CFP: IEEE ICTAI 2003, Sacramento, California

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15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
IEEE ICTAI 2003
Sacramento, California, November 3-5, 2003
http://sierra.ecs.csus.edu/              Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society


Dear Colleague:

This year, ICTAI 2003 will be held at Sacramento California during
November 3-5, 2003. I would like to invite you to submit papers to  
ICTAI 2003. A CFP for the conference is attached. Please visit the 
conference web site at http://sierra.ecs.csus.edu/ for details.
The deadline for online paper submission via the web site is June 15, 
2003. Looking forward to your participation.

Sincerely,

Du Zhang
Program Committee Chair, ICTAI 2003
California State University, Sacramento

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The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) provides 
a major international forum where the creation and exchange of ideas relating to artificial 
intelligence are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies. The conference 
facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and promotes their transfer into practical 
tools for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications.  
ICTAI encompasses all the technical aspects of specifying, developing, and evaluating the 
theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of AI tools.

SCOPE
We invite paper submissions that include but are not limited to the following topics:
*  AI in Bioinformatics
*  AI in Multimedia Systems
*  AI in Real-time and Embedded Applications
*  AI in Database and Data Mining
*  AI in Software Engineering
*  AI in Games
*  AI in E-commerce
*  AI in Medicine
*  AI in Computer Security and Information Assurance
*  Cognitive Modeling
*  Collaborative Software Agents
*  Fuzzy Logic and Reasoning Under Uncertainty
*  Evolutionary Computing
*  Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems
*  Intelligent Internet Agents
*  Intelligent Interface Agents
*  Knowledge-based Systems
*  Knowledge Representation and Ontology
*  Intelligent Information Retrieval
*  AI Algorithms
*  Knowledge Management and Sharing
*  Machine Learning
*  Neural Networks
*  NLP and Speech Understanding
*  AI in Robotics
*  Qualitative Reasoning
*  Planning and Scheduling
*  Hybrid Intelligent Systems
*  Vision and Image Processing

SPECIAL TRACKS
This year's ICTAI includes the following special tracks. Please refer to the Special Tracks 
pages of the conference website for additional information or contact the track chair(s).
*  Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence, 
    Special Track Chair: Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar.
*  Automated Knowledge Agent for Spoken Language Technology, 
    Special Track Chair: Harry Chang.
*  Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 
    Special Track Chairs: Tao Jiang and Guohui Lin.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers submitted to ICTAI 2003 must not have been previously published and must not be currently 
under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscript should not exceed 20 double-spaced, 
single-column pages, including figures and tables. The font size should be at least 10 point. 
All paper submissions will be handled electronically through our online web-based submission system 
at http://sierra.ecs.csus.edu/submit.html. The submission of your paper should be in either PDF or 
PS file format. If for some reason you cannot submit your paper through our web-based submission 
system, you can email your submission to Program Committee Chair at the address below. Make sure 
that you include, in your email, the title, author name(s) and full address (email and postal), 
contact author, an abstract and the full manuscript in PDF, or PS format. 
     Prof. Du Zhang 
     Department of Computer Science		
     California State University			
     Sacramento, CA 95819-6021
     USA
     Email: zhangd@ecs.csus.edu
     Phone: (916) 278-7952
     Fax:   (916) 278-6774

It is required that all accepted papers be presented at ICTAI 2003 conference. A selection of 
the best papers in the conference will be published in a special issue of the International 
Journal on Tools with Artificial Intelligence.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline:	June 15, 2003
Acceptance notification:	August 1, 2003
Final paper due:		      September 1, 2003
ICTAI 2003 conference:		November 3-5, 2003

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Contact Nikolaos Bourbakis at bourbaki@cs.wright.edu or Du Zhang at zhangd@ecs.csus.edu

Steering Committee:
Nikolaos Bourbakis (Chair), Wright State University
Farokh Bastani, University of Texas at Dallas
Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bemjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

General Chair:
Ing-Ray Chen, Virginia Tech, USA 

Program Chair:
Du Zhang, California State University, Sacramento, USA

Publication Chair:
Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA

Registration Chair:
Leona Miller, Wright State University, USA

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:
V. Scott Gordon, California State Univ., Sacramento, USA
Don Warner, California State Univ., Sacramento, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Willie Chang, California State Univ., Sacramento, USA
Behnam Arad, California State Univ., Sacramento, USA

Program Committee:
Charles Anderson, Colorado State University, USA
Gregoris Antoniou, University of Bremen, Germany
George Bebis, University of Nevada at Reno, USA
Marco Bernado, University of Urbino, Italy
Ruediger Brause, J.W.Goethe-University, Germany
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA
Harry Chang, SBC Technology Resources, USA
Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Daniel Cooke, Texas Tech University, USA
Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University, USA
Bruce D'Ambrosio, Oregon State University, USA
James French, University of Virginia, USA
Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University, USA
Fernando Gomez, University of Central Florida, USA
Eric Gregoire, Universite d'Artois, France
Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Texas A&M University, USA
Lawrence Hall, University of South Florida, USA
Babak Hamidzadeh, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Xudong He, Florida International University, USA
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
Tao Jiang, University of California, Riverside, USA
Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Manolis Koubarakis, Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece
Jonathan Lee, National Central University, Taiwan
Mingshu Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Andrew Lim, Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Guohui Lin, University of Alberta, Canada
Charles Ling, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Stefano Lonardi, University of California, Riverside, USA
Carl Looney, University of Nevada at Reno, USA
Amol Mali, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA
Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University, USA
Hari Narayanan, Auburn University, USA
Christos Nikolopoulos, Bradley University, USA
Dan O'Leary, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Youngchoon Park, Active Image Recognition Corp., USA
John Paxton, Montana State University, USA
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Luigi Portinale, Univ. of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Marek Reformat, University of Alberta, Canada
Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University
Dave Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jim Schmolze, Tufts University, USA
Philip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA
Leon Sterling, University of Melbourne, Australia
Vincent Tam, University of Hong Kong, China
Bhavani Thuraisingham, NSF, USA
Pauray Tsai, Ming Hsin Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Yaqing Tu, Chongqing Logistic Eng. Univ., China
Haleh Vafaie, Northrop Grumman, USA
Feiyue Wang, University of Arizona, USA
Lusheng Wang, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
Baowen Xu, Southeast University, China
I-Ling Yen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Bo Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Cui Zhang, California State University Sacramento, USA
Weining Zhang, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China

Received on Wednesday, 9 April 2003 01:34:55 UTC