2005 Events on Artificial Intelligence.

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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Events are in chronological order.

Authors are invited to submit full research papers on theoretical
aspects of evolutionary computation, including genetic algorithms,
genetic programming, evolution strategies, and other evolutionary
computation paradigms.

January 6-8, 2005, The Savannah Hotel, Barbados. Item #3412
AISTATS 2005 Tenth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.

January 17 - 19, 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. Item #3321
SIMMOD 2005 International Conference on Simulation and Modeling 2005 Theme: Integrating Sciences and Technology for Effective Resource Management.

66;      Industrial Systems Modeling
51;   Manufacturing, production systems and processes
51;   Supply chain & Logistics
51;   Reengineering of business processes
51;   Business and Tourism
51;   E-business processes and CRM
66;      Economic Modeling and resource management
51;   Socio-Economic Systems, Demography
51;   Econometrics, Economics, Statistics, Finance, Risk and Uncertainty
51;   Business and Financial Systems Modeling
51;   Business simulation/Management Games
66;      Service Systems
51;   Service and administrative systems 
51;   Healthcare systems
51;   Public sector processes
51;   Medical Research, Public Health and Epidemiology 
51;   Security
66;      Integrated Assessment and/or Decision Support Systems
51;   Water Resource Assessment and Management
51;     Mitigation of Natural Disasters inc. forest fires, floods, droughts, storm surges, coastal erosion, deforestation
51;     Regional development and sustainability
51;     Global change impacts
66;      Natural Systems Modelling
51;   Ecosystems
51;   Oceanography
51;   Global, Climate and Atmospheric changes
51;   Surface and Subsurface Hydrology and Water Quality
51;   Molecular Simulation and Nanotechnology
66;      Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Management
51;   Draught and Erosion Management 
51;   Indigenous Agriculture
51;   Aquatic Science for Fisheries
51;   Agriculture and Environmental Interactions
66;      Advanced Computing 
51;   Distributed simulation 
51;   Parallel simulation and GRID computing
51;   Evolutionary computing
51;   Virtual reality
66;      Integrating frameworks/methods
Bayesian belief and Bayesian decision networks
51;   Participatory processes
51;   Interdisciplinary team building
66;      Simulation standards and simulation languages
51;   New tools & approaches
51;   Educational and training approaches
51;   Case studies and curricula 
51;   Lessons learned
66;      Recent developments in simulation and modeling 
51;   Statistical analysis of simulation
51;   Web- and component-based simulation 
51;   Verification and validation 
51;   Simulation life-cycle evolution 
51;   Simulation in collaboration environments
51;   Artificial intelligence algorithms

February 1-3, 2005, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Item #3362
ICCST/5 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

" Mechanics of composites " Ceramic composites " Infrastructural use of composites " Metal-matrix composites " Nondestructive evaluation & characterization of composites " Composite manufacturing " Fracture and fatigue of composites " Smart materials & structures " Numerical & mathematical modeling of composites " Nano-composites

February 1-3, 2005, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Item #3363
ICMSAO'05 FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELING, SIMULATION, AND APPLIED OPTIMIZATION.

 § Statistical and probabilistic Modeling § Coding and Cryptography § Modeling and identification § Numerical methods § Industrial Mathematics § Modeling and Control in Smart Materials § Optimal Control § Optimization Theory § Structural Optimization § Optimization Algorithms § Applications of Optimization § Stochastic Optimization § Simulation Tools and Languages § Web-based Simulation § Communications and Networking § Power Systems § Neural Networks and Fuzzy logic § Artificial Intelligence § Manufacturing § Robotics § Medical and Bioengineering § Mechatronics   ( 

February 2-4, 2005, Gainesville, FL. Item #3400
Conference on Systems Analysis, Data Mining and Optimization in Biomedicine.

In recent years, experimental methods in biomedicine have resulted in massive
amounts of data. The urgent need for efficient methods of processing and
understanding this data has resulted in the rapid development of a new exciting
research direction - applying interdisciplinary approaches incorporating systems
analysis, data mining and optimization techniques to the analysis of datasets
arising in biomedical applications. Application areas include genome studies,
cardiology, cancer diagnosis, neurology, etc.

Among the examples of considered datasets one can mention genome sequences, gene
expression data, protein structural data, protein-protein interaction data,
protein-DNA interaction data, as well as radiological data, and EEG data.
Systems analysis, data mining and optimization techniques play an important role
in analyzing and integrating these large datasets, as well as in discovering the
biological processes underlying the data arising in biomedical applications.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together theoreticians and
practitioners representing different fields -
biomedicine, engineering, computer science - in attempt to share knowledge,
ideas, and techniques.

February 13-15, 2005, Salzburg, Austria. Item #3242
ISPRA 2005 - 4th WSEAS International Conference on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation.

A' Signal Processing: 
Filter design and structures 
Fast algorithms 
Adaptive filters 
Nonlinear Signals and Systems 
Multirate filtering and filter banks 
Signal reconstruction 
Time-frequency analysis 
Spectral estimation 
Higher order spectrum analysis 
Parameter estimation 
Detection 
Array signal processing 
Statistical signal analysis 
Signal and system modeling 
Cyclostationary signal analysis 
Speech production and perception 
Speech analysis 
Speech synthesis 
Speech coding 
Speech recognition 
Speech enhancement and noise reduction 
Active noise control 
Active noise reduction 
Echo cancellation 
Psychoacoustics 
Broadband audio coding 
Signal processing for music 
Binaural systems 
Room acoustics  
Digital transforms 
HDTV 
Multidimensional systems 
Machine vision 
Image coding 
Image motion / sequence / video 
Computed imaging 
Geophysical and seismic processing 
Image analysis and segmentation 
Image filtering, restoration and enhancement 
Image representation and modeling 
Pattern recognition 
Neural networks 
Fuzzy Systems 
Evolutionary computation 
Expert systems 
Multisensor Data Fusion 
Architectures and VLSI hardware 
Programmable signal processors 
Algorithms and applications mappings 
Design methology and CAD tools 
Languages and real time software 
Real time system estimation 
Optimization problems in signal processing 
Radar 
Sonar 
Biomedical processing 
Geophysical signal processing 
Underwater signal processing 
Remote sensing 
Robotics 
Astronomy 
Satellite signals processing 
Measure and Instrumentation 

Robotics: 
Modelling, analysis and simulation 
Kinematics, Dynamics and Control of robots 
Robotics materials 
Robotics languages 
Human-Robot Interfaces 
Motion and path planning 
Manipulation and Grasping 
Legged and Whiled Robots 
Discrete Event Dynamics Systems 
Petri Nets 
Distributed Robotics Systems 
Cellular and Biologically Inspired Robots 
Sensor Design, Integration and Fusion 
Personal and Service Robots 
Space and underwater Robots 
Teleoperation 
Telerobotics 
Network Robotics 
Nanotechnologies in Robotics 
Communication problems in robotics 
Mechatronics 
Electronics for robotics systems 
Complex architectures 
Neural Networks, Fuzzy logic and Evolutionary Computation in Robots 
Robot Vision 
Man-machine systems 
Cybernetics 
Bio-cybernetics 
Artificial life 
Remote sensing 
Industrial Applications 

Automation: 
Circuits and Electronics for Control 
Electrical and Electronic Measurement 
Large Scale Systems 
Hierarchical Control 
Hybrid Systems 
Digital Control 
Fuzzy Systems and Fuzzy Control 
Neural Networks and Neural Control 
Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control 
Intelligent Control 
Non-linear Systems and Non-Linear Automatic Control 
Sliding Mode Control 
Differential Geometry methods in non-linear control 
Adaptive Control 
Robust Control 
Optimal Control 
Stochastic Control 
Satellite Systems Control 
Industrial Control 
CAD/CAM systems 
Manufacturing Systems Control 
Man-Machine Interaction 
Cybernetics 
Chemical processes control 
Multivariable Control 
Multirate Control 
Parallel and Distributed Systems 
Decentralized Control 
Real-time Control 
Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics 
Modeling 
Simulation 
Optimization Problems in Control Engineering 
Decision Support Systems 
Failure of Systems 
Fault Tolerance 
Diagnostics 
Machine Learning, Knowledge Acquisition 
Virtual Reality for Automation 
Microprocessors 
Embedded Systems 
Geometric modeling and Fractals 
Financial Aspects in Control Engineering 
Control of Large Systems via Internet 
Control Education 
Automation in Biology 
Automation in Medicine 
Automation in Chemical Engineering 
Machines and Mechanical Engineering 
Control in Agriculture 
Control in Business, Management and Economics 
Control in Social Sciences 
Applications in Astronomy (telescopes) 
Signal Processing Systems for Control 
Application in Underwater Systems and Oceanic Engineering 
Unmanned Vehicles 
Artificial Man 
Philosophical Aspects of Control 
Other Applications 

February 13-15, 2005, Salzburg, Austria. Item #3243
AIKED 2005 - 4th WSEAS International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering, and Databases.

Artificial Intelligence:
      Neural Networks (n.n.) 
      Mathematical foundation, supervised and unsepervised learning, algorithms,
      implementation, neurobiology and neurosciences, time series analysis, n.n.
      applications in all branches of electrical engineering and computer science. 
      Fuzzy (f.) Systems (fuzzy logic, f. mathematics (f.sets, f.geometry, f.analysis, f.control,
      f.optimization), f.languages, f.automata, f. algorithms, f.information theory, f.expert
      systems, f.operational research, f.database mining, forecasting and information
      retrieval, f.internet computing, f.discrete event systems, f. multimedia, f.applications in
      all branches of electrical engineering and computer science. 
      Evolutionary Computation (EC) 
      mathematical foundations of EC, evolution Strategies, evolutionary programming,
      statistical problems in EC, simulation, coevolution and collective behavior,
      multiobjective evolutionary algorithms, evolvable hardware, ant colonies, immune
      systems, molecular computing, DNA computing, particle swarm and differential
      evolution, applications of EC in all branches of electrical engineering and computer
      science. 
       
   2.Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases:
      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 and Systems 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, Algorithms, Data Base and Data Mining, Wireless Networks,
      Parallel and Network Computing, Routing, Sorting and Clustering, Interconnection
      Networks, Routing and Scheduling, Compilers, Architecture and Systems, Routing
      Algorithms, Sorting and Routing Special Topics. 

February 14-16, 2005, Innsbruck, Austria. Item #3340
IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications - AIA 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Initial Paper
Submit your paper via our website at: 
http://iasted.org/conferences/2005/Innsbruck/submit-453.htm. All submissions should be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Postscript (.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format. The IASTED Secretariat must receive your paper by September 15, 2004. Receipt of paper submission will be confirmed by email. 

February 14-16, 2005, Innsbruck, Austria. Item #3341
IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications - DBA 2004.

SCOPE
The relevant topics for this conference include, but are not limited to, the following: 

Database Design and Architecture
Multidimensional Databases
Multimedia Databases
Web-based Databases
Mobile Databases
Collaborative Databases
Distributed Databases
Statistical Databases
Intelligent Databases
Spatial Databases
Temporal Databases
Very Large Databases
Database Management Systems (DBMS)
Database Tools and Software
Database Languages
Object Oriented Databases
Holonic and Multi-agent Systems
Database Algorithms
Data Recording
User Interfaces
Document Retrieval
Information Searches
Data Warehousing
Data Mining
Work Flow Models
 Knowledge-based Systems
Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge Management
Artificial Intelligence Applications to Databases
Expert Systems
Ontologies
Natural Language Processing
Query Processing
Query Optimization
Access Methods
Database Security
Reliability
Storage Techniques
Memory Management
Cache Techniques
Indexing Techniques
Cost Management
Transaction Processing
Information Filtering and Browsing
Information Visualization
Electronic Libraries
Web Interfaces
Security
Bioinformatics
Applications 
 

February 15-17, 2005, Innsbruck, Austria. Item #3342
IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering - SE 2005.

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

Software Requirements
Software Architectures
Software Methodologies
Software Algorithms
Software Design and Development
Software Engineering
Software Tools
Software Maintenance
Software Metrics
Software Testing
Reliability
Quality Assurance
Reusability
Fault Tolerance
Project Management
Communication Software and Protocols
Intelligent Agents
Programming Tools and Languages 
Internet Computing (JAVA, CORBA, XML)
Web-based Software Engineering
The Internet and Intranet
Object-oriented Analysis and Design
Modelling and Simulation
Visualization
Optimization
Security
Databases
Data Mining
Data Warehousing
Software for Parallel and Distributed Systems
Mobile and Wireless Computing
Software Evaluation
Cooperative Work Support Standards
Copyright Issues
Graphical User Interfaces
Education
Applications
 

February 15-17, 2005, Innsbruck, Austria. Item #3343
IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks - PDCN 2005.

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

Parallel Computing Systems
Supercomputing
Cluster Computing
High Performance Computing
Mobile Computing
Personal Computing
Heterogeneous Computing
Web Technologies
Interconnection Networks
Optical Networks
Broadband Networks
Wireless Networks
Computer Networks
IP and ATM Networks
Architectures
Algorithms
Parallel Programming
Parallel Processing
Distributed Multimedia
Internet Tools
Reusability
Reliability
Protocols
Routing
Planning
Scheduling
Queuing Systems
Resource Allocation
Communications
Modelling and Simulation
Distributed Real-time Systems
Distributed Databases
Distributed, Knowledge-based Systems
Data Mining
Data Warehousing
Operating Systems
Compilers
Fault Tolerance
Performance Evaluation
Optimization
Real-time and Embedded Systems
Memory and I/O Systems
Grid Computing 
Applications
 

February 16 - 18, 2005, Melbourne, Australia. Item #3283
ACAM 2005.

    *  Advanced materials and composites
    * Biomechanics
    * Constitutive modelling
    * Computational mechanics and high-performance computing
    * Dynamics, vibration and time-dependent deformation
    * Education of applied mechanics
    * Engineering applications and case studies
    * Experimental mechanics
    * Fatigue and fracture
    * Penetration mechanics
    * Geomechanics
    * Mechanics in tribology
    * Mechatronics and advanced manufacturing
    * Mechanics of nano-materials
    * Smart materials and structures
    * Stress and deformation analysis

February 17 - 18, 2005, Enschede, Belgium. Item #3436
Benelearn 2005 Fourteenth Dutch-Belgian Conference on Machine Learning.

   Kernel Methods                     Decision-Theoretic Planning
   Bayesian Networks                  Case-based Learning
   Computational Learning Theory      Data Mining
   Evolutionary Computation           Hybrid Learning Systems
   Graphical Models                   Inductive Learning
   Inductive Logic Programming        Knowledge Discovery in Databases
   Language Learning                  Learning and Problem Solving
   Learning by Analogy                Learning in Multi-Agent Systems
   Learning in Dynamic Domains        Learning to/for Search
   Multistrategy Learning             Neural Networks
   Reinforcement Learning             Robot Learning
   Scientific Discovery               Meta-Learning
   Statistical Methods                Probabilistic Logic Learning
   Applications of Machine Learning, e.g.
      Bioinformatics
      Multi-Modal Interaction
      Speech & Language Processing
      Robotics
      Web/Link Mining
      Computer Games

February 22-26, 2005, St, Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Item #3344
RelMiCS 8 - 8th International Conference on Relational Methods in Computer Science.

Topics of this conference include but are not limited to:

- Relation, Cylindric, Fork and Kleene Algebras

- Relational proof theory and decidability issues

- Relational representation theorems

- Applications to programming, databases and analysis of data, such as:

   * Semantics of programming languages, program verification, specification

     and development and program analysis

   * Assertion calculi, modal and dynamic logic, interval and temporal logic

   * Duration calculus and timed automata

   * Process and network algebras

   * Modeling real world situations

   * Relational reasoning in qualitative physics and cognitive science

   * Knowledge acquisition, preference modeling, and scaling methods

- Computer systems for relational knowledge representation

March 1-3, 2005, Buenos Ayres, Argentina. Item #3510
ICAI'05 - 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on AUTOMATION & INFORMATION and AMTA '05 - 6th WSEAS Int.Conf.on ACOUSTICS and MUSIC: THEORY and APPLICATIONS and MCBC'05 - 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY and MCBE'05 - 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS.

January 24 - February 5, 2005, Canberra, Australia. Item #3452
Machine Learning Summer School.

March 9 - 11, 2005, Magdeburg, Germany. Item #3442
Special Track on Ranking, Multi-Label Classification and Preference Learning at GfKl-05.

       Focus

This track focusses on learning techniques for tackling prediction
problems that transgress the two traditional disciplines, classification
(prediciton of categorical variables) and regression (prediction of
numerical variables). In particular, it will focus on approaches that
predict more complex structures such as ordered categories, hierarchies,
sets, lists, partial or total relations, etc.

Papers that describe algorithms, theoretical results or applications in
these areas are of interest for this special track.

March 13 - 17, 2005, Melbourne, Australia. Item #3428
AIAC11 Eleventh Australian International Aerospace Congress.

March 13-15, 2005, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #3481
ACOMS'05 - 7th WSEAS International Conference on Automatic Control, Modelling and Simulation.

March 15-19, 2005, Las Vegas, USA. Item #3376
IFPE 2005 International Exposition for Power Transmission.

Technology & Design Program

Possible topics include:

ALL POWER TRANSMISSION

Systems

    * mobile
    * industrial
    * military
    * unique or specialized 

Control & Controllers

    * digital
    * analog
    * programmable
    * electrohydraulic
    * electropneumatic
    * CANbus 

ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL POWER TRANSMISSION

Electric Motors

    * constant speed
    * variable speed
    * servo
    * stepper
    * linear 

Brakes

    * industrial
    * mobile 

Clutches

    * high horsepower
    * low horsepower, high cycle 

Other Components

    * gear boxes
    * drive shafts
    * universal joints
    * belts & pulleys
    * mechanical linear positioners 

FLUID POWER/MOTION CONTROL

Components

    * actuators & cylinders
    * pumps, motors & hydrostatics
    * valves: manual, solenoid, servo
    * sensors, gauges & transducers
    * seals & leakage control
    * conductors/fittings 

Fluid Power Circuits

    * mobile hydraulic
    * industrial hydraulic
    * pneumatic systems
    * testing systems
    * fluid filtering & conditioning
    * contamination measuring & control
    * miniaturization 

Simulation & Analysis

    * components
    * open & closed loop systems: static & dynamic
    * hydraulic & pneumatic design techniques
    * software programs 

RELIABILITY

NEW MATERIALS
Hydraulic Fluids Symposium

Possible topics include:

    * alternative hydraulic fluids
    * biodegradable fluids:
          o biodegradability testing
          o oxidative stability
          o performance testing
          o pump performance testing
          o system design challenges 
    * biodegradable additives
    * fire resistance testing
    * standards development - an international view
    * fluid maintenance - modeling fluid performance problems
    * failure analysis
    * fluid-dependent materials development
    * fluid-related hydraulic system design challenges
    * case history discussions 

March 16-18, 2005, Villars, Swiss. Item #3519
SVE 2005 Workshop on Semantic Virtual Environments.

The objective of this workshop is evaluating and depicting the current state
of the art in semantic-based shape representations and semantic-oriented
methods to acquire, build, transmit, and process shapes with their
associated knowledge.


Topics of interest in the scope of the workshop include but are not
limited to

-Optimized Systems for Shape Acquisition and Reconstruction
-Shape Reconstruction from Images
-Point Cloud Matching
-Human Shape Reconstruction
-Geometry Processing for the Semantics
-Multi-Resolution Representations
-Statistical Learning Techniques for Shape Characterization and Feature
Detection
-Skeletal Structures and Critical Characteristics for Shape Representation
-Multi-Scale Models for Shape Representation
-Semantics and Shape for Industrial Design
-Incorporating Semantics and Ontologies in Product Development and
Simulation
-Semantics of Virtual Humans
-Visual Shape Entropy
-Standards for Shapes Representation

March 17 - 20, 2005, HYATT Regency Hotel, Manila, Philippines. Item #3453
HNICEM 2005 The 2nd International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Managemen.

The theme of the conference is Sustainable Development with Emerging Technologies,
Management Systems, and the Environment. The program committee solicits high quality
papers containing original contributions in all areas of theory and applications of
humanoid robots, nanotechnology, information technology, communication & controls,
biomedical engineering, environment, and management, including but not limited to:

Human-friendly welfare robots · industrial robots · biomedical robots · agricultural and
environment robots · educational and entertaining robots · intelligent control
architectures and methods · knowledge based and learning control systems · temporal
logic for control · path planning systems · reactive multi-agent systems · machine
learning · hybrid dynamical systems · pattern discovery · distributed or decentralized
control methods · adaptive control systems · intelligent sensors · control actuators ·
mechatronics · intelligent automation · intelligent machines · discrete event systems ·
supervisory control · probabilistic approaches · neural networks · fuzzy logic · genetic
algorithms and evolutionary computing · knowledge based system · sensor fusion ·
neuro-fuzzy approaches · intelligent data mining · analysis, modeling and systems ·
client/server · decision support systems · information management · rapid prototyping

Management of technology: R&D management · product and process innovation ·
technology transfer · technology forecasting · concurrent engineering · ergonomics

Energy and Environment: environmental systems management · renewable sources of
energy · non-renewable energy sources · solid waste management · life cycle
assessment/material flow analysis · industrial ecology · cleaner production ·
environmental informatics · ICT for engineering education

March 21 - 23, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal. Item #3221
ICANNGA05 - Seventh International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms.

   	

 

Introdução
Call for Papers
Proceedings
Paper Submission
Important Dates


The ICANNGA series of Conferences has been organised since 1993 and has a long history of promoting the principles and understanding of computational intelligence paradigms within the scientific community and is a reference for established workers in the fields. The series has also been of value to young researchers wishing both to extend their knowledge and experience and also meet established workers in their fields.

The 2005 Conference, the seventh in the ICANNGA series, will take place at Coimbra University in Portugal, drawing on the experience of previous events, and following the same general model, combining technical sessions, including plenary lectures by renowned scientists, with tutorials and workshop panels.

In a rapidly advancing world, where technology and engineering change dramatically, new challenges in modern informatics compel us to broaden the Conference themes in order to take into account new developments. Nevertheless we have kept the acronym ICANNGA, which now stands for "International Conference on Adaptive and Natural ComputiNG Algorithms".

 

Call for Papers

Contributions are sought in the following topic areas, which is by no means exhaustive:

Neural Networks: architectures, algorithms, learning theory, approximation, complexity, kernel learning, support vector machines, independent component analysis, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, biological foundations, computational neuroscience, neurodynamics, associative memory, cognitive science, neurocognition.

Evolutionary Computation: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, biological computation, classifier systems, artificial life, artificial immune systems, particle swarm intelligence, evolution strategies, ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, evolvable hardware.

