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TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
METHODOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ISMIS'97)

Hilton Hotel, Charlotte, North Carolina
October 15-18, 1997

SPONSORS
UNC-Charlotte, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Univ. of Warsaw, and others.

PURPOSE OF THE SYMPOSIUM 
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:
   * Evolutionary Computation 
   * Intelligent Information Systems
   * Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
   * Knowledge Representation and Integration
   * Logic for Artificial Intelligence
   * Robotics, Motion and Machine Vision
   * Soft Computing
   * Methodologies (modeling, design, validation, performance evaluation).
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.


SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS 
   Francois G. Pin (Oak Ridge National Lab.)
   Zbigniew W. Ras (UNCC & Polish Acad. Sci.) 
   Andrzej Skowron (U. Warsaw, Poland)
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Luigia Carlucci Aiello (U. Roma, Italy)
Thomas Baeck (U. Dortmund, Germany)
Alan Biermann (Duke Univ.)
Jacques Calmet (U. Karlsruhe, Germany)
Jaime Carbonell (CMU)
Wesley Chu (UCLA)
Kenneth DeJong (GMU) 
Robert Demolombe (CERT/ONERA, France)
Jon Doyle (MIT)
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya U., Japan)
Attilio Giordana (U. Torino, Italy)
Diana Gordon (Naval Research Lab.)
Mirsad Hadzikadic (Carolinas HealthCare System)
Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser U., Canada)
David Hislop (Army Research Office)
Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
John Y. Jiang (Pacific Bell Lab.)
Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany)
Yves Kodratoff (U. Paris VI, France)
Jan Komorowski (U. Trondheim, Norway)
Alberto Martelli (U. Torino, Italy)
Robert Meersman (U. Brussels, Belgium)
Zbigniew Michalewicz (UNCC & Polish Acad. Sci.)
Ryszard Michalski (GMU & Polish Acad. Sci.)
Jack Minker (U. Maryland)
Ephraim Nissan (U. Greenwich, UK)
Lin Padgham (RMIT U., Australia) 
Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Lynne Parker (ORNL) 
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Lab.)
Henri Prade (U. Paul Sabatier, France)
Luc De Raedt (U. Leuven, Belgium)
Marek Rusinkiewicz (MCC)
Lorenza Saitta (U. Torino, Italy)
Erik Sandewall (Linkoping U., Sweden)
Yoav Shoham (Stanford U.)
Richmond Thomason (U. Pittsburgh)
Jing Xiao (UNCC)
Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA)
Gian Piero Zarri (CNRS, France)
Maria Zemankova (NSF)
Jan M. Zytkow (Wichita State U. & Polish Acad. Sci.)

INVITED SPEAKERS
Alan Biermann (Duke Univ.)
Jaime Carbonell (CMU)
Wesley Chu (UCLA)
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Lab.)
Gio Wiederhold (Stanford U.)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Mirsad Hadzikadic (Carolinas HealthCare System)
Karen Harber (ORNL)
Mieczyslaw Klopotek (Polish Acad. Sci.)
Zbigniew W. Ras (UNCC & Polish Acad. Sci.)

PAPER SUBMISSION 
Authors are invited to submit four copies of their manuscript 
(maximum 12 pages) to one of the addresses below: 

     Papers from US and Canada:      Papers from Europe: 
     Francois G. Pin, ISMIS'97       Andrzej Skowron, ISMIS'97
     ORNL, Bldg. 7601, M.S. 6305     Univ. of Warsaw
     P.O. Box 2008                   Dept. of Mathematics
     Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6305        Banacha 2
     e-mail: pin@ORNL.GOV            PL-02-097 Warsaw, POLAND
     fax: 423-574-4624               e-mail: skowron@mimuw.edu.pl
     tel: 423-574-6130               tel: 48-(22)-658-3449

                 All other papers:
                 Zbigniew W. Ras, ISMIS'97
                 Univ. of North Carolina
                 Dept. of Comp. Science
                 Charlotte, N.C. 28223
                 e-mail: ras@uncc.edu
                 fax: 704-547-3516
                 tel: 704-547-4567

Submissions should include a title page (1 copy) specifying the
title, all authors with their affiliations, abstract (100-200 words), 
up to 10 keywords (begin the keyword list with at least one of the 
ISMIS areas listed above); and the preferred address of the contact 
author, including a telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address 
(if available). The remainder of the paper can include up to 11 pages, 
attached to the title page.
If possible, the title page should be ADDITIONALLY submitted via email 
(in plain text) to <ras@uncc.edu> to facilitate submissions processing.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Papers:    March 1, 1997 
Acceptance Notification: May 25, 1997 
Final Paper:             July 1, 1997

PUBLICATION
Papers accepted for Regular Sessions will be published by 
Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI.  
Poster Session proceedings will be published by Oak Ridge 
National Laboratory.
Both proceedings will be available at the symposium.





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