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January 2-4, 2008, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Item #4217
ISAIM 2008 - The Tenth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.
email: isaim2008 at cse.unl.edu.
Deadlines: passed.

January 4-8, 2008, Big Island of Hawaii. Item #4126
PSB 2008 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing.

email: psb-submit @helix.stanford.edu).
Deadlines: paper submissions: July 17; abstracts: November 9.
To provide focus for the very broad area of biological computing, PSB is organized into a series of specific sessions. Each session will involve both formal research presentations and open discussion groups. The PSB 2008 sessions are:

    * Beyond Gap Models: Reconstructing Alignments and Phylogenies Under Genomic-Scale Events
    * Computational Challenges in the Study of Small Regulatory RNAs
    * Computational Tools for Next-Generation Sequencing Applications
    * Knowledge-Driven Analysis and Data Integration for High-Throughput Biological Data
    * Molecular Bioinformatics for Diseases: Protein Interactions and Phenomics
    * Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: from Molecules to Cells to Organisms
    * Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions: Integrating Structure, Sequence, and Function
    * Tiling Microarray Data Analysis Methods and Algorithms
    * Translating Biology: Text Mining Tools that Work 

January 9-11, 2008, Howrah, India. Item #4184
NGMS 2008 - International Conference on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm in Materials Science and Engineering.

Dr. H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia, Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Email: hkdb@cam.ac.uk.
Deadlines: abstracts: September 15.
NGMS 2008 will include, but not limited to, applications of Genetic Algorithm, Artificial Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic and other soft computing techniques in the field of

Phase transformation

Iron-making and steel-making

Casting of metals and alloys

Steel processing

Joining and surface engineering

Composition-processing-property correlation of metals and alloys

Composition-processing-structure-property correlation of ceramics, polymers and semiconductors

Operations research related to production of materials

Data mining and knowledge discovery in materials systems

Design of materials and processes

Energy and environment from materials perspective

January 14-16, 2008, Haikou, Sanya, China. Item #4194
International Conference on Advanced Design And Manufacture.

Dr Xiu-Tian YAN, Senior Lecturer, Deputy Director of Teaching and Learning, Postgraduate Courses Co-ordinator, Dept. of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management, James Weir Building, University of Strathclyde, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow G1 1XJ, email: x.yan@strath.ac.uk.
Deadlines: papers: September 14.

January 24-26, 2008, Debrecen, Hungary. Item #4181
IBRO International Workshop 2008 Complex Neural Networks "From synaptic transmission to seeing the brain in action".

email: ibro2008@chondron.anat.dote.hu.
Deadlines: abstract submission: November 1.

January 25-27, 2008, Acapulco, Mexico. Item #4026
CEA'08 The 2nd WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTER ENGINEERING and APPLICATIONS.

email (subject WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: October 15.
 TOPICS:  
Network Architecture,
Network Design,
Synchronous Networks,
Parallel/Distributed architectures,
Networks and interconnection networks,
Optical Network Multi-layer Design
Fiber Design and Fabrication
Network Design Software
Design, and Infrastructure
Modelling and Simulation of Networks,
Clusters and parallel systems,
Data for supercomputers,
Network architecture and convergence,
Traffic,
Switching,
Routing network access,
Interworking,
Narrow band and broad band networks,
ATM,
Traffic control,
Mobile networks and mobile services,
Network management,
Wireless networks,
Multicast,
Digital broadcasting,
Flow and congestion control,
Multimedia transport protocols,
Protocols and applications
E-commerce,
Interoperability,
Internetworking,
Home computing and networking,
QoS and service differentiation,
Tariffs and bandwidth allocation,
End to end traffic control,
Network measurements,
Peer to peer communication protocols,
Shared memory, D
Distributed memory,
Optical networks
Security Architectures and Infrastructures
Hacking, Trojian Horses, Viruses, Worms, Spam
Denial of service.
Passive attacks, Active attacks,
Data Mining
Evaluation of Information
Intelligent Networks
Intelligent Agents
Reliability and fault-tolerance
Performance analysis
Data Engineering
Knowledge Engineering
Software Engineering
Information Security,
Threat and attacks to information
Information security services: authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity,
Non-repudiation, Secret sharing,
Database security,
Operating systems security. 
Modeling and analysis for information security:
Protocols and its logical analysis,
Performance analysis,
Risk analysis. 
Standards of information security: AES, IPSec,
Common Criteria.
Infrastructure for information security:
Public Key Infrastructure, Certification Authority.
Tools for information security:
Smart cards, biometrics, watermarking,
intrusion detection, scanners, mobile agents.
Applications of information security:
E-commerce, health information systems, mobile telephony, E-banking,
E-voting, entertainment industry.  Cryptography: algorithms,
performance analysis. 
Advanced topics in security: quantum cryptography. Multilateral Security: Relationship between privacy and security,
Privacy enhancing technologies,
Anonymity techniques,
High-tech crime prevention,
Information hiding.
Internet,
Programming Techniques in Communications Networks,
Simulation Techniques in Telecommunications,
Software for Communications
Development and Simulation,
Social Implications of Modern Communications,
Soft Computing and Communications,
Smart Interfaces, Computer/Communications Integration,
Multiservice networks
Monitoring
Ssupervision
Internet
Wweb methodologies
Internet based knowledge engineering
Distributed computing environments
Architectures for internet and intranets
Security Aspects
Software maintenance
Software metrics
Reusability
Reliability
Intelligent agents
Data mining
Object-oriented methodologies
Data warehousing
Computer-aided co-design techniques:
specification and modeling
Design representation
Synthesis, partitioning, estimation
Co-design architectures: hardware/software interfaces
Distributed and multiprocessor architectures
Re-configurable platforms.
Software for co-design: software development environments
Real-time operating systems
Process scheduling
Software synthesis
System integration
Retargetable compilation.
System development processes: designmethodology
Concurrent engineering
Design reuse
Process management
Intellectual property
System integration.
Verification and test of hardware/software systems: co-simulation
formal verification
Test strategies
Emulation and debugging
Rapid prototyping
Programming Languages
High Performance Languages
Operating Systems
Hardware Engineering
Supercomputing
Parallel Computing Systems Architectures
Supercomputing
Reusability
Protocols, Routing, Scheduling
Fault Tolerance
Software Evaluation Standards
Distributed Multimedia
Performance Evaluation
Intelligent Systems
Digital Speech Processing
Statistical Methods for Signal Processing
Tele-automatic control
E-commerce
Tele-medicine and medical informatics, Tele-healthcare
Tele-manufacturing systems
Tele-artificial intelligence
Tele-robotics
Artificial intelligence
Computational linguistics
Computer networks
Interconnection Networks
Optical Interconnection Networks
Broadband Networks, Mobile Networks, Network Applications
Computational Biophysics
Computers and Biomedical Engineering
Computers and Automation
Digital Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
Digital Systems and Computer Architecture
Computational Geometry
Algorithms and Multiplexity
Multimedia
Microprocessors, Microcomputers
Microelectronics
Mobile Computing
NETwork Management and Optimal Design
Software Engineering
Computation and Reasoning Laboratory
Knowledge and Data-Base Systems
Software Engineering
Educational Software
Knowledge Engineering
Security
Software Methodologies
Software Requirements
Software Design and Development
Software Maintenance, Software Metrics
Software Testing
Fault Tolerance
Project Management
Microwave Theory and techniques
CAD design for Microwave Systems
Antennas and Radars
Lightwave technology
Submillimeter-Wave techniques
Microwave High-Power techniques
Microwave and millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits
Microwave and millimeter-Wave Integrated Solid State Devices
Microwave Acoustics
Filter and Passive Components
Microwave and Antennas Measurements
Microwave Superconductivity
RFIC's
Wave-guides
Microwave propagation
Ferrites devices. Cavities. Microwave Circuits
Periodic Structures and Filters
Tubes
Masers
Amplifiers
HF-VHF-UHF Engineering
Antennas
Reflectors and Lens Antennas
Arrays
Scattering
Propagation
Diffraction
Electromagnetic Compatibility Problems
Applied Electromagnetics
Electromagnetic Field
Numerical Methods for Electromagnetics
Mathematical Methods and Computational techniues for Microwaves
Mathematical Methods and Computational techniues for Antennas and Radars
Radio Engineering applications in Astronomy
Navigation
Aerospace Systems
Low noise techniques
Optical Fiber Systems
Communication Electronics
Signal Processing for Wireless Communication
Communications Switching and Routing
Physical Layer
ISDN
Computer Networks
Architectural Aspects
ATM Networks
Protocols
Communication Systems Integration
Cryptology
Military Communications
Video systems
Video technologies
VLSI
Signal processing systems
Multimedia networks. Artificial intelligence
Computational linguistics
Cyber-Science and Cyber-Space
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Software for Parallel and Distributed Systems
Databases, Data Mining
Data Warehousing
Mathematical Logic and Computers
Image, Video and Internet Technologies
Web-Based Education
Distributed Real Time Systems
Distributed Data Base
Distributed Knowledge-base Systems
Computer Applications in Science
Computer Applications in Engineering
Computer Applications in Business, Commerce and Economics
Computer Applications in Earth Sciences, Aerospace and Transportation Science
Computer Applications in Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Healthcare and Bioengineering
Computer Applications in Acoustics, Music, Speech Processing
Computer Applications in Signal and Image Processing
Computer Applications in Communication
Computer Applications in Arts, Archaeology, Education and Animation
Modelling and Simulation
Law Aspects related to informatics

January 25-27, 2008, Acapulco, Mexico. Item #4146
CEA'08 The 2nd WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTER ENGINEERING and APPLICATIONS.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: October 15.
 TOPICS:  
Network Architecture,
Network Design,
Synchronous Networks,
Parallel/Distributed architectures,
Networks and interconnection networks,
Optical Network Multi-layer Design
Fiber Design and Fabrication
Network Design Software
Design, and Infrastructure
Modelling and Simulation of Networks,
Clusters and parallel systems,
Data for supercomputers,
Network architecture and convergence,
Traffic,
Switching,
Routing network access,
Interworking,
Narrow band and broad band networks,
ATM,
Traffic control,
Mobile networks and mobile services,
Network management,
Wireless networks,
Multicast,
Digital broadcasting,
Flow and congestion control,
Multimedia transport protocols,
Protocols and applications
E-commerce,
Interoperability,
Internetworking,
Home computing and networking,
QoS and service differentiation,
Tariffs and bandwidth allocation,
End to end traffic control,
Network measurements,
Peer to peer communication protocols,
Shared memory, D
Distributed memory,
Optical networks
Security Architectures and Infrastructures
Hacking, Trojian Horses, Viruses, Worms, Spam
Denial of service.
Passive attacks, Active attacks,
Data Mining
Evaluation of Information
Intelligent Networks
Intelligent Agents
Reliability and fault-tolerance
Performance analysis
Data Engineering
Knowledge Engineering
Software Engineering
Information Security,
Threat and attacks to information
Information security services: authentication, access control, confidentiality, integrity,
Non-repudiation, Secret sharing,
Database security,
Operating systems security. 
Modeling and analysis for information security:
Protocols and its logical analysis,
Performance analysis,
Risk analysis. 
Standards of information security: AES, IPSec,
Common Criteria.
Infrastructure for information security:
Public Key Infrastructure, Certification Authority.
Tools for information security:
Smart cards, biometrics, watermarking,
intrusion detection, scanners, mobile agents.
Applications of information security:
E-commerce, health information systems, mobile telephony, E-banking,
E-voting, entertainment industry.  Cryptography: algorithms,
performance analysis. 
Advanced topics in security: quantum cryptography. Multilateral Security: Relationship between privacy and security,
Privacy enhancing technologies,
Anonymity techniques,
High-tech crime prevention,
Information hiding.
Internet,
Programming Techniques in Communications Networks,
Simulation Techniques in Telecommunications,
Software for Communications
Development and Simulation,
Social Implications of Modern Communications,
Soft Computing and Communications,
Smart Interfaces, Computer/Communications Integration,
Multiservice networks
Monitoring
Ssupervision
Internet
Wweb methodologies
Internet based knowledge engineering
Distributed computing environments
Architectures for internet and intranets
Security Aspects
Software maintenance
Software metrics
Reusability
Reliability
Intelligent agents
Data mining
Object-oriented methodologies
Data warehousing
Computer-aided co-design techniques:
specification and modeling
Design representation
Synthesis, partitioning, estimation
Co-design architectures: hardware/software interfaces
Distributed and multiprocessor architectures
Re-configurable platforms.
Software for co-design: software development environments
Real-time operating systems
Process scheduling
Software synthesis
System integration
Retargetable compilation.
System development processes: designmethodology
Concurrent engineering
Design reuse
Process management
Intellectual property
System integration.
Verification and test of hardware/software systems: co-simulation
formal verification
Test strategies
Emulation and debugging
Rapid prototyping
Programming Languages
High Performance Languages
Operating Systems
Hardware Engineering
Supercomputing
Parallel Computing Systems Architectures
Supercomputing
Reusability
Protocols, Routing, Scheduling
Fault Tolerance
Software Evaluation Standards
Distributed Multimedia
Performance Evaluation
Intelligent Systems
Digital Speech Processing
Statistical Methods for Signal Processing
Tele-automatic control
E-commerce
Tele-medicine and medical informatics, Tele-healthcare
Tele-manufacturing systems
Tele-artificial intelligence
Tele-robotics
Artificial intelligence
Computational linguistics
Computer networks
Interconnection Networks
Optical Interconnection Networks
Broadband Networks, Mobile Networks, Network Applications
Computational Biophysics
Computers and Biomedical Engineering
Computers and Automation
Digital Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition
Digital Systems and Computer Architecture
Computational Geometry
Algorithms and Multiplexity
Multimedia
Microprocessors, Microcomputers
Microelectronics
Mobile Computing
NETwork Management and Optimal Design
Software Engineering
Computation and Reasoning Laboratory
Knowledge and Data-Base Systems
Software Engineering
Educational Software
Knowledge Engineering
Security
Software Methodologies
Software Requirements
Software Design and Development
Software Maintenance, Software Metrics
Software Testing
Fault Tolerance
Project Management
Microwave Theory and techniques
CAD design for Microwave Systems
Antennas and Radars
Lightwave technology
Submillimeter-Wave techniques
Microwave High-Power techniques
Microwave and millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits
Microwave and millimeter-Wave Integrated Solid State Devices
Microwave Acoustics
Filter and Passive Components
Microwave and Antennas Measurements
Microwave Superconductivity
RFIC's
Wave-guides
Microwave propagation
Ferrites devices. Cavities. Microwave Circuits
Periodic Structures and Filters
Tubes
Masers
Amplifiers
HF-VHF-UHF Engineering
Antennas
Reflectors and Lens Antennas
Arrays
Scattering
Propagation
Diffraction
Electromagnetic Compatibility Problems
Applied Electromagnetics
Electromagnetic Field
Numerical Methods for Electromagnetics
Mathematical Methods and Computational techniues for Microwaves
Mathematical Methods and Computational techniues for Antennas and Radars
Radio Engineering applications in Astronomy
Navigation
Aerospace Systems
Low noise techniques
Optical Fiber Systems
Communication Electronics
Signal Processing for Wireless Communication
Communications Switching and Routing
Physical Layer
ISDN
Computer Networks
Architectural Aspects
ATM Networks
Protocols
Communication Systems Integration
Cryptology
Military Communications
Video systems
Video technologies
VLSI
Signal processing systems
Multimedia networks. Artificial intelligence
Computational linguistics
Cyber-Science and Cyber-Space
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Software for Parallel and Distributed Systems
Databases, Data Mining
Data Warehousing
Mathematical Logic and Computers
Image, Video and Internet Technologies
Web-Based Education
Distributed Real Time Systems
Distributed Data Base
Distributed Knowledge-base Systems
Computer Applications in Science
Computer Applications in Engineering
Computer Applications in Business, Commerce and Economics
Computer Applications in Earth Sciences, Aerospace and Transportation Science
Computer Applications in Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Healthcare and Bioengineering
Computer Applications in Acoustics, Music, Speech Processing
Computer Applications in Signal and Image Processing
Computer Applications in Communication
Computer Applications in Arts, Archaeology, Education and Animation
Modelling and Simulation
Law Aspects related to informatics

January 26, 2008, San Jose, California USA. Item #4171
Electronic Imaging 2008.

www: http://electronicimaging.org/call/08/.
Deadlines: final summaries: November 19.

February 11, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria. Item #4114
AIA 2008 The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications.

email: calgary@iasted.org.
Deadlines: submissions: September 15.
AIA 2008 will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International Conference on:

    * Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2008)
    * Software Engineering (SE 2008)
    * Modelling, Identification, and Control (MIC 2008)
    * Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications (SPPRA 2008)
    * Biomedical Engineering (BioMED 2008)
    * Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM 2008)

February 11, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria. Item #4160
MIC 2008 The 27th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control.

email: calgary@iasted.org.
Deadlines: submissions: September 15.

February 13, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria. Item #4161
SPPRA 2008 - The Fifth IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications.

email: calgary@iasted.org.
Deadlines: submissions: September 15.

February 18-20, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand. Item #4174
2nd Workshop "Robot Vision".

Bruce MacDonald. Email: b.macdonald@ieee.org.
Deadlines: submission: September 30
Subject areas of Robot Vision 2008:

Architectures for robot vision and visual robotics
Learning paradigms for control and vision
Imitation of human behaviours
Visual servoing and pose estimation
Autonomous vehicles of all kinds (air, land, underwater)
Intelligent vehicles
Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms
Path finding in off-road terrain
Autonomous exploration

Low-level image analysis
Vision based obstacle detection
3D-vision (stereo analysis)
Structure from motion
Ego-motion estimation

Geometric algorithms for robot vision
Geometric algebra and robot vision
Geometric path optimization or planning
Geometric models of 3D environments

Non-standard cameras for robot vision
On-line camera calibration
Sensor fusion (e.g. vision plus lidar)
Robust vision

February 20-22, 2008, Cambridge, UK. Item #4148
WSEAS International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING and DATA BASES.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: November 15.

February 20-22, 2008, Cambridge, UK. Item #4149
SEPADS '08 The 7th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: November 15.

February 20-22, 2008, Cambridge, UK. Item #4150
ISPRA '08 The 7th WSEAS International Conference on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: November 15.

-2007:07:09:02:43:38 X -->February 28 - March 2, 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Item #4139
Cosyne08 Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2008.

email: bijan@nyu.edu.
Deadlines: abstract submission: November 30
 
The main meeting is arranged in a single track, so as to encourage interdisciplinary interactions. A set of invited talks are selected by the Executive Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts. Cosyne topics include but are not limited to:

    * neural coding
    * natural scene statistics
    * dendritic computation
    * neural basis of persistent activity
    * nonlinear receptive field mapping
    * representations of time and sequence
    * reward systems
    * decision-making
    * synaptic plasticity
    * map formation and plasticity
    * population coding
    * attention
    * computation with spiking networks 


Cosyne 2008 Invited Speakers (confirmed)

    * John Assad (Harvard U.)
    * Gyuri Buzsaki (Rutgers U.)
    * Dimitri Chklovskii (Janelia Farm, HHMI)
    * Karl Deisseroth (Stanford U.)
    * Mitra Hartmann (Northestern U.)
    * Michael Häusser (UCL)
    * David Heeger (NYU)
    * Sabine Kastner (Princeton U.)
    * Mitsuo Kawato (ATR)
    * David McAlpine (UCL)
    * Tomaso Poggio (MIT)
    * Krishna Shenoy (Stanford U.)
    * Wendy Suzuki (NYU)
    * Rachel Wilson (Harvard U.) 


March 3-4, 2008, Snow Bird, Utah, USA. Item #4138
Cosyne08 Workshops.

Fritz Sommer. Email: fsommer@berkeley.edu.
Deadlines: proposals for workshops: September 17.
neurobiology and computational models of visual and auditory
processing of complex stimuli, time perception, olfactory computation,
multisensory integration, memory, Bayesian inference, decision making,
active sensation, motor control; principles of unsupervised learning,
reinforcement learning; neural coding; computation with spikes, with
network dynamics/adaptation mechanisms on multiple time scales;
dendritic processing; reward and neuromodulation; microcircuitry of
the cortical column; computational anatomy; multi-scale brain
modeling; foraging; neurogenesis;

March 3-14, 2008, KIOLOA, AUSTRALIA. Item #4248
MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL.

email: mlss08@rsise.anu.edu.au.
Deadlines: overview;-; machine learning is a foundational discipline of the information; sciences, concerned with the design and development of algorithms; and techniques that allow computers to "learn".; topics will be covered in 9-10 lectures a 6 hours taught by world; experts in their fields . the aim of the summer school is to cover; the entire spectrum from theoretical foundations to practical; applications. in addition, there will be practical "lab" sessions, where students will have the chance to implement methods for; themselves.; this school is suitable for all levels, both for people without; previous knowledge in machine learning, and those wishing to broaden; their expertise in this area. it will allow the participants to get; in touch with international experts in this field. exchange of; students, joint publications and joint projects will result because; of this collaboration.; material is directed both at outstanding participants without; previous knowledge in machine learning, and at those wishing to; broaden their expertise in the area; this includes phd, masters, and; advanced undergraduate students, postdocs, academics, and it; professionals. the mlss also provides an excellent opportunity for; interaction with top researchers in a broad cross-section of machine; learning disciplines..

March 4-7, 2008, Witten, Bommerholz, Germany. Item #4170
3rd International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems.

email: gefs08@rst.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de.
Deadlines: paper submission, tutorials, special sessions: October 1.
The workshop programme without being limited to will focus on:

Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems

    * Evolutionary Algorithms for Learning and Tuning Fuzzy-Rule Based Systems
    * Evolutionary Design of Fuzzy Rule Based Systems
    * Evolutionary Fuzzy Modeling
    * Computational Intelligence

Evolving Fuzzy Systems

    * Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Systems and Models
    * On-line Identification of Fuzzy Systems and Real-Time Algorithms
    * Evolving Fuzzy Clustering Methods
    * Evolving Fuzzy Classifiers

Real-world applications

    * Robotics
    * Control Systems
    * Industrial Applications
    * Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    * Bioinformatics

 

March 4-7, 2008, Barcelona, Catalonia. Item #4224
PSAI Workshop on Privacy and Security by means of Artificial Intelligence In conjunction with ARES 2008.

email: agusti.solanas@urv.cat.
Deadlines: submissions: November 20.
Topics include but are not limited to...

 
Privacy and security fields

    * Statistical Disclosure Control
    * Location-based services
    * Statistical databases
    * Homeland security
    * Robotics
    * Cryptography and security protocols
    * Intrusion detection systems
    * Denial of service attacks
    * etc.

	
... by means of ...
	
Artificial Intelligence techniques

    * Pattern recognition
    * Image analysis
    * Evolutionary computation
    * Neural networks
    * Multi-agent systems
    * Clustering
    * Case-based reasoning
    * Fuzzy logic
    * etc.

 

March 17-22, 2008, USA. Item #4227
ICCES'08 International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering & Sciences.

João Manuel R. S. Tavares. Email: tavares@fe.up.pt.
Deadlines: abstract submission: December 15.
Examples of some topics that will be considered in that symposium are: Image restoring, Image description, Image compression, Image segmentation, Objects description, Objects tracking, Objects matching, Objects reconstruction, Objects Registration, Software Development for Image Processing and Analysis, Grid Computing in Image Processing and Analysis, Applications of Image Processing and Analysis.

March 18-21, 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal. Item #4209
SKIMA - 2nd International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications.

email: gilles.neubert@univ-lyon2.fr.
Deadlines: paper: October 15.
  Knowledge Management
     - Knowledge Representation Techniques to Semantic Modelling
     - Knowledge Acquisition, Retention, Sharing, Refinement, Use or Re-Use
     - Knowledge Management Tool: Data Mining, Document Management,Intranets
and Workloads
     - Knowledge Management and Risk Management Tacit, Codified and Explicit
       Knowledge
     - Knowledge and Organisation Theory
     - Management of Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases

  Software Engineering
     - Software Agents and Soft Computing Application
     - Software Requirements Engineering, Design, Testing
     - Software Security and Reliability
     - Knowledge Based Software Engineering

  Information Systems
     - Database and Information System Integration
     - Artificial Intelligent, Decision Support System and Optimisation
       Techniques
     - Information System Analysis and Specification
     - E-Learning, E-Government and E-Tourism

  Applications
     - Network Management
     - Supply Chain Management
     - Manufacturing Systems
     - E-Commerce, E-business, M-Commerce, M-business
     - Life-cycle Engineering
     - Agile Systems
     - Logistics
     - Power systems and Telecommunications
     - Intelligent Control and Robotics

March 19-21, 2008, Hong Kong, China. Item #4128
ICAIA'08 IAENG International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications.

email: imecs@iaeng.org.
Deadlines: manuscript submissions: December 12.
State space search

Automated planning

Combinatorial search

Expert system

Knowledge representation

Knowledge-based systems

Qualitative reasoning

Planning and scheduling

Artificial life/Being

Distributed artificial intelligence
	  	

Genetic programming

Genetic algorithm

Swarm Intelligence

Bayesian networks

Machine learning

Pattern Recognition

Fuzzy Systems

Fuzzy Logic

Neural network

And their applications
 

March 19-21, 2008, Hong Kong, China. Item #4129
ICDMA'08 IAENG International Conference on Data Mining and Applications .

email: imecs@iaeng.org.
Deadlines: manuscript submissions: December 12.
   	

