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4th Conference on

Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence (NCEI’06)

13-15 December 2006, AUT Technology Park, Auckland, New Zealand

http://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research_institutes/kedri/conferences.htm

General Chairs:
Nik Kasabov, KEDRI, AUT, New Zealand (nkasabov@aut.ac.nz)
Mario Koeppen, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany (mkoeppen@ieee.org)

Programme Co-Chairs:
Andreas Koenig, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (Koenig@eit.uni-kl.de)
Ajith Abraham, Chun-Ang University, Korea (ajith.abraham@ieee.org)
Qun Song, KEDRI, AUT, New Zealand (qsong@aut.ac.nz)

Local Organising Chair:

Mrs Joyce D’Mello (joyce.dmello@aut.ac.nz)

Technical Support:

Peter Hwang (phwang@aut.ac.nz)

Venue: Auckland, the City of Sails. The Auckland region is an antipasto of environments laid out on a huge platter to make one amazing city, boasting three harbours, two mountain ranges, 48 volcanic cones and more than 50 islands. Auckland's population is approximately 1.3 million, making it by far the largest city in New Zealand, with one third of the country's entire population.

Objectives: Neuro-Computing (NC) is an area of computer science and engineering concerned with the development, implementation, realisation and application of computational models that mimic the brain in its main functions of adaptive learning, predictive generalisation, and knowledge discovery. Applications span across all disciplines of Science, Business, Engineering, Medicine, Health, Environment, Social Sciences.

Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of computational intelligence focusing on synergistic combinations of multiple approaches to develop the next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the awareness that combined approaches will be necessary if the remaining tough problems in artificial intelligence are to be solved. Neural computing, machine learning, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, agent-based methods, among others, have been established and shown their strength and drawbacks.

The emphasis of this joint conference will be on adaptive, learning knowledge-based systems and on evolving intelligent systems, i.e. information systems that develop, unfold and evolve their structure and functionality over time through interaction with the environment.

The three days event will include tutorials, invited talks, oral presentations, poster presentations and various demonstrations of neuro-computing and hybrid systems for bioinformatics and biomedical applications; biometric and security, brain study and cognitive engineering, agriculture, environment, decision support, business and finance, speech-, image- and multimodal information processing, process control, arts and design.

Invited speakers:

Prof. Takeshi Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology,

Prof. Andreas Koenig, University of Kaiserslautern,

Prof. Alessandro Villa, Laboratoire de Neuro-heuristique, Universite de Lausanne Switzerland,

Prof. Mario Koppen, Fraunhofer IPK,

Prof. Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya University

    = Deadline for Paper Submission (full paper): August 10, 2006
    = Deadline for Camera Ready Papers:   September 20, 2006

Publications: Proceedings of the conference will be published by IEEE Press. Selected papers will be published in several special issues of International Journals, including the Int. Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, International Journal of Neural Systems etc.