Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 20:28:36 +0800 (HKT)
From: CIS05 <cis05@...>
Subject: Final Call for Paper: CIS'05

** We apologize if you receive the CFP more than once! **
********************* Final Call for Paper ***********************

2005 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security
(CIS'2005)

Co-organized by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter and
Xidian University, China

Co-sponsored by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter, Hong
Kong Baptist University, Xidian University, and Guangdong University of
Technology

December 15-19, 2005, Xi'an, China

URL: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~cis05

(Paper Submission Due Date Extended to: August 7, 2005)
================================================================================

International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS)
is an annual international conference to bring together researchers,
engineers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry to share
the experience, and exchange and cross-fertilize ideas on all areas of
computational intelligence and information security. This conference serves
as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development,
and implementations of systems, technologies and applications in these
two broad fields. CIS is co-sponsored by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational
Intelligence Chapter, Hong Kong Baptist University, Xidian University,
and Guangdong University of Technology.


The technical areas include, but are not limited to:

Computational Intelligence
--------------------------

- Artificial Immune Systems
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing
- Biological Computing
- Coevolutionary Algorithms
- Evolutionary Computation
- Fuzzy Systems
- Intelligent Agents and Systems
- Machine Learning
- Molecular Computing
- Neural Computing
- Probabilistic Reasoning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Swarm Intelligence
- Support Vector Machine
- Unsupervised Learning


Information Security
----------------------

- Cryptography and Coding
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Detection of Abnormality
- Electronic Commerce Security
- Intrusion Detection
- Information, Data and System Integrity
- Information Hiding
- Information Security Management
- Information Storage and Retrieval System
- Mobile Code & Agent Security
- Media Data Authentication
- Security Models and Architectures
- Security Analysis Methodologies
- Steganography and Watermarking
- Web and Wireless Security


Applications
--------------------------

- Bioinformatics and Medical Diagnosis
- Copyright Protection
- Cryptography and Its Applications
- Data Mining
- Data Privacy
- Detection of Hidden Communication Channels
- Digital Signatures
- Electronic Commerce Security
- Identity Recognition
- Image and Signal Processing
- Intelligent Information Retrieval
- Pattern Recognition
- Web and Network Applications
- Other Applications


Important Dates
-------------------

Submission of Papers Extended to:  August 7, 2005
Notification of Acceptance:        September 1, 2005
Final Camera-Ready Papers:         September 25, 2005


Paper Submission and Publication
---------------------------------

- Image and Signal Processing
- Intelligent Information Retrieval
- Pattern Recognition
- Web and Network Applications
- Other Applications


Important Dates
-------------------

Submission of Papers Extended to:  August 7, 2005
Notification of Acceptance:        September 1, 2005
Final Camera-Ready Papers:         September 25, 2005


Paper Submission and Publication
---------------------------------

Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts
written in English. The submission of a paper implies that the paper
is original and has not been submitted to elsewhere for possible
publication. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by experts in the
field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. Authors
should use the Latex style files or MS-Word templates provided by the
Spring Lecture Notes to format their papers. The length of a submitted
paper should not exceed 10 pages in the Lecture Notes format. All
accepted papers will be appeared in the conference proceedings,
published by Springer as ** Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence **
( http://www.springeronline.com/lncs) that are indexed by SCI-Expanded.
Furthermore, selected papers will be considered for publication in an
international journal, after expansion and/or revision. Authors should
submit a soft copy of their manuscripts with the pdf format only to the
conference via the online submission system. For more details, please
visit the conference web site at: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~cis05.


General Co-Chairs:

Yue Hao          China
Jiming Liu       Hong Kong


Program Committee Co-Chairs:

Yiu-ming Cheung  Hong Kong
Licheng Jiao     China
Yuping Wang      China
Hujun Yin        UK


Organizing Committee:

Jianfeng Ma      Chair
Yongchang Jiao   Co-Chair
Hailin Liu       Tutorial Chair

Kapluk Chan      Asia Liaison
Lixia Han        Publicity Chair
Yuen-tan Hou     Publicity Chair
Yibo Hu          Treasurer
Liang Ming       Registration Chair
Rongzu Yu        Web Master
Shuguang Zhao    Publication Chair
Yuanyuan Zuo     Local Arrangement Chair

Yan Wu           Secretary
Jingxuan Wei     Secretary


Further Information
-----------------------

Any enquiry and comment please contact the Secretariat of CIS-05:

Secretariat of CIS-05
Department of Computer Science,
7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building,
Hong Kong Baptist University,
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Email: cis05@..., or cis2005@...

>[Apologies if you receive this more than once]
>
>  ======================
>  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>  ======================
>
>  IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05)
>  IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
> Technology (IAT'05)
>
>  September 19-22, 2005
>  Compiegne University of Technology, France
>
>  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/
>  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/
>  http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/
>  http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/
>
>  Sponsored and Organized by
>  IEEE Computer Society
>  Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
>  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
>
>  ************************************************************
>  !!!================= HIGHLIGHTS =========================!!!
>  September 19: 7 Workshops and 5 Tutorials.
>  September 20-22: The main conference of the WI-IAT'05
>  that contains 7 keynote talks, research track papers presentations,
>  industry and demo track presentations.
>  All the papers were selected from 633 submissions
>  received from over 56 countries and regions.
>  ************************************************************
>  ***********************************************
>  !!! Advance Registration by 19 August 2005 !!!
>  -----------------------------------------------
>  On-line registration (and more information) at
>  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/
>  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/
>  http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/
>  http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/
>  ************************************************
>
>  Following the great success of previous WI and IAT conferences, WI'05
>  and IAT'05 will provide a leading international forum for researchers
>  and practitioners (1) to present the state-of-the-art WI and agent
>  technologies, (2) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of
>  Web-based intelligent information systems as well as new models, new
>  methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of
>  agent-based systems.
>
>  KEYNOTE TALKS
>  +++++++++++++
>
>  Keynote Speakers at Research-Track
>  ----------------------------------
>
>  Opportunities from Open Source Search
>  Professor Wray Buntine
>  Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
>  http://www.hiit.fi/u/buntine/
>
>  Knowledge Representation and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
>  Professor Patrick Doherty
>  Department of Computer and Information Science
>  Linkoping University, Sweden
>  http://www.ida.liu.se/%7Epatdo/patdosite1/index.html
>
>  An Adaptive Architecture for Physical Agents
>  Professor Pat Langley
>  Stanford University, USA
>  http://www.isle.org/~langley/
>
>  Providing Expert Advice by Analogy for On-Line Help
>  Professor Henry Lieberman
>  MIT Media Laboratory, USA
>  http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/
>
>  Agreement Technologies
>  Professor Nick Jenings
>  University of Southampton, UK
>  http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj/
>
>  Evolution in Simple Systems and the Emergence of Complexity
>  Professor Peter Schuster
>  University of Vienna, Austria
>  http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~pks/
>
>  Keynote Speaker at Industry/Demo-Track
>  --------------------------------------
>
>  Robert Milne
>  Managing Director, Sermatech Intelligent Applications, UK
>  www.intapp.co.uk
>
>  +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>  The Tutorial and Workshop programs of WI'05 and IAT'05 include:
>
>  T1: An Introduction to Auctions
>      Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK
>
>  T2: A Methodology for Designing an Intelligent Agent System
>      Lin Padgham, RMIT University, Australia
>      Leon Sterling, Melbourne University, Australia
>
>  T3: Programming Complex Adaptive Systems
>      Salima Hassas, Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France
>
>  T4: Rough Set Approach to Learning in MAS
>      Nguyen Hong Son, Warsaw University, Poland
>
>  T5: Roles for Agent Technology
>      Guido Boella, Universita degli studi di Torino, Italy
>
>  W1: First International Workshop on Incentive Based Computing (IBC'05)
>      http://ibc05.cs.wayne.edu/
>
>  W2: First International Workshop on Teaching Web Intelligence
>      http://eurise.univ-st-etienne.fr/TWI05/
>
>  W3: Open Source Web Information Retrieval (OSWIR)
>      http://www.emse.fr/OSWIR05/
>
>  W4: Rough Sets and Soft Computing in Intelligent Agent and Web Technology
>      http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~slezak/wiiat2005.html
>
>  W5: Semantics and Orchestration of eGovernment Processes
>
>http://www.egovinterop.net/SHWebClass.ASP?WCI=ShowDoc&DocID=1556&LangID=1
>
>  W6: The Second International Workshop on Advanced Technologies for
>      e-Learning and e-Science
>      http://io.acad.athabascau.ca/~harris/atels05/
>
>  W7: WWW Service Composition with Semantic Web Services (wscomps05)
>      http://www.deri.at/events/workshops/wi2005/
>
>
>  MAIN CONFERENCE (Sept 20-22)
>  +++++++++++++++++
>
>  The main conference of the WI'05 and IAT'05 contains 7 keynote talks,
>  research track papers presentations, industry and demo track
>  presentations.
>  All the papers were selected from 633 submissions
>  received from over 56 countries and regions.
>
>  Technical Sessions include:
>
>  World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
>  Social Networks and Social Intelligence
>  Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
>  Web Mining and Farming
>  Semantics and Ontology Engineering
>  Web Agents
>  Web Services
>  Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
>  Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
>  Web Support Systems
>  Intelligent e-Technology
>  Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
>  Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
>  Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
>  Distributed Problem Solving
>  Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
>  Agent-Based Applications
>
>  (NOTE: WI'05 acceptance rates are: 18% for Regular Papers and 31%
>  for Short Papers. IAT'05 acceptance rates are: 18% and 25%, respectively.)
>
>  SOCIAL PROGRAM
>  +++++++++++++++
>
>  The WI'05 and IAT'05 joint conference offers an exciting social
>  program.  The conference welcome reception on Sept 20 and the
>  conference banquet on Sept 21.
>
>  The conference banquet will be held in the Pierrefond Middle Ages
>  castle, one of the most beautiful and oldest monuments in France
>
>(http://www.casteland.com/puk/castle/picardie/oise/pierrefonds/pierrefonds.htm)\
.
>  You can also enjoy the city of Compiegne with its
>  historical buildings dating from the Middle Ages and Napoleon's period
>  (http://www.musee-chateau-compiegne.fr/).
>
>  --------------
>  Co-Organized and In Cooperation With
>
>  French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
>  University of Technology of Compiegne
>  Heuristique et Diagnostic des Systemes Complexes
>  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
>  Hong Kong Baptist University
>  Maebashi Institute of Technology
>  Warsaw University
>
>  Corporate Sponsor
>  AgentLink
>
>  =========================================
>  Announcement to Provide Students with
>  the Grant from the AgentLink coordination
>  =========================================
>
>  The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT International Conference organization
>  committee is happy to announce that, thanks to a grant provided by the
>  European AgentLink Co-ordination Action for Agent Based Computing, we
>  will be able to support some students who will attend the WI-IAT 2005
>  International conference.
>
>  This grant will be offered to one, two or three selected students who
>  meet the following conditions:
>
>  - the student must be a citizen of one of the new member countries of
>    the European Union (Chypre, Estonie, Hongrie, Lettonie, Lituanie,
>    Malte, Pologne, Republique tcheque, Slovenie, Slovaquie)
>
>  - the student must be registered as a regular research student
>    (PdD student) in a laboratory and/or university of one of
>    the new member countries of the European Union (Chypre, Estonie, Hongrie,
>    Lettonie, Lituanie, Malte, Pologne, Republique tcheque,
> Slovenie, Slovaquie)
>
>  - the student has a paper accepted as a regular paper in the IAT
> track of the
>    IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT 2005 International Conference,
>
>  - the student has already paid the registration fee,
>
>  - the student advisor writes a recommendation letter.
>
>  Depending on the number of supported students, the grant will range from
>  250 EUR to 375 EUR.
>
>  Please send your submission to Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux
> (pmorizet@...)
>  before September 3
>
>  -----------------------------------------

