**** ISDA'06 - First Call for Papers **** 6th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'06) October 16-18, 2006 Jinan, Shandong, P. R. CHINA Conference URL: http://isda2006.ujn.edu.cn Mirror Site: http:// *************************************************** ISDA'06 is technically co-sponsored by: - European Neural Network Society (ENNS) - European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) - The World Federation on Soft Computing - IEEE Singapore Robotics and Automation Chapter - Intelligent Automation Society of Chinese Association of Automation Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA2006) is the 6th International conference that brings together international soft computing, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners and users. The aim of ISDA 2006 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. ****************************************************** ISDA'06 will focus on the following topics: A. Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications * Artificial Neural Networks * Mathematical foundations of neural networks * Architectures and algorithms * Learning theory (supervised/ unsupervised/ reinforcement learning) * Knowledge based networks * Implementation issues of neural networks * Support Vector Machines * Neural network applications * Fuzzy Systems, fuzzy logic and possibility theory * Fuzzy expert systems * Fuzzy system design using evolutionary algorithms * Fuzzy system modeling and simulation * Fuzzy systems and applications * Evolutionary Algorithms * Genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, genetic programming and evolutionary programming * Learning Classifiers * Hybrid evolutionary algorithms * Evolutionary algorithms and applications * Fusion of neural network- fuzzy systems * Fusion of fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms * Fusion of neural network - evolutionary algorithms * Fusion of neural network- fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms * Intelligent agents (architectures, environments, adaptation/ learning and knowledge management) * Bayesian networks and probabilistic reasoning * Rough sets * Statistical learning techniques * Fusion of statistical methods and soft computing techniques * CAD systems * Intelligent optimization techniques * Intelligent techniques in Bioinformatics B. Intelligent Image and Signal Processing * Design and implementation of intelligent signal processing systems * Image, vedio and multidimensional signal processing * Multimedia signal processing * Speech processing * Features and classification * Texture analysis * Document analysis * Stereoscopic vision * Shape processing * Object recognition * Image and video retrieval * Image and video compression C. Intelligent Internet Modeling * Web intelligence * Search engines * Information retrieval (web mining) * Database querying * Ontology * XML mining * Intelligent networking between Web Sites * Network security, intrusion detection * Information aggregation and fusion * Interaction with intelligent agents * Intelligent agents and interfaces for personalization and adaptivity * Intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW * Adaptive hypermedia systems * Agents for digital cities, virtual communities and agent societies D. Intelligent Data mining * Discovering patterns in continuous data * Uncertainty management for data mining * Clustering algorithms and applications * Classification trees * Mining time series * Mining in a Mobile Environment * Statistical Considerations in Learning * XML Mining * Text Mining * Distributed Data Mining E. Intelligent Business Systems * e-learning, e-commerce, e-business, e-finance * Risk management * Derivatives pricing * Portfolio management and asset allocation * Stock market, forex market analysis, dynamics; simulation * Hedging, trading & arbitrage strategies * Financial modeling * Computational economics * Intelligent management * Multicriteria decision making F. Intelligent Control and Automation * Mathematical modeling and analysis of complex systems * Soft computing/computational intelligence in control systems * Knowledge based control systems * Adaptive control systems * Control applications in robotics, manufacturing, process control, industrial systems, automotive, vehicular systems, spacecraft and so on G. Intelligent Agents * Adaptation and learning * Agent architectures and communication languages * Communication, collaboration, and interaction of humans and agents * Conversational agents * Coordinating multiple agents * Designing agent systems - methodologies & software engineering * Evolution of agents * Knowledge acquisition and management * models of emotion, motivation, or personality * multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration H. Intelligent Knowledge Management * Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic modeling * Development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases * Automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases (especially raw text) * Performance evaluation * Parallel database systems * Data and knowledge sharing * Cooperation in heterogeneous systems * Domain modeling and ontology-building * Concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing * Digital Libraries * Multimedia Databases. ************************************************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit a: - full paper of 6 pages, for oral presentation, A4 size, IEEE 2 columns format, using MS Word/LaTeX - proposal to organize a technical session (see the Call for Events Proposals in the conference Web page for more information). The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or copyright protected by the author if accepted. Besides papers in regular sessions, papers in special sessions are also invited to provide forums for focused discussions on new topics and innovative applications of established approaches. A special session consists of at least four related papers. Proposals for special sessions including the session organizers, author names, paper titles, abstracts, and brief statements on the purposes of the sessions must be submitted to by May 1, 2006. All papers should be submitted electronically via Online Paper Submission System. The format of the initial submissions can be PDF, MS Word, or Postscript. The file of the final accepted papers should be in either Word or Latex. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the respective fields according to the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions, before submitting the final papers. All accepted papers with paid registration will be included in the Proceedings of ISDA2006, to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press . ***************************************************************** Important Dates: * Special Session Proposal: May 1, 2006 * Paper Submission: May 15, 2006 * Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2006 * Final Paper Submission: June 30, 2006 ******************************************************* ISDA'06 Conference Organization: Honorary Chair Jian Song, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Chairs Zengqi Sun, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Ajith Abraham, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea Xin Cheng, Jinan University, Shandong, China Program Co-Chairs Bo Yang, Jinan University, China Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, China Advisory Committee Members Qidi Wu, Ministry of Education of China, China Hongxin Wu, National Dept. of Aerospace, China Ajith Abraham, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Sang Yong Han, Chung-Ang University, Korea Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, Cambridge, USA Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia P. Saratchandran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore X. Yao, The University of Birmingham, U.K Shuzhi Sam Ge, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jun Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Publicity Co-Chairs Yaochu Jin, Germany Ranadhir Ghosh, Australia Nadia Nedjah, South America Andy Auyeung, USA Akshai Aggarwal, Canada Hongbo Liu, China Xiaozhi Gao, Finland Maria Ganzha, Poland Berend Jan van der Zwaag, Netherlands Simon X. Yang, Canada Zhi-Hua Zhou, China Local Organizing Committee Shouning Qu, Jinan University, China Yong Zhang, Jinan University, China Jiwen Dong, Jinan University, China Jinping Li, Jinan University, China Xiaohong Wang, Jinan University, China Mingjian Huang, Jinan University, China Mingjun Liu, Jinan University, China Zhonghua Wang, Jinan University, China Yuan Zhang, Jinan University, China International Program Committee Costa Branco P J, Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal Robert Babuska, TU Delft, The Netherlands Carlos Coello, Laboratorio Nacional de Inform¨¢tica Avanzada, Mexico Sung Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea Tibor Chovan, University of Veszprem, Hungary Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, China I-Ming Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Junping Du, Beijing Technology and Business University, China Liya Ding, Inter-University Institute of Macau, Macau Raj Dasgupta, University of Nebraska, USA Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Zhidong Deng, Tsinghua University, China Suash Deb, National Inst. of Science & Technology, India Wilfried Elmenreich, TU Vienna, Austria Balazs Feil, University of Veszprem, Hungary Katrin Franke, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Chen Guo, Dalian Maritime University, China Crina Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Kansas University, USA Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Violetta Galant, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland Xiaozhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland De-Shuang Huang, Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines, China Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Frank Hoffmann, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Suliman Hawamdeh, University of Oklahoma, USA Limin Jia, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Yaochu Jin, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany Amit Konar, Jadavpur University, India Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig, Germany Gabriella Kun, University of Veszprem, Hungary T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA Derong Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Hongbo Liu, Dalian University of Technology, China Jiming Liu. Hongkong Baptist University, Hongkong, China Xiyu Liu, Shandong Normal University, China Magdalena Luis, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Yibin Li, Shandong University, China Zushu Li, Chongqing University, China Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Mario Koppen, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Jerzy Korczak, Universit?Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Janos Madar, University of Veszprem, Hungary Jianqin Mao, Beihang University, China Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra,Australia Andreas Nurnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sandor Nemeth, University of Veszprem, Hungary Gabriella Pasi, ITIM - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Irina Perfilieva, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Nikhil Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Peter Jeng-Shyang Pan, Nat. Kaohsiung Uni. of App.Sciences, Taiwan Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Shiyin Qing, Beihang University, China Andri Riid, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia Emma Regentova, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Chile Vitorino Ramos, CVRM-IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, Cambridge, USA Alexander Smirnov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Dipti Srinivasan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ferenc Szeifert, University of Veszprem, Hungary Fuchun Sun, Tsinghua University, China Jianbo Su, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China M. Sambandham, Morehouse College, USA P. Saratchandran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zengqi Sun, Qinghua University, China Maolin Tang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Marley Vellasco, University College London, UK Chenglin Wen, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China Jue Wang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Bo Yang, Jinan University, China Ronald Yager, Iona College, USA Simon X. Yang, University of Guelph Guelph, Canada Yixin Yin, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yi Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Dayong Zhou, University of Oklahoma, USA Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Mailing Address: Professor Yuehui Chen School of Information Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Jinan 250022, Shandong, P. R. CHINA Email Address: yhchen@ujn.edu.cn or isda06@ujn.edu.cn WWW: http://isda2006.ujn.edu.cn Tel/Fax: 86-531-82767581