[Bioperl-announce-l] Call For Papers: 2002 Int'l Multiconferences in CS - Las Vegas, June 24-27, 2002

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                 C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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     The 2002 International Multiconferences in Computer Science
                  (13 Joint Int'l Conferences)

            Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
                       June 24-27, 2002

Dear Colleagues:

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or
a proposal to organize a technical session.  All accepted
papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings.
THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION ORGANIZERS/CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS
ASSOCIATE EDITORS ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.

The thirteen conferences are:

1.  The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and
    Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
    (PDPTA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

2.  The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science,
    Systems, and Technology
    (CISST'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

3.  The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    (IC-AI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

4.  The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing
    (IC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

5.  The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and
    Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences
    (METMBS'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

6.  The 2002 International Conference on Communications in
    Computing
    (CIC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

7.  The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of
    Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
    (ERSA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

8.  The 2002 International Conference on VLSI
    (VLSI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

9.  The 2002 International Conference on Information and
    Knowledge Engineering
    (IKE'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

10. International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific
    Reasoning and Applications
    (CMSRA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

11. The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and
    Applications
    (ICMLA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

12. The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks
    (ICWN'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

13. The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering
    Research and Practice
    (SERP'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)

(a link to each conference's URL is available
from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences)

Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines.
You are requested to send your submission to the Multiconferences
chair whose address appears below.

CONFERENCES CONTACT:

    H. R. Arabnia
    Chair, The 2002 Int'l Multiconferences in Computer Science
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    email: hra@cs.uga.edu


HISTORY:

      The International Multiconferences in Computer Science
      is a major annual international research event.
      The last Multiconferences attracted over 1400 computer
      science researchers.  It is anticipated that The 2002
      International Multiconferences will attract about 2000
      participants.  The 2002 event will be composed of 13
      (planned) international conferences - attendees will have
      full access to all 13 conferences' sessions and tracks.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

      Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies
      of their draft paper (about 5 pages - single spaced and
      font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by the due date
      (who may be forwarding the papers to respective conference
      chairs/committees).
      E-mail and Fax submissions are also acceptable.
      The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
      limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been
      previously published or currently submitted for publication
      elsewhere.
      The first page of the draft paper should include:
      title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address,
      E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for
      each author.  The first page should also include the
      name of the author who will be presenting the paper
      (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

      Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
      presentations.  The session chairs will be responsible
      for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting
      papers, reviewing, selecting, ...  The names of session
      chairs will appear as Associate Editors on the cover of
      the conference proceedings.  After the conference, some
      sessions will be considered for publication in relevant
      journals as Special Issues with the session proposer as
      the Guest Editor of the journal.

      Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
      the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
      of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
      the topic of the session, and a short description on
      how the session will be advertised (in most cases,
      session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and
      researchers whose work is known to the session proposer).
      Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia; E-mail submissions
      are preferred.


EVALUATION PROCESS (General):

      Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
      clarity, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by
      two researchers in the topical area.  The Camera-Ready
      papers will be reviewed by one person.


PUBLICATION:

      The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA
      Press (ISBN) in hardcopy.  The proceedings will be available
      at the conference.  Some accepted papers will also be
      considered for journal publication (soon after the
      conference).  (In addition to the hardcopy, it is also
      planned to publish the papers on a CD.)
      All conference proceedings published by CSREA Press are
      considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are
      designed to provide easy access to the current literature of
      the sciences (database examples: ISI Thomson Scientific,
      IEE INSPEC, ...).


ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS:

      A number of university faculty members and their staff
      in cooperation with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference
      Division, Las Vegas ), will be organizing the conferences.
      The conferences will be sponsored by World Academy of
      Sciences and co-sponsored by Computer Science Research,
      Education, & Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal
      EIN # 58-2171953) together with research centers,
      international associations, international research groups,
      and developers of high-performance machines and systems.
      The complete list of sponsors and co-sponsors will be
      available at a later time.
      (Previous conferences' sponsors included: CSREA,
      the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the
      Environment - DOE, The International Association for
      Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, The International
      Technology Institute (ITI), The Java High Performance
      Computing research group, World Scientific and Engineering
      Society, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc., the
      Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech., The Korea
      Information Processing Society (KIPS), Information Processing
      Society of Japan (SIGMPS/IPSJ), ...)


LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

      The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
      hotel Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at
      other near-by hotels).  The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega
      hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
      rooms.  The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport
      with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport.
      This hotel has many vacation and recreational attractions,
      including: waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools,
      sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with
      cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout
      equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality
      game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of
      restaurants, shopping area, bars, ...  Many of these
      attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for
      families and children.  The negotiated hotel's room rate
      for conference attendees is very reasonable (79USD + tax)
      per night (no extra charge for double occupancy) for the
      duration of the conference.
      The hotel is within walking distance from most other
      Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
      destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street
      shows, ...).
      For the benefit of our international colleagues: the
      state of Nevada neighbors with the states of California,
      Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona.  Las Vegas is only a
      few driving hours away from other major cities, including:
      Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Grand Canyon, ...


EXHIBITION:

      An exhibition is planned for the duration of the conferences.
      Interested parties should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is
      given below).  All exhibitors will be considered to be the
      co-sponsors of the conferences.


IMPORTANT DATES:

      Feb.  22, 2002 (Friday):    Draft papers (about 5 pages) due
      March 21, 2002 (Thursday):  Notification of acceptance
      April 22, 2002 (Monday):    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
      June 24-27, 2002:           All 13 Int'l Conferences:
                                  PDPTA'02 + CISST'02 + IC-AI'02
                                  + IC'02 + METMBS'02 + CIC'02 + ERSA'02
                                  + VLSI'02 + IKE'02 + CMSRA'02
                                  + ICMLA'02 + ICWN'02 + SERP'02

      Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted
      as soon as possible.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

      The Program Committees are currently being formed.  Those
      interested in joining the Program Committees should email
      H. R. Arabnia (hra@cs.uga.edu) the following information:
      Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
      email address, tel/fax numbers, name of the conference offering
      to help with, a short biography together with research interests.


SCOPE OF PDPTA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
    (The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and
     Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications)

     O  Parallel/Distributed applications:
        Numerical computations/methods, neural networks and
        fuzzy logic, medicine, remote sensing, GIS, computer
        vision, computer graphics and virtual reality,
        parallel/distributed databases, banking, financial
        markets, ...
     O  Parallel/Distributed architectures:
        Clusters and parallel systems of various topologies,
        supercomputers, shared memory, distributed memory,
        general- and special-purpose architectures,
        instructional level parallelism, ...
     O  Building block processors:
        Applications of processors that can be used as basic
        building blocks for multicomputer systems.
     O  Networks and Interconnection networks:
        Scalable networks, Reconfigurable networks, routing
        issues, general-purpose network performance for
        distributed applications, network protocols, ATM-based
        systems, internet technology, Optical interconnections
        and computing,  ...
     O  Reliability and fault-tolerance:
        Software and hardware fault-tolerance (system- and
        application-level), fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance
        measurement.
     O  Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction, ...
     O  Real-time and embedded systems:
        Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance
        control, data acquisition, and analysis; configuration,
        routing, scheduling, performance guarantees.
     O  Parallel/Distributed algorithms:
        Algorithms exploiting clusters and general-purpose
        distributed and parallel systems, new vector/pipeline
        issues, shared memory, distributed memory,
        virtual memory, ...
     O  Mobile computation and communication.
     O  Object Oriented Technology and related issues.
     O  Multimedia Communications, Systems, and Applications:
        High-speed networking, multimedia architectures and
        protocols, multimedia applications, quality of service
        support, operating system and networking support,
        internet tools and applications, audio/video delivery
        over the internet, ...
     O  Software tools and environments for parallel and
        distributed platforms: Operating systems, compilers,
        languages, debuggers, monitoring tools, software
        engineering on parallel/distributed systems, ...
     O  High-performance computing in Computational Science:
        Intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research
        programs and applications.
     O  Information and data fusion.
     O  Petri Nets: theory, analysis, tools and applications
     O  Web-based simulation and computing.
     O  Education: parallel and distributed processing in
        computer science curriculum (both graduate and
        undergraduate levels.)
     O  Recent history (last decade) of parallel/distributed
        processing and what to expect during the next decade
        if history repeats itself; New horizons.
     O  Other aspects and applications relating to
        high-performance computations.


