2nd Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP2010)

Following the success of the first edition of the workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP), we are pleased to announce the second one in this series. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the machine learning, pattern recognition, statistical signal processing, communications and radar communities in an effort to promote and encourage cross-fertilization of ideas and tools. The first CIP took place in 2008 in Santorini (http://cip2008.di.uoa.gr) and it was a very successful event. A number of top people from the areas of machine learning, cognitive radar, cognitive signal processing and cognitive radio got together.

CIP2010 will be sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR, http://www.iapr.org/) and it will have the technical co-sponsorship of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP, http://www.eurasip.org), of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (http://ieee-aess.org/main/) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society (http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/)

More information can be found on the workshop website at:

http://www.conference.iet.unipi.it/cip2010/

2. Date and location.

CIP2010 will take place on June 14-16, 2010, in Italy, in the island of Elba, at the Grand Hotel Elba International (http://www.elbainternational.it), which dominates the Bay of Naregno.
The expected number of attendees is about 10 – 120 people.

3. Technical program.

The workshop will feature keynote addresses and technical presentations, oral (invited) and poster (regular), all of which will be included in the workshop proceedings. Papers are solicited in the following areas:

    Theory:
    • Learning theory and modelling;
    • Bayesian learning and models;
    • Information theoretic learning;
    • Graphical and kernel methods;
    • Adaptive learning algorithms;
    • Ensembles: committees, mixtures, boosting, etc.;
    • Data representation and analysis;
    • Collaborative sensing techniques;
    • Other topics for cognitive information processing.

    Applications:
    • Cognitive radio networks;
    • Cognitive radio modulation techniques;
    • Dynamic spectrum management;
    • Opportunistic resource allocation;
    • Cognitive radar and sonar;
    • Knowledge based target detection, estimation, tracking and identification;
    • Waveform agility design;
    • Blind source separation;
    • Cognitive dynamic systems;
    • Distributed, cooperative, and adaptive processing;
    • Remote sensing;

    • Other application areas.

The special sessions and keynote talks that have been already fixed are the following:

Pleanary Talks:

The workshop will enjoy 6 distinguished talks given by world-wide known researchers:

Christopher Bishop (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Third Generation Machine Intelligence

Christopher.Bishop@microsoft.com

Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol, UK)
Modelling and Design of Cognitive Behaviour

nello.cristianini@gmail.com

Alfonso Farina (SELEX-SI, Italy)
Situation Awareness for Homeland Security: from KBS to Cognitive System Technology

afarina@selex-si.com

Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota, USA)
EURASIP FELLOW DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
Distributed and Sequential Sensing of Spatio-temporal Spectra for Cognitive Radios

georgios@ece.umn.edu

Marco Luise (University of Pisa, Italy)
Perpetual Motion Machines, the Cramér-Rao Bound, and Localization of Cognitive Radios

m.luise@ing.unipi.it

Joseph Mitola (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Cognitive Radio Policy Languages Challenge Information Processing Paradigms

jmitola@stevens.edu

Special Sessions:

The workshop will enjoy 6 special sessions organized by top-quality researchers. The list of session titles and organizers is the following:

Game-theoretic tools for cognitive radios
Sergio Barbarossa (Univ. of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy)
Daniel Palomar (HKUST, Hong-Kong)

sergio@infocom.uniroma1.it

palomar@ust.hk

Waveform agile intelligent adaptive sensor signal processing
Jian Li (Univ. of Florida, USA)
Muralidhar Rangaswamy (AFRL/SNHE, USA)

li@dsp.ufl.edu

muralidhar.rangaswamy@hanscom.af.mil

Bayesian Machine Learning
Ercan Kuruoglu (CNR Pisa, Italy)
Kevin Knuth (Univ. at Albany, USA)

ercan.kuruoglu@isti.cnr.it

kknuth@albany.edu

Knowledge-based data fusion and target tracking
Stefano Coraluppi (NATO Undersea Research Centre, Italy)
Wolfgang Koch (FGAN, Germany)

Coraluppi@nurc.nato.int

w.koch@fgan.de

Cognitive radio: the NEWCOM++ vision
Jacques Palicot (Supelec, France)
Jordi Pérez Romero (UPC, Spain)

jacques.palicot@supelec.fr

jorperez@tsc.upc.edu

Spectrum sensing for cognitive radio
Geert Leus (DUT, The Netherlands)
Erik G. Larsson (Linkoping Univ., Sweden)

g.j.t.leus@tudelft.nl

erik.larsson@isy.liu.se

The Organizing Committee:

General Co-Chairs

Fulvio Gini, University of Pisa, Italy

f.gini@iet.unipi.it

Sergios Theodoridis, University of Athens, Greece

stheodor@di.uoa.gr

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Maria Sabrina Greco, University of Pisa, Italy

m.greco@iet.unipi.it

Merouane Debbah SUPELEC, France

merouane.debbah@supelec.fr

Publication Chair

Robert J. Baxley, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA

baxley@gatech.edu

Local Accomodation and Publicity Chair

Marco Martorella, University of Pisa, Italy

m.martorella@iet.unipi.it

Webmaster

Pietro Stinco, University of Pisa, Italy

pietro.stinco@iet.unipi.it

The deadlines are the following:

Full four-page paper submission: January 10, 2010

Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2010  

Final camera-ready papers and registration: April 10, 2010