The 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2009) will be held in Cyprus, at the seaside city of Limassol.

Located in the easternmost corner of the Mediterranean Sea, Cyprus is an island of spectacular beauty with alluring beaches and fragrant mountain peaks, vineyards studded with olive trees and ancient ruins that stir the imagination. A sophisticated country, whose nine-thousand-year cultural legacy infuses East and West. Cyprus is an historic island, the third largest in the Mediterranean, where modern travelers retrace the footsteps of figures as diverse as St. Paul, Alexander the Great and Leonardo da Vinci. And a romantic island, once Anthony’s gift to Cleopatra and where, according to mythology, the goddess Aphrodite first emerged from the sea. Today, Cyprus is a modern country that joins European culture with ancient enchantment. Currently, Cyprus is a full member of the European Union, with Euro as its monetary currency. Cyprus can be reached by direct flights from several cities including London, Amsterdam, Athens, Paris, Frankfurt, Zurich, Vienna, Rome, Dubai, Moscow, Budapest, Prague, etc. The conference venue is the GrandResort, a luxurious five star hotel located at a superb beach side location in the Amathus area of Limassol, which is the second largest city of Cyprus.

ICANN 2009 will provide a high-level international forum for the academic and industrial community to address new challenges, share solutions and discuss future research directions in neural networks, learning systems, computational intelligence, and real-world applications.

CALL FOR PAPERS, SPECIAL SESSIONS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high quality papers in the topic areas listed below and proposals for special sessions and workshops. Special sessions aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Each special session should include 6 contributing papers. A proposal for a special session should include a summary statement (1-2 pages long) describing the motivation and relevance of the proposed special session, together with the article titles and author names of the papers that will be included in the special session.

Workshops will consist of a panel of invited experts, which after presenting the subject will moderate an open debate. No individual papers will be submitted and no papers will appear in the proceedings. A proposal for a Workshop should include a summary statement (2-3 pages) describing the topic and motivation of the workshop and a list of the workshop panelists.

TOPIC AREAS

• Computational neuroscience
• Connectionist cognitive science
• Data analysis and pattern recognition
• Graphical networks models, Bayesian networks
• Hardware implementations and embedded systems
• Intelligent Multimedia and the Semantic Web
• Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms
• Neural control, planning and robotics applications
• Intelligent control and adaptive systems
• Neural dynamics and complex systems
• Neuroinformatics and bioinformatics
• Real world applications
• Self-organization
• Sequencial and structured information processing
• Brain-computer interface and cognitive architectures
• Signal and time series processing, blind source separation
• Vision and image processing
• Computational intelligence applications to biomedical systems
• Critical infrastructure systems
• Manufacturing systems
• Intelligent environmental systems

PAPER SUBMISSION

Proceedings of ICANN will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Instructions for authors are given here.