>                    [Apologies for multiple postings]
>_______________________________________________________________________
>
>               AB-ModSim
>
>     International Workshop on Agent Based
>         Modeling and Simulation
>      (http://www.lintar.disco.unimib.it/ABModSim/)
>
>    Chairs: Stefania Bandini, Paolo Petta and Giuseppe Vizzari
>
>A Symposium of the 18th European Meeting on Cybernetic Science and
>     Systems Research - April 18-21 - University of Vienna
>          (http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/)
>
>The notions of agents and multi-agent systems have been widely
>adopted for the modelling of complex systems in most various
>contexts, ranging from social sciences, to urban modelling and
>planning, biology, logistics and production, and many other more.
>However the concepts behind the term agent are often quite different,
>as well as the goals of the modelling and simulation activities. This
>leads to different approaches, methodologies and developed
>computational systems supporting simulation of the modeled realities.
>The aim of this workshop is to bring together experiences related to
>agent based modelling and simulation in different contexts and thus
>to try to identify common goals and research issues, and to possibly
>define common methodologies and requirements for computational
>supports to agent based modelling and simulation.
>
>
>Topics of interest
>We invite papers on all aspects relating to agent based modeling and
>simulation, with particular attention to interdisciplinary
>experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
>following:
>
>- actual MAS-based simulation experiences
>- agent-based modeling methodologies
>- generic or domain specific MAS models for simulation
>- methodologies for the analysis of MAS-based simulation results
>- multi-agent models for emergent phenomena and self-organization
>- platforms for agent-based modeling and simulation
>- verification and validation of MAS-based simulations
>
>
>Important dates:
>
>- Deadline for submission:                 November 11, 2005
>- Notification of acceptance/rejection:    December 16, 2005
>- Final papers:                            January 30, 2006
>
>After the workshop, extended versions of selected accepted contributions
>will be included in a special issue of an international journal.
>
>
>Program Committee (Further members to be announced)
>
>- Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
>- Rafael Bordini (University of Durham - UK)
>- Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva - Switzerland)
>- Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology - Sweden)
>- Jan Dijkstra (Eindhoven University of Technology - Netherlands)
>- Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (University of Geneva - Switzerland)
>- Samira El Yacoubi (University of Perpignan - France)
>- Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey - UK)
>- Nabeel Koshak (Umm Al-Qura University - Saudi Arabia)
>- Markus Knoflacher (Austrian Research Centre - Austria)
>- Sara Manzoni (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
>- Fabien Michel (LIRMM - France)
>- Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna - Italy)
>- Paolo Petta (Medical University of Vienna and OFAI - Austria)
>- Andreas Pyka (University of Augsburg - Germany)
>- Andreas Schadschneider (University of Cologne - Germany)
>- Flavio Soares Correa da Silva (University of S. Paulo - Brazil)
>- Harry Timmermans (Eindhoven University of Technology - Netherlands)
>- Marco Valente (University of L'Aquila - Italy)
>- Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
>- Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium)
>- Franco Zambonelli (Università di Modena-Reggio Emilia - Italy)
>
>
>Further Information
>For more information on the workshop please contact Giuseppe Vizzari
>(giuseppe.vizzari [at) disco.unimib.it).
>For information about paper formatting, registration, and accomodation
>please see the EMCSR06 website (http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/).
>

SORRY FOR ANY CROSSPOSTING
 
Dear Colleagues,
 
I am delighted to announce the
14^th International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society
hosted by IESE Business School, University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain, on May 18-19, 2006.
 
Topic: TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE INTEGRATION OF ETHICS INTO MANAGEMENT: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS.
 
Details and updated information: http://www.iese.edu/14symposium
 
Deadlines:
January 15, 2006: Paper proposal
February 15, 2006: Response of acceptance of the proposal
April 10, 2006: Full papers
 
Rationale
Business Ethics and Ethics in Management have already devoted considerable attention to dealing with ethical dilemmas and particular ethical issues. However, we are still far from a comprehensive integration of ethics into management theories and managerial practices.
Recently, many leading managerial theories, such as agency theory, transaction costs theory, institutional theory and others have received much criticism. They have been accused of fostering egoistic behavior in managers and even of having contributed to well-known financial scandals (see, e.g., Academy of Management Learning & Education, March 2005).
In response to this, the purpose of this Symposium is to explore the problems of current management theories and practices, and the prospects for improving them. At the same time, new proposals for a more comprehensive integration of ethics into management are welcome.
 

For more information and correspondence contact Prof. Domènec Melé - IESE Business School – Dep. Business Ethics - Av. Pearson, 21 - 08034 Barcelona - Phone: (34) 93 253 42 00 - Fax: (34) 93 253 43 43 – Mail to: mele@...
 
I would be pleased if this symposium suits your interests and schedule.
 
Best regards,
 

Domenec Mele
Professor and Head of Business Ethics Department
IESE Business School
University of Navarra
Avda. Pearson, 21
08034 Barcelona, Spain
Ph: (34) 93 253 42 00
Fax: (34) 93 253 43 43
mele@...

Subject: Call for papers - IESE Symposium
From: "Mele, Domenec" <Mele@...>

SORRY FOR ANY CROSSPOSTING
 
Dear Colleagues,
 
I am delighted to announce the 14^th International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society hosted by IESE Business School, University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain, on May 18-19, 2006.
 
Topic: TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE INTEGRATION OF ETHICS INTO MANAGEMENT: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS.
 
Details and updated information: http://www.iese.edu/14symposium
 
Deadlines:
January 15, 2006: Paper proposal
February 15, 2006: Response of acceptance of the proposal
April 10, 2006: Full papers
 
Rationale
Business Ethics and Ethics in Management have already devoted considerable attention to dealing with ethical dilemmas and particular ethical issues. However, we are still far from a comprehensive integration of ethics into management theories and managerial practices.
Recently, many leading managerial theories, such as agency theory, transaction costs theory, institutional theory and others have received much criticism. They have been accused of fostering egoistic behavior in managers and even of having contributed to well-known financial scandals (see, e.g., Academy of Management Learning & Education, March 2005).
In response to this, the purpose of this Symposium is to explore the problems of current management theories and practices, and the prospects for improving them. At the same time, new proposals for a more comprehensive integration of ethics into management are welcome.
 

For more information and correspondence contact Prof. Domènec Melé - IESE Business School – Dep. Business Ethics - Av. Pearson, 21 - 08034 Barcelona - Phone: (34) 93 253 42 00 - Fax: (34) 93 253 43 43 – Mail to: mele@...
 
I would be pleased if this symposium suits your interests and schedule.
 
Best regards,
 

Domenec Mele
Professor and Head of Business Ethics Department
IESE Business School
University of Navarra
Avda. Pearson, 21
08034 Barcelona, Spain
Ph: (34) 93 253 42 00
Fax: (34) 93 253 43 43
mele@...

