[agents] Call-for-Papers: 20th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Tools with AI (ICTAI 2008)

[ICTAI 2008]

                                 (Apologies for cross postings)
*** Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline is extended to June 23, 2008

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The 20th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on TOOLS with 
              ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI 2008)
                            November 3-5, 2008
                             Dayton, Ohio, USA
            Conference Website: http://dblab.cs.wright.edu/ictai2008/

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                               4th CALL FOR PAPERS
The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) 
provides a major international forum where the creation and exchange of ideas related to 
artificial intelligence are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies. 
The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and promotes their 
transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial 
intelligence applications. The ICTAI encompasses all the technical aspects of specifying, 
developing and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of the 
AI based components of computer tools (i.e. algorithms, methodologies, architectures, 
and languages).  
TOPICS OF INTEREST include (but are not limited to) the following: 
  AI Algorithms
  AI in Bioinformatics
  AI in Computer Security
  AI in Databases and Data Mining
  AI in E-commerce
  AI in Games
  AI in Information Assurance
  AI in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  AI in Medicine
  AI in Multimedia Systems
  AI in Real-time and Embedded Applications
  AI in Robotics
  AI in Software Engineering
  Case-Based Reasoning
  Cognitive Modeling
  Constraint Programming
  Collaborative Software Agents
  Reasoning under Fuzziness or Uncertainty
  Evolutionary Computing
  Hybrid Intelligent Systems
  Information Retrieval
  Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems
  Intelligent Internet Agents
  Intelligent Interface Agents
  Knowledge-based Systems
  Knowledge Extraction
  Knowledge Management and Sharing
  Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  Machine Learning
  Natural Language Processing and Understanding
  Neural Networks
  Ontologies
  Planning and Scheduling
  Qualitative Reasoning
  Search and Heuristics
  Semantic Web Technologies
  Speech Processing and Understanding
  Vision and Image Processing and Understanding.
The submissions should contain original and high quality work, not submitted or published 
elsewhere. The accepted papers will be included in the ICTAI 2008 proceedings published 
by the IEEE Computer Society. A selection of the best papers of the conference will be 
published in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 
(IJAIT), which is SCI Indexed.

IMPORTANT DATES
  Paper submission: June 23, 2008 (extended)
  Notification of acceptance: July 23, 2008
  Camera ready paper: August 15, 2008

STREERING COMMITTEE
  Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State Univ, USA (Chair)
  C. V. Ramamoorthy, UC at Berkeley, USA
  Farokh Bastani, Univ of Texas at Dallas, USA,
  Jeffrey Tsai, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  Benjamin Wah, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
  Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Univ. of Patras, Greece
  Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
  Soon M. Chung, Wright State Univ., USA

AREA CHAIRS
  Raj Bhatnagar, Univ. of Cincinnati, USA
  Rüdiger Brause, J.W. Goethe Univ., Germany
  Paola Campadelli, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, Italy
  Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan UST, Taiwan
  Silvia Coradeschi, Örebro Univ., Sweden
  Anna Esposito, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy
  Demetra Evangelou, Purdue Univ., USA
  Robert Ewing, AFRL, WPAFB, USA
  Eric Grégoire, Univ. d’Artois, France
  Melanie Hilario, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
  Naohiro Ishii, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan
  Lakhmi Jain, Univ. of South Australia, Australia
  Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA
  Manolis Koubarakis, Univ. of Athens, Greece
  David B. Leake, Indiana Univ., USA
  William McQuay, AFRL, WPAFB, USA
  Luigi Portinale, Univ. of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
  Vasile Palade, Oxford Univ., UK
  Witold Pedrycz, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
  Robert Reynolds, Wayne State Univ., USA
  Phillip Sheu, Univ. of California-Irvine, USA
  Andreas-Georgios N. Stafylopatis, NTUA, Greece
  Lefteri Tsoukalas, Purdue Univ., USA
  Du Zhang, California State Univ., USA

FINANCIAL CHAIR
  Despina Kavraki, AIIS Inc., USA
REGISTRATION and LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
  Donetta Bantle, Wright State Univ., USA
PUBLICATION CHAIR
  Praveen Kakumanu, Riverain Medical, USA
PUBLICITY CHAIR and WEB MASTER
  Vineela Muppavarapu, Wright State Univ., USA 

FURTHER INFORMATION
  Prof. Soon M. Chung (PC Chair of ICTAI 2008) 
  Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
  Wright State University
  Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA
  Email: soon.chung at wright.edu
  Homepage: http://www.cs.wright.edu/~schung