I would be most grateful if you would share this announcement with
those who may be interested in participating in WORLDCOMP'06.

Best regards,

Ashu
----------------
Ashu M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, WORLDCOMP'06
Maverick Technologies America Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, USA
----------------

                     Call For Participation

          The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
          Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                          WORLDCOMP'06
                June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA

Academic Co-sponsors:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT)
Media Lab, Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) of University of Texas
at Austin, and others.

You are invited to participate in WORLDCOMP'06.  The congress will be
held at Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA, June 26-29, 2006.  The event
is composed of 24 + 4 tracks (includes over 150 sessions/workshops), a
number of keynote lectures, invited talks, tutorials, and panel
discussions.  The main tracks are listed below:

o Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications
   (PDPTA'06) + Real-Time Computing Systems & Applications (RTCOMP)
o Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'06)
o Conference on Grid Computing & Applications (GCA'06)
o Conference on Security & Management (SAM'06)
o Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06)
o Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications
   (MLMTA'06)
o Conference on Software Engineering Research & Practice (SERP'06)
o Conference on Programming Languages & Compilers (PLC'06)
o Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'06) + Semantic Web & Web Services
   (SWWS'06) + Computer Games Development (CGD'06)
o Conference on Computer Design (CDES'06) + Computing in Nanotechnology
   (CNAN'06)
o Conference on Embedded Systems & Applications (ESA'06)
o Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'06)
o Conference on Pervasive Systems & Computing (PSC'06)
o Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition
   (IPCV'06)
o Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR'06)
o Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV'06)
o Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer
   Engineering (FECS'06)
o Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'06)
o Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
   e-Government, & Outsourcing (EEE'06)
o Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'06)
o Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'06)
o Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'06)
o Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms (ERSA'06)
o Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'06)

Registration information can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws/Registration

Hotel information can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws/Location

WORLDCOMP'06 programs/schedules can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws/Program

General information about the congress can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws/index_html


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Last CALL FOR PAPERS for International Multi-Conference
( Copied from:http://www.enformatika.org/conferences.html)


Prague, Czech Republic
August 25-27, 2006


CICI 2006 : "International Conference on Computational Intelligence,
Cybernetics and Systems Informatics"

http://www.enformatika.org/cici06/
The Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence,
Cybernetics and Systems Informatics (CICI 2006) aims to bring
together researchers, scientists, engineers, and students to exchange
and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about
all aspects of Computational Intelligence, Cybernetics and Systems
Informatics, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the
solutions adopted.
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ICIS 2006: International Conference on Intelligent Systems
http://www.enformatika.org/icis06/

The Third International Conference on Intelligent Systems (ICIS 2006)
aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and
students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and
research results about all aspects of Intelligent Systems, and
discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

ICIS 2006 has teamed up with the International Journal of
Computational Intelligence (IJCI), one of the distinguished journals
on Computational Intelligence, for publishing a Special Issue on
Advances in Intelligent Systems. All submitted papers will have
opportunities for consideration for this Special Issue. The selection
will be carried out during the review process as well as at the
conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under
consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision
will be made based on peer review reports by the guest editors and
the Editor-in-Chief jointly.

-----------------------

ICMI 2006 : "International Conference on Machine Intelligence"

The Third International Conference on Machine Intelligence (ICMI
2006) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and
students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and
research results about all aspects of Machine Intelligence, and
discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

For All:

                      Prague, Czech Republic
                      August 25-27, 2006

    Important Dates
Paper submission                                                June 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance                                     July 15, 2006
Final paper submission and authors' registration     July 31, 2006
Conference Dates                                    August 25-27   2006

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And Others later: http://www.enformatika.org/conferences.html

- List Moderator

>
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>   By request of many prospective authors, the paper submission due date of
>CIS'06 has been extended to *** June 30, 2006 ***.



>     URL: http://cis2006.gdut.edu.cn   (***
> Paper Extended Submission Due Date: June 30, 2006 ***)
>*******************************************************************************\
**********************
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>2006 International Conference on
>Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS'2006)
>Ramada Pearl Hotel, Guangzhou, China
>November 3-6, 2006
>
>*******************************************************************************\
***********************
>About CIS'2006
>International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) is a
>major annual international conference to bring
>together researchers, engineers,
>developers and practitioners from academia and industry working in all
>interdisciplinary areas of computational
>intelligence and information security to
>share the experience, and exchange and
>cross-fertilize ideas. Following the big
>success of CIS'2005, CIS'2006 serves as a forum for the dissemination of
>state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of systems,
>technologies and applications in these two broad
>fields. CIS'2006 is co-organized
>by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence
>Chapter, and Guangdong University
>of Technology. Also, it is co-sponsored by IEEE
>Hong Kong Section, Department of Computer
>Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, Xidian
>University, and Jinan University.
>*******************************************************************************\
***********************
>
>Important Dates
>
>Submission of Papers:             June 30, 2006 (Extended Due Date)
>Notification of Acceptance:       July 15, 2006
>Final Camera-Ready Papers:        Aug. 15, 2006
>*******************************************************************************\
***********************
>
>                        Paper Submission
>Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts written in
>English. The submission of a paper implies that
>the paper is original and has not
>been submitted to elsewhere for possible publication. All submissions will be
>peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on
>originality, significance, quality
>and clarity. Authors should use the Latex style files or MS-Word templates
>provided by the Spring Lecture Notes to format their papers. The length of a
>submitted paper should not exceed 10 pages in the Lecture Notes format. The
>accepted papers will be further selected (depending on paper qualities and
>presentations), revised and included in the
>post-conference proceedings, published
>by Springer as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence that are indexed by
>SCI-Expanded. Furthermore, selected papers will
>be considered for publication in
>an international journal, after expansion and/or
>revision. Authors should submit a
>soft copy of their manuscripts with the pdf
>format only to the conference via the
>online submission system. For more details,
>please visit the conference web site
>at: http://CIS2006.gdut.edu.cn
>
>The topics include but are not limited to:
>
>Computational Intelligence
>¡ñArtificial Immune Systems
>¡ñBiological Computing
>¡ñEvolutionary Computation
>¡ñintelligent Agents and Systems
>¡ñMachine Learning
>¡ñSupport Vector Machine
>¡ñReinforcement Learning
>¡ñUnsupervised Learning
>¡ñAutonomy-Oriented Computing
>¡ñCoevolutionary Algorithms
>¡ñFuzzy Systems
>¡ñMolecular Computing
>¡ñNeural Computing
>¡ñSwarm Intelligence
>¡ñProbabilistic Reasoning
>
>Information Security
>¡ñCryptographic Protocols
>¡ñDetection of Abnormality
>¡ñInformation Storage and Retrieval System
>¡ñInformation Security Management
>¡ñInformation Hiding
>¡ñNetwork & Wireless Security
>¡ñSecurity Models and Architectures
>¡ñWeb and Wireless Security
>¡ñCryptography and Coding
>¡ñElectronic Commerce Security
>¡ñInformation, Data and System Integrity
>¡ñIntrusion Detection
>¡ñMobile Code & Agent Security
>¡ñSecurity Analysis Methodologies
>¡ñSteganography and watermarking
>
>Applications
>¡ñBioinformatics and Medical Diagnosis
>¡ñCopyright Protection
>¡ñData Ming
>¡ñDetection of Hidden
>¡ñDigital Signatures
>¡ñFinancial engineering
>¡ñIntelligent Information Retrieval
>¡ñFinancial Engineering
>¡ñOther Applications
>¡ñBSS & ICA
>¡ñCryptography and Its Applications
>¡ñData Privacy
>¡ñCommunication Channels
>¡ñElectronic Commerce Security
>¡ñImage and Signal Processing
>¡ñPattern Recognition
>¡ñWeb and Network Application
>
>Enquiry and Information:
>  CIS2006 Secretariat
>  Faculty of Applied Mathematics
>  Guangdong University of Technology
>  Guangzhou, China
>
>  http://CIS2006.gdut.edu.cn
>  E-mail: cis2006@...

Hi,

   IEEE/WIC/ACM  IAT,'06, WI'06, ICDM'06 conferences are focused on
many  essential problems and properties  of  Abstract/Synthetic
Intelligent Agent.

Of course, the AIA bulding is always open ... yet.