absintelagent-owner@yahoogroups.com
 

J.P.Müller, Germany, and P.Petta, Austria

J.Gratch, USA, S.Marsella, USA, and P.Petta, Austria

S.Bandini, Italy, G.Vizzari, Italy, and P.Petta, Austria

V.Marik, Czech Republic, and E.Buchberger, Austria

>Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:12:18 +0100
>From: paolo petta <paolo@...>
>Subject:  Call for papers: AT2AI-5
>
>--text follows this line--
>
>
>                                   AT2AI-5
>
>                        Fifth International Symposium
>                 "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation"
>
>                   April 20-21, 2006, Vienna, Austria (EU)
>
>                    Chairs: Jörg Müller and Paolo Petta
>
>             <URL: http://www.ofai.at/~paolo.petta/conf/at2ai5/>
>
>       at the 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
>                               (EMCSR 2006)
>                    <URL:http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/>
>                  April 18 - 21, 2006, Vienna, Austria (EU)
>
>                    Submission deadline: December 2, 2005
>
>(This deadline DIFFERS from the default EMCSR deadline of November 11, 2005)
>
>
>Table of contents
>
>      * Introduction
>      * Organisation
>      * Submission Details
>      * Important Dates
>      * Further Information
>
>Introduction:
>
>    Since its first edition in 1998, the symposium series "From Agent
>    Theory to Agent Implementation" has been not only documenting the
>    progress in agent-related technologies, but also managed to contribute
>    to the rapid development of this area. AT2AI actively promotes the
>    exchange of ideas and experiences between researchers and
>    practitioners working on the whole range of theoretical and
>    application-oriented issues of agent technology, covering both the
>    micro and macro aspects of agent design and the transition from
>    drawing boards and partly idealised models, over modelling tools and
>    frameworks, to deployment, configuration and maintenance of
>    implementations.
>
>    AT2AI-3 (http://www.ofai.at/~paolo.petta/conf/at2ai3/)
>    produced a first blueprint of a layered ecology of technologies for
>    the development of agent based applications (cf. the editorial of
>    Applied Artificial Intelligence 16(9-10), 2003). This perspective
>    considers middleware, tools, off-the shelf platforms, integrated
>    development environments (IDEs), and the like, with respect to their
>    practical value to improve the applications delivered. The qualities
>    of these support technologies can in turn be improved and better
>    exploited with the design of architectural frameworks and the
>    deployment of standards. The evolution of these in turn can be
>    assisted by the development of sound theoretical foundations and
>    related formal methods. Methodologies are considered as working
>    know-that and know-how, capturing and maintaining the best practises
>    how to identify, align, and process application- and
>    environment-derived (bottom-up) and support technology related
>    (top-down) requirements and options.
>
>
>        m ---------------------------------------------------+
>          e                                                  |
>        |   t                 theoretical foundations        |
>        |     h                                              |
>        |       o -----------------------------------------+ |
>        |         d                                        | |
>        |       |   o               standards              | |
>        |       |     l                                    | |
>        |       |      o -------------------------------+ | |
>        |       |         g                              | | |
>        |       |      |   i       middleware           | | |
>        |       |      |     e                          | | |
>        |       |      |       s ---------------+       | | |
>        |       |      |                        |       | | |
>        |       |      |  IDEs |  APPLICATIONS  | tools | | |
>        |       |      |       |                |       | | |
>        |       |      |       +----------------+       | | |
>        |       |      |    off-the-shelf platforms     | | |
>        |       |      +--------------------------------+ | |
>        |       |                   architectures          | |
>        |       +------------------------------------------+ |
>        |                        formal methods              |
>        +----------------------------------------------------+
>
>
>    AT2AI-4 (http://www.ofai.at/~paolo.petta/conf/at2ai4/)
>    produced an updated inventory against the maturing field: the status
>    of logic-based approaches was addressed in particular in the
>    discussions; but evidence was also provided for how routine
>    consideration of a multitude of perspectives is approaching the
>    requirements posed by serious application needs (including e.g. issues
>    of privacy and flexible access right management). Results have been
>    collected in the forthcoming double issue of Applied AI 20(4-5),
>    2006 (April).
>
>    The present edition of AT2AI gets further leverage by the significant
>    work originated in the AgentLink III Technical Forum Group on
>    Programming Multi-Agent Systems (PROMAS). The topics of discussion
>    addressed there bear an immediate close relationship to the main
>    concerns of AT2AI.
>
>    Of particular relevance to the symposium is work that provides
>    insights on experiences and lessons learnt when applying specific
>    agent theories or architectures to application problems, and that
>    discusses methods, methodologies, and other tools that can help system
>    designers to successfully accomplish the mapping between available
>    agent technology on the one hand, and application problems on the
>    other.
>
>   Topics of interest therefore include:
>
>      * Conceptual and theoretical foundations
>      * Agent languages and architectures
>      * Learning and adaptability
>      * Communication, coordination and collaboration
>      * Social issues in agent societies
>      * Safety, security, and responsibility
>      * Granularities of system design (single-agent, multi-agent, ant ...)
>      * Agents vs. Middleware
>      * Development and engineering methodologies
>      * User interfaces and usability
>      * Testbeds and evaluations
>      * Applications of agent technology in routine use
>
>    Submissions should cast the presentation in terms of the above
>    schema (or proposed well-founded changes to it). As the previous
>    editions of AT2AI (in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004) have shown, this
>    is a significant aid for the workshop audience to grasp more
>    readily the significance of the work presented and relate it to
>    their own activities: the quality and variety of feedback provided
>    to authors improves accordingly, often leading to persisting
>    fruitful contacts.
>
>Organisation:
>
>   Session Chairs:
>    Jörg P. Müller    mueller @AT@ in.tu-clausthal.de
>      Paolo Petta     Paolo.Petta@...
>
>Submission Details:
>
>    For details on how to prepare draft papers, see the submission
>    guidelines for the main EMCSR conference published on the
>    EMCSR 2006 homepage (<URL:http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/>).
>
>    Please note that the submission deadline of AT2AI-5 differs from the
>    one specified for EMCSR.
>
>   Accepted Papers:
>
>    Authors of accepted papers will be notified after December 16, 2005;
>    the list will also be published on the AT2AI-5 web site. After the
>    event, a second round of more extensive reviews is planned which is to
>    lead to the publication of extended versions of selected contributions
>    in an edited collection.
>
>Important Dates:
>
>    Paper submission deadline:                       December      2, 2005
>    Notifications of acceptance/rejection:     after December     19, 2005
>    Camera-ready copies due:                          January     30, 2006
>    Early registration deadline:                      January     30, 2006
>    Symposium date:                                     April  20-21, 2006
>
>Further Information:
>
>    For further information, please see the EMCSR 2006 Web site:
>    <URL:http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/>

From:  Professor H. R. Arabnia

                   Call  For  Papers
                         and
               Call For Session Proposals

      The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
      Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                     WORLDCOMP'06
          (composed of 28 Joint Conferences)
           June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA

Dear Colleagues:

You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions below)
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop.
All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (included in major science citation
indexes).  The names of technical session/workshop
organizers/chairs will appear on the cover of the proceedings as
Associate Editors.

The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'06) is composed of the following
28 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: June 26-29, 2006, USA).

o The 2006 International Conference on Parallel & Distributed
   Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Scientific Computing
   (CSC'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Grid Computing &
   Applications (GCA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Security & Management
   (SAM'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
   (ICAI'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
   Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research & Practice (SERP'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Programming Languages &
   Compilers (PLC'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Internet Computing
   (ICOMP'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Semantic Web & Web Services
   (SWWS'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Real-Time Computing
   Systems & Applications (RTCOMP'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Embedded Systems &
   Applications (ESA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Pervasive Systems &
   Computing (PSC'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
   Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual
   Reality (CGVR'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation &
   Visualization Methods (MSV'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Games Development
   (CGD'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
   Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Foundations of Computer
   Science (FCS'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on e-Business, Enterprise
   Information Systems, e-Government, & Outsourcing (EEE'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Information & Knowledge
   Engineering (IKE'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics &
   Biological Sciences (BBS'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Computing in Nanotechnology
   (CNAN'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
   Systems & Algorithms (ERSA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Communications in Computing
   (CIC'6)

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org - currently
under construction.)

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the 28 joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Dec.  29, 2005:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions.
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)

TOPICAL SCOPE FOR EACH CONFERENCE:

    To receive the complete list of topics for each of the
    28 conferences, send an email to hra@... or
    wait for the conferences' URL's to be constructed.

FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    If you do not wish to receive future announcements about this
    event, please send an email to hra@....




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                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

               The 2006 International Conference on
                      Artificial Intelligence
                           (ICAI'06)

                        June 26-29, 2006
           Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(ICAI'06) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The ICAI'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (ICAI and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Intelligent information systems
        O  Intelligent software engineering
        O  Intelligent agents
        O  Intelligent networks
        O  Intelligent databases
        O  Intelligent user interface
        O  Brain models / Congnitive science
        O  Evolutionary algorithms
        O  Swarm intelligence
        O  Intelligent Tutoring systems
        O  Intelligent data mining and farming
        O  Intelligent web-based business
        O  Reasoning strategies
        O  Automated problem solving
        O  Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
        O  Distributed AI systems and architectures
        O  Expert systems
        O  Decision support systems
        O  Fuzzy logic
        O  Genetic algorithms
        O  Heuristic searching
        O  Knowledge acquisition
        O  Knowledge discovery
        O  Knowledge representation
        O  Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
        O  Knowledge networks and management
        O  Social intelligence (markets & computational societies)
        O  Languages and programming techniques for AI
        O  Software tools for AI
        O  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
        O  Natural language processing
        O  Neural networks and applications
        O  Intelligent information fusion
        O  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
        O  Search and meta-heuristics
        O  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
        O  Integration of AI with other technologies
        O  Evaluation of AI tools
        O  Social impact of AI
        O  Emerging technologies
        O  Applications (including: computer vision, signal
           processing, military, surveillance, robotics, medicine,
           pattern recognition, face recognition, finger print
           recognition, finance and marketing, stock market,
           education, emerging applications, ...)

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND ICAI'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    ICAI'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Dec.  29, 2005:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions.
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on
                       Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)


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                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

       The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning;
               Models, Technologies & Applications
                           (MLMTA'06)

                        June 26-29, 2006
           Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'06) will be held in Las Vegas,
Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The MLMTA'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (MLMTA and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Machine learning in problem solving
        O  Learning models
        O  Artificial neural networks and learning
        O  Fuzzy logic and learning
        O  Inductive learning and applications
        O  Learning by examples
        O  Statistical methods in learning
        O  Evolutionary algorithms in learning
        O  Reinforcement learning methods
        O  Multi-agent learning
        O  Hierarchical learning models
        O  Collaborative learning and filtering
        O  ODE Methods and machine learning
        O  Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
        O  Relational learning models
        O  Speedup learning techniques
        O  Computational needs of learning models
        O  Formal learning methods
        O  Graph-based learning
        O  Learning based on adaptive techniques
        O  Learning topological maps
        O  Learning in planning
        O  Query learning
        O  Active learning
        O  Memory-based learning
        O  Instance-based learning
        O  Life-long learning
        O  Q-Learning
        O  Predictive learning models
        O  Information retrieval and data mining
        O  Knowledge representation and management
        O  Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
        O  Bayesian-based methodologies
        O  Grammatical inference
        O  Cognitive modeling
        O  Case-based reasoning
        O  Semantic indexing
        O  Natural language processing
        O  Machine translation
        O  Temporal abstractions
        O  Feature selection and classification
        O  Theory refinement methodologies
        O  Probabilistic reasoning
        O  Self-adaptation techniques
        O  Game playing (chess, ...)
        O  Text categorization and classification
        O  Machine learning applications (medicine, games, biology,
           industrial applications, robotics, security and terrorism, ...)

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND MLMTA'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    MLMTA'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Dec.  29, 2005:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions.
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on Machine
                       Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications
                       (MLMTA'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)


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_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ SEW-30 Call for Papers _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+

30th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop
Loyola College Graduate Center, Columbia, MD, USA
24-28 April 2006

Part of Systems and Software Week ( http://www.systemsandsoftwareweek.org),
co-located with:
·   EASe 2006, 3rd IEEE Workshop on Engineering Autonomic Systems;
    http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ease/
·   DSSNS 2006, 2nd IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Reliability
    in Sensor Networks and Systems; http://www.dssns.org
·   ZUM 2006, 12th International Conference of Z Users;
    http://www.zuser.org/ZUM2006

Sponsored by NASA Software Engineering Laboratory
-NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
-IEEE Computer Society, Technical Council on Software Engineering

Join us for our 30th anniversary, and the Software Engineering event of 2006!!!

Keynote Speakers
·   Vic Basili (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
·   Judith Bishop (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
·   Manfred Broy (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
·   Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
·   David Gries (Cornell University, USA)
·   Jim Woodcock (University of York, UK)

Background
The 30th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, the longest continually
running Software Engineering event in the world, will be held at Loyola College
Graduate Center, Columbia, Maryland, in Metropolitan Washington DC, 24-28 April
2006, as part of the 2nd Systems and Software Week.

Scope

The workshop aims to bring together NASA technical staff, contractors, academics
 and industrial practitioners interested in the advancement of software
engineering principles and techniques.   The workshop provides a forum for
reporting on past experiences for describing new and emerging results and techniques,
 and for exchanging ideas on best practice and future directions.   Of particular
importance is relevance to NASA’s mission and goals, and how techniques might be
applied, or adapted for use, at NASA, or how NASA’s techniques might be used or
adapted for more generic use.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Ø      Metrics and experience reports
Ø      Software quality assurance
Ø      Formal methods and formal approaches to software development
Ø      Software engineering processes and process improvement
Ø      CMM and CMMI
Ø      Requirements engineering
Ø      Software Architectures
Ø      Real-time Software Engineering
Ø      Software maintenance, reuse, and legacy systems
Ø      Agent-based software systems
 

Submissions

Long papers (maximum 10 pages in IEEE format) and short industrial/governmental
experience reports (maximum 5 pages in IEEE format) are sought for inclusion in
the conference program and publication in the post-proceedings which will be
published by IEEE CS Press.    All submissions will be reviewed for originality,
relevance, and technical detail.   At least one author per paper will be required
to register and present at the workshop.   Papers not presented will not be
included in the proceedings.

