3nd KES International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies IDT-2011, 20 - 22 July 2011, Piraeus-Athens, Greece

The conference website will come up soon and will be available from http://www.kesinternational.org/
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We are pleased to invite participation in IDT2011. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature and will consist of keynote talks, oral and poster presentations, invited sessions and workshops, on the applications and theory of intelligent decision 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.


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Papers are invited from prospective authors with interests in the areas of: intelligent decision making, intelligent agents, fuzzy logic, multi-agent systems, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, expert systems, intelligent decision making support systems, information retrieval systems, geographic information systems, knowledge management systems, IDT applications, Emergent Intelligent Decision Technologies.

All contributions should be of high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Papers must be submitted following the instructions available on the web site. All papers will be blind reviewed by an International Committee and, if of a high enough standard, accepted for presentation orally or by poster. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as book chapters in The Springer?s Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST) book series www.springer.com/series/8767.


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An international programme committee is currently being formed. If you would like to be involved in the organisation of the conference, please contact us. The focus is interdisciplinary in nature, and includes research on all aspects of intelligent decision technologies, from fundamental development to applied systems.


-- CALL FOR INVITED SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS ----------------------------------------

We invite senior scientists and researchers to organise invited sessions or parallel workshops on specific topics with the field. Please, contact the conference secretariat. We also welcome suggestions for other activities that will appeal to our delegates.

-- CALL FOR INDUSTRIAL PANEL AND ROUND TABLE ----------------------------------------

The aim of this round table discussion is to provide a forum to stakeholders to discuss matters of interest relating to conference topics. Contact us if you would be interested in being involved.

-- CALL FOR EXHIBITORS ----------------------------------------

An exhibition for trade suppliers of equipment relevant to the topics of the conference will run in parallel with the presentation sessions. Manufacturers and retailers are invited to contact the conference organisers for details of opportunities to exhibit to the international audience that will attend the conference.


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Conference Chair: Professor Junzo Watada, Waseda University, Japan
Conference General Co-Chairs: Professor Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland, USA; Professor Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia. Australia
Conference Executive Chair: Prof Bob Howlett, KES International and the Bournemouth University, UK
Programme Committee: To follow. Please contact Lakhmi.Jain@unisa.edu.au or gwren@loyola.edu if you are interested in serving on the committee.