Following this letter, you will find the call for papers of the conference, Registration form and other important information concernaing EXPERSYS-97 to be held from 15 to 16 October 1997 in Sunerland/U.K. The same information will be regularly updated on-line (March 1997). http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/IITT_INT As in the past, manuscripts received on time will be edited and published in the Technology Transfer Guide Book Series before the conference. The authors registration fee includes a contribution towards the publication cost (6 pages maximum). Payment should be sent after the acceptance of the manuscript. If you are interested to propose a paper for the conference (or for publication in the proceedings only) or to take part to the conference, please send the registration form at the end of the main topics along with your abstract to IITT-International. I look forward to hear from you soon. Dr. A. NIKU-LARI Conference secretary. CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS 15-16 Oct. 1997, SUNDERLAND (UK) General Chairman : Prof. P. SMITH, University of Sunderland (UK) Co-Chairmen : America : Prof. D. A. JACOBS, Old Dominion University (U.S.A.) Asia and Pacific : M. NARASIPURAM, City University (Hong Kong) Europe Prof. D. BOULANGER, Universite de Lyon III (F) Conference Secretary : Dr. A. NIKU-LARI, IITT-International (F) PROGRAM Committee : R. F. Bonner, Griffith Univ. (Australia) D. Crabtree, Purdue Univ. (USA) K.K. Cho , Pusan National Univ. (Korea) P. Chopra, Univ. ofTennessee (USA) D.L.Fu, Jianghan Petrolium Institute (China) L.A. Garcia, Jaume I Univ. (Spain) J.W. Guan, Univ. of Ulster (U.K.) S. Hashemi, Univ. of Houston (USA) M. Krisper, Ljubljana Univ. (Bosnia) B. Lees, Univ. of Paisley (UK) KS. Leong, N. South Wales Univ. (Australia) M. McAlister , Univ. of Sunderland (UK) J. MacIntyre, Univ. of Sunderland (UK) J.P. Marciano, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand (F) JT. Martelli, Univ. de Paris 5, LIMSI-CNRS (F) Mercier Laurent , EML (F) H.S. Nwana, Univ. of Keele (U.K) N. Ono , Tokushima Univ. (Japan) G. Quirchmayr, Vienna Univ. (Austria) U. Schmitt, FOGRA (Germany) R.V. Schuwer, Eindhoven Univ. Tech. (NL) M. Sebag , Ecole Polytechnique (F) S.Suh, Texas A&M Univ. (U.S.A.) J. Surma, Univ. of Economics (Poland) C. Vassiliadis, Ohio Univ. (USA) J. Zarka , Ecole Polytechnique (F) CALL FOR PAPERS Following the success of the previous EXPERSYS Conferences held in Paris, Los Angeles, Grenoble, Houston and San Francisco, the International Scientific Committee met in October 1996 in Paris and agreed to organize EXPERSYS97 in Sunderland (UK). Like the previous eight conferences, EXPERSYS-97 will bring together Scientists and Industrialists from different parts of the World, working on both fundamental aspects and Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Expert Systems. The Joint International Scientific Committee invites you to submit a Paper for presentation at the conference and/or for publication in the proceedings. Papers should cover one of the following or related topics : Main Topics INTERNET APPLICATIONS : Applications of A.I. and Expert Systems for the Internet and Intranet, Knowledge Management on Information Highways, Intelligent Internet Applications. MANAGEMENT : Knowledge Management, Knowledge Acquisition, Strategies and Tools685480 E-Mail : 101545.3645@compuserve.com Http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/iitt_int REPLY CARD : EXPERSYS-97 ATTENTION : Final program will be mailed only upon request REQUEST FOR FINAL PROGRAM ( ) I would like to attend the conference, please send me the program. Last Name : First name : Company : Address : Country : Phone: Fax : E-Mail : Paper proposal AND REGISTRATION (Please send abstract) ( ) AUTHORS Attending the Conference I will attend the conference and I will present my paper. Please register me to the conference EXPERSYS-97. Registration fee includes the publication fee for a paper of 6 pages maximum. Payment before 30 June 1997 ( ) Speaker or Author :L350, $550, FF2800 ( ) Delegates :L450, $720, FF3600 Payment after 30 June 1997 ( ) Any Delegate: L560, $900, FF4500 ( ) Proceedings : L90, $144, FF720 ( ) AUTHORS not Attending the Conference I will not attend the conference but I would like to publish my paper of six pages in the conference proceedings. ( ) Publication fee : L300, $480, FF2400 ( ) Additional Pages : L60, $100, FF500 Date : Signature Payment by Cheque Payable to IITT-International or by Bank Transfer to : English L : National Westminster Bank : 18 Cromwell Place, P.O. Box 592, London SW7 2LB (UK), Account N 06542026 US dollars : Bank of New York, 300 Park Avenue, NY 10022 (USA) Account N 021908521-051139529 FF : IITT Post Account, Centre de Paris, CCP- n 939916D