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SAC ’06 – Track Proposal – Artificial Intelligence, Computational Logic, and
Image Analysis
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Track Name & Chair
“Special Track on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Logic, and Image Analysis”
Track Chair: Chih-Cheng Hung
CoChair: Agostinho C da Rosa
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Mission Statement (scope, aims, and topics)
Over the past twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has become
a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and
application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. A special track
on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Logic, and Image Analysis is proposed for SAC '06. It
will be a forum for engineers, researchers and practitioners throughout the world to share
technical ideas and experiences relating to implementation and application of Artificial
Intelligence (AI).
The crowning achievement of AI was evidenced in May 1997, when the program IBM’s
Deep Blue Supercomputer defeated Mr. Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion. Deep Blue,
like the majority of efforts in AI, simulates symptoms of intelligent behavior as observed in
humans. The benefit of this approach is that it can generate highly optimized behavior, even to
the extent that it surpasses human performance. Genesereth and Nilsson suggested that the
ultimate goal of AI is a theory that both explains the behavior of naturally occurring intelligent
entities and indicates the manner in which artificial entities can be designed to yield intelligent
behavior.
Correspondingly, with this goal in our mind, this special AI track aims at putting together
contributions from the scientists and researchers in different disciplines, providing them with a
common forum where to discuss their different viewpoints and share new ideas. Furthermore,
we have witnessed the emergence of new models such as Artificial Immune Systems (AIS),
Swarm Intelligence (SI) and Artificial Life (AL) in the area of AI. These new paradigms have
become promising models in computer science. Using ants and other social insects as models,
computer scientists have created software agents that cooperate to solve complex problems such
as the rerouting of traffic in a busy telecommunication network. In addition, as images become
an important media in our daily life, for example video images, AI techniques have been used in
processing video images. We would like to have researchers working in those areas to interact
with other researchers in this special track.
Major topics of interest in this special track will include, but not limited to, the following
areas:
Machine Learning
Artificial Immune Systems
Image Analysis
Image Segmentation, Clustering and Classification
Search Techniques
Knowledge-based Systems
Knowledge Representation
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Computational Logic
Constraint Solving and Programming
Intelligent Embedded Systems
Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Life
Selective Self-Organization
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Dissemination plan for the Track Call for Papers (CFP)
The call for paper will be distributed through the personal mailing list of the Track Chair & CoChair, handouts at some conferences, and posted in both Track Chair & Co-Chair’s Web pages.
Hard copies of the Call for Paper will be distributed and posted in campuses. The track chair
plans to make a presentation to the Monte Jade Technology Association whose members are
from industry and academia in the annual meeting of the association.
4. Who is and the role of the Track Co-Chair
Professors Agostinho Rosa will be the Co-Chairs for this special track and will assist the Track
Chair to solicit papers from researchers in Europe and arrange reviewers to evaluate the papers.
Agostinho has been the Co-Chair for this track in the years of 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004, and 2005.
5. Contact information and complete affiliation address for the Chair and Co-Chair
Chih-Cheng Hung, Track Chair
School of Computing and Software Engineering
Southern Polytechnic State University
1100 S. Marietta Parkway
Marietta, GA 30067
U.S.A.
Tel: (678) 915-3574
Fax: (678) 915-5511
e-mail: [email protected]
http://cse.spsu.edu/chung
Agostinho Rosa, Track Co-Chair
LaSEEB - ISR - IST
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 - Torre Norte 6.21
1049-001 Lisboa - Portugal
Tel: +351-21-8418276/7 Fax: +351-21-8418291
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.laseeb.org/acrosa
6. Track CFP URL
http://lovelace.spsu.edu/chung/sac06/
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http://www.laseeb.org/acrosa/sac06/
Short CV
Name: Agostinho Claudio da Rosa - Msc, PhD.
Nationality: Portuguese
Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers of Technical Universisty of Lisbon.
Director of LASEEB – Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab of The System and Robotics Institute
– Lisbon Portugal. Web: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt
Served several project review committee of the Information Society Program of the European Union.
Author and co-author of several papers in the area of Computational Intelligence, Artificial Life, Biomedical
Engineering, Signal and Image Processing and Evolutionary Computation.
Visiting Professor at Stanford School of Medicine 1999-2000 and Federal University of Sao Paulo 2003-2005
Phone: +351-21-8418277
Fax: +351-21-8418291
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Web: http://www.laseeb.org/acrosa
Name:
Chih-Cheng Hung, Ph.D.
Phone: (678) 915-3574 Fax: (678) 915-5511 e-mail: [email protected]
Professional Appointments
Jan. 2000 – Present,
Southern Polytechnic State University
Professor
Sep. 1997 – Present,
Center for Hydrology, Soil Climatology and Remote Sensing (HSCaRS), Alabama A&M
University,
Research Investigator (In collaboration)
Apr. 1999 – Dec. 1999, Alabama A&M University (AAMU), Normal, AL, U.S.A., Associate Professor
Sep. 1993 – Apr. 1999, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL, U.S.A., Assistant Professor
June 1995 – Nov. 1995, AI Signal Research Inc., Huntsville, AL, U.S.A.,
Consultant
Mar. 1990 – Aug. 1993, Imaging Systems Division, Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL, U.S.A, Senior Software
Analyst
Mar. 1984 – Mar. 1990, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, U.S.A., Graduate research and
teaching assistant
June 1980 – Aug. 1983, Electronic Data Processing Department, Cathay Insurance Company, Taiwan,
Programmer/System Analyst
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Author and co-author of papers in the area of Computational Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Immune Systems,
Image Processing, Artificial Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation. (http://cse.spsu.edu/chung)
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
1) 5-year Yamacraw research project funded by the state of Georgia, USA, 1998 – Co-investigator.
2) 5-year research project supported by the NASA, Center for Hydrology, Soil Climatology and Remote Sensing
(HSCaRS), Alabama A&M University, Research Investigator.
3) Research and development in image processing software for multispectral applications in
Microstation computer
graphics and UNIX environments using C. The activities included research and development in aerial image
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enhancement, image analysis, image classification, feature extraction, and geographic information system
applications.
“Soft Computing in Multispectral Image Classification Systems” - 1999 NASA/Alabama Space Grant Consortium
Joint University/Industry Research Program – PI, 1999.
"Alliance for Computational Science Collaboration HBCU Partnership at Alabama A&M University" Department of
Energy, Co-PI, 1998 & 1999.
“Neural Network Analysis of Leaf Multispectral Reflectance for Detection and Discrimination” - 1998 NASA
Headquarter and Ames Research Center – Co-PI, 1998.
“Development of a Five Year Plan for the Enhancement of the Computer Science Program at AAMU” - 1997 NSF
CISE MI-I Program – PI, 1997.
COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS
a) Collaborators
1) Dr. V. J. Matiseti, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia.
2) Dr. Tommy Coleman, Director of Center for Hydrology, Soil Climatology, and Remote Sensing, Alabama A&M
University, Normal, Alabama, 35762.
3) Dr. Glynn Germany, Optical Aeronomy Laboratory, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research,
University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899.
4) Dr. Kwai Wong, Joint Institute for Computational Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996.
5) Dr. David R. Schultz, Director of Controlled Fusion Atomic Data Center, Physics Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee.
b) Thesis Advisors
1) Ms. Dilek Karabudak, Southern Polytechnic State University, Georgia
2) Mr. Randy Daniels, Southern Polytechnic State University, Georgia.
3) Mr. Shisong Yang, Southern Polytechnic State University, Georgia.
4) Mr. Subahka Matha, Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama.
5) Dr. Vekata Atluri, Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama.
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