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*********************************************************************** SoCPaR 2009 - Final Call for Papers

Last opportunity to finalize your submission for the SoCPaR 2009 EXTENDED Submission Deadline: *July 30, 2009*

*********************************************************************** The International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009) Malacca, Malaysia December 4-7, 2009 *********************************************************************** Journal Special Issues: Authors of accepted papers presented at SoCPaR 2009 will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for consideration in the following International Journals.

- International Journal of Intelligent Systems, John Wiley & Sons, USA

- The Journal of Universal Computer Science, Austria

- Neurocomputing, Eelsevier Science, The Netherlands

- Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), IOS Press, The Netherlands

- Neural Network World, Academy of Science, Czech Republic.

- International Journal of Autonomic Computing, Inderscience Publishers, UK

- Journal of Information Assurance and Security, USA

- International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, IOS Press, The Netherlands

- International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), Inderscience Publishers, UK

- Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Poland

- International Journal of Vision and Image Processing (IJVI).

*********************************************************************** Edited Volumes Authors of accepted papers presented at SoCPaR 2009 will be invited to submit extended versions of their manuscripts for consideration in the followed edited volumes focused on several themes.

-Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Germany

-Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, Germany

-Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, Germany

-Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer Verlag, Germany

-Studies in Synergetics, Springer Verlag, Germany

*********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ( The aspiration of SoCPaR 2009 is to bring together worldwide leading researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators interested in advancing the state of the art in soft computing and pattern recognition for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. It is hoped that researchers will bring new prospect for collaboration across disciplines and gain idea facilitating novel breakthrough. The 4-day conference commencing from one day workshop will feature prominent keynote speakers, tutorials, poster and paper presentation in parallel tracks. SoCPaR 2009 invites novel contributions/papers of soft computing and pattern recognition from fundamental aspects to various practical applications. The papers are solicited in the following (but not limited) Areas:

Soft Computing and Applications : Evolutionary computing Swarm intelligence Artificial immune systems Fuzzy Sets Uncertainty analysis Fractals Rough Sets Support vector machines Artificial neural networks Case Based Reasoning Wavelets Hybrid intelligent systems Nature inspired computing techniques Machine learning Ambient intelligence Hardware implementations

Pattern Recognition and Applications : Information retrieval Data Mining Web Mining Image Processing Computer Vision Bio-informatics Information security Network security Steganography Biometry Remote sensing Medical Informatics E-commerce Signal Processing Control systems

Papers: Submission of paper should be made through the submission link in SoCPaR 2009 official website

Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. SoCPaR2009 proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society and indexed by both EI (Compendex) and ISTP. It is mandatory at least an author registers for every paper that is included in the conference proceedings. Proceedings will be made available during the conference.

Dates: Full paper submission: July 30, 2009 Paper acceptance / rejection notification: August 30, 2009 Camera ready submission : September 14, 2009

Honorary Chair: L. A. Zadeh (University of California Berkeley) General Chair: Nanna Suryana Herman (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka) Siti Mariyam Hj. Shamsuddin (SCRG Chair, University of Technology Malaysia) Ajith Abraham (MIR Labs)

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