All submissions must be made in electronic format (.doc, .pdf or .ps formats only),
via the conference electronic submission site that will be available shortly via
the Systems and Software Week website ( http://www.systemsandsoftwareweek.org).
 
Publication

All accepted papers will be published in the conference post proceedings, published
 by IEEE CS Press.   Some authors will also be invited to submit a revised version
 of their paper for inclusion in Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering:
A NASA Journal (Springer).  
( http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-146-70-36204355-0,00.html )
 
Best Student Paper Prize

The NASA Software Engineering Laboratory will offer a best student paper prize
of $1K (US$1,024) and a commemorative certificate.   To be eligible for the prize,
a paper must be accepted for SEW, presented at the conference, and written solely
by full time student author(s) and their advisors only.   Papers based on thesis
work submitted after 1 January 2005, and satisfying the above author criteria, are
also eligible.   A significant registration discount will be available for student
 participants.

Deadlines
- 8 January, 2006:   Long and Short papers due
- 1 February, 2006 : Notification to Authors
- 24-28 April, 2006   SEW-30 in Columbia, MD
- 8 June, 2006  Camera Ready Copy due for Post-Proceedings

Any inquiries should also be directed by email to Michael.G.Hinchey@...; for
faster responses, please include “SEW” in the subject line.


_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ ICEECS 2006 Call for Papers _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+

ICEECS Call for Papers
11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
Co-located with Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB 2006)

Sponsored by:

IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory
Stanford University, CA, USA, 10-14 August 2006.

With the ever expanding range of computing platforms and applications, system
complexity is on the rise. Increasing intelligence and autonomics in today’s
systems requires innovative approaches to address these concomitant complexity
issues. At this cross-section of volume and complexity, current technologies are
 often ineffective at coping with the demands for quality computer systems.
Manifold dependencies between the critical software, hardware, communications,
and human elements now drive computer system and software architectures.
Complexity of software systems has grown significantly, pervading several key
application areas including Manufacturing, Communications, Transportation,
Internet, Entertainment, Mobile, Healthcare, Aerospace, and Energy.
These systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks, involving
Internet technologies. Inundated by temporal constraints, boundless functionalities,
complex algorithms, distributed and mobile architectures, security constraints,
reliability, high performance, interoperability, security, and the like, these
complexities are further weighing down development and  evolution of today’s
software systems and ultimately the organizations they serve.

The goal of this conference is to assemble industrial, academic and government
experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to examine key
complexity problems and effective solutions. Researchers, practitioners, tool
developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome.
The scope of the interest includes long-term research, near-term complex system
requirements and promising tools, existing systems, and commercially available tools.

Topic Areas:

Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems,
 including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with
complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to:
-System and software architecture and system engineering
-Tools, environments, and languages for complex systems
-Formal methods and approaches to manage and control complex systems
-Integration of heterogeneous technologies
-Software and system development and control processes for complex systems
-Human factors and collaborative aspects
-Interoperability and standardization
-Systems and software safety and security
-Industrial automation, embedded and/or real time systems
-Content production and distribution systems, mobile and multi-channel systems
-Software complexity visualization
-Virtual environments for managing complexity

Paper Submissions:

Research papers, case studies, lessons learned, status reports,
 and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains are all
welcome submissions.
For review, submissions are divided into two categories: Technical Papers
and Experience Reports.
Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of IEEE-Computer Society Format: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.
Submitted manuscripts must be in English and should be no longer than 4000 words
or 10 formatted pages.
Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a copyright release form.
IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings.
Submission Procedure: Please email your manuscripts in PDF format to the
program chairs listed above.

Panels and Special Sections:

Proposals (1 page) for organizing panels and special
sections should be sent to the general and program chairs via email. In both cases,
the list of confirmed people involved should be included.

Deadlines

- 3 February, 2006 Paper submission
- 7 April, 2006 Notification of acceptance
- 19 May, 2006 Camera ready papers
- 10-14 August, 2006 Conference

Committee:

General Chair:
- Michael G Hinchey, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory,
  Goddard Space Flight Center, Michael.G.Hinchey@...

Program Co-Chairs - Americas:
- Shawn Bohner, Virginia Tech, sbohner@...
- Phil Laplante, Penn State, plaplante@...

Program Co-Chair - Asia:
- Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, IIST, Macao, lzm@...

Program Co-Chairs - Europe:
- Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy, nesi@...
- Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK, jim@...

Publicity Chair:
- Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech

_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ AXMEDIS 2006 Call for Papers _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+

2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media
Content for Multi-channel Distribution,
Leeds, UK, 13-15 December 2006.
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following:
* Automatic cross-media production, collection, crawling, composition, formatting,
  P2P, etc.
* Formats and models for multi-channel content distribution
* Multimedia standards, e.g. MPEG-7, MPEG-21, DMP, etc.
* High quality audio visual coding
* Multimedia music representation and formatting
* Watermarking and fingerprinting techniques
* GRID and distributed systems for content production
* real-time streaming media distribution
* Multimedia middleware
* Workflow management systems
* Web services for content distribution
* Semantic Web
* Distribution with P2P architectures
* Legal aspects related to digital content
* Collecting and clearing of rights and licences
* Business, payment and transaction models
* Digital  Rights Management (DRM), models tools, and interoperability
* Formats and tools for Content Aware
* Archives managements for cultural and educational applications
* Synchronisation technologies and solutions
* Systems and approaches for content production/distribution on demand
* Digital content user interface
* Digital content accessibility
* Novel applications and case-studies of relevant technologies

The conference proceedings is to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
Selected papers from the conference will be considered for publication in special
issues of one or
more major peer-reviewed Journals in this domain.

- Submission due: 18 March 2006
- Conference date: 13-15 Dec 2006
- Conference venue: University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK


----end----

From:  Dr. H. R. Arabnia


                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

            The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers
        in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering
                            (FECS'06)

                         June 26-29, 2006
            Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'06) will be held
in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The FECS'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (FECS and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Accreditation and assessment
        O  Student recruitment and retention methods
        O  Choice of first programming language
        O  Distance learning; methods, technologies and assessment
        O  The balance between coursework and research
        O  Capstone research projects: examples and case studies
        O  Incorporating writing into CS and CE curriculum
        O  Computer Science and Computer Engineeting Curriculum issues
        O  Active learning tools
        O  Innovative degree programs and certificates
        O  Innovative uses of technology in the classroom
        O  Preparing graduates for academia
        O  Preparing graduates for industry
        O  Partnerships with industry and government
        O  Learning models
        O  Team projects and case studies
        O  Undergraduate research experiences
        O  The role of visualization and animation in education
        O  Student observation and mentoring strategies
        O  Advising methods
        O  Evaluation strategies (professors, students, ...)
        O  Computer and web-based software for instruction
        O  Proposed methods for ranking departments
        O  Transition to graduate studies
        O  Integrating gender and culture issues into computer
           science and engineering curriculum
        O  Learning from mistakes
        O  Debugging tools and learning
        O  Expanding the audience for computer science and
           computer engineering
        O  Computers in classroom
        O  Ethics in computer science and engineering
        O  Undergraduates as teaching assistants
        O  Funding opportunities for curriculum development
           and studies
        O  Pilot studies
        O  Recruiting methods to attract graduate students
        O  Academic dishonesty in a high-tech environment
        O  Collaborative learning
        O  Using the web
        O  Factors that lead to success in CS and CE

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND FECS'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    FECS'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  10, 2006:    (Extended deadline) Proposals for organizing/
                       chairing sessions
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers
                       in Education: Computer Science & Computer
                       Engineering (FECS'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)





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                   Call  For  Papers
                          &
               Call For Session Proposals

      The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
       Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing
                     WORLDCOMP'06
          (composed of 28 Joint Conferences)
           June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA

Dear Colleagues:

This is anticipated to be the largest annual gathering of
researchers in computer science, computer engineering and
applied computing.

You are invited to submit a draft paper (see instructions
below) and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop.
All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (included in major Science Citation
Indexes).  The names of technical session/workshop
organizers/chairs will appear on the cover of the proceedings as
Associate Editors.

The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'06) is composed of the following
28 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: June 26-29, 2006, USA).

o The 2006 International Conference on Parallel & Distributed
   Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Grid Computing &
   Applications (GCA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Security & Management (SAM'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
   (ICAI'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
   Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research & Practice (SERP'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Programming Languages &
   Compilers (PLC'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Semantic Web & Web Services
   (SWWS'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Real-Time Computing
   Systems & Applications (RTCOMP'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Embedded Systems &
   Applications (ESA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Pervasive Systems &
   Computing (PSC'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
   Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual
   Reality (CGVR'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation &
   Visualization Methods (MSV'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Computer Games Development
   (CGD'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
   Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Foundations of Computer
   Science (FCS'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
   Enterprise Information Systems, e-Government, & Outsourcing
   (EEE'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Information & Knowledge
   Engineering (IKE'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics &
   Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Computing in Nanotechnology
   (CNAN'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
   Systems & Algorithms (ERSA'06)

o The 2006 International Conference on Communications in Computing
   (CIC'6)

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org - currently
under construction.)

GENERAL CHAIR/COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the 28 joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by January 10, 2006.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan. 10,  2006:    (Extended deadline) Proposals for
                       organizing/chairing sessions.
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)

TOPICAL SCOPE FOR EACH CONFERENCE:

    To receive the complete list of topics for each of the
    28 conferences, send an email to hra@....

FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    If you do not wish to receive future announcements about this
    event, please send an email to hra@....




