** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement ** ******************************************************************* Final Call for Papers
2nd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'02) December 01 - 04, 2002 Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile http://his02.hybridsystem.com HIS�02 is technically co-sponsored by: - IEEE Region 9 - The World Federation on Soft Computing - European Neural Network Society - European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing - IOS Press. ******************************************************************** Deadline for Paper Submission: July 31, 2002 ******************************************************************** HIS'02 is the second 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'02 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. HIS'02 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research using soft computing/computational intelligence and other intelligent computing techniques and their applications in science, technology, business and commercial. Please submit a full paper of 8 to 10 pages (Letter or A4 paper) for oral presentation. The proceedings of the Conference will be published by IOS Press, Netherlands. A selected number of papers will also be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier Science Journal "Applied Soft Computing" and for a special issue of the IOS Press Journal- Intelligent Data Analysis. Please follow the author�s guidelines given by IOS Press for more information on submission. Author's guidelines can be downloaded from the conference web page. ******************************************************************* Topics of Interest include but are not limited to: Track 1: Computational Intelligence and Applications - - Artificial neural networks and learning techniques - Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques - Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems - Fuzzy clustering algorithms - Fuzzy system optimization using global optimization algorithms - Evolutionary computation - Support vector machines, rough sets, Bayesian networks - Hybrid computing using neural networks-fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms - Hybrid optimization techniques - Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques - Intelligent agents - Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis - Natural computation techniques - Autonomic computing - Applications using the above systems - Special topics Track 2: Soft Computing for Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing - Features and Classification - Texture Analysis - Document Analysis - Shape Processing - Fuzzy Image Processing - Grouping and Segmentation - Object Recognition - Medical Image Processing - Image and Video Retrieval - Biometric Systems - Image Representation - Image Compression - Video Processing - Digital Watermarking - Image Synthesis - Industrial Applications - Visual Surveillance Track 3: Soft Computing and the Internet - e-learning, e-commerce, e-business - Web Intelligence - Search Engines - Information retrieval (web mining) - Database Querying - Ontology - XML mining - Intelligent networking between Web Sites - Content Management - Information Aggregation and Fusion - Interaction with Intelligent Agents - Intelligent Agents and Interfaces for personalization and adaptivity - Intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW - WWW Recommender Systems - Adaptive Hypermedia Systems - Agents for Digital cities, virtual communities and agent societies Track 4: Intelligent Data Mining - Integrating E-Commerce and Data Mining - Discovering patterns in Continuous Data - Uncertainty management for data mining - Clustering algorithms and applications - Classification trees - Mining time series - Mining in a Mobile Environment - Statistical Considerations in Learning - XML Mining - Text Mining - Distributed Data Mining ******************************************************************* HIS02 Important Dates ******************************************************************* Deadline for Events Proposals June 30, 2002 Deadline for Paper Submission (full paper) July 31, 2002 Notification of Acceptance August 30, 2002 Deadline for Camera Ready Papers September 10, 2002 HIS'02 Conference in Chile December 01-04, 2002 ******************************************************************* Venue Information (Santiago, Chile) HIS�02 will be hosted by the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the Universidad de Chile (Beaucheff 850, Santiago de Chile). December is an excellent time to travel in Chile. The local organizers will help the interested participants to arrange a trip to any location in Chile. For more information about traveling in Chile please visit: http://www.sernatur.cl/ and http://www.visit-chile.org/ ******************************************************************** HIS02 Organization Honorary Chairman Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan General Chairmen Ajith Abraham, Monash University, Australia Mario K�ppen, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Chile Local Organizing Chair Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Chile Area Chairs Track1: Computational Intelligence and Applications Ajith Abraham, Monash University, Australia Track 2: Soft Computing for Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing Mario K�ppen, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Track 3: Soft Computing and the Internet Fabio Abbattista, Universit� di Bari, Italy Track 4: Intelligent Data Mining Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia Web Chairs Mauricio Gaete, Universidad de Chile, Chile Diego Sepulveda, Universidad de Chile, Chile Finance Chair Roberto Aviles, Universidad de Chile, Chile Local Organizing Committee Roberto Aviles, Universidad de Chile, Chile Rodrigo Palma, Universidad de Chile, Chile Richard Weber, Universidad de Chile, Chile International Technical Committee Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia Hung T. Nguyen, New Mexico State University, USA Tom Gedeon, Murdoch University, Australia Robert John, De Montfort University, UK Fabio Abbatista, Universitat di Bari, Italy Bernard de Baets, Ghent University, Belgium Carlos A. Coello Coello,Nacional de Inform�tica Avanzada, Mexico Vladimir Kvasnicka, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia Zensho Nakao, University of Ryukyus, Japan Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Udo Seiffert, University of South Australia, Australia Jarno Tanskanen, University of Kuopio, Finland Hamid R. Tizhoosh, University of Waterloo, Canada Olgierd Unold, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA Maumita Bhattacharya, Monash University, Australia Jos� Manuel Ben�tez, University of Granada, Spain Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Sankar K Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Vijayan Asari, Old Dominion University, USA Dharmendhra Sharma, University of Canberra, Australia Morshed U Chowdhury, Deakin University, Australia Xiao Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Costa Branco P J, Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia, Australia Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, United Kingdom Katrin Franke, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Aureli Soria-Frisch, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Xiufen Liu, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Ricardo Baeza, Universidad de Chile, Chile Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan William B. Langdon, University College London, UK Akira Asano, Hiroshima University, Japan Evgenia Dimitriadou, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy Marley Vellasco, PUC-RJ, Brazil Andr� Ferreira de Carvalho, Universidade de S�o Paulo, Brazil Ant�nio de P�dua Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais,Brazil Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium Frank Hoffmann, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden G�nther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Greg Huang, MIT, USA Sami Khuri, San Jose University, USA Hans Heinrich Bothe, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Andreas K�nig, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Vladislav B. Valkovsky, Uppsala University, Sweden Luis Magdalena, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Jose Ramon Alvarez Sanchez, Univ. Nac.de Educacion a Distancia, Spain Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary Hans-Michael Voigt, GFAI, Germany Jose Mira, UNED, Spain Andrew Sung, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,USA Rajiv Khosla, La Trobe University, Australia - ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to be removed from our list please reply to this email with "REMOVE mail" in the subject, and "mail" being the email to which this CFP was delivered. *****************************************************************
