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Second Call for Papers

2nd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent
Systems (HIS'02)

December 01 - 04, 2002
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

http://his02.hybridsystem.com

HIS’02 is technically co-sponsored by:
- IEEE Region 9
- The World Federation on Soft Computing
- European Neural Network Society
- European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology
- European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary
Computing
- IOS Press.

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Deadline for Paper Submission: July 31, 2002
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HIS'02 is the second International conference that
brings together
researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of
soft computing,
computational intelligence, agents, logic programming,
and several
other intelligent computing techniques. The aim of
HIS'02 is to serve
as a forum to present current and future work as well
as to exchange
research ideas in this field.

HIS'02 invites authors to submit their original and
unpublished work
that demonstrate current research using soft
computing/computational
intelligence and other intelligent computing
techniques and their
applications in science, technology, business and
commercial. Please
submit a full paper of 8 to 10 pages (Letter or A4
paper) for oral
presentation. The proceedings of the Conference will
be published by
IOS Press, Netherlands. A selected number of papers
will also be
considered for a special issue of the Elsevier Science
Journal
"Applied Soft Computing" and for a special issue of
the IOS Press
Journal- Intelligent Data Analysis. Please follow the
author’s
guidelines given by IOS Press for more information on
submission.
Author's guidelines can be downloaded from the
conference web page.

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Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:

Track 1: Computational Intelligence and Applications

- Artificial neural networks and learning techniques
- Artificial neural network optimization using global
optimization
techniques
- Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy
inference systems
- Fuzzy clustering algorithms
- Fuzzy system optimization using global optimization
algorithms
- Evolutionary computation
- Support vector machines, rough sets, Bayesian
networks
- Hybrid computing using neural networks-fuzzy
systems- evolutionary
algorithms
- Hybrid optimization techniques
- Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning
techniques
- Intelligent agents
- Models using inductive logic programming, logic
synthesis
- Natural computation techniques
- Autonomic computing
- Applications using the above systems
- Special topics


Track 2: Soft Computing for Pattern Recognition and
Signal Processing

- Features and Classification
- Texture Analysis
- Document Analysis
- Shape Processing
- Fuzzy Image Processing
- Grouping and Segmentation
- Object Recognition
- Medical Image Processing
- Image and Video Retrieval
- Biometric Systems
- Image Representation
- Image Compression
- Video Processing
- Digital Watermarking
- Image Synthesis
- Industrial Applications
- Visual Surveillance


Track 3: Soft Computing and the Internet

- e-learning, e-commerce, e-business
- Web Intelligence
- Search Engines
- Information retrieval (web mining)
- Database Querying
- Ontology
- XML mining
- Intelligent networking between Web Sites
- Content Management
- Information Aggregation and Fusion
- Interaction with Intelligent Agents
- Intelligent Agents and Interfaces for
personalization and adaptivity
- Intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW
- WWW Recommender Systems
- Adaptive Hypermedia Systems
- Agents for Digital cities, virtual communities and
agent societies


Track 4: Intelligent Data Mining

- Integrating E-Commerce and Data Mining
- Discovering patterns in Continuous Data
- Uncertainty management for data mining
- Clustering algorithms and applications
- Classification trees
- Mining time series
- Mining in a Mobile Environment
- Statistical Considerations in Learning
- XML Mining
- Text Mining
- Distributed Data Mining


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HIS02 Important Dates
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Deadline for Events Proposals June
30, 2002
Deadline for Paper Submission (full paper) July
31, 2002
Notification of Acceptance
August 30, 2002
Deadline for Camera Ready Papers
September 10, 2002
HIS'02 Conference in Chile
December 01-04, 2002

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Venue Information (Santiago, Chile)

HIS’02 will be hosted by the Faculty of Physical and
Mathematical
Sciences at the Universidad de Chile (Beaucheff 850,
Santiago
de Chile).

December is an excellent time to travel in Chile. The
local
organizers will help the interested participants to
arrange a
trip to any location in Chile. For more information
about traveling
in Chile please visit:
http://www.sernatur.cl/ and
http://www.visit-chile.org/

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HIS02 Organization

Honorary Chairman
Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

General Chairmen
Ajith Abraham, Monash University, Australia
Mario Köppen, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Local Organizing Chair
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Area Chairs
Track1: Computational Intelligence and Applications
Ajith Abraham, Monash University, Australia

Track 2: Soft Computing for Pattern Recognition
and Signal Processing
Mario Köppen, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany

Track 3: Soft Computing and the Internet
Fabio Abbattista, Universitŕ di Bari, Italy

Track 4: Intelligent Data Mining
Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia

Web Chairs
Mauricio Gaete, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Diego Sepulveda, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Finance Chair
Roberto Aviles, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Local Organizing Committee
Roberto Aviles, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Rodrigo Palma, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Richard Weber, Universidad de Chile, Chile

International Technical Committee

Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia
Hung T. Nguyen, New Mexico State University, USA
Tom Gedeon, Murdoch University, Australia
Robert John, De Montfort University, UK
Fabio Abbatista, Universitat di Bari, Italy
Bernard de Baets, Ghent University, Belgium
Carlos A. Coello Coello,Nacional de Informática
Avanzada, Mexico
Vladimir Kvasnicka, Slovak Technical University,
Slovakia
Zensho Nakao, University of Ryukyus, Japan
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Udo Seiffert, University of South Australia, Australia
Jarno Tanskanen, University of Kuopio, Finland
Hamid R. Tizhoosh, University of Waterloo, Canada
Olgierd Unold, Wroclaw University of Technology,
Poland
Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
Maumita Bhattacharya, Monash University, Australia
José Manuel Benítez, University of Granada, Spain
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Sankar K Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Vijayan Asari, Old Dominion University, USA
Dharmendhra Sharma, University of Canberra, Australia
Morshed U Chowdhury, Deakin University, Australia
Xiao Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology,
Finland
Costa Branco P J, Instituto Superior Technico,
Portugal
Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia, Australia
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Katrin Franke, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany
Aureli Soria-Frisch, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany
Xiufen Liu, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany
Nikhil R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Ricardo Baeza, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
William B. Langdon, University College London, UK
Akira Asano, Hiroshima University, Japan
Evgenia Dimitriadou, Vienna University of Technology,
Austria
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Marley Vellasco, PUC-RJ, Brazil
André Ferreira de Carvalho, Universidade de Săo Paulo,
Brazil
Antônio de Pádua Braga, Federal University of Minas
Gerais,Brazil
Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium
Frank Hoffmann, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Günther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology,
Austria
Greg Huang, MIT, USA
Sami Khuri, San Jose University, USA
Hans Heinrich Bothe, Technical University of Denmark,
Denmark
Andreas König, Technical University of Dresden,
Germany
Vladislav B. Valkovsky, Uppsala University, Sweden
Luis Magdalena, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid,
Spain
L.C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Jose Ramon Alvarez Sanchez, Univ. Nac.de Educacion a
Distancia, Spain
Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary
Hans-Michael Voigt, GFAI, Germany
Jose Mira, UNED, Spain
Andrew Sung, New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology,USA
Rajiv Khosla, La Trobe University, Australia



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