Call For Papers (EXTENDED submission due date: January 15, 2003 !!) ******************************************************************* 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: **************** 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 Van Hulle Belgium John Keane United Kingdom Jimmy Lee Hong Kong Malik Magdon-Ismail USA Ning Zhong Japan IDEAL2003 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 Frnace 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 Wang United 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 *******************************************************************