Events on Artificial Intelligence in 2002.


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 2-4, 2002, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Item #2666
Seventh International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.
email: amai@rutcor.rutgers.edu.

January 13-16, 2002, University of California, San Diego, USA. Item #2661
UCSD / UCLA / STANFORD Winter School in Chaotic Communications.

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

January 15-18, 2002, Capitolio de la Habana, Cuba. Item #2464
NF'2002 First International ICSC Congress on Neuro-Fuzzy Technologies.

Email: operating@icsc.ab.ca.

Topics suggested (not limited to):

- Advanced Neuro and Fuzzy Paradigms
- Data Granulation and Fuzzy Rule Extraction
- Advanced Training Algorithms
- Evolutionary Computation (GA, GP, ET) and Graphical Models
- Chaotic Behavior and Fractals
Applications in signal processing, control, robotics, etc.

Of particular interest are applications from the
following fields: Sound and image processing, pattern recognition,
image understanding, feature binding, perception,
sensor fusion, controller design, state observation,
motor control, mobile robotics, autonomous navigation, deliberation and
planning, active anchoring, gain-scheduling, fault detection, hardware
solutions, data mining, financing, e-commerce.

January 15, 2002, . Item #2650
Call for Book Chapters: Agent Supported Cooperative Work.

Dr. Yiming Ye, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, yiming@watson.ibm.com, tel: 1 914 7847460, fax: 1 914 784 7455.

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*                 Agent Supported Cooperative Work                  * 
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*           Co-editors: Yiming Ye and Elizabeth F. Churchill        * 
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*          Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers (intended)         * 
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*                  Paper Due Date: January 15th, 2002               * 
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* Introduction * 
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Improvements in computer networking have heralded great expectations for 
computer-mediated distributed work. However, experience has revealed that, 
as information flow improves, a central problem for distributed workers is 
the administration, management and control of that information. Research 
into Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) investigates design 
methods and technologies for the support of collaboration, communication 
and coordination of distributed group work, both within and among 
organisations.

In tandem with this focus on the support of distributed communication 
and collaboration, there have been exciting developments in the fields of 
Intelligent Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), notably 
in the concepts, theories and deployment of intelligent agents as a means 
of distributing computer-based problem solving expertise. The concept of 
intelligent agents has given rise to many claims of wide applicability for 
these new technologies. In particular, the paradigm of multi-agent systems 
forms a proposed basis for the design of CSCW architectures, the support 
of CSCW operations and for addressing some of the problems of co-operative 
working. The application of a multi-agent approach to CSCW can potentially 
help to make information exchange among the participants easier, provide 
support to the participants (e.g. in the form of Decision Support Systems), 
assist workflows and procedures, and provide convenient user interfaces to 
CSCW systems. Furthermore, the ideas inherent in such an approach are also 
applicable to other domains, for example, support for interactive learning. 
Many organisations, that seek to exploit the advantages offered through CSCW, 
could derive benefit from the integration of agents in the management and 
use of their corporate knowledge. However, if agent technologies are to be 
effective, design issues need careful consideration: how are multi-agent 
architectures to be designed for maximum effect? Can such architectures be 
used effectively to support and enhance existing work practices? What kinds 
of information processing work and for what domains? How can such systems 
be designed to successfully complement people's existing practices and 
preferences? 

The proposed volume will offer an introduction and overview to this exciting 
new area, and will cover theoretical foundations and practical applications. 
We are particularly interested in the following topics:

* multi-agent macroscopic modeling of group work 
* multi-agent cooperation and coordination in social group work 
* multi-agent mechanisms for task decomposition, dispatch and 
  synthesis in group work 
* multi-agent architectures and CSCW 
* multi-agent engineering design support 
* user agents in CSCW 
* interface agents in CSCW 
* mobile agents in CSCW 
* agent support for distributed working 
* influence of agents on the work environment 
* role of agents in virtual work environments 
* agent-assisted Web-based distributed awareness 
* agent-assisted group-awareness 
* agent-assisted collaborative editing 
* agents and multi-agent systems in peer-to-peer computing 

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* Paper Submission * 
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All submitted papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of technical quality, 
relevance, significance, and clarity. Only electronic submission is accepted. 
Submissions should be sent by email in MS-Words, PDF, or PostScript format,to 
yiming@watson.ibm.com

by January 15, 2002. 

Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of Kluwer Academic Publishers. 
The length of the paper should be between 15 to 25 pages. Templates (Word, Word 
Perfect and LaTeX) are available at: 
http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/BOOKSTYLES

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* Important Dates * 
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Submission of papers:                     January 15, 2002 
Notification of acceptance:               March 15, 2002 
Submission of final camera-ready papers:  April 15, 2002 
  
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* Further Information *
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Feel free to send email to Yiming Ye at yiming@watson.ibm.com
or Elizabeth F. Churchill at churchill@pal.xerox.com if you
have questions.


January 9-11, 2002, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Item #2699
AUSTRALIAN KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION CONVENTICLE.

Abhaya Nayak, Dept. of Computing, Division of ICS, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, AUSTRALIA. Email: abhaya@ics.mq.edu.au.

The Australian Knowledge Representation Conventicle will:

   * Examine the state-of-the-art in knowledge representation and reasoning
   * Identify the focal issues at hand
   * Set new directions for future research.

January 13-16, 2002, San Francisco, USA. Item #2647
IUI 2002 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES.

email: IUI2002@cs.northwestern.edu.

- Intelligent assistants for complex tasks 
- Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction
- User adaptation of interactive systems 
- Instructible interfaces 
- Intelligent information and knowledge management
- Intelligent front-ends to software systems 
- Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design
- Support for collaboration in multi-user environments
- Integration of multi-modal user input
- Intelligent generation of multimedia presentations
- Intelligent visualization tools 
- Evaluations of implemented systems
- User studies of relevant techniques
- Novel application-specific interfaces and interactions

January 17-19, 2002, Clichy, Paris, France. Item #2664
Special Workshop on Multidisciplinary Aspects of Learning.

Email: michael.pichat@univ-paris8.fr

Contributions are invited on all aspects of learning, in human, animal, and
artificial systems. more specifically the following subdisciplines; of cognitive
sciences are involved:- psychology (cognitive, clinical, developmental,
ergonomics);- artificial intelligence (general aspects);- neurosciences
(associative memory, neural networks, etc.);- linguistics (also computational),
language disorders;- educational and instructional sciences;- philosophy,
history of concepts.

January 21-22, 2002, Melbourne, Australia. Item #2598
DICTA2002 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications.

David Suter . Email: d.suter@eng.monash.edu.au.

January 23-25, 2002, Melbourne, Australia. Item #2526
Fifth Asian Conference on Computer Vision.

ACCV'2002, Conference Management Office, P.O. Box 69, Monash Univ., Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. Email: oce@adm.monash.edu.au.

 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
   a.. Active and Real-Time Vision
   b.. Low-Level Processing
   c.. Stereo and Motion Analysis
   d.. 2D & 3D Scene Analysis
   e.. Image Segmentation
   f.. Document Processing
   g.. Character Recognition
   h.. Object Recognition
   i.. Biomedical Image Analysis
   j.. Physics-Based Vision
   k.. Image Analysis for Multimedia
   l.. Feature Extraction
   m.. Industrial Visual Inspection
   n.. Texture Analysis
   o.. Biometrics
   p.. Surveillance

January 26-28, 2002, Kochi, Japan. Item #2638
IWQDQC The first International Workshop on Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing and Classical Size Effect Circuits.

Hideaki Matsueda, Dept. of Information Science, Kochi Univ., 2-5-1 Akebono-cho, Kochi 780-8520, Japan, tel: +81 88 844 8334, F A X: +81-88-844-8345, email: matsueda @ is.kochi-u.ac.jp.

January 27, 2002, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovak Republic. Item #2680
Sixth Conference on Fuzzy Sets Theory and Its Applications.

fsta2002@valm.sk.

February 11-15, 2002, Interlaken, Switzerland. Item #2588
NNA'02 - 3rd WSES International Conference on: Neural Networks and Applications.

email: interlaken2002@worldses.org.

February 11-15, 2002, Interlaken, Switzerland. Item #2589
FSFS'02 - 3rd WSES International Conference on: Fuzzy Sets & Fuzzy Systems.

email: interlaken2002@worldses.org.

February 11-15, 2002, Interlaken, Switzerland. Item #2590
EC'02 - 3rd WSES International Conference on: Evolutionary Computation.

email: interlaken2002@worldses.org.

February 11-22, 2002, Australian National University. Item #2659
Machine Learning Summer School.

email: Michelle.Moravec@anu.edu.au.

- Reinforcement Learning
   Peter Bartlett, Biowulf Technologies

- Boosting
   Ron Meir, Technion

- Statistical Learning Theory
   Shahar Mendelson, ANU

- Online Learning and Bregmann divergences
   Gunnar Ratsch, ANU

- Support Vector Machines
   Bernhard Schoelkopf, Biowulf Technologies and MPIK

- Bayesian Kernel Methods
   Alex Smola, ANU

February 12-15, 2002, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Item #2566
ICAIS 2002 First International ICSC-NAISO Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems.

email: icais02@itstransnational.com.

February 19-23, 2002, Schloss Salzau near Kiel, Germany. Item #2551
FoIKS 2002 Second International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems.

Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey Univ., Dept. of IS, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, New Zealand . Email: K.D.Schewe@massey.ac.nz, fax: ++64 6 350 5725, tel: ++64 6 350 5552.

FoIKS 2002 solicites contributions dealing with any foundational aspect of
information and knowledge systems. Typical, but not exclusive topics of
interest are:

Mathematical Foundations: discrete methods, boolean functions, finite model
theory, non-classical logics

Database Design: formal models, dependency theory, schema translations,
desirable properties, design primitives, design strategies

Query Languages: expressiveness, computational and descriptive complexity,
query languages for advanced datamodels, classification of computable queries

Semi-structured databases and WWW: models of web databases, querying
semi-structured databases, web transactions and negotiations

Security in Data and Knowledge bases: cryptography, steganography,
information hiding

Integrity and Constraint management: constraint checking, verification and
validation of consistency, consistency enforcement, triggers

Information Integration: heterogenous data, views, schema dominance and
equivalence

Data- and Knowledge Base Dynamics: models of transactions, models of
interaction, updates in data- and knowledge bases, consistency preservation,
dynamic consistency, concurrency control, complexity of update propagation

Intelligent Agents: multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of
software agents, cooperative agents

Logics in Databases and AI: non-classical logics, temporal logics,
non-monotonic logics, spatial logics, probabilistic logics, deontic logic

Logic Programming: declarative logic programming, constraint programming,
inductive logic programming

Knowledge Representation: planning, description logics, knowledge and belief,
belief revision and update, non-monotonic formalisms, uncertainty

Reasoning Techniques: automated reasoning, satisfiability testing, abduction,
induction, theorem proving, constraint satisfaction, common-sense reasoning,
probabilistic reasoning, reasoning about actions

February 20-22, 2002, Sydney, NSW. Item #2560
ACAM 2002 The Third Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics.

Liangchi Zhang, Dept. of Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering, J07, Univ. of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

        Biomechanics

        Constitutive modelling

        Damage, fracture, fatigue and failure

        Dynamics, vibration and time-dependent

        deformation

        Experimental mechanics

        Geo-mechanics

        Mechanics and advanced machinery

        Mechanics in advanced manufacturing

        Mechanics in tribology

        Mechanics of materials processing technology

        (shaping, forming, surfacing, fabrication, etc.)

        Nano and micromechanics

        Particle mechanics

        Porous materials and composites

        Stress and deformation analysis

        Structural mechanics, smart materials and 

        structures

        Teaching applied mechanics

        Engineering applications and case studies

February 25 - March 7, 2002, ERICE, SICILY, Italy. Item #2684
International School on Neural Nets "E. R. Caianiello" 5th Course: from Synapses to Rules: Discovering Symbolic Rules from Neural Processed Data.

Bruno Apolloni, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39/41 20135 Milano, Italy. Tel: ++39 02 5835 6284, fax: ++39 02 5835 6228, email: apolloni@dsi.unimi.it.

February 25-28, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA. Item #2774
Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Spring 2002.

idf@key3media.com.

March 1-8, 2002, Guenne / Moehnesee, Germany. Item #2760
5th Interdisciplinary College 2002.

Dr. Herbert Jaeger, Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, AiS.INDY, Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany, tel: (+49) 2241-14-2253, fax: (+49) 2241-14-2342, email herbert.jaeger@ais.fraunhofer.de.

The Interdisciplinary College is a 1-week spring school on brain 
sciences, neural computation, robotics & artificial intelligence. It is: 
Interdisciplinary: with courses from Neurobiology, Neu- 
    roscience and Neural Computation, Mathematical 
    Modeling, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robo- 
    tics, Philosophy; 
Demanding: in a day-round programme, prime resear- 
    chers give focussed introductions to their research, with 
    highlighting evening lectures; 
European-international: participants come from Euro- 
    pean countries, lecturers from all over the world; 

March 8-12, 2002, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Item #2600
FT&T 2002 - 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology.

Etienne E. Kerre. Email: etienne.kerre@rug.ac.be.

 FT&T 2002 will concentrate on the
mathematical foundations of fuzzy logic in a broad as well
as in a narrow sense and all kind of application domains of these fuzzy
theories. More particular we will welcome papers
on the following theoretical issues and their applications:

    * Fuzzy topology including fuzzy metric spaces and smooth topological
spaces.
    * Fuzzy algebraic structures such as fuzzy groups, fuzzy rings, fuzzy
vector spaces.
    * Fuzzy numbers and arithmetical operations, including ranking
procedures for fuzzy numbers.
    * Fuzzy intuitionistic sets.
    * Interval-valued fuzzy sets.
    * Rough sets, fuzzy rough sets.
    * L-fuzzy sets.
    * Links between different models of imprecision and uncertainty.
    * Fuzzy relational structures, including fuzzy relational equations,
fuzzy similarity relations and fuzzy orderings.
    * Fuzzy geometry.
    * Uncertainty theories including possibility and necessity theory,
plausibility and belief measures, imprecise
    probabilities.
    * Logical operations, including t-norms, t-conorms, implications,
fuzzy quantifiers.
    * Measures of fuzziness.
    * Defuzzification techniques.
    * Fuzzy measures and fuzzy integrals.
    * Fuzzy multivalued mappings.
    * Fuzzy differential calculus.
    * Fuzzy mathematical morphology.

March 8-13, 2002, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. Item #2603
CIEF'2002 The Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance.

Paul P. Wang, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, P.O. 90291, Duke Univ., Durham, NC 27708 - 0291, USA. Email: ppw@ee.duke.edu.

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 8-11, 2002, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Item #2612
Conference on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics.

Vasant Honavar. Email: honavar@cs.iastate.edu, fax: 515 294 0258.

Please see the conference web site for details.

March 8-14, 2002, Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. Item #2644
Special Session: New Frontiers for Recurrent Neural Networks at ICCI 2002.

Simon D. Levy. Email: levy@cs.brandeis.edu.

        Fractal encoding of grammars 
        Connectionist models of unification and other grammatical operations 
        Recurrent networks as push-down stacks, Turing machines, or other automata 
        Recursive Distributed Representations 
        Philosophical implications for the connectionist/anti-connectionist debate 

March 8-11, 2002, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Item #2718
CBGI-02 Conference on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics.

Vasant Honavar (honavar@cs.iastate.edu).

Biological Databases
Biological Data Integration
Biological Data Mining
Biological Data Visualization
Biological Information Extraction
Biological Information Retrieval
Biological Knowledge Bases
Biological Knowledge Representation and Infererence
Bioontologies
Computational Drug Discovery
Functional Genomics
Gene Expression Databases
Gene Expression Analysis
Gene Identification
Genetic Network Modelling and Inference
Gene Regulation
Generative Models of Molecular Sequences
Grammatical Analysis of Molecular Sequences
Information Theoretic Analysis of Molecular Sequences
Metabolic Pathway Inference
Molecular Dynamics and Simulation
Molecular Evolution
Molecular Sequence Alignment
Molecular Sequence Assembly
Molecular Sequence Classification
Molecular Sequence Databases
Molecular Sequence Pattern and Motifs
Molecular Structure Databases
Molecular Structural Motifs
Macromolecular Structure Prediction
Phylogeny Construction
Proteomics
Protein Folding
Protein Fold Recognition
Protein Function Prediction
Protein Structure Matching and Alignment
Protein Structure Prediction
Protein-Protein Interactions
RNA Structure Prediction
Software Environments for Bioinformatics
Software Tools for Computational Biology
Statistical Analysis of Molecular Sequences

March 10-13, 2002, Madrid, Spain. Item #2614
SAC 2002 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.

Gary Lamont, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Email: gary.Lamont@afit.edu.

                             A.I. and Computational Logic 
                             Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems 
                             Applications of Spatial Simulation of Discrete Entities 
                             Bioinformatics 
                             Computational Sciences 
                             Coordination Models, Languages and Applications 
                             Database and Digital Library Technologies 
                             Declarative Data Mining 
                             Electronic Books for Teaching and Learning 
                             Evolutionary Computing and Optimization 
                             Information Access and Retrieval 
                             Inter-Disciplinary Approaches to the Design of Dependable Computer Systems 
                             Multimedia and Visualization 
                             Neuro-Fuzzy Applications 
                             Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networking 
                             Programming Languages and Object Technologies 
                             Computer Security 
                             Software Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice 
                             Standardisation in IT 
                             Virtual Reality, Digital Media and Computer Games 
                             Web and E-Business Applications 

March 10-14, 2002, Madrid, Spain. Item #2615
Neuro-Fuzzy Applications Track at SAC 2002.

Univ. di Milano - Polo di Crema, Via Bramante 65, 26013 Crema, Italy. Email: edamiani@crema.unimi.it, tel: +39 0373 898240, fax: +39 0373 898253.

IP/ATM,Mobile,Active Networks
Neural Hardware Systems
Neural Control
Neuro-Fuzzy Processing of Multimedia Data
Neuro-Fuzzy Systems in Molecular Computing
Soft-Computing Techniques for Systems Design
Flexible Query and Information Retrieval Systems
Data Mining
Computer Vision
Fuzzy Hardware Systems
Fuzzy Control

March 10-14, 2002, Madrid, SPAIN. Item #2622
Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications at SAC 2002.

Andrea Omicini, DEIS, Facolta' di Ingegneria, Universita' degli Studi di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2, I-40136 Bologna, Italy. Tel: +39 051 2093023, fax: +39 051 2093073, email: aomicini@deis.unibo.it.

   * Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques
   * Applications (especially where the industry is involved)
   * Theoretical aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification)
   * Coordination of multi-agent systems, including mobile and 
     intelligent  agents
   * Software architectures and software engineering techniques
   * Configuration and Architecture Description Languages
   * Middleware platforms (e.g. CORBA)
   * All aspects related to the modeling of Information Systems
     (groupware, Internet and the Web, workflow management, CSCW)
   * Coordination technologies, systems and infrastructures
   * Internet- and Web-based coordinated systems
   * Relationship with other computational models such as object
     oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming
     or extensions of them with coordination capabilities

March 25-27, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Item #2677
The 24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on Information Retrieval.

Mark Girolami. Email: giro-ci0@wpmail.paisley.ac.uk.

Indexing  
Information Extraction  
Data Mining  
Browsing  
Retrieval and Filtering  
User Interaction  
for the following types of documents and databases:  
Monomedia documents (e.g. text, images, audio, voice, video)  
Composite documents  
Multimedia documents  
Hypermedia documents  
Active documents  
Distributed documents and databases  
Digital Libraries  
the Web  

March 25-29, 2002, San Francisco, CA, USA. Item #2773
2002 JavaOne(sm) Conference.

JavaOne Conference, 117 Kendrick, Suite 600, Needham, MA 02494-2728 USA, (in the US) (888) 886-8769, (international) (781) 433-1509, (fax) (781) 449-2674, register@key3media.com.

April 2-3, 2002, Alicante, Spain. Item #2656
PRIS 2002 - 2nd International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems.

PRIS 2002, Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Campus de San Vicente del Raspeig, E-03071 Alicante, Spain. Fax: +34 96590 9326, email: pris2002@dlsi.ua.es.

 Main Areas
 * Document analysis and classification 
 * Image classification and retrieval 
 * Biometrics and personal authentication
 * Pattern recognition in multimedia 
 * Content-based analysis and retrieval
 * Face recognition
 * 2D and 3D object recognition
 * Speech and 1D signal analysis
 
 Techniques
 * Feature extraction and selection 
 * Neural-based methods
 * Grammar and language methods 
 * Classification algorithms 
 * Unsupervised learning 
 * Nonparametric methods 
 * Prototype-based techniques 
 * Structural matching 
 * Shape analysis 
 * Graph-based methods
 * Grammatical inference
 * Genetic techniques
 * Comparative studies
 * Applications

April 2-5, 2002, Imperial College, London, UK. Item #2682
AAMAS-2 Second Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

Eduardo Alonso, Dept. of Computing, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom. eduardo@soi.city.ac.uk.

