Events on Artificial Intelligence in 2003.


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 3-6, 2003, Hyatt Hotel, Key West, Florida. Item #2864
Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.
Jean Sennett. Email: jeans@microsoft.com.

January 12-15, 2003, The Palms South Beach Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Item #2904
IUI 2003 The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Jihie Kim. Email: Jihie_Kim@hotmail.com.
Deadlines: titles and abstracts: September 30; final papers and demonstration abstracts: October 4; notification of acceptance: November 7, camera-ready copy: November 26.
 - Adaptive hypermedia
 - Affective interfaces
 - Conversational interfaces
 - Evaluations of implemented systems
 - Intelligent information and knowledge management systems
 - Intelligent support for pervasive computing
 - Intelligent systems for multimedia presentation
 - Intelligent visualization tools
 - Interface agents
 - Interfaces for the semantic web
 - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design
 - Multi-modal interfaces
 - Novel application-specific interfaces and interactions
 - Novel interaction paradigms
 - Personalization and adaptation of behavior
 - Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction
 - Social intelligence in user interfaces
 - Support for collaboration in multi-user environments
 - User modeling for intelligent interfaces
 - User studies of relevant techniques

January 19-23, 2003, Airport Marriott Plaza Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #2835
ICBGM'2003 International Conference on Bond Graph Modeling and Simulation.

José J. Granda, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Sacramento , Sacramento, Calif. 95819, tel: (916) 278 5711, fax: (916) 278-7713, email: grandajj@ecs.csus.edu.
Deadlines: abstracts: April 30; notification of acceptance: May 15; full papers for review: September 1.
. Tutorials  . Control Systems 
. Panel Discussions . Bond Graphs and Block Diagrams 
. Software and Tools . Biological and Medical Systems 
. Bond Graph Theory . Thermal and Chemical Systems 
. Mechanical Systems and Robotics . Biomechanics and Prosthetics 
. Electrical and Power Systems . Computer Graphics and Bond Graph Modeling 
. Fluid Power    . Social and Economic Systems 
. Qualitative Modeling . Industrial Applications 
. Mechatronics Systems . Large, Nonlinear Models 

January 21-22, 2003, Nagasaki, Japan. Item #2907
International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology.

Ryoichi Kawada, Visual Communications Lab, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. 2-1-15 Ohara, Kamifukuoka-shi, Saitama 356-8502, Japan. Tel: +81 49 278 7427 fax: +81 49 278 7439, email: kawada@kddilabs.jp.
Deadlines: abstracts: September 30.
 Image Processing

                               Computer Vision

                              Computer Graphics

                                  Animation

                                  3D Image

                               Virtual Reality

                                Image Coding

                           Image Data Compression

                                     VOD

                       Multimedia Search Broadcasting

                             Medical Application

January 31 - February 4, 2003, Banff, Alberta. Item #2948
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY OF TIME.

Terry Sejnowski . Email: terry@salk.edu.
Deadlines: abstract: November 1; early registration: December 2.

February 2 - 15, 2003, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Item #2906
Machine Learning Summer School.

email: ml2003@mlg.anu.edu.au.
Deadlines: early registrations: December 31.
The list of courses includes:

+ Information Geometry,       *Shun-Ichi Amari*, RIKEN

+ Unsupervised Learning,      *Zoubin Ghahramani*, Gatsby Institute

+ Concentration Inequalities, *Gabor Lugosi*, Pompeu Fabra University

February 4-8, 2003, Bildungszentrum St, Magdalena, Linz, Austria. Item #2909
LINZ 2003 - 24th Linz Seminar on Fuzzy Set Theory.

Ulrich Bodenhofer, email: ulrich.bodenhofer@scch.at.
Deadlines: abstracts: November 30; notification of acceptance: December 15; registration: January 25.
The Seminar will consider the following aspects without being strictly
limited
to them:

* Structure of t-norms
* Analytical and algebraic properties of t-norms
* Construction methods of t-norms
* Approximation of t-norms
* Related operators (t-conorms, copulas, implications, uninorms, etc.)
* Functional equations
* Probabilistic metric spaces
* Many-valued logics
* Preference modelling
* Non-additive measures and integrals

February 12 - 14, 2003, Vienna, Austria. Item #2876
International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation.

CIMCA'2003 Secretariat, School of Computing, University of Canberra, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia. Email: cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au.
Deadlines: papers: September 20; notification of acceptance: October 28; camera-ready copies: November 22.
Modern and Advanced Control Strategies:
Neural Networks Control,
Fuzzy Logic Control,
Genetic Algorithms & Evolutionary Control,
Model-Predictive Control,
Adaptive and Optimal Control,
Intelligent Control Systems,
Robotics and Automation,
Fault Diagnosis,
Intelligent agents,
Industrial Automations

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

Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification:
Signal Processing,
Prediction & Time Series Analysis,
System Identification,
Data Fusion and Mining,
Knowledge Discovery,
Intelligent Information Systems,
Image Processing,
Image Understanding,
Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control,
Pattern Recognition,
Clustering,
Classification


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

February 12 - 14, 2003, Boston, USA. Item #2886
Special session on E-BUSINESS & THE INTELLIGENT WEB APPLICATIONS at CIMCA03.

email: cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au.
Deadlines: papers: September 20.
The topics of the special session are:

Intelligent web applications
Information retrieval
Knowledge Discovery
Web data mining
intelligent search engines
E-business and agents
Multiagent Information Gathering
Multi-agents systems for e-business
Agent-based Supply Chains

Information Agents and Electronic Commerce
Agent-Based Marketplaces
Agents application for online-Auctions
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

February 18-21, 2003, San Jose McEnery Convention Center San Jose, Calif. Item #2985
Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Spring 2003.

Wendy LaugesenKey3Studios Conference Manager303 Vintage Park DriveFoster City, CA 94404PH: (650) 372-7968EMAIL: wendy.laugesen@key3media.com.

Event pricing:
Alumni incentive: $995 on or before Dec. 27Early Adopter incentive: $1,195 on or before Dec. 27
On-site: $1,895

March 1-4, 2003, Beijing, China. Item #2903
International Conference on Fuzzy Information Processing Theories and Applications.

email: fip03@em.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Deadlines: submission: October 31; notification of acceptance: November 30; final version: December 20.
Mathematical Foundations of Fuzzy Information Processing
Approximate Reasoning and Fuzzy Logic
Fuzzy Control, Robots and Intelligent Techniques
Theories and Methods of Soft Computing
Fuzzy Logic in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Rough Sets and Evidence Theory
Uncertainty in Management and Decision-Making
Fuzzy Logic in Signal or Image Processing, Pattern Recognition
Fuzzy Information Retrieval, Databases and Expert Systems
Uncertainty Modeling in Manufacturing and Logistics

March 9-12, 2003, Melbourne, Florida, USA. Item #2890
SAC 2003 Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.

ACM Member Services, 1515 Broadway, New York NY 10036, USA. Email: acmhelp@acm.org, tel: 1 +1-212-626-0500, fax: +1 212 944 1318.

March 9-12, 2003, Melbourne, Florida, USA. Item #2891
COMPAHEC 2003 Special Track on "Computer Applications in Health Care" at SAC 2003.

Valentin Masero, Computer Science Dept., University of Extremadura, Escuela Politecnica, Campus Universitario. Avda. Universidad, s/n, 10.071 Caceres, Spain. Email: vmasero@unex.es.
Deadlines: application for referee: August 10; papers: September 6; notification: November 8; camera-ready paper: November 8.
o Computer applications for medical informatics.

o Computer applications for medical imaging.

o Computer applications of medical image segmentation.

o Computer applications for 3D reconstruction in medical imaging.

o Web programming and engineering involving health care applications.

o Programming methodologies in applications for health care including object
oriented, subject oriented, component oriented, aspect oriented, table
oriented, agent oriented, human oriented, genetic and evolutionary
programming, fuzzy programming and hybrid paradigms.

o Theoretical aspects of computer programming with a clear practical
potential in applying the results to health care.

o Computer applications for telemedicine and telecare applications.

o Methodologies for e-health, telehealth and knowledge management
integration in intranets and the Internet.

o Computer applications for teleteaching of health care.

o Theoretical or practical ICT applications involving health care.

o Artificial Intelligence in health care.

o Decision support systems, including knowledge based systems, neural
networks, belief networks, statistical models, fuzzy models, evolutionary
programming, hybrid systems, and intelligent agents.

o Knowledge recovery in databases, including data mining methods such as
clustering, classification, Bayesian networks, association rules, and
visualization.

o Evidence-based health care including computer assisted diagnosis and
prognosis, risk analysis, example-based learning, problem-based learning and
case-based reasoning.

o Human-computer interaction including human factors, cognitive modelling,
problem solving strategies, linguistic comprehension, user interface design,
direct manipulation techniques and virtual reality.

o Health care information systems and groupware, including computerized
patient records, survey applications in health care specialities, decision
support systems, clinical information system design architectures and
electronic document interchange and computer-supported collaborative work.

o Any other computer application in health care.

March 21-23, 2003, Hong Kong. Item #2893
CIFEr2003 IEEE 2003 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering.

email: cifer@comp.hkbu.edu.hk.
Deadlines: submissions: July 31; notification of acceptance: December 1; camera-ready papers: January 6.
-  Financial Engineering
-  Risk Management
-  Derivatives Pricing
-  Portfolio Management and Asset Allocation
-  Behavioral Finance
-  Stock Valuation
-  Market Analysis, Dynamics and Simulation
-  Hedging, Trading and Arbitrage Strategies
-  Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
-  High Frequency Financial Data
-  Financial Model Calibration
-  Credit Risk
-  Energy Markets and Weather Derivatives
-  Hedge Fund Styles and Performance Analysis
-  Computational Economics & Agent-Based Markets
-  Econo-Physics
-  Automated News Analysis
-  E-Finance and E-Trade
-  Computational Methods for Financial Applications
-  Non-parametric Statistics & Econometrics
-  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
-  Machine Learning
-  Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition
-  Fuzzy Systems and Rough Sets
-  Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
-  Dynamic Optimization and Optimal Control
-  Expert Systems and Decision Support
-  Natural Language Processing
-  Simulation and Monte Carlo
-  Advanced Numerical Methods
-  Agent-Based Computing
-  Non-linear Dynamics

March 21-23, 2003, Hong Kong. Item #2972
IDEAL'03 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning.

Secretariat of IDEAL2003, Address: 7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P.R. China, tel: (852) 3411 5155, fax: (852) 3411 7892, email: ideal03@comp.hkbu.edu.hk.
Deadlines: papers: December 31.
Automated  Learning:
- Collaborative and Collective learning
- Evolution, Learning and Adaptation
- Evolutionary Computation
- Neural Networks
- Fuzzy Logic
- Probabilistic Learning
- Learning Algorithms and Applications

Data Mining:
- Clustering and Classification
- Data Warehouse and E-organizations
- Indexing and Retrieval Methods
- Internet Database
- Knowledge Discovery
- Medical Diagnosis and Database
- Multi-model Data Analysis
- Multivariate Data Visualization
- Time series Analysis
- Text and Web Mining

Agents:
- Agent Architectures and Protocols
- Autonomous Agents
- Multi-agents System
- Planning
- Agent-based Applications

Bioinformatics:
- Gene Prediction
- Microarray Informatics
- Novel Computational Algorithms and Tools
- Protein Structural Prediction

Multimedia Information:
- Multimedia Database
- Speech Processing
- Pattern Recognition
- Image Processing
- Feature Extraction Methods and Applications

Financial Engineering:
- Electronic Commerce
- Fraud Detection
- Modeling and Forecasting
- Portfolio Management
- Risk Analysis and Management
- Statistics and Econometrics
- Volatility and Trading Strategies

March 31 - April 3, 2003, Graz, Austria. Item #2991
IAPR / ISPRS 3rd International COnference on Computer Vision Systems.

Lucas Paletta, Wastiangasse 6, A-8010 Graz, Austria, tel: +43 316 876 1769, fax: +43 316 876 91769.
Deadlines: papers: October 15; early registration: February 15.

March 31, 2003, Convention Centre, Graz, Austria. Item #3012
PETS-ICVS '03 Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance.

James Ferryman j.ferryman@reading.ac.uk.
Deadlines: papers: February 1.
In conjunction with ICVS 2003  h

April 8-10, 2003, Vienna, Austria. Item #3042
Workshop on Regulation Theory.

Karl Javorszky. javorszky@eunet.at.

April 12-13, 2003, Cincinnati, USA. Item #3001
The 14th Midwest Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Science Conference.

anca.ralescu@uc.edu.
Deadlines: submission: March 1.

April 14, 2003, Essex, UK. Item #2955
EVOIASP2003 Fifth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing.

Stefano Cagnoni. Email: cagnoni@ce.unipr.it.
Deadlines: submission: November 30; notification of acceptance: December 20; camera ready papers for workshop: January 17.
  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 14-16, 2003, Essex, UK. Item #2960
EuroGP2003 Sixth European Conference on Genetic Programming.

Riccardo Poli . Email: eurogp2003@essex.ac.uk.
Deadlines: submission: November 20.

April 14-16, 2003, University of Essex, Essex, UK. Item #2964
EVOBIO 2003 - 1ST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION AND BIOINFORMATICS.

Dave W. Corne, School of Computer Science, Cybernetics, University of Reading, d.w.corne@reading.ac.uk, http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~ssscorne/, tel: +44 118 931 8983, fax: +44 118 975 1994.
Deadlines: submission: November 20; notification of acceptance: December 20; camera ready due: January 17.

April 14, 2003, Berlin, Germany. Item #2996
Workshop: Kernel methods in computational biology.

Bernhard Schoelkopf. Email: bernhard.schoelkopf@tuebingen.mpg.de.
Deadlines: submission: March 14.

April 23-25, 2003, Bruges, Belgium. Item #2894
ESANN'2003 - 11th 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.
Deadlines: proposals for special sessions: August 1; papers: December 6; notification of acceptance: February 6; final papers: February 28.
 Radial basis networks
 Neural networks for control
 Self-organizing maps for data analysis
 ANN for speech processing
 Cellular neural networks
 ANN for the processing of facial information
 Adaptive computation of data structures
 Remote sensing spectral image analysis
 Support vector machines
 Information extraction using unsupervised neural networks
 Spiking neurons
 Artificial neural networks and robotics
 Neural networks in medicine
 Time series prediction
 ANN for energy management systems
 Dedicated hardware implementations: perspectives on systems and
applications
 Novel neural transfer functions
 ANN and evolutionary/genetic algorithms: hybrid approaches
 ANN in finance
 ANN and early vision processing
 Perspectives on Learning with Recurrent Networks
 Representation of high-dimensional data
 Neural Network Techniques in Fault Detection and Isolation
 Hardware and Parallel Computer Implementations of Neural Networks
 Exploratory Data Analysis in Medicine and Bioinformatics
 Neural Networks and Cognitive Science

April 24-25, 2003, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA. Item #2967
A Multidisciplinary Workshop on Automatic Particle Selection for Cryo-electron Microscopy.

Yuanxin Zhu . zhu4@scripps.edu.

April 24 - 25, 2003, University of Birmingham, U, K. Item #2968
EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological & Software Systems: EVOLVABILITY AND SENSOR EVOLUTION SYMPOSIUM.

Julian Miller. Email: j.miller@cs.bham.ac.uk.
Deadlines: abstract: February 20.

April 24-26, 2003, University Place Conference Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Item #3015
IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium.

