Preliminary programme is now available in PDF format.

List of accepted papers is avaliable.

Students may apply for the European Neural Network Society's (ENNS) support for the ICANN 2008 participation. The grants are available via ENNS web site.

Registration instructions available here

Booking available at page dedicated for accomodation

The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held from September 3 through September 6, at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic.

ICANN – International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society, and is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks.

ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications in the following broad areas:

• Computational neuroscience
• Connectionist cognitive science
• Neural and hybrid architectures
• Learning algorithms
• Mathematical theory of neurocomputing
• Computational intelligence
• Hybrid systems
• Data analysis
• Pattern recognition
• Image processing
• Signal and time series processing
• Blind source separation
• Neural dynamics and complex systems
• Self-organization
• Graphical network models
• Bayesian networks
• Inductive modelling
• Neuroinformatics
• Neural control, planning and robotics applications
• Hardware implementations and embedded systems
• Evolutionary computation
• Nature inspired computation
• Intelligent multimedia
• Semantic web
• Real world systems
• Other

• ICANN 2007, Sept. 9-13, Porto, Portugal
• ICANN 2006, Sept. 10-14, Athens, Greece
• ICANN 2005, Sept. 11-15, Warsaw, Poland
• IJCNN 2004, July 25-29, Budapest, Hungary
• ICANN 2002, Aug. 27-31, Madrid, Spain
• ICANN 99, Sept. 7-10, Edinburgh, UK