- Adam



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>[Apologies if you receive this more than once]
>
>#####################################################################
>
>          IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2006
>
>                   CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>#####################################################################
>
>2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM  International Conference on
>Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06)
>
>Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
>18-22 December 2006.
>
>Sponsored By
>IEEE Computer Society
>Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
>
>Co-Organized With
>Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
>
>University/Corporate Sponsors
>Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
>Microsoft Corp.
>
>http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/
>
>(Papers Due: 5 July 2006)
>Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
>by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI.
>**********************************************************************
>
>The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
>Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06)
>will be jointly held with the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
>Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06)
>and the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06)
>for providing synergism among the three research areas.
>It will provide opportunities for technical
>collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The three
>conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
>banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
>attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the three conferences.
>We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss
>common problems in the three areas.
>
>IAT 2006 provides a leading international forum to bring together
>researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
>science, information technology, business, education, human factors,
>systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design
>principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in
>intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the
>cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents
>and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging
>idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive,
>physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling
>technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2006 will foster the
>development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based
>computing.
>
>+++++++++++++++++++
>Topics of Interest
>+++++++++++++++++++
>
>The topics and areas include, but not limited to:
>
>* Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
>   - Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development
>   - Agent-Based Simulation
>   - Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods
>   - Behavioral Self-Organization
>   - Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering
>   - Emergent Behavior
>   - Hard Computational Problem Solving
>   - Self-Organized Criticality
>   - Self-Organized Intelligence
>   - Swarm Intelligence
>   - Nature-Inspired Paradigms
>
>* Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
>   - Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining
>   - Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing
>   - Autonomous Information Services
>   - Distributed Knowledge Systems
>   - Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Evolution of Knowledge Networks
>   - Human-Agent Interaction
>   - Information Filtering Agents
>   - Knowledge Aggregation
>   - Knowledge Discovery
>   - Ontology-Based Information Services
>
>* Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
>   - Agent Interaction Protocols
>   - Cognitive Architectures
>   - Cognitive Modeling of Agents
>   - Emotional Modeling
>   - Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols
>   - Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
>   - Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
>   - Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning
>   - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Reinforcement Learning
>   - Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Task-Based Agent Context
>   - Task-Oriented Agents
>
>* Distributed Problem Solving
>   - Agent-Based Grid Computing
>   - Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
>   - Collective Group Behavior
>   - Coordination and Cooperation
>   - Distributed Intelligence
>   - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
>   - Efficiency and Complexity Issues
>   - Market-Based Computing
>   - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments
>   - Distributed Search
>
>* Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
>   - Agent-Based Marketplaces
>   - Auction Markets
>   - Combinatorial Auctions
>   - Hybrid Negotiation
>   - Integrative Negotiation
>   - Mediating Agents
>   - Pricing Agents
>   - Thin Double Auctions
>
>* Applications
>   - Agent-Based Assistants
>   - Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
>   - Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
>   - Interface Agents
>   - Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
>   - Perceptive Animated Interfaces
>   - Scalability
>   - Social Simulation
>   - Socially Situated Planning
>   - Software and Pervasive Agents
>   - Tools and Standards
>   - Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents
>   - Ubiquitous Software Services
>   - Virtual Humans
>   - XML-Based Agent Systems
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>On-Line Submissions and Publication
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Papers
>exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and
>supportive review.  All submitted papers will be reviewed on the
>basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
>Note that IAT'06 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
>PDF versions.
>
>Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the
>IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings
>Author Guidelines at
>http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications),
>and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of
>technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality,
>significance, and clarity.  Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'06
>website to submit your paper.  Accepted papers will be published
>in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is
>indexed by EI.
>
>A selected number of IAT'06 accepted papers will be expanded and
>revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An
>International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in
>Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
>(http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html)
>
>The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
>authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
>paper.  Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
>best application paper award.
>
>More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
>found from the IAT'06 homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/.
>
>++++++++++++++++++++
>Industry/Demo-Track
>++++++++++++++++++++
>
>We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following two methods:
>
>(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
>     the research track.
>(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
>(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
>     That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
>     specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
>     demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
>     process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.
>
>For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions
>at the homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/iat/?index=demo
>
>We are planning to arrange the Demo session in the afternoon of Dec 19
>(before and during the conference reception), jointly with the WI'06 and
>ICDM'06 Demo sessions.
>
>+++++++++
>Workshops
>+++++++++
>
>As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will
>focus on new research challenges and initiatives.  All papers accepted
>for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
>by the IEEE Computer Society Press, to be indexed by EI, and will be
>available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the
>conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year
>(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
>
>I. Accepted as Fullday Workshops
>
>1. International Workshop on Agent and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI)
>2. International Workshop on Web Privacy Intelligence
>3. International Workshop on Service Composition
>4. The 3rd International Workshop on Web-based Support Systems (WSS'06)
>
>II. Accepted as Halfday Workshops
>
>5. International Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks
>    (IA-WSN)
>6. International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalisation for e-Business
>    Intelligence
>7. International Workshop on Semantics in VO and WS
>8. International Workshop on Communication between Human and Artificial Agents
>9. International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI-2006)
>10. International Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents
>11. International Workshop on GrC and Brain Informatics (BI) for WI
>12. International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts,
>     Technologies and Applications (MASeB'06)
>13. International Workshop on Research of Agent-based Government Horizon
>     Business Integration Management Systems
>14. International Workshop on Technologies and Applications of
>     Knowledge Computing on the Web
>
>For more information, please visit the conference website at
>http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/.
>
>++++++++++
>Tutorials
>++++++++++
>
>IAT'06 also welcomes Tutorial proposals.  IAT'06 will include
>tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad
>interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and
>long (half day) tutorials will be considered.  The tutorials will be
>part of the main conference technical program.  Detailed information
>is available at the conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee this year
>(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
>
>++++++++++++++++
>Important Dates
>++++++++++++++++
>
>Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2006
>Electronic submission of full papers: ** July 5, 2006 **
>Tutorial proposal submission: July 15, 2006
>Notification of paper acceptance: September 4, 2006
>Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: September 29, 2006
>Workshops: December 18, 2006
>Conference: December 19-22, 2006
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Conference Organization
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Conference Chairs:
>   * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
>   * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
>
>Organizing Chair:
>   * Yiu-Ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
>
>Program Chair:
>   * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
>
>Program Co-chairs:
>   * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
>   * Katia Sycara, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
>   * Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan
>
>Industry/Demo-Track:
>   * Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
>   * Kazuhiro Kuwabara, ATR, Japan
>   * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
>
>Workshop Co-Chairs:
>   * Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada
>   * Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
>   * Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
>
>Tutorial Co-Chairs:
>   * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
>   * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
>   * Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics/University of
> Tokyo, Japan
>
>Publicity Chairs:
>  * Marcin Szczuka, Warsaw University, Poland
>  * Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
>  * Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA
>
>Sponsorship Chairs:
>  * Man-chung Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
>  * Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan
>  * Hongjin Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
>
>Program Vice Co-chairs:
>  * Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition/UWF, USA
>  * Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland
>  * Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Paris 6 and CNRS, France
>  * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
>  * Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
>  * Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK
>  * Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
>  * Liz Sonenberg, The University of Melbourne, Australia
>
>*** Contact Information ***
>
>WI/IAT/ICDM'06 Secretariat
>Department of Computer Science
>7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building,
>Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
>E-mail: wii06@...

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See also: IEEE/WIC/ACM  WEB INTELLIGENCE 2006

Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:21:02 -0700
From: "CISSE2006 online" <cisse06b24@...>
To: cisse@...
Subject: Call For Papers - Submission deadline (10/13/2006) is fast approaching -

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your work to CISSE 2006
( http://www.cisse2006online.org ) The world's leading International
Engineering/Computing and Systems Research Online E-Conference. CISSE 2005 was
the first high-caliber Research Conference in the world to be completely
conducted online in real-time via the internet. Please note that the submission
deadline of October 13th. is fast approaching. The conference received many
submissions already and we would greatly appreciate it if you can submit your
manuscripts as soon as possible to facilitate a timely reviewing process.

We are looking forward to receiving your paper contributions. Please find
attached the CISSE conference flyer; the conference flyers for TeNe 2006, EIAE
2006, IETA 2006 and SCSS 2006 can be downloaded from the conference web site.

Best Regards,

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Sarosh Patel
CISSE Management Team
http://www.cisse2006online.org
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*    The Second International Joint Conferences on Computer,        *
*  Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE 2006)  *
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*                                                                   *
*                 http://www.cisse2006online.org                     *
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                     December 4-14, 2006

Technically Co-Sponsored by:

Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
University of Bridgeport

Update: CISSE 2005 proceedings books now available from Springer.
    Book 1: http://www.cisse2006online.org/flyer1.pdf
    Book 2: http://www.cisse2006online.org/flyer2.pdf

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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
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CISSE 2006 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the
state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences and
engineering. CISSE 2006 is the second conference of the CISSE series of
e-conferences. CISSE 2005 was the World's first International
Engineering/Computing and Systems Research Online E-Conference. CISSE 2005
was the first high-caliber Research Conference in the world to be completely
conducted online in real-time via the internet.

The CISSE 2006 virtual conference will be conducted through the Internet
using web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference. Authors
will be presenting their PowerPoint and audio presentations using very
simple web-conferencing tools without the need for travel. Conference
sessions will be broadcast to all the conference participants, where
session participants can interact with the presenter during the presentation
and (or) during the Q&A slot that follows the presentation.
This international conference will be held entirely on-line. The accepted
and presented papers will be made available after the conference both on a
CD and as a book publication. Springer, the official publisher for CISSE,
published the 2005 proceedings in 2 books.

Book 1: http://www.cisse2006online.org/flyer1.pdf
Book 2: http://www.cisse2006online.org/flyer2.pdf

Conference participants - authors, presenters and attendees - only need an
internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be
able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking
conference. The on-line structure of this high-quality event will allow
academic professionals and industry participants to contribute work and
attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed
submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds
or time out of the office.

Potential non-author conference attendees who cannot make the on-line
conference dates are encouraged to register, as the entire joint conferences
will be archived for future viewing.

CISSE 2005 received 255 research paper submissions and the final program
included 140 accepted papers, from more than 45 countries. The concept and
format of CISSE 2005 were very exciting and ground-breaking. The PowerPoint
presentations, final paper manuscripts and time schedule for live
presentations over the web had been available for 3 weeks prior to the start
of the conference for all registrants, so they could choose the
presentations they want to attend and think about questions that they might
want to ask.

The live audio presentations were also recorded and were part of the
permanent CISSE archive, which also included all power point presentations
and papers. The schedule and papers presented in CISSE 2005 is available at:
http://www.cisse2006online.org/cisse2005.aspx

The CISSE conference audio room provided superb audio even over low speed
internet connections, the ability to display PowerPoint presentations, and
cross-platform compatibility (the conferencing software runs on Windows,
Mac, and any other operating system that supports Java). In addition, the
conferencing system allowed for an unlimited number of participants, which
in turn granted us the opportunity to allow all CISSE participants to attend
all presentations, as opposed to limiting the number of available seats for
each session.


CISSE 2006 is composed of the following four conferences:


International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation
(IETA 06)

Topics: Advanced and Distributed Control Systems, Intelligent Control
Systems (NN, FL, GA, .etc), Expert Systems, Man Machine Interaction, Data
Fusion, Factory Automation, Robotics, Motion Control, Machine Vision, MEMS
Sensors and Actuators, Sensors Fusion, Power Electronics, High Frequency
Converters, Motors and Drives, Power Converters, Power Devices and
Components, Electric Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation, Process
Automation, Factory Communication, Manufacturing Information System
Advances in Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Applications of Multi Media,
Intelligent Systems Instrumentation, Industrial Instrumentation, Modeling
and Simulation, Signal Processing, Image and Data Processing, VR and
Parallel systems.



International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 06)

Topics: Optical Networks and Switching, Computer Networks, Network
architectures and Equipment, Access Technologies, Telecommunication
Technology, Coding and Modulation technique, Modeling and Simulation,
Spread Spectrum and CDMA Systems, OFDM technology, Space-time Coding, Ultra
Wideband Communications, Medium Access Control, Spread Spectrum, Wireless
LAN:  IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, Bluetooth, Cellular Wireless Networks, Cordless
Systems and Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Network Layer, Mobile Transport
Layer, Support for Mobility, Conventional Encryption and Message
Confidentiality, Block Ciphers Design Principles, Block Ciphers Modes of
Operation,  Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication,
Authentication Application,  Stenography, Electronic Mail Security, Web
Security,  IP Security,  Firewalls, Computer Forensics.



International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software
Engineering (SCSS 06)

Topics: Grid Computing, Internet-based Computing Models, Resource
Discovery, Programming Models and tools, e-Science and Virtual
Instrumentation, Biometric Authentication, Computers for People of Special
Needs, Human Computer Interaction, Information and Knowledge Engineering,
Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed processing, Modeling and Simulation,
Services and Applications, Embedded Systems and Applications,
Databases,Programming Languages, Signal Processing Theory and Methods,
Signal Processing for Communication, Signal Processing Architectures and
Implementation, Information Processing, Geographical Information
Systems,Object Based Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed
Computing, Real Time Systems, Multiprocessing, File Systems and I/O, Kernel
and OS Structures.




International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional
Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 06)

Topics: Instructional Design, Accreditation, Curriculum Design, Educational
Tools, 2-2-2 Platforms, Teaching Capstone Design, Teaching Design at the
Lower Levels, Design and Development of e-Learning tools, Assessment
Methods in Engineering, Development and Implementation of E-learning tools,
Economical and Social Impacts of E-learning.



Paper Submission

=================


Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in
Microsoft Word format through the website of the conference at
http://www.cisse2006online.org. Accepted papers must be presented in the
virtual conference by one of the authors. To submit your paper, please visit
http://www.cisse2006online.org .

Paper submission Deadline:          October 13th, 2006
Notification of Acceptance:         November 7th, 2006
Final Manuscript and Registration:  November 24th, 2006
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FWD
===
INISTA 2007
International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and
Applications
June 20-23, 2007
ÝSTANBUL , TURKEY
http://www.inista.org/
  ...will be organized by Yýldýz Technical University in cooperation
with IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Turkey Chapter in
Istanbul, Turkey.