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>-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 30 January 2006 --
>
>               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2006
>                     14­16 July 2006 - Dublin, IRELAND
>                      (http://www.iadis.org/ml2006)
>   co-located with IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2006
>                      (http://www.iadis.org/es2006)
>
>* Co-organised by Trinity College, Dublin
>
>* Conference Background and Goals
>Mobile Learning, although in its infancy as a research area, has to date
>generated much interest and discussion among researchers. In particular,
>financial, logistical or technical reasons, such as the ever increasing
>availability of wireless portable devices, have provided a rich
>environment for the proliferation of ‘mobile learning applications’. While
>  there is an increasing number of mobile applications and devices that
>offer substantial potential to support and enable learning and teaching
>processes, the danger of designing, developing and implementing learning
>application for mobile devices that are not truly anchored in sound
>principles of learning is something researcher in the area of mobile
>learning must be mindful of.
>
>Research and developments in the field of mobile learning have yielded
>numerous experiences and tools that could be broadly classified into
>administrative, referential, interactive, data collection, location aware
>and collaborative categories. While the initial categories to some extend
>attempt to replicate or augment applications available on fixed desktop or
>laptop computers, the later leverage off the unique attributes of wireless
>mobile devices by creating new learning opportunities which would not be
>possible without mobile technology.
>
>Against this background, the Mobile Learning 2006 International Conference
>aims to provide a forum for presenting and discussing cutting edge mobile
>learning research. In particular empirical research informed by theories
>of learning such as collaborative, contextual, constructivist and
>constructionist approaches which are well suited for mobile learning
>experiences and scenarios, is encouraged. Furthermore, given the
>continuous developments in technology, the conference aims to generate
>speculative debate in relation to where the field may be going.
>
>* Format of the Conference
>The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations. The
>proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book. The
>best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their
>papers in selected Journals, inlcuding IADIS International Journal on
>WWW/Internet and International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL).
>
>* Types of Submissions
>Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and
>Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing
>process.
>
>* Topics related to Mobile Learning are of interest. We invite
>researchers, practitioners, developers and all those working in the mobile
>learning arena to submit work under the following topics:
>• Pedagogical approaches and theories for mLearning
>• Collaborative, cooperative and Contextual mLearning
>• Creativity and mLearning
>• Gaming and simulations in mLearning
>• mLearning in educational institutions: primary, secondary and third
>level
>• Informal and Lifelong mLearning
>• mLearning in developing countries
>• New tools, technologies and platforms for mLearning
>• User Studies in mLearning
>• The social phenomenon of mobile devices and mLearning
>• Speculative ideas in mLearning: where next?
>
>An academic conference is itself an exercise in learning. Accordingly,
>proposals as to how mobile technology can enhance the conference
>experience are invited.
>
>* Important Dates:
>- Submission Deadline: 30 January 2006
>- Notification to Authors: 13 March 2006
>- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 21 April
>2006
>- Late Registration: After 21 April 2006
>
>* Conference Location
>The conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland at Trinity College.
>
>* Secretariat
>IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2006
>Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
>1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
>E-mail: ml-sec@...
>Web site: http://www.iadis.org/ml2006
>
>* Program Committee
>
>Conference Co-Chairs
>Pedro Isaias and Piet Kommers,
>
>Program Chair
>Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez,
>
>Committee Members (not complete):
>Please check http://www.iadis.org/ml2006/committees.asp for full list
>
>* Co-located event
>Please also check the co-located event e-Society 2006
>(http://www.iadis.org/es2006/) - 13-16 July 2006
>
>* Registered participants in the Mobile Learning conference may attend the
>e-Society conference sessions free of charge.
---------------------
ADAM M. GADOMSKI
AIA List Moderator

From:  Dr. H. R. Arabnia


                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

               The 2006 International Conference on
                      Artificial Intelligence
                           (ICAI'06)

                        June 26-29, 2006
           Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(ICAI'06) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The ICAI'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (ICAI and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Intelligent information systems
        O  Intelligent software engineering
        O  Intelligent agents
        O  Intelligent networks
        O  Intelligent databases
        O  Intelligent user interface
        O  Brain models / Congnitive science
        O  Evolutionary algorithms
        O  Swarm intelligence
        O  Intelligent Tutoring systems
        O  Intelligent data mining and farming
        O  Intelligent web-based business
        O  Reasoning strategies
        O  Automated problem solving
        O  Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
        O  Distributed AI systems and architectures
        O  Expert systems
        O  Decision support systems
        O  Fuzzy logic
        O  Genetic algorithms
        O  Heuristic searching
        O  Knowledge acquisition
        O  Knowledge discovery
        O  Knowledge representation
        O  Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
        O  Knowledge networks and management
        O  Social intelligence (markets & computational societies)
        O  Languages and programming techniques for AI
        O  Software tools for AI
        O  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
        O  Natural language processing
        O  Neural networks and applications
        O  Intelligent information fusion
        O  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
        O  Search and meta-heuristics
        O  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
        O  Integration of AI with other technologies
        O  Evaluation of AI tools
        O  Social impact of AI
        O  Emerging technologies
        O  Applications (including: computer vision, signal
           processing, military, surveillance, robotics, medicine,
           pattern recognition, face recognition, finger print
           recognition, finance and marketing, stock market,
           education, emerging applications, ...)

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND ICAI'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    ICAI'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  10, 2006:    (Extended deadline) Proposals for organizing/
                       chairing sessions
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on
                       Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)




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                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

       The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning;
               Models, Technologies & Applications
                           (MLMTA'06)

                        June 26-29, 2006
           Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'06) will be held in Las Vegas,
Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The MLMTA'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (MLMTA and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Machine learning in problem solving
        O  Learning models
        O  Artificial neural networks and learning
        O  Fuzzy logic and learning
        O  Inductive learning and applications
        O  Learning by examples
        O  Statistical methods in learning
        O  Evolutionary algorithms in learning
        O  Reinforcement learning methods
        O  Multi-agent learning
        O  Hierarchical learning models
        O  Collaborative learning and filtering
        O  ODE Methods and machine learning
        O  Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
        O  Relational learning models
        O  Speedup learning techniques
        O  Computational needs of learning models
        O  Formal learning methods
        O  Graph-based learning
        O  Learning based on adaptive techniques
        O  Learning topological maps
        O  Learning in planning
        O  Query learning
        O  Active learning
        O  Memory-based learning
        O  Instance-based learning
        O  Life-long learning
        O  Q-Learning
        O  Predictive learning models
        O  Information retrieval and data mining
        O  Knowledge representation and management
        O  Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
        O  Bayesian-based methodologies
        O  Grammatical inference
        O  Cognitive modeling
        O  Case-based reasoning
        O  Semantic indexing
        O  Natural language processing
        O  Machine translation
        O  Temporal abstractions
        O  Feature selection and classification
        O  Theory refinement methodologies
        O  Probabilistic reasoning
        O  Self-adaptation techniques
        O  Game playing (chess, ...)
        O  Text categorization and classification
        O  Machine learning applications (medicine, games, biology,
           industrial applications, robotics, security and terrorism, ...)

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND MLMTA'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    MLMTA'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  10, 2006:    (Extended deadline) Proposals for organizing/
                       chairing sessions
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on Machine
                       Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications
                       (MLMTA'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)


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                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

               The 2006 International Conference on
               Image Processing, Computer Vision, &
                   Pattern Recognition (IPCV'06)

                        June 26-29, 2006
           Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'06) will be held
in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The IPCV'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (research tracks in image processing,
computer vision and pattern recognition and affiliated events)
had research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted
over 1,500 participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000
participants for the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Motion and tracking algorithms and applications
        O  Image-based modeling and algorithms
        O  Illumination and reflectance modeling
        O  Shape representation
        O  Video analysis
        O  Event recognition techniques in image sequences
        O  Medical image processing and analysis
        O  Segmentation techniques
        O  Geometric modeling and fractals
        O  Visualization
        O  Convergence of imaging media (video and computer)
        O  Biometric authentication
        O  Scene and object modeling
        O  Image data structures and databases
        O  Image compression, coding, and encryption
        O  Image display techniques
        O  Image geometry
        O  Digital imaging for film and television
        O  Image formation techniques
        O  Image generation, acquisition, and processing
        O  Image feature extraction
        O  Multi-view geometry
        O  Document image understanding + OCR
        O  Image algebra
        O  Enhancement techniques
        O  Novel noise reduction algorithms
        O  Mathematical morphology
        O  3D imaging
        O  Watermarking methods and protection
        O  Wavelet methods
        O  Mosaic, image registration and fusion methods
        O  Fingerprint analysis
        O  Color and texture
        O  Image restoration
        O  Printing technologies
        O  Interpolation techniques
        O  Software tools and environments for imaging
        O  Indexing and retrieval of images (image databases)
        O  Signal and speech processing

        O  Object recognition
        O  Face and gesture
        O  Machine learning technologies for vision
        O  Performance analysis and evaluation (real-time vision)
        O  Camera networks and vision
        O  Sensors and early vision
        O  Stereo vision
        O  Active and robot vision
        O  Cognitive and biologically inspired vision
        O  Soft computing methods in image processing and vision
        O  Multi-resolution vision techniques
        O  Fuzzy and neural techniques in vision
        O  Graph theory in image processing and vision
        O  Special-purpose machine architectures for vision

        O  Classification and clustering techniques
        O  Symbolic learning
        O  Statistical pattern recognition
        O  Invariance in pattern recognition
        O  Knowledge-based recognition
        O  Structural and syntactic pattern recognition
        O  Dimensionality reduction methods in pattern recognition
        O  Applications including: security, medicine, robotic, GIS,
           remote sensing, industrial inspection, nondestructive
           evaluation (or NDE), ...
        O  Case studies

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND IPCV'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    IPCV'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  10, 2006:    (Extended deadline) Proposals for organizing/
                       chairing sessions
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on Image
                       Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern
                       Recognition (IPCV'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)


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                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

               The 2006 International Conference on
                       Data Mining (DMIN'06)

                        June 26-29, 2006
           Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'06)
will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The DMIN'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (DMIN and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Emerging technologies in data mining
        O  Data mining in usability
        O  Advanced prediction modeling using data mining
        O  Data mining and national security
        O  Data mining tools
        O  Text mining
        O  Web mining
        O  Data analysis
        O  Data preparation techniques (selection, transformation,
           and preprocessing)
        O  Information extraction methodologies
        O  Decision trees used in mining data
        O  Clustering algorithms used in data mining
        O  Genetic algorithms and categorization techniques used
           in data mining
        O  Data and information integration
        O  Ontologies
        O  Microarray design and analysis
        O  Privacy-preserving data mining
        O  Active data mining
        O  Statistical methods used in data mining
        O  Computational performance issues in data mining
        O  Fuzzy logic and data mining
        O  Data mining algorithms
        O  Spatial and temporal data mining
        O  Multidimensional data
        O  Case studies and prototypes
        O  Automatic data cleaning
        O  Neural network techniques used in data mining
        O  Data visualization
        O  Data warehousing
        O  Theory and practice - knowledge representation and discovery
        O  Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)
        O  Uncertainty management
        O  Discovery agents
        O  Data reduction methods
        O  Data engineering
        O  Content mining
        O  Indexing schemes
        O  Information retrieval
        O  Metadata use and management
        O  Multidimensional query languages and query optimization
        O  Multimedia information systems
        O  Search engine query processing
        O  Pattern mining
        O  Applications (examples: data mining in education, marketing,
           finance and financial services, business applications, medicine,
           bioinformatics, biological sciences, science and technology,
           industry and government, ...)