Dr. Yuhui Shi, Electronic Data Systems, Inc. yuhui.shi@eds.com.
Deadlines: paper: January 10.
Interested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
	Particle swarm optimization
	Ant colony optimization
	Culture algorithm
	Artificial life
	Other nature-inspired computation techniques
	Multi-objective optimization
	Constrained optimization
	Scheduling and decision making
	Financial engineering
	Supply-chain management
	Real world applications

April 30 - May 2, 2003, Seoul, Korea. Item #2927
PAKDD-03 The Seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Byung S. Lee, email: bslee@emba.uvm.edu.
Deadlines: papers: November 15; proposals for tutorials and workshops: October 25.
   * Data Mining Biomedical Domains
   * Novel Data Mining algorithms
   * Data and Knowledge Representation
   * Scientific Discovery
   * Machine Learning Methods
   * Statistical Methods
   * Mining High Dimensional Data
   * Text Data Mining
   * Temporal Data Mining
   * Data and Knowledge Visualization
   * Interactive and Online Mining
   * KDD Process and Human Interaction
   * Data Mining in Advanced (OO, Spatial, Multimedia) Databases
   * Integration of Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining
   * Parallel and Distributed Data Mining
   * Data Mining and the Internet
   * Multi-agent, Multi-task KDD Systems
   * Data Mining from Unstructured and Multimedia Data
   * Security and Privacy Issues

May 1-3, 2003, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA. Item #2905
Third SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.

email: sdm2003@cs.umn.edu.
Deadlines: papers: February 1; author notification: March 1; camera-ready version: March 30.
Methods and Algorithms:

        Query/constraint-based data mining
        Probabilistic/statistical methods
        Mining spatial, temporal and heterogeneous data
        Trend and periodicity analysis
        Parallel/distributed/agent techniques
        Scalable algorithms
        Integration: mining, warehousing and OLAP
        Mining of data streams
        Data reduction/pre-processing
        Feature extraction and selection
        Post-processing
        Collaborative filtering/personalization
        Cost-based decision making
        Visual data mining


Applications:

        Intelligence analysis
        Genomics, bioinformatics and biometrics
        Medical and health industry
        Text, video, and multi-media mining
        E-commerce and web data
        Financial data analysis
        Intrusion detection
        Remote sensing and earth sciences
        Astronomy
        Non-destructive evaluation
        Case studies / benchmarks
        Novel applications

Human Factors and Social Issues:

        Languages/user interface for data mining
        Security / privacy of information
        Intellectual ownership
        Risk analysis

May 11-15, 2003, St, Augustine, FL, USA. Item #2883
FLAIRS'03 The 16th International FLAIRS Conference.

Rosina Weber. Email: Rosina.Weber@drexel.edu.
Deadlines: proposals for special tracks: July 19; notice of acceptance August 04, 2002; paper submissions: October 25; notification of acceptance: January 7; camera-ready: February 17.
SUGGESTED TOPICS


AI architectures
AI planning and evaluation (e.g., budgeting) of potential AI systems
Art and music
Artificial life
Automated modeling
Automated reasoning
Autonomous agents
Causality
Conceptual graphs
Constraint programming
Constraint satisfaction
Creativity in AI
Decision theory
Decision trees
Description logics
Dialogue management
Distributed AI
Expert systems
Fielded applications of AI
Fuzzy logic
Fuzzy set theory
Game playing
Genetic algorithms
Human computer interaction
Information Extraction
Intelligent databases
Intelligent information retrieval
Intelligent user interfaces
Knowledge acquisition
Knowledge discovery
Lexical resources
Logic programming
Machine learning
Machine translation
Maintenance of AI systems
Mathematical foundations
Model-based reasoning
Multiagent systems
Multimedia
Natural language generation
Natural language parsing
Natural language processing
Natural language understanding
Neural networks
Nonmonotonic reasoning
Ontologies
Ontology learning
Perception
Planning
Probabilistic reasoning
Qualitative reasoning
Real-time systems
Reasoning under uncertainty
Software Agents
Tutoring systems
User modeling
Virtual reality
Vision

May 11-14, 2003, St, Augustin, Florida, USA. Item #2932
Special Track on Natural Language Processing (FLAIRS 2003).

Roxana_Girju@baylor.edu, (254)710-4192, (254)710-3889.
Deadlines: papers: October 25, 2002.

May 11-14, 2003, Siena, Italy. Item #2988
7th IEEE WORKSHOP ON SIGNAL PROPAGATION ON INTERCONNECTS.

Joachim P. Mucha, Univ. Hannover, Institut fur Theoret. Elektrotechnik, Hannover (D), mucha@tet.uni-hannover.de.
Deadlines: paper: March 2.
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 12-14, 2003, St, Augustine, Florida, USA. Item #2921
Special Track : "Formal Reasoning and Subjectivity" at FLAIRS'2003.

Colette Faucher. Email: colette.faucher@wanadoo.fr.
Deadlines: papers: October 25.

May 12-14, 2003, Santa Monica Hotel, St, Augustine, Florida, USA. Item #2936
Special Track on Integrated Intelligent Systems at FLAIRS-2003.

Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, HELLAS (GREECE), email: ihatz@ceid.upatras.gr.
Deadlines: paper: October 25; notification of acceptance: January 7; camera ready copy: February 17.
    Case-based Reasoning Integrations
    Fuzzy Expert Systems
    Genetic Algorithms Integrations
    Hybrid Knowledge Representation Systems
    Integrations of Data Mining and Databases
    Integrations of Data Mining and Knowledge Management
    Integrations of Neural Networks with Expert Systems
    Intelligent Agents Based Integrations
    Intelligent Decision Support Systems
    Knowledge-Based Neural Networks
    Knowledge Extraction from Neural Networks
    Neurofuzzy systems

May 12-14, 2003, St, Augustine, Florida. Item #2956
Special Track on Neural Net Applications at FLAIRS 2003.

Brian Carse. Email: Brian.Carse@uwe.ac.uk.
Deadlines: submission: November 8.

May 12-15, 2003, NEW ORLEANS, USA. Item #3034
IEEE CAMP2003 - IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE FOR MACHINE PERCEPTION.

Guna Seetharaman, Center for Advanced Computer Studies, Rm. 456 #2 Rex St, Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504, mailto:camp2003@louisiana.edu.
Deadlines: passed.
  All areas relevant to the architecture and applications of machine
  perception systems will be of interest.  Extended abstracts of original
  papers are solicited in the following areas, but not limited to:
   Architectures for image understanding, sound recognition, other senses 
   Configurable and FPGA-based perception architectures 
   Parallel architectures and algorithms for machine   perception 
   Coprocessors and Instruction Set Architecture  extensions 
   Smart sensors and sensor fusion 
   Internet Imaging 
   Wearable computers
   Distributed processing for perception systems 
   Parallel video servers
   Inference engines and machine intelligence architectures 
   Rule-based systems and knowledge-based machines 
   Architectural performance evaluation 
   Languages, software environments and programming tools 
   Neural network and genetic algorithm applications in 

May 17, 2003, Beckman Center, University of California, Irvine, USA. Item #3043
10th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation.

Ivan Soltesz, tel: D. Professor, Rm 192, Irvine Hall, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, (fedex address: 19172 Jamboree Blvd.), University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-1280, T: (949) 824-3957, fax: (949) 824 1105, http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/anatomy/soltesz.html.
Deadlines: abstracts: May 2,.

May 18-22, 2003, Haifa, Israel. Item #2247
9th International Conference on the Mechanical Behaviour of Materials.

Daphna Loebl, ICM9 - Conference Secretariat, P.O. Box 50006, Tel Aviv 61500, Israel. Tel: +972 3 514 0057, fax: +972 3 514 0077, email: dloebl@kenes.com.
Deadlines: forthcoming.

May 29 - 31, 2003, Chongqing, China. Item #2912
ICAMT2003 The International Computer Science Conference 2003 ACTIVE MEDIA TECHNOLOGY.

Xiuwen Yang, ICAMT 2003 Secretariat, Logistical Engineering University, Chongqing 400016, P.R.China, tel: 86 23 68570719, 68756359, email: icamt2003@yahoo.com.
Deadlines: paper: November 15; camera-ready copies: January 15.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Active Computer Systems and Interfaces
2. Adaptive Web Media
3. Agent-Mediated Interaction and Services
4. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
5. Digital City
6. Digital Interactivity
7. Embodied Intelligent Systems and Agents
8. Human-Centered Robotics
9. Multi-Agent Communities
10. Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and Expression Analysis
11. Personalized, Pervasive Systems and Interfaces  
12. Smart Digital Media

June 2-5, 2003, Zakopane, Poland. Item #2919
IIS'03 Intelligent Information Systems.

Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Ordona 21, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland. Tel: ++48 22 8362841, fax: ++48 22 8376564, email: iipwm@ipipan.waw.pl.
Deadlines: papers: October 15.
Scope:
======
The conference will have special tracks on:
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Search Engines

The ConferenceÂ’s focus will also be on the following topics:
- new computing paradigms, including, but not restricted to biologically
motivated methods, quantum computing, DNA computing,
- advanced data analysis,
- new machine learning paradigms,
- reasoning technologies,
- natural language processing,
- novelty detection,
- new optimization technologies,
- applied data mining using statistical and non-standard approaches,
- technologies for very large data bases,
- uncertainty management.

June 2-5, 2003, Zakopane, Poland. Item #2941
IIS'03 INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

Conference Office: iipwm@ipipan.waw.pl, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Ordona 21, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland, tel: ++48 22 8362841, fax: ++48 22 8376564.
Deadlines: papers: October 15.
Scope:
======
The conference will have special tracks on:
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Search Engines

The ConferenceÂ’s focus will also be on the following topics:
- new computing paradigms, including, but not restricted to biologically
motivated methods, quantum computing, DNA computing,
- advanced data analysis,
- new machine learning paradigms,
- reasoning technologies,
- natural language processing,
- novelty detection,
- new optimization technologies,
- applied data mining using statistical and non-standard approaches,
- technologies for very large data bases,
- uncertainty management.

June 3-6, 2003, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Item #2981
Special Session on Neural Network and Fuzzy Systems at IWANN'03.

J.M. Benitez. Email: J.M.Benitez@decsai.ugr.es.
Deadlines: paper: February 28.
Topics 
   Integration issues of neural networks – fuzzy Systems 
   Cooperative neuro-fuzzy systems, 
   Concurrent neuro-fuzzy systems 
   Integrated neuro-fuzzy systems 
   Interaction between Support Vector Machines – Fuzzy Systems 
   Fuzzy clustering using unsupervised learning paradigms 
   Applications of neuro-fuzzy systems 
   Fuzzy optimization using supervised/unsupervised and reinforcement  
learning paradigms 
   Special topics 

June 3-6, 2003, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Item #2982
IWANN2003 7th. International Work Conference on Artificial And Natural Neural Networks.

José Mira Mira, Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial, UNED, Senda del Rey, 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain. Tel: +34 91 398 7155, fax: +34 91 398 6697, email: jmira@dia.uned.es.
Deadlines: submission: February 28.
   1. Mathematical & Computational Methods in neural modeling.
      Levels of analysis. Brain Theory. Neural coding. Mathematical Biophysics. Population Dynamics and Statistical modeling. Diffusion processes. Dynamical Binding. Synchronization. Resonance. Regulatory Mechanisms. Cellular Automata.
   2. Neurophysiological data analysis and modeling.
      Ionic channels. Synapses. Neurons. Circuits. Biophysical simulations.
   3. Structural and functional models of neurons.
      Analogue, non-linear, recurrent, RBF, PCA, digital, probabilistic, Bayesian, fuzzy and object oriented formulations.
   4. Learning and other plasticity phenomena.
      Supervised, non-supervised, reinforcement and statistical algorithms. Hybrid formulations. Incremental-decremental architectures. Biological mechanisms of adaptation and plasticity. Development and maturing.
   5. Complex systems dynamics.
      Statistical-mechanics. Attractors. Optimization, self-organization and cooperative-competitive networks. Evolutionary and genetic algorithms.
   6. Cognitive Processes and Artificial Intelligence.
      Perception (visual, auditive, tactile, proprioceptive). Multi-sensory integration. Natural language. Memory. Decision Making. Planning. Motor Control. Neuroethology. Knowledge modeling. Multi-agent systems. Distributed AI. Social systems.
   7. Methodology for nets design, simulation and implementation.
      Data analysis, task identification and recursive design. Development environments and editing tools. Implementation. Evolving hardware.
   8. Bio-inspired systems and engineering.
      Bio-cybernetics and Bionics. Signal processing, neural prostheses, retinomorphic systems, and other neural adaptive prosthetic devices. Molecular computing.
   9. Applications.
      Artificial vision, speech recognition, spatio-temporal planning and scheduling. Data mining. Sources separation. Applications of ANNs in Robotics, Astrophysics, Economy, Internet, Medicine, Education and Industry.

June 3-6, 2003, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Item #2990
Special Session on Soft Computing for Systems Engineering at IWANN 2003.

fax: +34 95 213 27 66, tel: +34 95 213 71 70, matencia@ctima.uma.es.
Deadlines: papers: February 28.
Submissions to pre-organized sessions are refereed by
session organizer and one external referee.

Please, send 1 copy of the paper or abstract to the
session organizer well before the submission deadline,
and then (after session organizer agree) register the
paper in the submission web form. 

June 4, 2003, Vietri Sul Mare, Salerno, ITALY. Item #3055
1-day workshop on BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS.

Francesco Masulli, University of Pisa (Italy) masulli@di.unipi.it.
Deadlines: abstracts: April 10.

June 5-7, 2003, Vietri Sul Mare, Salerno, ITALY. Item #3003
The 14-th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks and "Premio Caianiello" competition.

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.
Deadlines: papers: February 28, notification: April 30, revised papers due: June 1.

June 5-6, 2003, Laxenburg, Vienna, Austria. Item #3014
27th Workshop of the AUSTRIAN ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION: VISION IN A DYNAMIC WORLD.

Csaba Beleznai, Dr. Advanced Computer Vision GmbH - ACV, Donaucitystra=DFe 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria, tel: +43 1 269 6255 107, fax: +43/ 1 2696255 - 200, http://csaba.beleznai@acv.ac.at.
Deadlines: extended summaries: March 7.

June 9-13, 2003, Trento, Italy. Item #2911
ICAPS'03 - 13th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.

Enrico Giunchiglia, Università di Genova. Email: giunchiglia@unige.it.
Deadlines: papers: November 11; workshop and tutorial proposals: September 23.
Papers are solicited on any aspect related to Planning
and Scheduling, such as: optimization over large
problems and with multiple objectives, domain analysis
and knowledge acquisition, dealing effectively with
uncertainty in predictive and reactive
planning/scheduling, planning and execution, anytime
reactive planning/scheduling, debugging and software
development tools for planning/scheduling systems.

June 9-13, 2003, Montreal, Canada. Item #3016
Workshop on Advances in Machine Learning.

email: kegl@iro.umontreal.ca.
Deadlines: papers: March 31.

June 10-12, 2003, Montreal, Canada. Item #2922
The Fourth International Conference on Control and Automation.

Lihua Xie, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798. Fax: (65) 6792 0415, email: icca03@ntu.edu.sg.
Deadlines: extended summary: December 15; notification of acceptance: January 31; final papers: March 15.
"Modeling of Complex Systems
"Linear Systems
"Robust and H Control
"Nonlinear Systems & Control
"Fuzzy & Neural Systems
"Estimation & Identification
"Fault Detection
"Process Control & Instrumentation
"Motion Control
"Flexible Manufacturing Systems
"Computer Integrated Manufacturing
"Factory Modeling & Automation
"Petri-Nets & Applications
"Micro & Nano Systems
"Optimal Control
"Discrete Event Systems
"Adaptive Control
"Learning Systems
"Intelligent & AI Based Control
"Real-time Systems
"Sensor & Data Fusion
"Robotics
"Automated Guided Vehicles
"Control Education
"Control Applications
"Process Automation
"Man-machine Interactions
"Smart Structures
 

June 11-13, 2003, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. Item #2947
MCS 2003 Fourth International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems.

email: mcs2003@eim.surrey.ac.uk.
Deadlines: paper: January 10.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
MCS 2003 is the fourth 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. 

June 11-13, 2003, Halifax, Canada. Item #2957
16th International Conference on Vision Interface (jointly with AI2003 and GI 2003).

John S. Zelek, Robot Vision Group, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1. Email: jzelek@uoguelph.ca.
Deadlines: papers: December 20; acceptance: February 10; proposals for industrial presentation: March 17; camera-ready papers: April 7.
   2D/3D Scene analysis
   Active Vision
   Applications - biomedical, robotic, surveillance, inspection,entertainment
   Augmented Reality
   Biometrics
   Biological & Psychological aspects of Vision
   Calibration & Rectification (Mosaicing)
   Document Processing & Handwriting Recognition (OCR)
   Early Vision
   Face Detection & Recognition
   Gesture Detection & Recognition
   Graphics Recognition/Engineering Drawings
   Human Activity Recognition
   Human-Computer Interaction
   Image/Video Databases (multi-media, image/video retrieval)
   Image Segmentation & Classification
   Industrial applications (manufacturing)
   Learning & Classification methods
   Motion Analysis (optical flow, structure from motion, correspondences)
   Neural Nets for Vision & Image Understanding
   Object Recognition
   Performance Evaluation Techniques
   Real-time Vision
   Robotic Vision
   Shape Analysis
   Stereo vision
   Texture Analysis
   Tracking (2D/3D)
   Video Processing (motion, segmentation, registration)
 

June 16 - 20, 2003, Venice, Italy. Item #3027
First European School on Neuroengineering "Massimo Grattarola".