Important Dates

Submission of papers   January 29, 2007
Notification of acceptance March 12, 2007
Registration and camera-ready submission  March 26, 2007
Symposium June 20-23, 2007
-----------
Prospective organizers are invited to submit proposals for Special
Sessions at INISTA'07. The proposals must be received no later than
November 27, 2006.
-----------
  For any questions please contact the symposium secretariat:

Dr. Sýrma Yavuz
Yýldýz Technical University
Electric-Electronics Faculty
Beþiktaþ 34349 Turkey
Tel: +90 212 259 70 70 ext. 2716
Fax: +90 212 259 49 67
inista@...
-----------

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

======================
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
======================

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06)
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06)
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06)

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
18-22 December 2006

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/

Sponsored and Organized by
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Co-Organized with
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

University/Corporate Sponsors
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
Microsoft Corp.
IBM Research

================= HIGHLIGHTS =========================

December 18: 12 ICDM and 14 WI-IAT workshops
December 19-21: The main conference of ICDM-WI-IAT'06:
	 ICDM-WI-IAT'06 Joint Keynote by Prof. Tomaso Poggio,
	 2 ICDM'06, 2 WI'06 and 2 IAT'06 Invited Talks,

	 8 Tutorials, panels, and research track paper,
	 industry and demo track presentations.
The papers were selected from 1879 submissions
received from over 60 countries and regions.

All main conference and workshop proceedings will be published
in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press,
now indexed by EI.
************************************************************
***********************************************
!!! Advance Registration by 25 OCT 2006 !!!
-----------------------------------------------
On-line registration (and more information) at
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/

Regular registration covers all the events of
ICDM-WI-IAT'06 during the four conference days
including workshops and tutorials, and includes
proceedings for one of the conferences and its
associated workshops.

************************************************

ICDM '06, WI'06 and IAT'06 will be co-located, providing
synergism among the three research areas: Data Mining, Web
Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. This provides
opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous
conferences. The three conferences will have a joint opening, keynote,
reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one
conference and can attend workshops, sessions, invited talks, panels
and tutorials across the three conferences.

KEYNOTE TALKS
+++++++++++++

ICDM-WI-IAT'06 Joint Keynote:

Neuroscience: New Insights for AI?
Professor Tomaso Poggio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

ICDM'06 Invited Talks:

Exploratory Mining in Cube Space
Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan
Yahoo! Research

Data Mining Methods for Modeling Gene Expression
Regulation and Their Applications
Professor Weixiong Zhang
Washington University in St. Louis, USA

WI'06 and IAT'06 Invited Talks:

Service-Oriented Science: Scaling eScience Impact
Professor Ian Foster
Computation Institute Argonne National Laboratory &
University of Chicago, USA

Two Obvious Intuitions: Ontology-mapping Needs
Background Knowledge and Approximation
Professor Frank van Harmelen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Approximate Reasoning in MAS: Rough Set Approach
Professor Andrzej Skowron
Warsaw University, Poland

Engaging in a Conversation with Synthetic Agents
along the Virtuality Continuum
Professor Elisabeth Andr
University of Augsburg, Germany

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

Tutorials include:

T1: Hands-On Time-Series Analysis with Matlab
   Michalis Vlachos and Spiros Papadimitriou
   IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

T2: Predictive Learning on Data Streams
   Haixun Wang, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
   Ying Yang, Monash University, Australia

T3: Filtering of Multi-Lingual Terrorist Content with
   Graph-Theoretic Classification Tools
   Mark Last Ben-Gurion University
   Abraham Kandel, NIACI
   Alex Markov, BGU
   Dror Magal, Meged

T4: Data Mining for Social Network Analysis
   Jaideep Srivastava, Nishith Pathak and Sandeep Mane
   University of Minnesota, USA

T5: Link Mining: Current State of the Art
   Ronen Feldman
   Bar-Ilan University, Israel

T6: Building an Intelligent Web: Theory and Practice
   Pawan Lingras and Rajendra Akerkar
   Saint Mary's University, Canada.

T7: Towards Semantic Service-Oriented Systems on the Web
   Sung-Kook Han, Won Kwang University, Korea
   Dumitru Roman, DERI Innsbruck, Austria

T8: Knowledge Extraction for Improving Agent Efficiency
   Andreas L. Symeonidis and Pericles A. Mitkas
   Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

The Workshops include:

W1: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Ontology Mining and Knowledge Discovery
   from Semistructured Documents

W2: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics

W3: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Mining Complex Data

W4: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Mining Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data

W5: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Foundation of Data Mining and Novel Techniques
   in High Dimensional Structural and Unstructured Data

W6: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining

W7: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Data Mining for Design and Marketing

W8: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Mining Stream/Evolving Data

W9: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Risk Mining

W10: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Reliability Issues in Knowledge Discovery

W11: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Data Mining and Wireless Sensor Networks

W12: ICDM 2006 Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining Techniques
   with Applications

W13: International Workshop on Agent and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI)

W14: International Workshop on Web Privacy Intelligence

W15: International Workshop on Service Composition

W16: The 3rd International Workshop on Web-based Support Systems (WSS'06)

W17: International Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks
   (IA-WSN)

W18: International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalisation for e-Business
   Intelligence

W19: International Workshop on Semantics in VO and WS

W20: International Workshop on Communication between Human and Artificial
   Agents

W21: International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI-2006)

W22: International Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents

W23: International Workshop on GrC and Brain Informatics (BI) for WI

W24: International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts,
   Technologies and Applications (MASeB'06)

W25: International Workshop on Research of Agent-based Government Horizon
   Business Integration Management Systems

W26: International Workshop on Technologies and Applications of
   Knowledge Computing on the Web

SOCIAL PROGRAM
+++++++++++++++

The ICDM'06, WI'06 and IAT'06 joint conference offers an exciting social
program, including the conference welcome reception on Dec 19 and the
conference banquet on Dec 20.

The conference banquet will be held on Victoria Harbour.

You can also enjoy the city of Hong Kong.
You can get more information about the conference hotel
and local information from the conference homepage:
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06

--------------

*** Contact Information ***

Yiuming Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
E-mail: ymc@...

Call for Papers
                         and
               Call for Session Proposals

      The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
      Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                     WORLDCOMP'07
          (composed of 24 Joint Conferences)
           June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

Dear Colleagues:

You are invited to submit a draft paper and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop.  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.  The Academic Co-sponsors of
WORLDCOMP'07 include: MIT Media Lab, MIT; Harvard University's
Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Lab; Texas Advanced
Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin; Statistical and
Computational Intelligence Lab of Purdue University; and University of
Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab.  A more complete list of sponsors can
be found below.

The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) is composed of the following
24 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: June 25-28, 2007, USA).

o The 2007 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
   Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications (GCA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
   (ICAI'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
   Methods (GEM'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and
   Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering Research
   and Practice (SERP'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
   Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
   Visualization Methods (MSV'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual
   Reality (CGVR'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Multimedia Systems and
   Applications (MSA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
   (SWWS'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
   Engineering (IKE'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
   Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Embedded Systems and
   Applications (ESA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
   Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Foundations of Computer
   Science (FCS'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
   Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Communications in Computing
   (CIC'7)

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07 - the site is currently
under construction.  See also: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org)

General Chair And Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

Purpose / History:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering
    of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and
    applied computing.  Many of the 24 joint conferences in
    WORLDCOMP are the premier conferences for presentation of
    advances in their respective fields.  We anticipate to have
    2000 or more attendees from over 75 countries participating in
    the 2007 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a
    common place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a
    forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that
    interact.  The model used to form these annual conferences
    facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world
    in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and
    applied computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer
    science and engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary,
    inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the
    conferences.

Proposal for Organizing Sessions/Workshops:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).
    The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of
    their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear as
    Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the
    cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, and a short description on how the session will
    be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers
    from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  E-mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above).  We would like to receive the
    proposals by December 1, 2006.

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2007. E-mail submissions in MS
    document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting formats
    are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be
    asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their
    papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
    limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been
    previously published or currently submitted for publication
    elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper should include:
    title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, email
    address, and telephone number for each author.  The first page
    should also identify the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that
    would best represent the content of the paper.  Finally, the name
    of the conference that the paper is being submitted to must be
    stated on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two experts in the field who are independent of the conference
    program committee.  The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed
    by two members of the program committee who will recommend a
    decision to the chair of the track that the paper has been
    submitted to.  The chair will make the final decision.  Lastly, the
    Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one member of the program
    committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World
    Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific
    computing; artificial intelligence; imaging science; databases;
    simulation; software engineering; embedded systems; internet
    and web technologies; communications; computer security; and
    bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for individual
    conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested in
    joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax
    numbers, a short biography together with research interests and
    the name of the conference offering to help with.

Location of Conferences:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel,
    Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by
    hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent
    conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.  The hotel is
    minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and
    from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational attractions,
    including: waterfalls, spa, pools and kiddie pools, sunning
    decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted
    tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a
    number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ...  Many of these
    attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for
    families and children.  The negotiated room rate for conference
    attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within walking
    distance from most other attractions (major shopping areas,
    recreational destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free
    street shows, Golf courses...).

Co-Sponsors (this is a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute (ITI)
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Important Dates:

    Dec.   1, 2006:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions
    Feb.  20, 2007:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2007:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'07 - 24 joint conferences)

Topical Scope for each Conference:

    To receive the complete list of topics for each of the
    24 conferences, send an email to hra@... or
    wait for the conferences' url's to be constructed.

Future Announcements: If you do not wish to receive future announcements
about this event, please send an email to hra@....





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********************************************************
***   NN3 Neural Networks Forecasting Competition    ***
********************************************************

The 2006-2007 Forecasting competition for Neural Networks and Computational
Intelligence Methods has started!
Please visit the NN3 website at
http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/ for further instructions.

*********************************************************
Objectives
*********************************************************
Forecast a set of 11 or 111 time series as accurately as possible, using
methods from computational intelligence and a consistent methodology. We
hope to evaluate progress in modelling neural networks for forecasting & to
disseminate knowledge on "best practices". The competition is for academic
purposes and supported by a grant from SAS & the International Institute of
Forecasters (IIF).

*********************************************************
Methods
*********************************************************
The prediction competition is open to all methods of computational
intelligence, incl. feed-forward and recurrent neural networks, fuzzy
predictors, decision & regression tress, support vector regression, hybrid
approaches etc. used in financial forecasting, statistical prediction, time
series analysis

*********************************************************
Publication of Results
*********************************************************
The results will be presented at various conferences in 2007. All those
submitting predictions will be invited to participate in Events at ISF'07,
New York, IJCNN'07, Orlando (pending), DMIN'07, Las Vegas (pending) and
LUMS'07, Manchester, and submit papers to those special sessions. All
submissions will invited for a full publication in an edited book "Advances
of Neural Forecasting", Springer (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed), subject to
acceptance (pending). The most successful authors will be invited for a
joint submission to the highly acclaimed International Journal of
Forecasting (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed).

*********************************************************
Dates & deadlines
*********************************************************
20 October 2006 Publication of reduced & complete dataset
May 2007        Prediction submissions due
June&July 2007  Publication of preliminary results at various conferences in
USA, UK etc
August 2007     Submissions to full publications

GOOD LUCK!

Sven F. Crone & Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
_____________________________________________________
Sven F. Crone
Deputy Director, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting
Lecturer (Ass. Prof.), Department of Management Science
Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster LA1 4YX
United Kingdom
Internet http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk
eMail    sven.crone@...
_______________________________________________




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Call for Papers
                         and
               Call for Session Proposals

      The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
      Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                     WORLDCOMP'07
          (composed of 24 Joint Conferences)
           June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

Dear Colleagues:

You are invited to submit a draft paper and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop.  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.  The Academic Co-sponsors of
WORLDCOMP'07 include: MIT Media Lab, MIT; Harvard University's
Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Lab; Texas Advanced
Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin; Statistical and
Computational Intelligence Lab of Purdue University; and University of
Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab.  A more complete list of sponsors can
be found below.

