4th International Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems HMAS 2004 Part of the eunite 2004 Symposium, 10-12 June 2004, Aachen, Germany

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Following the success of the three preceeding workshops on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems organised during the eunite symposia 2001 - 2003 in Tenerife, Albufeira and Oulu we are pleased to announce that the 4th workshop is going to take place during the eunite 2004 symposium in Aachen, Germany from June 10-12, 2004.

The organising committee, the eunite research committee for Integration of Intelligent Methods and Hybrid Systems, is working on the integration of fuzzy systems, neural networks, evolutionary computation, machine learning and related technologies. The goal of the committee is to provide a common platform to discuss and exchange research results and to define a common terminology. We are especially interested in combinations of the above-mentioned methods and their application to adaptation in hybrid systems.

We view adaptation not as a single learning cycle that creates a model from data but as a continuous process that enables a system to fit into its environment and perform suitably, even if the environment changes. Adaptation can be necessary to regain or maintain consistency, to meet changing user requirements or for optimisation. Examples of features that can be adapted in an information system are parameters, structure, trajectory, task, plan, goals and organisation.

The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate cross-community discussion and to collect state-of-the-art contributions. The authors of selected workshop contributions will be invited to submit an extended paper to the special issue of a major journal in this field.

We encourage researchers and practitioners from all fields to submit papers from the area described above that consider one or more of the following themes:

• advanced hybrid approaches
• synergies with closely related areas like qualitative reasoning, case-based reasoning and computational logic
• adaptivity in information or multimedia retrieval (eg. with respect to user interests or data)
• methodologies for optimal problem-dependent selection of intelligent techniques
• adaptation and portability of intelligent systems
• knowledge discovery
• applications of hybrid systems
• software tools
• case studies
• benchmarks

Submissions

Contributions can have up to 10 pages in length and should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format to Andreas Nürnberger (nuernb@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de). Papers with 4 pages or less are considered as extended abstracts. Accepted papers will be published in the eunite 2004 proceedings. The authors of selected workshop contributions will be invited to submit an extended paper to the special issue of a major journal in this field.

Submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines of the main conference. A zip-file containing formatting instructions for the paper as well as the abstract for the conference booklet can be downloaded here.

Important Dates

31 January 2004	Electronic submission of abstracts/papers
21 March 2004 (postponed)	Notification of acceptance
15 April 2004 (postponed)	Deadline for submission of the final paper for the proceedings
10-12 June 2004	Workshop during eunite 2004 Symposium

Program Committee

• Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State University, USA
• Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Piero Bonissone, General Electric Global Research Center, USA
• George Coghill, University of Aberdeen, UK
• José Dorronsoro, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Antonio Dourado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Didier Dubois, IRIT, France
• Colin Fyfe, University of Paisley, Scotland, UK
• Bogdan Gabrys, Bournemouth University, UK
• Frank Hoffmann, University of Dortmund, Germany
• Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• Detlef Nauck, BTexact Technologies, UK
• Andreas Nürnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• Henri Prade, IRIT, France
• António Ruano, University of Algarve, Portugal

Address

For all enquiries regarding the workshop please contact the workshop chair or the co-chair:

Andreas Nürnberger University of Magdeburg FIN IWS - IR Group Universitätsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg Germany Tel: +49-391-67-18187 Fax: +49-391-67-12018 E-mail: nuernb@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de

Antonio Dourado University of Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática Polo II - Pinhal de Marrocos 3030 Coimbra Portugal Tel: +351.239.790000 Fax: +351.239.701266 E-mail: dourado@dei.uc.pt

Venue

Information about the venue, hotels, etc. is provided on the web pages of the main conference eunite 2004.

Registration

Participation at the workshop requires registration for eunite 2004. The registration form for eunite 2004 can soon be found at the conference web site.

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