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SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS DEADLINE: April 1,
2005
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Interested attendees are encouraged to propose
special sessions, which consist of 5 papers that provide a focused discussion on
a wide variety of new, innovative, and emerging topics of interest to
the Machine Intelligence community including (see the website for
a detailed list):
* CI : Computational Intelligence
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IC : Intelligent Control
* IDA : Intelligent Data Analysis
* IPA :
Intelligent Pattern Analysis
* ISA : Intelligent Systems Architectures
Each special session proposal must include the
session title, description, and organizers.
Special session proposals should
be e-mailed to [log in to unmask]
by April 1, 2005.
Proposals should be no longer than 3 pages and should
include: (a) the title of the proposed special session, (b) the name of the
organizer(s) (including contact information), (c) a 1-2 paragraph description of
the relevant background/expertise of the organizer(s).
The acceptance of special session proposals will be
based on: their relevance to the conference, their relevance to related topics
of interest, and/or the expertise and background of the organizers.
The special sessions chairs will be responsible for
coordinating reviews for each submitted paper by assigning them reviewers
selected from the reviewer list supplied by the session organizer.
Session organizers are also encouraged to issue a
call for papers for their special sessions.
After the review process, the
program chairs will work with each session organizer to determine the final
composition of their special session.
By June 30, 2005, the special session chairs will
send acceptance/rejection notices to the authors of papers submitted to the
special sessions.
Special session organizers are expected to ensure that all
camera-ready versions are submitted by July 31, 2005 and that each accepted
paper is presented at the conference.
Special Sessions Important Dates:
April 1, 2005 Deadline for submission of
special session proposals.
April 11, 2005 Preliminary notification of
the acceptance or rejection of special session proposals
May 31, 2005
Deadline for submission of special session papers (full papers
only).
June 30, 2005 Paper acceptance/rejection notification
July
31, 2005 Camera ready papers due (electronically)
Best regards.