Courses

July 6-10, 2009, Porto, Portugal
http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt
email: nn-2009@isep.ipp.pt

GENERAL INFORMATION
The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Engineering Biomedical Institute (INEB).

Following last year experience, this year's edition also includes a POSTER/WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects.

COURSE CONTENTS
Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification and regression tasks. The applications are nowadays abundant, e.g. in the engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is dedicated to explain relevant NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons (MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and support vector machines (SVM) used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with applications to real data. Specific topics are also presented, namely Recurrent Neural Networks, Multi-Valued and UB Neurons , Functional Networks , MLP's with Entropic Criteria and Data Mining using NN.

Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools. The trainee has, therefore, the opportunity to apply the taught concepts and become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications. A special workshop session will provide a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

A preliminary programme and further information about the classes are available at the school webpage (http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt)

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

• Early Registration: 18 May 2009
• Poster Submission: 15 June 2009
• Hotel booking : 15 June 2009
• Summer School: 6-10 July 2009

Please note that only a LIMITED number of participants can be accepted.