3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems Part of the eunite 2003 Symposium, 10-12 July 2003, Oulu, Finland

Please remark:
Extended deadline for electronic submission of abstracts/papers: 15 April 2003

Following the success of the two preceeding workshops on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems (HMAS 2001 and 2002) organised during the eunite symposia 2001 and 2002 we are pleased to announce that the third workshop is going to take place during the eunite 2003 Symposium in Oulu, Finland from July 10-12, 2003.

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
• 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 (anuernb@eecs.berkeley.edu). Papers with 4 pages or less are considered as extended abstracts. Accepted papers will be published in the eunite 2003 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

15 April 2003:	Electronic submission of abstracts/papers
26 April 2003:	Notification of acceptance
30 April 2003:	Deadline for early registration for eunite 2003
15 May 2003:	Deadline for submission of the final paper for the proceedings
10-12 July 2003:	Workshop during eunite 2003 Symposium

Program Committee

• 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 California at Berkeley, USA
• 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 (chair) University of California, Berkeley EECS, Computer Science Division Cory Hall 199MF Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Tel: +1.510.643.4524 Fax: +1.510.642.2845 E-mail: anuernb@eecs.berkeley.edu

Bogdan Gabrys (co-chair) Computational Intelligence Research Group School of Design, Engineering & Computing Bournemouth University, Poole House Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow Poole, BH12 5BB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 1202 595298 Fax: +44 (0) 1202 595314 E-mail: bgabrys@bournemouth.ac.uk

Venue

Information about the venue, hotels, etc. are provided on the web pages of the main conference eunite 2003.

Registration

Participation at the workshop requires registration for eunite 2003. The registration form for eunite 2003 can be found at the conference web site.