ismis 2008 nnavr13cseyorkuca apologies receive call papers seventeenth international symposium methodologies intelligent systems ismis08 may 2023 2008 york university toronto canada httpwwwcseyorkucaismis08 ismis established prestigious conference exchanging latest research results building intelligent systems held twice every three years conference provides medium exchanging scientific research technological achievements accomplished international community may 2008 ismis held first time canada dynamic city toronto home 100 cultures previous ismis conferences held knoxville tennessee 1986 1990 charlotte north carolina 1987 1989 1991 1994 1997 2000 turin 1988 trondheim 1993 zakopane 1996 warsaw 1999 lyon 2002 maebashi 2003 saratoga springs 2005 bari 2006 important dates paper submission due october 22 2007 notification review results december 28 2007 camera ready due january 18 2008 conference theme scope ismis intended represent wide range topics applying artificial intelligence techniques areas diverse decision support automated deduction reasoning knowledge based systems machine learning computer vision robotics planning databases information retrieval etc focus research intelligent systems conference addresses issues involving solutions problems complex solved conventional approaches require simulation intelligent thought processes heuristics applications knowledge integration multiple approaches solving complex problems particular importance ismis provides forum means exchanging information interested purely theory interested primarily implementation interested specific research industrial applications topics interest ismis08 intended attract individuals actively engaged theoretical practical aspects intelligent systems goal provide platform useful exchange theoreticians practitioners foster crossfertilization ideas following areas active media humancomputer interaction autonomic evolutionary computation digital libraries intelligent agent technology intelligent information retrieval intelligent information systems intelligent language processing knowledge representation integration knowledge discovery data mining knowledge visualization logic artificial intelligence music information retrieval soft computing web intelligence web services addition solicit papers dealing applications intelligent systems complexnovel domains eg human genome global change manufacturing health care etc paper submission authors invited submit manuscript lncslnai style maximum 10 pages paper submissions handled electronically detailed instructions available conference homepage httpwwwcseyorkucaismis08submissionhtml submissions subject review ismis08 program committee publications ismis08 proceedings published springerverlag lncslnai lecture notes artificial intelligence series homepage httpwwwspringerdecomplncsindexhtml available conference necessary information concerning typesetting obtained directly springerverlag page httpwwwspringerdecomplncsauthorshtml special issue containing extended versions selected papers presented ismis08 appear journal intelligent information systems jiis kluwer another selected number accepted papers presented ismis08 expanded revised possible inclusion knowledge information systems journal kais springerverlag organizing team general chair zbigniew w ras university north carolina usa cogunccedu conference chair nick cercone york university canada yilcxmvqyorkuca program cochairs aijun york university canada shdcseyorkuca dominik slezak infobright inc canada klzmfurpcpdjkinfobrightcom stan matwin university ottawa canada lksositeuottawaca organizing chair jimmy huang york university canada bdmpqiyorkuca workshop chair parke godfrey york university canada tiszitqcseyorkuca fri 08 aug 2008 020833 0400 uai ismis08 call papers