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   |                    IWANN'2001                    |
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   |          6th INTERNATIONAL WORK-CONFERENCE ON    |
   |                ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL            |
   |                   NEURAL NETWORKS                |
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   |       Granada, Spain      June 13-15 , 2001      |
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   |               Special session on                 |
   |     Knowledge Discovery by Neural Networks       |
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for submission of papers to a special session at IWANN2001 on
"Knowledge Discovery by Neural Networks". 

Organized by Dr. Amparo Alonso and Dr. Bertha Guijarro from the 
University of A Coruña.

Knowledge discovery, as defined by Frawley et al., consists on "the 
non-trivial extraction from data of explicit, unknown and potentially 
useful information". This is a rapidly growing field with successful 
applications in many different areas such as financial forecasting, 
credit risk analysis or medical diagnosis support. Among some others 
techniques ANNs has proven to be adequate for this purpose given their 
capacity for pattern recognition  and classification. The aim of this 
special session is to present the up to date state of ANNs as an 
underlying technology of knowledge discovery. 
Both theoretical and application papers are welcome

Instruction for authors and further information about the workshop is 
available on the IWANN'2001 homepage at 
http://iwann.dia.uned.es/

Please, sent the contributions to the address specified in the call for 
papers making mention to the title of this session on an accompanying 
letter. 
Also, send the session's organisers an e-mail to inform about your 
submission. 
All contributions will be submitted to a review process. 

Deadlines
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Submission                                              February 28, 2001
Acceptance notification and start of inscription        March 31, 2001
End of reduction fee for early inscription              April 30, 2001
Congress date                                           June 13-15, 2001


Contacts
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Session Organisers:

     Amparo Alonso-Betanzos
     Departamento de Computación
     Universidad de A Coruña
     Campus de Elviña, s/n
     15071 A Coruña. Spain
     e-mail: ciamparo@udc.es

     Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas
     Departamento de Computación
     Universidad de A Coruña
     Campus de Elviña, s/n
     15071 A Coruña. Spain
     e-mail: cibertha@udc.es