Events on Artificial Intelligence in 2000.


Edited versions of these announcements are published under the title Current Events in Neurocomputing by Elsevier Science B.V. and as Calendar of Events in the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications by the Imperial College Press, UK


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January 4 - 7, 2000, Chennai, India. Item #2092
ECCAP-2000 International Conference on Evolutionary Computing for Computer, Communication, Control and Power.
DR.VEDAM SUBRAHMANYAM, Coordinator - ECCAP - 2000, Crescent Engineering College, Vandalur, Chennai - 600 048, India, fax: +91 44 2376520, tel: +91 44 2391348, email: cec@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in.

i) Developments in Evolutionary Computing (EC)

ii) EC in Communication Engineering

iii) EC in Computer Applications

iv) EC in Control Engineering

v) EC in Power Engineering

January 8-11, 2000, The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan. Item #2024
ACCV2000 Fourth Asian Conference on Computer Vision.

Prof. Kuo-Chin Fan, Dept. of Computer Science & Information Engineering, National Central Univ., Chung Li, Taiwan. Email: kcfan@mbox.ee.ncu.edu.tw, fax: +886 3 422 2681.

Active and Real-Time Vision             Low-Level Processing
2D & 3D Scene Analysis                  Stereo and Motion Analysis
Document Processing                     Integration of Modules and Cues
Character Recognition                   Object Recognition
Biomedical Image Analysis               Physics-Basd Vision
Image Analysis for Multimedia           Industrial Visual Inspection
Feature Extraction                      Image and Video Segmentation
Texture Analysis                        Applications

January 9, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Item #2181
IUI'2000 Workshop on Neural Networks for Intelligent User Interfaces.

Ramin Yasdi, German National Research Centre for Information Technology (GMD), Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany. Email: Ramin.Yasdi@gmd.de.

The scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to following
topics:

      * user models
      * adaptive hyper media
      * classifying and recognizing users, emotions and situations
      * information retrieval
      * adapting complex user interfaces
      * intelligent student systems
      * representation of application domains

January 20 - 21, 2000, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Item #2167
NCAF: Neural Computing Applications Forum.

NCAF, P.O. Box 73, Egham, TW20 0YZ, England, email: ncafsec@brunel.ac.uk, tel: ++44 1784 477271, fax: ++44 1784 472879.

Topics: 
Applications of neural networks and other soft computing techniques. 
Natural Language Engineering. 
Condition Monitoring. 
Fees: Members : £20; non-members £100. Prices in UK Pounds Sterling

January 23 - 28, 2000, San Jose, California, USA. Item #2017
Electronic Imaging 2000.

Maureen Stone, stone@stonesc.com.

*  image processing for Internet, reuse of softcopy and hardcopy images:
data compression and representation, coding for multiresolution or
resolution-independent images
*  imaging issues in content-based indexing, search and retrieval
*  virtual and augmented reality, VRML, image stitching
*  systems issues: color space architectures, computation for images on
the Internet, automatic printing, and displays for Internet appliances
*  network image transport: protocols, XML applications, Web crawling,
caching, capability exchange, negotiation, and security
*  network computing: distributed computing, performance analysis, fault
tolerance & failure recovery, media synchronization, transaction
managers, directory & agent services
*  social and legal issues and technical solutions for the Internet
including copyright, content rating, watermarking, authentication,
non-repudiation, and notification
*  interactive image creation for the Internet: artistic impression, Web
design and visual sign, semiotics, advanced man-machine interfacing, and
visual languages
*  publishing on the Internet: graphic arts requirements, commerce
systems, agents, image syndication, leasing, resolution and quality
requirements, palettization, file formats, capture systems
*  classifying images: cataloging, categorization, thesauri,
iconography, ontologies, metadata, XML solutions
*  cultural heritage applications: image permanence issues, scanning
strategies, cataloging, presentation and publication strategies, CD-ROM
vs. Internet

January 23 - 28, 2000, San Jose Convention Center. Item #2025
SPIE Electronic Imaging 2000 conference on Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection VIII.

IS&T/SPIE EI 2000, SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA, Shipping Address: 1000 20th St. Bellingham, WA 98225 USA, tel: 360/676-3290.

*  image processing and metrology 
*  measurement of color and appearance 
*  feature analysis and pattern recognition 
*  machine vision systems integration and process characterization.

January 23 - 26, 2000, San Diego, California, USA. Item #2134
WINTER SCHOOL IN CHAOTIC COMMUNICATIONS.

Mary Jones, UCSD, Institute for Nonlinear Science, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0402. Email: mfjones@ucsd.edu, tel: (858) 534 4068 fax: (858) 534 7664.

WOLFGANG SCHWARZ, Technical University of Dresden: Communication with Chaos

TOM CARROLL, Naval Research Laboratory: Chaos Synchronization and
Communication with Filtered Chaotic Signals

ANGEL RODRIQUEZ-VAZQUEZ, University of Sevilla: Design of Integrated Chaotic
Circuits

ROBERT SCHOLTZ, University of Southern California: Ultra Wide Band
Communication Systems

JOHN STONICK, Oregon State University: RF Communication Systems

GIANLUCA SETTI, University of Ferrara: Statistical Approach to Chaos: 
A Tensor Technique for any Order Autocorrelation

GIANLUCA MAZZINI, University of Bologna: DS-CDMA: System Modelling and
Optimal Chaos Based Spreading

January 26-28, 2000, Compal Hall, Oita, Japan. Item #2076
AROB 5th '00 The Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics.

Send to: AROB Secretariat, c/o Sugisaka Laboratory, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Oita Univ., 700 Dannoharu, Oita 879-1192, Japan. Tel: +81 97 554 7841, fax: +81 97 554 7818, email: arobsecr@cc.oita-u.ac.jp.

    Artificial Brain Research
    Artificial Intelligence
    Artificial Life
    Artificial Living
    Artificial Mind Research
    Brain Science
    Chaos
    Cognitive Science
    Complexity
    Computer Graphics
    Evolutionary Computations
    Fuzzy Control
    Genetic Algorithms
    Innovative Computations
    Intelligent Control and Modeling
    Micromachines
    Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament
    Mobile Vehicles
    Molecular Biology
    Neural Networks
    Neurocomputers
    Neurocomputing Technologies and its Application for Hardware
    Robotics
    Robust Virtual Engineering
    Virtual Reality

January 28-29, 2000, Melbourne, Australia. Item #2135
ECCS*2000 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science.

Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science Workshop, c/o A/Prof Janet Wiles, Dept of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, QLD 4072 Australia, fax: +61 7 3365 4999, email: eccs@csee.uq.edu.au.

Topics include but are not restricted to evolutionary psychology and
evolutionary approaches to:
    language (natural and artificial),
    intelligent agents,
    cognitive modeling,
    game theory,
    embodied cognition,
    autonomous robots,
    education.

January 29, 2000, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Item #2097
ECCS 2000 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science.

Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science Workshop, c/o Dr Janet Wiles, Dept of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Queensland, QLD 4072 Australia. Fax: +61 7 3365 4999, email: eccs@csee.uq.edu.au.

Topics include but are not restricted to evolutionary 
psychology and evolutionary approaches to: 
     *language (natural and artificial), 
     *intelligent agents, 
     *cognitive modeling, 
     *game theory, 
     *embodied cognition, 
     *autonomous robots, 
     *education. 

February 2-4, 2000, Canberra, Australia. Item #2052
AISTA'2000 International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems: Theory and Applications.

email: ista2000@ise.canberra.edu.au.

Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following area:

Intelligent and Adaptive Control Systems:
Neural Networks Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Genetic Algorithms 
& Evolutionary Control, Adaptive and Optimal Control, Intelligent 
Control Systems and Robotics, Intelligent Agents, Industrial 
Automation, Signal Processing, Parallel Computing Applications in 
Identification and Control

Hybrid Control Systems:
Neural Genetic Systems, Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, Fuzzy 
Evolutionary Systems, Fuzzy Expert Systems, Fuzzy Neural Systems, 
Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Control and Optimisation


Image Processing, Optimisation and Prediction:
Image Processing, Image Segmentation,  Clustering, Classification, 
Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems, Time Series 
Analysis and Prediction, System Identification


Intelligent Decision Making:
Intelligent Databases and Information Retrieval, Case-Based 
Reasoning, Decision Analysis, Dynamic Systems Modelling, Decision 
Support Systems, Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning

February 15-17, 2000, Palm Springs, California USA. Item #2246
Intel Developer Forum Spring 2000.

Intel Developer Forum Conference, 6400 International Parkway, Ste. 2500, Plano, TX 75093, tel: 888 266 7649, fax: 972 349 7715.

The Spring 2000 Intel Developers Forum (IDF) promises to be another premier conference with up to date, in-depth, technical information for hardware and software developers. Come to hear Andrew S. Grove, Chairman of Intel Corporation, present a vision for the Internet economy, and learn about its Building blocks, including the Itanium(tm) processor, the Intel Internet Exchange Architecture, and compelling software for e-business solutions. The program, renowned for its technical intensity and presented by Intel and Industry developers-architects, includes a first glimpse at the next generation IA-32, tracks for Servers and Workstations, system designers, embedded applied computing, and mobile devices. There are tracks on e-home ease of use, connectivity and content; platform network connectivity, and more. And there is plenty for the software developer: Several days of courses on porting to IA-64, e-business applications, and designing the next generation web sites - tools and practices. You will hear about technologies from Intel's new acquisitions, and can choose from over 10 hands-on labs. Come mingle and network with over 3,000 other developers from across our industry.

February 25-26, 2000, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Item #2060
ICM2000 International Conference on Manufacturing.

Dr. Mahiuddin Ahmed, Dept. of Industrial and Production Engineering, Bangladesh Univ. of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. Tel: 880 2 9665611, fax: 880 2 863046, email: ahmedm@ipe.buet.edu.

February 27 - March 3, 2000, Trump Taj Mahal Casino and Resort, Atlantic City, NJ, USA. Item #2034
4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.

George M. Georgiou, Computer Science Dept., California State Univ., San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397, USA. Email: georgiou@csci.csusb.edu.

	o Artificial Life
	o Artificially Intelligent NNs
	o Associative Memory
	o Cognitive Science
	o Computational Intelligence
	o Efficiency/Robustness Comparisons
	o Evaluationary Computation for Neural Networks
	o Feature Extraction & Pattern Recognition
	o Implementations (electronic, Optical, Biochips)
	o Intelligent Control
	o Learning and Memory
	o Neural Network Architectures
	o Neurocognition
	o Neurodynamics
	o Optimization
	o Parallel Computer Applications
	o Theory of Evolutionary Computation

February 27, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ, USA. Item #2036
The Third International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms.

Manuel Graña, ccpgrrom@si.ehu.es, Departamento CCIA, Facultad de Informatica UPV/EHU, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain.

February 27 - March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ, USA. Item #2062
Fuzzy Logic: New Applications. Sessiopn at JCIS'2000.

Dr. Kim Le, School of Computing, Univ. of Canberra, P.O. Box 1, Belconnen, ACT 2616, Australia, email: kiml@ise.canberra.edu.au.

  *	Review of Fuzzy Logic (FL) applications.
  *	New FL application developments in:
Medical systems (medical advisory system, image processing, etc.).
Human computer communication (speech recognition, speaker verification,
fingerprint & face verification, etc.).
Industrial and robot control systems (expert system, movement control,
etc.).

February 27 - March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ, USA. Item #2063
JCIS 2000 The Fifth Joint Conference on Information Sciences.

email: jcis@ee.duke.edu.

Conferences and Workshops
 FT&T 2000:
                        The Seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology
 CS&I 2000:
                        The Fifth International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics
 CI&N: 
                        The Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and
                        Neurosciences
 IC 2000:
                        The Third International Workshop on Intelligent Control
 FEA 2000:
                        The Third International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary
                        Algorithms
 CVPRIP 2000: 
                        The Third International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern
                        Recognition and Image Processing
 HPCIC 2000: 
                        The Fourth International Symposium on High Performance and
                        Interconnection Networks
 IMMCN 2000: 
                        First International Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and
                        Networking
 BI 2000: 
                        Second International Workshop on Biomolecular Informatics
 ISSL 2000:
                        First International Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Speech and
                        Language
 CIE&F 2000:
                        The First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in
                        Economics and Finance

February 27 - March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ, USA. Item #2064
FUZZY LOGIC APPLICATIONS IN THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES.

Dr. Benjoe A. Juliano, Juliano@ecst.csuChico.edu, Dept. of Computer Science, California State Univ. - Chico, Chico, CA 95929-0410, USA.

February 27 - March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ, USA. Item #2081
FEA 2000 The 3rd International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms.

Dr. Manuel Grana, Departamento Ciencias de la Computacion, UPV/EHU, Facultad de Informatica, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 20009 San Sebastian, Spain. Email: ccpgrrom@si.ehu.es.

Summaries dealing with all areas and types of genetic and evolutionary
computation are encouraged, including genetic algorithms, genetic
programming, evolutionary programming, evolution strategies, genetics
based machine learning (classifier systems), artificial life, quantum
computing, evolvable hardware, ant colony optimization, evolving
agent-based systems, adaptive behavior systems.  Summaries in
fundamental issues including theory, operator design, and implementation,
as well as applications in areas of scientific, engineering, and commercial
endeavor are equally welcome.

February 27-29, 2000, San Diego, California, USA. Item #2086
SSMSD 2000 SOUTHWEST SYMPOSIUM ON MIXED-SIGNAL DESIGN.

Prof. Jo Dale Carothers, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Univ. of Arizona, 1230 E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA. Tel: 520 621 8733, fax: 520 621 8076, carothers@ece.arizona.edu.

Digital and analog circuit & component design
        o  Digital/analog/RF/microwave design
        o  Packaging
        o  Power electronics & systems

CAD algorithms and tools
        o  Synthesis
        o  Physical design
        o  Layout for thermal distribution
        o  Noise estimation/avoidance
        o  Concurrent layout of digital/analog/RF/optical components

Modeling, simulation, and testing
        o  Thermal analysis/modeling/interactions
        o  Concurrent continuous/discrete time simulation
        o  Behavioral modeling
        o  Electric/magnetic interactions

Innovative technologies
        o  Microelectromechanical systems
        o  Optoelectronics

February 27 - March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Item #2091
CIEF'2000 The First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance.

Shu-Heng Chen, AI-ECON Research Group, Dept. of Economics, National Chengchi Univ., Taipei, Taiwan 11623, chchen@nccu.edu.tw.

Topics of Interest:

Application Areas:

Application areas may include, but are not limited to:
  Agent-Based Computational Economics
  Artificial Stock Markets
  Simulation of Social Processes
  Evolutionary Game and Industrial Organization
  Financial Engineering
  Financial Data Mining
  Trading Strategies
  Hedging Strategies
  Portfolio Management
  Derivative Pricing
  Term Structure Models
  Financial Time Series Forecasting and Analysis


Techniques:
  Artificial Neural Networks
  Fuzzy Logic
  Evolutionary Strategies
  Evolutionary Programming
  Genetic Algorithms
  Genetic Programming
  Statistical Classifiers
  Cluster Analysis
  Decision Trees
  Inductive Logic Programming
  Self-Organized Map
  Reinforcement Learning
  Wavelet
  Rough Sets
  Support Vector Machine
  Hybrid Systems

March 8-10, 2000, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany. Item #2174
CP-AI-OR'00: Second International Workshop on Integration of AI and OR techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems.

Stefan Tschoeke, Univ. of Paderborn, Fuerstenallee 11, D-33102 Paderborn, Germany. Email: cp-ai-or@uni-paderborn.de.

Integration of AI and OR methods from:

   * Constraint satisfaction
   * Local consistency/propagation
   * Cost-based propagation
   * Heuristic/iterative repair
   * Intelligent backtracking
   * Search heuristics and procedures
   * Randomized search

   * Linear and integer programming
   * Cutting planes
   * Column generation
   * Local search
   * Meta-heuristics
   * Lagrangean and other relaxations

Problems, modeling, and applications:

   * Time-tabling, Rostering
   * Fleet assignment
   * Crew scheduling
   * Vehicle routing
   * Production planning
   * Production scheduling
   * Car sequencing
   * Configuration and diagnosis

March 8-11, 2000, ISTANBUL, TURKEY. Item #2223
Symposium of Industrial Engineering Students'2000 (SIES'2000).

tel: +90 212 293 13 00 / 2676, fax: +90 212 240 72 60, email: sies2000@ituemk.net.

TOPICS IN SIES'99

·Trade and Finance
·Risks at International Trade 
·Industrial Engineering in Public Enterprises
·Total Quality Management
·Operation Research
·Conjoint Analysis
·Strategical Management
·Just Ýn Time Production
·Material Resource Planning
·Simulation 
·Project Management
·Management
·Ergonomics
·Modern Manufacturing Systems

March 15-17, 2000, Newport Beach, California. Item #2146
ISORC 2000 The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing.

email: isorc2k@dream.eng.uci.edu.

  *  New ORC paradigms
  *  Object models
  *  Requirements engineering
  *  System (incl. communication), hardware, and software
       architectures (real-time CORBA, DCOM, real-time Java, etc.)
  *  Specification and design
  *  Real-time system architectures
  *  Languages and tools for structuring real-time objects
  *  Highly-dependable ORC, including fault-tolerant and secure
       ORC
  *  Resource allocation and Memory management (garbage
       collection, etc.)
  *  Operating system support for ORC and real-time object request
       brokers
  *  Database architectures for ORC
  *  Real-time simulation
  *  Testing, verification, and evaluation of system properties,
       including output accuracy, timeliness, dependability, etc.
  *  System/software engineering methodology
  *  Multimedia processing and WAN communication applications
  *  Application areas such as embedded systems (automotive,
       avionics, consumer electronics), business and industrial
       applications, etc.

March 16-18, 2000, San Francisco, California, USA. Item #2196
2nd International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space.

email: nasa_ps2000_org@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov.

March 19-21, 2000, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy. Item #2026
ACM SAC 2000 Fuzzy Applications and Soft Computing Track.

Fuzzy Applications Track Chair, Ernesto Damiani, Università di Milano, Polo di Crema Via Bramante 65 I-26013 Crema, Italy. Tel: +39 0373 898240, fax: +39 0373 898253, email: edamiani@crema.unimi.it.

§ Fuzzy Image Analysis and Processing
§ Fuzzy Control and Classification
§ Fuzzy Databases and Information Retrieval
§ Fuzzy Techniques for Software Engineering
§ Fuzzy Logic Programming and Expert Systems

March 20-22, 2000, Stanford, CA, USA. Item #2085
AAAI 2000 Spring Symposium Smart Graphics.

Andreas Butz . Email: butz@cs.uni-sb.de.

Smart Graphics is the interdisciplinary  approach  to the  design, 
generation,  presentation and interaction with 2D and 3D graphical 
interfaces  in  a  manner  that  is  sensitive  to  technological, 
computational  and  cognitive  constraints.  As  an  enterprise it 
relies on the synthesis of insights from graphic design, cognitive 
science,   human-computer  interaction,  graphics  and  artificial 
intelligence, and the symposium aims to broker a multidisciplinary 
dialogue between these communities. 

March 20-22, 2000, Stanford, CA. Item #2117
2000 AAAI Spring Symposium on Real-Time Autonomous Systems.

Dr. David J. Musliner, Honeywell Technology Center, MN65-2600, 3660 Technology Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55418, USA, email: musliner@htc.honeywell.com.

Relevant topics include:
 - Planning with time, reasoning about time.
 - Modeling real-time domains.
 - Time-bounded AI/search/planning techniques.
 - Time-bounded reactive systems.
 - Anytime algorithms, imprecise computations.
 - Performance guarantees, safety validation.
 - Scheduling.
 - Deliberation scheduling, design-to-time algorithms.
 - Discrete event and hybrid discrete/continuous control.
 - Formal system verification.
 - Model checking for real-time systems.
 - Real-time operating systems support for AI.

March 21-23, 2000, Singapore. Item #2073
ICoPE2000 The International Conference on Precision Engineering.

email: mae@sesmontnet.com.

March 22-24, 2000, Monastir, Tunisia. Item #2027
ACIDCA'2000 International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and Automation in Engineering and Industrial Applications.

ACIDCA'2000 Secretariat, Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe, BP 120, 3049 Sfax, Tunisia. Tel: +216 4 279 154 (# 109), fax: +216 4 296 229, email: acidca2000-oc@majordomo.ieee.org.

1) Intelligent Methods :
Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic
Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation, Hybrid Systems, Learning
Algorithms,
Heuristic Searching, Intelligent Agents, Cooperative Knowledge-based
Systems, Expert Systems, Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation,
Distributed AI and Multi-Agents, Computer-aided Reading, Data Analysis
and
Modeling, Data Fusion and Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Prediction & Time
Series Analysis, Information Retrieval, Intelligent User Interface.


2) Methods and Heuristics for Decision Making :
Intelligent Databases, Information Systems, Case-based Reasoning,
Decision
Support Systems, GDSS, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Qualitative
and
Approximate-Reasoning Modeling, Meta-heuristics for Optimization,
Decision
Theory, Game Theory, Discrete Simulation.


3) Software Engineering :
Requirement Engineering, Software Specification Techniques, Software
Design
Techniques, Software Architecture, Design Patterns, Refinement and
Analysis
Techniques, Formal Development Techniques, Software Prototyping,
Software
Implementation Techniques, Software Validation, Verification and
Testing,
Model Checking, Software Quality Assurance, Software Maintenance,
Software
Process Model (Life Cycles), Computer-Aided Software Engineering,
Software
Development Environments, Software Reuse, Reverse Engineering,
Object-Oriented Design, Software Engineering for and over the Internet,
Distributed Systems, Multi-agent Systems.


