CALL FOR PAPERS Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems PAIS-2000 ECAI, the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence is pleased to announce its "Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS-2000)" sub-conference of ECAI-2000, 20-25 August 2000, Berlin. The PAIS-2000 Programme Committee invites authors to submit application papers. This event, associated with ECAI-2000 is created to specifically highlight significant successful applications of Intelligent Systems technology. The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected IS techniques and share experience on the applicability, development and deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real application using Intelligent Systems (IS) technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make successful IS based applications. The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event will present papers describing successful applications of intelligent systems. Although associated with ECAI, it has a separate review process conducted by experts in the application of intelligent systems technologies. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear Accepted papers will be published in a special section of the ECAI-2000 proceedings. For full details, see: http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/ Email: pais2000@ai.univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-63114 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 IMPORTANT DATES 2 Feb 2000 Deadline for PAIS paper summaries 4 Feb 2000 Deadline for papers 28 Apr 2000 Notification of acceptance 29 May 2000 Camera-ready copies of papers 23-25 Aug 2000 PAIS-2000, Berlin PAIS-2000 Programme Committee Riccardo Bellazzi Universita' di Pavia, Italy Max Bramer University of Portsmouth, England Bertrand Braunschwieg IFP, France Padraig Cunningham Trinity College, Ireland Richard Ellis Crew Services, UK Oscar Dressler O'ccam, Germany Boi Faltings EPFL, Switzerland Gerhard Fleischanderl Siemens, Austria Matti Kurki Kaski Tech, Finland Ann Macintosh Napier University, Scotland Silvia Miksch Tech U of Vienna, Austria Maurice Mulvenna MINEit Software, Northern Ireland Chris Price First Earth, Wales Josef Radermacher FAW, Germany Oliviero Stock IRST, Italy Patrick Taillibert Thomson-CSF DETEXIS, France Mugar Tatar Daimler Chrysler, Germany Arnold Van de Burgh Compaq, Scotland Ian Watson AI-CBR, UK Franz Wotawa Tech U of Vienna, Austria Dr. Robert Milne PAIS-2000 Chairman Intelligent Applications, Ltd. Scotland rmilne@bcs.org.uk