CFP -- WSC10 - Free Online World Conference - First Call

["Keshav Dahal" <k.p.dahal@Bradford.ac.uk>]

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** WSC10 - First Call for Papers ***

WSC10: 10th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial
Applications

September 19th - October 7th, 2005

** On the World Wide Web **

Conference URL:
http://public.cranfield.ac.uk/2003DMSIMFRC/wl078890/WSC10/Index.htm

Hosted by Cranfield University, UK


GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT WSC10:

Original papers are invited for the 10th Online World Conference
on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC10) to be held
on the Internet. WSC10 aims at bringing together outstanding
research and developments in the field of soft computing (evolutionary
computation, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and their fusion) and its
applications, from across the world. Papers are published on-line
with the dual benefits of rapid dissemination and reduced cost.
Springer Verlag has also tentatively agreed to publish accepted papers
of WSC10 as an edited volume (with ISBN), after the conference.
Furthermore, extended versions of selected papers of the conference
will be invited for a "fast track" submission to the Elsevier Science
Applied Soft Computing Journal.

During the conference, we will host interactive discussions between
the authors and participants across the Internet. There will be a
number of mirror sites around the world to ensure easy and rapid
access to this major event from all locations. The registration to
the conference is open to all (academics, students and industrial/
commercial parties) and is completely free of charge.

The WSC10 Program Committee would also like to invite proposals
for special sessions to be held during the conference. All special
sessions are to be organised around a specific topic in order to
encourage in-depth discussions. Special sessions will be an
integral part of the conference.

WSC10 is now also inviting online tutorial proposals in topics
related to soft computing in industrial applications. All accepted
online tutorials will be held during the WSC10 conference.


IMPORTANT DATES

NOW
Submit expressions of interest containing the following information:
title of the paper, authors and their affiliations, and 100-word abstract.
Please email the expression of interest to Program Chair,
Joshua Knowles (j.knowles@manchester.ac.uk)

April 29th, 2005
Deadline for submissions of regular papers. Papers are submitted in
electronic form as PDF-files through the conference web site. Authors
are also encouraged to submit multi-media demonstrations (including
software etc.)

July 29th, 2005
Acceptance/rejection notification

August 26th, 2005
Submission of full papers and online presentations

September 19th - October 07th, 2005
Online conference

November 11th, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers for final review


TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, any of the
following areas:

Techniques:
Soft Computing for Modelling, Control, and Optimisation
Fuzzy Control
Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
Genetic Fuzzy Systems
Neuro-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems
Software Agent Systems and Architectures
Multi-Agent Architectures and Collaborative Learning
Ant Colony Optimisation
Fuzzy Information Fusion
Rough Sets
Bayesian Networks
Fuzzy Image Processing
Bio-inspired Systems
Artificial Neural Networks
Support Vector Machines
Evolutionary Algorithms, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimisation
Hybrid Optimisation Techniques (integration of global search
and local search techniques)

Application Areas:
Simulation Environments
Data Mining
Industrial Applications of Soft Computing
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Language Processing
Robotics
Autonomous Reasoning
Fault Diagnosis
Bioinformatics
Web Intelligence
Speech Processing
Business Information Systems
Knowledge Management


SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors should fill up the online form and upload a full paper
(max. 10 pages) in PDF format by April 29, 2005.

Special session proposals and tutorials are welcome. Please
notify the Special Session Chair, Erel Avineri
(erel.avineri@uwe.ac.uk) about your intention to organise a
session/tutorial as soon as possible.

For special sessions, please send session title, organiser's name
and e-mail address, a short synopsis of session objective
(max. 100 words), organiser's expertise in the field, and a
tentative list of papers in the proposed technical session.
At least three session papers have to be submitted by
April 29, 2005.

For online tutorials, please send the abstract and biography of
the presenter before April 29, 2005 and if approved send the
final presentation paper by August 26th, 2005.