4) Corpora and Natural Language Processing :
Lexicography, Lexical knowledge acquisition, Part of Speech Tagging,
Unknown
word guessing, Term recognition, Morphological Analysis, Robust Parsing,
Word Sense Disambiguation, Anaphora Resolution, Discourse segmentation,
Machine Translation, Agreement Error Correction, Spelling and Grammar
Correction, Information Extraction, Automatic Abstracting, Text
Categorisation, Speech processing, Multilingual corpora and multilingual
applications,  Corpus annotation, Evaluation.


5) Engineering and Industrial Applications :
Industrial Process Control, Real-time Systems, Discrete Event Systems,
Petri
Nets, Robotics, Mechanical System Control, Mechatronics, Electric
Machine
Design, Variable Speed Drives, Automotive Electrical Systems, Power
System
Control, Renewable Energy Systems, Environment Engineering Systems,
Chemical
and Biotechnical Process Control, Irrigation Systems Control,
Intelligent
Sensors and Virtual Measurements, VLSI, Hardware Implementation,
Communication Systems, Multimedia Systems, Intelligent Manufacturing and
Production Systems, Production Management, Planning and Scheduling,
Quality
Control, CIM.


6) Systems Analysis and Automatic Control :
System Identification, Modeling, Model Reduction, Filtering and Signal
Processing, Optimal and Robust Control, Adaptive and Predictive Control,
Pole Placement Control, Multivariable and Decentralized Control, Sliding
Mode Control, Fuzzy Control, Neural Control, Computer Control, Computer
Aided Control System, Fault Detection and Diagnostic, Expert and
Knowledge
Based Systems, Nonlinear Systems, Stochastic Systems, Time Varying
Systems,
Large-scale Systems.


7) Vision & Pattern Recognition :
Pattern Recognition : Clustering and Classification, Handwriting
Recognition
and Verification : Cursive Script Recognition, Characters and Digits,
Words,
Signature, Graphics and Symbol Recognition : Engineering Drawings, Maps,
Logo Types, Document Processing : Layout Analysis, Segmentation and
Labeling, Language Identification, Document Structure Analysis and
Modeling,
Signal and Image Processing : Thresholding, Thinning, Noise Removal,
Segmentation, Vision and Image Understanding, Fractals, Speech
Recognition,
Signal Compression and Transmission, Application Systems : Bank-Check
Processing, Business Forms Reading, Postal Automation, Number Plate
Recognition, Storage and Information Retrieval : Video Images,
Compression
Algorithms, Multimedia and Hypertext, Text Retrieval and Document Model.

March 26-28, 2000, Cottbus, Germany. Item #2173
2nd Joint Workshop on Neural Networks in Civil Engineering.

Oliver Schleider. Oliver.Schleider@bauinf.tu-cottbus.de, tel: +49 355 69 3755, fax: +49 355 69 2262.

The joint workshop will be held as a part of the co-operation of
the Faculty for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban
Planning of the Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
and the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of the
Technical University of Delft. It gives graduate researchers the
opportunity to present, discuss and rank their research work
informally but in an international environment. 

March 26-28, 2000, Crowne Plaza Manhattan, New York City. Item #2235
CIFER 2000 Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering.

Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, New York. Tel: 1 917 837 1257, email: golan@dbmind.com.

Financial Engineering Applications:
    Risk Management
    Pricing of Structured Securities
    Asset Allocation
    Trading Systems
    Forecasting
    Hedging Strategies
    Risk Arbitrage
    Behavioral Finance
    Exotic Options
    Portfolio Optimization
    Front/Back Office Operations

Computer & Engineering Applications & Models:
    Neural Networks
    Probabilistic Modeling/Inference
    Fuzzy Systems and Rough Sets
    Genetic and Dynamic Optimization
    Intelligent Trading Agents
    Trading Room Simulation
    Time Series Analysis
    Non-linear Dynamics
    Financial Data Mining
    E-trade

March 27-29, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada. Item #2037
ITCC 2000 International Symposium on Information Technology: Coding and Computing.

Pradip K Srimani, Dept. of Computer Science, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO 80523 USA. Tel: +970 491 7097, fax: +970 491 2466, email: srimani@CS.ColoState.EDU.

    Digital Image Processing          Data Storage Platforms
    Document Image Analysis           Optical Data Transmission
    Data Compression                  New Architectures for Multimedia
    Authentication of Video and Audio Processing
    Data                              Graphics and Video Hardware
    Multimedia Computing              Error Control Codes
    Hybrid Source/Channel Coding      Video and Audio Codec Design
    Systems Interfacing and           Enterprise Architectures
    Integration                       Enterprise-wide Information
    Information Databases             Management

March 27, 2000, Berlin, Germany. Item #2079
TACAS'2000 Sixth International Conference on TOOLS AND ALGORITHMS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS.

Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, Centre Equation, 2, avenue de la Vignate, F - 38610 Gieres, France, email: Susanne.Graf@imag.fr, tel: (+33) 4 76 63 48 52, fax: (+33) 4 76 63 48 50.

  . verification and construction techniques;
  . compositional and refinement-based methodologies;
  . test generation;
  . theorem-proving and model checking;
  . analytical techniques for real-time, hybrid and 
         safety-critical systems;
  . tool environments and tool architectures; 
  . applications and case studies.

March 29 - March 30, 2000, Mons, Belgium. Item #2193
FUZZY II.

Natacha Gillis, FPMs, service Mathro, Rue de Houdain, 9, 7000 Mons, Belgium. Email: Natacha.Gillis@fpms.ac.be.

March 30 - 31, 2000, University of York, York, United Kingdom. Item #2291
WONCA '00 Workshop on Optical, Neural and Computational Associative processing.

WONCA, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO10 5DD, United Kingdom, WONCA@cs.york.ac.uk.

April 3-6, 2000, Paris, France. Item #2115
The Evolution of Language.

evolang@infres.enst.fr, +33 1 45 81 78 70, +33 1 45 81 31 19.

This will be the third conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary emergence of speech. 

The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists, neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with the question of the origin and evolution of language. 

April 4-6, 2000, University of Wales Swansea. Item #2142
EGUK2000 - THE 18TH EUROGRAPHICS UK CONFERENCE.

Dr. Nigel W. John, Programme Chair, Manchester Visualisation Centre, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, email: n.w.john@mcc.ac.uk, tel: +44 161 275 6096, fax: +44 161 275 6800.

April 5-7, 2000, Bayreuth, Germany. Item #2269
GWAL 2000 German workshop on Artificial Life.

email: gwal2000@bitoek.uni-bayreuth.de.

April 6-8, 2000, Douz, Tunisia. Item #2263
FUSION'2000 Workshop on Data Fusion and Aggregation.

Prof. Foued Ben Abedlaziz, Institut Superieur de Gestion, email: foued.benabdelaz@isg.rnu.tn, tel: 002161 775 948, fax: 00216 1 775 944.

April 10-12, 2000, Hong Kong. Item #1669
GMP 2000 Geometric Modeling and Processing.

Wenping Wang, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China . Tel: 852 2859 7074, fax: 852 2559 8447, email: gmp2000@csis.hku.hk.

Geometric Modeling and Processing 2000 (GMP 2000) will be held in Hong Kong 
  on April 10-12, 2000. GMP 2000 is the first in a biennial international 
  conference series on solid modeling, shape representation and geometric 
  computation. Modeling and processing of geometric shape is fundamental 
  to many disciplines, such as computer graphics, computer vision, CAD/CAM, 
  medical imaging and scientific computation. GMP 2000 will provide a forum 
  for researchers and practitioners to exchange and discuss problems and new 
  solutions in geometric design. Topics to be covered include, but are not 
  limited to: shape representation, solid modeling, curves and surfaces, 
  mathematical foundations of CAGD, and studies of specific problems arising 
  from applications of geometric design. The next conference GMP 2002 will 
  be held in Korea. 

April 10-14, 2000, Mexico City. Item #2056
MICAI-2000 Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Leticia Rodriguez, Local Arrangement Chair, Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM-Mty, tel: (52 8) 328 4377, fax: (52 8) 328 4189, email: lrodrig@campus.mty.itesm.mx.

April 10-12, 2000, Manchester, UK. Item #2124
PAAM 2000 The Practical Application of Intelligent Agent and Multi Agent Technology.

The Practical Application Company, P.O. Box 137, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY2 9UN, UK, email: info@pap.com, tel: 44(0)1253 358081, fax: 44(0)1253 353811.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

Personal agents for:

Email
PDA's
Finding & retrieving information / WWW
Scheduling/diary management
Mobility management

Business/service agents for:

Workflow management
Network Management and control
Buying & selling services
Information Management, Retrieval & Understanding
Information Customisation
WWW and Internet
Negotiation
Price Discovery
Information Arbitrage
Manufacturing Planning & Control

Tools and Techniques for:

Process Control
Traffic Control
Process Re-engineering
Knowledge Management
Languages for developing agent systems
Coordination standards
Standards for information transfer
Identity Management
Monetary Instrument Standards
Design methodologies for agent-based systems

Also of interest are survey papers which indicate the future direction this
important technology will take.

April 10-12, 2000, Manchester, UK. Item #2125
PACLP 2000 The Practicla Application of Constraint Technology and Logic Programming.

The Practical Application Company, P.O. Box 137, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY2 9UN, UK, email: info@pap.com, tel: 44(0)1253 358081, fax: 44(0)1253 353811.

Of particular interest are papers that describe the general use of
Constraint  technologies and Logic Programming, rather than the
traditional close up description of one application. For instance, this
could be a survey on the specific usage of a technology in a business
area or demographic part of the world.

Also included are streams to demonstrate and expand the practicality and
effectiveness of recent lines of research such as integration of
multiple solvers, generic problem modelling and tackling of ill-defined
real-world constraint problems. The integration of solvers from
different paradigms, such as constraint programming, mathematical
programming, Operational Research techniques and stochastic techniques
(Tabu Search, Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing) is emerging as a
practical means to tackle large scale combinatorial optimization
problems effectively. Also most real-world problems are ill-defined in
nature. Their solving is not just about computing an optimal solution
but building an incremental and interactive decision support tool that
identifies and resolves the ill-defined components. Practical and
effective solutions that illustrate the hybridization of techniques, the
modelling and handling of uncertainty in real-world constraint problems
are most welcome.

Suggested topics include:
        Survey with respect to an application area
        Evaluation and comparison of approaches
        Solutions using multiple solving techniques
        Hybrid solver configurations
        Modelling and solving of ill-defined applications


April 10, 2000, IEE Savoy Place, London, UK. Item #2209
IEE Colloquium SECURE IMAGES AND IMAGE AUTHENTICATION.

Paola Hobson, Motorola UK Research Laboratory, Jays Close, Basingstoke, RG22 4PD UK, email: Paola.Hobson@motorola.com, tel: +44 1256 484643.

April 10, 2000, Breckenridge, Colorado. Item #2214
International Workshop on Belief Change: Theory and Practice at NMR-2000.

Samir Chopra, 523, East 5th Street, Apartment #1, New York, NY 10009, USA. Email: schopra@gc.cuny.edu.

April 10, 2000, Savoy Place, London. Item #2307
IEE Colloquium on Secure Imaging and Image Authentication.

Paola.Hobson@motorola.com.

April 11-13, 2000, Manchester, UK. Item #2123
PADD 2000 The Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

P.O. Box 137, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY2 9UN, UK, email: info@pap.com, tel: 44(0)1253 358081, fax: 44(0)1253 353811.

Areas of Interst include:Telecommunications
              Health Care
              Marketing
              Internet Based Mining
              Finance
              Retail
              Customer Retention
              Fraud Detection
              Process Engineering/Industrial Control
              Transport

Best Practices for Data Mining:

              Managing Data Mining Projects
              Cost Benefit Analysis
              Project Success Factors
              Risk Management
              Achieving High Level Sponsorship
              Knowledge Management
              Integrating OLAP Solutions
              Reasons for failure of Data Mining Projects
              Experience and Lessons

Especially of interest are papers that investigate the interface between
Knowledge Management, KDD and OLAP.
For further guidance please find below a by no means exhaustive list of the
underlying technologies identified by the organisers.

Rule Induction, Classification, Clustering, Inductive Logic Programming,
Pattern Recognition, Predictive Modelling, Neural Networks, Client/Server
Systems, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Acquisition, Visualisation,
Dependency Detection, Uncertainty Handling, Sequence Processing,
Regression Methods for Prediction, Database issues in Data Mining, Fuzzy
Logic Approaches to Data Mining

April 12-15, 2000, Breckenridge, CO, USA. Item #2100
KR2000 7th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

Mary-Anne Williams, Univ. of Newcastle, IS School of Management, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Tel: +61 2 4921 5009, fax: +61 2 4921 6911.

April 12-13, 2000, Poznan, Poland. Item #2198
Special Track Neural Networks in Business Information Systems at BIS'2000.

Gary Klein, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Email: gklein@computer.org.

- data mining
   . clustering
   . classification tools
   . trend prediction
   . association mining
- business analysis
   . bankruptcy prediction
   . market segmentation
   . analysis of advertising
   . analysis of accuracy of SWOT in business plans
   . risk assesment
- customer analysis
   . analysis of customer preferences
   . prediction of customer behavior
   . customer categorization for e-commerce
   . categorization of credit applications
- financial intrument trading
   . stocks, bonds, futures, commodities etc.

April 15-16, 2000, Edinburgh, UK. Item #2080
EuroGP2000 Third European Conference on Genetic Programming.

Jennifer Willies. Tel: ++44 131 455 4218, fax: ++ 44 131 455 4440, e-mail: evonet@dcs.napier.ac.uk.

April 17, 2000, Edinburgh, UK. Item #2101
EVOIASP2000 - 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing.

Dr. Stefano Cagnoni, Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy. Email: cagnoni@ce.unipr.it.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

        Applications of evolutionary computation to real-life IASP problems 
        Evolvable vision and signal processing hardware 
        Evolutionary pattern recognition 
        Hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing including evolutionary components 
        Theoretical developments 
        Comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in IASP
        applications 
        Financial time series analysis by means of EC techniques. 

April 17-19, 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Item #2132
ICES2000 The Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems.

email: ices2000@dcs.napier.ac.uk.

o Evolving hardware systems
o Evolutionary hardware design methodologies
o Evolutionary design of electronic circuits
o Co-evolution of hybrid systems
o Hardware/software co-evolution
o Intrinsic and on-line evolution
o Evolutionary Algorithm implementation in hardware
o Reconfigurable hardware
o Self-replicating hardware
o Self-repairing hardware
o Neural hardware
o Adaptive hardware platforms
o Bio-robotics
o Applications of nanotechnology
o Biological- and chemical-based systems
o DNA computing
o Evolving controllers
o Real-world applications of evolvable hardware

April 17-20, 2000, University of Birmingham, England. Item #2138
AISB'00 CONVENTION Time for AI and Society.

John Barnden & Mark Lee, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, England, email: {J.A.Barnden, M.G.Lee}@cs.bham.ac.uk, tel: (+44)(0)121-414-{3816, 4765}.

CONVENTION THEME

The Convention theme ``Time for AI and Society'' alludes to the present
time of change in society at large, as symbolised by the new
millenium. The theme has various aspects:

-- It is timely for AI to contribute further _to_ society, including
   its work environments and leisure worlds. More generally, the
   possible impact of AI, as it develops, on society is an important
topic
   of study.

-- It is timely for AI to intensify its study _of_ society in a broad
   sense.

-- It is timely for AI to make further advances in dealing with handling
   time and change themselves.


The overall theme therefore allows a very broad range of Symposia with
rich interrelationships, and provides a place for many styles of
content: for example, 

APPLICATIONS-ORIENTED RESEARCH

STUDIES OF HUMAN-FACTORS ISSUES

BASIC TECHNICAL RESEARCH.  

April 17, 2000, Edinburgh, UK. Item #2152
EvoStim2000.

Emma Hart, emmah@dai.ed.ac.uk, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, UK.

Topics (Including but not limited to):

Dynamic Scheduling
Distributed Scheduling
Scheduling in industrial environments including transport and distribution
Educational courses and exam timetabling
Employee and workforce scheduling
Organisation and resource scheduling
Algorithm comparisons

April 17, 2000, Edinburgh, UK. Item #2153
EvoWorkshops2000.

email: evonet@dcs.napier.ac.uk.

The following working groups are participating in EvoWorkshops2000.

             EvoDOP (Dynamic optimisation) 
             EvoFlight (Aerospace applications) 
             EvoIASP (Image analysis and signal processing) 
             EvoRob (Evolutionary robotics) 
             EvoStim (Scheduling and timetabling) 
             EvoSCONDI (Systems, control and drives industry) 
             EvoTel (Telecommunications) 

April 17-19, 2000, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Item #2184
ECEC'2000 European conference of SCS on concurrent engineering.

Philippe Geril, SCS Europe, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium . Tel: +32 9 233 77 90, fax: +32 9 223 49 41, email: Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be.

Topics
     1 Organisation and management
     2 Formal methods and techniques
     3 Implementation techniques
     4 Process modeling
     5 Engineering data management and information modeling
     6 Engineering process management
     7 Collaborative CE environments and virtual design studios
     8 Networking and distribution in CE
     9 Practical applications and experiences

April 17-18, 2000, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK. Item #2245
Computation in Cells : molecular & cellular networks as computational systems.

Hamid Bolouri. Email: H.Bolouri@herts.ac.uk.

     robustness in biochemical networks. 
     computational and dynamical motifs in molecular biology. 
     tools and algorithms for unravelling biochemical systems. 
     computational properties of signalling pathways. 
     models of gene regulation and genetic regulatory networks. 
     evolution of biochemical and genetic networks. 
     deterministic computation from stochastic interactions. 
     cell differentiation and pattern formation. 

April 18-20, 2000, Kyoto, Japan. Item #2068
PAKDD-2000 The Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Prof. Takao Terano, Graduate School of Systems Management, The Univ. of Tsukuba, Tokyo, 3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112, Japan. Tel: +81 3 3942 6855, fax: +81 3 3942 6829, email: terano@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp.

      - Theory and Foundational Issues in KDD

        * Data and Knowledge Representation
        * Logic for/of Knowledge Discovery
        * Expanding the Autonomy of Machine Discovers
        * Human Factors
        * Scientific Discovery
        * New Theory, Philosophy, and Methodology

      - KDD Algorithms and Methods

        * Machine Learning Methods
        * Statistical Methods
        * Heuristic Search
        * Inductive Logic Programming
        * Deduction, Induction and Abduction
        * Discovery of Exceptions and Deviations
        * Multi-criteria Evaluation and Data Mining Metrics
        * Hybrid and Multi-agent Methods
        * Evaluation of Complexity, Efficiency, and Scalability of Algorithms

      - Process-Centric KDD

        * Models and Framework of the Knowledge Discovery Process
        * Data and Dimensionality Reduction
        * Preprocessing and Postprocessing
        * Interestingness Checking of Data and Rules
        * Management and Refinement for the Discovered Knowledge
        * Decomposition of Large Data Sets
        * Discretisation of Continuous Data
        * Data and Knowledge Visualization
        * Role of Domain Knowledge and Reuse of Discovered Knowledge
        * KDD Process and Human Interaction

      - Soft Computing for KDD

        * Information Granulation and Granular Computing
        * Rough Sets in Data Mining
        * Neural Networks, Probabilistic Reasoning
        * Noise Handling and Uncertainty Management
        * Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist KDD Systems

      - High Performance Data Mining and Applications

        * Multi-Database Mining
        * Data Mining in Advanced Databases (OODB, Spatial DB, Multimedia DB)
        * Database Reverse Engineering
        * Integration of Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining
        * Combining Data Mining with Database Querying
        * Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
        * Data Mining on the Internet
        * Multi-agent, Multi-task KDD Systems
        * Data Mining from Unstructured and Multimedia Data
        * Unification of Data Mining with Intelligent Information Retrieval
        * Security and Privacy Issues
        * Successful/Innovative KDD Applications in Science, Engineering,
          Medicine, Business, Education, Government, and Industry

April 19 - 20, 2000, University of Birmingham, England. Item #2257
SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BIOINFORMATICS at ASIB'00.

Andrew C.R. Martin (Animal & Microbial Sciences, University of Reading), a.c.r.martin@reading.ac.uk.

April 24-28, 2000, Orlando, FL, USA. Item #2090
Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence III.

tel: +1 360 676 3290, fax: +1 360 647 1445, email: OR@spie.orgnn.

This is part of AeroSense
http://www.spie.org/info/or/

April 24-28, 2000, Orlando, FL, USA. Item #2102
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools and Technology.

Sue Davis, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, USA. Tel: 360 676 3290, fax: 360 647 1445.

April 24-25, 2000, Austin, Texas. Item #2169
ISPASS 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software.

Prof. Jo Dale Carothers, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, tel: 520/621-8733, fax: 520/621-8076, email: carothers@ece.arizona.edu.

April 25-28, 2000, Vienna, Austria, EU. Item #2159
Autonomy Control: Lessons from the Emotional at EMCSR 2000.

Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, email: cpf@isr.ist.utl.pt.

April 26-28, 2000, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK. Item #2030
ACDM 2000 Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture.

