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The 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2004)
IEEE IRI-2004

November 8-10, 2004
Hilton, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society

Call for Papers

This year's conference theme addresses all aspects of Knowledge Management. This theme was selected to reflect the pivotal role of reuse in the capture, maintenance, integration, validation, extrapolation, and application of domain knowledge. The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration will feature contributed as well as invited papers. Theory, speculative, and application papers are all included in this call. The conference program will include tutorials and an open forum workshop. The focus of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below:

- Component-Based Design - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Decision Support Systems - HW & SW Engineering for Reuse - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Large Scale Data Integration - Human-Machine Information Systems - Reuse in Software Engineering - Intellectual Property - Information Assurance - Soft computing

- Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Model-Based Reasoning - Multimedia Reuse & Integration - Internet Computing - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Agent-Based Systems - Sensory and Information Fusion - Natural Language Understanding

Instructions for authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited.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 and should not exceed 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.cs.fiu.edu/IRI04. 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 July 2, 2004. Dr. Du Zhang Department of Computer Science California State University 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6021, USA zhangd@ecs.csus.edu 1-916-278-7952 (office) 1-916-278-6774(fax) Dr. Eric Grégoire CRIL-CNRS Université d'Artois Rue Jean Souvraz SP 18 F-62307 Lens Cedex France gregoire@cril.univ-artois.fr Dr. Doug DeGroot Digital Life Technologies Dept of CS (LIACS) Leiden University Niels Bohrweg 1 2333 CA Leiden The Netherlands degroot@acm.org The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word .doc format. The subject of the email must be “IEEE IRI 2004 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, panels, and tutorials are invited to submit proposals and should contact the Program Chair directly as soon as possible, but no later than April 15, 2004. Submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of selected papers, presented at the conference, will be invited to submit an expanded version of their paper for review for possible inclusion in the appropriate IEEE SMC Transactions. Important Dates: Special Sessions, Panels, and Tutorials Deadline: April 15, 2004 Full Paper Submission received by: July 2, 2004 (Firm Deadline) Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2004 Revised Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 21, 2004 (Extended) Registration Deadline: October 1, 2004 (Extended) Organizers and Committee: Honorary General Chair Lotfi Zadeh University of California, USA zadeh@cs.berkeley.edu General Chairs Stuart Rubin SSC, San Diego, USA stuart.rubin@navy.mil Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens@cs.fiu.edu Program Chairs Du Zhang California State University, USA zhangd@ecs.csus.edu Eric Grégoire Université d'Artois, France gregoire@cril.univ-artois.fr Doug DeGroot Leiden University, The Netherlands degroot@acm.org Local Arrangements Chair Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA louellen.mccoy@navy.mil Finance Chair David Barnett Saint Louis University, USA barnettd@slu.edu Registration Chair Willie Chang California State University, USA changw@ecs.csus.edu Publications Chair Atif Memon University of Maryland at College Park, USA atif@cs.umd.edu Publicity Chair Julie A. Adams Vanderbilt University, USA julie.a.adams@vanderbilt.edu Student Activities Liaison Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami, USA shyu@miami.edu Web Master Na Zhao Florida International University, USA European Liaison Eric Grégoire Asian Liaison Doug DeGroot Program Committee Y. Alp Aslandogan The University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA alp@cse.uta.edu Kallol Bagchi Univ. of Texas at El Paso, Texas, USA kallol_bagchi@email.com Mehmet Baray Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey baray@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Marcello M. Bonsangue LIACS-Leiden University, The Netherlands marcello@liacs.nl David Bonyuet Delta Search Labs, MA, USA bonyuet@ieee.org Yacine Boufkhad Université de Paris VII, France yacine.boufkhad@liafa.jussieu.fr Marion Ceruti SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, CA, USA ceruti@spawar.navy.mil Willie Chang California State University, CA, USA changw@ecs.csus.edu François Charpillet LORIA-Nancy, France francois.charpillet@loria.fr William Chu Tunghai University, Taiwan, R.O.C. chu@csie.thu.edu.tw Jen-Yao Chung IBM, NY, USA jychung@us.ibm.com George Cybenko Dartmouth College, NH, USA gvc@dartmouth.edu Wei Dai Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia Wei.Dai@vu.edu.au Narayan Debnath Winona State University, Winona, MN, USA ndebnath@winona.edu David B. Fogel Natural Selection Inc., San Diego, USA dfogel@natural-selection.com Anthony Fong City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Anthony.Fong@cityu.edu.hk Ophir Frieder Illinois Inst. of Technology, Illinois, USA ophir@ir.iit.edu Yongjian Fu Cleveland State University, OH, USA y.fu@csuohio.edu Rose F. Gamble University of Tulsa, OK, USA gamble@utulsa.edu Erol Gelenbe Imperial College, England erol@cs.ucf.edu Mohsen Guizani Western Michigan University, USA mguizani@cs.wmich.edu Seif Haridi The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden seif@it.kth.se Pete Harrison Imperial College, England pgh@doc.ic.ac.uk Xudong He Florida International University, FL, USA hex@cs.fiu.edu Hoda M. Hosny American University in Cairo, Egypt hhosny@aucegypt.edu Gongzhu Hu Central Michigan University, USA hu@cps.cmich.edu Po-Chin Hu Cheertek Inc. Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. phu@cheertek.com.tw Ju-Yeon Jo California State University, USA joj@ecs.csus.edu Krishna Kavi Univ. of North Texas, USA kavi@cs.unt.edu Mitch Kokar Northeastern University, USA kokar@coe.neu.edu Roumen Kountchev Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria rkountch@vmei.acad.bg Gordon Lee San Diego State University, USA glee@kahuna.sdsu.edu Roger Y. Lee Central Michigan University, USA lee1ry@cmich.edu Sheng-Tun Li National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. stli@mail.ncku.edu.tw Chang-Tien Lu Virginia Tech, VA, USA ctlu@vt.edu Bertrand Mazure Université d’Artois, France mazure@cril.univ-artois.fr Brendan McCarthy Gorilla Logic, USA brendan.mccarthy@gorillalogic.com Mariofanna Milanova University of Arkansas, USA mgmilanova@ualr.edu Dan Moldovan Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA moldovan@utdallas.edu Jay Murthy Central Michigan University, USA murthy@mail.cps.cmich.edu M. Naderi Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran m_naderi@iust.ac.ir Tatsuya Nomura Ryukoku University, Japan nomura@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp Michael J. Oudshoorn Montana State University, USA michael@cs.montana.edu Mourad Oussalah University of Birmingham, UK m.oussalah@bham.ac.uk Theodore S. Papatheodorou University of Patras, Greece tsp@hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr Ramon Pino Perez Universidad de Los Andos, Venezuela pino@ula.ve Da Ruan SCK-CEN, Belgium druan@sckcen.be Lakhdar Sais Université d’Artois, France sais@cril.univ-artois.fr Ricardo Sanz Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Ricardo.Sanz@etsii.upm.es Zary Segall Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore, Maryland, USA zary@zary.com H. Shahriar Shahhoseini Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran h_s_shahhoseini@hotmail.com Phil Sheu University of California, Irvine, USA psheu@uci.edu Timothy K. Shih Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C. tshih@cs.tku.edu.tw Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami, USA shyu@miami.edu Gabriel Silberman IBM Research, USA gabbys@ca.ibm.com Waleed W. Smari University of Dayton, USA Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu Michael Smith University of California, Berkeley, BISC, USA mhs@mining.ubc.ca Arun Sood George Mason University, Virginia, USA asood@gmu.edu Leon Sterling University of Melbourne, Australia leon@cs.mu.oz.au V.S. Subrahmnian UMIACS, USA vs@cs.umd.edu Li Tan University of Pennsylvania, USA tanli@saul.cis.upenn.edu Sten-Ake Tarnlund Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden sat_@yahoo.com Daniel Tauritz Univ. of Missouri at Rolla, Missouri, USA dtauritz@acm.org Yaqing Tu Chongqing University, China yqtcq@sohu.com Ventzeslav Valev Saint Louis University, USA valevv@cs.slu.edu Giorgio Valle Universita' degli Studi di Milano valle@dsi.unimi.it Agnes Voisard Fraunhofer ISST & Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany voisard@inf.fu-berlin.de Baowen Xu Southeast University, P. R. China bwxu@seu.edu.cn Zhi-Hua Zhou Nanjing University, China zhouzh@nju.edu.cn Vladimir Zivkovic LIACS-Leiden University, The Netherlands lale@liacs.nl Last Updated: August 20th, 2004 Contact the Webmaster | Contact IRI 2004

