>
>Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 08:12:10 -0800 (PST)
>Subject: [ICAPS] CfP: 3rd Workshop on Heuristics for
>Domain-independent Planning
>From: Michael Katz <ctpelok@...>
>
>[Apologies if you receive this CFP multiple times]
>
>====================================================================
>                      SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
>          3rd Workshop on Heuristics for Domain-independent Planning,
>ICAPS 2011
>                       Freiburg, Germany
>                       June 12th or 13th, 2011
>            http://icaps11.icaps-conference.org/workshops/hdip.html
>
>
>Motivation and Goals:
>=====================
>
>The automatic derivation of heuristic estimators to guide the search
>has become one of the main approaches in domain-independent planning.
>The approach works: very large problems, with many state variables and
>operators can be solved in this way, that could not be solved before,
>and the approach appears to scale up better than others.
>
>The workshop on heuristics for domain-independent planning so far took
>place in conjunction with ICAPS 2007 and ICAPS 2009, and was very
>successful both times. Many ideas presented at these workshops have
>led to contributions at major conferences and pushed the frontier of
>research on heuristic planning in several directions, both
>theoretically and practically. The workshops, as well as work on
>heuristic search that has been published since then, have also shown
>that there are many exciting open research opportunities in this area.
>Given the considerable success of the past workshops, we would like to
>continue holding it biennially.
>
>We look for contributions that would help us understand better the
>ideas underlying current heuristics, their limitations, and the ways
>for overcoming them. Contributions do not have to show that a new
>heuristic or new variation of a known heuristic 'beats the
>competition'. Above all we seek crisp and meaningful ideas and
>understanding. Also, rather than merely being interested in the
>'largest' problems that current heuristic search planners can solve,
>we are equally interested in the simplest problems that they can't
>actually solve well.
>
>The workshop series, while having originated mainly in classical
>planning, is very much open to new ideas on heuristic schemes for more
>general settings, such as temporal planning, planning under
>uncertainty and adversarial planning. We also explicitly wish to
>encourage submission of works, such as machine learning of heuristic
>functions, that diverge from the wide-spread approach deriving
>heuristic values by solving relaxations/abstractions of the problem at
>hand.
>
>
>Paper Formats Solicited:
>=====================
>
>We welcome technical papers as well as position statements. Papers
>mixing these two aspects are welcome, too. We particularly welcome
>descriptions of open problems, approaches that didn't turn out to
>perform as expected, or problems that existing techniques do not
>handle well -- provided in each case that there is something the
>heuristic search planning community can learn from the presented
>observation. The papers should be formatted in AAAI style, and range
>between 2 and 6 pages. See
>http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php for
>formatting instructions. Submission will be handled via our EasyChair
>site at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hdip11 .
>
>As the workshop is not an archival conference, multiple submissions
>are permitted.  Work that is a strict subset of that recently
>previously published in an archival journal should be presented as a
>short position statement.
>
>Papers that are currently under review in other conferences or
>journals
>must be formatted for BLIND review with NO author or affiliation
>information listed.
>
>
>Workshop Format:
>=====================
>
>The workshop is planned to be a full 1-day format, but the precise
>format is to be decided as a function of the contributions received.
>We strive to have two types of presentations: long and short (15-20
>and 5-10 minutes), and if appropriate a discussion session where the
>audience members are encouraged to participate.
>
>
>Important Dates:
>=====================
>* Submission Deadline: March 18th, 2011
>* Notification: April 15th, 2011
>* Workshop: June 12th or 13th, 2011
>
>
>Organizers:
>=====================
>
>* Alan Fern
>   Oregon State University, OR, USA
>   afern (at) eecs.oregonstate.edu
>
>* Patrik Haslum
>   NICTA and ANU, Canberra, Australia
>   patrik.haslum (at) anu.edu.au
>
>* Joerg Hoffmann
>   INRIA, Nancy, France
>   joerg.hoffmann (at) loria.fr
>
>* Michael Katz
>   Technion, Israel
>   mkatz (at) technion.ac.il
>
>
>Program Committee:
>=====================
>* J. Benton, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
>* Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
>* Adele Howe, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
>* Derek Long, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
>* Wheeler Ruml, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
>* Vincent Vidal, ONERA, France
>* Sungwook Yoon, PARC, Palo Alto, CA, USA
>* Erez Karpas, Technion, Israel
>
>For more options, visit this group at
>http://groups.google.com/group/icaps-conference

 
                       CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                             and
              Call For Workshop/Session Proposals
 
                            DMIN'11
       The 2011 International Conference on Data Mining
 
           Date and Location: July 18-21, 2011
      Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
 
                   http://www.dmin--2011.com
               http://www.world-academy-of-science.org
 
 
******************************************************************
*** EXTENDED DEADLINE for Submission of Papers: March 24, 2011 ***
******************************************************************
 
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the DMIN conference
proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will
also be accessible online). Those interested in proposing
workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that
appear below.
 
 
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
   + 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
 
   + Data Mining Applications
     - Bioinformatics/Medicine
     - Business/Industrial
     - Engineering
     - Military/Security
     - Social science
     - Others
 
   + Data Mining Software
     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 stringer into consideration.
 
   + Alternative and additional examples of possible topics include:
     Data Mining for Business Intelligence; Emerging technologies in data
     mining; Computational performance issues in data mining; Data mining
     in usability; Advanced prediction modelling using data mining; Data
     mining and national security; Data mining tools; Data analysis;
     Data preparation techniques (selection, transformation, and
     preprocessing); Information extraction methodologies; Clustering
     algorithms used in data mining; Genetic algorithms and categorization
     techniques used in data mining; Data and information integration;
     Microarray design and analysis; Privacy-preserving data mining; Active
     data mining; Statistical methods used in data mining; Multidimensional
     data; Automatic data cleaning; Data visualization; Theory and practice
     (knowledge representation and discovery); Knowledge Discovery in
     Databases (KDD); Uncertainty management; Data reduction methods; Data
     engineering; Content mining; Indexing schemes; Information retrieval;
     Metadata use and management; Multidimensional query languages and
     query; Multimedia information systems; Search engine query processing;
     Pattern mining; Applications (examples: data mining in education,
     marketing, finance and financial services, business applications,
     medicine, bioinformatics, biological sciences, science and technology,
     industry and government, ...).
 
       
SPECIAL SESSIONS
================
All special sessions and workshops are open to attendees of all conferences
held at WORLDCOMP'11.
 
DMIN'11 will be hosting the following special session –
please see http://www.dmin--2011.com/special_sessions.htm for details:
 
Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives
Chair: Mahmoud Abou-Nasr
 
It is planned to publish a special issue consisting of extended papers
on real world data mining applications within Annals of Information Systems
(Springer). Details will be published later on the DMIN'11 website as well
as via a dedicated CfP.
 
TUTORIALS AND INVITED TALKS
===========================
All tutorials and invited talks are free to registered conference attendees
of all conferences held at WOLDCOMP'11. Those who are interested in attending
one or more of the tutorials are to sign up on site at the conference
registration desk in Las Vegas. A complete & current list of
WORLDCOMP Tutorials can be found via
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/tutorials.
 
DMIN'11 will host the following tutorials/invited talks:
  1. Gary M. Weiss, Fordham University, USA  
     Tutorial on: Wireless and Smart Phone-Based Sensor Data Mining
  2. Michael Mahoney, Stanford University, USA
     Tutorial on: Geometric Tools for Identifying Structure
                  in Large Social and Information Networks
  3. Nitesh V. Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA
     Invited Talk
  4. Peter Geczy, AIST, Japan
     Invited Talk: Data Mining and Privacy: Water and Fire?
 
Please visit http://www.dmin--2011.com/tutorials.htm for details
 
 
USEFUL WEB LINKS:
=================
To see the DBLP list of accepted papers of DMIN'10, go to
http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/dmin/dmin2010.html.
 
The main web site of DMIN'11 can be found at http://www.dmin--2011.com.
 
The web site of WORLDCOMP'11 can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/.
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES:
================
!EXTENDED DEADLINE!
March 24, 2011:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
 
April 12, 2011:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 24, 2011:    Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 18-21, 2011:  The 2011 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'11)
 
 
ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:
=====================
Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of DMIN'10 included
research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list):
University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California;
University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia;
Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota;
Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota;
University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green
Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria;
SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples
Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute
for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and
Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International
Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); The International
Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical
School & the American College of Surgeons, USA.
 
 
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
=====================
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
them according to the instructions provided on the DMIN website via
http://www.dmin--2011.com/submission.htm . Please follow the
formatting and uploading instructions (different to practice at some
other WORLDCOMP'11 conferences).
Submissions must be uploaded by March 24, 2011. Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere.
 
The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.
 
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases
of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference
programme committee will be charged to make the final decision
(accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from
additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In
addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will
not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).
 
All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology,
DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings
will be available for distribution on site at the conference.
 
In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers for publication in a number of research books being
proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer,
Elsevier, ...) - these books would be composed after the
conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will
be forming journal special issues to be published after the
conference.
 
 
MEMBERS OF PROGRAMME AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
===============================================
The members of the Steering Committee of The 2010 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA);
Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia;
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer;
Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung
Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication;
Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society;
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE
Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP,
Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting
Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
(Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported
AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow,
NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE
Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director,
BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA).
The list of Programme Committee of DMIN'10 appears at:
http://www.dmin-2010.com/committees.htm
 
The DMIN'11 programme committee is currently being compiled.
Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders,
scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest
ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National
Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs
of departments, program directors of research funding agencies,
deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy
of Science. Programme Committee members have established a strong
and documented research track record.
 
 
GENERAL INFORMATION:
====================
The DMIN conference is being held jointly (same location and dates)
with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing. It is anticipated
to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries.
 
WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known
as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster
(known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL),
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley),
Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System,
xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer,
U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate
Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789
 
An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform
for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress
makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with
diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations,
government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the
world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from
institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those
who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their
main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its
institution and geography diversity objectives."
 
One main goal of the congress 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. This model facilitates communication among researchers in
different branches of computer science, computer engineering,
and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary
and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating
increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.
 
 
NEWS:
=====
Thanks to authors and speakers of last WORLDCOMP congress and members
of the editorial boards who informed us of the following good news:
According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative)
all tracks of WORLDCOMP are listed as worldwide "Top-ranked
Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the
number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" and
specific information extracted from it (in reference to WORLDCOMP's
individual conferences' names/acronyms and tracks) from the link
below:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp10/ws/news
 
 
COMMITTEE/ORGANIZATION
======================
 
Robert Stahlbock
General Conference Chair
conference-chair@dmin--2011.com
 
Philippe Lenca, Gary M. Weiss
Tutorial Chair, Special Session Chair
tutorial-chair@dmin--2011.com
special-session-chair@dmin--2011.com
 
Nikolaos Kourentzes
Programme Chair, Student Chair
programme-chair@dmin--2011.com
student-chair@dmin--2011.com 
 
Wolfram Lippe
Exhibit Chair
exhibits-chair@dmin--2011.com

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:31:19 -0300
From: Tiago Stegun Vaquero <tiago.vaquero@...>
To: planning-list@googlegroups.com, icaps-conference@googlegroups.com,
         planetkr@...

==============================================================
                                          CALL FOR PAPERS
                      ICAPS 2011 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering
                               for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS)

                    Freiburg, Germany, June 11-16, 2011 during ICAPS'11
                  http://icaps11.icaps-conference.org/workshops/keps.html
==============================================================

Despite the progress in automated planning and scheduling systems, these systems
still need to be fed by careful problem description and they need to be fine
tuned for particular domains or problems. Knowledge engineering for AI planning
and scheduling deals with the acquisition, design, validation and maintenance of
domain models, and the selection and optimization of appropriate machinery to
work on them. These processes impact directly on the success of real planning
and scheduling applications. The importance of knowledge engineering techniques
is clearly demonstrated by a performance gap between domain-independent planners
and planners exploiting domain dependent knowledge.

The KEPS workshop attracts audience interested in bridging the above-described
gap between real-life problems and planning and scheduling algorithms. Its
topics include domain and problem formulations, languages, knowledge acquisition
(e.g. control rules), visualization, validation and analysis of plans/domains,
problem (re)formulation etc.

