The Sixteenth IFIP World Computer Congress will include the following
international conference of particular interest to the Knowledge
Acquisition community:

INTELLIGENT INFORMATION PROCESSING:  IIP'2000
21-24 August, 2000
Beijing, China

http://www.wcc2000.org/
    
The conference, created by the IFIP Technical Committee on Artificial
Intelligence (TC12), is a forum for international scientific exchange,
promotion of interdisciplinary work, and presentation of leading-edge
applications in selected areas of Intelligent Information Processing. 
As one of the federated conferences of WCC2000, the conference will
comprise three tracks: (1) Intelligent Information Management, (2)
Knowledge-Based System Architecture, and (3) Distributed Intelligence.

Please see the WCC'2000 Web pages (http://www.wcc2000.org/) and follow
the link to "Call for Papers" and to "IIP2000" to read about the three
tracks and their respective topics of interest.  The Web pages also
provide the complete list of program-committee members for the three
tracks of IIP'2000.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

All papers submitted must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to
other journals or conferences concurrently for consideration of
publication. Papers must be written in English with a length of around
14 pages (A4 or Letter size), including figures, tables, and references.
Text should be typed in 12-point Times-Roman font with a line spacing of
1.5 lines (18 points) or larger. Each paper should have a title page
that include the name and complete coordinates (postal address, email,
phone and fax) of all authors.

Authors must first submit their paper's title page (including author
name, address, paper's title and abstract) electronically to the contact
person in Beijing (email: iip@wcc2000.org) by January 5, 2000.  Authors
should then identify the track of their papers (Track 1, 2, or 3) and
submit four clearly printed copies of their full papers to the Track
Program Co-chair responsible for the track (listed below) for review by
January 10, 2000. Each submission must have a cover letter indicating
that at least one author of the paper will attend the conference and
present the paper if it is accepted.

TRACK 1: INTELLIGENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
     Boi FALTINGS
     LIA(DI), EPFL
     IN-Ecublens
     CH-1015 Lausanne
     Switzerland
     Fax: +41-21-693-5225
     E-mail: faltings@lia.di.epfl.ch

TRACK 2: KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
     Mark A. MUSEN
     Stanford Medical Informatics 
     251 Campus Drive, Suite X-215
     Stanford University
     Stanford, CA 94305-5479
     USA
     Phone: +1 (650) 725-3390
     Fax: +1 (650) 725-7944
     E-mail: musen@SMI.Stanford.EDU

TRACK 3: DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE
     SHI Zhongzhi
     Institute of Computing Technology
     Chinese Academy of Sciences
     Beijing 100080, China
     Tel. (+86)-10-6256-5533 ext. 5688
     Fax: (+86)-10-6256-7724
     E-mail: iip@wcc2000.org
     or shizz@envst-1.ict.ac.cn

All submitted papers will be fully refereed. Notification of receipt
will be sent to the first author (or designated author) electronically
soon after receipt. All other correspondence will be sent to the first
author unless otherwise indicated.  Neither electronic nor fax
submissions of the full paper are acceptable.