ICANN 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). In 2024, the ICANN will take place in Lugano, Switzerland.

Conference Dates: September 17 to September 20, 2024
Conference Venue: Campus of the University of Southern Switzerland and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Via la Santa 1, 6962 Lugano-Viganello, Switzerland.
Conference Webpage: https://icann2024.org

The ICANN 2024 features three conference tracks, namely AI and Machine Learning, Bio-Inspired Computing, and the Applications Track, making it a unique forum to bring together researchers across a wide range of disciplines related to Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks.

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We invite prospective authors to submit original and innovative papers in the following areas:

AI and Machine Learning:
Theory and Foundations of Neural Networks, Novel Neural Network Architectures, Topics in Neural Networks, Large Language Models, Explainable AI, Graph Methods, Graph Neural Networks, and Clustering, Reinforcement Learning, Topics in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Bio-Inspired Computing:
Brain-Inspired Computing, Cognitive and Theoretical/Computational Neuroscience

Applications:
Human-Computer Interaction, Biosignal Processing, Medicine and Physiology, Speech and Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Climate and Environment, General Applications of Machine Learning

Workshops:
- AI in Drug Discovery
- Deep Learning for Neuro-heuristic Brain Analysis
- Reservoir Computing

Special Sessions:
- Spiking Neural Networks and Neuromorphic Computing
- Accuracy, Stability, and Robustness in Deep Neural Networks
- Antifragile dynamical systems: beyond robustness, resilience, and adaptiveness
- Neurorobotics

For details and updates, as well as for the final list of workshops and special sessions, consider the current version of the list at:
https://e-nns.org/icann2024/conference-programme/conference-topics

The ICANN 2024 will be an in-person conference. We expect that at least one co-author of each paper will be physically present in Lugano to give his or her presentation. We will also enforce a no-show rule, in order to encourage an optimal quality of the scientific discussion here in Lugano.

Papers must be written in English language and must conform to the format defined in the Author’s Kit, available on the conference webpage at:

https://e-nns.org/icann2024/submission

Both short papers (6-11 pages) and full papers (12-15 pages) can be submitted. Papers shorter than 6 pages will not be accepted to the main conference, please check special submission rules for the conference workshops on the webpage of the respective workshop if you plan to submit there.

Papers will undergo rigorous peer review; the Program Committee will make the final decision which papers will be included in the conference program. For papers with conflicting reviews, or which are on the borderline between acceptance and rejection, a short rebuttal phase is foreseen.

Full papers will usually be assigned to oral sessions (15 minutes presentation + 5 minutes questions), short papers may be assigned to oral or poster sessions, depending on the quantity of submissions; this assignment does in no way incur a judgment on paper quality. Note that presentation rules for workshops and special sessions may differ. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jürgen Schmidhuber, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland, and KAUST AI Initiative, Saudi Arabia
Tanja Schultz, University of Bremen, Germany
Walter Senn, University of Bern, Switzerland
Henry Markram, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chairs
Jürgen Schmidhuber, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland, and KAUST AI Initiative, Saudi Arabia
Igor Tetko, HGMU Munich, Germany

Program Chairs
Michael Wand, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland
Kristína Malinovská, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Honorary Chair
Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg, Germany

Full list of the organization committee:
https://e-nns.org/icann2024/organization/organising-committee

IMPORTANT DATES
- Opening of submission portal: Feb 15 2024
- Deadline for full paper submission: March 15 2024
- Notification of Acceptance or Rebuttal: May 15 2024
- Deadline for rebuttal: May 31 2024
- Final notification of Acceptance or Rejection after Rebuttal: June 10 2024
- Camera-ready paper upload and author registration: June 30 2024

Contact: For questions, please contact program-committee@icann2024.org.

Link to this call:
https://e-nns.org/icann2024/call-for-papers