We seek original papers ranging from experience reports to the description of
new technology in the following areas:

 * formulation of domains and problem descriptions
 * methods and tools for the acquisition of domain knowledge
 * pre- and post-processing techniques for planners and schedulers
 * acquisition and refinement of control knowledge
 * formal languages for domain description
 * re-use of domain knowledge
 * translators from other application-area-specific languages to solver-ready
   domain models (such as PDDL)
 * formats for specification of heuristics, parameters and control knowledge for
   solvers
 * import of domain knowledge from general ontologies
 * ontologies for describing the capabilities of planners and schedulers
 * automated reformulation of problems
 * automated knowledge extraction processes
 * domain model, problem and plan validation
 * visualization methods for domain models, search spaces and plans
 * mapping domain properties and planning techniques
 * plan representation and reuse
 * knowledge engineering aspects of plan analysis


Submission Procedure:

Two types of papers can be submitted. Full technical papers with the length up
to 8 pages are standard research papers. Short application papers with the
length up to 2 pages describe a particular system or application. The papers
will be presented at different sessions; the technical papers will have a
standard presentation format with commentary, while the application papers will
be presented in a dedicated session as a system demonstration (similar to ICKEPS
system demo or ICAPS application showcase). All papers should conform to the
AAAI style template ( http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). The
papers must be submitted in a PDF format via EasyChair system
( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=keps2011). Submissions will be
reviewed by at least two referees.


Important Dates:

 * Submission deadline: Friday, March 18, 2011
 * Notification: Friday, April 15, 2011
 * Final date for camera-ready copy: TBA
 * Workshop dates: June 12th or 13th, 2011


Organizers:

Roman Barták
Charles University, Czech Republic
roman.bartak@...

Simone Fratini
ISTC-CNR, Italy
simone.fratini@...

Lee McCluskey
University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
t.l.mccluskey@...

Tiago Stegun Vaquero
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
tiago.vaquero@...

--

Dear Colleagues:

Please share the announcement below with those who may be interested.
We anticipate having about 2,100 attendees.
Thank you, Organizing Committee
------------
                     CALL  FOR  PAPERS
        ===========================================
          Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2011

                       WORLDCOMP'11
        The 2011 World Congress in Computer Science,
        Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
              July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA

         http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
        ===========================================

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The
proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for
Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and
others.) In the past, all tracks of WORLDCOMP have also been included
in EI Compendex/Elsevier. Like prior years, extended versions of selected
papers will appear in journals and edited research books (a large number
of book projects and journal special issues are in the pipeline:
Springer, Elsevier, BMC journals, ...)

WORLDCOMP'11 is composed of the following main tracks (each includes,
research paper presentations, invited presentations, keynote lectures,
tutorials, workshops, and panel discussions); all tracks will be held
simultaneously, same location and dates: July 18-21, 2011:

o Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'11)
o Computer Design (CDES'11)
o Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'11)
o Scientific Computing (CSC'11)
o Data Mining (DMIN'11)
o e-Learning, e-Business, EIS, & e-Government (EEE'11)
o Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'11)
o Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'11)
o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'11)
o Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'11)
o Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'11)
o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'11)
o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'11)
o Internet Computing (ICOMP'11)
o Wireless Networks (ICWN'11)
o Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'11)
o Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'11)
o Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'11)
o Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'11)
o Security and Management (SAM'11)
o Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'11)
o Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'11)

A link to each of the above can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 31, 2011:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 20, 2011:    Notification of acceptance (+/- 6 days)
May 7, 2011:       Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 18-21, 2011:  WORLDCOMP 2011 and all its affiliated conferences

Those who have submitted papers during the month of February will
receive the decision on their papers by the end of March 2011.


ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering
of WORLDCOMP (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated
with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University
of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology,
Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota;
University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green
Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria;
SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples
Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute
for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and
Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International
Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM:28775); The
International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern
Virginia Medical School & the American College of Surgeons, USA.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
them to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March 31, 2011 and they must be
in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7
pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to
prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper,
name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact
Author 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 for consideration
must be stated on the first page.

The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases
of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference
program committee will be charged to make the final decision
(accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from
additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In
addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will
not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology,
DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. In the past, all tracks of
WORLDCOMP have also been included in EI Compendex/Elsevier.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

The members of the Steering Committee of the 2011 congress is currently
being prepared. Last year's (ie, 2010's) members included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA);
Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia;
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer;
Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung
Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication;
Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society;
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE
Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP,
Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting
Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
(Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported
AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow,
NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE
Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director,
BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA).

The 2011 Program Committees for individual tracks and conferences are
currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committees
are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of
various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors
of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members
of chapters of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
scientific computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation;
software eng.; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
communications; computer security; and computational biology/bioinformatics.)


2011 PUBLICITY CHAIR:

Ashu M. G. Solo
BCS Fellow (British Computer Society)
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
Intelligent Systems Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known
as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster
(known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL),
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley),
Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System,
xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer,
U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate
Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique
platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of
scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners.
The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants
affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research
centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts
to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions
that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a
quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity
objectives."

One main goal of the congress 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. This model facilitates communication among
researchers in different fields of computer science, computer
engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages
multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives;
ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization
across sub-disciplines.

According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative)
all tracks of WORLDCOMP are listed as worldwide "Top-ranked
Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the
number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" to
extract citation data for each individual track of worldcomp using
the following link: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
As of March 4, 2011, the papers published in the proceeedings have
received 14,385 citations which is a higher citation than many
reputable journals in computer science.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Dear Colleagues:
Please share the announcement below with those who may be interested.
Thank you, Organizing Committee
------------
                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
            ===========================================
             Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2011
 
                             IKE'11
               The 2011 International Conference on
               Information and Knowledge Engineering
                 July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA
 
              http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
            ===========================================
 
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The
proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for
Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and
others.) In the past, all tracks of this federated conference have
also been included in EI Compendex/Elsevier. Like prior years, extended
versions of selected papers will appear in journals and edited research
books (a large number of book projects and journal special issues are
in the pipeline: Springer, Elsevier, BMC journals, ...)
 
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
O  Knowledge management and cyber-learning
O  Information reliability and security
O  Information and knowledge structures
O  Information retrieval systems
O  Knowledge mining
O  Knowledge delivery methods
O  Knowledge life cycle
O  Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques
O  Knowledge classification tools
O  Knowledge and information management techniques
O  Knowledge extraction from images/pictures
O  Large-scale information processing methods
O  Intelligent knowledge-based systems
O  Re-usability of software/knowledge/information
O  Aspect-oriented programming
O  Formal and visual specification languages
O  Decision support and expert systems
O  e-Libraries (digital libraries) + e-Publishing
O  Digital typography
O  Agent-based techniques and systems
O  Workflow management
O  Business intelligence
O  Large-scale information processing methods and systems
O  Content management
O  Database engineering and systems
O  Data and knowledge fusion
O  Data and knowledge processing
O  Databanks - issues, methods, and standards
O  Dataweb models and systems
O  Global contextual processing and management implementation
O  Data/Information/Knowledge models
O  Data warehousing and datacenters
O  Health information systems
O  Data security and privacy issues
O  Managing copyright laws
O  Interoperability issues
O  Transaction systems
O  Search methods
O  Ontologies and semantics
O  Object-oriented modeling and systems
O  Case-based reasoning
O  Digital watermarking
O  Classical aspects of information theory
O  Coding theory
O  Information geometry
O  Quantum information theory
O  Applications (e-Commerce, multimedia, business, banking, ...)
O  Emerging technologies and related issues
 
 
USEFUL WEB LINKS:
The DBLP list of accepted papers of IKE 2010 is at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ike/ike2010.html
The main web site of IKE'11 can be accessed via:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES:
 
March 31, 2011:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 20, 2011:    Notification of acceptance (+/- 6 days)
May 7, 2011:       Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 18-21, 2011:  The 2011 International Conference on
                   Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'11)
 
Those who have submitted papers during the month of February will
receive the decision on their papers by the end of March 2011.
 
 
ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:
 
Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering
of IKE (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated
with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University
of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology,
Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota;
University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green
Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria;
SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples
Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute
for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and
Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International
Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); The International
Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical
School & the American College of Surgeons, USA.
 
 
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
 
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
them to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March 31, 2011 and they must be
in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7
pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to
prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper,
name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact
Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best
represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the
conference (ie, IKE) that the paper is being submitted for
consideration must be stated on the first page.
 
The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.
 
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases
of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference
program committee will be charged to make the final decision
(accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from
additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In
addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will
not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).
 
All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology,
DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings
will be available for distribution on site at the conference.
In the past, all tracks of the federated congress have also been
included in EI Compendex/Elsevier.
 
 
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
 
The members of the Steering Committee of The 2010 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA);
Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia;
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer;
Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung
Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication;
Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society;
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE
Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP,
Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting
Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
(Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported
AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow,
NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE
Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director,
BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA).
The list of Program Committee of IKE 2010 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/ike10/committ\
ee

 
The IKE 2011 program committee is currently being compiled.
Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders,
scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest
ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National
Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs
of departments, program directors of research funding agencies,
deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy
of Science.
 
 
2011 PUBLICITY CHAIR:
 
Ashu M. G. Solo
BCS Fellow (British Computer Society Fellow)
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
Principal/Intelligent Systems Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.
 
 
GENERAL INFORMATION:
 
IKE conference is an important track of a federated research
conference. It is being held jointly (same location and dates)
with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate
to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries.
 
WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known
as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster
(known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL),
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley),
Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System,
xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer,
U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate
Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789
 
An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform
for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress
makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with
diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations,
government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the
world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from
institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those
who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their
main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its
institution and geography diversity objectives."
 
One main goal of the congress 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. This model facilitates communication among researchers in
different branches of computer science, computer engineering,
and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary
and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating
increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.
 
According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative)
all tracks of WORLDCOMP are listed as worldwide "Top-ranked
Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the
number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" to
extract citation data for each individual track of worldcomp using
the following link: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
As of March 4, 2011, the papers published in the proceeedings have
received 14,385 citations which is a higher citation than many
reputable journals in computer science.

Dear Colleagues:
Please share the announcement below with those who may be interested.
Thank you, Organizing Committee
------------
 
                     CALL  FOR  PAPERS
         ===========================================
          Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2011
 
                           ICAI'11
             The 2011 International Conference on
                    Artificial Intelligence
 
              July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA
           http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
         ===========================================
 
This is the 13th annual offering of ICAI conference.
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The
proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for
Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and
others.) In the past, all tracks of this federated conference have
also been included in EI Compendex/Elsevier. Like prior years, extended
versions of selected papers will appear in journals and edited research
books (a large number of book projects and journal special issues are
in the pipeline: Springer, Elsevier, BMC journals, ...)
 
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
O  Brain models / cognitive science
O  Natural language processing
O  Fuzzy logic and soft computing
O  Software tools for AI
O  Expert systems
O  Decision support systems
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  Neural networks and applications
O  Heuristic searching methods
O  Languages and programming techniques for AI
O  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
O  Intelligent information fusion
O  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
O  Search and meta-heuristics
O  Swarm Optimization
O  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
O  Integration of AI with other technologies
O  Evaluation of AI tools
O  Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
O  Social impact of AI
O  Emerging technologies
O  Topics on satisfiability
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, ...)
 