Soft Computing Data Mining Tools:
Artificial intelligence
Artificial neural network
Fuzzy logic
Automatic Learning Data Mining Tools:
Machine learning
Nearest neighbor (pattern recognition)
Pattern recognition

Statistical Data Mining Tools:
Hypothesis testing
Linear discriminant analysis
Logistic regression
Principal components analysis
Regression analysis
	  	

Data Mining Applications:
Business intelligence
Business performance management
Database
Data stream mining
Data warehouse
Decision tree
Descriptive statistics
Document warehouse
Relational data mining
Text mining

March 19-21, 2008, Hong Kong. Item #4169
IMECS 2008 - The International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists.

email: info@iaeng.org.
Deadlines: manuscript submission: December 12.
 	The IMECS 2008 is composed of the following 13 conferences (all will be held at the same location and date):  	 
  	  	 
  	
ICAIA'08 	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008
ICB'08 	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Bioinformatics
 Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

ICCA'08
	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Control and Automation
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

ICCS'08
	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Computer Science
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

ICCSA'08
	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

ICDMA'08
	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Data Mining and Applications
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

ICEE'08
	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Electrical Engineering
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

ICIE'08
	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Imaging Engineering
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

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The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Industrial Engineering
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

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The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

ICOR'08
	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Operations Research
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

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The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Scientific Computing
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

ICSE'08
	

The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Software Engineering
Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008

March 24-26, 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA. Item #4207
AMERICAN CONFERENCE on APPLIED MATHEMATICS.

Sandberg, Irwin. Email: iws1@mail.utexas.edu.
Deadlines: papers: December 15.
 LINEAR ALGEBRA AND APPLICATIONS:
Matrix Theory,Tensor Analysis, Multilinear Algebra, Spaces over fields or rings, Tensor algebras or subalgebras, Nonnegative matrices, Inequalities in linear algebra, Combinatorial linear algebra, Matrix numerical linear analysis, Representation theory, Lie theory, Invariant theory, Functional analysis, Computational Linear Algebra, Markov Chains, Iterative methods, Error Estimation in Iterative Methods, Eigenvalue Problems, Componentwise and Structured Perturbations, Convex Optimization, Approximation of Large-scale Dynamical Systems, Large Scale Systems, Identification, Linear Algebra in Simulation and Mathematical Biology, Linear Algebra Information Retrieval and Management, Totally Nonnegative Matrices, Special Topics and Applications.
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS:
Numerical Methods for Solving Equations, Polynomial Factorization, Numerical Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Methods for Integral Equations, Numerical Methods for Integral-Differential Equations, Numerical Methods for Algebro-Differential Equations, Numerical Methods for Singular Equations, Numerical Linear Algebra, Numerical Behaviour of Optimization Algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming of Numerical Methods, Parallel Computing, Distributed Computing, Supercomputing, Finite Elements, Mathematical Aspects of Scientific Computing, Error Analysis, Stability Problems, Convergence Problems, High Complexity Numerical Methods, Numerical Mathematics for Non-linear Systems Study, Numerical Computation in Dynamical Systems and Chaos, Simulation, Numerical Analysis problems in Science and Engineering, Special Topics and Applications.
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND APPLICATIONS:
Ordinary differential equations, Partial differential equations, Stochastic differential equations, Topological dynamics, Integral equations, functional differential equations, Differential Equations in Sobolev Spaces, Variational methods in ODEs and in PDEs, Existence, Multiplicity results for solutions to ODEs and PDEs, Nonlinear Systems, Chaos, Morse theory, Manifolds, Bifurcation and Degree theory, Singular perturbation problems, Qualitative theory (stability, periodicity, boundedness, etc.), Difference Equations, Numerical Methods for ODEs and PDEs, Diff.Equations in Science and Engineering, Special Topics and Applications.
PROBABILITIES, STATISTICS, OPERATIONAL RESEARCH:
Theoretical Probability Theory, Applied Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes, Mathematical Statistics, Applied Statistics, Game Theory, Prediction Theory, Estimation Theory, Identification, Simulation, Mathematical Programming, Statistical Techniques, Continuous and Discrete optimization, Stochastic models, Optimization theory, Multi-person decisions, New Theories in Operational Research, Queueing Theory, Reliability Theory, Routing Theory, Measurement Theory, Marketing and Production Organization, Transportation Systems, Telecommunication theory, Applications in Computer engineering, Epidemiology, Financial mathematics, Information systems and traffic management, Inventory theory, Scheduling, Management Science, Applications in Science and Engineering,Related Topics
OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATIONS:
Optimization Theory, Linear Programming, Quadratic Programming, Convex Programming, Nonlinear Programming, Complementarity problems, Stochastic Programming, Combinatorial Programming, Integer Programming, Convex, Nonsmooth and Variational analysis, Multiobjective programming, Game Theory, Algorithms for parallel architectures, Global Optimization, Neural Networks for Optimization, Genetic Algorithms, Optimal Control, Stochastic Control, Variational Principles and Applications, Software Development for Optimization, Heuristic Algorithms for Optimization, Tabu Methods, Simulated Annealing, Computational Analysis of Optimization Algorithms
ALGORITHMS, DISCRETE MATHEMATICS, SYSTEMS, COMMUNICATIONS, CONTROL:
Algorithms Theory: New Problems - New Theories, Computational Complexity, Convergence, Error Analysis, Data structures, Algorithms on graphs, Arithmetic algorithms, Combinatorial searches and objects, Discrete optimization, Geometric algorithms, Methods of algorithmic analysis, New algorithms and data structures, New analyses or comparisons of known algorithms, Semantics, Predictive Semantics, Randomized Algorithms, Equational logic programming, Functional Languages, Parallel and Distributed Computation, Modern Problems in Discrete mathematics, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Functional systems theory, Coding, Cryptology, Object-Oriented Programming, Computerised Signal Processing, Computer Graphics, Computational Geometry, Industrial Systems, Real Time Systems, Multimedia, Probability problems of discrete mathematics, Discrete structures, Extremal problems, Posets, Enumeration problems, Network algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization and Mathematical Programming, Network optimization, Integer programming, Approximation algorithms, Randomized algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, Coding and Information Theory, Error-correcting codes, Data compression, Switching networks, Communication protocols, Number theory, Group Theory and Applications, Ideal Theory and Applications, Ring Theory and Applications, Field Theory and Applications, Galois Theory and Applications, Systems Theory, Control Systems, Robotics, Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic Systems and technology, Knowledge Modelling, Decision Support Systems, Hierarchical Control Systems, Aerospace Systems, Stochastic Systems, Non-linear Systems, Telecommunication Systems, Information Systems, Signal Processing Systems, Multidimensional Systems, Multivariable systems, Hybrid Systems, Multirate Systems, Speech and Image Processing Systems, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Manufacturing Systems, Decentralised Systems, Remote Sensing, Human-Machine Systems, Sonar and underwater acoustic systems, Undersea Systems, Navigation and Tracking Systems, Space Systems, Wavelets, Verification and Validation, Virtual Reality, Computer Vision, Computer Algebra, Symbolic Computation, Adaptive and Learning Systems, Classification, Identification, Mathematical Control Theory, Telecommunications, Communication Theory, Security, Protocols, Microwaves, Antennas, Radar, Propagation, Related Topics
COMPUTERS, EDUCATION:
Computer science and nonnumerical computing, Seminumerical Algorithms, Design and analysis of algorithms, Computational complexity, Theory of computer programming, Computational aspects of combinatorics, Graph theory, including enumeration, optimization, searching, and graph manipulation., Compilers, Inverse Compilation, Programming languages, Automata, Formal Languages, Information Theory, Galois Thoery and Applications in Computer Science, Semantics, Artificial intelligence, Computational learning, Databases theory, Information retrieval, Data structures, Networks, Cryptography and security, Distributed computing, Parallel Computing, Parallel Machines, Parallel algorithms, Operating systems, Computer architecture, Molecular Computing, Biocomputing, Computer Algebra, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Intelligent Control, Computational Geometry, Computers in Education, Software Engineering, Educational Software, Computers in Education, Educational Policy, Simulation, Related Topics, Other
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March 26-28, 2008, Napoli, Italy. Item #4213
EVOBIO 2008 6th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics.

Elena Marchiori. Email: elena AT cs DOT vu DOT nl.
Deadlines: submission: November 1.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

# biomarker discovery
# cell simulation and modelling
# ecological modelling
# fluxomics
# gene networks
# high-throughput biotechnology
# metabolomics
# microarray analysis
# phylogeny
# protein interaction
# proteomics
# sequence analysis and alignment
# biological networks analysis
# systems biology

March 30 - April 4, 2008, Las Vegas, USA. Item #4175
ICASSP 2008 - The 33rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

email: specialsessions@icassp2008.com.
Deadlines: papers: October 5; proposals for tutorials: November 9; proposals for sessions: August 17.
    *  Audio and electroacoustics
    * Bio imaging and signal processing
    * Design and implementation of signal processing systems
    * Image and multidimensional signal processing
    * Industry technology tracks
    * Information forensics and security
    * Machine learning for signal processing
    * Multimedia signal processing
    * Sensor array and multichannel systems
    * Signal processing education
    * Signal processing for communications
    * Signal processing theory and methods
    * Speech processing
    * Spoken language processing

April 2, 2008, Langkawi, Malaysia. Item #4162
ACST 2008 - The Fourth IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology.

email: calgary@iasted.org.
Deadlines: submissions: November 1.

April 4, 2008, Manchester, UK. Item #4256
Workshop "Local field potentials as a vista on the function of neural circuits: Advances and challenges for computational and mathematical Neuroscience".

email: neuralcoding@gmail.com.

Confirmed speakers:

* Stuart Baker (University of Newcastle): Correlating LFP with the
periphery: corticomuscular coherence and directed coherence

* Nicolas Brunel (University of Paris V) : Fast oscillations in network
models.

* Jozsef Csicsvari (University of Oxford): The role of network
oscillations in organising hippocampal cell assemblies.

* Alain Destexhe (CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette): The 1/f frequency scaling of
local field potentials and its relation to neuronal activity

* Rosalyn Moran (University College London): Bayesian Inference on
population synaptic physiology using Neural Mass Models of Local
Field Potentials

* Stefano Panzeri (University of Manchester): The information content
of local field potentials and spikes in visual cortex

A limited number of small bursaries to support the travel of PhD
students and postdocs are available for participants traveling within
the UK.  To apply, send an email to neuralcoding@gmail.com.

April 6-8, 2008, Hangzhou China, China. Item #4151
ACACOS '08 The 7th WSEAS International Conference on APPLIED COMPUTER & APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: December 31.
 TOPICS:
Programming Languages
Software Methodologies
Software Engineering
Software Requirements
Software Design and Development
Software Maintenance
Software Metrics
Software Testing
Educational Software
Fault Tolerance
Project Management
Intelligent Agents
JAVA, COBRA, XML
Web-based Software Engineering
Cyber-Science and Cyber-Space
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Security
Data Mining
Data Warehousing
Databases
Web Engineering
Internet based Data Bases
Software for Parallel and Distributed Systems
Mobile and Wireless Computing
Supercomputing
Software Evaluation Standards
Interconnection Networks
Optical Interconnection Networks
Broadband Networks
Mobile Networks
Network Applications
Parallel Computing Systems
Architectures
Supercomputing
Algorithms
High Performance Languages
Software Engineering
Reusability
Communication Software
Protocols
Routing
Scheduling
Communication
Fault Tolerance
Modelling and Simulation
Distributed Real Time Systems
Distributed Data Base
Distributed Knowledge-base Systems
Data Mining
Data Warehousing
Operating Systems
Distributed Multimedia
Performance Evaluation
Multimedia
Intelligent Systems
Digital Speech Processing
Statistical Methods for Signal Processing
Video technologies
Tele-automatic control
Tele-education
E-commerce
Tele-medicine and medical informatics
Tele-healthcare
Tele-manufacturing systems
Tele-artificial intelligence
Tele-robotics
Tele-informatics
Artificial intelligence
Computational linguistics
Computer networks
Wireless communications
Microstrip circuits and components
Sensors and measuring techniques
Remote sensing
Network Modelling
Optical Networking technologies
Microwaves, Antennas, Propagation,
Radar, Optical Communications
Mobile Communications and Networking
Routing and Switching technologies
Communication Systems' Architectures and Protocols
Signal Processing for Communications
Channel Estimation and Cancellation
Scattering, RF-IC, systems-on-chips
Traffic Modeling and Resource Management
Pervasive Computing and Middleware
Broadband Communications
Blue-Tooth Technologies
PCS/cellular and hybrid Systems
Satellite Communications
Wireless Local loops and Wireless LANS
Computer Applications in Business, Commerce and Economics
Computer Applications in Earth Sciences,
Computer Applications in Aerospace and Transportation Science
Computer Applications in Biology,
Computer Applications in Chemistry,
Computer Applications in Medicine, Healthcare and Bioengineering
Computer Applications in Acoustics, Music, Speech Processing
Computer Applications in Signal and Image Processing
Computer Applications in Communication
Computer Applications in Arts, Archaeology,
Computer Applications in Education and Animation
In general: any Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
Law Aspects related to informatics


April 6-8, 2008, Hangzhou China, China. Item #4152
ROCOM '08 The 8th WSEAS International Conference on Robotics, Control and Manufacturing Technology.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: December 31.
  TOPICS:
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
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
Instrumentation and Measurement
Sensors
Data and Knowledge Acquisition
Industrial Measurement, Electronics
VLSI for Manufacturing Systems
Supervision, Diagnosis and Man-Machine Interaction,
Flexible Structures, Modeling and Model Reduction
Production Planning
Scheduling and CIME
Quintitative methods
Transportation Systems
Environmental Engineering
Water and Gas Systems
Decision Support Systems
Large Scale manufacturing processes
Industrial Control
Complex Systems
Chemical Industry
Oil Industry
Car Industry
Mechatronics
Power Systems
Aerospace and Naval Applications
Others

April 7-9, 2008, Buffalo, USA. Item #4140
IWCIA 08 - 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis.

email: iwcia08@cs.fredonia.edu.
Deadlines: manuscripts: October 10.
Image analysis is a scientific discipline providing theoretical foundations and methods for solving problems appearing in a wide range of areas, as diverse as medicine, robotics, defense, and security. As a rule, the processed data are discrete; therefore, the "discrete approach" to image analysis appears to be a natural one and has an increasing importance. It is based on studying combinatorial properties of the considered digital data sets. Combinatorial image analysis often features various advantages (in terms of efficiency and accuracy) over the more traditional approaches based on continuous models requiring numeric computation.

The scientific program of the workshop will consist of keynote addresses, contributed papers presented in a single track, and posters.

April 7-8, 2008, Tuebingen, Germany. Item #4259
CVN Symposium.

Matthias Bethge. Email: mbethge@tuebingen.mpg.de.

To promote the interchange of ideas about principles of neural 
information processing in the visual system we are organizing a two-
day symposium on April 7+8. The symposium will be held at the Max-
Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen. It will 
start on Monday at 2 p.m. with a welcome reception and the official 
program ends on Tuesday with lunch. The time after lunch is free for 
discussions. Confirmed speakers are:

Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis University)
Eero Simoncelli (New York University (NYU))
Jonathan Victor (Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY)
Fred Wolf (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Goettingen)
Eberhart Zrenner (University Eye Hospital Tuebingen)

In addition to the talks we will also have a poster session with an 
award for the best student poster.

April 9-11, 2008, Porto, Portugal. Item #4258
Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” within EUROSIS EUROMEDIA 2008.

João Manuel R. S. Tavares. Email: tavares@fe.up.pt.
Deadlines: papers submission: February 5.
To accomplish efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, many research works have being done in many domains, like the ones related with medical image devices, signal processing, image processing and analysis, biomechanical simulation and data visualization.

The main goal of the Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” is to bring together researchers involved in the related domains, in order to set the major lines of development for the near future.

Therefore, the proposed Workshop will consist of researchers representing various fields related to Medical Devices, Signal Processing, Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Scientific Visualization, Mathematics and Medical Imaging. The Workshop endeavours to contribute to obtain better solutions for more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, and attempts to establish a bridge between clinicians and researchers from these diverse fields.

April 12-13, 2008, New York University, NY, USA. Item #4311
Workshop: DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS IN BIOLOGY to celebrate 70th birthday of Frank C. Hoppensteadt.

Eugene M. Izhikevich. Email: Editor-in-Chief@scholarpedia.org.

April 21-23, 2008, MIT, Cambridge, USA. Item #4208
American Computing Conference.

email: (WSEAS in subject): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: December 31.
 TOPICS:
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Data Bases, Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering, Industrial systems,  Autonomic and autonomous systems,  Knowledge data systems, Knowledge Mining, Web-based education, E-Activities (E-Commerce, E-Education, E-Health, E-Goverment), Security, Cryptology, Computer Vision, Intelligent Techniques, Computer Logic, Multimedia, Video Systems, Internet Technologies, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Language-Speech processing, Digital Systems Design, Remote Sensing, Quantum Computing, Nano-Computing, DNA Computing and Biologically Inspired Algorithms, Robotics, Computer Vision, Visualization and Virtualization, Computational Intelligence (Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computing),  Cognitive Systems, Systems performance, Networking and Telecommunications, Digital Communications, Applied Electromagnetics (Microwaves, Antennas, Radar, Scattering), Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation, Algorithms and Complexity, Graph Theory, Pattern Recognition, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Supercomputing, Computers in Education.

April 21, 2008, St, Louis, Missouri, USA. Item #4263
Workshop on Adaptive Sensing and Monitoring at IPSN-2008.

David Stracuzzi. Email: david.stracuzzi@asu.edu.
Deadlines: submissions: February 25.
The goal of this workshop is therefore to bring together researchers
with expertise in areas such as sensor technology, communication
technology, analysis techniques, and sensing applications to explore
the problem of how sensor networks and analysis systems can adapt
their performance to reflect complex, changing environments. In
particular, we invite novel submissions on the following topics, as
related to adaptive sensing and monitoring. This list is not
exhaustive, and authors may contact the workshop chair with questions
regarding the suitability of other topics.

    * Problem formulations
    * Evaluation techniques
    * Applications
    * Adapting sensor and communication behavior
    * Acquiring and adapting knowledge about the environment
    * Transforming low-level sensor data into high-level knowledge
    * Event detection
    * Knowledge representation 

April 21-25, 2008, Bangalore, India. Item #4308
Workshop on Machine Learning.

email: office@isim.ac.in.

Course Outline

Module 1.  Introduction: What is ML; Discriminative vs Generative ;
Regression Example
Module 2: Probability Theory ; Decision Theory ; Information Theory ;
Probability Distributions ; Linear Regression Models ;  Linear Basis
Functions ; Bias-Variance Trade-off ; Bayesian Linear Regression
Module 3.  Neural Networks and Kernel Machines: Biological Motivation;
Perceptrons ; Multilayer Networks and Backpropagation ;
Representational Power; Applications ; Support Vector Machines
Module 4.  Graphical Models and EM: Bayesian Networks; Conditional
Independence; Markov Random Fields ; Inference in Graphical Models ; K-
means Clustering ; Mixtures of Gaussians
Module 5. Sampling Methods: Basic Sampling Methods; Monte Carlo
Methods, Gibbs Sampling
Module 6: Sequential Data : Markov Models ; Hidden Markov Models ;
Extensions to HMMs ; Linear Dynamical Systems ; Conditional Random
Fields
Module 7. ML Applications with focus on  Information Retrieval,
Document Analysis and Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Data
Mining

April 23-25, 2008, Bruges, Belgium. Item #4202
ESANN'2008 - 16th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks Advances in Computational Intelligence and Learning.

email: esann@dice.ucl.ac.be.
Deadlines: papers: November 23.
THEORY and MODELS
 Statistical and mathematical aspects of learning
 Feedforward models
 Kernel machines
 Graphical models, EM and Bayesian learning
 Vector quantization and self-organizing maps
 Recurrent networks and dynamical systems
 Blind signal processing
 Ensemble learning
 Nonlinear projection and data visualization
 Fuzzy neural networks
 Evolutionary computation
 Bio-inspired systems
 
 INFORMATION PROCESSING and APPLICATIONS
 Data mining
 Signal processing and modeling
 Approximation and identification
 Classification and clustering
 Feature extraction and dimension reduction
 Time series forecasting
 Multimodal interfaces and multichannel processing
 Adaptive control
 Vision and sensory systems
 Biometry
 Bioinformatics
 Brain-computer interfaces
 Neuroinformatics

April 23, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark. Item #4287
Conference on Machine Learning in Structural Bioinformatics.

Thomas Hamelryck, Group leader Structural Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics center, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. Email: Thomas.Hamelryck@gmail.com.

April 24-26, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Item #4193
SDM'08: 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.

Shusaku Tsumoto. Email: tsumoto@computer.org.
Deadlines: abstract: October 5; paper: October 12.
Methods and Algorithms:
- Classification, Clustering, and Frequent Pattern Mining
- Probabilistic and Statistical Methods
- Spatial and Temporal Mining, Data Stream Mining
- Abnormality and Outlier Detection
- Feature Selection, Feature Extraction, Dimension Reduction and Data Reduction
- Mining with Constraints, Data Cleaning and Noise Reduction
- Computational Learning Theory, Multi-Task Learning
- Adaptive Algorithms, Scalable and High-Performance Mining
- Mining Graphs, Semistructured Data, Complex Datasets
- Mining on Emerging Architectures
- Text and Web Mining

Applications:
- Astronomy & Astrophysics, High Energy Physics
- Collaborative Filtering
- Earth Science
- Risk Management
- Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Finance
- Genomics and Bioinformatics, Drug Discovery, Healthcare Management
- Automation & Process Control, Logistics Management
- Intrusion and Fraud detection
- Intelligence Analysis, Biosurveillance
- Sensor Network Applications
- Social Network Analysis
- Application Case Studies and Other Novel Applications

Human Factors and Social Issues:
- Ethics of Data Mining, Intellectual Ownership
- Privacy Models, Privacy Preserving Data Mining and Data Publishing
- Risk Analysis
- Interestingness and Relevance
- User Interfaces, Data and Result Visualization

April 28-29, 2008, Sousse, Tunisie. Item #4288
CIM ' 08 International Congress on the Innovations in Mechanics "Product LifeCycle Management (PLM)".

Dr. Sergio Terzi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Viale Marconi 5, 24044, Dalmine (BG) - Italy, tel: +39 035 2052 385, fax: +39 035 2052 077, email: sergio.terzi@unibg.it, email: info@plm-iwg.org.

May 2-4, 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria. Item #4145
NN'08 The 9th WSEAS International Conference on Neural Networks.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: January 15.
 TOPICS:
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


May 2-4, 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria. Item #4153
FS'08 The 9th WSEAS International Conference on Fuzzy Systems.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: January 15.
 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

May 2-4, 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria. Item #4154
EC'08 The 9th WSEAS International Conference on Evolutionary Computing.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: January 15.
 TOPICS:
Mathematical foundation of Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing
Evolution Strategies
Evolutionary Programming,
Probabilistic and Statistical problems in EC
Simulation
Co evolution 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 Pattern Recognition
EC applications in Communications
EC applications in Networking
EC applications in Power Systems
EC applications 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

May 11-15, 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Spain. Item #4141
ICINCO 2008 - International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics.

Marina Carvalho, ICINCO Secretariat, Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal, Portugal, tel: +351 265 520 185, fax: +351 265 520 186, email: secretariat@icinco.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: December 4.
CONFERENCE AREAS:
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
 Planning and Scheduling
 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

2. Robotics and Automation
 Robot design, development and control
 Human-robots interfaces
 Network robotics
 Mobile robots and autonomous systems
 Human augmentation and shared control
 Cybernetics
 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)
 Reasoning about action for intelligent robots
 Natural language dialogue with robots 

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

May 12-14, 2008, Santorini Island, Greece. Item #4176
ICVS 2008 - The 6th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems.

