence
* Air quality and environmental issues
* Chemo-informatics
* Social networks and analytics
* Geo-informatics
* Neuro-informatics
* Internet and web analytics
* Data visualization techniques
* Data quality analysis
* Decision support and analytics
* Knowledge management and discovery
* Advanced database analytics
* Content and information retrieval
* Modeling and simulation of complex systems
* Optimization techniques
* Bio-data analysis
* Complex scheduling problems
* Scalability of data analysis
* Data competitions

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The recommended topics for the INNS Symposium on Autonomous Learning (Autonomous Learning 2012) includes but is not limited to

* Unsupervised learning systems
* Autonomous learning of reasoning
* Autonomous learning of motor control
* Autonomous control systems and free will
* Autonomous robotic systems
* Autonomy as based on internal reward and value systems and their learning and development
* Autonomous systems and the human situation
* Emergent models of perception, cognition and action
* Emergent cognitive architectures
* Developmental and embodied models of learning

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