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CFP: Special session:
Nature-inspired Intelligent Methods and Applications (NIIMA'2007)

Under the frame of:
IWANN 2007
9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007)
(Computational and Ambient Intelligence)
Palacio de Miramar, San Sebastián, Spain; June 20-22, 2007
http://iwann2005.ugr.es/2007/

*** MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES FOR THE SESSION ***
Characteristic for man-designed computing inspired by nature is the metaphorical use of concepts, principles and mechanisms underlying natural systems. This type of computing includes among others, fields as evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, molecular computing and quantum computing. The special session is soliciting papers on all aspects of Nature-inspired Intelligent Methods and Applications. Because of the interdisciplinary character of the conference a special effort will be made to solicit survey, review, and tutorial papers which would make research trends in a given subarea more accessible to the broad audience of the conference.
Applications are solicited, but not limited to fields as security, knowledge management, bio-informatics, geographic information systems, artificial societies, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, prediction, control, robotics, image and speech signal processing, food industry, biology and medicine, business and management, materials and environment engineering and so on.
*** PAPER SUBMISSION ***

Authors must prepare original manuscripts which should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer-Verlag format. Author guidelines may be otained at:

Submission will be accomplished through the Section CALL FOR PAPERS/SUBMISSIONS, in PDF format.

*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

11 February 2007	Submission of papers by authors The format specified in PAPERS/AUTHOR INFORMATION must be used by authors in order to write their contributions. The procedure to hand in contributions is described in PAPERS/SUBMISSIONS. Authors willing to propose papers for any special session must follow the regular job sending procedure, indicating the specific corresponding special session. More information in: http://iwann2005.ugr.es/2007/
11 March 2007	Notification of provisional acceptance. Information about the evaluation of the papers and suggested changes will be sent to authors before this date.
25 March 2007	Submission of final papers. Final versions of the accepted papers must be handed in by their authors before this date.
25 March 2007	Early registration (special rates). Attendants to the conference must register before this date to get special rates. At least one person must register per paper; otherwise that paper will not be included in the conference proceedings (LNSC, Springer Verlag) (see Section REGISTRATION: http://iwann2005.ugr.es/2007/).
20-22 June 2007	IWANN Conference. The conference will take place from 20 to 22 June, 2007 in Palacio de Miramar, San Sebastián, Spain.

*** COMMITTEES ***

CO-CHAIRS
Emilio Corchado -University of Burgos, Spain
Bogdan Gabrys- Bournemouth University, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTIE (tentative)

Ajith Abraham - Chung-AngUniversity, (Republic of Korea)
Rodolfo Zunino - University of Genoa (Italy)
Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho- USP, (Brazil)
Juan M. Corchado- Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
Javier Bajo- Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (Spain)
Dymirt Ruta, BT (UK)
José Francisco Martinez Trinidad - INAOE (Mexico)
Alvaro Herrero -Universidad de Burgos (Spain)
Bruno Baruque -Universidad de Burgos (Spain)