ISDA'04: Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (26-28) August 2004, Budapest, Hungary Conference URL: http://isda04.softcomputing.net/ Technical Sponsors: IEEE - Systems, Man and Cybernetics International Fuzzy Systems Association, IFSA Budapest Polytechnic Hungarian Fuzzy Association IEEE Chapter of SMC, Hungary IEEE R8 Springer Verlag, Germany University of Veszprem World Federation of Soft Computing (WFSC) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2004) is the fourth International conference that brings together international soft computing, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners and users. The aim of ISDA 2004 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. ISDA'04 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research in all areas of intelligent systems and their applications in science, technology, business and commercial. ISDA'04 will focus on the following themes: * Applications in Bioinformatics * Architectures of intelligent systems * Image, Speech and signal processing * Internet modeling * Data mining * Fuzzy modeling and control * Business and management applications * Control and Automation * Software agents * Knowledge management * Special topics We invite you to submit a: - full paper of 8 to 10 pages (Letter or A4 paper) for oral presentation - proposal to organize a technical session and/or workshop. Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. The proceedings of the Conference will be published by Springer Verlag, Germany in the Advances in Soft Computing Series. Please follow the authors guidelines given in the conference web page. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the web site. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees of the international program committee of ISDA'04. Important Dates Deadline for Workshop/tutorial Proposals : February 1, 2004 Deadline for Paper Submission (full paper) : April 1, 2004 Notification of Acceptance : May 10, 2004 Deadline for Camera Ready Papers/registration : June 10, 2004 ISDA'04 Conference in Budapest : August 26 - 28, 2004 Conference Organization Honorary Chair Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Honorary Committee Anthony C. Davies, IEEE R8 Director Enrique H. Ruspini, IEEE Div. X Director William Gruber, IEEE SMC President Z. Zenn Bien, IFSA President Zoltan Gaal, Rector of Veszprem University, Hungary General Chair Imre Rudas, Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary Program Chairs Janos Abonyi, Univ. of Veszprem, Hungary Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State University, USA Steering Committee Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State University, USA Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, Cambridge, USA Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia P. Saratchandran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Track Chairs Applications in Bioinformatics: Olaf Wolkenhauer,University of Rostock, Germany Architectures of intelligent systems: Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada Business and management applications: Andrew Flitman, Monash University, Australia Computational Web Intelligence: Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, Georgia Control and automation: P. Saratchandran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Data mining: Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia Evolutionary Computation Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Fuzzy modeling and control: Robert Babuska, TU Delft, The Netherlands Image, speech and signal processing: Emma Regentova, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Industrial Applications: Hans Roubos, DSM Food Specialities/R&D Information Security: Andrew Sung, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA Knowledge management: Xiao Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Software agents: Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA Special Sessions Chair Xiao Zhi Gao, Georgia State University, Georgia Publication Chair Mario Koeppen, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Germany Secretary General Aniko Szakal, Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary Local Organizing Committee Attila L. Bencsik, Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary Ferenc Szeifert, University of Veszprem, Hungary Gabriella Kun, University of Veszprem, Hungary Jozsef K. Tar, Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary Lajos Nagy, University of Veszprem, Hungary Sandor Nemeth, University of Veszprem, Hungary Tibor Chovan, University of Veszprem, Hungary Publicity Chair Djamila Ouelhadj, University of Nottingham, UK Web Chair Andy AuYeung, Oklahoma State University, USA International Technical Committee Andreas Nrnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany Andrew Sung, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA Andri Riid, Department of Computer Control, Tallinn Technical University Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, BUTE, Hungary Antonio Dourado, University of Coimbra, Portugal Balazs Feil, University of Veszprem Bogdan Gabrys, Bournemouth University, UK Carlos A. Coello Coello, Laboratorio Nacional de Informática Avanzada, Mexico Costa Branco P J, Instituto Superior Technico, Portugal Djamila Ouelhadj, University of Nottingham, UK Domonkos Tikk, BUTE, Hungary Douglas Leith, Hamilton Institute Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Frank Hoffmann, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig, Germany Gabriella Pasi, ITIM - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Gary Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Irina Perfilieva, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Istvan Jonyer, Oklahoma State University, USA Janos Fodor, Szent Istvan University, Hungary Janos Madar, University of Veszprem Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong José Manuel Benítez, University of Granada, Spain Jose Mira, UNED, Spain Jozsef Dombi, University of Szeged Julies Adams, IEEE SMC Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology, India Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia Katrin Franke , Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Laszlo T. Koczy, BUTE, Hungary Luis Magdalena, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA Mario Köppen, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Germany Marley Vellasco, PUC-RJ, Brazil Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Miguel Ayala Botto, Lisabon Mo Jamshidi, University of New Mexico Nikos Lagaros, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Ninan Sajith Philip, St. Thomas College, India Olgierd Unold, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Peter Baranyi, BUTE, Hungary Raj Dasgupta, University of Nebraska, USA Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK Robert Fuller, ELTE, Hungary Robert John, De Montfort University, UK Ronald Yager, Iona College, USA Sambandham. M, Morehouse College, USA Shunichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan Suliman Hawamdeh, University of Oklahoma, USA Sung Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea Szilveszter Kovacs, Miskolc University, Hungary Thomas Bäck, NuTech Solutions GmbH, Germany Tom Gedeon, Murdoch University, Australia Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Violetta Galant, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland Wilfried Elmenreich, TU Vienna, Austria William B. Langdon, University College London, UK Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Xiao Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA For further information please contact: Janos Abonyi, Ph.D. Process Engineering Department University of Veszprem, POB. 158, H-8200, Veszprem, Hungary Email: abonyij@fmt.vein.hu Ajith Abraham, Ph.D. Computer Science Department Oklahoma State University 700 N Greenwood Avenue Tulsa, OK 74106, USA Tel : +1-918-5948188 Fax: +1-918-5948281 eFax: +1 (509) 691-2851 Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org