ANNIE 2001 Smart Engineering Systems Design Conference November 4-7, 2001

[Cihan Dagli]

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of the organizing committee I would like to invite you to attend
ANNIE 2001 ( http://www.umr.edu/~annie/annie01 ) which will be held November
4th-7th, 2001, at the Marriott Pavilion Hotel in downtown St. Louis,
Missouri, USA. This will be the eleventh 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 "Smart Engineering System
Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining,
and Complex Systems." You can visit ANNIE home page for details of these
conferences http://www.umr.edu/~annie/ .

ANNIE 2001 ( http://www.umr.edu/~annie/annie01 ) 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

March 2, 2001: Deadline for contributed paper abstract, information
sheet, and letter of intent.

May 18, 2001: Deadline for full papers.

July 6, 2001: Notification of status of contributed papers.

August 10, 2001: Deadline for camera ready manuscripts.

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 March 2, 2001:
      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) 341-6268
E-Mail: annie at umr.edu -or- patti at umr.edu
Internet:       http://www.umr.edu/~annie