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infotech.monash.edu.au>************************************************************************* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HYBRID INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (HIS02) December 01 - 04, 2002 Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile http://his02.hybridsystem.com ************************************************************************* Deadline for Paper Submission: July 31, 2002 ************************************************************************* 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 HIS'02 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research using soft computing/ computational intelligence and other intelligent computing techniques and their applications in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 Springer Verlag, Germany. A selected number of papers will also be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier Science Journal "Applied Soft Computing".Please follow the author's guidelines given by Springer-Verlag, Germany for more information on submission. Author's guidelines can be downloaded from the conference web page. ************************************************************************* 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 ************************************************************************* HIS02 Important Dates Deadline for Events Proposals May 30, 2002 Deadline for Paper Submission (full paper) July 31, 2002 Notification of Acceptance September 30, 2002 Deadline for Camera Ready Papers October 14, 2002 HIS'02 Conference in Chile December 01-04, 2002 ************************************************************************* 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/ ************************************************************************* HIS02 Organization Honorary Chairman Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan General Chairmen Ajith Abraham, Monash University, Australia Mario Koeppen, 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 Koeppen, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Track 3: Soft Computing and the Internet Fabio Abbattista, Universite 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 Akira Asano, Japan Andre Ferreira de Carvalho, Brazil Andreas Koenig, Germany Antonio de Padua Braga, Brazil Aureli Soria-Frisch, Germany Bernard de Baets, Belgium Carlos A. Coello Coello, Mexico Costa Branco P J, Portugal Dharmendhra Sharma, Australia Etienne Kerre, Belgium Evgenia Dimitriadou, Austria Fabio Abbatista, Italy Francisco Herrera, Spain Frank Hoffmann, Sweden Greg Huang, USA Guenther Raidl, Austria Hamid R. Tizhoosh, Canada Hans Heinrich Bothe, Denmark Hung T. Nguyen, USA Janusz Kacprzyk, Poland Jarno Tanskanen, Finland Jose Manuel Benitez, Spain Kaori Yoshida, Japan Kate Smith, Australia Katrin Franke, Germany Luis Magdalena, Spain Marley Vellasco, Brazil Maumita Bhattacharya, Australia Morshed U Chowdhury, Australia Nikhil R. Pal, India Olgierd Unold, Poland Rajkumar Roy, United Kingdom Ricardo Baeza, Chile Robert John, UK Sami Khuri, USA Sankar K Pal, India Stefano Cagnoni, Italy Sung-Bae Cho, Korea Tom Gedeon, Australia Udo Seiffert, Australia Vasant Honavar, USA Vijayan Asari, USA Vladimir Kvasnicka, Slovakia William B. Langdon, UK Witold Pedrycz, Canada Xiao Zhi Gao, Finland Xiufen Liu, Germany Zensho Nakao, Japan Zorica Nedic, Australia ************************************************************************* Please have a look at HIS02 Conference Page: http://his02.hybridsystem.com HIS01 Conference Page: http://his01.hybridsystem.com HIS01 Proceedings: Abraham, A., Koeppen, M.(Eds.): "Hybrid Information Systems" Springer Physica, Germany 2002 http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-7908-1480-6&cookie=done ************************************************************************* For FURTHER INFORMATION and ENQUIRIES, registration, sponsorship, and advertisement please contact the Local Organizing Chair: Prof. Dr. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar Universidad de Chile Dept. of Electrical Engineering Av. Tupper 2007, Casilla 412-3, 6513027 Santiago, Chile Tel. +56-2-678 4207/4087, Fax +56-2-695 3881 Email j.ruizdelsolarMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>***PLEASE NOTE*** Because of several requests, the deadline for full and short paper submissions has been extended to APRIL 8, 2002 ============= (we apologize if you receive this message more than once) *** International CLASS Workshop *** on Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems Copenhagen, Denmark 28-29 June 2002 Detailed and more up to date information may be found at the workshop webpage: http://www.class-tech.org/events/NMI_workshop2.html Invited Speakers/Contributors: Tim Bickmore and Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab), Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute), Ronald Cole (University of Colorado at Boulder), Bjoern Granstroem (KTH, Stockholm), Dominic Massaro (UCSC), Candy Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA), Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST), Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI), Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) GENERAL DESCRIPTION Following up on the CLASS workshop in Verona (Italy, 14-15 December 2001), this workshop will concentrate on innovative and challenging approaches on natural, intelligent and effective interaction in multimodal dialogue systems. The aim of the workshop is to bring together theoretically and practically oriented researchers from both academia and industry with the purpose of having a thorough, fruitful and representative discussion of the topic area in an international setting. CLASS SPONSORSHIP The workshop is sponsored by the European CLASS project (http://www.class-tech.org/) which was initiated on the request of the European Commission with the purpose of supporting and stimulating collaboration within and among Human Language Technology (HLT) projects, as well as between HLT projects and relevant projects outside Europe. Currently, CLASS comprises 42 projects and 220 registered members. TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome papers describing theoretical or practical research on multimodal dialogue systems. The focus of the workshop is on natural, intelligent and effective multimodal interaction. Topics of interest include: * Multimodal Signal Processing Models for multimodal signal recognition and synthesis, including combinations of speech (emotional speech and meaningful intonation for speech), text, graphics, music, gesture, face and facial expression, and (embodied) animated or anthropomorphic conversational agents. * Multimodal Communication Management Dialogue management models for mixed initiative conversational and user-adaptive natural and multimodal interaction, including models for collaboration and multi- party conversation. * Multimodal Miscommunication Management Multimodal strategies for handling or preventing miscommunication, in particular multimodal repair and correction strategies, clarification strategies for ambiguous or conflicting multimodal information, and multimodal grounding and feedback strategies. * Multimodal Interpretation and Response Planning Interpretation and response planning on the basis of multimodal dialogue context, including (context-semantic) models for the common representation of multimodal content, as well as innovative concepts/technologies on the relation between multimodal interpretation and generation. * Reasoning in Intelligent Multimodal Dialogue Systems Non-monotonic reasoning techniques required for intelligent interaction in various types of multimodal dialogue systems, including techniques needed for multimodal input interpretation, for reasoning about the user(s), and for the coordination and integration of multimodal input and output. * Choice and Coordination of Media and Modalities Diagnostic tools and technologies for choosing the appropriate media and input and output modalities for the application and task under consideration, as well as theories and technologies for natural and effective multimodal response presentation. * Multimodal Corpora, Tools and Schemes Training corpora, testsuites and benchmarks for multimodal dialogue systems, including corpus tools and schemes for multilevel and multimodal coding and annotation. * Architectures for Multimodal Dialogue Systems New architectures for multimodal interpretation and response planning, including issues of reusability and portability, as well as architectures for the next generation of multi-party conversational interfaces to distributed information. * Evaluation of Multimodal Dialogue Systems Current practice and problematic issues in the standardization of subjective and objective multimodal evaluation metrics, including evaluation models allowing for adequate task fulfilment measurements, comparative judgements across different domain tasks, as well as models showing how evaluation translates into targeted, component-wise improvements of systems and aspects. WORKSHOP FORMAT Although the workshop has an open character implying that plenty of room is available for the presentation of papers from researchers from all over the world, the workshop will contain invited contributions from a group of 10 specially qualified researchers with a balanced composition of workshop-relevant expertise. Part of the group is selected from the broad CLASS community; part of them are internationally leading researchers from outside CLASS. Invited contributors will also participate in the panel session organized by the co-chairs of the workshop program committee. SUBMISSION OF FULL AND SHORT PAPERS In addition to papers for full plenary presentation, we encourage the submission of short papers in combination with a very short presentation in the plenary session followed by a poster presentation. Full papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including references, examples, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. Short papers should be 4 pages maximally. Full and short papers should be sent electronically to the e-mail address classworkshop2002Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue