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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** FOURTH CALL FOR PAPERS ***<br></b><br>24th International Symposium on Methodologies for<br>Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2018)<br><br>St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 29-31 October, 2018<br><br><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIE1ldGhvZG9sb2dpZXMgZm9yIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFN5c3RlbXMgKElTTUlTIDIwMTgpOiBGb3VydGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTE4MglMaXN0cwkxNjAJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyprusconferences.org%2Fismis2018">http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ismis2018</a></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br><br><b><u>WELCOME</u></b><br><br>ISMIS is an established and prestigious conference for exchanging the latest<br>research results in building intelligent systems. Held twice every three years,<br>the conference provides a medium for exchanging scientific research and<br>technological achievements accomplished by the international community.<br><br><br><b><u>SCOPE</u></b><br><br>The scope of ISMIS is intended to represent a wide range of topics on<br>applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to areas as diverse as decision<br>support, automated deduction, reasoning, knowledge based systems,<br>machine learning, computer vision, robotics, planning, databases,<br>information retrieval, etc. The focus is on research in intelligent systems.<br>The conference addresses issues involving solutions to problems that are<br>complex to be solved through conventional approaches and that require the<br>simulation of intelligent thought processes, heuristics and applications of<br>knowledge. The integration of these multiple approaches in solving<br>complex problems is of particular importance. ISMIS provides a forum and a<br>means for exchanging information for those interested purely in theory,<br>those interested primarily in implementation, and those interested in specific<br>research and industrial applications.<br><br><br><b><u>TOPICS</u></b><br><br>ISMIS 2018 is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both<br>in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to<br>provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and<br>practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following<br>areas:<br><br>• Active Media Human-Computer Interaction<br>• Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation<br>• Digital Libraries<br>• Health Informatics<br>• Intelligent Agent Technology<br>• Intelligent Data Processing and Analytics<br>• Intelligent Information Retrieval<br>• Intelligent Information Systems<br>• Intelligent Language Processing<br>• Knowledge Integration and Aggregation<br>• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining<br>• Knowledge Visualization<br>• Logic for Artificial Intelligence<br>• Multimedia Information Retrieval<br>• Soft Computing<br>• Text Mining<br>• Web Intelligence<br>• Web Mining<br><br>In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems<br>in complex/novel domains, e.g. art, human genome, global change,<br>manufacturing, social good, etc.<br><br><br><b><u>PAPER SUBMISSION<br></u></b><br>Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in LNCS/LNAI style<br>(maximum 10 pages). All paper submissions will be handled electronically.<br>All submissions will be subject to review by the ISMIS 2018 Program<br>Committee. Papers should be prepared using the Springer LNCS/LNAI style<br>(<a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIE1ldGhvZG9sb2dpZXMgZm9yIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFN5c3RlbXMgKElTTUlTIDIwMTgpOiBGb3VydGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTE4MglMaXN0cwkxNjAJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines%29%2C">http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines),</a><br>maximum 10 pages.<br><br>Papers should be submitted in PDF form via ISMIS 2018 Online Submission<br>System: <a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIE1ldGhvZG9sb2dpZXMgZm9yIEludGVsbGlnZW50IFN5c3RlbXMgKElTTUlTIDIwMTgpOiBGb3VydGggQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzCTE4MglMaXN0cwkxNjAJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dismis2018">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ismis2018</a> .<u><br><b><br></u></b><br><b><u>PUBLICATION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES<br></u></b><br>The ISMIS 2018 proceedings will be published by Springer in LNAI<br>(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) and will be available at the<br>conference.<br><br>Authors of best papers will be invited to submit their extended versions to<br>the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS)<br>(<a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcm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