From: Conferences <calgaryin@iasted.com>
Subject: AI 2000 SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:27:19 -0600

PLEASE NOTE: THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO
NOW OCTOBER 1, 1999


 CALL FOR PAPERS
              Eighteenth IASTED International Conference
                    APPLIED INFORMATICS - AI'2000
                       February 14-17, 2000
                        Innsbruck, Austria

SPONSORS: The International Association of Science and Technology for
Development - 
IASTED
-Technical Committee on Computers
 
LOCATION: Innsbruck is a charming medieval city located on the Brenner
Route, the lowest pass over the Tyrolean Alps.  Many of the buildings in the
Old Town date back to the 13th Century.  Innsbruck is surrounded with many
Olympic-class ski resorts where a total of 33 cablecars and lifts to take
you to the best snow.  

SCOPE: 
Applied Informatics 2000 will act as a major forum for researchers and
practitioners interested in recent advances in the field of applied
informatics. It will consist of a number of symposia:

A. Computer Architecture and Super Computing
B. Networks, the Internet and the Web
C. Parallel and Distributed Processing
D. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
E. Software
F. Multimedia
G. Database
H. Electronic Communication

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

O.A. Abulnaja - King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
K. Adamson - University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
A. Bruzzone - University of Genoa, Italy
X. Chen - University of Tsukuba, Japan
C.-H. Chi - National University of Singapore, Singapore
V. De Florio - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
G. Deconinck - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
V. Devedzic - University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
A. Elkateeb - Acadia University, Canada
M. Gendreau - University of Montreal, Canada
K.M. George - Oklahoma State University, USA
W. Golubski - University of Siegen, Germany
Y. Hamamatsu - Ibaraki University, Japan
H. Hermansky - Oregon State University, USA
R. Hewett - Florida Atlantic University, USA
H. Hosseini - University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA
J.-L. Houle - Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada
B.S. Joshi - ITN Energy Systems, Inc., USA
S. Kopacsi - CIM Research Laboratory, Hungary
F.B.S. Lee - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
E. Levner - Center for Technological Education, Israel
K. Li - State University of New Paltz, USA
D. Lukose - Brightware Inc., USA
M. Maheswaran - University of Manitoba, Canada
R. Mayorga - University of Waterloo, Canada
X. Meng - Renmin University of China, China
Y. Monsef - Lebanese University, Beirut
E. Moreno - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
C.E. Palau - Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
T. Panayiotopoulos - University of Piraeus, Greece
L. Shu - Chang Jung University, Taiwan R.O.C.
Z. Smekal - Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic
R. Vich - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
J. Weglarz - Poznan University of Technology, Poland
G. Wolffe - Grand Valley State University, USA
C. K. YEO - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
W. Zhou - Deakin University, Australia
*** list incomplete

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Send your submission via email to calgary@iasted.com. Please send electronic
attachments in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) or MS Word formats.  The abstract
(minimum 400-600 words) should be received by the IASTED Secretariat by
October 1, 1999. Do not send both hard and electronic copies of your
abstract.  An electronic copy is sufficient.   

Please provide four keywords to indicate the subject area of the paper and
clearly state which symposia (A-H) the work relates to. Include a statement
in your cover letter confirming that if the paper is accepted, one of the
authors will attend the conference to present it.  Please designate a
principal author, and provide the full names, affiliations, addresses,
telephone and fax numbers, and email addresses of all authors.

Notification of acceptance and author kits will be mailed by November 10,
1999. Pre-registration payments are due January 4, 1999.  Registration fees
received after that date may result in the paper being excluded from the
proceedings. Camera-ready manuscripts must be received by the IASTED
secretariat by February 10, 1999. Please send final manuscripts by email, if
possible. Do not send both hard and electronic copies of the final
manuscript.  One copy of the final paper is sufficient. The proceedings will
be mailed shortly after the conference.


TUTORIALS

Proposals for half-day tutorials (3 hours) should be received by the IASTED
Secretariat by October 1, 1999.  The tutorial proposal should clearly
indicate the background knowledge expected of the participants, objectives,
time allocations for the major course topics, and the qualifications of the
instructor(s).

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Persons wishing to organize a special session should submit a
proposal to the IASTED Secretariat by October 1, 1999. Proposals should
include a minimum of 4 paper abstracts, a session title, a list of the
topics covered, and qualifications of session organizer(s).


IMPORTANT DEADLINES
* October 1, 1999         Abstracts and tutorials due
* November 10, 1999       Notification of acceptance
* January 4, 2000         Pre-registrations due
* February 10, 2000       Camera-ready manuscripts due
* April 1, 2000           Proceedings mailed

For more information or to be added to our mailing list, please contact:

IASTED Secretariat - AI'2000
     #80, 4500 - 16 Avenue N.W.
     Calgary, AB
     Canada T3B 0M6
     Tel: 403-288-1195
     Fax: 403-247-6851
     Email: calgary@iasted.com
     Web site:www.iasted.com