KES2009 13th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems

WELCOME

We are pleased to invite participation in KES2009 organized by the University of Chile, its Faculty of Science Physics and Mathematics, Department of Industrial Engineering and the Millennium Institute Complex Engineering Systems in conjunction with KES International. The conference will take place in Santiago, the capital of the Republic of Chile. Santiago is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of 520 m (1,700 ft), it was founded 1541 with the name Santiago de Nueva Extremadura. Today Santiago has transformed into one of Latin America's most modern metropolitan areas. The conference will consist of keynote talks, oral and poster presentations, invited sessions and workshops, on the applications and theory of intelligent systems and related areas. It will provide excellent opportunities for the presentation of interesting new research results and discussion about them, leading to knowledge transfer and generation of new ideas.


SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

GENERIC TOPICS OF INTEREST
Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems, Cognitive Systems, Neural Networks, Artificial Immune Systems, Fuzzy Techniques and Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Self organizing and complex systems, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Bayesian Networks, Knowledge Representation and Management, Computational neuroscience, Planning, Spatial & Temporal Reasoning, Knowledge Acquisition.

INTELLIGENT APPLICATIONS
Industrial Control, Monitoring and Planning, Intelligent Web-based Systems, Fault Diagnosis, Robotics, Image Processing, Machine & Computer Vision, Medical & Diagnostic Systems, Financial & Stock Market Monitoring and Prediction, Speech Processing and Synthesis, Natural Language Processing, Environmental Monitoring, Power Electronics & Drives, High Voltage Systems, Engine Control and Vehicle Applications, Signal and Time Series Processing, Wavelets.

EMERGENT INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES
Pervasive Computing, Intelligent Web Personalization, Ubiquitous Computing, Context-aware and Affective (Emotional) Computing, Mobile Computing and Systems, Business Intelligence Systems, Human-centered Computing, Intelligent User Interfaces, Cognitive Interfaces, User profiling, Evolvable Hardware, DNA Computing, Immunocomputing, Artificial Life, Bioinformatics using Intelligent & Machine Learning Techniques, Micro array Data Analysis, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Information Agents on the Internet, E-commerce/E-business and E-learning, Semantic Web, Intelligent Web Mining & Applications, Virtual Reality & Multi- Media Intelligent Information Systems, Blind Source Separation.


CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION

CALL FOR PAPERS
Contributions are invited from prospective authors with interests in the indicated conference topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Please see the web site for details of the required paper format. Papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the International Program Committee, and may be accepted for oral or poster presentation. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in LNCS/LNAI. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the KES Journal. Authors will be limited to one paper per registration.

CALL FOR TRACK/SUBJECT CHAIRS
Experienced researchers in the field are invited to chair wide scope tracks covering the various facets of the Intelligent Systems, taking responsibility for overseeing the paper review process within their domain of expertise. Please contact the conference Secretariat outlining your experience and area of expertise if you would like to contribute as a Subject Chair.

CALL FOR INVITED SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS
We invite researchers on hot topics and fresh ideas in the field to organize invited sessions, or parallel workshops of a half or full day, gathering a minimum of 5 papers of at least 3 research teams in the world. Please, contact the Conference Secretariat enclosing the title and content of the proposed session, and tentatively involved research teams. We also welcome suggestions for other activities that will appeal to our delegates.

DEADLINES: General Sessions
Submission of papers: 1 March 2009
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2009
Final paper to be received by: 1 May 2009

DEADLINES: Invited Sessions and Workshops
Proposal for Invited Sessions/Workshops Ð as soon as possible.
Session/Workshop Chair sets submission deadlines
Final paper to be received by: 1 May 2009

All presenting authors must register and pay the conference fee by 1 May 2009 for their papers to appear in the proceedings
All deadlines and other details are provisional at the stage
ORGANISATION
KES2009 General Chair:
J.D. Vel‡squez, University of Chile, Chile
KES2009 Executive Chair:
R. J. Howlett, University of Brighton, UK
Conference Founder and Invited Sessions Chair:
L. C. Jain, University of South Australia