IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Vol.4, No.1, March 2012

1. Episodic-Like Memory for Cognitive Robots
Stachowicz, D.; Kruijff, G.M.
Page(s): 1-16
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TAMD.2011.2159004
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5871687

2. A Model to Explain the Emergence of Imitation Development Based on Predictability Preference
Minato, T.; Thomas, D.; Yoshikawa, Y.; Ishiguro, H.
Page(s): 17-28
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TAMD.2011.2158098
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5782935

3. Symbolic Models and Emergent Models: A Review
Juyang Weng
Page(s): 29-53
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TAMD.2011.2159113
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5872008

4. A Behavior-Grounded Approach to Forming Object Categories: Separating Containers From Noncontainers
Griffith, S.; Sinapov, J.; Sukhoy, V.; Stoytchev, A.
Page(s): 54-69
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TAMD.2011.2157504
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5778950

5. Autonomous Learning of High-Level States and Actions in Continuous Environments
Mugan, J.; Kuipers, B.
Page(s): 70-86
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TAMD.2011.2160943
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5936108

6. A Goal-Directed Visual Perception System Using Object-Based Top-Down Attention
Yuanlong Yu; Mann, G.K.I.; Gosine, R.G.
Page(s): 87-103
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TAMD.2011.2163513
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5978202

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 20, issue 2, 2012

1. Human Gait Modeling Using a Genetic Fuzzy Finite State Machine
Author(s): Alvarez-Alvarez, A.; Trivino, G.; Cordon, O.
Page(s): 205 - 223
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6054027

2. An Automatic Approach for Learning and Tuning Gaussian Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Membership Functions Applied to Lung CAD Classification System
Author(s): Hosseini, R.; Qanadli, S.D.; Barman, S.; Mazinani, M.; Ellis, T.; Dehmeshki, J.
Page(s): 224 - 234
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6054028

3. Exact Output Regulation for Nonlinear Systems Described by Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models
Author(s): Meda-Campana, J.A.; Gomez-Mancilla, J.C.; Castillo-Toledo, B.
Page(s): 235 - 247
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6054029

4. A Linguistic Approach to Influencing Decision Behavior
Author(s): Petry, F.E.; Yager, R.R.
Page(s): 248 - 261
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6054030

5. Second-Order Sliding Fuzzy Interval Type-2 Control for an Uncertain System With Real Application
Author(s): Manceur, M.; Essounbouli, N.; Hamzaoui, A.
Page(s): 262 - 275
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6056561

6. Genetic Training Instance Selection in Multiobjective Evolutionary
Fuzzy Systems: A Coevolutionary Approach
Author(s): Antonelli, M.; Ducange, P.; Marcelloni, F.
Page(s): 276 - 290
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6061952

7. Fuzzy Time Series Forecasting With a Probabilistic Smoothing Hidden Markov Model
Author(s): Yi-Chung Cheng; Sheng-Tun Li
Page(s): 291 - 304
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6060907

8. T¨CS Fuzzy Model Identification With a Gravitational Search-Based Hyperplane Clustering Algorithm
Author(s): Chaoshun Li; Jianzhong Zhou; Bo Fu; Pangao Kou; Jian Xiao
Page(s): 305 - 317
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6061951

9. Exponential Stabilization for a Class of Nonlinear Parabolic PDE Systems via Fuzzy Control Approach
Author(s): Huai-Ning Wu; Jun-Wei Wang; Han-Xiong Li
Page(s): 318 - 329
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6061953

10. An Improved Input Delay Approach to Stabilization of Fuzzy Systems Under Variable Sampling
Author(s): Xun-Lin Zhu; Bing Chen; Dong Yue; Youyi Wang
Page(s): 330 - 341
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6064888

11. Reliable Fuzzy Control for Active Suspension Systems With Actuator Delay and Fault
Author(s): Hongyi Li; Honghai Liu; Huijun Gao; Peng Shi
Page(s): 342 - 357
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6064886

12. A Fuzzy Approach for Multitype Relational Data Clustering
Author(s): Jian-Ping Mei; Lihui Chen
Page(s): 358 - 371
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6068241