The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) is composed of the following
24 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: June 25-28, 2007, USA).

o The 2007 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
   Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications (GCA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
   (ICAI'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
   Methods (GEM'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and
   Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering Research
   and Practice (SERP'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
   Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
   Visualization Methods (MSV'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual
   Reality (CGVR'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Multimedia Systems and
   Applications (MSA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
   (SWWS'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
   Engineering (IKE'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
   Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Embedded Systems and
   Applications (ESA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
   Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Foundations of Computer
   Science (FCS'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
   Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'07)

o The 2007 International Conference on Communications in Computing
   (CIC'7)

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07 - the site is currently
under construction.  See also: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org)

General Chair And Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

Purpose / History:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering
    of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and
    applied computing.  Many of the 24 joint conferences in
    WORLDCOMP are the premier conferences for presentation of
    advances in their respective fields.  We anticipate to have
    2000 or more attendees from over 75 countries participating in
    the 2007 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a
    common place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a
    forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that
    interact.  The model used to form these annual conferences
    facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world
    in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and
    applied computing.  Both inward research (core areas of computer
    science and engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary,
    inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the
    conferences.

Proposal for Organizing Sessions/Workshops:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).
    The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of
    their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear as
    Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the
    cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, and a short description on how the session will
    be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers
    from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  E-mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above).  We would like to receive the
    proposals by December 1, 2006.

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2007. E-mail submissions in MS
    document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting formats
    are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be
    asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their
    papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
    limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been
    previously published or currently submitted for publication
    elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper should include:
    title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, email
    address, and telephone number for each author.  The first page
    should also identify the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that
    would best represent the content of the paper.  Finally, the name
    of the conference that the paper is being submitted to must be
    stated on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two experts in the field who are independent of the conference
    program committee.  The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed
    by two members of the program committee who will recommend a
    decision to the chair of the track that the paper has been
    submitted to.  The chair will make the final decision.  Lastly, the
    Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one member of the program
    committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World
    Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific
    computing; artificial intelligence; imaging science; databases;
    simulation; software engineering; embedded systems; internet
    and web technologies; communications; computer security; and
    bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for individual
    conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested in
    joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax
    numbers, a short biography together with research interests and
    the name of the conference offering to help with.

Location of Conferences:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel,
    Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by
    hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent
    conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.  The hotel is
    minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and
    from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational attractions,
    including: waterfalls, spa, pools and kiddie pools, sunning
    decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted
    tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a
    number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ...  Many of these
    attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for
    families and children.  The negotiated room rate for conference
    attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within walking
    distance from most other attractions (major shopping areas,
    recreational destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free
    street shows, Golf courses...).

Co-Sponsors (this is a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute (ITI)
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Important Dates:

    Dec.   1, 2006:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions
    Feb.  20, 2007:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2007:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'07 - 24 joint conferences)

Topical Scope for each Conference:

    To receive the complete list of topics for each of the
    24 conferences, send an email to hra@... or
    wait for the conferences' url's to be constructed.

Future Announcements: If you do not wish to receive future announcements
about this event, please send an email to hra@....




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==                      CALL FOR PAPERS                            ==
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           The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining
                     http://www.dmin-2007.com
                             DMIN'07
             One of 24 conferences at the 2007 WORLDCOMP
  World Congress in Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Computing
           Monte Carlo Resort, L.a.s V.e.g.a.s, Nevada, USA
                         June 25-28, 2007
          http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07
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==                      CALL FOR PAPERS                            ==
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           The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining
                     http://www.dmin-2007.com
                             DMIN'07
             One of 24 conferences at the 2007 WORLDCOMP
  World Congress in Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Computing
           Monte Carlo Resort, L.a.s V.e.g.a.s, Nevada, USA
                         June 25-28, 2007
          http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07
======================================================================

Dear Researchers & Practitioners!

You are invited to participate in the 2007 International Conference on Data
Mining!

DMIN'07 is an international conference held simultaneously with 23 other joint
conferences as part
of WORLDCOMP'07, The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, and Applied
Computing. WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest annual gathering of researchers in
computer science,
computer engineering and applied computing.

The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences,
workshops, and
symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a
common time. The main
goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas
that interact. The
model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication among
researchers in
different fields of computer science, computer engineering and applied
computing. Both inward
research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and outward research
(multi-disciplinary, inter- disciplinary, and applications) will be covered
during the
conferences.

Each of the joint conferences in WORLDCOMP'07 is a premier conference for
presenting advances in
their respective fields (for the complete list of joint conferences please see
www.dmin-2007.com).
The last Joint Conferences (WORLDCOMP'06) attracted over 1,700 researchers and
practitioners from
78 countries. It is anticipated that The WORLDCOMP'07 will attract about 2000
participants. The
WORLDCOMP'07 is composed of 24 (planned) major conferences - attendees will have
full access to
all 24 conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials (planned). Each event is the
premier
conference for presentation of advances in their respective subjects. All
conferences will be held
simultaneously (same location and dates: June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA).

You are invited to submit a draft paper via our website www.dmin-2007.com. All
accepted papers
will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The names of
technical
session/workshop organizers/chairs will appear on the cover of the
proceedings/books as Associate
Editors.

TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:
Data Mining Applications
- Bioinformatics/Medicine
- Business/Industrial
- Engineering
- Military/Security
- Social science
- Data mining software
- Others
Data Mining Tasks
- Regression/Classification
- Time series forecasting
- Segmentation/Clustering/Association
- Deviation and outlier detection
- Explorative and visual data mining
- Web mining
- Mining text and semi-structured data
- Temporal and spatial data mining
- Multimedia mining (audio/video)
- Others
Data Mining Algorithms
- Artificial neural networks
- Fuzzy logic and rough sets
- Decision trees/rule learners
- Support vector machines
- Evolutionary computation/meta heuristics
- Statistical methods
- Collaborative filtering
- Case based reasoning
- Link and sequence analysis
- Ensembles/committee approaches
- Others
Data Mining Integration
- Mining large scale data
- Distributed and grid based data mining
- Data and knowledge representation
- Data warehousing and OLAP integration
- Integration of prior/domain knowledge
- Metadata and ontologies
- Agent technologies for data mining
- Legal and social aspects of data mining
- Others
Data Mining Process
- Data cleaning and preparation
- Feature selection and transformation
- Attribute discretisation and encoding
- Sampling and rebalancing
- Missing value imputation
- Model selection/assessment and comparison
- Induction principles
- Model interpretation
- Others

We particularly encourage submissions of industrial applications and case
studies from
practitioners. These will not be evaluated using solely theoretical research
criteria, but will
take general interest and presentation stronger into consideration.

DRAFT PAPER
We welcome all contributions through theoretical research papers and industrial
reports and case
studies on applications in form of regular research papers of 7 pages IEEE
style. In addition, we
welcome student research proposals as short papers of 4 pages plus plenary
presentations to
receive guidance from established experts, online demonstrations of prototype
software systems of
1 page and presentation in informal poster sessions. Accepted submissions
include:
- regular research papers (max. 7 pages IEEE style, formal presentation)
- regular industry & application reports (max. 7 pages IEEE style, formal
presentation)
- short research papers (max. 4 pages IEEE style, poster presentation)
- short industry & application reports (max. 4 pages IEEE style, poster
presentation)
- student research proposals (max. 4 pages IEEE style, formal presentation)
- posters (max. 1 page IEEE style, poster presentation)

Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (between 1 to 7
pages, standard 2
column IEEE style) via our online submission system by Feb. 20, 2007. Online
submissions of
PDF-files via the conference management system are encouraged. For all other
forms of submission
please contact the conference organisers.

CAMERA READY PAPERS
The length of the accepted camera ready papers will be limited to 7 IEEE style
pages. Standard
IEEE templates & typing instructions, copyright forms, conference registration
forms etc. will be
supplied upon acceptance. After the conference, selected papers will be
considered for publication
in appropriate journals and special issues. All conference proceedings are
considered for
inclusion in major database indexes that are designed to provide easy access to
the current
literature of the sciences (e.g.: ISI Thomson Scientific, INSPEC ...).
Presentation time and form
will be limited to 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion depending on the
submission category.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Please visit the conference website at www.dmin-2007.com

IMPORTANT DATES
February 20, 2007 - Draft papers due
March 20, 2007 - Notification of acceptance
April 20, 2007 - Camera ready papers & pre-registration due
June 25-28, 2007 - 2007 DMIN & WORLDCOMP

CONFERENCE FEES
Non-Students: USD 545
Full-Time Student: USD 395

The fee includes: books & 4 breakfasts & 12 refreshment breaks & one formal
dinner & booklets &
CDs & access to all tutorial sessions & access to all sessions of all
conferences. Last year we
were also able to sponsor free drinks receptions on 5 evenings of the conference
for DMIN
attendees, a sponsored student dinner and a farewell reception with free drinks!

CONFERENCE VENUE
The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort, L.a.s.V.e.g.a.s.,
Nevada, USA (with any
overflows at other near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo is a mega hotel with
excellent conference
facilities and over 3,000 rooms, with extensive recreational attractions,
including: waterfalls,
spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, easy river water ride, wave pool with
cascades, lighted
tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...),
nightly shows, snack
bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars etc. (most are open 24 hours
a day and suitable
for families & children). The hotel is a few minutes from the airport with
24-hour shuttle service
to and from the airport. The hotel is within walking distance from most other
attractions (major
shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free
street shows etc.).
The room rate for conference attendees is approximately USD 79 (2006) per room
per night (single
or double occupancy).

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION DMIN'07
General Conference Chair:
Robert Stahlbock
University of Hamburg
Department of Business Administration
Institute of Information Systems (IWI)
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
email: conference-chair (at) dmin-2007.com
www: http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/rstahl

Conference & Programme Co-chairs:
Sven F. Crone
Lancaster Centre for Forecasting
Lancaster University Management School
Department of Management Science
Lancaster, LA1 4YX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44.1524.5-92991
Fax: +44.1524.844885
email: s.crone (at) dmin-2007.com
www: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk

Stefan Lessmann
University of Hamburg
Department of Business Administration
Institute of Information Systems (IWI)
Von-Melle-Park 5
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Tel: +49.40.42838-5500
Fax: +49.40.42838-5535
email: s.lessmann (at) dmin-2007.com
www: http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/slessm/

If you have any questions regarding the conference please do not hesitate to
contact one of the
chairs.


The world's largest gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied
computing: The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied
Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) is composed of the following 24 conferences (all will
be held
simultaneously, same location and date: June 25-28, 2007, USA): The 2007
International Conference
on...
PDPTA'07 ... Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
GCA'07 ... Grid Computing and Applications
CDES'07 ... Computer Design
CSC'07 ... Scientific Computing
ICAI'07 ... Artificial Intelligence
GEM'07 ... Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
BIOCOMP'07 ... Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
SERP'07 ... Software Engineering Research and Practice
ICWN'07 ... Wireless Networks
IPCV'07 ... Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
MSV'07 ... Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
CGVR'07 ... Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
MSA'07 ... Multimedia Systems and Applications
ICOMP'07 ... Internet Computing
SWWS'07 ... Semantic Web and Web Services
SAM'07 ... Security and Management
DMIN'07 ... Data Mining
IKE'07 ... Information and Knowledge Engineering
EEE'07 ... e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and
e-Government
ESA'07 ... Embedded Systems and Applications
FECS'07 ... Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering
FCS'07 ... Foundations of Computer Science
ERSA'07 ... Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
CIC'07 ... Communications in Computing
A link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws




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Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the annoucement below with those
who might be interested.