1. Learning and adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems: The ability to learn is 
especially important for an agent when there are other agents acting in the 
environment. An important open question is whether and how single-agent 
learning techniques can be adapted to and applied in a multi-agent setting. 
2. Logic-based learning: The ability to incorporate background knowledge to 
the agents' decision-making and learning processes is arguably essential for 
effective performance in complex, dynamic domains. Logic-based learning 
mechanisms such as explanation-based learning and inductive logic 
programming are being used to test this hypothesis. 
3. Learning and communication When several learning agents work in a team it 
may be beneficial for them to cooperate not just on the task achievement but 
also on the learning process itself. Clearly, communication is an important 
tool for such cooperation. 
4. Natural selection, language and learning: These three issues are 
inter-linked through the evolutionary search for the best language bias used 
for learning. 
5. Evolutionary agents and emergent Multi-Agent structures: Genetic 
algorithms are a particular machine learning approach that has been 
successfully applied to social simulation and other multi-agent domains. 
Specific techniques are still under development. One focus of this research 
area is on observing emergent behaviors. 
6. Industrial applications of learning agents: Agent technology is already 
having a strong impact on various applications, including e-commerce, 
entertainment, human-computer interfaces, and plant control. Many of these 
applications are being equipped with machine learning technology. 
7. Distributed Learning: The major question in this area is how agents can 
learn in a collaborative way as a group. This is in contrast to the 
alternative view on multi-agent learning where agents in a group learn 
individually and separate theories are obtained. 

April 2-5, 2002, Vienna, Austria, EU. Item #2701
AT2AI-3 Third International Symposium "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation".

Joerg P. Mueller. Email: joerg.mueller@mchp.siemens.de.

Topics of interest therefore include:

     Conceptual and theoretical foundations
     Agent languages and architectures
     Learning and adaptability
     Communication, coordination and collaboration
     Social issues in agent societies
     Safety, security, and responsibility
     Single vs. multi-agent systems
     Agents vs. Middleware (e.g. CORBA, Grid Computing, ...)
     Development and engineering methodologies
     User interfaces and usability
     Testbeds and evaluations
     Applications

April 3-4, 2002, Kinsale, Ireland. Item #2619
EvoCOP 2002 - 2ND EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION.

Jens Gottlieb, SAP AG, Neurottstr. 16, 69190 Walldorf, Germany. Email: jens.gottlieb@sap.com, tel: +49(6227)7 49356, fax: +49(6227)78 32766.

   * Applications of evolutionary algorithms and related heuristics like
     simulated annealing or ant systems to combinatorial optimization
     problems
   * Representation techniques
   * Evolutionary operators
   * Constraint-handling techniques
   * Hybrid methods
   * Parallelization
   * Theoretical developments, search space analyses
   * Comparisons between different (also non-evolutionary) techniques

April 3, 2002, Kinsale, Ireland. Item #2629
EVOIASP2002 Fourth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing.

Stefano Cagnoni . 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 3-5, 2002, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Item #2654
ISMM '2002 International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing VI.

Mark Berman. Email: Mark.Berman@cmis.CSIRO.AU.

April 7-9, 2002, Passau, Germany. Item #2769
Agent-Based Simulation 3.

email: rimane@cs.fau.de.

April 11-13, 2002, Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Item #2606
Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.

SDM2002, Peggy Stewart, AHPCRC - Univ. of Minnesota, 1100 South Washington Avenue #101, Minneapolis, MN 55415, tel: (612) 626 8079, fax: (612) 626 1596, email: sdm2002@cs.umn.edu.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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Methods and Paradigms 
 - Query/Constraint-based Data Mining 
 - Probabilistic/Statistical Methods 
 - Mining Spatial and Temporal Data 
 - Trend and Periodicity Analysis 
 - Parallel/Distributed/Agent Techniques 
 - Integration: Mining, Warehousing and OLAP 
 - Fraud Detection/Activity Monitoring 
 - Data Reduction/Pre-processing 
 - Post-processing (Summarizing and Interestingness) 
 - Collaborative Filtering/Personalization 

Applications 
 - Data from Scientific Disciplines 
 - Web Data 
 - Network Data
 - Financial and E-commerce Data 
 - Medical/Health Industry 
 - Bioinformatics
 - Text, Document, and Multimedia Data 
 - Enterprise Databases 
 - Case Studies 
 - Novel Applications
 - Benchmarks 

Human Factors and Social Issues 
 - Visual Data Mining 
 - Languages/User Interface for Data Mining 
 - Security 
 - Privacy 
 - Risk Analysis 
 - Intellectual Ownership 

April 15, 2002, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Item #2653
BioSP3 Workshop on Bio-Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing Problems In conjunction with IPDPS.

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.

    o Bio-based methods (e.g. ant algorithms, genetic algorithms,
cellular
      automata, DNA and molecular computing, neural networks) for
solving
      parallel processing problems (scheduling, data organisation and
      partitioning, communication and routing, VLSI layout etc.)

    o Other methods based on natural phenomena such as simulated
      annealing and other artifical-life techniques applied to solve
      problems in parallel processing are also of interest

    o Parallel/Distributed platforms for bio-based computations

    o Techniques for integrating conventional parallel and bio-based
Paradigms

    o Tools and algorithms for parallelizing bio-based techniques

    o Applications and case studies combining traditional parallel and
      distributed computing and bio-based techniques

    o Theoretical work related to solution optimality, convergence
      issues, and time/space complexities of parallel algorithms that
      employ bio-based methods

April 15-17, 2002, MODENA, ITALY. Item #2710
ECEC'2002 EUROPEAN CONCURRENT ENGINEERING CONFERENCE.

Philippe Geril, SCS Europe Bvba, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Tel: (Office): +32.9.233.77.90, tel: Fax(Private): +32.59.800.804, Fax(Office): +32.9.223.49.41, email: Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be.

April 16-18, 2002, University of Exeter, Devon, UK. Item #2582
ACDM 2002 Fifth International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture.

Ian Parmee. Email: iparmee@ad-comtech.co.uk.

 * the development and integration of appropriate evolutionary and adaptive
computing strategies with conceptual, embodiment and detailed design.

* novel application of appropriate evolutionary / adaptive computing
strategies to or integration with complex manufacturing systems.

* scheduling and planning; facility lay-out; supply chain design and
management; optimisation of organisational structure.

* co-operative frameworks supporting the utilisation of evolutionary /
adaptive search and other CI technologies within a design / manufacturing
environment.

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

* evolutionary and adaptive strategies for component modelling and systems
identification.

* design search and exploration; human-centred aspects and interactive
evolutionary decision-support systems.

* modelling of and searching across, uncertain / poorly-defined
decision-making environments.

* multi-objective satisfaction and optimisation.

* search and optimisation within heavily constrained domains.

 * Web-based evolutionary tools  for design and manufacture - accessibility
and utility.

* provision of multi-disciplinary search and optimisation requirements
within distributed Problem Solving Environments (PSEs).

* reducing computational expense during detailed design and analysis.

* best practice re integration with high-performance computing, parallel
architectures etc

* supporting innovative and creative design .

* development and integration of aesthetic fitness measures.

* data mining; the identification of optimal design information; appropriate
presentation of data generated from evolutionary search, exploration and
optimisation.

* agent-assisted evolutionary design and manufacture processes.

* evolvable hardware design.

* evolutionary and adaptive computing in manufacturing robotics.

April 16 - 17, 2002, City University, London, UK. Item #2711
Two Day Workshop on Local Search.

rsk@comp.leeds.ac.uk.

Local Search Techniques, including but not limited to:

* Tabu search;
* Evolutionary algorithms;
* Simulated annealing;
* Scatter search
* Neural Networks;
* Constraint Satisfaction;
* Ant Systems, etc.

Local Search Applications, including but not limited to:

* Rostering;
* Frequency assignment;
* Vehicle routing and logistics;
* Time-tabling;
* Location problems;
* Cutting and Packing problems, etc.

April 19-21, 2002, Toulouse, France. Item #2728
NMR'2002 session on Argument, Dialogue, and Decision.

Henry Prakken. Email: henry@cs.uu.nl.

I. The use of nonmonotonic logics (whether argument-based or not) in 
formal models of various kinds of multiagent interaction, such as:

- fact finding investigations
- negotiation
- legal procedure
- dispute resolution and mediation
- decision making

II. The study of argument-based nonmonotonic logics themselves, on such
topics as: 

- semantics
- proof theory
- complexity and resource limitations
- applications to epistemic and practical (including legal and ethical)
reasoning.
- applications to informal theories of argumentation.
- comparison with other styles of nonmonotonic logic.

April 21-24, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Item #2616
ICCS2002 The 2nd International Conference on Computational Science.

email: address: iccs@science.uva.nl.

*  Complex Systems: Modelling and Simulation 
*  Hybrid Computational Methods 
*  Data Mining and Information Retrieval
*  Web- and grid based Simulation and Computing 
*  Parallel and Distributed Computing 
*  Visualization and Virtual Reality 
*  New large scale simulation application areas: 
	*  Finance 
	*  Economics 
	*  Biology 
          *  Chemistry
	*  Risk Analyses 
*  New Algorithmic approaches to existing application area's, e.g.: 
	*  Weather and Climate Forecasting and Modelling
          *  Connectionist Modelling 
	*  Fuzzy Logic 
	*  Reliability Engineering 
          *  Digital Imaging
*  Scientific Computing
*  Advanced Numerical Algorithms
*  Problem Solving Environments (including: Software Component Technology) 
*  Education in Computational Science 

April 22-26, 2002, Wuhan, China. Item #2584
TMCE 2002 Fourth International Symposium on TOOLS AND METHODS OF COMPETITIVE ENGINEERING.

email: TMCE_2002@io.tudelft.nl.

Adoption of competitive engineering theories and methods in industry
Application of advanced tools and techniques for CE, AM, GM, RP, PCM, VR, VE, etc.
Computer network supported cooperative work in product development
Knowledge-intensive product and process design for competitive engineering
Advanced manufacturing and servicing technologies for virtual enterprises
Global product definition strategies and methodologies
Knowledge acquisition, mining, representation and reasoning methods and technologies in engineering
Knowledge handling, transfer and sharing world-wide and local
Knowledge-intensive, sustainable, convertible and upgradable products
Knowledge-oriented training and education

April 22-25, 2002, San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Item #2645
2002 APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY JOINT MEETING COMPUTATIONAL MICRO and NANO TECHNOLOGY.

email: info@cr.org.

International Conference on Computational Nano Science (ICCN 2001) 
-Computational Biology; Molecular, Protein, Structural, Informatics... 
-Computational Chemistry; Combinatorial, Polymers, Quantum, Solid State 
-Computational Materials; Surfaces, Radiation, Semiconductors... 
International Conference on Modeling & Simulation of Microsystems (MSM) 
-Micro Electro Mechanical (Optical, Fluidic) Systems (MEMS) 
-Microelectronics; Processes, Materials, TCAD, Macromodeling 
-Quantum Effects, Quantum Devices and Spintronics, Advanced Devices 

April 22-25, 2002, Toulouse, France. Item #2668
KR2002 Eighth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

Fausto Giunchiglia, Automated Reasoning Systems Division, ITC-IRST, Povo, 38050 Trento, Italy. Email: fausto@irst.itc.it.

Topics:

  Representational Formalisms: Representations of Belief, Concepts,
       Intention, Time, Space, Action, Events; Nonmonotonic Logics; Description
       Logics; Knowledge and Concept Structures for the Semantic Web.
  Reasoning Techniques: Deduction, Induction, Abduction, Reasoning under
       Uncertainty, Reasoning in Heterogeneous Environments, Efficiency Measures,
       Complexity, Parallel and Distributed Implementations.
  Implemented KR&R Systems: Reports, Updates, Comparisons, Evaluations.
  Significant Applications: Planning, Robotics, Diagnosis, Natural Language,
       Multi-Agent Systems, Knowledge Bases, The Semantic Web,
       Ontologies, Concept Management, Knowledge Integration, Knowledge Sharing, Decision Support.
  Implications for/of: Machine Learning, Decision Theory, Uncertainty,
       Databases, Software Engineering, Conceptual Modelling.

April 23-27, 2002, Toulouse, France. Item #2623
AIPS'02 Sixth International Conference on AI Planning & Scheduling.

email: aips@laas.fr.

_ Planning algorithms
_ Planning and reasoning about action and change
_ Planning and learning
_ Planning and temporal reasoning
_ Planning under uncertainty
_ Decision-theoretic planning
_ Scheduling algorithms
_ Constraint management approaches to planning and scheduling
_ Resource management
_ Mixed-initiative planning
_ Plan and schedule visualization
_ Multi-agent planning
_ Plan execution, monitoring and replanning
_ Agent architectures for planning and control
_ Active perception and sensor-based planning
_ Reactive systems
_ Applications and domain-specific techniques

April 24-26, 2002, Bruges, Belgium. Item #2625
ESANN 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.

The ESANN conference will focus on fundamental aspects of ANNs: theory, models, learning algorithms, mathematical and statistical aspects, in the context of function approximation, classification, control, time-series prediction, signal processing, vision, etc.  Papers on links and comparisons between ANNs and other domains of research (such as statistics, data analysis, signal processing, biology, psychology, evolutive learning, bio-inspired systems, etc.) are  encouraged.  See Web pages for details.

May 1-4, 2002, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Item #2639
NL 2002 - Networked Learning in a Global Environment: Challenges and Solutions for Virtual Education.

ICSC/NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division), P.O. Box 1091, 3360 BB Sliedrecht, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 184 496999, fax: +31 184 421065, email: nl2002@ITStransnational.com.

Organization of networked learning
* Virtual universities and networked e-learning organizations
* Corporate virtual universities, in-company training in distributed
enterprises
* Integrated e-learning systems, portals, marketplaces, and providers
* New academic programs by virtual organizations and cooperation
projects
* E-learning for business professionals
* Open source initiatives for e-learning
* Pricing and business models for virtual distance learning
* Success stories and pitfalls in e-learning

Technology 
* Enabling technologies for networked learning: telecommunications and
computer networks
* Internet suited multimedia technologies: Audio and video streaming
etc., learning on demand
* Mobile learning: Wireless technologies, UMTS, GPRS, WAP 
* Leading edge and emerging technologies: Virtual reality, software
agents, artificial intelligence tools
* Integration of collaborative tools: Discussion groups, chatrooms,
whiteboards, shared workspaces, e-mail, videoconferencing
* Virtual classrooms for worldwide classes, virtual learning communities
* Virtual management games
* Quality assurance for virtual education

Content production and delivery
* Architectures and platforms for distributed teaching and learning 
* Multimedia production tools, authoring tools, delivery tools
* E-learning life cycle models

Globalization
* The role of traditional educational institutions in global virtual
learning 
* Cross-cultural learning
* Networked learning and developing countries
* Legal aspects and security of networked learning

May 6-8, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan. Item #2673
PAKDD-02 The Sixth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Ming-Syan Chen, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, email: mschen@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw, tel: +886 2 23635251 ext 523, fax: +886 2 23671597.

* Data and Knowledge Representation
* Expanding the Autonomy of Machine Discovers
* Scientific Discovery
* Machine Learning Methods
* Statistical Methods
* Inductive Logic Programming
* Deduction, Induction and Abduction
* Multi-criteria Evaluation and Data Mining Metrics
* Models and Framework of New Data Mining Capabilities
* Performance Evaluation of Mining Algorithms
* Data and Dimensionality Reduction
* Preprocessing and Postprocessing
* Interestingness Checking of Data and Rules
* Management and Refinement for the Discovered Knowledge
* Data and Knowledge Visualization
* On Line Analytical Processing
* KDD Process and Human Interaction
* Rough Sets in Data Mining
* Neural Networks, Probabilistic Reasoning
* Noise Handling and Uncertainty Management
* Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist KDD Systems
* Multi-Database Mining
* Data Mining in Advanced Databases (OODB, Spatial DB, Multimedia DB)
* Integration of Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining
* Combining Data Mining with Database Querying
* Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
* Data Mining in the WWW
* 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

May 6, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan. Item #2771
KDMCD'02 International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Multimedia and Complex Data conjunction with PAKDD-02.

Chabane Djeraba, IRIN, Polytech Nantes, France.

The major topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
 - Multimedia specific data mining methods and algorithms,
 - Complexity, efficiency and scalability of multimedia data mining algorithms,
 - Multimedia data mining and interactive exploration,
 - Data and Knowledge visualization,
 - Mining and analysis of data generated by virtual reality systems,
 - Integrated data mining of text and image data,
 - Discovery in musical data,
 - Methods for the evaluation of mining results,
 - Knowledge Discovery in other complex data (Spatial, VRML, XML, etc.),
 - Data description languages, meta data, data formats,
 - Representation of discovered knowledge for data mining in multimedia,
 - Multimedia data representation and reuse of discovered knowledge,
 - Techniques for web multimedia preparation, including cleaning,
 - Transforming, sampling,
 - Multimedia mining methodologies for different web data types,
 - Web-content mining,
 - Internet portal and multimedia mining,
 - Multimedia applications of knowledge discovery,
 - Intelligent electronic documents, - Content-based discovery methods.

May 12-17, 2002, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI. Item #2593
CEC2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

email: cec2002@evolab.ece.nus.edu.sg.

The annual Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) is one of the premier
international conferences in the field. It covers all topics in evolutionary
computation: from combinatorial to numerical optimization, from supervised
to unsupervised learning, from co-evolution to collective behaviors, from
evolutionary design to evolvable hardware, from molecular to quantum
computing, from ant colony to artificial ecology, etc. The emphasis of the
Congress will be on original theories and novel applications of evolutionary
computation techniques. The Congress welcomes paper submissions from
researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide.

The 2002 Congress will be held in conjunction with the International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) and the IEEE International Conference
on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) as part of the World Congress on Computational
Intelligence (WCCI). Crossfertilization of the three fields will be strongly
encouraged. The Congress will feature keynote speeches and tutorials by
world-leading researchers. It also will include a number of special sessions
and workshops on the latest hot topics. Your registration admits you to all
events and includes the World Congress proceedings and banquet. The deadline
for submissions is 15 October 2001. Look for more details on paper
submission and conference registration coming soon at
http://www.wcci2002.org.

CEC is jointly supported by the IEEE Neural Networks Council, the
Evolutionary Programming Society, and the Institution of Electrical
Engineers.

May 12-17, 2002, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI, USA. Item #2662
IJCNN2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (part of WCCI2002).

David Fogel. Email: d.fogel@ieee.org.

The annual IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 
(IJCNN), is one of the premier international conferences in the field. 
It covers all topics in neural networks, including but not limited to:
- supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning,
- hardware implementation,
- time series analysis,
- neurooptimization,
- neurocontrol,
- hybrid architectures,
- bioinformatics,
- neurobiology and neural modeling,
- embedded neural systems,
- intelligent agents,
- image processing,
- rule extraction,
- statistics,
- chaos,
- learning theory,
- and a huge variety of applications.

May 12-16, 2002, Cancun, Mexico. Item #2722
WSEAS IMCASS, ISA, SOSM, MCP and MEM 2002.

www: http://www.wseas.org/.

	O	2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on INSTRUMENTATION, MEASUREMENT, CONTROL, CIRCUITS and SYSTEMS (IMCCAS '02),
	O	2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on INFORMATION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS 2002 (ISA 2002),
	O	2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on SOFT COMPUTING, OPTIMIZATION, SIMULATION AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS 2002 (SOSM 2002),
	O	4th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN PHYSICS (MCP '02) , 
	O	4th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MULTICONFERENCE (former "Mathematics and Computers in Mechanical Engineering"), 
  

May 12-15, 2002, Castelvecchio Pascoli (Pisa), Italy. Item #2725
6th IEEE WORKSHOP ON SIGNAL PROPAGATION ON INTERCONNECTS.

Flavio G. Canavero, Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Corso Duca Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino (Italy), tel: +39 011 564 4060, fax: +39 011 564 4099, email: canavero@polito.it.

Main topics of the workshop will include, but are not limited to:
- Delta-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 Package Interconnects
- 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
- Mixed Signal Test
- Optical Interconnects: Design and Test

May 13-15, 2002, Hagen, Germany. Item #2717
Workshop Conditionals, Information, and Inference.

Friedhelm Kulmann, FernUniversität in Hagen, tel: ++49 2331 9872515, fax: ++49 2331 9872515, email: friedhelm.kulmann@fernuni-hagen.de.

Areas of interest are: 

     conditional logics, 
     information theoretical approaches to conditionals, 
     nonmonotonic and plausible inference, 
     belief revision, 
     conditional event theories, 
     conditionals in probabilistics and possibilistics, 
     cognitive and epistemic aspects of conditionals, 
     systems and implementations, 
     applications. 

May 16-18, 2002, Pensacola, Florida. Item #2637
Special Track : Categorization and Concept Representation : Models and Implications at FLAIRS 2002.

Colette Faucher. Email: colette.faucher@iuspim.u-3mrs.fr.

