No. 4

June, 2019

APNNS NEWSICONIP 2019 Venue - Sydney, Australia

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CONTENTS

1. President’s Message ....................................................................................................................... 1
2. Society Membership ....................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 Information and Update ..............................................................................................................................4
2.2 How to Join APNNS ...................................................................................................................................5

3. Conferences and Meetings............................................................................................................. 6
3.1 ICONIP 2018 .............................................................................................................................................6
3.2 ICONIP 2019 .............................................................................................................................................7
3.3 ICONIP 2020 and ICONIP2021 ..................................................................................................................8
3.4 ICONIP 2022 and beyond ...........................................................................................................................8
3.5 Call for Participation...................................................................................................................................94 ICONIP 2019 Information ........................................................................................................... 11
4.1 Topics ...................................................................................................................................................... 11
4.2 Organizing Committee .............................................................................................................................. 12
4.3 Timeline and Submission .......................................................................................................................... 13
4.4 History ..................................................................................................................................................... 14

APNNS NEWSNo. 4 (June, 2019)1. President’s Message

Prof. Nikola Kasabov, President
APNNS is a society that is continuing the strong traditions in science, education and industry
applications of neural networks and intelligent systems, established by the Asia-Pacific Neural
Network Assembly (APNNA) 26 years ago, but moving forward to a next level, with a stronger
impact on the societies, the education and industry sectors across the Asia-Pacific area andinternationally.
This is especially in time when neural networks (NN) and deep-learning machines have alreadybecome the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI). NN and AI alone are predicted tocontribute by 2030 from 10% to 26% of the GDP of each of the countries which embrace them.
And APNNS can help all countries in the Asia-Pacific region to embrace NN and AI for their own
benefit, growth and wellbeing of their societies.
APNNS is targeting an achieving the following goals:
1)
To be truly Inclusive, Interdisciplinary and International society.
2)
To be a world leader in the development of new NN and AI methods, systems, andtechnologies.
3)
To increase its membership attracting more members from the industry.
4)
To enable a strong interaction between members by continuing the publications of an on–line magazine, where members can share news, projects, job and scholarship announcements.
5)
To continue the successful ICONIP conferences as major international events in the field.
6)
To attract young researchers and high school students through special events during ICONIP
conferences, such as competitions.
7)
To maintain the spirit of friendship, democracy, collaboration and mutual respect across all
member countries and individual members.
8)
To become the consciousness of the societies for their endeavor for the use of newtechnologies for peace and human benefits, preventing the malicious use of AI.

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APNNS has a strong leadership provided by the Board of Governors:
Nikola Kasabov
President
KEDRI
Auckland University of Technology
Email: nkasabov [at] aut.ac.nz

Tingwen Huang
President Elect

Derong Liu
Immediate Past President

Faculty of Science
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Email: tingwen.huang [at] qatar.tamu.edu

School of Automation
Guangdong University of Technology
Email: derongliu [at] foxmail.com

Jun ZhangVice-President for Administration

Seiichi Ozawa
Vice-President for Fianance

School of Computer Science andEngineering
South China University of Technology
Email: csjun [at] scut.edu.cn

Graduate School of Engineering
Kobe University
Email: ozawasei [at] kobe-u.ac.jp

Kevin Wong
Vice-President for Membership

Minho Lee
Vice-President for Conferences

School of Engineering and Information
Technology
Murdoch University
Email: k.wong [at] murdoch.edu.au

School of Electronics Engineering

Sung-Bae Cho
Vice-President for Industry
Relations

Jonathan H. Chan
Vice-President for Education

Kyungpook National University
Email: mholee [at] gmail.com

School of Information Technology
King Mongkut’s University ofTechnology
Email: jonathan [at] sit.kmutt.ac.th

Department of Computer Science
Yonsei University
Email: sbcho [at] cs.yonsei.ac.kr

James Kwok
Vice-President for Publications

Paul Pang
Vice-President for Competitions

Department of Computer Science andEngineering
Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology
Email: jamesk [at] cse.ust.hk

Department of Computing
Unitec Institute of Technology
Email: jonathan [at] sit.kmutt.ac.th

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We wish all APNNS members successful and productive work and will welcome new members toour society! Please follow our activities at the APNNS Web site: http://www.apnns.org
Professor Nikola Kasabov is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Fellow of the
NZ Institute of IT Professionals NZ, Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and theScottish Computer Society, UK. He is the Director of the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery ResearchInstitute (KEDRI) at Auckland University of Technology. He holds a Chair of Knowledge Engineering at
the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at AUT.
He has published more than 600 publications that include 12 books, 200 journal papers, 28 patents. His
work has been cited widely and has a significant impact on the development of methods and systems ofcomputaionla intelligence world-wide. He is also Visiting Professor at Shanghai JiaoTong University andRGU UK.
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No. 4 (June, 2019)2. Society Membership