13. A Fuzzy System Constructed by Rule Generation and Iterative Linear SVR
for Antecedent and Consequent Parameter Optimization
Author(s): Chia-Feng Juang; Cheng-Da Hsieh
Page(s): 372 - 384
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6070980

14. A Novel Algorithm for Finding Reducts With Fuzzy Rough Sets
Author(s): Degang Chen; Lei Zhang; Suyun Zhao; Qinghua Hu; Pengfei Zhu
Page(s): 385 - 389
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6095617

15. Solving Fuzzy Relational Equations Via Semitensor Product
Author(s): Daizhan Cheng; Jun-e Feng; Hongli Lv
Page(s): 390 - 396
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6064885

16. On H¡Þ Filtering for Discrete-Time Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems
Author(s): Hui Zhang; Yang Shi; Mehr, A.S.
Page(s): 396 - 401
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6081923

Final call for papers: INNS-WC 2012

The final deadline for submitting papers to the International Neural Network Society Winter Conference (INNS-WC) has been extended to 15 June 2012. This conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, October 3-5, 2012.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems; Volume 23, Issue 6, June 2012

This issue published some papers on sparse representation, semi-supervised learning, spiking neural networks, high level classification, and multitask learning. We welcome you to submit your papers on these topics to IEEE TNNLS.

These articles can be retrieved on IEEE Xplore:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=6203443&punumber=5962385
or directly by clicking the individual paper URL below.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 23, Issue 6, June 2012

1. Title: Global Stability of Complex-Valued Recurrent Neural Networks With Time-Delays
Authors: Jin Hu; Jun Wang
Page(s): 853 - 865
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6194338

2. Title: Robust Exponential Stability of Uncertain Delayed Neural Networks With Stochastic Perturbation and Impulse Effects
Authors: Tingwen Huang; Chuandong Li; Shukai Duan; Janusz A. Starzyk
Page(s): 866 - 875
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6180003

3. Title: Sparse Tensor Discriminant Color Space for Face Verification
Authors: Su-Jing Wang; Jian Yang; Ming-Fang Sun; Xu-Jun Peng; Ming-Ming Sun; Chun-Guang Zhou
Page(s): 876 - 888
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6180223

4. Title: Programming Time-Multiplexed Reconfigurable Hardware Using a Scalable Neuromorphic Compiler
Authors: Kirill Minkovich; Narayan Srinivasa; Jose M. Cruz-Albrecht; Youngkwan Cho; Aleksey Nogin
Page(s): 889 - 901
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6182588

5. Title: Laplacian Embedded Regression for Scalable Manifold Regularization
Authors: Lin Chen; Ivor W. Tsang; Dong Xu
Page(s): 902 - 915
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6186826

6. Title: Neural Assembly Computing
Authors: João Ranhel
Page(s): 916 - 927
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6186825

7. Title: Extracting Representative Information to Enhance Flexible Data Queries
Authors: Jin Zhang; Guoqing Chen; Xiaohui Tang
Page(s): 928 - 941
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6189794

8. Title: Robust Synchronization for 2-D Discrete-Time Coupled Dynamical Networks
Authors: Jinling Liang; Zidong Wang; Xiaohui Liu; Panos Louvieris
Page(s): 942 - 953
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6191361

9. Title: Network-Based High Level Data Classification
Authors: Thiago Christiano Silva; Liang Zhao
Page(s): 954 - 970
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6192353

10. Title: Neural Network Structure for Spatio-Temporal Long-Term Memory
Authors: Vu Anh Nguyen; Janusz A. Starzyk; Wooi-Boon Goh; Daniel Jachyra
Page(s): 971 - 983
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6192329

11. Title: Feedback Optimal Control of Distributed Parameter Systems by Using Finite-Dimensional Approximation Schemes
Authors: Angelo Alessandri; Mauro Gaggero; Riccardo Zoppoli
Page(s): 984 - 996
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6192328

12. Title: Generalized SMO Algorithm for SVM-Based Multitask Learning
Authors: Feng Cai; Vladimir Cherkassky
Page(s): 997 - 1003
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6183517

