International Neural Network Society Call for Nominations for Senior Member

The International Neural Network Society (INNS) is calling for nominations for Senior Member. The requirements for Senior Member are as follows:

1. A regular or affiliate member of the INNS, who has been an INNS member for at least 5 consecutive years, can be nominated by an INNS member for Senior Member.

2. The nominee must have demonstrated a significant contribution to the theory and/or applications and/or education and promotion of the subject discipline, and this must be stated in the nomination letter.

3. Final confirmation of the 2014 Senior Members will be made by the INNS Board of Governors and appropriate announcements will then be made, at least on the INNS website, www.inns.org, and in the INNS magazine.

4. New Senior Members will receive an updated membership certificate.

For 2014, nomination letters and a CV of the candidate can be sent via e-mail to the INNS VP for Membership, Irwin King at king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk with the subject line: 2014 INNS SM Nomination, by Friday, June 27, 2014.

Neural Networks, Volume 55, Pages 1-110, July 2014

Neuroscience
1. Detecting cells using non-negative matrix factorization on calcium imaging data
Pages: 11-19
Author(s): Ryuichi Maruyama, Kazuma Maeda, Hajime Moroda, Ichiro Kato, Masashi Inoue, Hiroyoshi Miyakawa, Toru Aonishi

        
Learning Systems
2. Discrete-time online learning control for a class of unknown nonaffine nonlinear systems using reinforcement learning   
Pages: 30-41
Author(s): Xiong Yang, Derong Liu, Ding Wang, Qinglai Wei
        
3. Stochastic nonlinear time series forecasting using time-delay reservoir computers: Performance and universality   
Pages: 59-71
Author(s): Lyudmila Grigoryeva, Julie Henriques, Laurent Larger, Juan-Pablo Ortega
        
4. A general soft label based Linear Discriminant Analysis for semi-supervised dimensionality reduction   
Pages: 83-97
Author(s): Mingbo Zhao, Zhao Zhang, Tommy W.S. Chow, Bing Li

        
Mathematical and Computational Analysis
5. Exponential synchronization of delayed memristor-based chaotic neural networks via periodically intermittent control   
Pages: 1-10
Author(s): Guodong Zhang, Yi Shen

6. A collective neurodynamic optimization approach to bound-constrained nonconvex optimization
Pages: 20-29
Author(s): Zheng Yan, Jun Wang, Guocheng Li
        
7. Stability analysis of fractional-order Hopfield neural networks with time delays
Pages: 98-109
Author(s): Hu Wang, Yongguang Yu, Guoguang Wen

        
Engineering and Applications
8. Towards limb position invariant myoelectric pattern recognition using time-dependent spectral features   
Pages: 42-58
Author(s): Rami N. Khushaba, Maen Takruri, Jaime Valls Miro, Sarath Kodagoda
        
9. Model, analysis, and evaluation of the effects of analog VLSI arithmetic on linear subspace-based image recognition   
Pages: 72-82
Author(s): Gonzalo Carvajal, Miguel Figueroa

Neural Networks new articles 19-25 May, 2014

1. Comparing fixed and variable-width gaussian networks
Author(s): Věra Kůrková, Paul C. Kainen

Call for papers: IJCNN 2015

The 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks will be held at the Killarney Convention Centre in Killarney, Ireland, July 12–16, 2015. The conference is organized jointly by the International Neural Network Society and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and is the premiere international meeting for researchers and other professionals in neural networks and related areas.

The range of topics covered include, but is not limited to the following. (See http://ijcnn.org/2015 for a more detailed list of topics).

• Neural network theory & models
• Pattern recognition
• Computational neuroscience 
• Machine learning
• Cognitive models 
• Collective intelligence
• Brain-machine interfaces 
• Hybrid systems
• Embodied robotics 
• Self-aware systems
• Evolutionary neural systems 
• Data mining
• Neurodynamics 
• Sensor networks
• Neuroinformatics 
• Agent-based systems
• Neuroengineering 
• Computational biology
• Hardware, memristors 
• Bioinformatics
• Neural network applications 
• Artificial life
• Machine vision 
• Connectomics
• Big data 
• Deep learning

The conference will feature:

• Contributed technical talks and posters of latest research from around the world.
• Plenary lecturers by world-famous researchers in neural networks and related fields.
• Special sessions covering topics of active current interest.
• Pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops with presentations by experts.
• Challenging competitions on applying neural networks to hard computational problems.

Important Dates

Special session & competition proposals submission: November 10, 2014
Tutorial and workshop proposal submission: December 15, 2014
Paper submission: January 15, 2015
Paper decision notification: March 15, 2015
Camera-ready submission: April 15, 2015

Organizing Committee

General Chair
De-Shuang Huang, Tongji University, China
dshuang@tongji.edu.cn 

Program Chair
Yoonsuck Choe, Texas A&M University, USA
choe@tamu.edu
 
Technical Program Co-Chair
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
he@ele.uri.edu
 
Technical Program Co-Chair
Asim Roy, Arizona State University, USA
Asim.Roy@asu.edu
 
Plenary Chair
Carlo Morabito, Mediterranea Univ., Italy
 
Special Sessions Chair
Mike Gashler, University of Arkansas, USA
 
Tutorials Chair
Martin McGinnity, University of Ulster, UK
 
Workshop Chair
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Ensta Paris Tech, France
 
Poster Session Chair
Xiao-Hua (Helen) Yu, Cal Polytech Univ., USA
 
Competition Chair
Abir Hussain, Liverpool John Moores U., UK
 
Panels Chair
Juyang (John) Weng, Michigan State U., USA
 
Awards Chair
Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK
 
Web Reviews Chair
Tomasz Cholewo, Lexmark Int’l Inc., US
 
Sponsors & Exhibits Chair
Hanning Zhou, Zhigu Technology, China
 
Publications Chair
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
 
International Liaison
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland U. of Tech., New Zealand
 
European Liaison
Peter Erdi, Kalamazoo College, USA
 
Publicity Co-Chair
Yun Raymond Fu, Northeastern Univ., USA
 
Publicity Co-Chair
Bill Howell, Natural Resources Canada, Canada
 
Local Arrangements Chair
Kang Li, Queens Univ., Belfast, UK
 
Webmaster
Jaerock Kwon, Kettering University, USA

Neural Networks new articles 5 - 11 May, 2014

1. Incorporating conditional random fields and active learning to improve sentiment identification  
Author(s): Kunpeng Zhang, Yusheng Xie, Yi Yang, Aaron Sun, Hengchang Liu, Alok Choudhary

Neural Networks new articles 29 April - 5 May

1. Ideal regularization for learning kernels from labels  
Author(s): Binbin Pan, Jianhuang Lai, Lixin Shen
    
2. Synaptic dynamics: Linear model and adaptation algorithm  
Author(s): Ali Yousefi, Alireza A. Dibazar, Theodore W. Berger