Sponsors

The European Neural Network Society (ENNS) is the leading scientific society in the filed of neural network research in Europe. The major activity of ENNS is the annual scientific meeting, the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), which has been held in various cities in Europe since 1991. The ICANN meeting is the largest European scientific conference in our field. The previous ICANN took place in Warsaw, Poland in 2005. ENNS members benefit from reduced registration fees at ICANN. Furthermore, there will be support for young students to participate in the ICANN 2006 conference. A number of travel grants will be made available (see the ENNS web page at www.snn.ru.nl/enns/).

The International Neural Network Society (INNS) is the premiere organization for individuals interested in a theoretical and computational understanding of the brain and applying that knowledge to develop new and more effective forms of machine intelligence.

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's field of interest is the theory, design, application, and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms emphasizing neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained.

The European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP) was founded on 1 September 1978 to: "improve communication between groups and individuals that work within the multidisciplinary, fast growing field of Signal Processing in Europe and elsewhere, and to exchange and disseminate information in the field all over the world." The association exists to further the efforts of researchers by providing a learned and professional platform for dissemination and discussion of all aspects of signal processing.

HUMAINE - Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion - is a Network of Excellence in the EU's Sixth Framework Programme, in the IST (Information Society Technologies) Thematic Priority IST-2002-2.3.1.6 Multimodal Interfaces. HUMAINE aims to lay the foundations for European development of systems that can register, model and/or influence human emotional and emotion-related states and processes - 'emotion-oriented systems'.

K- Space, The Knowledge Space of Technology to Bridge the Semantic Gap is a network of world-leading research teams from academia and industry conducting integrative research and dissemination activities in semantic inference for both automatic and semi-automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content, aiming at closing the gap between the low-level content descriptions that can be computed automatically by a machine and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media

ICANN is partially supported by the AKMON programme of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology.