****  HIS'03 - Final Call for Papers ****

3rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'03)

December 14 - 17, 2003
Melbourne, Australia
URL: http://his03.hybridsystem.com

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           Deadline for Paper Submission: July 15, 2003
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HIS'03 is technically co-sponsored by:

- IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics
- The World Federation on Soft Computing
- International Fuzzy Systems Association
- Australian Computer Society
- European Neural Network Society
- European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology
- European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing
- IOS Press

Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of the next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the awareness in the academic communities that combined approaches will be necessary if the remaining tough problems in artificial/computational intelligence are to be solved. Recently, hybrid intelligent systems are getting popular due to their capabilities in handling several real world complexities involving imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness. HIS'03 builds on the success of last year's. HIS'02 was held in Santiago de Chile, 01-04 December 2002 and attracted participants from over 35 countries. 

HIS'03 is the third 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'03 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. 

HIS'03 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research using soft computing/ computational intelligence and other intelligent computing techniques and their applications in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. 

HIS'03 will focus on the following themes: 

- Hybrid Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications 
- Soft Computing for Image and Signal Processing 
- Intelligent Internet Modeling, Communication and networking 
- Intelligent Data mining 
- Intelligent Business Systems 
- Soft Computing for Control and Automation 
- Intelligent agents 
- Knowledge management 
- Special topics

We invite you to submit a: 

- full paper of 8 to 10 pages (Letter or A4 paper) for oral presentation 
- proposal to organize a technical session and/or workshop (see the Call 
for Events Proposals in the conference Web page for more information).

Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. The proceedings of the Conference will be published by IOS Press, The Netherlands. It is assumed that all accepted manuscripts would be presented at the conference. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid registration to appear in the proceedings. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the web site. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees of the international program committee of HIS'03. 


Topics of interest include but not limited to:

* Hybrid Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications 

-Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems 
-Artificial neural networks and learning techniques (supervised /unsupervised / reinforcement learning) 
-Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques 
-Fuzzy clustering algorithms and optimization techniques 
-Fuzzy inference system optimization using global optimization algorithms 
-Evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, grammatical evolution etc.) 
-Support vector machines, rough sets, Bayesian networks, probabilistic reasoning, minimum message length, etc. 
-Hybrid computing using neural networks - fuzzy systems - evolutionary algorithms 
-Hybrid optimization techniques (evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, GRASP etc.) 
-Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques 
-Intelligent agents (architectures, environments, adaptation/ learning and knowledge management) 
-Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis, grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc. 
-Autonomic computing

* Soft Computing for Image and Signal Processing 

-Image generation, acquisition, and processing 
-Virtual reality 
-Scene and object modeling 
-Document image understanding 
-Image algebra 
-Design and implementation of intelligent signal processing systems 
-Image, video and multidimensional signal processing 
-Speech processing 
-Features and classification 
-Texture analysis 
-Stereoscopic vision 
-Shape processing 
-Object recognition 
-Image and video retrieval 
-Image and video compression

* Intelligent Internet Modeling, Communication and networking 

-Web intelligence 
-Intelligent Search engines 
-Database querying 
-XML mining 
-Intelligent networking between Web Sites 
-Network security, intrusion detection 
-Intelligent agents and interfaces for personalization and adaptivity 
-Intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW 
-Adaptive hypermedia systems 
-Agents for digital cities, virtual communities and agent societies 
-Web Services modeling 
-UDDI and SOAP enhancements 
-Network Management 
-Mobile Internet 
-Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation 
-WAP, mobile e-commerce 
-Distributed algorithms for wireless networks 

* Intelligent 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 

* Intelligent Business Systems 

-e-learning, e-commerce, e-business, e-finance 
-Risk management 
-Derivatives pricing 
-Portfolio management and asset allocation 
-Stock market, forex market analysis, dynamics and simulation 
-Hedging, trading & arbitrage strategies 
-Financial modeling 
-Computational economics 
-Intelligent management 
-Multicriteria decision making 

