The first machine learning related IAPR workshop on cognitive information processing CIP2008 is announced to be held in Greece this summer. From the website:

"The first workshop on Cognitive Information Processing aims at bringing together researchers from the machine learning, pattern recognition, signal processing and communications communities in an effort to promote and encourage cross-fertilization of ideas and tools. The focus of CIP 2008 workshop is on Cognitive Radio."

Plenary speakers:

• Prof. Simon Haykin (McMaster University, Canada)


• Prof. Timo Honkela (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)


• Prof. Jose Principe (University of Florida,U.S.A.)


• Prof. Ali Sayed (University of California LA,U.S.A)


• Prof. Bernhard Scholkopf (Max Planck Institute,Germany)


• Prof. Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University,Israel)

Important dates:

• Submission of full paper: January 5, 2008
• Notification of acceptance: March 5, 2008
• Camera-ready paper: March 31, 2008

• Learning theory and modeling
• Bayesian learning and models
• Information theoretic learning
• Graphical and kernel methods
• Adaptive learning algorithms
• Ensembles: committees, mixtures, boosting, etc.
• Data representation and analysis, PCA, ICA, CCA, etc.
• Other related topics

• Cognitive radio
• Cognitive component analysis
• Cognitive dynamical systems
• Distributed, cooperative and adaptive processing
• Other related topics