Soft Computing: fuzzy systems, fuzzy dynamical systems, uncertain systems, hybrid systems, neuro-fuzzy controllers, genetic learning of neural networks, embedded computing for intelligent systems, real-time computational intelligence, probabilistic computing, chaotic computing, machine learning.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Molecular Computing, DNA Computing, Bioinformatics databases, Computational genomics, Computational proteomics, clustering, and mapping Gene expression and micro arrays, Gene identification and annotation, Molecular evolution Molecular sequence analysis, Protein structure.

Quantum Computing: Quantum Control, Supercomputing, Autonomic Computing, Datamining of Scientific Data, Grid Computing, Advanced Algorithms.

Applications: Medicine, prediction of atmospheric pollution and weather forcasting, quantitative socio-dynamics, pattern recognition, classification, signal processing, control, simulation, robotics, transport, defence, security, environment, finance and business, data mining and Intelligent databases, speech recognition and natural language, intelligence image processing and computer vision.

March 21 - 23, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal. Item #3398
NAMOB-2005 Natural-computing Algorithms to Modeling and Optimization of Bioprocesses at ICANNGA05.

TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to):
Techniques: 
Artificial Neural Networks; 
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation; 
Ant colonies;  
Swarm intelligence; 
Simulated Annealing; 
Tabu Search; 
Hybrid systems. 

Applications:
Modelling of biological and ecological processes; 
Adaptive control of biotechnological processes; 
Optimization of bioprocesses; 
Real-time applications; 
Applications in system's biology;
Bioinformatics applications.

March 21-23, 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. Item #3403
AAAI Spring Symposium: Developmental Robotics.

Developmental robotics is a new approach that focuses on the
autonomous self-organization of general-purpose control systems.
Developmental robotics is a move away from task-specific methodologies
where a robot is designed to solve a particular pre-defined problem.
This new approach explores the kinds of perceptual, cognitive, and
behavioral capabilities that a robot can discover through
self-motivated actions based on its own physical morphology and the
dynamic structure of its environment.  Initially a developmental
system might bootstrap itself with some innate knowledge or behavior,
but with experience could create more complex representations and
actions, leading to complete Autonomous Mental Development (AMD)[1].
Developmental robotics is different from many learning and
evolutionary systems in that the reinforcement signal, teacher target,
or fitness function comes from within the system. In this manner,
these systems are designed to rely more on mechanisms such as
self-motivation, homeostasis, or emotions.

March 27 - 31, 2005, Susa, Tunisia. Item #3383
SETIT 2005 The 3rd International Conference on Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications.

Papers are solicited in the following areas:

Information Processing
Signal Processing
Image and Video
Multimedia  
Telecommunications & Networks 
Electronic
Applications 

March 28 - April 1, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #3388
OR25 - SPIE Conference on Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2005.

March 30 - April 1, 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #3393
EvoCOP 2005 - 5th European Conference on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of evolutionary algorithms and related
   meta-heuristics like simulated annealing, tabu search,
   memetic algorithms, or ant systems to combinatorial
   optimization problems;
- representation techniques;
- evolutionary operators;
- constraint-handling techniques;
- hybrid methods and hybridization techniques;
- parallelization;
- theoretical developments;
- search space analyses;
- comparisons between different (also non-evolutionary) techniques.

March 30 - April 1, 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #3420
EvoSTOC Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Stochastic and Dynamic Environments.

       * handling noisy fitness functions
       * using fitness approximations
       * searching for robust optimal solutions
       * tracking moving optima
       * sophisticated real-world applications

March 30 - April 1, 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #3430
EVOIASP2005 Seventh European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing.

March 30 - April 1, 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #3535
8th European Conference on Genetic Programming.

    * Theoretical developments
    * Empirical studies of GP performance and behaviour
    * New algorithms, representations and operators
    * Applications of GP to real-life problems
    * Hybrid architectures including GP components
    * New libraries and implementations
    * Linear GP
    * Evolution of other tree or graph structures (e.g. VRML)
    * Evolution of various classes of machine: e.g. cellular automata, finite state machines, pushdown automata, turing machines
    * Object-oriented genetic programming

March 30 - April 1, 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #3536
3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Bioinformatics.

EvoBIO is the third workshop organized by the EvoNet working group on bioinformatics. EvoBIO covers research in all aspects of computational intelligence in bioinformatics and computational biology. The emphasis is on algorithms based on evolutionary computation, on neural networks and on other novel optimisation and machine learning methods, that address important problems in molecular biology, genomics and genetics, that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets.

March 30 - April 1, 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #3537
2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Communication, Networks and Connected Systems.

# Communication systems: telecommunications; mobile, satellite, optical, and voice communications; personal communication systems; switching and routing; transmission systems; access systems; communication systems simulation; station and antenna design; information and speech processing; intrusion detection; error control coding; compression and cryptography; propagation and channel modelling, protocol design, etc.
# Networks; networks and graph problems; unconstrained and constrained network design problems; network flows; network and computer security; Internet problems; electrical, power, and data networks; computer networks; location and link design; reliability and failure; corporate network design; location placement; network physical and software architecture; network hardware and software technologies; mobility networks and protocols; operations, maintenance, and management; signalling and control; active networks; network services and applications, etc.
# Connected systems: network problems in non-technical environments; manufacturing, distribution and logistics networks; supply and disposal networks; inter-personal communication; communication analysis; inter-organisational communication; supply chains; information networks, etc.

March 30 - April 1, 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #3538
2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Hardware Optimisation.

    * Analog circuit design
    * Automatic test pattern generation
    * Built-in self test
    * Evolutionary design of electronic circuits
    * Evolutionary hardware design methodologies
    * Evolutionary robotics
    * Evolvable hardware
    * Floorplanning
    * Hardware/Software co-design
    * Hybrid evolutionary/exact approach
    * Hardware accelerated methodologies
    * Logic synthesis
    * Routing
    * Test program generation

March 30 - April 1, 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #3539
3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art.

    *  Generation of art and music
    * Robotic based evolutionary art and music
    * Using evolutionary algorithms for the analysis and interpretation of art and music
    * Computer aided creativity
    * Theoretical developments such as, validation methodologies and comparative analysis

March 31 - April 2, 2005, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Item #3437
WAM-BAMM*05 First Annual Biologically Accurate Modeling Meeting In Association with the Second GENESIS USERS MEETING GUM*05.

April 2 - 10, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Item #3210
ETAPS 2005 European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software.

The main conferences of ETAPS are:

- FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation
Structures
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- CC: International Conference on Compiler Construction
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis
of Systems

April 2-8, 2005, San Diego, USA. Item #3368
38th Annual Simulation Symposium Part of the 2005 Spring Simulation Multiconference.

.       Object-Oriented Simulation
.       Simulation Languages, Tools, and Environments
.       VLSI Circuit Simulators
.       Simulation of Multiprocessor Architectures
.       Simulation of Distributed Systems and Databases
.       Simulation of Parallel Processing Systems
.       Simulation based Performance Analysis
.       Network Modeling and Simulation
.       Simulation of Sensor Networks
.       Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Networking and Computing
.       Simulation of Large Scale Systems
.       Simulation of Clusters and Grids
.       Simulation of Client-Server Systems
.       Simulation of Wireless Systems
.       Pervasive computing
.       Smart network design and traffic modeling
.       Routing and Mobility Management in Networks
.       Wearable Computer Systems
.       Mobile and Nomadic Computing
.       Energy-aware Schemes for Wireless Networks
.       Simulation of Real-time Systems
.       Parallel and Distributed Simulation
.       Simulation of Agent Systems
.       Simulation based Software Performance
.       Reliability and Maintenance Models
.       Simulation of Multimedia Applications and Systems
.       Artificial Intelligence in Simulation
.       Neural Network Models and Simulation
.       Web-based Modeling and Simulation
.       Animations/Virtual Reality
.       Advances in Simulation Methodology and Practices
.       Experimental Design
.       Meta-modeling
.       Statistical Analysis and Inference
.       Verification and Validation
.       Selection and Comparison Procedures

April 4-8, 2005, Sino, German Centre, Beijing, China. Item #3509
International Conference on Networks: from Biology to Theory.

Networks in neuroinformatics: Population coding, computation with
spiking networks, multi-unit recording, human-machine interfaces,
synchronization in spiking neuronal networks.  Networks in
bioinformatics: Gene regulatory and signal transduction networks,
protein-protein interaction networks, microarray data, metabolic
networks.

Network structures and dynamics: Random graphs and other paradigms,
synchronization and desynchronization mechanisms, coupled oscillators,
dynamics on multiple scales.

April 5 - 7, 2005, Old Hall Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK. Item #3464
Sheffield Fracture Mechanics 2005.

April 10 - 14, 2005, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Item #3545
School of Dendrites.

The  focus of the school is on 1. Biophysics of dendrites; 2. 
Plasticity of dendrites and their synapses and 3. The computational 
role of dendrites. There is financial help for foreign students.

April 11-13, 2005, TOULOUSE, FRANCE. Item #3433
12TH ANNUAL EUROPEAN CONCURRENT ENGINEERING CONFERENCE.

* E-Business in CE
·	Organizational influences of e-business
·	B2B business models for inter-organizational CE
·	Migration to e-business based CE
·	E-business applications for CE
·	B2B portals for CE
·	Emerging standards (e.g. XML)
·	e-procurement, e-supply, e-engineering,...

* Organization and Management
·	Principles of CE
·	Multi-disciplined team-working and project team organization
·	Global product development and international collaboration
·	Life-cycle cost and quality
·	Business process re-engineering and outsourcing
·	Supply chain management
·	Measurement of profitability by the introduction of CE

* Supporting Technologies
·	Digital Mock-Up
·	Virtual prototyping
·	Rapid prototyping
·	Synthetic environments and simulation on the factory floor
·	Reverse engineering
·	Assembly and disassembly
·	High precision manufacturing
·	Intelligent manufacturing
·	Sensor and robot assisted machining

* Techniques
·	Quality function deployment
·	Total quality management
·	Global optimization techniques and hybrid approaches

* Engineering of embedded systems
·	HW/SW co-design
·	system development process
·	specification languages

* Process Management
·	Process planning in continuous, discrete and hybrid processes
·	Process modeling, monitoring and control
·	Diagnostics and maintenance
·	Automated inspection and quality control
·	Production planning, scheduling and control

* Engineering Data Management and Information Modeling
·	Integration of geometrical data and product definition
·	Product data interchange (PDI) and standards
·	Data handling, distribution and transformation
·	Data version control and release management
·	Corporate technical memory
·	Design rationale and intent

* Engineering Process Management
·	Engineering process modeling
·	CE metrics
·	CE process planning, scheduling and simulation
·	Workflow-management in CE
·	Project and team coordination

* Collaborative CE Environments for Virtual Teams
·	Cooperative problem solving
·	CSCW methods and tools
·	Information and application sharing
·	Computer-based video and audio conferencing
·	Conflict resolution techniques
·	Constraint management
·	Negotiation, blackboard and agent-based architecture
·	CORBA based environments and integrated frameworks
·	Architectures for building CE systems
·	CE languages and tools
·	Distributed computing environments
·	WWW based CE systems
·	mobile CE systems
·	Networking and distribution in CE 

* Practical Applications and Experiences
·	Practical solutions
·	Systematic guide-lines
·	Pitfalls and success stories
·	Case studies, pilot projects and experiments

April 12 - 14, 2005, Hatfield, UK. Item #3415
Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts.

#  Imitation in Animals and Humans: studies and models, theories of underlying mechanisms.
# Robot Imitation: experiments, architectures, role of memory and prediction, learning sequences of actions and acquiring behaviours
# Neurobiological Foundations of Imitation
# Solving the Correspondence Problem between differently embodied systems
# Learning by Imitation to bootstrap the acquisition of skills & knowledge
# The Role of Imitation in the Development of Social Cognition
# Learning of Perception-Action Mappings via Observation of the Self or Others
# Developmental approaches to imitation
# Imitation, Intentionality and Communication
# Pathologies of imitation mechanisms; autism, visuoimitative apraxia.
# The interplay between Imitation, Attention, and Joint attention
# Programming by Example/Programming by Demonstration; Behavioural Cloning

April 14 - 15, 2005, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK. Item #3405
Agents that want and like: motivational and emotional roots of cognition and action - a symposium of the AISB'05 Convention.

April 17-21, 2005, Matsushima near Sendai, Japan. Item #3421
ExHFT-6 The Sixth World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics.

April 23 - 25, 2005, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. Item #3492
IEEM'2005 The 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.

·   Global Manufacturing and Management
·   Product Development and Design
·   Supply Chain Management/Logistics Engineering
·   Total Quality Management and Quality Engineering
·   Production Planning and Control
·   Decision Analysis/Decision Theory and Method 
·   Manufacturing Systems/ Manufacturing Theory and Methodology 
·   Service Engineering and Management/Service Operations Management
·   System Modeling and Simulation
·   Computer-Aided Design and Intelligent Manufacturing
·   Facilities Planning, Location Design and Material Handing
·   AI Applications in Industrial Engineering and Management
·   Engineering Economy and Cost Management 
·   Applied Operations Research/Operations Research and Application
·   Organization and Management
·   Maintenance Engineering and Management
·   Industrial Ergonomics/Human Factors and Safety
·   Web-based Applications, E-Business and E-Commerce
·   Engineering/Project Management 
·   Technology Management and Innovation
·   Knowledge Management
·   Customer/Supplier Relationship Management
·   Ethics, Industrial Engineering Education and Training
 

April 26 - 28, 2005, Old Hall Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK. Item #3465
Sheffield Fracture Mechanics 2005.

April 27-29, 2005, Bruges, Belgium. Item #3413
ESANN'2005 - 13th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks.

The ESANN'2005 conference will focus on fundamental aspects of ANNs: theory,
models, learning algorithms, mathematical and statistical aspects, in the
context of function approximation, classification, data analysis, control,
time-series prediction, signal processing, vision, etc.  Papers on links and
comparisons between ANNs and other domains of research (such as statistics,
signal processing, biology, psychology, evolutive learning, bio-inspired
systems, etc.) are encouraged.

May 4 - 6, 2005, Ischia, Italy. Item #3610
CF'05 2005 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers.

May 8, 2005, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Item #3511
Correlation Learning Workshop at AI'05.

The Correlation Learning Workshop invites participants to present 
original work in in Correlation Learning, defined as follows. 
Correlative learning is a paradigm for adaptive behaviour which uses 
correlations between neuronal activations, oscillations and/or changes 
in system energy to effect synaptic plasticity. Correlative learning 
has a long history in biological models of neoronal computation, and 
has recently garnered an increased amount of interest in the field of 
machine learning. The AI'05 Correlation Workshop is the opportunity for 
you to share, discuss and further develop ideas and techniques in 
correlative learning. It will bring together research from the 
biological community that focusses on explaining biological learning 
and combine it with correlative learning approaches from the machine 
learning community that focus on effectiveness for pattern recognition 
problems.

May 9-11, 2005, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Item #3512
AI'2005 The Eighteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

May 10 - 13, 2005, Singapore. Item #3382
IEHSC The Inaugural International Embedded and Hybrid Systems Conference.

1.   Embedded Software Composition: 
Software Synthesis, Programming and Run-time Technologies. Open-embedded Systems. Compilers. Transformational methods, reusable patterns and middleware strategies, and model-based software analyses.
2.   Hardware and Devices: 
Communications, Sensors and Actuators components and assemblies for embedded systems.  Applications include biomedical, consumer, defense, home automation and industrial applications.
3.   Hybrid Modeling and Control: 
Enable a common semantic footing for modeling and design of physical systems, embedded control software, and computer hardware.
4.   Resource Management: 
Includes analytic redundancy in sensor systems, optimizing the use of computational resources such as processes, caches and network bandwidth.
5.   High Confidence Embedded Software and Systems: 
Methods that reduce dependence on exhausting testing, assurance-oriented technology and strategies for designing and synthesizing fault tolerant and robust systems.

May 10-12, 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Item #3404
ICOM'05 - 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics.

Mechatronics and Control Systems, Sensors, Actuators and Measurements,
Robotics, Industrial Automation and Manufacturing systems

May 10, 2005, Chiba, Japan. Item #3518
AIRWeb '05 First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web At the 14th International World Wide Web Conference.

   - search engine spam and optimization,
   - crawling the web without detection,
   - link-bombing,
   - reverse engineering of ranking algorithms,
   - advertisement blocking, and
   - web content filtering.

May 11 - 13, 2005, Landmark Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Item #3501
ACIAR'05 - 4th Asian Conference on Industrial Automation and Robotics.

May 11-14, 2005, Cancun, Mexico. Item #3569
WSEAS Multiconference.

    * 7th WSEAS International Conference on APPLIED MATHEMATICS 

    * 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on INSTRUMENTATION, MEASUREMENT, CONTROL, CIRCUITS and
SYSTEMS (IMCCAS 2005) 

    * 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on INFORMATION SCIENCE, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
(ISCA 2005)

    * 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on SOFT COMPUTING, OPTIMIZATION, SIMULATION &
MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (SOSM 2005) 

May 16-18, 2005, Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA. Item #3418
Neural Network Applications Special Track at the 18th International FLAIRS Conference.

Papers are being solicited for a special track on Neural Network 
Applications at the 17th International
FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-2004). The special track will be devoted to the 
applications of Neural Networks
with the aim of presenting new and important contributions in this area. 
These application areas include,
but are not limited to, the following:

Vision
Pattern Recognition
Control and Process Monitoring
Biomedical Applications
Robotics
Speech Recognition
Text Mining
Diagnostic Problems
Telecommunications
Power Systems
Signal Processing
Image Processing

May 16-18, 2005, Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA. Item #3419
FLAIRS 2005.

The 18th international FLAIRS conference seeks high quality, original,
unpublished submissions in all areas of AI, including, but not limited to,
neural networks, autonomous agents, case-based reasoning, computer vision, data
mining, expert systems, genetic algorithms, intelligent user interfaces,
intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation and management, learning,
automated reasoning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning,
uncertainty reasoning, robotics, semantic web, speech recognition, temporal
reasoning, AI and the Web, AI applications, AI and education, and
verification/validation.  

May 16-19, 2005, Tallinn, Estonia. Item #3446
EJC2005 The 15th European - Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases.

TOPICS: Modelling of information is necessary in developing
information systems. Information is acquired from many sources, by
using various methods and tools. It must be recognized,
conceptualized, and conceptually organized efficiently so that users
can easily understand and use it. Modelling is needed to understand,
explain, organise, predict, and reason on information. It also helps
to master the role and functions of components of information systems.
Modelling can be performed with many different purposes in mind, at
different levels, and by using different notions and different
background theories. It can be made by emphasising users' conceptual
understanding of information on a domain level, on an algorithmic
level, or on representation levels. On each level, the objects and
structures used on them are different, and different rules govern the
behaviour on them. Therefore the notions, rules, theories, languages,
and methods for modelling on different levels are also different. It
will be useful if we can develop theories and methodologies for
modelling, to be used in different situations, because databases,
knowledge bases, and repositories in knowledge management systems,
developed on the basis of models and used to technically store
information, are growing day by day. In this conference the interest
is focused on modelling of information, and one of central topics
might be modelling of time. Scientific or technical papers of high
quality are sought on topics including, but not limited to the
following. The highest priority will be given to papers which are
strongly related to different aspects of modelling.

May 16-27, 2005, Chicago, USA. Item #3581
Machine Learning Summer School.

Subjects: Bayesian Learning, Boosting, Decision trees, Empirical
Comparisons and Case Studies, Energy Models, Evidence Integration in
Bioinformatics, Generalization Bounds, Information Geometry, Manifold
Methods, Object Recognition, Online Learning, Reductions,
Regularization, Semisupervised Learning, Structured Learning, SVMs

Speakers: Yasemin Altun, Misha Belkin, Rich Caruana, Sanjoy Dasgupta,
Zoubin Ghahramani, Mark Johnson, Adam Kalai, John Langford, Yann LeCun,
Phil Long, David McAllester, Partha Niyogi, Robert Nowak, Robert
Schapire, Yoram Singer, Steve Smale (and possibly more).

May 17 - 19, 2005, Wroclaw, Poland. Item #3498
International Scientific-Technical Conference "Hydraulics and Pneumatics'2005".

May 18-20, 2005, Cancun, Mexico. Item #3402
MS 2005 - The IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation.

MODELLING AND SIMULATION METHODOLOGIES
· Model Development
· Bond Graph Modelling
· Statistical and Probabilistic Modelling
· Numerical Methods
· Mathematical Modelling
· Physically-based Modelling
· Agent-based Modelling
· Dynamic Modelling
· 3-Dimensional Modelling
· Continuous and Discrete Methodology
· Computational Geometry
· Time Series Analysis
· Finite Element Methods
· Simulation Tools and Languages
· Discrete Event Simulation
· Petri Nets
· Object Oriented Implementation
· Web-based Simulation
· Monte Carlo Simulation
· Distributed Simulation
· Simulation Optimization
· Simulation Uncertainty
· Neural Networks
· Artificial Intelligence
· Expert Systems
· Knowledge-based Systems
· Fuzzy Systems
· Genetic Algorithms
· Data Modelling
· Computer Aided Design
· CASE Systems in Engineering Design
· Multi-paradigm Modelling
· Visualization
· Virtual Reality
· Synthetic Environments
· Applications
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS MODELLING
· Air Modelling and Simulation
· Atmospheric Modelling
· Hazardous Materials
· Mobile Source Emissions
· Ecosystem Modelling
· Hydrological Modelling
· Aquatic Ecosystems
· Marine Ecosystems
· Freshwater Ecosystems
· Biological Systems
· Agricultural Modelling
· Terrain Analysis
· Meteorological Modelling
· Earth System Modelling
· Climatic Modelling
· Natural Resource Management
· Terrestrial Ecosystems
APPLCATIONS IN MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH
· Business Process Simulation
· Resource Management
·Knowledge Management Systems
· Operations Research
· Economics
· Optimization
· Stochastic Models
· Logic Programming
· Operation and Production Management
· Supply Chain Management
· Total Quality Management Logistics
·Risk Analysis
· Scheduling
·Forecasting
·Cost Benefit Analysis
· Economic Revitalization
· Financial Models
· Accounting
· Policy Issues
· Regulatory Impact Analysis
ENERGY AND POWER SYSTEMS MODEI.LING
· Energy flow Modelling
· Modelling of Energy Sources
· Power Plant Modelling
·Turbine Modelling
· Transmission Line Modelling
· Transient Analysis
· Stability Studies
· Harmonics Modelling
· Power Quality Analysis
· Fault Simulation
· Power Network Simulation
· SCADA Systems
· Energy Demand Modelling
· Energy Economics
· Electricity Market Modelling
MODELLING IN BIOMEDICINE AND BIOMECHNANICS
· Biomedical Modelling
· Biomechanical Modelling
· Medical Robotics
· Medical Instrument Design
· Patient Simulators
· Surgical Simulators
· Surgical Training
· Surgical Modelling
· Image-guided Surgery
· Cardiovascular Modelling
·Arterial Wall Mechanics
· Respiratory Mechanics
· Orthopedic Modelling
· Joint Modelling
· Limb Modelling
· Dental Modelling
· Muscular Modelling
· Modelling of Sports Injuries
· Medical Imaging
· Medical Vision
· Virtual Reality
· Human Animation
· Health Care Modelling
· Tele-medicine
·Medical Education
APPLICATIONS IN AUTOMATION, CONTROL AND ROBOTICS
· Industrial Automation
· CAD/CAM
· Human-Machine Interfaces
· Flexible Manufacturing Systems
· Assembly Planning
· Material Handling
· Process Automation
· Intelligent Control
· Process Control
· Robot Design
· Multi-robot Systems
· Tele-robotics
· Mobile Robots
· Robust Robot Control
· Motion Planning
· Scheduling
· Sensing and Data Fusion
· Intelligent Agents
· Virtual Reality
· Fluid Power Technology
APPLICATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND
COMMUNICATIONS
· Information System Management
· Telecommunications
· The Internet
· Multimedia Systems
· Wireless System Architectures
· Network Simulation
· Mobile Networks
·3rd and 4th Generation Networks
· Congestion Control Mechanisms
· Fluid Models
· Protocols
· RF Circuit Modelling
·Software Engineering
· Database Management
· Quality of Service
· Performance Modelling
· Distance Education
· E-commerce
·M-commerce

May 18-21, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Item #3502
Ninth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.

