First Call for Papers

IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence and Systems
(Symposia)

November 1-3, 1999
Washington, DC

Sponsored by :
IEEE Computer Society

In Cooperation with :

AAAI Society; SMC Society; NN Society; IAPR Society; ACM Society
PAMI TC; Virtual Intelligence TC; TAI Conference; BU-CIS Center, TUCrete and UCrete

SCOPE OF SYMPOSIA: The IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, and Systems (ICIIS) offers theoretical and practical media for the constructive interaction among scientists and practitioners from different research fields (computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, etc) having as goals the development of methodologies and tools for the solution of complex problems in neuroscience and biology, automation and robotics, image, speech and natural languages, and their integration. The conference is organized as four simultaneous single-track symposia.

General Symposia Chair:
N.G.Bourbakis, BU, CIS & UC
Email:Bourbaki@Binghamton.edu
Phone:(607) 777-2165

IEEE Symposium on INTELLIGENCE in NEURAL and BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (INBS)

SOME TOPICS: Biological Models, Computational Biology, Evolutionary Dynamics, Evolutionary Computation Models, Molecular Biology, DNA Sequence Processing, Genome Processes, DNA Topologies, Genome Mapping and Sequencing, Learning, Perception, Models of Neural Nets, Neuroscientific Models, etc.
Program Chairs: J.Gattiker, LANL, and J. Wang, NJIT
Phone: (505) 665-0604 & (973) 596-3396
Email: gatt@lanl.gov & jason@village.njit.edu

Submit summary to:
JR Gattiker
TA3, SM43, MSF645, DP13S, XCM
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87544

IEEE Symposium on INTELLIGENCE in AUTOMATION and ROBOTICS (IAR)

SOME TOPICS: Robot Path Planning, Multiple Robot Motion Planning, Autonomous Navigation, Arm/Leg Control, Robot Vision, Visual Tracking, Human-Robot Symbiosis, Telerobotics, Micro and Nano Robotics, Robot Cooperation, Assembly Strategies, Sensors, , Walking/Running Robots, Task Planning, Process Planning, Scheduling, Intelligent Control, etc.
Program Chairs: L. Tsoukalas, Purdue U. and A.Tascillo, Ford
Phone: (765) 494-0198 & (313) 845-7427
Email: tsoukala@helios.ecn.purdue.edu & atascill@ford.com

Submit summary to:
L. Tsoukalas
1290 Nuclear Engineering Building
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1290

IEEE Symposium on IMAGE, SPEECH, NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS (ISNLS)

SOME TOPICS: Image (Coding, Compression, Encryption, Segmentation, Enhancement, Restoration, Skeletonization, Analysis, Morphology, Databases, Video, Pattern Recognition, OCR, Image Understanding & Interpretations, Mathematical Methods); Speech (Coding, Compression, Processing, Analysis, Synthesis, Recognition, Understanding); Natural Language (NL) Processing, Computational Linguistics, Document Processing, NL Translation, NL Understanding, Multimedia, etc.
Papers on the technical details of the commercial (e.g. , consumer electronics) , scientific, and medical applications of the above are encouraged.
Program Chairs: G. Bebis, U. Nevada, and S. Amer, Reytheon Corp
Phone: (702) 784-6463 & (605) 594-6864
Email: bebis@cs.unr.edu & samer@edcmail.cr.usgs.gov

Submit summary to:
George Bebis
Dept of Computer Science
University of Nevada
Reno, NV 89557

IEEE Symposium on INFORMATION and INTELLIGENT AGENTS (IIA)

SOME TOPICS: Agent models and architectures, Agent-oriented programming, Communication issues and protocols, Cooperation and coordination, Cooperative information systems, Conflict resolution and negotiation, Distributed search, Intelligent agents, Multiagent planning and learning, Practical applications (Enterprise integration, Feature interaction, Information gathering, Manufacturing, Software agents, Software engineering), Testbeds and development environments, User interface issues.
Program Chairs: C. Koutsougeras, Tulane U., and S. Mertoguno, FUJITSU.
Phone: (504) 862-3369 & (408) 922-9520
Email: ck@eecs.tulane.edu & jmertohu@fmi.fujitsu.com

Submit summary to:
Chris Koutsougeras
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept.
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118

To Submit a Paper:

Please send four copies of a paper or an extended summary (3-6 pages) describing the methodology and/or results by May 15, 1999 to the appropriate Program Chair's address above. Notification of acceptance (please provide email address or fax number) by June 30, 1999. Camera ready articles by August 15, 1999. Electronic submissions in postscript, word, acrobat or plain text format are encouraged.

Special Sessions:

Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to the symposium. If you are interested in organizing an special session please follow the procedure outlined below:

1. Submit a proposal (topic area) to one the appropriate program chair.
2. Upon approval, recruit authors for the session (2 hours, 4/5 papers) and review papers for appropriate topic/contents.
3. Session chair submits abstract *package* of author/title/extended abstracts to the appopriate program chair by May 30.
4. Editorial comments, and official acceptance of the session will be made by the program chair(s) by June 30.

Publication of Papers and Awards:

This is a fully refereed conference. The proceedings will be published by IEEE. A collection of best papers will be published in an archival Journal and an Award will be given to each best paper per Symposium.