The following events form part of ISI'2001:

• Symposium on Clinical Trials (CT'2001)
• Symposium on E-Business and Beyond (EBB'2001)
• Symposium on Intelligent Automated Manufacturing (IAM'2001)
• Symposium on Engineering of Natural and Artificial Intelligent Systems (ENAIS'2001)
• Symposium on Intelligent Quality Management and Metrology (IQMM'2001)
• Workshop on Information Systems for Mass Customization (ISMC'2001)
• Workshop on Autonomous Artificial Systems Exploring Hostile Environments
• Workshop on Document Image Analysis and Understanding
• FIRA-ISI'2001 Robot Soccer Championship
• Tutorial on Effective Anthropometry

Plenary Talks

Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkley,  USA

Zeugnam Bien, Korean Advanced Institute of Technology, Taejon, Korea
"Intelligent Methods for Human-Friendly Interaction/Interface applied for Intelligent Residential Systems"

Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
President IEEE R&A
"Intelligent System for System Integration"

Hirokazu Ihara, International University of Health & Welfare, Tochigi, Japan
"Dependable Bridge between Healthcare and Engineering"

Jong-Hwan Kim, Korean Advanced Institute of Technology, Taejon, Korea
President of The Federation of International Robot-Soccer Association (FIRA)
"Multi-Agent Robot Soccer System"

Isaac Kohane/Atul Butte, Children's Hospital, Boston, USA
"Bioinformatics and Clinical Trials" and/or "Personal Medical Record Systems"

Helmut Moldaschl, Siemens AG Energieezeungung, Erlangen, Germany
"Fuzzy Mapping"

Richard Normann, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
"Recent Advances in Neuroprosthetic Therapies: Artificial Vision"

Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Steve Potter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
"Interfacing Living Neurons to Computers, to study in vitro"

Abdallah Sfeir, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
"Symbolic Computing and its Applications in Applied Science and Engineering"

All accepted and invited papers will be included in the congress proceedings, published in print and on CD-ROM by ICSC Academic Press, Canada/Switzerland.

A selected number of ISI'2001 papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in major information science journals such as:

• Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal by Springer-Verlag
• Electronic Copmmerce Research Journal
• Systemes d'Information et Management
• and others

Please contact:

NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligent Systems Organization
Division of ICSC International Computer Science Conventions
5101C - 50 Street, Wetaskiwin, Alberta T9A 1K1 / Canada
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
Phone: +1-780-352-1912 / Fax: +1-780-352-1913

Prof. Milad Fares Sebaaly (General Chair)
American University in Dubai 
Faculty of Information Technology 
P.O. Box: 28282, Dubai, U.A.E. 
E-mail: [email protected]