Contributions in the following sub-topics would be welcomed :
- Computational models of similarity,
- Computational models of theory-based categorization,
- Computational models of similarity-based categorization,
- Computational models of human categorization,
- Models of concept representation which are relevant as regards to the
process of categorization,
- Models of concept representation and elicitation,
- Formalization of the notion of theory which underlies a category,
- Formalization of the context of occurrence of the entities to categorize
and its influence on the categorization process.

May 16-18, 2002, Pensacola, Floriday. Item #2651
Fifteenth International FLAIRS Conference.

Gene Simmons. Email: simmons@cis.usouthal.edu.

In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence

The Fifteenth International FLAIRS Conference seeks high-quality paper
submissions in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not
limited to, neural networks, autonomous agents, case-based reasoning,
computer vision, data mining, education, expert systems, genetic
algorithms, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems,
knowledge representation and management, learning, logic, multi-agent
systems, natural language processing, planning, uncertainty reasoning,
robotics, speech recognition, temporal reasoning, and
verification/validation.

May 16-18, 2002, Pensacola, Florida, USA. Item #2679
FLAIRS-2002 Special Track on Integrated Intelligent Systems.

Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, GREECE, email: ihatz@ceid.upatras.gr, ihatz@cti.gr.

May 19 - 20, 2002, Mt Alyeska Resort Hotel, nearby Anchorage, AK, USA. Item #2812
VIMS 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Virtual and Intelligent Measurement Systems.

Vincenzo Piuri. Email: piuri@fusberta.elet.polimi.it.

May 20-25, 2002, Lviv, Ukraine. Item #2721
ICIM'2002 - I International Conference on INDUCTIVE MODELLING.

State Institute of Information Infrastructure, P.O. Box 5446, Lviv-31, 79031 Ukraine. Tel/fax: (+380 0322) 630311, email: dndiii@dndiii.lviv.ua.

Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 
 - Principles and theoretical foundations of inductive modelling. 
 - Data mining, laws extracting and knowledge discovery. 
 - Parallel computing 
 - Time series analysis and forecasting. 
 - Information and hybrid systems. 
 - Neural networks and genetic algorithms. 
 - Pattern recognition and clustering. 
 - Parametric methods of modelling, machine learning, and 
   evolutionary computation. 
 - Non-parametric methods: search of analogues, fuzzy logic and 
   probabilistic modelling 
 - Selection and construction of criteria for model structure optimization. 
 - Estimation of inductive methods efficiency in modelling and prediction. 
 - Comparison of different approaches for artificial intelligence problems 
solution. 
 - Application of inductive approach to solution of AI problems. 

May 24-26, 2002, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #2399
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computational Intelligence in Management and Industrial Engineering.

Email: cengiz2@ayasofya.isl.itu.edu.tr, tel: 90 212 293 13 00/2073, fax: 90 212 240 72 60.

Topics: Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Knowledge-based
& Expert Systems, Fuzzy and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems, Industrial Control,
Financial & Stock Market Monitoring and Prediction, Managerial Applications
of Computational Intelligence Tools, Presentations of Computational Intelligence
Oriented Companies and Their Products, Case-based Approximate Reasoning and
Problem Solving, Human-Computer Interaction, E-Commerce, Simulation, Multi-Media
and Web-based Technologies, Logistics and Supply Chain, Scheduling, Production
Planning and Control, Quality Assurance & Evaluation methodology.

May 27 - June 2, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. Item #2555
ECCV 2002 Seventh European Conference on Computer Vision.

email: eccv@itu.dk.

   Contributions are sought on new and original research on any aspect
   of computer vision including, inter alia, the following topics:
               Image features
               Texture, shading, & colour
               Visual motion
               Structure from motion
               Stereoscopic vision
               Surface geometry
               Shape
               Grouping and segmentation
               Object recognition
               Calibration
               Biologically-inspired computational models
               Active and real-time vision
               Visually-guided robot manipulation & navigation
               Image and video indexing
               Medical image understanding
               Vision systems engineering & evaluation
               Industrial applications
 

May 27-29, 2002, Calgary, Canada. Item #2632
15th International Conference on Vision Interface.

Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, Computational Video Group, Institute of Information Technology, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada, http://www.cv.iit.nrc.ca/~dmitry, email: Dmitry.Gorodnichy@nrc.ca, fax: (613) 952 0215, tel: (613) 998 5298.

Vision Interface is a single track conference consisting of high quality,
 previously unpublished papers, presented either orally or as a poster.
 Contributions are sought on any aspect of computer vision, image
 processing or pattern recognition.


VI'2002 is hold jointly with AI'2002 and GI'2002 conferences.
VI proceedings are made available on-line at the VI website.

May 29 - June 1, 2002, Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, San Diego, California. Item #2634
ITherm 2002: Eighth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems.

Cristina H. Amon, ITherm 2002, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA 15123, USA, email: camon@cmu.edu.

Thermal: 
· Natural and forced convection air-cooling 
· Liquid cooling 
· Novel cooling techniques: phase change, heat pipes, thermosyphon, liquid-cooled heat sinks and evaporation 
· Microchannel, micro- and nano-scale heat transfer and fluidics 
· Thermal management and mechanical issues in high power dissipation packages and systems including novel heat sinks. 
· Active: thermo-electric, air movers, refrigeration 
· Thermal aspects of systems-on-a-chip 
· Methods for mitigating effects of extreme thermal environments 
· New approaches to microelectronics thermal management 
· Experimental characterization: methods and measurement techniques in thermal management, thermal contact resistance, flow and temperature visualization, performance of thermal interface materials (adhesives, thermal paste)
Mechanics: 
· Role of fracture mechanics in electronic packaging 
· Solder joint reliability and fatigue: modeling and experimental 
· Solder profile modeling, fatigue mechanics of packages, interconnects 
· Mechanical reliability of advanced packages, and multilayered structures manufacturing/assembly and field-use conditions
· Impact and vibrational analysis of packages, sub-systems, and systems 
· Experimental methods, model validation, material characterization 
· Mechanics of environmental-friendly materials in electronics 
· Thermal and thermomechanical characterization of materials: organics (dielectrics, solder mask, LTCC etc., solders, PB-free solders)
Emerging Technologies:  Thermal, Thermomechanical and/or related underlying multidisciplinary issues in: 
· Space systems: earth orbiting and deep-space missions 
· Fiber-optics interconnect systems 
· Free space optical interconnects 
· MEMs: device and package level reliability issues. 
· Mechanics, material and process related issues in Nanostructures. 
· Portable/handheld electronics, such as cell phone, pager, notebooks, computers, peripheral hardware, disc drives, displays, printers
· Medical, telecommunication, and automotive systems 
Panel Discussions: 
· Proposals are solicited for panel discussion topics addressing contemporary issues of broad interest to ITherm. These should include a title, an abstract describing the theme(s) to be addressed, and a list of potential panelists.
Software Tools/Techniques:      Design, Analysis, Simulation 
· CAD, CFD, FEA, EDA software tools and trends in their interoperability. 
· Flow network modeling 
· Model validation/benchmarking 
· Development of behavioral (or compact) models (e.g., component, heat sinks) 
· Interoperability and emerging standards across cross-disciplinary software tools  

May 29 - June 1, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Item #2642
ICCNS Sixth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.

Cynthia Bradford, Boston Univ., Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215. Email: cindy@cns.bu.edu.

 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

May 30 - June 1, 2002, Vietri Sul Mare, Salerno, ITALY. Item #2739
WIRN VIETRI-2002 The 13-th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets.

Secretary of I.I.A.S.S. "E.R. Caianiello", Via G.Pellegrino 19, 84019 Vietri Sul Mare (SA), ITALY, tel: +39 89 761167, fax: +39 89 761189, email: robtag@unisa.it.

 

June 1, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. Item #2604
International Workshop on Growth and Motion in 3D Medical Images in conjunction with ECCV 2002.

Jon Sporring . Email: sporring@lab3d.odont.ku.dk.

June 1-2, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. Item #2762
Statistical Methods in Video Processing Workshop (Associated with ECCV).

David Suter, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, P.O. Box 35, Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 3800, Australia. Tel: 9905 5682.

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

Robust Statistical Techniques
Stereo and Motion Analysis in the presence of Noise and Data
Contaminants
Background Modelling
Tracking
Gesture Recognition
2D & 3D Scene Analysis
Image Segmentation (particularly Motion Based)
Video Analysis for Multimedia
Feature Extraction - Spatio-temporal Extraction
Industrial Visual Inspection
Image Sequence Restoriation
Fluid Motion Analysis
Video Indexing
Texture Analysis
Biometrics
Applications in Medical Imagery
Applications in Meteorological Imagery
Surveillance
within the context that there must be a clearly identifiable (and
practical) basis to the work upon statistically motivated/justified
techniques. There must be a dynamic (temporal) aspect applicaple to
video
data.

June 3-4, 2002, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Item #2657
WCIS - 2002 Second World Conference on Intelligent Systems for Industrial Automation.

B. A. Zahidov, Dept. of Automation and Remote Control, Tashkent State Technical University, Univ. Str. 2, 700095 Tashkent, Uzbekistan, tel: +99 871 246 04 57, fax: +99 871 144 78 41, email: ttusd@naytov.com, tashcti@ishonch.uz.

1. Computer Integrated manufacturing (CIM) Systems
2. Expert systems
3. Intelligent CAD systems
4. Image and signal processing and Pattern recognition
5. Intelligent Information Systems
6. Intelligent sensors and measurement systems
7. Software implementation
8. Intelligent control
9. Intelligent robots
10. Intelligent hybrid systems 
11. Machine vision and visual perception
12. Decision support systems
13. Multi - agent distributed intelligent systems
14. Chaos engineering
15. Intelligent technologies for nuclear science and industry
16. Fuzzy computing
17. Neural computing
18. Evolutionary computing
19. Application: power, oil, machine building, chemical, civil building 
and other branches of industry
20. Intelligent manufacturing
21. Intelligent economic planning, E-commerce 

June 5-8, 2002, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Item #2646
M2D-4 MECHANICS & MATERIALS IN DESIGN.

mori@everest.mech.nagoya-u.ac.jp.

The conference addresses six important topics:

Intelligent Design

Smart and Adaptive Structures

Mechatronic System Design

Mechanism(s) Design

Design Against Failure

Design for Manufacturing

Design of Ultralight Structures

Impact Mechanics & Crashworthiness

Micro-Electro-Mechanical System Design  Computational Mechanics

Nonlinear Mechanics in DesignNovel Numerical Tools in Design

Geometric Modelling and CAD Tools in Design

FEM, BEM and Hybrid Methods

Integrated Computer Aided Design

Computational Failure Analysis

Coupled thermo-electro-mechanical Problems

Optimisation using FEA


Experimental Mechanics

Advanced Mechanical Testing

Nondestructive Tools in Design
Condition Monitoring

Photoelasticity 

Quality Assurance and Control

Intelligent Sensory     

Materials Processing

Micromachining

Thin Film Deposition

Powder metallurgy

Metal Forming Processing

Physical Properties of Materials

Smart/Adaptive Materials
Micromechanics 

Micromechanical Modelling of Composites

Failure Analysis: Fatigue and Fracture

Scattering of Waves

Multiscale Modelling: Concepts and Methodology  Intelligent Manufacturing

Recent Advances in Metal Forming/Cutting

Neural Network

Fuzzy Logic

Genetic Algorithms

June 6-8, 2002, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Item #2592
BioMed 2002 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering.

email: lai.seckling@forumpro.com.my.

June 9-13, 2002, Florida, USA. Item #2649
IFMIP2002 Fourth International Forum on Multimedia and Image Processing.

Syoji Kobashi, Himeji Institute of Technology, 2167, Shosha, Himeji, 671-2201, JAPAN. Email: kobashi@comp.eng.himeji-tech.ac.jp.

Topic of Interests:
  -Expertmedia (Multimedia and Expert systems)
  -Multimedia and Digital Libraries
  -Multimedia and medical/Health Care Applications
  -Multimedia in Distance Education
  -Multimedia Programming
  -Multimedia Models and Frameworks
  -Image and Video Compression
  -Manipulation of Raster Images, e.g. Warping and Morphing
  -Object Recognition in Scene Data
  -Link Representation in Image Data
  -Video Based Gesture Recognition
  -Man-Machine Interaction
  -Scanning, in Particular of 3D Objects
  -Medical Imaging
  -Fuzzy image Processing

June 9 - July 6, 2002, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Item #2712
2002 COMPLEX SYSTEMS SUMMER SCHOOL.

Summer Schools, MS NG, Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. Email: summerschool@santafe.edu.

Topics Include:
-- Foundations of Complex Systems (including nonlinear dynamics,
information and
    computation theory, and evolution and adaptation)
--  Adaptive Computation
--  Network Structure and Dynamics
--  Cultural Evolution
--  Immunology and Distributed Autonomous Systems
--  Robustness in Biological Systems

June 10-12, 2002, Bari, Italy. Item #2749
13th Mini-EURO Conference "Handling Uncertainty in the Analysis of Traffic and Transportation Systems" and 9th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation "Intermodality, Sustainability and Intelligent Transportation Systems".

email: ewg2002@poliba.it.

June 10-15, 2002, University of Genova, Italy. Item #2813
NE.W.S. : Neuroengineering Workshop and Advanced School.

email: news2002@bio_nt.dibe.unige.it .

MAIN GOAL: 
to understand , modify and use brain plasticity in order to advance 
Neuroscience at the network level and to inspire new computer 
architectures. 
Scientific background: Bioengineering, Electronics, Informatics, 
Neuroscience. 
How to reach  the main goal: 
 By interfacing in vitro neurons to standard and  microelectronic 
transducers capable to monitor and modify the neuron electrophysiological 
activity 
 By creating hybrid neuro-electronic systems 
 By developing neuro-prostheses 
 By computer simulating plasticity at the network level 
 By developing neuromorphic  silicon neurons 

June 11-15, 2002, Zakopane, Poland. Item #2660
ICNNSC 2002 Sixth International Conference on Neural Networks and Soft Computing.

Wlodzislaw Duch. Email: duch@phys.uni.torun.pl.

Supervised and unsupervised learning
Neural network theory
Neural network architectures
Hardware implementations
Fuzzy logic
Fuzzy optimisation
Fuzzy control
Fuzzy computing with words
Theory of evolutionary algorithms
Evolutionary design
Evolutionary scheduling and optimisation
Rough sets theory: foundations and applications
Multi-agent systems
Data mining
Applications: prediction, identification, pattern recognition, image
and signal processing,
speech and computer vision, financial engineering and forecasting,
medicine, industry ..

June 11-13, 2002, Hawthorne, NY, USA. Item #2715
2nd International Symposium on Smart Graphics.

Patrick Olivier. Email: patrick@cs.york.ac.uk.

Advances and breakthroughs in the area of  Computer Graphics have made
visual media a major  ingredient of the modern user interface,  and it
is likely  that graphics will  play a dominant role in the  way people
communicate and interact with computers in the future.  Especially the
evolution of computing towards more and more pervasive and distributed
devices pose new  and challenging problems  for  the effective  use of
graphics.

Intelligent behaviour & graphics will  provide  the  technical core of
next generation interfaces.   But in order  to  make  those interfaces
successful,  principles  and findings  from  Cognitive Psychology  and
Graphics Design  are equally important to reflect the user's needs and
abilities.

Until  recently  there  has  been  very  little  overlap  between  the
Cognitive  Psychology,  Computer  Graphics,  AI  and  Graphics  Design
communities. The Smart Graphics Symposiums intend to close these gaps.
Recent  advances in Computer Graphics  have allowed AI  researchers to
integrate graphics in  their systems (without  being burdened  by low-
level  issues  such  as  image  rendering)  and  graphics acceleration
hardware  has become affordable and is now available for a broad range
of platforms.  On the  other hand,  many AI techniques have matured to
the point of being usable by non specialists.  Furthermore, these very
techniques are likely to be the vehicle by which both  principles from
Graphics Design, and the results of  research in cognitive aspects of
visual representations will be integrated in next generation graphical
interfaces.

June 12-16, 2002, Andalucia Beach, Chiclana, Cadiz, Spain. Item #2879
ISPRA '02 WSEAS Int.Conf. on SIGNAL PROCESSING, ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION.

Prof. Papanikolaou . Email: spain2002@wseas.org.

June 13 - 26, 2002, Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Item #2777
Computational Neuroscience: Vision . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course.

E J. Chichilnisky, email: ej@salk.edu.

June 14-16, 2002, Darmstadt, Germany. Item #2674
International Conference on Logic and Knowledge.

Frithjof Dau, FB Mathematik, Technische Universitat, D-64289 Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstrasse 7 . Tel: ++49 6151 163087, fax: ++49 6151 164011, email: lak01@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de.

June 17-18, 2002, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Item #2624
ICAIET 2002 First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology.

email: icaiet@ums.edu.my.

AI METHODOLOGIES:Fuzzy Logic and Systems,Neural Network,Genetic Algorithms,Chaos Theory,Expert Systems ,Virtual Reality 
AI APPLICATIONS:Electrical and Electronics, Mechatronics,Mechanical, Civil and Structural,
Process Control, Manufacturing, Robotics,Communications, Information Technology,Materials,
 Management, Home Appliances,Life Sciences, Hospital, Health Care andEducation and Training.

June 21 - 23, 2002, Kusadasi, Turkey. Item #2723
NDES'2002 - 10th International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems .

email: ndes2002@likya.iyte.edu.tr.

             The nonlinear circuit and system theory 
              Modeling and design of nonlinear circuits and systems 
              Applications of nonlinear dynamics 
              Nonlinear signal processing 
              Bifurcation, Chaos and Chaos Control  
              Nonlinear Oscillations

June 24-27, 2002, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2648
ICMLA'02 The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications.

M. Arif Wani, Dept. of Computer Science, California State Univ. Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California 93311-1022, USA. Email: a.wani@cs.csubak.edu.

  - multistrategy learning
  - statistical learning
  - neural network learning
  - bayesian network
  - case-based reasoning
  - evolutionary computation
  - reinforcement learning
  - machine learning of natural language
  - grammatical inference
  - knowledge acquisition and learning
  - knowledge discovery in databases
  - knowledge intensive learning
  - knowledge management and learning
  - information retrieval and learning
  - theories and models for plausible reasoning
  - cooperative learning
  - planning and learning
  - multi-agent learning
  - web navigation and mining
  - inductive logic programming
  - computational learning theory
  - cognitive-modeling
  - hybrid algorithms

June 24-26, 2002, Grand Hotel Chia Laguna, Cagliari, Italy. Item #2678
MCS 2002 Third International Workshop on Multiple Classifier System.

email: mcs@diee.unica.it.

June 24-27, 2002, Monte, Carlo Resort, Las, Vegas, USA. Item #2761
AGENTS for BUSINESS AUTOMATION.

Hanh Pham, Dept. of Computer Science, State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, 75 S. Manheim Blvd. Suite 6, FOB-08, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA, email: phamh@newpaltz.edu.

Based on the last year event we plan to have two tracks at two
conferences: IC-AI-2002 and IC-IC-2002 

(*) Track-A: (at IC-IC-2002) " Internet Agents for Business Automation"
(*) Track-B: (at IC-AI-2002) " Intelligent Agents for Business Automation"
We welcome papers on frameworks, architectures, protocols, algorithms,
design, evaluation (performance, QoS, security), and implementation
techniques for business agent-based systems. Technical issues to be
addressed include, but are not limited to:

Agent-based Data Retrieval for Business Automation
Agent-based Automatic Demand/Supply Formation for Business Automation
Agent-based Demand/Supply Matching for Business Automation
Agent-based Transaction Formation for Business Automation
Agent-based Transaction Implementation for Business Automation 
Agent-based Workflow Management for Business Automation

Personal Agents
Virtual Agent-based Office
Agent Coordination for Cooperative Works
Agent Security and Authentication
Agent Visualization

AI Techniques (Neural Networks,Fuzzy Logic,Genetic Algorithms,..) for
Internet Agents 
Agent Communication/Interaction 
Agent Cooperation/Competition 
Agent Negotiation and Learning 

E-Management and E-Control with Agents 
E-Trade and E-Marketplace with Agents
E-Payment and E-Banking with Agents 
Financial & Investment Agent-Based Applications
Agent-based Supply Chains
Agents for Games on the Internet 

Large-Scale E-Business Agent-Based Systems 
Networking Supports for Internet Agents 
Web Intelligent Interface with Agents 
Agents for Database in E-Business 
Wireless Agent-Based Systems 

June 24-27, 2002, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2770
The 2002 International Multiconferences in Computer Science.

H. R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, Dept. of Computer Science, 415 Graduate Studies Research Center, Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA. Tel: (706) 542 3480, fax: (706) 542 2966, email: hra@cs.uga.edu.