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, ICAI'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
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                Last  Call  For  Papers

          The 2007 International Conference on
                Artificial Intelligence
                      (ICAI'07)

     Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

         Academic Sponsors:  Research Labs at
   MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ...

     Paper Submission Deadline:  February 20, 2007
url:  http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/ICAI07


You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

SCOPE of ICAI'07: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

   O  Expert systems
   O  Decision support systems
   O  Fuzzy logic and soft computing
   O  Brain models / Cognitive science
   O  Automated problem solving
   O  Knowledge discovery
   O  Knowledge representation
   O  Knowledge acquisition
   O  Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
   O  Knowledge networks and management
   O  Intelligent information systems
   O  Intelligent data mining and farming
   O  Intelligent web-based business
   O  Intelligent agents
   O  Intelligent networks
   O  Intelligent databases
   O  Intelligent user interface
   O  AI and evolutionary algorithms
   O  Intelligent tutoring systems
   O  Reasoning strategies
   O  Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
   O  Distributed AI systems and architectures
   O  Heuristic searching methods
   O  Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
   O  Languages and programming techniques for AI
   O  Software tools for AI
   O  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
   O  Natural language processing
   O  Neural networks and applications
   O  Intelligent information fusion
   O  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
   O  Search and meta-heuristics
   O  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
   O  Integration of AI with other technologies
   O  Evaluation of AI tools
   O  Social impact of AI
   O  Emerging technologies
   O  Applications (including: computer vision, signal
      processing, military, surveillance, robotics, medicine,
      pattern recognition, face recognition, finger print
      recognition, finance and marketing, stock market,
      education, emerging applications, ...)

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2007 (hra@...). E-mail submissions
    in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions
    are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
    (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
    particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the author who will
    be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical
    keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
    the paper has been submitted to.  The track chair will make the final
    decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
    member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial
    intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software
    engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many members
    of the program committee for individual conferences include renowned
    leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
    highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories,
    IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.
    Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final stages
    of their PhD programs) who are identified as such.  Refer to the
    conference web sites for the list of members of program committee.

Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
      - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - HPCwire
      - GRIDtoday
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Purpose / History:

    ICAI'07 will be held in conjunction with WORLDCOMP'07
    (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws ).
    WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest gathering of researchers in computer
    science, computer engineering and applied computing.
    Many of the tracks of WORLDCOMP are considered to be the premier
    meetings for presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75
    countries participating in the 2007 event.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Important Dates:

    Feb.  20, 2007:    Submission of full papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2007:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 International Conference on Artificial
                       Intelligence (ICAI'07)



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>Date: 17 Feb 2007 00:49:54 +0900
>To: adam.gadomski@...
>Subject: CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2007
>From: wi@...
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>#####################################################################
>          IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2007
>                   CALL FOR PAPERS
>#####################################################################
>
>2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
>Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07)
>
>Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007
>http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/
>(to be collocated with BIBM'07 and GrC'07)
>
>Sponsored By
>IEEE Computer Society
>Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
>
>#####################################################################
># Conference Chair
>#    Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research
>#
># Program Chair and Co-Chairs
>#    T.Y. Lin,            San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA
>#    Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
>#    Matthias Klusch,     German Research Center for AI, Germany
>#    Chengqi Zhang,       University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
>#
># Organizing Chair
>#    Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center
>#
># IAT-WI Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative)
>#
># Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner,
>#                 VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
># Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
>#
># (More IAT Invited Speakers will be announced)
>#
># (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007)
># Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
># by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
>######################################################################
>
>The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
>Technology (IAT'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM
>International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), the 2007 IEEE
>International Conference on BioInformation and BioMedicine (BIBM'07),
>and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
>(GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas.  It
>will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of
>previous conferences. The four conferences will have a joint opening,
>keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for
>one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across
>the four conferences.  We are also planning a joint panel and joint
>paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas.
>
>IAT 2007 provides a leading international forum to bring together
>researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
>science, information technology, business, education, human factors,
>systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design
>principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in
>intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization
>of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent
>systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and
>discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and
>sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of
>intelligent agents, IAT 2007 will foster the development of novel
>paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.
>
>+++++++++++
>Highlights
>+++++++++++
>
>The conference will be held in Silicon Valley, California. Many
>high-tech companies and three distinguished universities (Stanford, UC
>Berkely and UCSC) are just around the corner. The highlight of the
>conference is that a unique forum consisting of a half-day demo
>session and free discussion will be organized to link industries and
>academics. Leading IT companies like IBM, Google, and Yahoo etc will
>present at the conference.
>
>The area now known as Silicon Valley has been a center of
>technological development since the 1950's. The name Silicon Valley
>stems from the early 1970's, when the area had become the center for
>many semiconductor companies. While still hosting semiconductor and
>microprocessor companies, the region now hosts the headquarters of
>high tech companies of every kind, including many of the best known
>and most prestigious names in personal computers, Web search, Internet
>auctions, networking, storage, databases, etc.
>
>+++++++++++++++++++
>Topics of Interest
>+++++++++++++++++++
>
>The topics and areas include, but not limited to:
>
>* Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
>   - Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development
>   - Agent-Based Simulation
>   - Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods
>   - Behavioral Self-Organization
>   - Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering
>   - Emergent Behavior
>   - Hard Computational Problem Solving
>   - Nature-Inspired Paradigms
>   - Self-Organized Criticality
>   - Self-Organized Intelligence
>   - Swarm Intelligence
>
>* Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
>   - Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining
>   - Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing
>   - Autonomous Information Services
>   - Distributed Knowledge Systems
>   - Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Evolution of Knowledge Networks
>   - Human-Agent Interaction
>   - Information Filtering Agents
>   - Knowledge Aggregation
>   - Knowledge Discovery
>   - Ontology-Based Information Services
>
>* Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
>   - Agent Interaction Protocols
>   - Cognitive Architectures
>   - Cognitive Modeling of Agents
>   - Emotional Modeling
>   - Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols
>   - Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
>   - Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
>   - Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning
>   - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Reinforcement Learning
>   - Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
>   - Task-Based Agent Context
>   - Task-Oriented Agents
>
>* Distributed Problem Solving
>   - Agent-Based Grid Computing
>   - Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
>   - Collective Group Behavior
>   - Coordination and Cooperation
>   - Distributed Intelligence
>   - Distributed Search
>   - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
>   - Efficiency and Complexity Issues
>   - Market-Based Computing
>   - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments
>
>* Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
>   - Agent-Based Marketplaces
>   - Auction Markets
>   - Combinatorial Auctions
>   - Hybrid Negotiation
>   - Integrative Negotiation
>   - Mediating Agents
>   - Pricing Agents
>   - Thin Double Auctions
>
>* Applications
>   - Agent-Based Assistants
>   - Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
>   - Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
>   - Interface Agents
>   - Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
>   - Perceptive Animated Interfaces
>   - Scalability
>   - Social Simulation
>   - Socially Situated Planning
>   - Software and Pervasive Agents
>   - Tools and Standards
>   - Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents
>   - Ubiquitous Software Services
>   - Virtual Humans
>   - XML-Based Agent Systems
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>On-Line Submissions and Publication
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited.
>Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the
>IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the
>Author Guidelines of last year at
>http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/iat06.xml).
>All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on
>the basis of technical quality,  relevance, significance, and clarity.
>
>Note that IAT'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
>PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'07
>website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
>conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are
>indexed by EI.
>
>Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the
>proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference.
>Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
>pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
>the conference than regular papers.
>
>All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission,
>notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
>to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
>at least one author should attend the conference to present the
>paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
>on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a
>notification.
>
>A selected number of IAT'07 accepted papers will be expanded and
>revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An
>International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in
>Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
>(http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html)
>
>More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
>found from the IAT'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/.
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++
>IAT'07 Best Paper Awards
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
>authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
>paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
>best application paper award.
>
>The full author list and paper title will be announced on the
>Web Intelligence Consortium homepage:
>http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html
>
>++++++++++++++++++++
>Industry/Demo-Track
>++++++++++++++++++++
>
>We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.
>
>(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
>     the research track.
>(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
>(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
>     That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
>     specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
>     demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
>     process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.
>
>For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at
>the homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/
>
>We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of
>November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with
>the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley
>will be invited to attend this track.
>
>++++++++++
>Workshops
>++++++++++
>
>As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will
>focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted
>for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
>by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be
>available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the
>conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
>(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
>
>For more information, please visit the conference website at
>http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/.
>
>++++++++++
>Tutorials
>++++++++++
>
>IAT'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'07 will include
>tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad
>interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and
>long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be
>part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information
>is available at the conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
>(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
>
>++++++++++++++++
>Important Dates
>++++++++++++++++
>
>Workshop proposal submission:           March 20, 2007
>Electronic submission of full papers:   ** June 1, 2007 **
>Tutorial proposal submission:           June 15, 2007
>Notification of paper acceptance:       August 3, 2007
>Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007
>Conference:                             November 2-5, 2007
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Conference Organization
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Conference Chair:
>   * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
>
>Program Chair:
>   * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA
>
>IAT Program Co-Chairs:
>   * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
>   * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
>   * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
>
>WI Program Co-Chairs:
>   * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
>   * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
>   * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA
>
>Organizing Chair:
>   * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
>
>Workshop Co-Chairs:
>   * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
>   * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
>
>Tutorial Chair:
>   * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
>
>Industry/Demo-Track Chair:
>   * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
>
>Local Accommodations Co-Chairs:
>   * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA
>   * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA
>
>Publicity Chair:
>   * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair)
>Publicity Co-Chairs:
>   * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
>   * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China
>   * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India
>
>IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>
>ACM-SIGART Chair
>  * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
>
>WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>  * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada
>
>WIC Advisory Board:
>  * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
>  * Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
>  * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
>  * Philip Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
>  * L.A. Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA
>
>WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
>  * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
>  * Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada
>  * Dieter Fensel, National University of Ireland, Ireland
>  * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
>  * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
>  * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
>  * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
>  * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
>  * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
>  * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
>  * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan
>  * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
>  * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
>
>Webmaster:
>  * Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA
>
>*** Contact Information ***
>
>Jia Hu
>International WIC Institute, China
>E-mail: hujia@...

********************************************************
***   NN3 Neural Networks Forecasting Competition    ***
********************************************************

The 2006-2007 Forecasting competition for Neural Networks and Computational
Intelligence Methods has started!
Please visit the NN3 website at
http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/ for further instructions.

*********************************************************
Objectives
*********************************************************
Forecast a set of 11 or 111 time series as accurately as possible, using
methods from computational intelligence and a consistent methodology. We
hope to evaluate progress in modelling neural networks for forecasting & to
disseminate knowledge on "best practices". The competition is for academic
purposes and supported by a grant from SAS & the International Institute of
Forecasters (IIF).