Dimitrios Chrysostomou. Email: info@icvs2008.info.
Deadlines: paper submission: November 11.
ICVS 2008 is the 6th International Conference dedicated in advanced research on Computer Vision Systems. In the past years, with the advances in microelectronics and digital technology, cameras became a widespread media. This gave thrust to the development of new and fast computer vision systems. To further encourage the research in this area this conference aims to gather researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide to explore the state-of-the-art. The program committee invites you to attend the conference, which will be held in the sunlit island of Santorini, and submit papers on all aspects of computer vision systems including, but not limited to:

bulletComputer vision from a system perspective: paradigms, applications, architectures, integration and control

bulletCognitive vision techniques for recognition and categorization, knowledge representation, learning, reasoning, goal specification and context awareness

bulletMethods and metrics for performance evaluation and benchmarking

May 13-15, 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Item #4222
ICCCE'08 International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering.

http://www.iiu.edu.my/iccce/08/.
Deadlines: abstracts: November 1.
Conference Topics

Papers are invited in topics that cover, but are not limited to:

        * Agents, Knowledge-Based Technologies
        * Bioinformatics Engineering
        * Computer Architecture and Design
        * Computer Networks and Security
        * Data Mining and Database Applications
        * High Performance Networks and Protocols
        * Multimedia and Web Services
        * Network Reliability and QoS
        * Neural Networks and Intelligent Systems
        * Software Engineering and Agile Development
        * Antennas and Propagation
        * Information Theory and Coding
        * Multiple Access Techniques
        * Optical Communications and Photonics
        * RF and Microwave Devices
        * RFID, RFIS
        * Satellite, Space and Wireless Communications
        * Signal and Image Processing
        * 3G, 4G Mobile Communications
        * Communications IC Design
        * Instrumentation and Control
        * VLSI Design
        * Ethics in Informatics and Engineering
        * Other related topics 

May 14-15, 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. Item #4165
ANNIIP 2008 - The Fourth International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing In conjunction with ICINCO 2008.

email: workshops@icinco.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: February 4.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Bio-inspired Artificial Neural Networks
- Hybrid information processing
- Hierarchical Artificial Neural Network models and systems
- Intelligent sensors and smart instrumentation
- Self-organizing systems
- Self-diagnosable machines
- Self-optimizing systems
- Cooperative Artificial Neural Networks based systems
- Social behavior based systems
- Multi-agent and distributed intelligent systems
- Neuro-Fuzzy and Fuzzy logic based systems
- Artificial Neural Networks based pattern recognition
- Artificial Neural Networks based signal processing
- Artificial Neural Networks based data fusion
- Artificial Neural Networks based data mining
- Artificial Neural Networks based image processing
- Artificial Neural Networks based decision
- Artificial Neural Network based control
- Artificial Neural Network based system identification
- Artificial Neural Network in robustness and safety
- Artificial Neural Network software and hardware issues
- Modular Artificial Neural Network based systems
- Modular implementation of Artificial Neural Networks
- Stability and instability in Artificial Neural networks
- Artificial Neural Network based solutions for industrial environment 

May 14, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Item #4252
Twelfth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.

Cynthia Bradford. Email: cindy@bu.edu.
Deadlines: abstracts: January 31.

May 19-22, 2008, New York, USA. Item #4266
NAFIPS'08 The 27th Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society.

Joe Barone. Email: president_elect at nafips.org.
Deadlines: papers submission: January 27.
NAFIPS'08 aims to bring together researchers, engineers and
practitioners to present the latest achievements and innovations in
the area of fuzzy information processing, to discuss thought-provoking
developments and challenges, and to consider potential future
directions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Fuzzy sets methodology/Algorithms/Mathematics
Computational Intelligence/Learning
Fuzzy modeling/Intelligent data analysis
Pattern recognition/Image processing
Data mining/Databases
Human-centric interfaces/Visualization
Neuro-fuzzy systems/Evolutionary optimization
Adaptive systems/Uncertainty management
Control/Robotics/Computer vision
Bioinformatics/Software engineering/Intelligent agents
Applications/Computational experiments/Case studies
Hybrid architectures

May 19-20, 2008, Spa, Belgium. Item #4293
BENELEARN 2008 - 17th annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning.

email: benelearn08@gmail.com.
Deadlines: abstract submission: April 4.
Contributions are now being invited that are relevant to machine
learning and related disciplines in a broad sense. Topics include, but
are not limited to:

Kernel Methods                           Web/Link Mining
Bayesian Networks                        Case-based Learning
Computational Learning Theory            Data Mining
Evolutionary Computation                 Hybrid Learning Systems
Inductive Learning                       Learning and Ubiquitous
Inductive Logic Programming                Computing
Knowledge Discovery in Databases         Language Learning
Learning in Bioinformatics               Learning for Multi-Agent
Learning in Dynamic Domains                 Systems
Multi-strategy Learning                  Neural Networks
Reinforcement Learning                   Robot Learning
Scientific Discovery                     Meta-Learning
Statistical Learning                     Learning for Language, Speech
Computational models of Human Learning   Applications

May 22-24, 2008, Vietri sul Mare, Italy. Item #4302
International Workshop on Neural Network 2008 on The Neural Paradigm: Past, Present and Future.

Simone Bassis. Email: bassis@dsi.unimi.it.
Deadlines: papers: March 23.

May 25, 2008, Haifa, Israel. Item #4337
Machine Learning seminar.

Elad Yom-Tov, yomtov@yom-tov.info.
Deadlines: submissions:y May 11.

May 26, 2008, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Item #4163
MS 2008 - The 19th IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation.

email: calgary@iasted.org.
Deadlines: papers, tutorials, special sessions: January 15.
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
    * Visualization
    * Virtual Reality
    * Synthetic Environments
    * Applications

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS MODELLING

    * Air Modelling and Simulation
    * Atmospheric Modelling
    * Hazardous Material
    * 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

ENERGY AND POWER SYSTEMS MODELLING

    * 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 BIOMECHANICS

    * 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
    * Orthopaedic 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 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
    * Work Flow Management
    * Total Quality Management
    * Logistics
    * Risk Analysis
    * Scheduling
    * Forecasting
    * Cost Benefit Analysis
    * Economic Revitalization
    * Financial Models
    * Accounting
    * Policy Issues
    * Regulatory Impact Analysis

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 27-29, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #4155
ACMOS '08 - 10th WSEAS International Conference on Automatic Control, Modelling and Simulation.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: February 15.
 TOPICS:
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

May 27-29, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #4156
SIP '08 - 7th WSEAS International Conference on Signal Processing.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: February 15.
TOPICS:

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, synthesis, coding and 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
Measurement and Instrumentation
Applications

May 27-30, 2008, Minsk, Belarus. Item #4210
ICNNAI'2008 The Third International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Rauf Sadykhov (Co-Chairman), Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Brovka str. 6, Minsk, 220027, Belarus, fax: +375017 231 09 82, rsadykhov@gw.bsuir.unibel.by.
Deadlines: forthcoming.
Topics

    * 1. Cognitive Science Neuro psychological systems
    * Brain-like models
    * Learning and memory
    * Neuro cognition
    * Models of behaviour
    * Models of perception

	

    * 2. Theory and Algorithms Neural network architectures
    * Learning algorithms
    * Self-organizing systems
    * Chaos theory
    * Fuzzy neural systems
    * Genetic algorithms
    * Neuro dynamics and spiking neuron

	

    * 3. Neural Networks Applications Data mining
    * Signal processing
    * Intelligent control and mobile robots
    * Time-series prediction
    * Pattern recognition and image processing
    * Speech recognition and language processing
    * Hardw
Topics

    * 1. Cognitive Science Neuro psychological systems
    * Brain-like models
    * Learning and memory
    * Neuro cognition
    * Models of behaviour
    * Models of perception

	

    * 2. Theory and Algorithms Neural network architectures
    * Learning algorithms
    * Self-organizing systems
    * Chaos theory
    * Fuzzy neural systems
    * Genetic algorithms
    * Neuro dynamics and spiking neuron

	

    * 3. Neural Networks Applications Data mining
    * Signal processing
    * Intelligent control and mobile robots
    * Time-series prediction
    * Pattern recognition and image processing
    * Speech recognition and language processing
    * Hardw
Topics

    * 1. Cognitive Science Neuro psychological systems
    * Brain-like models
    * Learning and memory
    * Neuro cognition
    * Models of behaviour
    * Models of perception

	

    * 2. Theory and Algorithms Neural network architectures
    * Learning algorithms
    * Self-organizing systems
    * Chaos theory
    * Fuzzy neural systems
    * Genetic algorithms
    * Neuro dynamics and spiking neuron

	

    * 3. Neural Networks Applications Data mining
    * Signal processing
    * Intelligent control and mobile robots
    * Time-series prediction
    * Pattern recognition and image processing
    * Speech recognition and language processing
    * Hardware implementation
    * Multi-agents systems
    * Application in engineering, medicine and business
    * High performance computing
    * Intelligent sensorsare implementation
    * Multi-agents systems
    * Application in engineering, medicine and business
    * High performance computing
    * Intelligent sensorsare implementation
    * Multi-agents systems
    * Application in engineering, medicine and business
    * High performance computing
    * Intelligent sensors

May 27-29, 2008, Amman, Jordan. Item #4280
ISMA08 - fifth International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (.

M. A. Jarrah, Professor, ISMA General Chair and Steering Committee Chair, American University of Sharjah, P.O. Box: 26666, Sharjah, UAE, tel: +971 6 5152934, fax: +971 6 5152979, email: mjarrah@aus.edu.
Deadlines: papers: January 27.

May 27-29, 2008, Cumberland Lodge, United Kingdom. Item #4314
PASCAL2 WORKSHOP ON APPROXIMATE INFERENCE IN STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS.

email: ais@cs.ucl.ac.uk.
Deadlines: abstract submission: April 20.

May 27-29, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Item #4324
ACC'08 Applied Computing Conference.

email: wseas-team@wseas.org with WSEAS in the Subject.
Deadlines: papers: April 15.

May 28-30, 2008, Sanya, Hainan, China. Item #4201
BMEI 2008 International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics.

email: bmei2008@hainu.edu.cn.
Deadlines: submission: November 10.

May 28-30, 2008, Sanya, Hainan, China. Item #4203
CISP 2008 International Congress on Image and Signal Processing.

email: cisp2008@hainu.edu.cn.
Deadlines: submission: November 10.

June 1-6, 2008, Hong Kong. Item #4015
WCCI 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.

Jun Wang. Email: jwang@mae.cuhk.edu.hk.
Deadlines: proposals for sessions: November 1; papers: December 1; proposals for tutorials and workshops: January 1.
Topics of IJCNN2008  	Topics of FUZZ2008  	Topics of ECE2008
# Computational neuroscience

# Connectionist theory and cognitive science

# Mathematical modeling of neural systems

# Neurodynamic analysis

# Neurodynamic optimization and adaptive dynamic programming

# Embedded neural systems

# Probabilistic and information-theoretic methods

# Principal and independent component analysis

# Hybrid intelligent systems

# Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning

# Brain Imaging and neural information processing

# Neuroinformatics and bioinformatics

# Support vector machines and kernel methods

# Autonomous mental development

# Data mining and pattern recognition

# Time series analysis

# Image and signal processing

# Robotic and control applications

# Telecommunications and transportation systems

# Intrusion detection and fault diagnosis

# Hardware implementation

# Real-world applications
# 	Fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory

# Fuzzy-neuro-evolutionary -rough hybrids

# Fuzzy and rough data analysis

# Fuzzy optimization and design

# Fuzzy decision making

# Fuzzy data Analysis

# Fuzzy systems modeling and identification

# Fuzzy mathematics

# Fuzzy systems architectures and hardware

# Fuzzy pattern recognition and image processing

# Fuzzy control and systems

# Fuzzy data mining and forecasting

# Fuzzy information processing

# Fuzzy human interface

# Fuzzy internet and multimedia

# Fuzzy computing with words

# Granular computing

# Real-world applications
# 	Ant colony optimization

# Artificial immune systems

# Artificial ecology

# Artificial life

# Autonomous mental and behaviour development

# Bioinformatics and bioengineering

# Classifier systems

# Coevolution and collective behaviour

# Cognitive systems and applications

# Combinatorial and numerical optimization

# Constraint and uncertainty handling

# Differential evolution

# Evolutionary computation for bioinformatics

# Evolutionary computation in dynamic and uncertain environments

# Evolutionary computer vision

# Evolutionary data mining

# Evolutionary design

# Evolutionary games

# Evolutionary intelligent agents

# Evolutionary learning systems

# Evolutionary robotics

# Evolutionary techniques in economics, finance and marketing

# Evolvable hardware and software

# Evolved art and music

# Evolving neural networks and fuzzy systems

# Hybrid optimisation algorithms

# Memetic and hybrid algorithms

# Multi-objective optimization

# Molecular and quantum computing

# Particle swarm intelligence

# Real-world applications

# Representation and operators

# Self-adaptation in evolutionary algorithms

# Swarm Intelligence (e.g., ant colony, particle swarm, differential evolution, cultural algorithms)

# Theory of evolutionary computation

June 1-6, 2008, Cleveland, OH, USA. Item #4251
AMAM: Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines.

Auke Ijspeert. Email: auke.ijspeert@epfl.ch.
Deadlines: abstracts for posters: January 31.
AMAM08 is the fourth international symposium
dedicated to
the neuromechanics, sensory perception, and intelligence
behind adaptive movement in animals, and the modeling,
analysis, and technical development of adaptive movement
in animals and machines.  Previous symposia were held in
Montreal, Canada (2000); Kyoto, Japan (2003); and
Ilmenau, Germany (2005).

The symposium will include a single track of keynote (evening),
plenary, and invited seminar speakers, plus poster sessions.
We will also continue the tradition of a "Robot Zoo," where
researchers may demonstrate their latest machines.

Poster abstracts are invited in all areas pertaining to adaptive
motion in animals and machines.  We especially encourage
submission in the three main focus areas for AMAM08:
* Robotics
* Neurobiology of Movement Behavior
* Functional Electrical Stimulation

June 1-3, 2008, Marathon Beach, Attica, Greece. Item #4343
WORLD CONFERENCE: "Applied Mathematics, Simulation, Modelling 2008".

Prof. K. S. Thoma. Email: thomas2008k@gmail.com.
Deadlines: paper: May 15.

June 3-6, 2008, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Item #4177
IV2008 - IEEE Intelligent Vehicle conference.

email: info@iv2008.nl.
Deadlines: paper submission: December 15.

June 3-6, 2008, Chania, Crete, Greece. Item #4296
CHAOS2008 Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference.

Christos H. Skiadas, Conference Chair, Data Analysis and Forecasting Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Crete, Greece, skiadas@asmda.net.
Deadlines: abstracts, regular papers, posters and special and invited sessions: March 10.
Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Stochastic Chaos, Chemical Chaos, Data Analysis and  Chaos, Hydrodynamics, Turbulence and Plasmas, Optics and Chaos, Chaotic Oscillations and Circuits, Chaos in Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Flows, Biology and Chaos, Neurophysiology and Chaos, Hamiltonian systems, Chaos in Astronomy and Astrophysics,  Chaos and Solitons, Micro- and Nano- Electro-Mechanical Systems, Neural Networks and Chaos, Ecology and Economy.

June 8-10, 2008, Antalya, Turkey. Item #4185
VSS 2008 - The 10th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems.

Okyay Kaynak (TR), email: okyay.kaynak@boun.edu.tr.
Deadlines: papers: February 9.
  . 	

The scope of the conference will cover but is not limited to:

Adaptive control 	Industrial automation
Aerospace control 	Intelligent control
Architectures for signal processing and control algorithms 	Large scale structures
Automotive control 	Linear systems
Chattering suppression 	Marine control
Communication protocols in control 	Modeling and simulation
Control in communication networks 	Neural networks
Decentralized control 	Non-linear systems
Discrete event systems 	Power systems
Distributed control 	Predictive control
Fuzzy systems 	Process control
Hybrid systems 	Real-time control
Identification and observation 	Robotics
	Robust control

June 9-10, 2008, Santorini, Greece. Item #4196
1st Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing.

Masashi Sugiyama. Email: sugi@cs.titech.ac.jp.
Deadlines: paper: January 5.
   * Learning theory and modelling
   * Bayesian learning and models
   * Information theoretic learning
   * Graphical and kernel methods
   * Adaptive learning algorithms
   * Ensembles: committees, mixtures, boosting, etc.
   * Data representation and analysis, PCA, ICA, CCA, etc.
   * Other related topics

   * Cognitive radio
   * Cognitive component analysis
   * Cogntive dynamical systems
   * Distributed, cooperative and adaptive processing
   * Other related topics

June 12-16, 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Item #4220
ICEIS2008 - 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems.

email: secretariat@iceis.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: November 30.
  CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

    1. Databases and Information Systems Integration 
    2. Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems 
    3. Information Systems Analysis and Specification 
    4. Software Agents and Internet Computing 
    5. Human-Computer Interaction 


AREA 1: Databases and Information Systems Integration

        * Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources 
        * Enterprise Resource Planning
        * Middleware Integration 
        * Legacy Systems 
        * Organisational Issues on Systems Integration 
        * Distributed Database Applications
        * Object-Oriented Database Systems 
        * Enterprise-Wide Client-Server Architecture 
        * Database Security and Transaction Support 
        * Data Warehouses 
        * Multimedia Database Applications 
        * Web Databases 
        * Mobile Databases
        * Software Engineering
        * Software Measurement

AREA 2: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems

        * Intelligent Agents 
        * Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence 
        * Strategic Decision Support Systems 
        * Group Decision Support Systems 
        * Applications of Expert Systems 
        * Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic 
        * Advanced Applications of Neural Network 
        * Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems 
        * Bayesian Networks 
        * Evolutionary Programming  
        * Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems 
        * Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications 
        * Intelligent Tutoring Systems 
        * Datamining
        * Case-Based Reasoning Systems
        * Knowledge-based Systems Engineering
        * Knowledge Management

AREA 3: Information Systems Analysis and Specification

        * Systems Engineering Methodologies 
        * Information Engineering Methodologies 
        * Organisational Semiotics 
        * Semiotics in Computing 
        * Requirements Analysis 
        * Ontology Engineering 
        * Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations (e.g. UML, ER variants) 
        * CASE Tools for System Development 
        * Modelling of Distributed Systems 
        * Modelling Concepts and Information Integration Tools 
        * Business Processes Re-engineering
        * Security, Freedom and Privacy

AREA 4: Software Agents and Internet Computing

        * B2B and B2C Applications 
        * Process Design and Organisational Issues in e-Commerce 
        * E-Procurement and Web-based supply chain management 
        * Market-spaces: market portals, hubs, auctions 
        * E-Learning and e-Teaching 
        * Intranet and Extranet Business Applications 
        * Agents for Internet Computing 
        * Web Information Agents 
        * Case studies on Electronic Commerce 
        * Public sector applications of e-Commerce 
        * Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications 
        * Network Implementation Choices 
        * Object Orientation in Internet and Distributed Computing 
        * Internet and Collaborative Computing
        * Semantic Web Technologies
        * Wireless and Mobile Computing
        * Agent-Oriented Programming

AREA 5: Human-Computer Interaction

        * HCI on Enterprise Information Systems 
        * Functional and non-functional Requirements 
        * Internet HCI: Web Interfaces and Usability 
        * Design Methodology and Cognitive Factors in Design
        * Multimedia Systems
        * Machine perception: vision, speech, other
        * Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
        * Intelligent User Interfaces
        * User Needs 
        * Human Factors 
        * Accessibility to Disabled Users 
        * Geographical Information Systems
        * E-Learning
        * Computer Art

June 15 - July 4, 2008, Okinawa, Japan. Item #4278
OKINAWA COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE COURSE 2008 - Methods, Neurons, Networks and Behaviors.

Erik De Schutter. Email: erik@oist.jp.
Deadlines: applications: February 17.

June 18-20, 2008, Wroclaw, Poland. Item #4113
The Twenty First International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems.

email: iea-aie@pwr.wroc.pl.
Deadlines: proposals for sessions: September 29; papers: November 8.
Topics relevant for submissions to IEA/AIE'2008 include the following:

    * Active Mining
    * Adaptive Control
    * Application to Design
    * Applications to Manufacturing
    * Autonomous Agents
    * Bio-informatics
    * Case-based Reasoning
    * Chance Discovery
    * Computer Vision
    * Constraint Satisfaction
    * Conversational Informatics
    * Data Mining & KDS
    * Distributed Problem Solving
    * Expert Systems
    * Fuzzy Logic
    * Genetic Algorithms
    * Genetic Programming
    * Heuristic Search
    * Human Robot Interaction

	

    * Integration Systems for Real Life Applics.
    * Intelligent Interfaces
    * Intelligent Systems
    * Intelligent Systems in Education
    * Internet Applications
    * KBS Methodology
    * Knowledge Management
    * Knowledge Processing
    * Machine Learning
    * Model-based Reasoning
    * Multi-Agent Systems
    * Natural Language Processing
    * Neural Networks
    * Planning and Scheduling
    * Reasoning under Uncertainty
    * Spatial Reasoning
    * Speech Recognition System
    * Temporal Reasoning

June 18-20, 2008, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Item #4346
Workshop on Inference and Estimation in Probabilistic Time-Series Models.

email: silvia.chiappa@tuebingen.mpg.de.
Deadlines: passed.

June 19-21, 2008, Poznań, Poland. Item #4221
15th International Conference Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Dr. Mariusz Orlikowski, Technical University of Lodz, Dept. of Microelectronics and Computer Science, al. Politechniki 11, 90-924 Lodz, Poland. Tel: +48 604397239, fax: +48 426360327, email: mixdes2008@dmcs.p.lodz.pl.
Deadlines: papers: February 28.
 The MIXDES conference series started in Debe near Warsaw in 1994 and has been organized yearly in different Polish cities. This year we would like to continue the tradition of inviting you to the most attractive places in Poland and the will take place in Poznań. In a relatively short period of time the conference has become a significant event in the field in the Central Europe encompassing research in design, modeling, simulation, testing and manufacturing in various areas such as micro- and nanoelectronics, semiconductors, sensors, actuators and power devices.

The topics of the MIXDES Conference include:

1. Design of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems
Design methodologies. Digital and analog synthesis. Hardware-software codesign. Reconfigurable hardware. Hardware description languages. Intellectual property-based design. Design reuse.

2. Thermal Issues in Microelectronics
Thermal and electro-thermal modelling, simulation methods and tools. Thermal mapping. Thermal protection circuits.

3. Analysis and Modelling of ICs and Microsystems
Simulation methods and algorithms. Behavioural modelling with VHDL-AMS and other advanced modelling languages. Microsystems modelling. Model reduction. Parameter identification.

4. Microelectronics Technology and Packaging
New microelectronic technologies. Packaging. Sensors and actuators.

5. Testing and Reliability
Design for testability and manufacturability. Measurement instruments and techniques.

6. Power Electronics
Design, manufacturing, and simulation of power semiconductor devices. Hybrid and monolithic Smart Power circuits. Power integration.

7. Signal Processing
Digital and analogue filters, telecommunication circuits. Neural networks. Artificial intelligence. Fuzzy logic. Low voltage and low power solutions.

8. Embedded Systems
Design, verif The MIXDES conference series started in Debe near Warsaw in 1994 and has been organized yearly in different Polish cities. This year we would like to continue the tradition of inviting you to the most attractive places in Poland and the will take place in Poznań. In a relatively short period of time the conference has become a significant event in the field in the Central Europe encompassing research in design, modeling, simulation, testing and manufacturing in various areas such as micro- and nanoelectronics, semiconductors, sensors, actuators and power devices.

The topics of the MIXDES Conference include:

1. Design of Integrated Circuits and Microsystems
Design methodologies. Digital and analog synthesis. Hardware-software codesign. Reconfigurable hardware. Hardware description languages. Intellectual property-based design. Design reuse.

2. Thermal Issues in Microelectronics
Thermal and electro-thermal modelling, simulation methods and tools. Thermal mapping. Thermal protection circuits.

3. Analysis and Modelling of ICs and Microsystems
Simulation methods and algorithms. Behavioural modelling with VHDL-AMS and other advanced modelling languages. Microsystems modelling. Model reduction. Parameter identification.

4. Microelectronics Technology and Packaging
New microelectronic technologies. Packaging. Sensors and actuators.

5. Testing and Reliability
Design for testability and manufacturability. Measurement instruments and techniques.

6. Power Electronics
Design, manufacturing, and simulation of power semiconductor devices. Hybrid and monolithic Smart Power circuits. Power integration.

7. Signal Processing
Digital and analogue filters, telecommunication circuits. Neural networks. Artificial intelligence. Fuzzy logic. Low voltage and low power solutions.

8. Embedded Systems
Design, verification and applications.

9. Medical Applications
Medical and biotechnology applications. Thermography in medicine.ication and applications.

9. Medical Applications
Medical and biotechnology applications. Thermography in medicine.

June 19-21, 2008, Linz, Austria. Item #4289
5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous System.

Norman Weiss. Email: norman. weiss (at) ciras2008.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: April 21.

June 19-20, 2008, Columbus, Ohio, United States. Item #4290
ACL-08: HLT Workshop on Mobile Language Processing.

Barbara Rosario. Email: barbara.rosario@intel.com.
Deadlines: paper submission: March 7.
We solicit papers on topics including, but not limited to the following:

·       Special challenges of NLP for mobile devices

·       Applications of NLP for mobile devices

·       NLP enhanced by sensor data

·       Distributed NLP

·       Speech and multimodal interfaces

·       Machine translation

·       Language model sharing

·       Applications for the developing regions

June 20-25, 2008, Moscow, Russia. Item #4214
OnCogSci 2008 Third International Conference on Cognitive Science.

http://www.cogsci2008.ru/eng/.
Deadlines: 1 abstracts: December.

June 21-25, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA. Item #4315
"The NEURON Simulation Environment" (NEURON 2008 Summer Course).

Ted Carnevale, Neurobiology Dept. Yale University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 208001, New Haven, CT 06520-8001. Tel: 203 494 7381, email: ted.carnevale@yale.edu.
Deadlines: applications: June 2.
Description:
This intensive hands-on course covers the design, construction,
and use of models in the NEURON simulation environment. It is
intended primarily for those who are concerned with models of
biological neurons and neural networks that are closely linked
to empirical observations, e.g. experimentalists who wish to
incorporate modeling in their research plans, and theoreticians
who are interested in the principles of biological computation.
The course is designed to be useful and informative for registrants
at all levels of experience, from those who are just beginning
to those who are already quite familiar with NEURON or other
simulation tools.

June 22-26, 2008, Zakopane, Poland. Item #3982
ICAISC 2008 9-th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing.

Jacek M. Zirada. Email: jacek.zurada@louisville.edu.
Deadlines: papers: October 15.

June 22-25, 2008, Tainan, Taiwan. Item #4195
APCOT2008 Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology.

email: apcot08@conf.ncku.edu.tw.
Deadlines: abstract submission: January 13.
01 - Theory, Design, Analysis of MEMS and NEMS
02 - Nano Devices & Nanotechnology
03 - Materials and Device Characterization
04 - Fabrication Technologies
05 - Packaging and Assembly Technology
06 - Mechanical and Physical Sensors
07 - Chemical Sensors and Microsystems
08 - Bio Microsystems & Fluidic Systems
09 - Actuators
10 - Optical MEMS and Nano-optics
11 - RF MEMS/NEM
12 - Sensing System, Algorithm & Sensor Networks

June 22-27, 2008, Malaga, Spain. Item #4272
Uncertainty in Machine Learning and Data Mining session at IPMU-08.

Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany. Email: F.Klawonn(a)FH-Wolfenbuettel.DE.
Deadlines: paper: January 31.

June 22-25, 2008, Nice, France. Item #4318
FORECASTING WITH NEURAL NETWORKS & COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE - Special Conference Track, Tutorial & Forecasting Competition.

Sven F. Crone, Deputy Director, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, Assistant Professor in Management Science (Lecturer), Lancaster University Management School, Dept. of Management Science, Lancaster LA1 4YX, United Kingdom, tel: +44 (0)1524 592991direct, tel: +44 (0)1524 593867 department - fax: +44 (0)1524 844885, Internet http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk, email: s.crone@neural-forecasting.com.
Deadlines: passed.

June 23, 2008, Corfu, Greece. Item #4164
ASM 2008 - The 17th IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling.

email: calgary@iasted.org.
Deadlines: papers, tutorials, special sessions: January 15.
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

June 23-27, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #4200
CAD08.

http://www.cadconferences.com.
Deadlines: papers: November 30, 2007.
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EMERGING CAD

Bio-CAD, soft-CAD and CAD/CAM at the nanoscale;
Knowledge engineering, design intent, intelligent CAD;
PLM, PDM and CAD data mining;
CAD in the garment and fashion industries;
CAD in the arts and creative media;
Evolutionary and genetic algorithms in CAD;
CAD and the internet, web enabled design;
Design theory, the theoretical foundations of CAD;
CAD education, the design of curricula and educational materials;
CAD engines, hardware acceleration to speed up CAD processes; and
Human factors in CAD, humanizing engineering design.
TRADITIONAL CAD

Geometric, solid and heterogeneous modeling;
CAD data bases, data exchange and standards;
Virtual an augmented reality in CAD;
Applications of computational geometry;
Collaborative, conceptual and feature based design;
Numerical control, machining theory and practice;
Design computing, AI in design;
Geometric and engineering tolerances;
Meshes, FEA and discretization issues;
Reverse engineering, rapid prototyping; and
Process planning and assembly design.

June 23-25, 2008, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Item #4228
DCC'08 Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition.

John Gero. Email: john@johngero.com.
Deadlines: abstracts: December 14; papers for review due, electronic submission: January 18.

June 24-26, 2008, Bucharest, Romania. Item #4157
MCBC '08 - 9th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS & COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY & CHEMISTRY.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: March 30.
TOPICS:
 

PART 1: Mathematical Models (Deterministic and Stochastic), Modelling and Simulation,
 Experiments and Computer Analysis, Statistics, Optimization, Advanced Mathematics
 (Differential Geometry, Operator Analysis, Non-linear analysis and Chaos, ...),
 Computer Science (Data Bases, Data Structures, Software Engineering, Reliability), Computational
 Intelligence (NN, FL and EC), Practical Methods, Empirical and Semi-Empirical Methods in:

Molecular Dynamics
Biochemistry
Biophysics
Quantum Chemistry
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Immunology
Neurophysiology
Genetics
Population Dynamics
Dynamics of Diseases
Bioecology
Epidemiology
Social Dynamics
PhotoBiology, PhotoChemistry
Plant Biology
Microbiology
Bioinformatics
Signal Transduction
Environmental Systems
Psychological and Cognitive Systems
Pattern Formation
Evolution, Game Theory and Adaptive Dynamics

PART 2: Bio-Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Bioengineering
Biotechnolgies
Medical Imaging
2-dimensional and 3-Dimensional Signal Processing
Feedback Control in Biology and Chemistry
Fluid Mechanics and Applications in Biomedicine
Space Medicine and Biology
Chemical Engineering
Reactor Engineering
Nuclear Chemistry
Nuclear Biology and Medicine
Cancer Therapy and Mathematical Models
Protection from Nuclear Accidents
Automatic Control in Chemical Processes
Speech Synthesis

PART 3: Miscellaneous

Semi-empirical and mixed classical/quantum mechanics methods
Impulsive Differential Equations in Biology
Experiments Design
Agricultural Systems and production
Economic Systems

June 24-26, 2008, Bucharest, Romania. Item #4158
MCBE '08 - 9th WSEAS International Conference on MATHEMATICS & COMPUTERS IN BUSINESS &ECONOMICS.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: March 30.
TOPICS:
Mathematical Methods, Computational Techniques, Statistical Methods, Simulation, Mathematical or Computer Analysis of Experimental Methods, Educational Topics in the following areas:
 
 Organisational Behaviour, Group Dynamics, Organisational Design
 Business Management
 Financial Management
 Financial Accounting
 Decision Analysis
 Production and Operations Management
 Project Management
 Human Resources Management
 Quality Management
 Business Process Reengineering
 Business Design and Business Strategy
 Managerial Accounting
 Multinational Business Design and Development
 Business Ethics
 Risk Management and Risk Analysis
 Marketing
 Production and Logistics
 Security Problems
 Manufacturing
 Manufacturing and Logistics
 Integrated Manufacturing Systems
 Production Control, Control Systems
 Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance
 Real-Time Systems
 Large Scale Systems, Hierarchical Systems
 Man-Machine Integration
 Manufacturing Systems
 Concurrent Engineering
 Lean/Agile/Virtual Manufacturing
 Electronic Commerce
 Digital Marketing
 Digital Libraries Administration
 Virtual Reality
 Virtual and Extended Enterprises
 Business Law
 Legal Aspects of Electronic Transactions
 Security and Electronic Payment Systems
 Strategic Inventory Control and Warehousing
 Public Finance
 Policies to Increase Economic Growth
 Labor Economics
 International Trade
 Natural Resources and the Environment
 National and International Monetary Economics
 Regional Economics
 Taxation andGovernment Expenditure
 Stock Exchange Analysis and Prediction
 Health Economics
 Labor Economics
 Agriculture Economics
 Managerial Economics
 Economics of Energy Systems
 Economics of Transportation Systems
 Political Sciences
 Sociology
 Crisis Management
 Cooperations of Companies
 Banking Sector
 History of Economics and Business Science
 Education
 Applications
 Others

June 24-26, 2008, Bucharest, Romania. Item #4159
ICAI'08 - 9th WSEAS International Conference on Automation and Information.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: papers: March 30.
TOPICS:
 

Circuits and Systems
Network Theory and Applications
Electronics
Filters
Wireless Communication
Radar Systems, Applied Electromagnetism
Mobile Communications
Optoelectronics
Laser and Optical Systems. Sensor Technology
Telecommunication Systems
Electrical and Electronic Measurement
Signal Processing
Automatic Control and Robotics
Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms
Information Systems
Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics
Modeling
Simulation
Computer Networks
Queuing Theory and Communications, Traffic Problems, Internet.
Software Engineering
Complexity Theory
Data Structures
Data Bases, Compilers, Knowledge and Data Technology
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
File Structures for on-line Systems, Operating Systems
Parallel and Distributed Systems
Multimedia
Computational Linguistics
Speech Generation, Speech Linguistics, Speech Recognition
Natural Language Processing
Computing Theory, Object-Oriented Programming
Parallel Programming
Computer Vision
Computer Algebra
Artificial Intelligence
Adaptive and Learning Systems
Intelligent Databases
Intelligent Control
Intelligent Agents
Probabilistic Reasoning
Reliability and fault-tolerance
Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction
Machine Learning
Knowledge Representation
Knowledge Acquisition
Computer Graphics and Computational Geometry
Real Time Systems
Virtual Reality
Multi-resolution and multi-spectral image processing
Image sequence processing
Information fusion
Numerical Analysis
Microprocessors, Computer Architecture
Software tools and environments
Geometric modeling and Fractals
CAD/CAM systems
Special Topics and applications

June 24-27, 2008, São Luís, Brasil. Item #4167
BICS 2008.

Planning Division, ICSC Interdisciplinary Research, NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization, Canada. Email: planning@icsc.ab.ca.
Deadlines: submissions: January 31.
Models of consciousness: (MoC)
Global Workspace Theory
Imagination/synthetic phenomenology
Virtual Machine Approaches
Axiomatic Models
Control Theory/Methodology
Developmental/Infant Models
Will/volition/emotion/affect
Philosophical implications
Grounding in neurophysiology
Enactive approaches
Heterophenomenology

Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS)
Attentional Mechanisms
Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities
CN of volition
Affective Systems
Language
Cortical Models
Sub-Cortical Models
Cerebellar Models
Event location in the brain
Others

Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS)
Brain Inspired (BI) Vision
BI Audition and sound processing
BI Other sensory modalities
BI Motion processing
BI Robotics
BI Evolutionary systems
BI Oscillatory systems
BI Signal processing
BI Learning
Neuromorphic systems
Others

Neural Computation (NC)
NeuroComputational (NC) Hybrid Systems
NC Learning
NC Control Systems
NC Signal Processing
Architectures
Devices
Pattern Classifiers
Support Vector Machines
Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
Evolutionary Neural Networks
Biological Neural Network Models
Applications
Others

June 24, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska. Item #4179
CVPR 2008.

email: cvpr2008@eecs.ucf.edu.
Deadlines: paper registration: November 26; paper submission: December 3.
Biometrics
Video Surveillance and Monitoring
Color and Texture
Segmentation
Motion and Tracking
Stereo and Structure from Motion
Image-Based Modeling
Illumination and Reflectance Modeling
Shape Representation
Multi-view geometry
Pattern recognition in new modalities
Cognitive and biologically-inspired vision
Knowledge Representation and High Level Vision
	

Object Recognition
Object Detection and Categorization
Video Analysis and Event Recognition
Face and Gesture
Statistical Methods and Learning
Performance Evaluation
Medical Image Analysis
Image and Video Retrieval
Document recognition
Biomedical imaging
New and emerging applications
Perceptual Grouping

June 24-26, 2008, Bucharest, Romania. Item #4239
MCBE'08 - 9th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematics & Computers in Business & Economics.

email: (subject WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: March 30.

June 25-27, 2008, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Item #4306
ICIAR 2008 - The International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition.

www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar08.
Deadlines: passed.
Topics

    * Processing & Analysis
          o Enhancement
          o Restoration
          o Segmentation
          o Mathematical morphology
          o Color analysis
          o Texture analysis
          o Motion analysis
          o 3D image analysis, 3D computer vision
          o Tracking, Realtime tracking
          o Shape representation and matching, Geometrical modeling, Digital curves
          o Real-time imaging
          o Image representation and models
          o Graphics, Virtual Reality
          o Filtering, Digital filters, Adaptive filters
          o Wavelets, Wedgelets, transforms
          o Statistical Signal Processing
          o Time-Frequency Analysis
          o Blind signal separation (BSS), Blind deconvolution
          o Image fusion
          o Spatial Data Modeling
          o Watermarking, Encryption, Security
          o Deformable models
          o Multi-channel image processing
          o Nonlinear image processing
    * Coding
          o Image and video coding, compression
          o Streaming, transmission, communication
    * Indexing & Retrieval
          o Image and video databases
          o Image and video retrieval and indexing
    * Pattern Analysis & Recognition
          o Feature extraction
          o Feature selection
          o Classification
          o Clustering
          o Ensembles and multi-classifiers
          o Hybrid methods
          o Syntactical methods
          o Object recognition
          o Face recognition, 3D face recognition
          o Character recognition
          o Gesture recognition
          o Image understanding
          o Machine vision, Computer vision
          o Statistical methods, Statistical estimation
          o Image Description and Recognition
          o Information Theory, Entropy
          o Sensors, Sensor Fusion
          o Fault detection and diagnosis
          o Intelligent systems, Soft Computing techniques
          o Neural Network architectures
          o Fuzzy logic, Fuzzy imag processing
          o Image mining 
    * Applications
          o Biomedical imaging
          o Biometrics
          o Bioinformatics
          o Document Processing
          o Remote Sensing
          o Multimedia
          o Security Systems, Surveillance
          o Visual Inspection
          o Sports
          o Secret sharing
          o Hardware implementation, VLSI
          o Computer-assisted surgery
          o Automotive Sensors
          o Cheque processing
          o Visualization
          o Human-computer interaction
          o Embryonics
          o SAR SeaTopics

    * Processing & Analysis
          o Enhancement
          o Restoration
          o Segmentation
          o Mathematical morphology
          o Color analysis
          o Texture analysis
          o Motion analysis
          o 3D image analysis, 3D computer vision
          o Tracking, Realtime tracking
          o Shape representation and matching, Geometrical modeling, Digital curves
          o Real-time imaging
          o Image representation and models
          o Graphics, Virtual Reality
          o Filtering, Digital filters, Adaptive filters
          o Wavelets, Wedgelets, transforms
          o Statistical Signal Processing
          o Time-Frequency Analysis
          o Blind signal separation (BSS), Blind deconvolution
          o Image fusion
          o Spatial Data Modeling
          o Watermarking, Encryption, Security
          o Deformable models
          o Multi-channel image processing
          o Nonlinear image processing
    * Coding
          o Image and video coding, compression
          o Streaming, transmission, communication
    * Indexing & Retrieval
          o Image and video databases
          o Image and video retrieval and indexing
    * Pattern Analysis & Recognition
          o Feature extraction
          o Feature selection
          o Classification
          o Clustering
          o Ensembles and multi-classifiers
          o Hybrid methods
          o Syntactical methods
          o Object recognition
          o Face recognition, 3D face recognition
          o Character recognition
          o Gesture recognition
          o Image understanding
          o Machine vision, Computer vision
          o Statistical methods, Statistical estimation
          o Image Description and Recognition
          o Information Theory, Entropy
          o Sensors, Sensor Fusion
          o Fault detection and diagnosis
          o Intelligent systems, Soft Computing techniques
          o Neural Network architectures
          o Fuzzy logic, Fuzzy imag processing
          o Image mining 
    * Applications
          o Biomedical imaging
          o Biometrics
          o Bioinformatics
          o Document Processing
          o Remote Sensing
          o Multimedia
          o Security Systems, Surveillance
          o Visual Inspection
          o Sports
          o Secret sharing
          o Hardware implementation, VLSI
          o Computer-assisted surgery
          o Automotive Sensors
          o Cheque processing
          o Visualization
          o Human-computer interaction
          o Embryonics
          o SAR SeaTopics

    * Processing & Analysis
          o Enhancement
          o Restoration
          o Segmentation
          o Mathematical morphology
          o Color analysis
          o Texture analysis
          o Motion analysis
          o 3D image analysis, 3D computer vision
          o Tracking, Realtime tracking
          o Shape representation and matching, Geometrical modeling, Digital curves
          o Real-time imaging
          o Image representation and models
          o Graphics, Virtual Reality
          o Filtering, Digital filters, Adaptive filters
          o Wavelets, Wedgelets, transforms
          o Statistical Signal Processing
          o Time-Frequency Analysis
          o Blind signal separation (BSS), Blind deconvolution
          o Image fusion
          o Spatial Data Modeling
          o Watermarking, Encryption, Security
          o Deformable models
          o Multi-channel image processing
          o Nonlinear image processing
    * Coding
          o Image and video coding, compression
          o Streaming, transmission, communication
    * Indexing & Retrieval
          o Image and video databases
          o Image and video retrieval and indexing
    * Pattern Analysis & Recognition
          o Feature extraction
          o Feature selection
          o Classification
          o Clustering
          o Ensembles and multi-classifiers
          o Hybrid methods
          o Syntactical methods
          o Object recognition
          o Face recognition, 3D face recognition
          o Character recognition
          o Gesture recognition
          o Image understanding
          o Machine vision, Computer vision
          o Statistical methods, Statistical estimation
          o Image Description and Recognition
          o Information Theory, Entropy
          o Sensors, Sensor Fusion
          o Fault detection and diagnosis
          o Intelligent systems, Soft Computing techniques
          o Neural Network architectures
          o Fuzzy logic, Fuzzy imag processing
          o Image mining 
    * Applications
          o Biomedical imaging
          o Biometrics
          o Bioinformatics
          o Document Processing
          o Remote Sensing
          o Multimedia
          o Security Systems, Surveillance
          o Visual Inspection
          o Sports
          o Secret sharing
          o Hardware implementation, VLSI
          o Computer-assisted surgery
          o Automotive Sensors
          o Cheque processing
          o Visualization
          o Human-computer interaction
          o Embryonics
          o SAR Sea Ice Imagery
          o Other applications
 Ice Imagery
          o Other applications
 Ice Imagery
          o Other applications

June 26, 2008, Munich, Germany. Item #4316
ABiALS 2008 - The fourth workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems.

Giovanni Pezzulo. Email: giovanni.pezzulo@istc.cnr.it.
Deadlines: abstract submission: April 14.
                                   Objectives
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ABiALS is an interdisciplinary workshop investigating the influence of
anticipations on behavior and learning. ABiALS is designed to help
investigate how anticipations can influence, initiate, and guide behavior
and learning as well as how anticipatory influences can be implemented in an
adaptive learning system.

In ABiALS 2008, expertise of researchers from various disciplines including
neuroscience, cognitive psychology, machine learning, artificial
intelligence, control, and vision research are combined to shed further
light on the concept of anticipation. Essentially, it is investigated how
knowledge about the future influences actual behavior, including influences
on attention, action decision making and control, as well as (behavioral and
model) learning.

June 28, 2008, Zurich, Switzerland. Item #4344
RSS 2008 Workshop - Interactive Robot Learning.

Andrea L. Thomaz. Email: athomaz@cc.gatech.edu.
Deadlines: submission: April 30.
Keywords:

    * Human-Robot Interaction
    * Machine Learning
    * Learning by demonstration
    * Learning by imitation
    * Reinforcement learning with human input
    * Active Learning
    * Communication of knowledge and metaknowledge
    * Identification of new requirements for ML in social domains
    * Identification of suitable metrics for interactive learning
    * User studies in interactive robot learning
    * ...

June 28, 2008, Zurich, Switzerland. Item #4385
RSS2008 WS on locomotion control.

Auke Ijspeert. Email: auke.ijspeert@epfl.ch.
Deadlines: abstract for presenting a poster: June 14.
Topics: Neuro-mechanical coupling, central pattern generators, compliant robots, passive and dynamic walkers, gait transitions, motor learning, swimming robots, crawling robots, walking robots, jumping robots, etc.

June 29 - July 2, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #4236
CITSA 2008: The 5th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications.

email: citsa2008@mail.infocybereng.org.
Deadlines: papers, abstracts submissions and invited sessions proposals: April 2.

June 29 - July 2, 2008, Orlando, FL, USA. Item #4246
CCCT 2008 - The 6th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control.

email: ccct2008@mail.infocybereng.org.
Deadlines: papers and abstract submissions: April 11.

June 29 - July 2, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #4257
WMSCI 2008: The 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

email: wm-sci08@sciiis.org.
Deadlines: papers and abstracts submissions and invited sessions proposals: February 20.

June 29 - July 19, 2008, Telluride, Colorado. Item #4276
Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop.

Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 105 Barton Hall/3400 N. Charles St. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, email: retienne@jhu.edu.
Deadlines: applications: March 23.
The summer school will take place in the small town of Telluride, 9000
feet high in Southwest Colorado, about 6 hours drive away from Denver
(350miles). Great Lakes Aviation and America West Express airlines
provide daily flights directly into Telluride. All facilities within the
beautifully renovated public school building are fully accessible to
participants with disabilities. Participants will be housed in ski
condominiums, within walking distance of the school. Participants are
expected to share condominiums.

The workshop is intended to be very informal and hands-on. Participants
are not required to have had previous experience in analog VLSI circuit
design, computational or machine vision, systems level neurophysiology
or modeling the brain at the systems level. However, we strongly
encourage active researchers with relevant backgrounds from academia,
industry and national laboratories to apply, in particular if they are
prepared to work on specific projects, talk about their own work or
bring demonstrations to Telluride (e.g. robots, chips, software).
Internet access will be provided. Technical staff present throughout the
workshops will assist with software and hardware issues. We will have a
network of PCs running LINUX and Microsoft Windows for the workshop
projects. We also plan to provide wireless internet access and encourage
participants to bring along their personal laptop.

June 29 - July 2, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #4322
KCC08 & KCPR08 - The 3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing & The 3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences at KGCM 2008.

email: kgcm2008@sciiis.org.
Deadlines: papers/abstracts submissions and invited sessions proposal: April 9.

June 30, 2008, Venice, Italy. Item #4204
Mini-Symposium on Computational Bioimaging and Visualization Within the WCCM8 & ECCOMAS 2008 International Conference.

João Manuel R.S. Tavares. Email: tavares@fe.up.pt.
Deadlines: abstract: December 15.
The use of computational procedures based on medical images to model and visualize represented objects requires a high level of research investment, due mainly to the strong demands of clinical partners. These procedures can have different goals, such as shape reconstruction and visualization, segmentation, motion and deformation analyses, registration, simulation, etc. The main goal of this Mini-symposium is to promote the debate between researchers involved in the related fields (Bio-medical Image Acquisition, Analysis and Processing; Multi-scale Shape and Motion Reconstruction; Multi-scale Modeling and Analysis; Scientific Visualization, Bio-medical Software Libraries, Environments; etc.), in order to set the major lines of developments for the near future.

June 30 - July 3, 2008, Lille, Nord, France. Item #4271
EWRL 2008 - European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning.

email: ewrl08@inria.fr.
Deadlines: submission: March 31.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:

* Exploration vs Exploitation Trade-off
* (Function) Approximation in RL
* Knowledge Representation in RL
* Theoretical RL (Convergence and performance bounds, Complexity issues,
Sensitivity analysis)
* Multi-Agent RL
* Regret-minimization Algorithms in Games
* Direct Policy Search and Policy Gradient Methods
* Reward design and inverse RL
* Bayesian vs Frequentist Approaches
* RL and Statistical Learning
* Metrics for Empirical Comparisons in RL
* Reducing RL to Inference, Regression and Classification
* RL to Sequence Prediction
* RL from Biological and Psychological Perspectives

June 30 - July 3, 2008, Cape Town, South Africa. Item #4298
AWIC 2008 - 6th Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference.

email: awic2008@sanbi.ac.za.
Deadlines: passed.
The conference will cover a broad set of intelligent methods, with particular emphasis on soft computing. Methods such as (but not restricted to):

    * Neural Networks
    * Fuzzy Logic
    * Multivalued Logic
    * Rough Sets
    * Ontologies
    * Evolutionary Programming

	

    * Intelligent CBR
    * Genetic Algorithms
    * Semantic Networks
    * Intelligent Agents
    * Reinforcement Learning
    * Knowledge Management

 

should be related to applications on the Web like:

    * Web Design
    * Information Retrieval
    * Electronic Commerce
    * Conversational Systems
    * Recommender Systems
    * Browsing and Exploration

	

    * Adaptive Web
    * User Profiling/Clustering
    * E-mail/SMS filtering
    * Negotiation Systems
    * Security, Privacy, and Trust
    * Web-log Mining

July 1-5, 2008, Krakow, Poland. Item #4233
5th FPNI Ph.D. Symposium Krakow.

email: secretariatphd@pk.edu.pl.

July 1-8, 2008, Internet. Item #4291
IeCCS 2008 - International e-Conference on Computer Sciene.

T.E. Simos. Email: tsimos@mail.ariadne-t.gr.
Deadlines: papers: June 20.

July 2-4, 2008, Paris, France. Item #4225
ANNPR 2008 - The Third International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition.

http://www.congres.upmc.fr/ANNPR2008/.
Deadlines: papers: January 15.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Methodological issues:

• Supervised and unsupervised learning
• Combinations of supervised and unsupervised learning
• Feed forward networks and kernel machines, recurrent and competitive neural networks
• Hierarchical modular architectures and hybrid systems
• Multiple classifier systems and ensemble methods 	Applications in Pattern Recognition:

• Image processing and segmentation
• Sensor fusion and multimodal processing
• Feature extraction, dimension reduction, clustering and vector quantization
• Speech and speaker recognition
• Document image analysis and recognition
• Data, text and web mining
• Bioinformatics

July 2-8, 2008, Montpellier, France. Item #4269
3rd SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities: 1st announcement.

Jean-Marc Bernard. Email: Jean-Marc.Bernard@univ-paris5.fr.

July 4, 2008, Helsinki, Finland. Item #4273
MLG-2008: 6th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs.

S V N Vishwanathan. Email: SVN -dot- Vishwanathan -at- nicta.com.au.
Deadlines: forthcoming.
- Statistical Relational Learning
- Inductive Logic Programming
- Kernel Methods for Structured Data
- Probabilistic Models for Structured Data
- Graph Mining
- (Multi-)relational Data Mining
- Methods for Structured Outputs
- Network Analysis 

July 5-9, 2008, Helsinki, Finland. Item #4292
ICML-2008 - 25th International Conference on Machine Learning.

Chris Williams. Email: ckiw@inf.ed.ac.uk.
Deadlines: submissions: April 1.

July 6-11, 2008, Seoul, Korea. Item #4183
17th IFAC World Congress.

email: secretariat@ifac2008.org.
Deadlines: papers, sessions, tutorials, workshops, video clips and abstracts: September 8.

July 7-10, 2008, Orlando, FL, USA. Item #4215
AIPR-08 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition.

email: contact(at)promoteresearch.org.
Deadlines: papers: February 4.
The scope of the conference includes all areas of AI and PR and all related areas. Sample topics include but WILL NOT be limited to:

                            * Applications of AI
                            * Artificial neural networks
                            * Automated problem solving
                            * Bayesian-based methodologies
                            * Bio-informatics 
                            * Biometrics
                            * Brain modeling 
                            * Case-based reasoning
                            * Cognitive science
                            * Collaborative filtering
                            * Computational biology
                            * Computational intelligence
                            * Computer vision
                            * Constraint processing
                            * Data mining
                            * Decision support systems
                            * Distributed AI
                            * Evolutionary algorithms
                            * Expert systems
                            * Fractals 
                            * Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
                            * Game playing
                            * Genetic algorithms
                            * Hardware aspects of AI
                            * Heuristics
                            * Image processing
                            * Information retrieval
                            * Intelligent agents
                            * Intelligent databases
                            * Intelligent information fusion
                            * Intelligent information systems
                            * Intelligent networks
                            * Intelligent software engineering
                            * Intelligent tutoring systems
                            * Intelligent user interfaces
                            * Intelligent business
                            * Knowledge acquisition
                            * Knowledge discovery
                            * Knowledge management
                            * Languages for AI
                            * Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
                            * Machine learning
                            * Machine translation
                            * Medical imaging
                            * Natural language processing
                            * Neural networks and applications
                            * Pattern recognition
                            * Probabilistic reasoning
                            * Remote sensing
                            * Robotics
                            * Rough sets
                            * Search techniques
                            * Self-adaptation techniques
                            * Semantic indexing
                            * Signal processing
                            * Social impact of AI
                            * Soft computing
                            * Software aspects of AI
                            * Speech processing
                            * Statistical methods for AI
                            * Steganography and digital watermarking
                            * Swarm intelligence
                            * Symbolic data analysis    
                            * Temporal abstractions
                            * Text mining 
                            * Text processing
                            * Uncertainty
                            * Wavelets  
                            * Web intelligence 

July 7-10, 2008, Orlando, FL, USA. Item #4216
ARCS-08 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition.

email: contact(at)promoteresearch.org.
Deadlines: papers: February 4.
The scope of the conference includes all areas of automation, all areas of robotics, all areas of control systems and related areas such as computer vision, etc. Sample topics include but WILL NOT be limited to:

    * Activity/behavior recognition
    * Adaptive control
    * Aerospace control systems
    * Alarming and fault diagnosis systems
    * Automatic control of chemical processes
    * Automotive control systems and autonomous vehicles
    * Autonomous traffic and transport systems
    * Biologically inspired control techniques
    * Biomedical control systems
    * Biomedical instrumentation and applications
    * Biometrics
    * CAD/CAM/CIM
    * Complex systems
    * Control analysis of social and human systems
    * Control applications
    * Control engineering education
    * Control of biological systems
    * Data acquisition and measurement engineering
    * Defense and military systems control
    * Delay systems
    * Device technology for automation
    * Dexterous manipulation
    * Digital and analogue control
    * Discrete event systems
    * E -automation and e-factory
    * E -business integration
    * E -diagnostics and e-maintenance
    * Embedded control systems.
    * Equipment and process technology for automation
    * Factory modeling and simulation
    * Fuzzy systems
    * Genetic algorithms
    * Home, laboratory and service automation
    * Human centered systems
    * Human-computer interactions
    * Hybrid systems
    * Identification and estimation
    * Image/video analysis
    * Industrial control electronics
    * Industrial information technology
    * Instrumentation systems
    * Intelligent automation
    * Intelligent systems
    * Large scale control systems
    * Linear and non-linear systems
    * Lisp programming
    * Localization, navigation and mapping
    * Machinery for automation
    * Mechanism design and applications
    * Mechatronics sensing and control technology
    * Medical robots and bio-robotics
    * MEMS/ NEMS
    * Micro robots and micro-manipulation
    * Mobile robotics
    * Mobile sensor networks
    * Model-based diagnosis
    * Modeling and identification
    * Modeling and simulator building
    * Modeling, estimation and prediction
    * Motion and navigation control
    * Multidimensional Systems
    * Nano-scale automation and assembly
    * Network-based systems
    * Networked control systems
    * Neural networks
    * Neuro controllers
    * Neuro-fuzzy controllers
    * Nonlinear systems
    * Object-oriented Petri nets
    * Opto-mechatronic technology for automation
    * Perception systems
    * Petri Nets
    * Planning, scheduling and coordination
    * Power system control
    * Precision motion control
    * Process automation
    * Process control
    * Pursuing and tracking
    * Real-time and fault-tolerant systems
    * Robot and manipulator control
    * Robot sensing and data fusion
    * Robotics
    * Robust control
    * Search, rescue and field robotics
    * Sensors, actuators and transducers
    * Space and underwater robots
    * Stability, controllability and observations
    * Stochastic control
    * Studies on nuclear systems control
    * Studies on signal and system
    * System integration technology for automation
    * Tele-robotics
    * Temporal and spectral system analysis
    * Thermal system control
    * Tracking and surveillance

July 7-10, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA. Item #4229
MULTICONF-08.

Peter Williams. Email: ptwlms10@gmail.com.
Deadlines: paper submission: February 4.
        International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08)

·        International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08)

·        International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08)

·        International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08)

·        International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08)

·        International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08)

·        International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-08) 

July 7-11, 2008, Porto, Portugal. Item #4283
SUMMER SCHOOL NN2008 - Neural Networks in Classification, Regression and Data Mining.

email: nn-2008@isep.ipp.pt.
Deadlines: poster submission and registration: June 15.
COURSE CONTENTS

 Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification and regression tasks. The applications 
are nowadays abundant, e.g. in the engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is dedicated 
to explain relevant NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons (MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and 
support vector machines (SVM) used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with applications to real 
data. Specific topics are also presented, namely Multi-Valued and UB Neurons , Functional Networks , MLP's with 
Entropic Criteria and Data Mining using NN.  

Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools. The trainee has, therefore, the opportunity
 to apply the taught concepts and become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications. A special 
workshop session will provide a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects.

July 7 - 11, 2008, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Item #4376
Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology.

email: wsmcb2008@newcastle.edu.au.
Deadlines: poster submission: May 30.
Main topics

This edition of the Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology will have five main topics:

    * Entropy and Statistical Complexity (7th July - Monday)
    * Data Mining, Machine Learning and New Technologies (8th July - Tuesday)
    * Combinatorial Optimisation and Applications (9th July - Wednesday)
    * Network Pathway Analysis in Bioinformatics (10th July - Thursday)
    * Advances in Proteomics and Genomics (11th July - Friday)

July 8-9, 2008, Ismailia, Egypt. Item #4336
The 3rd International Conference: Future Trends in Genetics and Biotechnology for Safe Environment.

Dr. Raafat H. Abdel-Wahab, tel: (002) 0127559302, email: raafat_hassan@yahoo.com.

July 9-11, 2008, Seoul, Korea. Item #4234
PLM08 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management.

email: info@plm08.org.
Deadlines: papers: January 15; extended abstract for the presentation only sessions: April 1.
Papers or presentations with an integrative theme across multiple domains providing a holistic viewpoint are strongly encouraged. Key topics include:

- PLM industrial issues

- PLM support for product lifecycle phases

- Management issues in PLM

- PLM issues from various domains

 

July 9, 2008, Helsinki, Finland. Item #4329
MML 2008: International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music.

email: mml@iua.upf.edu.
Deadlines: extended abstracts: April 20.
Co-located with
ICML 2008 <http://icml2008.cs.helsinki.fi/>,
COLT 2008 <http://colt2008.cs.helsinki.fi/> and
UAI 2008 <http://uai2008.cs.helsinki.fi/>

With the current explosion and quick expansion of music in digital formats,
research on machine learning and music is gaining increasing popularity. As
complexity of the problems investigated by researchers on this area increases,
there is a need to develop new algorithms and methods to solve these problems.
Machine learning has proved to provide efficient solutions to many
music-related problems both of academic and commercial interest. The goal of
MML 2008 is to bring together researchers who are using machine learning in
musical applications, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss
ongoing work in the area. The workshop is planned to last one full day, and
will feature paper presentations, panel discussions and open discussions.
Accepted contributions will be available from the workshop web page as soon as
possible in order to encourage
active discussion during the workshop.

We invite extended abstract contributions describing machine learning
approaches to music processing including, but not limited to:

* Sound Synthesis and Analysis
* Music Classification and Generation
* Formal Music Analysis
* Music Information Retrieval
* Knowledge Representation and Computational Models
* Printing and Optical Recognition of Music
* Psychoacoustics and Music Perception
* Cognitive Modeling
* Aesthetics, Philosophy and Criticism of Music
* Adaptive Systems and Music Education
* Algorithmic Composition
* Interactive Performance Systems
* Digital Audio Signal Processing
* Software and Hardware Systems

July 9, 2008, Helsinki, Finland. Item #4340
Nonparametric Bayes 2008 Workshop held at ICML/UAI/COLT 2008.

email: npbayes@googlemail.com.
Deadlines: abstracts: May 2.

July 9, 2008, Helsinki, Finland. Item #4341
WORKSHOP on MACHINE LEARNING for HEALTH-CARE APPLICATIONS at ICML/UAI/COLT.

email: icml_health2008@cs.pitt.edu.
Deadlines: extended abstract submission: May 1; full papers: June 20.
Suggested topics:

We seek submissions developing new or applying existing ML methods to
medical and health-care applications. The topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:

     * disease modeling and disease detection
     * patient monitoring and alarm systems
     * treatment outcome predictions
     * optimization of patient-management workflows
     * biomedical text mining
     * patient record anonymisation
     * integration of biomedical data sources and domain knowledge
     * translational bioinformatics
     * biosurveillance
     * design of clinical trials

July 12-15, 2008, Kunming, China. Item #4305
ICMLC'2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics.

Patrick Chan. Email: cspkchan@comp.polyu.edu.hk.
Deadlines: passed.
Adaptive systems Neural net and support vector machine
Business intelligence Hybrid and nonlinear system
Biometrics Fuzzy set theory, fuzzy control and system
Bioinformatics Knowledge management
Data and web mining Information retrieval
Intelligent agent Intelligent and knowledge based system
Financial engineering Rough and fuzzy rough set
Inductive learning Networking and information security
Geoinformatics Evolutionary computation
Pattern Recognition Ensemble method
Logistics Information fusion
Intelligent control Visual information processing
Media computing Computational life science

July 13, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Item #4309
Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

email: aaai08@aaai.org.
Deadlines: papers for workshops and colloquium on ai education: April 7; videos: April 4.

July 14-16, 2008, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Item #4178
CNNA 2008 - 11th International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and their Applications.

David López Vilariño, email: dlv@dec.usc.es.
Deadlines: papers: February 15.
Theory of Cellular Nonlinear Spatio-Temporal Phenomena
Analog-Logic Spatio-Temporal Algorithms
Learning & Design
Bio-Inspired/Neuromorphic Arrays
Physical VLSI Implementations: Integrated Sensor/Processor/Actuator Arrays
Applications, including computing, communications and multimedia
Circuits, Architectures and Systems in the nano-scale regime
Other areas in Cellular Neural Networks and Array Computing

July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA. Item #4230
WORLDCOMP'08 The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing.

Hamid R. Arabnia. Email: hra@pixel.cviog.uga.edu.
Deadlines: papers: February 25.
o The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and
  Applications (GCA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
  Methods (GEM'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
  Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory and
  Statistical Learning (ITSL'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and
  Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice (SERP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
  Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods (MSV'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual
  Reality (CGVR'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
  (SWWS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
  Engineering (IKE'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and
  Applications (ESA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of Computer
  Science (FCS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
  Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'08)
o The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and
  Applications (GCA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
  Methods (GEM'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
  Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory and
  Statistical Learning (ITSL'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and
  Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice (SERP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
  Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods (MSV'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual
  Reality (CGVR'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
  (SWWS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
  Engineering (IKE'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and
  Applications (ESA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of Computer
  Science (FCS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
  Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'08)
o The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and
  Applications (GCA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
  Methods (GEM'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
  Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory and
  Statistical Learning (ITSL'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and
  Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice (SERP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
  Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods (MSV'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual
  Reality (CGVR'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
  (SWWS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
  Engineering (IKE'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and
  Applications (ESA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of Computer
  Science (FCS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
  Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing
  (CIC'8) 
o The 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing
  (CIC'8) 
o The 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing
  (CIC'8) 

July 14-17, 2008, Bialystok, POLAND. Item #4238
MSM 2008 - 4th Conference Mechatronic Systems and Materials.

email: msm2008@pb.edu.pl.
Deadlines: abstracts: December 17.

July 16, 2008, Leipzig, Germany. Item #4197
ICDM'2008 - 8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining.

email: schatte@ibai-institut.de.
Deadlines: papers: February 4
In connection with the Industrial Conference will be held the 

International Workshop
Case-Based Reasoning on Multimedia Data CBR-MD 2008

 (www.data-mining-forum.de/cbr

www.cbr-md.org)

                                               

International Workshop on Data Mining in Life Sciences DMLS´2008

(www.data-mining-forum.de/dmls)

 

International Workshop on Data Mining in Marketing DMM´2008

(www.data-mining-forum.de/dmm)

July 16-18, 2008, Oxford, UK. Item #4231
NCPW11 - 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop.

Julien Mayor, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford OX1 3UD, # +44-1865-271400, email: julien.mayor@psy.ox.ac.uk.
Deadlines: abstracts: January 15.
This well-established and lively workshop aims at bringing together 
researchers from different
disciplines such as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, 
computer science, neurobiology,
philosophy and psychology to discuss their work on models of 
cognitive processes. Previous
themes have encompassed categorisation, language, memory, 
development, action.
There will be no specific theme, but papers must be about emergent 
models -- frequently, but
not necessarily -- of the connectionist/neural network genre, applied 
to cognition.

July 21-22, 2008, Patras, Greece. Item #4262
Fourth International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning at ECAI2008.

email: nesy@soi.city.ac.uk.
Deadlines: papers: May 9.
The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration. Topics of interest include:

    * The representation of symbolic knowledge by connectionist systems;
    * Learning in neural-symbolic systems;
    * Extraction of symbolic knowledge from trained neural networks;
    * Reasoning in neural-symbolic systems;
    * Biological inspiration for neural-symbolic integration;
    * Neural networks and probabilities;
    * Applications in robotics, semantic web, engineering, bioinformatics, etc.

July 21-22, 2008, Patras, Greece. Item #4264
SUEMA 2008 - Workhop on Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and Their Applications at ECAI 2008.

Oleg Okun. Email: oleg@ee.oulu.fi.
Deadlines: submission: April 20.
The main topics of the conference include (but not are limited to):

     New ensemble methods raised from new real world supervised and
     unsupervised learning problems

     Application of ensemble methods in various branches of science
     and technology:  bioinformatics, medical informatics, computer
     security, economics, ecology, meteorology and weather forecast,
     image analysis and signal processing, satellite image analysis.

     Fusion of multiple-source/multi-sensor data

     Unsupervised ensemble methods for discovering structures in
     unlabeled real data

     Unsupervised ensemble approaches to assess the
     reliability/validity of clusters discovered in real data

     Combination techniques and methods to generate multiple base
     learners from different features and data

     Dynamic member selection for including into an ensemble

     Heterogeneous ensembles of base learners

     Variants of re-sampling-based methods (bagging, boosting)

     Ensemble methods for supervised multi-class classification and
     regression

     Supervised and unsupervised ensemble methods for structured 

July 21-22, 2008, Patras, Greece. Item #4284
OLP3 – 3rd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population at ECAI 2008.

George Paliouras. Email: paliourg@iit.demokritos.gr.
Deadlines: submission: April 7.
The third in the successful series of OLP workshops is inviting
research contributions in the following areas:
* Knowledge sources for ontology learning and population
* Knowledge extraction for ontology learning and population
* Evaluation of ontology learning and population
* Methods in ontology learning and population
* Ontology evolution

July 21-22, 2008, Patras, Greece. Item #4286
MLAP'08 Workshop on Machine Learning & Automated Planning at ECAI 2008.

Dimitris Vrakas. Email: dvrakas@csd.auth.gr.

Topics

Possible topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

    * Learning domain knowledge for planning
    * Learning models to control the search
    * Automatic optimization of planning systems
    * Optimizing plans
    * Reinforcement learning
    * Fast replanning and plan adaptation
    * Planning to sense
    * Trading off planning time and plan quality,
    * Multi-agent planning and learning
    * Life-long learning of domain models
    * Learning with very few training data,
    * Theory of mixing inductive and deductive approaches to planning
    * Learning for games (e.g., learning game evaluators at end games)
    * Generalizing plans across similar domains
    * Function approximation in planning
    * Planning heuristics for exploration in reinforcement learning
    * Applications of planning and learning
    * Learning for planning in non-deterministic domains
    * Learning for planning under uncertainty
    * Mixed-initiative learning and planning systems

July 21-22, 2008, Patras, Greece. Item #4327
MSoDa'08 - 1st Workshop on Mining Social Data in conjunction with ECAI'08.

Alexandros Nanopoulos, Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Email: ananopou@csd.auth.gr.
Deadlines: submission: May 3.
MAIN TOPICS
-----------

* Social network analysis
* Community discovery
* Mining (Collaborative) Tagging Systems (blogs, wikis, etc.)
* Mining social data for multimedia information retrieval
* Web mining algorithms
* Personalization for search and for social interaction
* Applications of social network analysis
* Bibliometrics
* Opinion mining
* Recommender systems

July 22-25, 2008, Herakleion, Crete. Item #4199
12th WSEAS CSCC Multiconference.

email: (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: forthcoming.
12th WSEAS Int. Conf. on CIRCUITS (July 22-24, 2008) 
 12th WSEAS Int. Conf. on SYSTEMS (July 22-24, 2008) 
 12th WSEAS Int. Conf. on COMMUNICATIONS (July 23-25, 2008) 
 12th WSEAS Int. Conf. on COMPUTERS (July 23-25, 2008)

July 23-26, 2008, Washington, DC, USA. Item #4348
CogSci 2008.

Sebastien Helie. Email: helies@rpi.edu.
Deadlines: papers and abstracts: May 2.

July 28 - August 8, 2008, Saitama, Japan. Item #4281
RIKEN BSI Summer School 2008.

Hiro Nakahara, Lab for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan, email: hn@brain.riken.jp.
Deadlines: application: February 2.
Lecture Course: July 28 - August 8   
Internship: June 25 - August 20

July 29-31, 2008, Koriyama, Nihon University, Japan. Item #4226
24th ISPE Internatiional Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics & Factories of the Future.

Susumu Sakano, Nihon University, sakano@mech.ce.nihon-u.ac.jp.
Deadlines: abstract – January 31.
TOPICS

1.Advanced Automation
2.Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
3.Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
4.Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP)
5.Computer Aided Production
6.Computer Aided Manufacturing
7.Concurrent Engineering
8.Design Automation
9.Design for Manufacturing
10.E-learning and Education
11.Factories of the Future
12.Information System
13.Machine Vision
1.
2.Mechatronics
3.Modeling
4.New Technology of Productivity
5.Operation management
6.Productivity
7.Quality Control
8.Quality Engineering
9.Rapid Prototyping
10.Robotics 
11.Scheduling
12.Sensors and Transducer
13.Simulation
14.Virtual Measurement System

July 29-31, 2008, Chengdu, China. Item #4331
ADMA 2008 The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications.

email: adma08.cs.scu.cn@gmail.com.
Deadlines: full paper submission: March 27.
Advanced Data Mining Topics
&#1048698; Grand challenges of data mining &#1048698; Parallel and distributed data
mining algorithms
&#1048698; Mining on data streams &#1048698; Graph and subgraph mining
&#1048698; Spatial data mining &#1048698; Text, video, multimedia data mining
&#1048698; Web mining &#1048698; Correlation mining
&#1048698; High performance data mining algorithms &#1048698; Bench marking and
evaluations
&#1048698; Data-mining-ready structures and pre-processing &#1048698; Interactive data
mining
&#1048698; Data mining visualization &#1048698; Security and privacy issues
&#1048698; Information hiding in data mining &#1048698; Competitive analysis of mining
algorithms
Data Mining Applications (applied data mining in following listed
areas)
&#1048698; Database administration, indexing, performance tuning &#1048698; Grid
computing
&#1048698; DNA Sequencing, Bioinformatics, Genomics, and biometrics &#1048698; Image
interpretations
&#1048698; Medical informatics &#1048698; E-commerce and Web services
&#1048698; Disaster prediction &#1048698; Remote monitoring
&#1048698; Financial market analysis &#1048698; Online filtering

July 31 - August 2, 2008, Brighton, UK. Item #4275
Epigenetic Robotics 2008 - Eighth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems.

email: epirob08@epigenetic-robotics.org.
Deadlines: papers & posters: April 16.

August 2-24, 2008, Frankfurt, Germany. Item #4317
PENS-Blackwell Summer School on: Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems.

Neuro School, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, email: neuro_school@fias.uni-frankfurt.de.
Deadlines: applications: April 7.

August 3-6, 2008, New York City. Item #4235
IDETC & CIE - ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.

email: jami.shah@asu.edu.
Deadlines: see www pages.

August 4-29, 2008, Freiburg, Germany. Item #4261
13th Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience (A Bernstein/Gatsby Neuroscience School).

Fiona Siegfried, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Hansastrasse 9A, 79104 Freiburg, Germany. Email: siegfried@bccn.uni-freiburg.de.
Deadlines: application and letters of recommendation: March 28.