SCOPE OF CISST'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
    (The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science,
     Systems, and Technology)

     O  Image generation, acquisition, and processing
     O  Image display techniques
     O  Image data structures and databases
     O  Convergence of imaging media (video and computer)
     O  Virtual reality
     O  Image compression, coding, and encryption
     O  Multimedia / Applications
     O  Tools for multimedia production and services
     O  Digital imaging for film and television
     O  Visualization
     O  Scene and object modeling
     O  Knowledge acquisition
     O  Visual inspection
     O  Document image understanding
     O  Image algebra
     O  Optical image processing systems
     O  Mathematical morphology
     O  Architecture of imaging and vision systems (including
        parallel architectures and algorithms)
     O  Neural network techniques and fuzzy logic
     O  Performance analysis and evaluation
     O  Software tools and environments for imaging
     O  Animation
     O  Geometric modeling and Fractals
     O  CAD/CAM systems
     O  Rendering techniques
     O  Applications including: medicine, robotic, GIS,
        remote sensing, industrial inspection (or machine vision),
        nondestructive evaluation (or NDE), ...
     O  Multi-resolution and multi-spectral image processing
     O  Image sequence processing
     O  Information fusion
     O  Other aspects and applications relating to imaging science


SCOPE OF IC-AI'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
   (The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence)

     O  Intelligent Information Systems
     O  Intelligent Software Engineering
     O  Intelligent Agents
     O  Intelligent Networks
     O  Intelligent Databases
     O  Brain Models
     O  Evolutionary Algorithms
     O  Data mining
     O  Reasoning Strategies
     O Automated Problem Solving
     O  Distributed AI Algorithms and Techniques
     O  Distributed AI Systems and Architectures
     O  Expert Systems
     O  Fuzzy Logic
     O  Genetic Algorithms
     O  Heuristic Searching
     O  Knowledge Acquisition
     O  Knowledge Discovery
     O  Knowledge Representation
     O  Knowledge-Intensive Problem Solving Techniques
     O  Languages and Programming Techniques for AI
     O  Software Tools for AI
     O  Natural Language Processing
     O  Neural Networks and Applications
     O  Multisource Information Fusion: Theory and Applications
     O  Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion
     O  Learning and Adaptive Sensor Fusion
     O  Multisensor Data Fusion Using Neural and Fuzzy Techniques
     O  Integration of AI with other Technologies
     O  Evaluation of AI Tools
     O  Evolutionary Computation
     O  Social Impact of AI
     O  Applications - Computer Vision
     O  Applications - Signal Processing
     O  Applications - Military
     O  Applications - Surveillance
     O  Applications - Robotics
     O  Applications - Medicine
     O  Applications - Pattern Recognition
     O  Applications - Face Recognition
     O  Applications - Finger Print Recognition
     O  Applications - Finance and Marketing
     O  Applications - Stock Market
     O  Applications - Education
     O  Emerging Applications


SCOPE OF IC'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
    (The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing)

     O  Web based computing
     O  Network Management
     O  Design and Analysis of Internet Protocols
     O  Network Architectures
     O  Performance Evaluation of the Internet
     O  Network Computing
     O  Network Operating Systems
     O  Quality of Service
     O  Resource Management and Location
     O  Wide Area Consistency
     O  Internet Security
     O  Internet Applications and Appliances
     O  Electronic Commerce
     O  The WWW and Intranets
     O  Metacomputing
     O  Grid based Computing and Tools
     O  Languages for Distributed Programming
     O  Cooperative Applications
     O  Tele-Medical and other applications
     O  Internet Telephony
     O  Mobile Computing
     O  Educational Applications
     O  Digital Libraries/Digital Image Collections
     O  Web Interfaces to Databases
     O  User-interface/Multimedia/Video/Audio/User Interaction
     O  Markup Languages/HTML/XML/VRML
     O  Java Applications on Internet
     O  Alternative Web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, ...
     O  Caching Algorithms for the Internet
     O  Traffic Models & Statistics
     O  Server Space/Web Server Performance
     O  Web Monitoring
     O  Web Documents Management
     O  Web Site Design and Coordination
     O  Other aspects & applications relating to internet-based computing