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND DMIN'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    DMIN'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Dec.  29, 2005:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions.
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining
                       (DMIN'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)


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                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

            The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers
        in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering
                            (FECS'06)

                         June 26-29, 2006
            Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'06) will be held
in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The FECS'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (FECS and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Accreditation and assessment
        O  Student recruitment and retention methods
        O  Choice of first programming language
        O  Distance learning; methods, technologies and assessment
        O  The balance between coursework and research
        O  Capstone research projects: examples and case studies
        O  Incorporating writing into CS and CE curriculum
        O  Computer Science and Computer Engineeting Curriculum issues
        O  Active learning tools
        O  Innovative degree programs and certificates
        O  Innovative uses of technology in the classroom
        O  Preparing graduates for academia
        O  Preparing graduates for industry
        O  Partnerships with industry and government
        O  Learning models
        O  Team projects and case studies
        O  Undergraduate research experiences
        O  The role of visualization and animation in education
        O  Student observation and mentoring strategies
        O  Advising methods
        O  Evaluation strategies (professors, students, ...)
        O  Computer and web-based software for instruction
        O  Proposed methods for ranking departments
        O  Transition to graduate studies
        O  Integrating gender and culture issues into computer
           science and engineering curriculum
        O  Learning from mistakes
        O  Debugging tools and learning
        O  Expanding the audience for computer science and
           computer engineering
        O  Computers in classroom
        O  Ethics in computer science and engineering
        O  Undergraduates as teaching assistants
        O  Funding opportunities for curriculum development
           and studies
        O  Pilot studies
        O  Recruiting methods to attract graduate students
        O  Academic dishonesty in a high-tech environment
        O  Collaborative learning
        O  Using the web
        O  Factors that lead to success in CS and CE

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND FECS'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    FECS'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  10, 2006:    (Extended deadline) Proposals for organizing/
                       chairing sessions
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on Frontiers
                       in Education: Computer Science & Computer
                       Engineering (FECS'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)


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The 50th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, USA, July 9th - 14th 2006

Complexity, Democracy & Sustainability

• Complex Systems and the Roots of Systems Thinking
• Self-Organization and Living Systems
• Ecological Systems and Sustainability
• Social Systems Design and Practice

>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:53:12 +0100
>Reply-To: aisc06@...
>Subject: AISC06 - Preliminary Call for Papers
>
>Hopefully of interest, apologies for cross-posting.
>Please forward the CFP to anyone potentially interested.
>
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                               AISC06
>             4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
>ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE for SERVICE COMPOSITION
>
>                      PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>                      in conjunction with ECAI 2006
>
>                        Riva del Garda - Italy
>                            August 28, 2006
>
>                       http://ecai2006.itc.it/AISC06
>
>
>                       *** IMPORTANT DATES
>
>                Paper submission:     April 15, 2006
>                Author notification:  May 10, 2006
>                Camera ready copy:    May 24, 2006
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>In the last years, there has been increasing interest in service
>composition for management of tasks and resources. According to this
>approach, existing distributed services can be selected and combined
>into suitable workflows of tasks, in order to provide new
>functionalities or applications. Service composition has the potential
>to revolutionize the classical approaches to data integration and
>business process integration, reducing development time and
>effort. Standards and platforms based on service models and supporting
>service composition have been developed in different frameworks,
>including web services, grid services, and agent services.
>
>AI techniques have been used to support different key aspects of
>the management of service compositions, including tasks such as their
>generation, allocation of resources, execution, monitoring and
>repair. For instance, knowledge representation techniques have been
>exploited to provide suitable semantic annotations of services;
>planning has been applied to an automatic generation of the workflows
>composing the services; scheduling has been applied to resource
>allocation and workflow optimization; and agent techniques have been
>applied to support a dynamic adaptation of the workflows.
>
>However, many issues remain to be resolved. These include (1) forming
>precise, clean and general characterizations of service compositions,
>and identifying the most appropriate ways to formalize the critical
>steps in their life cycle; (2) determining suitable languages to
>represent service compositions in all their relevant aspects and
>finding ways of bridging the gap between service composition languages
>used in the industry and languages exploited in AI; (3) highlighting
>important challenges for AI to be effective in practical, industrial
>contexts, proposing techniques and tools able to address these
>challenges in realistic scenarios, and finding architectures for
>integrating such techniques in a robust, integrated environment.
>
>This workshop is the continuation of three successful workshops at
>ICAPS 2003, ICAPS 2004, and AAAI 2005, and aims at becoming a regular
>meeting place for researcher and practitioners working in the field of
>AI and in the area of service composition. We invite contributions
>discussing research issues on these themes, proposing real case
>studies or presenting systems under development
>
>
>***  RELEVANT TOPICS
>
>Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
>
>-  expressive description languages for services and service compositions;
>-  design and development of service compositions;
>-  automatic and mixed-initiative composition of services;
>-  validation and verification of service compositions;
>-  execution monitoring, repair, and adaptation of service compositions;
>-  resource allocation and optimization for service compositions;
>-  design-time and run-time information gathering in service composition;
>-  storage, analysis, and retrieval of composed services.
>
>
>*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
>
>Those wishing to attend are encouraged to submit either a full paper
>of up to 8 pages in the ECAI format, or a short position paper of up
>to 3 pages.  Further information about submissions will be available
>soon.
>
>
>*** WORKSHOP CHAIR
>
>Marco Pistore, University of Trento, Italy
>
>
>*** ORGANIZING BOARD
>
>Jose Luis Ambite, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
>Jim Blythe, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
>Jana Koehler, IBM Research Laboratory, Switzerland
>Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada
>Biplav Srivastava, IBM Research Laboratory, India
>
>
>*** IMPORTANT DATES
>
>Paper submission:     April 15, 2006
>Authors notification: May 10, 2006
>Camera ready copy:    May 24, 2006
>
>
>*** CONTACT INFO
>
>For more information about the AISC06 Workshop visit the official
>web-page: http://ecai2006.itc.it/AISC06
>or send e-mail to: aisc06@...
>
>
>

X-Organisation: Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
X-URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/
From: FOCA at ESSLLI <esslli06@...>
Subject: 2nd CFP: Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents, ESSLLI 2006
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:38:01 +0100
To: info@...
Sender: info@...

Apologies for multiple postings

************************************************************************ ******************
CALL FOR PAPERS
************************************************************************ ******************

Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/
July 31 - August 4, 2006

organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and  Information
ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/
July 31 - August 11, 2006 in Malaga

************************************************************************ ******************

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:

Roberta Ferrario (ferrario at loa-cnr.it)
Nicola Guarino (guarino at loa-cnr.it)
Laurent Prevot (prevotlaurent at gmail.com)

************************************************************************ ******************

WORKSHOP PURPOSE:

In recent years lots of efforts have been devoted to formal studies of
human and artificial agent communication. Research advancements have  been achieved along three main lines: (i) agent's internal states and  dynamics, (ii) social interaction and conventional communicative  patterns, (iii) semantics-pragmatics interface - especially  in the  dialogue context (i.e. the interplay between the semantic content of  messages and the communicative acts themselves). There is a recent  trend of studies trying to integrate these approaches in many ways. On  the other hand, formal ontology has been consecrated as a good solution  for comparing and integrating information and thus its application to  this specific domain is very promising . More precisely, an ontological  analysis of the fundamental ingredients of interaction and  communication will make explicit the hidden ontological assumptions  underlying all these proposals.
Ontology has also proven to be a very powerful means to address issues  related to the exchange of meaningful communication across autonomous  entities, which can organize and use information heterogeneously.
The purpose of the workshop is therefore to gather contributions that  (i) take seriously into account the ontological aspects of  communication and interaction and (ii) use formal ontologies for  achieving a better semantic coordination between interacting and  communicating agents.

*********************************************************

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We encourage contributions concerning the two main areas listed below  with a particular attention to  explore the interplay between  ontological analysis and its applications in practical cases.

* Ontological aspects of interaction and communication
    - Ontological analysis of interaction and communication
    - Studies on the structure and coherence of interaction
         - Logical models for communicative acts
    - Primitives of interaction and communication
    - Formal semantics of dialogue

   
*Semantic coordination through formal ontologies
    - Dialogue semantics and formal ontology
    - Dynamic ontology sharing
    - Ontological primitives for meaning negotiation, ontological  alignment and semantic interoperability
        - Ontology evolution through communication
       - Concrete problems and experiences in terminological  disambiguation and integration
   


************************************************************************ ******************
SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract describing original  contributions to the workshop topics.  Submissions should range between  3 and 5 pages.
The following formats are accepted: .doc, .tex, .pdf (please, always  include source files).

Please send your submission electronically to the following email  address:

esslli06 at loa-cnr.it

by the deadline listed below.  The submissions will be reviewed by the  workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers.  The accepted  papers will
appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The
format for the final version will be .pdf.
A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be  considered for publication in the international journal 'Applied  Ontology'  ( http://www.applied-ontology.org/).

************************************************************************ ******************

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI
participants.  It will consist of five 90-minute sessions
held over five consecutive days in the first week
of ESSLLI.  There will be 2 or 3 slots for paper presentation
and discussion per session.  On the first day the workshop
organizers will give an introduction to the topic.

************************************************************************ ******************

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submissions        : March 8, 2006
Notification       : April 21, 2006
Full paper deadline: May 1st, 2006
Final programme    : June 21, 2006
Workshop Dates     : July 31 - August 4, 2006

************************************************************************ ******************

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: (tentative)

Thomas ADDIS (University of  Portsmouth)    http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/addist/tom.html
Nicholas ASHER (University of Texas, Austin, USA and IRIT-CNRS,  Toulouse,  France)    http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/asher/main.html
John BATEMAN (University of Bremen,  Germany)    http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~bateman/
Guido BOELLA (University of Torino,  Italy)    http://www.di.unito.it/~guido/
Paolo BOUQUET (University of Trento,  Italy)    http://dit.unitn.it/~bouquet/
Scott FARRAR (University of Bremen,  Germany)    http://www.u.arizona.edu/~farrar/
Roberta FERRARIO (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Trento,  Italy)    http://www.loa-cnr.it/ferrario.html
Aldo GANGEMI (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Roma,  Italy)    http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html
Nicola GUARINO (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Trento,  Italy)    http://www.loa-cnr.it/guarino.html
Andreas HERZIG (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse,  France)    http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/LILaC/Pers/Herzig/
Joris HULSTIJN (Utrecht University, the  Nehterlands)    http://www.cs.vu.nl/~joris/
Kepa KORTA    (Universidad del Pais Vasco,  Spain)    http://www.sc.ehu.es/ylwkocak/kepa.html
Nicolas MAUDET (University of Paris Dauphine,  France)    http://l1.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~maudet/
Massimo POESIO (University of Essex, UK and University of Trento,  Italy)    http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/
Laurent PREVOT (Academia Sinica, Taipei,  Taiwan)        http://www.loa-cnr.it/prevot.html
Matt PURVER (CSLI, Stanford, USA)     http://www.stanford.edu/~mpurver/
Johan VAN BENTHEM (University of Amsterdam, the  Netherlands)    http://staff.science.uva.nl/~johan/
Rogier VAN EIJK (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)  http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/rogier/
Laure VIEU (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)    http://www.loa-cnr.it/vieu.html


************************************************************************ ******************

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

All workshop participants including the presenters will be
required to register for ESSLLI.  The registration fee for
authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early
student/workshop speaker registration fee.  Moreover, a number
of additional fee waiver grants might be made available by
the local organizing committee on a competitive basis and
workshop participants are eligible to apply for those.

There will be no reimbursement for travel costs or accommodation.
Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding
should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the
possibilities of a grant.



************************************************************************ ******************

FURTHER INFORMATION:

About the workshop: http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/
About ESSLLI: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/

From:  Dr. H. R. Arabnia


                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

               The 2006 International Conference on
               Information & Knowledge Engineering
                           (IKE'06)

                       June 26-29, 2006
          Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Information & Knowledge
Engineering (IKE'06) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada,
June 26-29, 2006.

