Special Sessions

ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 are now inviting special session proposals. All special sessions are to be organized around a specific topic in order to encourage in-depth discussions. Special sessions will be an integral part of the conferences. All accepted papers in the special sessions will be included in the published conference proceedings. All special session papers will be reviewed. The review process will be coordinated and supervised by the special session organizer(s).

One organizer of each successfully organized special session with at least 6 registered papers will enjoy a 50% discount on the conference registration fee, which includes the technical sessions and the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, and tours to two of the major attractions in Singapore, i.e., Night Safari and Sentosa Resort Island.

Each proposal should contain at least the following information:

title of the session;
name of the conference for which the special session is to be organized;
organizer(s) and their detailed contact addresses;
one or two paragraphs describing the theme and topics covered by the session.

The accepted special sessions will be posted and updated regularly.

Please email your proposal to Xin Yao, ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 Special Sessions Chair (x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk), with a copy to Lipo Wang, General Chair (Cc: elpwang@ntu.edu.sg).

Professor Xin Yao
School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K.
Phone: +44 121 414 3747, Fax: +44 121 414 4281
Email: x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk

Here are more details for special session organizers:

(1) The papers in your session can be a mixture of invited and openly solicited papers. To maintain the quality of the papers, all invited papers should be reviewed. Session organizers can be reviewers. Special session papers should be submitted to the Session Organizer(s) directly for review (and should not be submitted through the conference web page). Acceptance/rejection decisions for the sepecial session papers are made and communicated to the authors by the Session Organizer(s). Once the special session papers are accepted, camera-ready versions should be submitted through the Conference web page, so that they can be included in the Conference Proceedings.

(2) If you accept more papers than that could be fitted into a single session (each session normally has 6 papers), we will allocate two or more sessions to you. If you only receive fewer than 6 papers for your session, we might combine your session with others. In any case, paper quality is our first priority.

(3) The submission deadline for your special session should ideally follow the regular paper submission deadline, i.e., April 30, 2002. But there is some flexibility there since you will be responsible for organizing reviews. However, the deadline for submitting camera-ready copies will be firm. Otherwise, papers may not included in the proceedings.

Accepted Special Sessions

ICONIP'02, SEAL'02, FSKD'02

ICONIP'02

Organizers	Topics
Wlodzislaw Duch, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland	Neural techniques for data understanding
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa	Trends in Global Optimization
Nikola Kasabov, University of Otago, New Zealand	Connectionist intelligent system in bioinformatics
Robert Kozma, University of Memphis, USA	Dynamical Memory Networks for Robust Data Encoding
Cees van Leeuwen, RIKEN BSI, Japan	Philosophy of mind and neuroscience Multi-stability, perceptual ambiguity, and the brain
Chih-Jen Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; S. Sathiya Keerthi, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Support vector machines and kernel methods
Jacek Mandziuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland	Feed-forward versus recurrent neural nets for time series predictions
Gen Matsumoto, RIKEN BSI, Japan	How the brain can acquire its algorithm in a self-organized fashion
Tohru Nitta, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan	Complex-valued Neural Networks
Jagath C. Rajapakse, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,Frithjof Kruggel, Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Germany, Karl J. Friston, University College London, UK	Brain Imaging
Asim Roy, Arizona State University, USA	Autonomous Learning Systems
Hualin Shu, Guangzhou University, China	Hybrid Control Systems of PID and Neural networks
Kate A. Smith and Terence Kwok, Monash University, Australia	Neural networks for optimization
Shiro Usui, Toyohashi Univ. of Technology / RIKEN BSI, Japan, Soo-Young Lee, KAIST, Korea, Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, NBRC, India	Neuroinformatics Researches in Asian and Pan-Pacific
Jun Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China	Neural Networks for Control Applications
Xufa Wang, Univeristy of Science and Technology of China, China	Artificial Immune Systems and Their Applications
Ramin Yasdi, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden	On Nueral Networks for Intelligent User Interfaces

SEAL'02

Organizers	Topics
Hussein A. Abbass and Bob Mckay, University of New South Wales, Australia	Applications of Swarm Intelligence
David Corne, University of Reading, UK; Gary Fogel, Natural Selection Inc., USA	Evolutionary Computation in Bioinfomratics and the Biosciences
Zhao Yang Dong, University of Queensland, Australia	Artificial Intelligence Applications in Power Engineering
Keiki Takadama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Takehisa Yairi, University of Tokyo, Japan	Exploring Essence in Interaction among Agents, Robots, and Human
Kay Chen Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Evolutionary Computing for Control and System Applications Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization
Yasuhiro Tsujimura, Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan	Evolutionary Optimization and Design on Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

FSKD'02

Organizers	Topics
Damminda Alahakoon, Terbit Information, Netherlands	Self Evolving Structures for Enhancing the 'Intelligence' of Artificial Systems and application to knowledge discovery
Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada	Intelligent computing technologies - from human communication toward intelligent software
Etienne Kerre, Martine De Cock, Chris Cornelis, Ghent University, Belgium	Knowledge Representation under Vagueness and Uncertainty
Asanga Ratnaweera and Waratt Rattasiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia	Soft Computing Applications in Mechatronics Systems
Matteo Savino, Sannium University, Italy	Intelligent Controls for Product Quality Assessment