Kevin Wong, VP Membership

2.1 Information and Update
Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) was formally established in November 2015. Since
2016, the total number of regular and student APNNS members has grown from 363 to current 556
members. The number of members is still increasing. APNNS continue to seek more active
participation from researchers and professionals in the Asia Pacific region to share, contribute, andto advance the state of knowledge in the theoretical modelling and analysis of the brain processes
and their applications in technology. APNNS also promote active interactions among researchers,scientists, and industry professionals who are working in the areas of Neural Networks and related
fields in the Asia-Pacific region.
Currently our active members are distributed from regions like Australia, China, Hong Kong, India,
Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand,
Tunisia, Turkey and UAE. We also have members from countries in other regions of the world.
For a list of current APNNS board of governors, it is available at http://www.apnns.org/bog.html.
There are currently 9 country/region governors represented on the board of governors. If you haveany suggestion and ideas of growing the membership or increase the relevant activities in yourcountry or region, feel free to drop them a line for further discussions. We encourage greater
participation from any growing region/country located in Asia Pacific. You can visit
http://www.apnns.org/bylaws.html to look at the bylaws outlining the possible formation of country
or region in the board of governors.
The flagship conference organised by APNNS every year is the International Conference on Neural
Information Processing (ICONIP). The ICONIP 2018 was held in Siem Reap, Cambodia and the
ICONIP 2019 will be held in Sydney, Australia. The APNNS annual meetings are also held during
the ICONIP. We encourage all members to attend to exchange ideas and further develop thecommunities in the Asia Pacific region.

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No. 4 (June, 2019)2.2 How to Join APNNSThe annual APNNS membership fee isRegular: 15 USD

Student: 10 USD

To apply for the APNNS membership, please send an email tomembership@apnns.org with the following information.
To: membership@apnns.org
Subject: Membership Application
Name (LAST/First):
Affiliation:
Email Address:
Country or Region of your Institute: MembershipClass: Regular or Student.
Then, we will send you an invoice that is payable through PayPal. Your membership will be
activated upon the receipt of payment. A student must send the copy of student ID card or astudent certificate with the signature of a school dean.

JNNS Members
The members of Japanese Neural Network Society will have a special arrangement of the
APNNS membership fee by JNNS. Please contact the JNNS office . http://www.jnns.org/

Affiliation Change and Further Information
For your affiliation change and further inquiry, please contact us atmembership@apnns.org .

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No. 4 (June, 2019)3. Conferences and Meetings

Minho Lee, VP Conferences
3.1 ICONIP 2018
The 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2018) was held at
the Sokha Siem Reap Resort & Convention Center, Siem Reap, Cambodia during December 13 16, 2018, following the successes of previous events. We had three plenary speakers including
Prof. Marios M. Polycarpou, Prof. Masashi Sugiyama, Prof. Qing-Long Han, Prof. Cesare Alippi
and Prof. Nikola Kasabov are the invited speakers. ICONIP2018 received 575 submissions from51 countries and regions across six continents. Based on a rigorous peer review process by at least
three reviewers per a paper, 401 high quality papers were accepted for publication in Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences and presented at 6 parallel sessions in 3 full days followedby the welcome reception. We also had related events including two conferences (9thInternational Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing, 11th International
Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence), one symposium (International Symposium
on Neural Networks) and one competition (International Cybersecurity Data Mining
Competition).

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No. 4 (June, 2019)3.2 ICONIP 2019
The 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2019) will be held
in Sydney, Australia. Sydney, capital of New South Wales and one of Australia's largest cities, isbest known for its harbourfront Sydney Opera House, with a distinctive sail-like design. Massive
Darling Harbour and the smaller Circular Quay port are hubs of waterside life, with the arched
Harbour Bridge and esteemed Royal Botanic Garden nearby. Sydney Tower’s outdoor platform,
the Skywalk, offers 360-degree views of the city and suburbs.
ICONIP 2019 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, educatorsand students worldwide to present the state of the art of research results and applications in related
fields of neural information processing and applications. ICONIP2019 will feature plenary
speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage. The
conference aims to bring together the researchers in current research topics by organizing special
sessions and tutorial topics in related areas.

ICONIP2019 invites contributions in the related areas by the submission deadline through theonline submission system. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has notbeen submitted under review or is not copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by anauthor if accepted. Authors are requested to submit full-length papers (12 pages maximum) which
will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, andclarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and takeconsideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. The Proceedings will be published in the
Springer’s series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Selected papers will be published in a
special issue of an SCI journal.
Please view the details of the conference at http://ajiips.com.au/iconip2019/index.html.

