Call For Papers: TAINN'99

[Fevzi Alimoglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

TAINN'99
The Eighth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks

June 23-25 1999
Bogazici University, Istanbul, TURKEY

ORGANIZED BY:
Bogazici University


BACKGROUND:
TAINN^Ò99 is the eighth in a series of symposia intended to bring together
researchers from the fields of artificial intelligence and neural networks.
The symposium will be held in the historical city of Istanbul, which has been
the capital of two empires, and is the economic and cultural center of modern
Turkey.

SCOPE:
AI Architectures, Artificial Life, Automated Modeling, Automated Reasoning,
Bayesian Learning and Belief Networks, Control, Causality, Cognitive
Modeling, Common Sense Reasoning, Computer-Aided Education, Decision Trees,
Design, Diagnosis, Discourse, Discovery, Distributed AI, Expert Systems,
Fuzzy Logic, Game Playing, Genetic Algorithms, Geometric or Spatial
Reasoning, Hardware Realizations of Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems,
Information Retrieval, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation, Logic
Programming, Machine Discovery, Machine Learning, Machine Translation,
Mathematical Foundations, Multi-agent Systems, Multimedia, Natural Language
Processing, Neural Networks, Non-monotonic Reasoning, Pattern Recognition,
Perception, Philosophical Foundations, Planning, Problem Solving, Qualitative
Reasoning, Real-Time Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Scheduling,
Search, Simulation, Software Agents, Speech Understanding, Symbolic
Computation, Temporal Reasoning, Vision.

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Original papers from all areas listed above are solicited. The symposium
languages are Turkish and English. All submitted papers will be refereed on
the basis of quality, significance, and clarity by program committee members
and other reviewers. All accepted papers will be published in the symposium
proceedings which will be available at the meeting. The symposium will
consist of technical presentations, invited talk(s) and poster sessions.
        Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers exclusively in
electronic media in the format of postscript files attached to e-mail
messages. Papers are limited to 10 pages, including figures and references,
in single-spaced one-column format using a font size of 11 points.
        See the symposium webpage for style information.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
L. Akarun               Turkey
H. L. Akin              Turkey
V. Akman                Turkey
F. Alpaslan             Turkey
E. Alpaydin             Turkey
V. Atalay               Turkey
I. Aybay                N. Cyprus
C. Bozsahin             Turkey
I. Bratko               Slovenia
I. Cicekli              Turkey
T. Ciftcibasi           N. Cyprus
D. Davenport            Turkey
C. Dichev               Bulgaria
G. W. Ernst             USA
A. Fatholahzadeh        France
M. Guler                Turkey
F. Gurgen               Turkey
H. A. Guvenir           Turkey
C. Guzelis              Turkey
U. Halici               Turkey
H. Hamburger            USA
S. Kocabas              Turkey
F. Masulli              Italy
K. Oflazer              Turkey
E. Oztemel              Turkey
Y. Ozturk               USA
J.-I. Tsujii            UK, Japan
G. Ucoluk               Turkey
N. Yalabik              Turkey
F. T. Yarman-Vural      Turkey
A. Yazici               Turkey

PROGRAM  CO-CHAIRS:
A. C. Cem Say
        say at boun.edu.tr
Gunhan Dundar
        dundar at boun.edu.tr

DEADLINES:
Submission:
        February 1, 1999
Notification:
        April 5, 1999
Final Copy Due:
        May 3, 1999

For more information, frequently access the URL:
http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~tainn99/


CONTACTS:
        TAINN'99
        Department of Computer Engineering
        Boðaziçi University,
        Bebek 80815, Ýstanbul, TURKEY

e-mail: say at boun.edu.tr
phone:  90-212-2631540  Ext.  1628 (leave message)
fax:    90-212-2872461