HOW DOES THE BRAIN CONTROL BEHAVIOR?

HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY EMULATE BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE?

May 19-21, 2005, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan. Item #3389
3rd International Conference on Active Media Technology.

* Active Computer Systems and Interfaces
* Adaptive Web Media and Web Intelligence
* Agent-Mediated Interaction and Services
* Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
* Business, Education, Entertainment, and Social Applications of Active Media
* Digital City
* Digital Interactivity
* Embodied Intelligent Systems and Agents
* Evaluation of Active Media
* Machine Learning and Human-Centered Robotics
* Multi-Agent Communities
* Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and Expression Analysis
* Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their Interfaces
* Smart Digital Media
* User's and System Development Experiences of Active Media

May 19-20, 2005, Brussels, Belgium. Item #3487
26th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux.

The purpose of the conference is to share ideas, experiences and information in the following topics:

  Shannon theory and applications of information theory,
  Multi-user information theory,
  Source and channel coding, data compression,
  Cryptography and data protection issues, including watermarking,
  Quantum information and quantum cryptography,
  Audio/video signal processing and compression,
  Speech/signal processing, pattern recognition,
  Signal detection and estimation,
  Ubiquitous communications,
  Wired and wireless networks,
  Mobile multimedia. 

May 22 - 25, 2005, Rydzyna Castle, Poland. Item #3441
CORES 2005 - 4th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems.

Scope
	1	
Classification and interpretation of text, video, voice 
	2	
Statistical, soft and structural methods of pattern recognition 
	3	
Image processing, analysis and interpretation 
	4	
Features extraction and selection 
	5	
Machine learning 
	6	
Trends and relations recognition and analysis 
	7	
Data and Web mining 
	8	
Machine-oriented knowledge representation and inference methods 
	9	
Knowledge-based decision support systems 
	10	
Advanced signal processing methods 
	11	
Special hardware architecture 
	12	
Applications 

May 22-27, 2005, Zeuthen, Germany. Item #3527
X International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research.

I.   Computing Technology and Environment for Physics Research 

- Parallel and Vector Computing Technologies and Applications 
- Distributed Computing: Tools for the GRID 
- Data Fabric and Data Management 
- Online Monitoring and Control 
- Software Engineering 
- Graphic User Interfaces, Common Libraries 

II.  Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools Neural Networks and Other Pattern 

- Recognition Techniques 
- Evolutionary and Genetic Algorithms 
- Advanced Data Analysis Environments 
- Statistical Methods 
- Detector and Accelerator Simulations 
- Reconstruction Algorithms 

III. Simulations and Computations in Theoretical Physics and Phenomenology 

- Automatic Computation Systems: from Processes to Event Generators 
- Multi-loop Calculations and Higher Order Corrections 
- Multi-dimensional Integration and Event Generators 
- Intensive High Precision Numerical Computations: Algorithms and Systems 
- Computer Algebra Techniques and Applications 

May 23 - 27, 2005, Chiangmai, Thailand. Item #3373
8 Asian Symposium on Visualization.

May 25 - 27, 2005, Muroran, Japan. Item #3275
WSTST'05: The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology.

* Intelligent hybrid systems 
* Fusion of soft computing and hard computing 
* Data mining and decision support systems 
* Intelligent agent-based systems, cognitive and reactive distributed
AI systems
* Internet modeling 
* Human interface 
* Applications 
* Image and speech signal processing, prediction, and control 
* Robotics 
* Biology and medicine 
* Business and management 
* Artificial societies 
* Chemicals, pharmaceuticals and materials 
* Environment engineering 
* Other applications 

May 25-27, 2005, Muroran, Japan. Item #3422
SIP´05 Swarm Intelligence and Patterns.

 - Intelligent Systems Design.
- Advanced Signal and Image processing algorithms.
- Pattern Recognition and Emergent Behaviour.
- Data Categorization, Visualization. Data and Knowledge Extraction / Representation.
- Feature Extraction and Selection. Unsupervised Learning.
- Information Systems and Knowledge Management.
- Collective Intelligence, Behaviour and Search. Exploring versus Exploiting.
- Artificial Habitats and Information.
- Exploratory Data Analysis. Data-Mining.
- Cognition, Interactivity, Signals and Communication.
- Bottom-up Strategies and Non-Hierarchical Systems.
- Adpative Systems and Self-Configuration.
- Mapping Concepts, Cognitive Maps and Self-Organizing Maps.
- Particle Swarm / Cultural Algorithms.
- Complex Adaptive Systems.
- Stigmergy, Self-Organization, Metamorphosis, Emergence and Co-Evolution.
- Artificial Life as well as other Animal Societies bio-inspired algorithms.
- Flocks, Herds and Schools.
- Artificial Societies and Web-based Communities.
- Wireless Communication, Cellular Systems, Indirect Communication through artefacts.
- Social Networks and New Media.
- Artificial Immune Systems and Self-Organization.
- Classification, Sorting, Data Retrieval, Clustering.
- Web Mining, Semantic Web, Collaborative Mining, GRIDS, Network security.
- Auto-Catalysis, Positive and Negative Feedbacks, Cybernetics.
- Swarms and Cooperative Robotics.
- Distributed algorithms, self-regulation, self-repair and self-maintenance ontologies.
- Biomedical, multimedia and e-commerce applications.
- Collective on-line Games. iDesign, Active aLif(v)e Art and e-Artefacts.
- Generative and Computational Art.
- Hybridization with other methods (e.g. Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks).

May 30 - June 1, 2005, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #3557
CP-AI-OR 2005 - 2nd International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimisation Problems.

June 5-10, 2005, Monterey, California, USA. Item #3595
ICAPS The International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling.

    *  anytime planning and scheduling
    * applications of planning and scheduling
    * case-based planning
    * complexity analysis for planning and scheduling
    * constraint reasoning for planning and scheduling
    * decision-theoretic planning and scheduling
    * deductive planning
    * distributed and multiagent planning and scheduling
    * domain-independent classical planning
    * domain analysis for planning and scheduling
    * dynamic scheduling
    * hierarchical task network planning
    * information technology to support planning and scheduling
    * knowledge engineering for planning and scheduling
    * knowledge acquisition for planning and scheduling
    * lessons learned from deployed systems
    * logics and formal models for planning and scheduling
    * machine learning for planning and scheduling
    * methodologies and tools for specification, design, implementation, and validation of planning and scheduling systems
    * mixed-initiative planning and scheduling
    * model-theoretic approaches to planning
    * operations research techniques for plan and schedule optimization
    * plan and schedule execution, monitoring and repair
    * plan recognition
    * planning and perception
    * planning and scheduling under uncertainty
    * planning with resources and time constraints
    * reactive planning
    * reasoning about actions
    * realtime planning and scheduling
    * robot planning
    * scalability in planning and scheduling
    * search for planning and scheduling
    * tools for developing large-scale planning and scheduling systems
    * verification and validation of plans and schedules, planners, schedulers, and domain models
    * visualization for complex plans and schedules

June 6 - July 1, 2005, St John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Item #3456
Santa Fe Institute's 2005 Complex Systems Summer Schools.

June 7-9, 2005, Estoril, Portugal. Item #3364
IbPRIA 2005, Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis.

June 8-10, 2005, Pasadena, California, USA. Item #3449
IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium.

The 2005 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium will address
topics ranging from theoretical foundations to engineering applications of
swarm intelligence. In particular, it will focus on models and analysis of
collective behavior in natural and artificial societies, design, control,
and optimization of collective artificial systems, and algorithms based on
principles of swarm intelligence.  

June 8-11, 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Item #3451
The First International Conference on Robotics: Science and Systems.

   - Advanced Mechanisms: Mechanism Design, Legged Systems,
     Hands, Snakes, Reconfigurable Robots, MEMS/NEMS,
     Nanobots, Biomimetic Robotics

   - Manipulation: Kinematics/Dynamics, Mobile Manipulation,
     Contact Modeling, Force/Grasping, Control

   - Human Centered Systems: Humanoids, Interfaces, Haptics,
     Tactile, Telerobotics, Human Augmentation, Assistive
     Robotics

   - Planning and Algorithms: Motion planning, Mission planning, 
     Assembly planning, Coordination, Complexity and Completeness, 
     Computational Geomerty, Robotics and Molecular Biology, Simulation

   - Perception: Vision, Remote Sensing, Tactile Perception,
     Range Sensing

   - Estimation and Machine Learning: Reinforcement Learning,
     Bayesian Techniques, Graphical Models, Imitation
     Learning, Programming by Demonstration, Diagnostics

   - Mobile Robotics: Mapping, Localization, Collision
     Avoidance, Exploration, Mobile Robot Control, High-Speed
     Navigation

   - Distributed Systems: Sensor Networks, Multi-Robot
     Systems

   - Field Applications and Systems: Medical Robotics,
     Underwater Robotics, Aerial/Space Robotics, Robotics and
     Art, Robot Soccer

June 8-10, 2005, Badajoz, Spain. Item #3461
m-ICTE2005 - 3rd International Conference on Multimedia and ICTs in Education.

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
· Artificial Intelligence in learning technology
· Metadata applications
· 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.

Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning

Typically, technical contributions deal with open questions in specific
fields related to knowledge management. Topics may include but are not
limited to:
· Content-based multimedia indexing and retrieval
· Frameworks for knowledge portals Personalization
· Business Intelligence
· Management of distributed knowledge
· Semantic web infrastructures and ontologies
· Best practice contributions report on experiences en-countered in
knowledge management projects. Topics may include but are not limited to:
· Communities of Practice
· Knowledge management in decision making
· Knowledge management in business process management
· Organizational learning
· Virtual knowledge environments

June 8-11, 2005, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. Item #3530
WIRN 2005 - XV Italian Workshop on Neural Networks.

  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
  #  Mathematical Models
  #  Architectures and Algorithms
  #  Hardware and Software Design
  #  Hybrid Systems
  #  Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing
  #  Industrial and Commercial Applications
  #  Fuzzy Techniques for Neural Networks

June 9 - 10, 2005, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Item #3484
DSSCV05 - 1st International workshop on Deep Structure, Singularities and Computer Vision.

 TOPICS INCLUDE (not limited to):
 Singularity theory applied to problems within computer vision.
 Singularity based shape and image descriptors.
 Multi scale based shape and image descriptors.
 Efficient data structures and algorithms for multi scale based
     descriptors. 
 Scaling properties of natural images.
 
 Applications of the above are very welcome including - but not limited
 to - the areas of: image matching, database indexing, image coding,
 shape representations, feature selections, structural search,
 registration, segmentation, object recognition, reconstruction and
 visualisation. 

June 12 - 17, 2005, PORTO CARAS, HALKIDIKI, GREECE. Item #3432
OMAE 2005 The 24th International Conference on OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING.

June 12-15, 2005, Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Item #3455
Special Track on Forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks at the 25th International Symposium on Forecasting.

Methods (include but are not limited to):
- artificial neural networks (all paradigms)
  - feedforward & recurrent
  - single methods & ensembles
- support vector machines & regression
- NN related & hybrid soft computing methods

Applications (include but are not limited to):
- business forecasting & demand planning
- time series prediction & analysis
- predictive classification & data mining

June 13-16, 2005, Gdañsk, Poland. Item #3397
IIS:IIPWM'05 Intelligent Information Systems: New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining.

Papers on these and related subjects are particularly encouraged: 
- Artificial Immune Systems,
- Search Engines,
- Computational Linguistics,
- Knowledge Discovery.
The Conference'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 text bases, 
- uncertainty management.

June 13-15, 2005, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Item #3423
PODS 2005 ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.

Access Methods & Physical Design
Deductive Databases & Knowledge Bases
Query Optimization
Active Databases
Distributed Databases
Real-time Databases
Complexity & Performance Evaluation
Information Processing on the Web
Security & Privacy
Data Integration & Interoperability
Logic in Databases
Spatial & Temporal Databases
Data Mining
Multimedia Databases
Transaction Management
Data Models
Object-oriented Databases
Views & Warehousing
Data Stream Management
Querying XML & Semistructured Data
Web Services & Electronic Commerce
Databases & Information Retrieval
Query Languages
Workflow

June 13-15, 2005, Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, USA. Item #3450
MCS 2005 Sixth International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems.

MCS 2005 is the sixth workshop of a series aimed at creating 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 
http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs. Contributions from all the research 
communities working in the field are welcome in order to compare the 
different approaches and to define the common research priorities. 
Special attention is also devoted to assess the applications of 
multiple classifier systems. The papers will be published in the 
workshop proceedings, and extended versions of selected papers will 
be considered for publication in a special issue of an international 
journal.

June 13-16, 2005, Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA. Item #3601
ICAC-05 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing.

- Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that
exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-
optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection.

- Software architectures for self-managing systems,
based on Open Grid Services, Web Services, or novel
paradigms based on biological, economic, social, or
other analogies.

- Specific self-managing components, such as server,
client, database, storage, or network elements. Emphasis
should be placed on interactions with other components,
or techniques or lessons that may generalize to other
components.

- Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and
compiler technologies for building self-managing
components, systems or applications.

- New technologies supporting system management, such as
service-level agreements, negotiation or conversation
support, and behavior enforcement.

- System-level technologies, middleware or services that
entail interactions among two or more components of self-
managing systems, such as health monitoring, dependency
analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload
management, and provisioning.

- Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user
interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling
behavior, and techniques for defining, distributing, and
understanding policies.

- Fundamental science of self-managing systems:
understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent
behavior, theoretical investigations of coupled feedback
loops, predictive methods, robustness, and related topics.

- Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes:
measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior,
user studies, or experiences with large-scale deployments
of self-managing systems or applications.

June 15-17, 2005, Benalmádena, Spain. Item #3396
ASM 2005 Applied Simulation and Modelling.

Modelling and Simulation Methods
Modelling
Simulation
Identification
Estimation
Bond Graphs
Statistical Modelling
Numerical Methods
Mathematical Modelling
Physically-based Modelling
Agent-based Modelling
Dynamic Modelling
3-Dimensional Modelling
Computational Geometry
Time Series Analysis
Finite Element Methods

Simulation Tools and Techniques
Simulation Tools
Mathematical Programming
Discrete Event Simulation
Petri Nets
Object-oriented Implementation
Web-based Simulation
Java-based Simulation
Monte Carlo Simulation
Parallel and Distributed Simulation
Simulation Optimization
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Expert Systems
Knowledge-based Systems
Fuzzy Systems
Genetic Algorithms
Evolutionary Methods
Data Modelling
Computer-aided Design
Multi-paradigm Simulation
Visualization

Environmental Modelling and
Simulation
Air Modelling and Simulation
Atmospheric Modelling
Contamination
Hazardous Material
Mobile Source Emissions
Hydrological Modelling and Simulation
Hydrological Forecasting
Hydrological Processes
Water Balance Calculations
Modelling of Ground Water
Salinity Modelling
Water Pollutants
Water Quality
Effects of Climate Variability
Aquatic Ecosystems
Marine Ecosystems
Fresh Water Ecosystems
Biological Systems
Agricultural Modelling
Population Dynamics
	


Landscape Ecology
Terrain Analysis
Meteorological Modelling
Earth System Modelling
Climatic Modelling
Ecosystem Management
Natural Resource Management
Terrestrial Ecosystems
Resource Management
Risk Analysis
Forecasting
Economic Revitalization

Applied Simulation in the Energy Sector
Power Systems Modelling
Modelling of Energy Sources
Power Plants Modelling
Turbine Modelling
Transmission Line Modelling
Transient Analysis
Stability Studies
Harmonics Modelling
Power Quality Analysis
Fault Simulation
Power Network Simulation
Energy Demand Modelling
Energy Economics
Electricity Market Modelling

Biomechanics Modelling
Biotechnology
Biomedical Modelling
Medical Robotics
Medical Computer Modelling
Medical Instruments
Patient Simulators
Surgical Simulators
Surgical Training
Surgical Modelling
Simulators for General Anesthesia
Image-guided Surgery
Cardiovascular Modelling
Arterial Wall Mechanics
Respiratory Mechanics
Artificial Heart and Valves
Orthopedic Modelling
Joint Modelling
Limb Modelling
CT Scanning
Dental Modelling
Muscular Modelling
Modelling of Sports Injuries
Medical Imaging
Tele-medicine
Medical Education
Medical Vision
Virtual Reality
Human Animation
Health Care Modelling

June 15 - 17, 2005, Espoo, Finland. Item #3458
AKRR'05 International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

Specific symposium and workshop topics in the conference are:

    * Knowledge Representation of Biological Information
    * Adaptive Models of Knowledge, Language and Cognition
    * Emergent Models of Language for Speech Processing and
      Machine Translation
    * Adaptive Representations in Agents and Embodied Systems

We invite novel high-quality papers that are related to the conference
themes including but not limited to:

    * contextuality in statistical analysis and reasoning
    * Bayesian models of learning and reasoning
    * dynamical systems models of knowledge
    * spatial representations of knowledge
    * analyses of the limitations of logic-based
      representations and reasoning

    * highly contextual reasoning based on
      very high-dimensional representations
    * continuous formal systems
    * pattern-based reasoning
    * unsupervised and reinforcement learning models for
      knowledge acquisition and representation
    * emergent representations based on
      independent component analysis (ICA) and self-organizing maps (SOM)

    * emergence of symbolic representations
    * cognitive models of perceptually grounded reasoning processes
    * knowledge representation and reasoning in
      non-stationary environments
    * explicit and implicit knowledge
    * internal and external representations

    * models of temporal processes and reasoning
    * subjective and intersubjective representation of time
    * knowledge representation and reasoning in the brain

    * non-symbolic ontologies and adaptive knowledge representation
      for the web
    * adaptive, dynamical and probabilistic representations of social
      and societal structures and processes
    * adaptive knowledge representation of industrial processes
    * probabilistic and pattern-based reasoning on financial and
      economical phenomena
    * emergent and evolutionary representations for creative and design
      processes

June 15-18, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #3460
INISTA 2005 International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications.

The topics for the Symposium include but are not limited to innovations in theory and applications of Intelligent Systems covering Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, Evolutionary Computing, Expert Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Machine Learning, Smart Electronic Systems as applied to the following key areas:

. Smart Buildings / Houses
. Intelligent Training Systems
. Intelligent Control Systems
. Smart Sensors and Materials
. Military Systems / Security
. Computer Aided Education
. Biomedical Applications
. Hardware Implementations
. Image Processing
. Human-Computer Interaction
. Signal Processing
. Chaos and Fractals
. Speech / Natural Language Processing
. Clustering / Classification
. Computer Vision
. Optimization
. Pattern Recognition
. Intelligent Approaches in Robotic and Automation
. System Identification and Modelling
. Estimation / Prediction
. Remote Sensing
. Data Mining and Intelligence Databases
. Other related topics

June 16-18, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. Item #3466
6th WSEAS International Conference on Neural Networks.

    *

      Mathematical foundation of Neural Networks (NN)
    *

      Learning Theory, Supervised and Unsupervised learning
    *

      Architectures of NN
    *

      Clustering
    *

      Hybrid and Knowledge Based Networks
    *

      Algorithms of NN
    *

      Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
    *

      Neural Networks training via Genetic Algorithms
    *

      Evolutionary Computing for NN
    *

      Universal Approximators' problems and formalism
    *

      Neurodynamics and Attractor Networks
    *

      Software based of NN concepts
    *

      Digital Implementation of NN (FPGA, DSP, ASIC, etc...)
    *

      Analog Implementation of NN (MOS, CMOS Tehcnologies, etc.)
    *

      Mixed Implementation of NN
    *

      Neurobiology and neurosciences
    *

      Prediction, Estimation and Statistics
    *

      Simulation with NN
    *

      Time series analysis
    *

      Non-linear Systems' study via NN
    *

      Complex Systems' and Very Large Scale Systems' study via NN
    *

      Neural Control
    *

      NN in Robotics and Mechatronics
    *

      NN applications in Signal Processing
    *

      NN applications in Patern Recognition
    *

      NN applications in Communications
    *

      NN applications in Networking
    *

      NN applications in Power Systems
    *

      NN applications in Production Systems
    *

      Biological, Environmental, Space Science, Health Science, Financial Science Applications of NN
    *

      NN applications in Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, Naval, Agricultural Engineering
    *

      Other Topics and Other Applications 

June 16-18, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. Item #3467
6th WSEAS International Conference on Fuzzy Systems.

   TOPICS:

    *

      Mathematical foundation of Fuzzy Logic
    *

      Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Sets
    *

      Fuzzy Algebra, Fuzzy Analysis, Fuzzy Geometry
    *

      Fuzzy Differential Equation
    *

      Interval Analysis
    *

      Fuzzy Optimization
    *

      Fuzzy Algorithms
    *

      Fuzziness and Probabilities
    *

      Fuzziness and Statistics
    *

      Fuzzy Control
    *

      Fuzzy Languages
    *

      Fuzzy Automata
    *

      Fuzzy Information Theory
    *

      Fuzzy Expert systems
    *

      Fuzzy Operational Research
    *

      Fuzzy database mining
    *

      Forecasting and information retrieval
    *

      Fuzzy Internet Computing
    *

      Fuzzy Discrete Event Systems
    *

      Neural-Fuzzy Systems
    *

      Fuzzy Genetic Algorithms
    *

      Takagi-Sugeno Methodologies
    *

      Universal Approximators' Theory
    *

      Hybrid and Fuzzy Knowledge Based Networks
    *

      Software Engineering for Fuzzy Systems
    *

      Prediction, Estimation and Statistics
    *

      Simulation
    *

      Time series analysis
    *

      Non-linear Systems' study via Takagi-Sugeno Methodologies and other Fuzzy Techniques
    *

      Complex Systems' and Very Large Scale Systems' study
    *

      Fuzzy Systems in Robotics and Mechatronics
    *

      Fuzzy Systems  applications in Signal Processing
    *

      Fuzzy Systems  applications in Patern Recognition
    *

      Fuzzy Systems  applications in Communications
    *

      Fuzzy Systems  applications in Networking
    *

      Fuzzy Systems  applications in Power Systems
    *

      Fuzzy Systems  applications in Production Systems
    *

      Biological, Environmental, Space Science, Health Science, Financial Science Applications of Fuzzy Systems
    *

      Fuzzy Systems  applications in Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, Naval, Agricultural Engineering
    *

      Other Topics and Other Applications 

June 16-18, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. Item #3468
6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION.

