Call for Papers
TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISMIS'2000)
Hilton at University Place, Charlotte, NC, USA, October 11-14, 2000

SPONSORS: School of IT at UNC-Charlotte and others

PURPOSE OF THE SYMPOSIUM: This Symposium is intended to attract individuals
who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of
intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful
exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the
cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: Evolutionary
Computation, Intelligent Information Retrieval, Intelligent Information
Systems, Knowledge Representation and Integration, Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining, Logic for Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing.
In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent
Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change,
manufacturing, health care, etc.

SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS
Setsuo Ohsuga (Waseda U., Japan) and Zbigniew W. Ras (UNC-Charlotte)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
A. Biermann, P. Bosc, J. Calmet, S. Carberry, J. Carbonell, N. Cercone, B.
Croft, J. Debenham, S.M. Deen, K. DeJong, R. Demolombe, B. Desai, T.
Elomaa, F. Esposito, A. Giordana,  M. Hadzikadic, D. Hislop, K. Hori, W.
Kloesgen, Y. Kodratoff, J. Komorowski, J. Koronacki, D. Maluf, D. Malerba,
R.L. de Mantaras, S. Matwin, R. Meersman, Z. Michalewicz, R. Michalski, R.
Mizoguchi, M. Mukaidono, L. De Raedt, V. Raghavan, E. Rosenthal, L. Saitta,
S. Sewihy, A. Skowron, V.S. Subrahmanian, S. Tsumoto, T. Yamaguchi, W.
Zadrozny, G.P. Zarri, M. Zemankova, N. Zhong, J.M. Zytkow

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit four copies of their manuscript in LNCS/LNAI
Style (maximum 10 pages) to:

PAPERS FROM JAPAN/ASIA/AUSTRALIA
Setsuo Ohsuga
27-39 Kakinoki-dai
Aoba-ku, Yokohama-shi
227-0048, Japan
mail: ohsuga@ohsuga.info.waseda.ac.jp
or ohsuga@fd.catv.ne.jp
phone: +81 45 972 8692

ALL OTHER PAPERS
Zbigniew W. Ras
Univ. of North Carolina
Dept. of Comp. Science
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, N.C. 28223, USA
mail: ras@uncc.edu
phone: 704-547-3516

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Papers: March 1, 2000
Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2000
Final Paper: June 30, 2000

PUBLICATION
Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI and will be
available at the symposium.

For more information about ISMIS'00 please visit our WWW site at
http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~ras/call00.html