Call for Papers
The 2003 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
                                  (IKE'03) 
                        
                                June 23 - 26, 2003
                 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 
 
You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal
to organize a technical session/workshop (see below for submission
information). All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.

SCOPE:
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 

*Information Retrieval Systems
*Image Processing
*Knowledge and Information Management 
*Data Mining Techniques
*Database Engineering and Systems
*Large-Scale Information Processing Methods
*Performance Evaluation Techniques
*Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems
*Modeling and Simulation
*OCR
*Artistic Imaging
*Geographic Information Systems
*E-Libraries (Digital Libraries)
*Data Warehousing
*Agent-Based Techniques and Systems
*Information Reliability and Security
*Decision Support Systems
*Aspect-Oriented Programming
*Managing Copyright Laws
*Applications (e-Commerce, Multimedia, Banking,..) 
*Web Technologies
*Electronic Publishing
*Digital Typography
*Data Fusion

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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Send your draft paper (about 5 pages - single space, font size of 10 to
12) to Nazli Goharian goharian@iit.edu (see contact information below) by
the due date. For more information, including submission, evaluation
process,  organizing special sessions, publications, sponsors, program
organizers and more see: http://www.ir.iit.edu/ike03  OR
http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/

IMPORTANT DATES
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Feb.  22, 2003 :    Draft papers (about 5 pages) due
March 21, 2003 :    Notification of acceptance
April 22, 2003 :    Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
June 23-26, 2003:   IKE'03 International Conference

CONFERENCE CONTACT
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Program Chair:   Nazli Goharian 
Computer Science Department
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 31st street
Chicago, IL 60616

EMAIL: ike@ir.iit.edu ,  goharian@iit.edu

General Chair:   Hamid R. Arabnia, Univ. of Georgia.
Vice Chair:  Wolfgang Bein, University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Vice Chair:  Philip Bernhard, Florida Tech.
Vice Chair:  Abdur Chowdhury, America On-Line.
Vice Chair:  Zohreh Nazeri, MITRE.
Vice Chair:  James Nolan, George Mason University.
Vice Chair:  Bhanu Prasad, Georgia Southwestern State University.
Publicity Chair:   Ankit Jain, Illinois Institute of Technology.

SPONSORS: The conference will be sponsored by World Academy of Sciences
and by Computer Science Research, Education, & Applications Press (CSREA).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: see -  http://ir.iit.edu/ike03/ike03-PC.htm