Filippo Corsini, Telecom Italia- Learning Services S.p.A. Business Development, Viale Parco de' Medici, 61, 00148 Roma Italy, tel: +39 06 368 70402, fax: +39 06 368 80101, email: UE001861@guest.telecomitalia.it.

1.       Neural code and plasticity
o         Development and implementation of methods to identify, represent
	  and analyze hierarchical and self-organizing systems
o         Cortical computational paradigms for perception and action

2.       Brain-like adaptive information processing systems
o         Development and implementation of methods to identify, represent
	  and analyze hierarchical and self-organizing systems
o         Models of learning, representation and adaptability based on knowledge 
	  of the nervous system.
o         Exploration of the capabilities of natural neurobiological systems as 
	  flexible computational devices.
o         Use of information from nervous systems to engineer new control techniques 
	  and new artificial systems.
o         Development of highly innovative Artificial Neural Networks capable
	  of reproducing the functioning of vertebrate nervous systems.

3.       Bio-artificial systems
o         Development of novel brain-computer interfaces
o         Development of new techniques for neuro-rehabilitation and neuro-prostheses
o         Hybrid silicon/biological systems

June 17, 2003, Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Item #2976
ACVA'03 IEEE/CVPR Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision in Archaeology.

Benjamin B. Kimia, Division of Engineering, Box D, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, tel: (401) 863 1353, fax: (401) 863 9107, email: kimia@lems.brown.edu.
Deadlines: manuscript: January 3.
A list of possible themes for submitted papers, meant to be suggestive rather than exclusive, is:

    * Reassembly of artifacts from fragments (2D: murals, 3D: Pottery, sculptures, statues, architecture, forensic (bones, skeletons)).
    * 3D reconstruction of archaeological objects and fragments from multiple images, video, laser scans, etc.
    * 3D architectural site reconstruction or representation from imagery and other data (geographical, GPS, laser, etc.).
    * Automated 2D profile reconstruction for pottery representation.
    * Shape representation for free-form modeling (statues, bones, etc.).
    * Automated trench recordings from video.
    * Shape matching/indexing in large archaeological databases (2D, image-based, and 3D; for a single site and across multiple sites).
    * Automated architectural drawing: 2D, sketching 3D from imagery.
    * Surface modeling from various sensing modalities, to represent 3D texture, BRDF, etc. (of walls, sculpture, etc.).
    * Texture modeling from imagery, remote sensing, models, etc. (to model large surfaces, backgrounds).
    * Excavation's historical documentation from multimedia data.
    * Vision-based Augmented Reality for site exploration (educational, scientific, tourism).
    * Color vision for visualization and/or preservation and/or recovery.
    * Shape-based completion for preservation and/or recovery.
    * 3D object geometry and surface painting and relief matched across archaeological sites.
* Other applications and modalities (e.g., automated coins recognition, relief understanding, hieroglyphic and other writings recovery from imagery, pottery paintings unwrapping, cave painting un-warping, architectural design understanding, etc.). 

June 18-20, 2003, Stanford, California, USA. Item #2935
CONTEXT'03 Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context.

Fausto Giunchiglia . Email: fausto@cs.unitn.it.
Deadlines: papers: January 6; notification of acceptance: March 6; final versions: April 6.
  Analogy and Case-based Reasoning     Autonomous Agents and Agent-based
Systems
  Cognitive Modeling                   Commonsense Reasoning
  Context Issues in Databases          Context-aware Applications
  Contextual Effects on Language       Contextual Effects on
Problem-solving,
  Understanding and Production         Decision-making, and
Categorization
  Decision Support and Expert Systems  Distributed Information Systems
  Formal Theories of Context           Heterogeneous Information
Integration
  Human-Computer Interaction           Information Management
  Intelligent Tutoring Systems         Intelligent/Semantic Web Systems
  Interagent Communication             Knowledge Engineering and
Management
  Knowledge Representation             Machine Learning
  Multiagent Systems                   Natural Language Processing
  Neuroscience and Context             Organizational Theory and Design
  Philosophical Foundations

June 21-22, 2003, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Item #2966
WOMOT 2003 Workshop on Multi-Object Tracking as part of CVPR 2003.

David Beymer, IBM Almaden Research Center, NWE/B1-015, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120-6099 USA.
Deadlines: paper: January 10.

June 22 - 25, 2003, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Item #2933
LICS 2003 IEEE Symposium On Logic In Computer Science 2003.

Prakash Panangaden, Workshops Chair LICS'03, prakash@cs.mcgill.ca.
Deadlines: proposals for workshops: November 1.

June 22-26, 2003, Snowbird, Utah, USA. Item #2937
AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Machine Learning, Statistics, and Discovery.

John Lafferty. Email: lafferty@cs.cmu.edu.

Tentative themes:

 Session 1: Overview of Machine Learning
 Session 2: Kernel Methods
 Session 3: Support Vector Machines
 Session 4: Boosting
 Session 5: Other Ensemble Methods
 Session 6: Extensions beyond Classification and Regression
 Session 7: Methods for Approximate Inference
 Session 8: Applications to Microarrays
 Session 9: Other Applications

June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2910
IKE'03 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering.

Nazli Goharian, Illinois Institute of Technology, Dept. of Computer Science, 10 West 31st street, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA. Tel: (312) 567 5704, fax: (312) 567 5067, email: ike@ir.iit.edu.
Deadlines: papers: February 22; notification of acceptance: March 21; camera-ready papers & prereg: April 22.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

   * Information and Knowledge Engineering
   * Information Retrieval Systems
   * Image Processing
   * Knowledge and Information Management Techniques
   * Data Mining Techniques
   * Knowledge and Information Extraction and Discovery 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
   * Performance Evaluation Techniques
   * Clustering Techniques
   * Web Technology for Information and Knowledge Based Applications
   * Web-Based Design and Development
   * Data Warehouses
   * Workflow Management
   * Service Recovery / Fault-Tolerance
   * Large-Scale Information Processing Methods
   * Data and Knowledge Processing
   * Video Databases
   * Distributed Databases
   * Information and Knowledge Structures
   * Information Quality (Quality Metrics)
   * E-Libraries (Digital Libraries)
   * Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems
   * Agent-Based Techniques and Systems
   * Content Management
   * Information Reliability and Security
   * Modeling and Simulation
   * Decision Support Systems
   * Expert Systems
   * Aspect-Oriented Programming
   * Re-usability of Software/Knowledge/Information
   * Privacy Issues
   * Interoperability Issues
   * Transaction Processing Systems
   * Object-Oriented Modeling and Systems
   * Hardware and Software Architectures
   * Knowledge Classification Tools
   * Case-Based Reasoning
   * Bayesian Techniques
   * Managing Copyright Laws
   * Digital Watermarking
   * Data/Information/Knowledge Models
   * Applications (e-Commerce, Multimedia, Business, Banking, ...)
   * OCR
   * Electronic Publishing
   * Artistic Imaging
   * Digital Typography
   * Geographic Information Systems
   * Data Fusion

June 23-26, 2003, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2986
2003 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.

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.
Deadlines: papers: February 17; notification of acceptance: March 21; camera-ready papers & prereg: April 22.
1.  The 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
    Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'03)

2.  The 2003 International Conference on Imaging Science,
    Systems, and Technology (CISST'03)

3.  The 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    (IC-AI'03)

4.  The 2003 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'03)

5.  The 2003 International Conference on Embedded Systems and
    Applications (ESA'03)

6.  The 2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'03)

7.  The 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
    Technologies and Applications (MLMTA)

8.  The 2003 International Conference on Mathematics and
    Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences
    (METMBS'03)

9.  The 2003 International Conference on Communications in
    Computing (CIC'03)

10. The 2003 International Conference on Engineering of
    Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'03)

11. The 2003 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'03)

12. The 2003 International Conference on Information and
    Knowledge Engineering (IKE'03)

13. The 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering
    Research and Practice (SERP'03)

14. The 2003 International Conference on Security and Management
    (SAM'03)

15. The First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03)

June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #2998
Special Track on Agent and Multi-Agent Learning (LAMS) @ The 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA: June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA).

MHamdi@uaeu.ac.ae.
Deadlines: papers: February 21; notification of acceptance: March 21; camera-ready copies: April 22.

June 23-24, 2003, Sheraton Gateway Hotel, Los Angles, California, USA. Item #3030
ICMLA'03 The 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications.

Icmla office . Email: icmla@cs.csubak.edu.

June 23-25, 2003, Binghamton, NY, USA. Item #3036
SMCia/03 - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications.

Xiao-Zhi Gao. Email: gao@csc.fi.
Deadlines: submission: March 21.

June 24-27, 2003, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland. Item #2785
ITEE 2003 First World Congress on Information Technology in Environmental Engineering.

NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division), P.O. Box 1091, 3360 BB Sliedrecht, The Netherlands, tel: +31 184 496999, fax: +31 184 421065, email: itee2003@global-conf.org.
Deadlines: papers, workshops, tutorials: September 30,.
Topics of Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (ITEE'2003) 
1.      Tools and measurement techniques 
·       Water and air pollution measuring 
·       Continuous monitoring of gaseous and particulate pollutants using state-of-the-art monitoring equipment 
·       Monitoring of meteorological parameters, dust, wet and dry deposition 
2.      Formal methods and data processing techniques 
·       Pollution engineering and management 
·       Air quality management 
·       Environmental and water resource engineering 
·       Process studies 
·       Chemistry of air pollution 
·       Urban and suburban transport emissions 
·       Data assimilation and sensitivity analysis 
·       Data management 
·       Data access via the Internet 
·       Coupling of models and databases 
·       Updating of model calculation during run-time 
·       Data visualisation 
·       Data interchange formats and standards 
·       Geographic information systems 
·       Comparison of modelling with experiments 
·       Data analysis and observation 
·       Data processing and verification, including database management 
·       Data security - data mining 
·       Management and Distribution of Electrical Energy 
·       Power Distribution Systems 
3.      Modelling and simulation problems 
·       Modelling of atmospheric chemical kinetics (gas and aqueous phases) 
·       Chemical transformation modelling 
·       Aerosol modelling 
·       Mesoscale meteorology 
·       Urban scale meteorology 
·       Emission models 
·       Coupling with radiative effects 
·       Numerical simulation of transport 
·       Numerical simulation of atmospheric chemical kinetics 
·       Inverse modelling 
·       Ground water pollution modelling 
·       Water pollution modelling and prediction 
·       Urban pollution modelling 
·       Models for ground water (groundwater), surface water, storm water 
·       Risk and environmental modelling 
·       Soft modelling 
4.      Information systems 
·       System management 
·       Agent-based systems 
·       Planning for environmental engineering (EE) 
·       Intelligent systems for environmental engineering (EE) 
·       Artificial intelligence and expert systems for environmental engineering  
        (EE) 
·       Architectures for building the systems 
·       Knowledge based integration 
·       Distributed computing environments 
·       WWW-based for EE systems 
·       Decision support systems - distributed systems  
5.      Practical applications and experiences 
·       Practical solutions 
·       Systematic guide-lines 
·       Case studies, pilot projects and experiments 
·       Applications in the cities 
·       Application in agriculture 

June 26-29, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #2929
ICANN/ICONIP 2003 Joint 13th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and 10th International Conference on Neural Information Processing.

Ethem Alpaydin. Email alpaydin@boun.edu.tr.
Deadlines: full papers: December 1; acceptance: February 3; camera-ready papers: February 3; short papers: January 7; acceptance: March 7; camera ready papers: May 9.

June 29 - July 2, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #2977
IFSA 2003 International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress.

Cem Say. Email: say@boun.edu.tr.
Deadlines: papers: January 15; short papers: January 30.

June 29 - July 19, 2003, Telluride, Colorado. Item #2994
Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop.

Terrence Sejnowski, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, San Diego, CA 92037, email: telluride@salk.edu, fax: (858) 587 0417.
Deadlines: application: March 14.
Projects that are carried out during the  workshop will be centered in
a number of working groups, including:
* active  vision
* audition
* motor control
* central  pattern generator
* robotics
* swarm robotics
* multichip communication
* analog VLSI
* learning

June 30 - July 11, 2003, Universite of Quebec, Montreal. Item #2963
UQaM Summer Institute is CATEGORISATION.

Stevan Harnad, email: harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk.

July 2-5, 2003, Bucharest, Romania. Item #3029
CSCS14 THE 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE.

email: cscs14@ics.pub.ro.
Deadlines: extended abstracts: March 7.
1. ADVANCED CONTROL

   - systems theory
                    - adaptive and optimal control,
                    - robust control,
                    - advanced control algorithms,
                    - intelligent control,
                    - neural systems,
                    - modeling and simulation,
                    - cognitive and learning systems,
         - remote control systems,
         - virtual and distributed laboratories.

2. DATA ACQUISITION AND INTELLIGENTMEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
3.  APPLICATIONS OVER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

- distributed and multiprocessor control systems,
- computer networks.

4. ADVANCES IN MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING

                    - control of industrial robots,
                    - flexible manufacturing cells,
                    - computer integrated manufacturing.

5. HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS

                    - parallel systems,
                    - VLSI structure design.

6. ADVANCES IN SOFTWARE

                    - artificial vision and AI techniques,
                    - programming languages and environments,
                    - software engineering and applications,
                    - software architectures
                    - advanced operating systems,
                    - computer aided software design (CASE),
                    - natural languages,
                    - evolutionary computation.

July 5 - July 9, 2003, Alicante, Spain. Item #3006
CNS*2003 Twelfth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting.

email: cp@bbf.uia.ac.be.
Deadlines: submission: February 16.

July 5, 2003, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Item #3009
FUNN 2003 - 1st International Workshop on the Future of Neural Networks, affiliated to ICALP 2003.

email: funn@liacs.nl.
Deadlines: papers: April 27.
o The introduction of more biological plausible neural networks, like
  spiking neural networks.
o The combination of several networks, possibly combined with other
  formalisms, into ensembles that can yield a better performance than
  networks in isolation.
o The emergence of unifying frameworks for different types of networks,
  like the Support Vector Machines.
o The integration with statistics, most noticeably in the shift towards
  graphical formalisms like Belief Networks.
o The spin-off of successful new areas like Independent Component
  Analysis.

July 6-9, 2003, Baltimore, MD, USA. Item #2931
ICME 2003 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo.

B. S. Manjunath . Email: manj@ece.ucsb.edu.
Deadlines: proposals for special sessions: October 15; proposals for tutorial: December 1; papers: December 15; notification of acceptance: March 1; camera-ready paper: March 31.
    * Audio, image, video processing
    * Virtual reality and 3-D imaging
    * Signal processing for media integration
    * Integration of media, art, and multimedia technology
    * Multimedia Communications and networking
    * Multimedia security and content protection
    * Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
    * Multimedia database
    * Location aware multimedia systems
    * Multimedia computing systems and appliances
    * Hardware and software for multimedia systems
    * Multimedia standards and related issues
    * Multimedia applications

July 7-11, 2003, ISEP, Porto, Portugal. Item #3023
SUMMER SCHOOL ON NEURAL NETWORKS in SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING.

Jorge M. Santos jms@isep.ipp.pt.

July 7-10, 2003, Corfu Island, Greece. Item #3032
7th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTERS.

Professor George Antoniou, Montclair State University, Computer Science Dept., New Jersey, USA.
Deadlines: paper submission: April 10.

July 7-11, 2003, ISEP, Porto, Portugal. Item #3065
SUMMER SCHOOL NN-2003 NEURAL NETWORKS in SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING.

email: nn-2003@isep.ipp.pt.
Deadlines: early registration: May 15; applications for funding: May 15.

July 8 - 11, 2003, Radisson Hotel, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Item #2959
FUSION 2003 - The Sixth International Conference on Information Fusion.