  TOPICS:

    *

      Mathematical foundation of Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing (EC)
    *

      Evolution Strategies
    *

      Eolutionary Programming,
    *

      Propabilistic and Statistical problems in EC
    *

      Simulation
    *

      Coevolution and collective behavior
    *

      Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms
    *

      Evolvable hardware
    *

      Fuzzy Evolutionary Methods
    *

      Neural Networks' training via GA
    *

      Neuro-Fuzzy-Evolutionary Systems
    *

      Ant colonies
    *

      Immune systems
    *

      Molecular computing
    *

      DNA computing
    *

      Particle swarm and differential evolution
    *

      Clustering
    *

      Hybrid and Knowledge Based Networks' study via EC
    *

      Software based of EC concepts
    *

      EC in Neurobiology and neurosciences
    *

      Prediction, Estimation and Statistics via EC
    *

      Simulation with EC
    *

      Time series analysis with EC
    *

      Non-linear Systems' study via EC
    *

      Complex Systems' and Very Large Scale Systems' study via EC
    *

      EC Control (Genetic Control)
    *

      EC in Robotics and Mechatronics
    *

      EC applications in Signal Processing
    *

      EC applications in Patern Recognition
    *

      EC applications in Communications
    *

      EC applications in Networking
    *

      EC applications in Power Systems
    *

      ECapplications in Production Systems
    *

      Biological, Environmental, Space Science, Health Science, Financial Science Applications of EC
    *

      EC applications in Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, Naval, Agricultural Engineering
    *

      Other Topics and Other Applications 

June 18-25, 2005, Venice, Italy. Item #3552
3rd European Neuro-IT and Neuroengineering School – Neuroengineering of Cognitive Functions –.

Topics
The topics for tutorials and lectures will include:
• Sensory integration – multimodal interaction – attention – awareness
• Sensorimotor interaction – action planning – decision making
• Learning – memory – development
• Neuroprosthetics – brain-machine interfaces
• Biologically inspired robots – evolutionary approaches – architectures

June 18-22, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA. Item #3555
NEURON 2005 Summer Course.

June 19 - 22, 2005, Kissimmee, Florida. Item #3429
ICSSD 2005 Third International Conference on Structural Stability and Dynamics.

June 20 - 22, 2005, Malta. Item #3353
CMEM 2005 - Twelfth International Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements.

> Computer interaction and control of experiments
> Data acquisition and processing
> Direct, indirect and in-situ measurements
> Computational and analytical methods
> Structural and stress analysis
> Damage mechanics
> Life cycle engineering
> Dynamics and vibrations
> Fluid flow
> Biomedical applications
> Thermal processes
> Electrical and electromagnetic applications
> Computer imaging

June 20, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA. Item #3482
IEEE OTCBVS'05 - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum.

 In conjunction with IEEE Conference 
  on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2005.

 The topics of interest include: 
 (1) Automatic Object Detection and Tracking; 
 (2) Object Recognition and Classification; 
 (3) Pose Estimation and Tracking; 
 (4) Vision and Radar Fusion; 
 (5) Combining Visible and non-Visible Signals; 
 (6) Face Recognition in non-visible spectrum; 
 (7) Smart Systems/Sensors 
 (8) Automotive, Medical and Military Applications.
  

June 20, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA. Item #3606
IEEE OTCBVS'05 - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum.

June 21, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA. Item #3540
Second International Workshop on Real-Time 3-D Sensors and Their Use In conjunction with CVPR 2005.

*    Technological advances in the design and construction of 3D sensors. 
*    Algorithmic aspects of obtaining the 3D data. 
*    Analysis of sensing techniques towards improving the recovered depth and range maps. 
*    Data structures and algorithms for representing, processing, combining, and using 3D and 4D (space + time) data. 
*    Applications that employ real-time operation of a 3D sensor for non-trivial tasks such as metrology, tracking, recognition, etc. 
*    Analysis of the sensing techniques dealing with "challenging" materials such as glossy/specular and transparent surfaces, or non-reflective surfaces. 
*    Methodologies for evaluation and comparison of sensors based on different operating principles.

June 21, 2005, San Diego, CA (in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2005). Item #3550
IEEE Workshop on Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (V4HCI).

June 24-27, 2005, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Item #3568
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 9th Annual Meeting.

June 25, 2005, San Diego, CA. Item #3485
Advanced 3D Imaging for Safety and Security (part of CVPR05).

 *	3D biometrics and face recognition
 *	3D surveillance and identification technologies=20
 *	3D safety inspection
 *	3D site modeling and verification of plant design=20
 *	3D inspection and facility monitoring
 *	3D robotic planning for physical security analysis and public safety
 *	3D imaging for rail, bus, and aircraft safety
 *	3D imaging for emergency response=20

June 25-29, 2005, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3523
Theory of Representations Workshop @ GECCO 2005.

June 25-29, 2005, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3561
GECCO-2005.

June 25-29, 2005, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3598
MEDGEC 2005 Workshop on Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation at GECCO-2005.

Medical imaging
Medical signal processing
Clinical diagnosis and therapy
Data mining medical data and records
Clinical expert systems
Modelling and simulation of medical processes

June 26 - July 16, 2005, Telluride, Colorado. Item #3521
Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop.

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
    * multichip communication
    * analog VLSI
    * learning
    * neuroprosthethic decives and systems

June 26-29, 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Item #3604
LICS 2005Twentieth Annual IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.

June 27-30, 2005, Bertinoro, Italy. Item #3459
COLT The Eighteenth Annual Conference on Learning Theory.

* Analysis of learning algorithms and their generalization ability
* Computational complexity of learning
* Bayesian analysis
* Statistical mechanics of learning systems
* Optimization procedures for learning
* Inductive inference
* Boolean function learning
* Inductive logic programming
* Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning
* On-line learning and relative loss bounds
* Learning in planning and control (including reinforcement learning)
* Mathematical analysis of learning in related fields (e.g. game
  theory, neuroscience)

June 27-30, 2005, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #3463
Swarm Intelligence a special session of IC-AI.

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

    * Models of the behavior of social insects or other animal
societies that can stimulate new algorithmic approaches.
    * Empirical and theoretical research in Ant Colony Optimization
(ACO)
    * Swarm robotics
    * Emergent Coordination (coordination without coordinators)
    * Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
    * Swarm-inspired routing algorithms
    * Application of swarm intelligence to real-world problems
    * Multiagent Systems (MAS) inspired from swarma behavior
    * Security systems based on swarm behavior
    * Self-organized applications to Computer Science inspired from
social animals
    * Self-organization and Swarm Intelligence in business
applications

June 27-30, 2005, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #3563
ICAI'05 - The 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

          o  Intelligent information systems
          o Intelligent software engineering
          o Intelligent agents
          o Intelligent networks
          o Intelligent databases
          o Intelligent user interface
          o Brain models / Congnitive science
          o Evolutionary algorithms
          o Swarm intelligence
          o Computational Intelligence for Business Intelligence
          o Intelligent Tutoring systems
          o Intelligent data mining and farming
          o Intelligent web-based business
          o Reasoning strategies
          o Automated problem solving
          o Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
          o Distributed AI systems and architectures
          o Expert systems
          o Decision support systems
          o Fuzzy logic
          o Genetic algorithms
          o Heuristic searching
          o Knowledge acquisition
          o Knowledge discovery
          o Knowledge representation
          o Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
          o Knowledge networks and management
          o Social intelligence (markets & computational societies)
          o Languages and programming techniques for AI
          o Software tools for AI
          o Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
          o Natural language processing
          o Neural networks and applications
          o Intelligent information fusion
          o Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
          o Search and meta-heuristics
          o Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
          o Integration of AI with other technologies
          o Evaluation of AI tools
          o Social impact of AI
          o Emerging technologies
          o Applications (including: computer vision, signal processing, military, surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern recognition, face recognition, finger print recognition, finance and marketing, stock market, education, emerging applications,...) 

June 27-30, 2005, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Item #3586
2nd Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Business Intelligence at The 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Methods (include but are not limited to):
- artificial neural networks (all paradigms)
- fuzzy, evolutionary & hybrid methods
- support vector machines (all paradigms)
- particle swarms
- artificial immune systems
- etc.

Applications (include but are not limited to):
- business forecasting & demand planning
- time series prediction 
- knowledge discovery in databases
- data mining (temporal & structural)
   - regression
   - classification
   - association
   - clustering / segmentation
- Optimization

June 28 - 30, 2005, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. Item #3406
SMCia/05 IEEE Mid-Summer Workshop on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications.

June 29, 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Item #3553
Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing at ACL 2005.

- Novel methods for discovering or inducing features, such as mining
  the web for closed classes, useful for indicator features.

- Comparative studies of different feature selection algorithms for
  NLP tasks.

- Interactive tools that help researchers to identify ambiguous cases
  that could be disambiguated by the addition of features.

- Error analysis of various aspects of feature induction, selection,
  representation.

- Issues with representation, e.g., strategies for handling
  hierarchical representations, including decomposing to atomic
  features or by employing statistical relational learning.

- Techniques used in fields outside NLP that prove useful in NLP.

- The impact of feature selection and feature design on such practical
  considerations as training time, experimental design, domain
  independence, and evaluation.

- Analysis of feature engineering and its interaction with specific
  machine learning methods commonly used in NLP.

- Combining classifiers that employ diverse types of features.

- Studies of methods for defining a feature set, for example by
  iteratively expanding a base feature set.

- Issues with representing and combining real-valued and categorical
  features for NLP tasks.

June 29 - 30, 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Item #3554
Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition - Workshop at ACL 2005.

* Models that employ statistical/probabilistic grammars;
* Formal learning theoretic and grammar induction models that
  incorporate psychologically plausible constraints;
* Models that employ language models from corpus linguistics;
* Models that address the question of learning bias in terms of
  innate linguistic knowledge versus domain general strategies
* Models that can acquire natural language word-order;
* Hybrid models that cross established paradigms;
* Models that directly make use of or can be used to evaluate
  existing linguistic or developmental theories in a computational
  framework (e.g. the principles & parameters framework, Optimality
  Theory, or Construction Grammar);
* Models that combine parsing and learning;
* Models that have a cross-linguistic or bilingual perspective;
* Empirical models that make use of child-directed corpora;
* Comparative surveys, across multiple paradigms, that critique
  previously published studies;

July 1-10, 2005, Okinawa, Japan. Item #3547
Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course.

July 2 - 17, 2005, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Item #3603
ICCL Summer School 2005 LOGIC-BASED KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION.

July 3 - 8, 2005, Singapore. Item #3355
ICMAT2005 - 3rd International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies and ICAM 2005 - 9th International Conference on Advanced Materials.

July 3 - 8, 2005, Singapore. Item #3500
International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT2005) & International Union of Materials Research Societies' International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM2005).

July 4-8, 2005, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #3410
16th IFAC World Congress.

The Congress will be a good opportunity for new results and directions of
Automatic Control theory, technology and applications. 

As such, it mainly will concentrate on the following key points:
* Emphasis on invited lectures including plenaries, surveys and tutorials 
* Industry participation promotion 
* Attract young people to study and work in the field 

July 4-6, 2005, Palermo, Italy. Item #3438
CAMP05 Computer Architecture for Machine Perception.

CAMP  2005  is  the  seventh in a series of workshops initiated
with  CAMP91  in  Paris.  The  CAMP   workshops   represent   a
continuation  of  the  very  successful  IEEE  CAPAMI (Computer
Architectures for Pattern Analysis  and  Machine  Intelligence)
workshops  held  during  the  1970's and 1980's. The purpose of
CAMP Workshops is to bring together  researchers  who  seek  to
improve the performance of machine perception systems through a
combination  of  specialised  hardware  and  software.  It will
provide a forum  of  discussion  of  new  developments,  latest
results,  innovations,  emerging technologies and new paradigms
in design, construction, deployment and evaluation  of  machine
perception  systems. The past six IEEE CAMP Workshops have been
very successful in meeting this goal.

July 4 - 6, 2005, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Item #3516
Post-Cognitivist Psychology.

July 4 - 8, 2005, Porto, Portugal. Item #3543
Summer School on Neural Networks in Classification, Regression and Data Mining.

The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University (FEUP).

This year's edition, NN2005, includes a special WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects.

July 5-8, 2005, Paris, France. Item #3600
CONTEXT'05 The Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context.

Artificial Intelligence         Cognitive Science
Computer Science                Linguistics
Organizational Sciences         Philosophy
Psychology                      Ubiquitous Computing
  Application areas such as Medicine and Law

July 6 - 8, 2005, Aveiro, Portugal. Item #3440
DSL-2005 - 1st International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids.

July 6 - 8, 2005, London, UK. Item #3577
MAGIC SYMPOSIUM: Strategies to analyze visualize and understand large datasets as a part of IV05.

"MAGIC" was defined by Ben Shneiderman  at IV4 conference last year as
...

M: Marking, selection and annotation that is essential for large
datasets

A: Aggregates & summaries: automatically generated, interactively tuned

G: Graphics & Text; combinations of text and graphics e.g. use of "+" or
"-" symbols in Windows Explorer used to reveal and hide
sub-folders/hierarchies 

I: Use of Information Linguistic Summaries

C: Coordinated views: provision of multiple, coordinated (synchronised)
views within a data analysis, presentation and/or exploration
environment.

July 6 - 8, 2005, Brisbane, Australia. Item #3584
IDEAL'05 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning.

Broad technical areas include, but are not limited to:

     * Learning and Information Processing
     * Data Mining
     * Bioinformatics
     * Agents
     * Financial Engineering

July 7 - 10, 2005, Cambridge, USA. Item #3528
IPSI-2005.

* Internet
* Computer Science and Engineering
* Mobile Communications/Computing for Science and Business
* Management and Business Administration
* Education
* e-Medicine
* e-Oriented Bio Engineering/Science and Molecular Engineering/Science
* Environmental Protection
* e-Economy
* e-Law
* Technology Based Art and Art to Inspire Technology Developments
* Internet Psychology

July 10-13, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #3444
9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

July 11-16, 2005, Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece. Item #3448
CSCC 2005 The 9th World Congress on CIRCUITS-SYSTEMS-COMMUNICATIONS-and-COMPUTERS.

9th WSEAS Int.Conf. on CIRCUITS   (July 11-13, 2005) 
              http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2005/greece/icc/index.html
9th WSEAS Int.Conf. on SYSTEMS   (July 11-13, 2005) 
              http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2005/greece/ics/index.html
9th WSEAS Int.Conf. on COMMUNICATIONS  (July 14-16, 2005) 
              http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2005/greece/iccom/index.html
9th WSEAS Int.Conf. on COMPUTERS   (July 14-16, 2005) 
              http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2005/greece/iccomp/index.html

July 11-29, 2005, University of California, Los Angeles. Item #3622
Graduate Summer School: Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High Dimensional Data.

Week 1: High-dimensional data, relational data and kernel methods.
Week 2: Image analysis and machine learning.
Week 3: Streaming data and networks.

July 12 - August 5, 2005, Beijing, China. Item #3457
Santa Fe Institute's 2005 Complex Systems Summer Schools.

July 13, 2005, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Item #3593
Summer School: Neural Network Models of Perception, Action and Embodied Knowledge.

July 14-17, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #3576
ISAS 2005 The 11th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis and CITSA 2005 The 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications.

July 17-21, 2005, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Item #3480
CNS*2005 Fourteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting.

Submissions can include experimental, model-based, as well as more
abstract theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological
computation.  We especially encourage research that mixes experimental
and theoretical studies.
 We also accept papers that describe new technical approaches to theoretical
and experimental issues in computational neuroscience or relevant software
packages.

July 18-22, 2005, Barcelona, Spain. Item #3522
Special Session on Cognitive Models of Survey Research at EASR.

Models like that by Tourangeau, Rips and Rasinski (2000) and 
others suggest that people do not have a readily available 
response in their memory but that they "sample" believes from 
memory on the basis of which they create a judgment which is 
next expressed in a response.  Many of these models assume 
that a response to a survey question is created in four steps:
1.	Comprehension of the question
2.	Retrieval of information
3.	Deriving a judgment
4.	Formulating a response
Others emphasize the unconscious aspects of this process 
(e.g. Lodge & McGraw 1995) or focus on the interactivity of 
the first and last stage (e.g. Maynard, Schaeffer, Houtkoop 
and Van der Zouwen 2002). 

July 18-22, 2005, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Item #3605
AIED 2005 - 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

July 20-23, 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Item #3434
ISIPTA '05 4th International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications.

- models of coherent imprecise assessments
- convex sets of probability measures (credal sets)
- interval-valued probabilities
- upper and lower expectations or previsions
- non-additive set functions, and in particular Choquet capacities (and
Choquet integration), fuzzy measures, possibility measures, belief and
plausibility measures
- random sets
- rough sets
- comparative probability orderings
- qualitative reasoning about uncertainty
- imprecision in utilities and expected utilities
- limit laws for imprecise probabilities
- physical models of imprecise probability
- philosophical foundations for imprecise probabilities
- psychological models for imprecision and indeterminacy in probability
assessments
- elicitation techniques for imprecise probabilities
- robust statistics
- probabilistic bounding analysis
- data mining with imprecise probabilities/missing data
- estimation and learning of imprecise probability models
- decision making with imprecise probabilities
- ambiguity aversion and economic models of imprecise probability
- uncertainty in financial markets
- algorithms for manipulating imprecise probabilities
- Dempster-Shafer theory
- information algebras and probabilistic argumentation systems
- probabilistic logic, propositional and first-order
- credal networks and other graphical models
- credal classification
- applications in statistics, economics, finance, management,
engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence, psychology,
philosophy and related fields


Workshop on Financial Risk Assessment
-------------------------------------
There will be a workshop addendum to the conference, to be held on July
24, with invited speakers on the topic
of financial risk assessment, to which all of the ISIPTA'05
participants are welcome, at no additional registration cost. Details
will be announced later.

July 20 - 22, 2005, Singapore. Item #3490
CIVR Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
     * HCI issues in image/video retrieval
     * Affective/Emotional interaction or interfaces
     * Information-seeking behavior of users
     * Evaluation of image/video retrieval systems
     * Database architectures for retrieval
     * Novel data management systems
     * High performance indexing algorithms
     * Interaction with medical image databases
     * Satellite imagery analysis and retrieval
     * Query models, paradigms, and languages
     * Advanced descriptors and similarity measures
     * Content analysis and understanding
     * Image/video summarization and visualization
     * Content-based indexing, search and, retrieval
     * Semantic-based retrieval
     * Human perception-based retrieval
     * Learning and relevance feedback in retrieval
     * Search and browsing on the Web

July 21-26, 2005, Salt Lake City, USA. Item #3378
CINC 2005 - The 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing.

Topics:

Ant Colony Optimization
Artificial Immune Systems
Artificial Life
Bioinformatics
Conectionist Models
DNA Computing
Evolutionary Programming
Evolutionary Strategies
Genetic Algorithms
Genetic Programming
Intelligent Agents
Learning & Memory
Particle Swarm Optimization
Memetic Algorithms
Neurodynamics
Neural Networks
Swarm Intelligence

July 23 - 27, 2005, Aberdeen, Scotland. Item #3592
AIME 05 - 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

 Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Refinement, Validation and Maintenance
Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Decision Support Systems, Neural Networks, Belief Networks, and Statistical Models
Uncertain, Temporal, and Case-Based Reasoning
Planning and Scheduling
Protocols and Guidelines
Natural Language Generation and Understanding
Medical Computer Vision, Imaging and Signal Interpretation
Intelligent Agents
Information Retrieval
Telemedicine and Cooperative Systems
Cognitive Modelling

July 24-27, 2005, Austin, Texas, USA. Item #3559
CCCT '05 - 3rd. International Conference on Computing, Communication and Control Technologies.

July 24, 2005, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Item #3591
IDAMAP 2005: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY AT AIME 05.

- data mining techniques, including machine learning, clustering,
  neural networks, etc.,
- other techniques for construction of predictive models,
- data visualization,
- analysis of large data sets,
- relational data mining,
- interpretation of time-ordered data (derivation and revision of
  temporal trends and other forms of temporal data abstraction),
- knowledge representation,
- knowledge management and its integration with intelligent data
  analysis techniques,
- utility of background knowledge in data analysis,
- integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within
  biomedical information systems.

July 24 - 29, 2005, Plymouth, UK. Item #3621
3rd Summer School on Pattern Recognition.

- Bayesian Pattern Recognition
- Non-parametric Pattern Recognition
- Unsupervised Pattern Recognition and Visualisation
- Classification and Optimisation
- Statistical and Fuzzy Methods

July 25 - 26, 2005, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Item #3520
LAMAS Workshop on Learning and Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems at AAMAS 2005.

July 26-29, 2005, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #3447
UAI-2005 - 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

We encourage submissions that report on theoretical or methodological
advances in representation, automated reasoning, learning, decision
making and knowledge acquisition under uncertainty. Submissions
reporting on other work relevant to uncertainty within intelligent
systems are also welcome, as are submissions that report on
intelligent systems in which uncertainty plays a key role.

July 27 - August 1, 2005, Loreto Aprutino, Italy. Item #3529
IPSI-2005.

* Internet
* Computer Science and Engineering
* Mobile Communications/Computing for Science and Business
* Management and Business Administration
* Education
* e-Medicine
* e-Oriented Bio Engineering/Science and Molecular Engineering/Science
* Environmental Protection
* e-Economy
* e-Law
* Technology Based Art and Art to Inspire Technology Developments
* Internet Psychology

July 28-31, 2005, Beijing China. Item #3374
IFSA2005 World Congress.

¡¤        Mathematical Foundations of Fuzzy Set Theory 
¡¤        Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning 
¡¤        Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Soft Computing 
¡¤        Fuzzy Control, Robots and Intelligent Techniques 
¡¤        Expert Systems and Computational Intelligence 
¡¤        Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 
¡¤        Rough Sets and Evidence Theory 
¡¤        Uncertainty in Decision Sciences and Optimization 
¡¤        Signal/Image Processing and Pattern Recognition 
¡¤        Fuzzy Databases and Information Retrieval 
¡¤        Hybrid Systems 

esJuly 28 - 29, 2005, University of Glasgow, UK. Item #3489
AMR 2005 - 3rd International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval.

