From: "Cairo L. Nascimento Jr." Subject: CFP: III Brasilian Congress on Neural Networks Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 01:45:15 -0200 Organization: Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA) - Fax: +55 12 340 5878 III BRAZILIAN CONGRESS ON NEURAL NETWORKS and IV BRAZILIAN SCHOOL ON NEURAL NETWORKS (Brazilian Council on Neural Networks) Web Page: http://www.inf.ufsc.br/~cbrn-bar/ CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Florianopolis, Brazil, July 21-24, 1997 The III Brazilian Congress on Neural Networks (III CBRN) and the IV Brazilian School on Neural Networks (IV ERN), sponsored by the Brazilian Council on Neural Networks, will be held in Florianopolis, Brazil, July 21-24, 1997. The Brazilian Council on Neural Networks is composed by the following scientific societies: SBA (Brazilian Society of Automatics), SBEB (Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering), SBF (Brazilian Society of Physics) and SBMAC (Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics). This congress will be hosted by UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina), Department of Statistics and Informatics and the Research Group in Biomedical Engineering. This event continues a successful series that begun in Rio de Janeiro with the 1st Brazilian Workshop on Neural Networks and the 1st Brazilian School on Neural Networks (1992, PUC-RJ) and continued in Itajuba (1994, EFEI) and Curitiba (1995, COPEL), with the 1st and 2nd Brazilian Congresses and the 2nd and 3rd Brazilian Schools on Neural Networks. The IV Brazilian School on Neural Networks will be held on July 21, 1997, and it will consist of introductory and advanced short courses taught by specialists in the area. The III Brazilian Congress on Neural Networks will be held on 22, 23, and 24 July 1997 and it will consist, among other activities, of: - tutorials by national and international invited speakers, - presentations of technical articles selected by the Program Committee, following the recommendations of senior researchers in the field from Brazil and abroad, - round-tables for discussion on neural network related subjects, - the ordinary assembly of the Brazilian Council on Neural Networks. MAIN TOPICS This Congress will be dedicated to the theory and application of Neural Networks and other related areas. Therefore submissions of papers related, but not limited, to the topics listed below are invited: - theory of the connectionist approach to computational intelligence - neural networks and cognitive science - sensation and perception - new paradigms on neural networks - learning and memory - neural models of biological systems - neural network implementations in software and hardware - evolutionary algorithms - fuzzy logic - fuzzy neural systems - connectionist expert systems - applications in robotics and control - applications in production systems - applications in forecasting - applications in pattern recognition - applications in image and signal processing - applications in physics - applications in geophysics - applications in tomography - applications in biomedical engineering - applications in the financial market - applications in electric power systems. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS 1 - Introduction All accepted papers will be fully published in the congress proceedings. The congress seeks papers with original contributions but tutorials are also welcome. Submitted papers must be in English, Portuguese or Spanish. The papers in Portuguese or Spanish should have an abstract in English. The manuscript should be written on A4 (210 mm x 297 mm) paper with up to 6 pages (including figures) and printed using a laser printer. Single line spacing should be used throughtout the article. Margins for the first page should be as follows: top margin, 7 cm (for inclusion of the congress logotype); bottom, left and right margins, 2.5 cm. All margins for the other pages should be 2.5 cm. Use Times New Roman typeface 10 pt throughtout the article, but use 14 pt for the title of the article. Note that the papers which are accept for publication will not be reduced any further. The first page of the article should be prepared according to the order: title, authors, affiliation and abstract, in one single column. After this, the main text of the article should follow in the first page and be written using a double column format. Each column must be 7.5 cm wide, with a 1 cm space between columns. The main text of the article should be divided into Introduction, Body, Conclusions and should be followed by acknowledgements (when appropriate), references (IEEE style) and appendices (when appropriate). 2 - Organization of the Article The title of the article should be centred and in bold, using font Times New Roman 14 pts. The details given about each author should be: author's name, affiliation, postal address (including postcode) and email (if possible). The side margins for the abstract should be 3 cm and the word Abstract should be centred and in bold. The abstract section should contain a brief description of the main points of the article with 50-200 words and a list of 3-5 keywords. 3 - Address for Article Submission Send four copies (one original and 3 copies) of submitted papers to: Prof. Luiz P. Caloba - III CBRN COPPE/UFRJ/Eletrica - CP: 68.504 Centro de Tecnologia, Bloco H, Sala H-321 UFRJ - Ilha do Fundao 21.945-970 - Rio de Janeiro - RJ BRAZIL Tel: +55(0)21 590 0441, +55(0)21 590 9049 E-mail: caloba@coe.ufrj.br The submitted papers should be accompanied by a letter declaring that, if the paper is accepted for publication in the proceedings of the III Brazilian Congress on Neural Networks, at least one of the authors of the article will present the paper at the Congress. Articles submitted by e-mail or fax will not be accepted. ----------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of papers: April 4, 1997. Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20, 1997. Final camera-ready paper submission: June 15, 1997. IV Brazilian School on Neural Networks: July 21, 1997. III Brazilian Congress on Neural Networks: July 22-24, 1997. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To avoid delaying the preparation of the proceedings of the IV CBRN, the final camera-ready version (including the corrections) of the accepted papers must be send directly to the chairman of the organizing committee at the address below: Prof. Jorge M. Barreto - III CBRN UFSC-CTC-INE Campus Universitario 88040-900-Florianopolis-SC BRAZIL ----------------------------------------------------------------- BRAZILIAN COUNCIL ON NEURAL NETWORKS Luiz P. Caloba (UFRJ), Chairman Alexandre P. Alves da Silva (EFEI, SBA) Cairo L. Nascimento Jr. (ITA) Carlos E. Pedreira (PUC/RJ, SBEB) Francisco M. de Assis (UFPB) Mauro C. Klinguelfus (UFPR-LAC/COPEL) Rui Seara (UFSC, SBT) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Luiz P. Caloba (UFRJ) Alexandre P. Alves da Silva (EFEI) Carlos E. Pedreira (PUC/RJ) Fernando Gomide (UNICAMP) Jose N. Amaral (PUC/RS) Ricardo Tanscheit (PUC/RJ) Rui Seara (UFSC) Ruy Luiz Milidiu (PUC/RJ) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Jorge Muniz Barreto (UFSC), Chairman Aurora R. Pozo (UFSC) Cairo L. Nascimento Jr.(ITA) Fernando M. de Azevedo (UFSC) Paulo Freitas (UFSC) Paulo Borges ((UFSC) Silvia M. Nassar (UFSC) Solange Quintella (UFSC), Public Relations Officer. For more information, please contact the chairman of the organising committee at the address below: Prof. Jorge M. Barreto - III CBRN UFSC-CTC-INE Campus Universitario 88040-900-Florianopolis-SC BRAZIL E-mail: cbrn-bar@inf.ufsc.br http://www.inf.ufsc.br/~cbrn-bar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Obs: Detailed instructions for authors preparing papers to be presented at the III Brazilian Congress on Neural Networks are availabe as a MS-Word for Windows 6.0 file at: http://www.ele.ita.cta.br/~cairo/3cbrn/ file: Inst_Engl_WW6.doc (papers written in English) file: Inst_Port_WW6.doc (papers written in Portuguese or Spanish) End of Msg