Mrs P. Trundley, Plymouth Engineering Design Centre, Univ. of Plymouth, Devon, UK. Email: ptrund@soc.plym.ac.uk.

a) the development and integration of appropriate evolutionary and 
adaptive computing strategies that offer best benefit re the 
differing requirements of conceptual, embodiment and detailed design.
 
b) novel application of appropriate evolutionary / adaptive computing 
strategies to or integration with complex manufacturing systems e.g. 
control, planning and scheduling, facility layout, robotics, etc

c) the development of co-operative frameworks supporting the 
utilisation of appropriate combinations of evolutionary / adaptive 
search and other CI technologies within a design / manufacturing 
environment

d) the application of novel adaptive computing techniques 
and strategies that address specific design / analysis problems of 
high complexity. 

e) human-centred aspects i.e. how can the new 
technologies best interact with current design practice or 
alternatively, how can changes in design team practice be introduced 
to achieve best benefit from the integration of search, exploration 
and optimisati capabilities of the new technologies? 

f)  multi-disciplinary / multi-objective engineering decision-making 
relating both to design and manufacture 

g) reducing computational expense  re population-based search during 
detailed design and analysis

h) best practice re integration with high-performance computing, 
parallel architectures etc v evolutionary and adaptive technologies 
for innovative and creative design 

i) development and integration of aesthetic fitness measures 

j) fitness models for uncertain and poorly-defined environments

k) evolving design environments 

l) agent-assisted evolutionary processes

m) integration of evolutionary design with undergraduate / 
post-graduate teaching and industrial training requirements 

April 26-28, 2000, Bruges, Belgium. Item #2058
ESANN'2000 European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks.

Michel Verleysen, Univ. Cath. de Louvain, Microelectronics Laboratory, 3, pl. du Levant, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Tel: +32 10 47 25 51, fax: +32 10 47 25 98, email: esann@dice.ucl.ac.be.

April 29 - May 3, 2000, Seattle, Washington. Item #2187
ANLP Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference.

Program Chair, NAACL 2000, Computing Research Laboratory, BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001, UAS. Email: anlp-naacl2000@bbn.com.

 Monolingual Text Processing Systems.
  Area Chair: Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento Italy
  Systems devoted to information retrieval, text data mining, information
  extraction, text summarization and related applications.

  Multilingual Text Processing Systems.
  Area Chair: Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal, Canada
  Systems devoted to machine translation, human-aided machine translation,
  machine-aided human translation, cross-lingual information retrieval,
  multi-document multilingual information extraction and summarization,
  text data mining and related applications.

  Spoken Language and Multimodal Systems.
  Area Chair: Susann Luperfoy, IET Inc. and Georgetown University, USA
  Text and dialog processing on telephony, workstation, and PDA platforms.

  Integrated NLP Systems.
  Area Chair: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information
  Sciences Institute, USA
  Combinations of multiple NLP applications; multimodal and multimedia
  systems; adaptation and standardization of existing NLP systems, embedded
  NLP systems and integration of legacy systems.

  Tools and Resources for Developing NLP Systems.
  Area Chair: Lynn Carlson, Department of Defense, USA
  Development and content of descriptive resources, such as grammars and
  lexicons of particular languages or sets of languages, ontologies,
  processed corpora and others; the acquisition and quick ramp-up tools for
  NLP systems; and methodologies for development and knowledge acquisition
  for NLP systems and environments and tools for training developers of NLP
  systems.

  Evaluation of Performance of Complete NLP Systems.
  Area Chair: John White, Lytton/PRC, USA
  Methodologies, case studies and tools.

April 29 - May 3, 2000, Seattle, Washington. Item #2188
NAACL 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Program Chair, NAACL 2000, Computing Research Laboratory, BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001. Email: anlp-naacl2000@bbn.com.

 Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics.
  Area Chair: Diane Litman, AT&T Research.
  Empirical and knowledge-based approaches to discourse and dialogue;
  Dialogue management in spoken dialogue systems; Discourse segmentation;
  Anaphora resolution; Discourse parsing; Narrative understanding; Design,
  evaluation, and use of discourse annotation schemes; Topic detection and
  tracking; Intentional and relational discourse analysis; Robust discourse
  processing; Methods for evaluating dialogue/discourse systems and their
  components; Integration with other levels of linguistic processing.

  Semantics and the Lexicon.
  Area Chair: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto.
  Semantic formalisms; Ontologies; Word-sense disambiguation; Event
  recognition and categorization; Logics for natural language; Extracting
  information from on-line dictionaries; Refining sense inventories;
  Computational lexicography; Lexical resource development.

  Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology.
  Area Chair: Michael Collins, AT&T Research.
  Grammar formalisms; Theoretical and empirical studies of parsing
  algorithms; Finite-state methods; Representation of syntactic,
  morphological, and phonological aspects of the lexicon; Robust and
  shallow parsing; Syntax annotation schemes; Grammar induction; Formal
  properties of symbolic and weighted/stochastic grammars.

  Generation and Summarization.
  Area Chair: Nancy Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
  Strategic generation for text and dialogue (text planning, argumentation
  strategies, etc.); Tactical generation (sentence aggregation, lexical
  choice, etc.); Multimodal and multimedia generation; Knowledge
  acquisition and resources for generation and summarization;
  User-customized generation and summarization; Evaluation methodologies

  for generation and summarization; Application of generation, information
  extraction, and information retrieval techniques to summarization.

  Spoken Language.
  Area Chair: Andreas Stolcke, SRI International.
  Language modeling; Prosody; Speech annotation; Speech synthesis; Modeling
  of spontaneous speech phenomena (disfluencies, discourse markers, etc.);
  Comparative analyses of spoken and written language; Robust NLP for
  speech recognition output; Higher-level knowledge sources (e.g.,
  dialogue) for speech recognition; Automatic segmentation of speech into
  sentences, topics, discourse units, etc.; Integration of speech with
  other modalities such as text and gesture; Methods for speech-to-speech
  translation.

  Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing.
  Area Chair: Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba.
  Annotation, including automatic and semi-automatic methods, mapping
  between schemes, analyzing and improving agreement, minimizing costs;
  Induction of patterns and structures such as selectional frames and
  concept hierarchies; Extraction of terms and collocations; Text mining
  and knowledge discovery from text; Distributional similarity; Learning
  applied to NLP, including bootstrapping, smoothing, and multi-strategy
  learning.

  Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction.
  Area Chair: Philip Resnik, University of Maryland.
  Computational psycholinguistics; Models of human sentence processing,
  language understanding, language generation, and language acquisition;

  Use of natural language in human-computer interaction; Evaluation of
  interfaces that use natural language (including multimodal and multimedia
  interfaces), by field studies, laboratory experimentation, or analytical
  methods.

  Multilingual Natural Language Processing.
  Area Chair: Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute.
  Methods addressing the research challenges of multilingual environments,
  including cross-language divergences, producing fluent text, and dealing
  with non-literal translation equivalents; Methods for machine translation
  (direct, transfer, example-based, knowledge-based, interlingual,
  statistical, etc.); Design of interlinguas; Multilingual lexicons;
  Lexical acquisition for machine translation and cross-language
  information retrieval; Machine-assisted translation; Multilingual
  generation; Alignment of multilingual texts; Methods for exploiting
  parallel or comparable corpora for natural language processing tasks.

May 1, 2000, Cancun, Mexico. Item #2074
BioSP3 Third Workshop on Bio-Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing Problems.

Professor Albert Y. Zomaya, Parallel Computing Research Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic, Engineering, The Univ. of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6907, Australia. Tel: +61 8 9380 3875, fax: +61 8 9380 1088, email: zomaya@ee.uwa.edu.au.

                                   In conjunction with 
                   International Parallel and Distributed Processing
                                    Symposium (IPDPS)

May 3-5, 2000, Schloss St, Martin, Graz, Austria. Item #2265
NeuroCOLT Workshop NEW PERSPECTIVES IN THE THEORY OF NEURAL NETS.

nn2000@igi.tu-graz.ac.at.

May 7-10, 2000, Hilton Palacio del Rio San Antonio, Texas, USA. Item #2089
FUZZ-IEEE 2000 The 9th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems.

FUZZIEEE 2000 Secretariat, Dept. of Computer Science, 301 H. R. Bright Bldg. Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX 77843-3112, USA. Tel: (409) 845 1870, fax: (409) 847 8578, email: fuzzieee2000@cs.tamu.edu.

Foundations of Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning 
        Analytical Issues of Fuzzy Logic Control 
        Fuzzy Logic in Intelligent Control 
        Fuzzy Pattern Recognition 
        Fuzzy Logic in Data Mining 
        Fuzzy Database Systems 
        Fuzzy Logic in Intelligent Information Systems 
        Fuzzy Logic in Decision Support Systems 
        Fuzzy Model Identifications 
        Neuro-fuzzy Systems 
        Evolutionary Computing and Fuzzy Systems 
        Fuzzy Hardware 
        Industrial Applications of Fuzzy Logic 
        Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing to 
                Signal Processing 
                Image Understanding 
                Robotics and Automation 
                Learning and Knowledge Acquisition 
                Multimedia 
                Webbased Information Technologies 
                Software Agents 
                Distance Learning 
                E-Commerce 
                Intelligent Networks 

May 10-12, 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Item #2127
HPCN Europe 2000 The 8th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking Europe.

hpcn2ksubmit@wins.uva.nl.

May 11-12, 2000, The Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, TX, USA. Item #2088
ECNN2000 The First IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks.

Xin Yao, School of Computer Science, The Univ. of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K. Email: x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk.

+ evolutionary training of neural networks, 
+ evolutionary design of network topologies, 
+ evolution of learning (weight updating) rules, 
+ evolving solutions to inverse neural network problems, 
+ the performance of alternative variation operators in designing 
  neural networks, 
+ comparisons between evolutionary and other training methods, 
+ evolving developmental rules for neural network design, and 
+ the use of coevolution in optimizing neural networks for pattern 
  recognition, gaming, or other applications. 

May 11-12, 2000, Vienna, Austria. Item #2267
ERUDIT-Workshop Fuzzy Diagnostic and Therapeutic Decision Support.

Dept. of Medical Computer Sciences, Section on Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems, University of Vienna Medical School, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Email: mes-office@akh-wien.ac.at.

May 13-16, 2000, Gothenburg, Sweden. Item #2003
ANNIMAB-1 Artificial Neural Networks In Medicine And Biology.

ANNIMAB-S, the Artificial Neural Networks In Medicine And Biology Society, Dept of Philosophy, Gothenburg Univ., Box 200, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. Tel: (+46) 31 773 5573, fax: (+46) 31 773 5159, email: annimab@www.phil.gu.se.

May 14-17, 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Item #2162
AI'2000.

Howard J. Hamilton, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK, CANADA, S4S 0A2, fax: (306) 585 4745, tel: (306) 585 4632, email: hamilton@cs.uregina.ca.

May 15-19, 2000, Poland. Item #2087
GKPO'2000: 6th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Image Processing.

GKPO'2000, ICS PAS, Ordona 21, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland, fax: ++48 22 37 65 64.

-- Image analysis and scene understanding
-- Multimodal and multisensor models of image formation
-- Pattern recognition in image processing
-- Motion analysis, visual navigation and active vision
-- Geometrical and structural models of objects and scenes
-- Fractal and chaos theory in image analysis
-- Modeling of human visual perception and mental imagery
-- Structure reconstruction, 3D imaging and image synthesis
-- Infrared, laser etc. imaging
-- Visualization and graphical data presentation
-- Virtual reality and pictorial interaction
-- Pictorial data bases and archivisation
-- Computational geometry
-- Computer-aided graphic design, arts and animation
-- Industrial, medical and other applications

May 17-19, 2000, Parkhotel Herrenkrug, Magdeburg, Germany. Item #2163
4th IEEE Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects.

Joachim P. Mucha, Universitaet Hannover, Institut fuer Theoretische Elektrotechnik, Appelstr. 9A, D-30167 Hannover, tel: +49 511 762 3201/3202, fax: +49 511 762 3204, mucha@tet.uni-hannover.de.

Main topics of the workshop will include, but are not limited to:
               -    I-Noise
               -    Broadband Measurement Techniques and Theory
               -    Coupling Effects on Interconnects
               -    Determination of Characteristic Parameters
               -    Field Theory
               -    Ground Bounce
               -    Guided Waves on Interconnects
               -    Measurement, Modeling, and Simulation of Interconnects
inside of Packages
               -    Non-Linear Modeling and Analysis
               -    Propagation Characteristics on Signal and Ground Lines
               -    Radiation and Interference
               -    Simulation Techniques for 2- and 3-dimensional
Interconnect Structures
               -    Substrate Influence on Signal Propagation
               -    Interconnects and Testing
               -    Optical Interconnects

May 18-20, 2000, Catania, Italy. Item #2075
NDES2000 NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS.

Dr. Gianluca Setti, DI, Univ. of Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, 44100, Ferrara, Italy.

    1. Theory of Nonlinear Systems,
    2. Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Circuits & Systems,
    3. Nonlinear Signal Modelling,
    4. Nonlinear Signal Processing,
    5. Applications.

May 20, 2000, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Item #2264
7th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation.

Linda Yokote, BME Dept., USC, marubaya@rcf.usc.edu, (213)740-0840.

May 22-25, 2000, Hotel Royal Plaza, Walt Disney World Village, Orlando, FL. Item #2082
FLAIRS-2000 The 13th International FLAIRS Conference.

Avelino Gonzalez. Email: ajg@ece.engr.ucf.edu.

 The Thirteenth International FLAIRS Conference seeks high-quality
 paper submissions in all areas of AI, including artificial neural
 networks, autonomous agents, case-based reasoning, computer vision,
 data mining, education, expert systems, genetic algorithms,
 intelligent user interfaces, intelligent tutoring, knowledge
 representation and management, learning, logic, multi-agent systems,
 natural language processing, planning, uncertainty reasoning,
 robotics, speech recognition, temporal reasoning, and
 verification/validation. 

May 22-25, 2000, Orlando, Florida. Item #2172
STRAF 2000 Reasoning About Function at FLAIRS 2000.

Dr. James McDowell, Mad Dog Composites, Inc. 3890 Knotwood Dr, Holt, MI 48842-8722, USA, tel: 888 208 0451.

May 23-26, 2000, Berlin, Germany. Item #2059
NC'2000 Second International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation.

ICSC Switzerland, P.O. Box 657, CH-8055 Zurich, Switzerland. Fax: +41 1 761 9627, email: icsc@icsc.ch.

COMPUTATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS
- Artificial neural network paradigms
- Knowledge representation
- Learing and generalization
- Probabilistic neural networks
- Information theoretic approaches
- Time-coded neural networks
- Pulse-coded neural networks
- Self-organization
- Cellular automata
- Hybrid systems (e.g. neuro-fuzzy, GA, evolutionary strategies)
- Chaos in neural networks
- Statistical and numerical aspects

NEUROPHYSIOLOGICALLY INSPRIED MODELS
- Neurophysiological foundations
- Spiking neuron models and neuron assemblies
- Models of brain centers and sensory pathways
- Sensormotor integration
- Sensation, Perception and Attention
- Spatio-temporal Orientation
- Reactive Behavior

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS
- Simulation and Graphical Programming Tools
- Distributed Systems
- Neuro-chips, -controllers and -computers
- Analog and Digital Electronic Implementations
- Optic, Holographic Implementations

NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS
- Pre-processing and Feature Extraction
- Sound, Speech and Image Processing
- Pattern Recognition and System Identification
- Computer Vision, Feature Binding and Image Understanding
- Autonomous Sensor Systems, Multivariate Sensor Fusion
- Robotics and Control
- Behavior based Exploration and Planning
- Power Systems
- Environmental Systems
- Decision Support Systems
- Medical Applications
- Operational Research and Logistics

May 23-25, 2000, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. Item #2078
CNNA 2000 6th IEEE International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and their Applications.

Prof. L. Fortuna, Univ. of Catania, DEES, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy. Email: lfortuna@dees.unict.it.

Topics of interest include, but not restricted to:

Basic theory, cellular nonlinear spatiotemporal phenomena; 

Applications including computing, communications and multimedia; 

Learning; 

Physical implementations (VLSI, optical, nanotechnology); 

CNN development systems, software implementations and simulators; 

CNN chip sets and CNN computers; 

Cellular and sparsely connected dynamic processor systems; 

Biologically relevant models and neuromorphic implementations. 

May 23-26, 2000, BERLIN, Germany. Item #2149
INVITED SESSION: "HYBRID NEURAL NETWORKS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH CARE" at NC’2000.

Milan Zorman, University of Maribor, LSD, Smetanova 17, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia, tel: +386 62 220 7459, fax: +386 62 211 178, email: milan.zorman@uni-mb.si.

May 24-27, 2000, Boston, Massachusetts. Item #2137
ICCNS 2000 Fourth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.

Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. Fax: 617 353 7755.

Session Topics:

* vision 		      * spatial mapping and navigation
* object recognition 	      * neural circuit models
* image understanding         * neural system models
* audition                    * mathematics of neural systems
* speech and language         * robotics
* unsupervised learning       * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital)
* supervised learning         * neuromorphic VLSI
* reinforcement and emotion   * industrial applications
* sensory-motor control       * cognition, planning, and attention
                              * other

 Tutorials: May 24, 2000, Meeting: May 25-27, 2000

May 25-26, 2000, Sakarya, Turkey. Item #2054
IMS'2000 3rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS.

Prof.Dr. I.Burhan Turksen, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Tel: +01 416/978 8214, fax: +01 416/978 3453, email: turksen@mie.utoronto.ca.

Agile manufacturing, Knowledge-based Systems, Hypermedia
Business process reengineering, Enterprise modeling
Artificial intelligence technologies, total product life cycle
Automation, CNC & robot programming languages, Computational
Intelligence,
Computer vision, Decision support systems, Data mining, Expert
systems,
Fuzzy sets and logic, Fuzzy chaotic systems, Genetic algorithms,
Intelligent
agents in manufacturing, Intelligent systems perspectives,
Systems modeling
& simulation, Neural networks, Process technologies, Robotics,
Semiotics,
Post-modernism
Information systems, Database design, Distributed information
system design,
Decision support systems, Management information systems,
Executive
support systems
Information technologies, Virtual factory, Cyber factory
Inspection and testing, Lean production, Manufacturing systems
engineering
Intelligent systems design strategies
Forecasting, Prediction consumer preference, Market share
Manufacturing for defense industries, Human sensory factors
Product design strategies
CAE/CAD/CAM, Group Technologies, Work Planning
Production planning / scheduling / control
CIM - Computer integrated manufacturing, FMS - Flexible
manufacturing
systems
Rapid prototyping, Simultaneous engineering / Concurrent
engineering,
Storage & retrieval systems, System design  & integration,
Quality control

May 28 - June 1, 2000, Hersonissos, Crete. Item #1662
ISBA 2000 The 6th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State Univ., Ames IA, USA. Email: alicia@iastate.edu.

Possible "THEME" topics: 
            Bayesian methods and official statistics 
            Statistics in the European Union 
            Bayesian statistics in national and international finance 
            Confidentiality and disclosure limitation 
            Economic and governmental forecasting 
            Government accounting and/or auditing 
            Risk assessment (environmental, economic/business, etc) 
            Bayesian methods in insurance 
            Bayesian methods in agriculture 
            Decision analysis in government policy 
            Statistics in education and education policy 
            Bayesian methods in political science 
            Bayesian methods in sampling and census, including 
                  non-response in surveys 
            Bayesian statistics in public health (disease mapping, 
                  health care policy, program evaluation, etc). 

May 28-31, 2000, International Conference Center of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Item #2120
ISCAS 2000 THE 2000 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS.

email: iscas@epfl.ch.

1.Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
  1.1 Analog circuits and filters
  1.2 Switched capacitor/current techniques
  1.3 Analog and mixed signal processing
  1.4 Data conversion and Sigma-Delta modulation

2.General and Nonlinear Circuits and Systems
  2.1 Linear and nonlinear circuits and systems
  2.2 Linear and nonlinear circuit theory
  2.3 Chaos, bifurcation and applications
  2.4 Distributed circuits and systems

3.Digital Signal Processing
  3.1 Digital filters and filter banks
  3.2 Wavelets and multirate signal processing
  3.3 Adaptive signal processing
  3.4 Multidimensional systems
  3.5 Fast computations for signal processing

4.Multimedia and Communication
  4.1 Speech processing and coding
  4.2 Image processing and coding
  4.3 Video and multimedia technology
  4.4 Signal processing for communications
  4.5 Computer communications

5.VLSI Circuits and Systems
  5.1 Analog and digital ICs
  5.2 Low power design
  5.3 VLSI physical design
  5.4 Testing: analog, digital and mixed
  5.5 High level synthesis and hardware/software codesign
  5.6 Logic synthesis and formal verification
  5.7 Fault tolerance systems
  5.8 Sensors and micromachining

6.Computater Aided Design
  6.1 Numerical and symbolic methods
  6.2 Linear and nonlinear optimization
  6.3 Graph theory and combinatorial optimization
  6.4 Modeling and simulation techniques
  6.5 CAD tools

7.Neural Systems
  7.1 Neural networks
  7.2 Cellular neural networks
  7.3 Fuzzy logic and circuits
  7.4 Learning and intelligent systems

8.Power Systems and Industrial Applications
  8.1 Sensors
  8.2 Robotics
  8.3 Banking and Security Systems
  8.4 Micromechatronics
  8.5 Power electronics and systems

9.Special Sessions

10.Workshop and Exhibition on MPEG-4 
  10.1 Encoding optimization algorithms 
  10.2 Innovative architectures and designs 
  10.3 Creative applications 
  10.4 Advanced research papers 
  10.5 Other 
  10.6 Demonstration/Exhibition (no paper)

May 30 - June 2, 2000, Moscow, Russia. Item #2154
ECWATECH-2000 4th International Congress and Exhibition "Water: Ecology and Technology".