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No. 4 (June, 2019)3.3 ICONIP 2020 and ICONIP2021
The APNNS board of governors are pleased to announce the locations of ICONIP 2020 in
HongKong, China and ICONIP 2021 in Bali, Indonesia.

3.4 ICONIP 2022 and beyond
If you would like to organize ICONIP2022, the main conference of APNNS, please prepare a
proposal according to the following guidelines:* List of organizing committee members; biosketch of key organizing committee members* Location and date of the conference; venue, transportation, sightseeing* Program highlights;* Budget plan; registration fee structure.
Please submit your proposal to APNNS Vice President for Conferences, Minho Lee(mholee@gmail.com).

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No. 4 (June, 2019)3.5 Call for Participation

You are cordially invited to submit papers to the 12th International Workshop on Artificial
Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AICS 2019) and participate in the 10th International
Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition (CDMC 2019). The two events are associated with the26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2019), Sydney,
Australia, December 12-15, 2019. AICS 2019 and CDMC 2019 award ceremony will be both coheld with ICONIP 2019. For more information on venue, accommodation, and travel, please referto the conference website at http://ajiips.com.au/iconip2019/.
AICS 2019 Call for Workshop Papers:
The 12th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AICS 2019) was
previously the International Data Mining and Cybersecurity Workshop (DMC) which has been
held for ten consecutive years. The purpose of AICS is to raise the awareness of cybersecurity,
promote the potential of industrial applications, and give young researchers exposure to the key
issues related to the topic and to ongoing works in this area. AICS 2019 will provide a forum forresearchers, security experts, engineers, and students to present latest research, share ideas, anddiscuss future directions in the fields of data mining and cybersecurity.
Paper Submission and Publication: Authors are invited to submit papers on novel and mature
work, of up to 8 pages in Springer LNCS format (with up to 2 additional pages for an extra
charge). Please submit your papers via the ICONIP 2019 submission website, indicating the paper
is devoted to AICS 2019 in the option list. All accepted papers will be published in theproceeding of ICONIP 2019, an LNCS publication with Springer.
CDMC2019 Call for Competition Participants:
The 10th International Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition (CDMC 2019) at ICONIP 2019 isa challenging, multi-month research and practice competition, focusing on application ofknowledge discovery techniques to solve advanced, real-world problems. The competition is open
to multi-person teams worldwide. Contestants are invited to participate in solving a set ofproblems in fields of cybersecurity, text mining, image processing, etc. For more information,
including registration details, detailed problem descriptions, and contest rules please refer to theofficial contest website at http://www.csmining.org/.
Prizes and Awards: We have set cash prizes for the competition. The top rank teams of all data
mining tasks will be eligible to win a cash prize of NZ $3000. Additional prizes may be available
as travel grants for deserving participants to help them attend the ICONIP 2019 and AICS 2019 inAustralia. The award ceremony of the competition will be held at the grand banquet of ICONIP
2019, where the winner of the CDMC 2019 will be awarded in front of all the audience andhonourable guests of the conference.
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Organizing Chairs
Iqbal Gondal,
Youki Kadobayashi,
Tao Ban,Paul S. Pang,
Kaizhu Huang,Jungsuk Song,Poh Geong Sen,
Kitsuchart Pasupa,

Australia
Japan
Japan
New Zealand
China
Korea
Singapore
ThailandAdvisory Committee
Jun Wang,
Changshui Zhang,
Derong Liu,
Irwin King,
Lipo Wang,
Nik Kasabov,Tingwen Hwang,
Tom Gedeon,
Yoichi Shinoda,
Jonathan Chan,
Hossein Sarrafzadeh,
Baoliang Lu,

Hong Kong
China
China
Hong Kong
Singapore
New Zealand
Qatar
Australia
Japan
ThailandUSA
China

Sponsors:

Dates for Competition

Dates for Workshop
Paper submission:
June 15, 2019
Notification of acceptance:
August 1, 2019
Camera-ready submission:
September 01, 2019
Early registration:
August 7, 2019
Workshop date:
December 11, 2019

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Competition starts:
July 15, 2019
Competition closes:
October 30, 2019
Winner announcement andaward ceremony:
December 14, 201910

No. 4 (June, 2019)4 ICONIP 2019 Information

Tom Gedeon, General Chair of ICONIP 2019
4.1 Topics
The 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2019) aims atpresentation of professional research results and enthusiastic discussions among researchers,scientists, and industry professionals who are working in neural network, deep learning andrelated bio-inspired computing fields. The theme of the conference is Human Centred
Computing: use of human sensor data to predict or model human emotion, intentions and goals
with an overall aim to produce computer systems which are useful, usable and sympathetic tousers. Papers matching the theme are particularly encouraged.

