Subject: Call fo participation WCES'98
From: Rogelio Soto <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 12:30:32 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.fuzzy,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai.genetic,comp.ai.edu,comp.ai.nat-lang,comp.ai.shells

The Fourth World Congress on Expert Systems
            Application of Advanced Information Technologies
			Call for Participation

                      EXTENDED DEADLINE: AUGUST 15, 1997

March 16-20, 1998
Hotel Presidente Inter-Continental
Mexico City

http://www-cia.mty.itesm.mx/wces98

Hosted by:
          ITESM-Center for Artificial Intelligence
          International Society for Intelligent Systems
          Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence
          CONACYT

Corporate Sponsorship:
          Infosel
          Microsoft Mexico
          Alestra AT&T
          CEMEX

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The Fourth World Congress on Expert Systems is dedicated to providing an
international representation of both scholarly and practical issues on
intelligent systems technologies and applications. An  important outcome
of this Congress is the sharing of worldwide ideas in the intelligent
systems field, which would lead to the standardization of methodologies,
techniques and tools. Papers describing applications of intelligent
system technologies are solicited. The following application areas and
technologies are specifically targeted and emphasized.

Application areas:

- Business and Commerce (A1)
- Banking and Finance (A2)
- Manufacturing and Engineering (A3)
- Telecommunications (A4)
- Sustainable Development (A5)
- Energy and Environment (A6)
- Education (A7)
- Construction (A8)
- Other (A9)

Technologies:

- Expert Systems: Management, development, standardization (T1)
- Intelligent Agents: Information superhighway (T2)
- Data Mining: Discovery, pattern recognition (T3)
- Intelligent Interfaces: Multimedia, virtual reality, natural language,
  speech, vision (T4)
- Computational Intelligence: Neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy
  logic (T5)
- Learning: Intelligent tutoring systems, machine learning (T6)
- Knowledge: Acquisition, verification, sharing and re-use (T7)
- Reasoning: Qualitative, model, constrained, commonsense (T8)
- Intelligent Robotics: Planning, navigation, assembly (T9)
- Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Integration (T10)
- Other Technologies (T11)

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Call for Papers

Paper Submission Requirements:
Authors should submit full papers by no later than August 15, 1997. Each
submission must include one cover containing:
- Name(s), affiliation(s), complete address(es), telephone, fax,
e-mail    for the principal author, and the title of the paper.
- Type of paper: application or technology (include appropriate code     
  from the lists above: A1,..,A9, T1,..,T11).
- Title and Abstract Page.
- The complete English language text, not to exceed 15 pages, including
  illustrations and references.

Send papers to:
Rogelio Soto/Enrique Sucar, Program Chairs
Phone: (52-8) 328-4197        Fax: (52-8) 328-4189
E-mail:  [email-masked]
Papers in postscript files will be accepted by electronic mail:
[email-masked]
Otherwise send five copies of the complete manuscript to:
Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM,
Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada #2501 Sur, Monterrey, N.L., 64849 Mexico.

Notice of acceptance of papers will be sent by October 1, 1997 to the
principal author. There will be published proceedings of the Congress,
and selected expanded papers will be published in a special issue of the
international journal, Expert Systems with Applications.

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Call for Panels

The panels should cover timely topics related to the major tracks of the
Congress. The panels will typically run for 1.5 hours, with 3-4
speakers. Format for the panel proposals is as follows:
- One page proposal indicating the proposed panel topic, panel    
  chairperson, and likely panel participants.
- Write a 200 word abstract about the content of the panel, and include  
  the full names and mailing addresses (telephone, fax and e-mail  
  addresses) of the panel chairperson.

Send proposals by August 15, 1997 to:
Christian Lemaitre, Panel Chair
Laboratorio Nacional de Informatica Avanzada
Enrique Rebsamen #80, Xalapa, Veracruz, 91090,  
Mexico.
Phone: (52-28) 18-1302,  18-5352         Fax: (52-28) 18-1508
E-mail:  [email-masked]

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Call for Tutorials

Proposal for tutorials, half day or full day, should cover timely topics
related to the major tracks of the Congress. Format for the tutorial
proposal is as follows:
- Tutorial title, a 200 word abstract, brief outline.
- Speaker's information needs to include names, mailing addresses
  (telephone, fax and e-mail addresses), publications, and
contributions   to the proposed tutorial. Selected speakers will be
financially   
  supported accordingly.

Send proposals by August 15, 1997 to:
Osvaldo Cairo, Tutorial Chair
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
Rio Hondo No. 1, Tizapan San Angel, Mexico, D. F., 01000 Mexico.
Phone: (52-5) 616-2211                   Fax: (52-5) 616-2211
E-mail: [email-masked]

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Call for Workshops
http://sgi.iie.org.mx/~luis/wces98/workshops.html

Proposal for workshops, should cover timely topics related to the major
tracks of the Congress. The workshops will run in parallel with tutorial
sessions. Format for the workshop proposal is as follows:
- Workshop title
- A 200 word abstract, brief outline.
- Speaker's information needs to include names, mailing addresses
  (telephone, fax and e-mail addresses), publications, and
contributions   to the proposed workshop.

