Connectionists: Intelligent Decision Tools - last call for Papers

[Laura Jones]

6th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies
(IDT-2014)
Chania - Crete,  Greece 18 - 20 June 2014
http://idt-14.kesinternational.org/
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**Last call - Deadline a week today**

We are delighted to invite contributions to the 6th International Conference on 
Intelligent Decision Technologies, organised by KES International. IDT-2014 is an 
international scientific conference for research in the area of Intelligent Decision 
Technologies with subjects considering theory and application. This conference is 
dedicated to improving decision making.

The conference is interdisciplinary in nature and will consist of keynote talks, oral and poster 
presentations, invited sessions and workshops, on the applications and theory of intelligent 
decision systems and related areas. It will provide excellent opportunities for the presentation 
of interesting new research results and discussion about them, leading to knowledge transfer 
and generation of new ideas.

The conference will be co-located under the KES Smart Digital Futures umbrella with our other 
Intelligent Systems conferences: IIMSS, AMSTA along with the new STET (Smart 
Technology-based Education and Training) conference. Registration gives access to all of 
these conferences, together with a paper published in one set of proceedings. Please see the 
Smart Digital Futures website http://smartfutures.kesinternational.org for more information.

The conference proceedings will be published in the IOS Frontiers of Artificial Inteligence and 
Applications series (FAIA), indexed in SciVerse Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, 
Google Scholar and Zentralblatt MATH, and in previous years in ISI Conference Proceedings 
Citation Index, CPCi (T-R decides on a year by year basis which conferences to index). In 
addition, authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit a chapter for 
publication in an edited book published by Springer.

Papers are invited on theoretical and applied topics related to the scope of the 
conference.

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Conference Scope
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General Topics of Interest

Authors should relate their topic to improving some aspect of decision making. Topics related 
to intelligent decision making include, but are not limited to, intelligent agents, fuzzy logic, 
multi-agent systems, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, expert systems, intelligent 
decision making support systems, information retrieval systems, geographic information 
systems, knowledge management systems.

IDT Applications

IDT's have the potential to support decision making in many areas including management, 
international business, finance, accounting, marketing, healthcare, medical and diagnostic 
systems, military decisions, production and operation, networks, traffic management, crisis 
response, human-machine interfaces, financial and stock market monitoring and prediction, 
robotics.

Emergent Intelligent Decision Technologies

Virtual decision environments, social networking, 3D human-machine interfaces, cognitive 
interfaces, collaborative systems, intelligent web mining, e-commerce, e-learning, e-business, 
bioinformatics, evolvable systems, virtual humans, designer drugs.

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Invited Sessions
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Here are the current Workshop and Invited Sessions:

WS01: Reasoning Based Intelligent Systems
Chair: Dr. Kazumi Nakamatsu 
University of Hyogo, Japan 
Co-chaired by 
Dr. Jair Minoro Abe 
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 

IS01: Autonomous Systems
Chair: Dr. Arthur Filippidis 
Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia 
Co-chaired by 
Dr. Despina Filippidis 
Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia 

IS02: Advances in Computational Intelligence, Decision Making and Pattern Recognition
Chair: Prof. Margarita N. Favorskaya 
Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia 

IS03: Intelligent Analysis of Built Environment BIG Data
Chair: Prof. Arturas Kaklauskas 
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania 
Co-chaired by 
Prof. Dr. Mark Dyer 
Trinity College Dublin 

IS04: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Business Intelligence Research and Practice 
(IABIRP 2014)
Chair: Prof. Ivan Luković 
University of Novi Sad, Serbia 
Co-chaired by 
Prof. Mirjana Ivanović 
University of Novi Sad, Serbia 

IS05: Decision Making Theory
Chair: Prof. Eizo Kinoshita 
Meijo University, Japan 
Co-chaired by 
Prof. Takao Ohya 
Kokushikan University, Tokyo 

IS06: Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration through the Synergy of Human 
and Machine Reasoning
Chair: Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis 
University of Patras & CTI, Greece 
Co-chaired by 
Dr. Lydia Lau 
University of Leeds, UK 
Co-chaired by 
Prof. Pavlos Peppas 
University of Patras, Greece 

IS07: Soft Computing in Industrial and Management Engineering: Theories 
and Applications
Chair: Dr. Shing Chiang Tan 
Multimedia University, Malaysia 
Co-chaired by 
Prof. Junzo Watada 
Waseda University, Japan 
Co-chaired by 
Prof. Chee Peng Lim 
Deakin University, Australia 

IS08: Mixed-Integer Bilevel Programming: Application to Equilibrium, Variational 
Inequality and Combinatorial Problems
Chair: Dr. Assoc. Prof. Vyacheslav V. Kalashnikov 
Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico; Central Economics and Mathematics 
Institute (CEMI) Russia; Sumy State University, Ukraine. 

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Dates & Deadlines
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General Track Papers

Submission of Papers: 27 January 2014
Notification of Acceptance: 24 February 2014
Upload of Final Publication Files: 10 March 2014

Invited Session and Workshops

Submission of Invited Session Proposals: Continue to submit
Submission of Papers: Set by Session Chair
Upload of Final Publication Files: 10 March 2014
(Publication files are the wordprocessor source in MS Word or LaTeX together with a final PDF.) 

Early Registration Deadline
All delegates to main conference: 14 March 2014

Every paper for inclusion in the published proceedings must have at least one author who has 
registered for the conference with payment by: 14 March 2014.

Conference Sessions: 18 - 20 June 2014

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Location
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The conference will take place on the island of Crete in Greece, at the Minoa Palace 
Resort & Spa a luxury 5* beachside hotel, built within maintained gardens and having 
a dedicated conference centre. The Minoa Palace lies 12km west of the city of Chania 
and a 30 minute drive from Chania International Airport.

Chania is one of the most beautiful cities in Greece and thought by many to be the most 
picturesque in Greece. Chania is a bustling city with both old and modern sections famed 
for the Venetian Harbour, the old port, the narrow shopping streets and waterfront restaurants.

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Further Information
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Please note that the above deadlines are provisional and subject to change. For further 
information on all the above, please visit the conference website at the top of the page. For 
general enquiries about the conference, please contact: idt-14 at kesinternational.org 
For registration enquiries, please contact: registration at kesinternational.info (if you have already 
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