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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 Universitą 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 continues the tradition of emphasizing applications of artificial intelligence and knowledge-based systems to solve real-life problems in all areas including, engineering, science, industry, automation & robotics, business and finance, medicine & biomedicine, 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 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 Applications § Human-Robot Interaction § Temporal Reasoning - - Authors are invited to electronically submit their paper, written in English, of up to 10 single spaced pages, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference. - - Practical experiences with state-of-the-art AI methodologies are also acceptable when they reflect lessons of unique value to the conference attendees. Shorter works, up to 6 pages, to be presented in 10 minutes, may be submitted as SHORT PAPERS representing work in progress or suggesting possible research directions. ("short paper" should be indicated in the submission letter in this case). - - Paper submission is required by November 8, 2004. All papers must provide a keyword list including one or more of the topics listed above. All papers will be formally peer reviewed. Notification of the results of the review process will be made by January 17, 2005; final copies of papers for inclusion in the proceedings will be due by February 25, 2005. - - All paper submissions will be done electronically, as indicated in the instructions on the conference web site http://www.di.uniba.it/iea-aie. All papers must be in MS word format. The conference proceedings, published in a bound volume by Springer Verlag in their 'Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence' series (instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), will be available at the conference. - - Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All papers, but particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in an expanded form in the International Journal of Applied Intelligence. 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 Universitą 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organizing Committee: Nadia de Carolis, Nicola Fanizzi, Stefano Ferilli Email: {decarolis, fanizzi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Conference Secretariat: Centro Italiano Congressi CIC Sud Please send us your name and email address at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you wish to receive information for future IEA/AIE conferences