The fourteen conferences are:

1.  The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and
    Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
    (PDPTA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

2.  The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science,
    Systems, and Technology
    (CISST'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

3.  The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    (IC-AI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

4.  The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing
    (IC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

5.  The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and
    Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences
    (METMBS'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

6.  The 2002 International Conference on Communications in
    Computing
    (CIC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

7.  The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of
    Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
    (ERSA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

8.  The 2002 International Conference on VLSI
    (VLSI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

9.  The 2002 International Conference on Information and
    Knowledge Engineering
    (IKE'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

10. International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific
    Reasoning and Applications
    (CMSRA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

11. The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and
    Applications
    (ICMLA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

12. The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks
    (ICWN'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

13. The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering
    Research and Practice
    (SERP'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

14. The 2002 International Conference on Security Management
    (SAM'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

June 24-27, 2002, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2772
IC-AI'02 The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

H. R. Arabnia. Email: hra@cs.uga.edu.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
O.  Intelligent Information Systems
O.  Intelligent Software Engineering
O.  Intelligent Agents
O.  Intelligent Networks
O.  Intelligent Databases
O.  Brain Models
O.  Evolutionary Algorithms
O.  Data mining
O.  Reasoning Strategies
O.  Automated Problem Solving
O.  Distributed AI Algorithms and Techniques
O.  Distributed AI Systems and Architectures
O.  Expert Systems
O.  Fuzzy Logic
O.  Genetic Algorithms
O.  Heuristic Searching
O.  Knowledge Acquisition
O.  Knowledge Discovery
O.  Knowledge Representation
O.  Knowledge-Intensive Problem Solving Techniques
O.  Languages and Programming Techniques for AI
O.  Software Tools for AI
O.  Natural Language Processing
O.  Neural Networks and Applications
O.  Multisource Information Fusion: Theory and Applications
O.  Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion
O.  Learning and Adaptive Sensor Fusion
O.  Multisensor Data Fusion Using Neural and Fuzzy Techniques
O.  Integration of AI with other Technologies
O.  Evaluation of AI Tools
O.  Evolutionary Computation
O.  Social Impact of AI
O.  Applications - Computer Vision
O.  Applications - Signal Processing
O.  Applications - Military
O.  Applications - Surveillance
O.  Applications - Robotics
O.  Applications - Medicine
O.  Applications - Pattern Recognition
O.  Applications - Face Recognition
O.  Applications - Finger Print Recognition
O.  Applications - Finance and Marketing
O.  Applications - Stock Market
O.  Applications - Education
O.  Emerging Applications

June 24-27, 2002, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2776
Special Session on Biological Data Mining and Management in METMBS' 2002.

Yuh-Jyh Hu, Computer and Information Science Dept. National Chiao-Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd. Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, R.O.C. Tel: +886 3 573 1795, fax: +886 3 5721490, email: yhu@cis.nctu.edu.tw.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* biosequence alignment
* motif detection in biosequences
* gene finding
* gene/protein family classification
* gene expression data management
* gene expression data analysis
* protein structure and function prediction
* protein-protein interactions
* biological information retrieval
* genetic network modeling and inference

June 24-26, 2002, Grand Hotel Chia Laguna, Cagliari, Italy. Item #2778
MCS 2002 Third International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems.

email: mcs@diee.unica.it.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
MCS 2002 is the third workshop of a series aimed to create a common
international forum for researchers of the diverse communities working
in the field of multiple classifier systems. Information on the
previous editions of MCS workshop can be found on
www.diee.unica.it/mcs.  Contributions from all the research
communities working in the field are welcome in order to compare the
different approaches and to define the common research priorities.
Special attention is also devoted to assess the applications of
multiple classifier systems. The papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings, and extended versions of selected papers will be
considered for publication in a special issue of the International
Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

June 24-27, 2002, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2789
The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences.

Faramarz Valafar, Dept. of Computer Science, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-7720, tel: (619) 594 3742, fax: (619) 594 6746, email: metmbs@sciences.sdsu.edu.

June 24-27, 2002, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2801
IKE'02 The 2002 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering.

Bhanu Prasad, PhD. School of Computer and Information Science, Georgia Southwestern State University, 800 Wheatley Street, Americus, Georgia 31709, USA, tel: (229) 931 2111, fax: (229) 931 2270 (att: Dr. Prasad), email: bhanu@canes.gsw.edu.

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

                               Client-Server Architectures 
                        Information and Knowledge Engineering 
                                      Mobile Agents 
                          Web-Based Design and Development 
                 Knowledge and Information Management Techniques 
                                 Data Mining Techniques 
                           Database Engineering and Systems 
                              Knowledge Delivery Methods 
                                  Document Processing 
                                       Data Security 
                                  Knowledge Life Cycle 
                                  Business Architectures 
                      Formal and Visual Specification Languages 
                               Software Tools and Support 
                                        QoS issues 
                          Performance Evaluation Techniques 
                               Knowledge-Based Systems 
                                  Clustering Techniques 
 Web Technology and Systems for Information and Knowledge Based Applications 
                              Dataweb Models and Systems 
                                     Data Warehouses 
                                 Workflow Management 
          Knowledge and Information Extraction and Discovery Techniques 
                           Service Recovery / Fault-Tolerance 
                     Large-Scale Information Processing Methods 
                             Data and Knowledge Processing 
                                     Data Structures 
                                     Video Databases 
                                  Distributed Databases 
                         Information and Knowledge Structures 
                      Databanks - issues, methods, and standards 
                         Information Quality (Quality Metrics) 
                             E-Libraries (Digital Libraries) 
                         Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems 
                                      XML and XMI 
                         Agent-Based Techniques and Systems 
                                  Content Management 
                          Information Reliability and Security 
                                 Hardware Architectures 
                                Modeling and Simulation 
                                Decision Support Systems 
                                      Expert Systems 
                             Aspect-Oriented Programming 
                   Re-usability of Software/Knowledge/Information 
                                       Privacy Issues 
                                  Interoperability Issues 
                                   Transaction Systems 
                        Object-Oriented Modeling and Systems 
                                   RAID Architectures 
                             Knowledge Classification Tools 
                                 Case-Based Reasoning 
                                   Bayesian Techniques 
                                  Ubiquitous Computing 
                               Managing Copyright Laws 
                                  Digital Watermarking 
                          Data/Information/Knowledge Models 
            Applications (e-Commerce, Multimedia, Business, Banking, ...) 

June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2804
METMBS Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences.

Faramarz Valafar, Dept. Computer Science, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-7720, tel: (619) 594 3742, fax: (619) 594 6746, email: metmbs@sciences.sdsu.edu.

                                       ·         Bioinformatics: This includes informatics techniques in genomics
                                          gene sequencing, gene pattern discovery, gene pattern-function
                                          studies, and other genomics related studies).
                                       ·         Data mining in medicine and biological sciences.
                                       ·         Pattern recognition in medicine and biological sciences.
                                       ·         Signal processing in medicine and biological sciences (e.g.
                                          biomedical signal processing, etc.)
                                       ·         Image processing in medicine and biological sciences (e.g.
                                          biomedical image processing, biomedical imaging, etc.)
                                       ·         Medical decision-making.
                                       ·         Medical Physics.
                                       ·         Biomedical Engineering.
                                       ·         Biomedical Electronics.
                                       ·         Biosignal interpretation.
                                       ·         Any application of computers in Medicine and biological sciences
                                          (protein structure-function analysis, drug and protein design,
                                          molecular modeling and simulation, etc.)
                                       ·         Application of information technology in biomedicine (e.g.
                                          medical database management, information retrieval and use of
                                          computers in hospitals)
                                       ·         Application of Computational Intelligence (artificial neural
                                          networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computing) in medicine and
                                          biological sciences
                                       ·         Medical and bio-computing.
                                       ·         Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, etc.)
                                       ·         Recent history (1990-1999) of Mathematics and engineering
                                          techniques in medicine and biological sciences, and what to expect
                                          during the next decade (2000-2009); New horizons. Review articles)
                                       ·         Other aspects and applications relating to technological
                                          advancements in medicine and biological sciences.

June 24-27, 2002, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2827
SPECIAL TECHNICAL SESSION ON LEARNING FROM DISTRIBUTED DATA AND KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORIES at ICMLA'02.

Doina Caragea, Iowa State University ( dcaragea@iastate.edu ).

June 27-29, 2002, Lyon, France. Item #2665
ISMIS 2002 - 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems.

Yves Kodrattof, LRI, Univ. Paris-Sud, France. Email: yk@lri.fr.

ISMIS 2002 invites submissions of
original research contributions, as well as proposals for panels
and workshops. Contributions for industry and applications
sessions and software demonstrations also are solicited. The
conference covers a broad range of topics, including the use of
conventional approaches, as well as new challenges for advanced
techniques for intelligent systems in any possible domain. This
Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively
engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent
systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange
between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the
cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas:

Intelligent Multimedia
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Intelligent Information Systems
Knowledge Representation and Integration
Learning and Knowledge Discovery
Logic for Artificial Intelligence
Methodologies (modeling, design, validation, performance evaluation).
Soft Computing

June 27 - July 6, 2002, St, Petersburg, Russia. Item #2738
Advanced Problems in Mechanics 2002.

email: apm2002@eng.abdn.ac.uk.

* mechanics of non-classical media
* solids and structures
* phase transitions
* nanostructures and thin films
* wave motion
* nonlinear dynamics, chaos and vibration
* dynamics of rigid bodies and multibody dynamics
* fluid and gas
* computational mechanics
* mechanical and civil engineering applications

June 27-29, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Item #2753
NAFIPS 2002 North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society.

Donald H. Kraft, Dept. of Computer Science, 298 Coates Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020 USA, tel: (225) 578 2253, fax: (225) 578 1465, email: kraft@bit.csc.lsu.edu.

June 30 - July 21, 2002, Telluride, Colorado. Item #2763
Telluride Workshop and Summer School on Neuromorphic Engineering.

Terrence Sejnowski, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, San Diego, CA 92037, email: telluride@salk.edu, fax: (858) 587 0417.

Projects that are carried out during the  workshop will be centered in
a number of working groups, including:
* active  vision
* audition
* olfaction
* motor control
* central  pattern generator
* robotics
* multichip communication
* analog VLSI
* learning

June 30 - July 5, 2002, Mount Holyoke College, MA. Item #2787
Gordon Research Conference "Sensory coding and the natural environment: Probabilistic models of perception".

Pamela Reinagel <pam_reinagel@hms.harvard.edu>.

July 1-5, 2002, Annecy, France. Item #2554
IPMU 2002 The 9th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems.

Joelle Pellet, IPMU2002, LAMII/CESALP, Univ. of Savoie, B.P. 806, F-74016 Annecy cedex, France. Tel: +33 450 09 65 40, fax: +33 450 09 65 59, email: ipmu2002@univ-savoie.fr.

Topics
* Theory methods and tools
* Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Measure of
 Information and Uncertainty, Evidence Theory,
 Possibility Theory, Utility Theory, Measurement
 Theory, Belief Networks, Chaos Theory, Fuzzy
 Methods, Rough Sets.
* Belief Updating, Default Reasoning, Multivalued
 Logics, Temporal Reasoning, Non-standard Logics,
 Non-monotonic Logics, Approximate Reasoning.
* Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation,
 Uncertainty in Cognition, Information
 Incompleteness and Inconsistency, Genetic
 Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation, Machine
 Learning, Inductive Methods, Neural Networks,
 Aggregation Methods, Data Analysis.
* Application fields
* Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Diagnosis
 Systems, Expert Systems, Hybrid Systems,
 Clustering, Classification, Databases, Image
 Processing, Intelligent Agents, Pattern
 Recognition, Medical Applications, Mechatronics,
 Financial Engineering, Multi-Media Management,
 Decision Support Systems, Dedicated Architectures
 and Software, Software Engineering, Multicriteria
 and Group Decision Making, Industrial Engineering,
 Information Systems, Information Retrieval,
 Information Fusion, Data Mining.

July 1-3, 2002, Darmstadt, Germany. Item #2670
13th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping.

F. Kordon, LIP6-SRC, Univ. Paris 6, 8, rue du Captaine Scott, 75015 Paris, France, Fabrice.Kordon@lip6.fr.

        *       Integration models for hardware/software intensive systems
        *       Interoperability of network-based systems
        *       Integrated telecommunications systems
        *       Very large scale system engineering
        *       Specification and language models for hardware/software systems
        *       Methodologies and tools for software/hardware systems
        *       Software/Configware/Hardware codesign and tradeoffs
        *       System verification/validation
        *       Prototypes in engineering processes
        *       FPGAs in system prototyping and emulation
        *       Domain-specific models for prototyping
        *       Prototyping of embedded/real-time systems
        *       Virtual prototyping of physical systems
        *       Prototype to product transition
        *       Prototyping case studies
        *       Reconfigurable Products
        *       Simulation & Prototyping of Application-specific Systems-on-Chip

July 1-5, 2002, France, Marseille. Item #2781
AISC'2002 Sixth International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION Theory, Implementations and Applications.

Belaid Benhamou (Conference chair), Universite de Provence, CMI, 39 rue F. Juliot-Curie, 13453 Marseille Cedex 13, France, email: Belaid.Benhamou@cmi.univ-mrs.fr.

TOPICS
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* AI and Symbolic Mathematical Computing
* Computer Algebra Systems and Automated Theorem Provers
* Integration of Logical Reasoning and Computer Algebra
* Engineering, Industrial and Operations Research Applications
* Foundations and Complexity of Symbolic Computation
* Mathematical Modeling of Multi-Agent Systems
* Programming Languages for Symbolic Computation
* Symbolic Computations for Expert Systems and Machine Learning
* Implementations of Symbolic Computation Systems
* Logic and Symbolic Computing
* Constraint Programming
* Term Rewriting
* Logic based Multi Agent Systems
* Reasoning

July 2-3, 2002, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Item #2810
IEEE EMBS UK & RI Postgraduate Conference in Biomedical Engineering & Medical Physics.

h.arochena@coventry.ac.uk.

Interfacing Engineering Expertise with Medical Applications:
Academic and Industrial Perspectives

July 4-7, 2002, Cork, Ireland. Item #2675
DSIAge 2002 International Conference on Decision Making and Decision Support in the Internet Age.

email: Patrick.Brezillon@lip6.fr.

July 4-6, 2002, Budapest. Item #2752
ITHET2002 Third IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training.

Imre J. Rudas, Vice-Rector, Budapest Polytechnic, H-1081 Budapest Nepszinhaz u.8, Hungary, tel: 36 1 333 4513, fax: 36 1 333 9183, email: Rudas@zeus.banki.hu.

OPICS
The scope of the conference will cover but not be limited to:
- New strategies for higher education and training
- Network based education and training
- Intelligent training technology
- Authoring technology
- Virtual classroom, virtual university
- Asynchronous learning
- Distance education
- Quality management in higher education
- Accreditation issues
- Industry-institute partnership
- Small and medium scale enterprises and the use of new 
technologies in
their training programs - Role of information society and global
communication system

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The duration of the conference will be three days. The scientific
program will include:
- Oral presentations
- Video presentations
- Demonstrations of technology based training material
- Panel sessions

July 7-14, 2002, CRETE ISLAND, GREECE. Item #2714
6th WSEAS/IEEE MULTICONFERENCE CSCC.

email: manolis7@wseas.org.

* * * * *    6th WSEAS/IEEE Conference on CIRCUITS,

* * * * *    6th WSEAS/IEEE Conference on SYSTEMS,

* * * * *    6th WSEAS/IEEE Conference on COMMUNICATIONS,

* * * * *    6th WSEAS/IEEE Conference on COMPUTERS

* * * * *    2nd WSEAS/IEEE Conference on
                 SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE ENGINEERING
                (organized by Prof. O.Panfilov)

* * * * *    2nd WSEAS/IEEE Conference on
               SIGNAL PROCESSING, MULTIDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS,
             COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY AND ARTIFICIAL VISION
             (organized by Prof. G.Antoniou)

* * * * *    4th WSEAS/IEEE Conference on
                NEURAL, FUZZY AND EVOLUTIONARY
                COMPUTATION (organized by Prof. V.Mladenov)
* * * * *    2nd WSEAS/IEEE Conference on
                 MULTIRATE SYSTEMS AND WAVELET ANALYSIS

* * * * *    2nd WSEAS/IEEE Conference on
                POWER ENGINEERING
               (organized by Prof. L.A.Pecorelli)

July 8-11, 2002, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #2630
ESDA 2002 6th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DESIGN AND ANALYIS.

A. Nilufer Egrican, Faculty of Mechanical Engienering Istanbul Technical Univ. 80191, Gumussuyu, Istanbul, TURKEY . Email: esda2002@mkn.itu.edu.tr.

July 8-12, 2002, Sydney, Australia. Item #2667
ICML 2002 The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning.

Claude Sammut. Email: icml2002@cse.unsw.edu.au.

ICML-2002 welcomes submissions on all facets of machine learning and
especially solicits papers on problem areas, research topics,
learning paradigms, and approaches to evaluation that  include:

    *  the role of learning in natural language and speech, vision,
       planning and scheduling, design and configuration, logical and
       spatial reasoning, motor control, and more generally on
       learning for performance tasks carried out by intelligent
       agents;

    *  the discovery of scientific laws and taxonomies, the
       construction of componential and structural models, and
       learning at multiple levels of temporal and spatial resolution;

    *  novel applications of machine, particularly those that require
       non-standard techniques;

    *  computational models of human learning, exploratory research
       that describes novel learning tasks, work that integrates
       familiar methods to demonstrate new functionality, and agent
       architectures in which learning plays a central role;

July 8-12, 2002, Sydney, Australia. Item #2694
COLT 2002 The Fifteenth Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory.

Jyrki Kivinen. Email: kivinen@axiom.anu.edu.au.

  * analysis of learning algorithms for specific classes of
      hypotheses, including established classes (e.g. neural networks,
      graphical models, decision trees, logical formulae, automata,
      pattern languages, grammars) and new classes;
  * bounds on the generalization ability of learning algorithms;
  * learning algorithms based on large margin hypotheses (SVM,
      boosting);
  * worst-case relative loss bounds for sequential prediction
      algorithms;
  * analysis of adaptive algorithms for decision, planning and
      control;
  * bounds on the computational complexity of learning;
  * learning with queries and learning in the limit;
  * new learning models that either capture important details of
      specific applications or that address general issues in a new
      way.

July 8 - August 2, 2002, Budapest, Hungary. Item #2713
2002 COMPLEX SYSTEMS SUMMER SCHOOL.

Summer Schools, MS NG, Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. Email: summerschool@santafe.edu.

Topics include:
-- Foundations of Complex Systems (including nonlinear dynamics,
information and
    computation theory, and evolution and adaptation)
--  Network Structure and Dynamics
--  Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems
--  Universal Scaling Laws in Biology
--  Collective Behavior and Self-organization

July 8-28, 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria. Item #2726
9th International Summer School in Cognitive Science.

Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, 21 Montevideo Str. Sofia 1635, tel: 955 7518.

July 8-19, 2002, K, U, Leuven, Belgium. Item #2737
LTP 200e NATO Advanced Study Institute on Learning Theory and Practice.

Ida Tassens, Secretariat NATO-ASI LTP 2002, K.U.Leuven ESAT-SISTA, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium, tel: 32 16 32 17 09, fax: 32 16 32 19 70, email: ida.tassens@esat.kuleuven.ac.be.

July 8 - 12, 2002, Sydney. Item #2849
DMLL-2002 First International Workshop on Data Mining Lessons Learned at ICML-2002.

Nada Lavrac . Email: Nada.Lavrac@ijs.si.

July 9-13, 2002, New York City, New York, USA. Item #2669
GECCO-2002 Bird-of-a-feather Workshops.

Alwyn Barry, Room 4Q62a, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of the West of England, Frenchay, Bristol, UK. BS16 1QY. Email: alwyn.barry@uwe.ac.uk.

July 9-13, 2002, New York City, New York, USA. Item #2671
GECCO-2002 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.

Erick Cantu-Paz. Email: cantupaz@llnl.gov.

July 9-11, 2002, Sydney, Australia. Item #2724
ILP2002 The Twelfth International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming.

email: ilp2002@lri.fr.

July 9-13, 2002, New York City, USA. Item #2735
A workshop on ``Approximation and Learning in Evolutionary Computation'' at GECCO.

email: yaochu_jin@de.hrdeu.com.

Topics of Interests

Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, any of the 
following areas:

* Off-line and on-line learning for approximate model 
  construction
* Off-line and on-line learning for performance improvement
* Evolution control and model management in evolutionary 
  computation
* Multi-level evolutionary optimization
* Learning in multi-objective evolutionary optimization
* Fitness estimation in noisy environment
* Comparison of different modeling methods, such as 
  neural networks, response surface and least squares methods, 
  and probabilistic models for evolutionary computation
* Comparison of different sampling techniques for on-line and 
  off-linelearning

July 9, 2002, Sydney, Australia. Item #2826
ICML Workshop Machine Learning in Computer Vision.

Arcot Sowmya, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia, email: sowmya@cse.unsw.edu.au.