SCOPE OF METMBS'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
   (The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and
    Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences)

     O  Data mining in medicine and biological sciences
     O  Pattern recognition in medicine and biological sciences
     O  Signal processing in medicine and biological sciences
        (e.g. biomedical signal processing, ...)
     O  Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
        (e.g. biomedical image processing, biomedical imaging, ...)
     O  Medical decision-making
     O  Medical Physics
     O  Biomedical Engineering
     O  Biomedical Electronics
     O  Biosignal interpretation
     O  Any application of computers in Medicine and biological
        sciences (protein structure-function analysis, drug and
        protein design, molecular modeling and simulation, ...)
     O  Application of information technology in biomedicine
        (e.g. medical database management, information retrieval and
        use of computers in hospitals)
     O  Application of Computational Intelligence (artificial
        neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computing)
        in medicine and biological sciences
     O  Medical and bio-computing
     O  Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...)
     O  Recent history (1990-2001) of Mathematics and engineering
        techniques in medicine and biological sciences, and what to
        expect during the next decade (2001-2010); New horizons.
        Review articles)
     O  Other aspects and applications relating to technological
        advancements in medicine and biological sciences


SCOPE OF CIC'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
    (The 2002 International Conference on Communications in Computing)

     O  High Performance Applications (e.g. scientific,
        commercial, ...)
     O  Distributed Systems and Advanced Applications (e.g. multimedia,
        cooperative systems)
     O  Grid computing
     O  Scalable and Interoperable Systems and Associated Standards
     O  Software Systems (e.g. operating system support, middleware,
        environments, tools, distributed objects)
     O  Architecture (e.g. VLSI, SIMD, MIMD, vector, systolic,
        reconfigurable, special-purpose)
     O  Interconnection networks (e.g. bus-based, optical)
     O  ATM based networks
     O  Communications (e.g. routing, wireless, mobile)
     O  Visualization (e.g. scientific visualization, debugging
        and load balancing tools)
     O  Photonics and Optical Computing
     O  Performance Issues (e.g. benchmarks, performance measurement,
        evaluation and prediction)
     O  Modeling and Simulation of High Performance Systems
     O  Advanced Compilation Techniques (e.g. parallelizing compilers)
     O  Programming Languages for Parallel and other High Performance
        Computing Environments
     O  Parallel/Distributed/Vector Algorithms
     O  Reliability and Fault Tolerance
     O  Embedded and Real Time Systems
     O  Digital Signal Processing
     O  Neural Computing, Genetic Algorithms
     O  Issues in High Performance Computing (e.g. evolving paradigms,
        grand challenge problems)
     O  Internet & web based processing, E-commerce, telecommunication
        network, cluster-based computing


SCOPE OF ERSA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
    (The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of
     Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms)

     O  Theory, Mapping and Parallelization.
        Mapping algorithms into hardware, space-time mapping and
        synthesis of regular arrays, IP based methods, dataflow and
        functional programming approaches, formal methods using
        logical specification and verification, developing correct
        circuits, the impact of reconfigurable hardware architectures
        onto algorithm parallelization, biologically inspired
        methods etc.
     O  System Architectures, Aspects and Evaluation.
        Complex systems using reconfigurable processors,
        application-tailored reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (SoC),
        architectures of SoCs, adaptive and evolvable systems, rapid
        system prototyping, ...
     O  CAD: Specification, Partitioning and Synthesis.
        Hardware compilation, hardware/software codesign, IP-based
        specification and mapping methods for reconfigurable systems,
        object oriented models and mapping methods, hardware
        description languages, design environments and interfaces, ...
     O  Reconfigurable Hardware Architectures.
        Dynamically reconfigurable hardware architectures,
        reconfigurable processor architectures, compiled accelerators,
        performance evaluation of reconfigurable SoCs,
        application-specific communication interfaces of reconfigurable
        SoCs, low power evaluation and optimization of reconfigurable
        systems, fault-tolerance using reconfigurable hardware,
        trade-offs measurements, ...
     O  Algorithms and Optimization.
        Newly developed algorithms for efficient implementation on
        reconfigurable systems, in hardware, in space and time,
        algorithms for design optimization, ...
     O  Applications.
        Possible applications areas of interest include, but are
        not limited to: Classical image and signal processing - digital
        filters, edge and line detection, morphological operators,
        motion and stereo estimation, discrete transformations,
        linear algebra, radar systems, object recognition, ...
        Multimedia and virtual reality - telecommunication, data
        compression, video imaging, image databases, computational
        geometry and  computer graphics, software radio, digital
        libraries, genetic databases, ...
        Automotive industry - lane detection and obstacle detection,
        vehicle guidance, traffic systems, object recognition,
        navigation of robots, ...
        Security systems - object recognition and tracking, cryptology,
        Internet and security, ...