P.O. Box 173, Moscow 107078, Russia. Tel/fax: +7(095)207 6310, 207-6376, 975-3423, 975-1364, 975-5104, email: ecwatech@sibico.com or sibico@dialup.ptt.ru.

May 30 - June 2, 2000, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Item #2191
ECML'2000 Eleventh European Conference on Machine Learning.

Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIA-CSIC Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain. Email: ecml2000@iiia.csic.es, fax: +34 93 580 9661.

  abduction                             knowledge base refinement
  analogy                               knowledge discovery in databases

  artificial neural network             knowledge intensive learning
  bayesian network                      machine learning of natural language
  case-based reasoning                  multi-agent learning
  cognitive modelling                   multistrategy learning
  computational learning theory         pattern recognition
  cooperative learning                  planning and learning
  evolutionary computation              reinforcement learning
  genetic learning                      revision and restructuring
  grammatical inference                 robot learning
  inductive learning                    scientific discovery
  inductive logic programming           statistical approaches
  information retrieval and learning    vision and learning
  knowledge acquisition and learning    web navigation and mining

May 31 - June 2, 2000, London Business School, London, England. Item #2217
The Seventh International Conference Computational Finance 2000.

Computational Finance 2000 / A-P. N. Refenes, c/o Ms Esther Welsh, London Business School, Sussex Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4SA, England. Email: ewelch@lbs.ac.uk. Tel: +44 171 262 50 50, fax: +44 171 724 78 75.

May 31 - June 3, 2000, Brown University. Item #2327
The Dynamic Brain: Molecules, Mathematics, the Mind.

tel: 401 863 9524, email: brainscience@brown.edu.

June 1-3, 2000, Rochester, NY. Item #2239
22nd CVS Symposium: Neural Coding.

Barbara Arnold . Tel: 716 275 8659, email: barba@cvs.rochester.edu.

June 2-4, 2000, Samos Island, Greece. Item #2164
NLP 2000 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing.

Mrs. Penelope Kontodimou, University of Patras, Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics, Database Laboratory, GR - 26 500 Patras, Greece. Email: pinelop@cti.gr, tel: (+3061) 960.383, fax: (+3061) 997.783.

Specific themes of the conference include

Linguistic Models in NLP

Language Engineering Techniques and Applications

June 2 - July 2, 2000, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM. Item #2233
ASSC4 The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration & Dissociation.

ASSC4, c/o Axel Cleeremans, Cognitive Science Research Unit, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 50 ave. F.D. Roosevelt CP 122, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM. Email: assc4sub@ulb.ac.be.

The fourth ASSC conference will bring together researchers from numerous
disciplines to discuss these issues. Topics that will be addressed
include:

- the role of synchronous oscillations in binding and integration
- other neurophysiological mechanisms for integration of information
- computational models of binding, integration, and unity
- neuropsychological disorders with dissociation of experience
- the role of attention and learning in unification of experience
- dissociations between perceptual systems
- implicit vs. explicit aspects of knowledge and learning
- dissociations between perception, thought, and action
- the relationship between information integration and unified experience
- analysis of the concept of unity
- unification of consciousness and self across time
- the existence or nonexistence of unified consciousness

June 3-7, 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Item #2103
4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents 2000.

Josep Puyol-Gruart, Artificial Intelligence Research Inst. IIIA-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain, tel: +34 93 580 9570, fax: +34 93 580 9661, email: puyol@iiia.csic.es.

June 4-11, 2000, Limerick, Ireland. Item #2133
ICSE 2000 The 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering.

Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Email: ghezzi@elet.polimi.it.

June 4-30, 2000, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Item #2165
Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School.

Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA 87501, 505-984-8800 ext. 235 (v), 505-982-0565 (fax), summerschool@santafe.edu.

June 5-9, 2000, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #2104
ICASSP 2000 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Conference Management Services, ICASSP 2000, 3109 Westchester Avenue, College Station, TX 77845, USA. Tel: 409 693 6000, fax: 409 693 6600.

June 5-7, 2000, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. Item #2228
QR2000 Fourteenth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning.

Juan Flores, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico. Email: juanf@zeus.ccu.umich.mx.

   * QR techniques
     (E.g., qualitative simulation, ontologies, management of multiple
     models, reasoning over time and space, mathematical formalizations of
     QR, qualitative algebraic reasoning, qualitative dynamics, qualitative
     kinematics, qualitative optimization)
   * Task-level reasoning
     (E.g., design/planning, monitoring, diagnosis and repair, explanation,
     tutoring and training, process control/supervision)
   * QR applications
     (E.g., descriptions of application problems and solutions;
     applications dealing with: real-time responses, large scale models and
     scaling techniques in general, different knowledge sources)
   * QR and conventional techniques
     (E.g., system dynamics and bond-graphs, signal processing, numerical
     methods, statistical techniques, differential equations)
   * New application areas
     (E.g., biology, chemistry, cognitive science, ecology, economics,
     environmental science, medicine, law, education)
   * Knowledge acquisition
     (E.g., model building tools and techniques, automated model
     construction and machine learning, acquisition of models from data)
   * Methodological issues
     (E.g., classifying and relating QR approaches, evaluating QR
     approaches, criteria for selecting methods)

June 6-15, 2000, Warsaw, Poland. Item #2231
EUROATTRACTOR 2000 European Interdisciplinary School on Nonlinear Dynamics for System and Signal Analysis.

http://www.ibib.waw.pl/~euroattractor.

June 8 - 10, 2000, Trento, Italy. Item #2333
TRENTO 2000 3rd International Workshop on PREFERENCES AND DECISIONS.

Dr. Elisabetta Nones, TRENTO 2000 Secretariat, Universita' degli Studi di Trento, Via Belenzani 12, TN 38100, TRENTO, ITALIA. Tel: 39 0461 881166, fax: 39 0461 881132, email: trento2000@cs.unitn.it.

The workshop TRENTO 2000 focuses on Preference Modelling
and Decision Theory and aims at providing an opportunity for
sharing and discussing the recent research developments in
this field. The idea is to have a small number of lecturers
and participants in a relaxed and informal atmosphere. Trento
is a lovely and peaceful renaissance Italian town surrounded
by splendid mountains (Dolomites) and close to Lake Garda.

June 10-11, 2000, Limerick, Ireland. Item #2122
PDSE-2000 International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems.

email: Paddy.Nixon@cs.tcd.ie.

- development methodologies 
         - impact of languages (e.g. Java) and architectures on development techniques
         - interoperability in open distributed applications and the impact of distributed objects computing
         technologies like CORBA, DCOM & Java RMI 
         - architectural concepts and design techniques for parallel and distributed applications 
         - the impact of code mobility in the design process 
         - application of formal methods 
         - testing and verification 
         - performance modelling and prediction 
         - software reuse technology 
         - CASE environments and support tools 
         - object oriented techniques and design patterns 
         - observance of behavioural properties across abstraction levels 
         - practical experiences of software engineering problems encountered in industrial systems 

June 11-15, 2000, University of Rousse, Rousse, Bulgaria. Item #2065
SECOND CONFERENCE ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS.

Marcin Paprzycki. Email: marcin@orca.st.usm.edu.

The main tracks of the conference are:

    1. Numerical Linear Algebra.
    2. Numerical Methods for Differential Equations.
    3. Numerical Modeling.
    4. High Performance Scientific Computing.

June 11-12, 2000, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Item #2212
IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis.

email: kimia@lems.brown.edu.

 The purpose of this workshop is to foster dialogue and debate which will
 more sharply focus attention on mathematical approaches to research in
 biomedical image analysis. The workshop is the fourth meeting on
 biomedical image analysis, previously held in conjunction with CVPR'94
 Seattle, CVPR'96 San Francisco, and CVPR'98 Santa Barbara. This fourth
 workshop will similarly immediately follow CVPR'2000. The program will
 consist of previously unpublished, contributed, and invited papers on
 all aspects of mathematical approaches to biomedical image analysis. In
 addition, one or two panel discussions on related topics is planned. In
 this round of the workshop we will pay a special emphasis to research
 efforts on computational atlases. A list of possible themes for
 submitted papers, meant to be suggestive rather than exclusive, is:
    * Computational Anatomical Atlases
    * Curve/Surface/Volume Registration
    * Inter and Intra-modal Image Registration
    * Snakes, Splines, and Deformable Models
    * PDE-based Methods of Image Analysis
    * Multidimensional Surface and Volume Models
    * Motion Analysis of Biomedical Images
    * Multimodality Image Analysis
    * Multidimensional Segmentation
    * Multidimensional Surface and Volume Models
    * Multidimensional Data Visualization
    * Image Guided Surgery/Therapy
    * Biomedical Image Databases
    * Applications
 

June 13-15, 2000, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA. Item #2032
CVPR 2000.

Greg Hager, Dept. of Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins Univ., tel: 203 432 6432, fax: 203 432 0593, email: hager@cs.jhu.edu.

June 13-18, 2000, Linz, Austria. Item #2230
Linz2000 Mathematical Aspects of Non-Classical Logics and Fuzzy Inference.

Lawrence N. Stout. Email: lstout@sun.iwu.edu.

1. Categorical Logic 
2. Logic of cognition 
3. Fuzzy Inference 
4. Modal Logics 
5. Many Valued Logics 
6. Logics taking into account time, place, vagueness, and limited
resources

June 15 - 28, 2000, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Item #2272
Computational Neuroscience: Vision Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course.

http://www.cns.nyu.edu/csh00.

June 16-21, 2000, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Item #2271
CADE-17 17th International Conference on Automated Deduction.

kohlhase@ags.uni-sb.de.

   * Which AI topics should be attacked in a deductive framework?
   * How does automated deduction improve AI techniques and systems?
   * Which benefits are to be expected from automated deduction in the areas
     of e.g. autonomous agents, machine learning, user interfaces, software
     engineering or language technology?
   * How should automated deduction change to meet the needs of these
     application areas?
   * What could automated deduction gain from techniques used in the
     aforementioned areas?

June 18 - 23, 2000, AGORA FOR BIOSYSTEMS, SIGTUNA, SWEDEN. Item #2322
NORDIC SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY 2000.

Hans Liljenstrom, Dept. of Biometrics, SLU, Box 7013, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden, fax: +46 18 673502, email: hans.liljenstrom@sdi.slu.se.

TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Bioinformatics
- Macromolecular dynamics
- Computational (functional) genomics
- Computational neurobiology
- Computational ecology

June 19-22, 2000, Helsinki, Finland. Item #2042
ICA 2000, International Workshop on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation.

email: ica2000@mail.cis.hut.fi, fax: +358 9 4513277.

The workshop is devoted to recent advances in Independent
Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation.  Relevant topics
include, for example: theory and estimation methods, extensions of
basic models, convolutive and noisy mixtures, nonlinear methods,
hardware implementations, audio and telecommunications applications,
biomedical applications, image processing applications, data mining
applications, and sensory coding models.

June 19-22, 2000, New Orleans, LA, USA. Item #2070
IEA/AIE-2000 13th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems.

Dr. Moonis Ali, Southwest Texas State Univ., Dept. of Computer Science, 601 Univ. Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666-4616, USA. Tel: (512) 245 3409, fax: (512) 245 8750, email: MA04@swt.edu.

June 19-20, 2000, Washington, DC, USA. Item #2329
MODERN REGRESSION AND CLASSIFICATION: Widely applicable statistical methods for modeling and prediction.

Professor Trevor Hastie, Stanford University CA, Phone/fax: (650) 326 0854 . Email: hastie@stat.stanford.edu.

June 21-23, 2000, Paris, France. Item #2131
RSP-2000 IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping.

Dr. Jian Guo, Software Engineering Group, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, tel: (+1) 831-656-2180, fax: (+1) 831-656-3225, RSP2000@cs.nps.navy.mil.

*       System Emulation
*       System Specification
*       Tools for Software Prototyping
*       Tools for Hardware Prototyping
*       Methodologies for Software Prototyping
*       Methodologies for Hardware Prototyping
*       Prototyping in an engineering process
*       Prototyping of embedded systems
*       Prototyping Case Studies
*       Very Large Scale System Engineering
*       Integrated telecommunications systems
*       Hardware/Configware Codesign and tradeoff
*       Hardware-Software Codesign
*       Very Large Scale System Engineering
*       Hardware/Software Tradeoffs
*       System Verification/Validation
*       Prototype to Product Transition
*       Prototyping of Real-Time Systems
*       The Role of FPGAs in System Prototyping
*       Virtual Prototyping

June 21-23, 2000, Izmir, Turkey. Item #2202
TAINN 2000 The Ninth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks.

TAINN 2000, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Elektrik - Elektronik Mühendisligi Bölümü, Kaynaklar Kampüsü, 35160 Buca, Izmir, TURKEY, email: tainn2000@eee.deu.edu.tr, tel: +90 232 453 10 08 1156, fax: +90 232 7657102.

June 21-23, 2000, AALBORG, DENMARK. Item #2210
IFESS 2000 CONFERENCE.

Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI), Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7D-3, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark. Tel: +45 96 35 88 28, fax: +45 98 15 40 08.

1. The pre-conference course: "Motor Functions and CNS Injuries" - is
designated as an international workshop to facilitate the communication
between the various disciplines involved in the field of restoration of
motor and sensory functions of individuals with motor disabilities -
17th-18th June 2000.
See: http://www.smi.auc.dk/aalborg2000/course

2. The 5th Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical
Stimulation Society (IFESS 2000) - aims at bringing together
internationally leading specialists in the field of Functional Electrical
Stimulation (FES) to stimulate the exchange of views and new advancements
and to discuss current and future goals in various applications of FES -
18th-20th June 2000.
See: http://www.smi.auc.dk/aalborg2000/ifess

3. The Neural Prostheses VI: Motor Systems Conference (NP 2000) - will be
organized as an international workshop to facilitate the communication
between the various disciplines involved in the field of restoration of
motor and sensory functions of individuals with motor disabilities -
21st-23th June 2000.
See: http://www.smi.auc.dk/aalborg2000/np

June 22 - 23, 2000, Chios, Greece. Item #2317
CoIL 2000 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Learning.

CoIL 2000 Conference Secretariat, c/o ELITE Foundation, Promenade 9, 52076 Aachen, Germany, tel: +49 (0)2408 6969, fax: +49 (0)2408 94582, email: sf@mitgmbh.de.

June 25 - July 15, 2000, TELLURIDE, COLORADO. Item #2237
NEUROMORPHIC ENGINEERING WORKSHOP.

Prof. Terrence Sejnowski, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, San Diego, CA 92037, email: terry@salk.edu, fax: (619) 587 0417.

Projects that are carried out during the workshop will be centered in a
number of groups, including

   * active vision
   * audition
   * olfaction
   * motor control
   * central pattern generator
   * robotics, multichip communication
   * analog VLSI
   * learning

June 26-29, 2000, Santa Barbara, California. Item #2197
Fifteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.

Martin Abadi, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies, 3180 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA, email: lics2000@research.bell-labs.com, tel: +1 650 565 7477, fax: +1 650 565 7676.

June 26-29, 2000, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2215
Special Session on Multi-Agent Information Systems at IC-AI'2000.

Dr. Geof Staniford, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Byrom Street, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, United Kingdom. Email: g.staniford@livjm.ac.uk.

June 26-29, 2000, WPI, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Item #2216
AID 2000 Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design.

email: aid00@arch.usyd.edu.au.

June 26-29, 2000, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2244
METMBS'2000 The 2000 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences.

Faramarz Valafar, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215, tel: (617) 353 5134, fax: (617) 353 7755, email: Faramarz@cns.bu.edu.

June 28-30, 2000, June 28, 30, 2000. Item #2113
VIPromCom-2000 2nd International Workshop on Video Processing and Multimedia Communications.

Tomislav Kos, tomislav.kos@fer.hr.

TOPICS

1. General Techniques and Algorithms:
Filtering, Enhancement, Restoration, Coding, Segmentation,
Multiresolution Processing, Multispectral Processing, Image
Representation, Image Analysis, Image Understanding, Interpolation and
Spatial Transformations, Wavelets, Neural Networks for Image Processing.


2. Computed Imaging:
Acoustic, Radar, Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, Geophysical and
Seismic, Radio Astronomy, Computer Holography.

3. Image Scanning Display and Printing:
Scanning and Sampling, Quantization and Halftoning, Color Reproduction,
Rendering, Graphics and Fonts, Data Visualization.

4. Multimedia Processing:
Compression for Multimedia, Low Bit Rate and Very Low Bit Rate Coding,
Video Object Planes, Identification and Tracking of Regions in Scenes,
2-D/3-D Feature Extraction, Content Generation and Manipulation.

5. Multimedia Databases:
Indexing of Images and Video, Motion/Texture/Shape Descriptors,
Retrieval and Archiving, Feature-Based Image/Video Query, Searching and
Browsing of Images and Video, Authoring and Editing, Digital Library,
Content Preparation and Presentation.

6. Multimedia Communications:
Equalization and Synchronization, Transport Protocols, QoS Control,
Error Concealment and Loss Recovery, Rate Control and Hierarchical
Coding, Video over Wireless Channels, Video Streaming, Video Signal
Processor Chips, Watermarking and Encryption.

7. Multimedia Applications:
WWW and Hypermedia, Videoconferencing and Collaboration Environments,
Education and Distant Learning, Telemedicine, Home-shopping, Gaming and
Virtual Reality, Java, DTV, SDTV, HDTV, SHDTV, VOD, DVB, DVD,
Interactive TV, Video Terminals and Set-Top-Boxes.

8. Standards and Related Issues:
ITU-T Standards for Audiovisual Communication, JPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2,
MPEG-4, MPEG-7, JPEG2000, MHEG, DAVIC, ATM Forum, HTML, VRML, and
others.

June 28 - July 1, 2000, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. Item #2185
COLT 2000 The Thirteenth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory.

Sally Goldman - COLT 2000, Dept. of Computer Science, Campus Box 1045 - Bryan Hall 509, Washington University, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, UAS. Email: colt2000@dsi.unimi.it.

June 28-30, 2000, Montreal Quebec, Canada. Item #2206
IEEE 4th International Workshop on Systems Management.

Hanan Lutfiyya, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario. Email: hanan@csd.uwo.ca.

June 29 - July 02, 2000, Paisley, Scotland, UK. Item #2066
EIS'2000 Second International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems.

ICSC Canada, P.O. Box 279, Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0, Canada. Fax: +1 780 387 4329, email: operating@icsc.ab.ca.

THEORY
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Artificial Life
- Case-based Reasoning
- Chaos
- Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint Programming
- Expert Systems
- Fuzzy Logic
- Genetic Algorithm
- Hybrid Systems
- Intelligent Agents
- Knowledge Extraction
- Machine Learning
- Model based and Qualitative Reasoning
- Multi Agent Systems
- Neural Networks
- Wavelets


APPLICATIONS
- Concurrent Engineering
- Condition Monitoring and Control
- Damage Assessment
- Data Mining and Knowledge Exraction
- Design
- Emerging Organizational Forms
- Hardware Implementations
- Image Processing and Computer Vision
- Industrial Diagnostics
- Management
- Monitoring and Control
- Multimedia
- Natural Language Processing
- Pattern Recognition
- Product Development
- Resource Allocation
- Remote Sensing
- Robotics
- Security
- Signal Processing
- Speech Processing and Regognition


SPECIAL SESSIONS
Papers are particularly sought for the following special sessions which a=
re expected to attract wide international interest
- Artificial Immune Systems (Dipankar Dasgupta, Univ. of Memphis, US=
A)
- Intelligent Mechatronics (Mark Girolami, Univ. of Paisley, Scotlan=
d, U.K.)
- Speech Processing (Amir Hussain, Univ. of Dundee, Scotland, U.K.)
- Machine Vision (Norbert Krueger, Technical Univ. of Kiel, Germany)

June 29 - July 2, 2000, Stanford University, USA. Item #2156
ICML 2000 The Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning.

email: icml2k@isle.org .

The conference brings together researchers interested in the computational 
study of learning to exchange ideas and report recent progress. ICML-2000 
welcomes submissions on all facets of machine learning, but especially
solicits papers on problem areas, research topics, learning paradigms,
and approaches to evaluation that have been underrepresented at past
conferences. We plan to restructure the reviewing process to encourage
publication of a broad range of research and to increase participation.

June 29-30, 2000, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. Item #2176
RASC2000 International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing.

Bob John, Centre for Computational Intelligence, Dept. of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK. Email: rij@dmu.ac.uk.

Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:
       *  Fuzzy Logic
       *  Fuzzy Control
       *  Fuzzy Decision Making
       *  Neural Networks
       *  Neuro Fuzzy Systems
       *  Genetic Algorithms
       *  Genetic Programming
       *  Hybrid Systems

Application areas may include, but are not limited to:

       *  Manufacturing
       *  Robotics
       *  Financial Services
       *  Engineering
       *  Architecture
       *  Information Systems
       *  Design
       *  Data Analysis and Signal Processing
       *  Databases
       *  Medicine
       *  Pharmaceutical

June 30, 2000, Stanford University. Item #2243
UAI-2000 Workshop on Fusion of Domain Knowledge with Data for Decision Support.

