[Sigkm-l] IEEE CSTST'08: Call for Papers

[CHBEIR Richard]

The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary
Science and Technology (CSTST'08)


----- To commemorate the memory of Prof. Yasuhiko Dote, Japan (Founding Chair of
WSTST series of meetings) -----

Technically Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society 
(pending approval)
                                          and
                           in Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr (pending approval)

                                  October 26-30, 2008
                                  Cergy-Pointoise, FRANCE
                      Hosted by the "University of Cergy Pontoise"


Description
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The International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and
Technology (CSTST'08) brings together international soft computational
intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners, and users.
The aim of CSTST (previously called WSTST) is to serve as a forum to present
current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field.
CSTST'08 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that
demonstrates current research in all areas of soft computing, as well as
proposals
for workshops, industrial presentations, demonstrations, and tutorials.


Topics
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We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere.
The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the
following themes (but not limited to):

* Information and Data Management
* Intelligent Hybrid Systems
* Fusion of Soft and Hard Computing
* Data and Web Mining
* Decision Support Systems
* Natural Language Processing
* Intelligent Agent-based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed AI Systems
* Internet Modeling
* Multimedia Information Systems
* Information Retrieval
* Human-Computer Interface
* XML-based Languages
* Security and Access Control
* Information Content Security
* Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
* Applications

	o E-Learning, eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment
	o Image and speech signal processing, prediction, and control
	o Robotics
	o Biology and medicine
	o Business and management
	o Artificial societies
	o Chemicals, pharmaceuticals and materials
	o Environment engineering


Paper Submission
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Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF files and should be uploaded
using the conference website (http://cstst.insa-lyon.fr).
Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages.
Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 independent reviewers of the PC.

Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality,
technical soundness, and quality of presentation.
Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging
positions on important emergent topics.
At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.


Workshop/tutorial Submission
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A workshop/tutorial proposal must be about 2--5 pages long and contain the
following information:

  * Title;
  * Summary;
  * Topics;
  * Format and duration;
  * Organizers (attach short CVs, limit of 2 pages each);
  * Proposed program committee (workshops only);
  * Expected submission and acceptance rate (workshops only);
  * Type (academic and/or industrial) and number of expected participants;
  * Significance in relation to topics of the main conference and details of any
previous workshops.


Proceedings of all CSTST'08 workshops are to be published as a single volume to
be distributed at the conference.
All the workshop papers should be limited to 6 pages in ACM format.

Workshop/tutorial proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal,
its relation to the main conference topics,
and the likelihood to attract enough participants.

Proposals must be sent by email to rchbeir at u-bourgogne.fr


Important Dates
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Full Paper Submissions: June 15, 2008
Proposals for Workshops and Tutorials: April 30, 2008
Notification of Workshop & Tutorial Acceptance: May 15, 2008
Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2008
Camera Ready Papers Due: September 17, 2008
Author Registration: September 17, 2008
Conference Dates:  October 26-30, 2008


Journal Publication
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Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the
following reviewed journals.

1. Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS) (ISSN 1554-1010)
2. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (ISSN 0973-1873)


Committees
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Honorary Chair
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Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, U.S.A


General Co-Chairs
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Youakim Badr, INSA-Lyon, France
Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Yukio Ohsawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan


Program Co-Chairs
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Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France
Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

International Co-Chairs
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Sepo Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Yukinori Suzuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Frederic Andres, NII, Japan

International Advisory Board
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James Keller, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Cihan H. Dagli, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Hidenori Kimura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan
Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Toru Yamaguchi, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan
Kensuke Kawai, Toshiba Co., Japan


Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
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Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Jean Luc Bourdon, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France


Local Arrangement Secretary
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Virginie Sans, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France


Local Arrangement committee
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Sonia Katchadourian, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Clémence Driol, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France


International Program Committee
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to be announced


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