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CFP: IEEE in cooperated International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation

CFP: IEEE in cooperated International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation


Dear Colleague

Due to the large number of requests received for an extension to the submission date
for CIMCA05 and IAWTIC05, the  conference committee has extended the due date
for submission of papers to CIMCA05 AND IAWTIC05 conference.

The due date is now 14 September 2005.


With kind regards
Masoud Mohammadian
Conference Chair FOR cimca05 & IAWTIC05


                         

                              CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling,
                    Control and Automation
              28 - 30 November 2005 Vienna, Austria
                         http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/

In co-operation with:
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE in USA

Sponsored by:
European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT
International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF
Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT
Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA
World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI
Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA
University of Canberra

                             Jointly with
International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies
                         and Internet Commerce
             http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic05/                         

Honorary Chair:
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA
Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA


The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Vienna,

Austria on 28 to 30 November 2005. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and

practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation.
The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation
and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory
sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the
 conference.

Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA

and will be index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Modern and Advanced Control Strategies:
Neural Networks Control,
Fuzzy Logic Control,
Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control,
Model-Predictive Control,
Adaptive and Optimal Control,
Intelligent Control Systems,
Robotics and Automation,
Fault Diagnosis,
Intelligent agents,
Industrial Automations

Hybrid Systems:
Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems,
Fuzzy Expert Systems,
Fuzzy Neural Systems,
Neural Genetic Systems,
Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems,
Hybrid Systems for Optimisation

Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification:
Signal Processing,
Prediction and Time Series Analysis,
System Identification,
Data Fusion and Mining,
Knowledge Discovery,
Intelligent Information Systems,
Image Processing, and Image Understanding,
Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control,
Pattern Recognition,
Clustering and Classification

Decision Making and Information Retrieval:
Case-Based Reasoning,
Decision Analysis,
Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval,
Dynamic Systems Modelling,
Decision Support Systems,
Multi-criteria Decision Making,
Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning

Paper Submission
Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address:

CIMCA'2005 Secretariat
School of Information Sciences and Engineering
University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia
E-mail: cimca <at> canberra.edu.au

Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Draft papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences.

Important Dates
31 August 2005 Submission of draft papers
30 September 2005 Notification of acceptance
21 October 2005 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers
28-30 November 2005 Conference sessions

Special Sessions and Tutorials
Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair (by email to: masoud.mohammadian <at> canberra.edu.au) on or before 5th of August 2005. CIMCA'05 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date.

Visits and social events
Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference.

Further Information
For further information either contact cimca <at> ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/default.htm

Organising Committee Chair:
Masoud Mohammadian, University of
Canberra, Australia

International Program Committee:
H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA
W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada
A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA
T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
J. Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA
R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University, USA
F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan
A. Agah, The University of Kansas, US
E. André, Universität Augsburg, Germany
A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA
J. P. Bigus, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan
K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA
T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany
K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland
J. Fernandez de Cañete, University of Malaga, Spain
W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan
A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway

International Liaison:
Canada and USA Liaison:
Robert John, De Montfort University, UK
Nasser Jazdi, Institut für Automatisierungs- und
Softwaretechnik, Germany

Europe Liaison:
Dr. Eng. Djamel Khadraoui, Centre de Recherche Public, Luxembourg
Frank Zimmer, SES ASTRA, Luxembourg

Asia Liaison:
Renzo Gobbin, University of Canberra, Australia
R. Amin Sarker, ADFA, Australia

Local Arrangements and
Public Relation:
Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria
C Meier, Australia

Publicity:
C. Meier, Australia
Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria

Publication:
Masoud Mohammadian, Australia

In cooperation with:
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE in USA
University of Canberra, (Masoud Mohammadian)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, (José-Luis Fernández-Villacañas Martín)
University of Guelph, (Simon X. Yang)

Jana Sukkarieh | 26 Sep 20:47
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Natural Language and Knowledge Representation (2nd CFP)


  [Apologies for x-postings]

NATURAL LANGUAGE AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION (NL-KR)

Special Track at FLAIRS 2006

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Holiday Inn Melbourne Oceanfront,  Melbourne Beach, FLORIDA, USA

MAIN CONFERENCE: 11-12-13 MAY 2006

Special track web page: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR
Main conference web page: http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06

PURPOSE OF THE NL-KR TRACK

We believe the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the Knowledge
Representation (KR) communities have common goals. They are both concerned
with representing knowledge and with reasoning, since the best test for the
semantic capability of an NLP system is performing reasoning tasks. Having
these two essential common grounds, the two communities ought to have been
collaborating, to provide a well-suited representation language that covers
these grounds. However, the two communities also have difficult-to-meet
concerns. Mainly, the semantic representation (SR) should be expressive
enough and should take the information in context into account, while the KR
should be equipped with a fast reasoning process.

The main objection against an SR or a KR is that they need experts
to be understood. Non-experts communicate (usually) via a natural language
(NL), and more or less they understand each other while performing a lot of
reasoning. An essential practical value of  representations is their attempt
to be transparent.  This will particularly be useful when/if the system
provides a justification for a user or a knowledge engineer on its line of
reasoning using the underlying KR (i.e. without generating back to NL).