August 5-8, 2008, Winchester, UK. Item #4297
Artificial Life XI - The Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.

email: questions@alifexi.org.
Deadlines: paper: March 7.
Papers are welcome in all areas of the field, including:

    * Synthesis and origin of life, self-organization, self-replication, artificial chemistries
    * Evolution and adaptation, evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary games, coevolution, major evolutionary transitions, levels of selection, ecosystems
    * Development, differentiation, and regulation; generative representations
    * Synthetic biology
    * Self-organizing technology, self-* computing and computational ecosystems
    * Unconventional and biologically inspired computing
    * Bio-inspired robots and embodied cognition, autonomous agents, evolutionary robotics
    * Collective behavior, communication, cooperation
    * Artificial consciousness; the relationship between life and mind
    * Philosophical, ethical, and cultural implications
    * Mathematical and philosophical foundations of Alife, new and creative syntheses

August 6-8, 2008, Phuket, Thailand. Item #4299
SNPD2008 The Ninth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artifical Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing.

email: snpd2008@cp.eng.chula.ac.th.
Deadlines: submission: March 8.
Topics including but not limited to:

    * Algorithms
    * Artificial Intelligence
    * Audio and Video Encoder/Decoder Technology
    * Collaborative Computing
    * Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
    * Communication Systems and Networks
    * Component-Based Software Engineering
    * Cryptography and Network Security
    * Data Mining and Knownledge Discovery
    * E-Commerce and its Applications
    * Embedded Systems
    * Image, Speech, and Signal Processing
    * Information Assurance
    * Internet Technology and Applications
    * Mobile/Wireless/Ad-hoc Networks
    * Natural Language Processing
    * Operating Systems
    * Parallel and Distributed Computing
    * Service-Oriented Computing
    * Software Specification and Architecture
    * Software Testing
    * Visual and Multimedia computing
    * Voice-over-IP and Security
    * User-Centered Design Methods
    * Web-Based Applications

August 9-12, 2008, Monterey, California, USA. Item #4260
ICDL 2008 - 7th International Conference on Development and Learning.

Charlie Kemp. Email: charlie.kemp@bme.gatech.edu.
Deadlines: proposals for sessions: February 15; proposals for tutorials: March 21; papers: March 14; abstracts for posters April 18.
The scope of development and learning covered by this conference
includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other
mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals,
artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and
computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve
our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental
capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these
highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The
International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring
together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial
intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage
understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results
from the different disciplines.

August 20-22, 2008, Rodos, Greece. Item #4240
AIC'08 - The 8th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications.

email: (subject WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: May 31.

August 20-22, 2008, Rodos, Greece. Item #4241
ISCGAV'08 - The 8th WSEAS International Conference on Signal Processing, Computational Geometry and Artificial Vision.

email: (subject WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: May 31.

August 20-22, 2008, Rodos, Greece. Item #4242
ISTASC'08 - The 8th WSEAS International Conference on Systems Theory and Scientific Computation.

email: (subject WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: May 31.

August 23, 2008, Manchester, UK. Item #4365
COLING-2008 Workshop: KRAQ08: Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions.

email: stdizier@irit.fr.
Deadlines: passed.
We invite papers on any research topic related to question answering and reasoning. In this call we especially focus on:

   1. Reasoning aspects: information fusion-integration, summarization and intensional answers, detecting and resolving query failure, reasoning under uncertainty or with incomplete knowledge, probabilistic inference, models for explanation production and argumentation, levels of knowledge involved (e.g. ontologies, domain knowledge).
   2. Textual inference: question decomposition into candidate inference components, information alignment, entity linking within and across documents, entailment and paraphrasing.
   3. Innovative applications: multimedia question answering, where you question a more or less formal representation of the media objects, spoken question answering (increasing uncertainty caused by the speech recognition), question answering of semi-structured documents such as Wikipedia and legislation, XML question answering. 



We also welcome papers on more traditional QA topics such as:

    * Question typology and knowledge representation, pragmatic and linguistic paradigms: procedural questions (how), causal questions (why), opinion questions, questions with a complex structure.
    * Pragmatic dimensions of intelligently answering questions: user intentions, plans and goals recognition and production, conversational implicatures in responses, principles for the design of cooperative systems.
    * Language processing: question processing: parameters of interest for response production, semantic role detection for QA, reasoning with lexical resources, response production (planning and argumentation), language generation (e.g. lexical choice, templates), explanation production (showing sources and inferences, reporting data incompleteness, etc.).
    * Evaluation: end-to-end evaluation of complex question types, intrinsic evaluation of inference methods, data-intensive vs knowledge-intensive methods, evaluation of portability. 

August 24-29, 2008, Porto, Portugal. Item #4250
International Conference on Computational Statistics.

mailto compstat08@fep.up.pt.
Deadlines: papers: January 20; abstracts: May 20.

August 25-29, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland. Item #4187
EUSIPCO2008 - The 2008 European Signal Processing Conference.

J. Tel: Thiran, EPFL, Switzerland. Email: JP.Thiran@epfl.ch.
Deadlines: forthcoming.
Areas of Interest  	 

    *
      Audio and Electroacoustics
    *
      Design and Implementation
      of Signal Processing Systems
    *
      Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing
    *
      Multimedia Signal Processing
    *
      Signal Detection and Estimation
    *
      Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing
    *
      Signal Processing for Communications

	

    *
      Speech Processing
    *
      Education in Signal Processing
    *
      Nonlinear Signal Processing
    *
      Medical Imaging and Image Analysis
    *
      Signal Processing Applications (Biology, Geophysics, Seismic, 
      Radar, Sonar, Remote Sensing, Astronomy, Bio-informatics,
      Positioning etc.)
    *
      Emerging Technologies

August 25-27, 2008, Jinan, China. Item #4232
ICNC'08 & FSKD'08 - The 4th International Conference on Natural Computation and The 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery.

email: nc2008@sdu.edu.cn.
Deadlines: submission: March 25.
The joint ICNC'08-FSKD'08 will be held in Jinan, China. Jinan is the
capital of Shandong Province, which is known for the home of Confucius,
the Taishan Mountain, and the Baotu Spring.

ICNC'08-FSKD'08 aims to provide an international forum for scientists
and researchers to present the state of the art of intelligent methods
inspired from nature, including biological, ecological, and physical
systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, and
more. 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.

September 1-15, 2008, Ile de Re, France. Item #4320
MLSS'08 - 10th MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL.

email: mlss08@inria.fr.
Deadlines: application: April 15.

September 1-4, 2008, Trier, German. Item #4347
Workshop on Uncertainty and Knowledge Discovery in Case-Based Reasoning at ECCBR 2008.

Eyke Hüllermeier, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Germany. eyke@mathematik.uni-marburg.de.
Deadlines: paper: June 22.
The organizers welcome contributions on the use of principled methods
for reasoning under uncertainty, knowledge discovery, and soft computing
such as:

- probabilistic reasoning and Bayesian methods,
- fuzzy sets, possibility theory, evidence theory,
- rough sets and information theory,
- neural networks and evolutionary computation,
- machine learning and data mining algorithms.

in case-based reasoning, including but not limited to

- case and knowledge representation, acquisition, and modeling,
- formalizing case-based reasoning,
- evaluation for case-based reasoning,
- statistical analysis of case bases;
- discovery of properties of case bases;
- maintenance and management of CBR systems,
- case indexing and retrieval,
- similarity assessment and adaptation,
- instance-based and case-based learning,
- case discovery,
- integrated CBR applications.

September 1-4, 2008, Trier, Germany. Item #4380
ECCBR 2008 - 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning.

http://www.wi2.uni-trier.de/eccbr08/index.php?task=welcome&act=4.
Deadlines: passed.

September 3-6, 2008, Prague, Czeck Republic. Item #4255
ICANN 2008 - the 18 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks.

http://www.icann2008.org/.
Deadlines: proposals for sessions and workshops: February 20; papers for sessions and workshops: March 20; regular papers: March 10.

September 3-5, 2008, Greb, Croatia. Item #4268
KES2008 - 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems.

email: kes2008.gentrack@kesinternational.org.
Deadlines: submission of papers: February 1.

September 3-6, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #4285
special session on "CONSTRUCTIVE NEURAL NETWORKS" at ICANN 2008.

David A. Elizondo, Centre for Computational Intelligence, School of Computing, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, tel: +44(0) 116 255 1551, fax: +44(0) 116 207 8159, email: elizondo@dmu.ac.uk.

September 3-5, 2008, Graz, Austria. Item #4295
I-KNOW'08 International Conference on Knowledge Management.

email: iknow@know-center.at.
Deadlines: papers: April 14.
I-KNOW '08 invites original paper submissions to the following not limited list of topics:

    * Basics and Theories
          o Methods for Knowledge Management
          o Models for Knowledge Management
          o Technologies for Knowledge Management

    * Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management
          o Agile Approaches to Knowledge Management
          o Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management
          o Distributed Software Architectures for Knowledge Management Systems

    * Knowledge Management and Web 2.0
          o Instruments for Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Sharing
          o Empirical studies of knowledge transfer in social software
          o Design methods and guidelines for social-focussed knowledge management
          o Communication and Collaboration

    * Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management
          o Agent-Mediated Analysis and Design of Knowledge Technologies
          o Agent-Mediated Evaluation of Knowledge Management Instruments
          o Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management Technologies

    * Knowledge Management in Practise
          o Utilization of Knowledge
          o Knowledge in business processes
          o Organizational Memories

    * Case Studies and Best Practises with
          o Knowledge Management Instruments
          o Knowledge Management Methodologies
          o Knowledge Management Projects

September 3-5, 2008, Zagreb, Croatia. Item #4312
Special Session "Neural Networks in Image Processing" at KES2008.

Franco Scarselli. Email: franco@dii.unisi.it.
Deadlines: paper submission: March 10.
Call for papers
Neural networks and, more generally, machine learning techniques can be
widely applied to image processing and computer vision for preprocessing,
feature extraction, segmentation, object tracking and recognition. The
adopted machine learning tools include associative memories, kernel
machines, neural networks, evolutionary computations, and statistical
methods. Visual data are difficult to be dealt with, due to noise, such as
light and colour changes, occlusion, and cluttered environments. The
capability of machine learning techniques to incorporate imprecision and
incomplete information, and to model very complex systems makes them a
useful tool in image processing. The aim of this session is to provide an
international forum for presentation of recent results and advances
regarding soft computing methods in image processing.

The scope of this session is, but not limited to:
- Noise reduction in images
- Image compression
- Edge detection and segmentation
- Feature extraction
- Similarity learning in images
- Image analysis and classification
- Object localization and detection

September 3-5, 2008, Zagreb, Croatia. Item #4328
Special Session "Advanced Neural Processing Systems" at KES2008.

Franco Scarselli. Email: franco@dii.unisi.it.
Deadlines: paper submission: March 25.
The scope of this session is, but not limited to:
- Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, neural
networks, kernel methods, dimensionality reduction and manifold
learning, model selection.
- Applications: innovative applications that use machine learning,
including systems for time series prediction, bioinformatics, text/web
analysis, multimedia processing, and robotics.
- Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence: theoretical, computational,
or experimental studies of perception, reasoning, problem solving, and
natural language processing.
- Control and Reinforcement Learning: planning, navigation, Markov decision
processes, game-playing.
- Learning Theory: generalization, regularization and model selection, new
learning paradigms, spaces of functions and kernels, online learning and
competitive analysis, hardness of learning and approximations, information
theory.
- Learning in Graphical Domains: neural network models for graphs, SVMs and
kernel methods for graphs, probabilistic models for graphs, statistical
relational learning, and pattern recognition applications involving
graphical data.

September 3-5, 2008, Graz, Austria. Item #4338
"Special Track on Ontology Lifecycle Methods - Algorithms for Ontology Learning, Evolution and Mining" during TRIPLE-I '08.

Andreas Juffinger. Email: ajuffing@comtoo.org.
Deadlines: papers: April 14.
Encoding human knowledge is one of the crucial tasks to be mastered
towards
the realization of the Semantic Web. Knowledge is never static in a
changing
world therefore a representation must evolve over time. The Ontology
Lifecycle involves all steps necessary for ontology creation,
validation,
evolution and application in a dynamic environment.
The special track will focus on automatic and semi-automatic
algorithms and
methods as well as their evaluation in the fields of Ontology
Learning,
Population, Evaluation, Matching and Alignment.
Submissions about data source/corpus analysis and application of web
data
sources for ontology learning, population and evolution are also very
welcome. Quantitative ontology analysis, graph property extraction and
graph
mining methods as well as trend identification in evolving ontologies
are
aims of high interest within the ontology lifecycle and therefore part
of
this special track.

We invite contributions to enhance state-of-the-art methods and
algorithms for
the ontology lifecycle. Topics include but are not limited to:

* Ontology Lifecycle Algorithm and Methods
* Ontology Learning
* Ontology Population
* Ontology Versioning and Evolution
* Semantic Interoperability
* Ontology Matching and Alignment
* Change propagation within the Ontology Evolution Process
* Formal Aspects and Languages
* Applications and Tools
* Tools for the Ontology Lifecycle
* Visualisations of the Ontology Lifecycle
* Knowledge Relationship Discovery
* Information Retrieval for Ontology Learning and Evolution
* Machine Learning Techniques
* Graph Mining Algorithms and Methods

September 4-6, 2008, Varna, Bulgaria. Item #4364
AIMSA 2008 - The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications - AI@Work.

Paolo Traverso. Email: traverso@fbk.eu.
Deadlines: passed.
TOPICS
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to:
- AI in education
- Ambient intelligence
- Automated reasoning
- Computer vision
- Data mining and data analysis
- Data semantics
- Dialogue management and argumentation
- Distributed AI
- AI and Human-computer interaction
- Information integration
- Information retrieval
- Intelligent decision support
- Intelligent user interfaces
- Knowledge engineering
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Large scale knowledge management
- Logic and constraint programming
- Machine learning
- Multi-agent systems
- Multimedia systems
- Natural language processing
- Neural networks
- Ontologies (creating, linking, merging, reconciliation)
- Planning
- Robotics
- Semantic peer-to-peer and grid systems
- Semantic interoperability
- Semantic web for e-business and e-learning
- Semantic web inference schemes
- Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition)
- Social desktop and personalisation
- Social network analysis
- Tools and methodologies for multi-agent software systems
- Trust, privacy, and security on the semantic web
- Visualization and modeling and AI
- Web-based technology and AI

September 6-8, 2008, Varna, Bulgaria. Item #4166
IS'08: Methodology, Models, Applications in Emerging Technologies.

Assoc. Prof. K. Tenekedjiev, DSc, 1 Studentska Str. 9010 Varna, Bulgaria, Technical University - Varna, email: ieeeis08@gmail.com.
Deadlines: papers: December 20.
· Artificial Intelligence

· Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

· Data Fusion

· Decision Support Systems

· Distributed Artificial Intelligence

· Evolutionary Computation

· Fuzzy Logic

· Human-machine Interaction

· Intelligent Control

· Intelligent Measurement

· Intelligent Signal Processing

· Intelligent Information Systems

· Machine Learning

· Multi-Agent Systems

· Neural Networks

· Neuro-fuzzy Systems

· Case-based and Temporal Reasoning

· Ontology-based Intelligent Systems

· Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

· Advanced Intelligent Systems

· Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

 

Application areas:

· Robotics

· Data Processing

· Knowledge Management

· Education, e-Learning

· Business&Finance

· Process Control

· Manufacturing

· Telecommunication

· Transportation

· Health, Medicine and Bioengineering

· Power Industry

· Enviromental Engineering

September 6, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #4323
New Trends in Self-organization and Optimization of Artificial Neural Networks at ICANN 2008.

email: noreply@icann2008.org.
Deadlines: papers: April 4

September 6, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #4388
workshop on "Adaptive Mechanisms of the Perception-Action Cycle" at ICANN.

Vassilis Cutsuridis, Dept. of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, SCOTLAND, tel: +44 1786 467422, fax: +44 1786 464551, email: vcu@cs.stir.ac.uk.

September 7-9, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden. Item #4321
1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics: Databasing and Modeling the Brain.

Elli Chatzopoulou, tel: D. Scientific Information and Public Relations Officer, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, Secretariat, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 15A, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden, email: elli.chatzopoulou@incf.org.

September 8-10, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Item #4282
MLMI 2008 - 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction.

Steve Renals. Email: s.renals@ed.ac.uk.
Deadlines: papers and posters: March 31.
MLMI 2008 will feature talks (including a number of invited speakers),
posters and demonstrations.  Prospective authors are invited to submit
proposals in the following areas of interest, related to machine
learning and multimodal interaction:
  - human-human communication modeling
  - audio-visual perception of humans
  - human-computer interaction modeling
  - speech processing
  - image and video processing
  - multimodal processing, fusion and fission
  - multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling
  - multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization
  - annotation and browsing of multimodal data
  - machine learning algorithms and their applications to the topics 
above

September 10, 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Item #4267
HIS 2008 - The 8th Hybrid Intelligent Systems Conference.

Fatos Xhafa. Email: fatos at lsi.upc.edu.
Deadlines: submission: May 31.
Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern
artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of the
next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to the
investigations
of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the awareness in the academic
communities that
combined approaches will be necessary if the remaining tough problems in
artificial/computational intelligence are to be solved. Recently,
Hybrid Intelligent Systems
are  getting popular due to their capabilities in handling several
real world complexities
involving imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness. HIS'07 builds on the
success of last year's.
HIS'07 was held during September 17-19, 2007, Kaiserslautern - Germany
and attracted
participants from several countries.

HIS'08 is the Eighth International conference that brings together
researchers, developers,
practitioners, and users of soft computing, computational
intelligence, agents, logic programming,
and several other intelligent computing techniques. The aim of HIS'08
is to serve as a forum to
present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas
in this field.

HIS'08 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work
that demonstrates current
research using soft computing, computational intelligence and other
intelligent computing
techniques and their applications in science, technology, business and commerce.

HIS'08 will focus on the following themes:

    * Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Architectures and Applications
    * Soft Computing for Image and Signal Processing
    * Intelligent Internet Modeling, Communication and Networking
    * Intelligent Data mining
    * Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
    * Intelligent Business Information Systems
    * Soft Computing for Control and Automation
    * Multi Agent Systems and Applications
    * Special topics

September 10-12, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic. Item #4274
ILP 2008 - 18th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming.

email: ilp2008@labe.felk.cvut.cz.
Deadlines: late-breaking papers: July 1.

September 11-13, 2008, Malta. Item #4243
ECC'08 - European Computing Conference.

email: (subject WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: May 31.

September 13-14, 2008, Brussels, Belgium. Item #4334
2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology.

Pierre Geurts. Email: geurts@montefiore.ulg.ac.be.
Deadlines: extended abstracts: June 15; summaries for posters: August 20.
A non-exhaustive list of topics suitable for this workshop:

Methods

Machine Learning Algorithms
Bayesian Methods
Data integration/fusion
Feature/subspace selection
Clustering
Biclustering/association rules
Kernel Methods
Probabilistic Inference
Structured output prediction
Systems identification
Graph inference, completion, smoothing
Semi-supervised learning

Applications

Sequence Annotation
Gene Expression and post-transcriptional regulation
Inference of gene regulation networks
Gene Prediction and whole genome association studies
Metabolic pathway modeling
Signaling networks
Systems biology approaches to biomarker identification
Rational drug design methods
Metabolic Reconstruction
Protein Structure Prediction
Protein Function Prediction
Protein-protein interaction networks

September 14-17, 2008, Kraków, Poland. Item #4172
ICSES08 International Conference on Signals and Electronic Systems.

Dr. Maria Sapor, Conference Secretary, email: icses2008@agh.edu.pl.
Deadlines: paper submission: May 3.
SCOPE

    * Signals: Analog and Digital Signals processing; Speech and Biomedical Signal processing and coding; Multirate Signal processing; A/C and C/A Conversion.

    * Images: Image processing; Image formation, modeling and representation; Image analysis and pattern recognition; Image/video coding and transmission; Image storage, retrieval; Multimedia.

    * Circuits: General circuits theory; Methods of circuit analysis, synthesis, design, and optimization; Analogue and digital filter design; ASICs and VLSI circuit design; Nonlinear and chaotic circuits; Switched-capacitor and switched-current circuits; Neural networks; Cellular neural networks; RF and microwave circuits.

    * Systems: Analogue and digital, electronic systems; VLSI and large scale systems; Data Acquisition Systems, FPGA-based systems; Multimedia systems; RF systems, Communication systems; Nonlinear, adaptive, and intelligent systems; Neural and fuzzy systems; Artificial intelligence and expert systems

    * Mathematical and Computational Methods: Fast algorithms and transforms; Simulation and modeling; Testing and fault analysis; Sensitivity and symbolic analysis; Multiresolution analysis and wavelets; Neural and fuzzy computing; Computer aided design.

    * Applications: Electronic systems, signals and image processing and recognizing in medicine, environment, communications etc.

    * Education: Multimedia in education; Software for teaching signals and electronic systems; Student laboratories

September 15-17, 2008, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA. Item #4212
CIBCB 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Scott Smith. Email: sfsmith@boisestate.edu.
Deadlines: proposals for sessions: November 30; papers: March 31.

September 15-19, 2008, Antwerp, Belgium. Item #4265
ECML PKDD 2008 The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.

Hendrik Blockeel. Email: hendrik.blockeel@cs.kuleuven.be.
Deadlines: paper submission: April 25; proposals for workshop or tutorials: March 31.
The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and
Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases intends to provide an
international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality
research results in all areas related to machine learning and
knowledge discovery in databases. Submissions of papers that describe
the application of machine learning and data mining methods to real-
world problems are encouraged, particularly exploratory research that
describes novel learning and mining tasks and applications requiring
non-standard techniques. Submissions that demonstrate both theoretical
and empirical rigor are especially encouraged.

September 15, 2008, Antwerp, Belgium. Item #4342
FSDM 2008 New Challenges for Feature Selection in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery at ECML-PKDD 2008.

Inaki Inzai. Email: nzacano@gmail.com.
Deadlines: paper submission: June 16.
--- WORKSHOP SCOPE ---
The workshop invites papers relevant to research in feature selection
in the broad sense, and especially welcomes contributions that
highlight emerging feature selection challenges associated with new
mining tasks. Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

  Dimensionality reduction                        Feature weighting
  Feature ranking                                     Subset selection
  Feature extraction/construction               Feature selection
methodology
  Integration with data mining algorithms    Ensemble methods
  Novel data structures                             Selection in small
sample domains
  Data streams and time series                 Feature selection bias
and variance

September 15, 2008, Antwerp, Belgium. Item #4353
WBBTMine'08 Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining the Web 2.0 - Workshop at ECML/PKDD 2008.

Andreas Hotho. Email: hotho@cs.uni-kassel.de.
Deadlines: paper submission: June 16.
Topics of interest
==================
  include, but are not limited to:
     * network analysis of social resources sharing systems
     * analysis of wikis and blogs
     * analysis of social online communities
     * discovering social structures and communities
     * analysis of network dynamics
     * discovering misuse and fraud
     * Web 2.0 personalization
     * Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems
     * information retrieval in the Web 2.0
     * community detection
     * emergent semantics
     * Web 2.0 based ontology learning
     * predicting trends and user behavior
     * semantic association identification by link analysis
     * Web 2.0 crawling
     * mining information from distributed and re-combined Web 2.0
       sources / mash-ups
     * mobile Web 2.0: social search; mobile communities; ?
     * usage interfaces for mining: parallelization of Web and mobile
       interfaces; mash-up interfaces
     * interactions between usage interfaces and data collection,
       mining, and presentation
     * privacy challenges in Web 2.0 and mobile Web 2.0 applications
     * applications of any of the above methods and technologies

September 16, 2008, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Item #4377
ECAG '08 Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games.

Anton Nijholt. Email: A.Nijholt@ewi.utwente.nl.
Deadlines: submissions: June 15.

September 16-20, 2008, Psalidi, Kos, Greece. Item #4387
ICNAAM 2008 International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics.

vourganas@gmail.com.
Deadlines: short paper: July 24.

September 17-19, 2008, Porvoo, Finland. Item #4249
AKRR'08 - ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING.

Timo Honkela. Email: timo.honkela@tkk.fi.
Deadlines: paper submission: February 15.
SPECIAL THEMES

* Adaptive systems in organizational theory and economic sciences

* Computational wisdom, modeling emotions and decision making

* New generation of semantic web: social and multimodal grounding of
  knowledge and understanding

* Adaptive systems in medical education, research and practice

* Adaptive machine translation: towards global connection

TOPICS

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

Themes related to empirical sciences

* Adaptive, dynamical and probabilistic models and simulations of
  social and societal structures and processes
* Probabilistic and pattern-based reasoning on financial and economical
  phenomena
* Non-symbolic ontologies and adaptive knowledge representation for the web
* Emergent and evolutionary representations for creative and
  design processes
* Models of natural language understanding and translation
* Learning schemas and language games

* Cognitive models of perceptually grounded reasoning processes
* Multimodality in cognitive and artificial systems
* Analysis and modeling of emotions and decision making
* Relationship between individual, social and cultural development
* Natural and artificial general intelligence

* Analysis and development of conceptual spaces
* Emerging representations in active agents
* Empirical and theoretical study of practices and activities

Methodological themes

* Contextuality in statistical analysis and reasoning
* Models of temporal processes and reasoning
* Knowledge representation and reasoning in non-stationary environments
* Spatial representations of knowledge
* Analyses of the limitations of logic-based representations and reasoning

* Hybrid systems and emergence of symbolic representations
* Continuous formal systems
* Dynamical systems models of knowledge
* Pattern-based reasoning
* Unsupervised and reinforcement learning models for knowledge
  acquisition and representation

* Bayesian models of learning and reasoning
* Emergent representations based on independent
  component analysis and self-organizing maps
* Biologically inspired computing including artificial immune systems

September 19, 2008, Antwerp, Belgium. Item #4352
WORKSHOP ON PREFERENCE LEARNING as part of ECML/PKDD-08.

