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Call For Workshop Proposals
The ICONIP2006 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at the 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006), Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong. The workshops will be held on October 3, immediately before the start of the main conference. The workshops can be half day or full day.
Workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic in an area or closely related areas. Workshops can choose to concentrate on emerging research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues. For ICONIP2006, we are seeking workshop proposals including, but not limited to the following:
- Neuroinformatics
- Bioinformatics
- Data Mining
- Game Theory
- Intelligent Data Engineering
Workshop participants will be given workshop proceedings in a hardcopy format. Organizers of the workshops will also make the proceedings available on their website prior to the conference (see the deadline below).
Proposal Detail
Workshop proposals should contain the necessary information for the workshop chair and reviewers from the conference organizing committee to judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed topic. Each workshop should have one or more designated organizers and a workshop program committee. When proposing a workshop, please use the template in your proposal. The proposal should be 1-3 pages long (plus possibly extra materials). Workshop proposals should address the following issues:
- Basic information: Title of the proposed workshop, the name, e-mail address, and webpage of all members of the program committee.
- Topic of interest: Provide a full description of the proposed workshop. What will the workshop be about? Why do you believe this is an interesting and significant topic? Why is the topic best addressed at an ICONIP workshop, as opposed to a workshop at another conference or papers in an ICONIP technical session?
- Expected outcome : What do you expect will come out of the workshop? How will the workshop change the participants' understanding of the area?
- Content quality : From which areas do you expect potential participants to come? How many participants do you expect? Can you already name some of them? Who do you expect as invited speakers? What are the reasons to believe that there will be a sufficient number of interesting submissions to the workshop?
- Format: How will the workshop sessions be scheduled? How much time will be used for discussion, panel discussions, paper presentations, invited talks, or other methods for encouraging communication and consensus? Organizers are encouraged to focus on mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations and to differentiate the workshop clearly from typical conference sessions.
- Publicity: How do you intend to advertise the workshop? How will you reach the most interested and appropriate participants? Are there any plans to document the workshop results (beyond a web publication)?
- Organizers’biography: Please indicate the organizers' background and a list of publications in the workshop area.
ICONIP2006 will be responsible for the following:
- Providing a meeting place and logistical support for the workshop
- In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time (Organizing committee constraints will be accommodated to the greatest possible extent).
- Duplicating workshop proceedings (up to a total of 100 pages per participant) and distributing them to the participants. The workshop proceedings will not be included in the regular proceedings.
ICONIP2006 reserves the right to cancel any workshop if deadlines are missed or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support the costs of running the workshop. To cover costs, it will be necessary to charge workshop participants a workshop fee.
Submission
It is recommended to fill the template and submit the Workshop proposals in PDF format via e-mail to jamesk@cs.ust.hk.
Important Dates
| Workshop proposals due | June 10, 2006 |
| Acceptance notification | June 17, 2006 |
| Workshop publicity materials due | June 26, 2006 |
| Deadline for receipt of workshop notes | Sep. 3, 2006 |
| Workshop proceedings posted on your website | Sep. 26, 2006 |
| ICONIP2006 workshop held | Oct. 3, 2006 |
　
