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The 20th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on TOOLS with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
                                (ICTAI 2008)
                             November 3-5, 2008
                              Dayton, Ohio, USA

             Conference Website: http://dblab.cs.wright.edu/ictai2008/


                                2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where the
creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence are
fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies.  The
conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and
promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing
intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence
applications. The ICTAI encompasses all the technical aspects of
specifying, developing and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings
and applied mechanisms of the AI based components of computer tools
(i.e. algorithms, methodologies, architectures, and languages).

TOPICS OF INTEREST include (but are not limited to) the following:

   AI Algorithms
   AI in Bioinformatics
   AI in Computer Security
   AI in Databases and Data Mining
   AI in E-commerce
   AI in Games
   AI in Information Assurance
   AI in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
   AI in Medicine
   AI in Multimedia Systems
   AI in Real-time and Embedded Applications
   AI in Robotics
   AI in Software Engineering
   Case-Based Reasoning
   Cognitive Modeling
   Constraint Programming
   Collaborative Software Agents
   Reasoning under Fuzziness or Uncertainty
   Evolutionary Computing
   Hybrid Intelligent Systems
   Information Retrieval
   Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems
   Intelligent Internet Agents
   Intelligent Interface Agents
   Knowledge-based Systems
   Knowledge Extraction
   Knowledge Management and Sharing
   Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
   Machine Learning
   Natural Language Processing and Understanding
   Neural Networks
   Ontologies
   Planning and Scheduling
   Qualitative Reasoning
   Search and Heuristics
   Semantic Web Technologies
   Speech Processing and Understanding
   Vision and Image Processing and Understanding.

The submissions should contain original and high quality work, not
submitted or published elsewhere. The accepted papers will be included
in the ICTAI 2008 proceedings published by the IEEE Computer
Society. A selection of the best papers of the conference will be
published in a special issue of the International Journal on
Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), which is SCI Indexed.


IMPORTANT DATES

   Paper submission: June 2, 2008
   Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2008
   Camera ready paper: August 5, 2008


GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

   Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Univ. of Patras, Greece
   Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA


PC CHAIR

   Soon M. Chung, Wright State Univ., USA


AREA CHAIRS (Tentative)

   Grigoris Antoniou, Univ. of Crete & FORTH, Greece
   Raj Bhatnagar, Univ. of Cincinnati, USA
   Rüdiger Brause, J.W. Goethe Univ., Germany
   Paola Campadelli, Univ. degli Studi di Milano, Italy
   Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan UST, Taiwan
   Silvia Coradeschi, Örebro Univ., Sweden
   Anna Esposito, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy
   Demetra Evangelou, Purdue Univ., USA
   Robert Ewing, AFRL, WPAFB, USA
   Eric Grégoire, Univ. d'Artois, France
   Melanie Hilario, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
   Naohiro Ishii, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan
   Lakhmi Jain, Univ. of South Australia, Australia
   Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA
   Manolis Koubarakis, Univ. of Athens, Greece
   David B. Leake, Indiana Univ., USA
   William McQuay, AFRL, WPAFB, USA
   Luigi Portinale, Univ. of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
   Vasile Palade, Oxford Univ., UK
   Witold Pedrycz, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
   Robert Reynolds, Wayne State Univ., USA
   Phillip Sheu, Univ. of California-Irvine, USA
   Andreas-Georgios N. Stafylopatis, NTUA, Greece
   Lefteri Tsoukalas, Purdue Univ., USA
   Du Zhang, California State Univ., USA


FINANCIAL CHAIR
   Despina Kavraki, AIIS Inc., USA

REGISTRATION and LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
   Donetta Bantle, Wright State Univ., USA

PUBLICATION CHAIR
   Praveen Kakumanu, Riverain Medical, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR and WEB MASTER
   Vineela Muppavarapu, Wright State Univ., USA


FURTHER INFORMATION

   Prof. Soon M. Chung (PC Chair of ICTAI 2008)
   Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
   Wright State University
   Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA
   Email: soon.chung@wright.edu
   Homepage: http://www.cs.wright.edu/~schung