Suggested topics for the conference include, but are not limited to neural networks, deeplearning, bio-inspired computing and the following topics: >A. Theory and Algorithms

B. Computational andCognitive Neurosciences

C. Human Centred
Computing and Applications

A1. Neurodynamics
A2. Machine learning
A3. Deep neural networks
A4. Computational
intelligence
A5. Computer vision
A6. Pattern recognition
A7. Speech processing
A8. Time series analysis
A9. Reinforcement learning
A10. Bayesian networks

B1. Sensory perception
B2. Motor control
B3. Decision making
B4. Social cognition
B5. Emotion and reward
B6. Neuroeconomics
B7. Computational psychiatry
B8. Brain-machine interface
B9. Biometricsystems/interfaces
B10. Neural data analysis

C1. Big data analysis
C2. Robotics and control
C3. Bioinformatics
C4. Biomedical engineering
C5. Neuromorphic hardware
C6. Data mining
C7. Information security
C8. Social networks
C9. Computational financeC10. Sports and rehabilitation

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4.2 Organizing Committee
General Chair
Tom Gedeon,

Australia

Senior Program Committee and Advisory Board
Akira Hirose,
Andrew Chi-Sing Leung,
Baoliang Lu,
Chee Peng Lim,
Chu Keong Loo,
Derong Liu,Hye Young Park,
Irwin King,James Kwok,
John Sum,
Jonathan Chan,
Jun Wang,
Jun Zhang,
Kay Chen Tan,
Kazushi Ikeda,
Kevin Wong,
Ko Sakai,
Kitsuchart Pasupa,
Marios Polycarpou,
Minho Lee,
Nikhil R. Pal,
Nikola Kasabov,Paul Pang,
Robert Kozma,
Sabri Arik,
Seiichi Ozawa,
Soo-Young Lee,Sung-Bae Cho,
Takashi Omori,Tom Gedeon,
Zhigang Zeng,
Weng Kin Lai,

Japan
Hong Kong
China
Australia
Malaysia
China
Korea
China
Hong Kong
TaiwanThailand
China
China
Hong Kong
Japan
Australia
Japan
Thailand
CyprusKorea
India
New Zealand
New Zealand
USA
Turkey
Japan
Korea
Korea
Japan
Australia
China
Malaysia

Program Committee Chairs
Kevin Wong,
Minho Lee,Tom Gedeon,

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Australia
Korea
Australia

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No. 4 (June, 2019)Publicity Chairs
Kevin Wong,
Sukanya Manna,

Australia
USA

Local Arrangements
Matloob Khushi,
Mukesh Prasad,
Tom Gedeon,

Australia
Australia
Australia

Sponsors:

4.3 Timeline and Submission
Important Dates:
Special session proposals submission due .......................................................... 30 May 2019
Full Paper submission due................................................................................... 15 June 2019
Notification of acceptance................................................................................... 1 August 2019
Camera-ready copy and author registration......................................................... 1 September 2019
Online submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iconip2019
Important: submissions should be in the Springer conference format

Paper submissions and publications: General stream conference papers should be submitted online following the Springer LNCS format. Papers for special sessions and for workshops are
submitted in same way as general papers in the targeted session. Papers will be published by the
LNCS Springer series, and in the Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing
Systems (AJIIPS). Selected and extended papers will be published in special issues of journals
after the conference.
Final papers after acceptance will normally be 10 pages up to be a maximum of 12 pages inlength.
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4.4 History
25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2018
24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Guangzhou, China, 2017
23rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Kyoto, Japan, 2016
22nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015
21st IInternational Conference on Neural Information Processing, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia,
2014
20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Daegu, Korea, 2013
19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Doha, Qatar, 2012
18th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Shanghai, China, 2011
17th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Sydney, Australia, 2010
16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Bangkok, Thailand, 2009
15th IInternational Conference on Neural Information Processing, Auckland, New Zealand,
2008
14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2007
13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Hong Kong, 2006
12th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Taipei, 2005
11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Calcutta, India, 2004
10th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003
9th IInternational Conference on Neural Information Processing, Singapore, 2002
8th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Shanghai, China, 2001
7th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Taejon, Korea, 2000
6th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Perth, Australia, 1999
5th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Kitakyushu, Japan, 1998
4th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1997
3rd IInternational Conference on Neural Information Processing, Hong Kong, 1996
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No. 4 (June, 2019)2nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Beijing, China, 1995
1st International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Seoul, Korea, 1994

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