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Dear Colleagues, 

We have organised an exciting event: HIS'2001: International 
Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems in conjunction with The 
14th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
(AI'01). 

Venue: Adelaide, South Australia
Date: 11-12, December 2001
Workshop URL: http://his.hybridsystem.com
  
(Technically co-sponsored by The World Federation of Soft Computing)

HIS'01 is an International Workshop  that brings together 
researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of neural 
networks, fuzzy inference systems, evolutionary algorithms 
and conventional techniques. The aim of HIS'01 is to serve as 
a forum to present current and future work as well as to 
exchange research ideas in this field.

HIS'01 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished
work that demonstrate current research using hybrid computing 
techniques and their applications in science, technology, 
business and commercial. 

Topics of interest include but not limited to: 

Applications/techniques using the following, but not limited to:

 * Machine learning techniques (supervised/unsupervised/
   reinforcement learning)
 
 * Artificial neural network and evolutionary algorithms 

 * Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques
 
 * Neural networks and fuzzy inference systems 
 
 * Fuzzy clustering algorithms optimized using evolutionary 
   algorithms
 
 * Evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, genetic 
   programming ,evolution strategies, grammatical evolution etc)
 
 * Hybrid optimization techniques (simulated annealing, tabu 
   search, GRASP etc.)
 
 * Hybrid computing using neural networks-fuzzy systems-
   evolutionary algorithms
 
 * Intelligent agents (architectures, environments, adaptation/learning 
   and knowledge management) 
 
 * Hybrid of soft computing and hard computing techniques
 
 * Models using inductive logic programming, decomposition methods, 
   grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc.
 
 * Other intelligent techniques ( support vector machines, 
   rough sets, Bayesian  networks,  probabilistic reasoning, 
   minimum message length etc)
 
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                         Paper Submission
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We invite you to submit a full paper of 20 pages(maximum limit)
for the workshop presentation. Please follow the  Springer-Verlag, 
author's guidelines for more information on submission. Submission 
implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to 
register and present the paper. All full papers are to be 
submitted in PDF, postscript or MS word version electronically 
to: hybrid@softcomputing.net

Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission 
is not possible. All papers will be peer reviewed by two 
independent referees of the international program committee
of HIS'01. All accepted papers will published in the 
proceedings of the Workshop by Springer-Verlag, Germany.

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                         Important Dates 
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Submission deadline: September 07, 2001
 
Notification of acceptance: October 01, 2001

Camera ready papers and pre-registration due: 15 October'01 

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                         Workshop Chairs
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Ajith Abraham,
School of Computing and Information Technology
Monash University, Australia
Phone: +61 3 990 26778, Fax: +61 3 990 26879
Email:ajith.abraham@ieee.org 

Mario K