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    ISMIS 2003: Call for Participation
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FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON 
METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS 

Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan
October 28-31, 2003

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!!! Advance Registration by 10 September 2003 !!!
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On-line registration (and other information)
at http://www.wi-lab.com/ismis03/
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          SPONSORS:
Maebashi Institute of Technology
Maebashi Convention Bureau
Maebashi City Government
Gunma Prefecture Government
Gunma Information Service Industry Association
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Web Intelligence Lab, Inc.
Ryomo Systems Co., Ltd
US AFOSR/AOARD 
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

In Cooperation with Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

ISMIS has established a prestigious tradition by organizing a leading
international conference on intelligent systems. The conference
provides a unique opportunity for exchanging scientific research and
technological achievements accomplished by the international
community. The previous events were held in Knoxville, Tennessee
(1986, 1990), Charlotte, North Carolina (1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997,
2000), 
Turin (1988), Trondheim (1993), Zakopane (1996), Warsaw (1999), Lyon
(2002).

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:

   Active Media Human-Computer Interaction
   Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation 
   Intelligent Agent Technology
   Intelligent Information Retrieval 
   Intelligent Information Systems 
   Knowledge Representation and Integration 
   Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 
   Logic for Artificial Intelligence 
   Soft Computing 
   Web Intelligence  

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.

Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI
(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
and will be available at the symposium.


INVITED TALKS
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ISMIS'03 features 4 invited/keynote talks:

New Challenges in the World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) Research
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Grounding to the Real World: Architecture for Ubiquitous Computing
Hideyuki Nakashima, Cyber Assist Research Center, AIST, Japan 

Data Mining: Fast Algorithms vs. Fast Results
Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA 

Knowledge Discovery Services and Tools on Grids
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy 


TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS (Oct. 28)
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The Tutorial and Workshop programs of ISMIS'03 include:

T1: Computational and Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
    by Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan

T2: Indexing and Mining Audiovisual Data
    by Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, University of Technology of Compiegne, France

W1: Second International Workshop on Active Mining (AM03)
    http://www.shimane-med.ac.jp/med_info/am2003

W2: Second International Workshop on M-Services  
    - Concepts, Approaches, Tools -
    http://abiody.com/MServices2003/


MAIN CONFERENCE (Oct. 29-31)
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The main conference of ISMIS'03 contains 17 sessions including:

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Knowledge Representation and Integration
Intelligent Information Systems
Rough Sets
Intelligent Agent Technology
Text Mining
Logic for AI and Logic Programming
Soft Computing
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation
Multi-Media Data Processing

All the papers were selected from nearly 200 submissions received from
over 37 countries and regions.

SOCIAL PROGRAM
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The conference will organize a tour during the conference to Ikaho hot
spring resort area, one of the most famous hot springs areas in Japan,
and have a banquet at Kogure Hotel in Ikaho, as well as a reception at
the Maebashi TERRSA.
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