Organizers Australia, P.O. Box 2393 North Brighton 3186, Australia. Email: melbourne@orgaus.com.au.
Deadlines: proposals for sessions: January 15; papers: February 1.

July 9 - 12, 2003, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia. Item #2938
Andrei Ershov Fifth International Conference - PERSPECTIVES OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS.

Alexander Marchuk, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, 6, Acad. Lavrentjev pr. 630090 Novosibirsk, RUSSIA, tel: +7 3832 343652, fax: +7 3832 323494, email: mag@iis.nsk.su.
Deadlines: extended abstracts: February 2.
               Semantics-Based Program Processing

- program specification, transformation, and verification,
- semantics, logic and formal models of programs,
- partial evaluation, mixed computation, and abstract interpretation,
- program analysis and synthesis,
- model checking.

              Programming Methodology and Automated Software Engineering

- object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming,
- program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing,
- constraint programming,
- multi-agent technology,
- system re-engineering and reuse,
- integrated programming environments,
- software architectures,
- software development and testing,
- tools for software engineering,
- Web services in software engineering,
- program understanding and visualization.


                 Information Technologies

- database and information systems,
- knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering,
- electronic commerce,
- digital libraries and Web publishing,
- natural language processing.

July 10-12, 2003, Oulu, Finland. Item #3033
HMAS 2003 - 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems.

Andreas Nuernberger. Email: anuernb@eecs.berkeley.edu.
Deadlines: papers: March 31.
Part of eunite 2003 symposium

July 12-16, 2003, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Item #2913
GECCO 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.

James A. Foster. Email: gecco-chair@cs.uidaho.edu.
Deadlines: papers: January 22.
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003) will
present the latest high-quality results in the growing field of genetic and
evolutionary computation. Topics include, but are not limited to: genetic
algorithms (GA), genetic programming (GP), evolution strategies (ES),
evolutionary programming (EP), evolvable hardware (EH), evolutionary
robotics (ER), real-world applications (RWA), learning classifier systems
(LCS), DNA, molecular, and quantum computing (DMQ), artificial life,
adaptive behavior, agents, and ant colony optimization (AAAA), genetic
scheduling and routing (GSR), evolutionary computation in industry (ECI),
search based software engineering (SBSE), Coevolution (COEV), and other
areas to be announced.

July 12-16, 2003, Chicago, USA. Item #2987
EvoHybridNP-2003 Application of Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms to NP-complete Problems at GECCO-2003.

Francisco B. Pereira, xico@dei.uc.pt, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Quinta da Nora, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal.
Deadlines: manuscript: February 24.
* Hybridization with exact techniques, such as the branch and bound,
dynamic programming
   or linear programming.
* Hybridization with approximation algorithms, i.e., methods that
provide a guarantee
   on the quality of the solutions obtained.
* Using EC algorithms inside exact techniques.
* Analysis of the strengths (and weaknesses) of today's EC-based
approaches. Studies
   of how they compare to other techniques that are also applied in
these problems.
* Studies for which kind of NP-complete problems, hybrid EC algorithms
are particularly
   well suited.

July 13 - 17, 2003, Sydney, Australia. Item #2989
Cognitive Science Joint International Conference 4th ICCS International Conference on Cognitive Science 7th ASCS Australasian Society for Cognitive Science Conference.

Peter Slezak, Program in Cognitive Science, School of History & Philosophy of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. Tel: (+61 2) 9385-2422, fax: (+61 2) 9385-8003, email: p.slezak@unsw.edu.au.
Deadlines: abstracts and proposals for symposia: April 1.
* Music and Cognition
* Cognitive Science and Education
* Cognitive Science of Science
* Animal Cognition
* Decision Making, Risk & Behavioural Finance
* Language and Cognition
* Brain imaging
* Machine Learning
* Evolutionary psychology
* Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science
* Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry & Psychoanalysis

July 14-17, 2003, Lugano, Switzerland. Item #2888
ISIPTA'03 - 3rd International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications.

Marco Zaffalon, IDSIA, Galleria 2, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland. Tel: +41 91 610 8665, fax: +41 91 610 8661, email: zaffalon@idsia.ch.
Deadlines: papers: February 1; notification of acceptance: April 1; revised papers: May 1.
Themes of the symposium
-----------------------
Although the third symposium will be open to contributions on all aspects
of imprecise probability, three main themes will be emphasised. Papers will
be encouraged that report advances in the following subjects:
- Inference (e.g., statistical inference, machine learning).
- Algorithms and computational complexity (e.g., exact and approximate
inference algorithms, optimisation procedures to compute bounds on lower
and upper expectations/probabilities, complexity analyses).
- Real applications (e.g., artificial intelligence and expert systems,
economics, engineering, environmental modeling, experimental psychology,
medicine, reliability, robotics, statistics, systems and control).

July 14 - 18, 2003, Melbourne, Australia. Item #3008
DALT 2003 First International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies.

João Alexandre Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, jleite@di.fct.unl.pt.
Deadlines: submission: April 11.
 In conjunction with AAMAS 2003
              2nd International Conference on
         Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
              http://www.aamas-conference.org/

* Declarative agent communication and coordination languages
* Knowledge-based and knowledge-intensive MAS
* Modeling of agent rationality
* Declarative approaches to the engineering of MAS
* High level agent specification languages
* Practical aspects of declarative agent programming and implementation
* Formal methods for the specification and verification of MAS
* Computational logics in MAS
* Argumentation and dialectical systems in MAS
* Declarative description of contracts and negotiation issues in MAS
* Lessons learned from the design and implementation of MAS
* Declarative paradigms for the combination of heterogeneous agents
* Constraints and MAS
* Declarative representation of policies and security in MAS

July 14, 2003, Melbourne, Australia. Item #3018
PROMAS 2003 The First International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems Languages, frameworks, techniques and tools at AAMAS 2003.

Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Paris 6 ( Pierre et Marie Curie), France, Amal.Elfallah@lip6.fr.
Deadlines: papers: April 7.
- Agent programming languages
- Frameworks, techniques and tools for MAS programming
- Extensions of traditional languages for MAS programming
- Operational semantics for MAS based on process algebra, transition
systems, logic, etc.
- Verification tools for MAS implementations
- Computational concepts for MAS applications
- Application areas for MAS programming languages
- Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing MAS programming languages
- Generic tools for implementing and co-ordinating agent wrappers
- Programming mobile agents

July 15, 2003, Melbourne, Australia. Item #3051
PROMAS 2003 The First International Workshop on Programming Multiagent Systems languages, frameworks, techniques and tools at AAMAS 2003.

Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Paris 6 ( Pierre et Marie Curie), France. Email: Amal.Elfallah@lip6.fr.
Deadlines: papers: April 7; notification: May 13; camera-ready papers: May 21.
- Agent programming languages
- Frameworks, techniques and tools for MAS programming
- Extensions of traditional languages for MAS programming
- Operational semantics for MAS based on process algebra, transition
systems, logic, etc.
- Verification tools for MAS implementations
- Computational concepts for MAS applications
- Application areas for MAS programming languages
- Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing MAS programming languages
- Generic tools for implementing and co-ordinating agent wrappers
- Programming mobile agents

April 14-16, 2003, PLYMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM. Item #3107
ECEC'2003 10th ANNIVERSARY European Concurrent Engineering Conference.

Dr. Uwe Baake, Debis Humaita IT Services Latin America, Alameda Campinas, 1070, CEP: 01404-002, São Paulo, Brazil, tel: +55 11 3886 2925, fax: +55 11 3886 2938, email: baake@compuserve.com.
Deadlines: passed.
MAJOR TOPICS:
                                                  e-Business in CE
                                           Organization and Management
                                              Supporting Technologies
                        Engineering Data Management and Information Modeling
                                              Process Management
                             Collaborative CE Environments for Virtual Teams
                                    Practical Applications and Experiences

August 3 - 6, 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #2944
ICDAR 2003 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition.

Andy Downton, Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom, email: acd@essex.ac.uk, fax: +44 (0) 1206 873012, tel: +44 (0) 1206 872277.
Deadlines: papers: December 9.
                                     Performance Metrics
                                     Text Recognition
                                     Handwriting Recognition
                                     Document Image Processing
                                     Graphics Recognition
                                     Document Understanding
                                     Document Databases
                                     Multimedia Documents
                                     Document Analysis Research and Development Environments
                                     Applications

August 4-5, 2003, Boston, MA, USA. Item #2971
Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems.

email: er2003@epigenetic-robotics.org.
Deadlines: papers & posters: March 14.

August 4-5, 2003, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. Item #3037
EPIROB2003 Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems.

er2003@epigenetic-robotics.org.
Deadlines: papers & poster abstracts: March 31.
 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 developmental process through which varied and
complex
     cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of an
embodied
     system interacting with a physical and social environment.

August 4-16, 2003, Tuebingen, Germany. Item #3054
MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL.

Manuel DAVY, IRCCyN/CNRS, 1 rue de la Noe, BP 92101, 44321 Nantes cedex 3, France, Manuel.Davy@irccyn.ec-nantes.fr, Tél: +33 2 40 37 69 09, fax: +33 2 40 37 69 30.
Deadlines: application: April 30.

August 6-11, 2003, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. Item #3075
ASIC2003 Second Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference.

Rich Shiffrin . Email: shiffrin@indiana.edu.

August 7-10, 2003, Hyatt Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico. Item #2969
UAI-2003 - 19th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

Adnan Darwiche, Computer Science Dept., University of California, Los Angles, CA 90095-1596, USA. Tel: +1 (310) 206 5201, fax: +1 (310) 794 5057, email: darwiche@cs.ucla.edu.
Deadlines: abstract: March 13; full paper: March 20; notification: April 30; camera ready copy: May 29.

August 9, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico. Item #2962
Workshop on Cognitive Modeling of Agents and Multi-Agent Interactions During IJCAI'2003.

Ron Sun, CECS Dept., 201 EBW, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211-2060, rsun@cecs.missouri.edu.
Deadlines: papers or abstracts: March 1; notification of acceptance: March 30; camera-ready papers: May 1.
The workshop is open to all members of the AI and CogSci research communities.
We invite submissions on all aspects of cognitive modeling of agents and
multi-agent  interactions, including, but not limited to:

   * Cognitive architectures of individual cognitive agents.

   * Cognitive models of multi-agent interactions (e.g., communication,
     cooperation, and negotiation, in relation to cognition).

   * Cognitive models of multi-agent organizations (e.g., organizational
     structure, economies, culture, and other coordination structures and
     mechanisms, in relation to cognition).

   * Cognitive models of co-learning of multiple cognitive agents.

   * Computational models of evolution of cognition and behavior.

   * Computational abstractions, languages, and tools for cognitive modeling
     of agents and multi-agent interactions.

The discussions at the workshop will focus on the following issues,
among many others:

  * What are the characteristics of the successful cognitive architectures for
    modeling individual cognitive agents?

  * What are the suitable characteristics of cognitive architectures for
    modeling both individual cognitive agents and multi-agent interactions?

  * What are the fundamental ways of understanding and modeling multi-agent
    interactions?  Can they be reduced to individual cognition?

  * How can we best characterize and model social structures and organizations
    in relation to cognition?

  * How important is evolution in shaping individual cognition and collective
    behavior?  How can we model that aspect?

August 9, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico. Item #3000
IJCAI-2003 Workshop - Learning Graphical Models for Computational Genomics.

William H. Hsu (primary contact), Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, 234 Nichols Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-2302, tel: (785) 532 6350 ext. 29, fax: (785) 539 7180, email: bhsu-AT-cis.ksu.edu.
Deadlines: submission: March 1.
Active research topics that are relevant to learning graphical
models for computational genomics include:
* functional genomics, which includes:
- modeling of gene regulatory dynamics,
- data mining from DNA hybridization microarrays,
- other gene modeling tools such as northern blots;
* building simulation models for metabolomics on:
- biochemical pathways,
- environmental stress-response,
- cellular process regulation;
* proteomics, such as:
- secondary and tertiary fold prediction
- gene-protein interaction;
* other contemporary bioinformatics problems, such as:
- intelligent systems for pharmacology,
- plant science and crop simulation,
- decision support systems for human and veterinary medicine,
- phylogenetic modeling.

August 10-13, 2003, Tulsa, USA. Item #2946
Third International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications.

ajith.abraham@ieee.org, tel: +1 918 5948188, fax: +1 918 5948281, eFax: +1 509 6912851.
Deadlines: proposals for workshop/sessions/tutorial: January 6; paper submission (full paper): February 14; notification of acceptance: March 31; camera ready papers and authors' registration: April 15.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:

Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications

    * 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
    * Support Vector Machines
    * Neural network applications
    * 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
    * Evolutionary Algorithms
    * Genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, genetic programming and evolutionary programming
    * Learning Classifiers
    * Hybrid evolutionary algorithms
    * Evolutionary algorithms and applications
    * Fusion of neural network- fuzzy systems
    * Fusion of fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms
    * Fusion of neural network - evolutionary algorithms
    * Fusion of neural network- fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms
    * Intelligent agents (architectures, environments, adaptation/ learning and knowledge management)
    * Bayesian networks and probabilistic reasoning
    * Rough sets
    * Statistical learning techniques
    * Fusion of statistical methods and soft computing techniques
    * CAD systems
    * Intelligent optimization techniques

Intelligent Image and Signal Processing

    *Design and implementation of intelligent signal processing systems
    *Image, vedio and multidimensional signal processing
    *Multimedia signal processing
    *Speech processing
    *Features and classification
    *Texture analysis
    *Document analysis
    *Stereoscopic vision
    *Shape processing
    *Object recognition
    *Image and video retrieval
    *Image and video compression         

Intelligent Internet Modeling

    *Web intelligence
    *Search engines
    *Information retrieval (web mining)
    *Database querying
    *Ontology
    *XML mining
    *Intelligent networking between Web Sites
    *Network security, intrusion detection
    *Information aggregation and fusion
    *Interaction with intelligent agents
    *Intelligent agents and interfaces for personalization and adaptivity
    *Intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW
    *Adaptive hypermedia systems
    *Agents for digital cities, virtual communities and agent societies  

Intelligent 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

Intelligent Business Systems

    *e-learning, e-commerce, e-business, e-finance
    * Risk management
    * Derivatives pricing
    * Portfolio management and asset allocation
    * Stock market, forex market analysis, dynamics; simulation
    * Hedging, trading & arbitrage strategies
    * Financial modeling
    * Computational economics
    * Intelligent management
    * Multicriteria decision making

Intelligent Control and Automation

    * Mathematical modeling and analysis of complex systems
    * Soft computing/computational intelligence in control systems
    * Knowledge based control systems
    * Adaptive control systems
    * Control applications in robotics, manufacturing, process control, industrial systems, automotive, vehicular systems, spacecraft and so on

Intelligent Agents

    * Adaptation and learning
    * Agent architectures and communication languages
    * Communication, collaboration, and interaction of humans and agents
    * Conversational agents
    * Coordinating multiple agents
    * Designing agent systems - methodologies & software engineering
    * Evolution of agents
    * Knowledge acquisition and management
    * models of emotion, motivation, or personality
* multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration

Intelligent Knowledge Management

    * Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic modeling
    * Development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases
    * Automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases (especially raw text)
    * Performance evaluation
    * Parallel database systems
    * Data and knowledge sharing
    * Cooperation in heterogeneous systems
    * Domain modeling and ontology-building
    * Concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing
    * Digital Libraries
    * Multimedia Databases.

August 10, 2003, Acapulco. Item #3004
IJCAI-03 Workshop on Multiagent for Mass User Support (MAMUS-03).

mamus03-sec@carc.aist.go.jp.
Deadlines: papers: March 7.
- Flow control of mass users in dynamically changing
  environment, e.g., road traffic or human flow control.
- Coordination of users' requests with respect to users'
  intention, e.g., facility reservation.
- Information providing methods to mass users with direct or
  indirect guidance, e.g., navigation, evacuation.
- Dynamic arrangement of mobile objects, e.g., supply chain,
  demand bus.
- Allocation of spatio-temporal resources, e.g., design of
  buildings or cities.
- Control of embedded systems or information appliance by
  negotiation for efficiency use of energy.

August 11 - September 5, 2003, MUNICIPALITY OF OBIDOS, PORTUGAL. Item #3017
ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (A FENS/IBRO NEUROSCIENCE SCHOOL).

