CIMA 2001 International ICSC Congress COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE; METHODS AND APPLICATIONS http://www.icsc.ab.ca/cima2001.htm (updated weekly) June 19 - 22, 2001 University of Wales, Bangor, Wales (UWB) U.K. General Chair: Ludmila I. Kuncheva, UWB General Co-chair: Tim Porter, UWB A plenary address will be given by Dr. James Bezdek, Univ. of West Florida, USA. CIMA 2001 will include the following symposia: FLA 2001 (Fuzzy Logic and Applications), Chair: Vilem Novak, Czech Republic Co-chair: Irina Perfilieva, Czech Republic AIDA 2001 (Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis), Chair: Mayer Aladjem, Israel ACBM 2001 (Advanced Computing in Bio Medicine), Chair: Friedrich Steimann, Germany ACFM 2001 (Advanced Computing in the Financial Markets), Chair: Christian Haefke, USA. Vice-chair Ypke Hiemstra, The Netherlands Defining "Computational Intelligence" is not straightforward. Several expressions compete to name the same interdisciplinary area. It is difficult, if not impossible, to accommodate in a formal definition disparate areas with their own established individualities such as fuzzy sets, neural networks, evolutionary computation, machine learning, Bayesian reasoning, etc. "Computational Intelligence" is rather the intuition behind the synergism between these and many more, at the verge of Computer Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering. Bringing together diverse expertise and experience can enrich each of the participating discipline and foster new research perspectives in the broad field of Computational Intelligence. The symposium on AIDA'2001 will provide a forum aimed at covering state-of-the-art research, development and applications of computational intelligence techniques in data analysis across a variety of disciplines. All aspects of data analysis are of interest: applications and tools, theory and general principles, algorithms and techniques, etc. The main topics include but are not limited to: * classification, regression, clustering * statistical pattern recognition * neural networks for classification and regression * self-organizing networks * machine learning * support vector machines * committee of machines * data mining * feature extraction and selection * dimensionality reduction * exploratory data analysis * visualization * knowledge-based analysis * human-computer interaction in data analysis * optimization, heuristics and search methods * comparative studies * applications International Program Committee (AIDA'2001): Anderson P., RIT, USA Arsham H., U of Baltimore, USA [] Ben-Arie J., Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA [] Biswas G., Vanderbilt, USA [] Cios K., U of Toledo, USA [] Ferri F., U of Valencia, Spain [] Gori M., U of Siena, Italy [] Guterman H., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel [] Hoffman A., University of New South Wales, Australia [] Jain A.K., Michigan State University, USA [] Krzanowski W.J.University of Exeter, U.K. [] Kudo M., Hokkaido University, Japan [] Lerner B., University of Cambridge, England [] Mardia K., U of Leeds, U.K. [] Oja E., Helsinki U of Technolgoy, Finland [] Posse C., Talaria Inc., USA [] Preece A., University of Aberdeen. Scotland, U.K. [] Roberts S., Imperial College London, U.K. [] Steele N., U of Coventry, U.K. [] Webb A., Defence Research Agency, Malvern, U.K. [] Wnek J., Science Applications International Corporation, U.S.A. [] Xu L., U of Hongkong, Hongkong [] Zelterman D., Yale University, U.S.A. Papers that provide new methodologies and techniques or enhance our understanding of existing methods are particularly welcome. Call for Invited Sessions: The organization of invited sessions is encouraged. Prospective organizers are requested to send a session proposal (consisting of 4-5 invited papers, the recommended session-chair and co-chair, as well as a short statement describing the title and the purpose of the session) to the respective symposium chair or the congress organizer. Invited sessions should preferably start with a tutorial paper. The registration fee of the session organizer will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited papers register to the conference. Call for Workshops, Tutorials and Other Contributions: A workshop/tutorial should focus on a particular topic, and consist of several presentations and open discussions. The proposal for a workshop/tutorial should include the title, topics covered, proposed speakers, targeted audiences, and estimated length (hours) of the workshop/tutorial. The proposal should be submitted either to the congress chair, the corresponding symposium chair or the congress organizer by October 31, 2000. Important Dates: Submission Deadline : October 31, 2000 Notification of Acceptance: December 31, 2000 Delivery of Full Papers February 15, 2001 CIMA 2001 Congress June 19-22, 2001 Sponsors: The British Computer Society University of Wales, Bangor ICSC/NAISO Canada/Switzerland Planning Division ICSC International Computer Science Conventions NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization 5101C - 50 Street - Wetaskiwin, AB T9A 1K1 - Canada - --------------------------------------------------- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.icsc.ab.ca Phone: +1-780-352-1912 Fax: +1-780-352-1913
