We apologize if you receive multiple copies KES'2000 Invitation for papers to the session: "Soft Computing Technologies for Pattern Recognition" The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies (KES'2000) 30 August-1 September 2000, University of Brighton, Sussex, U.K. TOPICS You are invited to submit session papers related, but not limited, to the following topics: a) Neural, Fuzzy and Evolutionary models for supervised and unsupervised classification. b) Multiple Classifiers, Hybrid Models. c) Hardware/Software implementations. d) Applications. e) Others. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS The session chairs forsee a "6 papers" session". Guidelines for Authors of Papers are provided at http://luna.bton.ac.uk/~kes2000/guide.htm Please provide the following information: full name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and E-mail address of the authors. Every paper will be reviewed by two reviewers. Accepted session contributions will be published in the conference proceedings. Please e-mail your papers' postscript files or send your papers to one of the sessions chairs: Dr. Francesco Masulli Dept. Computer and Information Sciences DISI - University of Genoa Via Dodecaneso 35 16146 Genova - Italy masulli@ge.infm.it Dr. Leonard Studer Inst. de Physique des Hautes Energies Batiment des Sciences Physiques Universite de Lausanne CH-1015 Dorigny - Switzerland leonard.studer@iphe.unil.ch DEADLINES Receipt of papers (3 copies): 1 March 2000 Notification of acceptance: 20 March 2000 Receipt of camera-ready copies of papers: 10 April 2000 CONFERENCE INFORMATION For further information about the conference, please visit the conference web site: http://luna.bton.ac.uk/~kes2000/