        * Learning to recognize shapes
        * Supervised learning of visual models
        * Unsupervised learning for structure detection in images
        * Multistrategy and meta learning in vision
        * Learning and refining visual models
        * Multi-level learning and reuse of learned concepts
        * Learning important features for image analysis
        * Relational learning in vision
        * Context in visual learning
        * Mining from large collections of images and videos
        * Interpretation of discovered visual models
        * Image segmentation via learning
        * Probabilistic model estimation and selection
        * Applications such as medical imaging, object recognition, remote sensing,
                digital maps, document image analysis and recognition, spatial reasoning

July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #2685
SCI 2002 The 6th World Multi Conference 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 15, 2002, Heidelberg, Germany. Item #2775
XXII. Dynamics Days Europe 2002.

email: dd02@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de.

    Computational Physics               Patterns and Waves 
    Dynamical Systems                   Nonlinear Quantum Effects 
    Engineering and Optimization        Statistical Physics 
    Fluid Dynamics                      Stochastics and Applications 
    Life Sciences                       Structured Devices 

July 15-19, 2002, Bologna, Italy. Item #2803
SEMAS-2002 Second International Workshop on SECURITY OF MOBILE MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS at AAMAS 2002.

Klaus Fischer, DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany, Tel/fax: +49 681 302 3917/-2235, email: Klaus.Fischer@dfki.de.

- security policies for agent environments and multiagent systems 
- security for agents (against other agents, malicious hosts, and 
  software failures) 
- security for agent hosts (against agent attacks and agent 
  deficiency) 
- security mechanisms that can be implemented by using 
  (mobile) multiple agents 
- reasoning about security in agent architectures 
- type-theoretic and formal models of security 
- language-based security for (mobile) agents 
- security through agents (for any form of malfunctioning in the 
  network) 
- application of security mechanism in a (mobile) multiagent context 
- integration of traditional security mechanisms to the agent realm 
- design methodologies for secure (mobile) multiagent systems 
- attacks on and analysis of existing security mechanisms/protocols 

July 15, 2002, Bologna, Italy. Item #2821
BIXMAS 2002 Bioinformatics and Multi-Agent Systems Workshop at AAMAS 2002.

Andrew B. Williams, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA 52242, tel: +1 319 339 8384, fax: +1 319 335 6028, email: abwill@eng.uiowa.edu.

July 15-19, 2002, Frascati, ROMA, Italy. Item #2861
SCIE02 - INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON INFORMATION EXTRACTION A perspective to intelligent access, acquisition and delivery of knowledge from Web sources.

email: scie02@info.uniroma2.it.

July 16-19, 2002, Arcadia Hotel and Resort, Phuket, Thailand. Item #2703
ITC-CSCC 2002 The 2002 International Technical Conference on Circuits/System, Computers and Communications.

Mitsunori Makino, Dept. of Information and System Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan, email: makino@hawk.ise.chuo-u.ac.jp.

Circuits&Systems.  
 - Linear/Nonlinear Systems  
 - Power Electronics & Circuits  
 - Signal Processing 
 - Graph & Petri Nets 
 - Digital Filters 
 - Verification and Testing 
 - Modern Control  
 - Adaptive Systems  
 - Analog Circuits   
 - VLSI Design   
 - Computer Aided Design  
 - Neural Networks  
 - Medical Electronics & Circuits 
 - Intelligent Transportation Systems&Technology  
Communications. 
 - Communication Theory  
 - High Speed Networks  
 - Wireless Communications  
 - Mobile Communications  
 - Multimedia Service and Technology  
 - Signal Processing for Communications  
 - Network Management & Design  
 - Radar/Remote Sensing - Electromagnetic Theory  
 - EMI & EMC - Circuits&Components for Communications  
 - Antenna & Wave Propagation  
 - Optical Communications /Components  
Computers. 
 - Computer Systems & Applications 
 - Computer Networks 
 - Image Processing & Video Technology 
 - Internet Technology and Applications 
 - Modeling & Simulation 
 - System Software 
 - Spatial Information Processing 
 - Optical Computing 
 - Artificial Intelligence & Applications  

July 17, 2002, Frascati, Rome, Italy. Item #2872
ROMAND 2002 - 2nd Workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data jointly held with SCIE 2002.

Roberto Basili, email: basili@info.uniroma2.it.

Topics
======

Abstracts are invited on all topics related to robustness in natural
language processing, including, but not  limited to:

   * Robust Text Analysis
   * Information Extraction
   * Robust Parsing
   * Natural Language Architectures
   * Hybrid methods in computational linguistics and language engineering
   * Text Mining
   * Robust Semantics
   * Underspecification
   * Spoken Dialogue systems
   * Multimodal human-computer interfaces
   * NLP and Soft Computing
   * Multimedia document analysis

July 20, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. Item #2867
FLoC'02 The 2002 Federated Logic Conference.

Martin Grohe . grmail@dcs.ed.ac.uk.

July 21-26, 2002, Lyon, France. Item #2617
ECAI 2002 - 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

email: ecai2002@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr.

July 21 - July 25, 2002, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Item #2707
CNS*2002 Eleventh Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting.

Erik De Schutter. Email: erik@bbf.uia.ac.be.

July 21, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. Item #2727
WRS 2002 Second International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming.

email: wrs02@dsic.upv.es.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to,  
- theoretical foundations for the definition and semantic description 
  of reduction strategies
- strategies in different frameworks (term rewriting, graph rewriting,
  infinitary rewriting, lambda calculi, higher order rewriting and 
  explicit substitutions, conditional rewriting, rewriting with 
  built-ins, narrowing, constraint solving, etc.) and their application 
  in (equational, functional, functional-logic) programming (languages)
- properties of reduction strategies / computations under
  strategies (e.g., completeness, computability, decidability,
  complexity, optimality, (hyper-)normalization, cofinality,
  fairness, perpetuality, context-freeness, neededness, laziness,
  eagerness, strictness)
- interrelations, combinations and applications of
  reduction under different strategies (e.g., equivalence
  conditions for fundamental properties like termination and
  confluence, applications in modularity analysis, connections
  between strategies of different frameworks, etc.)
- program analysis and other semantics-based optimization techniques
  dealing with reduction strategies
- rewrite systems / tools / implementations with flexible /
  programmable strategies as essential concept / ingredient
- specification of reduction strategies in (real) languages
- data structures and implementation techniques for reduction
  strategies.

July 22-25, 2002, Kuching, Sarawak, MALAYSIA. Item #2643
WEC2002 Engineering Innovation and Sustainability: Global Challenges and Issues.

Ir. Abang Abdullah Abang Ali. Email: aaaa@eng.upm.edu.my.

Biological, Agric. and Food Eng. 
       Chemical and Environmental Eng. 
       Civil and Structural Eng. 
       Information Communication Technology 
       Electrical and Electronic Eng. 
       Eng. Education, Training and Policy 
       Manufacturing Eng., Automation and Robotics 
       Mechanical and Aerospace 

July 22, 2002, Lyon, France. Item #2729
IDAMAP 2002 INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY at ECAI.

Peter Lucas (Chair), Dept. of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK, tel: +44 1224 273829, fax: +44 1224 273422/487048, email: lucas@cs.uu.nl, plucas@csd.abdn.ac.uk.

July 22-25, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. Item #2731
LICS 2002 - Seventeenth Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science.

Gordon Plotkin, Division of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom, email: gdp@dcs.ed.ac.uk, tel: +44 131 650 5158, fax: +44 131 667 7209.

July 22-23, 2002, Lyon, France. Item #2751
STAIRS-2002 First European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (affiliated to ECAI'2002).

Thierry Vidal, ENIT Tarbes, 47, avenue d'Azereix - BP 1629, F-65016 Tarbes cedex, France. Tel: +33 5 62442762, email: thierry@enit.fr.

Adaptive Sytems
Automated Reasoning
Autonomous Agents
Case-Based Reasoning
Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning
Cognitive Science in AI
Constraints
Data Mining and Information Retrieval
Description Logics and Conceptual Graphs
Diagnosis and Abduction
Distributed AI
Genetic Algorithms and Soft Computing
Intelligent User Interfaces
Intelligent Web Applications
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Logic Programming
Machine Learning
Model-based and Qualitative reasoning
Multi-Agent Systems
Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition
Neural Networks
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Ontology
Planning and Scheduling
Real-time AI and Control
Reasoning about Actions and Change
Robotics
Search
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
Uncertainty in AI
Vision

July 23-26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Item #2764
KDD-2002: The Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Randy Goebel, U. Of Alberta, Canada.

July 23, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Item #2851
WEBKDD 2002 The Fourth WEBKDD Workshop: Web Mining for Usage Patterns and User Profiles. In conjunction with The Eighth ACM SIGKDD.

email: webkdd02@cs.ualberta.ca.

*Enabling technologies
   - Data warehousing (both web and non-web data)
   - Data collection including event streams, such as clickstreams
            and call center streams, and transactional data
   - Techniques for web data preparation, including cleansing,
            transformation, and sampling
   - Classification of web page texts and multimedia content
*Modelling users and usage
   - Profile establishment upon declared and derived preferences
   - Deriving profiles from usage
   - Discovering misuse and fraud
   - Recommendation systems
   - Student profiles in e-learning
   - Alert systems
   - Permission marketing
*Applications for web-usage mining in
   - Recommendation systems, such as travel assistants
   - E-learning, such as collectors of personalized teaching materials
   - Alert systems, such as personalized delivery of news and journals
   - discovering  misuse and fraud, such as credit-card fraud and network intrusion

July 23, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Item #2860
MDM/KDD2002 - The Third International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining in conjunction with 8th ACM SIGKDD.

mdm-chairs@cs.ualberta.ca.

July 23, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA. Item #2870
The Second Workshop on Temporal Data Mining In conjunction with KDD-2002.

K. P. Unnikrishnan, General Motors R&D Center, tel: 586 986 1450, fax: 586 986 0574, unni@gmr.com.

Topics of interest include:

* Foundational Issues in temporal data mining 
* Temporal Data Mining Techniques and Methodologies 
* Suitable data models and frameworks for temporal data mining 
* Suitable visualization techniques for temporal data mining 
* Incorporating domain knowledge for efficient temporal data mining 
* Scalability of temporal data mining algorithms 
* Mining of temporal data on the web

July 24 - 26, 2002, Lyon, France. Item #2750
PAIS-2002 Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems.

Boi Faltings, Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle (LIA), Département Informatique (DI), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Ecublens, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Email: faltings@lia.di.epfl.ch, tel: +41 21 693 2735, fax: +41 21 693 5225.

July 25-27, 2002, Edmonton, Canada. Item #2838
CG'02 Third International Conference on Computers and Games.

email: cg2002@cs.ualberta.ca.

July 26, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. Item #2740
STRATEGIES 2002 - 5th International Workshop on Strategies in Automated Deduction.

email: Thierry.Boy-de-la-Tour@imag.fr.

Theory:
* Models of search spaces and languages or mathematical formalisms
  to define search plans and prove their properties;
* Analysis of the search space (e.g., regularities, symmetries,
  classification, stratification);
* Strategy analysis (e.g., formal approaches for the machine-independent
  evaluation and comparison of deduction strategies); 
  
Definition, design, implementation and application:
* Meta-level features (e.g., pre-processing, compilation, lemmatization,
  caching, usage of semantics or domain knowledge);
* Strategies in (existing) systems (e.g., implementation of the proof
  search model, flexibility and programmability of strategies,
  role of the user);
* Applications and case studies in which strategies play a major role.

Specialization and integration:
* Strategies devoted to specific theories including inductive theories,
  arithmetic, decidable theories, and combinations thereof;
* Control issues and strategies in the integration of systems.

July 28, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Item #2779
MeaN-2002 Workshop on MEANING NEGOTIATION at AAAI-02.

Paolo Bouquet, Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies and Cognitive Science Laboratory, University of Trento (Italy), email: bouquet@cs.unitn.it, tel: +39 0461 882135 fax: +39 0461 882124.

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

  * formal, computational, game-theoretic, cognitive, epistemological,
    social models of MN;
  * multi-agent communication languages and protocols;
  * role of mental attitudes (e.g., beliefs, intentions);
  * semantic interoperability;
  * ontology integration/mapping;
  * integration/matching of structured and semi-structured data;
  * context-based approaches to MN;
  * natural language processing techniques for MN;
  * coordination/cooperation strategies for MN;
  * innovative scenarios for MN (e.g., Semantic Web, Knowledge
    Management, E-business, Marketplaces, Personal Digital Assistants,
    mobile applications)
  * business cases.

July 28, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Item #2811
MeaN-2002 AAAI-02 Workshop on MEANING NEGOTIATION.

Paolo Bouquet . Email: bouquet@cs.unitn.it.

  * formal, computational, game-theoretic, cognitive, epistemological, 
    social models of MN; 
  * multi-agent communication languages and protocols; 
  * role of mental attitudes (e.g., beliefs, intentions); 
  * semantic interoperability; 
  * ontology integration/mapping; 
  * integration/matching of structured and semi-structured data; 
  * context-based approaches to MN; 
  * natural language processing techniques for MN; 
  * coordination/cooperation strategies for MN; 
  * innovative scenarios for MN (e.g., Semantic Web, Knowledge 
    Management, E-business, Marketplaces, Personal Digital Assistants, 
    mobile applications) 
  * business cases. 

July 28, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Item #2822
AAAI-02 Workshop on Intelligent Service Integration.

Dean Allemang, Boston University. Email: allemang@acm.org.

The workshop is open to researchers investigating all aspects
of intelligent service integration. Participation in the
workshop will be determined based on short papers describing
the participant's work, either position papers, application
descriptions, or architecture descriptions (see the call for
participation for more details). 

July 29, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Item #2790
AAAI/KDD/UAI2002 Joint Workshop on Real Time Decision Support and Diagnosis Systems.

Haipeng Guo, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, 234 Nichols Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-2302, USA. Tel: (785)539 0278, fax: (785) 539 7180, email: hpguo@cis.ksu.edu.

- real-time expert systems 
- embedded intelligent diagnosis agents 
- anytime uncertain reasoning algorithms and flexible computation 
- cost estimation for resource-bounded computation
- decision-theoretic planning and deliberative real-time artificial
intelligence
- real-time Bayesian network inference and learning techniques 
- real-time algorithms for scheduling and situated planning
- real-time sensor fusion and situation assessment
- real-time knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) 

July 30 - August 5, 2002, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. Item #2767
ASIC First Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference.

Rich Shiffrin. Email: shiffrin@indiana.edu.

The conference will cover a wide range of subjects in cognitive science,
including:

    * neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience 
    * psychology (including perception, psychophysics, attention,
    * information processing, memory and cognition) 
    * computer science 
    * machine intelligence and learning 
    * linguistics 
    * and philosophy

July 30 - August 1, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. Item #2802
TABLEAUX 2002 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (in the frame of FloC 2002).

Tableaux 2002, Abt. Wissensbasierte Systeme 184/3, TU Wien, Favoritenstr. 9-11, A-1040 Wien (Austria).

  - analytic tableaux for various logics (theory and applications)
  - related techniques and concepts (e.g., model checking, BDD's)
  - related methods (model elimination, sequent calculi, connection
    method, inverse method, ...)
  - new calculi and deduction methods in classical
    and non-classical logics (description, modal, intuitionistic,
    linear, temporal, ...)
  - systems, tools, implementations and applications (e.g., verification)

August 2-4, 2002, Kananaskis Mountain Lodge, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Item #2700
SARA-2002 Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation.

Robert Holte. Email: holte@cs.ualberta.ca.

August 6-9, 2002, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Item #2681
Joint IAPR International Workshops on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2002) and Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR 2002).

Adnan Amin. Email: amin@cse.unsw.edu.au.

Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2002)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Topics:
=====
Structural Matching
Shape analysis
Neural-based SSPR
Graph-based methods
Applications
Grammar and language methods
Grammatical inference
SSPR methods in computer vision
Speech and 1D signal analysis
Structure document image analysis

Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR 2002)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Topics:
=====

General methodology
Density estimation
Neural Networks
Clustering and Quantization
Random fields
Applications
Feature extraction and selection
Hybrid methods
Contextual PR
2D and 3D object recognition
Speech and image analysis
Comparative studies

August 07-08, 2002, Atlanta, USA. Item #2696
ISDA 2002 Second International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications.

Ajith Abraham, School of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3842, Australia, tel: +61 3 990 26778, fax: +61 3 990 26879, email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org.

 Artificial Neural Networks

- Mathematical foundations of neural networks, architectures and
algorithms.
- Learning theory (supervised/unsupervised/reinforcement learning)
- Knowledge based networks
- Implementation issues of neural networks
- Neural network applications
- Special topics

Fuzzy Systems

- Fuzzy logic and possibility theory
- Fuzzy expert systems
- Fuzzy system design using evolutionary algorithms
- Fuzzy system modeling and simulation
- Fuzzy systems and applications
- Special topics 

Evolutionary Algorithms

- Genetic algorithms 
- Evolution strategies
- Genetic programming
- Evolutionary programming
- Learning Classifiers
- Hybrid evolutionary algorithms
- Evolutionary algorithms and applications
- Special topics

Hybrid Soft Computing

Neural network- fuzzy systems
Fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms
Neural network - evolutionary algorithms
Neural network- fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms
Hybrid systems applications
Special topics 

All Other Intelligent Systems

- Intelligent agents (architectures, environments, adaptation/ 
  learning and knowledge management) 
- Support Vector Machines
- Bayesian networks and probabilistic reasoning
- Rough sets
- Hard computing techniques 
- Fusion of hard and soft computing techniques
- Intelligent CAD systems
- Intelligent optimization techniques
- Special topics

August 9-11, 2002, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Item #2857
ICM-2002 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANUFACTURING.

Mahiuddin Ahmed, Member Secretary and Head, Industrial and Production Engineering Dept., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh, tel: 880 2 9665611, fax: 880 2 8613046, E mail: head-ipe@ipe.buet.edu, Website: www.buet.ac.bd.

August 10, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotlan. Item #2786
SAB'2002 Workshop on MOTOR CONTROL IN HUMANS AND ROBOTS.

Jose M. Carmena, Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710 USA, jose@dai.ed.ac.uk.

- Robotic and human motor control 
   - Object manipulation and grasping 
   - Perceptual-motor systems and imitation 
   - Models of motor control for integration into neuroprosthetics 
   - Human-Machine haptics 
- Brain-Computer interfaces 
   - Multi-Electrode recording techniques 
   - Data analysis of neural ensemble recordings 
   - Neuroprosthetics for restoring limb movement 

August 10, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK). Item #2815
SAB'2002 Workshop ON GROWING UP ARTIFACTS THAT LIVE.

Nils Goerke, Division of Neuroinformatics (NERO), University of Bonn, Roemerstr. 164, D-53117 Bonn, Germany, http://www.nero.uni-bonn.de, email: goerke@nero.uni-bonn.de.

The workshop will envisage, but not be limited to the  
topics listed below: 
 - Internal models and representation  
 - Architectures for autonomous agents 
 - Behavioural sequencing  
 - Learning and development  
 - Psychology of learning  
 - Motivation and emotion  
 - Emergent structures and behaviours  
 - Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches  

August 10-11, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #2819
EPIROB2002 Second International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems.

email: er2002@epigenetic-robotics.org.

This workshop focuses on combining developmental psychology and robotics and
generally on:

(a) the embodiment of the system;
(b) its situatedness in a physical and social environment;
(c) a prolonged epigenetic developmental process through which increasingly
    more complex cognitive structures emerge in the system as a result of
    interactions with the physical and social environment.

Invited Speakers
    Luc Steels (AI Lab, VUB, Brussels; Sony Computer Science Lab, Paris)
    Colwyn Trevarthen (Dept. of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK)
    John Weng (Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State U., USA)

August 10, 2002, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. Item #2839
WORKSHOP ON ROBOTICS AS THEORETICAL BIOLOGY- PART OF SAB '02.

Tony Prescott, Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, University of Sheffield, UK.

August 11, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #2788
ABiALS Workshop 2002 Adaptive Behavior in Anticipatory Learning Systems during SAB'02.

Martin V. Butz, Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL), Universtiy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, also: Dept. of Cognitive Psychology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, butz@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu.

Essential questions: 
*   How can anticipations influence the adaptive behavior of an artificial 
    learning system? 
*   How can anticipatory adaptive behavior be implemented in an artificial 
    learning system? 
*   How does an incomplete model influence anticipatory behavior? 
*   How do anticipations guide further model learning? 
*   How do anticipations control attention? 
*   Can anticipations be used for the detection of special environmental 
    properties? 
*   What are the benefits of anticipations for adaptive behavior? 
*   What is the trade-off between simple bottom-up stimulus-response driven 
    behavior and more top-down anticipatory driven behavior? 
*   In what respect does anticipation mediate between low-level environmental 
    processing and more complex cognitive simulation? 
*   What role do anticipations play for the implementation of motivations and 
    emotions? 

August 11, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #2850
ABiALS Workshop 2002 Adaptive Behavior in Anticipatory Learning Systems at SAB'02.

Emmanuel Dauc, Facult des sciences du sport, Universit de la Mditerranne, Marseille, France.