Eyke Huellermeier, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Germany. Email: eyke@mathematik.uni-marburg.de.
Deadlines: paper: June 23.
This workshop aims at providing a forum for the discussion of recent
advances in the use of machine learning and data mining methods for
problems related to the learning and discovery of preferences, and to
offer an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to identify new
promising research directions. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to

#  quantitative and qualitative approaches to modeling preferences as
well as different forms of feedback and training data;
#  learning utility functions and related regression problems;
#  preference mining and preference elicitation;
#  learning relational preference models;
#  embedding of other types of learning problems in the preference
learning framework (such as label ranking, ordinal classification, or
hierarchical classification);
#  comparison of different preference learning paradigms (e.g., "big
bang" approaches that use a single model vs. modular approaches that
decompose the learning of preference models into subproblems);
#  ranking problems, such as learning to rank objects or to aggregate
rankings;
#  scalability and efficiency of preference learning algorithms;
#  methods for special application fields, such as web search,
information retrieval, electronic commerce, games, personalization, or
recommender systems;
#  connections to other research fields, such as decision theory,
operations research, and social choice theory.

September 22-26, 2008, Sardinia, Italy. Item #4211
ECCB 2008 European Conference on Computational Biology.

email: info@eccb08.org.
Deadlines: forthcoming.

September 22-26, 2008, Brisbane, Australia. Item #4237
Interspeech 2008.

Odette Scharenborg. Email: O.Scharenborg@let.ru.nl.
Deadlines: papers: April 7.
 HUMAN SPEECH PRODUCTION, PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION

    * Human speech production
    * Human speech perception
    * Phonology and phonetics
    * Discourse and dialogue
    * Prosody (production, perception, prosodic structure)
    * Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)
    * Physiology and pathology
    * Spoken language acquisition, development and learning

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

    * Speech analysis and representation
    * Speech segmentation
    * Audio segmentation and classifi cation
    * Speaker turn detection
    * Speech enhancement
    * Speech coding and transmission
    * Speech synthesis and spoken language generation
    * Automatic speech recognition
    * Spoken language understanding
    * Accent and language identifi cation
    * Cross-lingual and multi-lingual processing
    * Multimodal/multimedia signal processing
    * Speaker characterization and recognition

SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

    * Dialogue systems
    * Systems for information retrieval
    * Systems for translation
    * Applications for aged and handicapped persons
    * Applications for learning and education
    * Other applications

RESOURCES, STANDARDIZATION AND EVALUATION

    * Spoken language resources and annotation
    * Evaluation and standardization

September 22-24, 2008, St Malo, Brittany, France. Item #4333
ICGI 2008 9th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference.

email: icgi08@irisa.fr.
Deadlines: submission of manuscripts: May 20.
ICGI-2008 is the ninth in a series of successful biennial
international
conferences in the area of grammatical inference.

Grammatical inference has been extensively addressed by researchers in
information theory, automata theory, language acquisition,
computational
linguistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational
learning
theory and neural networks.

The conference will take place in the city of St Malo, a beautiful
walled port
city, on the Brittany coast of France, near Le Mont St Michel, with
easy
TGV access.

#AREAS OF INTEREST#

The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and
discussion of
original research papers on all aspects of grammatical inference
including,
but not limited to:

   *  Different models of grammar induction: e.g., learning from
examples,
learning using examples and queries, incremental versus non-
incremental
learning, distribution-free models of learning, learning under various
distributional assumptions, learnability results, complexity results,
characterizations of representational and search biases of grammar
induction algorithms.

   *  Algorithms for induction of different classes of languages and
automata: e.g., regular, context-free, and context-sensitive
languages,
interesting subclasses of the above under additional syntactic
constraints,
tree and graph grammars, picture grammars, multidimensional grammars,
attributed grammars, parameterized models, etc.

   *  Theoretical and experimental analysis of different approaches to
grammar induction including artificial neural networks, statistical
methods, symbolic methods, information-theoretic approaches, minimum
description length, complexity-theoretic approaches, heuristic
methods, etc.

   *  Broader perspectives on grammar induction, e.g. acquisition of
grammar in conjunction with language semantics, semantic constraints
on
grammars, language acquisition by situated agents and robots,
acquisition
of language constructs that describe objects and events in space and
time,
developmental and evolutionary constraints on language acquisition,
statistical modelling of natural language, etc.

September 23-26, 2008, Tianjin, China. Item #4313
8th International Conference on Frontiers in Design and Manufacturing and the 8th S. M. Wu Symposium on Manufacturing Sciences.

Jack Hu. Email: jackhu@umich.edu.
Deadlines: paper submission: April 1.

September 24-28, 2008, Beijing, China. Item #4253
Fifth International Symposium on Neural Networks.

email: isnn2008@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Deadlines: proposals for special sessions: February 15; papers: March 15.

September 24-26, 2008, Burgos, Spain. Item #4363
HAIS'08 - The 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems.

email: escorchado@ubu.es.
Deadlines: papers submission: May 7.

September 25-30, 2008, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. Item #4319
ICCMSE 2008 International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering.

T.E. Simos. Email: tsimos@mail.ariadne-t.gr.
Deadlines: proposals for minisymposia, sessions and or workshop: June 15; papers: July 15.
Subject Areas 
    
Computational Mathematics
Computational Medicinal Chemistry
Computational Chemistry
Computational Physics
Computational Engineering

September 26-29, 2008, Timisoara, Romania. Item #4392
NCA 2008 - Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications to be held in the framework of SYNASC 2008NCA 2008 - Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications to be held in the framework of SYNASC 2008.

Ajith Abraham - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, ajith.abraham@ieee.org.
Deadlines: papers: July' 7.
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following:

  -evolutionary computing,
   -neural computing, Bayesian networks, learning algorithms,
   -membrane computing,
   -DNA computing,
   - molecular computing,
   -information processing in cells and tissues,
   -quantum computing,
   -immunocomputing,
   -swarm intelligence, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization,
   -bacterial foraging
   -computation with words,
   -granular computation,
   -artificial life,
   -emergent computing and self-organizing systems
   -complex adaptive systems
   -hybridization of evolutionary, neural, molecular and quantum computing,
   -hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing techniques and
other
    global and local optimization methods,
   -integration of natural computing techniques in intelligent systems,
   -implementation issues of natural computing techniques,
   -natural computing approaches for multi-objective, multimodal and dynamic
optimization,
   -natural computing approaches in knowledge discovery, natural language
processing, image processing, planning and scheduling,  information security,
human-computer interaction, Web Intelligence, Web-based support systems,
   -natural computing applications in science, business, finance,  engineering,
medicine, bioinformatics and other fields.

October 2, 2008, CHASSENEUIL, France. Item #4294
7th EDF/LMS Poitiers Workshop Operational limits of Bearings: Improving Performance through Modelling and Experimentation.

Michel FILLON, Dr. HDR, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, tel: +33 5 49 49 65 43 fax: +33 5 49 49 65 04, email: fillon@lms.univ-poitiers.fr.
Deadlines: paper: July 4.

October 2-4, 2008, Syros, Greece. Item #4300
SETN'08 - 5th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

email: setn08@aegean.gr.
Deadlines: paper: May 9.
The conference invites high quality, unpublished submissions on any area of Artificial Intelligence. Indicative areas of interest include:

    * Adaptive Systems
    * AI and Creativity
    * AI Architectures
    * Artificial Life
    * Autonomous Systems
    * Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    * Hybrid Intelligent Systems & Methods
    * Intelligent Agents, Multi-agent Systems
    * Intelligent Distributed Systems
    * Intelligent Information Retrieval
    * Intelligent/Natural Interactivity, Intelligent Virtual Environments
    * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Logic Programming
    * Knowledge-Based Systems
    * Machine Learning, Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms
    * Natural Language Processing
    * Planning and Scheduling
    * Problem Solving, Constraint Satisfaction
    * Robotics, Machine Vision, Machine Sensing

We are also interested in innovative applications of AI. Indicative application areas include:

    * Art
    * Assistive Technologies
    * Autonomous Vehicles and Robots 
    * Engineering and Manufacturing
    * Entertainment, Computer Games, Storytelling
    * Marketing, E-Commerce
    * Medicine, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics
    * Semantic Web
    * Intelligent Tutoring Systems

October 3-4, 2008, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy. Item #4325
CIBB 2008 - Fifth International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics.

email: cibb2008chair@disi.unige.it.
Deadlines: proposals for special sessions: May 15; paper submission: May 30.
Technical areas addressed by CIBB 2008 include, but are not limited to:
    * Sequence analysis, promoter analysis and identification of transcription
factor binding sites
    * Gene expression data analysis
    * Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data
    * Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis
    * Methods for the functional classification of genes
    * Methods for the unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of
structures discovered in bio-molecular data
    * Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures
    * Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics
    * Methods for comparative genomics
    * Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis
    * Mathematical modelling and simulation of biological systems
    * Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics
    * Bio-molecular databases and data mining
    * Algorithms for pharmacogenetics
    * Bio-medical text mining and imaging
    * Methods for diagnosis and prognosis
    * Software tools for bioinformatics
                         

October 12-18, 2008, Marseille, France. Item #4180
ECCV 2008 10th European Conference on Computer Vision.

Jean Ponce.
Deadlines: paper submission: March 17.

October 12-15, 2008, Singapore. Item #4304
2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

Ivan Boo. Email: ivan@inmeet.com.sg.
Deadlines: proposals for special sessions: March 2; papers: March 16.
Systems Science & Engineering:
Communications
Conflict Resolution
Consumer and Industrial Applications
Control of Uncertain Systems
Cooperative Systems and Control
Decision Support Systems
Discrete Event Systems and Petri Nets
Distributed Intelligent Systems
Enterprise Information Systems
Fault Monitoring and Diagnosis
Homeland Security
Infrastructure Systems and Services
Intelligent Green Production Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Large-Scale/Complex Systems, System of Systems
Manufacturing Systems & Automation
Mechatronics
Micro and/or Nano Systems
Quality/Reliability Engineering
Robotic Systems
Service Systems and Organizations
Smart Sensor Networks
System Modeling & Control
Technology Assessment
Human-Machine Systems:
Applications of Interaction
Brain-based Information Communications
Data Mining & Management
Edutainment
Games and Entertainment
Human Communication Science
Human Information Processing
Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Machine Cooperation and Systems
Human-Machine Interface & Communications
Informatics on Embodiment
Information Systems for Design & Marketing
Interactive and Digital Media
Interactive Design
Interactive Science & Engineering
Kansei (sense/emotion) Engineering
Multimedia Systems
Multi-user Interaction
Risk Management
Systems Safety and Security
Verbal/Non-Verbal Communication
Virtual and Augmented Reality Systems
Web Intelligence and Interaction
Welfare Information Technology
Cybernetics:
Agent-Based Modeling
Artificial Immune Systems
Artificial Life
Biomemetic systems
Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
Computational Life Science
Cybernetics for Informatics
Evolutionary Computation
Expert & Knowledge-based Systems
Fuzzy Systems
Heuristic Algorithms
Hybrid models of NN, Fuzzy Sys & Evol Comp
Image Processing/Pattern Recognition
Info. Assurance & Intelligent Multimedia-Mobile
Intelligent Internet Systems
Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
Machine Vision
Media Computing
Medical Informatics
Neural Networks
Optimization
Self-Organization
Swarm Intelligence

October 13-16, 2008, Budapest, Hungary. Item #4330
ALT 2008 19th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory and DS 2008 11th International Conference on Discovery Science.

Prof. Thomas Zeugmann, Division of Computer Science, Graduate School of, Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, N-14, W-9, Sapporo 060-0814, JAPAN, email: thomas@ist.hokudai.ac.jp.
Deadlines: submissions: May 18.

October 14-17, 2008, Lisboa, Portugal. Item #4362
IBERAMIA 2008 Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

email: iberamia2008.dcti@iscte.pt.
Deadlines: paper submission: May 19.
* Cognitive modeling and human interaction
* Commonsense reasoning
* Constraint satisfaction
* Evolutionary computation and Artificial Life
* Game playing and interactive entertainment
* Information integration and extraction
* Knowledge acquisition and ontologies
* Knowledge representation and reasoning
* Machine learning and data mining
* Model-based systems
* Multiagent Systems
* Natural language processing
* Planning and scheduling
* Probabilistic reasoning
* Robotics, vision, and pattern Recognition
* Search
* Semantic web
* Distributed AI
* AI in Education
* Uncertainty and Fuzzy Systems
* Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks

October 15-17, 2008, Wuhan, China. Item #4326
IRA2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications.

email: icira@mail.hust.edu.cn.
Deadlines: abstracts and full papers: May 18.
Papers describing original work on abstractions, algorithms, theories, methodologies, and case studies are invited including but not limited to the following areas:

Robot Motion Planning and Manipulation

Robot Control

Cognitive Robotics

Rehabilitation Robotics

Health Care and Artificial Limb

Robot Learning

Robot Vision

Human-Machine Interaction & Coordination

Mobile Robotics

Micro/Nano Mechanical Systems

Manufacturing Automation

Multi-Axis Surface Machining

Realworld Applications

October 15, 2008, Novotel St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. Item #4361
PRIB 2008 - Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics.

email: prib2008.melb@infotech.monash.edu.au.
Deadlines: paper: May 25.

October 15-19, 2008, Okinawa, Japan. Item #4416
Workshop on Open Problems in the Neuroscience of Decision Making.

Kenji Doya. Email: doya@oist.jp>.
Deadlines: proposal for discussant: September 1.
Sessions and Confirmed Speakers:

1: Valuation -- What affects the evaluation of risk and the timing of 
reward?
        Peter Bossaerts, EPFL
        John O’Doherty, U Dublin and Caltech
        Kenji Doya, OIST
2: Decision -- Where in the brain are decisions made?
        Geoffrey Schoenbaum, U Maryland
        Thomas Boraud, CNRS
        Paul Cisek, U Montreal
3: Learning -- How do dopamine neurons compute reward prediction errors?
        Brian Hyland, U Otago
        Yasushi Kobayashi, Osaka U
        Masamichi Sakagami, Tamagawa U
        Hiroyuki Nakahara, RIKEN BSI
4: Multiplicity -- Why do we use different strategies and which brain 
parts are involved?
        Bernard Balleine, UCLA
        Nathaniel Daw, New York U
        Jon Horvitz, Boston College

October 16-19, 2008, Cancun, Mexico. Item #4350
2008 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.

Deniz Erdogmus. Email: derdogmus@ieee.org.
Deadlines: passed.
The workshop will feature keynote addresses, technical presentations, special
sessions and tutorials organized in two themes that will be included in the
registration. Tutorials will take place on the afternoon of 16 October, and
the workshop will begin on 17 October. The two themes for MLSP 2008 are
Cognitive Sensing and Kernel Methods for Nonlinear 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) medical imaging,
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.

For the fourth consecutive year, a Data Analysis and Signal Processing
Competition is being organized in conjunction with the workshop. The goal of
the competition is to advance the current state-of-the-art in theoretical and
practical aspects of signal processing domains. The problems are selected to
reflect current trends, evaluate existing approaches on common benchmarks, and
identify critical new areas of research. Previous competitions produced novel
and effective approaches to challenging problems, advancing the mission of the
MLSP community. A description of the competition, the submissions, and the
results, will be included in a paper which will be published in the
proceedings. Winners will be announced and awards given at the workshop.

October 26-28, 2008, Corfu, Greece. Item #4244
MMACTEE'08 - The 10th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering.

email: (subject WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: August 31.

October 26-28, 2008, Corfu, Greece. Item #4245
NOLASC'08 - The 7th WSEAS International Conference on Non-linear Analysis, Non-linear Systems and Chaos.

email: (subject WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: August 31.

October 26-30, 2008, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Item #4270
SBIA 2008 - 19th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (SBIA) and the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (SBRN).

Augusto Loureiro da Costa, Computer Science Dept., Federal University of Bahia. Email: augusto.loureiro@ufba.br.
Deadlines: paper registration: May 24; papers: May 25.
TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE:

1. Constraints and Search
2. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
3. Distributed AI: Autonomous Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Game Theory
4.Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (including Commonsense Reasoning,
Logics, Probabilistic Reasoning, Ontologies, Semantic Web)
5. Machine Learning and Data Mining
6. Model-Based Reasoning
7. Natural Language Processing
8. Planning and Scheduling
9. Robotics 

October 26-30, 2008, Paris, France. Item #4301
CSTST'2008 International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology.

email: rchbeir@u-bourgogne.fr.
Deadlines: paper submissions: June 15; proposals for workshops and tutorials: April 30.
Topics
**********************
We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. 
The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to): 

* Information and Data Management 
* Intelligent Hybrid Systems 
* Fusion of Soft and Hard Computing 
* Data and Web Mining 
* Decision Support Systems 
* Natural Language Processing 
* Intelligent Agent-based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed AI Systems 
* Internet Modeling 
* Multimedia Information Systems 
* Information Retrieval 
* Human-Computer Interface 
* XML-based Languages 
* Security and Access Control 
* Information Content Security 
* Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management 
* Applications 
        o E-Learning, eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment 
        o Image and speech signal processing, prediction, and control 
        o Robotics 
        o Biology and medicine 
        o Business and management 
        o Artificial societies 
        o Chemicals, pharmaceuticals and materials 
        o Environment engineering 

October 27-30, 2008, Rabat, Morocco. Item #4218
CARI 2008 - 9th African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.

http://www.cari-info.org.
Deadlines: submissions: January 31
-   Complex Systems Modelling
- Signal, image and multimedia
- Scientific computing and parallelism
- Artificial Intelligence &  Computer
  Based Collaborative Learning  Environment
- Information Systems
- Distributed systems, embarked systems, Network, mobility
- Formal Methods for Software Engineering

October 27, 2008, Alexandria, VA, USA. Item #4310
The First ACM Workshop on AISec.

email: staddon@parc.com.
Deadlines: submission: May 9.
opics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
--Spam detection
--Fraud detection (e.g. clickfraud, advertisement fraud)
--Botnet detection
--Intrusion detection
--Malware identification
--Insider threat detection
--Privacy-preserving data mining
--Inference detection and control
--Phishing detection and prevention
--Design and analysis of CAPTCHAs
--AI approaches to trust and reputation
--Machine learning techniques for optimizing user experience
--Vulnerability testing through intelligent probing (e.g. fuzzing)
--Content-driven security policy management & access control
--Techniques and methods for generating training and test sets

October 27-30, 2008, Burlingame, California, USA. Item #4339
5th International Congress of Nano-Bio & Clean Tech.

Brian Tran, Program Assistant, International Association of Nanotechnology, 1290 Parkmoor Ave, San Jose, CA 95126, tel: (408) 277 3091, fax: (408) 293 9057, email: btran@ianano.org.
Deadlines: abstract submission: June 30.
Nanomaterials
Nanoparticles
Nanodevices
Nanoelectronics
Nanofabrication
MEMS & NEMS
Nanobiotechnology
Nano scale characterization
Standards & Nomenclature
Nano Tools
Molecular Engineering
Nano Manufacturing
Nanoparticles Toxicology
Heath Safety Implications
Renewable Energy
Biofuels
Photovoltaic
Hydrogen
Electric Car
Sustainable Energy Public Policy
Direct Thermal Energy Conversion
Electrochemical Conversion and Storage
Nanostructured Solar Cell Manufacturing
Intellectual Property
Commercialization
Venture capital investment
and other related topics
Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
Education & Workforce Training
Societal & Environmental Impacts
Capital Funding and Grants for Start-up Ventures

October 27-29, 2008, Universite du Havre, Le Havre, France. Item #4399
ESM'2008 - The 22nd annual European Simulation and Modelling Conference.

Philippe Geril, Secretary General, EUROSIS, Greenbridge NV, Wetenschapspark 1, Plassendale 1, B-8400 Ostend Belgium, +32.59.255330, +32.59.255339, email: Philippe.Geril@eurosis.org.

October 30-31, 2008, Sabadell, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Item #4360
MDAI 2008 - Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence.

email: mdai@mdai.cat.
Deadlines: submission deadline: April 1.

November 3-5, 2008, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Item #4359
ICTAI'08 20th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Soon M. Chung (PC Chair of ICTAI 2008), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA, email: soon.chung [at] wright [dot] edu.
Deadlines: paper submission: June 2.
Topics (not limited to)

· AI Algorithms
· AI in Bioinformatics
· AI in Computer Security
· AI in Databases and Data Mining
· AI in E-commerce
· AI in Games
· AI in Information Assurance
· AI in Logistics and Supply Chain     Management
· AI in Medicine
· AI in Multimedia Systems
· AI in Real-time & Embedded    Applications
· AI in Robotics
· AI in Software Engineering
· Case-Based Reasoning
· Cognitive Modeling
· Constraint Programming
· Collaborative Software Agents
· Reasoning Under Fuzziness or    Uncertainty
· Evolutionary Computing

· Hybrid Intelligent Systems
	

· Information Retrieval
· Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems
· Intelligent Internet Agents
· Intelligent Interface Agents
· Knowledge-based Systems
· Knowledge Extraction
· Knowledge Management and Sharing
· Knowledge Representation and    Reasoning
· Machine Learning
· Natural Language Processing &    Understanding
· Neural Networks
· Ontologies
· Planning and Scheduling
· Qualitative Reasoning
· Search and Heuristics
· Semantic Web Techniques and    Technologies
· Speech Processing and Understanding
· Vision/Image Processing and    Understanding

November 7, 2008, Washington, DC, USA. Item #4395
IDAMAP Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology.

John H. Holmes, PhD, FACMI, Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics in Epidemiology at HUP, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 726 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, tel: 215 898 4833 fax: 215 573 5325.
Deadlines: submissions: August 15.
In the colloquium, the attention will be given to methodological 
issues of intelligent data analysis and on specific applications in biomedicine 
and pharmacology. In terms of methodology, topics include, but are 
not limited to: 
- data mining and machine learning techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning problems, 
- exploiting domain knowledge in learning and data analysis, 
- data visualization and exploration, 
- analysis of large data sets and relational data mining, 
- knowledge management and its integration with intelligent data 
 analysis techniques, and 
- integration of intelligent data analysis techniques within 
 biomedical information systems. 


A paper submitted to the colloquium is expected to show a selected 
methodology can help to solve relevant problems in medicine, and 
would typically address the following issues: 
- What is the medical or clinical problem addressed? 
- Was any prior knowledge available? How was this used in the data analysis or interpretation of results? 
- How is/can the newly discovered knowledge put into use? 

November 8-10, 2008, Tirgu Mures, Romania. Item #4358
CANS' 2008 Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Medical Applications and Biomedical Computing.

email: ibarna@upm.ro.
Deadlines: abstract submission: March 21
Main topics of interest (but not limited to)

    * Self-organization Modelling
    * Evolutionary Models
    * Complex Modelling Methodology
    * Complex Modelling for Decision Support Systems
    * Control and Synchronization of Chaotic Dynamical Systems
    * Dynamics Control Through Invariant Properties
    * Complex Systems
    * Intelligent Systems
    * Medical Applications
    * Biomedical Computing
    * Biological Modelling
    * Social Modelling
    * Bio-inspired Methods
    * Complex Systems Methods
    * Information Technology Modelling
    * Cognition Modelling
    * Network Modelling
    * Model-based Verification and Validation
    * Parallel and Distributed Computing
    * Automata and Formal Language
    * Informatics in Control
    * Fuzzy Systems
    * Medical Informatics
    * Health and Medical Sciences
    * Pharmaceutical Analysis

using tools borrowed from various areas:

    * Computer Science
    * Mathematics
    * Physics
    * Geography
    * Medicine
    * Healt Sciences
    * ...

November 12-14, 2008, Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. Item #4381
NICSO 2008 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization.

email: nicso2008@gci.org.es.
Deadlines: submission: September, 1.
TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to them):
? Adaptive Behaviour
? Ants Colonies
? Amorphous Computing
? Artificial Li fe
? Artificial Immune Systems
? Coevolution
? Distributed Computing
? Evolutionary Robotics
? Evolvable Systems
? Genetic Algorithms
? Genetic Programming
? Membrane Computing
? Quantum Computing
? Software Self Assembly
? Swarm Intelligence

Cooperative Strategies for:
? Numerical Optimization
? Combinatorial Optimization
? Non Linear Optimization
? Dynamic Optimization
? Noisy Optimization
? Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
? Game Theory
? Complex Systems
? Optimal Adaptable Control

November 14, 2008, Washington, DC, USa. Item #4421
Short Course: Using NEURON to Model Cells and Networks at 2008 SFN Meeting.

