Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of the next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the awareness in the academic communities that combined approaches will be necessary if the remaining tough problems in artificial/computational intelligence are to be solved. Recently, hybrid intelligent systems are getting popular due to their capabilities in handling several real world complexities involving imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness. HIS'03 builds on the success of last year's. HIS'02 was held in Santiago de Chile, 01-04 December 2002 and attracted participants from over 35 countries.

HIS'03 is the third 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'03 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field.

HIS'03 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research using soft computing/ computational intelligence and other intelligent computing techniques and their applications in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.

HIS'03 will focus on the following themes:

• Hybrid Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications
• Soft Computing for Image and Signal Processing
• Intelligent Internet Modeling, Communication and networking
• Intelligent Data mining
• Intelligent Business Systems
• Soft Computing for Control and Automation
• Intelligent agents
• Knowledge management
• Special topics

We invite you to submit a:
- full paper of 8 to 10 pages (Letter or A4 paper) for oral presentation
- proposal to organize a technical session and/or workshop (see the Call for Events Proposals for more information).

Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. The proceedings of the Conference will be published by IOS Press, The Netherlands. IOS Press has general instructions for book authors that can be downloaded. Please download the authors instructions from the following links:

1. PDF document with instructions
2. document class (zip-file) for LaTeX 2e
3. style file for LaTeX 2.09.

It is assumed that all accepted manuscripts would be presented at the conference. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid registration to appear in the proceedings. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the web site. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees of the international program committee of HIS'03.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

Hybrid Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications

• Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems
• Artificial neural networks and learning techniques (supervised /unsupervised / reinforcement learning)
• Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques
• Fuzzy clustering algorithms and optimization techniques
• Fuzzy inference system optimization using global optimization algorithms
• Evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, grammatical evolution etc.)
• Support vector machines, rough sets, Bayesian networks, probabilistic reasoning, minimum message length, etc.
• Hybrid computing using neural networks - fuzzy systems - evolutionary algorithms
• Hybrid optimization techniques (evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, GRASP etc.)
• Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques
• Intelligent agents (architectures, environments, adaptation/ learning and knowledge management)
• Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis, grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc.
• Autonomic computing

Soft Computing for Image and Signal Processing

• Image generation, acquisition, and processing
• Virtual reality
• Scene and object modeling
• Document image understanding
• Image algebra
• Design and implementation of intelligent signal processing systems
• Image, video and multidimensional signal processing
• Speech processing
• Features and classification
• Texture analysis
• Stereoscopic vision
• Shape processing
• Object recognition
• Image and video retrieval
• Image and video compression

Intelligent Internet Modeling, Communication and networking

• Web intelligence
• Intelligent Search engines
• Database querying
• XML mining
• Intelligent networking between Web Sites
• Network security, intrusion detection
• Intelligent agents and interfaces for personalization and adaptivity
• Intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW
• Adaptive hypermedia systems
• Agents for digital cities, virtual communities and agent societies
• Web Services modeling
• UDDI and SOAP enhancements
• Network Management
• Mobile Internet
• Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation
• WAP, mobile e-commerce
• Distributed algorithms for wireless networks

Intelligent 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

Intelligent Business Systems

• e-learning, e-commerce, e-business, e-finance
• Risk management
• Derivatives pricing
• Portfolio management and asset allocation
• Stock market, forex market analysis, dynamics and simulation
• Hedging, trading & arbitrage strategies
• Financial modeling
• Computational economics
• Intelligent management
• Multicriteria decision making

Soft Computing for Control and Automation

• Mathematical modeling and analysis of complex systems
• Soft computing/computational intelligence in control systems
• Knowledge based control systems
• Adaptive control systems
• Control applications in robotics, manufacturing, process control, industrial systems, automotive, vehicular systems, spacecraft and so on

Intelligent Agents

• Adaptation and learning
• Agent architectures and communication languages
• Conversational agents
• Coordinating multiple agents
• Designing agent systems - methodologies & software engineering
• Evolution of agents
• Knowledge acquisition and management
• Models of emotion, motivation, or personality
• Multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration

Knowledge Management

• Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic modeling
• Development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases
• Automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases (especially raw text)
• Performance evaluation
• Data and knowledge sharing
• Cooperation in heterogeneous systems
• Domain modeling and ontology-building
• Concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing
• Digital Libraries
• Multimedia Databases.

Affective Computing

• Kansei Information Processing
• Models, theories and taxonomies of emotions
• Emotion synthesis
• Emergent emotion and emotional behavior
• Emotion recognition
• Emotional expression
• Learning and emotions
• Emotions and perception
• Emotions and social interaction
• Emotional Agent Architecture
• Embodiment of emotional systems
• Emotions and other affective phenomena (moods, temperament, and personality)
• Applications: Synthetic characters, robots, computational theater, interface assistants, pedagogical agents, music, art, education, entertainment, multi-agent systems, bio-feedback, etc.

Important Dates

 

Extended deadline for workshop/sessions/tutorial proposals	27 June'03
Extended deadline for paper submission (full paper)	31 July'03
Notification of acceptance	25 August'03
Deadline for camera ready papers and authors' registration	10 September'03
HIS’03 conference in Melbourne	14-17, December'03