Klaus Obermayer, FR2-1, Fakultaet IV, Technical University, of Berlin, Franklinstrasse 28/29, 10587 Berlin, Germany, tel: +49 (0)30 314 73442, fax: +49 (0)30 314 73121, email: obidos@cs.tu-berlin.de.
Deadlines: application: April 27.
The course consists of two complementary parts. A distinguished
international faculty gives morning lectures on topics in experimental
and computational neuroscience. The rest of the day is devoted to
practical training, including learning how to use simulation software
and how to implement a model of the system the student wishes to study
on individual UNIX workstations.

August 21-24, 2003, Washington DC, USA. Item #2980
ICML-2003 Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning.

email: Dunja.Mladenic@ijs.si.
Deadlines: proposals for workshops: January 15; proposals for tutorials: February 15; abstracts: February 10.
The Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2003)
will be held in Washington, DC on August 21-24, 2003. It will be 
co-located with KDD and COLT.

August 21, 2003, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3089
ICML 2003 Workshop The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning and Data Mining.

Rayid Ghani, Accenture Technology Labs, rayid.ghani@accenture.com.
Deadlines: papers: May 1.

August 21-23, 2003, Austin, TX, USA. Item #3095
AI in Games Workshop.

gale@icc.utexas.edu, 512-482-0273 x253.

Join game development luminaries for an intensive AI in Games Workshop hosted by the Digital Media Collaboratory at The University of Texas at Austin. The workshop will demonstrate emerging applications of innovative game play and examine new trends in digital game research, applied research and development. Workshop participants also will have the rare opportunity to meet with top industry professionals during goal-oriented break-out sessions. 

August 24-27, 2003, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3025
KDD-2003 THE NINTH ACM SIGKDD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING.

Osmar Zaiane. zaiane@cs.ualberta.ca.
Deadlines: passed.
- Novel data mining algorithms
- Foundations of data mining
- Data mining and the Internet
- Data mining on social networks and graphs
- Data mining in biomedical domains
- Data mining in government/data mining for homeland defense
- Data mining and data warehousing
- Robust and scalable statistical methods
- Mining data streams
- Mining high-dimensional data
- Mining text and semi-structured data
- Spatial and temporal data mining
- Security and privacy issues
- KDD framework and process
- Interactive and online data mining
- Preprocessing and postprocessing for data mining
- Data and result visualization

August 24-27, 2003, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3087
WEBKDD 2003 The Fifth WEBKDD Workshop: Web Mining as a Premise to Effective and Intelligent Web Applications In conjunction with The Ninth ACM SIGKDD.

Osmar R. ZAIANE, email: zaiane@cs.ualberta.ca.
Deadlines: passed.

August 24-27, 2003, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3091
MDM/KDD2003 : The Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining in conjunction with KDD-2003.

Valery A. Petrushin, Accenture Technology Labs161 N. Clark St.Chicago, IL 60089, USA, petr@techlabs.accenture.com.
Deadlines: submissions: May 31.
The major topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
- Integrated mining of different data formats (text, speech, video, structured, image, relational data)
- Combining mining results from different sources
- Integrated mining methods for eBusiness
- Combined mining methods for engineering and manufacturing
- Integrated mining for Homeland Security
- Mining of data streams combined with structure data
- Visual data mining of multi-format/ Multimedia data
- Multi-relational Data Mining. The focus is on mining data residing in relational databases.
- Visual data mining of multi-format/multimedia data.
- Theoretical frameworks for multimedia data mining.
- Multimedia data mining methods and algorithms.
- Multimedia data sampling and preprocessing. 
- Data visualization and sonification.
- Representation and reuse of discovered knowledge.
- Multimedia data descriptions languages and formats.
- Evaluation of interestingness, novelty and validity of results.
- Topic and event detection in multimedia data (including video).
- Extracting semantics from multimedia databases.
- Mining scientific multimedia data.
- Integrated data mining in multimedia information systems.
- Knowledge discovery in facial data.
- Man-machine interfaces for multimedia data mining.
- Complexity, efficiency and scalability of multimedia data mining algorithms.
- Data mining virtual communities and virtual worlds.
- Data mining in collaborative virtual environments and virtual reality systems.
- Visual and audio support for multimedia mining.
- Visual data mining of multimedia data.
- Multi-agent environments for concurrent mining of heterogeneous data.
- Real-time multimedia data mining systems.
- Using MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards for multimedia data mining.
 

August 25-27, 2003, Groningen, The Netherlands. Item #2974
CAIP 2003 - 10th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns.

CAIP'2003, Inst. of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, Blauwborgje 3, 9747 AC Groningen, The Netherlands, email: caip@cs.rug.nl.
Deadlines: submissions: February 14.
   * Image analysis                      * Augmented reality
   * Computer vision                     * Image and video compression
   * Pattern recognition                 * Image and video indexing
   * Object recognition                  * Shape representation
   * Medical imaging                     * Segmentation and grouping
   * Motion analysis                     * Industrial applications

August 25 - 30, 2003, Vienna, Austria. Item #2995
CSL'03 & KGC Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic and 8th Kurt Goedel Colloquium.

email: csl03@logic.at.
Deadlines: abstract (followed by full text on March 7): March 31; notification: June 2; final copy: June 18.
Computer Science Logic (CSL)  is  the annual conference  of  the European
Association  for  Computer  Science  Logic  (EACSL).    The  Kurt  Goedel
Colloquium  (KGC)   is   the  biennial  conference  of  the  Kurt  Goedel
Society (KGS).   The joint conference is intended for computer scientists
whose  research  activities  involve  logic,  as  well  as  for logicians
working on issues significant for computer science.   Suggested topics of
interest include:   automated deduction  and interactive theorem proving;
constructive mathematics  and  type theory;   equational logic  and  term
rewriting;  fuzzy logic;  modal and temporal logics;  computational proof
theory;  linear logic;  finite model theory;  bounded arithmetic; logical
aspects  of  computational  complexity;    higher  order  logic;    logic
programming  and constraints;   lambda and combinatory calculi;   logical
foundations  of  programming paradigms;   model checking;  specification,
extraction  and  transformation  of  programs;   categorical  logic   and
topological semantics; game semantics; domain theory; database theory.

August 25 - 30, 2003, Vienna, Austria. Item #3026
CSL'03 & KGC Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic and 8th Kurt Goedel Colloquium.

email: csl03@logic.at.
Deadlines: abstract and title: March 31; full paper: April 7; notification: June 2 2003; final copy: June 18.

August 25-29, 2003, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Item #3097
NEURON Workshop.

Kathleen Clinton, clinton@compneuro.umn.edu, tel: (612) 625 8424.

August 26-29, 2003, Berlin, Germany. Item #2874
IDA-2003 - 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis.

Michael R. Berthold, Tripos Inc., USA.
Deadlines: papers: March 31, 2003.

August 27, 2003, Washington DC, USA. Item #3088
MRDM 2003 - 2nd Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining at the 9th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining.

Saso Dzeroski . Email: Saso.Dzeroski@ijs.si.
Deadlines: papers: June 6.
- Applications of (multi-)relational data mining
- Data mining problems that require (multi-)relational methods
- Distance-based methods for structured/relational data
- Inductive databases
- Kernel methods for structured/relational data
- Learning in probabilistic relational representations
- Link analysis and discovery
- Methods for (multi-)relational data mining
- Mining structured data, such as amino-acid sequences,
     chemical compounds, HTML and XML documents, ...
- Propositionalization methods for transforming (multi-)relational
     data mining problems to single-table data mining problems
- Relational neural networks
- Relational pattern languages

August 27, 2003, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3090
OTC-03 Third Workshop on Operational Text Classification.

otc2003submit@daviddlewis.com.
Deadlines: abstract: June 8.

August 28 - 30, 2003, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Item #3050
NCPW 8 Eighth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop.

hristophe L. Labiouse, Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, University of Liege, Dept. of Cognitive Science (B33), Boulevard du Rectorat, 3, B-4000 Liege, Belgium, tel: 00 32 (0)4 3664870, fax: 00 32 (0)4 3662859, email: clabiouse@ulg.ac.be.
Deadlines: abstracts: June 13; notification of acceptance: June 29.

September 1-3, 2003, Edinburgh, UK. Item #3039
ICARIS-2003 - 2nd International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems.

Jonathan Timmis, University of Kent. UK. J.Timmis@ukc.ac.uk.
Deadlines: submission: May 1.

September 1, 2003, Helsinki, Finland. Item #3046
WITSE'03 Workshop on Intelligent Technologies for Software Engineering at ESEC/FSE.

witse@soi.city.ac.uk.
Deadlines: submission: June 13.
	O	Intelligent methods of requirements analysis and evolution.
	O	Machine learning for change management and risk assessment.
	O	Intelligent approaches for inconsistency management of software systems.
	O	Intelligent architectures for software evolution.
	O	Intelligent human-computer interaction design.
	O	Intelligent technologies for traceability management.
	O	Intelligent techniques for software validation, verification, and testing.
	O	Empirical studies, experience, and lessons learned on applying computational intelligence to software development.

September 1 - 3, 2003, University of Bristol, UK. Item #3072
UKCI-03 The 2003 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence.

Jonathan Lawry . Email: j.lawry@bristol.ac.uk.
Deadlines: papers: June 2; notification: July 7; camera-ready copies: August 9.
*  Theoretical foundations
*  Problem-solving methods
*  Application systems
*  Hybrid systems
*  Survey and methodological issues

September 2-5, 2003, Ghent University, Belgium. Item #3013
ACIVS 2003 Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems.

Marcin Paprzycki, marcin@cs.okstate.edu.
Deadlines: paper: April 1.
 * Image and Video Processing (image restoration and filtering,
   segmentation, fuzzy image processing tools, 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,  Database retrieval, Information Mining 
   and Watermarking;
 * Image Quality and Algorithmic Performance Evaluation (empirical
   evaluation techniques; image & video quality metrics and methods);
 * Real-time image processing, image processing systems and hardware.

September 2, 2003, Marseille, France. Item #3092
Foclasa 2002 - 2nd International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures affiliated to CONCUR'2003.

jmj@info.fundp.ac.be.
Deadlines: submission: June 9.
    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 description 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
    o  Methodologies for validating and certifying software compositions

September 3 - 5, 2003, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Item #2953
Special Invited Session "Complex-Valued Neural Networks" at KES 2003.

Akira Hirose, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 153-8656, Japan, email: ahirose@ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Deadlines: submission intention: December 1; papers: February 1; notification of acceptance: March 1; camera-ready papers: April 1.

September 3 - 5, 2003, Oxford, United Kingdom. Item #2961
KES'2003 - 7th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems.

Dr. V. Palade, Oxford University, Computing Laboratory, Parks Road, OX1 3QD, Oxford, UK, email: Vasile.Palade@comlab.ox.ac.uk, tel: +44 (0)1865 283606, fax: +44 (0)1865 283532.
Deadlines: papers: February 1; notification of acceptance: April 1; final papers: May 1; proposals for special session/ workshop: March 1.
TOPICS

Generic Topics of Interest:
-----------------
Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems, Neural Networks, Fuzzy
Techniques and Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing,
Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Machine Learning, Cognitive
Modelling, Knowledge Representation and Management, Planning, Spatial &
Temporal Reasoning, Knowledge Acquisition.

Intelligent Applications:
---------------
Industrial Control and Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis, Robotics, Image
Processing, Machine & Computer Vision, Medical & Diagnostic Systems,
Financial & Stock Market Monitoring and Prediction, Speech Processing
and Synthesis, Natural Language Processing, Environmental Monitoring,
Power Electronics & Drives, High Voltage Systems, Engine Control and
Vehicle Applications; Signal Processing & Wavelets

Emerging Intelligent Technologies:
----------------------
Artificial Intelligence and the Internet, Information Agents on the
Internet, E-commerce/E-business and E-learning, Intelligent Information
Retrieval, Intelligent Web Mining & Applications, Intelligent User
Interfaces, Bioinformatics using Intelligent & Machine Learning
Techniques, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Virtual Reality & Multi-Media
Intelligent Information Systems, Artificial Life

September 3 - 5, 2003, Oxford, UK. Item #2970
Neural Networks for Vision - Biological and Artificial at KES'03.

Kunihiko Fukushima, Tokyo University of Technology, 1404-1, Katakura, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0982, Japan. Email: fukushima@karl.teu.ac.jp.
Deadlines: submission intention: December 1; papers: February 1; notification of acceptance: March 1, camera-ready papers: April 1.
Specific topics of interest include but not limited to:
   * Biological neural network models for the visual system
   * Artificial neural networks for vision
   * Visual pattern recognition using neural networks
   * Object recognition
   * Active vision
   * Selective visual attention
   * Learning and self-organization of neural networks for vision
   * Stereoscopic vision, binocular vision
   * Eye movement and foveation
   * Early vision
   * Motion analysis with neural networks
   * Target detection and tracking
   * Color vision
   * Segmentation of images or patterns using neural networks
   * Completion of imperfect patterns 
      (e.g., partly occluded, or contaminated with noise)
   * Visual illusion

September 3 - 5, 2003, University of Oxford, U, K. Item #3020
Artificial Intelligence-Based Methods and Tools for Operations and Logistics Management at KES.

Riccardo Dulmin, Address: Dept. Electrical Systems and Automation, Via Diotisalvi, 2, 56122 Pisa - Italy, tel: +39 050 565347, fax: +39 050 565333, email: riccardo.dulmin@dsea.unipi.it.
Deadlines: papers: February 28.
Topics of interest of the special session include, but are not limited to:
· Design of Productive / Logistics Systems
· Order / Inventory Management and Demand Forecasting
· Manufacturing Planning and Control
· Logistics and Supply Chain Management

September 3-5, 2003, Reggio Calabria, Italy. Item #3048
APPIA-GULP-PRODE 2003 JOINT CONFERENCE ON DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING.

email: agp03@mat.unical.it.
Deadlines: submissions: May 23.
- Theoretical Foundations: languages, semantics, procedures for declarative
programming
- Deductive databases: query and update languages, rewriting techniques,
constraints, view maintenance
- Implementation: running systems, parallelism, systems performance,
web-based tools
- Program Development Tools and Environments: abstract interpretation
techniques, debugging
- Logic Programming and Non-monotonic reasoning: semantics of new and
existing languages, relationship between various formalisms, complexity and
expressive power
- Extensions and Integration with other Paradigms: imperative,
functional-logic languages, concurrency, constraint solving and constraint
logic programming
- Specification Languages: executability, expressiveness, development
techniques
- Real World Experiences with Declarative Technologies: applications and
evaluation

September 3-10, 2003, Divnomorskoe, Russia. Item #3078
AIS'03 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Systems.

347928, Russia, Rostov region, Taganrog, ³Á¿-17°, Nekrasovskiy bystr. 44, TSURE, professor Kureichik V.M. Email: kur@tsure.ru.
Deadlines: passed.

September 3-5, 2003, Reggio Calabria, Italy. Item #3086
APPIA-GULP-PRODE 2003 JOINT CONFERENCE ON DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING.

email: agp03@mat.unical.it.
Deadlines: submissions: May 23, notification of acceptance: June 30, final paper: July 10.
Topics
Submissions of papers are welcome on all aspects of declarative
programming, including, but not limited to:


Theoretical Foundations: languages, semantics, procedures for declarative
programming


Deductive databases: query and update languages, rewriting techniques,
constraints, view maintenance


Implementation: running systems, parallelism, systems performance,
web-based tools


Program Development Tools and Environments: abstract interpretation
techniques, debugging


Logic Programming and Non-monotonic reasoning: semantics of new and
existing languages, relationship between various formalisms, complexity
and expressive power


Extensions and Integration with other Paradigms: imperative,
functional-logic languages, concurrency, constraint solving and constraint
logic programming


Specification Languages: executability, expressiveness, development
techniques


Real World Experiences with Declarative Technologies: applications and
evaluation

September 8-11, 2003, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #2930
IPCAT2003 Fifth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues.

Christof Teuscher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Email: christof@teuscher.ch.
Deadlines: papers: February 28; notification of acceptance: May 28; camera-ready copy: July 11.

September 8 - 10, 2003, Malaga, Spain. Item #2943
EANN'03 Engineering Application of Neural Networks.

