******************************************************************** ICANN 2008 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 10 2008 ******************************************************************** Dear Colleague Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for ICANN 2008 to March 10, 2008 for regular papers and to March 20, 2008 for papers intended for special sessions and workshops. Papers in LNCS style of maximal length 10 pages can be submitted at http://www.icann2008.org/submit The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ******************************************************************** The 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, will be held on September 3-6 at the Diplomat hotel, Prague, Czech Republic. ICANN - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is an annual conference organized since 1998 by the ENNS - European Neural Network Society in co-operation with the International Neural Network Society and the Japanese Neural Network Society and it is a premier event in all topics related to neural networks. ICANN 2008 welcomes contributions on the theory od neurocomputing, algorithms and applications. Papers can be either submitted as regular papers or to special sessions: * Coupling, Synchronies and Firing Patterns: from Cognition to Disease * Constructive Neural Networks or workshops: * New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks * Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle For more information please visit http://www.icann2008.org Sincerely, Vera Kurkova Chair of the Program Committee of ICANN 2008