The IKE'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (IKE and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Knowledge and information management techniques
        O  Knowledge delivery methods
        O  Knowledge life cycle
        O  Knowledge and information extraction and
           discovery techniques
        O  Knowledge classification tools
        O  Data warehousing
        O  Data security
        O  Knowledge management and cyber-learning
        O  Knowledge mining
        O  Database engineering and systems
        O  Data and knowledge processing
        O  Databanks - issues, methods, and standards
        O  Dataweb models and systems
        O  Data and knowledge fusion
        O  Data/Information/Knowledge models
        O  Information retrieval systems
        O  Information reliability and security
        O  Information and knowledge structures
        O  Information quality (quality metrics)
        O  Large-scale information processing methods
        O  Intelligent knowledge-based systems
        O  Re-usability of software/knowledge/information
        O  Aspect-oriented programming
        O  Formal and visual specification languages
        O  Decision support and expert systems
        O  Applications (e-Commerce, multimedia, business, banking, ...)
        O  Managing copyright laws
        O  e-Libraries (digital libraries) + e-Publishing
        O  Digital typography
        O  Agent-based techniques and systems
        O  Knowledge extraction from images/pictures
        O  Workflow management
        O  Large-scale information processing methods and systems
        O  Content management
        O  Privacy issues
        O  Interoperability issues
        O  Transaction systems
        O  Object-oriented modeling and systems
        O  Case-based reasoning
        O  Digital watermarking

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND IKE'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    IKE'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Dec.  29, 2005:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions.
    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on
                       Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)


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From: FOCA at ESSLLI <esslli06@...>
Subject: 2nd CFP: Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents, ESSLLI 2006
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:38:01 +0100
To: info@...
Sender: info@...

Apologies for multiple postings

************************************************************************ ******************
CALL FOR PAPERS
************************************************************************ ******************

Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents
http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/
July 31 - August 4, 2006

organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and  Information
ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/
July 31 - August 11, 2006 in Malaga

************************************************************************ ******************

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:

Roberta Ferrario (ferrario at loa-cnr.it)
Nicola Guarino (guarino at loa-cnr.it)
Laurent Prevot (prevotlaurent at gmail.com)

************************************************************************ ******************

WORKSHOP PURPOSE:

In recent years lots of efforts have been devoted to formal studies of
human and artificial agent communication. Research advancements have  been achieved along three main lines: (i) agent's internal states and  dynamics, (ii) social interaction and conventional communicative  patterns, (iii) semantics-pragmatics interface - especially  in the  dialogue context (i.e. the interplay between the semantic content of  messages and the communicative acts themselves). There is a recent  trend of studies trying to integrate these approaches in many ways. On  the other hand, formal ontology has been consecrated as a good solution  for comparing and integrating information and thus its application to  this specific domain is very promising . More precisely, an ontological  analysis of the fundamental ingredients of interaction and  communication will make explicit the hidden ontological assumptions  underlying all these proposals.
Ontology has also proven to be a very powerful means to address issues  related to the exchange of meaningful communication across autonomous  entities, which can organize and use information heterogeneously.
The purpose of the workshop is therefore to gather contributions that  (i) take seriously into account the ontological aspects of  communication and interaction and (ii) use formal ontologies for  achieving a better semantic coordination between interacting and  communicating agents.

*********************************************************

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We encourage contributions concerning the two main areas listed below  with a particular attention to  explore the interplay between  ontological analysis and its applications in practical cases.

* Ontological aspects of interaction and communication
    - Ontological analysis of interaction and communication
    - Studies on the structure and coherence of interaction
         - Logical models for communicative acts
    - Primitives of interaction and communication
    - Formal semantics of dialogue

   
*Semantic coordination through formal ontologies
    - Dialogue semantics and formal ontology
    - Dynamic ontology sharing
    - Ontological primitives for meaning negotiation, ontological  alignment and semantic interoperability
        - Ontology evolution through communication
       - Concrete problems and experiences in terminological  disambiguation and integration
   


************************************************************************ ******************
SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract describing original  contributions to the workshop topics.  Submissions should range between  3 and 5 pages.
The following formats are accepted: .doc, .tex, .pdf (please, always  include source files).

Please send your submission electronically to the following email  address:

esslli06 at loa-cnr.it

by the deadline listed below.  The submissions will be reviewed by the  workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers.  The accepted  papers will
appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The
format for the final version will be .pdf.
A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be  considered for publication in the international journal 'Applied  Ontology'  ( http://www.applied-ontology.org/).

************************************************************************ ******************

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI
participants.  It will consist of five 90-minute sessions
held over five consecutive days in the first week
of ESSLLI.  There will be 2 or 3 slots for paper presentation
and discussion per session.  On the first day the workshop
organizers will give an introduction to the topic.

************************************************************************ ******************

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submissions        : March 8, 2006
Notification       : April 21, 2006
Full paper deadline: May 1st, 2006
Final programme    : June 21, 2006
Workshop Dates     : July 31 - August 4, 2006

************************************************************************ ******************

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: (tentative)

Thomas ADDIS (University of  Portsmouth)    http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/addist/tom.html
Nicholas ASHER (University of Texas, Austin, USA and IRIT-CNRS,  Toulouse,  France)    http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/asher/main.html
John BATEMAN (University of Bremen,  Germany)    http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~bateman/
Guido BOELLA (University of Torino,  Italy)    http://www.di.unito.it/~guido/
Paolo BOUQUET (University of Trento,  Italy)    http://dit.unitn.it/~bouquet/
Scott FARRAR (University of Bremen,  Germany)    http://www.u.arizona.edu/~farrar/
Roberta FERRARIO (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Trento,  Italy)    http://www.loa-cnr.it/ferrario.html
Aldo GANGEMI (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Roma,  Italy)    http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html
Nicola GUARINO (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Trento,  Italy)    http://www.loa-cnr.it/guarino.html
Andreas HERZIG (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse,  France)    http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/LILaC/Pers/Herzig/
Joris HULSTIJN (Utrecht University, the  Nehterlands)    http://www.cs.vu.nl/~joris/
Kepa KORTA    (Universidad del Pais Vasco,  Spain)    http://www.sc.ehu.es/ylwkocak/kepa.html
Nicolas MAUDET (University of Paris Dauphine,  France)    http://l1.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~maudet/
Massimo POESIO (University of Essex, UK and University of Trento,  Italy)    http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/
Laurent PREVOT (Academia Sinica, Taipei,  Taiwan)        http://www.loa-cnr.it/prevot.html
Matt PURVER (CSLI, Stanford, USA)     http://www.stanford.edu/~mpurver/
Johan VAN BENTHEM (University of Amsterdam, the  Netherlands)    http://staff.science.uva.nl/~johan/
Rogier VAN EIJK (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)  http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/rogier/
Laure VIEU (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)    http://www.loa-cnr.it/vieu.html


************************************************************************ ******************

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

All workshop participants including the presenters will be
required to register for ESSLLI.  The registration fee for
authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early
student/workshop speaker registration fee.  Moreover, a number
of additional fee waiver grants might be made available by
the local organizing committee on a competitive basis and
workshop participants are eligible to apply for those.

There will be no reimbursement for travel costs or accommodation.
Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding
should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the
possibilities of a grant.



************************************************************************ ******************

FURTHER INFORMATION:

About the workshop: http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/
About ESSLLI: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/

From:  Prof. H. R. Arabnia


                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

               The 2006 International Conference on
                      Artificial Intelligence
                           (ICAI'06)

                        June 26-29, 2006
           Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(ICAI'06) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The ICAI'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (ICAI and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Intelligent information systems
        O  Intelligent software engineering
        O  Intelligent agents
        O  Intelligent networks
        O  Intelligent databases
        O  Intelligent user interface
        O  Brain models / Congnitive science
        O  Evolutionary algorithms
        O  Swarm intelligence
        O  Intelligent Tutoring systems
        O  Intelligent data mining and farming
        O  Intelligent web-based business
        O  Reasoning strategies
        O  Automated problem solving
        O  Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
        O  Distributed AI systems and architectures
        O  Expert systems
        O  Decision support systems
        O  Fuzzy logic
        O  Genetic algorithms
        O  Heuristic searching
        O  Knowledge acquisition
        O  Knowledge discovery
        O  Knowledge representation
        O  Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
        O  Knowledge networks and management
        O  Social intelligence (markets & computational societies)
        O  Languages and programming techniques for AI
        O  Software tools for AI
        O  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
        O  Natural language processing
        O  Neural networks and applications
        O  Intelligent information fusion
        O  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
        O  Search and meta-heuristics
        O  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
        O  Integration of AI with other technologies
        O  Evaluation of AI tools
        O  Social impact of AI
        O  Emerging technologies
        O  Applications (including: computer vision, signal
           processing, military, surveillance, robotics, medicine,
           pattern recognition, face recognition, finger print
           recognition, finance and marketing, stock market,
           education, emerging applications, ...)

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND ICAI'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    ICAI'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on
                       Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)


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                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
                  =============================

       The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning;
               Models, Technologies & Applications
                           (MLMTA'06)

                        June 26-29, 2006
           Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'06) will be held in Las Vegas,
Nevada, June 26-29, 2006.

The MLMTA'06 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same
location and dates) with a number of other international
conferences and workshops (for the complete list of joint
conferences refer to: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/)

The last set of conferences (MLMTA and affiliated events) had
research contributions from 76 countries and had attracted over 1,500
participants.  It is anticipated to have over 2,000 participants for
the 2006 event.

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 to 8 pages
and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop (see
the submission information).  All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. The names of chairs of
sessions/workshops will appear as Associate Editors on the cover
of the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
        the following:

        O  Machine learning in problem solving
        O  Learning models
        O  Artificial neural networks and learning
        O  Fuzzy logic and learning
        O  Inductive learning and applications
        O  Learning by examples
        O  Statistical methods in learning
        O  Evolutionary algorithms in learning
        O  Reinforcement learning methods
        O  Multi-agent learning
        O  Hierarchical learning models
        O  Collaborative learning and filtering
        O  ODE Methods and machine learning
        O  Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
        O  Relational learning models
        O  Speedup learning techniques
        O  Computational needs of learning models
        O  Formal learning methods
        O  Graph-based learning
        O  Learning based on adaptive techniques
        O  Learning topological maps
        O  Learning in planning
        O  Query learning
        O  Active learning
        O  Memory-based learning
        O  Instance-based learning
        O  Life-long learning
        O  Q-Learning
        O  Predictive learning models
        O  Information retrieval and data mining
        O  Knowledge representation and management
        O  Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
        O  Bayesian-based methodologies
        O  Grammatical inference
        O  Cognitive modeling
        O  Case-based reasoning
        O  Semantic indexing
        O  Natural language processing
        O  Machine translation
        O  Temporal abstractions
        O  Feature selection and classification
        O  Theory refinement methodologies
        O  Probabilistic reasoning
        O  Self-adaptation techniques
        O  Game playing (chess, ...)
        O  Text categorization and classification
        O  Machine learning applications (medicine, games, biology,
           industrial applications, robotics, security and terrorism, ...)