Javier Fernandez de Canete, EANN2003 Conference Secretariat, E.T.S.I. Informatica, Universidad de Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n, 29071 Malaga, Spain. Tel: +34 95 2132887, fax: +34 95 2133361, email: eann03@ctima.uma.es.
Deadlines: abstracts: February 28; notification of acceptance: March 28; full papers: May 2; proposals for tutorials: May 17.
Conference Fee
Industry and University Rate:GBP300
Student Rate with proceedings:GBP200
Student Rate without proceedings:GBP150 

The rates above entitle you to access to the conference sessions (3 days), a
copy of the final programme and the proceedings (except option 3 see above), a
list of conference participants coffee/tea Breaks (3 days), Lunch (3 days) and
gala Dinner (1 day) and social events that are free of any additional charges.

September 8-11, 2003, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #2954
IPCAT2003 Fifth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues.

Christof Teuscher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), christof@teuscher.ch.
Deadlines: paper: February 28; notification of acceptance: May 28; camera-ready copy: July 11.
o Self-organizing, self-repairing, and self-replicating systems
o Evolutionary algorithms
o Machine learning
o Evolving, adapting, and neural hardware
o Automata and cellular automata
o Information processing in neural and non-neural biosystems 
o Parallel distributed processing biosystem models 
o Information processing in bio-developmental systems
o Novel bio-information processing systems
o Autonomous and evolutionary robotics
o Bionics, neural implants, and bio-robotics
o Molecular evolution and theoretical biology
o Enzyme and gene networks 
o Modeling of metabolic pathways and responses
o Simulation of genetic and ecological systems
o Single neuron and sub-neuron information processing 
o Microelectronic simulation of bio-information systemics 
o Artificial bio-sensor and vision implementations
o Artificial tissue and organ implementations
o Applications of nanotechnology
o Quantum informational biology
o Quantum computation in cells and tissues
o DNA computing

September 9 - 11, 2003, Univ, of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Item #2952
ICMR 2003 - 1st International Conference on Manufacturing Research.

tel: 0044 141 548 3130/2841, email: cles31@ccsun.strath.ac.uk.
Deadlines: papers: March 15.

September 9, 2003, Coventry University, UK. Item #3057
EUNITE Workshop Combining Adaptive and Hybrid Intelligent Techniques.

Olivier Haas, ICSE2003 Conference Secretary, Senior Lecturer Computing & Control Systems, Control Theory and Applications Centre, Coventry Univ., Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK, tel: +44 (0) 24 7688 7658 - fax: +44(0) 24 7688 8199, tel: (Secretary) +44 (0) 24 7688 8189.
Deadlines: paper: May 25; notification of acceptance: June 10.
The workshop will aim to highlight how adaptive and 
intelligent techniques can be combined to provide innovative 
as well as effective alternatives to traditional approaches. 

The smart intelligent and adaptive techniques covered will include:

·	Data mining
·	Fuzzy logic
·	Intelligent and adaptive control
·	Intelligent modelling techniques
·	Intelligent optimisation techniques
·	Neural networks
 
The workshop will cover the general area of intelligent 
technologies for smart adaptive systems applied to:

·	Aerospace 
·	Automotive 
·	Manufacturing 
·	Medicine 
·	Mechanical

September 11 - 14, 2003, Hibikino, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. Item #2983
WSOM'03 Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps.

Takeshi Yamakawa, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu 808-0186 Japan, tel: +81 93 695 6123, email: yamakawa@brain.kyutech.ac.jp.
Deadlines: paper: May 15, notification of acceptance: June 15; final paper: July 15.
Technical areas include, but are not limited to:
 *Self-organization
 *Unsupervised learning
 *Theory and extensions
 *Optimization
 *Hardware and architecture
 *Signal processing, image processing and vision 
 *Time-series analysis
 *Text and document analysis
 *Financial analysis
 *Data visualization and mining
 *Bioinformatics
 *Robotics 
 *Medical Engineering

September 12-13, 2003, University of Florence, Italy. Item #3049
IAPR - TC3 International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition.

Marco Gori (email: marco@dii.unisi.it ).
Deadlines: paper: April 22

September 14-17, 2003, Dortmund, Germany. Item #2999
ECAL 2003 European Conference on Artificial Life.

Jens Ziegler, ECAL 2003, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer Str. 20, 44227 Dortmund, Germany, tel: +49 231 9700 978, fax: +49 231 9700 959, Mail: jens.ziegler@uni-dortmund.de.
Deadlines: papers: March 1, 2003.
Conference topics include but are not limited to

- Origin of Life
- Self-organization and Self-replication
- Artificial Chemistry
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Cellular and Neural Systems
- Collaborative Systems
- Evolution and Development
- Evolutionary and Adaptive Dynamics
- Robotics and Autonomous Agents
- Languages and Communication
- Artificial Societies
- Philosophical, Ethical, and Cultural Issues


Tools for

- Simulation Systems
- Methodologies and Applications

September 15-18, 2003, Hamburg, Germany. Item #3002
KI-2003 - 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

KI2003, Fachbereich Informatik, Universit„t Hamburg, Andreas G’nter, Vogt-K÷lln-Straže 30, tel: +49(0)4042883 2456/ -2451, 22527 Hamburg, info@ki2003.de.
Deadlines: abstracts and papers: April 7; notification: June 2; camera-ready copies: June 30.
Possible Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Agent Technology, Automated Reasoning, Case-Based Reasoning, Cognitive
Modeling, Configuration and Diagnosis, Decision Support Systems, Image
Understanding, Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management, Machine
Learning, Multi Media, Natural Language Processing, Ontologies, Neural
Networks, Planning and Scheduling, Reasoning under Uncertainty, Robotics,
Semantic Web, Soft Computing, Temporal and Spatial Reasoning,  Vision

A special focus of the conference is on Multi Modality. Papers in this
area are particularly welcome.

September 15 - 18, 2003, University of Hamburg, Germany. Item #3056
AMR 2003 - 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval - Part of KI 2003.

detyniecki@hotmail.com.
Deadlines: paper submission: May 24.

September 15-18, 2003, Hamburg, Germany. Item #3084
KRDB-2003 10th International Workshop on KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES in conjunction with KI 2003.

Francois Bry, Univ. of Munich, Germany. Email: Francois.Bry@informatik.uni-muenchen.de.
Deadlines: paper submission: June 23, acceptance notification: July 18, final version: August 15.
  * Languages and techniques required to support a semantic web
  * Construction and maintenance of large ontologies for use in the WWW
  * Web service modeling and declarative web service retrieval
  * Context adaption, user models, and adaptive web systems
  * Query languages for the Web and semi-structured data
  * Data modeling and typing for XML and semi-structured data

September 17-19, 2003, Toulouse, France. Item #3005
NNSP 2003 IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing.

email: nnsp03@neuro.kuleuven.ac.be.
Deadlines: submission: April 15.
The workshop will feature keynote addresses, technical presentations, 
and special sessions on 
        * Bio-informatics 
        * Neural Engineering 
        * Aeronautics 
and a tutorial on Bayesian Learning that is included in the registration. 
Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following areas: 
Algorithms and Architectures: Artificial neural networks, kernel methods, 
committee models, Gaussian processes, independent component analysis, 
and a tutorial on Bayesian Learning that is included in the registration. 
Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following areas: 
Algorithms and Architectures: Artificial neural networks, kernel methods, 
committee models, Gaussian processes, independent component analysis, 
advanced (adaptive, nonlinear) signal processing, (hidden) Markov models, 
Bayesian modeling, parameter estimation, generalization, optimization, 
design algorithms. 
Applications: Speech processing, image processing (computer vision, OCR), 
multimodal interactions, multi-channel processing, intelligent multimedia 
and web processing, robotics, sonar and radar, bio-medical engineering, 
financial analysis, time series prediction, blind source separation, 
data fusion, data mining, adaptive filtering, communications, sensors, 
system identification, and other signal processing and pattern recognition 
applications. 
Implementations: Parallel and distributed implementation, hardware design, 
and other general implementation technologies.

September 21-24, 2003, Palo Alto, California. Item #3102
Inference and Prediction in Neocortical Circuits.

Bruno A. Olshausen; Redwood Neuroscience Institute; 1010 El Camino Real; Menlo Park, CA 94025. Email: bolshausen@rni.org.
Deadlines: Application: August 1.

September 21-24, 2003, Palo Alto, California. Item #3114
Workshop: Inference and Prediction in Neocortical Circuits.

Bruno A. Olshausen bolshausen@rni.org.
Deadlines: applications: August 1.

September 22-26, 2003, Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Item #2979
ECML-2003 - 14th European Conference on Machine Learning and PKDD-2003 - 7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.

email: ecmlpkdd@ijs.si.
Deadlines: submission: April 30; notification of acceptance: June 11; camera-ready copies: July 2.

September 22-24, 2003, IRISA, Rennes, France. Item #3028
CBMI'03 Third International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.

Chabane Djeraba . Email: chabane.djeraba@polytech.univ-nantes.fr.
Deadlines: submission: March 15.
· Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
· Multimedia content extraction
· Matching and similarity search
· Construction of high level indices
· Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
· Representation models
· Content-based search techniques
· Video summarization
· Multimedia data mining
· Presentation tools
· Meta-data compression and transformation
· Handling of very large scale multimedia databases
· Applications

September 22, 2003, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Item #3094
Workshop on MULTIMEDIA DISCOVERY AND MINING.

Gerhard.Paass@ais.fraunhofer.de.
Deadlines: submission: June 13.
* Theoretical framework for multimedia data mining;
* Complexity, and scalability of multimedia mining algorithms;
* Classification of multimedia documents;
* Clustering and proximity of multimedia documents;
* Detection of novel or interesting documents;
* Multimedia data mining methods and algorithms;
* Preprocessing and representation of multimedia data;
* Multimedia data representation and formats;
* Event or Topic detection in multimedia data;
* Selection of novel or interesting documents;
* Learning using different data sources and modalities;
* Extraction and representation of semantic relations for multimedia;
* Working multimedia mining systems.

September 23 - 26, 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Item #3122
SAFECOMP 2003 The 22nd International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security.

info@safecomp.org.

September 24-28, 2003, Goettingen, Germany. Item #3101
tutorial course on COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE.

nwg-course@chaos.gwdg.de.
Deadlines: application:July 1,.
* Mechanisms and models of visual attention
* Models of synaptic background activity
* Theory of neural coding
* Structure and function of large-scale cortical networks
* Theory of sensor-motor learning
* Dynamics in local neural networks.

September 26-30, 2003, Cary, North Carolina. Item #2889
Sixth International conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computation.

Sanjoy Das, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS 66506, USA. Email: sdas@ksu.edu, tel: (785) 532 4642, fax: (785) 532 1188.
Deadlines: invited sessions proposal: December 16, 2002; regular paper submission: March 14, 2003; final camera-ready manuscript due: June 16, 2003; registration deadline for authors: July 1, 2003.
Call for papers:
The organizers seek high-quality original papers that contribute to this goal. All topics relating to computational intelligence and natural computation are welcome and new, unusual and hybrid approaches are particularly encouraged. Both theoretical (new algorithms, analyses, etc.) and applied (implementations, applications, etc.) papers are solicited. Areas from which papers are sought include but are not limited to:
Intelligent Agents, Neural Networks, Artificial Immune Systems, Artificial Life, Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, DNA Computing , Machine Probabilistic Reasoning, Evolutionary Computation, Bioinformatics, Cognitive Science , Intelligent Control , Neurofuzzy Systems , Swarm Intelligence 

Call for Special Session Proposals:
Proposals for invited sessions are sought in all areas of computational intelligence and natural computation. Each invited session will have 4-6 speakers. All invited session proposals should include email and address of organizer(s), and a brief abstract of less than 250 words. Organizer(s) of invited sessions will be included in the organizing committee. Send your proposal submission before Dec 15th to Dan Ventura (ventura@cs.byu.edu) or Sanjoy Das (sdas@ksu.edu).

September 26-30, 2003, Cary, North Carolina, USA. Item #2993
CIEF' 2003: The Third International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance.

email: cief2003@aiecon.org.
Deadlines: papers: May 1; proposals for sessions and exhibition: June 16.
Application Areas: (Application areas may include, but are not limited to:)
- Agent-Based Computational Economics
- Artificial Stock Markets
- Behavioral finance
- Experimental Economics
- 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
- Self-Organized Map
- Support Vector Machines
- Fuzzy Logic
- Evolutionary Strategies
- Evolutionary Programming
- Genetic Algorithms
- Genetic Programming
- Learning Classifier Systems
- Statistical Classifiers
- Cluster Analysis
- Decision Trees
- Inductive Logic Programming
- Reinforcement Learning
- Wavelets
- Ant Algorithms
- Independent Component Analysis
- Sequential Monte Carlo Methods
- State Space Models
- Grey Models
- Swarm Intelligence
- Hybrid Models

September 29 - October 10, 2003, On the Internet (World Wide Web). Item #3035
WSC8 - 8th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications.

wsc8@esr.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de.
Deadlines: submission: May 9; acceptance/rejection notification: June 23; full papers and online presentations: August 1; submission of camera-ready papers for final review: November 30.
- Soft Computing for Modeling, Control, and Optimization

- Fuzzy Control

- Data Mining

- Intelligent Data Analysis

- Industrial Applications of Soft Computing

- Neuro-Fuzzy Systems

- Genetic Fuzzy Systems

- Robotics

- Fuzzy Information Fusion

- Intelligent Information Retrieval

- Fuzzy Image Processing

- Fault Diagnosis

- Bio-inspired Systems

- Neural Networks

- Evolutionary Algorithms

- Simulation Environments

- Support Vector Machines

- Language Processing

- Autonomous Reasoning

- Agent Architectures

- Ant Colony Optimization

October 5-9, 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany. Item #3140
IFIP WG5.7 International Working Conference "Human Aspects in Production Management".

ifab-Institute of Human and Industrial Engineering, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Kaiserstrasse 12, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany, tel: +49 (0)721 608 4713, fax: +49 (0)721 608 7935, office@ifip-karlsruhe2003.org.

This year´s Working Conference is dedicated to "Human Aspects in Production Management" and will reflect on new insights into the role of humans in industrial production systems. Therefore, special attention will be paid to modelling, simulation and optimization problems arising in human aspects in production management. As in previous conferences, other current topics will be discussed, such as supply chain, shop floor planning and controll and digital factory.

October 9-11, 2003, Napoli, Italy. Item #3082
WILF 2003 International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications.

Vito Di Gesù, Dept. of Mathematics and Applications, Univ. of Palermo, digesu@math.unipa.it.
Deadlines: paper submission: June 27; notification of acceptance: July 25; camera-ready papers: October 9.

October 11-12, 2003, Nice, France. Item #3141
IEEE WS on Variational, Geometric & Level Set Methods in conjunction with the IEEE ICCV Conference.

Paragios, Nikos. Nikos.Paragios@scr.siemens.com.

October 13-17, 2003, Tianlun Dynasty Hotel, Beijing, China. Item #2965
IEEE/WIC WEB Intelligence 2003.