Richard Dybowski PhD, Research Fellow (Knowledge & Data Engineering), King's College London, Medical Informatics Laboratory (Division of Medicine), 4th Floor, North Wing, St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, UK, tel: (office): (0)20 7928 9292 extension 6429, tel: (mobile): 079 76 25 00 92, fax: +44 (0)20 7928 4458, email: richard.dybowski@kcl.ac.uk.

June 30 - July 3, 2000, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Item #2353
UAI-2000: The Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, email: klaskey@gmu.edu.

July 3-7, 2000, Madrid, Spain. Item #2071
IPMU 2000 Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge Based Systems.

Ultramar Express S/A, Technical Secretariat, C/Enrique Jardiel Poncela, 6, Madrid 28016, Spain. Tel: +34 91 540 1570, fax: +34 91 542 951, email: ipmu@mat.upm.es.

July 3-5, 2000, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland. Item #2295
FTP'2000 International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving.

Peter Baumgartner, peter@uni-koblenz.de.

July 5-7, 2000, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. Item #2128
DM 2000 Second International Conference on Data Mining.

Data Mining 2000, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7AA, England. Tel: 44 23 80 293223, fax: 44 23 80 292853, email: wit@wessex.ac.uk.

TOPICS
Applications of Data Mining in Science,
Engineering, Business,Industry, Medicine
Data Warehousing and Databases
Internet Applications
Fraud Detection and Prevention
Data Mining as a Tool for Marketing and Sales
Support
Managing Data Mining Projects
Data Mining Software
Data Discovery
Data Mining Methodologies
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Multi-database Mining
Machine Learning Methods
Neural Networks and Decision Trees
Genetic Algorithms in Data Mining
Parallel and Distributed Techniques
Market Basket Analysis
Visualisation in Data Mining
Statistically Based Tools
Clustering and Classification Techniques
Tools for Pattern Discovery
Prediction of Future Trends with Historical Data
Case Studies

July 5-7, 2000, Paris, France. Item #2205
VIRTUAL WORLDS 2000 Second International Conference on Virtual Worlds International Institute of Multimedia.

email: Jean-Claude.Heudin@devinci.fr.

July 7-12, 2000, Boston, MA, USA. Item #2105
ICMAS'2000 4th International Conference on MultiAgent Systems.

Dr. Ed Durfee, Univ. of Michigan, EECS Dept., 1101 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Email: durfee@umich.edu.

                         Interaction capabilities, constraints, and prefererences 

                                    Communication languages and protocols 
                                    Organization and social structure 
                                    Teamwork and cooperation 
                                    Decentralized systems 
                                    Mechanism design 

                         Reasoning about coordinated interactions 

                                    Conflict resolution and negotiation 
                                    Multi-agent planning 
                                    Coalition formation and organization self-design 
                                    Agent modeling and plan recognition 
                                    Multi-agent learning 
                                    Distributed search and constraint satisfaction 
                                    Foundations (multi-agent logics, game-theory, economics, philosophy, etc.) 

                         Engineering, deploying, and evaluating multiagent systems 

                                    Agent programming languages 
                                    Multiagent programming frameworks 
                                    Agent models and architectures 
                                    Standards for multiagent technology (interaction protocols, languages) 
                                    Development and engineering methodologies 
                                    Evaluation of multiagent systems 
                                    Testbeds and development environments 
                                    RoboCup, multiagent robotics, RoboCup-Rescue 
                                    User interfaces and personalizable agents 

                         Practical applications 

                                    Agents in electronic commerce 
                                    Cooperative information systems 
                                    Distributed resource allocation 
                                    Information agents on the internet 
                                    Multiagent simulations of social and biological systems 
                                    Multigent vision and robotics 
                                    Believable agents in multiagent settings 
                                    Interacting personal digital assistants 

July 7-9, 2000, Keltic Lodge, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Item #2136
TIME-2000: Seventh International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning.

Andre Trudel, TIME-2000 Program Co-Chair, Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, B0P 1X0. Email: andre.trudel@acadiau.ca.

              temporal logics and ontologies
	      temporal constraint reasoning
              temporal languages and architectures
              expressive power versus tractability
              belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge
              temporal databases
              spatiotemporal reasoning and databases
              temporal learning and discovery
              reasoning about actions and events
              time and nonmonotonism
              time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling,...)
              time in multiple agents, communication, and synchronization
              other applications

July 7-16, 2000, Zagreb, Croatia. Item #2305
SSIP 2000 8th Summer School on Image Processing.

Sven Loncaric, Image Processing Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, tel: +385 (1) 6129 891, fax: +385 (1) 6129 652, email: sven.loncaric@fer.hr.

July 7-9, 2000, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, USA. Item #2309
CIA-2000 Fourth International Workshop on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS.

Matthias Klusch, German AI Research Center (DFKI GmbH), Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany, tel: +49 681 302 5297, fax: +49 681 302 2235, email: klusch@dfki.de.

July 8, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada. Item #2207
OBUPM-2000 OPTIMIZATION BY BUILDING AND USING PROBABILISTIC MODELS at GECCO-2000.

Martin Pelikan, Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 117 Transportation Building, 104 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801. Tel: (217) 333 2346, fax: (217) 244 5705.

July 8, 2000, Las Vegas, Riviera Hotel, Nevada, USA. Item #2284
Evolutionary Computation and Parallel Processing Workshop at GECCO-2000.

Erick Cantu-Paz, cantupaz@llnl.gov.

- Theory applied to EC parallel processing (population sizing,speedups,etc.)
- Innovative EC parallel processing (unique topologies,etc.)
- Controlled experimental studies
- Insightful practical examples of EC parallel processing
- Hardware/software considerations (Beowulf processing, distributed 
  parallel processing, etc.)
- Application of EC to parallel processing problems (process scheduling,
  automatic parallelization, etc.)
- Future research directions

July 9-12, 2000, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #2106
NNW 2000 - 10th Anniversary International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Systems.

Roman Neruda, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Institute of Computer Science, P.O. Box 5, 18207 Prague, Czech Republic. Email: nnw2000@uivt.cas.cz.

Neural Networks: Architectures, Algorithms, Approximation, Complexity, Biological Foundations 

        Evolutionary Computation: Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Classifier Systems, Artificial Life, 

        Hybrid Systems: Fuzzy Logic, Soft Computing, Neuro-Fuzzy Controller, Genetic Learning of Neural Networks 

        Adaptive Agents: Models and Architectures, Distribution and Cooperation, AI Agents, Software Agents, Complex Adaptive
        Systems 

        Applications: Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Simulation, Hardware Implementation, Robotics 

July 9-12, 2000, Prague. Item #2268
Neural Network World 2000.

email: nnw2000@cs.cas.cz.

July 10-15, 2000, Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece. Item #2126
CSCC'2000 - 4th World Multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communications & Computers.

Professor Nikos E.Mastorakis, Director of the Chair of Computer Science, Military Institutions of University Education, Hellenic Naval Academy, Terma Hatzikyriakou, 18539, Piraeus, GREECE. mastor@ieee.org, Tel-fax: (+301) 7775660.

4th International Conference on CIRCUITS International Scientific Committee 

4th International Conference on SYSTEMS  International Scientific Committee 

4th International Conference on COMMUNICATIONS International Scientific Committee 

4th International Conference on COMPUTERS International Scientific Committee 

July 10-15, 2000, Athens, GREECE. Item #2199
MCME 2000 WORLD CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

email: mcme@worldses.org.

July 10-13, 2000, Paris, France. Item #2204
FUSION 2000 International Conference on Information Fusion.

FUSION 2000 Secretariat, IEF Bat. 220, F-91405 ORSAY CEDEX, France, fax: no : +33 1 69 15 40 00, email: secretariat@fusion2000.ief.u-psud.fr.

July 10-12, 2000, Boston, Massachusetts. Item #2250
ASAP 2000 12th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors.

Earl Swartzlander. Email: e.swartzlander@compmail.com.

  Aspects of application-specific computing systems that are of interest 
  include, but are not limited to:
  * Application-specific architectures:
    special purpose designs, design methodology, CAD tools, fault 
    tolerance strategies, specification and interfaces, hardware/software
    codesign
  * Application-specific processors:
    digital signal processing, computer arithmetic, configurable/custom 
    computing, implementation methodology & rapid prototyping, new 
    technologies, fine-grain parallelism
  * Application-specific systems:
    network computing, special-purpose systems for exotic applications, 
    performance evaluation, standard software objects, languages, 
    compilers, operating systems, hardware/software integration

July 10-30, 2000, Sofia, New Bulgarian University. Item #2254
7th International Summer School in Cognitive Science.

Summer School in Cognitive Science, Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, 21 Montevideo Str. Sofia 1635, Bulgaria, email: school@cogs.nbu.acad.bg.

 Courses:

* Distributed representations and gradual learning processes in cognition -
  Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
* Connectionist models of language processing - Jeff Elman (University of
  California, San Diego, USA)
* Brain Organization of Human Memory and Thought - John Gabrieli (Stanford
  University)
* Cognitive Development - Graeme Halford (University of Queensland)
* The Human Conceptual System - Lawrence W. Barsalou (Emory University)
* Topics in Vision Science - Stephen E. Palmer (University of California,
  Berkeley)
* Cognitive Science: A Basic Science for an Applied Science of Learning -
  John T. Bruer (James S. McDonnell Foundation)
* Psychological Scaling - Encho Gerganov (New Bulgarian University)
* Research Methods in Psycholinguistics - Elena Andonova (New Bulgarian
  University)
* Research Methods in Memory and Thinking - Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian
  University)

July 12-21, 2000, Nida, Lithuania. Item #2310
Summer Course: Modulation of Neuronal Signaling: Implications for Visual Perception.

giedrius@salk.edu.

July 16-19, 2000, La Jolla Marriott, San Diego, USA. Item #2175
CEC2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

Helen Ashton . Email: cec2000@cee.hw.ac.uk.

July 16-19, 2000, San Diego, CA, USA. Item #2227
EAACSD'2000 Evolutionary Algorithms Aided-Control System Design at CEC'2000.

CEC2000 Special Session on EAACSD'2000, c/o Dr. Ashraf H. Abdelwahab, Paul Lutz Hall, Room # 431, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Speed Scientific School, University of Louisville, KY 40292.

Control System Design
Model Identification
Robust Control
Parameter Estimation
Failure Detection
System Integration
Sliding Mode Control
Evolving Robot Behavior
Adaptive Control
Parallel Implementations
Multi-objective Optimization
Real World Applications
Mathematical Formulation

July 16-20, 2000, Brugge, Belgium. Item #2238
CNS*2000 Ninth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting.

CNS*2000, Division of Biology 216-76, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Email: cns2000@bbb.caltech.edu.

July 17-19, 2000, Kingston Upon Thames, UK. Item #2155
EANN2000 Engineering Applications of Neural Networks.

Dr Dimitris Tsaptsinos, Kingston University, Penhryn Road, School of Mathematics, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK. Email: eann2000@kingston.ac.uk, tel: +81 5472000 extension 2516, fax: +81 5477497.

The conference is a forum for presenting the latest results on neural 
network applications in technical fields. The applications may be in any 
engineering or technical field, including but not limited to: 
systems engineering, mechanical  engineering, robotics, process engineering,  
metallurgy,  pulp and  paper technology,  aeronautical engineering, computer 
science, machine vision, chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, electrical  
engineering,  electronics, civil engineering, geophysical  sciences, biomedical systems, 
and environmental engineering. Application-oriented papers using hybrid 
technologies are also welcomed.
Conference Fee

Industry and University Rate:GBP300
Student Rate with proceedings:GBP200
Student Rate without proceedings:GBP100

July 19-26, 2000, Catania, Sicily, Italy. Item #2259
The third World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts at IFNA.

Ugur Halici, email: halici@metu.edu.tr.

If interested in submitting paper for special sessions on

-Neural Networks
-Computer Vision

July 23-26, 2000, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #2229
SCI'2000 The 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

Nagib Callaos. Email: ncallaos@callaos.com.

MAJOR THEMES

* Information Systems Development
* Information Systems Management
* Management Information Systems
* Virtual Engineering
* Mobile/Wireless Computing
* Communication Systems and Networks
* Emergent Computation
* Image,Acoustic,Speech and Signal Processing
* Computing Techniques
* Human Information Systems
* Education and Information Systems
* Control Systems
* Economic and Financial Systems
* SCI in Biology and Medicine
* SCI in Psychology, Cognition and Spirituality
* Conceptual Infrastructure of SCI
* Natural Resources
* Human Resources
* Globalization, Development and Emerging Economies
* SCI in Art

July 24-27, 2000, Grand Hotel Cernobbio, Como, Italy. Item #2023
IJCNN'2000 IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.

Email: ijcnn2000@elet.polimi.it.

For details, see the conference web page

Publicity Chair:
Prof. Ron Sun, rsun@cecs.missouri.edu

July 24 - 28, 2000, Imperial College, London, UK. Item #2260
DOOD'2000 Sixth International Conference on Rules and Objects in Databases.

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dood/dood2000.html.

July 24 - August 7, 2000, Carnegie Mellon University. Item #2303
SEVENTH ANNUAL ACT-R SUMMER SCHOOL AND WORKSHOP.

2000 ACT-R Summer School and Workshop, Psychology Dept., Attn: Helen Borek, Baker Hall 345C, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, tel: +1 (412) 268 3438, fax: +1 (412) 268 2844, email: helen+@cmu.edu.

July 25-27, 2000, Venice, Italy. Item #2107
IAS-6 International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems.

IAS-6 Secretary, The Univ. of Padua, Electronics & Informatics Dept., Via Gradenigo 6/A, I-35131 Padua, Italy. Tel: +39 049 8277687, fax: +39 049 8277699, email: IAS-6@dei.unipd.it.

July 27-28, 2000, Milton Keynes, UK. Item #2323
SOMAS Self-organisation in Multi-agent Systems.

Paul Kearney, BT Labs, Adastral Park, tel: 01473 605544, email: paul.3.kearney@bt.com.

July 30 - August 3, 2000, Austin, Texas. Item #2110
AAAI2000 Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Henry A. Kautz, AT&T Labs - Research, kautz@research.att.com, Bruce Porter, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA. porter@cs.utexas.edu.

July 31, 2000, Austin, Texas. Item #2192
Workshop on Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets at AAAI-2000.

Nathalie Japkowicz, Faculty of Computer Science, DalTech/Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, N.S. Canada, B3H 1W5, tel: (902) 494 3157, fax: (902) 492 1517.