PAPER ACCEPTANCE:

All accepted papers would be presented during the online conference.
Participants are also encouraged to present multimedia presentations
(such as online demonstrations, software, video clips etc.) to make the
online discussions more interesting. Authors of accepted papers have to
register and visit the conference website on a regular basis in order to
respond to questions and comments on their paper without delay. By
November 11th, 2005, camera-ready copies of extended papers have to be
submitted for final inclusion in the conference proceedings.
Significantly revised and enhanced versions of selected papers of the
conference will also be invited for a "fast track" submission for the
Applied Soft Computing Journal.


WSC10 ORGANISATION (List to be extended)

General Chair
Ashutosh Tiwari, Cranfield University, UK

Program Chair
Joshua Knowles, University of Manchester, UK

Virtual Exhibition Chair
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK

Special Session Chair
Erel Avineri, University of the West of England, UK

Publicity Chair
Keshav Dahal, Bradford University, UK

Advisory Board Chair
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK


INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Tentative)

Janus Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary
Ajith Abraham,Chung-Ang University, Korea
Erel Avineri, University of the West of England, UK
Thomas Baeck, Leiden University, Netherlands
Senen Barro Ameneiro, SEVIMAV Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Bart Baesens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Soumya Banerjee, Institute of Management Studies Dehradun, India
Sigal Berman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Christian Blum, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ulrich Bodenhofer, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
Andrea Bonarini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Brian Carse, University of the West of England, UK
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Oscar Cordon, University of Granada, Spain
David Corne, University of Exeter, UK
John Debanham, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Mauro Dell'Orco, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Guy de Tre, Ghent University, Belgium
Giuseppe di Fatta, University of Konstanz, Germany
Marco Dorigo, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Leandro dos Santos Coelho, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Paran
Curitib, Brazil
Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Katrin Franke, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany
Aureli Soria Frisch, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany
Takeshi Furuhashi, Mie University, Japan
Xiao-Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Antonio Gaspar-Cunha, University of Minho, Portugal
Jens Gottlieb, SAP AG, Germany
Roderich Gross, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Hani Abdel Kader Hagras, University of Essex, UK
Julia Handl, University of Manchester, UK
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Francisco Herrera, E.T.S. Ingeneria Informatica Granada, Spain
Frank Hoffman, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Yaochu Jin, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfen, Germany
Andreas Koenig, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mario Koeppen, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany
Andras Kornai, Metacarta, US
Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Renato Krohling, University of York, UK
Halva Labella, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Luis Magdalena, Ciudad Universitaria Madrid, Spain
Max Manfrin, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Christophe Marsala, University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France
Patricia Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Sanaz Mostaghim, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Detlef D. Nauck, BTexact Technologies Ipswich, UK
Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Shervin Nouyan, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Andreas Nuernberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Jae C. Oh, Syracuse University, USA
Sankar Kumar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India
Luis Paquete, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Sonja Petrovic-Lazarevic, Monash University, Australia
Walter D. Potter, University of Georgia, USA
Guenther Raidl, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Vitorino Ramos, CRVM IST, Portugal
Richard Regli, Mass Customization and Personalization International, USA
Andrea Roli, Università degli Studi "G.D'Annunzio", Italy
Olivia Rossi-Doria, Napier University, UK
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Michael Sampels, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
P. Saratchandran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jim Smith, University of the West of England, UK
S.H. Srinivasan, Satyam Computers, India
Thomas Sudcamp, Wright State University, USA
Yukinori Suzuki, Muroran Institute of Techology, Japan
Vicenc Torra, Universitat AutÚnoma de Barcelona, Spain
Vito Trianni, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Edward Tunstel, NASA, USA
Berend Jan van der Zwaag, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Marley Vellasco, University College London, UK
Christian Wöhler, Daimler Chrysler AG, Germany
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Please address all general enquiries to wsc10@cranfield.ac.uk

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Dr Keshav Dahal
MOSAIC Research Centre
School of Informatics
University of Bradford
Richmond Road
Bradford, West Yorkshire
BD7 1DP,  UK
Web: www.mosaic.ac
E-mail: k.p.dahal@bradford.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1274 234019
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