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WSC7

7th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial
Applications

September 23 -- October 4, 2002,

On the Internet (World Wide Web)
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Aim

Original papers and online tutorials, along with survey papers are
invited for the 7th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in
Industrial Applications (WSC7) to be held on the Internet. We aim to
have inspiring discussions between the authors and participants, and
make them visible to everyone on the Internet. There will be a number
of mirror sites around the world to make easier the access to this
major event. WSC7 will aim at bringing together outstanding research
and developments in the field of  soft computing (evolutionary
computation, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and their fusion) across
the world with the goal to publish high-quality research quickly and
with less cost. Although WSC7 is a online conference, its published
proceedings will also be available. Publication of proceedings by
Springer is expected. Moreover, a CDROM with all the papers along with
their presentation and additional material will be edited. In
addition, extended versions of selected papers of the conference will
also be published in a special issue of the journal "Applied Soft
Computing."

* Topics of Interest:
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Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, any of the following
areas:

- Soft Computing for Optimization, Clustering and Classification
- Fuzzy Control
- Data Mining
- Intelligent Data Analysis
- Fuzzy Information Fusion
- Search Spaces and Generalization
- Intelligent Information Retrieval
- Intelligent Agents
- Fuzzy Image Processing
- Fault Diagnosis
- Bio-inspired Systems
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Simulation Environments
- Support Vector Machines
- Immunic Systems
- Language Processing
- Neuro-Hardware
- WWW Modeling and Analysis
- Digital Watermarking
- Autonomous Reasoning
- Data Visualization
- Agent Architectures
- Ant Colony Optimization

* Important Dates:
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April 5, 2002
Deadline for submissions of extended abstracts, online survey paper
proposals and online tutorial proposals

June 1, 2002
Acceptance/rejection notification

July 19, 2002
Submission of full papers and online presentations

September 23-Oct 4, 2002
Online conference

October 31, 2002
Submission of camera-ready papers of selected papers for the special
issue of "Applied Soft Computing."

* Submission Guidelines:
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Detailed submission instructions are provided at
http://decsai.ugr.es/wsc7. 
Basically, authors should fill up an online form and upload an
extended 
abstract (minimum 3 pages) in pdf, ps, or ascii format. Submissions
will be 
reviewed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance.

For preparation of camera-ready papers to be submitted please follow
the 
instructions for authors available at the Conference Web page.

* Organized Sessions, Online proposals and survey papers:
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Organized session proposals are welcome. Please notify the Technical 
Programme Chair (F. Herrera, fherrera@decsai.ugr.es) about your
intention 
to organize a session as soon as possible. Please send him a session
title 
and the organizer name and e-mail address. Then, at least three
extended 
abstracts of session papers have to be submitted by April 5.

For online proposals and survey papers, get in contact with the Online

Tutorial Chair (Luis Mart�nez, martin@ujaen.es) before April 5, and
send 
the final paper by July 16.


* Paper Acceptance:
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Each accepted paper will be presented during the online conference.
Participants are eagerly encouraged to discuss the submitted papers.
By October 31st, 2002, camera-ready copies of extended papers selected
for their inclusion in a special issue of "Applied Soft Computing."

* Organization:
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General Chairmen:
Jos� M. Ben�tez, Univ. Granada, Granada, Spain
Oscar Cord�n, Univ. Granada, Granada, Spain

International Co-Chair:
Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya Univ., Japan
Rudolf Kruse, Univ. Magdeburg, Germany
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield Univ. UK
Mario Koeppen,Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany

Scientific Chair: 
Juan L. Castro, Univ. Granada, Granada, Spain
Technical Program Chair:
Francisco Herrera, Univ. Granada, Granada, Spain

Web Chairs:
Luis Castillo, Univ. Granada, Granada, Spain
J.M. Fern�ndez, Univ. Granada, Granada, Spain

Computer Chair: Miguel Garc�a-Silvente, Univ. Granada, Granada, Spain

Publication Chair: Frank Hoffmann, Royal Inst. Techn., Sweden

Publicity and Online Tutorial Chair:
 Luis Mart�nez, Univ. Ja�n, Ja�n, Spain

Proceedings Chair: Jorge Casillas, Univ. Granada, Granada, Spain
Online Chair: Jose Raimundo, Univ. Campinas, Brazil
Best Paper Award: Larry Hall, Univ. South Florida, USA
Sporsorship Chairman: Seppo J. Ovaska, Helsinki Universiy of
Technology, Finland

* International Scientific Board:
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Janos Abonyi, Hungary
Ajith Abraham, Australia
R. Babuska, Delft, The Netherlands
Senen Barro, Spain
Juan C. Cubero, Spain
Fernando Gomide, Brazil
Antonio Gonzalez, Spain
Enrique Herrera, Spain
Hisao Ishibushi, Japan
Maria Jose del Jesus, Spain
Frank Klawonn, Germany
Bart Kosko, USA
L. Kuncheva, UK
Luis Magdalena, Spain
Cristophe Marsala, France
L. Martinez, Spain
J.J. Merelo, Spain
Nikhil R. Pal, India
S. Pal, India
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Chile
A. Saffioti, Sweden
Vicen� Torra, Spain
G. de Tre, Chent, Belgium
Igor Zwir, Argentina

* Contact:
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Jos� M. Ben�tez (E-mail: wsc7@decsai.ugr.es)
Dept. Ciencias de la Computaci�n e I.A.
University of Granada
18071 GRANADA (Spain)
Tel: +34-958-246143