From: CIMCA
Subject: Special session on:  Intelligent knowledge acquisition and information retrieval
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      Special session on:
               Intelligent knowledge acquisition and information retrieval
                                 Due date: 22 March 2004

                                          at
              2004 International Conference on Computational Intelligence
for
                   Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2004
                                12 - 14 July 2004
                              Gold Coast - Australia


     The objective of this special session is to provide a forum for
theoreticians and
     practitioners involved with developing methods and systems to assist
     the knowledge acquisition process.

     Knowledge acquisition remains to be the bottleneck for building a
     knowledgebased system.

     Aquisition and use of knowledge for knowledge-based systems are major
issues
     and there has been many attempts to solve this problem. Currently the
application
     of computational intelligence techniques seems to provide a better
solution to
     knolwedge aquisition, modeling and knowledge management.

     Paper submitted to this special session can be in all aspects of
knowledge
     acquisition and management including (but not restricted to):

    Knowledge acquisition and distributed knowledge acquisition
    Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition and knowledge maintenance
    Machine learning and knowledge discovery
    Knowledge and knowledge modeling
    Knowledge acquisition and filtering from Internet


Papers submission
     Papers submited to this special session will be reviewed by at least
two
     reviewers.
     Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and distributed at
     the conference.

Important Dates
    Papers due by: 21 March 2004
    Notification of Acceptance: 20 April 2004
    Camera-ready version of Final paper due: 20 May 2004


Information and instructions for Paper Submission

     Papers describing original research related to the special session
should be
     submitted in Word for Windows or pdf format to
·····@ise.canberra.edu.au
     The expected length of papers to be up to 12 pages.
     They should be printed in 12pt font for normal text.




Workshop and Program Committee Chairs:

     Paul Compton (University of New South Wales, Australia)
        E-mail: ·······@cse.unsw.edu.au
     Achim Hoffmann (University of New South Wales, Australia)
        E-mail: ·····@cse.unsw.edu.au
     Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University, Japan)
        E-mail: ······@ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
     Takahira Yamaguchi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
        E-mail: ········@cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp



Program Committee

     Richard Benjamins (Intelligent Software Components, S.A., Spain)
     Ghassan Beydoun (University of New South Wales, Australia)
     Bob Colomb (University of Queensland, Australia)
     John Debenham (CSIRO and University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
     Rose Dieng (INRIA, France)
     Dieter Fensel (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
     Udo Hahn (Freiburg University, Germany)
     Noriaki Izumi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
     Byeong Kang (University of Tasmania, Australia)
     Hideto Kazawa (NTT, Japan)
     Yasuhiko Kitamura (Osaka City University, Japan)
     Rob Kremer (University of Calgary, Canada)
     Huan Liu (Arizona State University, USA)
     Maria Lee (CSIRO, Australia)
     Rodrigo Martinez (University of Murcia, Spain)
     Tim Menzies (NASA, USA)
     Toshiro Minami (Kyushu University & Fujitsu Laboratories Limited,
Japan)
     Enrico Motta (Open University, UK)
     Frank Puppe (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
     Ulrich Reimer (Suisse Life, Switzerland)
     Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia)
     Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Medical University, Japan)
     Seiji Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)