Academic publishing

An excellent essay by Phil Clapham on the need for academics to publish their research. One of his rules, that I am trying to apply to my own work, is to have at least one paper under review at any given time.

This means, though, that I should also be writing at least one paper at any given time, while also generating sufficient publishable results for at least one paper at any given time.

While this does encourage the practice of breaking research projects into small, easily published chunks, I suspect it may also encourage further proliferation of single publon papers.

Conference paper deadline: KES AMSTA 2011

The deadline for submitting papers to the 5th International KES Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications (KES AMSTA 2011) is 20 December 2010. This conference will be held in Manchester, UK, 29 June - 1 July, 2011.

Conference paper deadline: INNS-IESNN

The deadline for papers submitted to the 2011 International Neural Network Society International Educational Symposium on Neural Networks is 30 September 2010. This conference will be held in Lima, Peru, 25-27 January, 2011.

This symposium is sponsored by the International Neural Network Society.

Conference paper deadline: NaBIC 2010

The paper submission deadline for the second conference on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NABIC) 2010 is 15 August 2010. This conference will be held in Kitakyushu, Japan, December 15-17, 2010.

The first international conference I ever attended was held in Kitakyushu, in 1998. It is a very nice city, although I would recommend getting a hotel away from the rail lines: the freight trains run all night!

New Website on Evolving Connectionist Systems

I've just launched a website on Evolving Connectionist Systems (ECoS). ECoS are a class of constructive neural networks that learn very quickly and that do not suffer from catastrophic forgetting. The website has overviews of several ECoS algorithms, a comprehensive listing of the ECoS literature, and also links to the ECoS Toolbox, which is a collection of Windows command-line tools that implement several ECoS algorithms.

Update: this website is now at http://ecos.watts.net.nz/

Conference paper deadline extension: KDIR 2010

The deadline for the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR) 2010 has been extended to 4th June 2010.

Conference paper extension: ICNC 2010

The deadline for the International Conference on Neural Computation (ICNC) 2010 has been extended to 31 May 2010.