DM: IDEAL 2000

Hi,

We apologize if you receive this message more than once.  We would
also appreciate very much if you could disseminate this CFP to your
colleagues.

Please note that we have now four renowned keynote speakers for the
conference.

Thanx!

Cheers,
Laiwan
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                       FINAL CALL  FOR  PAPERS

                              IDEAL  2000

                    SECOND  INTERNATIONAL  CONFERENCE

                                  ON

         INTELLIGENT  DATA  ENGINEERING  AND  AUTOMATED  LEARNING

                 IDEAL  2000,  December  13  -  15,  2000

       The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
		Organized by the Faculty of Engineering
		Sponsored by the Chung Chi College

                 http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/ideal2000

     The goal of the biennial IDEAL Conference series is to provide a
forum for researchers and engineers from academia  and  industry
to  meet  and  to  exchange  ideas  on  the  latest  developments  in
data  engineering  and learning.   IDEAL  2000,  built  on  top  of
the  success  of  IDEAL98  (http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/ideal98),
focuses on data engineering technology and applications in the 21st
century.  The three major tracks for this year are Financial
Engineering, Data Mining, and Intelligent Agents.


                           CONFERENCE TOPICS

FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
o Portfolio Management & Asset Allocation
o Futures and Options
o Bond and Stock Valuation and Trading
o Interest Rate Markets
o Risk Analysis and Management
o Credit Card Fraud Detection
o Co-integration
o Electronic Finance
o Trading Strategies and Systems
o Modeling and Forecasting
o Non-parametric Statistics & Econometrics
o Non-linear Time Series
o Exchange Rate Forecasting
o Other Applications in Finance

DATA MINING
o Statistical Learning Methods
o Probabilistic Modeling
o Neural Networks
o Evolutionary Computation
o Clustering and Classification
o Association Methods
o Combinatorial Optimization
o Internet Applications
o Data Warehouse
o Data & Knowledge Visualization
o Speech, Image and Video Processing
o Multimedia Database
o Indexing & Retrieval Methods
o System Integration Issues


INTELLIGENT AGENTS
o Architectures, Languages and Protocols
o Theory and Semantics
o Ontology
o Mobility
o Decision Support
o Multi-agents Systems
o Collaborative Problem-solving
o Evolution, Learning, and Adaptation
o Middleware Agents
o Interaction with the Environment
o Softbots and Autonomous Robots
o Planning
o Modeling Issues
o Applications in E-commerce and Internet

			KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor M.A.H. Dempster, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK
Professor Heikki Mannila, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Professor Tomaso Poggio, MIT, USA




                           IMPORTANT DATES
         ___________________________________________________________
         |                                                         |
         |  Submission of Paper               August 1, 2000       |
         |                                                         |
         |  Notification of Acceptance        September 15, 2000   |
         |                                                         |
         |  Final Camera-Ready Paper          October 1, 2000      |
         |                                                         |
         |_________________________________________________________|

                    SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts written in English in one
column format, no more than six pages including figures and references,
single-spaced, in 10 points Times-Roman font, printed on one side of the
page only, and with a printing area of 122 mm x 193 mm. Each submission
should be accompanied by a cover letter indicating the contacting author,
affiliation, mailing and email addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and
preference of technical session(s).

Authors can either submit a postscript or PDF file electronically}, or
submit four copies of the manuscript to IDEAL 2000 Secretariat. Fax
submission will not be accepted. Detailed submission instructions can be
found on our web-site.  All submitted papers will be refereed by experts
in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. The
final IDEAL 2000 proceedings will be an edited book published by
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. All papers should be prepared according to
the format of LNCS/LNAI Proceedings.

For further information, inquiries, and paper submissions please contact:

                   IDEAL 2000 Secretariat
                   Department of Computer Science & Engineering
                   The Chinese University of Hong Kong
                   Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
                   Fax (852) 2603-5024
                   Email: ideal2000@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
                   http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/ideal2000

International Advisory Committee

Yaser Abu-Mostafa, USA
Shun-ichi Amari, Japan
Usama M. Fayyad, USA
Nick Jennings,  UK
Erkki Oja, Finland

General Co-Chairs

Pak Chung Ching, Hong Kong
Lei Xu, Hong Kong


Organizing Committee

Jimmy Lee, HK (Chair)
Laiwan Chan, HK
Irwin King, HK
Wai Lam, HK
Kwong Sak Leung, HK
Helen Meng, HK
Evangeline Young, HK

Program Committee

Laiwan Chan, HK (Co-Chair)
Kwong Sak Leung, HK (Co-Chair
Amir Atiya, USA
Neil Burgess, UK
Shu-Heng Chen, Taiwan
Sungzoon Cho, Korea
Keith Clark, UK
Colin Fyfe, UK
Joydeep Ghosh, USA
Irwin King, HK
Wai Lam, HK
Jimmy Lee, HK
Jiming Liu, HK
Helen Meng, HK
Ralph Neuneier, Germany
Mahesan Niranjan, UK
Takashi Okada, Japan
Liz Sonenberg, Australia
Ron Sun, USA
Roland Yap, Singapore
Yiming Ye, USA
Evangeline Young, HK
Soe-Tsyr Yuan, Taiwan

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