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4th International Symposium
Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'09)
http://www.aaia.imcsit.org/
Mr?gowo, Poland, October 12-14, 2009
Celebrating 50 years of scientific research of
Professor Juliusz Lech Kulikowski

organized in cooperation with:
* the Poland Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society,
* Poland Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society, (Gdansk Branch and Silesia Branch)
* Poland Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
* Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBS PAN)
* Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPI PAN)
* Asociaci?n de T?cnicos de Inform?tica
* World Federation of Soft Computing
* Polish Neural Networks Society
* EUropean Society for Fuzzy Logic And Technology
* European Neural Network Society

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International Symposium on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Application (AAIA) will be held within the framework of the 2009 International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Systems (http://www.imcsit.org/), and will be co-located with the XXV Fall Meeting of Polish Information Processing Society.
The AAIA'09 will bring researchers, developers, practitioners, and users to present their latest research, results, and ideas in all areas of artificial intelligence. We hope that theory and successful applications presented at the AAIA'09 will be of interest to researchers and practitioners who want to know about both theoretical advances and latest applied developments in Artificial Intelligence. As such AAIA'09 will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues.
Papers related to theories, methodologies, and applications in science and technology in this theme are especially solicited. Topics covering industrial issues/applications and academic research are included, but not limited to:
* Knowledge management
* Decision Support Systems
* Approximate Reasoning
* Fuzzy modeling and control
* Data mining
* Web Mining
* Machine learning
* Combining multiple knowledge sources in an integrated intelligent system
* Neural Networks
* Evolutionary Computation
* Artificial Immune Systems
* Ant Systems in Applications
* Natural Language processing
* Image processing and understanding (interpretation)
* Applications in Bioinformatics
* Hybrid Intelligent Systems
* Granular computing
* Architectures of intelligent systems
* Robotics
* Real-world applications of Intelligent Systems
Special Tracks
Besides regular sessions this year we plan to organize Special Tracks. For proposals we are waiting until January 30, 2009. All special track organizers must obtain firm commitments from their Special Track presenters and authors to submit papers in a timely fashion (if the special track is accepted) and, particularly, present them at the AAIA'09. Each special track organizer will be session chair for their own special tracks at AAIA'09 accordingly. If the number of submitted papers to a Special Track will be too small, papers submitted to this track will be presented during regular AAIA'09 sessions. All papers submitted to Special Tracks will undergo the same review process as regular submissions.
Best Paper Awards

We are proud to announce that we will continue the tradition started during the AAIA'06 Symposium and award two "Professor Zdzislaw Pawlak Best Paper Awards" for contributions which are outstanding in their scientific quality. The two award categories are:
Best Student Paper - for graduate or PhD students. Papers qualifying for this award must be marked as "Student full paper" to be eligible for consideration.
Best Paper Award - for the authors of the best paper appearing at the Symposium.

In addition to a certificate, each award carries a prize of 300 EUR provided by the Mazowsze Chapter of the Polish Information Processing Society.
Paper Submission and Publication
* Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file).
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style). IEEE style templates.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the symposium.
* Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore(r) database.
* Extended versions of selected papers will be published as Special Issues of journals that will be announced later.
* Extended versions of selected papers will be published as Special Issues of:
- Applied Soft Computing Journal (ISI indexed), http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/621920/description#description
- International Journal on Information Intelligent and Database Systems, http://www.inderscience.com/ijiids
- and possibly other journals that will be announced later.

Important dates
Event proposal submission due: January 30, 2009
Full paper submission: May 10, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2009
Camera-ready version of the accepted papers: August 15, 2009
Conference: October 12-14, 2009

International Programme Committee (still to be expanded):
Janez Brest, University of Maribor, Slovenia
W?odzis?aw Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Elzbieta Hudyma, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, University of Kentucky, USA
Piotr Jedrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Yaochu Jin, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany
Jerzy Jozefczyk, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Radoslaw Katarzyniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Etienne Kerre, University of Gent, Belgium
Waldemar W. Koczkodaj, Laurentian University, Canada
Mitch Kokar, Northeastern University, USA
J?zef Korbicz, University of Zielona G?ra, Poland
Witold Kosinski, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
Adam Krzyzak, Concordia University, Canada
Victor Marek, University of Kentucky, USA
Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Australia
Pawel Myszkowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
James Peters, University of Manitoba, Canada
Avi Pfeffer, Harvard University, United Kingdom
Sheela Ramanna, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Zbyszek Ras, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA
Khalid Saeed, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
Roman Slowinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Janusz Sobecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada
Li-Shiang Tsay, North Carolina A&T State Univ., USA
Josef Tvrdik, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Angelina Tzacheva, University of South Carolina Upstate, USA
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Wojciech Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada
Jacek Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
Organizing Committee

Halina Kwasnicka, Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar
Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, POLAND

In case of questions please contact Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar or Halina Kwasnicka at
Urszula.Markowska-Kaczmar@pwr.wroc.pl or halina.kwasnicka@pwr.wroc.pl