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Subject: Call for Papers for ACI 2002 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:13:03 -0700 From: "IASTED - Upcoming Conferences" Info@IASTED.com To: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

CALL FOR PAPERS

IASTED International Conference Artificial and Computational Intelligence (ACI 2002)

September 25-27, 2002 Tokyo, Japan

http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/japan/aci.htm

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Submissions due------------------------------------------------------April 30, 2002 Notification of acceptance-------------------------------------------June 15, 2002 Registrations and camera-ready manuscripts due ---------------August 1, 2002

SPONSORS The International Association of Science and Technology for Development Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence

In cooperation with the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

LOCATION ACI 2002 will be held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The capital city of Japan, Tokyo is also the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Yet despite its complex urban landscape and impressive architecture, this city abounds with parks and gardens. Within an hour of the city center there are beaches and a green hinterland, and slightly further away are volcanic islands with white sandy shores and deep mountains. From its establishment in 1603 to the end of the 19th century, Tokyo prospered as a castle town named Edo. In 1868, the Imperial Palace was built on the former site of the castle, which continues today to be the residence of the Emperor and Empress of Japan. Among its many attractions, Tokyo is famous for its bustling nightlife, excellent shopping centers, exotic cuisine, and low crime rate. Well-known sites close to Tokyo include the Great Buddha statue at Kamakura, scenic Mt. Fuji, and the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine.

PURPOSE This conference acts as an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advances in and applications of artificial intelligence and computational intelligence. It is an opportunity to present and observe the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas. All papers submitted to this conference will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee. Acceptance will be based primarily on originality and contribution.

ACI 2002 will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International Conference on Information Systems and Databases (ISDB 2002) and the Forum on Information Technology (FIT). FIT 2002 is sponsored by the Information Processing Society of Japan and the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers.

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

Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Representation Case-Based Reasoning Probabilistic Reasoning Temporal Reasoning Model-Based Reasoning Qualitative Reasoning Connectionist Models Planning and Scheduling Machine Learning Natural language Processing Man-Machine Interface Intelligent Agents Intelligent Data Bases Expert Systems Knowledge Based Systems Distributed Artificial Intelligence Cooperative AI Systems Data Mining Computational Intelligence Logic Programming Neural Networks Fuzzy Logic Genetic Algorithms Intelligent Control Intelligent Tutoring Intelligent Information Systems Software Tools for AI

Applications Robotics Manufacturing Automation Business Law Engineering Education Computing Internet Multimedia E-commerce Computer Vision Signal Processing Pattern Recognition Speech Recognition Telecommunications Medicine and Bioengineering

CONFERENCE CHAIR Professor Naohiro Ishii - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE K. Abe - Tohoku University, Japan S. Akama - Teikyo Heisei University, Japan J. Anderson - University of Manitoba, Canada K. Araki - Hokkaido University, Japan B. Baba - Osaka-Kyoiku University, Japan B. De Baets - Ghent University, Belgium S. Draghici - BioDisovery Inc., USA R. Faglia - University of Brescia, Italy T. Gedeon - Murdoch University, Australia S. Guan - National University of Singapore, Singapore M. P. Harper - Purdue University, USA F. Ionescu - FH-University of Applied Sciences - Konstanz, Germany H. Itoh - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan M. Jabri - University of Sydney, Australia Y. Jin - Honda R&D Europe (D) GmbH, Germany N. Kawaguchi - Nagoya University, Japan R. Kowalczyk - CIMIS, Australia S. Kunifuji - Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan X. Li - CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico V. Malhotra - University of Tasmania, Australia R. Mitchell - University of Reading, United Kingdom J.M. Molina - University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain H. Murakami - Osaka City University, Japan S. Ozawa - Kobe University, Japan D.V. Rubtsov - Altai State University, Russia P. Santiprabhob - Assumption University, Thailand I. Sato - National Institute of Informatics, Japan T. Shintani - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan M. Vellasco - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil W.K. Yeap - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand M. Zhang - Christopher Newport University, USA

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submit your paper via our web site at: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/japan/submit-365.htm . Files larger than 2MB must be submitted to our FTP site at www.actapress.com (user name: actaftp; password: journals). If you submit a paper to our FTP site, please send a notification e-mail with your contact information to calgary@iasted.com. All submissions should be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Postscript (.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format. The IASTED Secretariat must receive your paper by April 30, 2002. Do not send hard copies of your paper. Receipt of paper submissions will be confirmed by e-mail.

Please provide four key words to indicate the subject area of your paper. One of the key words must be taken from the list of topics provided under Scope. Include a statement in your cover letter confirming that if the paper is accepted, one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Please designate a principal author, and provide the full names, affiliations, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of all authors.

Notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail on June 15, 2002. Registration payments and final manuscripts are due by August 1, 2002. Late registration fees or paper submissions will result in the papers being excluded from the conference proceedings. Please send final manuscripts via the Web or FTP site using the same procedure as described above. The formatting instructions for final manuscripts can be found on the Web and must be strictly followed. The page limit for final papers is six pages. The additional page charge is USD $70.00 per page.

TUTORIALS Proposals for half-day tutorials (three hours) should be submitted online by April 30, 2002. Tutorials are to be submitted online via our following web site address: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/japan/tutorialsubmit-365.htm A tutorial proposal should clearly indicate the topic, background knowledge expected of the participants, objectives, time allocations for the major course topics, and the qualifications of the instructor(s).

SPECIAL SESSIONS Persons wishing to organize a special session should submit a proposal to the IASTED Secretariat by April 30, 2002. Proposals should include a minimum of five papers, a session title, a list of the topics covered, and qualifications of the session organizer(s). The name of the session organizer will appear in the program and proceedings provided five papers are presented. Special sessions proposals should be submitted online at the following hyperlink address: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/japan/sessionsubmit-365.htm .

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