Email: wi-iat@comp.hkbu.edu.hk.
Deadlines: full papers: March 20; proposals for industry track/workshop: June 1.
* Intelligent Web-Based Business and Grid Computing
      Business Intelligence
      Customer Relationship Management
      Direct Marketing
      Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business
      Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising
      Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms
      Web-Based EDI
      Web Marketing
      Web Publishing

* Knowledge Networks and Management
      Digital Library
      Information and Knowledge Markets
      Knowledge Community Formation and Support
      Ontology Engineering
      Semantic Web
      Visualization of Information and Knowledge
      Web-Based Decision Support
      Web Regularities and Models

* Ubiquitous Computing and Social Intelligence
      Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites
      Computational Societies and Markets
      Dynamics of Information Sources
      Reputation Mechanisms
      Theories of Small World Web
      Ubiquitous Learning Systems
      Web-Based Cooperative Work
      Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
      Adaptive Web Interfaces
      Multimedia Representation
      Multimodal Data Processing
      Science and Art of Web Design

* Web Information Management
      Data Models for the Web
      Integrated Exploration and Exploitation
      Internet and Web-Based Data Management
      Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP
      Multimedia Information Management
      Object Oriented Web Information Management
      Personalized Information Management
      Semi-Structured Data Management
      Use and Management of Metadata
      Web-Based Distributed Information Systems

o Web Information Retrieval
      Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
      Conceptual Information Extraction
      Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval
      Multimedia Retrieval
      Multimodal Information Retrieval
      Ontology-Based Information Retrieval

o Web Agents
      Conversational Systems
      E-mail Filtering and Automatic Handling
      Global Information Foraging
      Information Filtering
      Navigation Guides
      Recommender Systems
      Remembrance Agents
      Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
      Semantic Web Agents

o Web Mining and Farming
      Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
      Learning User Profiles
      Multimedia Data Mining
      Text Mining
      Web-Based Ontology Learning
      Web-Based Reverse Engineering
      Web Farming
      Web-Log Mining
      Web Warehousing

o Emerging Web Technology
      New Web Information Description and Query Languages
      Web Intelligence Development Tools
      Web Protocols
      P2P Computing
      Wisdom Web

October 13-17, 2003, Tianlun Dynasty Hotel, Beijing, China. Item #3011
IAT 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology.

email: wi-iat@comp.hkbu.edu.hk.
Deadlines: papers: March 20; proposals for workshops and tutorials: June 1.
*  Applications
       Complex self-organized systems modeling and development
       Hard computational domains
       Knowledge and data intensive systems
       Physically embodied systems
       Software and pervasive agents

*  Computational Models, Architecture, and Infrastructure
       Agent and multi-agent infrastructures
       Communication languages
       Computational architectures
       Heterogeneity and interoperability
       Models of perception, rationality, intention, emotion,
          coordination, action, and social behaviors
       Multi-modal systems and interfaces
       Ontology models
       Protocols
       Scalability
       Tools and standards

*  Autonomy-Oriented Computation (AOC) Paradigm
       Adaptive computation
       Autonomous societies
       Chaotic and fractal dynamics
       Complex behavior characterization and engineering
       Emergent behavior
       Feature characterization and classification
       Formal theories of complexity and computability
       Self-organized criticality
       Self-organized intelligence

*  Learning and Self-Adapting Agents
       Adaptation and self-adaptation
       Artificial life
       Behavioral selection
       Behavioral self-organization
       Believable lifelike quality
       Classifier systems
       Coordinating perception, thought, and action
       Evolution and learning in dynamic environments
       Evolutionary computation
       Integrated exploration and exploitation
       Uncertainty management in multi-agent systems

*  Data and Knowledge Management Agents
       Adaptation and evolution of knowledge networks
       Data mining
       Distributed knowledge systems
       Heterogeneous data integration and management
       Human-agent interaction
       Information filtering
       Knowledge aggregation
       Knowledge discovery
       Knowledge sharing
       Reasoning and planning

*  Distributed Intelligence
       Coevolution
       Collective group behavior
       Coordination and cooperation
       Distributed intelligence
       Dynamics of agent groups and populations
       Efficiency in distributed systems
       Formal and computational models
       Market-based computing
       Population evolution
       Social integration
       Swarms

October 13, 2003, Beijing, China. Item #3045
The 3rd International Workshop On Texture Analysis and Synthesis in conjunction with ICCV2003.

Mike Chantler. +44 131 451 3328 or mailto:M.J.Chantler@hw.ac.uk.
Deadlines: paper: May 19; acceptance: August 11; camera ready: September 1.
 TECHNIQUES:
  -- Image texture modelling, coding, synthesis, generation, rendering, and
     relighting
  -- Shape from texture, viewpoint effects and invariants;
  -- Texture classification, segmentation, defect detection, and image
     retrieval
  -- Classifier & feature design
  -- Illumination effects and invariants
  -- Colour texture, colour invariants
  -- Capture and analysis of three-dimensional surface and volumetric
     textures
 
 APPLICATIONS:
  -- Augmented/virtual reality
  -- Interactive entertainment and e-commerce
  -- Film and video post production
  -- Textiles, virtual catalogues, garment design etc.
  -- Medical
  -- Remote sensing
  -- Industrial inspection
  -- Robotics

October 16-18, 2003, Gdansk, Poland. Item #3019
ECOM-03: 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Electronic Commerce.

email: ecom@cs.utwente.nl, tel: +48 58347 2375.
Deadlines: abstracts: May 15; papers: June 1; notification: August 1.
We would like to invite original papers on all aspects of electronic commerce and related issues, especially (but by no means only) the ones describing interdisciplinary research. General list of topics includes:
- 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.

ECOM-03 is going to take place in a nice spot close to the medieval city of Gdansk and the Baltic Sea coast. 

October 17, 2003, Nice, France. Item #3081
Workshop on Higher-Level Knowledge in 3D Modeling & Motion Analysis in conjunction with ICCV 2003.

Roberto Cipolla, Univ. of Cambridge (cipolla@eng.cam.ac.uk).
Deadlines: papers: May 31; notification of acceptance: June 30; camera-ready copy: July 30.

October 20, 2003, Nancy, France. Item #3156
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of the frontal cortex workshop.

Nicolas Rougier, Nicolas.Rougier@loria.fr.

October 26-30, 2003, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3021
ISMIR 2003 - 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval.

ismir2003-papers@ircam.fr.
Deadlines: tutorial proposals: March 7; papers: April 25; extended abstracts for posters: April 25; proposals for panels: March 7; proposals for exhibits: September 30.
* Algorithms and methods for classification, clustering,
  probabilistic modelling, association analysis
* Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning
* Databases and data mining
* Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and systems design
* Intellectual property rights issues
* Knowledge representation, discovery and acquisition
* Music perception and cognition
* Music representation and formal models of music
* Soft computing (neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary
  computation)

* Automatic summarization, citing, excerpting, downgrading,
  transformation (including associated intellectual property issues)
* Business models and experience
* Formal models of music and their digital representations
* Intellectual property rights issues (nationally and internationally),
  digital rights management, identification and traceability
* Music digital libraries and archives,
  content management systems and frameworks for music
* Music indexing and metadata (authoring and generation)
* Music recognition (printed, audio)
* Music representation, coding, language modelling
* Music similarity metrics (perceptual criteria such as pitch, rhythm,
  timbre; musical criteria such as form, genre, etc.)
* Musical styles and genres
* Query languages for music IR (expressiveness, complexity)
* Real-time applications of automated music identification and
  recognition, such as score following, automatic accompaniment
* Routing and filtering for music and music queries
* Semantic Web and musical digital objects: intelligent agents,
  ontologies, topic maps, metadata, indexation, markup languages
* Socio-cultural aspects
* Standards (RDF, XML, INDECS, MPEG, Dublin Core, *MARC, Z39.50...) and
  other metadata or protocols for music information handling and
  retrieval (CDDB, ...)
* Systems issues (performance, compression, scalability, databases,
  architecture, distributed search, multi-agent systems, mobile
  applications)
* User interfaces and usability
* Validation (user needs and expectations, evaluation of music IR
  systems, building test collections, experimental design and metrics)

October 27-29, 2003, Naples, Italy. Item #3076
ESMC2003 The 2003 European Simulation and Modelling Conference.

Philippe Geril, EUROSIS, Univ. of Ghent, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, tel: (Office): +32 9 2337790, fax: +32 9 2234941, T+F Private: +32 59 800 804, email: philippe.geril@rug.ac.be.
Deadlines: extended abstracts, tutorial proposals, abstracts for student and poster session, full papers: June 30; notification of acceptance: August 25; camera ready manuscript: October 5.
 Methodology and Tools
                           Simulation and AI
                High Performance and Large Scale Computing
      Simulation in Education and Graphics Visualization Simulation
      Simulation in the Environment, Ecology, Biology and Medicine
             Analytical and Numerical Modelling Techniques
                          Web Based Simulation
                    Workshop Simulation with Petri Nets
                  Modelling and Simulation with Bondgraphs
                             DEVS Workshop
                  Fluid Flow Simulation Modelling Workshop
                            SIMULA Workshop


                              Tutorials
                   Student Papers, Poster Sessions
                   Partners for Projects Sessions
                              Exhibition

October 28-31, 2003, Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan. Item #2984
ISMIS 2003 Fourteenth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems.

Zbigniew W. Ras, Univ. of North Carolina, Dept. of Computer Science, Charlotte, NC 28226, USA. Fax: 704 547 3516, email: ras@uncc.edu.
Deadlines: papers: March 10; acceptance notification: May 15; final paper: June 30.
   Active Media Human-Computer Interaction
   Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation
   Intelligent Agent Technology
   Intelligent Information Retrieval
   Intelligent Information Systems
   Knowledge Representation and Integration
   Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
   Logic for Artificial Intelligence
   Soft Computing
   Web Intelligence

October 31 - November 6, 2003, Erice, Sicily, Italy. Item #3031
International School on Neural Nets "E.R. Caianiello" - 8th Course: Computational Neuroscience: Cortical Dynamics.

Maria Marinaro, IIASS, Via Pellegrino 19, I-84019 Vietri sul Mare (Sa), Italy, fax: +39 089 761 189, email: iiass.vietri@tin.it.
Deadlines: applications: May 15.
JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY
IIASS <http://www.sa.infn.it/NeuralGroup/www.iiass.it> International 
Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies and
EMFCSC <http://www.ccsem.infn.it/> Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center 
for Scientific Culture 

October 31, 2003, Bally's Las Vegas Hotel. Item #3113
IROS-2003 Workshop on Robot Learning by Demonstration at IROS 2003.

aude.billard@epfl.ch.
Deadlines: paper: August 4.
  - Programming by Demonstration
  - Imitation learning
  - Task and Skill Learning
  - Motor control
  - Motor learning
  - Visuo-motor Integration
  - Gesture recognition

November 2-5, 2003, St, Louis, Missouri, USA. Item #3022
ANNIE 2003.

Cihan H. Dagli, Conference Chair, Smart Engineering Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Engineering Management, Univ. of Missouri - Rolla, 1870 Miner Circle, Rolla, MO 65409-0370, USA, tel: (573) 341 6576 or (573) 341-4374, fax: (573) 341 6268, email: annie@umr.edu.
Deadlines: abstract: February 21.
This will be the twelfth international gathering of
researchers
interested in Smart Engineering System Design using neural networks,
fuzzy
logic, evolutionary programming, data mining, and artificial life.  Each
previous conference drew approximately 150 papers from twenty countries.
The proceedings of all conferences have been published by ASME Press as
hardbound books in twelfth volumes. The latest volume, edited by Dagli,
et.
al., was titled "Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy
Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining, and Complex Systems." 

November 2-4, 2003, Bergen, Norway. Item #3137
SCAI'03 The The Eighth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Weiqin . Email: weiqin@intermedia.uib.no.
Deadlines: papers, tutorials and workshops: June 15.

November 6-7, 2003, New Orleans, LA. Item #3151
Eleventh Annual Dynamical Neuroscience Satellite Symposium: Neuronal Variability and Noise (Preceding the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience).

Matt Burdetsky at Capital Meeting Planning, Inc. 6521 Arlington Blvd. Suite 505, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 536-4993, fax: (703) 536 4991, email: matt@cmpinc.net.

November 7, 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Item #3093
ACM-MMDB 2003 The First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases.

Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International Univ., School of Computer Science, 11200 SW 8th Street, ECS 354, Miami, FL 33199, USA, tel: 305 348 3480, fax: 305 348 3549, email: chens@cs.fiu.edu.
Deadlines: abstracts: May 20.
- multimedia database query processing
- multimedia database query languages
- multimedia database engine
- multimedia data modeling
- multimedia data indexing
- multimedia database searching
- multimedia data storage
- image/video/audio databases
- multimodal databases
- distributed multimedia databases
- content-based retrieval
- multimedia synchronization model
- new standards (XML, MPEG-7, etc.)
- multimedia database applications

November 7, 2003, Satellite Symposium, Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Item #3116
Short Course USING THE NEURON SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT.

Ted Carnevale (tel: 203 432 7363, email: ted.carnevale@yale.edu).
Deadlines: registration: October 3.
Partial list of topics to be covered: 

      Efficient design and implementation of models of neurons and networks 
            constructing and managing models with the Cell Builder, Network Builder, and the Linear Circuit
            Builder 
            using the built-in variable-order variable-timestep integrator for improved speed and accuracy 
      Using NEURON's graphical interface to 
            control simulations and analyze simulation results without additional programming 
            import morphometric data 
            optimize models with high-dimensional datasets 
      Expanding NEURON's repertoire of biophysical mechanisms. 
      Databases for empirically-based modeling. 

November 10-12, 2003, Las Vegas, USA. Item #3103
8th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Theory, Applications and Practice.

Tycho K. Fredericks, Human Performance Institute, Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5061, tel: (616) 387 6525 fax: (616) 387 4075, email: tycho.fredericks@wmich.edu.
Deadlines: abstract: July 1.

November 12-14, 2003, Minsk, Belarus. Item #3052
ICNNAI'2003 The Third International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence.

Rauf Sadykhov, Belarusian State Univ. of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Brovka str. 6, Minsk, 220027, Belarus. Fax: +375017 231 09 82, email: rsadykhov@gw.bsuir.unibel.by.
Deadlines: submission: July 15; notification of acceptance: August 15.
Topics
1. Cognitive Science
* Neuro psychological systems
* Brain-like models
* Learning and memory
* Neuro cognition
* Models of behaviour
* Models of perception
2. Theory and Algorithms
* Neural network architectures
* Learning algorithms
* Self-organizing systems
* Chaos theory
* Fuzzy neural systems
* Genetic algorithms
* Neuro dynamics and spiking neuron
3. Neural Networks Applications
* Data mining
* Signal processing
* Intelligent control and mobile robots
* Time-series prediction
* Pattern recognition and image processing
* Speech recognition and language processing
* Hardware implementation
* Multi-agents systems
* Application in engineering, medicine and business
* High performance computing
* Intelligent sensors

November 17-20, 2003, Las Vegas. Item #3147
COMDEX Las Vegas.

Jo-Anne Baxter, Public Relations, MediaLive International, Inc. Email: jo-anne.baxter@medialiveintl.com, tel: 781 821 7801.

Educational Programs -  November 16-20, 2003 

November 19-22, 2003, Melbourne, Florida, USA. Item #3007
ICDM '03 The Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.

Xindong Wu (ICDM 2003), Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Vermont, 351 Votey Building, Burlington, VT 05405, USA, tel: +1 802 656 7839, fax: +1 802 656 0696, email: xwu@cs.uvm.edu.
Deadlines: proposals for workshops: May 15; papers: June 10; proposals for panels: June 30.
Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data
mining theory, systems and applications are of interest.  These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:

  - Foundations of data mining
  - Data mining and machine learning algorithms and methods in
    traditional areas (such as classification, regression, clustering,
    probabilistic modeling, and association analysis), and in new
    areas
  - Mining text and semi-structured data, and mining temporal, spatial
    and multimedia data
  - Data and knowledge representation for data mining
  - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature
    transformation
  - Post-processing of data mining results
  - 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
  - Human-machine interaction and visualization in data mining, and
    visual data mining
  - High performance and distributed data mining
  - Pattern recognition and scientific discovery
  - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining
    results
  - Process-centric data mining and models of data mining process
  - Security, privacy and social impact of data mining
  - Data mining applications in electronic commerce, bioinformatics,
    computer security, Web intelligence, intelligent learning database
    systems, finance, marketing, healthcare, telecommunications, and
    other fields

November 20-21, 2003, Auckland, New Zealand. Item #3143
NCEI'03 Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence.

Nik Kasabov, Auckland Univ. of Technology (AUT). Tel: +64 9 917 9506, fax: +64 9 917 9501, email: nkasabov@aut.ac.nz.
Deadlines: abstracts: October 6.
	Novel methods for autonomous learning
	Novel methods for knowledge engineering and knowledge
discovery 
	Evolving intelligence (EI)
	Evolving molecular processes and their modelling
	Evolving processes in the brain and their modelling
	Evolving language and cognition
	Adaptive speech recognition
	Adaptive image and multi-modal processing
	Adaptive decision making
	Dynamic time-series modelling in a changing environment
	Adaptive control
	Adaptive intelligent systems on the WWW
	Applications in Medicine, Health, Information Technologies,
Horticulture, Agriculture, Bio-security, Business and finance, Process
and robot control.      

November 26-28, 2003, Melbourne, Australia. Item #2973
1st Intl Conference on Computational Methods in Fluid Power Technology - Methods for solving Practical Problems in Design and Control.