August 12 - 14, 2002, Manchester, UK. Item #2792
IDEAL 2002, Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning.

email: ideal@umist.ac.uk.

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS:

* Text and Web Mining

* Document Classification and Clustering

* Indexing and Retrieval Methods

* Knowledge Discovery

* Probabilistic and Statistical Learning

* Pattern Recognition

DATA MINING:

* Sequential and Time series Analysis

* Multivariate Data Visualisation

* Internet and Multimedia Database

* Data Warehouse and E-organisations

* Multi-model Data Analysis

* Medical Diagnosis and Database

FINANCIAL ENGINEERING:

* Portfolio Management

* Risk Analysis and Management

* Fraud Detection

* Modelling and Forecasting

* Electronic Commerce

* Statistics and Econometrics

LEARNING AND AGENTS:

* Neural Networks and Emergent Systems

* Evolutionary Computation

* Fuzzy Logic

* Multi-agents Systems

* Autonomous Agents

* Agent Architectures and Protocols

* Collaborative and Collective learning

* Evolution, Learning and Adaptation

BIOINFORMATICS:

* Protein Structural Prediction

* Microarray Informatics

* Gene Prediction

* Novel Computational Algorithms and Tools

August 14 - 16, 2002, Bristol, UK. Item #2783
EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop Biologically-Inspired Robotics: The Legacy of W. Grey Walter.

Bob Damper, email: rid@ecs.soton.ac.uk.

Biorobotics                     Biologically-inspired robot architectures 
Artificial life and animats     Artificial perception  
Autonomous robots               Humanoid robots  
Learning and adaptation         Evolutionary robotics  
Hardware for biorobotics        Applications  
Communication and cooperation   Robot-human interaction  
Social and collective behaviour History of cybernetics  
Embodiment and robotics         The life and work of Grey Walter  
Emergence and interaction       Neuroethology  
Philosophical issues            Biological basis of intelligence  

August 18-22, 2002, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan. Item #2793
PRICAI-02 The Seventh Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Maurice Pagnucco, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9385 6925, fax: +61 2 9385 5995, email: morri@cse.unsw.edu.au.

   * Agent architectures and languages
   * AI for internet applications
   * AI in business
   * AI in education and computer-assisted learning environments
   * Computational Learning Theory
   * Hybrid reasoning systems
   * Innovative applications of AI technology
   * Intelligent document processing and analysis
   * Intelligent multimedia
   * Intelligent user interface
   * Knowledge discovery and data mining
   * Knowledge acquisition and machine learning
   * Logical foundations for intelligent systems
   * Multi-lingual natural language processing
   * Networked entertainment and games,
   * Practical planning, scheduling, and learning methods
   * Programming and Reasoning with Constraints
   * Robotics and Vision
   * Theory and Practice of Soft computing

August 18, 2002, August 18, 22, 2002. Item #2828
International Workshop on Belief Change and Merging: Theory and Practice.

Samir Chopra (schopra@cse.unsw.edu.au), Knowledge Systems Group, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

	Co-located with  PRICAI-2002

August 19 - September 13, 2002, OBIDOS, PORTUGAL. Item #2733
EU ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (AN I.B.R.O. NEUROSCIENCE SCHOOL).

Camilla bruns, technical university Berlin, faculty of computer science, fr 2-1; Franklinstr. 28/29, 10587 Berlin, Germany; phone: +49-(0)30-314-73442; fax: +49-(0)30-314-73121; e-mail: bruns@cs.tu-berlin.de.

August 19 - 23, 2002, Helsinki, Finland. Item #2768
ECML'02 The 13th European Conference on Machine Learning and PKDD-02 The 6th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.

Hendrik Blockeel. Email: Hendrik.Blockeel@cs.kuleuven.ac.be.

August 19 - 23, 2002, Helsinki, Finland. Item #2854
2nd Workshop on SEMANTIC WEB MINING in conjunction with ECML'02 and PKDD'02.

Bettina Berendt, Abteilung Pädagogik und Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7, D-10117 Berlin, email: berendt@educat.hu-berlin.de.

August 19 - 23, 2002, Helsinki, Finland. Item #2856
IDDM-2002 - 2nd International Workshop on Integration and Collaboration Aspects of Data Mining, Decision Support and Meta-Learning in conjunction with ECML/PKDD-2002.

Marko Bohanec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, tel: +386 1 477 33 09, fax: +386 1 425 10 38, email: marko.bohanec@ijs.si.

This theme includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- ML tools for classifier and model selection
- ROC methodology for DM, DS and ML
- Data pre-processing tools and methods for DM and DS
- Representation languages for DM and DS models
- Standards supporting the exchange of DM and DS models for
  different applications and visualization tools, such as
  PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language)
- DS shells that seamlessly integrate models developed by DM
- Shared ontology and methodology for solving DM and DS problems

August 24, 2002, Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan. Item #2732
COLING 2002 - 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.

email: COLING02@sinica.edu.tw.

August 24, 2002, Brno, Czech Republic. Item #2830
Foclasa 2002 - 1st International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures.

jmj@info.fundp.ac.be.

  Workshop affiliated to CONCUR'2002, 20 - 23 August 2002. 

    o  Theoretical models  for  coordination (component  composition, 
       concurrency,   dynamic  aspects  of   coordination,  semantics, 
       expressiveness); 
    o  Specification,  refinement, and  analysis  of software  archi- 
       tectures (patterns  and styles, verification  of functional and 
       non-functional properties); 
    o  Coordination, architectural, and interface definition languages 
       (implementation, interoperability, heterogeneity); 
    o  Agent-oriented languages (formal models for interacting agents); 
    o  Dynamic  software architectures (mobile  agents, configuration, 
       reconfiguration); 
    o  Modeling  of  information  systems (groupware,  internet  and 
       the web, workflow management, CSCW and multimedia applications) 
    o  Coordination patterns (mobile computing, internet computing); 
    o  Tools  and environments  for  the  development of  coordinated 
       applications 

August 25-30, 2002, Montreal, Canada. Item #2636
TCS 2002 - 2nd IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science.

Nicola Santoro, Carleton Univ.. Email: santoro@scs.carleton.ca.

TCS 2002 will be composed of two interrelated tracks:

Track 1 -  Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation

Track 2  -  Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification.

August 25-30, 2002, Maratea, Italy. Item #2797
ISCL 2002 International Summer School on Computational Logic.

iscl02@cs.unipr.it.

August 25-30, 2002, Miedzyzdroje, Poland. Item #2846
GOWN '02 WSEAS Int.Conf. on Global Optical and Wireless Network conference.

email: poland2002@wseas.org.

August 25-30, 2002, Miedzyzdroje, Poland. Item #2847
EMC'02 WSEAS Int.Conf. on ElectroMagnetic Compatibility.

email: poland2002@wseas.org, T.

August 25-30, 2002, Miedzyzdroje, Poland. Item #2848
NN'02 WSEAS Int.Conf. on Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnologies.

email: poland2002@wseas.org.

August 25-30, 2002, Maratea, Italy. Item #2859
ISCL 2002 Second International Summer School on Computational Logic.

iscl02@cs.unipr.it.

August 26-28, 2002, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland. Item #2613
PERVASIVE 2002 International Conference on Pervasive Computing.

Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM Research.

- System architectures and platforms for pervasive computing
- Middleware and pervasive computing infrastructures
- Mobile, wireless, and wearable technologies 
- Innovative small computing and intelligent devices
- Emerging applications and mobile business issues
- Scenarios for information appliances
- Service discovery protocols
- Content distribution and delivery
- User interfaces for invisible and embedded computing
- Context awareness
- Security and privacy issues 

August 27-31, 2002, Madrid, Spain. Item #2663
ICANN 2002 The 12th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.

Juana Calle, Escuela Técnica Superior de Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain. Email: icann2002@ii.uam.es.

       Computational Neuroscience
        Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition
        Vision and Image Processing
        Robotics and Control
        Signal and Time Series Processing
        Connectionist Cognitive Science
        Selforganization
        Dynamical Systems

August 28 - 30, 2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Item #2875
WAID'02 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENTS IN DESIGN.

Dr. D. C. Brown, AI Research Group, C.S. Dept. WPI, Worcester, MA 01609, USA, tel: (508) 831 5618, fax: (508) 831 5776, email: dcb@cs.wpi.edu.

        Agent-based design communities
        Agents and designing on the web
        Agent ontologies for design
        Cognitively-based design agents
        Creativity and agents
        Multi-agent design systems
        Situated design agents
        Space and time representation and reasoning with agents
        Virtual environments with agents

September 1-5, 2002, Miedzyzdroje, Poland. Item #2845
3rd WSEAS Int. MultiConference on Applied and Theoretical Mathematics.

email: math2002@wseas.org.

September 2-3, 2002, Aix, en, Provence, France. Item #2716
3rd International Workshop on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLIS 2002).

Werner Winiwarter, EC3, Donau-City-Strasse 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria, email: winiwarter@acm.org, tel: +43 1 522 71 71 12, fax: +43 1 522 71 71 71.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Natural language and speech interfaces
Multimodal and multilingual interfaces
Adaptive and personalized interfaces
HLT for information system design
HLT for conceptual modeling
HLT for requirements engineering
HLT for information retrieval and filtering
HLT for the WWW and the Semantic Web
HLT for mobile applications
HLT for digital libraries
HLT for education systems
HLT for e-business and e-government
Terminology and ontologies
Lexical resources and corpora
Computer-assisted language learning
Machine translation
Word sense disambiguation
Document categorization
Information extraction
Text summarization
Natural language learning
Natural language generation
Evaluation of natural language systems

September 2-7, 2002, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. Item #2869
European Summer School in Cooperative Robotics.

euron2@isr.ist.utl.pt.

TOPICS

 The following topics will be developed in the lectures.  All topics will
 be illustrated in the context of robotic applications.

 o Cooperative perception for world modeling and localization
 o Cooperative planning
 o Goal and task allocation for teamwork
 o Multi-robot control and formation control
 o Learning in a multi-robot cooperative setting

September 3-6, 2002, Toulouse, France. Item #2719
EUSIPCO-2002 XI European Signal Processing Conference.

Marie-Laure Boucheret, ENST/TeSA, tel: +33 5 62 17 83 73, fax: +33 5 62 17 83 75, email: Marie-Laure.Boucheret@enst.fr.

September 4-6, 2002, Martigny, Valais, Switzerland. Item #2720
NNSP'2002 IEEE Workshop Neural Networks for Signal Processing.

Samy Bengio, IDIAP, CP 592, rue du Simplon 4, 1920 Martigny, Switzerland. Tel: +41 27 721 77 39, fax: +41 27 721 77 12. Email: bengio@idiap.ch.

September 4 - 6, 2002, Torremolinos, Spain. Item #2814
FOGA VII Foundations of Genetic Algorithms.

email: foga2002@lcc.uma.es.

September 5-7, 2002, Aveiro, Portugal. Item #2748
CONTROLO 2002 - 5th PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL.

Alexandre Manuel Mota, Dept de Electronica e Telecomunicacoes, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810 AVEIRO, PORTUGAL, tel: +351 34 370381, fax: +351 34 381128, email: alex@det.ua.pt.

TOPICS

Contributions are welcome in both theoretical developments and
practical implementations in all areas involving systems and control.
Such topics include, but are not limited to:
o linear and nonlinear control
o adaptive control
o optimal control
o robust control
o stochastic control
o fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems
o control education
o neural networks
o agricultural processes
o genetic algorithms
o robotics and automation
o industrial automation
o emerging control technologies
o biotechnological and environmental systems
o modelling, simulation and identification
o distributed control
o industrial networking
o process control
o behavioral systems
o manufacturing systems and scheduling
o real time systems architectures
o control technology, sensors and actuators
o control architectures
o control applications
o instrumentation
o discrete time systems

September 5-10, 2002, Gelendzhik, Black Sea Cost, Russia. Item #2794
IEEE AIS-02 - IEEE International Conference Artificial Intelligence Systems.

Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University UK. Email: r.roy@cranfield.ac.uk.

Topics of interest: 
------------------
- fuzzy systems
- neural networks
- soft expert systems
- collaborate design
- advanced optimization methods
- concurrent engineering
- data mining
- distributed AI
- evolutionary modeling
- genetic algorithms
- information extraction
- knowledge discovery
- knowledge representation
- machine learning
- integration of multi-agent and soft computing systems 
- case studies 
- applied soft computing frameworks
- Applications of soft computing in mechanical engineering, aerospace
and automotive industry

September 5-10, 2002, Gelendzhik, Black Sea Cost, Russia. Item #2820
Applied Soft Computing, IEEE AIS-02 Special Session.

Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK. Email: r.roy@cranfield.ac.uk.

Submissions are invited on substantial, original and 
previously unpublished research on all applied aspects 
of Soft Computing, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, 
Genetic Algorithms, Advanced optimization methods, 
Industry Study, Implementation of Soft Computing in 
Engineering Design, Mechanical, Electrical, and 
Electronic Engineering, Automotive, Aerospace, 
Transportation, Telecommunication, Medical, Healthcare,  
Finances, Trade, Chemistry, Oil and Gas Industry, 
Process Industry. 

September 9-13, 2002, Graz, Austria. Item #2697
PCV'02 - "Photogrammetric Computer Vision" ISPRS Commission III Symposium.

Rainer Kalliany . Email: kalliany@icg.tu-graz.ac.at.

September 9-13, 2002, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. Item #2706
DCDNS3 Third International Conference on Discrete Chaotic Dynamics in Nature and Society.

Akio Matsumoto, Faculty of Economics, Chuo University, tel: +81 426 74 3351, fax: +81 426 74 3425, email: dcdns3@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp.

September 9-11, 2002, Ghent University, Belgium. Item #2736
ACIVS 2002 Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems.

email: acivs2002@telin.rug.ac.be.

Topics include (but are not limited to) 
   * Image Processing (image restoration and filtering, segmentation, 
     textures, model-based algorithms, multiresolution & scale-space 
     theory, fractals and multifractals); 
   * Pattern Recognition (statistical and structural pattern recognition, 
     robust matching and parsing algorithms, automata and grammars, 
     learning, recurrent networks); 
   * Image and Video Compression, Watermarking; 
   * Image Quality and Algorithmic Performance Evaluation (empirical 
     evaluation techniques; image & video quality metrics and methods). 

September 9-13, 2002, Santa Fe, Argentine. Item #2784
ASAI 2002 - 4th Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence.

Adriana Zapico, Departamento de Computación, Fac. de Cs Exactas, Fis-Quim. y Nat. Enlace Ruta 8 y 36, km 603, 5800 Río Cuarto, Argentina. Email: asai2002-zapico@dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar.

Topics of particular interest include (not limited to):
Adaptive Systems 
AI Foundations 
Automated Reasoning 
Autonomous Agents 
Case-Based Reasoning 
Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning 
Cognitive Science in AI 
Constraints 
Cooperative Robotics 
Data Mining and Information Retrieval 
Description Logics and Conceptual Graphs 
Decision Theory 
Diagnosis and Abduction 
Distributed AI 
Fuzzy Logic 
Fuzzy Control 
Genetic Algorithms and Soft Computing 
Intelligent User Interfaces 
Intelligent Web Applications 
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 
Logic Programming 
Machine Learning 
Model-based and Qualitative reasoning 
Multi-Agent Systems 
Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition 
Neural Networks 
Non-monotonic Reasoning Ontology 
Planning and Scheduling 
Real-time AI and Control 
Reasoning about Actions and Change 
Reinforcement Learning 
Robot Learning 
Search 
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning 
Uncertainty in AI 
Vision

September 9-11, 2002, University of Kent at Canterbury. Item #2843
ICARIS-2002 - 1st International Conference on ARtificial Immune Systems.

Jonathan Timmis, University of Kent at Canterbury. UK. J.Timmis@ukc.ac.uk.

The field of Artificial Immune Systems is one of the more recent
biologically inspired approaches to emerge from computer science. The
natural immune system is an adaptive learning system that employs many
parallel and complementary mechanisms for defense against foreign pathogens.
It is a distributed system, capable of learning to identify previously
unseen invaders and remembering what it has learnt. Numerous immune
algorithms now exist, based on processes identified within human immune
systems. These computational techniques have many potential applications,
such as in pattern recognition, fault detection, computer security, and
optimization.

The aims of this conference are to strengthen this emerging research area by
exploring different immunological mechanisms and their relation to
information processing and problem solving. The conference will provide a
great opportunity for presenting and disseminating the latest work in the
field of Artificial Immune Systems, and is the first ever conference
dedicated entirely to the field of AIS.

September 9-13, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Item #2871
NEURON Workshop.

Kathleen Clinton, clinton@compneuro.umn.edu or (612) 625-8424.

Topics will include:
Integration methods
  --accuracy, stability, and computational efficiency
  --fixed order, fixed timestep integration
  --global and local variable order, variable timestep integration
Strategies for increasing computational efficiency.
Using NEURON's graphical interface to
  --construct models of individual neurons with architectures that
     range from the simplest spherical cell to detailed models
     based on quantitative morphometric data (the CellBuilder).
  --construct models that combine neurons with electronic
     instrumentation (i.e. capacitors, resistors, amplifiers,
     current sources and voltage sources) (the Linear Circuit Builder).
  --construct network models that include artificial neurons,
     model cells with anatomical and biophysical properties,
     and hybrid nets with both kinds of cells (the Network Builder).
  --control simulations.
  --display simulation results as functions of time and space.
  --analyze simulation results.
  --analyze the electrotonic properties of neurons.
Adding new biophysical mechanisms.
Uses of the Vector class such as
  --synthesizing custom stimuli
  --analyzing experimental data
  --recording and analyzing simulation results
Managing modeling projects.

Days 4 and 5

"Beyond the GUI"

September 9-12, 2002, San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA. Item #2881
Intel Developer Forum Conference, Fall 2002 or IDF Fall 2002.

Wendy LaugesenKey3Studios Conference Manager303Vintage Park DriveFoster City, CA 94404PH: 650-372-7968EMAIL: wendy.laugesen@key3media.com, FX: 650-578-6899.

Since its formation, the Intel Developer Forum has been a bellwether for the industry, providing hardware and software developers with first-hand technical information and road maps for technology trends. The forum is a global program that offers year-round developer support, including multiple international conferences and Intel Developer Update, an online magazine.

September 10-11, 2002, Graz, Austria. Item #2698
AAPR'02 - "Vision with Non-Traditional Sensors" International Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recogition.

Rainer Kalliany . Email: kalliany@icg.tu-graz.ac.at.

September 11-14, 2002, Brussels, Belgium. Item #2756
ANTS'2002 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: Third International Workshop on Ant Algorithms.

Marco DORIGO, IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium. Email: mdorigo@ulb.ac.be.

RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS

ANTS'2002 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of ant algorithms and 
Ant Colony Optimization. Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: 

(1) Models of aspects of real ant colony behavior that can stimulate new 
    algorithmic approaches.
(2) Empirical and theoretical research in ant algorithms and ant colony 
    optimization.
(3) Application of ant algorithms and ant colony optimization methods to 
    real-world problems.
(4) Related research in swarm intelligence. 

September 12 - 15, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #2868
ICMAI'02 - 2nd International Conference of Music and Artificial Intelligence.

email: icmai@music.ed.ac.uk.

September 16-18, 2002, Ghent, Belgium. Item #2695
FLINS 2002 - 5th International FLINS Conference on Computational Intelligent Systems for Applied Research.

Mike Nachtegael, Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S9, 9000 Gent, Belgium. Email: mike@nachtegael.com.

Topics of Interest
===============

- Fuzzy Logic
- Neural Networks
- Genetic Algorithms
- Probabilistic Computing
- Hybrid Methods
- Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory
- Causal Models
- Case-based Reasoning
- Chaos Theory
- Rough Set Theory
- Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set Theory
- Evidence Theory
- Interactive Computational Models

And their applications to:

- Decision Support Systems
- Process and System Control, System Identification and Modelling, and
Optimisation
- Signal or Image Processing, Pattern Recognition
- Condition Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis, Systems Integration
- Internet Tools, Human-Machine Interface
- Time Series Prediction, Noise Analysis, Real Time Systems
- Robotics, Motion Control
- Virtual Reality, Telecommunications
- Consumer Electronics, Industrial Electronics, Power and Energy
- Data Mining, Data Visualisation, Intelligent Information Retrieval, and
Autonomous Reasoning
- Risk Analysis and Safety Related Issues

September 16-18, 2002, Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy. Item #2704
KES'2002 Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems.

KES2002 Secretariat, Engineering Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, United Kingdom. Email: kes2002@brighton.ac.uk, tel: +44 1273 642305 fax: +44 1273 642444.

September 16-18, 2002, Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy. Item #2708
Special Session Causality in Knowledge-Based Systems at KES2002.

Colette Faucher, Computer Science, Université d'Aix-Marseille III, Faculté des Sciences de Saint-Jérôme, DIAM-IUSPIM, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, FRANCE, tel: (+33) 4 91 05 60 58, fax: (+33) 4 91 05 60 33, email: colette.faucher@iuspim.u-3mrs.fr.

