[Corpora-List] **** ISDA'07 - First Call for Papers ****

[Ajith Abraham]

****  ISDA'07 - First Call for Papers ****

7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and
Applications (ISDA'07)

October 22-24, 2007
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

Conference URL:  http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br

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ISDA'07 is technically co-sponsored by:
- European Neural Network Society (ENNS)
- European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT)
- The World Federation on Soft Computing
- IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (IEEE - SMC)
- Brazilian Society of Computation (SBC)
- Brazilian Society of Automatics (SBA)

Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'07) is the 7th
International conference that brings together international soft
computing, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence
researchers, developers,
practitioners and users. The aim of ISDA'07 is to serve as a forum to
present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas
in this field.

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ISDA'07 will focus on the following topics:
A. Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications
B. Intelligent Image and Signal Processing
C. Intelligent Internet Modeling
D. Intelligent Data mining
E. Intelligent Business Systems
F. Intelligent Control and Automation
G. Intelligent Agents
H. Intelligent Knowledge Management

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Prospective authors are invited to submit a:
- full paper of 8 pages (PDF), for oral presentation. Authors must use
the LNCS format (to be confirmed).
- proposal to organize a technical session (see the Call for Events
Proposals in the conference Web page for more information).

The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has
not been submitted under review or copyright protected by the author
if accepted. Besides papers in regular sessions, papers in special
sessions are
also invited to provide forums for focused discussions on new topics
and innovative applications of established approaches. A special
session consists of at least four related papers. Proposals for
special sessions including the session organizers, author names, paper
titles, abstracts, and brief statements on the purposes of the
sessions must be submitted to by February 15th, 2007.

All papers should be submitted electronically via Online Paper
Submission System. The format of the initial submissions can be PDF.
The file of the final accepted papers should be in either Word or
Latex.
All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the respective
fields according to the criteria of originality, significance,
quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an
opportunity to revise their papers and take into consideration the
referees' comments and suggestions, before submitting the final
papers.

All accepted papers with paid registration will be included in the
Proceedings of ISDA'07, to be published by Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Springer-Verlag. After the conference, authors of best papers
will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for
possible
inclusion in special issues of a selection of International journals.

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Important Dates:
* Special Session Proposal: February 15th, 2007
* Paper Submission: March 16th, 2007
* Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2007
* Final Paper Submission: June 15th, 2007

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ISDA'07 Conference Organization:

General Chairs:
Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ajith Abraham, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea

Program Chairs:
Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Steering Commitee Members:
Ajith Abraham, Chung-Ang University, Korea (Chair)
Nadia nedjah, State University of Rio de Janerio (chair)
Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary
Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, Jinan, China
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Marcin Paprzycki, SWPS, Poland
Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
P. Saratchandran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publicity Chairs:
Crina Grosan, Babes-Bolyai  University, Romania
Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Keshav Dahal, University of Bradford, UK
Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt

Tutorial Chair:
Khalid Saeed, Bialystok Technical University, Poland

Worshop Chair
Dr. Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences

International Program Committee:
(please, browse the conference webpage for the full list)

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Pleanary Speakers:

* Dr. Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas, USA
* Dr. Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
* Dr. Jordan Pollack, Brandeis University, USA
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