Announcement and Call for Participants Workshop on Soft Computing 21st September, 2000, University of Ulster, UK A one-day workshop on soft computing will be held on 21st September, 2000, at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Five prominent researchers (Prof. E.H. Mamdani, Dr. S. Parsons, Dr. F. Voorbraak, Dr. X.Liu and Dr. M. Ramoni) will give invited talks on applying soft computing to Telecommunication Networks, Intelligent Agents, Robotics, Machine Learning and Data Mining, and Medical Informatics respectively. Please visit the web-site http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~cbhd23/workshop.html for more information, including the preliminary programme, registration form and abstracts of the talks. Also please forward this message to anybody you know who may be interested in the workshop. My apology if you receive this message more than once. Thank you. Best regards, Weiru Liu