September 16-18, 2002, Crema, Italy. Item #2742
Special Session on "Neural Pattern Recognition" at KES 2002.

Guenther Palm, Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany.

September 16-18, 2002, Crema, Italy. Item #2743
Special Session on "Neural Networks Understanding Language" at KES 2002.

Guenther Palm, Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany.

September 16 - 18, 2002, Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy. Item #2744
Special Session: Machine Learning in Bioinformatics at KES'2002.

Paolo Frasconi, Dept. of Systems and Computer Science, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, I-50139 Firenze, Italy. Tel: +39 055 4796 362 fax: +39 055 4796 363, http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo.

 o Protein folding and protein structure prediction 
  o Gene expression data and DNA micro-arrays 
  o Protein-protein interaction 
  o Finding signals and motifs in DNA sequences 
  o Inference of genetic networks 
  o Analysis of gene structure and regulation 
  o Phylogenetic analysis 
  o QSAR and QSPR 

September 16-18, 2002, Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy. Item #2799
I-KOMAT 2002 International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques.

Maumita Bhattacharya, School of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3842, Australia. Tel: +61 3 51226396, fax: +61 3 51226842, email: Maumita.Bhattacharya@ infotech.monash.edu.au.

International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management 
Techniques (I-KOMAT’ 2002) is a technical forum for exchanging 
current and future research results /ideas involving Computational 
Intelligence for identification, analysis and control of knowledge 
assets and processes. The scope of I-KOMAT’ 2002 covers both 
design and application aspects of various Artificial Intelligence 
Techniques like Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, 
Evolutionary algorithms, Hybrid systems, Agents, Support 
Vector Machine etc. 

I-KOMAT’ 2002 offers an Interdisciplinary Platform to all 
researchers, developers and practitioners dealing with AI 
based modeling, ontology and planning techniques 
supporting knowledge management.

Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished 
work that demonstrate current research in all areas of 
computational intelligence including design of artificial 
neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, 
hybrid systems, agents, and their applications to knowledge 
management. 



Topics of interest include but not limited to: 

*Design and modeling aspects of the following Computational 
  Intelligence Techniques and their applications to science, technology, 
  commerce, social science and economics:

-Artificial Neural Networks and Probabilistic Reasoning
-Genetic Algorithms 
-Evolution Strategies
-Genetic Programming
-Evolutionary Programming
-Learning Classifiers
-Fuzzy Systems including Fuzzy logic and possibility 
theory, Fuzzy expert systems, Fuzzy system modeling 
and simulation
-Hybrid Soft Computing Techniques like Neuro-Fuzzy, 
fuzzy-GA, GA-Fuzzy etc.
-Intelligent Agents including Multi-Agents, Autonomous Agents 
and Cooperative Agents
-Support Vector Machines
-Bayesian networks and probabilistic reasoning
-Rough sets
-Case-based Reasoning

*Data and Knowledge Representation: planning and description logics

*Data and knowledge visualization

*Knowledge acquisition 

*Models and frameworks of Data Mining techniques

*Reasoning methods and technologies

*Knowledge and belief, belief revision and update, non-monotonic 
formalisms, uncertainty

September 16 - 18, 2002, Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy. Item #2829
Special Session : Human-Centred Intelligent Systems at KES'2002.

Rajiv Khosla, School of Business, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria - 3086, Australia, email: R.Khosla@latrobe.edu.au, fax: (613) 94795971, tel: (613) 94793064.

- Human-centred frameworks and architectures  including collaborative,  
  distributed, multi-agent and multimedia systems, internet and intranet.
- Human-centred software engineering of intelligent systems 
- Human-centred intelligent systems  in areas like e-business/e-commerce,   
  internet, finance, engineering, data mining, information retrieval, image 
  processing,  signal processing and others.
- Human-centred  multimedia based  user interface designs.
- Evaluation and testing methodologies  for human-centred systems.

September 16-20, 2002, Aachen, Germany. Item #2831
KI-2002 - 25th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

G. Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Informatik V, Ahornstr. 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany. Email: ki2002@rwth-aachen.de.

Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 
  *AI Architectures, 
  *Cognitive Modeling, 
  *Ontologies, 
  *Knowledge Representation, 
  *Commonsense Reasoning, 
  *Temporal and Spatial Reasoning, 
  *Case-Based Reasoning, 
  *Reasoning under Uncertainty, 
  *Belief Revision, 
  *Theorem Proving, 
  *Model Checking, 
  *Satisfiability Testing, 
  *Planning and Scheduling, 
  *Configuration and Design, 
  *Natural Language Processing, 
  *Philosophical Foundations of AI, 
  *Game Playing, 
  *Search, 
  *Constraint Satisfaction, 
  *Machine Learning, 
  *Neural Networks, 
  *Robotics and Machine Perception, 
  *Cognitive Robotics, 
  *Innovative Applications. 
A special focus of the conference is on 
  *Multi-Agent Systems, 
  *the Semantic Web, 
  *and Knowledge Discovery. 

September 16 - 17, 2002, Unversidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Item #2837
ESAW'02 Engineering Societies in the Agents World.

Paolo Petta. Email: paolo@oefai.at.

TOPICS OF INTEREST...

* analysis, design, development and verification of agent societies 
* very large-scale multi-agent systems 
* models of complex distributed systems with agents and societies 
* coordination models & technologies for engineering of agent societies 
* interaction-coordination patterns in agent societies 
* inter-disciplinary approaches to engineering of agent societies 
* engineering of social intelligence in multi-agent systems 
* indirect programming of multi-agent systems 
* centralised vs. decentralised social control 
* self-organisation in agent societies 
* security and trust in agent societies 
* middleware infrastructures for agent societies 
* studies of information ecosystems 
* applications of analyses of entangled behaviour and bizarre systems 
* experiences in building and maintaining large agent societies 
* insightful analyses of negative results 

September 16 - 18, 2002, Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy. Item #2855
Special session on Knowledge-based neurocomputing systems at KES2002.

email: castellano@di.uniba.it.

September 16-22, 2002, Halkidiki, Greece. Item #2884
PLANET International Summer School on AI Planning 2002.

Sam Steel . Email: sam@essex.ac.uk.

September 17-20, 2002, Madrid, Spain. Item #2873
SAS'02 The 9th International Static Analysis Symposium.

email: sas02@clip.dia.fi.upm.es, fax: +34 91 352 4819, tel: +34 91 336 7448.

         * abstract interpretation,   * data flow analysis,
         * verification systems,      * program specialization,
         * abstract domains,          * optimizing compilers,
         * theoretical frameworks,    * type inference,
         * abstract model checking,   * complexity analysis,
         * abstract testing,          * security analysis.

September 18-20, 2002, Madrid, Spain. Item #2765
Sixth International Workshop CIA-2002 on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS.

Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany, email: klusch@dfki.de.

Topics are (but not limited to)

* Systems and Applications of Information Agents

         Architectures, prototypes and fielded systems of information agents.
         Issues of programming information agents.

* Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery and the Semantic Web.

        Application of techniques of knowledge discovery for information agents
        acting in open, distributed and dynamically changing environments.
        Information agents for the Semantic Web (thorough technology surveys,
        applications)
        Agent-based distributed knowledge discovery in wide-area networks.

* Mobile Information Agents

         Applications of mobile information agents: Prototypes, experiments,
         studies, and experiences.
         Architectures, environments and languages for mobile and secure
         performance of information agents.

* Information Agents and Ubiquitous Computing

         Collaborating information agents in/for wearable computers,
         hand-held and/or satellite-based control devices:
         Applications, survey, and vision.

* Rational Information Agents for Electronic Commerce

         Models of economic rationality and trust for e-commerce.
         Privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for
         agent-mediated trading.

* Intelligent Interfaces for Information Agents

         Life-like characters and avatars.
         Information agents for digital cities.
         Advanced, personalized 3-d visualizations of information spaces.

* Adaptive Information Agents

         Adaptive information retrieval.
         Advanced user-profiling for collaborative information agents.
         Self-organizing information agents.
         Reasoning on uncertain and vague information
         by resource-bounded information agents.

September 18 - 20, 2002, . Item #2877
LOPSTR'02 International Workshop on Logic Based Program Development and Transformation.

email: mal@ecs.soton.ac.uk.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics:
 *    specification
 *    synthesis
 *    verification
 *    transformation
 *    specialisation
 *    analysis
 *    composition
 *    reuse
 *    optimisation
 *    applications and tools
 *    component-based software development
 *    agent-based software development
 *    software architectures
 *    design patterns and frameworks
 *    program refinement and logics for refinement
 *    proofs as programs

September 19-20, 2002, Freiberg (Sachsen), Germany. Item #2759
5th International Workshop on Boolean Problems.

email: iwsbp2002@informatik.tu-freiberg.de.

  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 
  - Multivalued logic reversibel logic and quantum logic 
  - Solution of real-world problems 

September 19-21, 2002, Albufeira, Portugal. Item #2858
HMAS'2002 Second International Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems (part of EUNITE'2002).

Bogdan Gabrys, Applied Computational Intelligence Research Unit, Division of Computing and Information Systems, University of Paisley, High Street, Paisley PA1 2BE, Scotland, United Kingdom, tel: +44 (0) 141 848 3752, fax: +44 (0) 141 848 3542, email: gabr-ci0@wpmail.paisley.ac.uk.

September 22 - 28, 2002, Vietri sul Mare (Salerno), ITALY. Item #2880
7th Course of the "International School on Neural Nets Eduardo R. Caianiello" on ENSEMBLE METHODS FOR LEARNING MACHINES.

email: iiass.vietri@tin.it.

September 23-26, 2002, Cosenza, Italy. Item #2741
Jelia'02 - 8th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence.

email: flesca@deis.unical.it.

Topics 
Papers are sought in areas related to the use  of  logics  in  AI  including 
(but are not limited to) the following topics: 

Abduction                               Logics and expressiveness 
Active and Deductive systems            Logic based planning and Diagnosis 
Applications of logic-based systems     Logic based Expert systems 
Automated reasoning                     Logic based AI systems 
Belief revision and updates             Logic programming 
Common-sense reasoning                  Logics in Machine Learning 
Computational complexity in AI          Model Checking 
Constraint satisfaction                 Multi-Agent Systems 
Hybrid reasoning systems                Nonmonotonic reasoning 
Inductive reasoning and data mining     Ontologies 
Description logics                      Semantic Web 
Logic databases                         Theorem proving 
Knowledge representation                Uncertain and probabilistic reasoning 

September 23, 2002, On the Internet (World Wide Web). Item #2795
WSC7 - 7th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications.

José M. Benítez, Dept. Ciencias de la Computación e I.A. University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. Tel: +34 958 246143, email: wsc7@decsai.ugr.es.

- Soft Computing for Optimization, Clustering and Classification
- Fuzzy Control
- Data Mining
- Intelligent Data Analysis
- Fuzzy Information Fusion
- Search Spaces and Generalization
- Intelligent Information Retrieval
- Intelligent Agents
- Fuzzy Image Processing
- Fault Diagnosis
- Bio-inspired Systems
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Simulation Environments
- Support Vector Machines
- Immunic Systems
- Language Processing
- Neuro-Hardware
- WWW Modeling and Analysis
- Digital Watermarking
- Autonomous Reasoning
- Data Visualization
- Agent Architectures
- Ant Colony Optimization

September 23 - October 4, 2002, Pisa, Italy. Item #2840
The Calculemus Autumn School.

email: calculemus-autumn-school@eurice.de.

The main objectives of the Calculemus Autumn School are:
    - To give young researchers a perspective on the state-of-the-art
      in symbolic computation and symbolic reasoning
    - To disseminate advanced scientific knowledge on the integration
      of computer algebra systems and deduction systems
    - To foster contacts between the research communities of computer
      algebra, deduction, maths education, and industry
The participants will be trained both theoretically as well as
experimentally on selected tools.

September 24-27, 2002, Malaga, Spain. Item #2595
Third International ICSC Symposium on ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS.

Jose Ruiz Gomez, Engineering and Automation Univ. of Malaga, Spain. Email: ruizg@ctima.uma.es.

TOPICS THEORY
Artificial Immune Systems; Artificial Life; Case based Reasoning; Data Mining; Chaos; Clustering; Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint Programming; Expert Systems; Fuzzy Clustering; Fuzzy Control; Fuzzy learning; Fuzzy Modelling; Genetic Algorithm; Hybrid Systems; Intelligent Agents; Reasoning with Intervals; Knowledge Extraction; Machine Learning; Model based Reasoning; Multi Agent Systems; Neural Networks; Qualitative Reasoning; Wavelets
Topics Applications
Concurrent Engineering; Condition Monitoring and Control; Damage Assessment; Data Mining and Knowledge Extraction; Design; Emerging Organizational Forms; Fault Detection; Hardware Implementations; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Industrial Diagnostics; Management; Medicine Robotics; Mobile robots; Monitoring and Control; Multimedia; Natural Language Processing; Pattern Recognition; Product Development; Resource Allocation; Remote Sensing; Robotics; Security; Sensors fusion; Signal Processing; Speech Processing and Recognition; Teledetection; Teleoperation 

September 24-27, 2002, Cracow, Poland. Item #2709
IUTAM Symposium on Evolutionary Methods in Mechanics.

A. Osyczka osyczka@mech.pk.edu.pl.

September 24-27, 2002, University of Malaga, Spain. Item #2747
EIS'2002 International NAISO Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems.

email: eis2002@global-conf.org, tel: +31 184 496999, fax: +31 184 421065.

On line registration

September 25-27, 2002, Bologna, Italy. Item #2672
DATA MINING 2002 Third International Conference on Data Mining Methods and Databases for Engineering, Finance and Other Fields.

Lucy Southcott, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7AA, UK. Tel: +44 238 029 3223, fax: +44 238 029 2853, email: lsouthcott@wessex.ac.uk.

September 25-28, 2002, Koukounaries, Skiathos Island, Greece. Item #2806
WSEAS ICOSMO 2002 - 2nd WSEAS International Conference on SIMULATION, MODELLING AND OPTIMIZATION.

WSEAS. Email: georgia@wseas.org.

September 25-28, 2002, Koukounaries, Skiathos Island, Greece. Item #2807
WSEAS ICOSSIP 2002 - 2nd WSEAS International Conference on Signal, Speech and Image Processing.

WSEAS. Email: georgia@wseas.org.

September 25-28, 2002, Koukounaries, Skiathos Island, Greece. Item #2808
WSEAS ICOMIV 2002 - 2nd WSEAS International Conference on MULTIMEDIA, INTERNET and VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES.

WSEAS. Email: georgia@wseas.org.

September 25-28, 2002, Koukounaries, Skiathos Island, Greece. Item #2809
WSEAS ICRODIC 2002 - 2nd WSEAS International Conference on ROBOTICS, DISTANCE LEARNING and INTELLIGENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS.

WSEAS. Email: georgia@wseas.org.

October 5, 2002, Pittsburgh, USA. Item #2823
Third ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Rule-Based Programming ; Satellite event of PLI'02.

Bernd Fischer (Co-Chair) RIACS/NASA Ames, (fisch@email: arc.nasa.gov).

* Languages for rule-based programming 
  - Expressivity 
  - Semantics 
  - Implementation techniques 
* Applications of rule-based programming 
  - Analysis of rule-based programs 
  - Programming methods 
* Environments for rule-based programming
  - (Partial) Evaluation
  - Abstract machines for rewriting
* Combination of rule-based programming with other paradigms
* System descriptions 

October 7-11, 2002, Xi'an International Conference Center, Xi'an, PRC. Item #2705
NOLTA02 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications.

email: nolta2002@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp.

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

October 25, 2002, Coventry University, Coventry, UK. Item #2908
1st EUNITE workshop on Intelligent systems in medical diagnosis and therapy.

Olivier Haas, PhD, Leader Biomedical Engineering Systems Group, Control Theory and Applications Centre, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK, tel: +44 (0)2476887658 fax: +44(0)2476888052.

October 27-30, 2002, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Item #2745
ISIC'02 The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control.

Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, 2324 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, V6T 1Z4. Tel: (604) 822 6291, fax: (604) 822 2403, email: desilva@mech.ubc.ca.

October 27-30, 2002, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Item #2766
Special Session on Industrial Applications of Neuro-Fuzzy Systems: Modeling and Control at ISIC'02.

email: fsharifi@acs.ryerson.ca.

The following specifics are encouraged:
- to include the comparison with non-fuzzy methods, e.g., traditional 
   methods.
- to include the results of industrial site experiments, if possible.
- to make observations towards the advantages and disadvantages/problems 
  associated with NF system implementation/application.
- Possible extensions.

October 28-30, 2002, Greenbelt, MD, USA. Item #2882
FAABS II Second Goddard Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems.

Mike Hinchey, NASA GSFC, USA, and University of Queensland, Australia.

October 30 - November 1, 2002, Irvine, California. Item #2844
CoopIS 2002 Tenth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems.

Robert Meersman, STARLab, Free University of Brussels, Building F-G 10, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, email: meersman@vub.ac.be.

   * Software and information services for CIS
     Web information systems and services
     Middleware technologies, mediators, and wrappers
     Interoperability, XML, semantic interoperability
     Multi-databases and workflow
     Mobile and wireless systems and protocols
     Ubiquitous computing environments and tools
     Human-Computer Interactions
     Security, privacy, trust, and quality of information

   * Agent technologies, systems and architectures for CIS
     Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions
     Negotiation protocols, matchmaking, and brokering
     Multi-agents and agent societies
     Self-organizing systems, service description
     Learning, perception, and actions in agents
     Distributed problem solving, peer-to-peer cooperation

   * CIS applications and modeling
     E-commerce, e-government, supply chain
     Use of information in organizations
     Computer-supported cooperative work
     Enterprise knowledge management
     Data and knowledge modeling

November 10 - 14, 2002, Recife, Brazil. Item #2791
XVI Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence.

Geber L. Ramalho, Centro de Informática - UFPE, Cx. Postal 7851, 50732-970 Recife PE, Brazil. Tel: 55 81 3271 8430 ext. 4325, fax: 55 81 3271 8438, glr@cin.ufpe.br.

The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

      *  AI Foundations (philosophy, epistemology, economics, etc.)
      *  Theoretical and logical methods
      *  Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
      *  Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
      *  Machine Learning
      *  Knowledge Acquisition
      *  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
      *  Planning and Scheduling
      *  Knowledge Engineering
      *  Hybrid systems (fuzzy, genetic, neural, symbolic, etc.)
      *  Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life
      *  Uncertainty
      *  Natural Language Processing
      *  Robotics
      *  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
      *  AI in Education and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
      *  AI Development Tools and Methodologies
      *  Innovative applications

November 11-14, 2002, Recife. Item #2757
SBRN'2002 - VII Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks.

Teresa B. Ludermir. Email: tbl@cin.ufpe.br.

Applications: finances, data mining, neurocontrol, time series analysis, 
bioinformatics; 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, computability, 
learnability, computational complexity. 

November 12-15, 2002, Sevilla, Spain. Item #2800
IBERAMIA'2002 Eighth Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Carmelo del Valle Sevillano. Email: carmelo@lsi.us.es.

IBERAMIA 2002 topics include, but are not limited to: 
·       Knowledge Engineering and Case Based Reasoning. 
·       Planning and Scheduling. 
·       Distributed AI and Multi-Agent Systems. 
·       AI in Education and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. 
·       Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. 
·       Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition. 
·       Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 
·       Natural Language Processing. 
·       Robotics. 
·       Computer Vision. 
·       Uncertainty and Fuzzy Systems. 
·       Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks. 
·       Foundations (economics, philosophy, etc.). 

November 12 - 13, 2002, University of Málaga, Spain. Item #2892
Fourth Iberoamerican Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Agent Technology and Software Engineering.

email: iberamia@lsi.us.es.

November 13-15, 2002, Gdansk, Poland. Item #2824
2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Electronic Commerce "ECOM-02".

email: ecom@cs.utwente.nl or e-c@zie.pg.gda.pl, tel: +48 58 347 23 75, traditional mail: Jacek Wachowicz (ECOM-02 Organizing Chair), Wydzial Zarzadzania i Ekonomii Politechniki Gdanskiej, ul. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland.

The general list of topics includes (but is not limited to):
- Electronic Markets and Electronic Marketing
- Languages and Models for E-Commerce
- Artificial Intelligence in E-Commerce
- Electronic Contracting and Legal Aspects of E-Commerce
- Electronic Interaction and Negotiation
- Virtual Enterprises
- Technology and E-Commerce
- Internet Computing and Electronic Commerce
- Social Side of E-Commerce
- Futurology of E-Commerce.

The registration fees (in Polish zlotys):
  Regular registration: 490 PLN (approx. EUR 140)
  Student registration: 390 PLN (approx. EUR 110)
Student registration refers to undergraduate students as well as 
PhD students, and research assistants below PhD degree.
The registration fee includes: attendance at the conference, 
a copy of the proceedings and refreshments during the breaks. 
At least one author of a paper must register to have the paper 
published. Presenting the paper at the conference is very welcome, 
but it's not compulsory.

