**********WCLC 2004 Call For Papers************
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First World Congress on Lateral-Computing, WCLC 2004
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Dec 17th -19th, 2004, Banglaore, India

Website: http://www.lateral-computing.org/wclc/

The World Federation on Lateral-Computing ( WFLC)
in association with Bangalore Chapter of ACM invite
you to participate in the First World Congress on
Lateral-Computing ( WCLC). WCLC 2004 will be held in
Bangalore India during December 17th ?19th, 2004.
It will feature invited talks by leading experts,
tutorials, special sessions, paper presentations
and poster/demo sessions. Proceedings will be published
by leading international publisher.
Selected papers will be published by the Journal of
Applied Soft Computing.

What is Lateral-Computing?
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The traditional or conventional approach to solving
computing problems is to either build mathematical models
or have a IF- THEN -ELSE structure.
The example for arriving at a solution in case of a chess problem
is using brute force search i.e., thinking logically through
exhaustively searching the moves. However, this approach
is computationally expensive and sometimes may arrive at
poor solutions such as in the case of pattern recognition,
optimisation and certain control problems.

Lateral-computing is lateral thinking approach to solving computing
problems By applying lateral-computing technique, a computationally
inexpensive, easy to implement, efficient, innovative unconventional
technique is arrived at for the computing problem at hand.
A simple problem of truck back up can be used for illustrating the
lateral-computing. This is one of the difficult tasks for
traditional computing techniques, and has been efficiently
solved by the use of fuzzy logic which is a lateral
computing technique. Lateral-computing sometimes arrives
at a novel solution for particular computing problem by using the
model of how living beings such as humans, ants, honeybee solve
the problem or how pure crystals are formed by annealing,
or evolution of living beings or quantum mechanics etc.

Topics for WCLC 2004:
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The Lateral-Computing paradigm encompasses all the
"unconventional Computing" techniques such as:
- Swarm Intelligence,
- Agent Based systems,
- Grid Computing,
- Simulated Annealing,
- Autonomic Computing
- Optical Computing
- DNA Computing/Molecular Computing
- Quantum Computing
- Fractal Computing
- Soft Computing :
o Fuzzy Logic,
o Neuro Computing,
o Evolutionary Computing,
o Probabilistic/Chaotic Computing,
o Machine Learning

The major applications of Lateral-Computing are in :
> Image and Signal Processing
> Control and Automation
> Industrial and Medical Diagnosis
> Bioinformatics
> Data Mining
> Business Information Systems, E-commerce
> Internet Modeling, Communication and Networking, Web Mining
> Decision Support Systems
> Knowledge Management
> Information Retrieval and Text Mining
> Speech and Natural Language Processing



WCLC 2004 Organization
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General Chair:

Suthikshn Kumar, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd.,India,
suthikshn.kumar@...



Technical Program Co-Chairs:

Ajith Abraham, Oklohoma State University, USA, aa@...


Jens Harnisch, Infineon Technologies, Germany, Jens.harnisch@...

Antony Satyadas, IBM USA, antony_satyadas@...



International Co-Chairs:

Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK vasile.palade@...

Sung Bae-Cho, Yonsie University, South Korea, sbcho@...

Uday Shukla, IBM India, ushukla@...



Steering Committee Co-chairs:

Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA,
prasanna@...

Andrew Sung, New Mexico Tech(USA) sung@...

Suthikshn Kumar, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd.,India,
suthikshn.kumar@...



International Publicity Co-chairs:

Vishy Karri, University of Tasmania, Australia, Vishy.Karri@...

Srinivas Mukkamala, New Mexico Tech, USA srinivas@...



National Advisory Committe Co-chairs:

C.P Ravikumar, Texas Instruments Inda, ravikumar@...

Laxmidhar Behera, IIT Kanpur ( India) lbehera@...

Sudhir Kumar Barai, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India,
skbarai@...



International Advisory Committee Co-Chairs:

M. Palaniswami, Univeristy of Melbourne, Australia Swami@...

Krishna Palem, Georgia Tech (USA) krishna.palem@...

