20th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2010)
http://delab.csd.auth.gr/icann2010/index.html
15th - 18th of September 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece

AIMS AND SCOPE
The 20th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2010) will be held in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is an annual event, organized since 1991 by the European Neural Network Society (ENNS) in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society. Since the first conference in Helsinki, ICANN has been established as a premier event. It provides a great discussion forum for the academic and industrial community on achievements not only related to artificial neural networks but to various other topics of artificial intelligence as well. More specifically, ICANN 2010 endeavours to address new challenges, share solutions and discuss future research directions in neural networks, learning systems, computational intelligence, and real-world applications. Moreover, it aims in promoting the significant benefits that can be derived by the use of neural networks and novel, innovative applications are appreciated. More details can be found in the conference web site: http://delab.csd.auth.gr/icann2010/index.html

Call for papers, Workshops and Tutorials
Prospective authors are invited to contribute high quality papers in the topic areas listed below. Also, proposals for workshops are welcome. A proposal for a Workshop should include a summary statement (~2 pages) describing the topic and motivation of the workshop and a list of the workshop panelists. No individual papers will be submitted and no papers will appear in the proceedings. Tutorial proposals are welcome as well.

Topic Areas
The scope of the conference will cover, but is not limited to the following areas:
- Brain-computer interface and cognitive architectures
- Bayesian networks
- Computational intelligence applications to biomedical systems
- Critical infrastructure systems
- Computational neuroscience
- Connectionist cognitive science
- Data analysis and pattern recognition
- Fuzzy systems
- Graphical networks models, Bayesian networks
- Hardware implementations and embedded systems
- Inductive modelling
- Intelligent control and adaptive systems
- Intelligent environmental systems
- Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web
- Learning algorithms
- Mathematical theory of neurocomputing
- Manufacturing systems
- Multi Agent Systems
- Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms
- Neural control, planning and robotics applications
- Neural dynamics and complex systems
- Neuroinformatics and bioinformatics
- Real world applications
- Self-organization
- Sequencial and structured information processing
- Signal and time series processing, blind source separation
- Vision and image processing

Important Dates
Tutorial and workshops proposals: February 15, 2010
Notification of tutorial and workshops proposals: February 22, 2010
Paper Submission: March 29, 2010
Notification of paper acceptance: May 17, 2010
Final paper Submission: May 31, 2010
Early registration: May 31, 2010
Conference Dates: September 15-18, 2010

Paper Submission
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science". All papers are limited to 10 pages in Springer LNCS series format.

Organizing Institutions
European Neural Network Society - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece - University of Macedonia Thessaloniki Greece - Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki Greece - Democritus University of Thrace Greece.

Organization
General Co-Chairs:
Konstantinos Diamantaras, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Wlodek Duch, Nikolaus Copernicus University, Polland President of the ENNS
Program Committee Chair:
Lazaros Iliadis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, liliadis@fmenr.duth.gr
Workshop Chairs:
Local Arrangements chair: Kostas Goulianas, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece gouliana@it.teithe.gr
Organizing Chairs:
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, manolopo@csd.auth.gr
Ioannis Vlavavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
vlahavas@csd.auth.gr