November 14, 2011 -- We are pleased to invite participation in IDT-2012, an interdisciplinary conference consisting 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 sharing and generation of new ideas.

CALL FOR PAPERS

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-KES Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST) book series.

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.

DATES AND DEADLINES

- Submission of Papers: 1 December 2011

- Notification of Acceptance: 1 January 2012

- Upload of Final Publication Files: 1 February 2012

ORGANISATION

Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya University, Japan

Junzo Watada, Waseda University, Japan

Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland, USA

Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia. Australia

Bob Howlett, Bournemouth University, UK