*** ISDA07 Paper Submission Open *** 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 The conference proceedinsg will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Call for Papers ******************************************************* 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. ******************************************************* 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 Organised Workshops: * Workshop on Intelligent Systems in Bioinformatics * Workshop on Image Analysis and Biometrics * Workshop on Web & Grid-based Virtual Laboratories, Experimenting and Simulation * Workshop on Parallel Evolutionary Computation * Workshop on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Design and Applications ******************************************************* Prospective authors are invited to submit a: - full paper of 8 pages (PDF), for oral presentation. Authors must use the double columns IEEE format. - proposal to organize a workshop. 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 (electronic link available). 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 IEEE Computer Science. 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. ******************************************************* 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 ******************************************************* ISDA'07 Conference Organization: General Chairs Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ajith Abraham, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea Program Chairs Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Workshop Chairs Maria do Carmo Nicoletti, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University, Taiwan Tutorial Chairs Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil Jose Ernesto de Araujo Filho, National Institute of Space Research, Brazil Khalid Saeed, Bialystok Technical University, Poland Steering Commitee Ajith Abraham, Yonsei University, Seoul, 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 Committee José Alfredo F. Costa, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Eduardo Raul Hruschka, Catholic University of Santos, Brazil Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt Arpad Kelemen, Niagara University, USA Crina Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Keshav Dahal, University of Bradford, UK Local Organizing Committee Marley Maria B. R. Vellasco, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Felipe Maia Galvão França, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Carlos de Moura, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Maria Luiza Fernandez Velloso, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Priscila Machado Vieira Lima, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil International Program Committee: (please, browse the conference webpage http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br/commitees/ for the full list) ******************************************************* Pleanary Speakers: * Dr. Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas, USA * Dr. Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland * Dr. Jordan Pollack, Brandeis University, USA ******************************************************* ============================================= Dr Keshav Dahal Senior Lecturer, MOSAIC Research Centre School of Informatics, University of Bradford Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK Web: www.inf.brad.ac.uk/~kpdahal E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 1274 234019; Fax: +44 1274 233920 Conferences: CEC 2007: www.cec2007.org ISDA 2007: www.isda07.eng.uerj.br