*********************************************************
Methods
*********************************************************
The prediction competition is open to all methods of computational
intelligence, incl. feed-forward and recurrent neural networks, fuzzy
predictors, decision & regression tress, support vector regression, hybrid
approaches etc. used in financial forecasting, statistical prediction, time
series analysis

*********************************************************
Publication of Results
*********************************************************
The results will be presented at various conferences in 2007. All those
submitting predictions will be invited to participate in Events at ISF'07,
New York, IJCNN'07, Orlando (pending), DMIN'07, Las Vegas (pending) and
LUMS'07, Manchester, and submit papers to those special sessions. All
submissions will invited for a full publication in an edited book "Advances
of Neural Forecasting", Springer (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed), subject to
acceptance (pending). The most successful authors will be invited for a
joint submission to the highly acclaimed International Journal of
Forecasting (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed).

*********************************************************
Dates & deadlines
*********************************************************
20 October 2006 Publication of reduced & complete dataset
May 2007        Prediction submissions due
June&July 2007  Publication of preliminary results at various conferences in
USA, UK etc
August 2007     Submissions to full publications

GOOD LUCK!

Sven F. Crone & Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

_____________________________________________________
Sven F. Crone
Deputy Director, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting
Lecturer (Ass. Prof.), Department of Management Science
Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster LA1 4YX
United Kingdom
Internet http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk
eMail    sven.crone@...
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Date

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CI 2007 will be a major forum for international researchers and professionals to present their latest research, results, and ideas in all areas of computational intelligence.

CI 2007 will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International Conference on

• Circuits, Signals, and Systems (CSS 2007).
• Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT 2007).

Sponsor

CI 2007 is sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).

Conference Chair

 
Dr. Razvan Andonie is an associate professor in the computer science department at Central Washington University, USA. He is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Important Deadlines

Submissions due March 7, 2007
Notification of acceptance                            April 1, 2007
Camera-ready manuscripts April 22, 2007
Registration deadline May 1, 2007

Topics

Topics covered by CI 2007 include, but are not limited to:

• Adaptive and Optimal Control
• Artificial Immune Systems
• Chaotic and Complex Systems
• Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)
• Particle Swarm Optimization
• Time Series Forecasting
• Associative Memory
• Evolvable Hardware
• Computational Intelligence and Telecommunications

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>         Call  For  Papers (Extended Deadline)
>
>      The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
>      Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
>                     WORLDCOMP'07
>  Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

>url: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07
>
>
>The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
>and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) is composed of the following
>research and technical tracks (all will be held simultaneously,
>same location and dates: June 25-28, 2007, USA):
>
>      o Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
>        (PDPTA'07)
>      o Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'07)
>      o Computer Design (CDES'07)
>      o Scientific Computing (CSC'07)
>      o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07)
>      o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07)
>      o Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications
>        (MLMTA'07)
>      o Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07)
>      o Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07)
>      o e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and
>        e-Government (EEE'07)
>      o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'07)
         ....
         and others.

>      A link to each of the above can be found at
>      http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws

>    Important Dates:
>
>    March 4, 2007:      Deadline for full papers (about 5 to 8
> pages) - extended submission
>    March 20, 2007:    Notification of acceptance
>    April 20, 2007:       Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
>    June 25-28, 2007:  WORLDCOMP'07
>

>    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
>    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
>    H. R. Arabnia by Mar. 4, 2007 (hra@...).
      All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

>   Academic Sponsors:  Research Labs at MIT, Harvard, Purdue,
>   Univ. of Texas at Austin, and many others..

      The Program Committees includes members of chapters of World Academy
       of Science,  renowned leaders, scholars, researchers,
scientists and practitioners ....
-----------------------------------
Sent by  A. M. G. Solo Publicity Chair, WORLDCOMP'07 Principal/R&D
Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.

EXTENDING COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE MODELLING TO ISSUES OF MULTI-AGENT
INTERACTION (ECM_MAI 2007)

in conjunction with ICAI'07, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (June 25-28, 2007)

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/ICAI07/workshops_sessions

Call for Papers
The fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the social
sciences can together create a better understanding of cognition and social
processes than they can independently of each other. Some efforts in social
sciences, especially social simulations, have evolved an understanding of
social processes in societies independently from the other two fields.
However Sun (2006) among other has shown that there is relation between
individual cognition and social processes. Can this connection be understood
by exploring the relationship between computational cognitive modeling and
social simulation? How is the cognition of a society different from
individual cognition? In this session we will examine
these questions and many more.  We invite submissions of research that
investigate any of the following topics: (1) the relation between individual
and social cognition, (2) multi-agent models that are related to advances in
individual cognition, (3) social simulations that utilize cognitive science
or artificial intelligence techniques, (4) aspects of social cognition that
require modeling, and (5) the integration of cognitive models of learning
into multi-agent
interaction.

  (Sun, R., 2006) Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction, Edited by Ron Sun,
2006, Cambridge University Press.

Submission of Papers
Authors are invited to submit their draft paper (between 5 to 7 pages -
single space, font size of 10 to 12) to Sule Yildirim (suley@...)
or Bill Rand (wrand@...) before the deadline. E-mail
submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable. All reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable. These are general guidelines, if you
would like to submit in a different format please contact the coordinators.
Papers must not have been previously published or current submitted for
publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance authors will be asked to follow the
IEEE style format in preparing their papers for publication (max. 7 pages).
The first page of the submission should include:

-Title of the paper
-Name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and fax
number for each author
-Name of the author who will present the paper should be indicated
-A maximum of five keywords



Session Format


The session will begin with an overview of the topic by the coordinators,
and the peer-reviewed papers will then be orally presented.  If time permits
a wrap-up discussion will take place at the end of the session.


Important Dates
Extended Submission deadline: 20 March, 2007.
Notification of acceptance: 7 April, 2007.
Camera-ready due: 27 April, 2007.
Conference registration deadline: 27 April, 2007.

Conference dates: June 25-28, 2007

See ICAI'07 website for complete details.

Publication
The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in
hardcopy. The proceedings will be available for distribution at the
conference .

Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication (soon
after the conference). All conference proceedings published by CSREA Press
are considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are designed to
provide easy access to the current literature of the sciences (database
examples: ISI Thomson Scientific, IEE INSPEC, DBLP, ...).



Program Committee
Session Chairs

   a.. Sule Yildirim, Hedmark University College
   b.. Bill Rand, Northwestern University
Program Committee

·         Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

·         Tuncer Ören, University of Ottawa

·         Maarten Sierhuis, RIACS/NASA Ames Research Center

·         Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth

·         Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

·         Peter De Souza, Hedmark University College

·         Ashwin Ram, Georgia Tech

·         Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University


Sponsors
    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory, MIT
(Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory, Department
of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin
(Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of Purdue
University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
      - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
      - University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota


    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - HPCwire
      - GRIDtoday
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute (ITI)
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK




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>
>#####################################################################
>          IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2007
>                   CALL FOR PAPERS
>#####################################################################
>
>2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07)
>
>Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007
>http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/
>(to be collocated with IAT'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07)
>
>Sponsored By
>IEEE Computer Society
>Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
>
>######################################################################
># Conference Chair
>#    Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research
>#
># Program Chair and Co-Chairs
>#    T.Y. Lin,        Professor, SJSU, BISC Fellow, UC-Berkeley
>#    Laura Haas,      Director, IBM Almaden Research Center
>#    Janusz Kacprzyk, Professor, Polish Academy of Science
>#    Rajeev Motwani,  Professor, Stanford University
>#
># Organizing Chair
>#    Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center
>#
># WI-IAT Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative)
>#
># Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner,
>#                 VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
># Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
>#
># (More WI Invited Speakers will be announced)
>#
># (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007)
># Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
># by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
>######################################################################
>
>Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for
>scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles
>as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g.,
>knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data
>mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and
>advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks,
>ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on the
>next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and
>activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT
>research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence.
>
>The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
>(WI'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
>Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), the 2007 IEEE
>International Conference on BioInformation and BioMedicine (BIBM'07),
>and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
>(GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas.  It
>will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of
>previous conferences. The four conferences will have a joint opening,
>keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for
>one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across
>the four conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint
>paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas.
>
>+++++++++++++++++++
>Topics of Interest
>+++++++++++++++++++
>
>The topics and areas include, but not limited to:
>
>* WI Foundations
>   - Brain Informatics for WI
>   - Human level WI
>   - New cognitive models and computational models for WI
>   - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI
>   - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI
>
>* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
>   - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
>   - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
>   - Search of Best Means and Ends
>   - Goal-Directed Services Support
>   - Distributed Resources Optimization
>   - Service Self-Aggregation
>   - Web Inference Engine
>   - Information and Knowledge Markets
>   - New Social Interaction Paradigms
>   - Social and Psychological Contexts
>   - Regularities and Laws of W4
>
>* Social Networks and Social Intelligence
>   - Social Network Mining
>   - Web Site Clustering
>   - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
>   - Theories of Small-World Web
>   - Virtual and Web Communities
>   - Web-Based Cooperative Work
>   - Knowledge Community Formation and Support
>   - Ubiquitous Computing
>   - Intelligent Wireless Web
>   - Ubiquitous Learning Systems
>   - Entertainment
>
>* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
>   - Semantic Grids
>   - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
>   - On-Demand Planning and Routing
>   - Brokering and Scheduling
>   - Middleware Architectures and Tools
>
>* Web Mining and Farming
>   - Text Mining
>   - Data Stream Mining
>   - Multimedia Data Mining
>   - Web Content Mining
>   - Web Log and Usage Mining
>   - Learning User Profiles
>   - Context Sensitive Web Mining
>   - Web Information Clustering
>   - Web Page Clustering and Mining
>   - E-Mail Classification
>   - Web Site Classification
>   - Web Information Indexing
>   - Data Warehousing
>   - Web Farming and Warehousing
>
>* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
>   - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
>   - Ontology-Based Web Mining
>   - Web-Based Ontology Learning
>   - Semantic Web
>
>* Web Agents
>   - Global Information Foraging
>   - Distributed Problem Solving
>   - Coordination
>   - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
>   - Self-Organization and Reproduction
>   - Agent Networks and Topologies
>   - Mobile Agents
>   - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
>   - Trust Models for Web Agents
>
>* Web Services
>   - Service-Oriented Computing
>   - Matchmaking
>   - Web Service Reconfiguration
>   - Web Service Workflow Composition
>   - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
>   - Grid Services
>
>* Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
>   - Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
>   - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
>   - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
>   - Hybrid Recommendation
>   - Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations
>   - Web Information Categorization and Ranking
>   - Proxy and Cache Techniques
>   - Web Prediction and Prefetching
>   - Distributed Web Search
>   - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
>   - Web Crawling Systems
>   - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines
>
>* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
>   - Adaptive Web Interfaces
>   - Context-Aware Computing
>   - Learning User Profiles
>   - Personalized Interfaces
>   - Personalized Web Sites
>   - Remembrance Agents
>   - Multimedia Representation
>   - Visualization of Information and Knowledge
>   - Social and Psychological Issues
>
>* Web Support Systems
>   - Information Retrieval Support Systems
>   - Web Site Navigation Support Systems
>   - Recommender Support Systems
>   - Web-Based Decision Support Systems
>   - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
>     evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing)
>     and Uncertainty Management for WI
>
>* Intelligent e-Technology
>   - Business Intelligence
>   - Digital Library
>   - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
>   - e-Community
>   - e-Business and e-Commerce
>   - e-Finance
>   - e-Government
>   - e-Learning
>   - e-Publishing
>   - e-Science
>   - Intelligent Enterprise Portals
>   - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
>   - Web-Based EDI
>   - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>On-Line Submissions and Publication
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited.
>Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the
>IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the
>Author Guidelines of last year at
>http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/wi06.xml).
>All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee
>on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
>
>Note that WI'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
>PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'07
>website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
>conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are
>indexed by EI.
>
>Regular papers - 7 pages in the proceedings
>Short papers -  4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter
>presentation time at
>the conference.
>
>A selected number of WI'07 accepted papers will be expanded and
>revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An
>International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in
>Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
>(http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html).
>
>More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
>found from the WI'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/.
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>WI'07 Best Paper Awards
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
>authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
>paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
>best application paper award. The full author list and paper title
>will be announced on the
>Web Intelligence Consortium
>homepage:  http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html
>
>++++++++++++++++++++
>Industry/Demo-Track
>++++++++++++++++++++
>
>We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.
>
>(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
>     the research track.
>(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
>(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
>     That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
>     specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
>     demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
>     process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.
>
>For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at
>the homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/
>
>We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of
>November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with
>the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley
>will be invited to attend this track.
>
>++++++++++
>Workshops
>++++++++++
>
>As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will
>focus on new research challenges and initiatives.  All papers accepted
>for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
>by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be
>available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the
>conference homepage.
>
>http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/.
>
>++++++++++
>Tutorials
>++++++++++
>
>WI'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'07 will include tutorials
>providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
>to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
>day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
>main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
>at the conference homepage.
>
>Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
>(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
>
>++++++++++++++++
>Important Dates
>++++++++++++++++
>
>Workshop proposal submission:           March 20, 2007
>Electronic submission of full papers:   ** June 1, 2007 **
>Tutorial proposal submission:           June 15, 2007
>Notification of paper acceptance:       July 22, 2007
>Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007
>Conference:                             November 2-5, 2007
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Conference Organization
>++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Conference Chair:
>   * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
>
>Program Chair:
>   * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA
>
>WI Program Co-Chairs:
>   * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
>   * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
>   * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA
>
>IAT Program Co-Chairs:
>   * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
>   * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
>   * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
>
>Organizing Chair:
>   * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
>
>Workshop Co-Chairs:
>   * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
>   * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
>
>Tutorial Chair:
>   * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
>
>Industry/Demo-Track Chair:
>   * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
>
>Local Accommodations Co-Chairs:
>   * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA
>   * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA
>
>Publicity Chair:
>   * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair)
>Publicity Co-Chairs:
>   * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
>   * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China
>   * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India
>
>IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>
>ACM-SIGART Chair
>  * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
>
>WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
>  * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
>  * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada
>
>WIC Advisory Board:
>  * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
>  * Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
>  * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
>  * Philip Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
>  * L.A. Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA
>
>WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
>  * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
>  * Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada
>  * Dieter Fensel, National University of Ireland, Ireland
>  * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
>  * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
>  * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
>  * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
>  * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
>  * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
>  * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
>  * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan
>  * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
>  * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
>
>Webmaster:
>  * Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA
>
>*** Contact Information ***
>
>Jia Hu
>International WIC Institute, China
>E-mail: hujia@...

