KES2007: 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based

Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
September 12, 13, 14, 2007, Vietri sul Mare, Italy

Call for Papers: Invited Session IS04 on

"Recent Advances in Intelligent Decision Technologies"

Topics

The field of intelligent decision making is expanding rapidly due, in part, to advances in Artificial Intelligence and Network-centric environments that can deliver the technology.  Networks and the Internet have integrated to enable communication and coordination between dispersed systems.  At the same time, AI techniques have demonstrated that they have matured sufficiently for practical applications.  Since many applications involve some type of decision, this session focuses on artificial intelligence techniques and applications that have the potential to improve decision making. Papers are encouraged that explore applications or advances in methods such as intelligent agents and neural networks that improve decision making.  

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Decision support for real-time and stressful decision problems
• Agents used to reduce information overload, enable up-to-date information, and provide a dynamic response
• Techniques for incorporating artificial intelligence in decision making support systems
• Psychological processes underlying real-time and stressful decision-making and support
• Agent communication required for decision support
• Methods of dealing with uncertainty in decision problems such as fuzzy logic
• User trust of intelligent decision support systems
• Use of agents to communicate with the user during decision support
• Applications in information retrieval for decision support
• Artificial intelligence used in military applications of decision support
• Human computer interaction aided by intelligent decision support systems

Both theoretical papers and papers describing practical experiences will be welcome.

Instructions for Authors

Please note that the required paper length is eight pages in Springer format. Papers longer than this will be subject to a penalty charge. Papers very much longer or shorter than the required length may be rejected. To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the KES2007 Programme Committee. All papers for KES2007 must be submitted in electronic form using the software review system on the KES site at http://kes2007.kesinternational.org/proselogin.php

All oral and poster papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the fee. Authors are not encouraged to submit multiple papers, and authors will be restricted to one paper per registration.

Publication

The Conference Proceedings will be published and distributed by a major publisher, Springer-Verlag. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, www.bton.ac.uk/kes/journal/

Important Dates
Submission of papers: 15 March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2007
Final papers to be received by: 1 May 2007

Contact Details
Session Co-Chair: Dr Gloria Phillips-Wren
Department of Information Systems and Operations Management
Loyola College in Maryland, 4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210 USA
Phone: 410 617 5470
Fax: 410 617 2006
gwren@loyola.edu

Session Co-Chair: Dr. Lakhmi Jain 

University of South Australia

School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Adelaide
Mawson Lakes Campus
South Australia SA 5095
Australia

Lakhmi.Jain@unisa.edu.au