- Multimedia retrieval systems (for text, image, audio, video and mixed-media) 
- Theoretical foundations of multimedia retrieval and mining 
- Intelligent multimedia data modelling, indexing and structure extraction 
- Adaptive Hypermedia and web based systems 
- Metadata for multimedia retrieval 
- Multimedia and multi-modal mining 
- Semantic content analysis for multimedia 
- Semantic web and ontologies 
- Adaptive query languages 
- Similarity measures (especially user adaptive measures) 
- User and preference modelling (including feedback models) 
- Methods for adaptive data visualisation and user interfaces 

July 30 - August 5, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #3443
IJCAI-05 Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

July 30 - August 1, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #3486
IJCAI-05 Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling.

Topics of Interest

The scope of the workshop is intentionally broad and addresses all aspects of 
understanding, modelling, computational handling, and application of preferences.
In particular, we welcome original contributions to these areas and contributions 
that provide cross-fertilization between these fields.

   * preference elicitation
      * interactive preference elicitation
      * preference elicitation in multi-agent systems 
      * preference elicitation with incentive-compatibility
      * learning of preferences
      * preference mining
      * revision of preferences
      * measures of preference accuracy
   * preference representation / modelling:
      * linear and non-linear utility representations 
      * multiple criteria/attributes
      * qualitative decision theory
      * graphical models
      * logical representations
      * soft constraints
      * relations between qualitative and quantitative approaches
   * properties and semantics of preferences
      * preference composition, merging, and aggregation 
      * incomplete or inconsistent preferences 
      * intransitive indifference 
      * reasoning about preferences 
      * preference and choice 
   * algorithms for preference handling
   * applications of preferences to
      * decision making (sorting, ranking, choice)
      * problem solving (search, optimization, explanation)
      * data-base querying and repair
      * AI planning, action and causality
      * non-monotonic reasoning, logic programming, belief revision 
      * web search
      * human-computer interaction 
      * personalization
      * recommendation systems and other e-commerce applications 
   * preference management and repositories 
   * comparison of approaches, cross-fertilization

July 30 - August 1, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Item #3493
Modeling Natural Action Selection (at IJCAI 2005).

This multidisciplinary workshop is dedicated to advancing our
understanding of the behavioral patterns and neural substrates
supporting action selection in animals --- including humans.  Examples
of interesting topics include:
   o  The variation of action selection strategies across species.
   o  The variation of strategies within species across individual,
      social or environmental contexts.
   o  Cognitive, neural and embodied models of decision making.

July 30 - August 1, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #3497
NeSy'05 Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at IJCAI-05.

July 31 - August 4, 2005, Montreal, Canada. Item #3380
IJCNN'05 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.

·       Perception and motor function:  vision and& image processing, auditory and& speech processing, pattern recognition,…

·       Cognitive function: learning and memory; conditioning, reward and behavior, mental disorders, attention and & consciousness, language, emotion and motivation,…

·       Computational neuroscience: models of neurons, systems neurobiology, spiking neurons,…

·       Informatics: neuro- and bio- informatics; brain models,…

·       Hardware: neuromorphic hardware; embedded NNs, reconfigurable systems,…

·       Neurodynamics: recurrent netsnets, chaotic systems, K sets theory,…

·       Methods of Aadaptation and learningdecision making: reinforcement learning, approximate dynamic programming,; advanced learning methods and optimization, self-organizing systems,; probabilistic and information-theoretic methods,; support vector machines,; intelligent agents,; fuzzy neural systems and evolutionary computation; artificial immune systems,…

·       Applications: signal processing, control, diagnostics, robotics, telecom, biomedical, financial, security, othe…r...

 

 

July 31 - August 4, 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Item #3426
Special Session "Computational Neuro-Genetic Modelling" at IJCNN.

Topics include: 
Genes and growth functions; Genes and gene regulatory networks
related to the brain; Genes and gene regulatory networks related to
the brain development, evolution and plasticity; Genes and gene
networks related to learning, memory and perception; Genes and gene
networks related to brain diseases, such as, epilepsy, mental
retardation, schizophrenia, etc; Functional integration of neural
networks and gene networks to model brain functions; Models of spiking
neurons and spiking neural networks with gene-defined parameters;
Evolving and evolutionary neural networks; Software and hardware
computational neurogenetic systems; Brain-like neurogenetic
architectures; Applications.

July 31 - August 4, 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Item #3439
Special Session "Constructive/Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps" at IJCNN 2005.

Topics include but are not restricted to:
* Hierarchical SOM
* Constructive SOM
* Self-evolving architectures
* Evolving and Evolutionary Self-Organizing Maps,
* Incorporating Access Methods on Self-Orgainzing Maps
* Techniques to find an appropriate SOM architecture
* Similarity Information Retrieval
* Bayesian Approaches

August 1-26, 2005, Municipality of Arcachon, France. Item #3479
Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (an IBRO/FENS Neuroscience School).

August 1, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland. Item #3609
The Sixth Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change at IJCAI-05.

August 4, 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Item #3619
Workshop on Achieving Functional Integration of Diverse Neural Models - Part of IJCNN 2005.

August 5, 2005, Montreal, Canada. Item #3574
BIMH2005 Biologically-Inspired Models and Hardware for Human-like Intelligent Functions - a Post-IJCNN2005 Workshop.

Topics include, but are not limited to,
•	Models of auditory pathway 
•	Models of visual pathway
•	Models of cognition, learning, and inference
•	Models of attention, emotion, and consciousness
•	Models of autonomous behavior
•	Hardware implementation of bio-inspired models
•	Engineering applications of bio-inspired models 

August 5, 2005, Hilton Montreal Bonaventure Hotel, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Item #3614
Post-IJCNN2005 workshop on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE APPROACHES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BIOINFORMATICS DATA.

Scope & Topics
Bioinformatics is a fast growing scientific area aimed at managing,
analyzing and interpreting information from biological data, sequences
and structures. In the past few years, many Computational Intelligence
approaches have been successfully applied to the solution of complex
problems typical of this field, including signal and image processing,
clustering, feature selection, data visualization, and data mining.

August 5, 2005, Montreal, Canada. Item #3618
Verification, Validation and Certification of Neuro-Adaptive Controllers in Safety-Related Areas.

A Workshop in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Neural 
Networks 2005

August 7, 2005, Bonn, Germany. Item #3525
Workshop on Rich Representations for Reinforcement Learning at ICML'05.

Some example topics/issues that could be addressed include:

     * New algorithms for exploiting rich representations to the
       fullest. When is it possible to design algorithms for rich
       representations by reduction to traditional techniques?

     * When and how does reinforcement learning benefit from rich
       representations? Specific real-world successes and failures are
       of particular interest.

     * What is the influence of rich representations on the
       (re-)usability of reinforcement learning results, or transfer
       learning (for example through goal parameterization)?

     * Should the introduction of rich representations in reinforcement
       learning be accompanied by different learning goals (such as
       policy-optimality) to keep the learning problems feasible?

     * How should we evaluate new algorithms for rich representations?
       Specific benchmarks that exhibit the weaknesses and benefits of
       various representational features are of particular interest.

     * How can RL benefit from/contribute to existing models and
       techniques used for (decision-theoretic) planning and agents
       that already use richer representations, but lack learning?

August 7, 2005, Bonn, Germany. Item #3549
AAIP Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming workshop at ICML 2005.

August 7-11, 2005, Bonn, Germany. Item #3562
ICML 2005 The 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning.

ICML 2005 invites submissions on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of machine learning research, including applications, techniques, theories, and connections to related fields of inquiry. ICML especially encourages submissions that report on

1. novel and challenging applications and the lessons drawn for the
field of machine learning,

2. exploratory research that describes novel learning tasks and
goes beyond the current paradigms,

3. interdisciplinary research results, in which machine learning
plays a central role. 

August 7-11, 2005, Bonn, Germany. Item #3567
Learning in Web Search at ICML 2005.

* identifying named-entities, and keywords from minimal examples;
* learning mappings between query words and document words
  for question answering;
* identifying per-site boilerplate and template;
* distributing indexes and routing queries in a peer to peer
  search engine;
* optimising query ranking formula using clickthrough data;
* the language modelling approach to web retrieval;
* personalisation of search;
* text summarization and results summarization or clustering;
* information extraction from text for semantic indexing and
  automatic knowledge markup;
* domain specific clustering and categorization, useful in
  domain specific search engines lacking good ontologies; and
* semi-automatic support in ontology development and
  maintenance (ontology learning, evolution)

August 9 - 11, 2005, Beijing, PR China. Item #3608
ICQR 2005 The Fourth International Conference on Quality and Reliability.

Best Practices in Achieving Performance Excellence
Knowledge Management
Six Sigma, Design For Six Sigma
Customer Relationship Management
Service Quality
Quality in Education, Health Care, and the Public Sector
Design for Quality and Reliability
Quality Engineering
Calibration, Inspection, Testing and Measurement
Quality Management Systems and Sector Specific Standards
Environmental Systems, Occupational Safety & Health Systems
Integrated Management Systems
Product Safety, Product Liability, Risk Management & Assessment
Physical Asset Management: RCM, TPM, CBM.
Maintenance Decision Analysis
Applications for FMECA , FTA and FRACAS
Maintenance modeling and maintenance optimization
Methods in reliability analysis
Analysis for reliability data
Software reliability
Case study on Quality & Reliability
Reliability modeling
Network Reliability
Warranty analysis
Human reliability
Analysis for testability
Analysis for life cycle cost of products
Reliability optimization
Fault diagnosis
Logistic support analysis

August 11, 2005, Bonn, Germany. Item #3548
Learning and Extending Lexical Ontologies by Using Machine Learning Methods Workshop at ICML 2005.

   * Ontology induction from large corpora
   * Candidate generation and classification for ontology extension
   * Derivation of ontology relations
   * Knowledge discovery (from databases, semi-structured data, text,
     multimedia) in ontology learning (extension/evolution) and/or
     ontology mapping (merging/integration)
   * Ontology domain adaptation

August 15, 2005, Tuebingen, Germany. Item #3655
Symposium on Empirical Inference.

August 16-18, 2005, Las Vegas, USA. Item #3504
ICSEng05 - Eighteenth International Conference on Systems Engineering.

Scope of Conference:
The Conference will cover the general area of Systems Engineering, with
particular emphasis being placed on applications. It is expected to
include sessions on the following themes:
Avionics
Computer Algorithms, Databases, Parallel and Distributed Systems,
Networks
Digital systems, architecture
Control Theory, System Identification and Adaptive Control, Nonlinear
Controls
Data Fusion
Engineered Systems for Nuclear Waste Management
Environmental Systems and Energy Systems
Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Finance Engineering
Geographic Information Systems
Global Position Systems
Information Theory and Communication Systems
Neural Network and Applications
Requirements Processes
Risk Management
Robotics and Industrial Automation
Systems Engineering Metrics
Systems Engineering Paradigms, Standards and Challenges
System Architecture
Standards and Testing
Signal ProcessingScope of Conference:
The Conference will cover the general area of Systems Engineering, with
particular emphasis being placed on applications. It is expected to
include sessions on the following themes:
Avionics
Computer Algorithms, Databases, Parallel and Distributed Systems,
Networks
Digital systems, architecture
Control Theory, System Identification and Adaptive Control, Nonlinear
Controls
Data Fusion
Engineered Systems for Nuclear Waste Management
Environmental Systems and Energy Systems
Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Finance Engineering
Geographic Information Systems
Global Position Systems
Information Theory and Communication Systems
Neural Network and Applications
Requirements Processes
Risk Management
Robotics and Industrial Automation
Systems Engineering Metrics
Systems Engineering Paradigms, Standards and Challenges
System Architecture
Standards and Testing
Signal Processing
Systems Engineering Education
Transportation Systems

Systems Engineering Education
Transportation Systems

August 16-18, 2005, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Item #3517
ICCIMA'05 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications.

Conference Topics Include (but not limited to):
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Neural Networks
Pattern Recognition
Fuzzy Systems
Genetic Algorithms
Hybrid Systems
Intelligent Control
Intelligent Databases
Knowledge-based Engineering
Learning Algorithms
Memory, Storage and Retrieval
Multimedia Systems
Formal Models for Multimedia
Interactive Multimedia
Multimedia and Virtual Reality
Multimedia and Telecommunications
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Multimedia and Security
Multimedia Hardware
Multimedia and Algorithms

August 20-22, 2005, Corfu Island, Greece. Item #3469
3rd IASME / WSEAS International Conference on HEAT TRANSFER, THERMAL ENGINEERING and ENVIRONMENT.

August 20-22, 2005, Corfu Island, Greece. Item #3470
3rd IASME / WSEAS International Conference on FLUID MECHANICS and AERODYNAMICS and ENVIRONMENT.

August 21-24, 2005, Chicago, IL, USA. Item #3541
KDD-2005 The Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

August 22 - 25, 2005, Bath, UK. Item #3483
ICAPR 2005 - 3rd International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition.

The third international conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition
 will showcase the latest research in the area of pattern recognition and
 machine learning. The focus will be on new and emerging techniques in
 pattern recognition and machine learning. The conference has three
 specific goals: (a) The description and discussion of new techniques
 that will make a step change in the area; (b) The use of unconventional
 and often off-the-mainstream techniques to solve complex tasks; and (c)
 A theoretical understanding of how the nature of data impacts upon known
 techniques, their limitations, and comparison to each other. The
 conference will focus on both applied work as well as theoretical
 advances. It is however theoretical contribution that will underpin
 research and will be emphasised in the review process. 
 

August 22-26, 2005, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Item #3620
EDINBURGH SUMMER SCHOOL IN NEUROINFORMATICS SIMULATION TOOLS.

August 24 - 26, 2005, Lille, France. Item #3531
EANN05 - Nineth International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks.

We remind you that a selection of the best papers will be published in a
Special Issue of the International Journal "Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence" (IFAC and Elsevier journal).

August 24, 2005, Chicago, IL, USA. Item #3580
Textual Case-Based Reasoning Workshop at ICCBR05.

August 27 - 29, 2005, Changsha, China. Item #3503
ICNC'05 - 2005 International Conference on Natural Computation and FSKD'05 - International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery.

The 2005 International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC¡¯05)
and the 2005 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge
Discovery (FSKD¡¯05) will be jointly held in Changsha, China from
27 - 29 August 2005. The conferences will feature the most up-to-date
research results in computational algorithms inspired from nature,
including biological, ecological, and physical systems. It is an
exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of
techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large,
complex, and dynamic problems. Specific areas include neural
computation, evolutionary computation, quantum computation, DNA
computation, chemical computation, information processing in cells and
tissues, molecular computation, computation with words, fuzzy
computation, granular computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, ants colony, artificial immune systems, etc., with applications to
knowledge discovery, finance, operations research, and more. The joint
conferences will also promote cross-fertilization over these exciting
and yet closely-related areas.

August 29-31, 2005, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Item #3496
HM 2005 Hybrid Metaheuristics.

The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited, to:

- novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics,
- hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques,
- low-level hybridization,
- high-level hybridization, portfolio techniques, expert systems,
- co-operative search,
- taxonomy, terminology, classification of hybrid metaheuristics,
- co-evolution techniques,
- automated parameter tuning,
- empirical and statistical comparison,
- theoretical aspects of hybridization,
- parallelization,
- software libraries. 

August 30 - September 2, 2005, Rome, Italy. Item #3310
AICC 05 The Eighth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.

 The range of topics considered by the Conference will include:
Professional Issues for Engineering Computer Users - Misuse of Computers - Data
Management and Retrieval Systems - Software Standards, Quality Assurance and
Benchmarking - Model Verification and Validation - Uncertainty - Human Computer
Interaction - Data Acquisition and Control Systems - Structural Engineering
including steel, bridge, composite, reinforced concrete and masonry structures -
Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering - Structural Integrity - Formfinding,
Topology and Structural Morphology - Space, Tension and Shell Structures -
Soil-Structure Interaction (static and dynamic) - Buckling and Stability -
Linear and Non-linear Dynamics - Analysis of Semi-rigid Connections -
Environmental Engineering - CAD (including steel, concrete, masonry and
composite) - Transport and Highways Engineering - Geotechnical Analysis and
Design - Foundation Engineering - Dam Engineering - Slope Design - Ground
Vibration - Construction Automation and Robotics - Construction Management -
Project Management - Management Systems - Civil Engineering Surveying - Civil
Engineering Management - Lifetime Costs - Productivity - Quality Assessment -
Optimisation

A list of computing technology that may be described with respect to the above
domains includes: Integrated Design Systems - Information Technology - Parallel
and Distributed Processing - Supercomputing - Heterogenous Computing -
Simulation - Computer Aided Design - Graphics and Design - Safety Analysis -
Product Modelling - Optimization - Information Systems - Virtual Reality - World
Wide Web Applications - Visualisation - Simulations and Modeling - Decision
Support Systems - New Algorithms - Computational Technology - Genetic Algorithms
- Neural Networks - Decision Support Systems - Product Modelling - Design
Integration - Grid Computing - Mathematical Software - OOP - Adaptive Methods.

August 30 - September 1, 2005, York, UK. Item #3401
IPCAT 2005 Information Processing in Cells and Tissues.

August 30 - September 1, 2005, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Item #3542
Recent Advances in Nonlinear Mechanics.

We are aiming for around 150 participants and the conference will run
three symposia on Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Materials. Each symposium
will have two plenary and four invited lectures.

(i) Plenary speakers: Philip Holmes, Princeton; Patrick Huerre, Palaiseau;
Tom Mullin, Manchester; Ray Ogden, Glasgow; Manuel Velarde (Madrid); John
Willis, Cambridge

(ii) Invited speakers: Alan Champneys, Bristol; Chris Budd, Bath; Alan
Cocks, Leicester; Michael Davies, Dundee; Bruno Eckhardt, Marburg; Jens
Eggers, Bristol; Giles Hunt, Bath; Stefano Lenci, Ancona; Paul Manneville,
Palaiseau; Collin McInnes, Strathclyde; Giuseppe Rega, Rome; Jason Reese,
Strathclyde; Gabor Stepan, Budapest

September 1-3, 2005, Regina, Canada. Item #3513
RSFDGrC 2005 The Tenth International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing.

Approximate reasoning and reasoning under uncertainty

Bioinformatic and medical applications

Computational intelligence and machine intelligence

Decision support systems and expert systems

Evolutionary computing and adaptive systems

Fuzzy set theory and applications

Granular computing theory and applications

Human-computer interaction and multimedia

Industrial and environmental applications

Information retrieval and data warehouses

Intelligent agent and web technologies

Knowledge discovery and data mining

Knowledge representation and visualization

Layered learning and hierarchical learning

Machine learning and statistical analysis

Monitoring, security, and rescue techniques

Multi-agent systems and distributed systems

Multi-criteria and group decision-making

Non-standard logics and relational systems

Pattern recognition and image processing

Petri nets and concurrency

Rough set theory and applications

Signal processing and speech recognition

Spatial reasoning and temporal reasoning

September 2-5, 2005, Edinburgh, UK. Item #3583
CEC2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

September 5 - 7, 2005, Loughborough, UK. Item #3391
IMA International conference on The Mathematics of Surfaces XI.

September 5 - 9, 2005, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK. Item #3514
ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life.

 Artificial Life seeks to understand, extract, use and abuse the organisational principles and information processing of natural living systems. Interdisciplinary by nature, it involves researchers in Computer Science, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, etc. The 8th European Conference on Artificial Life, to be held in Canterbury, England, in 2005, wishes to gather all these communities to present the latest advances, through a technical track, and discuss the main directions for the future, through a conceptual track

September 5-8, 2005, Paris, France. Item #3573
WSOM-05 Workshop on the Self-Organizing Maps.

September 5 - 9, 2005, Canterbury, Kent, UK. Item #3582
Workshop on Memory and Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Robots co-located with ECAL 2005.

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

 mechanisms for memory and learning
 neural plasticity
 neuromodulation
 spiking neural networks
 gas-net
 homeostatic networks
 representational / non-representational memory
 evolution of short / long term memory
 evolution of learning mechanisms
 reinforcement learning in non-Markovian environment
 forward model / cerebellar network

September 7 - 9, 2005, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, PORTUGAL. Item #3431
ICSC-nanoSMat 2005 International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials.

September 7-9, 2005, Benidorm, Spain. Item #3499
VIIP 2005 The 5th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing.

September 7 - 9, 2005, Ballycastle, North Ireland. Item #3524
The 16th Irish conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS05).

Areas of interest include but are not restricted to: case-based reasoning, cognitive modelling, constraint processing, machine learning, data mining, evolutionary computation, intelligent agents, intelligent information retrieval, knowledge representation & reasoning, game-playing, game AI, natural language processing, autonomic computing, neural networks, perception and planning & scheduling.

September 7-9, 2005, Barcelona, Spain. Item #3588
EUSFLAT'2005 - 4th International Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology.

    * Mathematical Foundations of Fuzzy Set Theory
    * Fuzzy Mathematics
    * Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning
    * Fuzzy Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Soft Computing
    * Fuzzy Control, Robots and Intelligent Techniques
    * Fuzzy Expert Systems and Computational Intelligence
    * Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    * Rough Sets and Evidence Theory
    * Uncertainty in Decision Sciences and Optimization
    * Fuzzy Pattern Recognition and Signal/Image Processing
    * Fuzzy Databases and Information Retrieval
    * Hybrid Systems
    * Bioinformatics
    * Web mining and Computing with words
    * Fuzzy Logic in Economics
    * Fuzzy Supported Vector Machine
    * Real World Applications 

September 7-9, 2005, Barcelona, Spain. Item #3589
Special Session on Neural, Neuro-Fuzzy and Statistical Learning Techniques at EUSFLAT'2005.

September 7-10, 2005, Ancona, Italy. Item #3590
2nd European Conference on Mobile Robots.

- Keynote speech
"Distributed Multi-robot Exploration and Mapping" by Dieter Fox, Department
of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, USA.

September 8-10, 2005, Madrid, Spain. Item #3445
IDA 2005 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis.

Our aim for IDA-2005 is to bring together a wide variety of
researchers - academic, industrial, and otherwise In IDA-2005 conference we propose an interesting agenda of social
events that include several tutorial tracks, open panel discussions,
and keynote talks, all based on the following topics of interest:

Algorithms and Techniques (Machine Learning, Data Mining, Statistics,
...):
- Artificial neural networks 
- Bayesian networks 
- Heuristic methods
- Optimization problems
- Case-based reasoning 
- Computational models of human learning
- Computational learning theory
- Cooperative learning 
- Unsupervised learning
- Decision and induction 
- Evolutionary computation 
- Grammatical inference 
- Incremental and on-line learning
- Information retrieval and learning 
- Knowledge acquisition and learning 
- Data pre- and post-processing
- Data visualisation 
- Statistical pattern recognition and analysis
- Performance and optimization

Theoretical Contributions (Data Analysis Principles, KDD, Data
Modeling,...):
- Data Mining theories
- Information retrieval restrictions
- Legal data analysis restrictions
- Innovative data analysis (models, information types, and objectives)
- Theoretical IDA issues
- New paradigms

Application Fields (Practical, Applied and Industrial Data Analysis):
- Bio-informatics and bio-surveillance
- Web analysis
- Medical applications
- Industrial data analysis
- Commerce and finance information analysis
- Government, legal analysis (socio-economic data, legal issues)

September 8-10, 2005, Wroklaw, Poland. Item #3597
ISDA Intelligent Systems Design and Applications.