Nalin Sharda, Victoria University(Australia), nalin@...



Poster Presentation Co-Chairs:

R. N. Dutta, Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, India
rdutta@...

Raj Buyya, University of Melbourne(Australia) raj@...




Publication Co-Chairs:

Antony Satyadas, IBM USA, antony_satyadas@...

Andrew Adamatzky, University of West England, UK,
andrew.adamatzky@...



Technical Program Committee:

Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield (UK) R.Roy@...

S. Srinivasa, IIIT-B ( India) Sri@...

F. Beritelli, University of Catania(Italy) Beritelli@...

M. Palaniswami, Melbourne(Australia) Swami@...

M.A.L. Thathachar, IISc ( India) malt@...

Heiko Timm, Magdeburg (Germany)
timm@...

M. Köppen, Fraunhofer-IPK Berlin (Germany) mario.koeppen@...

Simon Thorpe, SpikeNet-technology.com ( France), thorpe@...

A.Abraham, Oklohoma State University(USA) aa@...

S. Pal, ISI (India) sankar@...

Jens Harnisch, Infineon Technologies(Germany) Jens.harnisch@...

A.Pitsillides, Univeristy of Cyprus ( Cyprus)
Andreas.Pitsillides@...

Laxmidhar Behera, IIT Kanpur ( India) lbehera@...

Johnson PThomas, Oklohoma State University (USA) jpt@...

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay ISI -Kolkata(India)
sanghami@...

Marco Russo( Italy), Marco.Russo@...

Victor Taratoukhine( UK) V.V.taratoukhine@...

Takeshi Furuhashi(Japan) furuhashi@...

Ujjwal Maulik, Jadavpur University(India)

Murli Vishwanathan, University of Melbourne(Australia) murli@...

Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne(Australia) rao@...

Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California(USA) nalini@...

N. Mani, Monash University (Australia) nallasamy.mani@...

B. Yegnanarayana, IIT Chennai(India), yegna@...

G.K. Venayagamoorthy, University Missouri(USA) gkumar@...

C.Chandrashekar, IIT Chennai(India) chandra@...

P.K Singh, UNSW(Australia) pksingh@...

M Nagendra Prasad, UNSW(Australia) mithunp@...

Raj Buyya, University of Melbourne(Australia) raj@...

Rajendra Bopanna, University of Texas(USA) bopanna@...

Dheeraj Bhardwaj, IIT Delhi(India) dheerajb@...

Andrew Sung, New Mexico Tech(USA) sung@...

Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland(USA) hillol@...

Goutam Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University(JAPAN)
goutam@...

Basabi Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University(JAPAN),
basabi@...

Debjani Chakraborty, I.I.T. Kharagpur(India), debjani@...

Ashutosh Tiwari, Cranfield University (UK) a.tiwari@...

Krishna Palem, Georgia Tech (USA) krishna.palem@...

K.V.S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, India hari@...

A. G. Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India,
ramkiag@...

Thippur Sreenivas, Indian Institute of Science, India,
tvsree@...

Hazem Numan Nounou, United Arab Emirates University, UAE,
hnounou@...

Mohamed N. Nounou, United Arab Emirates University, UAE,
mnounou@...

M.M. Sufyan Beg, Alighar Muslim University, India, mmsbeg@...

Gary Feng, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, MEGFENG@...

Srinivas Mukkamala, New Mexico Tech, USA srinivas@...

Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia, kate.smith@...

Andrew Adamatzky, University of West England, UK,
andrew.adamatzky@...

Mohammad Sarfraz, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi
Arabia, sarfraz@...

Mohammadian Masoud, University of Canberra, Australia,
Masoud.Mohammadian@...

Sargur Srihari, SUNY at Buffalo, USA, srihari@...

S.S. Iyengar, Louisian State University, USA, iyengar@...

Arvind, MIT, USA, arvind@...

Sung Bae-Cho, Yonsie University, South Korea, sbcho@...