O  Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications:
 
   - General Machine Learning Theory
     . Statistical learning theory
     . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
     . Multivariate analysis
     . Hierarchical learning models
     . Relational learning models
     . Bayesian methods
     . Meta learning
     . Stochastic optimization
     . Topics on satisfiability
     . Simulated annealing
     . Heuristic optimization techniques
     . Neural networks
     . Reinforcement learning
     . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
     . General Learning models
     . Multiple hypothesis testing
     . Decision making
     . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
     . Non-parametric methods
     . Graphical models
     . Gaussian graphical models
     . Particle filter
     . Cross-Entropy method
     . Ant colony optimization
     . Time series prediction
     . Fuzzy logic and learning
     . Inductive learning and applications
     . Grammatical inference
 
   - General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques
     . Graph kernel and graph distance methods
     . Graph-based semi-supervised learning
     . Graph clustering
     . Graph learning based on graph transformations
     . Graph learning based on graph grammars
     . Graph learning based on graph matching
     . General theoretical aspects of graph learning
     . Statistical modeling of graphs
     . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs
     . Motif search
     . Network inference
     . General issues in graph and tree mining
 
   - Machine Learning Applications
     . Aspects of knowledge structures
     . Computational Finance
     . Computational Intelligence
     . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
     . Induction of document grammars
     . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data
     . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval,
       web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining
     . Latent semantic analysis
     . Aspects of natural language processing
     . Intelligent linguistic
     . Aspects of text technology
     . Computational vision
     . Bioinformatics and computational biology
     . Biostatistics
     . High-throughput data analysis
     . Biological network analysis:
       protein-protein networks, signaling networks, metabolic networks,
       transcriptional regulatory networks
     . Graph-based models in biostatistics
     . Computational Neuroscience
     . Computational Chemistry
     . Computational Statistics
     . Systems Biology
     . Algebraic Biology
 
USEFUL WEB LINKS:
 
The DBLP list of accepted papers of ICAI 2010 is at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/icai2010.html
The main web site of ICAI'11 is at:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/icai11
 
ICAI'11 conference will be held simultaneously (same location and
dates) with WORLDCOMP 2011 congress - WORLDCOMP 2011 congress is
composed of major tracks in the following areas:
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP); Computer Design (CDES);
Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR); Scientific Computing (CSC);
Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise IS, & e-Government
(EEE); Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems (ERSA); Embedded Systems
(ESA); Foundations of Computer Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education,
CS & CE (FECS); Grid Computing (GCA); Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
(GEM); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet Computing (ICOMP);
Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE);
Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV);
Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV); Parallel & Distributed
Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA); Security & Management (SAM);
Software Engineering (SERP); and Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS).
For more information about each of the above tracks, refer to:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES:
 
March 31, 2011:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 20, 2011:    Notification of acceptance (+/- 6 days)
May 7, 2011:       Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 18-21, 2011:  The 2011 International Conference on Artificial
                   Intelligence (ICAI'11)
 
Those who have submitted papers during the month of February will
receive the decision on their papers by the end of March 2011.
 
 
ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:
 
Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering
of ICAI (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated
with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University
of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology,
Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota;
University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green
Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria;
SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples
Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute
for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and
Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International
Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); The International
Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical
School & the American College of Surgeons, USA.
 
 
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
 
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
them to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March 31, 2011 and they must be
in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7
pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to
prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper,
name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact
Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best
represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the
conference (ie, ICAI) that the paper is being submitted for
consideration must be stated on the first page.
 
The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.
 
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases
of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference
program committee will be charged to make the final decision
(accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from
additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In
addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will
not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).
 
All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology,
DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings
will be available for distribution on site at the conference.
In the past, all tracks of the federated congress have also been
included in EI Compendex/Elsevier.
 
 
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
 
The members of the Steering Committee of The 2010 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA);
Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia;
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer;
Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung
Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication;
Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society;
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE
Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP,
Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting
Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
(Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported
AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow,
NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE
Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director,
BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA).
The list of Program Committee of ICAI 2010 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/icai10/commit\
tee

 
The ICAI 2011 program committee is currently being compiled.
Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders,
scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest
ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National
Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs
of departments, program directors of research funding agencies,
deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy
of Science.
 
2011 PUBLICITY CHAIR:
 
Ashu M. G. Solo
BCS Fellow (British Computer Society Fellow)
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
Principal/Intelligent Systems Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.
 
 
GENERAL INFORMATION:
 
ICAI conference is a track of a federated research conference.
It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of
other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest
annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,000 or
more attendees from over 85 countries.
 
WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known
as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster
(known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL),
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley),
Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System,
xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer,
U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate
Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789
 
An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform
for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress
makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with
diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations,
government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the
world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from
institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those
who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their
main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its
institution and geography diversity objectives."
 
One main goal of the congress 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. This model facilitates communication among researchers in
different branches of computer science, computer engineering,
and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary
and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating
increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.
 
According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative)
all tracks of WORLDCOMP are listed as worldwide "Top-ranked
Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the
number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" to
extract citation data for each individual track of worldcomp using
the following link: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
As of March 4, 2011, the papers published in the proceeedings have
received 14,385 citations which is a higher citation than many
reputable journals in computer science.

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to invite you to attend
the 10th International FLINS   
Conference on Uncertainty Modeling in Knowledge Engineering and   
Decision Making (FLINS 2012),
which will be held between August 27-29, 
  2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
It will follow the successful FLINS 2010   
Conference in Chengdu, China. ...
For additional information, 
please   visit the Conference website at: 
http://www.flins2012.itu.edu.tr

Best Regards,

Prof. Cengiz Kahraman
Organizing Chair

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Subject: ISAIM Special Issue of JWS: Reasoning with Context in the Semantic
 Web (deadline: 15 June 2011)
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Sincere apologies for multiple postings.

Call for Papers:
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Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on
  "Reasoning with context in the Semantic Web"
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  Mechanisms for reasoning with context have become increasingly important factors in the Semantic Web. There is a growing need for general and robust reasoning techniques that make it possible to integrate heterogeneous knowledge or to use homogeneous knowledge across different domains.

  Research on this topic has so far, and not surprisingly, concentrated on formal ontologies, i.e., on the logical structures that encode the semantics of a software's domain of application. Work on the Semantic Web as well as on information integration, distributed knowledge management, multi-agent and distributed reasoning has focussed on the relationship between an ontology and its context. This has aimed at clarifying how to relate knowledge that is distributed over many resources. Recent Semantic Web specific developments suggest that aspects of this relation can be captured by means of named graphs (to express meta-information), the use of provenance (to track the context where data/axioms came from) and querying (to facilitate reasoning).

  Other neighbouring research areas, though, have also investigated topics that shed light on how to reason with context in the Semantic Web. Ontology Engineering and Maintenance, for instance, has tackled the problems faced by ontology engineers when developing and maintaining an ontology. The yielded automation of the process of ontology development and of its phases (e.g. knowledge elicitation, revision cycles, alignment with pre-existing ontologies etc.) has improved efficiency, reduced the introduction of unintended meanings into ontologies and in general made explicit the relationship between an ontology and its development context. Finally, research on Problem Solving and Agent Communication has explored how an agent's ontology needs to change at run-time because of interactions with its context – for instance with other agents whose ontologies are not known or with new non-classifiable world situations. This type of research has delivered a deeper understanding of the evolution of an ontology and is often based on non-monotonic reasoning, belief revision or changes of signature, i.e., of the grammar of the ontology's language, with a minimal disruption to the original theory.

* Topics of interest:

  This special issue aims at bringing together work on reasoning with context in  the Semantic Web from the integration, development and evolutionary perspectives described above. Submitted articles, which may describe either theoretical results or applications, must clearly pertain to the Semantic Web and/or to semantic technologies. They should  present either Semantic Web specific approaches to reasoning with context, or approaches that have characteristics that are interesting for the Semantic Web (e.g., scalability, bounded reasoning), or approaches that are of value to a larger community containing a non-trivial Semantic Web sub-community (e.g. revision/update techniques and error pin-pointing).

  Submissions are welcome on topics relevant to reasoning with context in the Semantic Web and that include but are not limited to:

- Named graphs
- Provenance
- Knowledge representation languages for semantic technologies
- Planning and reasoning about action and change in the Semantic Web
- Ontology fault diagnosis and repair
- Pinpointing of logical errors in contexts and ontologies
- Explanation and justifications in DL ontologies
- Ontology and context evolution, debugging, update and merging
- Inconsistency handling in contexts and ontologies
- Uncertainty handling, defeasible reasoning and argumentation in ontologies
- Non-classical belief revision
- Context revision and theory change in DL ontologies
- Ontology and context versioning
- Semantic difference in ontologies and in contexts
- Information and knowledge integration
- The role of context and ontology in distributed reasoning and knowledge management
- Heuristic and approximate reasoning
- Bounded reasoning and bounded rationality in the Semantic Web
- Adaptive systems and reconfiguration
- Ontology-based data access
- Querying
- Multi-Agent systems in the Semantic Web
- Temporal and spatial reasoning
- Normative reasoning in the Semantic Web
- General problem solving for semantic technologies
- Machine learning for the Semantic Web
- Philosophical foundations of reasoning about context and ontology evolution
- Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies

* How to submit

  Maximal length of submissions is 25 pages. Authors should upload submissions on Elsevier's Electronic Submission System at

http://ees.elsevier.com/jws

Choose "Reasoning with context in SW" as article type. See the link "Guide Authors" on the above url for instructions.

* Important dates:

- Submission deadline: 15 June 2011
- First-round reviews: 5 September 2011  
- Revised papers submitted: 30 September 2011
- Final acceptance decisions: 31 October 2011
- Tentative publication date: April 2012

* Guest editors:

Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Jos Lehmann (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Ivan Varzinczak (CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa)

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>2011 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied
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>6-8 December 2011
>The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
>
>AEECT 2011 provides an international unique
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>of the art findings in using the applied
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>AEECT 2011 accepts applied technical and
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>6 pages including all figures, tables, and
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>invited to prepare extended papers of their work
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>we encourage practitioner researchers to submit
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>abstracts, selected practitioners will be
>invited to submit their full papers and
>participate in the industrial sessions. These
>industrial papers will appear in the printed proceedings only.
>The AEECT 2011 program will include guest
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>discussions, industrial sessions, and
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>solutions, including data centers; energy
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>2) Control Systems
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>mechatronics systems, control of power and
>energy systems, control of MEMS and NEMS,
>real-time control, intelligent control, control
>of teleoperated and cooperative systems,
>monitoring and supervision, process control,
>automation, networked control, engine and
>emission control, control applications,
>stability and stabilization, observers, estimation and identification.
>3) Communications and Networking
>Wired and wireless networks, UWB networks, next
>generation networks, P2P networks, heterogeneous
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>6) Internet Science
>Social networks, file sharing (user-generated
>portals), cloud computing, online communities
>and virtual teams, internet and society, online
>software, smart phones and the web,
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>and experiments, search engines, internet
>adoption (retailing), social and psychological
>impact of the internet, e-government, e-voting,
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>language computing and processing, Arabic search
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>content and education and knowledge-based
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>of management support systems, e-university,
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>Security of data transfer over national
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>E-mail filtering and anti-spam systems,
>assurance and privacy, secure communications,
>encryption and cryptography, security and
>privacy, regulatory aspects of security,
>forensics, intrusion detection and prevention,
>mobile and wireless security, multimedia
>security, security in service oriented architectures.
>9) Intelligent Systems
>Knowledge representation, constraint
>satisfaction, expert systems, ontology,
>evolutionary computing, fuzzy logic, neural
>networks, knowledge discovery and data mining,
>machine learning and pattern recognition,
>intelligent database systems, agent
>architectures and systems, advanced robotic
>systems, bioinformatics, business intelligence,
>games programming, health science and medical
>systems, multimedia applications, web services.
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>Final Submissions and Registrations: Nov 6, 2011
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>political, cultural, and commercial center. It
>is the biggest city in Jordan and one of the
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>such as Roman ruins, the Dead Sea, the city of
>Madaba, and Petra. The conference program will
>include excursions to some of these sites.
>AEECT2011 is hosted by the University of Jordan,
>the oldest and largest university in Jordan.
>Regarding the timing of the conference, it is
>worth mentioning that Jordanian winters are
>mild, and in December, the weather is expected
>to be mostly sunny with average temperatures
>between 8°C (46°F) and 16°C (61°F). Despite the
>recent turbulences in the region, Jordan
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*** Important dates of CIS2011***
 Submission of Papers:  June 30th 2011
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 Final Camera-Ready Papers: August 30th 2011

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   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 areas of two crucial fields in information processing: computational intelligence (CI) and information security (IS), to share the experience, and exchange and cross-fertilize ideas. In particular, the series of CIS conference provides an ideal platform to explore the potential applications of CI models, algorithms and technologies to IS.

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>         10th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
>         November 26 - December 4, Puebla City (near Mexico City), Mexico
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>         Submission (EXTENDED): July 1: abstract, July 7: PDF (see webpage)
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>
>Workshops, tutorials. Travel grants for students. Best papers awards.
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Call for Papers with Extended Deadline of July 15, 2011:  Special Journal Issue
on Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2011 (CNAR 2011),
Journal of Robotics
 
It would be appreciated if you could forward this call for papers to anyone who
might be interested in it.
 
URL:  http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/cnar11/
 
It is our pleasure to announce a new call for papers for the second special
issue of Journal of Robotics in year 2011.  The call for papers on cognitive
and
neural sciences related to robotic systems appeared to be a successful
challenge.
 
Robotics has been widely applied for various fields such as automation and other
control and engineering systems.  Recent developments of humanoid and
human-like
robots are a milestone in the field of robotics, and they can be a platform for
breaking new ground of robotics applications for human-friendly medical and
welfare systems.  Cognitive and learning aspects for such robots are, however,
still underdeveloped compared to highly controlled mechanisms of recent robotic
systems.
 
Similarly to the previous call of CNAR, the main challenges of this new call for
the special issue are the cognitive aspects of robotics, especially the neural
and fuzzy basis of human intelligence and the fundamental model of human
cognitive and motor functions from the brain sciences point of view.  We
welcome
papers focused on special and newest hardware and biocomputing implementations
that enhance cognitive capabilities in the field of robotics.
 
We invite authors to present original research articles as well as review
articles that will cross-fertilize the fields of cognitive sciences and
robotics.  Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
-- Cognitive aspects of robotics
-- Neural network and fuzzy basis for robotic intelligence
-- Current applications and future prospects of cognitive sciences for robotics
-- Human–robot perceptions and interactions
-- Biocomputing for cognitive computation for robotics
-- New algorithms of computational intelligence for robotics
-- New hardware implementations of cognitive algorithms in robotics
-- Robotics for assisting physical and mental disability
-- Cognitive algorithms in robotics to support biomedical applications
 
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's author
guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/guidelines/
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the journal manuscript tracking system at
http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
 
Important Dates
 
Manuscript Due          July 15, 2011
First Round of Reviews  October 15, 2011
Publication Date        January 15, 2012
 
Web page:  http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/cnar11/
 
Lead Guest Editor
 
-- Madan M. Gupta, FIEEE, FIFSA, FSPIE, Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory,
College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N
5A9
 
Guest Editors
 
-- Noriyasu Homma, Research Division on Advanced Information Technology,
Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
-- Zeng-Guang Hou, Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science,
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
-- Ivo Bukovsky, Division of Automatic Control and Engineering Informatics,
Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 166 07 Prague 6, Czech
Republic
-- Ashu M. G. Solo, FBCS, Maverick Technologies America Inc., Suite 808, 1220
North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, U.S.A.

Steering Committee

Fred Adam, Ireland (fadam@...) 
Frada Burstein, Australia (Frada.Burstein@...) 
Sven Carlsson, Sweden(Sven_Carlsson@...) 
Athena Chatjoulis, Greece (athchatj@...) 
George Doukidis, Greece (gjd@...) 
Patrick Humphreys, UK (p.humphreys@...) 
Yiannis Mourtos, Greece (mourtos@...) 
Gloria Phillips-Wren, USA (gwren@...) 
Ana Respicio, Portugal (respicio@...)
Program Committee Chairs 
Frada Burstein, Monash University, AU
Ana Respicio, University of Lisbon, PT

Doctoral Consortium Chair 
(to be announced)

Organising Committee Chair 

Yiannis Mourtos Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece 

                        FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                   Twelfth International Symposium on
               ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS
                              ISAIM 2012
                   http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2012/
                          January 9-11, 2012
                       Fort Lauderdale, Florida

          PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, September 23, 2011

The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM) is a biennial meeting that fosters interactions between mathematics, theoretical computer science, and artificial intelligence.  This is the twelfth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.  We seek submissions of recent results with a particular emphasis on the foundations of AI and mathematical methods used in AI.  Papers describing applications are also encouraged, but the focus should be on principled lessons learned from the development of the application. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for scientific exchange. The three-day Symposium includes invited speakers, presentations of technical papers, and special topic sessions.



SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS: 

o Computational Social Choice
    -Organized by Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky

o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions
    -Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Liège

o Causal Learning from Complex Data Structures
    -Organized by David Danks, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition; and Carnegie Mellon University



PAPER SUBMISSION:

Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link to ConfMaster on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (/www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2012/ ).  Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there.

The submission deadline is Friday, September 23, 2011 (11:59PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Friday, October 28, 2012.  Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by Monday, December 5, 2011. 

Work that has already been published as of the ISAIM submission deadline should not be submitted to ISAIM unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. However, the ISAIM web site proceedings are not archival, so papers submitted to ISAIM can be under review at the time of submission and can be submitted elsewhere after ISAIM.

Authors of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be invited to submit full versions of their papers for inclusion in a special volume of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer. Those invited submissions will be subject to refereeing at the usual standards of the journal, and authors will receive more details with the acceptance notice. Papers must of course be new and unpublished to be considered for the special volume.

Any questions regarding paper submission should be sent to the program committee chair at the email address <isaim2012 at cs DOT uic DOT edu>.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission:   Friday, September 23, 2011
Notification:       Friday, October 28, 2011
Final version due:  Monday, December 5, 2011
Workshop:           January 9-11, 2012, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida



ORGANIZERS:

o General Chair:              Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa
o Conference Chair:           Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University
o Program Committee Chair:    Robert H. (Bob) Sloan, University of Illinois at Chicago
o Publicity Chair:            Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Illinois at Chicago


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Stéphane Airiau     University of Amsterdam
Eyal Amir           University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
Endre Boros         Rutgers University
Emma Brunskill      University of California Berkeley
Arthur Choi         University of California Los Angeles
Berthe Choueiry     University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Yves Crama          University of Liège
Marek Druzdzel      University of Pittsburgh
Edith Elkind        Nanyang Technological University
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz University of Illinois at Chicago
Vibhav Gogate       University of Washington
Lisa Hellerstein    Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Roni Khardon        Tufts University
Richard Korf        University of California Los Angeles
Gerhard Lakemeyer   Aachen University of Technology
Hector Levesque     University of Toronto
Vladimir Lifschitz  University of Texas at Austin
Victor Marek        University of Kentucky
Loizos Michael      Open University of Cyprus
Maurice Pagnucco    University of New South Wales
Patrice Perny       Pierre et Marie Curie University
Marek Petrik        IBM Research
Steven Prestwich    Cork Constraint Computation Centre
Francesca Rossi     University of Padova
Wheeler Ruml        University of New Hampshire
Ashish Sabharwal    IBM Research
Robert Schapire     Princeton University
Linda Sellie        Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Meinolf Sellmann    Brown University
Bart Selman         Cornell University
Robert H. Sloan     University of Illinois at Chicago
Balázs Szörényi     University of Szeged
Miroslaw (Mirek) Truszczynski  University of Kentucky
Miroslav Velev      Aries Design Automation
Neil Yorke-Smith    American University of Beirut
Rong Zhou           PARC
Shlomo Zilberstein  University of Massachusetts Amherst


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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:24:29 +0200
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Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to submit your papers to the following international conferences (ISI, EI Compendex, ISI, SCOPUS, ACM,  IET (IEE), ASM, ACS, CSA, ELSEVIER , ZENTRALBLATT, MATHSCINET, DPP,EI, CSBA, Ulrigh, DEST, EBSCO, EMBASE, GEOBASE, BIOBASE,BIOTECHNOBASE, DBLP indexed).  If you want to be Plenary Speaker, send your CV to mastor@...
 

Faro, Algarve, Portugal, May 2-4, 2012

• Lakes, Rivers, Groundwater and Sea 2012
  
  
• Sustainable Cities, Urban Sustainability and Transportation 2012
  
  
• Forests, Mountains, Valleys and Volcanoes 2012
  
  
• Science Parks and Technology Parks 2012
  
  
• Sustainable Tourism and Cultural Heritage 2012
  
  
• Biologically Inspired Computation 2012

Singapore, May 14-16, 2012

• Computing, Information Systems and Communications
•  
• Systems, Control, Power, Robotics
•  
• Digital Services, Internet and Applications
•  
• Integrated Systems and Management for Energy, Development, Environment and Health

 

Iasi, Romania, June 13-15, 2012

• Circuits, Systems, Communications, Computers and Applications
•  
• Sustainable Development, Sustainable Chemical Industry, Pollution, Hazards and Environment
•  
• Health Science and Biomedical Systems

 

Porto, Portugal, July 1-3, 2012

• Automatic Control, Soft Computing and Human-Machine Interaction
•  
• Networks and Systems for Communications, Education and Data Processing
•  
• Materials, Energy, Planning, Transportation, for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Economy
•  
• Food Industry, Agriculture and Applied Chemistry
•  

Paris, France, December 2-4, 2012

• 3rd European Conference of Control (ECC'12)
•  
• 3rd European Conference of Systems (ECS'12)
•  
• 3rd European Conference of Circuits Technology and Devices (ECCTD'12)
•  
• 3rd European Conference of Communications (ECCOM'12)
•  
• 3rd European Conference of Computer Science (ECCS'12)
•  
• 3rd European Conference of Chemical Engineering (ECCE'12)
•  
• 3rd European Conference of Civil Engineering (ECCIE'12)
•  
• 3rd European Conference of Mechanical Engineering (ECME'12)
•  

or via  www.naun.org

Proceedings will be distributed in luxurious volumes (hard-copy) and CD-ROM and will be included (indexed) in ISI, EI Compendex, ISI, SCOPUS, ACM,  IET (IEE), ASM, ACS, CSA, ELSEVIER , ZENTRALBLATT, MATHSCINET, DPP,EI, CSBA, Ulrigh, DEST, EBSCO, EMBASE, GEOBASE, BIOBASE,BIOTECHNOBASE, DBLP.
Authors will be invited to submit extended versions to a NAUN Journal or WSEAS Journal or University Press or Springer. All submitted papers will have opportunities for consideration for the Special Issues or Regular Issues of several journals (some of them belong to ISI category). 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.
 

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICS   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT   More details: www.naun.org
Thanks for your attention

Joanna Carpender  

FWD

Dear Colleague,

Upon numerous requests, the upcoming The 10th International FLINS Conference on Uncertainty Modeling in Knowledge Engineering and Decision Making (FLINS 2012) extends the submission deadline to 30 January 2012. We cordially invite you to submit a paper to FLINS 2012

FLINS 2012 to be held from 26-29 August 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Papers related to this conference theme are especially solicited, including theories, methodologies. Contributions covering theoretical developments and practical applications, including but not limited to the following technical areas, are invited:

artificial intelligence

genetic algorithms

real time systems

autonomous reasoning

human-machine interface

risk analysis

chaos theory

hybrid methods

robotics

condition monitoring

intelligent information retrieval

rough set theory

data mining

interactive computational models

security and safety related issues

data visualization

internet tools

signal and image processing

decision making

knowledge engineering

system identification and modelling

decision support system

machine learning

systems integration

e-science and technology

neural networks

telecommunications

evidence theory

noise analysis

time series prediction

evolutionary programming

optimization

virtual reality

expert systems

pattern recognition

uncertainty modeling

fault diagnosis

probabilistic computing

 

fuzzy logic

process and system control

 

Substantially extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of below mentioned journals.
·         International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (SCI-E indexed, Atlantis Press)
·         Journal of Multiple Valued Logic and Soft Computing (SCI-E indexed, Oldcity Publishing)
·         Knowledge-Based Systems (SCI indexed, Elsevier)
·         International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management (Inderscience Publishers)
·         Journal of Enterprise Information Management (Emerald)
·         Int. J. of Information and Communication Technology (Inderscience Publication)

·         Int. J. of Computational Vision and Robotics (Inderscience Publication)

For more information, visit the conference web page:

    http://www.flins2012.itu.edu.tr

If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at flins2012@...

P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues or students who may be interested.
 

HCI International NEWS - January 2012 - Number 51

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HIGHLIGHTS

•    HCII2013: include this event in your calendar
•    HCII 2011: Proceedings
•    Invitation to attend AHFE 2012 and its affiliated conferences
•    Recent News and Articles
•    Upcoming Conferences and Events
•    About HCI International NEWS

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HCII2013: include this event in your calendar

Don’t forget to mark in your calendar the dates of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction that will be held, jointly with the affiliated Conferences at The Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 21-26 July 2013

http://www.hcii2013.org/

Two new affiliated conferences will take place:

•    The 1st International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, chaired by Norbert Streitz (Germany) and Constantine Stephanidis (Greece).
•    The 1st International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, chaired by Louis Marinos (ENISA EU) and Ioannis Askoxylakis (Greece).

Please also mark in your calendar the deadlines for submissions:

-    Friday, 12 October 2012, paper proposals (an abstract of 800 words is required)
-    Friday, 12 October 2012 for tutorial proposals (an abstract of 300 words is required)
-    Friday, 1 February 2013 for poster proposals (an abstract of 300 words is required)

During the conference, you will be able to interact with about two thousand participants from academia, research institutes, industry and governmental agencies from all over the world in this truly international event.

The city of Las Vegas, as one of the world’s busiest tourist destinations, offers just about everything – spectacular shows, shops and restaurants, theme park attractions, and the natural beauty of the surrounding lakes, parks and canyons.

The Mirage Hotel, located on Las Vegas Strip, is recommended as the main hotel of the Conference. Many of the guest rooms offered are available with breathtaking views of the tropical pool, majestic mountains or Las Vegas Strip.

For more information and updates, please visit regularly the Conference web site.


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HCII 2011: Proceedings

A total of 4039 individuals from academia, research institutes, industry and governmental agencies from 67 countries submitted contributions, and 1318 papers and 232 posters were included in the program.

For the list of the 23 Volumes of the Conference Proceedings, please check our website at:
http://www.hcii2011.org/proceedings


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Invitation to attend AHFE 2012 and its affiliated conferences
 
•    2nd International Conference on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare
•    2nd International Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making
•    2nd International Conference on Applied Digital Human Modeling
•    1st International Conference on Human Side of Service Engineering
•    1st International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design
•    1st International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation
•    and 14th International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Enterprises in a Digital World


The Conference features 17 Tutorials that will take place from Saturday 21 to Sunday 22 July 2012, and parallel technical sessions that will run from Monday 23 to Wednesday 25 July 2012. Poster proposals submission is still open. You are welcome to submit a poster proposal until the 15th of April 2012 and join the more than 1500 participants expected from 40 countries.

To explore the exceptional program of Full- and Half-Day Tutorials at the AHFE 2012 Conference, please visit:
  http://www.ahfe2012.org/tutorials.html

A Keynote Address on “Human Side of Service Engineering for a Smart Planet” will be offered by Dr. James (“Jim”) C. Spohrer (IBM Innovation Champion and Director of IBM University Programs worldwide).

Exhibitors will present state-of-the-art ergonomics products, systems and services for users, professionals, and researchers in the AHFE field. For more information about the AHFE 2012 Exhibition, please visit: http://www.ahfe2012.org/exhibits.html


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Recent News and Articles

"Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99%,"WIRED, December 27, 2011.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/occupy-facebook/

"Computers implanted in brain could help paralyzed," San Francisco Chronicle  December 27, 2011.
http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2011-12-dec/dec-28-2011.html

"Look, touch and feel: How your mobile interface will morph in 2012," Network World
December 21, 2011.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/122111-outlook-mobile-interface-254225.html

The Future of Human Computer Interfaces," Network World, November 8, 2011.
http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/110811-human-computer-interfaces.html#slide11

"The Internet Gets Physical," New York Times, December 17, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/sunday-review/the-internet-gets-physical.html?_r=1

"Disruptions: Wearing Your Computer on Your Sleeve," New York Times, December 18, 2011.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/wearing-your-computer-on-your-sleeve/

"Everyone Speaks Text Message," New York Times, December 9, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/magazine/everyone-speaks-text-message.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1325214840-RjGUnlNfMrvYGcBDbXYH6w

"Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing," New York Times, December 5, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/creating-artificial-intelligence-based-on-the-real-thing.html

"Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth, Say Computer Scientists," Technology Review, December 1, 2011.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27379/?p1=blogs

"A new tool to track and predict fire behaviour," ABC News, December 1, 2011.
" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-30/fire-technology-feature/3705182?section=wa

"Will Microsoft's 'Minority Report' UI leap-frog Apple?," ComputerWorld, November 29, 2011.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222200/Will_Microsoft_s_Minority_Report_UI_leap_frog_Apple_

Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell," New York Times, November 28, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/technology/software-to-rate-how-drastically-photos-are-retouched.html

'Walls Have Eyes: How Researchers Are Studying You on Facebook," Time, November 14, 2011.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2099409,00.html


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Upcoming Conferences and Events
 
***** January  2012 *****

January 10-13, 2012: International   CES, Las Vegas, USA.   
http://www.cesweb.org/


***** February  2012 *****

February 24-26, 2012:  7th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP), Rome, Italy
http://www.visigrapp.org/

February 14 -17, 2012: 17th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Lisbon, Portugal.
http://iuiconf.org/


Announcements
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AVAILABLE NOW: Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Special issue on User Assessment in Serious Games and Technology-Enhanced Learning
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahci/si/sgtel/

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CALL FOR PAPERS: IADIS conference on “ICT Society and Human Beings”, Lisbon, Portugal July 2012. Submission deadline: January 23, 2012.
http://www.ict-conf.org/2012

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April 2 – 4, 2012
The Seventh IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering
~ACSE 2012~, Phuket, Thailand
For more information visit: 
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-770.html

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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Seventh IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2012),
May 14 – 16, 2012, Baltimore, USA. Submission Deadline: January 21, 2012.
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/cfp-772.html

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AVAILABLE NOW: New Issue of the Interacting with Computers, Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 565-622, November 2011.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09535438/23
          
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AVAILABLE NOW: eMinds: International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction, Issue 7 are available for free download.
www.eminds.uniovi.es    

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AVAILABLE NOW: Latest issue of HSCB Newsletters is available now.
http://www.dtic.mil/biosys/docs/HSCB-news-summer-2011.pdf
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CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Conference Tracks

GEM'12
The 2012
International Conference on
Genetic and Evolutionary Methods

Date and
Location: July 16-19, 2012, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the
above web site for venue/city

You are invited to submit a full paper for
consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference
books/proceedings (they
will also be available on the web). The proceedings
will be indexed in
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and
Technology, DBLP /
Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Like prior
years, extended
versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in
journals and
edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier,
...).

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

O Genetic programming
O Genetic algorithms
O Hybrid
genetic / memetic algorithms
O Artificial life
O Genetic benchmarks and
software packages
O Optimization methodologies
O Swarm intelligence and
optimization
O Artificial immune systems
O Evolutionary programming
O
Genetics-based machine learning
O Adaptive behavior-based systems
O Fuzzy
systems and evolutionary computing
O Biologically inspired systems
O
Evolutionary strategies
O Combinatorial optimization problems
O Ant colony
optimization
O Learning classifiers
O Agent technologies
O
Parallel/distributed evolutionary algorithms
O Evolvable hardware
O
Evolutionary scheduling
O Search based strategies
O Hyper heuristics
O
Evolutionary multi-objective optimization
O Prediction methods
O
Co-evolution
O Novel methodologies
O Robotics
O Biological methods
O
Applications


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012: Submission of
full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent +
Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Genetic
and
Evolutionary Methods (GEM'12)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being
prepared - The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of
GEM (2011) included
research labs and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of
California, Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT); University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern
California; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota;
Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and
Translational Research, Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University
of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico
II, Italy; University of Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of
Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M
University Com.; University of North
Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a
partial list):
Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation;
Pico Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing
for Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological
Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l
Council on Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business,
Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and
HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and others.


SUBMISSION OF
PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March
12, 2012 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages
including all figures,
tables, and references - single space, font size of 10
to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors
of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
format
to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not
have
been previously published or currently submitted for
publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of
the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for
each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact
Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content
of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, GEM) that the paper
is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of
the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the
final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column
IEEE
style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in
the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In
cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be charged
to make the final decision (accept/reject); often,
this would involve seeking
help from additional referees by using a
double-blinded review process. In
addition, all papers whose authors include
a member of the conference program
committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process.
(Essay/philosophical papers will not be
refereed but may be considered for
discussion/panels). Proceedings of GEM
will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for
Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS
Bibliography, & others. The
printed proceedings/books will be available for
distribution on site at the
conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for
publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers
(such as,
Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books will be composed after
the
conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming journal
special
issues to be published after the conference.


PROPOSAL FOR
ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TRACKS:

GEM 2012 is composed of a number of tracks.
A track can be a session,
a workshop, or a symposium. A session will have at
least 6 papers; a
workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18
papers. Track
chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their tracks,
including:
soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track
chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
on
the cover of the printed books (and indexed in science databases as
such).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums)
should
include the following information: name and address (+ email) of
proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the
topic of
the track, the name of the conference (ie, GEM) the track is
submitted
for consideration, and a short description on how the track will
be
advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from
colleagues
and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail
your
track proposal to editor@... . We
would like to receive the
track proposals as soon as possible but by no later
than January 31, 2012.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING
COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized:
The members of the Steering
Committee of The 2011 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist,
Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia
(ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor,
University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief,
The Journal of Supercomputing /
Springer; Board member, Journal of
Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory
Board, IEEE TC on Scalable
Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National
Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of
California, Berkeley,
USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry
of Information &
Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea
Information Processing
Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet
Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi
Fang (IEEE Fellow,
TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu,
Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof.
Kun Chang Lee
(Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science,
Sungkyunkwan
University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and
Director
of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l
Council
for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof.
Layne
T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The
National
Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State
University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy
of
Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA
Fellow;
Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley,
USA).
2012 Publicity Chair:  A. M. G. Solo (BCS Fellow; Principal/
Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies
America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo Research Lab,
Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems and New Math
Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)

The 2012 Program
Committee for GEM is currently being compiled. Many
who have already joined
the committees are renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are
directors of research labs.,
members of National Academy of Engineering,
fellows of various societies,
heads/chairs of departments, program
directors of research funding agencies,
as well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to
have established a strong and
documented research track record. Those
interested in joining the Program
Committee should email editor@... the
following information
for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and
position, complete
mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that
includes
research expertise and the name of the conference(s) offering to
help with.
The list of Program Committee of GEM 2011 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/gem11/committ\
ee


GENERAL
INFORMATION:

The GEM 2012 conference is being held jointly (same location
and dates)
with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP
is the
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or
more
attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed
of
research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations,
tutorials,
panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/
tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson
(pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as
Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father
of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father
of
Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer,
VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of
MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X
Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA;
Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas
(Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
(Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos
available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of
WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of
constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and
practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to
participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs)
from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants
from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are
affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The
congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography
diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress 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. This
model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields
of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing.
The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased
opportunities for
cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As
of November 23, 2011, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
have
received 15,860 citations. In recent months (March to November 2011),
there
had been 1,475 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 164 citations per
month).
The above record is significant (thanks to the authors). As the
result of
high impact (based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft
Academic
Search" has listed each individual track of the congress among its
compiled
list of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set
of
proceedings is in fact higher than the citation data of many
reputable
journals in computer science and computer engineering. (The above
citation
data does not include citations to WORLDCOMP papers published in
2011; thus,
it is highly probable that the actual number of citations is
higher;
citation data was obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ )


USEFUL
WEB LINKS:
To see the DBLP entries for GEM, go to:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/gem/index.html
The
main web site of GEM'12 is currently under construction, it will
soon appear
at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
The Table of
Contents of last offering of GEM (2011) appears at:
http://world-comp.org/proc2011/gem/contents.pdf

CONTACT:
Inquiries
should be sent to: wcom12@...

