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TOPICS

Contributions on the following topics are welcome:

1.
Foundations of Connectionism.
Brain organization principles. Connectionistic versus symbolic representations.
2.
Biophysical models of neurons.
Ionic channels, synaptic level, neurons and circuits.
3.
Structural and functional models of neurons.
Analogue, digital, probabilistic, Bayesian, fuzzy, object oriented and energy related formulations.
4.
Learning and other plasticity phenomena.
Supervised, non-supervised and reinforcement algorithms. Biological mechanisms of adaptation and plasticity.
5.
Complex systems dynamics.
Optimization, self-organization and cooperative processes. Evolutionary and genetic algorithms. Large scale neural models.
6.
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Processes.
Knowledge modeling. Natural language understanding. Intelligent multi-agent systems. Distributed AI.
7.
Methodology for nets design.
Data analysis, task identification and recursive hierarchical design.
8.
Nets simulation and implementation.
Development environments and editing tools. Implementation. Evolving hardware.
9.
Bio-inspired systems and engineering.
Signal processing, neural prostheses, retinomorphic systems, and other neural adaptive prosthetic devices. Molecular computing.
10.
Other applications.
Artificial vision, speech recognition, spatio-temporal planning and scheduling. Data mining. Sources separation. Applications of ANNs in Robotics, Economy, Internet, Medicine, Education and Industry.