SCOPE OF VLSI'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
   (The 2002 International Conference on VLSI)

     O  Quantum Computing
     O  Nanoelectronics
     O  Molecular and Biological Computing
     O  MEMS
     O  Circuits and Systems
     O  Novel Design and Methodologies
     O  System-on-a-Chip: Design and Methodology
     O  Low Power VLSI System Design
     O  Complexity Issues
     O  Simulation Tools
     O  Algorithm Design Approaches (AI, Genetic, ...)
     O  High-Level Design Methodologies
     O  ASIC Architectures
     O  Reconfigurable Systems Design
     O  Novel Devices and Circuits
     O  Emerging Trends
     O  High-Performance Circuits
     O  Reusable Architectures
     O  Test and Verification
     O  Synthesis
     O  Mixed-Signal Design and Analysis
     O  Electrical/Packaging Designs and Co-Designs
     O  Applications (all applications will be considered)


SCOPE OF IKE'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
    (The 2002 International Conference on Information and
     Knowledge Engineering)

     O  Client-Server Architectures
     O  Information and Knowledge Engineering
     O  Mobile Agents
     O  Web-Based Design and Development
     O  Knowledge and Information Management Techniques
     O  Data Mining Techniques
     O  Database Engineering and Systems
     O  Knowledge Delivery Methods
     O  Document Processing
     O  Data Security
     O  Knowledge Life Cycle
     O  Business Architectures
     O  Formal and Visual Specification Languages
     O  Software Tools and Support
     O  QoS issues
     O  Performance Evaluation Techniques
     O  Knowledge-Based Systems
     O  Clustering Techniques
     O  Web Technology and Systems for Information and Knowledge
        Based Applications
     O  Dataweb Models and Systems
     O  Data Warehouses
     O  Workflow Management
     O  Knowledge and Information Extraction and
        Discovery Techniques
     O  Service Recovery / Fault-Tolerance
     O  Large-Scale Information Processing Methods
     O  Data and Knowledge Processing
     O  Data Structures
     O  Video Databases
     O  Distributed Databases
     O  Information and Knowledge Structures
     O  Databanks - issues, methods, and standards
     O  Information Quality (Quality Metrics)
     O  E-Libraries (Digital Libraries)
     O  Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems
     O  XMI
     O  Agent-Based Techniques and Systems
     O  Content Management
     O  Information Reliability and Security
     O  Hardware Architectures
     O  Modeling and Simulation
     O  Decision Support Systems
     O  Expert Systems
     O  Aspect-Oriented Programming
     O  Re-usability of Software/Knowledge/Information
     O  Privacy Issues
     O  Interoperability Issues
     O  Transaction Systems
     O  Object-Oriented Modeling and Systems
     O  RAID Architectures
     O  Knowledge Classification Tools
     O  Case-Based Reasoning
     O  Bayesian Techniques
     O  Ubiquitous Computing
     O  Managing Copyright Laws
     O  Digital Watermarking
     O  Data/Information/Knowledge Models
     O  Applications (e-Commerce, Multimedia, Business, Banking, ...)