Send proposals by August 15, 1997 to:
Luis A. Pineda, Workshop Chair
Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas
AP 1-475, Cuernavaca, Mor., 62001 Mexico.
Phone: (52-73) 18-3811  Ext. 7222     Fax: (52-73) 18-2658
E-mail:  [email-masked]

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Call for Exhibits

Computer manufacturers, publishers, software companies, universities and
selected papers with working programs could present products and
demonstrations during the Congress. For a complete exhibit information
package contact:
Liliana Canales, Exhibits Chair
Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM,
Av. Eugenio Garza Sada #2501, Monterrey, N.L., 64849, Mexico.
Phone: (52-8) 328-4387       Fax: (52-8) 328-4189
E-mail:  [email-masked]

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Fees
			   	            CONFERENCES
			      On or Before   		 After (On Site)
			     31-Dec-1997		31-Dec-1997
Regular			        $450 USD		   $550 USD
Students			$250 USD		   $350 USD
				       	     TUTORIALS
			      On or Before               After (On Site)
			     31-Dec-1997		31-Dec-1997
Regular 			$125 USD		   $175 USD
Students			$ 45 USD		   $ 55 USD
					     WORKSHOPS
			      On or Before		 After (On Site)
			     31-Dec-1997		31-Dec-1997
Regular			        $ 45 USD		   $ 55 USD
Students			$ 25 USD		   $ 35 USD

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Information

Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM
Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada #2501 Sur,
Monterrey, N.L., 64849 Mexico.
Phone: (52-8) 328-4182,  328-4379
Fax: (52-8) 328-4189
E-mail:  [email-masked]

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Housing Request and Flight Information

Horizons Unlimited
92 East Main Street
Elmsford, New York 10523 USA
Phone: 914-592-4316, 1-800-354-4484
Fax: 914-592-3557

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The Fourth World Congress on Expert Systems is organized in cooperation
with:

American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence in Australia
British Computer Society-Specialist Group in Expert Systems
Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence
Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Interest Group
CHASQUI
Cognizant Communication Corp.
Danish AI Society
Department of Management Science at George Washington University
European Coordinating Committee on AI
Expert Systems With Applications: An International Journal
Failure and Lessons Learned in Inf. Tech. Management: An International
Journal
Finnish AI Society
Horizons Unlimited
International Association of Knowledge Engineers
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc.
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
Israel Association for Artificial Intelligence
Korean ES Society
Mexican Society for Computer Science
Norwegian AI Society
Singapore
 Computer Society AI Chapter
Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society
Swedish AI Society
The Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence

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Organization

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Honorary Conference Chair
Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford Univ., USA
Adolfo Guzman, IPN, Mexico

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Conference Founder
Jay Liebowitz, George Washington Univ., USA

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Conference Chair
Francisco J. Cantu-Ortiz, ITESM, Mexico

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Conference Co-Chairs
Jay Liebowitz, George Washington Univ., USA
Ofelia Cervantes, SMIA, UDLA, Mexico
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada

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Corporate Committee
Arturo Galvan, Infosel, Mexico
Felipe Sanchez, Microsoft Mexico, Mexico
Sergio Guzman, CEMEX, Mexico

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National Committee
Francisco Cervantes, ITAM 
Juan Francisco Corona, ITESM-CEM
Jesus Figueroa, U. Valle de Mexico
Juan Frausto, ITESM-Mor
Felipe Lara, UNAM
Cristina Loyo, LANIA
Jose Luis Marroquin, CIMAT
Guillermo Morales, CINVESTAV
Jose Negrete, U. Veracruzana
Pablo Noriega, LANIA
Guillermo Rodriguez, IIE
Carlos Rodriguez Lucatero, ITESM-CEM
Antonio Sanchez, UDLA
Carlos Scheel, ITESM-Mty
Carlos Zozaya, ITAM

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Regional Chairs
Asia:
   R. Sadananda, Asian Inst. of Tech., Thailand
Australia:
   John Debenham, Univ. of Tech., Sydney
Canada:
   Mary E. Deutsch-Mcleish, Univ. of Guelph
   I. Burhan Turksen, Univ. of Toronto
Caribbean:
   Myron Chin, Univ. of West Indies
Eastern Europe:
   Tibor Vamos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Egypt:
   Ahmed Rafea, Central Lab for Agricultural ES
European Union:
   Johan den Biggelaar, CIBIT, The Netherlands
   Aleksandar Jovanovic, MPA Stuttgart, Germany
   Alan Sangster, Queens University of Belfast, UK
   Juan Pazos Sierra, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
   Gian Piero Zarri, EHESS-CAMS, France
Far East:
   Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
   Desai Narasimhalu, Nat'l Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
   Jae Kyu Lee, KAIST, Korea  (3WCES Chair)
   Tu Xuyan, Beijing Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China
Israel:
   Martin Golumbic, Bar-Ilan Univ.
Norway:
   Bernt Bremdal, Bremdal Tech. Services
   Roar Fjellheim, Computas Expert Systems
South America:
   Dibio L. Borges, U. Federal Goias, Brasil
   Jose Ramirez, Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela
   Javier Pinto, Univ. Catolica de Chile, Chile
United States:
   Yi-Tzuu Chien, National Science Foundation
   Roy Rada, Washington State University

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Program Committee Chairs:
Rogelio Soto, ITESM-Mty, Mexico
Enrique Sucar, ITESM-Mor, Mexico

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Tutorials Chair:
Osvaldo Cairo, ITAM, Mexico

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Panels Chair:
Christian Lemaitre, LANIA, Mexico

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Workshops Chair:
Luis A. Pineda, IIE, Mexico

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Exhibits Chair:
Liliana Canales, ITESM-Mty, Mexico

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Publication Chair:
Robert Miranda, Cognizant Communication Corp., USA

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Publicity Chairs:
Moraima Campbell, ITESM-Mty, Mexico
Carlos Vizcaino, Soluciones Avanzadas, Mexico

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Travel & Local Arrangements Chairs:
Leticia Rodriguez, ITESM-Mty, Mexico
Sheila Bergman & Justine Palazzo, Horizons Unlimited, USA

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Organizing Committee:
Jose Escamilla, ITESM-Mty, Mexico
Jose M. Sanchez, ITESM-Mty, Mexico
Horacio Carvajal, Banamex, Mexico