Finn Conrad . Email: fc@mek.dtu.dk.
Deadlines: abstracts: December 15.

November 27-29, 2003, Pan Pacific Hotel, Manila, Philippines. Item #3117
PICS-ICEIC 2003 PICS International Conference & Exhibition on Instrumentation and Control.

Albert Arellano. Email: wisemzja@info.com. Tel:
Deadlines: paper: September 15.
Measurement Engineering
Process Automation
Factory Automation
Emerging Technologies
IT & Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Power Electronics
Energy and Environment
Management of Technology
Human Resource Development

December 1-3, 2003, Pretoria, South Africa. Item #3024
International Conference on Applications and Theory of Artificial Intelligence.

email: icatai@digitalme.com, tel: +27 11 717 9354, fax: +27 11 717 9359.
Deadlines: abstract: March 15; proposals for sessions: February 15.
.Aims and Scope.
To consolidate and explore progress made in Artificial Intelligence,
the first International Conference on Applications and Theory of
Artificial Intelligence (ICATAI) will bring together researchers from
different scientific communities to gain some general and unified
perspectives on new practical and theoretical developments of AI. The
conference will highlight theory and successful applications of AI
technologies to engineering, social science, finance and government;
explore issues, methods, and lessons learned in the development and
deployment of AI solutions; and promote an exchange of ideas among
academia, government and the business sector. All areas of AI are of
interest. Application papers may be either stand-alone applications or
components of a larger system.
 
 .Topics. 
The topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, theory
and applications of Neural Networks, Knowledge-Based Systems,
Rule-Base Systems, Hybrid Systems, Evolutionary Computing, Fuzzy
Logic, Complexity, Multi-agent models, Artificial Life, Decision
Trees, Swarm Intelligence and Data Mining as applied to the following
key areas (amongst others):
  
. Aerospace
. Education
. Engineering
. Environmental Science
. E-commerce
. Finance/Banking
. Forecasting
. Image/Video processing
. Intelligent control
. Internet technologies 
. Knowledge Management
. Manufacturing
. Marketing
. Medicine
. Meta-modeling/reasoning
. Military/Security
. Mining
. Multi-agent systems
. Multimedia processing
. Pattern recognition
. Remote sensing
. Robotics 
. Scheduling
. Signal processing/control
. Social Sciences/Politics
. Speech/Natural processing
. Telecommunications 

December 3-5, 2003, Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore. Item #3038
CW2003 International Conference on Cyberworlds.

Ms Toh, Merlin, CW2003 Conference Secretariat, Nanyang Technological Univ., Conference Management Centre/CCE, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, tel: +65 6790 4723, fax: +65 6793 0997, email: cw2003@ntu.edu.sg.
Deadlines: abstract: May 5; paper/tutorial submission: May 12; notice of acceptance: August 4; camera-ready paper: September 1
A. CYBER CONCEPTS, ARCHITECTURES AND ALGORITHMS:

Philosophy and disciplines. 
Methodologies of cybergenesis. 
Cyberworlds and their impact on the real world. 
Cyberethics and cyberlaws. 
Cybersecurity. 
Datamining and warehousing in cyberworlds. 
Distributed simulation. 
Distributed virtual environments. 
Shared and virtual worlds. 
Simulation and visualisation for cyberpresentations. 
Computer vision and augmented reality for cyberworlds.
Intelligent agents and robotics.

B. APPLICATIONS, CASE STUDIES, AND INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES:

Bioinformatics for cyberlife and medicine.
Healthcare in cyberworlds. 
Cyberworlds for bioengineering. 
Cyberinformation systems. 
E-business in cyberworlds. 
Cyberworlds for education. 
Cyberworlds for manufacturing. 
Cyber fairs. 
Cyber museums. 
Cyber parenting. 
Multi-user web games.

December 3-6, 2003, Badajoz, Spain. Item #3079
m-ICTE2003 - 2nd International Conference on Multimedia and ICTs in Education.

Jose Antonio Mesa Gonzalez, Ines Solo de Zaldivar Maldonado, m-ICTE2003 Secretariat, email: m-icte2003@formatex.org.
Deadlines: abstracts: June 30; early registration: July 31.
General Issues
· E-learning in the information society
· Virtual campus
· Quality assessment in open and distance education
· Organizational, legal and financial issues
· Social impact
· Education and globalisation
· Gender issues in ICT Education
· Networked learning and developing countries
· The role of traditional institutions in global virtual learning

Pedagogical & Didactical Issues
· Multilingual learning environments
· Collaborative learning
· Coaching & tutoring
· Active & interactive learning
· Knowledge and skills in virtual environments
· Systems for special needed persons
· Teaching/learning strategies
· Collaborative learning/groupware
· Adaptive and intelligent applications
· Application of instructional design theories
· Evaluation of learning technology systems
· ICT in Continuing/Adult Education

Technological Issues
· Web-based courseware
· Online vs. Offline
· Educational multimedia
· 3D Environments
· On the teachers' side: authoring tools
· Virtual Laboratories
· Advanced uses of multimedia and hypermedia
· Integrated learning environments
· Natural Language Learning
· Artificial Intelligence in learning technology
· Machine Learning
· Metadata aaplications
· Agents technology
· Virtual reality
· Internet suited multimedia technologies: Audio and video streaming, etc .
· Mobile learning: Wireless technologies, UMTS, GPRS, WAP.
· Integration of collaborative tools: Discussion groups, chatrooms,
whiteboards, shared workspaces, e-mail, videoconferencing.
· Arquitectures and platforms for distributed teaching and learning.

CONFIRMED WORKSHOPS within m-ICTE2003
* International Workshop on Multimedia and ICTs for Science Education and
Public Communication

* International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Education & Machine
Learning

* International Workshop on New Technologies for People with Special Needs

* International Workshop on Educational Software Quality Assesment

December 4-7, 2003, Beja, Portugal. Item #3041
ALEA'03 - 1st Portuguese Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms part of EPIA'03.

Jorge Tavares. Email: jast@dei.uc.pt.
Deadlines: papers: May, 18.
- Genetic Algorithms
- Evolutionary Strategies
- Evolutionary Programming
- Genetic Programming
- Classifier Systems
- Evolutionary Robotics
- Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms
- Evolution Dynamics
- Artificial Immune System
- Ant Colonies
- Cultural Algorithms
- (Particle) Swarm Algorithms

December 4-7, 2003, Beja, Portugal. Item #3100
11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

epia03-web@di.uevora.pt.
Deadlines: submission: May 30; author notification: July 20; final versions: September 13
Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms - ALEA'03
Workshop on Constraints and Logic Programming Systems
4th International Workshop on Extraction of Knowledge from Databases (EKDB'03)
MAAII'03 --- Multi-Agents and Artificial Intelligence for the Internet 
NLTR'03 --- Natural Language and Text Retrieval 

December 8-12, 2003, Canberra, Australia. Item #3063
Special Session on Evolutionary Computation & Computer Security at CEC'2003.

email: jcesar@inf.uc3m.es, tel: +34 91 624 94 99, fax: +34 91 624 91 29.
Deadlines: submissions: July 7; acceptance: August 1; camera-ready: September 2.
This special session will explore issues related to new researches and applications of modern Artificial Intelligence techniques in computer security, mainly focused in the field of Evolutionary Computation.
 
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:


·        Cellular automata, Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming,
Classifier Systems, Simulated Annealing, Evolutionary Strategies,
Tabu Search, Bio-inspired systems, etc. in:

o       Design of cryptographic primitives, including: pseudo-random 
number generators, block ciphers,stream ciphers, hash functions, S-Boxes, etc...

o       Analysis and/or cryptoanalysis of cryptographic primitives

o       Cryptography

o       Improvement of cryptographic primitives

o       Network security

o       Intrusion detection systems

o       Host security 

December 8-12, 2003, Canberra, Australia. Item #3064
Genetic Regulatory Networks: Theory and Practice. Special Session at CEC.

Jennifer Hallinan. Email: j.hallinan@imb.uq.edu.au.
Deadlines: submission: June 22.

December 8-13, 2003, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Item #3069
NIPS*2003 Neural Information Processing Systems, Natural and Synthetic.

Sebastian Thrun. Email: Sebastian_Thrun@heaven.learning.cs.cmu.edu.
Deadlines: papers: June 6; proposals for workshops and demonstrations: August 1.
 o Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning
   algorithms, neural networks, kernel methods, graphical
   models, Gaussian processes, independent component
   analysis, model selection, combinatorial optimization.

 o Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems
   that use machine learning, including systems for time
   series prediction, bioinformatics, text/web analysis,
   multimedia processing, and robotics.

 o Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG
   (electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials),
   MEG (magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic
   resonance imaging), brain mapping, brain segmentation.

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

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

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

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

 o Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of
   processing, and transmission of information in biological
   neurons and networks, including spike train generation,
   synaptic modulation, plasticity and adaptation.

 o Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding,
   synthesis, denoising, segmentation, source separation,
   auditory perception, psychoacoustics, dynamical systems,
   recurrent networks, Markov models.

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

 o Demonstrations: Authors wishing to submit to the
   demonstration track should consult the conference web
   site.

December 8-12, 2003, Canberra, Australia. Item #3070
Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Computer Security and Cryptology at CEC-2003.

Pedro Isasi, Artificial Intelligence Group, Carlos III Univ., Avda. Universidad, 30, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain, email: isasi@ia.uc3m.es, tel: +34 91 624 94 55, fax: +34 91 624 91 29.
Deadlines: paper: July 7.
o       Analysis and/or cryptoanalysis of cryptographic primitives

o       Cryptography

o       Improvement of cryptographic primitives

o       Network security

o       Intrusion detection systems

o       Host security 

December 8-12, 2003, Canberra, Australia. Item #3085
CEC 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

Furuhashi Takeshi. Email: furuhashi@pa.info.mie-u.ac.jp.
Deadlines: paper: June 23; acceptance notification: August 9, final camera-ready version: September 9.

December 8, 2003, Canberra, Australia. Item #3124
ASPGP03 First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming in association with CEC2003.

cec_gp@cs.adfa.edu.au.
Deadlines: submission: September 14.

December 10-12, 2003, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Item #3044
DICTA 2003 - 7th International Conference on Digital Image Computing - Techniques and Applications.

email: Changming.Sun@csiro.au.
Deadlines: paper: August 11; acceptance: September 22; camera-ready: October 13.
 *SCOPE*
  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
     * Object Recognition
     * Scene Understanding
     * Photogrammetry
     * Multimedia
     * Image Segmentation
     * Image Registration
     * Medical and Biomedical Imaging
     * Mathematical Morphology
     * Computer Graphics
     * Visualization
     * Virtual and Immersive Environments
     * Digital Video Communications
     * Multi-view and Stereo Vision
     * Motion Analysis and Surveillance
     * Automation and Robotics
     * Imaging Applications

December 11-12, 2003, Radisson Hotel, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. Item #3109
Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication.

Matthew Turk. Email: mturk@cs.ucsb.edu.
Deadlines: paper: August 15.
The MMUA workshop will focus on recent advances and new paradigms in
 multimodal biometrics. Technical papers and demos are solicited for
 presentation at the workshop, in all areas related to multimodal user
 authentication. 
 

December 12 - 13, 2003, Daegu, Korea. Item #3170
ISCCE 2003 International Symposium on Computer and Communication Engineering.

iscce2003@daegu.ac.kr.

December 13-14, 2003, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Item #3154
COMET 2003, Conference on Manufacturing and Electronics Technology.

Yeoh Huei Giap, Head of Marketing Dept. +6012-5302619, comet2003@engineer.com.

December 14-17, 2003, Melbourne, Australia. Item #3040
HIS'03 - 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems.

Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State Univ., USA. Email: ajith.abraham@infotech.monash.edu.au.
Deadlines: paper: July 15.
Hybrid Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications 
Soft Computing for Image and Signal Processing 
Intelligent Internet Modeling, Communication and networking 
Intelligent Data mining 
Intelligent Business Systems 
Soft Computing for Control and Automation 
Intelligent agents 
Knowledge management 
Special topics

December 15-17, 2003, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Item #3062
AI-2003: the 23rd SGAI Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of AI.

email: sgai-conference@bcs.org.uk.
Deadlines: submission of papers: asap; full paper submissions: June 16, 2003; notification of acceptance: July 31, 2003; camera ready paper: September 12, 2003.
The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI
technologies and application areas. Its principal aims are to review
recent technical advances in AI technologies and to show how
these advances have been applied to solve business problems. To
meet these objectives, there will be two parallel streams of refereed
and invited papers, one on technology and one on applications.
The programme also includes tutorials to provide greater depth in
selected topics. Our aim is to have the widest possible appeal to
the industrial, commercial and academic communities throughout
Europe.

December 15-18, 2003, Singapore. Item #3074
CIRAS 2003 - The International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

CIRAS 2003 Conference Secretariat, c/o Integrated Meetings Specialist Pte Ltd, 1122A Serangoon Road, Singapore 328206. Tel: +65 62955790, fax: +65 62955792, email: ciras@inmeet.com.sg.
Deadlines: papers: July 1; acceptance notification: August 15; camera ready paper: September 15.
  Intelligent Control
  Real Time Control
  DNA Computing
  Life Sciences
  Fuzzy Systems
  Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
  Neural Networks (NN)
  Autonomous Systems
  Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)
  System Design Automation
  Robotics, Humanoids
  Sensor Fusion
  Cooperative Robotics
  Robot Soccer Systems
  Evolutionary Robotics
                                        Evolvable Hardware
                                        Distributed Systems
                                        Embedded Systems
                                        Non-Linear Systems
                                        Educational Technology
                                        Rough Sets, Data Mining
                                        Power Systems
                                        Genetic Algorithm (GA)
                                        Evolutionary Computation (EC)
                                        Hybrid CI Algorithms
                                        Distributed Evolutionary
                                        Algorithms
                                        Real Time Evolutionary
                                        Computation
                                        Evolutionary Logistics
                                        Evolutionary Systems
                                        Multi-Objective Evolutionary
                                        Algorithm 

December 18-20, 2003, Hyderabad, India. Item #2958
IICAI-03 - 1st Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

email: bhanu@canes.gsw.edu, tel: 229-931-2111, fax: 229-931-2270.
Deadlines: papers: July 1.
This conference focuses on all areas of Artificial Intelligence, and related topics

December 18-21, 2003, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Manasgangotri, Mysore. Item #3053
ICON-2003 International Conference on Natural Language Processing.

ICON-2003 Secretariat, Language Technologies Research Centre, International Institute of Information Technology, Deemed Univ., Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019, India. Tel: +91 40 23001412, fax: +91 40 23001413, email: icon2003@iiit.net.
Deadlines: paper registration: June 10; paper submission: June 15, acceptance notification August 30, camera ready copy: October 30; proposals for tutorials: June 30, acceptance notification August 15.
 Linguistic and Computational Issues in Indian Languages
    - Morphological processing
    - Syntactic 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
    - Grammar Acquisition

 NLP Formalisms and Technologies
    - Grammatical and Statistical NLP
    - Word Sense Disambiguation Application areas such as

 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

December 18-20, 2003, Hyderabad, INDIA. Item #3077
Technical session on Neural and Cognitive Modeling at IICAI-03.

Raju S. Bapi, Reader, Dept of Comp and Info Sci. Univ. of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderbad, India 500 046, tel: +91 40 23010500 512 Ext: 4017 / 4025, fax: +91 40 23010145, email: bapics@uohyd.ernet.in.
Deadlines: papers: July 1.
This session focuses on issues in computational / theoretical neuroscience
and cognitive modeling. The ideas presented could be proposals of
conceptual framework or concrete models of brain function and dysfunction. 
Models could be pitched at the level of sub-neuronal, neuronal,
population, or at the brain systems level. The processes could be related
to language, speech, planning, decision making, reasoning, learning,
memory, cognition, emotion, attention, awareness, vision, auditory, other
sensory and motor domains, pattern and object recognition,
neuromodulation, etc. The data for constraining models could originate
from various experimental methods such as EEG, ERP, PET, fMRI, MEG,
Electrophysiology, Psychophysics, Behavioral, Ethological, Developmental
and Clinical studies. The modeling methods may be mathematical,
statistical, neural networks, symbolic artificial intelligence and
computer simulations. The above description is indicative of potential
topics but not restrictive. For any clarifications, please contact the
Session Chair. 


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