    *  Applications in Bioinformatics
    * Architectures of intelligent systems
    * Image, Speech and signal processing
    * Internet modeling
    * Data mining
    * Fuzzy modeling and control
    * Business and management applications
    * Control and Automation
    * Software agents
    * Knowledge management
    * Special topics

September 11-14, 2005, Warsaw, Poland. Item #3384
ICANN 2005 The 15th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.

Applications of computational intelligence methods;
Computational neuroscience;
Connectionist cognitive science; 
Data analysis and pattern recognition; 
Hardware implementations;
Neural and hybrid models and algorithms;
Robotics, control, planning;
Signal and time series processing;
Self-organization; 
Vision and image processing. 

September 11-14, 2005, Tokyo, Japan. Item #3558
UbiComp 2005 The Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing.

September 11-14, 2005, Koblenz, Germany. Item #3566
KI 2005 - 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

* 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
* Neural Networks
* Planning and Scheduling
* Ontologies
* Reasoning under Uncertainty
* Robotics
* Semantic Web
* Soft Computing
* Temporal and Spatial Reasoning 
* Vision

KI 2005 will be held  together with MATES 2005 (www.mates2005.de)  and
co-located with Tableaux 2005 (tableaux2005.uni-koblenz.de).

September 11-15, 2005, Warsaw, Poland. Item #3572
ICANN 2005 special workshop on Neuroinformatics.

September 12-16, 2005, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC. Item #3435
SYMPOSIUM ON INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA IN MEMS at World Tribology Conference III.

· Reliability aspects
· Micro-discharge and trapped charges
· Contact- and tribo-electrification
· Contact electromechanics
· Adhesion and stiction
· Friction and wear
· SAMs and surface texturing and modifications
· Test microdevices
· Surface and interface characterization

September 14-17, 2005, Barcelona, Spain. Item #3399
ICINCO 2005 International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics.

Main topic areas: 
1. Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization 
2. Robotics and Automation 
3. Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control 

AREA 1: INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND OPTIMIZATION 
 Decision support systems
 Distributed control systems
 Expert systems for industry
 Intelligent fault detection and identification
 Knowledge-based systems applications
 Machine learning in control applications
 Hybrid learning systems
 Mechatronic systems
 Neural networks based control systems
 Optimization algorithms
 Software agents for intelligent control systems
 Soft computing
 Fuzzy control
 Genetic algorithms
 Evolutionary computation and control 

AREA 2: ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION 
 Robot design, development and control
 Human-robots interfaces 
 Network robotics 
 Mobile robots and autonomous systems 
 Human augmentation and shared control 
 Space and underwater robots 
 Intelligent transportation technologies and systems 
 Vehicle control applications 
 Telerobotics and Teleoperation 
 Industrial networks and automation 
 Intelligent warehouses 
 Modeling, simulation and architectures 
 Vision, recognition and reconstruction 
 Virtual Reality 
 Image processing 
 Surveillance 
 Control and supervision systems 
 Web-based control 
 Autonomous agents 
 Petri nets (system design/verification with nets, protocols and networks) 

AREA 3: SIGNAL PROCESSING, SYSTEMS MODELING AND CONTROL 
 Speech recognition
 Signal reconstruction
 Computer and microprocessor-based control
 Hierarchical control 
 Instrumentation networks and software 
 Field-buses 
 Real-time systems control 
 Environmental monitoring and control
 Time series and system modeling 
 Time-frequency analysis 
 Feature extraction 
 Information-based models for control 
 Discrete event systems 
 Hybrid dynamical systems 
 System identification 
 Adaptive signal processing and control 
 Nonlinear signals and systems 
 Optimization problems in signal processing 
 Change detection problems

September 14 - 16, 2005, Melbourne City, Australia. Item #3417
KES'2005 Ninth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems.

September 14-17, 2005, Koblenz, Germany. Item #3599
TABLEAUX 2005 Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods.

    * analytic tableaux for various logics (theory and applications)
    * related techniques and concepts, e.g., model checking and BDDs
    * related methods (model elimination, sequent calculi, 
      connection method,...)
    * new calculi and methods for theorem proving in classical and 
      non-classical logics (modal, description, intuitionistic, linear, 
      temporal,...)
    * systems, tools, implementations and applications.

September 14 - 16, 2005, Melbourne, Australia. Item #3602
Session on Natural Language Processing and Text Mining in Medicine at KES 2005.

- Anaphora resolution
- Automatic ontology construction
- Benchmark datasets
- Clinical vocabularies, Domain models and Ontologies
- Discourse analysis
- Evaluation and Metrics
- Information/entity/noun-phrase extraction
- Knowledge Representation
- Machine translation
- Novelty/outlier detection
- Preprocessing (e.g. Tokenization, Stemming)
- Quality and Robustness of methods
- Querying and Question answering
- Scalable/Parallel Methods
- Semantic parsing
- Sentiment analysis
- Text Classification/Clustering/Categorization
- Text summarization and generation
- Topic detection and tracking
- Word sense disambiguation

September 15-17, 2005, Malta. Item #3471
ISCGAV '05 - 5th WSEAS International Conference on Signal Processing, Computational Geometry & Artificial Vision.

September 15-17, 2005, Malta. Item #3472
ISTASC '05 - 5th WSEAS / IASME International Conference on SYSTEMS THEORY and SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION.

September 15-17, 2005, Crema, Italy. Item #3615
CIBB 2005 Second International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistic.

CIBB 2005 addresses a cutting edge area of application of Neural Networks,
Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Computation methods.
Technical areas include, but are not limited to:
- Data and methods for prognosis
- Data and methods for diagnosis
- Integration of clinical and genetic data
- Proteomics
- Pharmacogenetic

September 15-17, 2005, Crema, Milan, Italy. Item #3616
WILF 2005 Sixth International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications.

Topics:

1. General techniques and algorithms:
Fuzzy Sets; Rough Sets;  Possibility Theory; Fuzzy Logic; Fuzzy Systems; Neuro-Fuzzy Systems; Representation of Vague and Imprecise Knowledge; Fuzzy Evolutionary Algorithms; Fuzzy Pattern Recognition; Fuzzy Data Fusion.

2. Applications:
Bioinformatics; Broadcasting; Control; Communications; Information Retrieval; Intelligent Resource Management; Knowledge Management; Medical; Opto-mechatronics; Remote Sensing; Robotics; Semantic Web; Speech Analysis; Television; Telepresence; Virtual Reality.

3. Implementations:
Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems; Architectures and VLSI Hardware; Programmable Processors; Commercial Software.

Two special sessions on "Soft Computing in Image Processing" and "Bioinformatics" are planned.

September 16-17, 2005, Toruñ, Poland. Item #3564
BIT 2005 Workshop on Applications of Statistical and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics.

September 19-22, 2005, Compiegne University of Technology, Compiegne, France. Item #3488
WI-IAT'05 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology.

September 19-23, 2005, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA. Item #3495
Interactivist Summer Institute 2005.

Join us in exploring the frontiers of understanding of life, mind, and 
cognition. There is a growing recognition - across many disciplines - 
that phenomena of life and mind, including cognition and 
representation, are emergents of far-from-equilibrium, interactive, 
autonomous systems. Mind and biology, mind and agent, are being 
re-united. The classical treatment of cognition and representation 
within a formalist framework of encodingist assumptions is widely 
recognized as a fruitless maze of blind alleys. From neurobiology to 
robotics, from cognitive science to philosophy of mind and language, 
dynamic and interactive alternatives are being explored. Dynamic 
systems approaches and autonomous agent research join in the effort.

The interactivist model offers a theoretical approach to matters of 
life and mind, ranging from evolutionary- and neuro-biology - including 
the emergence of biological function - through representation, 
perception, motivation, memory, learning and development, emotions, 
consciousness, language, rationality, sociality, personality and 
psychopathology. This work has developed interfaces with studies of 
central nervous system functioning, the ontology of process, autonomous 
agents, philosophy of science, and all areas of psychology, philosophy, 
and cognitive science that address the person.

September 19-22, 2005, Compiegne University of Technology, Compiegne, France. Item #3515
IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2005.

The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05) will be jointly held with the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence.  High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited.

September 19-21, 2005, Vienna, Austria. Item #3594
FroCoS 2005 - 5th International Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems.

 * combination of logics (e.g., modal logics, logics in AI,...);
 * combination of decision procedures, of satisfiability procedures,
   and of constraint solving techniques (e.g. unification and matching
   algorithms, general symbolic constraints, numerical constraints);  
 * combinations and modularity in term rewriting; 
 * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems
   (e.g. theory resolution, constraint resolution, constraint
   paramodulation,...);  
 * combination of deduction systems and computer algebra; 
 * integration of data structures (e.g., sets, multisets, lists) into 
   CLP formalisms and deduction processes;  
 * model/problem analysis and decomposition (e.g. isolating tractable
   or loosely connected sub-problems, global constraints design, etc.)
 * hybrid methods for deduction, resolution and constraint propagation
   (e.g., combinations of local and global, complete and propagation
   techniques) 
 * hybrid systems in computational linguistics, knowledge
   representation, natural language semantics, and human computer
   interaction;   
 * logical modelling of multi-agent systems;
 * logical aspects of combining and modularizing programs and
   specifications. 

September 20-22, 2005, Compiegne, France. Item #3507
2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05).

         IEEE/WIC/ACM  WEB INTELLIGENCE 2005

                  CALL FOR PAPERS

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2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM  International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05)

September 19-22, 2005 
Compiegne University of Technology, France

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ 
http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/

Sponsored By 
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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 - Paper submission due: April 3, 2005
 - Submission websites: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ 
                        http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/
 - Electronic submissions are required in the form of PDF or PS files
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Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for
scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles
as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) 
(e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and 
data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and
advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks,
ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on 
the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and
activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT
research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence.

The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI'05) will be jointly held with the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/, http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05).  
The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2005 joint conferences are sponsored and organized by
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational
Intelligence (TCCI) (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/tcci/index.shtml), 
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org), and
ACM-SIGART (http://www.acm.org/sigart/).

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Topics
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The topics and areas include, but not limited to:

WI Topics

* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) 

  Distributed Resources Optimization
  Goal-Directed Services Support
  Information and Knowledge Markets
  Knowledge Community Formation and Support
  Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
  New Social Interaction Paradigms
  Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
  Regularities and Laws of W4
  Search of Best Means and Ends
  Service Self-Aggregation
  Social and Psychological Contexts
  Web Inference Engine

* Social Networks and Social Intelligence

  Entertainment
  Knowledge Community Formation and Support
  Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
  Intelligent Wireless Web
  Social Networks Mining
  Theories of Small-World Web
  Ubiquitous Computing
  Ubiquitous Learning Systems
  Virtual and Web Communities
  Web-Based Cooperative Work
  Web Site Clustering

* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence

  Brokering and Scheduling
  Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
  Middleware Architectures and Tools
  On-Demand Planning and Routing
  Semantic Grids

* Web Mining and Farming

  Context Sensitive Web Mining
  E-Mail Classification
  Data Warehousing 
  Learning User Profiles
  Multimedia Data Mining 
  Mining Data Streams
  Text Mining 
  Web Farming and Warehousing
  Web Content Mining 
  Web Information Clustering
  Web Information Indexing
  Web Log and Usage Mining
  Web Page Clustering and Mining
  Web Site Classification

* Semantics and Ontology Engineering

  Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
  Ontology-Based Web Mining
  Web-Based Ontology Learning 
  Semantic Web

* Web Agents

  Agent Networks and Topologies
  Coordination
  Distributed Problem Solving
  Global Information Foraging
  Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
  Mobile Agents
  Remembrance Agents 
  Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms 
  Self-Organization and Reproduction
  Trust Models for Web Agents 

* Web Services

  Matchmaking
  Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
  Service-Oriented Computing
  Web Service Reconfiguration
  Web Service Workflow Composition
  Grid Services

* Web Information Filtering and Retrieval

  Automatic Cataloging and Indexing 
  Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
  Collaborative Filtering
  Digital Library
  Distributed Web Search
  Hybrid Recommendation
  Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations
  Proxy and Cache Techniques
  Search Engines and Meta-search Engines
  Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
  Web Crawling Systems
  Web Information Categorization and Ranking
  Web Prediction and Prefetching

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction

  Adaptive Web Interfaces
  Context-Aware Computing
  Learning User Profiles 
  Multimedia Representation
  Personalized Interfaces
  Personalized Web Sites
  Social and Psychological Issues 
  Visualization of Information and Knowledge

* Web Support Systems 

  Information Retrieval Support Systems
  Web Site Navigation Support Systems
  Recommender Support Systems
  Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, 
       evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular
       computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI 
  Web-Based Decision Support Systems 

* Intelligent e-Technology

  Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
  Business Intelligence 
  Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
  E-Business and E-Commerce 
  E-Community 
  E-Finance
  E-Government 
  E-Learning
  E-Publishing 
  E-Science 
  E-Service
  Intelligent Enterprise Portals
  Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
  Web-Based EDI 
  Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers:  ** April 3, 2005 ** 
    Notification of paper acceptance:     June 9, 2005 
     Workshop and tutorial proposals:     June 9, 2005 
     Camera-ready of accepted papers:     July 4, 2005 
                 Workshops/Tutorials:     September 19, 2005 
                          Conference:     September 20-22, 2005 

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and
supportive review.  All submitted papers will be reviewed on the
basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Note that WI'05 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions.

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press.

WI'05 also welcomes Industry Track and Demo submissions, Workshop and
Tutorial proposals.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the WI'05 homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ 
or http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05.

A selected number of WI'05 accepted papers will be expanded and
revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems:
An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html)
and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
(http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html)

The best paper awards will be conferred on the authors of
the best papers at the conference.

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Conference Organization
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Conference Chairs: 
  Pierre Morizet, University of Technology of Compiegne, France 
  Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 

Program Chair: 
  Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland 

Steering Committee Chair:
  Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan 

WI-Track Program Co-chairs:
  Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA 
  Mike Luck, University of Southampton, UK 
  Takahira Yamaguchi, Shizuoka University, Japan 

IAT-Track Program Co-chairs:
  Jean-Paul Barthes, University of Technology of Compiegne, France 
  Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia 
  Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA 

WI-Track Program Vice Chairs:
  Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
  Joost Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands
  Steve Willmott, Universitat Politccnica de Catalunya, Spain
  Ubbo Visser, Universitat Bremen, Germany
  Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Grecia" of Catanzaro, Italy
  Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada
  W. Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California, USA
  Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
  Massimo Marchiori, MIT Lab for Computer Science, USA
  Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
  Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
  Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan
  Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 

IAT-Track Program Vice Chairs:
  Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland
  Amal El Fallah-Segrougchni, University of Paris 6, France
  Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugl
  Marek Sergot, Imperial College, UK
  Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
  Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  Liz Sonenberg, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Industry/Demo-Track Chairs:
  Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
  Toshiharu Sugawara, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan 

Workshop Chair:
  Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada 

Tutorial Chair: 
  Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen, NL 

Publicity Chairs:
  Jim Peters, University of Manitoba, Canada
  James Wang, Clemson University, USA

Organizing Chair:
  Francois Peccoud, University of Technology of Compiegne, France

Local Arrangement Chairs:
  Marie-Helene Abel, University of Technology of Compiegne, France
  Claude Moulin, University of Technology of Compiegne, France

September 22-24, 2005, Chalkida, Greece. Item #3611
IWSSIP'05 12th International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing.

1. Signal Processing: General techniques and algorithms. Adaptive DSP
algorithms; Filter  Bank Theory; Spectrum Estimation and Processing; 
Non-linear Systems; Digital Transforms; Multidimensional Signal Processing.
 
2. Technologies. Neural Networks; Fuzzy Systems; Expert Systems; Genetic Algorithms; Pattern Recognition; Data Fusion. 

3. Multimedia Content Processing: Speech Processing and Recognition,
Audio Enhancement, Restoration and Analysis, Image Representation 
and Modelling, Image Restoration and Enhancement; Colour Vision, 3D Vision, Image and Video Analysis; Pattern Recognition; Watermarking, New Media.
 
4. Multimedia Data Compression: Speech and Audio Compression, Image and Video Coding, Scalable Techniques, Standards. 

5. Multimedia Systems: Human Factors, Multimodal Interfaces, Networked
Multimedia, Seamless Audiovisual Networks, Multimedia Services; Multimedia Servers; Multimedia Streaming, Wireless and Mobile Multimedia, Universal Multimedia Access, Right Protection and Management. 

6. Metadata and Media Abstracts, Content Description, Audiovisual Databases.
 
7. Implementations. Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems for Audio,
Image and Video Processing; Architectures and VLSI Hardware; Programmable Signal Processors; Real-time Software. 

8. Applications: Bioinformatics; Broadcasting; Control; Communications; Digital Production; Medical; Opto-mechatronics; Remote Sensing; Robotics; Speech; Television; Telepresence; Virtual Reality.

September 25-27, 2005, Magdeburg, Germany. Item #3454
ITEE'2005 Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering.

September 25-30, 2005, Ilmenau, Germany. Item #3508
AMAM 2005 - 3rd International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines.

    * Visual Adaptation Mechanisms of Systems in Locomotion
    * Sensory-Motor Coordination in Locomotion
    * Neuro-Mechanics
    * Locomotion of Animals
    * Behaviour (Locomotion and Idiomotion) of Mammals, esp. Primates,
      esp. Humans and Humanoids
    * Embodied Intelligence in Locomotion
    * Non-linear Dynamics in Locomotion
    * Adaptive Mechanics
    * Modeling and Analysis of Motion
    * Prostheses, Ortheses and Rehabilitation
    * Evolution of Adaptive Motion (Phylogenesis)
    * Ontogenesis of Adaptive Motion (from Learning to De-learning,
      Development and Ageing)
    * Technical Development of Mechanism and Control for Adaptive Motion

September 25-27, 2005, Konstanz, Germany. Item #3585
CompLife '05 The 1st International Symposium on Computational Life Science.

 Molecular data analysis
 Systems biology
 Analysis of heterogenous information sources  Human Computer
Interaction  Computational proteomics  Integrative data analysis  Data
mining  Molecular simulation  Biological networks  Molecular
informatics  Data pipelining  Data visualization  Large scale chemical
computation  Data integration/semantics  Grid/web services  Computer
architectures in life sciences 
 
 This year's theme is "Crossing borders: computational life  science",
we therefore especially welcome submissions that  address the
potential of interdisciplinary work or successes  of such
collaborations.

September 26 - 28, 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Item #3596
PRIMA 2005 - 8th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents.

· Agent and Computer Games
· Biologically inspired multi-agent systems
· Conflict resolution and negotiation
· Languages & techniques for describing (multi-)agent systems
· Agent communication languages, dialog & interaction protocols
· Agent ontologies
· Agent programming languages, frameworks, and toolkits
meta-modelling and meta reasoning
· Multi-agent planning and learning
· Evaluation of multi-agent systems
· Multi-agent systems and their applications
· Multi-agent systems and evolving intelligence
· Agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets
· Agent architectures and their applications
· Agent cities
· Agents and grid computing
· Agents and peer computing
· Agents and semantic web
· Agents and web services
· Artificial social systems
· Social reasoning, agent modelling, organization
· Standards for agents and multi-agent systems
· Teams and coalitions
· Ubiquitous agents
· Trust, privacy and security issues in agent systems
· Agent-oriented software engineering

September 28 - October 1, 2005, Leiria, Portugal. Item #3491
VRAP 2005 - 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping.

1. CAD and 3D data acquisition technologies 
· Fast geometrical modelling schemes
· 3D digitising
· X-ray tomography
· Photogrammetry
· Image-based modelling systems
2. Materials
· Advanced rapid prototyping materials
     - ceramics
     - polymer liquid crystals
     - composites, etc.
· Biomaterials
3. Virtual environments
· Virtual engineering and manufacturing
· Virtual enterprise engineering
· Internet-based product development
· Rapid prototyping simulation and optimisation
· New methods for virtual prototyping
 
 
4. Advanced rapid prototyping technologies and nanofabrication
· Advances on material removal and addition otechnologies
· Research on new rapid prototyping otechnologies
· Micromachining
· Nanofabrication
5. Rapid tooling and manufacturing
· High speed machine technology
· Small batch production methods
· Systems for the direct manufacturing of metallic and ceramic components
6. Concurrent engineering
· Concurrent engineering in virtual environment
· Frameworks for information sharing
· Collaborative decision-making in concurrent engineering
· Concurrent design and manufacture
7. Human-machine interaction
 
8. Applications
· Model-making, tool-making and mould-making
· Automotive industry
· Medical technology
· Architecture and art, etc.

September 28-30, 2005, Mystic, Connecticut, USA. Item #3612
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.

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, biomedical 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.

October 3, 2005, Porto, Portugal. Item #3661
KDID 2005 - 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases.

* Models and theories of inductive databases
* Query languages for data mining
* Constraint-based data mining
* Local pattern detection
* Condensed representations of data and patterns
* Pattern languages and primitives for data mining
* Declarative bias formalisms in machine learning
* Database support, coupling and primitives for data mining
* Coupling data mining and database systems
* Integration of database languages (e.g., SQL, XML) with data mining
* Privacy issues in inductive databases
* Specific and application-oriented inductive databases

October 7-9, 2005, Kitakyushu, Japan. Item #3625
BrainIT2005.

    The second international conference, BrainIT 2005, will be held in 
Kitakyushu, Japan, on October 7-9, 2005, in order to establish the 
foundations of the Brain-Inspired Information Technology. All working at 
the frontiers of Brain Science to Information Technology including Robotics 
are invited to participate in the second international conference, BrainIT 
2005. At this conference, we will organize a special session on "Decision 
and Behavioral Choice Organized by Natural and Artificial Brain" in 
addition to invited papers from a wide range of fields from Brain Science 
to Information Technology.

October 8-11, 2005, Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore, Republic of Singapore. Item #3578
16th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory.

Topics: the design and analysis of learning algorithms, 
        computational models of machine learning, 
        specific algorithmic approaches,
        learning complex models,
        machine discovery, and applications of machine learning to other fields 

October 8-11, 2005, Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore, Republic of Singapore. Item #3579
8th International Conference on Discovery Science.

Topics:     *  Logic and philosophy of scientific discovery,
    * Knowledge discovery, machine learning and statistical methods,
    * Active knowledge discovery,
    * Text mining, named entity recognition, etc.
    * Information extraction from scientific literature,
    * Knowledge discovery from text and the web,
    * Knowledge discovery from unstructured and multimedia data,
    * Knowledge disvovery in network and link data,
    * Knowledge discovery in social networks,
    * Data and knowledge visualization,
    * Human-machine interaction for knowledge discovery and management,
    * Biomedical knowledge discovery, analysis of microarray and gene deletion data,
    * Applications of the above techniques to natural or social sciences.