13. Title: Complexity-Reduced Scheme for Feature Extraction With Linear Discriminant Analysis
Authors: Yuxi Hou; Iickho Song; Hwang-Ki Min; Cheol Hoon Park
Page(s): 1003 - 1009
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6191360

An experiment in open-source textbooks 2

To further put my money where my mouth is, in regards to my support for open source textbooks, I'm following up Monday's post by making the outline of my open source textbook, Intelligent Information Systems, available online. The outline is in PDF format, and is available at the following address:

http://mike.watts.net.nz/IIS_Outline.pdf

Readers are encouraged to comment on the outline via the comments section of this blog - I want to hear your opinions!

WCCI 2012 Panel Session on Computational Intelligence in Education and University Curricula

The following panel session at WCCI 2012 is organised by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Curriculum Subcommittee (which I happen to serve on), and will be held Thursday, June 14, 4:10-5:10pm.

Chairs: Robert Kozma and Jennie Si

Panelists: Haibo He, Janusz Kaczprzyk, Jim Keller, Luis Magdalena, Marios Polycarpou, Lipo Wang

Computational Intelligence is a relatively new research field. A lot of educational materials have been created in various fields of CI in the past decades. However, due to the field's relatively youth, its fundamental achievements has not been organized into a comprehensive curriculum yet. It is crucial for the development of the field to have high-quality educational materials on the state of art of CI. This allows attracting and educating talented and enthusiastic students and documenting the progress in the field. The panel will discuss various areas of CI education, including existing databases and course materials, online resources and video lectures, development of new textbooks, open-source software, and others. Various recommendations for future actions will be discussed as well.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for AI'12

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 25th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2012 is 29 June, 2012. This conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, 4-7 December, 2012.

An experiment in open-source textbooks

I am thinking of writing a textbook. Actually, I'm working on three at the moment, one of which is a research monograph, but the one that it most relevant to this post is tentatively titled Intelligent Information Systems, and will cover neural networks, fuzzy systems and evolutionary algorithms at an undergraduate level. I also expect it would be useful for researchers from other disciplines who want to apply methods in computational intelligence to their own research, and to software engineers who want to solve real-world problems with computational intelligence.

In line with this post, I am seriously considering making Intelligent Information Systems available as an open-source textbook. But before I do, I need some encouragement. So I'm asking you, my dear readers, to encourage me. If you think you would assign an open-source textbook on this topic to a class, or that you would buy a self-published textbook, let me know in the comments. If you could see yourself contributing some other way, let me know, too.

It's up to you good folk to push me to do this!

Competition Call for IEEE CIS GOLDs and Students: Pitch your CI Research Idea and Win an iPad 2!!!

The following is cross-posted from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society blog.

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The CIS GOLD subcommittee is hosting a “Novel CI Research Idea Pitch” competition during the Student and GOLD reception at WCCI 2012 in Brisbane Australia.

Your Challenge: Design a one-page research proposal of your Computational Intelligence idea and get a chance to pitch your idea to a panel of CI experts and your peers using an “elevator pitch” (3 minute time limit). An “elevator pitch” is a short summary of a research idea. The research area must be “computational intelligence” and the participants must “sell” their idea to the judges to qualify for prizes. A panel of three CI experts will select 3 best pitches and the audience (your peers) will rank 1st, 2nd and 3rdwinner through secret ballot. Prizes will include 1 iPad for 1st winner, certificates and free full year IEEE CIS memberships. Register now for a chance to be heard!

Submission Guidelines: Interested GOLDs and Students should consult the full Brief and Submission Guidelines by going to http://tinyurl.com/cp8kdw8. Registration and submission deadline is June 11th 2012, Midnight EST. (You can register for the competition without submitting the research summary).