Topics
~~~~~~
* Novel techniques for dealing with imbalanced data sets:
        * Techniques for over-sampling the minority class.
        * Techniques for down-sizing the majority class.
        * Techniques for learning from a single class.
        * Techniques for internally biasing the learning process.
        * Other approaches.
* Comparing the various methodologies.
* The data imbalance problem in unsupervised learning.

July 31 - August 4, 2000, Baden Baden, Germany. Item #2194
ACIVS'00 2nd International Symposium on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems.

Dan Popescu, Division of Mathematical and Information Science, CMIS/CSIRO, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA. Dan.Popescu@cmis.CSIRO.AU.

 * TOPICS include (but are not limited to):
 	- STATISTICAL, STRUCTURAL AND SYNTACTIC PATTERN RECOGNITION
 	- statistical pattern recognition
 	- string-, tree- and graph-based recognition
 	- robust matching and parsing algorithms
 	- formal languages theory 
 	- applications of cellular automata to image processing
 	- relationship between the encoding process and the recognition rate
 	
 	- IMAGE AND VIDEO COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS
 	- wavelets, vector quantization, fractals
 	- hybrid techniques
 	- semantic image compression
 
 	- THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF VISION SYSTEMS
 	- model selection and validation
 	- model-based algorithms
 	- biologically-inspired vision
 	- nonlinear system identification  
 	- learning and nonlinear optimization   
 	- recurrent networks                  
 	- multiresolution and scale-space theory
 	- fractals and multifractals
 	- adaptive filtering and image restoration
 	- adaptive segmentation
 	- measures of information, valuations
     	- ASSESSMENT OF ALGORITHMS: 
 	- empirical techniques for algorithms evaluation
 	- image quality metrics
 	- objective metrics
 	- perceptually based distortion metrics
 	- video quality evaluation
 	- subjective ratings of compression algorithms
 	- professional applications (medical, military, etc.)

August 1-6, 2000, Portland, OR, USA. Item #2168
The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.

ALIFE VII, c/o Mark Bedau, Reed College, Portland OR 97202, USA, email: alife7@alife.org, tel: (503) 788 6693, fax: (503) 788 6643.

    Artificial life is an interdisciplinary research enterprise
    investigating the fundamental properties of living systems
    through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes
    in artificial media. This year's conference coincides with
    the birth of a new millennium, and this presents an
    opportunity to take stock of the community's main
    achievements and central open questions: hence the conference
    theme "Looking backward, looking forward." In addition to
    showcasing the best current work, this conference aims to
    play a pivotal role in shaping the artificial life research
    agenda in the years to come.
    
    All authors of conference papers are encouraged to explain
    how their work sheds light on the fundamental properties of
    living systems. Authors are also encouraged to address the
    conference theme "Looking backward, looking forward" by
    explaining how their contribution builds on important
    previous work in artificial life and helps crystallize and
    make progress on important open questions. Special
    consideration will be given to papers that compare theory
    with data from model systems or experiments and to papers
    that compare such data across different systems, especially
    natural and artificial systems. Papers are welcome on (but
    not limited to) the following topics:

         Origin of life, self-organization, self-replication:
            o astrobiology, exobiology
            o artificial and evolutionary chemistry
            o autocatalytic systems, metabolization
            o synthetic and supermolecular chemistry (including
              molecular self-assembly)
            o molecular information processing, construction and
              nanotechnology

         Development and differentiation:
            o multicellular development
            o gene-regulation networks
            o natural and artificial morphogenesis

         Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics:
            o pattern and mode of evolution, radiation and
              extinction
            o modes of selection (natural, sexual, neutral, kin,
              etc.)
            o artificial evolutionary ecologies and life games
            o molecular evolution in models systems (especially
              RNA evolution)
            o immune and defense systems
            o evolvability and its impact on biological
              organization
            o cultural evolution, evolution and learning
            o evolutionary computation

         Robots and agents:
            o bio-inspired robots, embodied cognition
            o autonomous and adaptive robots and software agents
            o evolutionary robotics

         Communication, cooperation and collective behavior:
            o emergent collective behaviors, swarm intelligence
            o evolution of communication and cooperation
            o social and linguistic systems
            o economic systems, social-technical systems

         Applications of ALife technologies:
            o industrial and commercial applications
                 + evolvable hardware, self-repairing hardware
                   and molecular computing
                 + genetic engineering and nanotechnology
                 + finance and economics
                 + computer games
            o medical applications
            o educational applications

         Simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies:
            o formal and mathematical foundations
            o clarification and evaluation of ALife methodologies
            o simulation languages, experimental tools
            o artificial worlds
            o tools for large data sets

         The broader context:
            o metaphysical and epistemological foundations and
              implications of ALife
            o ethical and social implications of ALife
            o ALife-inspired art

    Full information about conference paper format and submission
    procedures will be available later. Direct questions,
    concerns, and inquiries to the conference email at
    <alife7@alife.org>. Complete and up-to-date information about
    the conference will always be available through the
    conference web site at <http://alife7.alife.org>.

    To catalyze reflection about the theme "Looking backward,
    looking forward" an open-ended web-based discussion will
    proceed the conference. This on-line discussion will survey
    artificial life's main achievements and central open
    questions as well as the future organizational structure of
    the artificial life community. To enhance the community's
    collective intelligence as much as possible, everyone is
    encouraged to participate in this discussion. The theme
    "Looking backward, looking forward" will interconnect most of
    the events at the conference. The conference will kick off
    with a presentation of the consensus that emerged from the
    community's web interactions. All conference presenters will
    be encouraged to connect their work to the theme. A
    roundtable discussion toward the end of the conference will
    reassess artificial life's important achievements and open
    questions in the light of presentations and discussions
    during the conference. And there will be a forum to address
    the idea of founding an international society for artificial
    life.


    The Conference will include a series of workshops and
    tutorials for special interest groups. A separate call for
    workshop and tutorial proposals will appear in November 1999,
    and a Proceedings of Artificial Life VII Workshop papers will
    be published at the Conference. Younger scientists including
    graduate students and post-docs are encouraged to consider
    organizing a workshop. For more information about workshops
    or tutorials, contact the Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs:
    Eilis Boudreau (boudreau@pacifier.com) and Carlo Maley
    (cmaley@cs.unm.edu).

August 5-9, 2000, University of California, San Diego, CA. Item #2279
"The NEURON Simulation Environment" (NEURON 2000 Summer Course).

Ted Carnevale, Psychology Dept. Box 208205, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205, USA, tel: 203 432 7363, fax: 203 432 7172, email: ted.carnevale@yale.edu.

August 5 - 6, 2000, Centre Universitaire, Luxembourg. Item #2298
COLING 2000 Workshop on Semantic Annotation and Intelligent Content.

Paul Buitelaar ( paulb@dfki.de ), DFKI, Language Technology, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany.

August 8 - 9, 2000, Durham Castle, Durham, United Kingdom. Item #2311
International EPSRC Workshop on Current Computational Architectures Integrating Neural Networks and Neuroscience.

Mark Elshaw, (Workshop Organiser), Hybrid Intelligent Systems Group, Informatics Centre, SCET, University of Sunderland, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, SR6 0DD, United Kingdom, tel: +44 191 515 3249, fax: +44 191 515 2781, email: Mark.Elshaw@sunderland.ac.uk.

August 13-15, 2000, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA. Item #2226
COGSCI 2000 The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

CogSci2000, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, 400A 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228, USA. Email: cogsci2000@cis.upenn.edu, fax: +1 215 573 9247, tel: +1 215 898 0357.

August 14-18, 2000, Saarbruecken, Germany. Item #2361
EASSS'2000 Second European Agent Systems Summer School.

email: kwt@rz.uni-saarland.de, tel: +49 681 302 2656, fax: +49 681 302 4142.

August 15-17, 2000, Seoul, South Korea. Item #2147
IGU-CMGS The 29th International Geographical Congress.

Barry Boots. Email: bboots@mserver.wlu.ca.

The topics will not be limited to but include:
Remote Sensing, Environmental Modelling, Sustainable Development,
Transportation Analysis and Planning, Geographic Information Systems,
Geocomputation and Spatial Analysis, Spatio-temporal Modelling,
Visualization, Internet geography, Tele-communication, Cyber-geography.

August 16-18, 2000, Tianjin, China. Item #2067
ICIG`2000 First International Conference on Image and Graphics.

email: tjsig@public.tpt.tj.cn.

 Image processing (Capture, Coding, Transmission, Storage, Enhance, =
 Restoration, Reconstruction, etc.)
 Image analysis (Segmentation, Measurement, Texture, Motion, etc.)
 Image understanding (Matching, Scene interpretation, 3-D modeling, etc.)
 Pattern recognition applications (Character, Speech,  Image, Video, =
 etc.)
 Computer vision (Active, Real-time, Stereo, etc.)
 Graphic models and generation, Animation and  visualization
 Multimedia information, fusion, and processing (Digital video, Delivery =
 of visual information)
 Virtual reality, augmented reality and media immersion
 Multimedia database (Management, Query model, Indexing, Retrieval, =
 Mining, etc.)
 Applications (Telecommunication, Bio-medical, Document, Remote sensing, =
 Industrial, etc.)

August 20-25, 2000, Berlin, Germany. Item #2072
ECAI2000 14th Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

BWO Marketing Service GmbH, ECAI 2000, Mohrenstrasse 63-64, D-10117 Berlin, Germany. Tel: +49 30 22668470, fax: +49 30 22668464, email: info@ecai2000.hu-berlin.de.

August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA. Item #2112
KDD-2000: The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

email: kdd2000@microsoft.com.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

KDD Techniques:                    Mining Enterprise Databases:
---------------------------        -----------------------------------
New KDD algorithms                 Scalable algorithms
Mining the Web                     Data cleaning/noisy data
Mining text/multimedia data        Unification of mining with querying
Incremental algorithms             Database architectures for KDD
High-dimensional data              Database primitives for KDD
Background knowledge               Distributed architectures for KDD
Combining multiple models          Integration: mining/warehouse/OLAP

Implementation and Applications:   Human Interaction and the KDD
                                   Process
--------------------------------   ------------------------------------
Implementation & use of KDD        Data and knowledge visualization,
  systems                           and visualization of large, high-
Data mining and e-commerce          dimensional data
Data mining and privacy issues     Evaluating knowledge and potential
Vertical applications               discoveries
Case studies: success/failure      Interactive exploration
Benchmarks

August 20-25, 2000, Interlaken, Switzerland. Item #2143
EUROGRAPHICS 2000.

EG 2000 Conference Secretariat, P.O. Box 16, 1288 Aire-la-Ville, SWITZERLAND. Fax: +41 22 757 0318, tel: +41 22 767 3355, email: eg2000-info@eg.org.

August 20 - September 2, 2000, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA. Item #2328
Analysis of Neural Data.

Ms. Jean B. Ainge, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 700 Mountain Avenue 1D-427, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, 908-582-4702 (fax) or <jba@bell-labs.com>.

August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA. Item #2347
KDD Cup 2000 Fourth International Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Tools Competition in conjunction with KDD-2000.

Carla Brodley, Purdue University. Email: brodley@ecn.purdue.edu.

KDD Cup 2000 will be the Fourth International Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining Tools Competition, held in conjunction with KDD-2000.

August 21, 2000, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Item #2234
Foundations of connectionist-symbolic integration: representation, paradigms, and algorithms, Workshop at ECAI-2000.

Paolo Frasconi, University of Florence, Italy. Email: paolo@dsi.unifi.it.

Topics of interest include:

- Algorithms for extraction, injection and refinement of structured
  knowledge from, into and by neural networks.
- Inductive discovery/formation of structured knowledge.
- Classification, recognition, prediction, matching and manipulation
  of structured information.
- Neural models to infer hierarchical categories.
- Applications of hybrid symbolic-connectionist models to real world
  problems. 

August 21 - September 15, 2000, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. Item #2251
EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (an IBRO Neuroscience School).

Prof. E. De Schutter, Born-Bunge Foundation, University of Antwerp - UIA, Universiteitsplein 1, B2610 Antwerp, Belgium, fax: +32 3 8202669. Email: eucourse@bbf.uia.ac.be.

August 22, 2000, Berlin, Germany. Item #2274
MLCV Workshop on Machine Learning in Computer Vision at ECAI.

Donato Malerba, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy. Tel: +39 080 5443264, fax: +39 080 5443196, email: malerba@di.uniba.it.

Sponsored by MLnet II - the European Network of Excellence in Machine Learning

August 22, 2000, Berlin, Germany. Item #2351
Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence, a ECAI-2000 Workshop.

Holger H. Hoos, Dept. of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada, email: hoos@cs.ubc.ca, WWW: www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos.

 -- the design of computational experiments
 -- performance criteria for algorithms or systems
 -- methods for analysing, characterising, and comparing algorithmic
       performance
 -- the choice of problem sets - benchmark problems, artificially
       generated problems, etc.
 -- the role of theoretical models in experiments
 -- studies from various fields of AI which exemplify good empirical
        methodology and its value for obtaining interesting results.
 -- the ethics of experimentation; e.g., should reports provide
       enough information for experimental replication? are AI
       experimental standards distinct from those of other disciplines?
 -- to what extent are empirical methods really necessary in AI
(possibly
       due to the inadequacy or impossibility of theoretical methods)?
       How is AI different from other areas of Computer Science
       in this respect?

August 23 - 25, 2000, University of Greenwich, UK. Item #2293
GeoComputation 5th International Conference on GeoComputation.

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Greenwich, Medway Campus, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB UK, email: geocomp@ashville.demon.co.uk.

August 28-31, 2000, Espoo, Finland. Item #2108
STeP 2000 - Millennium of Artificial Intelligence.

WWW: http://www.uwasa.fi/stes/step2000/.

August 28 - September 1, 2000, Melbourne, VI, Australia. Item #2109
PRICAI 2000 - 6th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Marg Scarlett, The Conference Organisers Pty Ltd, PRICAI 2000 Conference Secretariat, P.O. Box 1127, Sandringham VIC 3191, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9521 8881, fax: +61 3 9521 8889, email: conforg@ozemail.com.au.

August 28-30, 2000, Bruges, Belgium. Item #2157
Intelligent Techniques in Satellite Image Processing at FLINS2000.

Mike Nachtegael, Dept. of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Krijgslaan 281 (S9), B-9000 Gent, Belgium. Tel: +32 (0)9 264 47 65, fax: +32 (0)9 264 49 95, email: mike.nachtegael@rug.ac.be.

Topics for this session include, but are not limited to:
- Detection and recognition in satellite images (e.g. detection of
buildings, nuclear facilities, moving objects, ...)
- Processing of satellite images (e.g. noise removal, enhancement,
segmentation, ...)
- Fuzzy logic, neural networks and soft computing in satellite image
processing
- Land-use classification using satellite images
- 3D-reconstruction of buildings from satellite images
- Disaster damage assessment from satellite images
- Coding of satellite images

August 28 - 30, 2000, Villach, Austria. Item #2280
FPL 2000 The 10th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications.

email: hoffmant@rhrk.uni-kl.de.

August 28-29, 2000, Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Item #2300
PRIMA 2000 3rd Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents in conjunction with PRICAI 2000.

Michael Georgeff, Agentis International, Melbourne, Australia, email: georgeff@agentis.com.au.

August 29, 2000, Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Item #2301
PRIIA 2000 1st Pacific Rim International Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents.

Dr. Seng Wai Loke, DSTC Monash, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Victoria 3145, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9903 1415, fax: +61 3 9903 2863, email: swloke@dstc.monash.edu.au.

August 30 - September 1, 2000, Kosice, Slovakia. Item #2158
ISCI - 2000 International Symposium on Computational Intelligence.

Dr. J. Vascak, Computational Intelligence Group, KKUI-FEI, TU Kosice, Letna 9, 042 00 Kosice, Slovakia. Email: isci@neuron-ai.tuke.sk.

The symposium will cover the following topics:
----------------------------------------------

Neural Networks
Fuzzy Systems
Evolutionary Computation 
Neuro-Fuzzy & Fuzzy-Neuro Systems
Neuro-Fuzzy Hybrid Systems
Artificial Life 
Application of Computational Intelligence tools in various
real-world applications
Presentations of CI oriented companies and their products

August 30 - September 1, 2000, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK. Item #2160
KES'2000 Fourth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies.

KES2000 Secretariat, Engineering Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, BN2 4GJ. Email: KES2000@brighton.ac.uk, tel: +44 1273 642501, fax: +44 1273 643976.

Generic Intelligent Techniques

     Artificial neural networks 
     Machine learning 
     Knowledge-based & expert systems 
     Case-based reasoning 
     Fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy techniques 
     Genetic algorithms and artificial life 
     Intelligent agents

Applications of Intelligent Systems

     Engine control & vehicle applications 
     High voltage systems 
     Condition monitoring, fault diagnosis 
     Industrial control 
     Medical & diagnostic systems 
     Image processing, machine & computer vision 
     Financial & stock market monitoring and prediction 
     Speech processing and synthesis 
     Environmental monitoring 
     Power electronics & drives

Allied Technologies

     Communications, digital and computer communications 
     Signal processing & wavelets 
     Multi-media and web-based technologies 
     Human-computer interfaces 
     E-commerce etc. 
     Software techniques 
     Simulation

August 30 - September 1, 2000, University of Brighton, Sussex, U.K. Item #2161
FUSION OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS at KES2000.

Dr. Arthur Filippidis, System Concepts Group, DSTO, Land Operations Division, tel: (08) 8259 5442, fax: (08) 8259 5624.

August 30 - September 1, 2000, Alicante, Spain. Item #2200
SSPR 2000 / SPR 2000 Joint IAPR International Workshops on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition and Statistical Pattern Recognition.

Francesc J. Ferri, Dept. Informàtica. Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner, 50, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain.

August 30 - September 31, 2000, University of Brighton, England, UK. Item #2255
International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems and Allied Technologies.

email: kes2000@brighton.ac.uk, tel: +44 1273 642501 fax: +44 1273 643976.

Generic Intelligent Techniques
· Artificial neural networks
· Machine learning
· Knowledge-based & expert systems
· Case-based reasoning
· Fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy techniques
· Genetic algorithms and artificial life
· Intelligent agents
Applications of Intelligent Systems
· Engine control & vehicle applications
· High voltage systems
· Condition monitoring, fault diagnosis
· Industrial control
· Medical & diagnostic systems
· Image processing, machine & computer vision
· Financial & stock market monitoring and prediction
· Speech processing and synthesis
· Natural language processing
· Environmental monitoring
· Power electronics & drives
Allied Technologies
· Communications, digital and computer communications
· Signal processing & wavelets
· Virtual reality
· Multi-media and web-based technologies
· Human-computer interfaces
· E-commerce etc.
· Software techniques
· Simulation

August 23-25, 2000, Berlin, Germany. Item #2189
PAIS-2000 Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems at ECAI.

email: pais2000@ai.univie.ac.at, tel: +43 1 4277 63114, fax: +43 1 4277 9631.

This event, associated with ECAI-2000 is created to specifically
highlight significant successful applications of Intelligent Systems
technology.  The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for industry
practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected IS
techniques and share experience on the applicability, development and
deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will be the largest
showcase in Europe of real application using Intelligent Systems (IS)
technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make
successful IS based applications.

September 3-8, 2000, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Item #2018
15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.

OTAC, S.A. Gran Via Corts Catalanes, 454 - 1º, 08015-Barcelona, Spain. Tel: +34 93 423 94 08, fax: +34 93 325 27 08, email: otac@infase.es.

Computer Vision and Image Analysis

Early Vision
Representation
Segmentation
Recognition (2D and 3D)
Active Vision
Scene Understanding
Visual Navigation
Shape from X
Motion Analysis
Texture and Colour
Feature extraction

Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks

Statistical Pattern Recognition
Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition
AI-based Pattern Recognition Techniques
Multiresolution Classification
Neural Networks for Classification and Regression
Self-Organising Networks
Associative Memories
Learning
Feature Selection
Dimensionality Reduction
Invariance in Recognition

Image, Speech and Signal Processing

Filtering
Enhancement and Restoration
Image Registration
Signal Coding and Compression
Signal Segmentation
Speech Processing
Speech Understanding
Image and data representations
Mathematical Morphology
Wavelets
Visualisation

Applications, Robotics, Systems and Architectures

Automation and Robotics
Visual Inspection
Surveillance
OCR and Document Analysis
Biomedical Imaging
Range Imaging
Smart Sensors
Mobile Robots
Real Time Systems
Image Database Systems
Remote Sensing Applications
VLSI Architectures
Multiprocessor Systems
Parallel Algorithms and Languages
Multimedia

September 4-18, 2000, On the Internet. Item #2286
WSC5 5th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications.

email: info.wsc5@hut.fi.

September 5-8, 2000, Tampere, Finland. Item #2144
EUSIPCO-2000 X European Signal Processing Conference.

email: eusipco@eusipco2000.cs.tut.fi.

September 6-8, 2000, Houston, Texas. Item #2350
SmartSystems 2000: The Adventure Begins. The New Conference for Smart Systems and Robotics in Medicine and Space.

The Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, 16821 Buccaneer Lane, Suite 206, Houston, TX 77058. Email: nicodemus@systems.org, tel: 281 286 1555, fax: 281 286 8555.

September 7-8, 2000, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Item #2224
HUMANOIDS2000 The First IEEE-RAS Intern. Conf. on Humanoid Robots.

Alois Knoll. Email: knoll@ti.uni-bielefeld.de.

a) Brains, Mind and Robot Epistemology
b) Interaction with Humans and the Environment
c) Structure and purpose of body and limb movement
d) System and Components Design

September 8-9, 2000, Brussels, Belgium. Item #2201
ANTS'2000 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: Second International Workshop on Ant Algorithms.

Marco Dorigo, tel: D. Chercheur Qualifie' du FNRS, IRIDIA CP 194/6, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium . Tel: +32 2 6503169, fax: +32 2 6502715.

September 9-10, 2000, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Item #2145
AMDO'2000 JOINT IAPR INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects.

Fco. J. Perales Lopez (AMDO'2000), Ed. A. Turmeda, Dept. Matematiques e Informatica. Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), C/Valldemossa km. 7.5. Palma de Mallorca, 07071, SPAIN.

Topics:

*	Geometric and Physics Deformable Models
*	Motion Analysis. Articulated Models and Animation
*	Visualization of Deformable Models=20
*	3D Recovery from motion=20
*	Single or Multiple Human motion analysis and synthesis
*	Applications of Deformable Models and Motion Analysis

September 10-13, 2000, Canterbury, England. Item #2345
Communicating Process Architectures 2000.

Professor Peter Welch, p.h.welch@ukc.ac.uk, tel: +44 1227 823629, fax: +44 1227 762811.

Communicating Process Architectures addresses many of the key issues in 
modern computer science and its application.  In broad terms, the conference 
themes will concern concurrency - at all levels of software and hardware 
granularity.  The goal of the conference is to stimulate discussion and 
