haibo terpuylstevensedu apologies multiple copies received call papers special session autonomous learning systems optimization control httpwwwecestevenstecheduhheijcnn2008html 2008 international joint conference neural networks ijcnn 2008 2008 ieee congress evolutionary computation wcci 2008 httpwwwwcci2008org june 16 2008 hong kong call papers autonomous learning systems learn optimized decision policies active interaction external environment achieve goals therefore systems critical understanding developing highly robust adaptive fault tolerant intelligent systems due complexity many realworld application problems nonlinear control decision support systems pattern recognition many others challenging task modeling optimization control highly nonlinear large scale networked engineering systems information uncertainty autonomous learning systems provide powerful mechanism potentially solve kind problems special session provide worldwide experts research community platform presenting discussing identifying latest research results important future directions domain paper submissions new advances theoretical aspects well applications autonomous learning systems invited addition also welcome wellwritten survey papers discuss current stateoftheart development domain outline future research directions papers invited submission unpublished work following limited areas reinforcement learning approximate dynamic programming autonomous learning robotics unsupervised learning learning control methods applications neural networks learning control incremental learning swarm intelligence optimization applications planning scheduling applications decision support systems important dates paper submission dec 1 2007 acceptance notification feb 1 2008 final manuscript due mar 1 2008 paper submission manuscripts prepared according standard format page limit specified ijcnn 2008 6 pages limit including figures tables graphs references etc submission instructions please see wcci2008 submission page httpwwwwcci2008orgsubmissionhtm please make sure select conference ijcnn 2008 session special select autonomous learning systems optimization control ijcnn premier international conference field neural networks well flagship conferences international neural network society ieee computational intelligence society wcci special session papers treated way regular papers go peerreview process conference proceedings ijcnn continuously included ei compendex database ieee xplore latest news please refer wwwwcci2008org web site dedicated special session accessed httpwwwecestevenstecheduhheijcnn2008html questions regarding special session please feel free contact session organizer kurstevensedu vthcknudteducn directly look forward seeing hong kong 2008 special session organizers haibo phd assistant professor department electrical computer engineering stevens institute technology hoboken nj 07030 email kurstevensedu web httpwwwecestevenstecheduhhe xin xu phd associate professor institute automation national university defense technology changsha p r china email vthcknudteducn fri 08 aug 2008 021231 0500 uai cfp ijcnn2008 special session autonomous learning systems optimization control