GENERAL CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia, USA 30602-7404

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

WORLDCOMP'06 PUBLICITY CHAIR AND MLMTA'06 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

    A. M. G. Solo
    Maverick Technologies America Inc.
    Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street
    Wilmington, Delaware, USA 19801

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    MLMTA'06 is an international conference held simultaneously
    (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other
    joint conferences as part of WORLDCOMP'06 (The 2006 World
    Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
    Applied Computing).  WORLDCOMP'06 is the largest annual
    gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
    engineering and applied computing.  Each of the joint
    conferences in WORLDCOMP is the premier conference for
    presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    WORLDCOMP'06 is composed of the following international
    conferences: Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques &
    Applications; Scientific Computing; Grid Computing &
    Applications; Security & Management; Artificial Intelligence;
    Machine Learning; Software Engineering Research & Practice;
    Programming Languages & Compilers; Internet Computing; Semantic
    Web & Web Services; Computer Design; Real-Time Computing
    Systems & Applications; Embedded Systems & Applications; Wireless
    Networks; Pervasive Systems & Computing; Image Processing,
    Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics &
    Virtual Reality; Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods;
    Computer Games Development; Frontiers in Education in Computer
    Science & Engineering; Foundations of Computer Science;
    e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
    e-Government, & Outsourcing; Data Mining; Information &
    Knowledge Engineering; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Computing in Nanotechnology; Engineering of Reconfigurable
    Systems & Algorithms; Communications in Computing.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
    research conferences into a coordinated research meeting
    held in a common place at a common time.  The main goal
    is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number
    of research areas that interact.  The model used to form
    these annual conferences facilitates communication among
    researchers in different fields of computer science,
    computer engineering and applied computing.  Both inward
    research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
    and outward research (multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary,
    and applications) will be covered during the conferences.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

    Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
    presentations (from different authors).  The session
    chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing,
    selecting, ...  The names of session chairs will appear
    as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
    on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
    the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
    of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
    the topic of the session, the name of the conference the
    session is submitted for consideration, and a short
    description on how the session will be advertised (in
    most cases, session proposers solicit papers from
    colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia
    (address is given above); E-mail submissions are preferred.
    We would like to receive the proposals by December 29, 2005.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft
    paper (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10
    to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2006. E-mail submissions
    in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal
    submissions are also fine.)  All reasonable typesetting
    formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting
    format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will
    be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have
    been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the draft paper
    should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, &
    Fax number for each author.  The first page should also
    include the name of the author who will be presenting
    the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
    Also, the name of the conference that the paper is being
    submitted to must be mentioned on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
    clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
    two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one person.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters
    of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
    scientific computing; artificial intelligence; imaging
    science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.)
    The Program Committee for individual conferences is
    currently being formed.  Those interested in joining
    the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information:
    Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
    email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography
    together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
    hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other
    near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel
    with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
    The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
    shuttle service to and from the airport.  This hotel has
    many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls,
    spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River
    water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
    courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool,
    sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly
    shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area,
    bars, ...  Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a
    day & most are suitable for families & children.  The
    negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
    reasonable.  The hotel is within walking distance from
    most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
    destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street
    shows, ...).

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Feb.  20, 2006:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2006:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2006:    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
    June 26-29, 2006:  The 2006 International Conference on Machine
                       Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications
                       (MLMTA'06) +
                       The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'06 - 28 joint conferences)


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>
>  ==============================================================
>  Call for Workshop Proposals
>
>  2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint
>  Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
>  (WI-IAT'06)
>
>  Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
>  18-22 December 2006.
>
>  http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06
>
>  (Workshop Proposals Due: 10 April 2006)
>
>  ===================================================
>
>  The Program Committees of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint
>  Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
>  (WI-IAT'06) invite proposals for Workshops.  The Workshops will be
>  held at the beginning of the Conference, December 18, 2006 at Hong
>  Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
>
>  The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the
>  workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the
>  papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and
>  range of the Conference.  All papers accepted for workshops will be
>  included in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be
>  published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the
>  workshops.
>
>  The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing
>  selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or
>  special journal issues.  Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A
>  full-day workshop should select 20-25 regular papers, while a half-day
>  workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large number of
>  submissions.  The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of
>  authors of accepted papers at the workshops.
>
>  I. Workshop Topics
>
>  Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and
>  initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology
>  (IAT).  The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for
>  researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results
>  and practical development experiences in these two fields.  Suggested,
>  but not limited to, workshop topics include:
>
>  - Intelligent E-Technology (including E-Science, E-Business,
>                E-Learning, E-Finance, E-Government, E-Community)
>  - Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
>  - Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
>  - Semantics and Ontology Engineering
>  - Social Networks and Social Intelligence
>  - Ubiquitous Computing
>  - Web Agents
>  - Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
>  - Web Mining and Forming
>  - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
>  - Web Services and Grid Services
>  - Web Support Systems
>  - World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
>  - Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
>  - Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
>  - Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
>  - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
>  - Learning and Self-Adapting Agents
>  - Distributed Intelligence
>
>  II. Workshop Proposal Submission
>
>  Workshop proposals should include the following elements:
>
>  - Title of the workshop
>  - Your name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
>  - A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
>  - Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
>  - A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of
>    Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
>  - A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as
>    to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers
>
>  After the acceptation of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:
>
>  - Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop
>  - Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published
>    on the Conference Web site
>  - Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee)
>  - Review and select papers
>  - Schedule the workshop activities
>
>  Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by
>  the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance.
>
>  All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
>  quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
>
>  We will provide an online paper submission and review system
>  to support the workshops.
>
>  III. Important Dates
>
>  - April 10, 2006: Workshop proposal submission due
>      (Please send proposals by e-mail to all three Workshop Co-Chairs)
>  - April 20, 2006: Notification to workshop proposers
>  - April 30, 2006: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for
> Workshops Papers
>  - July 30, 2006: Due date for full workshop papers submission
>                   (at least two reviews for each paper)
>  - September 5, 2006: Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs
>  - September 8, 2006: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
>  - October   8, 2006: Camera-ready of accepted papers
>  - December 18, 2006: Workshop day
>
>  We look forward to your support in making 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT
>  workshops an exciting event.
>
>  Workshop Co-Chairs:
>
>  Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada
>                E-mail: butz@...
>  Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
>                E-mail: thanh@...
>  Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
>                E-mail: ytakama@...
>
>  Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year
>  (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).
>
>  For your information, the WI-IAT'06 conference will be co-located with
>  the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06) for
>  providing synergism among the three research areas. It will provide
>  opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous
>  conferences. The three conferences will have the joint opening,
>  keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register one
>  conference and can attend sessions across the three conferences. We
>  are planning to have a joint panel and joint paper sessions that
>  discuss common problems in the three areas.
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
---------------------------------

>
>
>You are cordially invited to Submitt a paper to the following
>conferences:
>
>-- 11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex
>    Computer Systems (ICEECS 2006), Co-located with Computational Systems
>    Bioinformatics (CSB 2006) Stanford University, CA, USA, 14-18 August 2006,
>    http://www.iceccs.org
>
>-- 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media
>    Content for Multi-channel Distribution, IEEE press proc.,
>    Leeds, UK, 13-15 December 2006.
>    http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006
>
>Sorry for multiple reception of this email, and please pass this email to
>other collegues that could be interested in the above events.
>In the following, and on the web site you may find more details.
>
>Best wishes,
>Paolo Nesi
>
>_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ ICEECS 2006 Call for Papers _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+
>
>ICEECS Call for Papers
>11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
>Co-located with Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB 2006)
>
>Sponsored by:
>
>IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing
>NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory
>Stanford University, CA, USA, 10-14 August 2006.
>
>With the ever expanding range of computing platforms and applications, system
>complexity is on the rise. Increasing intelligence and autonomics in today's
>systems requires innovative approaches to address these concomitant
>complexity
>issues. At this cross-section of volume and complexity, current
>technologies are
>  often ineffective at coping with the demands for quality computer systems.
>Manifold dependencies between the critical software, hardware,
>communications,
>and human elements now drive computer system and software architectures.
>Complexity of software systems has grown significantly, pervading several key
>application areas including Manufacturing, Communications, Transportation,
>Internet, Entertainment, Mobile, Healthcare, Aerospace, and Energy.
>These systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous
>networks, involving
>Internet technologies. Inundated by temporal constraints, boundless
>functionalities,
>complex algorithms, distributed and mobile architectures, security
>constraints,
>reliability, high performance, interoperability, security, and the
>like, these
>complexities are further weighing down development and  evolution of today's
>software systems and ultimately the organizations they serve.
>
>The goal of this conference is to assemble industrial, academic and
>government
>experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to
>examine key
>complexity problems and effective solutions. Researchers, practitioners, tool
>developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome.
>The scope of the interest includes long-term research, near-term
>complex system
>requirements and promising tools, existing systems, and commercially
>available tools.
>
>Topic Areas:
>
>Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems,
>  including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding,
> controlling, or coping with
>complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to:
>-System and software architecture and system engineering
>-Tools, environments, and languages for complex systems
>-Formal methods and approaches to manage and control complex systems
>-Integration of heterogeneous technologies
>-Software and system development and control processes for complex systems
>-Human factors and collaborative aspects
>-Interoperability and standardization
>-Systems and software safety and security
>-Industrial automation, embedded and/or real time systems
>-Content production and distribution systems, mobile and
>multi-channel systems
>-Software complexity visualization
>-Virtual environments for managing complexity
>
>Paper Submissions:
>
>Research papers, case studies, lessons learned, status reports,
>  and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user
> domains are all
>welcome submissions.
>For review, submissions are divided into two categories: Technical Papers
>and Experience Reports.
>Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of IEEE-Computer
>Society Format: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.
>Submitted manuscripts must be in English and should be no longer
>than 4000 words
>or 10 formatted pages.
>Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a copyright release form.
>IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings.
>Submission Procedure: Please email your manuscripts in PDF format to the
>program chairs listed above.
>
>Panels and Special Sections:
>
>Proposals (1 page) for organizing panels and special
>sections should be sent to the general and program chairs via email.
>In both cases,
>the list of confirmed people involved should be included.
>
>Deadlines
>
>- 19 February, 2006 Paper submission
>- 7 April, 2006 Notification of acceptance
>- 19 May, 2006 Camera ready papers
>- 10-14 August, 2006 Conference
>
>Committee:
>
>General Chair:
>- Michael G Hinchey, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory,
>   Goddard Space Flight Center, Michael.G.Hinchey@...
>
>Program Co-Chairs - Americas:
>- Shawn Bohner, Virginia Tech, sbohner@...
>- Phil Laplante, Penn State, plaplante@...
>
>Program Co-Chair - Asia:
>- Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, IIST, Macao, lzm@...
>
>Program Co-Chairs - Europe:
>- Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy, nesi@...
>- Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK, jim@...
>
>Publicity Chair:
>- Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech
>
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