Call for Papers
2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 
(ICMLC 2008) 

URL: http://www.icmlc.com/welcome.htm
Kunming, China

July 12-15, 2008 

ICMLC has become the premier international conference in the
field of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. At ICMLC's annual
conference, researchers and practitioners from around the world gather
together to interact, to inform, and to inspire. Leading international 
researchers, including leaders from IEEE, especially the IEEE Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics Society, will serve as Tutorial and Keynote
speakers. ICMLC attendees will have many opportunities to network and
to discuss their research with these prominent researchers. ICMLC also 
provides a quality platform for the broad dissemination of significant
research results and innovative practices through conference presentations
and published proceedings. Furthermore, authors also have the
opportunity of further development of their work via journal and
monograph publications. Additionally, ICMLC has a Ph.D. Colloquia,
well-focused invited sessions on leading technologies, panels on topics of
great interest to participants, and conference awards for Best Conference 
Paper and Best Student Conference Paper. We invite authors to submit
original papers that contain significant research results, development
work, and innovative practices to ICMLC'2008. ICMLC'2008 will be held 
July 12-15, 2008 in the scenic city of Kunming, which is regarded as one of
the most beautiful summer vacation places in China. 

All papers will be searchable by IEEEXplore http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/.
All papers will be searchable by EI (pending approval) 

sponsored by MLCRI, Hebei University, IEEE, and Yunnan University 


Topics for Submission 
? Adaptive systems 
? Business intelligence 
? Biometrics
? Bioinformatics
? Data and web mining
? Intelligent agent 
? Financial engineering
? Inductive learning 
? Geoinformatics
? Pattern Recognition
? Logistics
? Intelligent control
? Media computing
? Neural net and support vector machine
? Hybrid and nonlinear system
? Fuzzy set theory, fuzzy control and system 
? Knowledge management
? Information retrieval
? Intelligent and knowledge based system
? Rough and fuzzy rough set
? Networking and information security
? Evolutionary computation
? Ensemble method
? Information fusion
? Visual information processing
? Computational life science 


Important dates
Submission Due:   15 February 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 31 March 2008
Author Registration Deadline: 10 April 2008
Camera Ready:   20 April 2008 


Conference Awards
Lotfi Zadeh Best Paper Contest
SMC Student Best Paper Contest 


Honorary Conference Chairs
Shi-Shuenn Chen, President, National Taiwan Univ of Sci and Tech, Taiwan 

William A. Gruver, Junior Past President, IEEE SMC & IEEE Div X Director
and Simon Fraser University, Canada 

Lawrence Hall, President, IEEE SMC and Florida State University, USA 

Michael Smith, Co-Founder of ICMLC & Sr Past President, IEEE SMC, USA 

Hongrui Wang, President, Hebei University, China 


Int'l Advisory Committee Chair
Lotfi Zadeh, UC Berkeley, USA 


General Chairs
Xizhao Wang, Hebei Univ, China 

Daniel Yeung, IEEE SMC, USA and MLCRI, Hong Kong 


Program Chairs
Machine Learning
T. K. Ho, Bell Lab, USA 

Cybernetics
Philip Chen, Univ of Texas, San Antonio, USA 


Program Co-Chairs
Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan Univ of Science and Technology, Taiwan 

Ping Guo, Beijing Inst of Tech, China 

Xuelong Li, University of London, UK 


Ph.D. Colloquia Chair
Michael Berthold, Univ of Konstanz, Germany 


Panel Session Chair
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada 


Invited Session Co-Chairs
Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan 


Publicity Chair
Dacheng Tao, HK Poly Univ, Hong Kong 


Local organization Co-Chairs
Robert P. Woon, MLCRI, Hong Kong 

Dan Xu, Yunnan University, China 

Xujie Zhang, Yunnan University, China 


Conference Secretaries
Aki Chan, HK Poly Univ, Hong Kong (csaki@comp.polyu.edu.hk) 

Patrick Chan, HK Poly Univ, Hong Kong (pkchan@mlcri.hk) 

Wing Ng, Harbin Inst of Tech SZGS, China(wiingng@iieee..org)