October 10-12, 2005, Hawaii, USA. Item #3494
Special Session at IEEE SMC 2005 : Ensemble Methods for Extreme Environments.

Classifier ensemble methods, also called multiple classifier systems, is
one of the current hot topics in data mining and pattern recognition.

There is an increasing awareness that many of the most important
application areas for this technology involve extreme environments. An
application might be extreme because of the:
 -- large number of elements in the data set
 -- high dimensionality of the data
 -- attribute or label error in the training data
 -- extreme skew in class distribution of the data
 -- time-varying nature of the class distributions
 -- or some combination of these factors.

October 10-12, 2005, Hawaii, USA. Item #3526
IEEE SMC'05 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2005.

October 16, 2005, Beijing, China. Item #3607
IEEE Int. Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures in conjunction with ICCV-2005.

October 22-24, 2005, Waseda University, Fukuoka, Japan. Item #3680
INAP2005 - 16th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management.

    * Knowledge Management, e.g. Knowledge Modeling, Data Mining,
      Decision Support, Deductive Databases
    * Distributed Systems and the Web, e.g. Agents and Concurrent
      Engineering, Semantic Web
    * Constraints, e.g. Constraint Systems, Extensions of Constraint
      (Logic) Programming
    * Theoretical Foundations, e.g. Deductive Databases, Nonmonotonic
      Reasoning
    * Systems and Tools for academic and industrial use
    * Knowledge-based Web Services - Logic Solvers and Applications

October 24-25, 2005, Las Vegas, NV, USA. Item #3654
M2005 - 8th Annual Data Mining Technology Conference.

Session topics include:

Business Applications
New and Emerging Technologies in Data Mining 
Financial Services 
National Security
Fraud Detection
Data Mining in Healthcare

October 26-28, 2005, Nanjing, PR China. Item #3533
ICMEM2005 International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics.

Nine simultaneous tracks will be held, covering different aspects of 
Engineering Design, Mechatronics & Robotics, Applied Mechanics, Advanced
 Manufacturing Technology, MEMS, Vehicle Engineering, Industrial 
Engineering, Design Art and Mechanical Engineering Education.

October 27-29, 2005, Sofia, Bulgaria. Item #3664
MMACTEE'05 - 7th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering.

October 28 - November 6, 2005, Centre "Ettore Majorana" for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy. Item #3505
International School "Eduardo R. Caianiello" and Workshop of the PASCAL Network of Excellence: The Analysis of Patterns.

Automatic pattern analysis of data is a pillar of modern science,
technology and business, with deep roots in statistics, machine learning,
pattern recognition, theoretical computer science, and many other fields.
A unified conceptual understanding of this strategic field is of great
importance for researchers as well as for users of this technology.

October 31 - November 2, 2005, Cambridge, MA, USA. Item #3546
ISC 2005 The IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control.

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

Intelligent and Hybrid Control Systems
Control using Artificial Intelligence
Neural Network Control
Fuzzy Logic Control
Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control
Learning Algorithms
Planning Systems
Intelligent Control
Intelligent Agents
Multi-Agent Systems
Knowledge-based and Expert Systems

Adaptive and Robust Control 
Model Predictive Control
Feedback Control
Adaptive Control
Optimal Control
Advance Control Strategies
Robust Control
Real-Time Control
Multi-Variable Control
Reconfigurable Control

System Identification, Optimization and Automation
Identification
Estimation
Filtering
Forecasting
Linear Systems
Discrete Event Systems
Nonlinear Systems
Intelligent Analysis and Design
Industrial Automation
Stability
Fault Diagnosis

Intelligent Data Systems and Computing
Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition
Knowledge Representation
Information Modelling
Intelligent Decision Support Systems
Case-based Reasoning
Data Mining
Intelligent Databases and Information Retrieval
Intelligent System Architectures
Machine Learning
Soft Computing
Fusion
Distributed Parameter Systems
Modelling and Simulation
Control Software

Applications
Power Systems
Telecommunications
Signal and Image Processing
Web-based Applications
Robotics
Automotive and Transportation Systems
Aerospace
Mechatronics
Process Control
Manufacturing
Construction
Bio Systems
Biomedical Engineering
Environmental Systems
Oceanic Engineering
Management Science and Applications
Education
Entertainment / Games
Others


INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
To be announced

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Initial Papers
Submit your paper via our website at: 
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/submitPaper.asp?ConfID=497.
All submissions should be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Postscript (.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format. The IASTED Secretariat must receive your paper by June 1, 2005. Receipt of paper submission will be confirmed by email. 

Complete the online initial paper submission form designating an author who will attend the conference providing four key words to indicate the subject area of your paper. One of the key words must be taken from the list of topics provided under Scope. Initial paper submissions should be approximately six pages. Formatting instructions are available at: http://www.iasted.org/formatting-initial.htm.

Notification of acceptance will be sent via email by July 15, 2005. Final manuscripts are due by August 15, 2005. Registration and final payment are due by September 1, 2005. Late registration fees or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the conference proceedings. 

Final Papers
Send your final manuscripts via email to: finalpapers@iasted.org. The subject line for the final manuscript submission must include your six-digit paper number. The formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.iasted.org/formatting-final.htm and must be strictly followed. The page limit for final papers is six single-spaced pages in 10 point Times New Roman font. Only one paper of up to six pages is included in the regular registration fee. There will be an added charge for extra pages and additional papers.

TUTORIALS
Proposals for three-hour tutorials should be submitted online by June 1, 2005. Tutorials are to be submitted via the following website address:
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/tutorialsubmit.asp?confid=497. A tutorial proposal should clearly indicate the topic, background knowledge expected of the participants, objectives, time allocations for the major course topics, and the qualifications of the instructor(s).

SPECIAL SESSIONS
Persons wishing to organize a special session should submit a proposal via email to: calgary@iasted.org. Proposals should include a session title, a list of the topics covered, and the qualifications and brief biography of the session organizer(s). Papers submitted to the special session must be received by June 1, 2005, unless otherwise stipulated by the Special Session Organizer. A minimum of five papers must be registered and fully paid in order for this session to be included in the conference program. More information on special sessions is available at: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/sessionsubmit.asp?confid=497.

JOURNALS
Extended versions of papers published in the conference proceedings can also be considered for review for inclusion in one of the IASTED journals. Authors must submit the expanded version of their conference paper for peer review consideration to: http://www.actapress.com/journals/submission.htm following the standard procedure as described on the website: www.actapress.com. All papers considered for journal review must be of the highest quality and demonstrate a novel contribution to the literature. For further information, please email journals@actapress.com.

October 31 - November 2, 2005, Cambridge, USA. Item #3666
RA 2005 The IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications.

November 3-5, 2005, Limassol, Cyprus. Item #3565
3rd International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing (ISNM 2005).

November 5-7, 2005, Tozeur, Tunisia. Item #3570
International Conference on Machine Intelligence.

Interested attendees are encouraged to propose special sessions, which
consist of 5 papers that provide a focused discussion on a wide
variety of new, innovative, and emerging topics of interest to the
Machine Intelligence community including (see the website for a
detailed list):
* CI  : Computational Intelligence
* IC  : Intelligent Control
* IDA : Intelligent Data Analysis
* IPA : Intelligent Pattern Analysis
* ISA : Intelligent Systems Architectures 

November 6-9, 2005, St, Louis, Missouri, USA. Item #3551
ANNIE'05.

Critical Infrastructure

Home Land Security & Defense

Computational Intelligence and Nanotechnology

Computational Intelligence and Civil Engineering 

- Structural Engineering Applications
- Transportation Engineering Applications
- Decision Making Applications

Risk Engineering and Management

- Financial Engineering 
- Decision Making Applications 

Intentional Dynamic Systems

- Biological Foundations                 
- Theoretical Foundations  
- Hardware Implementations                                

Computational Intelligence Architectures

- Neurally-Based Network Architectures
- Learning Algorithms
- Optimization
- Adaptive and Collective Behavior
- Evolutionary Computation
- Fuzzy Logic Systems
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Evolvable Hardware 

System Engineering

- Swarm Optimization and DoDAF Architectures
- Evolutionary Acquisition and Architecture Generation
- Distributed System Modeling and Optimization
- Network Centric System Modeling and Optimization
- Complexity Theory and Emergent Behavior
- System Architecture Simulation

Data Mining

- Distributed Data Mining
- Knowledge Discovery

Pattern Recognition

- Pattern and Feature Identification 
- Temporal Pattern Identification

Control

Informatics

Smart Engineering Systems

- Manufacturing Engineering Applications
- Biomedical Engineering Applications
- General Engineering Applications
- Time Series Analysis
- Process Monitoring 

November 10-11, 2005, Washington, DC, USA. Item #3544
1st Annual Conference on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and NIMH Dynamical Neuroscience Satellite Symposium of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

* Featured Keynote Speakers:
        James L. McClelland, Carnegie Mellon University
        Daniel M. Wolpert, University College London

* Discussion-focused symposia on:
        *Decision Making*               *Developmental Disorders*
        *Category Learning*             *Episodic Memory*

November 11, 2005, Washington DC, USA. Item #3656
Fourth Computational Motor Control Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience conference.

November 11-12, 2005, Singapore. Item #3665
MIR05 - 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval.

  in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2005

November 14-18, 2005, Monterrey, Mexico. Item #3556
MICAI 2005 - 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

- Expert Systems / KBS
- Multiagent systems and Distributed AI
- Knowledge Management
- Intelligent Interfaces: Multimedia, Virtual Reality
- Natural Language Processing / Understanding
- Computer Vision
- Neural Networks
- Genetic Algorithms
- Fuzzy logic
- Belief Revision
- Machine Learning
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Data Mining
- Knowledge Acquisition
- Knowledge Representation
- Knowledge Verification, Sharing and Reuse
- Ontologies
- Qualitative Reasoning
- Model-Based Reasoning
- Constraint Programming
- Common Sense Reasoning
- Case-Based Reasoning
- Nonmonotonic Reasoning
- Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
- Robotics
- Planning and Scheduling
- Navigation
- Assembly
- Hybrid Intelligent Systems
- Logic Programming
- Automated Theorem Proving
- Intelligent Organizations
- Uncertainty / Probabilistic Reasoning
- Philosophical and Methodological Issues of AI

November 15-17, 2005, Miami, Florida, USA. Item #3473
ICECS '05 - 4th WSEAS International Conference on ELECTRONICS, CONTROL and SIGNAL PROCESSING.

 A' Symposium on Electronics
Fundamental Theory
Network Theory and Applications
Nanostructures and nanotechnologies
Molecular Electronics
Molecular Computing
DNA Computing
Circuits and Networks inspired from Biology
Metabolic Networks
Microelectronics
Microcircuits
Analog, Digital, Mixed-Mode Circuits
Electronics: Components, Devices, Systems
Silicon Devices: Technology, Modeling, Reliability
Optoelectronic Devices
Laser and Optical Systems
Thin Film Technologies
Very Large Scale Integration Systems (VLSI)
Hardware/Software CodesignVery Large Scale Integration Systems (VLSI)
Digital Filters
Highe Level Synthesis
Amplifiers
Nonlinear Circuits
Sensors
Physical Design
Time-Frequency and Wavelet Applications
Modelling and Simulation
CAD Tools
Circuits and Electronics for Data Conversion and S-D Modulation
Capacitor/Current Technoques
Prototype Devices and Measurement
Circuits and Systems for Control and Robotics
Electron Devices for Power Technology
High Voltages and Electric Machines
Device Physics
Physical Design
High-Level Synthesis and Testing
Non-Linear Circuits
Formal Verification
Semiconductors
Superconductivity Circuits
Computer-Aided Design
Instrumentation
Instrument-Computer Interface
Military Electronics
Electronics for Space exploration
Consumer Electronics
Circuits in Power Technology
Electron Devices for Video Technology
Circuits for Antennas Technology
Electron Devices and Systems for Radar and Sonar Systems
Circuit Models, Electrical and Electronic Measurement
Circuits for Industrial Applications
Circuit models for Electromagnetic Fields
Electronics for Signal Processing and other Applications
Neural Networks
Numerical Analysis and Circuits
Logic Synthesis
Fuzzy Logic and Circuits Design
Circuit Implementation for Fuzzy Systems
Multidimensional Circuits and Systems
System architecture
High availability systems
Supercomputing
Electronics for Video systems
Video technologies
VLSI
Microstrip circuits and components
Sensors and measuring techniques
Remote sensing
Information Networking
Data Storage
Circuit Modelling and Scientific Computing with Applications in Science and Engineering
Top of the Page


B' Symposium on Control
Circuits and Electronics for Control
Electrical and Electronic Measurement
Large Scale Systems
Hierarchical Control
Hybrid Systems
Digital Control
Fuzzy Systems and Fuzzy Control
Neural Networks and Neural Control
Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control
Intelligent Control
Non-linear Systems and Non-Linear Automatic Control
Sliding Mode Control
Differential Geometry methods in non-linear control
Adaptive Control
Robust Control
Optimal Control
Stochastic Control
Satellite Systems Control
Industrial Control
CAD/CAM systems
Manufacturing Systems Control
Man-Machine Interaction
Cybernetics
Chemical processes control
Multivariable Control
Multirate Control
Parallel and Distributed Systems
Decentralized Control
Real-time Control
Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics
Modeling
Simulation
Optimization Problems in Control Engineering
Decision Support Systems
Failure of Systems
Fault Tolerance
Diagnostics
Machine Learning, Knowledge Acquisition
Virtual Reality for Automation
Microprocessors
Embedded Systems
Geometric modeling and Fractals
Financial Aspects in Control Engineering
Control of Large Systems via Internet
Control Education
Automation in Biology
Automation in Medicine
Automation in Chemical Engineering
Machines and Mechanical Engineering
Control in Agriculture
Control in Business, Management and Economics
Control in Social Sciences
Applications in Astronomy (telescopes)
Signal Processing Systems for Control
Application in Underwater Systems and Oceanic Engineering
Unmanned Vehicles
Artificial Man
Philosophical Aspects of Control
Other Applications
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C' Symposium on Signal Processing
Filter design and structures
Fast algorithms
Adaptive filters
Nonlinear Signals and Systems
Multirate filtering and filter banks
Signal reconstruction
Time-frequency analysis
Spectral estimation
Higher order spectrum analysis
Parameter estimation
Detection
Array signal processing
Statistical signal analysis
Signal and system modeling
Cyclostationary signal analysis
Speech production and perception
Speech analysis
Speech synthesis
Speech coding
Speech recognition
Speech enhancement and noise reduction
Active noise control
Active noise reduction
Echo cancellation
Psychoacoustics
Broadband audio coding
Signal processing for music
Binaural systems
Room acoustics
Digital transforms
HDTV
Multidimensional systems
Machine vision
Image coding
Image motion / sequence / video
Computed imaging
Geophysical and seismic processing
Image analysis and segmentation
Image filtering, restoration and enhancement
Image representation and modeling
Pattern recognition
Neural networks
Fuzzy Systems
Evolutionary computation
Expert systems
Multisensor Data Fusion
Architectures and VLSI hardware
Programmable signal processors
Algorithms and applications mappings
Design methology and CAD tools
Languages and real time software
Real time system estimation
Optimization problems in signal processing
Radar, Sonar
Biomedical Signal Processing
Geophysical signal processing
Underwater signal processing
Remote sensing
Signal Processing for Robotics
Astronomy
Satellite signals processing
Measure and Instrumentation
Top of the Page 

November 15-17, 2005, Miami, Florida, USA. Item #3475
CIMMACS'05 WSEAS International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-machine Systems and Cybernetics.

A' COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Neural Networks: Foundation, supervised
and unsupervised learning, algorithms, implementation, neurobiology and
neurosciences, time series analysis, n.n. applications in all branches of
electrical engineering and computer science.  Neuro-Fuzzy Systems. Universal
Approximators. Fuzzy Systems: Fuzzy sets, Fuzzy geometry, Fuzzy mathematical
analysis, Fuzzy Differential Equations, Fuzzy Differential geometry, Fuzzy
Dynamical Systems, Fuzzy Probability Theory, Fuzzy Statistics, Fuzzy
optimization, Fuzzy Languages, Fuzzy Automata, Fuzzy Information theory, Fuzzy
Expert systems, Fuzzy Operational research, Fuzzy database mining, forecasting
and information retrieval, Fuzzy internet computing,Fuzzy discrete event
systems, Fuzziness in multimedia engineering, Computing with words. Fuzzy
Techniques in Evolutionary Computing. Takagi-Sugeno Models and
Generalizations. Universal Approximator Theory. Applications. Evolutionary
Computation: Mathematical foundations of Evolutionary Computation (EC),
evolution Strategies, evolutionary programming, statistical problems in EC,
simulation, coevolution and collective behavior, multiobjective evolutionary
algorithms, evolvable hardware, ant colonies, immune systems, molecular
computing, DNA computing, particle swarm and differential evolution,
applications, Neural-Fuzzy-Evolutionary Systems.

B' MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS and CYBERNETICS Simulation, Modeling and Control,
Prediction and Model Identification, Data Analysis, Signal Processing,
Prediction and 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, Distributed Systems,
Decision Making and Information Retrieval Case-Based Reasoning, Decision
Analysis, Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, Multi-criteria
Decision Making, Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Modelling.  Mathematical
Biology, Simulation in Information Retrieval and Management, Decision Analysis,
Fluid Mechanics, Simulation in Civil Engineering, Simulation in Economy,
Ecology, Biology, Finances, Stochastic differential equations, Probability
Theory and Applications, Stochastic Processes, Mathematical Statistics, Applied
Statistics, Prediction Theory, Estimation Theory, Operational Research, Queueing
Theory, Reliability Theory, Routing Theory, Measurement Theory, Epidemiology,
Financial mathematics, Functional Languages, Coding, Cryptology, Object-Oriented
Programming, Computational Geometry, Multimedia, Discrete structures, Extremal
problems, Enumeration problems, Network algorithms, Network optimization,
Approximation algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, Coding and Information
Theory, Error-correcting codes, Communication protocols, Remote Sensing,
Human-Machine Systems, Sonar and underwater acoustic systems, Undersea Systems,
Navigation and Tracking Systems, Space Systems, Wavelets, Verification and
Validation, Virtual Reality, Symbolic Computation.  Instrumentation and
Measurement, Sensors, Data and Knowledge Acquisition, Industrial Measurement,
Electronics, VLSI for Manufacturing Systems, Large Scale Systems, Hierarchical
Control, Decentralized Control, Supervision, Diagnosis and Man-Machine
Interaction, Flexible Structures, Modeling and Model Reduction, Production
Planning, Scheduling and CIME, Quintitative methods, Transportation Systems,
Robotics, Environmental Engineering, Water and Gas Systems, Large Scale
manufacturing processes, Industrial Control, Complex Systems, Chemical Industry,
Oil Industry, Car Industry, Mechatronics, Power Systems, Aerospace and Naval
Applications, CAD/CAM systems.  Optimization Theory, Linear Programming,
Quadratic Programming, Convex Programming, Nonlinear Programming, Stochastic
Programming, Combinatorial Programming, Integer Programming, Convex, Nonsmooth
and Variational analysis, Multiobjective programming, Game Theory, Algorithms
for parallel architectures, Global Optimization, Variational Principles and
Applications, Software Development, Heuristic Algorithms, Tabu Methods,
Simulated Annealing, Computational Analysis of Optimization Algorithms,
Electromagnetics, Transportation and Urban Systems, Socioeconomic Systems,
Health Care, Enviromental Management, Risk Management, Law and
technology.

November 27, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Item #3659
The First Annual Workshop on Data Mining Case Studies In conjunction with ICDM'05.

Topics include but are not limited to

 - Genomics
 - Inventory control
 - Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
 - ShopBots
 - Recommendation systems
 - Auction trading systems
 - Patient monitoring systems
 - Seismic Data interpretation
 - Survival analysis for medical procedures
 - Climate analysis
 - Correlates of genes with disease
 - Dangerous Drug interactions
 - Law enforcement applications
 - Price optimization
 - Data visualization in mission-critical user interfaces
 - Text understanding

November 28-30, 2005, Vienna, Austria. Item #3571
International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce Jointly with International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation.

Intelligent Agents

Knowledge Management
Intelligent Business Agents
Agent Architectures
Environments and Languages
Adaptation and learning for agents
Human and agent interaction
Interface agents
Mobile agents
Virtual agent-based marketplaces
Agents and uncertainty
The privacy issues for agents
Automated shopping and trading agents
Agent-oriented services
Social implications for agent
Conceptual modelling and design of Ontologies for agents
Agents and e-commerce
Legal aspects of agents in e-commerce
Performance measurement of e-commerce agents
Rational information agents and electronic commerce
Auction and negotiation for e-commerce agents

Web Technologies

Web data mining and information retrieval
Agent-based trade-and mediating services
Teaching on Web
Virtual trading institutions

Internet Commerce

E-commerce applications of Knowledge Representation
Reasoning Techniques
Electronic Payment Systems
Internet Marketing
Intranets and Extranets
Electronic Payment Systems
Electronic Data Interchange
Supply Chain Management
Electronic Payment Systems
Internet-based Electronic Commerce
Virtual Communities/Community Networks
Logistics Issues for Electronic Commerce
Business Reengineering Issues for Electronic Commerce
Government Electronic Procurement and Service Delivery
Legal, Auditing or Security Issues for Electronic Commerce
Requirements Engineering Approaches for Electronic Commerce
Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems
Knowledge Clustering
Classification

December 1-2, 2005, Leibniz Haus, Hanover, Germany. Item #3626
HAPTEX ‘05 - VR Workshop On Haptic and Tactile Perception of Deformable Objects On Haptic and Tactile Perception of Deformable Objects On Haptic and Tactile Perception of Deformable Objects.

Topics of interest
==================
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Simulating the touch, the hearing and the vision in virtual worlds
• Multimodal interaction system for presenting deformable materials
• Presenting haptic feedback in multimodal interaction
• Hardware for haptic/tactile interaction in virtual worlds
• Haptic/tactile rendering
• Modeling dynamics of deformable objects for haptic/tactile feedback
• Dynamic simulation of soft tissues/deformable objects including textiles
• Perception of material using haptic feedback
• Applications of haptic/tactile interfaces for soft/deformable objects

December 1-3, 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Item #3673
International Conference on Intelligent Systems.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Papers describing original work in the following areas, but not limited to, will be considered for oral presentations.