November 13-15, 2002, Gdansk, Poland. Item #2825
2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Electronic Commerce "ECOM-02".

Jacek Wachowicz (ECOM-02 Organizing Chair), Wydzial Zarzadzania i Ekonomii Politechniki Gdanskiej, ul. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland, email: ecom@cs.utwente.nl, tel: +48 58 347 23 75.

The general list of topics includes (but is not limited to):
- Electronic Markets and Electronic Marketing
- Languages and Models for E-Commerce
- Artificial Intelligence in E-Commerce
- Electronic Contracting and Legal Aspects of E-Commerce
- Electronic Interaction and Negotiation
- Virtual Enterprises
- Technology and E-Commerce
- Internet Computing and Electronic Commerce
- Social Side of E-Commerce
- Futurology of E-Commerce.

The registration fees (in Polish zlotys):
  Regular registration: 490 PLN (approx. EUR 140)
  Student registration: 390 PLN (approx. EUR 110)
The registration fee includes: attendance at the conference, a copy of the
proceedings and refreshments during the breaks. At least one author of a paper
must register to have the paper published. Presenting the paper at the
conference is very welcome, but it's not compulsory.

November 15-17, 2002, North Falmouth, Massachusetts USA. Item #2863
Chance Discovery: The Discovery and Management of Chance Events.

Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tsukuba. Email: osawa@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp.

     Agent systems and planning with emergent behaviors
     Human-computer or agent-environment interactions
     Complex systems
     WWW Awareness
     Knowledge discovery and data mining
     Statistics and data analysis
     Information retrieval
     Risk analysis, prediction, assessment and management
     Marketing theory and demand forecasting for innovative products
     Opportunity identification in business
     Social trends analysis
     Social psychology
     Natural disaster prediction and management
     Management and decision sciences
     Operations research
     Philosophy of forecasting and risk
     Hypothesis discovery in scientific theories.

November 15-17, 2002, North Falmouth, MA, USA. Item #2920
AAAI Fall Symposium on Personalized Agents.

email: aaai2002-fs@ai.mit.edu.

November 17-22, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana. Item #2758
Symposium on Virtual Manufacturing in the 2002 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.

Bilal Maiteh, Bilal.Y.Maiteh@delphiauto.com.

Topics of particular interest to guide prospective contributors include, but 
are not limited to, are as follows:  
1) Virtual Factory (Layout, material handling, Process Planning, Cost 
Calculation, Factory Simulation). 
2) Digital and Intelligent Manufacturing and Processes. 
3) Virtual Prototype. 
4) Virtual Humans Modeling and Ergonomics 
5) Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for Manufacturing Applications. 
6) Web and collaborative virtual manufacturing and industrial case studies. 

November 18-22, 2002, Singapore. Item #2691
ICONIP'02 - 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing.

Lipo Wang, Conference Management Centre/CCE, NTU, Administration Annex Building #04-0642 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639815. Email: nef@ntu.edu.sg fax: (65) 793 0997.

ICONIP'02 will be jointly held in Singapore with the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated 
Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02) and the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 
and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02) from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not only 
feature the most up-to-date research results in neural information processing, evolutionary 
computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery, but also promote cross-fertilization over 
these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration to any one of the conferences will 
entitle a participant to the technical sessions and the proceedings of all three conferences, 
as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, and a tour to one of the major attractions 
in Singapore. The conference topics include, but are not limited to:

Neural Network Models
  Learning algorithms
  Neural network architectures
  Neurodynamics & spiking neuron
  Statistical neural network models

Cognitive Science
  Data representation
  Learning and memory
  Neurobiological systems
  Perception, emotion, and cognition
  Selective attentionVision and auditory models

Hardware Implementation
  Analog, digital, & hybrid neuro-chips
  Artificial retina & cochlear chips
  DSP & software implementation

November 18-22, 2002, Singapore. Item #2692
SEAL'02 - 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning.

Lipo Wang, Conference Management Centre/CCE, NTU, Administration Annex Building #04-0642 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639815. Email: nef@ntu.edu.sg fax: (65) 793 0997.

SEAL'02 will be jointly held with the 9th International Conference on Neural Information 
Processing (ICONIP'02) and the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge 
Discovery (FSKD'02) in Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not 
only feature the most up-to-date research results in neural information processing, 
evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery, but also promote 
cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration 
to any one of the conferences will entitle a participant to the technical sessions and 
the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, 
and a tour to one of the major attractions in Singapore. SEAL'02 topics include, but are not limited to:

Evolutionary Learning
  Artificial life
  Classifier systems
  Bayesian evolutionary algorithms
  Self-adaptation

Theory
  Genetic operators
  Coding methods
  Convergence
  Co-evolution
  Fitness landscape

Methodology
  Evolution strategies
  Genetic algorithms
  Genetic programming
  Molecular evolutionary algorithms
  Evolvable hardware
  Multi-objective optimization

November 18-22, 2002, Singapore. Item #2693
FSKD'02 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery.

Lipo Wang, Conference Management Centre/CCE, NTU, Administration Annex Building #04-0642 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639815. Email: nef@ntu.edu.sg fax: (65) 793 0997.

FSKD'02 will be jointly held with the 9th International Conference on Neural Information 
Processing (ICONIP'02) and the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution 
And Learning (SEAL'02) in Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not 
only feature the most up-to-date research results in neural information processing, 
evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery, but also promote 
cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration 
to any one of the conferences will entitle a participant to the technical sessions and 
the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, 
and a tour to one of the major attractions in Singapore. FSKD'02 topics include, but are 
not limited to:

Theory and Foundations 
  Fuzzy theory and models
  Uncertainty management in data mining
  Statistical & probabilistic data mining

Methods and Algorithms
  Fuzzy classification and clustering
  Fuzzy database mining 
  Information fusion 
  Neuro-fuzzy systems
  Fuzzy control
  Fuzzy hardware architectures 
  Knowledge visualization and exploration
  Parallel and distributed data mining
  Decision trees
  Inductive logic Programming
  Data cleaning

November 18-22, 2002, Singapore. Item #2734
Special Session "Complex-valued Neural Networks" at ICONIP2002.

Tohru Nitta, Mathematical Neuroinformatics Group, Neuroscience Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-8568 Japan. Fax: +81 298 61 5841, email: tohru-nitta@aist.go.jp.

November 18-22, 2002, Singapore. Item #2818
SPECIAL SESSION ON KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION UNDER VAGUENESS AND UNCERTAINTY at ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02.

Etienne Kerre, Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S9), B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, email: etienne.kerre@rug.ac.be.

* fuzzy sets
* second-order, interval-valued or intuitionistic fuzzy sets
* rough sets
* probability, possibility and necessity distributions
* generalized nets
* frames
* ...

November 21-24, 2002, Ambassador Hotel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC. Item #2862
ISPACS 2002 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems.

Secretariat of ISPACS 2002, DSP Lab. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan. Tel: (+886)75254171, fax: (+886)75254012, email: ISPACS02@mail.nsysu.edu.tw.

1.  EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
2.  SIGNAL PROCESSING 
3.  CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
4.  COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
5.  VLSI
6.  MULTIMEDIAN AND SYSTEM

November 22-24, 2002, TUEBINGEN, GERMANY. Item #2866
BMCV 2002 BIOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED COMPUTER VISION Workshop.

Prof. Dr. Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstr. 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany, tel: +49 7071 601 601, fax: +49 7071 601 616, email: heinrich.buelthoff@tuebingen.mpg.de.

Active vision
Applications
Artificial vision
Autonomous agents
Binocular vision
Biological motion
Biological vision
Brain-Computer interfaces
Categorization
Color vision
Face detection/recognition
Foveation
Learning
Models for biological vision
Navigation and map building
Neural system models
Object recognition
Perceptual organization
Retinal image processing
Robot vision
Scene recognition
Selective attention
Sensor fusion and cue integration
Space-variant image processing
Spatial vision
Stereo analysis
Target detection and tracking
Visually-guided motor control

November 24-26, 2002, Luebeck, Germany. Item #2754
ALT 2002, The 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory.

email: thomas@tcs.mu-luebeck.de, tel: +49 451 7030 422, fax: +49 451 7030 438.

November 24-26, 2002, Lubeck, Germany. Item #2755
DS 2002, The 5th International Conference on Discovery Science.

lange@dfki.de, tel: 49 681 302 5367, fax: +49 681 302 22359.

November 26 - 28, 2002, Auckland, New Zealand. Item #2865
IVCNZ 2002 - Image and Vision Computing New Zealand.

David Kenwright. Email: D.Kenwright@irl.cri.nz.

December 1-4, 2002, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Item #2842
HIS02 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems.

Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Av. Tupper 2007, Casilla 412-3, 6513027 Santiago, Chile. Tel: +56 2 678 4207/4087, fax: +56 2 695 3881, email: j.ruizdelsolar@computer.org.

Track 1: Computational Intelligence and Applications

- Artificial neural networks and learning techniques
- Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization
techniques
- Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems
- Fuzzy clustering algorithms
- Fuzzy system optimization using global optimization algorithms
- Evolutionary computation
- Support vector machines, rough sets, Bayesian networks
- Hybrid computing using neural networks-fuzzy systems-
evolutionary algorithms
- Hybrid optimization techniques
- Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques
- Intelligent agents
- Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis
- Natural computation techniques
- Autonomic computing
- Applications using the above systems
- Special topics


Track 2: Soft Computing for Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing

- Features and Classification
- Texture Analysis
- Document Analysis
- Shape Processing
- Fuzzy Image Processing
- Grouping and Segmentation
- Object Recognition
- Medical Image Processing
- Image and Video Retrieval
- Biometric Systems
- Image Representation
- Image Compression
- Video Processing
- Digital Watermarking
- Image Synthesis
- Industrial Applications
- Visual Surveillance


Track 3: Soft Computing and the Internet

- e-learning, e-commerce, e-business
- Web Intelligence
- Search Engines
- Information retrieval (web mining)
- Database Querying
- Ontology
- XML mining
- Intelligent networking between Web Sites
- Content Management
- Information Aggregation and Fusion
- Interaction with Intelligent Agents
- Intelligent Agents and Interfaces for personalization and adaptivity
- Intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW
- WWW Recommender Systems
- Adaptive Hypermedia Systems
- Agents for Digital cities, virtual communities and agent societies

 Track 4: Intelligent Data Mining

- Integrating E-Commerce and Data Mining
- Discovering patterns in Continuous Data
- Uncertainty management for data mining
- Clustering algorithms and applications
- Classification trees
- Mining time series
- Mining in a Mobile Environment
- Statistical Considerations in Learning
- XML Mining
- Text Mining
- Distributed Data Mining

December 3-6, 2002, Singapore. Item #2641
ICARCV 2002 Seventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision.

Merlin Toh, Conference Management Centre/CCE, Nanyang Technological Univ., Administration Annex Building, #04-06, 42 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639815. Tel: +65 790 4723, fax: +65 793 0997, email: icarcv2002@ntu.edu.sg.

CONTROL: Modeling of Complex
 Systems Control Methodologies and Applications Estimation,
 Identification and Fault Detection Adaptive and Learning Systems Robust
 Control Nonlinear Control Intelligent Control Process Control Motion
 Control
 
 AUTOMATION: Instrumentation Systems Flexible Manufacturing Systems
 Process Automation Man-machine Interactions Computer Integrated
 Manufacturing Factory Modeling and Automation Petri-Nets and
 Applications
 
 ROBOTICS : Robot Control Mobile Robots and Navigation Task Planning
 Intelligent Sensors and Actuators Kinematics and Simulation Dexterous
 and Redundant Manipulation Medical Robots Human-like Robots Service
 Robots Telerobotics Undersea Robotics Mechatronics Mechanism Design and
 Applications
 
 COMPUTER VISION: Image Processing and Interpretation 2-D and 3-D Scene
 Analysis Motion Analysis and Tracking Pattern Recognition and
 Applications Learning in Computer Vision Parallel Algorithms for
 Computer Vision Applications of Computer Vision EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES:
 Neural Networks & Fuzzy Systems Genetic Algorithms Real- time Systems
 Micro-electromechanical Systems Electric Vehicle Technology

December 3-4, 2002, Orlando, FL, USA. Item #2895
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision.

http://ankara.cs.ucf.edu.

December 3 - 5, 2002, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore. Item #2923
IC-SEC 2002 International Conference on Scientific & Engineering Computation.

Chua Tai Wei. ETWCHUA@ntu.edu.sg.

Conference Topics and Application Areas 
Computational Acoustics 
Computational Chemistry 
Computational Electromagnetics 
Computational Electronics 
Computational Fluid Dynamics 
Computational Materials Science 
Computational Nano-Science 
Computational Solid and Structural Mechanics 
Defence Modelling and Simulation 
Element Free Methods 
Fast Algorithms 
Grid Computing and Applications 
Inverse Problems 
Large-Scale Computation 
MEMS Modelling and Simulation 
Microfluidics and BioMEMS 
Numerical Methods 
Parallel and Distributed Computing 
Scientific Visualisation 

December 9-12, 2002, Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan. Item #2676
ICDM'02 The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.

Ning Zhong, Dept. of Information Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816, Japan . Tel/fax: +81 27 265 7366, email: zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp.

  - Foundations and principles of data mining 
  - Data mining algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as 
    classification, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and 
    association analysis), and in new areas 
  - Data and knowledge representation for data mining 
  - Modeling of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia and 
    Web data to support data mining 
  - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining 
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature 
    transformation 
  - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining 
  - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, 
    evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty 
    management for data mining 
  - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining 
  - Man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining 
  - Artificial intelligence contributions to data mining 
  - High performance and distributed data mining 
  - Machine learning, pattern recognition and automated scientific 
    discovery 
  - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining 
    results 
  - Process centric data mining and models of data mining process 
  - Security and social impact of data mining 
  - Emerging data mining applications, such as electronic commerce, 
    bioinformatics, Web mining and intelligent learning database systems 

December 9-13, 2002, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Item #2702
Artificial Life VIII.

Hussein Abbass. Email: abbass@cs.adfa.edu.au.

*   Origin of life, self-organization, self-replication 
*   Development and differentiation 
*   Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics 
*   Robots and autonomous agents 
*   Communication, cooperation and collective behavior 
*   ALife simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies 
*   Applications of ALife technologies 
*   Philosophical, ethical, social, and cultural implications 

December 9-14, 2002, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Item #2853
NIPS 2002 Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic.

Sue Becker. Email: becker@nips.salk.edu.

Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms,
neural network architectures, kernel methods, graphical models,
Gaussian processes, independent component analysis, model
selection, active learning, combinatorial optimization.

Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems that use
machine learning, including time series, biological applications,
text/web analysis, multimedia, robotics, or other intelligent
systems.

Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence: theoretical,
computational, or experimental studies of perception,
psychophysics, human or animal learning, memory, reasoning,
problem solving, language, and neuropsychology.

Emerging Technologies: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic
engineering, computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics,
bioMEMS, neural prostheses, photonics, molecular and quantum
computing.

Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of encoding,
decoding, processing, and transmission of information in
biological neurons, including spike train generation, synaptic
modulation, plasticity and adaptation, and network properties.

Reinforcement Learning and Control: Markov decision processes,
exploration, planning, navigation, game-playing, multi-agent
coordination, computational models of classical and operant
conditioning.

Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding, synthesis,
de-noising, source separation, auditory perception,
psychoacoustics, temporal algorithms for signal processing such
as Markov models, dynamical systems, recurrent networks.

Theory: learning theory, information theory, statistical physics
of learning, Bayesian methods, approximation bounds, online
learning and dynamics, generalization and regularization.

Visual Processing: image processing and coding, segmentation,
object detection and recognition, motion detection and tracking,
visual psychophysics, visual scene analysis and interpretation.

December 9, 2002, Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan. Item #2934
Workshop on Data Mining for Cyber Threat Analysis in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.

email: aleks@cs.umn.edu.

-      Methods to identify the most critical infrastructures
-      Methods to detect cyber terrorist attacks
-      Methods to protect against cyber terrorism
-      Information assurance
-      Intrusion detection and analysis via data mining
-      Data mining in forensic
-      Credit card fraud analysis
-      Economic espionage

December 10-12, 2002, Peterhouse, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Item #2834
ES2002: the 22nd Annual Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence.

Helen Forster, Conference Secretary, email: sges-conference@bcs.org.uk.

The Conference continues to build on the success of previous years, with a two-track event containing fully refereed technical and applications papers. The Technical Stream aims to present the best of recent developments in AI, covering a wide range of technical areas. The Application Stream is the largest annual showcase in Europe of real applications using AI technology.

December 11 - 14, 2002, Shangri, La Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Item #2796
IEEE ICIT' 02 2002 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology "Productivity Reincarnation through Robotics & Automation".

Manukid Parnichkun, Asian Institute of Technology, PO.Box 4, Klongluang, Pathumthani, 12120, THAILAND, tel: (662) 524 5229 fax: (662) 524 5697, email: manukid@ait.ac.th.

December 12-13, 2002, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom. Item #2836
RASC2002 The 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing.

Ahmad Lotfi, School of Engineering, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, NG1 4BU, Nottingham, United Kingdom. Tel: 44 (115) 848 6429, fax: 44 (115) 848 6166, email: ahmad.lotfi@ntu.ac.uk.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
o Fuzzy Logic and Systems
o Neural Networks
o Hybrid Systems
o Genetic Algorithms
o Evolutionary Computing
o Smart Engineering
o Smart Adaptive Systems
o Intelligent Control Systems
o Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
o Fuzzy Decision Making
o Genetic Programming
o Fuzzy Modelling
o Optimization
o Learning Algorithms and Training
o Rough Sets and Data Mining

Application areas may include, but are not limited to:

o Engineering Design and Manufacturing
o Financial Services
o Data Analysis
o Signal Processing
o Robots and Agents
o Databases
o Medicine
o Information Systems
o Networking
o Multimedia Systems
o E-commerce and E-learning
o Process Monitoring and Diagnosis

December 15-22, 2002, Israel. Item #2817
SC02 International conference on Soft Computing and Applications.

Moti Schneider, School of Computer Science, Netanya Academic College. Tel: 972 9 860 7808, 972 53 780 244, fax: 972 9 860 7825, email: motis@netanya.ac.il.

o	Approximate Reasoning
o	Computational Intelligence
o	Data Mining
o	Evolutionary Computing
o	Learning
o	Image processing
o	Decision Making Systems
o	Image Understanding
o	Hardware Implementation
o	AI and Expert Systems
o	Control
o	Fuzzy Logic
o	Robotics
o	Neural Networks

December 18-21, 2002, Mumbai, India. Item #2885
KBCS 2002 International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems.

KBCS-2002 Secretariat, National Centre for Software Technology, Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049, India. Tel: +91 22 6201606, fax: +91 22 6210139, email: kbcs@ncst.ernet.in.

Topics for the Conference:
   --------------------------
   Case Based Reasoning
   Cognitive Modelling
   Data Mining
   Expert Systems
   Foundations of AI
   Fuzzy Logic
   Genetic Algorithms
   Intelligent Agents
   Intelligent Tutoring Systems
   Knowledge Acquisition
   Knowledge Representation
   Knowledge Management
   Intelligent Information Retrieval *
   Machine Learning
   Machine Translation *
   Natural Language Processing *
   Neural Networks
   Planning and Scheduling
   Reasoning
   Robotics
   Search Techniques
   Soft Computing
   Speech Processing
   Theorem Proving
   Uncertainty Handling
   Vision

December 18 - 20, 2002, The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. Item #2897
The Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Systems.

Prof Argon Chen . Email: achen@ccms.ntu.edu.tw.

December 18-21, 2002, Mumbai, India. Item #2928
ICON-2002 International Conference on Natural Language Processing.

ICON-2002 Secretariat, Language Technologies Research Centre, International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019. Tel: +91 40 3001412 Extn: 144, fax: +91 40 3001413, email: icon2002@iiit.net.

 Linguistic and Computational Issues in Indian Languages
    - Morphological processing
    - Syntactic processing
    - Semantic processing (+)

 Development and Standardisation of Lexical Resources
    - Manual creation of Lexical Resources
    - Automatic acquisition
    - Standardization
    - Innovative uses and priority areas
    - Collection of corpora
    - Annotation of corpora
    - Lexicon and dictionaries

 Statistical, Knowledge-based, and Hybrid Methods
    - Language Modeling
    - Language Analysis and Generation
    - Ontology and Thesauri (+)
    - Example Based Machine Translation (+)
    - Grammar Acquisition

 NLP Formalisms and Technologies
    - Grammatical and Statistical NLP
    - Word Sense Disambiguation Application areas such as
    - Machine Translation (+)
    - Information Extraction (+)
    - Intelligent Information Retrieval (+)
    - Natural Language Interface (+)
    - Question-Answering (+)

 Systems
    - System building experience
    - Evaluation of systems
    - Information Retrieval tools
    - Internet oriented tools

 Speech Processing
    - Text to Speech systems
    - Speech Recognition
    - Special purpose applications

 Input/Output Standards and Technologies


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