Ted Carnevale. Email: carnevalet@sbcglobal.net.
Deadlines: registration: October 13.
Partial list of topics to be covered:
* Efficient design and implementation of models of neurons and networks.
   + Constructing and managing models with the Cell Builder,
     Channel Builder, Linear Circuit Builder, Network Builder,
     and Model Viewer.
   + Using the built-in variable-order variable-timestep integrator
     for improved speed and accuracy.
   + Parallelizing models of cells and networks.
   + Optimizing models with high-dimensional datasets.
* Expanding NEURON's repertoire of biophysical mechanisms.
* Databases for empirically-based modeling.

November 15-19, 2008, Washington, DC, USA. Item #4422
Neuroscience 2008 The 38th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Society for Neuroscience, 1121 14th Street, NW, Suite 1010, Washington, DC 20005, tel: (202) 962 4000, fax: (202) 962 4941, email: info@sfn.org.
Deadlines: passed.

November 17-19, 2008, Valencia, Spain. Item #4400
GAMEON'2008.

Philippe Geril, Secretary General, EUROSIS, Greenbridge NV, Wetenschapspark 1, Plassendale 1, B-8400 Ostend Belgium, +32.59.255330, +32.59.255339, email: Philippe.Geril@eurosis.org.
Deadlines: submission: August 15; late submission: September 15.
Game Development Methodology

Game Development Methodology, Game Design and Research Methods, Production Roles, Techniques and Process Management, Social and Technical Interactions in Art and Engineering, Participatory Media and Heterogeneous Development Approaches, Sociotechnical MOG Development, Communities and Sustainability, Business and Requirements Modeling for Game Projects, Software Architecture and Modeling in Games, Interaction Design and Usability in Game Contexts, Play Testing, Gameplay Experience Evaluation

Submit your proposal here.
Artificial Intelligence

Designing (Extensible) AI Engines with Built-in Machine Learning Technologies, Using Adaptive Markov Models, Using Decision Trees, Production Rules and Learning , Using Fuzzy Logic for membership functions and inference procedures , Using Rule Based AI or a Finite State Machine (FSM) , Using Fuzzy State Machines (FuSM) or Cascaded FuSMs , Using Artificial Life and layered AI Techniques , Level-of-Detail AI, Using scripting languages to govern NPC Bots, synthetic characters, or believable agents , Controlling simulated characters (Group Behaviour control) using f.ex. flocking algorithms based on extensible scripting systems , Cognitive Modeling: (combining geometric models and inverse kinematics to simplify key-framing. physical models for animating particles. Bio-mechanical modeling, behavioral modeling), Domain knowledge specification and character instruction, Creating AI Networks using supervised learning and genetic algorithms, and pathfinding, Using Databases using the winnowing algorithm , Using Multi-user Data Management.

Submit your proposal here.
Physics and Simulation

Collision detection, contact resolution and manifold generation (methods Lin-Canny, OBB Trees, I-Collide and Ray Tracing) ; Calculation optimization between objects ; The closest point algorithm by Gilbert Johnson and Keerthi (GJK) between convex and union-of convex objects ; Contact equation formulation (point-plane, edge-edge and sphere-plane) ; LCP (Linear Complementary problems) Based contact resolution ; Iterative constraints and penalty methods for contact resolution, Micro-Collisions, Software Object Interaction.

  

November 24-27, 2008, Sydney, Australia. Item #4442
GSO-2008 - The First International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation.

Oliver Obst, Fon: +61 2 9325 3278, http://oliver.obst.eu/.
Deadlines: abstract: October 31.
The balance between design and self-organisation is the main theme of 
GSO-2008. The following topics are of special interest:
- information-driven self-organisation (IDSO),
- systems biology,
- complex systems and networks,
- computational neuroscience and neuroinformatics;
- applications of GSO to cooperative and modular robotics,
- applications of GSO to sensor networks and energy grids.

November 26-28, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand. Item #4127
ICONIP'2008 The 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing.

Joyce D'Mello. Email: jdmello@aut.ac.nz.
Deadlines: proposals for tutorials, special sessions and workshops: 30 May, paper submission: August 31.
Topics include:

Methods for brain modelling
Neuro-genetic modelling
Novel neurocomputing methods
Novel  methods  of  soft  computing  for  adaptive modelling and knowledge discovery
Methods of evolving intelligence (EI)
Novel methods for Hybrid intelligent
systems (HIS))
Hybrid NN-, fuzzy-, evolutionary- algorithms
Cellular automata
Artificial Life systems
Evolving molecular processes and their modelling
Evolving processes in the brain and their modelling
Evolving language and cognition
Molecular computing 	Quantum information processing
Quantum inspired computational intelligence
Neuro-informatics
Bioinformatics
Adaptive speech, image and multimodal processing
Adaptive decision support systems
Dynamic time-series modelling
Adaptive control
Adaptive intelligent systems on the WWW
Applications in: Medicine, Health, Information Technologies, Horticulture, Agriculture, Bio-security, Business and finance, Process and robot control, Arts and Design.
Adaptive integrated/embedded systems
Agent based systems

November 26-27, 2008, Edinburgh, UK. Item #4441
Workshop on Computational Developmental Neuroscience.

David Sterratt. Email: david.c.sterratt@ed.ac.uk.

December 1-3, 2008, Daejon, Korea. Item #4351
Humanoids 2008.

email: secretary@humanoids2008.org.
Deadlines: full papers: July 1.
Design and control of full-body humanoid robots
Motion planning
Cognition, perception and learning for humanoid robots
Advanced components for humanoid robots
Advanced components for humanoid robots
Sub-parts, e.g. hands, arms, legs and etc., for humanoid robots
Humanoid robot platforms for applications
Anthropomorphism in humanoid robotics
Software and hardware architecture and system integration
Human-humanoid interaction
Planning, localization and navigation
Development tools for humanoid robots

December 2-5, 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam. Item #4219
ICARCV 2008 - 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision.

email: - secretariat@icarcv.org.
Deadlines: papers: April 1; proposals for sessions: March 1.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Control: Adaptive control; Robust control; Process control; Complex systems; Co-operative control;
Identification and estimation; Nonlinear systems; Intelligent systems; Discrete event systems; Hybrid
systems; Networked control systems; Sensor network systems; Delay systems; Neural networks;
Fuzzy systems; Control of biological systems; Precision motion control; Control applications; Control
engineering education.
Automation: Man-machine interactions; Process automation; Intelligent automation; Factory modeling
and simulation; Home, laboratory and service automation; Network-based systems; Planning,
scheduling and coordination; Nano-scale automation and assembly; Instrumentation systems;
Biomedical instrumentation and applications.
Robotics: Modeling and identification; Robot control; Mobile robotics; Mobile sensor networks;
Perception systems; Micro robots and micro-manipulation; Visual servoing; Search, rescue and field
robotics; Robot sensing and data fusion; Localization, navigation and mapping; Dexterous
manipulation; Medical robots and bio-robotics; Human centered systems; Space and underwater
robots; Tele-robotics; Mechanism design and applications.
Vision: Image/video analysis; Feature extraction, grouping and segmentation; Scene analysis; Pattern
recognition; Learning in vision; Human-computer interaction; Tracking and surveillance; Biometrics;
Biomedical Image analysis; Activity/behaviour recognition; Applications.

December 3-5, 2008, Koblenz, Germany. Item #4378
SPECIAL SESSION ON MINING OF SOCIAL MEDIA at SAMT 2008.

email: samt-chairs@uni-koblenz.de.
Deadlines: abstract submission: June 6; paper submission: June 13.
Topics:
-------

* Network analysis and social structures detection in Web 2.0 systems

* Ontology learning on and in the Web 2.0

* Discovering (cross system) associations, large social networks and
   communities

* Predicting trends and user behavior (e.g. misuse and fraud/spam)

* Multimedia analysis; audio/visual processing; aggregating
   information from different modalities

December 3-5, 2008, Moscow, Russia. Item #4386
RusNanoTech’2008 Nanotechnology International Forum.

rusnanoforum@rusnano.com.

December 3, 2008, Koblenz, Germany. Item #4409
Workshop on Cross-Media Information Analysis, Extraction and Management.

Joao Magalhaes. Email: jmc.mag@gmail.com.
Deadlines: paper submission: September 14.
********************************************

In conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Semantic
and Digital Media Technologies SAMT 2008, Koblenz, Germany.

This workshop aims at being a forum to discuss the advances and
challenges of cross-media information analysis and extraction methods
that can enhance state-of-the-art single-media analysis approaches
and enrich current multimedia information management applications.
We welcome innovative research papers that address fundamental
research questions with concrete research proposals, achievements
and evaluation and Posters aimed at disseminating initial research
results and systems to handle cross-media research. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cross-media information analysis and extraction algorithms
- Knowledge driven cross-media information analysis
- Context-aware analysis of cross-media information
- Cross-media information retrieval
- Reasoning with cross-media information
- Metadata extensions to support semantic annotations of cross-media
  information
- Advances in manual annotation methods of cross-media information
- Semi-automatic and automatic annotation methods for cross-media
  information
- Applications for manual annotation of rich multimedia documents
- Addressing and storage of cross-media information
- Cross-media information delivery and management
- Synchronization of media objects for cross media analysis
- Cross media features, nature, scope and integration approaches

December 5-20, 2008, Shenzhen, China. Item #4379
11th Joint Conference on Information Science.

Asli Celikyilmaz. Email: asli.celikyilmaz@gmail.com.
Deadlines: papers submission: July 20.
It is our great pleasure to announce the 11th Joint Conference on
Information Science, which will be held in Shenzhen, China from 15 to
20, December, 2008. The Conference is sponsored by Association for
Intelligent Machinery, U.S.A., and is jointly organized by Harbin
Institute of Technology, Harbin, China and Harbin Institute of
Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China.

JCIS is a multidisciplinary meeting encompassing conferences,
workshops and symposiums that highlight emerging science and
technology related to intelligent machinery and systems. For more than
a decade, the conference has encouraged information dissemination and
the exchange of ideas among researchers in the diverse yet
interconnected fields of information sciences.

All papers submitted to the joint conference will undergo rigorous
double blind reviews to ensure high quality, and accepted papers will
be included in the conference proceeding and submitted EI/Compendex
and ISI-Proceedings indexing. The publisher and the conference
organizers have always been dedicated to obtain the best indexing
available. Also, selected papers will be published in the following
international journals:
It is our great pleasure to announce the 11th Joint Conference on
Information Science, which will be held in Shenzhen, China from 15 to
20, December, 2008. The Conference is sponsored by Association for
Intelligent Machinery, U.S.A., and is jointly organized by Harbin
Institute of Technology, Harbin, China and Harbin Institute of
Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China.

JCIS is a multidisciplinary meeting encompassing conferences,
workshops and symposiums that highlight emerging science and
technology related to intelligent machinery and systems. For more than
a decade, the conference has encouraged information dissemination and
the exchange of ideas among researchers in the diverse yet
interconnected fields of information sciences.

All papers submitted to the joint conference will undergo rigorous
double blind reviews to ensure high quality, and accepted papers will
be included in the conference proceeding and submitted EI/Compendex
and ISI-Proceedings indexing. The publisher and the conference
organizers have always been dedicated to obtain the best indexing
available. Also, selected papers will be published in the following
international journals:

-- Information Sciences
-- New Mathematics & Natural Computing

-- Information Sciences
-- New Mathematics & Natural Computing

December 5-13, 2008, On the internet. Item #4396
CISSE 2008 The Fourth International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering.

email: info@cisse2008online.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: October 15.
CISSE 2008 is composed of the following four conferences:


International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and  Software
Engineering (SCSS 08)

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.



International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe  08)

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.



International Conference on Engineering Education,  Instructional
Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 08)

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, Ethics in Education, Economical and Social Impacts of
E-learning.




International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology  &
Automation (IETA 08)

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..


December 7-10, 2008, Melbourne, Australia. Item #4173
SEAL'08 - The Seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning.

www: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/seal08/.
Deadlines: papers: June 30.
1. Evolutionary Learning

    * Fundamental Issues in Evolutionary Learning
    * Co-Evolutionary Learning
    * Modular Evolutionary Learning Systems
    * Classifier System
    * Collective Intelligence
    * Representation Issues in Evolutionary Learning 

	

    * Artificial Immune Systems
    * Interactions Between Learning and Evolution
    * Credit Assignment
    * Swarm Intelligence
    * Comparison between Evolutionary Learning and Other Learning Approaches 

2. Evolutionary Optimisation

    * Combinatorial Optimisation
    * Numerical/Function Optimisation
    * Hybrid Optimisation Algorithms
    * Comparison of Algorithms 

	

    * Nature-Inspired Algorithms (ant colony optimisation, particle swarm optimisation,   memetic algorithms, simulated annealing, etc.) 

3. Hybrid Learning

    * Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks
    * Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
    * Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning
    * Evolutionary Clustering
    * Evolutionary Decision Tree Learning 

	

    * Evolutionary Unsupervised Learning
    * Genetic Programming
    * Other Hybrid Learning Systems
    * Developmental Processes 

4. Adaptive Systems

    * Complexity in Adaptive Systems
    * Evolutionary Robotics
    * Evolvable Hardware and Software
    * Artificial Ecology 

	

    * Evolutionary Games
    * Self-Repairing Systems
    * Evolutionary Computation Techniques in Economics, Finance and Marketing 

5. Theoretical Issues in Evolutionary Computation

    * Computational Complexity of Evolutionary Algorithms
    * Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms 

	

    * Convergence and Convergence Rate of Evolutionary Algorithms 

6. Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computation Techniques

December 7-9, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand. Item #4254
AINN 2008 - International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks.

http://www.waset.org/ainn08/.
Deadlines: papers, proposals for special sessions: August 31.

December 8-11, 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA. Item #3991
ICPR 2008 - 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.

email: GeneralChair@icpr2008.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: April 8, proposals for tutorials: May 5.
Computer vision, Pattern recognition (theory, methods and algorithms), Image, speech and signal analysis, Multimedia and video analysis, Biometrics, Document analysis, and Bioinformatics and biomedical applications.

December 8-11, 2008, Whistler, BC, Canada. Item #4307
NIPS*2008.

Antonio Torralba. Email: nips2008publicity@gmail.com.
Deadlines: submissions: June 6.
Submissions: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural information
processing and statistical learning, including (but not limited to):

    * Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning algorithms, neural
networks, kernel methods, graphical models, Gaussian processes,
dimensionality reduction and manifold learning, model selection,
combinatorial optimization, relational learning.

    * 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.

    * Hardware 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.

December 8-11, 2008, Singapore. Item #4345
2008 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.

Conference Secretariat, Meeting Matters International, 25 Hindoo Rd, Singapore 209116, tel: +65 6221 2310, fax: +65 6221 2760, email: info@ieem2008.org.
Deadlines: paper submission: June 1.

December 8-11, 2008, Warwick, UK. Item #4391
EPSRC Workshop on Computational Neuroscience.

email: mrc@maths.warwick.ac.uk.

Computational Neuroscience requires various aspects of modern applied mathematics, together with the direct use of 
experimental data and design. The systems or theoretical approach in Neuroscience plays an important role and it is 
fully demonstrated in the wide applications of the Hodgkin-Huxley model (a PDE or a multi-compartment model with 
thousands of ODEs). Indeed, up to this day, Systems Neuroscience is one of the best examples of Systems Biology. 
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of research on the modeling of intracellular activities, single cell activity 
and biophysically realistic neuronal networks, and on the integration over different scales. The applications of abstract 
and simplified models such as the integrate-and-fire model have also become an active area of research. A related exciting 
field is the analysis of experimental data including multi-electrode data (local-field-potential and spike data), image data 
and related ohmic data. 

Aim:

The aim of this workshop is to bring scientists (both theoreticians and experimentalists) together to exchange ideas and identify 
key areas of future research, in particular to promote the development of new analytical, computational and experimental tools for 
the successful resolution of current problems in the field.

December 8-9, 2008, Biopolis, Singapore. Item #4424
VRCAI 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on VIRTUAL-REALITY CONTINUUM AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRY.

Webpage: http://www.vrcai2008.org.
Deadlines: paper/poster submission deadline: September 1.
INTRODUCTION
  ============
  The city of Singapore proudly hosts the 5th ACM SIGGRAPH International
Conference
  on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI
2008), on 8-9
  December 2008. This year, the conference will take place just before
SIGGRAPH Asia
  2008.

  An exciting VRCAI 2008 awaits participants from both academia and
industry in
  Singapore - a hotbed of innovation - where state-of-the-art
technologies and
  applications in the Virtual Reality Continuum (VRC) will be explored
and
  presented. Spanning across next-generation infocommunication
environments
  like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Virtuality (AV), Augmented
Reality (AR)
  and Mixed Reality (MR), VRC is key in the way we define and interact,
with
  and within, our virtual worlds. Advances in research and novel
applications in
  this field have revolutionized much of our leisure activities, making
them more
  appealing and fun. Just as significantly, these advances provide the
foundation
  for more effective interactivity in work- and learning-related
activities.

  VRCAI 2008 will focus on the following main themes: Fundamentals,
Systems,
  Interactions, and Industry and Applications in the VRC.

  AWARDS
  ======
  A Best Paper, a Best Application and a Best Poster Award will be given
at VRCAI
  2008.

  PUBLICATIONS
  ============
  Accepted papers and posters will be published by ACM SIGGRAPH. The
accepted papers
  will be included in ACM digital library and indexed by EI.

  SPECIAL ISSUE IN JOURNALS
  =========================
  Selected papers from the conference will be invited for further
revision and
  publication in special issues of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
and
  International Journal of Virtual Reality.

  THE CONFERENCE THEME INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:
  ======================================================
  1. Fundamentals
  + Virtual Reality
  + Augmented Virtuality and Augmented Reality
  + Mixed Reality
  + Artificial Reality
  + Animation
  + Geometrically, Physically and Image Based Modeling
  + Real-time Rendering, Image-based Rendering, and 3D Auditory
Rendering
  + Multi-resolution and Multi-scale Methods, Level of Detail, Model
Compression
  and Simplification
  + Scientific Visualization
  + Collision Detection and Response

  2. Systems
  + Grid Computing and Commodity Clustered VR
  + High Performance VRC Computing
  + Large-scale Simulation
  + Immersive, Semi-immersive and Desktop Systems
  + Walk-through, Fly-over and Reach-in Systems
  + Sensor and Sensor Technology
  + Motion Tracking and Calibration
  + Projection and Display Systems
  + Active and Passive Stereo Systems
  + 3D Scanner, Digital Mock-up and Reverse Engineering

  3. Interactions
  + Avatars and Intelligent Agents
  + Collaborative Virtual Environment
  + Artificial Life and Artificial Ambience
  + Human Perception
  + Speech Interface
  + Body Language
  + Haptic Devices
  + 3D Enabled Devices: Mouse, Glove, Stylus
  + Interaction Design
  + Human Factors and Ergonomics
  + Integration of VR and Multimedia

  4. Industry and Applications
  + Aerospace
  + Architecture and Building
  + Arts
  + Automotive
  + Defense and Military
  + Education
  + Engineering and Design
  + E-Commerce
  + Game/Entertainment
  + Geology, Geography and GIS
  + Life Science
  + Manufacturing
  + Medicine and Healthcare
  + Tele-presence and Robotics Simulation
  + Other Industry and Applications

December 8, 2008, Vancouver, BC. Item #4428
Workshop for Women in Machine Learning Co-located with NIPS.

wimlworkshop@gmail.com.
Deadlines: abstract submissions: October 10.
Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer
science research. Search engines, face recognition, DNA sequence
analysis, speech and handwriting recognition, credit card fraud
detection, premature baby monitoring and autonomous locomotion are
just some of the applications in which machine learning is routinely
used.

In spite of the wide reach of machine learning and the variety of
theory and applications it covers, the percentage of female
researchers is lower than in many other areas of computer science.
Most women working in machine learning rarely get the chance to
interact with other female researchers, making it easy to feel
isolated and hard to find role models.

This day-long workshop gives female faculty, research scientists, and
graduate students in the machine learning community an opportunity to
meet, exchange ideas and learn from each other. Underrepresented
minorities and undergraduates interested in pursuing machine learning
research are encouraged to participate.

December 11-13, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA. Item #4357
CMLA'08: The Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications.

Dr. M. Arif Wani. Email: awani@csub.edu.
Deadlines: papers: June 15.
Scope of the Conference:

·         multistrategy learning         

·         statistical learning

·         neural network learning

·         learning through fuzzy logic

·         learning through evolution

(evolutionary algorithms)

·         Bayesian network

·         case-based reasoning

·         evolutionary computation

·         reinforcement learning

·         machine learning of natural language

·         grammatical inference

·         knowledge acquisition and learning

·         multi lingual knowledge acquisition and representation

·         knowledge discovery in databases

·         knowledge intensive learning

·         knowledge representation and reasoning

·         information retrieval and learning

·         theories and models for plausible reasoning

·         cooperative learning

·         planning and learning

·         multi-agent learning

·         web navigation and mining

·         learning through mobile data mining

·         online and incremental learning

·         scalability of learning algorithms

·         learning through text and multimedia mining

·         distributed and parallel learning algorithms and applications

·         inductive learning

·         inductive logic programming

·         feature extraction and classification

·         support vector machines

·         computational learning theory

·         cognitive-modeling

·         hybrid algorithms

·         machine learning in

          o game playing and problem solving
          o intelligent virtual environments
          o homeland security applications
          o industrial applications
          o science and engineering
          o medicine
          o bioinformatics
          o computational biology


December 13, 2008, Whistler, Canada. Item #4435
NIPS 2008 WORKSHOP on LEARNING FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES.

David R. Hardoon. Email: D.Hardoon <AT> cs.ucl.ac.uk.
Deadlines: extended abstract: October 24.

May 11-12, 2008, Budapest, Hungary. Item #4522
AAMAS 2009 Workshop Multi-agent Sequential Decision-Making in Uncertain Domains.

Martin Allen. Email: mwallen@cs.umass.edu.
Deadlines: submission: February 1.
Possible topics include:

- Relationships between the models and their assumptions

- Algorithms for policy generation and coordination

- Comparisons of algorithms

- Distributed vs. centralized planning

- Online vs. offline planning

- Communication during policy generation

- Communication decisions during execution

- Techniques for scaling problems

- Identifying subclasses of problems and their complexity

- Cooperative and competitive agent systems

- Theoretical and empirical results

- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for comparing different
approaches

December 15-19, 2008, Pisa, Italy. Item #4375
ICDM '08: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.

email: icdm08-chair@isti.cnr.it.
Deadlines: paper submission: July 7.
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) has
established itself as the world's premier research conference in data
mining, providing a leading forum for presentation of original
research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative,
practical development experiences.  The conference covers all aspects
of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and
applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application
developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as
statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data
warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high
performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research
findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining
problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the
state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the
conference will feature workshops, tutorials, panels, and the ICDM
data mining contest.

December 15-18, 2008, Perth, Australia. Item #4406
CIG'08 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games.

Luigi Barone. Email: luigi@cs.uwa.edu.au.
Deadlines: submission: August 15.

December 24-26, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand. Item #4369
ICMI 2008 - International Conference on Machine Intelligence.

James A. Nelson. Email: jnelson@nmsu.edu.
Deadlines: paper submission, special sessions: August 31.
Ant Colony Optimization
Artificial Immune Systems
Artificial Intelligence Education
Artificial Life
Associative Memory
Automatic Annotation
Bioinformatics and Biological Computing
Case-Based Reasoning
Cognitive Science
Computer Vision Systems
Computational Intelligence
Connectionism
Data Mining and Data Fusion
DNA Computing
Emotional Intelligence
Evaluation and Refinement of Intelligent Systems
Evolutionary Computation
Evolutionary Optimization
Evolutionary Strategies
Feature Extraction
Fuzziness in Chaotic Systems
Fuzziness in Multi-Agent Systems
Fuzzy Aggregation Techniques
Fuzzy Control
Fuzzy Decision Making
Fuzzy Inference
Fuzzy Logic and Systems
Fuzzy Mathematics
Fuzzy Optimisation
Fuzzy Reconfigurable Systems
Fuzzy Systems and Hardware
Genetic Algorithms
Intelligent Classification
Intelligent Control
Intelligent Distributed Sensor Networks
Intelligent Hybrid Systems
Intelligent Image Processing
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Intelligent Systems
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Interval Computation
Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge Representation
Learning and Memory
Logical and Probabilistic Inference
Machine Learning
Mechatronics
Modeling the Real World through Contexts
Multimedia Mining
Natural Language Processing
Neural Networks
Neurofuzzy Systems
Particle Swarm Optimization
Pattern Recognition
Probabilistic Reasoning
Reinforcement Learning
Robotic Technologies
Rough Sets
Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition
Support Vector Machines
Syntactic and Semantic Processing
Swarm Intelligence
Uncertain Reasoning
Web Mining

December 29-31, 2008, Cairo, Egypt. Item #4354
CIMMACS'08 The 7th WSEAS International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-machine Systems and Cybernetics.

email (subject: WSEAS): info@wseas.org.
Deadlines: registration: November 30.
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.

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


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