The 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2012)

November 12-15, 2012, Doha, Qatar

http://www.iconip2012.org

Qatar has one of the world’s fastest-growing economies and the highest income per capita. Qatar has made significant investment in education, especially higher education. Qatar aims to become one of the world’s strongest knowledge societies. Also, Qatar is a major regional leisure and sports destination (Qatar is the host nation of 2022 FIFA World Cup).

ICONIP 2012 will provide a high-level international forum for scientists, researchers, industrial professionals, and students worldwide. ICONIP2012 is proud to offer a number of Travel Fellowships mainly to students, and to researchers from developing countries.

All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and/or special issues of SCI journals. Already confirmed special issues will be published in the following SCI journals:

1. Neural Computing and Applications

2. Neurocomputing

3. Cognitive Computation

Keynote Speakers

Shun-ichi Amari, former President of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) and former President of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan.

Leon Chua, „father of nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networks”, the first to conceive the theories behind, and postulate the existence of, the solid-state memristor, UC Berkeley, USA

Rebort Desimone, member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, MIT, USA

Stephen Grossberg, former President of INNS, founder of Neural Networks, Fellow of the American Psychological Society, the founder and Director of the Center for Adaptive Systems, Boston University, USA

Michael Jordan, member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, UC Berkeley, USA

Plenary Speakers

Majid Ahmadi, IEEE Fellow, Director of the Research Center for Integrated Microsystems, University of Windsor, Canada

Guanrong Chen, IEEE Fellow, Chair Professor and the Founding Director of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Nikola Kasabov, IEEE Fellow, Director of the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI), Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Juergen Kurths, member of the Academia Europaea, chair of the research domain Transdisciplinary Concepts of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, University of Potsdam, Germany

Erkki Oja, member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, IEEE Fellow, Director of the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre, Aalto University, Finland

Marios M. Polycarpou, President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Fellow, Director of the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Leszek Rutkowski, IEEE Fellow, President and Founder of the Polish Neural Networks Society, Chairman of the Computer Engineering Department, Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland

Ron Sun, President of International Neural Networks Society, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Jun Wang, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

IMPORTANT DATES

June 1, 2012: Submission deadline for regular and special session papers