Simon See, Nanyang Technology University/Sun Microsystems, Singapore,
simon@...

Bhaba Krishna Mohanty, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India,
mohanty@...

Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino, Italy, baroglio@...



Industry Liaison Committee Co-Chairs:

Christian Woehler, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany,
christian.woehler@...

Rajendra K Bera, IBM India, rbera@...



Theme Chairs:

Fuzzy Systems:

Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada, pedrycz@...



Neural Networks:

Tom Gedeon, Australian National University, Australia,
tom.gedeon@...

Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA, honavar@...



Evolutionary Computing :

Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, ccoello@...

Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology, India, deb@...



Probabilistic-chaotic computing:

Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan,
dote@...

Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, kacprzyk@...



DNA Computing: Takeshi Furuhashi, Mie University, Japan,
furuhashi@...

Swarm Intelligence: Vitorino Ramos, Technical University of Lisbon,
Portugal, vitorino.ramos@...

Machine Learning: Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia,
Canada, desilva@...

Intelligent Agents: Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa, USA,
sandip@....

On Demand Computing( Autonomic, Grid, Semantic web and Utility Compuing) :
Antony Satyadas, IBM USA, antony_satyadas@...

Distributed AI: Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State Univ, USA,
marcin@...

Bio Inspired Computing: Moshe Sipper, Israel sipper @cs.bgu.ac.il

Knowledge Management: Suliman Hawemdeh, University of Oklohoma, USA,
suliman@...

Multimedia Informatics: Nalin Sharda, Victoria University(Australia),
nalin@...

Information Systems Security: Andrew Sung, New Mexico Tech(USA)
sung@...

Genetic Programming: John R. Koza, Stanford University, USA,
koza@...

Fractal Computing: Jeffrey Ventrella, Ventrella.Com,USA,
jeffrey@...

Quantum Computing: Apoorva Patel, Indian Institute of Science, India,
adpatel@...



Tutorial Co-Chairs:

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay ISI -Kolkata(India)
sanghami@...

Ujjwal Maulik, Jadavpur University(India), drumaulik@...





Best Paper Award:
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These awards are instituted to attract contribution of
good quality papers to the WCLC. The best paper awards
are sponsored by ACM. There are several award categories:
- Best paper ( overall)
- Best paper ( Innovation)
- Best student paper ( UG)
- Best student paper ( PG)

Important dates:
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-August 15, 2004: Papers Submission/ Tutorial/ Special Session due
-October 2nd, 2004: Author notification
-October 30, 2004: Final papers due
( Refer to Author Instructions on the WCLC website)


Co-Sponsors:
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-World Federation on Lateral COmputing ( WFLC)
-Infineon Technologies AG
-Bangalore Chapter of ACM
-IEEE Signal Processing Society Bangalore Chapter
-IEEE Bangalore Section
-IEEE AEOS-COM-LEOS chapter of India

Technical Co-sponsors:
-L&T Infotech Ltd., India
-IEEE Systems Man, Cybernetics Society
-World Federation on Soft Computing( WFSC)


About the Venue:
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Bangalore is the "Silicon Valley", "IT Capital", "Garden City" of
India. Bangalore is home to several development centers for the
leading computing/communication/IT companies such as Intel, HP,
Siemens, Infineon, IBM etc. It has a large concentration of
IT professionals( approx 100,000).
It has necessary infrastructure such as International
Airport with connections to major cities worldwide,
luxury hotels, business centers, Multinational banks,etc.
Several tourist attractions await the visitors.

WCLC 2004 Website:
http://www.lateral-computing.org/wclc/

WCLC 2004 Contacts: suthikshn.kumar@.../ajith.abraham@...

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Thanks and Warm Regards,
Dr. Suthikshn Kumar
General Chair, WCLC 2004
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Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited, 3rd & 4th Floor, #2 Church Street,
Bangalore 560 001, India

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Mobile: 91-80-36843344 Email: suthikshn.kumar@...
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