* Soft Computing for Control and Automation 

-Mathematical modeling and analysis of complex systems 
-Soft computing/computational intelligence in control systems 
-Knowledge based control systems 
-Adaptive control systems 
-Control applications in robotics manufacturing, process control, industrial systems, automotive, vehicular systems, spacecraft and so on 

* Intelligent Agents 

-Adaptation and learning 
-Agent architectures and communication languages 
-Conversational agents 
-Coordinating multiple agents 
-Designing agent systems - methodologies & software engineering 
-Evolution of agents 
-Knowledge acquisition and management 
-Models of emotion, motivation, or personality 
-Multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration

* Knowledge Management 

-Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic modeling 
-Development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases 
-Automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases (especially raw text) 
-Performance evaluation 
-Data and knowledge sharing 
-Cooperation in heterogeneous systems 
-Domain modeling and ontology-building 
-Concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing 
-Digital Libraries 
-Multimedia databases. 

* Affective Computing 

-Kansei information processing 
-Models, theories and taxonomies of emotions 
-Emotion synthesis 
-Emergent emotion and emotional behavior 
-Emotion recognition 
-Emotional expression 
-Learning and emotions 
-Emotions and perception 
-Emotions and social interaction 
-Emotional agent architecture 
-Embodiment of emotional systems 
-Emotions and other affective phenomena (moods, temperament, and personality) 
-Applications: synthetic characters, robots, computational theater, interface assistants, pedagogical agents, music, art, education, entertainment, multi-agent systems, bio-feedback, etc. 


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Important Dates 

Deadline for workshop/ sessions/ tutorial proposals: 27 June'03 
Deadline for paper submission (full paper): 15 July'03 
Notification of acceptance : 25 August'03 
Deadline for camera ready papers and authors' registration: 10 September'03 
HIS’03 conference in Melbourne: 14-17, December'03 

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HIS03 Organization

Honorary Chair 
David B. Fogel, Natural Selection Inc, USA 

General Chairs 
Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State University, USA 
Mario Köppen, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany 

Program Chairs
Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia 

Advisory Board
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Fabio Abbattista , Universita di Bari, Italy
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 
Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, Cambridge, USA

Local Organizing Committee
Damminda Alahakoon, Monash University, Australia
Vincent Lee, Monash University, Australia
Ai Cheo Yeo, Monash University, Australia 

Web Chair
Fabio Zambetta, Universita di Bari, Italy 

Special Sessions Chair 
Xiao-Zhi Gao , Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 

Finance Coordinator 
Diane West, Monash University, Australia 

International Technical Committee 
Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary
Jose Ramon Alvarez Sanchez, UNED, Spain
Bruno Apolloni, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Akira Asano, Hiroshima University, Japan
Vijayan Asari, Old Dominion University, USA
Bernard de Baets, Ghent University, Belgium
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Sung Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Vic Ciesielski, RMIT University, Australia
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
David W. Corne, University of Reading, UK
Paulo Jose da Costa Branco, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Evgenia Dimitriadou, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Anna Maria Fanelli, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Luciano da Fontoura Costa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Katrin Franke, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany
Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Xiao-Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tom Gedeon, Murdoch University, Australia
Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas, USA
Saman K. Halgamuge, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Tim Hendtlass, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Frank Hoffmann, University Dortmund, Germany
Ravi Jain, James Cook University, Australia
Robert John, De Montfort University, UK
Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Andreas Koenig, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Amit Konar, Jadavpur University, India
William B. Langdon, University College, London, UK
Andre Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sebastian Lozano, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Sevilla, Spain
Luis Magdalena, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Maria do Carmo Nicoletti, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Antônio de Pádua Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA 
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Guenther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, Cambridge, USA
Giovanni Semeraro, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Dharmendhra Sharma, University of Canberra, Australia
Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada
Aureli Soria Frisch, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany
Branko Soucek, Iris, Bari, Italy
Martin Stytz, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Andrew Sung, New Mexico Tech, USA
Jarno Tanskanen, University of Kuopio, Finland
Olgierd Unold, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Marley Maria B.R. Vellasco, PUC-Rio, Brasilia
Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Geoffrey Webb, Monash University, Australia
Richard Weber, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Zili Zhang, Deakin University, Australia