>
>INVITATION:
>
>=================
>
>Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
>groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
>scientific results to FUTURE COMPUTING 2012.
>
>The submission deadline is set to March 5, 2012.
>
>In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit
>extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
>http://www.iariajournals.org
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>============== FUTURE COMPUTING 2012 | Call for Papers ===============
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
>
>FUTURE COMPUTING 2012, The Fourth International Conference on Future
>Computational Technologies and Applications
>
>July 22-27, 2011 - Nice, France
>
>
>General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/FUTURECOMPUTING12.html
>
>Call for Papers:
>http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPFUTURECOMPUTING12.html
>
>- regular papers
>
>- short papers (work in progress)
>
>- posters
>
>Submission page:
>http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitFUTURECOMPUTING12.html
>
>
>Submission deadline: March 5, 2012
>
>Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
>
>
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>Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
>
>
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>
>The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
>concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
>running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies.
>Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are
>not under review in any other conference or journal in the
>following, but not limited to, topic areas.
>All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
>terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
>Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
>
>Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial
>rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
>
>FUTURE COMPUTING 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP
>on the site)
>
>
>Computational intelligence strategies
>
>    Cognitive computing; Intelligent computation; Ambient computing;
> Unconventional computing; Indeterminist computing; Adaptive
> computation; Autonomic computation; Computation under uncertainty;
> Chaotic computation; Intentional computing; Anticipative computing;
> Evolutionary computing
>
>Mechanism-oriented computing
>
>    Spatial computation; Elastic computing; Human-centered
> computing; Embedded computing; Entertainment computing;
> Time-sensitive/temporal computing; Soft computing (fuzzy logic,
> neural computing, evolutionary computation, machine learning, and
> probabilistic reasoning + belief networks, + chaos theory + learning theory)
>
>Large-scale computing strategies
>
>    Distributed computing; Parallel computing; Macro- and
> micro-computing; Activity-based computing; Data intensive
> computing; Resource-constraint computing; Grid computing; Cloud
> computing; Cluster computing; On-demand computing;
> Ubiquitous/pervasive computing
>
>Computing technologies
>
>    Quantum computing; Optical computing; DNA (genetic) computing;
> Molecular computing; Reversible computing; Billiard Ball computing;
> Neuronal computing; Magnetic computing; Gloopware computing; Moldy
> computing; Water wave-based computing; Graphene-based computing
>
>Technology-oriented computing
>
>    Peer-to-Peer computing; Mobile computing; Sensor-based
> computing; Wireless computing; Trusted computing; Financial
> computing; Genetic computation
>
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>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Conference Tracks

ICAI'12
The 2012
International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence

Date and Location:
July 16-19, 2012, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the
above web site for venue/city

You are invited to submit a full paper for
consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference
books/proceedings (they
will also be available on the web). The proceedings
will be indexed in
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and
Technology, DBLP /
Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Like prior
years, extended
versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in
journals and
edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier,
...).

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

O Brain models / cognitive science
O Natural language
processing
O Fuzzy logic and soft computing
O Software tools for AI
O
Expert systems
O Decision support systems
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 Neural networks
and applications
O Heuristic searching methods
O Languages and programming
techniques for AI
O Constraint-based reasoning and constraint
programming
O Intelligent information fusion
O Learning and adaptive
sensor fusion
O Search and meta-heuristics
O Swarm Optimization
O
Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
O Integration of AI
with other technologies
O Evaluation of AI tools
O Social intelligence
(markets and computational societies)
O Social impact of AI
O Emerging
technologies
O Topics on satisfiability
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,
...)

O Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and
Applications:

- General Machine Learning Theory
. Statistical learning
theory
. Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
. Multivariate analysis
.
Hierarchical learning models
. Relational learning models
. Bayesian
methods
. Meta learning
. Stochastic optimization
. Topics on
satisfiability
. Simulated annealing
. Heuristic optimization
techniques
. Neural networks
. Reinforcement learning
. Multi-criteria
reinforcement learning
. General Learning models
. Multiple hypothesis
testing
. Decision making
. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
.
Non-parametric methods
. Graphical models
. Gaussian graphical models
.
Particle filter
. Cross-Entropy method
. Ant colony optimization
. Time
series prediction
. Fuzzy logic and learning
. Inductive learning and
applications
. Grammatical inference

- General Graph-based Machine
Learning Techniques
. Graph kernel and graph distance methods
.
Graph-based semi-supervised learning
. Graph clustering
. Graph learning
based on graph transformations
. Graph learning based on graph grammars
.
Graph learning based on graph matching
. General theoretical aspects of graph
learning
. Statistical modeling of graphs
. Information-theoretical
approaches to graphs
. Motif search
. Network inference
. General
issues in graph and tree mining

- Machine Learning Applications
.
Aspects of knowledge structures
. Computational Finance
. Computational
Intelligence
. Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
. Induction
of document grammars
. Supervised and unsupervised classification of web
data
. General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval,
web
authoring, information extraction, and web content mining
. Latent semantic
analysis
. Aspects of natural language processing
. Intelligent
linguistic
. Aspects of text technology
. Computational vision
.
Bioinformatics and computational biology
. Biostatistics
. High-throughput
data analysis
. Biological network analysis:
protein-protein networks,
signaling networks, metabolic networks,
transcriptional regulatory
networks
. Graph-based models in biostatistics
. Computational
Neuroscience
. Computational Chemistry
. Computational Statistics
.
Systems Biology
. Algebraic Biology


IMPORTANT DATES:

March
12, 2012: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012:
Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers +
Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International
Conference on Artificial
Intelligence
(ICAI'12)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared -
The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of
ICAI (2011) included research
labs and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California,
Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT);
University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota
Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of
Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research,
Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy
of Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of
Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas
A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE
Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel
Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico
Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for
Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological
Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l
Council on Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business,
Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and
HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and others.


SUBMISSION OF
PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March
12, 2012 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages
including all figures,
tables, and references - single space, font size of 10
to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors
of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
format
to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not
have
been previously published or currently submitted for
publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of
the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for
each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact
Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
content
of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, ICAI) that the paper
is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of
the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the
final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column
IEEE
style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in
the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In
cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be charged
to make the final decision (accept/reject); often,
this would involve seeking
help from additional referees by using a
double-blinded review process. In
addition, all papers whose authors include
a member of the conference program
committee will be evaluated using the
double-blinded review process.
(Essay/philosophical papers will not be
refereed but may be considered for
discussion/panels). Proceedings of ICAI
will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for
Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS
Bibliography, & others. The
printed proceedings/books will be available for
distribution on site at the
conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for
publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers
(such as,
Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books will be composed after
the
conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming journal
special
issues to be published after the conference.


PROPOSAL FOR
ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TRACKS:

ICAI 2012 is composed of a number of
tracks. A track can be a session,
a workshop, or a symposium. A session will
have at least 6 papers; a
workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at
least 18 papers. Track
chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
tracks, including:
soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of
track chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings
and on
the cover of the printed books (and indexed in science databases as
such).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums)
should
include the following information: name and address (+ email) of
proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the
topic of
the track, the name of the conference (ie, ICAI) the track is
submitted
for consideration, and a short description on how the track will
be
advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from
colleagues
and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail
your
track proposal to editor@.... We
would like to receive the
track proposals as soon as possible but by no later
than January 31, 2012.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING
COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized:
The members of the Steering
Committee of The 2011 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist,
Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia
(ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor,
University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief,
The Journal of Supercomputing /
Springer; Board member, Journal of
Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory
Board, IEEE TC on Scalable
Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National
Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of
California, Berkeley,
USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry
of Information &
Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea
Information Processing
Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet
Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi
Fang (IEEE Fellow,
TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu,
Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof.
Kun Chang Lee
(Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science,
Sungkyunkwan
University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and
Director
of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l
Council
for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof.
Layne
T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The
National
Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State
University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy
of
Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA
Fellow;
Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley,
USA).

2012 Publicity Chair:  A. M. G. Solo (BCS Fellow; Principal/
Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies 
America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo Research Lab, 
Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems and New Math 
Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)
The 2012 Program
Committee for ICAI is currently being compiled. Many
who have already joined
the committees are renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are
directors of research labs.,
members of National Academy of Engineering,
fellows of various societies,
heads/chairs of departments, program
directors of research funding agencies,
as well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to
have established a strong and
documented research track record. Those
interested in joining the Program
Committee should email editor@...
following information
for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and
position, complete
mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that
includes
research expertise and the name of the conference(s) offering to
help with.
The list of Program Committee of ICAI 2011 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/icai11/commit\
tee


GENERAL
INFORMATION:

The ICAI 2012 conference is one of the premier research
conferences in
Artificial Intelligence. It is being held jointly (same
location and dates)
with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or
more
attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed
of
research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations,
tutorials,
panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/
tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson
(pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as
Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father
of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father
of
Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer,
VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of
MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X
Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA;
Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas
(Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
(Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos
available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of
WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of
constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and
practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to
participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs)
from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants
from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are
affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The
congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography
diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress 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. This
model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields
of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing.
The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased
opportunities for
cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As
of November 23, 2011, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
have
received 15,860 citations. In recent months (March to November 2011),
there
had been 1,475 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 164 citations per
month).
The above record is significant (thanks to the authors). As the
result of
high impact (based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft
Academic
Search" has listed each individual track of the congress among its
compiled
list of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set
of
proceedings is in fact higher than the citation data of many
reputable
journals in computer science and computer engineering. (The above
citation
data does not include citations to WORLDCOMP papers published in
2011; thus,
it is highly probable that the actual number of citations is
higher;
citation data was obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ )


USEFUL
WEB LINKS:
To see the DBLP entries for ICAI, go to:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html
The
main web site of ICAI'12 is currently under construction, it will
soon appear
at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
The Table of
Contents of last offering of ICAI (2011) appears at:
http://world-comp.org/proc2011/icai/contents-vol-i.pdf

CONTACT:
Inquiries
should be sent to: wcom12@...

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>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
>on Intelligent Agent Technology(IAT 2012)
>
>December 4-7, 2012, Macau SAR, China
>Conference Website: http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012
>
>Important Dates:
>Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2012
>Electronic submission of full papers: June 1, 2012
>Tutorial proposal submission: July 10, 2012
>Workshop paper submission: July 25, 2012
>Notification of paper acceptance: August 1, 2012
>Camera-ready of accepted papers: August 31, 2012
>Workshops: December 4, 2012
>Conference: December 5-7, 2012
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>
>IAT 2012 provides a leading international forum to bring together
>researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
>science, information technology, business, education, 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 2012
>will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions
>in agent and multi-agent based computing.
>
>IAT 2012 will be jointly held with the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
>Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2012) and co-locate with AMT'12,
>BI'12, and ISMIS'12 as a Congress, a Special Event of the Alan Turing
>Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth). Furthermore, WI-IAT 2012 will
>include workshops providing in-depth background on subjects that are
>of broad interest to Web intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
>communities. The workshop programs will focus on new research
>challenges, initiatives and applications.
>
>The topics and areas include, but not limited to:
>1) Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
>2) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Modeling
>3) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Engineering
>4) Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
>5) Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
>6) Coordination
>7) Distributed Problem Solving
>8) Applications
>
>High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited.  Paper
>submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE
>2-column format.  The same format will be used for final camera-ready
>papers (see the Author Guidelines at
>http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting).
>
>All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the
>basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
>
>Note that IAT 2012 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF
>format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
>proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI.
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Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan, September 04-07, 2012

The 9th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and
Computing (UIC 2012)
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted
Computing (ATC 2012)
The 12th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for
Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-12)

Important Dates
Workshop Proposal Deadline: Ongoing as received
Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2012
Demo/Exhibit Submission Deadline: April 15, 2012
Authors Notification: May 15, 2012
Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2012

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The 9th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and
Computing (UIC 2012)

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UIC 2012 Topics:

1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems
* Sensor, Ad Hoc, Mesh & P2P Networks
* Social Networking and Computing
* Knowledge Representation and Ontology
* Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
* Middleware and Intelligent Platforms
* Intelligent Services and Architectures
* Agents, Swarm and Context-aware Systems
* Nature-inspired Intelligent Systems

2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environments
* Smart Room, Home, Office, Laboratory
* Smart Shop, Hospital, Campus, City, etc.
* Smart Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation
* Healthcare and Elder/Child Care Services
* Pervasive/Ubiquitous Media and Services
* Pervasive Learning, Games, Entertainment
* Other Intelligent/Smart Applications

3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects
* Electronic Labels, Cards, E-Tags and RFID
* Embedded Chips, Sensors & Actuators
* MEMS, NEMS, Micro & Biometric Devices
* Smart Appliances and Wearable Devices
* Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc.
* Embedded Software and Agents
* Interaction to Smart Objects/Devices
* Smart Object OS and Programming

4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects
* Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics
* User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition
* Adaptive User Interfaces and Tools
* Security, Privacy, Safety and Legal Issues
* Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors
* Implication & Impact of Ubiquitous Intelligence
* Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds

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Related links
For more details on paper submission, workshop proposals,
demo/exhibit sessions, browse:
UIC2012: http://conf.kyusan-u.ac.jp/uic2012/


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The 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted
Computing (ATC 2012)

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ATC 2012 Topics:

1. AC/OC Theory and Models
* Models, negotiation, cooperation, competition, selforganization,
emergence, verification, etc.

2. AC/OC Architectures and Systems
*Autonomic elements & their relationship, frameworks, middleware,
observer/controller, architectures, institutional architectures, etc.

3. AC/OC Components and Modules
* Multi-core CPU, memory, storage, database, device server, proxy,
software, OS, I/O, etc.

4. AC/OC Communication and Services
* Networks, self-organized net, web service, P2P, grid, EaaS, cloud, etc.

5. AC/OC Tools and Interfaces
* Tools/interfaces for AC/OC system development, test, monitoring,
assessment, supervision, etc.

6. Trust Models and Specifications
* Models and semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust,
cheat, risk, reputation, reliability, etc.

7. Trust-related Security and Privacy
* Trust-related secure architecture, framework, policy, Intrusion
detection/awareness, protocols, trust-adaptive agents and communities, etc.

8. Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems
* Fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable
systems, failure recovery, etc.

9. Trustworthy Services and Applications
* Trustworthy Internet/web/P2P/grid/cloud services, secure mobile
services, novel applications, etc.

10. Trust Standards and Non-Technical Issues
* Trust standards and issues related to personality, ethics,
sociology, culture, psychology, economy, etc.

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Related links
For more details on paper submission, workshop proposals,
demo/exhibit sessions, browse:
ATC2012: http://conf.kyusan-u.ac.jp/atc2012/


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The 12th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for
Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-12)

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ICA3PP 2012 Topics:

* Cluster, Distributed & Parallel Operating Systems and Middleware
* Cloud, Grid, and Services Computing
* Reliability and Fault-tolerant Computing
* Multi-core Programming and Software Tools
* Distributed Scheduling and Load Balancing
* High-performance Scientific Computing
* Parallel Algorithms
* Parallel Architectures
* Parallel and Distributed Databases
* Parallel I/O Systems and Storage Systems
* Parallel Programming Paradigms
* Performance of Parallel & Distributed Computing Systems
* Resource Management and Scheduling
* Tools and Environments for Parallel & Distributed Software Development
* Software and Hardware Reliability, Testing, Verification and Validation
* Security, Privacy, and Trusted Computing
* Self-healing, Self-protecting and Fault-tolerant Systems
* Information Security In Internet
* Multimedia in Parallel Computing
* Parallel Computing in Bioinformatics
* Dependability Issues in Computer Networks and Communications
* Dependability Issues in Distributed and Parallel Systems
* Dependability Issues in Embedded Parallel Systems
* Industrial Applications
* Scientific Applications

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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IFIP 7^th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (IIP2012)

October 12-15, 2012

Guilin, China
http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip2012/
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IMPORTANT DATES:
* Submission Deadline -------- 1 April, 2012
* Author Notification --------- 1 May, 2012
* Camera-ready Due --------- 1 June, 2012


SCOPE:
The IIP conference series provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, university and industry to present their latest research findings in any aspects of intelligent information processing. IIP2012 attempts to meet the needs of a large and diverse community. Topics of IIP2012 include, but are not limited to:

* Autonomic computing

* Automatic reasoning

* Automatic translation

* Bayesian networks

* Belief revision

* Bioinformatics

* Biomedicine

* Business intelligence

* Case-based reasoning

* Cloud computing

* Cognitive Modeling

* Computational intelligence

* Computer vision

* Constraint programming

* Data Mining

* E-learning

* E-services

* Evolutionary computation

* Fuzzy and rough set

* Games & Serious games

* Image processing

* Information retrieval

* Intelligence science

* Intelligent agents

* Internet of things

* Knowledge acquisition

* Knowledge-based systems

* Knowledge discovery

* Knowledge engineering and management

* Knowledge grid

* Knowledge representation

* Logics and logic programming

* Machine learning

* Machine translation

* Mobile agents

* Natural language processing

* Neural computing

* Ontology engineering

* Reinforcement learning

* Speech understanding and interaction

* Text understanding

* Web intelligence

* Very large knowledge systems


PAPER SUBMISSION:
IIP2012 seeks papers describing original work which has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. Conference proceedings will be published by the Springer. All accepted papers will be indexed by EI and INSPEC.

Papers should be no longer than 10 pages including all tables, figures, and references but excluding a cover page. Fonts should be in 10 pt. Each submission must include one cover page which should contain:

(1) Title of the paper with an abstract of no more than 500 words; 

(2) A few keywords, from the list above where possible, giving a clear indication of topics;

(3) Author names with affiliations, complete postal addresses, and phone numbers; 

(4) Email address of the contact author.

The authors can use the word or latex template published in the IIP2012 Website ( http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip2012/) for preparing the papers. All papers should be submitted via the Easychair paper management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iip2012.


GENERAL CHAIRS:

T. Dillon (Australia)

T. Gu (China)

A. Aamodt (Norway)


PROGRAM CHAIRS:

Z. Shi (China)

D. Leake (USA)

S. Vadera (UK)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

A. Aamodt (Norway)

A. Bernardi (Germany)

N. Bredeche (France)

C. Bryant (UK)

L. Cao (Australia)

E. Chang (Australia)

L. Chang (China)

E. Chen (China)

H. Chen (UK)

F. Coenen (UK)

Z. Cui (China)

S. Dustdar (Austria)

S. Ding (China)

Y. Ding (USA)

Q. Duo (China)

J. Ermine (France)

P. Estraillier (France)

W. Fan (UK)

Y. Gao (China)

L. Hansen (Denmark)

T. Hong (Taiwan)

Q. He (China)

T. Honkela (Finland)

Z. Huang (Netherlands)

P. Ibarguengoyatia (Mexico)

G. Kayakutlu (Turkey)

D.Leake (USA)

J. Liang (China)

Y. Liang (China)

H. Leung (HK)

S. Matwin (CA)

E. Mercier-Meziani (France)

F. Meziane (UK)

Z. Meng (China)

S. Nefti-Meziani (UK)

T. Nishida (Japan)

G. Osipov(Russia)

M. Owoc (Poland)

A. Rafea (Egypt)

K. Rajkumar(India)

M. Saraee (UK)

F. Segond (France)

Q.Shen (UK)

ZP. Shi (China)

K. Shimohara (Japan)

A. Skowron (Poland)

M. Stumptner (Australia)

E. Succar (Mexico)

H.Tianfield(UK)

IJ. Timm (Germany)

S. Tsumoto (Japan)

G. Wang (China)

S. Vadera (UK)

Y. Xu (Australia)

H. Xiong (USA)

J. Yang (Korea)

Y. Yao (Canada)

J. Yu (China)

J. Zhang (China)

J. Zhou (China)

Z-H. Zhou (China)

J. Zucker (France)

 

Dear Artificial Intelligence community:
Please share the appended announcement with those who may be interested.
Thank you very much.
======================================================================
                             CALL  FOR  PAPERS

                                  ICAI'12
                    The 2012 International Conference on
                          Artificial Intelligence

                      July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
======================================================================

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each paper. The proceedings of the congress that ICAI is part of, enjoys
a high number of citations; over 25,000 citations so far.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 26, 2012:    Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012:  The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                     (ICAI'12)

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

O  Brain models / cognitive science
O  Natural language processing
O  Fuzzy logic and soft computing
O  Software tools for AI
O  Expert systems
O  Decision support systems
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  Neural networks and applications
O  Heuristic searching methods
O  Languages and programming techniques for AI
O  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
O  Intelligent information fusion
O  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
O  Search and meta-heuristics
O  Swarm Optimization
O  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
O  Integration of AI with other technologies
O  Evaluation of AI tools
O  Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
O  Social impact of AI
O  Emerging technologies
O  Topics on satisfiability
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, ...)

O  Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications:

     - General Machine Learning Theory
       . Statistical learning theory
       . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
       . Multivariate analysis
       . Hierarchical learning models
       . Relational learning models
       . Bayesian methods
       . Meta learning
       . Stochastic optimization
       . Topics on satisfiability
       . Simulated annealing
       . Heuristic optimization techniques
       . Neural networks
       . Reinforcement learning
       . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
       . General Learning models
       . Multiple hypothesis testing
       . Decision making
       . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
       . Non-parametric methods
       . Graphical models
       . Gaussian graphical models
       . Particle filter
       . Cross-Entropy method
       . Ant colony optimization
       . Time series prediction
       . Fuzzy logic and learning
       . Inductive learning and applications
       . Grammatical inference

     - General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques
       . Graph kernel and graph distance methods
       . Graph-based semi-supervised learning
       . Graph clustering
       . Graph learning based on graph transformations
       . Graph learning based on graph grammars
       . Graph learning based on graph matching
       . General theoretical aspects of graph learning
       . Statistical modeling of graphs
       . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs
       . Motif search
       . Network inference
       . General issues in graph and tree mining

     - Machine Learning Applications
       . Aspects of knowledge structures
       . Computational Finance
       . Computational Intelligence
       . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
       . Induction of document grammars
       . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data
       . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval,
         web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining
       . Latent semantic analysis
       . Aspects of natural language processing
       . Intelligent linguistic
       . Aspects of text technology
       . Computational vision
       . Bioinformatics and computational biology
       . Biostatistics
       . High-throughput data analysis
       . Biological network analysis:
         protein-protein networks, signaling networks, metabolic networks,
         transcriptional regulatory networks
       . Graph-based models in biostatistics
       . Computational Neuroscience
       . Computational Chemistry
       . Computational Statistics
       . Systems Biology
       . Algebraic Biology


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by March 12, 2012 and they must be in
either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures,
tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have
been previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the
paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content
of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, ICAI) that the paper is
being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of the
paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final
Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE
style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review
process. In addition, all papers whose authors include a member of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded
review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be
considered for discussion/panels).

Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this
point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work
(ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not
suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)

Proceedings of ICAI will be published in printed conference books (ISBN)
and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each
published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific
literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9%
are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - accessable
from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN
International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings
will also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the
track that ICAI belonged to was included in these databases. Therefore, we
will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI
Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books will be available for
distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers. These books
will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will
be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference.

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission
is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This
paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be
published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

The ICAI conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more
attendees from over 80 countries. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed of
research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials,
panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/
tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as
Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of
Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director,
U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head,
NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director,
NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos
available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress 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. This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. 28775


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC co-sponsors of the last offering of
the congress (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; University
of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; University of Naples
Federico II, Italy; University of Naples Parthenope, Italy; Second
University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M University Com.; University
of North Dakota; and others. CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large
included (a partial list): Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera
Corporation; Pico Computing; SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High
Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); International Society
of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences
and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; UK
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Scientific
Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without Boundaries; and others.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

The proceedings of WORLDCOMP enjoys a high number of citations (ICAI
is an important part of WORLDCOMP). As of February 28, 2012, papers published
in each track of the proceedings have received the following number of
citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR
papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1289 to
ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers; 176 to FCS papers; 9416 to FECS papers; 157
to GCA papers; 75 to GEM papers; 2277 to ICAI papers; 1539 to ICOMP papers;
1247 to ICWN papers; 571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV
papers; 5239 to PDPTA papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1390 to SERP papers; and
177 to SWWS papers. In total, over 25,000 citations have been made (so far)
to papers published in the proceedings of WORLDCOMP conferences.


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. Web site of ICAI'12:
     http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/icai12
2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
     http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct
     as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this
     announcement supersedes earlier ones.

CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: editor@...

