Call for Papers: ISMIS 2003

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         Call for Papers: ISMIS 2003

     FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
     METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

     Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan
              October 28-31, 2003
         http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/

 The Due Date of Paper Submission is March 10, 2003
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 ISMIS has established a prestigious tradition by organizing a leading
 international conference on intelligent systems. The conference
 provides a unique opportunity for exchanging scientific research and
 technological achievements accomplished by the international
 community. The previous events were held in Knoxville, Tennessee
 (1986, 1990), Charlotte, North Carolina (1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997,
 2000), Turin (1988), Trondheim (1993), Zakopane (1996), Warsaw (1999),
 Lyon (2002).

 This Symposium is intended to attract individuals who are actively
 engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent
 systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange
 between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the
 cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas:

     Active Media Human-Computer Interaction
     Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation
     Intelligent Agent Technology
     Intelligent Information Retrieval
     Intelligent Information Systems
     Knowledge Representation and Integration
     Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
     Logic for Artificial Intelligence
     Soft Computing
     Web Intelligence

 In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of
 Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome,
 global change, manufacturing, health care, etc.

 Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI (Lecture
 Notes in Artificial Intelligence, the series homepage:
 http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) and will be available at
 the symposium. Any necessary information concerning typesetting can be
 obtained directly from Springer-Verlag page at
 http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

 Authors are invited to submit their manuscript in the LNCS/LNAI style
 (maximum 10 pages).  All paper submissions will be handled
 electronically.  Detailed instructions are provided on the conference
 homepage at http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/

 IMPORTANT DATES

      Submission of Papers: March 10, 2003
      Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2003
      Final Paper: June 30, 2003

 A selected number of ISMIS 2003 accepted papers will be expanded and
 revised for possible inclusion in Journal of Intelligent Information
 Systems (http://www.wkap.nl/journal/) by Kluwer, Knowledge and
 Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais.html) by
 Springer-Verlag, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems journal
 (http://wi-consortium.org/) by IOS Press, and Annual Review of
 Intelligent Informatics (http://wi-consortium.org/) by World Scientific.

 For additional information contact:

     Professor Zbigniew W. Ras (ISMIS 2003)
     University of North Carolina
     Dept. of Computer Science
     Charlotte, NC 28226
     Fax: 704-547-3516
     E-mail: ras at uncc.edu

     Professor Ning Zhong (ISMIS 2003)
     Department of Information Engineering
     Maebashi Institute of Technology
     460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816
     Japan
     Telephone & Fax: +81-27-265-7366
     E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp