2nd CFP IEA/AIE-2005 (Int'l Conf. on Industrial & Engineering Applications of AI & Expert Systems)

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IEA/AIE-2005
          CALL FOR PAPERS
Eighteenth International Conference on
Industrial & Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems

http://www.di.uniba.it/iea-aie/

          June 22-25, 2005
          Dipartimento di Informatica
          Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy

Sponsored by:
    International Society of Applied Intelligence
Organized in Cooperation with:
    AAAI, ACM/SIGART, CSCSI/SCEIO, ECCAI, ENNS, INNS, JSAI, Texas State, =

AI*IA

IEA/AIE 2005 continues the tradition of emphasizing applications of
artificial intelligence and knowledge-based systems to solve real-life=20
problems in all areas including, engineering, science, industry,=20
automation & robotics, business and finance, medicine & biomedicine,=20
bioinformatics, cyberspace, and man-machine interactions.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Adaptive Control                      - Intelligent Interfaces
   - Applications to Design                - Intelligent Systems In=20
Education
   - Applications to Manufacturing         - Internet Applications
   - Autonomous Agents                     - KBS Methodology
   - BioInformatics                        - Knowledge Management
   - Case-based Reasoning                  - Knowledge Processing
   - Computer Vision                       - Machine Learning
   - Constraint Satisfaction               - Model-based Reasoning
   - Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery     - Natural Language Processing
   - Decision Support                      - Neural Networks
   - Distributed Problem Solving           - Planning and Scheduling
   - Expert Systems                        - Reasoning Under Uncertainty
   - Fuzzy Logic                           - Spatial Reasoning
   - Genetic Algorithms                    - Speech Recognition
   - Genetic Programming                   - System Integration
   - Heuristic Search                      - Systems for Real Life=20
Applications
   - Human-Robot Interaction               - Temporal Reasoning


Submission Process and Schedule


     * Authors are invited to submit their paper, written in English, of =

up to 10 pages, presenting the results of original research or=20
innovative practical applications relevant to the conference. Practical=20
experiences with state-of-the-art AI methodologies are also acceptable=20
when they reflect lessons of unique value to the conference attendees.
     * Shorter works, up to 6 pages, to be presented in 10 minutes, may=20
be submitted as SHORT PAPERS representing work in progress or suggesting =

possible research directions. (Please, indicate "short paper"=20
exclusively in the comments text-area of the submission form).
     * All papers will have to be submitted electronically through the=20
web-based system, http://www.di.uniba.it/iea-aie/submission.html
following the instructions therein. Paper submission is required by=20
November 8, 2004. All papers will be formally peer reviewed.=20
Notification of the results of the review process will be made by=20
January 17, 2005; final copies of papers for inclusion in the
conference proceedings will be due by February  25, 2005
     * All submitted papers must be (strictly) in PDF format.
The papers must be prepared in MS Word or LaTeX, complying to Springer's =

LNCS style (see the typesetting guidelines mentioned below).
All papers must provide a key word list including one or more of the=20
topics listed above.
     * The bundle of the final version of the accepted papers will=20
require the sources used during the preparation as well as the files of=20
the figures, etc...
     * The conference proceedings, published in a bound volume by=20
Springer-Verlag in their 'Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence'=20
series will be available at the conference (see the typesetting=20
guidelines at the publisher's site=20
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
     * Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award=20
to be announced at the conference. All papers, but particularly those=20
nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically=20
considered for publication in an expanded form in the International=20
Journal of Applied Intelligence.


IMPORTANT DATES

Papers submission deadline:
November 8, 2004
Notification of review results:
January 17, 2005
Final paper submission deadline:
February 25, 2005




CONFERENCE CHAIRS AND ORGANIZATION

Moonis Ali, Professor
General Chair of IEA/AIE-2004
Texas State University-San Marcos
Department of Computer Science
601 University Drive
San Marcos TX 78666-4616 USA
Fax: (+1) 512-245-8750
Email: [email protected]

Floriana Esposito, Professor
Program Chair of IEA/AIE-2005
Universita degli Studi di Bari
Dipartimento di Informatica
Via E. Orabona 4
70125 Bari, Italy
Fax/Voice:(+39) 080-544-3264
Email: [email protected]

Program Co-Chairs:
Donato Malerba, Giovanni Semeraro
Email: {malerba, semeraro}@di.uniba.it

Organizing Committee:
Nadia de Carolis, Nicola Fanizzi, Stefano Ferilli
Email: {decarolis, fanizzi, ferilli}@di.uniba.it

Conference Secretariat:
Centro Italiano Congressi CIC Sud


PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

# Agosti M. IT
# Baumeister J. DE
# Belli F. DE
# Borzemski L. PL
# Bratko I. SI
# Cadoli M. IT
# Chang K.H. US
# Chen Z. CN
# Chung P. UK
# Dapoigny R. FR
# Dasigi V.G. US
# del Pobil A.P. ES
# Drummond C. CA
# Famili A. CA
# Frasconi P. IT
# Gaglio S. IT
# Gams M. AT
# Giordana A. IT
# Goker M. US
# Hendtlass T. AU
# Hinde C. UK
# Honkela T. FI
# Ishizuka M. JP
# Ito T. JP
# Kietz J.U. DE
# Klein M. FR
# Koronacki J. PL
# Kumara S. US
# Laurini R. FR
# Lesser V. US
# Loganantharaj R. US
# L=F3pez de M=E1ntaras R. ES
# Matthews M. US
# Mello P. IT
# Mira J. ES
# Missikoff M. IT
# Mitra D. US
# Moniz Pereira L. PT
# Monostori L. HU
# Nguyen N.T. PL
# Okhuno H.G. JP
# Potter W. US
# Ras Z. US
# Saitta L. IT
# Shadbolt N. UK
# Shih T.K. TW
# Silva de Azevedo H.J. BR
# Sim K.M. HK
# Soda G. IT
# Stock O. IT
# Tanaka T. JP
# Tatar M.M. DE
# Torasso P. IT
# Turini F. IT
# Wotawa F. AT
# Yang C. CA