Topics

Topics will include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Self-organization

· Unsupervised learning (including PCA/NLPCA, ICA/NLICA, Principal

· Curves/Surfaces)

· Theory and extensions

· Optimization

· Hardware and architecture

· Signal processing, image processing and vision

· Time-series analysis

· Text and document analysis

· Financial analysis

· Data visualization and mining

· Bioinformatics

· Robotics, ...

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