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>#####################################################################
>          2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on
>         Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
>
>         December 4-7, 2012, Macau SAR, China
>         Conference Website:  http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012
>
>                  CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
>#####################################################################
>
>The WI-IAT 2012 joint conferences (WI-IAT'12) will co-locate with
>AMT'12, BI'12, and ISMIS'12 as a Congress, a Special Event of the Alan
>Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth).  The Congress will
>have a joint opening, keynotes, reception and banquet.
>
>Sponsored By
>IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII)
>Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART
>
>###########################################################################
># Workshops Chairs
># Prof. Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
>#         Email: y2.li@...
># Prof. Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA
>#         Email: hoeber@...
>#
># (Workshop Proposals Due: April 10, 2012)
># (Workshop Papers Due: July 25, 2012)
># (Workshops Date: December 4, 2012)
>#
># Accepted workshop papers will be published in the workshops proceedings
># published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
># High-quality workshops will be recommended to pursue special issues in
># WI/IAT related journals.
>###########################################################################
>
>As the Web continues to grow and evolve, many new problems and
>challenges are being introduced. The WI-IAT workshops aim to provide
>researchers who share similar research interests to meet and address
>new research challenges and initiatives that concern Web Intelligence
>(WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The Workshops provide a
>venue and forum for contributions in specialized sub-areas of Web
>Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, and allowing authors to
>present new and emerging trends in methods and technologies to
>dedicated audiences.
>
>Following the great successes of WI-IAT'01 held in Maebashi City, Japan,
>WI-IAT'03 held in Halifax, Canada, WI-IAT'04 held in Beijing, China,
>WI-IAT'05 in Compiegne, France, WI-IAT'06 held in Hong Kong, WI-IAT'07
>held in Silicon Valley USA, WI-IAT'08 held in Sydney, Australia,
>WI-IAT'09 held in Milano, Italy, WI-IAT'10 Canada and WI-IAT'11
>France.
>
>WI-IAT'12 will provide a leading international forum for researchers
>and practitioners to present the state-of-the-art WI-IAT technologies;
>examine performance characteristics of various approaches in WI and
>IAT; and cross-fertilize ideas on the development of WI and IAT.
>
>By idea-sharing, brain-storming and discussions on the underlying
>foundations and the
>enabling technologies of WI and IAT, 2012 WI-IAT Workshops will
>capture current important developments of new models, new
>methodologies and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of
>WI or IAT systems.  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.
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Workshop Proposal Submission
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Workshop organizers should submit their proposals (PDF or Word files)
>directly to both Workshop Chairs via e-mail.
>
>Workshop proposals should include the following elements:
>
>- Title of the workshop
>- Names of workshop organizers, affiliation, mailing address and
>e-mail address
>- A description of the topics of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
>- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
>- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of
>   Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
>- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as
>   to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers
>
>+++++++++++++++++++
>Workshop Organizers
>+++++++++++++++++++
>
>The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the
>workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the
>papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and
>range of the Conference.  All papers accepted for workshops will be
>included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer
>Society Press and will be available at the workshops.
>
>The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing
>selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or
>special journal issues.  Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A
>full-day workshop should select 16-20 regular papers, while a half-day
>workshop should select 8-10 regular papers, from a large number of
>submissions.  The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of
>authors of accepted papers at the workshops.
>
>After the acceptation of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:
>
>- Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop
>- Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published
>   on the Conference Web site
>- Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee)
>- Review and select papers
>- Schedule the workshop activities
>
>Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by
>the Workshop Chairs for final acceptance.
>
>All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
>quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
>
>The conference will provide an online paper submission and review
>system to support the workshops.
>
>+++++++++++++++++++
>Topics of Interest
>+++++++++++++++++++
>
>Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and
>initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology
>(IAT).  The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for
>researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results
>and practical development experiences in these two fields.  Suggested,
>but not limited to, workshop topics include:
>
>- Intelligent e-Technology (including e-Science, e-Business,
>               e-Things and e-Activities, e-Learning, e-Finance,
>               e-Medicine, e-Government, e-Community)
>- Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
>- Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
>- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
>- Sensing Web and Smart World
>- Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
>- Ubiquitous Computing
>- Web Agents
>- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
>- Web Mining and Farming
>- Web Scale Commonsense Knowledge Processing
>- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
>- Web Services and Grid Services
>- Web Support Systems
>- World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
>- Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
>- Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
>- Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
>- Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
>- Learning and Self-Adapting Agents
>- Distributed Intelligence
>
>++++++++++++++++
>Important Dates
>++++++++++++++++
>
>Workshop proposal submission:                   April 10, 2012
>Electronic submission of workshop papers:       June 01, 2012
>Workshop paper submission:                      July 25, 2012
>Notification of paper acceptance:               August 05, 2012
>Camera-ready copies of accepted papers:         August 31, 2012
>Workshops:                                      December 4, 2012
>Conference:                                     December 5-7, 2012
>
>*** Contact Information ***
>
>Professor Yuefeng Li
>School of Information Technology
>Queensland University of Technology, Australia
>Email: y2.li@...
>
>Professor Yanqing Zhang
>Department of Computer Science
>Georgia State University
>Email: yzhang@...

>
>======================================================================
>                            CALL  FOR  PAPERS
>
>            EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012
>
>                                 ICAI'12
>                   The 2012 International Conference on
>                         Artificial Intelligence
>
>                     July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
>http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/icai12
>======================================================================
>
>You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
>papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
>and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed
>in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
>each paper. The proceedings of the congress that ICAI is part of,
>enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations so far.
>
>IMPORTANT DATES:
>
>April 12, 2012     Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) and/or
>posters (2 pages)
>April 26, 2012:    Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days)
>May 12, 2012:      Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
>July 16-19, 2012:  The 2012 International Conference on Artificial
>Intelligence
>                    (ICAI'12)
>
>SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
>
>O  Brain models / cognitive science
>O  Natural language processing
>O  Fuzzy logic and soft computing
>O  Software tools for AI
>O  Expert systems
>O  Decision support systems
>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  Neural networks and applications
>O  Heuristic searching methods
>O  Languages and programming techniques for AI
>O  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
>O  Intelligent information fusion
>O  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
>O  Search and meta-heuristics
>O  Swarm Optimization
>O  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
>O  Integration of AI with other technologies
>O  Evaluation of AI tools
>O  Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
>O  Social impact of AI
>O  Emerging technologies
>O  Topics on satisfiability
>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, ...)
>
>O  Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications:
>
>    - General Machine Learning Theory
>      . Statistical learning theory
>      . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
>      . Multivariate analysis
>      . Hierarchical learning models
>      . Relational learning models
>      . Bayesian methods
>      . Meta learning
>      . Stochastic optimization
>      . Topics on satisfiability
>      . Simulated annealing
>      . Heuristic optimization techniques
>      . Neural networks
>      . Reinforcement learning
>      . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
>      . General Learning models
>      . Multiple hypothesis testing
>      . Decision making
>      . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
>      . Non-parametric methods
>      . Graphical models
>      . Gaussian graphical models
>      . Particle filter
>      . Cross-Entropy method
>      . Ant colony optimization
>      . Time series prediction
>      . Fuzzy logic and learning
>      . Inductive learning and applications
>      . Grammatical inference
>
>    - General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques
>      . Graph kernel and graph distance methods
>      . Graph-based semi-supervised learning
>      . Graph clustering
>      . Graph learning based on graph transformations
>      . Graph learning based on graph grammars
>      . Graph learning based on graph matching
>      . General theoretical aspects of graph learning
>      . Statistical modeling of graphs
>      . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs
>      . Motif search
>      . Network inference
>      . General issues in graph and tree mining
>
>    - Machine Learning Applications
>      . Aspects of knowledge structures
>      . Computational Finance
>      . Computational Intelligence
>      . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
>      . Induction of document grammars
>      . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data
>      . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval,
>        web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining
>      . Latent semantic analysis
>      . Aspects of natural language processing
>      . Intelligent linguistic
>      . Aspects of text technology
>      . Computational vision
>      . Bioinformatics and computational biology
>      . Biostatistics
>      . High-throughput data analysis
>      . Biological network analysis:
>        protein-protein networks, signaling networks, metabolic networks,
>        transcriptional regulatory networks
>      . Graph-based models in biostatistics
>      . Computational Neuroscience
>      . Computational Chemistry
>      . Computational Statistics
>      . Systems Biology
>      . Algebraic Biology
>
>
>SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:
>
>Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
>to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org
>Submissions must be uploaded by April 12, 2012 and they must be in
>either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures,
>tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All
>reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of
>accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
>to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have
>been previously published or currently submitted for publication
>elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the
>paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
>author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
>and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content
>of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, ICAI) that the paper is
>being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of the
>paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final
>Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE
>style) pages.
>
>Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality,
>significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory
>recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be
>charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve
>seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review
>process. In addition, all papers whose authors include a member of the
>conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded
>review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be
>considered for discussion/panels).
>
>Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers
>to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
>publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this
>point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work
>(ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not
>suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)
>
>Proceedings of ICAI will be published in printed conference books (ISBN)
>and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in
>science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each
>published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The
>Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for
>Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific
>literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9%
>are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - accessable
>from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN
>International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings
>will also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the
>proceedings in which ICAI was part of (PDPTA/WORLDCOMP) was included in these
>databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing
>procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books will be
>available for distribution on site at the conference.
>
>In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be
>invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a
>number of research books contracted with various publishers - these books will
>be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming
>journal special issues to be published after the conference. For a very few
>examples of such recent books and journal issues, see the links below:
>http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9
>http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6
>+ a number of journal special issues published by BMC Genomics:
>http://www.biomedcentral.com
>
>SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:
>
>Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
>that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the
>submission
>is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This
>paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be
>published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.
>
>GENERAL INFORMATION:
>
>ICAI is one of the premier research conferences in bioinformatics
>and computational biology. It is being held jointly (same location
>and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
>WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
>science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate
>to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 80 countries.
>The congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote
>lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
>poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers
>have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of
>California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
>Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic
>Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid
>Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
>of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT
>Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window
>System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
>Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director,
>U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
>California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant),
>Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
>Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head,
>NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
>Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director,
>NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow
>of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus,
>McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive
>Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep
>Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace
>Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
>about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos
>available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
>
>An important mission of the congress is "Providing a unique platform for
>a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
>developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
>effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
>(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
>and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
>attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
>their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
>have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
>achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."
>
>One main goal of the congress 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. This model
>facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of
>computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
>Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
>research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for
>cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines. 28775
>
>MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:
>
>The proceedings of the congress enjoys a high number of citations. As of
>March 2012, papers published in each track of the proceedings have
>received the following number of citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP
>papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to
>DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1,286 to ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers;
>176 to FCS papers; 9,408 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA papers; 75 to GEM
>papers; 2,172 to ICAI papers; 1,529 to ICOMP papers; 1,247 to ICWN papers;
>571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers; 5,239 to PDPTA
>papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1,390 to SERP papers; and 177 to SWWS papers.
>In total, over 25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers
>published in the proceedings of this federated joint conferences. Refer
>to the URLs below to see the actual citation numbers (each is a link to
>a live search and so it may take a few seconds for the data to pull up):
>
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1816/biocomp-bioinformatics-&\
-computational-biology
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1845/cdes-international-confe\
rence-on-computer-design/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1852/cgvr-international-confe\
rence-on-computer-graphics-and-virtual-reality/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1887/csc-international-confer\
ence-on-scientific-computing/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1920/dmin-int-conf-on-data-mi\
ning/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1891/csreaeee-international-c\
onference-on-e-business-enterprise-information-systems-e-government/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/679/ersa-engineering-of-recon\
figurable-systems-and-algorithms/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/681/esa-embedded-systems-and-\
applications/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1981/fcs-international-confer\
ence-on-foundations-of-computer-science/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1983/fecs-conference-on-front\
iers-in-education/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1998/gca-international-confer\
ence-on-grid-computing-and-applications/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2467/gem-international-confer\
ence-on-genetic-and-evolutionary-methods/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/7/ic-ai-international-confere\
nce-on-artificial-intelligence/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/5/icomp-international-confere\
nce-on-internet-computing/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/48/icwn-international-confere\
nce-on-wireless-networks/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/65/ike-information-and-knowle\
dge-engineering/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2114/ipcv-international-confe\
rence-on-image-processing-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2209/msv-int-conf-on-modeling\
-simulation-&-visualization-methods/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/214/pdpta-parallel-and-distri\
buted-processing-techniques-and-applications/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/332/sam-security-and-manageme\
nt/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/361/serp-software-engineering\
-research-and-practice/
>http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2308/swws-conference-on-seman\
tic-web-and-web-services/
>
>USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
>1. Web site of ICAI'12:
>    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/icai12
>2. To see the caliber of the past offering of ICAI, refer to the web site of
>    the 2011 congress and its affiliated conferences and tracks:
>    http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws
>3. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
>    http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
>4. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct
>    as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this
>    announcement supersedes earlier ones.
>
>CONTACT:
>Inquiries should be sent to: sc@...
>
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