Register Now (Space is Limited!): http://tinyurl.com/7tror22

Publishing and perishing under gameable metrics

My alma mater is in the New Zealand news again, and again it is to do with gaming the metrics by which the research performance of New Zealand tertiary institutions are measured. This time, the article describes how many staff with poor publishing records have been made redundant from the university (that is, they have lost their jobs) prior to the assessment later this year. While I have little sympathy for those in permanent lecturing positions who do not publish (see my previous comments here and here) in this case it seems like the staff who have lost their jobs are predominantly teaching staff, or staff who are still developing their research record (see this post from one who lost her job for the same reason some time ago). If that is the case, then I have to say that the university administration is making a mistake.

Teaching takes a lot of time and energy (my last semester teaching at Otago, I was in the office at least six days a week, and often worked from 7:30 in the morning to 9 or 10 at night). The purpose of having teaching-only staff is to take some of that load off of the lecturers so that they can do their research. Indeed, the major thrust of the article is that the redundancies are putting more stress on the remaining staff, as they are having to pick up extra teaching in addition to lifting their own research outputs. While the teaching load could in theory be reduced by hiring contract lecturers (who would not, as I understand it, be assessed) I have already posted on why this is a bad idea.

From my research with evolutionary algorithms, I know that optimising to one criteria or metric seldom results in optimal or robust systems. By optimising their staff to one (flawed and gameable) metric, the University of Otago is reducing the robustness of their institution. The long-term outcome of these redundancies is yet to be seen, but I do not think that it will be good for anyone concerned. Non-performers need to be removed, for sure, but early-career researchers need coaching and leadership to develop. They don't need the great big stick stick of the threat of redundancy waved at them (such threats are more often than not a sign of dysfunctional management, rather than a sign of competent leadership).

Ultimately, only those who set the metrics can resolve this situation. As long as a metric can be gamed, then institutions will game them. In the meantime, people will have their lives upended and their careers destroyed by narrow-minded administrators and cynical political operators who are trying to wring a few more points out of the system to make themselves look good.

The problem with academic journals: An update

 A brief update on the status of the Elsevier boycott (described here): to date, more than 11 000 academics have pledged to not review, submit or do editorial work for any Elsevier journals. My previous post has already described why I oppose such a boycott of a single publisher, and I expect that this boycott is going to cause some unanticipated consequences.

I suspect that this boycott explains why the papers I have under review in Ecological Modelling and Ecological Informatics are taking so long to go through the review process: it's hard enough finding reviewers as it is, and with people refusing to review for Elsevier, it's going to get even harder. That's not punishing Elsevier, that's punishing the researchers who are trying to get their work published and advance their careers.

As I said before, the way real change will come about is by the top researchers supporting open-access journals. At least one of the people who could do this has just done so: Winston Hide, an associate editor at the highly-ranked Elsevier journal Genomics has just resigned from the editorial board, with the avowed intention of focusing his energies on open-access alternatives. I can only hope that some of the top researchers in computational intelligence will do the same.

Call for papers: INNS-WC 2012

INNS-WC2012 – 2012 International Neural Network Society Winter Conference


Bangkok, Thailand, October 3-5, 2012

http://inns.sit.kmutt.ac.th/wc2012/

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:                May 31, 2012
Notification of acceptance:                June 30, 2012
Camera-ready paper:                        July 31, 2012

The 3rd International Neural Network Society Winter Conference (INNS-WC2012) will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on October 3-5, 2012. INNS-WC2012 aims to bring together scientists, practitioners, and students worldwide, to discuss the past, present, and future challenges and trends in the area of natural and machine intelligence. This event has been a bi-annual conference of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) to provide a forum for international researchers to exchange latest ideas and advances on neural networks and related discipline. INNS-WC2012 solicits contributions to the following tracks in natural and machine intelligence and related areas:

• INNS-WC general track: Trends in Natural and Machine Intelligence
• INNS Symposium on Nature Inspired Creativity (SoNIC2012)
• INNS Symposium on Vision and Image Processing (SoVIP2012)
• INNS Symposium on Data Analytics and Competitions (SoDAC2012)

Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high quality manuscripts of up to twelve (12) pages electronically. Short papers of 4-6 pages will also be considered. The submission must conform to the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of INNS-WC2012 as anElsevier Procedia Computer Science open access volume (indexed by EI, Scopus and Conference Proceedings Citation Index - formerly ISI Proceedings). Extended version of selected papers may be invited for publication in special issues of international journals after the conference. All submissions will be checked by VeriGuide for originality.

