Call-For-Paper

Call For Papers (EXTENDED submission due date: January 15, 2003 !!)
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Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering
and Automated Learning (IDEAL'03)

March 21-23, 2003, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

The IDEAL'03 conference will be co-jointly held with International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr2003) and sponsored by Hong Kong Baptist University.

As a biennial conference, IDEAL was firstly launched from Hong Kong in 1998, which is dedicated to emerging and challenging topics in intelligent data analysis and engineering and their associated learning paradigms. Following from the past highly successful IDEAL'98, IDEAL'00 and IDEAL'02, IDEAL will become an annual conference starting from Year 2003. The fourth conference will aim to provide a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to meet and to exchange ideas on the latest developments in data engineering and learning, and to share their successes. IDEAL is an ideal forum for revealing and developing the latest theoretical advances and practical applications in intelligent data engineering and automated learning.

Technical areas include, but are not limited to:

Automated Learning:
- Collaborative and Collective learning
- Evolution, Learning and Adaptation
- Evolutionary Computation
- Neural Networks
- Fuzzy Logic
- Probabilistic Learning
- Learning Algorithms and Applications

Data Mining:
- Clustering and Classification
- Data Warehouse and E-organizations
- Indexing and Retrieval Methods
- Internet Database
- Knowledge Discovery
- Medical Diagnosis and Database
- Multi-model Data Analysis
- Multivariate Data Visualization
- Time series Analysis
- Text and Web Mining

Agents:
- Agent Architectures and Protocols
- Autonomous Agents
- Multi-agents System
- Planning
- Agent-based Applications

Bioinformatics:
- Gene Prediction
- Microarray Informatics
- Novel Computational Algorithms and Tools
- Protein Structural Prediction

Multimedia Information:
- Multimedia Database
- Speech Processing
- Pattern Recognition
- Image Processing
- Feature Extraction Methods and Applications

Financial Engineering:
- Electronic Commerce
- Fraud Detection
- Modeling and Forecasting
- Portfolio Management
- Risk Analysis and Management
- Statistics and Econometrics
- Volatility and Trading Strategies

Important Dates:
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Submission Due Date: January 15, 2003 (EXTENDED)
Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2003

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts written in English. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. All the accepted IDEAL2003 papers will be published by Springer in a post-conference proceeding. Authors should use the style files or MS-Word templates as provided by the Springer Lecture Notes to format their papers. The length of submitted paper should not exceed 10 pages in the Lecture Notes format. Selected papers will be considered for publication in "Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal" (IOS Press) and in "Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics" (World Scientific), after expansion and/or revision. Authors should submit three copies of their manuscripts to the IDEAL 2003 Secretariat (Address: Department of Computer Science, 7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) and submit a postscript or Adobe PDF file of their paper(s) by email (ideal03@comp.hkbu.edu.hk). Please visit the conference web site at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IDEAL2003/ for instructions on the manuscript format and submission details.

IDEAL Advisory Committee
Lei Xu (Chair) (CUHK) Hong Kong
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (CALTECH) USA
Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN) Japan
Michael Dempster (Cambridge) United Kingdom
Lalit M Patnaik (IIS) India
Erkki Oja (Helsinki U.) Finland
   
IDEAL Steering Committee
Lai-wan Chan (Chair) Hong Kong
Hujun Yin (Co-Chair) United Kingdom
Nigel Allinson United Kingdom
Yiu-ming Cheung Hong Kong
Marc M. Van Hulle Belgium
John Keane United Kingdom
Jimmy Lee Hong Kong
Malik Magdon-Ismail USA
Ning Zhong Japan
   
IDEAL 2003 Organization
General Co-Chair  
Nigel Allinson United Kingdom
Lai-wan Chan Hong Kong
Tao Tang Hong Kong
   
Programme Committee  
Jiming Liu (Chair) Hong Kong
Hujun Yin (Co-Chair) United Kingdom
Sherlock Au Hong Kong
Jim Austin United Kingdom
Keith Chan Hong Kong
Lai-wan Chan Hong Kong
Ming-Syan Chen Taiwan
Yiu-ming Cheung Hong Kong
Sungzoon Cho
Korea
Carlos Coello Mexico
David Corne United Kingdom
Kalyanmoy Deb USA
Colin Fyfe United Kingdom
Ling Feng Netherlands
Joydeep Ghosh USA
Howard Hamilton Canada
Markus Hegland Australia
Charlotte Hemelrijk Switzerland
Howard Ho USA
Joshua Zhexue Huang Hong Kong
Marc M. Van Hulle Belgium
Tony Holden United Kingdom
Xiaolong Jin Hong Kong
Hiroyuki Kawano Japan
Samuel Kaski Finland
John Keane United Kingdom
Martin Kersten Netherlands
Irwin King Hong Kong
Kevin B. Korb Australia
Doheon Lee Korea
Jimmy Lee Hong Kong
Loo Hay Lee Singapore
Hong Va Leong Hong Kong
Bing Liu Singapore
Huan Liu USA
Malik Magdon-Ismail USA
Luc Moreau United Kingdom
Akira Namatame Japan
Michael Ng Hong Kong
Ichiro Nishizaki Japan
Omers F. Rana United Kingdom
V J Rayward-Smith United Kingdom
Guenter Rudolph Germany
Marc Schoenauer France
Bernhard Sendhoff Germany
Kyuseok Shim Korea
Jennie Si USA
Il-Yeol Song USA
Hideyuki Takagi Japan
Atsuhiro Takasu Japan
Ah-Hwee Tan Singapore
Bhavani Thuraisingham USA
Kwok-ching Tsui Hong Kong
Ke Wang Canada
Lipo Wang Singapore
Xin Yao United Kingdom
Ikuo Yoshihara Japan
Clement Yu USA
Jeffrey Yu Hong Kong
Mohammed Zaki USA
Ali M.S. Zalzala United Kingdom
Byoung-Tak Zhang Korea
Frank WangUnited Kingdom
  
Organization Committee  
Yiu-ming Cheung (Chair) Hong Kong
Sherlock Au Hong Kong
Man-chung Chan Hong Kong
Rong-bo Huang China
Xiaolong Jin Hong Kong
Lap-tak Law, Rodney Hong Kong
Kwok-ching Tsui Hong Kong
Kelvin CK Wong Hong Kong
Kelvin Ka-Kui Wan Hong Kong