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Call For Special Session Proposals
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The ICONIP2006 Organizing Committee invites proposals for special sessions to be held at the 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong.
Special sessions provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic in an area or closely related areas. Organizers can choose to concentrate on emerging research topics, but can also devote to application issues. For ICONIP2006, we are seeking proposals of specialized topics in areas including, but not limited to the following:
- Neural Network Theory and Models
- Neural Network Applications
- Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
- Hybrid Systems and Hardware
Organizers are encouraged to nominate reviewers of papers to the Program Committee on proposing special sessions. Once a special session proposal is approved, the organizers are expected to help promoting the special sessions by their own means. All papers are submitted through the Web and subjected to reviewing by the ICONIP2006 Program Committee. Organizers can read the reviewers’ reports of the papers submitted to their special sessions, and make recommendations to the Program Committee on paper acceptance. On receiving the finalized list of accepted papers from the Program Committee, the organizers are responsible for liaising with the authors on the submission of final papers. Organizers are also responsible for chairing their special sessions in ICONIP2006. Each special session will last for 2.5 - 3 hours. All accepted papers will be included in the ICONIP2006 conference proceedings (see the deadline below). No extra registration fee is required for joining the special sessions.
Proposal Detail
Special session proposals should contain the necessary information for the Special Session Chair and reviewers from the Program Committee to judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed topic. Each special session should have one or more designated organizers. When proposing a special session, please use the template in your proposal.
Special session proposals should address the following issues:
- Basic information: Title of the proposed special session, the name, e-mail address, and webpage of the organizer(s).
- Topic of interest: Provide a full description of the proposed special session. What will the special session be about? Why should we believe this is an interesting and significant topic?
- Expected outcome: State what are expected to come out of the special session. How will the special session change the participants' understanding of the area? How many participants are expected? Can the organizer(s) already name some of them? Who are expected to be invited authors?
- Format: How will the special session be scheduled? How much time will be used for paper presentations and discussions?
- Organizers’ biography: Please indicate the background of the organizer(s).
- Recommended Reviewers (Optional): Organizers are encouraged to nominate reviewers for papers submitted to their special sessions. The affiliations and contacts of the reviewers should be included.
Submission
It is recommended to fill the template and submit the special session proposals in PDF format via e-mail to enfrank@inet.polyu.edu.hk.
Important Dates
| Special session proposals (extended) | April 21, 2006 |
| Paper submission | April 28, 2006 |
| Acceptance notification for papers to organizers | June 1, 2006 |
| Final paper submission | July 1, 2006 |
| ICONIP2006 special sessions held | October 4-6, 2006 |