ideas as to the role concurrency will play in the future generation of 
scalable computer infrastructure and applications - where scaling means 
the ability to ramp up functionality (i.e. stay in control as complexity increases) 
as well as physical metrics (such as performance).

September 10-16, 2000, Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. Item #2360
ESSIR'2000 - EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL.

Fabio Crestani, email: fabioc@cs.strath.ac.uk.

September 10-15, 2000, Freiburg, Germany. Item #2388
German Autumn School on Cognition 2000.

Michael Brenner . Email: brenner@informatik.uni-freiburg.de.

September 11-14, 2000, Bristol, UK. Item #2139
The Eleventh British Machine Vision Conference.

Dr Majid Mirmehdi email: M.Mirmehdi@cs.bris.ac.uk, Dept. of Computer Science Tel/fax: +44 (0)117 954 5139/5208, Univ. of Bristol WWW: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~majid, Bristol BS8 1UB, England.

Conference topics include (but are not limited to): 

      image features and coding 
      multi-view and stereo vision 
      grouping and segmentation 
      texture, shading and colour 
      object recognition 
      real-time and active vision 
      shape and surface geometry 
      medical and industrial applications 

September 11-15, 2000, Paris, France. Item #2150
SAB2000 From Animals to Animats: The Sixth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.

email: sab2000@poleia.lip6.fr.

- Perception and motor control               - Neural correlates of
behavior
- Motivation and emotion                        - Action selection
- Learning and development                    - Evolutionary approaches
- Emergent structures and behaviors       - Internal models and
representation
- Collective and social behavior               - Characterization of
environments
- Philosophical and psychological issues  - Applied adaptive behavior
- Autonomous robots                              - Software agents and
virtual creatures

September 11-13, 2000, Lisbon, Portugal. Item #2289
ICGI-2000 5th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference.

Arlindo Oliveira, Dept. of Informatics, Systems and Computers Research Institute (INESC), Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000 Lisboa, PORTUGAL, tel: +351 21 3100228, fax: +341 21 3145843, email: aml@inesc.pt.

September 13-15, 2000, De Montfort Univ., Leicester, UK. Item #2077
IMA Imaging and Digital Image Processing: Mathematical Methods, Algorithms and Applications.

email: conferences@ima.org.uk.

 The conference will be a forum for
discussing the mathematical modelling of imaging systems, the design and
implementation of specialised image processing algorithms and novel
applications of image processing software in industry and commerce.
Specific areas in which the conference will focus will include: inverse
problems in imaging, statistical methods in image processing, image
compression techniques, fuzzy systems theory, artificial neural networks,
multi-fractals and wavelets, colour image processing, 3D imaging and image
processing, real-time image processing and systems modelling. Submission
on all aspects of image processing relating to these fields of interest,
are invited. The organising committee is particularly interested in papers
which relate the mathematical exposition of a given problem to the
practical realisation of an algorithm and its implementation in the
civilian and/or defence industries.

September 13-16, 2000, Washington, DC. Item #2258
13th Annual IEEE International ASIC/SOC Conference "SOC in the Internet Age".

ASIC/SOC Conference office, tel: 301 527 0900 x104.

SoC Specific Design Methodologies          Applications
---------------------------------          ------------
S1  Reusable & Embedded Cores/Macros,      A1 Communication, Networking,
    Memories                                  Internet, e-Business
S2  Technology Independent Methodologies   A2 Signal/Image Processing
S3  On-Chip Buses for SoC                  A3 Multimedia
S4  Smart Sensors Integration              A4 Portable & Wireless Systems
S5  Library Development                    A5 Computers
                                           A6 Microprocessors, Pervasive
Common Design Methodologies                   Computing
---------------------------                A7 Consumer Electronics
D1  High Performance, Low Power Design     A8 Defense Electronics
D2  Analog & Mixed-Signal Design           A9 FPGAs
D3  Wireless Communications Design         A10 Other SoC Applications
D4  Digital Signal Processing
D5  Timing Methodologies, sync./async.     Enabling Technologies for SoC
    design, clocking                       -----------------------------
D6  Reconfigurable/Scalable Design         T1 Embedded DRAMs/Flash
                                              Memories
Design Automation                          T2 Sensors/MEMS
-----------------                          T3 Deep Sub-micron
DA1 System Interconnects, Interconnect        Technologies, Cu, SiGe, SOI
    Modeling, Signal Integrity             T4 Optical Interconnects
DA2 Hardware/Software Co-Design,
    Verification                           Manufacturing
DA3 High Level Design & Synthesis          -------------
DA4 Logic Design & Synthesis               M1 Signal Integrity & EMI
DA5 Physical Design & Synthesis            M2 Packaging & I/O Interfacing
DA6 SoC Specific CAD Tools                 M3 SoC Testing, Power
                                              Measurement, Burn-In
Verification                               M4 SoC Fabrication Technologies
------------
V1  Formal Verification                    Common SoC Issues
V2  Simulation and Modeling                -----------------
V3  Design for Testability, Fault          C1 Project Management,
    modeling, IDDQ                            Distributed Development
V4  Failure Analysis                          Teams
                                           C2 Intellectual Property,
                                              Patent and Legal Issues
                                           C3 SoC Success Stories, Case
                                              Studies
                                           C4 Future SoC Trends and Limits

September 13 - 14, 2000, Lisbon, Portugal. Item #2277
2nd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP.

Claire Nedellec, LLL workshop, LRI, Bat 490, Universite Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay, FRANCE. Fax: +33 (0)1 69 15 65 86, tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26, email: cn@lri.fr.

September 13-16, 2000, Lyon, France. Item #2281
PKDD'2000 4th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.

rauch@vse.cz.

  WORKSHOPS: September 12, 2000
                                 Workshop 1
                                ============

         Data Mining, Decision Support, Meta-learning and ILP:
 Forum for  Practical Problem Presentation and Prospective Solutions
 Time.

Chairs: Pavel Brazdil and Alipio Jorge, Univ. of Porto, Portugal
email: pbrazdil@ncc.up.pt, amjorge@ncc.up.pt


The objective is to provide a forum for interchange of ideas between
researchers and representatives of companies involved in applying the
existing technologies in solving of real problems. Researchers will
describe their experience in applying the methodologies to problems of
commercial, industrial and social interest. The representatives of
companies will describe not only their success stories, but also
concerns about the directions the research should follow.

Website: http://www.ncc.up.pt/~ltorgo/ML_group.htmls/Events/DDMI/


                                  Workshop 2
                                 ============

     PKDD Workshop on Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data
     Mining
                                  (TSDM2000)

Chairs: John F. Roddick, Flinders U., South Australia
        Kathleen Hornsby, U.Maine, USA
email: roddick@cs.flinders.edu.au, khornsby@spatial.maine.edu


The workshop will focus on research and practice of knowledge
discovery from datasets containing explicit or implicit temporal or
spatial information. Main topics of the workshop are: temporal
association rule mining, time and space-oriented sequence
mining,temporal and spatial classification, mining from geographic and
geo-referenced data, spatial data mining, spatial clustering methods,
spatio-temporal data mining, KDD processes and frameworks specifically
catering for temporal and spatial data mining.

Website: http://www.spatial.maine.edu/TSDM2000/TSDM2000.html


                                  Workshop 3
                                 ============

                        Knowledge Discovery in Biology

Chair: Jan Komorowski, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology,
       Trondheim, Norway
email:  Jan.Komorowski@idi.ntnu.no


The workshop will focus on research and practice of knowledge
discovery from datasets containing explicit or implicit temporal or
spatial information. Main topics of the workshop are: temporal
association rule mining, time and space-oriented sequence mining,
temporal and spatial classification, mining from geographic and
geo-referenced data, spatial data mining, spatial clustering methods,
spatio-temporal data mining, KDD processes and frameworks specifically
catering for temporal and spatial data mining.

Website: will be announced


                                  Workshop 4
                                 ============

                  Machine Learning and Textual Information Access

Chairs: Hugo Zaragoza, LIP6, Univ. Paris 6, France
        Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, Univ. Paris 6, France
        Martin Rajman, EPFL, Switzerland
email: Hugo.Zaragoza@lip6.fr, Patrick.Gallinari@lip6.fr,
       Martin.Rajman@epfl.ch


As "Textual Information Access" we denote here both the emerging
interdisciplinary community of researchers from different fields
sharing interest in the textual data objects and machine or
statistical learning techniques aiming to develop automatic text
analysis systems. Among the main topics are: information retrieval and
filtering, multi-media information access, topic detection and
tracking, text summarisation, representation techniques of textual
information semantics, etc.

Website: will be announced



                                Workshop 5
                               ============

                Knowledge Management: Theory and Applications

Chair: Jean-Louis Ermine, CEA Paris, France
email: ermine@cartier.cea.fr


Knowledge management is the process of extracting knowledge from the
sources accessible to persons in an organisation (structured data in
databases, semi-structured data on the web and company documents,
unstructured data in the brain of persons, multimedia data). The
following topics are involved: knowledge capture, knowledge synthesis,
knowledge dissemination, models and methodologies for knowledge
management, etc.

Website: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/KMTA2000/

September 14 - 15, 2000, Aachen, Germany. Item #2314
ESIT 2000 European Symposium on Intelligent Techniques.

ERUDIT Service Center, c/o ELITE Foundation, Promenade 9, D-52076 Aachen, Germany. Tel: +49 2408 6969, fax: +49 2408 94582, email: erudit@mitgmbh.de.

· Fuzzy Sets
· Neural-Fuzzy Systems and Learning
· Fuzzy Databases and Information Retrieval
· Fuzzy Control - Methodology and Applications
· Decision Support Systems
· Data Analysis and Signal Processing
· Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
· Applications in Process Industry and Production Planning
· Applications in Traffic and Telecommunication
· Applications in Environmental Planning
· Medicine and Biomedical Applications
· Financial Engineering and Forecasting
· Software, Hardware, and Standards

Additionally, workshops will be organised by the Technical Committees on:
· Primary and Process Industry
· Capital, Components and Consumer Industry
· Traffic
· Telecommunication
· Medical, Health and Healthcare
· Finance, Trade and Services

September 16-20, 2000, Paris, France. Item #2151
PPSN2000 The Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature.

PPSN VI Conference Secretariat, INRIA Rocquencourt, Relations Exterieures, Bureau des cours et colloques, Domaine de Voluceau - B.P. 105, 78153 LE CHESNAY Cedex, France . Tel: +33 (0)1 39 63 50 53 /56 00, fax: +33 (0)1 39 63 56 38, email: PPSN2000@inria.fr.

September 16, 2000, Paris, France. Item #2190
IWLCS-2000 Third International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems.

email: iwlcs-2000@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de.

September 16-18, 2000, Univ. of Liege, Liege, Belgium. Item #2315
NCPW6 Sixth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop.

email: cogsci@ulg.ac.be.

September 17-21, 2000, Dresden, Germany. Item #2170
NOLTA2000 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications.

Wolfgang Schwarz, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Fakultaet Elektrotechnik, Institut fuer Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, Mommsenstrasse 13, 01062 Dresden, Germany. Email: schwarz@iee1.et.tu-dresden.de.

Chaos & Bifurcation    Chaotic Neural Networks        Circuits & Systems
Oscillation            Cellular Neural Networks       Self-Validating
Numerics
Synchronization        Learning & Memory              Modeling & Simulation
Communication          Prediction & Identification    Large-Scale Networks
Chua's Circuits        Image & Signal Processing      Analog & Digital ICs
Control                Neuro Dynamics                 Distributed Networks
Complex Systems        Evolutionary Computation       Power Systems
Fractals               Optimization                   Optics
Soliton                Fuzzy                          Chemistry & Physics
Applied Mathematics    

September 18-21, 2000, Santa Clara, California USA. Item #2242
SPIE's 2000 International Symposium Micromachining and Microfabrication.

email: spie@spie.org.

September 18-22, 2000, Singapore. Item #2283
CP2000 Sixth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming.

Roland Yap, School of Computing, National Univ. of Singapore, S16, Level 5, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore, tel: +65 874 2972, fax: +65 779 4580, ryap@comp.nus.edu.sg.

September 18-22, 2000, Palermo, Italy. Item #2367
Summer School on Intelligent Data Analysis.

email: ida@cere.pa.cnr.it.

The School on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) will focus on the core
techniques of 
Intelligent Data Analysis: 
-	Statistics, 
-	Bayesian Networks, 
-	Neural networks, 
-	Time Series Analysis, 
-	Rule Induction, 
-	Fuzzy Logic 
-	Evolutionary Computation. 

September 20-23, 2000, Varna, Bulgaria. Item #2294
AIMSA'2000 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Danail Dochev, Institite of Information Technologies, Acad. G. Bonchev 29A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria, tel: (+ 359 2) 70 75 86, fax: (+ 359 2) 72 04 97, email: dochev@iinf.bas.bg.

The Ninth edition of AIMSA is focussed on Web processing:
 - Knowledge construction from the Web
 - Agents and comunication languages
 - Web-based document and interfaces
 - Distance learning and e-commerce
The AIMSA'2000 topics of interest also include:
 - Knowledge representation
 - Knowledge acquisition
 - Knowledge-based systems
 - Machine Learning
 - Data Mining
 - Natural Language Processing
 - Reasoning systems
 - Distributed AI
 - Robotics
 - Theoretical and philosophical foundations
 - AI applications

Procs published by springer in lecture notes in artificial intelligence.

September 21-22, 2000, Freiberg, Germany. Item #2241
4th International Workshop on Boolean Problems.

G. Kempe, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institut für Informatik, Akademiestr. 6, D-09596 Freiberg, Germany, tel: +49(03731) 39 3197, fax: +49(03731) 39 2645, email: kempeg@informatik.tu-freiberg.de.

Topics of Interest

  Theory
  - Properties and applications of Boolean Algebras

  Data Structures and Algorithms
  - Modeling
  - Specification of data structures/Algorithms
  - Complexity

  Program Systems/Software
  - Fundamental software for the solution of Boolean Problems
  - Comparison of efficiency

  Practical Applications
  - Modeling
  - Solution of real-world problems

September 22, 2000, Hilton, Singapore. Item #2352
Second Workshop on Rule-Based Constraint Reasoning and Programming at CP2000.

Thom Fruehwirth . Email: fruehwir@informatik.uni-muenchen.de.

September 25-27, 2000, Grenoble, France. Item #2253
MICRONEURO'2000 8th International Conference on Microelectronics for Neural, Fuzzy and Bio-inspired Systems.

Jeanny Herault, Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, 46 Av. Felix Viallet, F-38031 Grenoble Cedex, France. Email: MicroNeuro2K.GenChair@lis-viallet.inpg.fr.

             VLSI circuits and system architectures
             Potential technologies and effects of process scaling-down
             Neural interfaces and sensors
             Hardware-oriented neural models, architectures and algorithms
             Neuromorphic engineering and bio-inspired microelectronics
             Fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy hardware
             Smart MEMS
             Single electron devices
             Analog implementations and prospective electronic technologies

September 28-30, 2000, Hamburg, Germany. Item #2355
12th annual European Simulation Symposium on Simulation in Industry.

Philippe Geril, SCS Europe, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Fax: +32 9 223 49 41, tel: +32 9 233 77 90 email: Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be.

The conference covers the following subjects
1) Simulation in Industry
2) Simulation Methodologies and Toolans
3) Aerospace Simulation
4) Simulation in Environmental Systems and Processes
5) Simulation in Industry and Services
6) Simulation in Business/Financing and Data-Mining
7) Simulation & Virtual Reality
8) Automotive Simulation and Traffic Systems
9) Analytical and Stochastic Modelling

September 28 - October 1, 2000, Coral Beach Hotel, Cyprus. Item #2366
International Summer School on AI Planning.

Maria Fox. Email: maria.fox@dur.ac.uk.

October 1-4, 2000, Iizuka, Fukuoka. Item #2302
IIZUKA2000 6th International Conference on Soft Computing.

Professor Takeshi Yamakawa, c/o Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute (FLSI), 680-41 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-0067 Japan. Tel: +81 948 24 2771 fax: +81 948 24 3002, email: iizuka2000@flsi.cird.or.jp.

October 2-6, 2000, Juan les Pins, France. Item #2256
EKAW'2000 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.

email: ekaw2000@sophia.inria.fr.

October 12 - 15, 2000, MONTREAL, Canada. Item #2387
MEMORY, DELAYS AND MULTISTABILITY IN NEURAL SYSTEMS.

Louis Pelletier. Email: PELLETL@crm.umontreal.ca, tel: 514 343 2197.

This workshop will focus on recent advances in the mathematical
modeling of neural systems having one or more of the following
dynamical features: 1) memory - in particular, "dynamic" memory,
2) synaptic and propagation delays, or 3) the coexistence of steady
states. These features, as well as their possible interactions,
have been highlighted in a number of recent studies, e.g. of the
activity of recurrent neural circuits ubiquitous in the nervous
system. The emphasis will be mainly on the mathematical modeling
of real biological systems, yet the workshop will also explore the
relevance of these issues to disciplines ranging from psychology
to artificial neural networks.

October 16-19, 2000, Banff Park Lodge, Banff, Canada. Item #2179
RSCTC'2000 The Second International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing.

Yiyu Yao (RSCTC'2000), Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2. Email: yyao@cs.uregina.ca, tel: (306) 585 5213/5226, fax: (306) 585 4745.

The conference is devoted to the following topics:

       Rough Set Theory and Applications
       Fuzzy Set Theory and Applications
       Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
       Machine Learning
       Computing with Words
       Granular Computing
       Neural Networks
       Evolutionary Computing
       Petri Nets and Concurrency
       Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
       Non-Classical Logic
       Approximate and Uncertain Reasoning
       Statistical Inference
       Spatial Reasoning
       Logical Aspects of Soft Computing
       Complexity Aspects of Soft Computing
       Applications of Soft Computing
       Decision Support Systems
       Multi-Agent Systems
       Hybrid and Integrated Intelligent Systems

October 19-20, 2000, Dortmund, Germany. Item #2368
10th Annual GMA-Workshop Fuzzy Control.

Dr. Ralf Mikut, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Institut of Applied Computer Science (IAI), D-76021 Karlsruhe, P.O. Box 3640, tel: ++49 (0)7247 82 5731, fax: ++49 (0)7247 82 5785, email: mikut@iai.fzk.de.

October 22-28, 2000, agoya, Japan. Item #2232
SPECIAL SESSION ON FUZZY SYSTEMS at IECON-2000.

Dr Andrew Chipperfield, Dept. of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The Univ. of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD, England. Email: A.Chipperfield@Sheffield.ac.uk, tel: +44 (0)114 2225636, fax: +44 (0)114 2731729.

October 23 - 29, 2000, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. Item #2370
5th Course of International Summer School "Neural Nets E. R. Caianiello" on Visual Attention Mechanisms.

A. Petrosino. Fax: +39 89 761189, email: iiass.alfredo@tin.it.

October 25 - 27, 2000, Nagoya, Japan. Item #2287
SEAL2000 The Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning.

Takeshi Furuhashi, Dept. of Information Electronics, Nagoya Univ., Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan . Tel: +81 52 789 2792, fax: +81 52 789 3166, email: furuhashi@nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp.

October 25 - 27, 2000, Izmir, Turkey. Item #2292
ADVIS 2000 First Biennial International Conference on Advances in Information Systems.

ADVIS'2000, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bornova 35100, IZMIR, TURKEY. Email: advis@cs.deu.edu.tr, tel: & fax: +90 (232) 373 60 40 388 03 73.

*    Information Systems (IS) Development and Management
*    Advanced Programming Paradigms for IS
*    IS Tools and Environments
*    Multimedia IS
*    Information Retrieval
*    Digital Libraries
*    Enterprise Knowledge Development
*    Business Process Models and Reengineering
*    Cooperative Information Systems
*    Workflow Management systems
*    New Applications of IS Technology
*    Information Privacy and Security
*    Data Models and Database Design
*    Deductive and Object-Oriented  Databases
*    Temporal and Spatial Databases
*    Constraint Databases
*    Multimedia Databases
*    Data warehousing and warehouse DBMS
*    Parallel and Distributed Data Processing
*    Support for Non-Traditional Data
*    Applications of Databases
*    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
*    Knowledge Bases and Expert Systems
*    Intellectual Interfaces to Data Bases and IS
*    Decision Support Systems
*    Intelligent Agent Technology
*    Neural Networks
*    Genetics Algorithms
*    Network Management
*    Network Applications
*    Network Performance Analysis

October 25-28, 2000, Warsaw, Poland. Item #2346
FQAS'2000 Fourth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems.

Henrik Legind Larsen, Computer Science, bldg. 42.1, Roskilde Univ., P.O. Box 260, DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark, email: hll@ruc.dk, tel: +45 4674 3841.

October 25-27, 2000, Ohkouchi Hall, RIKEN, Japan. Item #2356
Bernoulli-RIKEN BSI 2000 Symposium on Neural Networks and Learning.

Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan.

October 25-26, 2000, Pavia, Italy. Item #2447
SmDM-2000 Statistical Modelling for Data Mining Conference.

zanasia@it.ibm.com.

October 26-27, 2000, San Diego, CA, USA. Item #2386
The Knowledge Foundation's Conference on: Electronic Nose Technologies Advances in Engineering, Integrating and Commercializing Novel Sensor Technologies.

The Knowledge Foundation, Inc. 18 Webster Street, Brookline, MA 02446, P: 617-232-7400 F: 617-232-9171 email: custserv@knowledgefoundation.com.

October 27 - 29, 2000, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Item #2252
Learning'00.

Learning'00, Cc/o EPS/Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad, 30, 28911 Leganes-Madrid, Spain. Tel: +34 91 624 9196, fax: +34 91 624 94 30, email: learn00@tsc.uc3m.es.

     Original, unpublished papers are invited on the following subjects
     and topics (without excluding contributions related to additional
     aspects of learning):

     I. Human & Machine Learning Approaches
       1. Biological and machine learning paradigms
       2. Biologically inspired computational models of learning
       3. Learning principles for artificial intelligence: cognitive,
          psychological and sociological influences
       4. Architectures: NN, Bayesian,
     II. Mathematical Issues of Learning
       1. Constructing and validating models and architectures
       2. Defining goals and objectives
       3. Training methods and algorithms
       4. Generalization aspects in the learning processes
       5. Reinforcement learning
     III. Facing the Main Learning Difficulties
       1. Complexity in learning
       2. Nonstationary environments: evolution and learning
       3. Interactivity: learning in active environments
       4. Long-term scenarios: strategies
     IV. Applications
       1. Multimedia computer-based human training
       2. Learning in data mining
       3. Intelligent Agents and their applications
       4. Collaborative learning applications
       5. Business applications
       6. Others

November 3-5, 2000, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Item #2211
AAAI Fall Symposium 2000 Learning How to do Things.

Mathias Bauer, DFKI. Email: bauer@dfki.de.

November 4, 2000, New Orleans, LA, USA. Item #2394
Short Course : USING THE NEURON SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT at Satellite Symposium.

Ted Carnevale, email: ted.carnevale@yale.edu.

Features that will be covered include:
  importing detailed morphometric data
  constructing and managing models of neurons 
    with the CellBuilder 
  constructing and managing network models 
    with the new Network Builder
  using the Multiple Run Fitter to optimize models 
    that have high-dimensional datasets
  NEURON's new functions for parallelizing simulations 
    over a workstation cluster (32-bit MSWindows and/or
    UNIX/Linux boxes)
  database resources for empirically-based modeling

November 5-8, 2000, St, Louis, Missouri, USA. Item #2270
ANNIE 2000 Smart Engineering Systems Design Conference.

Cihan H. Dagli, Smart Engineering Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Engineering Management, Univ. of Missouri - Rolla, 1870 Miner Circle, Rolla, MO 65409-0370, USA. Tel: (573) 341 6576, fax: (573) 341 6567, email: dagli@umr.edu.

November 6-11, 2000, Washington, DC, USA. Item #2330
ACM CIKM'2000 9th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

E. K. Park, Univ. of Missouri at Kansas City, email: ekpark@cstp.umkc.edu.

November 12-15, 2000, Orchard Hotel, Singapore. Item #2349
ICMIT 2000 The 2000 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology.