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         IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2007
                  CALL FOR PAPERS
#####################################################################

2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07)

Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/
(to be collocated with WI'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07)

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

#####################################################################
# Conference Chair
#    Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research
#
# Program Chair and Co-Chairs   
#    T.Y. Lin,            San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA
#    Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
#    Matthias Klusch,     German Research Center for AI, Germany
#    Chengqi Zhang,       University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
#
# Organizing Chair      
#    Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center
#
# IAT-WI Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative)
#
# Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner,
#                 VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
# Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
#
# (More IAT Invited Speakers will be announced)
#
# (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007)
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
######################################################################

The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), the 2007 IEEE
International Conference on BioInformation and BioMedicine (BIBM'07),
and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing
(GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas.  It
will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of
previous conferences. The four conferences will have a joint opening,
keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for
one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across
the four conferences.  We are also planning a joint panel and joint
paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas.

IAT 2007 provides a leading international forum to bring together
researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
science, information technology, business, education, human factors,
systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design
principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in
intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization
of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent
systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and
discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and
sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of
intelligent agents, IAT 2007 will foster the development of novel
paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.

+++++++++++
Highlights
+++++++++++

The conference will be held in Silicon Valley, California. Many
high-tech companies and three distinguished universities (Stanford, UC
Berkely and UCSC) are just around the corner. The highlight of the
conference is that a unique forum consisting of a half-day demo
session and free discussion will be organized to link industries and
academics. Leading IT companies like IBM, Google, and Yahoo etc will
present at the conference.

The area now known as Silicon Valley has been a center of
technological development since the 1950's. The name Silicon Valley
stems from the early 1970's, when the area had become the center for
many semiconductor companies. While still hosting semiconductor and
microprocessor companies, the region now hosts the headquarters of
high tech companies of every kind, including many of the best known
and most prestigious names in personal computers, Web search, Internet
auctions, networking, storage, databases, etc.

+++++++++++++++++++
Topics of Interest
+++++++++++++++++++

The topics and areas include, but not limited to:

* Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
  - Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development
  - Agent-Based Simulation
  - Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods
  - Behavioral Self-Organization
  - Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering
  - Emergent Behavior
  - Hard Computational Problem Solving
  - Nature-Inspired Paradigms
  - Self-Organized Criticality
  - Self-Organized Intelligence
  - Swarm Intelligence

* Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
  - Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining
  - Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing
  - Autonomous Information Services
  - Distributed Knowledge Systems
  - Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems
  - Evolution of Knowledge Networks
  - Human-Agent Interaction
  - Information Filtering Agents
  - Knowledge Aggregation
  - Knowledge Discovery
  - Ontology-Based Information Services

* Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
  - Agent Interaction Protocols
  - Cognitive Architectures
  - Cognitive Modeling of Agents
  - Emotional Modeling
  - Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems
  - Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
  - Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems
  - Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
  - Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols
  - Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
  - Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
  - Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning
  - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
  - Reinforcement Learning
  - Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
  - Task-Based Agent Context
  - Task-Oriented Agents

* Distributed Problem Solving
  - Agent-Based Grid Computing
  - Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
  - Collective Group Behavior
  - Coordination and Cooperation
  - Distributed Intelligence
  - Distributed Search
  - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
  - Efficiency and Complexity Issues
  - Market-Based Computing
  - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments
 
* Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
  - Agent-Based Marketplaces
  - Auction Markets
  - Combinatorial Auctions
  - Hybrid Negotiation
  - Integrative Negotiation
  - Mediating Agents
  - Pricing Agents
  - Thin Double Auctions

* Applications
  - Agent-Based Assistants
  - Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
  - Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
  - Interface Agents
  - Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
  - Perceptive Animated Interfaces
  - Scalability
  - Social Simulation
  - Socially Situated Planning
  - Software and Pervasive Agents
  - Tools and Standards
  - Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents
  - Ubiquitous Software Services
  - Virtual Humans
  - XML-Based Agent Systems

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On-Line Submissions and Publication
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited.
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the
IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the
Author Guidelines of last year at
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/iat06.xml).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on
the basis of technical quality,  relevance, significance, and clarity.

Note that IAT'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'07
website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are
indexed by EI.

Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the
proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference.
Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
the conference than regular papers.

All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission,
notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
at least one author should attend the conference to present the
paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a
notification.

A selected number of IAT'07 accepted papers will be expanded and
revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An
International Journal ( http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in
Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
( http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html)

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the IAT'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++
IAT'07 Best Paper Awards
+++++++++++++++++++++++++

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award.

The full author list and paper title will be announced on the
Web Intelligence Consortium homepage:
http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html

++++++++++++++++++++
Industry/Demo-Track
++++++++++++++++++++

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
    the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
    That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
    specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
    demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
    process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at
the homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/

We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of
November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with
the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley
will be invited to attend this track.

++++++++++
Workshops
++++++++++

As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will
focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted
for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be
available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the
conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

For more information, please visit the conference website at
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/.

++++++++++
Tutorials
++++++++++

IAT'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'07 will include
tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad
interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and
long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be
part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information
is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

++++++++++++++++
Important Dates
++++++++++++++++

Workshop proposal submission:           March 20, 2007
Electronic submission of full papers:   ** June 1, 2007 **
Tutorial proposal submission:           June 15, 2007
Notification of paper acceptance:       July 22, 2007
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007
Conference:                             November 2-5, 2007

++++++++++++++++++++++++
Conference Organization
++++++++++++++++++++++++

Conference Chair:
  * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA

Program Chair:
  * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA

IAT Program Co-Chairs:
  * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
  * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
  * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

WI Program Co-Chairs:
  * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
  * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA

Organizing Chair:
  * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

Workshop Co-Chairs:
  * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
  * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Tutorial Chair:
  * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada

Industry/Demo-Track Chair:
  * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA

Local Accommodations Co-Chairs:
  * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA
  * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA

Publicity Chair:
  * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair)
Publicity Co-Chairs:
  * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
  * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China
  * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India

IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

ACM-SIGART Chair
 * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada

WIC Advisory Board:
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, National University of Ireland, Ireland
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Webmaster:
 * Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA

*** Contact Information ***

Jia Hu
International WIC Institute, China
E-mail: hujia@...

********************************************************
***   NN3 Neural Networks Forecasting Competition    ***
********************************************************

The 2006-2007 Forecasting competition for Neural Networks and Computational
Intelligence Methods has started!
Please visit the NN3 website at
http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/ for further instructions.

*********************************************************
Objectives
*********************************************************
Forecast a set of 11 or 111 time series as accurately as possible, using
methods from computational intelligence and a consistent methodology. We
hope to evaluate progress in modelling neural networks for forecasting & to
disseminate knowledge on "best practices". The competition is for academic
purposes and supported by a grant from SAS & the International Institute of
Forecasters (IIF).

*********************************************************
Methods
*********************************************************
The prediction competition is open to all methods of computational
intelligence, incl. feed-forward and recurrent neural networks, fuzzy
predictors, decision & regression tress, support vector regression, hybrid
approaches etc. used in financial forecasting, statistical prediction, time
series analysis

*********************************************************
Publication of Results
*********************************************************
The results will be presented at various conferences in 2007. All those
submitting predictions will be invited to participate in Events at ISF'07,
New York, IJCNN'07, Orlando (pending), DMIN'07, Las Vegas (pending) and
LUMS'07, Manchester, and submit papers to those special sessions. All
submissions will invited for a full publication in an edited book "Advances
of Neural Forecasting", Springer (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed), subject to
acceptance (pending). The most successful authors will be invited for a
joint submission to the highly acclaimed International Journal of
Forecasting (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed).

*********************************************************
Dates & deadlines
*********************************************************
20 October 2006 Publication of reduced & complete dataset
May 2007        Prediction submissions due
June&July 2007  Publication of preliminary results at various conferences in
USA, UK etc
August 2007     Submissions to full publications

GOOD LUCK!

Sven F. Crone & Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

_____________________________________________________
Sven F. Crone
Deputy Director, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting
Lecturer (Ass. Prof.), Department of Management Science
Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster LA1 4YX
United Kingdom
Internet http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk
eMail    sven.crone@...
_______________________________________________




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Call For Papers - Deadline:  May 1, 2007

                            WORLDCOMP'07
             The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

          Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA
          http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws

You are invited to submit a paper (see instructions below).

