Dear Colleagues, We have organised an exciting event: HIS'2001: International Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. Venue: Adelaide, South Australia Date: 11-12, December 2001 Workshop URL: http://his.hybridsystem.com (Technically co-sponsored by The World Federation of Soft Computing) HIS'01 is an International Workshop that brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of neural networks, fuzzy inference systems, evolutionary algorithms and conventional techniques. The aim of HIS'01 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. HIS'01 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research using hybrid computing techniques and their applications in science, technology, business and commercial. Topics of interest include but not limited to: Applications/techniques using the following, but not limited to: * Machine learning techniques (supervised/unsupervised/ reinforcement learning) * Artificial neural network and evolutionary algorithms * Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques * Neural networks and fuzzy inference systems * Fuzzy clustering algorithms optimized using evolutionary algorithms * Evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, genetic programming ,evolution strategies, grammatical evolution etc) * Hybrid optimization techniques (simulated annealing, tabu search, GRASP etc.) * Hybrid computing using neural networks-fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms * Intelligent agents (architectures, environments, adaptation/learning and knowledge management) * Hybrid of soft computing and hard computing techniques * Models using inductive logic programming, decomposition methods, grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc. * Other intelligent techniques ( support vector machines, rough sets, Bayesian networks, probabilistic reasoning, minimum message length etc) ************************************************************* Paper Submission ************************************************************* We invite you to submit a full paper of 20 pages(maximum limit) for the workshop presentation. Please follow the Springer-Verlag, author's guidelines for more information on submission. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF, postscript or MS word version electronically to: hybrid@softcomputing.net Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. All papers will be peer reviewed by two independent referees of the international program committee of HIS'01. All accepted papers will published in the proceedings of the Workshop by Springer-Verlag, Germany. *********************************************************** Important Dates *********************************************************** Submission deadline: September 07, 2001 Notification of acceptance: October 01, 2001 Camera ready papers and pre-registration due: 15 October'01 ************************************************************ Workshop Chairs ************************************************************ Ajith Abraham, School of Computing and Information Technology Monash University, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 26778, Fax: +61 3 990 26879 Email:ajith.abraham@ieee.org Mario Köppen Department of Pattern Recognition Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Pascalstr. 8-9, 10587 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 (0)30 39 006-200, Fax: +49 (0)30 39 175-17 Email: mario.koeppen@ipk.fhg.de ******************************************************************** International Technical Committee Members Honorary Chair: Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia ******************************************************************** Baikunth Nath, Monash University, Australia Shunichi Amari, Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan Frank Hoffmann, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Greg Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Matthias Klusch, German AI Research Center Ltd., Germany Saratchandran P, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore José Mira, University Nacional de Educ. a Distancia,Spain Sami Khuri, San Jose University, USA Dan Steinberg, Salford Systems Inc, USA Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Venkatesan Muthukumar, University of Neveda, USA Evgenia Dimitriadou, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Mario Köppen, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary Ajith Abraham, Monash University, Australia José Manuel Benítez, University of Granada, Spain Vijayan Asari, Old Dominion University, USA Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK Joshua Singer, Stanford University, USA Morshed Chowdhury, Deakin University, Australia Dharmendra Sharma, University of Canberra, Australia Eugene Kerckhoffs, Delft University of Tech., Netherlands Bret Lapin, SAIC Inc, San Diego, USA Rajan Alex, Western Texas A & M University, USA Sankar K Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de chile, Chile Aureli Soria-Frisch, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Pavel Osmera, Brno University of Tech., Czech Republic Alberto Ochoa, ICIMAF, Cuba Xiao Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Maumita Bhattacharya, Monash University, Australia P J Costa Branco, Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA ******************************************************************