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The 14th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2017), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, June 21-23, 2017

Conference Website: https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/isnn/

Following the successes of previous events, the 14th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2017) will be held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Located in northern island of Hokkaido, Sapporo is the fourth largest Japanese city and a popular summer/winter tourist venue.

The Sponsors/Organizers are Hokkaido University and City University of Hong Kong. The Technical Co-sponsors are IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, International Neural Network Society, and Japanese Neural Network Society. The Publishers are Springer and Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

ISNN 2017 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of neural network research and applications in related fields. The symposium will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics.

Call for Papers and Special Sessions
Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ISNN 2017. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the symposium are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ISNN 2017. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information and brief biographical information of the organizers.

Important Dates
– Special session proposals: December 1, 2016
– Paper submission: January 1, 2017
– Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2017
– Camera-ready copy and author registration: March 1, 2017
– Conference: June 21-23, 2017