We apologize for possible duplicates of this message sent to distribution lists. ESANN 2014: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges, Belgium, 23-24-25 April 2014 http://www.esann.org/ Preliminary program The preliminary program of the ESANN 2014 conference is now available on the Web: http://www.esann.org/ For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related machine learning and artificial neural networks sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list; thank you very much! For 22 years the ESANN conference has become a major event in the field of neural computation and machine learning. ESANN is a selective conference focusing on fundamental aspects of artificial neural networks, machine learning, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered. The titles of the sessions are: - Advances in Spiking Neural Information Processing Systems (SNIPS) - Vector quantization- and nearest neighbor-based methods - Byte the bullet: learning on real-world computing architectures - Reinforcement learning and optimization - Nonlinear dimensionality reduction - Signal and temporal processing - Learning of structured and non-standard data - Kernel methods - Learning and Modeling Big Data - Classification - Dynamical systems and online learning - Advances on Weightless Neural Systems - Clustering - Regression, Forecasting and Extreme Learning Machines - Label noise in classification The program of the conference can be found at http://www.esann.org/, together with practical information about the conference venue, registration, etc. Other information can be obtained by sending an e-mail to esann@uclouvain.be<mailto:esann@uclouvain.be>. Venue ------ The conference will be held in Bruges (also called "Venice of the North"), one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Bruges can be reached by train from Brussels in less than one hour (frequent trains). Designated as the "Venice of the North", the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its centre, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum. Steering and local committee ---------------------------- François Blayo Ipseite (CH) Gianluca Bontempi Univ. Libre Bruxelles (B) Marie Cottrell Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) Mia Loccufier Univ. Gent (B) Bernard Manderick Vrije Univ. Brussel (B) Jean-Pierre Peters FUNDP Namur (B) Johan Suykens K. U. Leuven (B) Joos Vandewalle K.U. Leuven (B) Michel Verleysen UCL Louvain-la-Neuve Louis Wehenkel Univ. Liège (B) Scientific committee -------------------- Fabio Aiolli Univ. degli Studi di Padova (I) Davide Anguita Univ. of Genoa (I) Cecilio Angulo Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Aluizio Araújo Univ. Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) Cédric Archambeau Amazon.com (D) Miguel Atencia Univ. Malaga (E) Michael Aupetit CEA (F) Andreas Backhaus Fraunhofer-Institut (D) Lluís Belanche Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Younès Bennani Université Paris 13 (F) Michael Biehl Univ. of Groningen (NL) Martin Bogdan Univ. Leipzig (D) Hervé Bourlard IDIAP Martigny (CH) Charles Bouveyron Univ. Paris Descartes (F) Antonio Braga Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais (Brazil) Joan Cabestany Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Stéphane Canu Inst. Nat. Sciences App. (F) Andreu Català Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) Sylvain Chevallier University of Versailles (F) Valentina Colla Scuola Sup. Sant'Anna Pisa (I) Nigel Crook Oxford Brookes University (UK) Holk Cruse Universität Bielefeld (D) Giovanni Da San Martino Univ. of Padova (I) Bernard de Baets Univ. Gent (B) Kris De Brabanter K. U. Leuven (B) Massimo De Gregorio Istituto di Cibernetica-CNR (I) Dante Del Corso Politecnico di Torino (I) Wlodek Duch Nicholas Copernicus Univ. (PL) Marc Duranton CEA Saclay (F) Richard Duro Univ. Coruna (E) Mark Embrechts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Anibal Figueiras-Vidal Univ. Carlos III Madrid (E) Jean-Claude Fort Univ. Paris Descartes (F) Felipe M. G. França Univ. Federal Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Leonardo Franco Univ. Malaga (E) Damien François Université catholique de Louvain (B) Manjunath Gandhi Jacobs University (D) Alessandro Ghio Univ. of Genova (I) Luis Gonzalez Abril University of Sevilla (E) Marco Gori Univ. Siena (I) Bernard Gosselin Univ. Mons (B) Philipe-Henri Gosselin INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atl. (F) Manuel Grana UPV San Sebastian (E) Anne Guérin-Dugué IMAG Grenoble (F) Barbara Hammer Bielefeld Univ. (D) Verena Heidrich-Meisner CAU Kiel (D) Tom Heskes Univ. Nijmegen (NL) Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler Univ. Life Sci. & Natural Resources (A) Christian Igel Univ. Copenhagen (DK) Jose Jerez Univ. Malaga (E) Gonzalo Joya Univ. Malaga (E) Christian Jutten INPG Grenoble (F) Juha Karhunen Aalto Univ. (FIN) Marika Kästner Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D) DaeEun Kim Yonsei Univ. (South Korea) Stefanos Kollias National Tech. Univ. Athens (GR) Jouko Lampinen Aalto Univ. (FIN) Petr Lansky Acad. of Sci. of the Czech Rep. (CZ) Beatrice Lazzerini Univ. Pisa (I) John Lee Univ. cat Louvain (B) Minho Lee Kyungpook National Univ. (KR) Soo-Young Lee Korea Adv. Inst. Sci. & Tech. (KR) Amaury Lendasse Aalto Univ. (FIN) Priscila M. V. Lima Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Paulo Lisboa Liverpool John Moores Univ. (UK) José D. Martín Univ. of Valencia (E) Erzsebet Merenyi Rice Univ. (USA) David Meunier Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (F) Anke Meyer-Bäse Florida State Univ. (USA) Yoan Miche Aalto Univ. (FIN) Alessio Micheli Univ. of Pisa (I) Erkki Oja Aalto Univ. (FIN) Tjeerd olde Scheper Oxford Brookes University (UK) Madalina Olteanu Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) Gilles Pagès Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) (F) Kristiaan Pelckmans Uppsala University (SE) Jaakko Peltonon Aalto University (FIN) David Picard Université de Cergy-Pontoise (F) Gadi Pinkas The Center for Acad. Studies (Israel) Alberto Prieto Universitad de Granada (E) Didier Puzenat Univ. Antilles-Guyane (F) Jean-Pierre Rospars INRA Versailles (F) Fabrice Rossi Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) Ulrich Rückert Bielefeld University (D) David Saad Aston Univ. (UK) Francisco Sandoval Univ.Malaga (E) Jose Santos Reyes Univ. Coruna (E) Frank-Michael Schleif Univ. Bielefeld (D) Udo Seiffert Fraunhofer-Institute IFF Magdeburg (D) Alessandro Sperduti Università degli Studi di Padova (I) Jochen Steil Univ. Bielefeld (D) Peter Tino Univ. of Birmingham (UK) Claude Touzet Univ. Provence (F) Vanya Van Belle KUL Leuven (B) Marc Van Hulle K. U. Leuven (B) Alfredo Vellido Polytechnic University of Catalonia (E) Thomas Villmann Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D) Willem Waegeman Univ. Gent (B) Heiko Wersing Honda Research Institute Europe (D) Axel Wismüller Univ. of Rochester, New York (USA) ======================================================== ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning http://www.esann.org/ * For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations: Michel Verleysen Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group 3, pl. du Levant - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98 mailto:esann@uclouvain.be * Conference secretariat d-side conference services 24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00 mailto:esann@uclouvain.be =======================================================