IWANN 2025

18th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks

A Coruña, Spain, 16-18 June, 2025

Latest news

April 9th, 2025	Early Career Awards sponsored by PeerJ
	Extended deadlne: New date for submission is April 11!
December 12th, 2024	Journal Special Issue for ITOMAD Special Session
November 28th, 2024	Plenary Speaker: Barbara Hammer
October 14th, 2024	Plenary Speaker: Gustavo Deco
October 8th, 2024	Nobel Prize to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton
October 1st, 2024	Call for Special Session Proposals
September 27th, 2024	Tutorial announcement: AI and Digital Twins in Healthcare
August 31st, 2024	First Call for Papers Important dates

Invited Plenary Speakers

Best Poster / Best Presentation Early Career Researcher Awards by PeerJ

We are glad to renew our agreement with PeerJ Publishing to sponsor two awards for Early Career Researchers:

Best poster
Best presentation

Each of the recipients must be an early career researcher (PhD student or up to 4 years postdoc) who authors a full paper, attends the Conference and presents the poster or talk. The winners will be invited to submit a paper, either related or not to the results presented at IWANN, to any of PeerJ journals. If accepted, the publication will have Article Processing Charges waived (worth $1,995 each prize). PeerJ Publishing also features award winners on their blog site and interviews them regarding their research. As a reference, note that PeerJ Computer Science is a first-third journal in the JCR ranking by impact factor.

You are cordially invited to read the interviews with winners of previous editions at PeerJblog:

Interview with Shih-Kai Hung, winner of the Early Career Award IWANN 2021.
Interviews with Janine Strotherm (Best Poster) and El Mahdi Mercha (Best Presentation), winners of the Early Career Awards IWANN 2023.

Nobel Prize to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

At IWANN we join in the congratulation to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. We are ecstatic by the recognition of the field of Machine Learning and Neural Networks implied by the prize. Already at the first IWANN edition in 1991, two papers (this and this) had the word “Hopfield” in their title, bearing witness to the high interest that John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton’s work has always raised in IWANN audience.

Tutorial: AI and Digital Twins in Healthcare

We are glad to announce that the tutorial AI and Digital Twins in Healthcare will take place during IWANN 2025, delivered by Julià Camps. The tutorial can be attended by all IWANN 2025 participants, with no need for an additional registration.

First Call for Papers

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2025), we are pleased to invite you to participate in this event that will be held in June 2025 in A Coruña (Spain). This will be the 18th edition of IWANN, following on from an uninterrupted sequence of a staggering 34 years.

This biennial meeting seeks to provide a discussion forum for scientists, engineers, educators and students about the latest discoveries and realizations in the foundations, theory, models and applications of systems inspired by nature, as well as in emerging areas related to the above items, using computational intelligence methodologies. As in previous editions, we strongly emphasize the wide range of topics comprised under the umbrella of IWANN2025, from which we present a non-exhaustive list of areas of interest for the congress to get a flavour of IWANN25’s orientation:

Mathematical and theoretical methods in computational intelligence
Deep Learning
Learning and adaptation
Emulation of cognitive functions
Bio-inspired systems and neuro-engineering
Advanced topics in computational intelligence
Agent based models
Time series forecasting
Robotics and cognitive systems
Interactive systems and BCI
Machine Learning for 4.0 industry solutions
AI Health
AI in 5G technology
Social and Ethical aspects of AI
General Applications of AI

The approach will be both theoretical and practical, through invited talks, tutorials, workshops, posters, presentation of demos and functional prototypes. Besides, we offer the possibility to carry out a limited number of virtual presentations for those who want to participate but have serious difficulties to travel. The proceedings will include all the presented communications to the conference. As in previous editions of IWANN, we are arranging the publication of the proceedings with Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and the books will be available shortly after the Congress in order to allow the authors to incorporate suggestions and improvements from the presentations. It is also foreseen the publication of extended versions of selected papers in special issues of several prestigious journals. Previous congresses led to special issues of Neural Computing and Applications, PLoS One and Neural Processing Letters. We are working to have at least the same collaborations.

We hope to see you in A Coruña next June. Do not miss on the deadline!!