Submission Details

The Extended Paper Submission Deadline is April 15, 2009

Please use the Electronic Submission Tool to Submit your contribution. Please register as author and submit your paper. [Thanks to Microsoft on this support]

The Proceedings of the conference will be published as a book by IOS International Publisher in series: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, and distributed at the conference.

The length of the full paper should be up to 22 pages and for short paper up to 12 pages of A4 style page format, and the style format would be according to the IOS format. All papers are to be submitted as PDF file format or MS word file, and be submitted on-line at the Electronic Submission Tool. (If there is problem please mail to issam@soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp).

The accepted papers will be based on the originality of the work, on the suitability of the topic to the conference, and on the overall quality of your submission.

The acceptance letters with reviewing comments will be sent by: May 10, 2009.

When the paper is ACCEPTED by the Program Committee (either as Full Paper contribution or Short Paper Contribution), the CAMERA READY COPY of the full paper or short paper should be done totally according to IOS format.

The final Camera-Ready copy for inclusion in the IOS book series must be submitted no later than: 10 June 10, 2009 on-line at the Electronic Submission Tool.

(If there is problem or you have question please send it: issam@soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp).

Please Note that those deadlines are very strict, a delay may case that the paper may not be possible to be included in the Book.

In order to make the book feasible for publications and all the reviewed papers are included in the book, your collaboration is greatly appreciated and important to meet the set deadlines.


Special Issue

The International Journal Knowledge-Based Systems intends to publish a special issue 2009, closely associated with the Conference. The Conference Chairs, and the General Editor of the Journal, Professor Ernest Edmonds, will jointly edit this issue. The authors of selected conference papers would be invited to publish journal versions of them in the special issue.

(Knowledge-Based Systems home page: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/knosys)