third international icsc symposia third international icsc symposia intelligent industrial automation iia 99 http www icsc ab ca iia99 htm soft computing soco 99 http www icsc ab ca soco99 htm june 1 4 1999 palazzo ducale genova italy introduction international symposia intelligent industrial automation iia 99 soft computing soco 99 intend encompass shortto longterm effects advanced information technology soft computing related intelligent technolgies application fields industrial automation control diagnostics computer vision robotics speech recognition machine translation general aim symposia address underline existing emerging relationships automation manufacturing intelligent technolgies particular emphasis soft computing contributions sought intelligent automation manufacturing emphasis current potential applications broad interest engineering disciplines computer science related technology fields following success iia soco 96 reading england iia soco 97 nmes france third symposium held genova italy iia soco series established platform scientists practitioners academic governmental industrial institutions discuss new developments results field intelligent technologies followup conference already scheduled year 2001 paisley scotland purpose iia 99 soco 99 advances soft computing related techniques theory applications ait advanced information technology one major technological drivers advancement modern society nowadays major achievement related field research strongly supported proper ait based tools often achievements possible proper ait approach designed implemented widely known ait strong impact society radically changing skills competencies required order contribute everyday human environment given nowadays major effort ait development spent called soft computing arena major indeed surprising achievements industrial applications come application softcomputing techniques two symposia iia 99 soco 99 many common areas interest namely neural networks fuzzy logic genetic algorithms chaos theory ai expert systems machine learning pattern recognition image understanding programs two conferences however reflect different themes iia 99 directed toward mediumto short term application driven research area intelligent technologies soco 99 directed toward long term research area soft computing order try overcome usual borderline existing theory application two symposia run jointly organized way partial overlap joint sessions common plenary sessions aim iia 99 soco 99 1 give wide deep view advances ait advancement offered softcomputing technologies 2 give industrial academic researcher opportunity discuss together real problems opportunities 3 collect best practice information perform experiments tests design products processes embedding using softcomputing technologies 4 explicitly actively function technology broker giving opportunity people become aware new problems possible solutions giving possibility finding technological partners joint research future application programs topics iia 99 iia 99 include contributions research area soft computing application general related mediumto short term application driven developments advanced information technology industrial intelligent technology particular emphasis laid industrial realization experimental application application methodology development formalization quantitative qualitative problem modeling contributions sought mainly areas based list industrial area industry energy transportation services consumer etc b high tech area innovative control diagnostics computer vision robotics remote sensing speech recognition machine translation etc c green tech area intelligent resource management intelligent pollutant management user behavior modeling intelligent traffic control etc topics soco 99 soco 99 include contributions long term research theory development enhanced approaches formal methods comparisons applications etc area softcomputing contributions sought areas based list indicative neural networks fuzzy logic rough sets genetic algorithms evolutionary computing chaos theory ai expert systems probabilistic reasoning machine learning learning algorithms intelligent control pattern recognition image understanding distributed intelligence self organizing systems fuzzy databases information retrieval educational aspects soft computing special session special session intelligent systems control process optimization including plenary lecture sponsored ifs network organized alberto servida italy contributions welcome conference location symposia held palazzo ducale beautiful historic building city centre genova italy sponsors iia 99 soco 99 sponsored ansaldo p disi department computer information sciences university genoa italy commune di genova italy university genova italy cybernetics biophysics national group national research council ieee neural network council italian regional interest group international neural networks society inns special interest group italy thematic network ifs intelligent forecasting system refineries power systems icsc international computer science conventions canada switzerland iia 99 symposium committee honorary chair yutaka kuwahara r centre hitachi europe ltd symposium chair riccardo parenti ansaldo ricerche genova italy symposium vice chair colin fyfe university paisley scotland u k scientific secretary carla penno ansaldo ricerche genova italy international scientific committee roberto baratti italy zeungnam bien korea piero bonissone usa pierre borne france hans heinrich bothe switzerland germany abhay bulsari finland daniele caviglia italy vincent chapurlat france raja chatila france richard colbaugh usa anna maria colla italy clarence w de silva canada h donegan u k jos r dorronsorro spain patrick gallinari france edoardo gilardi italy madan gupta canada henry h hexmoor usa r j howlett u k charles mclean usa antony maciejewski usa janine magnier france franco masulli italy fazel 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