Conference announcement (Turkey)

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                        CALL FOR PAPERS

                          TAINN III

               The Third Turkish Symposium  on
          ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & NEURAL NETWORKS

            June 22-24, 1994, METU, Ankara, Turkey


                         Organized by

              Middle East Technical University
                              &
                      Bilkent University

                     in cooperation with

                      Bogazici University,
                            TUBITAK
                        INNS Turkey SIG,
             IEEE Computer Society  Turkey Chapter,
                   ACM SIGART Turkey Chapter,


                        Conference Chair:
             Nese Yalabik (METU), nese at vm.cc.metu.edu.tr

                   Program Committee  Co-chairs:
            Cem Bozsahin (METU), bozsahin at vm.cc.metu.edu.tr
            Ugur Halici (METU), halici at vm.cc.metu.edu.tr
            Kemal  Oflazer (Bilkent), ko at cs.bilkent.edu.tr

                   Organization Committee  Chair:
       Gokturk Ucoluk  (METU) ,   ucoluk at vm.cc.metu.edu.tr

                          Program Comittee:
L. Akin (Bosphorus), V. Akman (Bilkent), E. Alpaydin (Bosphorus),
S.I. Amari (Tokyo), I. Aybay (METU), B. Buckles (Tulane),
G. Carpenter (Boston), I. iekli (Bilkent), C. Dagli (Missouri-Rolla),
D.Davenport (Bilkent), G. Ernst (Case Western), A. Erkmen (METU)
N. Findler (Arizona State), E. Gelenbe (Duke), M. Guler (METU),
A. Guvenir (Bilkent), S. Kocabas (TUBITAK), R. Korf (UCLA),
S. Kuru (Bosphorus), D. Levine (Texas Arlington), R. Lippmann (MIT),
K. Narendra (Yale), H. Ogmen (Houston), U. Sengupta (Arizona State),
R. Parikh (CUNY), F. Petry (Tulane), C. Say (Bosphorus), A. Yazici (METU),
G. Ucoluk (METU), P. Werbos (NSF), N. Yalabik (METU), L. Zadeh (California),
W. Zadrozny (IBM TJ Watson)


                       Organization Committee:
      A. Guloksuz, O. Izmirli, E. Ersahin, I. Ozturk, . Turhan


                       Scope of the Symposium

* Commonsense Reasoning * Expert Systems  * Knowledge Representation
* Natural Language Processing *  AI Programming Environments and Tools
* Automated Deduction *   Computer Vision *  Speech Recognition
* Control and Planning *  Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition
* Robotics *  Social, Legal, Ethical Issues *  Distributed AI
* Intelligent Tutoring Systems  *  Search * Cognitive Models
* Parallel and Distributed Processing * Genetic Algorithms
* NN Applications * NN Simulation Environments * Fuzzy Logic
* Novel NN Models * Theoretical Aspects of NN * Pattern Recognition
* Other Related Topics on AI and NN

Paper Submission: Submit five copies  of full papers (in English or Turkish)
limited to 10 pages by January 31, 1994  to :

                      TAINN III, Cem Bozsahin
                 Department  of Computer Engineering
                 Middle  East Technical University,
                      06531, Ankara, Turkey

Authors will  be notified of acceptance by April 1, 1994. Accepted papers
will be published in the symposium proceedings.

The conference  will be held on the campus of Middle East Technical
University (METU)  in Ankara, Turkey.  A limited number of free lodging
facilities will be provided on campus for student participants. If there
is  sufficient interest, sightseeing tours to the nearby Cappadocia region
known for its mystical underground cities and fairy chimneys, to the
archaeological remains at Alacahoyuk , the capital of the Hittite empire,
and to local museums will be organized.

For further information and announcements contact:

                        TAINN, Ugur Halici
              Department of Electrical Engineering
                 Middle East Technical University
                    06531, Ankara, Turkey

      EMAIL: TAINN at VM.CC.METU.EDU.TR   (AFTER JANUARY 1994)
             HALICI at VM.CC.METU.EDU.TR  (BEFORE)

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