* Intelligent Systems in Petroleum Industries (including smart sensors)
* Oil Exploration
* Gas Treatment
* Robotics/Humanoids
* Modeling and Simulation
* Intelligent Control Systems
* Intelligent Manufacturing and Processing
* Intelligent Load Study and Forecasting
* Power System Planning, Management, Operation and Control
* Intelligent Drive and Electrical Machine Application
* Power Plant and Substation Automation Control
* Modern Technology Computation Techniques and Applications
* System Protection and Power Quality
* Computer Visions
* Telecommunication Systems and Applications
* Smart Antennas
* Image, Speech and Multimedia Processing
* Intelligent Computing in Pattern Recognition
* High Performance Computer System Design



* Artificial Intelligence and Computer Applications
* Intelligent Machine Design and Strategies
* Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems
* Electronics Testing Technology
* Semiconductor Physics and Technology
* Intelligent Sensors
* Design and Optimization on FPGAs and Integrated Circuits
* Nanotechnology Applications
* Information Systems for Business, Economics, Finance and Management
* Environmental Monitoring
* Statistical Methods and Quality Control
* Fuzzy Neural Network and Fuzzy genetic Systems
* Evolutionary Heuristic & Heuristic Programming
* Computer Intelligence in Industrial Engineering
* Bio-MEMs (Micro-electro-mechanical Systems)
* Medical Image Processing
* Tele-healthcare
* Diagnostic Systems
* Papers from any other fields applying Intelligent Techniques

December 5-7, 2005, Lake Tahoe, Nevad, USA. Item #3424
ISVC05 International Symposium on Visual Computing.

ISCV seeks papers describing contributions to the state of the art and
state
of the practice in the field of visual computing.. The symposium will
be
structured around four central areas of visual computing: (1) computer
vision,
(2) computer graphics, (3) virtual reality, and (4) visualization. In
particular, we are interested in papers that combine technologies from
two or
more of these areas.

December 5-8, 2005, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Item #3575
NIPS 2005 Neural Information Processing Systems.

    * Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, neural networks, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes, dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection, combinatorial optimization.
    * Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems that use machine learning, including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, text/web analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics.
    * Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG (electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials), MEG (magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), brain mapping, brain segmentation, brain computer interfaces.
    * Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: theoretical, computational, or experimental studies of perception, psychophysics, human or animal learning, memory, reasoning, problem solving,  natural language processing, and neuropsychology.
    * 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.
    * Emerging Technologies: analog and digital VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, computational sensors and actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS, neural prostheses, photonics, molecular and quantum computing.
    * Learning Theory: generalization, regularization and model selection, Bayesian learning, spaces of functions and kernels, statistical physics of learning, online learning and competitive analysis, hardness of learning and approximations, large deviations and asymptotic analysis, information theory.
    * 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.
    * Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding, synthesis, denoising, segmentation, source separation, auditory perception, psychoacoustics, dynamical systems, recurrent networks, Language Models, Dynamic and Temporal models.
    * Visual Processing: biological and machine vision, image processing and coding, segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion detection and tracking, visual psychophysics, visual scene analysis and interpretation.
    * Demonstrations: Authors wishing to submit to the Demonstration track should consult the Conference web site.

December 5-8, 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Item #3617
ICMT 2005 - 9th International Conference on M 9th International Conference on Mechatronics Technologyechatronics Technology.

December 5-8, 2005, Sydney, Australia. Item #3670
The Second Australian Conference on Artificial Life.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to,

    * Adaptive robotics
    * Ant Algorithms
    * Ant Colony Optimization
    * Applications of ALife technologies
    * Bioinformatics
    * Biological agents
    * Cellular automaton
    * Coevolution of Morphology and Mind
    * Complex systems
    * Emergence
    * Ethics and related issues
    * Evolutionary and adaptive dynamics
    * Marriage in Honey-Bees Optimization
    * Mathematical Models of Complex Systems and Alife
    * Multi-agent systems
    * Neuro-models
    * Origin of life
    * Self-organization
    * Self-replication
    * Simulation and synthesis tools and methodologies
    * Swarm Intelligence
    * and Other related topics 

December 9, 2005, Whistler, BC, Canada. Item #3690
NIPS Workshop on The Accuracy-Regularization Frontier.

The proposed workshop is concerned with optimization and statistical
issues related to viewing the entire frontier, rather than a single
predictor along it, as an object of interest in machine learning.
Specific issues to be addressed include:

 1. Characterizing the "frontier" in a way independent of a specific
 trade-off, and its properties as such, e.g. convexity, smoothness,
 piecewise linearity/polynomial behavior.

 2. What parametric trade-offs capture the entire frontier? Minimizing
 any monotone trade-off leads to a predictor on the frontier, but what
 conditions must be met to ensure all predictors along the frontier
 are obtained when the regularization parameter is varied?  Study of
 this question is motivated by scenarios in which minimizing a
 non-standard parametric trade-off leads to a more convenient
 optimization problem.

 3.  Methods for obtaining the frontier:

  3a. Direct methods relying on a characterization, e.g. Hastie et al's
  (2004) work on the entire regularization path of Support vector
  Machines.

  3b. Warm-restart continuation methods (slightly changing the
  regularization parameter and initializing the optimizer to the
  solution of the previous value of the parameter). How should one
  vary the regularization parameter in order to guarantee never to be
  too far away from the true frontier?  In a standard optimization
  problem, one ensures a solution within some desired distance from
  the optimal solution.  Analogously, when recovering the entire
  frontier, it would be desirable to seek a frontier which is always
  within some desired distance in the (error,regularizer) space from
  the true frontier.

  3c. Predictor-corrector methods: when the frontier is a
  differentiable manifold, warm-restart methods can be improved by
  using a first order approximation of the manifold to predict where
  the frontier should be for an updated value of the frontier
  parameter.

 4.  Interesting generalization or uses of the frontier, e.g.:

  - The frontier across different kernels

  - Higher dimensional frontiers when more than two parameters are
    considered

 5.  Formalizing and providing guarantees for the standard practice of
 picking a classifier along the frontier using a hold-out set (this is
 especially important for more than two objectives).  In some
 regression cases there are detailed inferences that can be done on
 the frontier --- for Ridge it is well established whereas for Lasso,
 Efron et al (2004), and more recently Zou et al (2004), establish
 degrees of freedom along the frontier, yielding generalization error
 estimates.

December 9-10, 2005, Whistler, British Columbia, CA. Item #3694
Workshop on Kernel Methods and Structured Domains at NIPS 2005.

  * Learning when the inputs/outputs are structures

  * Learning from data embedded in structure

  * Graphical models and information geometry

  * Kernels on probability measures

December 9, 2005, Whistler, British Columbia. Item #3695
NIPS*2005 Workshop Computational Finance & Machine Learning.

A wide range of topics are of interest, for example:

Financial Applications:
* Financial Time Series & Volatility
* Trading & Arbitrage Strategies
* Optimal Execution, Market Making & Market Microstructure
* Portfolio Management & Asset Allocation
* Stock Selection & Security Analysis
* Risk & Extreme Events
* Behavioral Finance
* Credit Analysis & Credit Risk
* Option Hedging, Exercise & Pricing
* Calibration, e.g. of Term Structure Models
* Multi-Agent Market Simulations

Machine Learning Methods:
* Reinforcement Learning & Dynamic Programming
* Non-Parametric Statistics & Bayesian Learning
* Latent Variable & Hidden State Models
* Evolutionary Algorithms
* Data Mining & Visualization
* Independent Components, Self-Organizing Maps
* Monte Carlo & Resampling 
* Ensembles and Boosting

December 9-10, 2005, Whistler, British Columbia, CA, USA. Item #3696
Game Theory, Machine Learning and Reasoning under Uncertainty - Workshop ant NIPS 2005.

To investigate these issues and reflect the range of questions that
the workshop addresses, we invite submissions from researchers who
have made contributions to this nascent field and also practitioners
from a wide range of backgrounds. Of particular interest is research
concerning (but not limited to) the following issues:

     1. Considered separately, what are the current limitations of
     game theory and probabilistic inference and what can be
     achieved by integrating the two?

     2. What are the specific points of correspondences between game
     theory and probabilistic inference that can be used to incorporate
     new developments in probabilistic inference into game theory 
applications
     and vice versa. Some of the examples of such correspondences and their
     inclusions that could be addressed are
         - dynamic behaviour of probabilistic inference mechanisms
         through game theoretic interaction models,
         - structured belief models in computational game
         theory algorithms,
         - quantitative bounds on Nash equilibria,
         - MCMC sampling with intelligent particles.

     3. What are the applications which are most likely to
     benefit from an explicitly inferential game theory?

December 9-10, 2005, Whistler, British Columbia, CA, USA. Item #3697
Learning to Rank - workshop at NIPS 2005.

The problem of ranking, in which the goal is to learn an ordering or
ranking over objects, has recently gained much attention in machine
learning. Progress has been made in formulating different forms of the
ranking problem, proposing and analyzing algorithms for these forms, and
developing theory for them. However, a multitude of basic questions
remain unanswered:

  * Ranking problems may differ in many ways: in the form of the
    training examples, in the form of the desired output, and in the
    performance measure used to evaluate success. What are the
    consequences of each of these factors on the design of ranking
    algorithms and on their theoretical guarantees?

  * The relationships between ranking and other classical learning
    problems such as classification and regression are still
    under-explored. Is any of these problems inherently harder or easier
    than another?

  * Although ranking is studied mainly as a supervised learning problem,
    it can have important consequences for other forms of learning; for
    example, in semi-supervised learning, one often ranks unlabeled
    examples so as to assign labels to the ones ranked at the top, and
    in reinforcement learning, one often learns a policy that ranks
    actions for each state. To what extent can these connections be
    explored and exploited?

  * There is a large variety of applications in which ranking is
    required, ranging from information retrieval to collaborative
    filtering to computational biology. What forms of ranking are most
    suited to different applications? What are novel applications that
    can benefit from ranking, and what other forms of ranking do these
    applications point us to?

December 9-10, 2005, Whistler, British Columbia, CA. Item #3699
Bayesian Methods for Natural Language Processing at NIPS 2005.

The goals of this workshop are to bring together researchers from both
the Bayesian machine learning community and the natural language
processing community to enable cross-fertilization of techniques,
models and applications. We wish to focus on the following issues:

    * Statistical Models: Current Bayesian models for text have
      largely focused on "bag of words" style approaches, where
      conditional independence is assumed between words. This leads to
      a convenient interpretation of a document as a sequence of draws
      from multinomial distributions, but does not account for any of
      the internal structure that exists in documents and which NLP
      researchers are interested in. How can we build models that move
      beyond the bag of words assumption? What structures are useful
      for modeling? How can we model these structures efficiently? Can
      we learn these models automatically?

    * Applications-oriented Models: Many statistical models for text
      have aimed at automatically inferring implicit relationship
      between varied elements of documents in a corpus. How can we use
      such models to aid in applications? Can we develop similar
      models that are aimed at solving a real-world NLP task? For what
      NLP applications are Bayesian techniques appropriate and how can
      we develop models specific to these problems?

December 10-20, 2005, on the Internet. Item #3657
CISSE 05 International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering.

CISSE 05 is composed of the following four conferences:

 
* International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology 

  & Automation (IETA 05)

  

Topics: Advanced and Distributed Control Systems, Intelligent Control 

Systems (NN, FL, GA, etc), Expert Systems, Man Machine Interaction, Data 

Fusion, Factory Automation, Robotics, Motion Control, Machine Vision, MEMS 

Sensors and Actuators, Sensors Fusion, Power Electronics, High Frequency 

Converters, Motors and Drives, Power Converters, Power Devices and 

Components, Electric Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation, Process 

Automation, Factory Communication, Manufacturing Information System Advances 

in Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Applications of Multi Media, 

Intelligent Systems Instrumentation, Industrial Instrumentation, Modeling 

and Simulation, Signal Processing, Image and Data Processing, VR and 

Parallel systems.

Conference Page: http://www.cisse2005.org/ieta.aspx

 

 

 

* International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe05)

 

Topics: Optical Networks and Switching, Computer Networks, Network 

architectures and Equipment, Access Technologies, Telecommunication 

Technology, Coding and Modulation technique, Modeling and Simulation, Spread

Spectrum and CDMA Systems, OFDM technology, Space-time Coding, Ultra 

Wideband Communications, Medium Access Control, Spread Spectrum, Wireless 

LAN:  IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, Bluetooth, Cellular Wireless Networks, Cordless 

Systems and Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Network Layer, Mobile Transport 

Layer, Support for Mobility, Conventional Encryption and Message 

Confidentiality, Block Ciphers Design Principles, Block Ciphers Modes of 

Operation,  Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication, 

Authentication Application,  Stenography, Electronic Mail Security, Web 

Security,  IP Security,  Firewalls, Computer Forensics.

Conference Page: http://www.cisse2005.org/tene.aspx

 

 

* International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software 

  Engineering (SCSS 05)

 

Topics: Grid Computing, Internet-based Computing Models, Resource Discovery, 

Programming Models and tools, e-Science and Virtual Instrumentation, 

Biometric Authentication, Computers for People of Special Needs, Human

Computer Interaction, Information and Knowledge Engineering, Algorithms, 

Parallel and Distributed processing, Modeling and Simulation, Services and 

Applications, Embedded Systems and Applications, Databases, Programming 

Languages, Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Signal Processing for 

Communication, Signal Processing Architectures and Implementation, 

Information Processing, Geographical Information Systems,

Object Based Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Real 

Time Systems Multiprocessing, File Systems and I/O, Kernel and OS Structures.

Conference Page: http://www.cisse2005.org/scss.aspx

 

 

* International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional 

  Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 05)

   

Topics: Instructional Design, Accreditation, Curriculum Design, Educational 

Tools, 2-2-2 Platforms, Teaching Capstone Design, Teaching Design at the 

Lower Levels, Design and Development of e-Learning tools, Assessment Methods 

in Engineering, Development and Implementation of E-learning tools, 

Economical and Social Impacts of E-learning, Platforms and Systems for 

K-12 / Industry and Higher Education Cooperation.

Conference Page: http://www.cisse2005.org/eiae.aspx

December 10, 2005, Whistler, CANADA. Item #3705
Value of Information in Inference, Learning and Decision-Making at NIPS 2005.

Suggested Topics
=================

The list of possible topics includes (but is not limited to) the following:

   *  VOI analysis in probabilistic inference and decision theory
   *  feature selection and attribute-efficient learning
   *  active learning (query learning, selective sampling)
   *  exploration-exploitation trade-off in reinforcement learning
   *  adaptive versus non-adaptive testing designs
   *  comparison of different action selection criteria and
      objective functions
   *  applications of VOI in diagnosis, systems control and management,
      coding theory, computational biology, neural coding, etc.

December 10, 2005, Whistler, BC, Canada. Item #3706
NIPS workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Clustering.

Questions we wish to address:
-----------------------------

    1. What is clustering? How can it be defined and how can we sort the
       different types of clustering and their goals? In particular:
           * Is the main purpose to use the partition to discover new
             features in the data?
           * Or the other way around, is the main purpose to simplify our
             data by building groups, thus getting rid of unimportant
             information?
           * Is clustering just data compression?
           * Is clustering just estimating modes of a density?
           * Is clustering related to human perception?
           * Can one come up with a meaningful taxonomy of clustering
             tasks?
           * Can we formulate the intuitive notion of "revealing hidden
             structure and properties"?

    2. How should prior knowledge be encoded? As a pair-wise
       similarity/distance function over domain points? As a set of
       relevant features? Should data be embedded in some richer
       structure (Hilbert space, topology) ?

    3. Is there a principled way to measure the quality of a clustering
       on particular data set?
           * Can every clustering task be expressed as an optimization of
             some explicit readily-computable associated objective cost
             function?
           * Can stability be considered a first principle for meaningful
             clustering?

    4. Is there a principled way to measure the quality of a clustering
        algorithm?
           * Necessary conditions
           * Can we come up with sufficient conditions for reasonable
             clustering?
           * Stability conditions
           * Richness conditions
           * What type of performance guarantees can one hope to provide?

    5. What are principled and meaningful ways of measuring the
       similarity (or degree of agreement) between different clusterings?

    6. Can one distinguish "clusterable" data from "structureless" data?

    7. What are the tools we should try to import from other areas such
       as classification prediction, density estimation, data
       compression, computational geometry, other relevant areas?

December 11-14, 2005, Brisbane, Australia. Item #3560
SPIE conference Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology.

Technology areas include:  
	O	Microelectronics: Design, Technology, and Packaging 
	O	BioMEMS and Nanotechnology 
	O	Device and Process Technologies for Microelectronics, 
MEMS, and Photonics 
	O	Photonics: Design, Technology, and Packaging 
	O	Complex Systems 

December 12-15, 2005, Hyderabad, India. Item #3681
The Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society.

The conference will take a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and communications technologies, the conference will address: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community participation, and learning technologies. Participants will include researchers, teachers and practitioners whose interests are either technical or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied technological and social sciences.

December 13-16, 2005, Singapore. Item #3641
CIRAS 2005 Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

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 15-19, 2005, Xi'an, China. Item #3672
CIS-05 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security.

Computational Intelligence
•    	Artificial Immune Systems
•    	Autonomy-Oriented Computing
•    	Biological Computing
•    	Coevolutionary Algorithms
•    	Evolutionary Computation
•    	Fuzzy Systems
•    	Intelligent Agents and Systems
•    	Machine Learning
•    	Molecular Computing
•    	Neural Computing
•    	Probabilistic Reasoning
•    	Reinforcement Learning
•    	Swarm Intelligence
•    	Support Vector Machine
•    	Unsupervised Learning

Information Security
•    	Cryptography and Coding
•    	Cryptographic Protocols
•    	Detection of Abnormality
•    	Electronic Commerce Security
•    	Intrusion Detection
•    	Information, Data and System Integrity
•    	Information Hiding
•    	Information Security Management
•    	Information Storage and Retrieval System
•    	Mobile Code & Agent Security
•    	Media Data Authentication
•    	Security Models and Architectures
•    	Security Analysis Methodologies
•    	Steganography and Watermarking
•    	Web and Wireless Security

Applications
•    	Bioinformatics and Medical Diagnosis
•    	Copyright Protection
•    	Cryptography and Its Applications
•    	Data Mining
•    	Data Privacy
•    	Detection of Hidden Communication Channels
•    	Digital Signatures
•    	Electronic Commerce Security
•    	Identity Recognition
•    	Image and Signal Processing
•    	Intelligent Information Retrieval
•    	Pattern Recognition
•    	Web and Network Applications
•    	Other Applications

December 16-18, 2005, Puerto De La Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Item #3476
ICOSSSE 2005 4th WSEAS / IASME International Conference on: System Science and Simulation in Engineering.

TOPICS:
Systems Theory
Circuits
Control Systems
Stochastic Systems
Non-linear Systems
Information Systems
Signal Processing Systems
Multidimensional Systems
Multivariable systems
Hybrid Systems
Multirate Systems
Robotics
Man-Machine Systems
Speech and Image Processing Systems
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
Manufacturing Systems
Decentralised Systems
Remote Sensing
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Machines
Fuzzy Systems
Neural Networks
Knowledge Modelling
Decision Support Systems
Hierarchical Control Systems
Aerospace Systems
Analog, Digital and Mixed Mode Circuits and Systems
Electronics and Power Electronics
Nanocircuits and Nanotechnology
Medical Electronics
Lightwave Engineering
Microelectromechanical Systems
Environment Modeling
Sonar and underwater acoustic systems
Undersea Systems
Navigation and Tracking Systems
Space Systems
Wavelets
Systems Techniques for Wireless Applications
Filter design.
Parallel and Distributed Systems
Information Systems
Management and Economic Systems
High Performance and Large Scale Computing
Clustering
Grid Computing
Simulation Environments
Web-based Simulation
Simulation of Biological Systems
Simulation in Environmental Sciences
Simulation  in Biology, Medicine, Health Care Management
Logistics
Expert Systems
Petri Nets
Visual Reality
Multimedia
Specific Languages
Geographical Information Systems
Multi-site Simulation
Measurement and Hybrid Technique
Markov Models
Web technologies
Script Languages and Script technologies
Software Tools
Graph Theory
Power Systems
Thermal and Chemical Systems
Fluid Dynamics
Heat and Mass transfer
Elasticity and Applications
Applied Thermodynamics
Applied Electrodynamics
Heat and Mass transfer
Transportation Systems
Social and Economic Systems
Lakes and Rivers Management
Game Theory
Simulation for Game Animation
Facial Animation and Movies
Skeletal Animation
Game Animation
3D Programming
Voice Interaction,
Cognitive Science and Technology
Art and Simulation
Simulation in Armed Forces
Applications in audiovisual technologies and music
Other...

December 18-22, 2005, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. Item #3506
PReMI05 First International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence.

Topics :
 
Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Soft Computing,
Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing, Fuzzy Sets, Rough Sets, Wavelet,
Fractals, Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery, Bio-informatics,
Computational Biology, Web Intelligence, Text Mining, Machine Learning,
Case Based Reasoning, Content Based Image Retrieval, Steganography and
Digital Watermarking, Remote Sensing, Medical Imaging, Applications of
Pattern Recognition, Hardware for PR and MI, Brain Modelling, Uncertainty Analysis and
Symbolic Data Analysis

December 19-21, 2005, Cairo, Egypt. Item #3671
AIML-05 ICGST International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

AIML-05 Sessions

    * Special Session on “Internet Security and Cryptography”
    * Special Session on “Fuzzy-Neuro Systems"
    * Special Session on “SVM"
    * Special Session on “PCA"
    * Special Session on “Genetic Algorithms"

December 20-22, 2005, India. Item #3225
IICAI-05 - 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

 Adaptive Systems
Agent-Based Techniques and Systems
Artificial Life
Automated Problem Solving
Behavioral Neuroscience
Brain Models
Case Based Reasoning and Applications
Cognitive Modeling
Data mining
Decision Support Systems
Distributed AI Algorithms, Techniques, and Applications
Distributed AI Systems and Architectures
Emerging Applications
Evaluation of AI Systems and Tools
Evolutionary Computation
Evolutionary Algorithms
Expert Systems
Foundations of AI
Fuzzy Logic
Genetic Algorithms
Hardware Architectures for AI
Heuristic and Knowledge-Based Searching Methods
Human Perception and Communication
Information and Knowledge Engineering
Integration of AI with other Technologies
Intelligent Agents
Intelligent Databases
Intelligent Information Processing Systems
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Intelligent Networks and Security
Intelligent Sensors
Intelligent Software Engineering
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge and Information Management Techniques
Knowledge Delivery Methods
Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge-Based Systems
Knowledge-Based Problem Solving Techniques
Knowledge Life Cycle
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Representation
Languages and Programming Techniques for AI
Learning and Adaptive Sensor Fusion
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Multisensor Data Fusion Using Neural and Fuzzy Techniques
Multisource and Multisensor Data Fusion
Multisource Information Fusion: Theory and Applications
Natural Language Processing
Neural Networks and Applications
Planning and Scheduling
Probabilistic Methods in AI
Reasoning Strategies
Robotics
Search Techniques
Social Impact of AI
Soft Computing
Software Tools for AI
Speech Processing
Statistical Methods in AI
Theorem Proving
Uncertainty Handling
Vision
Etc…

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