WORLDCOMP'07 is composed of a number of tracks (joint conferences, tutorials,
and workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates:
June 25-28, 2007.  See http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws
for the complete list of joint conferences.

This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition of the
conference proceedings.  All papers submitted in response to this announcement
will be evaluated for publication in the Final Edition of the proceedings,
which will go to press soon after the conference.  This announcement is ONLY
for those who missed the opportunity to submit their papers in response to
earlier announcements (authors who have already been notified that their
papers have been accepted or not accepted should ignore this announcement.)

Important Dates:

    May 1, 2007:       Submission of full/draft papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    May 20, 2007:      Notification of acceptance/rejection
    June 1, 2007:      Registration
    June 25-28, 2007:  WORLDCOMP'07 Congress
    July 10, 2007:     Camera-Ready Papers Due

Academic Sponsors (partial list):

    - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
      MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
      Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
      Massachusetts)
    - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
      Austin (Austin, Texas)
    - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
      Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
    - Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics of
      Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (Indiana)
    - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
    - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
      Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
    - University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota)

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (no more than 8
    pages, single spaced and font size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable
    typesetting formats are acceptable) to:   hra@...

    Authors should write the following in the subject header of their email:
        "Submission to Final Edition of Proceedings" + name of conference.

    Papers should be attached to emails and must be either in Word Doc or PDF
    formats.

    Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the paper should include the title
    of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
    author.  The first page should also include the name of the conference the
    paper is being submitted to (the list of conferences appears below).
    Accepted papers will be published in the final edition of the respective
    proceedings/books.

    All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the
    topical area.

    The authors of accepted papers will later be asked to follow particular
    typing instructions to prepare their final paper for publication.

List of Conferences:

      o Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
(PDPTA'07)
      o Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'07)
      o Computer Design (CDES'07)
      o Scientific Computing (CSC'07)
      o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07)
      o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07)
      o Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'07)
      o Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07)
      o Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'07)
      o Wireless Networks (ICWN'07)
      o Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07)
      o Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'07)
      o Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'07)
      o Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA'07)
      o Internet Computing (ICOMP'07)
      o Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'07)
      o Security and Management (SAM'07)
      o Data Mining (DMIN'07)
      o Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07)
      o e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, & e-Government
(EEE'07)
      o Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'07)
      o Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'07)
      o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'07)
      o Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'07)
      o Communications in Computing (CIC'7)

Keynote Lectures: (this is a partial list)

o. Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
    University of California, Berkeley, USA
    Humans in Real and Virtual Space

o. Prof. John H. Holland
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
    Innovation

o. Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
    Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Human Genome and Competitive
    Genomes, Past, Future, and the Impact on the Science and Medicine

o. Prof. A. K. Dunker
    Indiana University and Purdue University, USA
    Protein Intrinsic Disorder, Cell Signaling, Drug Discovery, and
    Alternative Splicing

o. Prof. Jun Liu
    MIT and Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    Unraveling the Mystery of How Genes are Turned on and off Using
    Various Statistical and Computer Techniques

o. Steve Leibson
    Tensilica, Inc.
    Challenges in Consumer Electronics for 21st Century

Partial list of planned tutorials appears below (tutorial attendance is
free to registered attendees of worldcomp and all its associated conferences):

o. Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed
    Computing Systems
    Prof. H. J. Siegel
    Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS,
    Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC)
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
    Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
    Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Introduction to Uncertainty and Fuzzy Logic with Data Mining
    Applications
    Ashu M. G. Solo
    Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (5:00pm - 6:00pm)

o. Real-Time Image and Video Processing: From Research to Reality
    Prof. Nasser Kehtarnavaz
    University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Moving On, Moving Online That Is: An Introduction to Teaching Online
    Dr. Michael L. Nelson
    School of Technology Graduate Program Director
    International College, Ft. Myers, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Computational Challenges in RNAi Gene Silencing
    Amanda Birmingham
    Dharmacon, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bioinformatics Manager, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Introduction to Game Programming
    Lakshmi Prayaga
    University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Factor Graphs for Advanced Algorithm Design in Wireless Communications
    Dr. Henk Wymeersch
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Data Mining in Time Series and Multimedia Databases
    Dr. Eamonn Keogh
    University of California - Riverside, California, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007
    Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

o. Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and C++)
    Prof. Ray Kresman
    Bowling Green State University, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Mobile Terminal Software Architecture - Present and Future
    S. Vijay Anand
    General Manager, SASKEN Communication Technologies Limited - CTO Team, India
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

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***   NN3 Neural Networks Forecasting Competition    ***
********************************************************

The 2006-2007 Forecasting Competition for Neural Networks and Computational
Intelligence Methods has started!
Please visit the NN3 website at
http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/ for further instructions.

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Objectives
*********************************************************
Forecast a set of 11 or 111 time series as accurately as possible, using
methods from computational intelligence and a consistent methodology. We
hope to evaluate progress in modelling neural networks for forecasting & to
disseminate knowledge on "best practices". The competition is for academic
purposes and supported by a grant from SAS & the International Institute of
Forecasters (IIF).

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Methods
*********************************************************
The prediction competition is open to all methods of computational
intelligence, incl. feed-forward and recurrent neural networks, fuzzy
predictors, decision & regression tress, support vector regression, hybrid
approaches etc. used in financial forecasting, statistical prediction, time
series analysis

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Publication of Results
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The results will be presented at various conferences in 2007. All those
submitting predictions will be invited to participate in Events at ISF'07,
New York, IJCNN'07, Orlando (pending), DMIN'07, Las Vegas (pending) and
LUMS'07, Manchester, and submit papers to those special sessions. All
submissions will invited for a full publication in an edited book "Advances
of Neural Forecasting", Springer (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed), subject to
acceptance (pending). The most successful authors will be invited for a
joint submission to the highly acclaimed International Journal of
Forecasting (ISI SCI, DBLP etc. indexed).

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Dates & deadlines
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20 October 2006 Publication of reduced & complete dataset
14 May 2007     Prediction submissions due
June&July 2007  Publication of preliminary results at various conferences in
USA, UK etc
August 2007     Submissions to full publications

GOOD LUCK!

Sven F. Crone & Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

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Sven F. Crone
Deputy Director, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting
Lecturer (Ass. Prof.), Department of Management Science
Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster LA1 4YX
United Kingdom
Internet http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk
eMail    sven.crone@...
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who might be interested.

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, WORLDCOMP'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
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                        Call For Participation

                            WORLDCOMP'07
             The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

          Date and Location: June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA
          http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws

This is an invitation to attend WORLDCOMP'07 Congress.  WORLDCOMP'07 is
composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, and
workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates:
June 25-28, 2007.  Attendees will have full access to all conferences'
sessions, tracks, and tutorials.  See below for: the complete list of
joint-conferences, list of sponsors, registration information, hotel
information, and some highlights.

LIST OF JOINT-CONFERENCES:

    o Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'07)
    o Grid Computing & Applications (GCA'07)
    o Computer Design (CDES'07)
    o Scientific Computing (CSC'07)
    o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07)
    o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07)
    o Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'07)
    o Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07)
    o Software Engineering Research & Practice (SERP'07)
    o Wireless Networks (ICWN'07)
    o Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07)
    o Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV'07)
    o Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR'07)
    o Multimedia Systems & Applications (MSA'07)
    o Internet Computing (ICOMP'07)
    o Semantic Web & Web Services (SWWS'07)
    o Security & Management (SAM'07)
    o Data Mining (DMIN'07)
    o Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07)
    o e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Inf. Sys., & e-Government (EEE'07)
    o Embedded Systems & Applications (ESA'07)
    o Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Eng. (FECS'07)
    o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'07)
    o Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms (ERSA'07)
    o Communications in Computing (CIC'7)

SPONSORS: (partial list)

    Academic Co-Sponsors include:
    - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
      MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
      Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
      Massachusetts)
    - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
      Austin (Austin, Texas)
    - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
      Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
    - Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics of
      Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (Indiana)
    - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
    - BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory
      (Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Georgia)
    - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
      Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
    - University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota)

    Corporate Sponsors include:
    - Google, Inc., USA
    - Intel Corporation, USA

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

    To attend the congress, use the following online registration link:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/registration
    The complete WORLDCOMP'07 schedule will be available at the following
    site in early June:
    http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws/program

HOTEL RESERVATION:

    You are to reserve your hotel room directly by calling Monte
    Carlo Resort at 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777. Make sure that
    you mention the Group Code "XWRLD" (XWRLD is the keyword that the
    hotel will use to handle the reserved block of rooms for the Congress).
    You should reserve your room as soon as possible since our block is
    very close to being fully booked.  The negotiated room rate is $79
    + tax per night for the duration of the conference.  However, at
    this point only a very few rooms are available for reservation.
    So, if you were unable to get a room at this hotel, then you should
    try other nearby hotels.

KEYNOTE LECTURES: (this is only a partial list)

o. Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
    University of California, Berkeley, USA
    Humans in Real and Virtual Space

o. Prof. John H. Holland
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
    Innovation

o. Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
    Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Human Genome and Competitive
    Genomes, Past, Future, and the Impact on the Science and Medicine

o. Prof. A. K. Dunker
    Indiana University and Purdue University, USA
    Protein Intrinsic Disorder, Cell Signaling, Drug Discovery, and
    Alternative Splicing

o. Prof. Jun Liu
    MIT and Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    Unraveling the Mystery of How Genes are Turned on and off Using
    Various Statistical and Computer Techniques

o. Prof. Joydeep Ghosh
    University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
    Schlumberger Distinguished Centennial Chair Professor
    Simultaneous Clustering and Modeling for Large Scale Data Mining Applications

o. Steve Leibson
    Tensilica, Inc.
    Challenges in Consumer Electronics for 21st Century

o. Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna
    University of Southern California, USA
    Scientific Computing Using Reconfigurable Hardware

PARTIAL LIST OF PLANNED TUTORIALS appears below (tutorial attendance is
free to registered attendees of worldcomp and all its associated conferences):

o. Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed
    Computing Systems
    Prof. H. J. Siegel
    Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS,
    Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC)
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
    Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
    Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Applications
    Prof. Patrick Wang, IAPR Fellow
    Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Introduction to Uncertainty and Fuzzy Logic with Data Mining
    Applications
    Ashu M. G. Solo
    Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (5:00pm - 6:00pm)

o. Systems Biology in present day Bioinformatics: Tools, Tricks,
    Ticks and Traps
    Prashanth Suravajhala
    Roskilde University, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark

o. Real-Time Image and Video Processing: From Research to Reality
    Prof. Nasser Kehtarnavaz
    University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Moving On, Moving Online That Is: An Introduction to Teaching Online
    Dr. Michael L. Nelson
    School of Technology Graduate Program Director
    International College, Ft. Myers, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Computational Challenges in RNAi Gene Silencing
    Amanda Birmingham
    Dharmacon, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bioinformatics Manager, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Introduction to Game Programming
    Lakshmi Prayaga
    University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Factor Graphs for Advanced Algorithm Design in Wireless Communications
    Dr. Henk Wymeersch
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Data Mining in Time Series and Multimedia Databases
    Dr. Eamonn Keogh
    University of California - Riverside, California, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007
    Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

o. Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and C++)
    Prof. Ray Kresman
    Bowling Green State University, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Mobile Terminal Software Architecture - Present and Future
    S. Vijay Anand
    General Manager, SASKEN Communication Technologies Limited - CTO Team, India
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)



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