You receive this call for paper if either you participated in previous ICSC/NAISO conferences or your address has been forwarded to us by colleagues, who thought you would be interested. Please advise us if your address should be removed. Call for Papers International NAISO Congress on INFORMATION SCIENCE INNOVATIONS (ISI'2001) to be held at the American University in Dubai, U.A.E. from March 17-21, 2001 http://www.icsc.ab.ca/isi2001.htm ISI'2001 is under the Honorary Patronage of H.H. The Crown Prince of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashed AL Maktoum, Defense Minister of UAE Honorary Chair: Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA General Chair: Prof. Milad Fares Sebaaly, American University in Dubai, UAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Publication Chair: Prof. Jihad Nader, American University in Dubai, UAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM FIRA-ISI'2001 ROBOT SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP Robotics competitions have become popular and attract people from all walks of life throughout the world irrespective of their ages. Robot soccer makes heavy demands in all the key areas of robot technology, mechanics, sensors, communication, and intelligence. The hope of course, is that by discovering how to get a robot to move with agility, see with acuity, and think perceptively in the limited context of a soccer game, it will be possible to use the same techniques to build robots to carry out other more useful tasks. For details on previous tournaments see <http://www.fira.net> SYMPOSIUM ON CLINICAL TRIALS (CT'2001) Chair: Eduardo Massad, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Evidence based medicine - Medical database management - Ethical and legal aspects - Clinical epidemiology - Intelligent diagnosis - Decision support systems - Healthcare and medical robots - Telemedicine and telematrix - Quantitative tools SYMPOSIUM ON E-BUSINESS AND BEYOND (EBB'2001) Chair: Peter Aiken (Vice Chair IEEE Task Commitee for IT Application in Business), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VI, USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vice Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Dundee, U.K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Cryptography and computer security - Multimedia database management - Intelligent networking and routing - Data, voice and video integration - Virtual reality and presence - Intelligent software for E-Business - Computer telephony - Human-machine interaction - Soft computing in business - Management techniques for E-Business - Intelligent computation in economic and financial systems for E-Business - Risk analysis, decision theory and new applications for E-Business - Market analysis and new applications for E-Business (Forecasting and statistics) - E-Business models (case studies/workshops; value chain analysis, paradigms) - Business-to-business applications - Business-to-consumer applications - Interchange models SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING (IAM'2001) Chairs: Kathryn Stecke, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Toshio Fukuda, President IEEE R&A, Nagoya University, Japan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Lean and agile manufacturing - Manufacturing discrete event systems - Production planning, scheduling and control - Assembly planning and scheduling - Flexible automation and computer integrated manufacturing - Rapid prototyping and design automation - Cooperative robots and multi-agent systems - Micro robotic systems and mechatronics - Modeling, identification, and control - Robot sensing and data fusion - Dynamic vision, tracking, and visual servoing - Human-machine control, and telerobotics - Social impact of automation - Aspects of developing countries and culture for automation - Low cost automation SYMPOSIUM ON ENGINEERING OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ENAIS'2001) Chair: Peter Anderson, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Neural networks - Evolutionary computation - Fuzzy logic and control - Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems - Learning and adaptive systems - Artificial Life - Biocybernetics - Intelligent reasoning and planning - Vision, recognition, and reconstruction - Haptics, interfaces, simulation and virtual reality - Intelligent autonomous vehicles - Multi-criteria decision analysis - Parallel and distributed computing - Self-organizing systems WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR MASS CUSTOMIZATION (ISMC'2001) for details see <http://www-wi.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/mc/ismc2001/> Chairs: Claus Rautenstrauch, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Klaus Turowski, Otto-von-Guerike-University Magedeburg, Germany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WORKSHOP ON AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS EXPLORING HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS (AASEHE'2001) for details and separate CFP see <http://www.gmd.gr.jp/JRL/events.html> Chair: Uwe R. Zimmer, GMD-Japan Research Laboratory, Japan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Program committee: Andreas Birk, Thomas Christaller, Holk Cruse, John Hallam, Ulrich Nehmzow, Rolf Pfeifer, Noel Sharkey, Jun Tani, Roy M. Turner, Tamaki Ura, David Wettergreen WORKSHOP ON DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS AND UNDERSTANDING (DIAU'2001) Chair: George Thoma, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TUTORIAL ON EFFECTIVE ANTHROPOMETRY Organizers: Kathleen Robinette, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Marc Rioux, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> INVITED SPEAKERS Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Zeugnam Bien, Korean Advanced Institute of Technology, Taejon, Korea 'Intelligent Methods for Human-friendly Interaction/Interface applied for Intelligent Residential Systems' Toshio Fukuda, President IEEE R&A, Nagoya University, Japan 'Intelligent System for System Integration' Hirokazu