ANNIE 2000 Smart Engineering Systems Design Conference November 5-8, 2000

[Cihan Dagli]

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of the organizing committee I would like to invite you to attend
ANNIE 2000 ( http://www.umr.edu~annie/annie2000.htm ) which will be held
November 5th-8th, 2000, at the Marriott Pavilion Hotel in downtown St.
Louis, Missouri, USA. This will be the tenth international gathering of
researchers interested in Smart Engineering System Design using neural
networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary programming, complex systems, data
mining, and rough sets. Each previous conference drew approximately 150
papers from twenty countries. The proceedings of all conferences have been
published by ASME Press as hardbound books in nine volumes. The latest
volume, edited by Dagli, et. al., was titled =93Smart Engineering System
Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining,
and Complex Systems.=94 You can visit ANNIE home page for details of these
conferences http://www.umr.edu/~annie/ .

ANNIE 2000 ( http://www.umr.edu/~annie/annie2000.htm ) will cover the theory
of Smart Engineering System Design techniques, namely: neural networks,
fuzzy logic, evolutionary programming, complex systems, data mining, and
rough sets. Presentations dealing with applications of these technologies
are encouraged.

The organizing committee invites all persons interested in Computational
Intelligence to submit papers for presentation at the conference. You can
submit your abstracts online at http://www.umr.edu/~annie/oas.htm . All
papers accepted for presentation will be published in the conference
proceedings. They will be reviewed by two referees, senior researchers in
the field, for technical merit and content.


AUTHORS SCHEDULE

February 25, 2000: Deadline for contributed paper abstract, information
sheet, and letter of intent.

May 5, 2000: Deadline for full papers.

June 16, 2000: Notification of status of contributed papers.

July 21, 2000: Deadline for camera ready manuscripts.

In addition, ANNIE 2000 will offer special sessions
 http://www.umr.edu/~annie/ss.htm ) on "Pattern Recognition for Safer
Driving", " Evolvable Hardware", and "Black Box System Identification".
There is also a one-day workshop on Neural Networks in Medicine and Biology"
(http://www.umr.edu/~annie/workshop.htm ).

Approximately six pages will be allocated for each accepted paper in the
proceedings. All accepted papers will be published as a hardbound book by
ASME Press and edited by Drs. Dagli, Buczak, Embrechts, Ersoy, Ghosh and
Kercel. Authors are requested to submit the following by February 25, 2000:
     1) an abstract (up to 200 words)
     2) an information sheet that includes the full name of the authors,
address, phone and FAX number, E-mail,Web address
     3) a letter of intent

Authors should forward their letter of intent, information sheet, abstract,
and full paper to:

Dr. Cihan H. Dagli, Conference Chair
Smart Engineering Systems Laboratory
Department of Engineering Management
University of Missouri - Rolla
1870 Miner Circle
Rolla, MO 65409-0370, USA

Phone:	(573) 341-6576 or (573) 341-4374
FAX:	(573) 341-6567
E-Mail:	annie at umr.edu -or- dagli at umr.edu
Internet:	http://www.umr.edu/~annie