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This year's conference theme addresses all aspects of Heuristics as they relate to the Engineering design and operation of scalable Systems. This theme was selected to reflect the ever-increasing role played by intelligent systems in the engineering design process as well as the ever-increasing need to integrate mathematical logics with heuristic search in complex industrial systems (e.g., heuristic solutions of the TSP). The common problem confronting such systems is the acquisition and evolution of heuristics. In particular, the evolution of heuristics can be formalized in the context of reuse and integration.

The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration will feature contributed as well as invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included in this call. The conference program will include special sessions and open forum workshops. Several funding agency program directors - including NSF, ONR, et al. - will present an open panel discussion entitled "Funding Opportunities in Information Reuse and Systems Engineering." The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below:

 

Homeland Security Component-Based Design Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery AI & Decision Support Systems Heuristic Optimization Fuzzy and Neural Systems Heuristic Search Large Scale Data Integration Human-Machine Information Systems Reuse in Software Engineering Information Assurance Soft Computing Manufacturing Systems

Knowledge Acquisition and Management Evolutionary Computing Case-Based Reasoning Modeling & Simulation Multimedia Reuse & Integration Internet Computing Knowledge Management and E-Government Agent-Based Systems Sensory and Information Fusion Natural Language Understanding Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) Space and Robotic Systems Biomedical Systems

Instructions for Authors:

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri06. If web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to one of the Program Chairs listed below on or before the deadline date of June 6, 2006.

 

Du Zhang, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science California State University 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6021, USA Email: zhangd@ecs.csus.edu Phone: 1-916-278-7952 Fax: 1-916-278-6774

Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science and Engineering Florida Atlantic University 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA Email: taghi@cse.fau.edu Phone: 1-561-297-3994 Fax: 1-561-297-2800

James B. D. Joshi, Ph.D. Department of Information Science and Telecommunications University of Pittsburgh 135 N. Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA Email: jjoshi@mail.sis.pitt.edu Phone: 1-412-624-9982 Fax: 1-412-624-2788

The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word .doc format (download template: doc OR pdf). The subject of the email must be "IEEE IRI 2006 Submission." Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Organizers of prospective special sessions and panels are invited to submit proposals and should contact one of the Program Chairs directly as soon as possible, but no later than April 15, 2006. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of selected papers that are also presented at the conference will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for review for publication in an approved special issue of the IEEE SMC Transactions, part C, on IRI to be published in 2008.