The 8th International Conference Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

organized by:
the Polish Neural Networks Society
the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz

in cooperation with:
the Department of Computer Engineering at Czestochowa University of Technology
the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

endorsed by:
the International Neural Network Society (INNS)
the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA)
the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT)
the European Neural Network Society (ENNS)

The Eighth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing ICAISC 2006 will be held in Zakopane (situated in the High Tatra mountains), Poland on 25-29 June, 2006. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity for scientists and engineers to present and discuss the latest scientific results and methods. The conference will include keynote addresses, contributed papers, and numerous lectures and tutorials on a wide range of topics

The conference covers all topics in artificial intelligence and soft computing techniques including but not limited to:

• Natural Language Processing
• Computer Vision
• Bioinformatics
• Robotics and Related Fields
• Expert Systems
• Multi-agent Systems
• Speech Understanding
• Knowledge Engineering
• Distributed Intelligent Processing
• Concurrent and Parallel Processing
• Intelligent Database Systems
• Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
• Neural Network Theory and Architectures
• Hardware Implementations
• Fuzzy Logic
• Fuzzy Optimisation
• Fuzzy Control
• Fuzzy Computing with Words
• Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms
• Evolutionary Design
• Evolutionary Scheduling and Optimisation
• Rough Sets Theory: Foundations and Applications
• Data Mining
• Artificial Intelligence in Scheduling and Optimization
• Artificial Intelligence in Modelling and Simulation
• Various Applications

Papers will be refereed by an international committee, and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. After the notification of acceptance (January 20, 2006), authors will be allowed to make a correction in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and submit final camera-ready papers before February 20, 2006. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag series "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence" and distributed among the participants during the conference. Accepted papers must be presented by author(s) personally to be published in the conference proceedings.

The only allowed format is Springer LNCS Latex style.

1. Submission of papers in accordance with Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines (6 pages max.) :
November 19, 2005 (new deadline)
2. Notification of acceptance:
January 20, 2006
3. Submission of camera-ready papers:
February 20, 2006
4. Conference date:
June 25-29, 2006

For detailed information, please see icaisc.pcz.pl