SCOPE OF CMSRA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
    (International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific
    Reasoning and Applications)

     O  Inference Procedures:
        Ampliative Inference
        Argumentative and Defeasible Reasoning
        Analogy, Induction and Abduction
        Paraconsistent Logics
        Plausible and Hypothetical Reasoning
        Causal and Explanatory Reasoning
        Hypothesis Formation, Learning and Discovery
        Coherence, Explanation and Acceptance
        Procedural Rationality
     O  Philosophical Aspects of the Computational
        Models of Scientific Reasoning:
        Computational Epistemology and Theory of Science
        Cognitive Theory Formation
        Acceptance and Decision Making
        Reasoning as opposed to Logic
        Concept Formation and Conceptual Change
        Design in Scientific Method
        The Growth of Knowledge
     O  Social Metaphors:
        Science as Distributed Computing
        Internet Epistemology
        Self-Organizing Agents
        Team Theory
        Rules of Negotiation
        Social Choice
        Sociology of Knowledge
        Evolutionary Epistemology
     O  Applications:
        New Information Technologies
        Computational Theories in the Sciences
        Intelligent Data Mining
        Agent-Based Scientific Discovery
        Modelling Agreement
        Intelligent Protocols for E-Commerce


SCOPE OF ICMLA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
    (The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and
     Applications)

     O  multistrategy learning
     O  statistical learning
     O  neural network learning
     O  bayesian network
     O  case-based reasoning
     O  evolutionary computation
     O  reinforcement learning
     O  machine learning of natural language
     O  grammatical inference
     O  knowledge acquisition and learning
     O  knowledge discovery in databases
     O  knowledge intensive learning
     O  knowledge management and learning
     O  information retrieval and learning
     O  theories and models for plausible reasoning
     O  cooperative learning
     O  planning and learning
     O  multi-agent learning
     O  web navigation and mining
     O  inductive logic programming
     O  computational learning theory
     O  cognitive-modeling
     O  hybrid algorithms


SCOPE OF ICWN'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
   (The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks)

     O  Wireless network architectures
     O  Wireless communications
     O  Multiple access
     O  Routing
     O  Signaling
     O  Mobile Internet
     O  Transport-layer issues
     O  Wireless security
     O  Wireless and mobile applications
     O  Mobile computing
     O  Modeling, simulation, and measurement of wireless
        systems/networks
     O  Mobile ad-hoc networks
     O  3G, 4G, and beyond
     O  Satellite-based systems
     O  Wireless LAN and home networks
     O  Wireless sensor networks
     O  Wireless mobile ATM (wmATM)
     O  MIMO
     O  Adaptive antennas
     O  Coding and modulation
     O  Synchronization
     O  Multi-user detection
     O  Power management and control, low-power protocols
     O  IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, Bluetooth
     O  OFDM
     O  CDMA, B-CDMA
     O  QoS routing, power-aware routing, location-aware routing
     O  Resource management, wireless QoS
     O  Wireless IP networks, interworking
     O  Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation
     O  WAP, mobile e-commerce
     O  Location-based service, GPS
     O  Mobile agents
     O  Distributed algorithms for wireless networks


SCOPE OF SERP'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
   (The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering Research
    and Practice)

     O  Software architectures
     O  Object-Oriented technology
     O  Measurement, metrics and analysis
     O  Survivable systems
     O  Requirements engineering
     O  Reverse engineering
     O  Software domain modeling
     O  Software process modeling
     O  Workflow - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
     O  Project management issues
     O  Distributed and parallel systems
     O  Legal issues and standards
     O  Configuration management (issues and tools)
     O  Automated software specification
     O  Automated software design and synthesis
     O  Theoretic approaches (formal methods, graph, ...)
     O  Domain modeling and meta-modeling
     O  Evolution and maintenance
     O  Knowledge acquisition
     O  Reflection and metadata methodologies
     O  Artificial intelligence approaches to Software Engineering
     O  Automated software engineering
     O  Component-based engineering
     O  Data mining
     O  Interoperability
     O  Intelligent CASE tools
     O  Multimedia in software engineering
     O  Hypermedia
     O  Software reuse
     O  Verification, validation and quality assurance
     O  Performance critical systems
     O  Engineering practices
     O  Programming languages
     O  Program understanding issues
     O  Education (software engineering curriculum design)
     O  Software engineering versus Systems engineering
     O  Software documentation
     O  Technology adoption
     O  Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
     O  Architecture tradeoff analysis
     O  Novel software tools and environments