HIS 2001 - Call for Papers

[Ajith Abraham <Ajith.Abraham@infotech.monash.edu.au>]

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Dear Colleagues, 

We have organised an exciting event: HIS'2001: International 
Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems in conjunction with The 
14th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
(AI'01). 

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HIS'01 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished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
 
 * 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  IOS Press 
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: hybrid@softcomputing.net

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 IOS Press, Netherlands.

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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:ajith.abraham@ieee.org 

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: mario.koeppen@ipk.fhg.de

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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
 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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