ICNNAI-2010 Call for Participation

Call for Participation

The 5th International Conference on Neural Network and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI'2010)

1 - 4 June, 2010
Brest State Technical University
Belarus

(If you need to visit at the latest Call-for-Paper, click CFP)

The 5th International conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI'2010) will be held during 1-4 June 2010 in Brest, Belarus.

SESSIONS

Conference comprises of three categories of sessions. All the sessions will be in single session, and we will have enaugh time for hot disscussions after talk. See Program here.

PLENARY SESSIONS
- Professor Shun-ich Amari (Riken, Japan)
  - Title: "Mathematical Neuroscience -- An Overview."
- Professor Xin Yao (University of Birmingham, UK)
  - Title: "Evolving, Training and Designing Neural Network Ensembles."

SPECIAL SESSIONS
- "Incremental Topological Learning Models and Dimensional Reduction."
- "Is Neural Network Intelligent?"

REGULAR SESSIONS
This session is arranged in a single track expecting hot interdisciplinary interactions. Each talk will be assigned 15 or 30 minutes according to the presenter's choice. Each follows 5-10 minutes of discussion.

REGISTRATION

Standard registration fee is 125 Euro. Payment is only on site.
- Accompanying person (not a presenter) including all events with the proceedings ... 60 euro.
- Accompanying person including all events except for the proceedings ... 40 euro
- Participants who want to join only the sessions. The fee does not include any social events such as gala dinner or excursion ... 20 Euro

THE SOCIAL EVENTS

Besides those sessions above, we plan other social events.

Gala dinner

Excursion to the forest which they say the biggest one in Europe.

Belarus is a land of fairly well-kept secret. In this lovely wonder land, with luck, you'll find something that could not be discovered elsewhere.

ACCESS TO BREST

From outside Belarus, we have two options of air trip. One is via Minsk and the other is via Warsaw. Unless your airport have a direct flight to Minsk, it might be more convenient via the Warsaw airport, which they call "Chopin Airport."

Via Warsaw Chopin Airport ... Take a bus No. 175 at the airport which takes you directly to warsaw Central Railway Station. You can buy the ticket for train at the Casa No. 15 and 16 (They say these 2 are for international line, not in English but in Polish though). The price is about 30 Euro. The timetable of the train from Warsaw to Brest can be seen at Train Timetable. Enjoy breathtakingly beautiful scenery from the train window for around 4 hours.

Via Minsk Airport ... Take a bus No. 112. The buses are available almost once every one hour from 07:10 to 22:35. It takes around 1 hour 20 min (41km) to the city center. It will cost 4000 Belarus Rubles (BYR) which is approximately 2 USD. Unfortunately it is not to the Minsk railway station, but either of the big bus terminals. Yet another city bus would be necessary to the railway station. It's not convenient coparing from warsaw. Or, you may take a taxi directly to the railway station. It would cost 40 Euro, if you are lucky.

Unless your airport has a direct flight to Minsk and none to Warsaw, we strongly recommend via Warsaw.

ACCESS TO UNIVERSITY AFTER ARRIVING BREST RAILWAY STATION

Here you might find a simple map from Brest Center railway station to the University which includes three cafe/restaulant within walking distance from the university.

We have three options. (i) Trolleybus No. 1, 2, or 3 ... 600 BYR; (ii) Mini-bus No. 6, 11 ... 1,100 BYR; (iii) Taxi ... about 15,000 BYR. (Note that 10,000 BYR = 3.3 USD as of 25 MAY 2010) Important notice would be, inconveniently, we have to find place for each option around the railway station. See the map of arround the station. This map is specifically to know where could we take trolleybus, mini-bus, or taxi to the university.

Click here if you prefer more precise map.

HOTEL ACCOMODATION

We don't have a hotel within a walking distance from the conference site. So, in order for convenience we have already kept rooms in one Hotel as a default.

Hotel Vesta (16 Krupskov street. 16)
This is not a new hotel but some local people proudly say "This is the best hotel in the town." Price is approximately 28 euro for a standard single room per night.

If you want a new modern style hotel or not very convenient but cheaper hotel, please try to contact us.

We also have a couple of guest rooms in the University dormitory. This is for almost free, but unfortunately we have only a limited number of this fascility. So we put priority to young participants from foreign countries.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Irina Bausova (University of Latvia, Latvia), Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea), Alexander Doudkin (National Academy of Sciences, Belarus), Athanasios Hatzigaidas (Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece), Bora I. Kumova (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey), Olga Kurasova (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania), Xu Lisheng (Chengdu University of Information Technology, China), Sergey Listopad (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Poramate Manoonpong (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany), Saulius Maskeliunas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania), Helmut Mayer (University of Salzburg, Austria), Anastasia Papastergiou (Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece), Vincenzo Piuri (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy), Wieslaw Pietruszkiewicz (West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland), Vladimir Red'ko ( Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis, Russia), Izabela Rejer (University of Szczecin, Poland), Hubert Roth (Institut fur Regelungs und Steuerungstechnik, Germany), Anatoly Sachenko (Ternopil State Economic University, Ukraine), Anna Samborska-Owczarek (West-Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland), Yuichi Sakumura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Juan Miguel Santos (Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Sevil Sen (University of York, UK), Volodymyr Turchenko (University of Calabria, Italy), Lipo Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), & Qiangfu Zhao (Aizu University, Japan)

HONORARY CHAIR

Petr Poyta (Brest State Technical University).

CHAIRS

Vladimir Golovko, & Akira Imada (Brest State Technical University).

CO-CHAIRS

Vladimir Rubanov (Brest State Technical University), & Rauf Sadykhov (Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelecrtonics).

ADVISORY BOARD

Vladimir Golenkov (Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelecrtonics), Valery Raketsky, Vitaly Sevelenkov, & Vasily Suts (Brest State Technical University).

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE

Aleksei Artemenko, Sergei Besobrasov, Andrew Dunets, Anton Kabysh, Valery Kasianik, Pavel Kochurko, Yury Krapivin, Svetlana Lavrentieva, Yury Savitsky, & Leanid Vaitsekhovich (Brest State Technical University).

CONTACT ADDRESS:

Conference e-mail: iccnai-2010@brest-state-tech-univ.org
Intelligent Information Technologies Dept. Brest State Technical University Moskowskaja 267, Brest, Belarus