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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

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           ARTIFICIAL  INTELLIGENCE  in  MEDICINE

                               SPECIAL   ISSUE   on
   KNOWLEDGE - BASED  NEUROCOMPUTING  in  MEDICINE
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The journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
(http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/artmed) invites contributions
for a Special Issue on Knowledge-Based Neurocomputing in Medicine. Full
papers should be sent to
the address below and are due by 30 April 2001. The journal's web site
contains guidelines for authors.

Knowledge-Based Neurocomputing, the topic of a recently published
book (http://www.i-u.de/schools/cloete/book.htm) edited by Ian Cloete and
Jacek M. Zurada, focuses
on methods to encode prior knowledge and to extract, refine, and revise
knowledge within a neurocomputing
system. The journal calls for papers on knowledge-based artificial neural
networks within a medical
application area.

A paper should address at least the following three components:
neurocomputing, processing of knowledge,
and a medical application area. Of course state-of-the-art research is
required, however, the contributions
may either be theoretical with a medical line of thought or medical
application-oriented with results and a
discussion. Each contribution may be 20 to 25 pages long.

Contributors who would like to be considered for invited papers are
requested to contact the guest editor,
Ian Cloete (ian.cloete@i-u.de), for consideration. Please send an extended
abstract of at least 3 A4 pages
describing your proposed contribution, preferably in postscript or pdf
format by email, or to the address
given below, by 31 December 2000. Further information on the call for papers
will be posted on the web
page    http://www.i-u.de/schools/cloete/aimcfp.htm

Prof. Dr. Ian Cloete
International University in Germany
Campus 2
D-76646 Bruchsal
Germany

Email:  ian.cloete@i-u.de
                ian.cloete@ieee.org
Phone:          +49-7251-700230
Fax:            +49-7251-700250
Web:             http://www.i-u.de/schools/cloete/index.htm
IU Web:          http://www.i-u.de/