The range of topics for the general conference track on

"Trends in Natural and Machine Intelligence" includes but is not limited to

• Autonomous machine learning
• Neural network theory & models
• Computational neuroscience
• Cognitive models
• Brain-machine interfaces
• Embodied robotics
• Evolutionary neural systems
• Neurodynamics
• Neuroinformatics
• Neuroengineering
• Neural hardware
• Neural network applications
• Pattern recognition
• Machine vision
• Speech science and technology
• Collective intelligence
• Hybrid systems
• Self-aware systems
• Data mining
• Sensor networks
• Agent-based systems
• Computational biology
• Bioinformatics
• Artificial life

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SoNIC2012

The range of topics for the INNS Symposium on Nature Inspired Creativity (SoNIC2012) includes but is not limited to

• Application of Nature Inspired Computing in Creative Industries:
• Creative computing for digital media
• Computer aided design
• Computer generated special effects for film
• Cartoon animation
• Games
• Music
• Edutainment, etc.
• Art and Cognition:
  • Art and the Brain
  • Creative process
  • Emotion and meaning in paintings, music, sculptures, poetry, etc.
• Generative Art:
  • Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, graphic designs, musical pieces, sound-fonts, sound effects, film music, etc.
• Aesthetic evaluation:
• Aesthetic analysis of film, image, music, sound, sculpture, etc.
  

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SoVIP2012

The range of topics for the INNS Symposium on Vision and Image Processing (SoVIP2012) includes but is not limited to:

• Low-level image processing
• Feature extraction and image description
• Image classification and clustering
• 3D sensing and depth measuring systems
• 3D object modeling and reconstruction
• Tracking and surveillance
• Motion estimation
• Human gesture recognition
• Human motion analysis
• Human face detection and tracking
• Human-robot interactions
• Robot intelligence
• Humanoid and mobile robotics
• Video indexing and retrieval
• Intelligent compression of massive imaging data
• Bio-medical imaging applications
• Bio-robotics
• Biometrics

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SoDAC2012

The range of topics for the INNS Symposium on Data Analytics and Competitions (SoDAC2012) includes but is not limited to:

• Business intelligence
• Air quality and environmental issues
• Chemo-informatics
• Social networks and analytics
• Speech prosody
• Geo-informatics
• Neuro-informatics
• Internet and web analytics
• Data visualization techniques
• Data quality analysis
• Decision support and analytics
• Knowledge management and discovery
• Advanced database analytics
• Content and information retrieval
• Modeling and simulation of complex systems
• Optimization techniques
• Bio-data analysis
• Complex scheduling problems
• Scalability of data analysis 
• Data competitions

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Collocated Conferences

• The 3rd International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics (CSBio2012 - www.csbio.org)
• The 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2012 - www.incob2012.org)

IEEE CIS Facebook Photo Competition

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society are running a photo competition on Facebook. See the flyer below to find out how to enter.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for CISE 2012

A reminder that the deadline for papers submitted to the 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CISE) 2012 is 11 June 2012. This conference will be held in Wuhan, China, December 14-16, 2012.

Call for papers: Fuzz-IEEE 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE) 2013 is 5 January, 2013. This conference will be held in Hyderabad, India, 7-10 July, 2013.

Call for papers: IJCNN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2013 is February 1, 2013. This conference will be held in Dallas, Texas, August 4-9, 2013.

Call for papers: CEC 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2013 is February 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013.

Call for papers: EvoStar 2013

The paper submission deadline for EvoStar 2013 is 1 November, 2012. This conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, 3-5 April, 2013.

Deadline extension: UKCI 2012

The paper submission deadline for the 12th UK Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI) 2012  has been extended to May 31, 2012. This workshop will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 5-7 September, 2012.

Reminder: conference paper deadline for NIPS 2012

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2012 is 2 June 2012. This conference will be held at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 3-6 December, 2012.