Subject: ISMIS'96 Call for Papers
From: Zbigniew W Ras <ras>
Date: 28 Jul 1995 15:45:16 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.ai

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              ****   C A L L     F O R    P A P E R S  ****

NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISMIS'96)

Tatry Hotel, Zakopane, Poland
June 10-13, 1996

SPONSORS
UNC-Charlotte, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Univ. of Technology 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:
   * Approximate Reasoning
   * Evolutionary Computation 
   * Intelligent Information Systems
   * Knowledge Representation and Integration
   * Learning and Knowledge Discovery
   * Logic for Artificial Intelligence
   * Methodologies (modeling, design, validation, performance evaluation).
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 CHAIR
   Miroslaw Dabrowski (Polish Acad. Sci.)

PROGRAM CHAIRS 
   Zdzislaw Pawlak (Warsaw Univ. Tech., Poland)
   Zbigniew W. Ras (UNC-Charlotte & Polish Acad. Sci.) 

ISMIS'96 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jacques Calmet (Karlsruhe, Germany) 
Jaime Carbonell (CMU)
B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State U.) 
Su-Shing Chen (NSF & UNC-Charlotte)
Wesley Chu (UCLA)
Misbah Deen (Keele, U.K.) 
Robert Demolombe (Toulouse, France) 
Jon Doyle (MIT)
Ed Fox (Virginia Tech.) 
Michael Georgeff (AI Inst., Australia) 
David Hislop (US Army) 
Yves Kodratoff (Paris, France)
Jan Komorowski (Trondheim, Norway)
Robert Kowalski (Imperial College, UK) 
Catherine Lassez (IBM Yorktown Heights) 
Michael Lowry (NASA Ames) 
Alberto Martelli (Torino, Italy)
Robert Meersman (Brussels, Belgium)
Maciek Michalewicz (Polish Acad. Sci.)  
Ryszard Michalski (George Mason & Polish Acad. Sci.) 
Masao Mukaidono (Meiji U., Japan)
John Mylopoulos (Toronto, Canada)
Setsuo Ohsuga (Tokyo, Japan)
Lin Padgham (Linkoping, Sweden)
Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Francois Pin (ORNL)
Luc De Raedt (Leuven, Belgium)
Barry Richards (Imperial College, U.K.) 
Colette Rolland (Paris, France)
Lorenza Saitta (Torino, Italy) 
Erik Sandewall (Linkoping, Sweden)
Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw, Poland)
John Sowa (SUNY Binghamton)
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford) 
Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA)
Maria Zemankova (NSF)
Jan Zytkow (Wichita State & Polish Acad. Sci.) 

INVITED SPEAKERS
Michael Brodie (GTE Lab.)
Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Lab.)
Henri Prade (Univ. Paul Sabatier, France)
Erik Sandewall (Linkoping U., Sweden)

SPECIAL SESSION ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
SPEAKERS:
Thomas Back (Univ. Dortmund, Germany)
Kenneth DeJong (George Mason)
Augustin Eiben (Leiden Univ., The Netherlands)
Attilio Giordana (Univ. Torino, Italy)
Zbigniew Michalewicz (UNC-Charlotte & Polish Acad. Sci.)

PAPER SUBMISSION 
Authors are invited to submit four copies of their manuscript 
(maximum 15 pages) to: 

   Dr. Zbigniew W. Ras
   Univ. of North Carolina
   Dept. of Comp. Science
   Charlotte, N.C. 28223
   e-mail: [email-masked]
   fax: 704-547-3516

Submissions should include a separate title page (1 copy) specifying the
title, all authors with their affiliations, abstract (100-200 words), up to
10 keywords (begin the keyword list with at least one of the ISMIS areas
listed above); and the preferred address of the contact author, including
a telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address (if available).  
If possible, the title page should be submitted via email (in plain text) 
to <[email-masked]> to facilitate submissions processing.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Papers:    October 15, 1995 
Acceptance Notification: December 15, 1995 
Final Paper:             February 15, 1996

PUBLICATION
Papers accepted for Regular Sessions will be published by Springer-Verlag 
in LNCS/LNAI.  
Poster Session proceedings will be published by Oak Ridge 
National Laboratory.
Both proceedings will be available at the symposium.

INFORMATION
The High Tatras are located in the mountain-system of the Carpathians,
in the very core of Europe, on the southern border of Poland. With their
extent of 260 square kilometres only, they are the smallest high 
mountain massif of the world, showing, however, all characteristic
signs of high mountains. 
One of the characteristics of High Tatras is that even the highest and the most beautiful spots and mountaintops are
accessible in a relatively easy, fast and secure way. Lakes, remnants
of the Ice Age, are a major attraction, as are caves, of which several
are open to tourists. Deer and stag may easily be met in the valleys,
as might mountain goats in the crags; marmots are a rarer animal.
With a bit of luck, a brown bear or an eagle might be seen. 
Located in a picturesque valley, Zakopane is Poland's only sub-Tatrian
town. The distance from the center of Zakopane to forests and mountain 
fields is only about an hour's comfortable walk.

The closest Polish airports to reach Zakopane are in Warsaw (about 249 miles) and in Cracow (68 miles).
There is also a nearby Slovakian airport in Poprad (31 miles). The most convenient
link with Warsaw is by reserve seat express train (about 6 hours) or by
sleeper (about 9 hours). The best way to travel from Cracow is by PKS
bus (2 hours). People driving their own cars from Central Poland usually
travel through Cracow (Route T-15). 

For further information please contact:

   Dr. Maciek Michalewicz, ISMIS'96
   Polish Academy of Sciences
   Institute of Comp. Science
   ul. Ordona 2
   01-237 Warsaw, Poland
   fax: 48-22-376564
   e-mail: [email-masked]

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