Special Sessions, Panels, and Tutorials Deadline:	April 15, 2004
Full Paper Submission received by:	July 2, 2004 (Firm Deadline)
Notification of Acceptance:	August 25, 2004
`Revised Camera-Ready Paper Due:`	`September 21, 2004 (Extended)`
`Registration Deadline:`	October 1, 2004 `(Extended)`

`Honorary General Chair`
	`Lotfi Zadeh University of California, USA zadeh@cs.berkeley.edu`

`General Chairs`
	`Stuart Rubin SSC, San Diego, USA stuart.rubin@navy.mil` `Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens@cs.fiu.edu`

`Program Chairs`
	`Du Zhang California State University, USA zhangd@ecs.csus.edu Eric Grégoire Université d'Artois, France gregoire@cril.univ-artois.fr Doug DeGroot Leiden University, The Netherlands degroot@acm.org`

`Local Arrangements Chair`
	`Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA louellen.mccoy@navy.mil`

`Finance Chair`
	`David Barnett Saint Louis University, USA barnettd@slu.edu`

`Registration Chair`
	`Willie Chang California State University, USA changw@ecs.csus.edu`

`Publications Chair`
	`Atif Memon University of Maryland at College Park, USA atif@cs.umd.edu`

`Publicity Chair`
	`Julie A. Adams Vanderbilt University, USA julie.a.adams@vanderbilt.edu`

`Student Activities Liaison`
	`Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami, USA shyu@miami.edu`

`Web Master`
	`Na Zhao Florida International University, USA`

`European Liaison`
	`Eric Grégoire`

`Asian Liaison`
	`Doug DeGroot`