Dear Colleagues,

We have organised an exciting event: HIS'2001: International
Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems.

Venue: Adelaide, South Australia
Date: 11-12, December 2001
Workshop URL: http://his.hybridsystem.com

(Technically co-sponsored by The World Federation of Soft Computing)

HIS'01 is an International Workshop  that brings together
researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of neural
networks, fuzzy inference systems, evolutionary algorithms
and conventional techniques. The aim of HIS'01 is to serve as
a forum to present current and future work as well as to
exchange research ideas in this field.

HIS'01 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished
work that demonstrate current research using hybrid computing
techniques and their applications in science, technology,
business and commercial.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

Applications/techniques using the following, but not limited to:

  * Machine learning techniques (supervised/unsupervised/
    reinforcement learning)

  * Artificial neural network and evolutionary algorithms

  * Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques

  * Neural networks and fuzzy inference systems

  * Fuzzy clustering algorithms optimized using evolutionary
    algorithms

  * Evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, genetic
    programming ,evolution strategies, grammatical evolution etc)

  * Hybrid optimization techniques (simulated annealing, tabu
    search, GRASP etc.)

  * Hybrid computing using neural networks-fuzzy systems-
    evolutionary algorithms

  * Intelligent agents (architectures, environments, adaptation/learning
    and knowledge management)

  * Hybrid of soft computing and hard computing techniques

  * Models using inductive logic programming, decomposition methods,
    grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc.

  * Other intelligent techniques ( support vector machines,
    rough sets, Bayesian  networks,  probabilistic reasoning,
    minimum message length etc)

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                          Paper Submission
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We invite you to submit a full paper of 20 pages(maximum limit)
for the workshop presentation. Please follow the  Springer-Verlag,
author's guidelines for more information on submission. Submission
implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper. All full papers are to be
submitted in PDF, postscript or MS word version electronically
to: [log in to unmask]

Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission
is not possible. All papers will be peer reviewed by two
independent referees of the international program committee
of HIS'01. All accepted papers will published in the
proceedings of the Workshop by Springer-Verlag, Germany.

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                          Important Dates
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Submission deadline: September 07, 2001

Notification of acceptance: October 01, 2001

Camera ready papers and pre-registration due: 15 October'01

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                          Workshop Chairs
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Ajith Abraham,
School of Computing and Information Technology
Monash University, Australia
Phone: +61 3 990 26778, Fax: +61 3 990 26879
Email:[log in to unmask]

Mario Köppen
Department of Pattern Recognition
Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Pascalstr. 8-9,
10587 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)30 39 006-200, Fax: +49 (0)30 39 175-17
Email: [log in to unmask]

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             International Technical Committee Members
Honorary Chair: Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
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  Baikunth Nath, Monash University, Australia
  Shunichi Amari, Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan
  Frank Hoffmann, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  Greg Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Matthias Klusch, German AI Research Center Ltd., Germany
  Saratchandran P, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  José Mira, University Nacional de Educ. a Distancia,Spain
  Sami Khuri, San Jose University, USA
  Dan Steinberg, Salford Systems Inc, USA
  Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  Venkatesan Muthukumar, University of Neveda, USA
  Evgenia Dimitriadou, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
  Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
  Mario Köppen, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany
  Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary
  Ajith Abraham, Monash University, Australia
  José Manuel Benítez, University of Granada, Spain
  Vijayan Asari, Old Dominion University, USA
  Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
  Joshua Singer, Stanford University, USA
  Morshed Chowdhury, Deakin University, Australia
  Dharmendra Sharma, University of Canberra, Australia
  Eugene Kerckhoffs, Delft University of Tech., Netherlands
  Bret Lapin, SAIC Inc, San Diego, USA
  Rajan Alex, Western Texas A & M University, USA
  Sankar K Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
  Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de chile, Chile
  Aureli Soria-Frisch, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany
  Pavel Osmera, Brno University of Tech., Czech Republic
  Alberto Ochoa, ICIMAF, Cuba
  Xiao Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
  Maumita Bhattacharya, Monash University, Australia
  P J Costa Branco, Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal
  Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA

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