Ihara, International University of Health & Welfare, Tochigi, Japan 'Dependable Bridge between Healthcare and Engineering ' Jong-Hwan Kim, Korean Advanced Institute of Technology, Taejon, Korea President of The Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA) 'Multi-Agent Robot Soccer System' Isaac Kohane/Atul Butte, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 'Bioinformatics and Clinical Trials' and/or 'Personal Medical Record Systems' Helmut Moldaschl, Siemens AG Energieerzeugung, Erlangen, Germany 'Fuzzy mapping' Richard Normann, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA 'Recent Advances in Neuroprosthetic Therapies: Artificial Vision ' Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zurich, Switzerland Steve Potter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA 'Interfacing Living Neurons to Computers, to study in vitro' Abdallah Sfeir, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon 'Symbolic Computing and its Applications in Applied Science and Engineering' SPONSORS - AUD American University in Dubai - AAAI American Association for Artificial Intelligence - DIC Dubai Internet City - IEEE Institute of Electrical and Eletronic Engineers - IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers - IMIA International Medical Informatics Association - IMEKO International Measurement Confederation - ISOC The Internet Society - SIIC Sociedad Iberoamericana de Informacion Cientifica - SME Society of Manufacturing Engineers - NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization - ICSC International Computer Science Conventions PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS All accepted and invited papers will be included in the congress proceedings, published in print and on CD-ROM by ICSC Academic Press, Canada/Switzerland. A selected number of ISI'2001 papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in major information science journals, such as - Knowledge and Information Systems: An Interantional Journal by Springer-Verlag - Electronic Copmmerce Research Journal - Systemes d'Information et Management (list incomplete) INVITED/SPECIAL SESSIONS The organization of invited and special sessions is encouraged. Prospective organizers are requested to send a session proposal (consisting of 4-5 invited papers, the recommended session-chair and vice-chair, as well as a short statement describing the title and the purpose of the session) to the respective symposium chair or the congress organizer. Invited sessions should preferrably start with a tutorial paper. The registration fee of the session organizer will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited papers register to the conference. POSTER PRESENTATIONS Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer feedback and practical examples of applied research are particularly welcome. Poster sessions will allow the presentation and discussion of respective papers, which will also be included in the conference proceedings. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors are requested to either send a draft paper (maximum 7 pages) or an extended abstract for review by the International Program Committee. All submissions must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. Submissions must be received by June 30, 2000. The submission should also include - Title of symposium (CT'2001, EBB'2001, IAM'2001, ENAIS'2001 or IQMM�2001) or workshop (ISMC'2001, AASEHE'2001 or DIAU'2001) - Type of paper (regular, poster or invited) - Authors names, affiliations, addresses - Name of author to contact for correspondence - E-mail address and fax # of contact author - Topics which best describe the paper (max. 5 keywords) - Short CV of authors (recommended) Submission by electronic mail (ps, pdf or word files) is strongly recommended to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or else by fax or mail (2 copies) to the following address: NAISO / ICSC 5101C - 50 Street Wetaskiwin, Alberta T9A 1K1 / Canada Fax: +1-780-352 1913 IMPORTANT DATES June 30, 2000: Submission deadline September 30, 2000: Notification of acceptance November 30, 2000: Delivery of full papers March 17-21, 2001: ISI'2001 congress CONGRESS LOCATION Dubai is the second largest Emirate in the United Arabian Emirates and home to over half a million people. Located midway between Europe and the Far East it boasts a strong multicultural environment, luring residents and travelers from all corners of the world. The capital city, also called Dubai, is a booming metropolis that has been strongly influenced by its fishing and trading roots. Dubai is currently a business/trade hub for the entire region from South Africa to CIS countries, and from Morocco to the Indian subcontinent. There are many adventures to be had in the city of Dubai and its surrounding areas, including desert safaris, coastal tours, camel racing and much more. Thanks to Free Trade, Dubai is definitely also a place for shoppers, where you will find just about everything from designers labels to local handicrafts. The congress will take place during the Dubai shopping festival, which takes place in March of each year. This is a huge festival during which more than 10 million tourists visit Dubai from all over the world. A large number of events happen during this festival, and these events will be part of our social program. More details about the shopping festival are available at http://www.mydsf.com Dubai is now moving in a very fast pace towards the net-economy, with the creation of the new tax-free area for E-commerce related companies from all over the world. Visit the Dubai Internet City at http://www.dubaiinternetcity.com CONGRESS ORGANIZER NAISO Natural & Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization Division of ICSC International Computer Science Conventions 5101C - 50 Street, Wetaskiwin AB T9A 1K1 / Canada Phone: +1-780-352-1912 Fax: +1-780-352-1913 Email Operating Division: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Email Planning Division: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.icsc.ab.ca
