Neuro-Fuzzy Applications Track - 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002)

[ernesto damiani]

Call for Papers
Neuro-Fuzzy Applications Track
17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002)
March 10-14, 2002
Madrid, Spain



SAC 2002
For the past fifteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has
been a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer
engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around
the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2002 is sponsored by
the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). SAC 2002
is presented in cooperation with other special interest groups. SAC 2002
will be hosted by the Universidad Carlos III De Madrid, Spain, from
March 10 - 14, 2002. For more info, see
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2002



Neuro-Fuzzy Application Track
Recently, however, a tide of new applications is being fostered by the
necessity of dealing with imprecision and vagueness in the context of a
new generation of complex systems, such as telecommunication networks,
software systems, data processing systems and the like. A common feature
of these new systems is the fact that traditional fuzzy techniques (e.g.
rule-based systems) are becoming fully integrated with neural network
processing in the general framework of a soft computing approach to give
approximate solutions to complex problems that proved too difficult to
attack with other techniques.

The Neuro-Fuzzy Applications Track, without neglecting traditional fuzzy
applications, will focus on this new generation of neuro-fuzzy systems,
both from the point of view of the computer scientist and (perhaps more
importantly) from the point of view of the expert of the involved
application field.

Topics we intend to cover include (but are not limited to):

IP/ATM,Mobile,Active Networks
Neural Hardware Systems
Neural Control
Neuro-Fuzzy Processing of Multimedia Data
Neuro-Fuzzy Systems in Molecular Computing
Soft-Computing Techniques for Systems Design
Flexible Query and Information Retrieval Systems
Data Mining
Computer Vision
Fuzzy Hardware Systems
Fuzzy Control


Paper submission
Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of soft
computing and fuzzy applications development for the technical sessions.
and demos of new innovative systems. Papers must be submitted to one of
the Track Chairs in 3 copies. In order to facilitate blind review,
submitted papers should carry the authors' names and affiliations on a
separate sheet. Authors must follow the Symposium's general Submission
Guidelines. For electronic submissions, please contact the Track Chair
in advance. All papers will be blindly reviewed for originality and
accuracy.



Conference Proceedings and Journal Publication
Accepted papers in all categories will be published in SAC 2002
Proceedings. Expanded versions of selected papers will be considered for
publication in the ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (SIGAPP ACR). A
special section with the best papers from SAC 2002 Fuzzy Track is
planned to appear on Springer's Soft Computing international journal.



Neuro-Fuzzy Applications Track Chairs
Ernesto Damiani
Universit=E0 di Milano - Polo di Crema
Via Bramante 65
26013 Crema, Italy
e-mail: edamiani at crema.unimi.it
Phone:+ 39-0373-898240
FAX:+39-0373-898253

Athanasios Vasilakos
Institute of Computer Science(ICS)
Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas(FORTH)
P.O Box 1385
Heraklion,Crete,Greece
e-mail: vasilako at ath.forthnet.gr
Phone:+ 3-081-394400
FAX:+3-081-394408



IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission September 1th, 2001
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection November 1st, 2001
Camera-Ready Copy December 1st, 2001