We all seem to believe that, compared to Natural Language, the existing
Knowledge Representation and reasoning systems are poor. Nevertheless, for a
long time, the KR community dismissed the idea that NL can be a KR. That's
because NL can be very ambiguous and there are syntactic and semantic
processing complexities associated with it. However, researchers in both
communities have started looking at this issue again. Possibly, it has to do
with the NLP community making some progress in terms of processing and
handling ambiguity, the KR community realising that a lot of knowledge is
already 'coded' in NL and that one should reconsider the way they handle
expressivity and ambiguity.

This track is an attempt to provide a forum for discussion on this
front and to bridge a gap between NLP and KR.  A KR in this track has a
well-defined syntax, semantics and a proof theory. It should be clear what
authors mean by NL-like, based on NL or benefiting from NL (if they are
using one). It does not have to be a novel representation.

NL-KR TRACK TOPICS

 For this track, we will invite submissions including, but not limited to:

  a. A novel NL-like KR or building on an existing one
  b. Reasoning systems that benefit from properties of NL to reason with NL
  c. Semantic representation used as a KR : compromise between expressivity
and efficiency?
  d. More Expressive KR for NL understanding (Any compromise?)
  e.  Any work exploring how existing representations fall short of
addressing some problems involved in modelling,  manipulating or reasoning
(whether reasoning as used to get an interpretation for a certain utterance,
exchange of utterances or what utterances follow from other utterances) with
NL documents
  f. Representations that show how classical logics are not as efficient,
transparent, expressive or where a one-step application of an inference rule
require more (complex) steps in a classical environment and vice-versa; i.e.
how classical logics are more powerful, etc
  g. Building a reasoning test collection for natural language
understanding systems: any kind of reasoning (deductive, abductive, etc);
for a deductive test suite see for e.g. deliverable 16 of the FraCas project
(http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~fracas/). Also, look at textual entailment
challenges 1 and 2
<http://www.pascal-network.org/Challenges/RTE>
  h. Comparative results (on a common test suite or a common task) of
different representations or systems that reason with NL (again any kind of
reasoning). The comparison could be either for efficiency, transparency or
expressivity
  i. Knowledge acquisition systems or techniques that benefit from
properties of NL to acquire knowledge already 'coded' in NL
  j. Automated Reasoning, Theorem Proving and KR communities views on all
this

NL_KR TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE

James ALLEN, University of Rochester, USA
Patrick BLACKBURN, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique, France
Johan BOS, University of Edinburgh, UK
Richard CROUCH, Palo Alto Research Centre, USA
Maarten DE RIJKE, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anette FRANK, DFKI, Germany
Fernando GOMEZ, University of Central Florida, USA
Sanda HARABAGIU, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
John HARRISON, Intel, USA
Jerry HOBBS, Information Sciences Institute, USA
Chung Hee HWANG, Raytheon Co., USA
Michael KOHLHASE, International University Bremen, Germany
Shalom LAPPIN, King's College, UK
Carsten LUTZ, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Dan MOLDOVAN,  University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Jeff PELLETIER, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Stephen PULMAN, University of Oxford, UK
Lenhart SCHUBERT, University of Rochester, USA
John SOWA, VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., USA
Jana SUKKARIEH, University of Oxford, UK (Chair)
Geoff SUTCLIFFE, Miami University, USA
Timothy WILLIAMSON, University of Oxford, UK

NL_KR TRACK INVITED SPEAKER

John SOWA, VivoMind Intelligence, Inc., US

FLAIRS 2006 INVITED SPEAKERS

Alan BUNDY, University of Edinburg, Scotland
Bob MORRIS,  Nasa Ames Research Center, USA
Mehran SAHAMI, Standford University and Google, USA
Barry SMYTH, University College Dublin, Ireland

NL-KR TRACK PROPOSED BY

Jana Sukkarieh, University of Oxford, UK
email: J.Sukkarieh.94 <at> cantab.net

WEB and TECH SUPPORT

Simon Dobnik, University of Oxford, UK
email: Simon.Dobnik <at> clg.ox.ac.uk

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submissions must arrive no later than 21 November 2005. Only electronic
submissions will be considered. Details about submission can be found on :
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lady0641/Flairs06_NL_KR/submission_details.html
Selected papers will be considered for publication
in a special journal issue of "The journal of Logic and Computation" in the
2nd half of 2006.

PROCEEDINGS

Printed Proceedings will be published only on demand. Proceedings on CD
will be provided to all.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission of papers:  21 November,  2005
* Notification of acceptance: 20 January, 2006
* Final version of the paper is due : 13 February, 2006
* Main Conference: 11-13 May 2006
* Track: max 1 day during the main conference

 Those interested  in running a demo please
contact Jana Sukkarieh <J.Sukkarieh.94 <at> cantab.net> or Simon Dobnik
<Simon.Dobnik <at> clg.ox.ac.uk>.


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