Call for papers

You are invited to submit papers (PDF file) electronically before April the 19^th , 2005 on this web site:

http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/wsom2005/

The electronic submission procedure is available on this WEB page.

Authors having difficulties to send their manuscripts electonically may contact the Organisation Chairman (cottrell@univ-paris1.fr)

Instructions for authors

Each paper (up to 8 pages long) must be written using LaTex or Word.

To ensure an overall homogeneity of the proceedings, your paper must be generated using the LaTeX style file (wsom05.sty, see the example wsom05.tex), or a Word template (wsom05.doc) (updated April, the 13^th : due to several remarks, a new style has been defined in the wsom05.sty, wsom05.tex and wsom05.doc). If you already have submitted your paper, you don’t need to make any change (it will be required only for the final version).

All papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of a full length manuscript and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Selected conference papers will be included in “Advances in Self-Organizing Maps —WSOM’05”, a Special Issue of the Neural Networks journal, tentatively planned for the begining of 2006.

Deadlines

Manuscript Submission Tuesday, April the 19^th, midnight

Acceptance Notification May 15, 2005

Camera Ready Submission June 5, 2005

Advance Registration June 15, 2005

Registration Fees

You are invited to register on this web site :

http://symposium.univ-paris1.fr/wsom05

Some information:

	Early Registration Fee (before June 15, 2005)	Late Registration Fee (after June 15, 2005)
Registration	€ 150	€ 200
Accompanying person	€ 45	€ 60

The registration fees include the attendance to all sessions, the welcome party (Monday 5, September 2005), the farewell party (Thursday 8 at noon, September 2005), a copy of the proceedings, and the coffee breaks. For the accompanying persons, they include the welcome party and the farewell party.

Additional options :

1. Tickets for the Official Congress Dinner on September 7, 2005 on the Eiffel Tower, € 55 / ticket
2. You will find a number of restaurants close to the conference site where you can have lunch at a reasonable price. Alternatively, you can have lunch at the cafeteria of the conference site. In the latter case, it is necessary to order and pay the tickets in advance. Tickets for the lunch (September, 6-7) at the conference site: 12 € / ticket.

Methods of payment available : Online payment, Bank transfers, Cheques (only in euros), order form (bons de commande).

In all cases, please send the proof of payment (transfer order, cheque, order form, copy of the mail that you will receive after on-line payment) together with the registration form to the following address :

WSOM’05

SAMOS-MATISSE

Université Paris 1

90, rue de Tolbiac

F-75634 PARIS CEDEX 13

France

Phone-Fax : 33 1 44 07 89 22

Mail : cottrell@univ-paris1.fr

For bank transfers and cheques, a receipt will be sent at the address indicated on the registration form.

You are invited to register on this web site :

http://symposium.univ-paris1.fr/wsom05

Conference Secretariat

Marie Cottrell

SAMOS-MATISSE

Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne

90, rue de Tolbiac, 75634 PARIS Cedex 13, France

Phone + Fax : 33 1 44 07 89 22

Email : cottrell@univ-paris1.fr