Integrated Meetings Specialist Pte Ltd, Robinson Road Post Office, P O Box 1631, Singapore 903231. Email: engJab@nus.edu.sg.

Topics for regular sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Product and Process Innovation
2. Production and Operation Management
3. Technology Management
4. Management of Research and Development
5. Information Technology Management
6. Total Quality Management
7. Project Management
8. Supply Chain Management
9. Management Issues relating to E-Commerce and Internet
10. Software Engineering Management
11. Impact of Internet on Business and Management
10. Management Issues of Asia-Pacific Countries

November 13-15, 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Item #2316
ICTAI 2000 International Conference on Tools with AI.

Babak Hamidzadeh. Email: babak@ece.ubc.ca.

            AI Algorithms    ---      AI in Software Engineering  
             Cognitive Modeling  ---   Collaborative Software Agents   
             Fuzzy Logic and Reasoning Under Uncertainty --- Genetic Algorithms
             Intelligent tutoring/Training Systems ---  Intelligent Internet Agents   
             Intelligent Interface Agents ---  Environmental Applications   
             AI in Data Mining ---  Intelligent Information Retrieval   
             AI in database ---  Knowledge Sharing   
             Machine Learning --- Natural Language Processing and Speech Understanding   
             Neural Networks ---  Planning and Scheduling   
             Qualitative Reasoning --- Vision and Image Processing   
             AI in Multimedia Systems     

November 14-18, 2000, Taejon, Korea. Item #2319
SPECIAL SESSION ON BRAIN IMAGING at ICONIP 2000.

email: asjagath@ntu.edu.sg.

1.	Structural brain imaging
		Xray CT; MRI; Brain shelling; Detection of sulcul and gyral
patterns; Cortical segmentation; Cortical parcellation; Segmentation of
subcortical structures, hippocampus, cerebellum; 3-D visualization,
rendering; Morphometrical correlates of neurological and psychiatric
disease. 

2.	Functional brain imaging
		EEG; MEG; fMRI,; PET; Optical; Near infrared; Source
localization; Statistical parameter maps; Time-series analysis;
Multi-modality imaging, registration.

November 14-18, 2000, Taejon, Korea. Item #2320
ICONIP-2000 7th International Conference on Neural Information Processing.

Brain Science Research Center, 3rd Floor, LG Semicon Hall, Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci. & Tech. 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-ku, Taejon 305-701, Korea. Tel: +82 42 869 5431, fax: +82 42 869 8570, email: ICONIP2000@braintech.kaist.ac.kr.

November 14-18, 2000, Taejon, Korea. Item #2321
SPECIAL SESSION ON NEURAL NETWORKS FOR INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES at ICONIP 2000.

Ramin Yasdi, German National Research Centre for Information Technology (GMD), Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany, email: Ramin.Yasdi@gmd.de.

November 16-18, 2000, Santiago, Chile. Item #2385
Workshop on Advances & Trends in Artificial Intelligence for Problem Solving at SCCC 2000.

María Cristina Riff, Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile, tel: +56 32 65 44 05, fax: +56 32 79 75 13, email: atai@inf.utfsm.cl.

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to, the following research subjects: 

    - improvement of known techniques such as Evolutionary Algorithms, Tabu Search, Simulated
      Annealing, Hybrid Methods, Multiagent systems, Ant Colony Optimization, Iterated Local Search,
      Swarm Intelligence, etc. 
    - development of new or hybrid approaches. 
    - innovative applications of the AI techniques to tackle challenging problems (real-world applications
      or theoretical). 
    - enhancement of the understanding of algorithms' performance. 
    - advances in traditional AI search techniques like A*, and others. 

November 18-21, 2000, Kuwait. Item #2119
ICCI '2000 The Tenth International Conference on Computing and Information.

Mohammed Almulla, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kuwait Univ., P.O. Box 5969, Safat, 13060, Kuwait, tel: (965) 481 1188 Ext. 5303 or 5624, fax: (965) 481 7201, email: almulla@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw.

     Stream A: Theory. Data Theory and Logic. Information and Coding
     Theory. Algorithms. Theory of Computation.
     Chair: Monty Newborn, newborn@opus.cs.mcgill.ca

     Stream B: Distribution and Parallelism. Distributed Computing and
     Communications. Concurrency and Parallelism.
     Chair: Albert Zomaya, zomaya@ee.uwa.edu.au

     Stream C: Systems and Development. Database Systems. Software
     Engineering and CASE Methodologies. Expert Systems.
     Chair: Hans Loeper, Loeper@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw

     Stream D: Data and Knowledge Engineering. AI Methodologies.  User
     Interfaces.  Data Mining.  Approximate Reasoning.
     Chair: Susan Craw, smc@scms.rgu.ac.uk

     Stream E: Networking and Internet. Information Exploration on the
     World Wide Web. Mobile Computing.
     Chair: Richard Lai, lai@cs.latrobe.edu.au

November 19-22, 2000, Otago Univ., Dunedin, New Zealand. Item #2240
COMPLEX SYSTEMS 2000 The Fifth International Conference on Complex Systems.

Lynette Mitchell, Crop & Food Research, tel: 64 3 489 0673, fax: 64 3 489 0674.

November 19-23, 2000, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA. Item #2275
CGIM 2000 COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND IMAGING.

IASTED Secretariat - CGIM 2000, #80 4500 16th Avenue N.W. Calgary, Alberta Canada, T3B 0M6, tel: (403) 288 1195, fax: (403) 247 6851, email: calgary@iasted.com.

Rendering 

* Illumination models 
* Volume rendering 
* Rendering algorithms and systems 

Modelling 

* CAD (Computer Aided Design) 
* Modelling of natural phenomena 
* 3D object extraction 
* Surface reconstruction
* Internet-based modelling
* Geometric algorithms 
* Computational geometry 

Animation 

* Motion control and kinematics 
* Particle systems 
* Simulation 
* Collision detection
* Character animation 
* Plausible motion simulation 
* Facial animation 
* Human figure animation

Image processing 

* Medical imaging 
* Image acquisition techniques 
* Image and pattern analysis 
* Image manipulation 
* Computer vision 
* Image compression 
* Image synthesis techniques
* Multi/hyperspectral imaging

Visualization
 
* Visual information systems 
* Scientific and mathematical visualization 
* Virtual reality
* Holographic imaging 
* Real-time visual simulation

Interface issues
 
* Human-computer interaction 
* Visualization and direct manipulation of virtual objects 

Applications

November 19-23, 2000, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA. Item #2348
CGIM 2000 COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND IMAGING 2000.

Dr Muhammad Sarfraz, GD (CGIM)-2000, Dept. of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals, KFUPM # 1510, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia. Tel: +966 3 860 2763, fax: +966 3 860 2174, email: sarfraz@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa.

** Curve and Surface Design
** Visualization
** Computer Graphics
** Geometric Modeling
** Geometric Algorithms
** Manufacturing Geometry
** Computational Geometry
** Reverse Engineering
** Solid Modeling
** Computer Aided Design (CAD)
** Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
** Character Design
** Multiresolution Methods
** Geometric Transformations
** Mesh Processing
** Shape Abstraction and Modeling
** Shape Analysis and Description
** Industrial Applications

November 20-24, 2000, Bielefeld, Germany. Item #2422
DYNN'2000 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON "DYNAMICAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS".

Manuel SAMUELIDES, ONERA/ENSAE, Toulouse, France. Email: Manuel.Samuelides@supaero.fr.

 1.Neural Networks Dynamics and Self Organization.
 2.Mean Field Theory for Large Stochastic Networks.
 3.Information Properties of Dynamical Neural Networks.
 4.Spiking Neurons and Temporal Coding.
 5.Applications of Dynamical Neural Networks for Planning and Control
 6.Applications of Dynamical Neural Networks to computer vision.

November 22-25, 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Item #2249
SBRN'2000 - VIth Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks.

Felipe M. G. França. Email: felipe@cos.ufrj.br.

Non-exhaustive list of topics which will be covered during SBRN'2000:

Applications: finances, data mining, neurocontrol, time
series, forecasting; Architectures: cellular NNs, hardware and 
software implementations, new models, weightless models; Cognitive 
Sciences: adaptive behaviour, natural language, mental processes;
Computational Intelligence: evolutionary systems, fuzzy systems, 
hybrid systems; Learning: algorithms, evolutionary and  fuzzy 
techniques, reinforcement learning; Neurobiological Systems: 
bio-inspired systems, biologically plausible networks, vision;     
Neurocontrol: robotics, dynamic systems, adaptive control; 
Neurosymbolic processing: hybrid approaches, logical inference,     
rule extraction, structured knowledge; Pattern Recognition: signal 
processing, artificial/computational vision; Theory: radial basis 
functions, Bayesian systems, function approximation;     

November 22-24, 2000, Max Planck Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany. Item #2362
5th International Fall Workshop VISION, MODELING AND VISUALIZATION.

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel, Computer Graphics Group, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Im Stadtwald, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany, tel: +49 681 9325 400 fax: +49 681 9325 499, hpseidel@mpi-sb.mpg.de.

November 22-24, 2000, Ieper, Belgium. Item #2418
CTWLT Workshop II "Internalising Knowledge".

ctwlt@cs.utwente.nl or Kristiina.Jokinen@sail.com, tel: +32 57 22 94 52, fax: +32 57 22 94 81.

November 25-27, 2000, Penang, Malaysia. Item #2332
ASIAN'00 Asian Computing Science Conference.

email: asian00@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

  * Logics in Computer Science

  * Data Mining

  * Networks and Performance

November 27 - December 2, 2000, Denver, Colorado. Item #2297
NIPS*2000 Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic.

email: nipsinfo@salk.edu, fax: (619)587 0417.

Algorithms and Architectures: supervised and unsupervised
learning algorithms, feedforward and recurrent network architectures,
localized basis functions, mixture models, committee models, belief
networks, graphical models, support vector machines, Gaussian
processes, topographic maps, decision trees, factor analysis,
principal component analysis and extensions, independent component
analysis, model selection algorithms, combinatorial optimization,
hybrid symbolic-subsymbolic systems.

Applications: innovative applications of neural computation
including data mining, information retrieval, web and network
applications, intrusion detection, fraud detection, bio-informatics,
medical diagnosis, image processing and analysis, handwriting
recognition, industrial monitoring and control, financial analysis,
time-series prediction, consumer products, music, video and artistic
applications, animation, virtual environments, learning dynamical
systems.

Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence: perception and
psychophysics, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, development,
conditioning, human learning and memory, attention, language,
natural language, reasoning, spatial cognition, emotional cognition,
conceptual representation, neurophilosophy, problem solving and
planning.

Implementations: analog and digital VLSI, optical neurocomputing
systems, novel neurodevices, computational sensors and actuators,
simulation tools.

Neuroscience: neural encoding, spiking neurons, synchronicity,
sensory processing, systems neurophysiology, neuronal development,
synaptic plasticity, neuromodulation, dendritic computation, channel
dynamics, experimental data relevant to computational issues.

Reinforcement Learning and Control: exploration, planning,
navigation, Q-learning, TD-learning, state estimation, dynamic
programming, robotic motor control, process control, Markov decision
processes.

Speech and Signal Processing: speech recognition, speech coding,
speech synthesis, speech signal enhancement, auditory scene analysis,
source separation, applications of hidden Markov models to signal
processing, models of human speech perception, auditory modeling
and psychoacoustics.

Theory: computational learning theory, statistical physics of
learning, information theory, Bayesian methods, prediction and
generalization, regularization, online learning (stochastic
approximation), dynamics of learning, approximation and estimation
theory, complexity theory, multi-agent learning.

Visual Processing: image processing, image coding, object recognition,
visual psychophysics, stereopsis, motion detection and tracking.

November 29 - December 1, 2000, Singapore. Item #2177
ICEM2000 2nd International Conference on Experimental Mechanics.

AV Consultants Pte Ltd, 232A River Valley Road, Singapore 238290. Tel: (65) 735 6255, fax: (65) 735 2091, Attn: Ms Pauline Zee, email: avconsul@pacific.net.sg.

December 1-2, 2000, Breckenridge, Colorado. Item #2296
NIPS*2000 Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic: Post-Conference Workshops.

Rich Caruana. Email: caruana@cs.cmu.edu.

December 4-6, 2000, Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan. Item #2290
Discovery Science 2000 The Third International Conference on Discovery Science.

Shinichi Morishita, Dept. of Information Science, Univ. of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo 133-0033, Japan. Email: ds00-pc@gi.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Topics of interest
------------------
* Logic for/of knowledge discovery
* Knowledge discovery by inferences
* Knowledge discovery by learning algorithms
* Knowledge discovery by heuristic search
* Scientific discovery
* Knowledge discovery in databases
* Data mining
* Knowledge discovery in network environments
* Inductive logic programming
* Abductive reasoning
* Machine learning
* Constructive programming as discovery
* Intelligent network agents
* Knowledge discovery from unstructured and multimedia data
* Statistical methods for knowledge discovery
* Data and knowledge visualization
* Knowledge discovery and human interaction
* Human factors in knowledge discovery

December 5-8, 2000, Singapore. Item #2213
ICARCV 2000 Sixth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision.

Wang Jianliang, c/o Intelligent Machines Research Laboratory, School of Electrical and Electronic Engg, S1, Nanyang Technological Univ., Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Republic of Singapore. Tel: 65 790 5470, fax: 65 790 5868, email: icarcv2000@ntu.edu.sg.

December 8, 2000, Sydney, Australia. Item #2435
Workshop on Stereo Image and Video Processing (WSIVP).

Changming Sun, CSIRO MIS, changming.sun@cmis.csiro.au.

 Topics:
       Papers on all aspects of stereo image and video processing are welcome.
       Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 
       Stereo Coding 
       Static/Dynamic Stereo Matching 
       Stereo Display Systems 
       Camera Geometry Calibration 
       Fast Algorithms for Stereo and Video Processing 
       Motion Analysis 
       Video Segmentation 
       Image-based Virtual Reality 
       Applications of Stereo Image and Video Processing 
 

December 11-13, 2000, Sydney, Australia. Item #2195
NNSP'2000.

Ling Guan, Univ. of Sydney. Email: ling@ee.usyd.edu.au.

> Algorithm and Architectures:
> Artificial neural networks (ANN), adaptive signal processing,
> Bayesian modeling, MCMC, generalization, design algorithms,
> optimization, parameter estimation,
> nonlinear signal processing, Markov models, fuzzy systems (FS),
> evolutionary computation (EC), synergistic models of ANN/FS/EC,
> and wavelets.
> 
> Applications:
> Speech processing, image processing, sonar and radar, data fusion,
> intelligent multimedia and web processing, OCR, robotics, adaptive
> filtering,
> blind source separation,
> communications, sensors, system identification,
> and other general signal processing and pattern recognition
> applications.
> 
> Implementations:
> Parallel and distributed implementation, hardware design,
> and other general implementation technologies.

December 11-13, 2000, Coogee Holiday Inn, Sydney, Australia. Item #2285
ALT 2000 The Eleventh International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory.

email: alt2000@i.kyushu-u.ac.jp.

   * the design and analysis of learning algorithms 
   * the theory of machine learning
   * computational logic of/for machine discovery 
   * inductive inference, learning via queries 
   * new learning models 
   * scientific discovery, learning by analogy
   * artificial and biological neural networks 
   * pattern recognition, statistical learning 
   * Bayesian/MDL/MML estimation
   * inductive logic programming 
   * data mining and knowledge discovery 
   * application of learning to biological sequence analysis

December 11-13, 2000, Wolllongong, Australia. Item #2336
Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virutal Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA 2000).

Dr. Huaglory Tianfield, tel: +44 1242 54 4066, fax: +44 1242 54 3327, email: htianfield@chelt.ac.uk.

Topics of interests include, indicatively:   

Agents: 
 agent architectures 
 information agents
 middle agents (e.g., match-makers, brokers, routers)
 mobile agents
 modeling the behavior of other agents
 network agents
 privacy and agents
 standards
 user modeling 

Multi-Agents
 agent-based software engineering
 agent platform
 agent social communication mechanisms and languages
 agent societies and ensembles
 communication, collaboration and interaction of humans and agents
 economics principles for multi-agents
 fault tolerance
 languages (syntax, linguistics and pragmatics), domain ontology 
  multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration
 multi-agent design patterns and paradigms
 multi-agent simulation, verification, and validation
 multi-agent systems organization (macro versus micro centralization and decentralization)
 
 nesting of multi-agents
  organization of agent societies
  organizational principles for multi-agents
  scalability 
 
Computer Supported Cooperative/Collaborative Work (CSCW) 
 applications of agent-based/mediated CSCW
 architectures and modes of CSCW
 CSCW systems organisation
 decision support in CSCW
 groupware
 intelligent agents in CSCW
 security aspects of agent-based CSCW systems
 mobility of agents in CSCW
 multi-agent architectures for CSCW
 multi-agent cooperation and coordination in social group work
 multi-agent macroscopic modeling of group work
 multi-agent mechanisms for task decomposition, dispatch and 

synthesis in group work 
 multi-agent team work
 user agents in CSCW systems
 virtual office 
 

Business partnerships and Virtual Organisations 
   multi-agent cooperation and coordination mechanisms for the operation of enterprise federation and virtual organizations
 multi-agent platform construction for enterprise federation and virtual organizations
 multi-agent model for the configuration of enterprise federation and virtual organizations
 multi-agent modeling of enterprise federation and virtual organizations
 multi-agents in process re-engineering
 requirements analysis and life-cycle analysis of enterprise federation and virtual organizations 
 

  

E-Commerce 
 applications in active networks
 applications in electronic markets and commerce
 artificial market systems and e-commerce
 e-commerce animation, simulation
 e-commerce development tools, programming
 e-commerce interface, virtual reality
 e-commerce interface agents
 e-commerce security
 ergonomics in e-commerce and electronic marketplaces
 market-based control
 mobile agents for order processing, selling, transactions processing
 mobile agents for payment, financial processing
 requirements analysis and computational modeling of e-commerce, 

business on Internet, electronic marketplaces
 resource management
 security analysis, model and implementation on both clients and hosts of e-commerce 
 
  world wide web integration 

December 12-15, 2000, Univ. of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. Item #2225
ISA'2000 International Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications.

ICSC, P.O. Box 279, Millet, AB T0C 1Z0 / Canada. Fax: +1 780 387 4329, tel: +1 780 387 3546, email: operating@icsc.ab.ca.

1. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (CI'2000) 
2. INTERACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING (ICC'2000) 
3. INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS (IS'2000) 
4. BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED SYSTEMS (BIS'2000) 

included workshops:
Intelligent Decisions Support for Legal Practice
http://www.icsc.ab.ca/150-inv.htm
Workshop on Mass Customization Management MCM 2000
http://www-wi.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/mc/mcm2000/

December 12-14, 2000, Bangkok, Thailand. Item #2308
InTech'2000 International Conference on Intelligent Technologie.

email: IntechPapers@s-t.au.ac.th.

AI Architecture
Intelligent WEB-Based Applications
Bayesian Networks
Knowledge Acquisition
Case-Based Reasoning
Knowledge Discovery Process
Cognitive Modeling
Knowledge Management
Common Sense Reasoning
Knowledge Representation
Computational Complexity
Knowledge-Based Systems
Computer-Aided Education
Logic Programming
Computing with Words
Machine Learning
Constraint Satisfaction
Machine Translation
Data Mining
Model-Based Reasoning
Decision Theory
Multi-Agent Systems
Distributed Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Fuzzy Logic
Neural Networks
Fuzzy Mathematics
Neurofuzzy
Fuzzy Reasoning
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Fuzzy Set Theory
Ontological Engineering
Fuzzy Systems
Probabilistic Reasoning
Genetic Algorithms
Real-World Applications
Image Processing
Reinforcement Learning
Induction
Robotics
Intelligent Agents
Spatial Reasoning
Intelligent Information Gathering
Speech Recognition
Intelligent Multimedia Systems
Temporal Reasoning
Intelligent Planning
Virtual Reality
Important Dates for Paper Submissions:

December 12-15, 2000, Univ. of Wollongong, Australia. Item #2318
Special Session on Symbols, Symbol Processing and Neural Networks at ISA'2000.

B. M. Garner, CSSE, Monash Univ., Clayton, 3168, Australia. Fax: +61 3 9905 5146, email: Bernadette.Garner@infotech.monash.edu.au.

December 12-15, 2000, Wollongong, Australia. Item #2335
Computational Intelligence CI 2000.

ICSC Canada. Email: operating@icsc.ab.ca, tel: +1 780 352 1912, fax: +1 780 352 1913.

- Adaptive and Learning Systems
- Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Life
- Biocybernetics
- Cognitive and Neural Modelling
- Evolutionary Computation
- Fuzzy Systems
- Genetic Algorithms
- Knowledge-based Systems
- Machine Learning and Perception
- Image Processing and Classification
- Multi Agent Systems
- Neural Networks
- Optimization, Heuristics and Search Methods
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Pattern Recognition and Classification
- Self-organizing Systems
- Statistics and Forecasting

December 13-15, 2000, Hong Kong. Item #2282
IDEAL 2000: 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning.

IDEAL2000 Secretariat, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong. Fax: (852) 2603 5024, email: ideal2000@cse.cuhk.edu.hk.

The goal of the biennial IDEAL Conference series is to provide a forum
for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to meet and to
exchange ideas on the latest developments in data engineering and
learning.  IDEAL 2000 focuses on data engineering
technology and applications in the 21st century. The three major tracks
for this year are Financial Engineering, Data Mining and Intelligent
Agents.   
    

December 13-15, 2000, Centre for Image Analysis, Uppsala, Sweden. Item #2304
DGCI 2000 9th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery.

dgci2000@cb.uu.se.

December 14-15, 2000, The Open Univ., Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK. Item #2313
19th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group.

Max Garagnani, 19th UK Planning and Scheduling SIG, Dept. of Computing, Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open Univ., Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom, tel: +44 (0)1908 654812 (direct), tel: +44 (0)1908 652348 (secr.), fax: +44 (0)1908 652140, email: m.garagnani@open.ac.uk.

December 14-15, 2000, Heritage Hotel, Brisbane, Australia. Item #2436
WoSPA 2000 Third Australasian Workshop on Signal Processing Applications.

wospa@qut.edu.au.

 1. Time Frequency and Signal Analysis,
 2. Biomedical Signal Processing,
 3. Wireless Communications, and
 4. Image Processing and Computer Vision.

December 16-20, 2000, Tasmania, Australia. Item #2343
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Science and Technology.

Dr Vishy Karri, Univ. of Tasmania. Email: Vishy.Karri@utas.edu.au, tel: +61 3 62262433.

The scope of the conference is recent and original research in the area of artificial intelligence applications in science and technology.
There are three main streams: Basic research in AI, Neuro-Cognitive Science and Application Domains. 

December 17-19, 2000, Mumbai, India. Item #2325
KBCS-2000 International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems.

KBCS-2000 Secretariat, National Centre for Software Technology, Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049, India, email: kbcs@ncst.ernet.in tel: +91 (22) 620 1606 Ext. 371, fax: +91 (22) 621 0139.

o Case Based Reasoning               o Machine Learning
o Cognitive Modeling                 o Machine Translation
o Data Mining                        o Natural Language Processing
o Expert Systems                     o Neural Networks
o Foundations of AI                  o Planning and Scheduling
o Fuzzy Logic                        o Reasoning
o Genetic Algorithms                 o Robotics
o Intelligent Agents                 o Search Techniques
o Intelligent Information Retrieval  o Soft Computing
o Intelligent Tutoring Systems       o Speech Processing
o Knowledge Acquisition              o Theorem Proving
o Knowledge Representation           o Uncertainty Handling
o Knowledge Management               o Vision

December 20-22, 2000, Ankara, Turkey. Item #2432
BRAIN MACHINE WORKSHOP.

Ugur HALICI, Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks Research Lab. Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng. Middle East Technical Univ., 06531, Ankara, Turkey, fax: (+90) 312 210 1261, tel: (+90) 312 210 4558, (+90) 312 210 2333, email: halici@metu.edu.tr.

TOPICS:
Intelligent systems * Neural networks * Brain signals and  imaging *
Natural/artificial vision *Speech processing, Machine learning *
Language understanding * Sensation, perception, cognition *
Computational models * Neuromotor control * Biologically inspired
systems *
Knowledge-based and expert systems * Case-based reasoning *
Evolutionary systems * Fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy techniques *
Intelligent agents * Collective Intelligence * Animats, humanoids *
Emotions, creativity and machines * Other related topics


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