Subject: ISCApad #25 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:00:03 +0100 From: Isabel Trancoso To: isca_members@isca-speech.org CC: info@isca-speech.org ============================================================================ ISCApad number 25 June 14th, 2000 ============================================================================ Dear ISCA members, Welcome to ISCApad #25. This special issue of our monthly bulletin is dedicated to the new Board members and their corresponding responsibilities. Following the elections in the Fall and the resignation of Maria Gosy, the ISCA Board now has the following composition: Roger MOORE President president@isca-speech.org Paul Dalsgaard Vice-President & Treasurer treasurer@isca-speech.org Wolfgang HESS Secretary info@isca-speech.org Isabel TRANCOSO Publications public@isca-speech.org George KOKKINAKIS Grants & Awards grant@isca-speech.org Rolf CARLSON Tutorial & Research Workshops itrw@isca-speech.org Gerrit BLOOTHOOFT Special Interest Groups sig@isca-speech.org Frederic BIMBOT Membership Services services@isca-speech.org Sadaoki FURUI International Conferences conf@isca-speech.org Julia HIRSCHBERG Liaison with Other Organizations liaison@isca-speech.org Hynek HERMANSKY International Affairs international@isca-speech.org Hiroya FUJISAKI Interdisciplinarity interdis@isca-speech.org Chris WELLEKENS Education & Training edu@isca-speech.org Michael WAGNER (Responsibilities to be defined in the next board meeting) See also: http://www.isca-speech.org/board.html The list of ISCA members (name, number and expiration date) may be found in the ISCA website, under membership. This list will be periodically updated. Forthcoming conferences and workshops: - NORSIG'2000, Kolmården, Sweden, June 13 - 15. http://www.es.isy.liu.se/norsig2000/ - SCI'2000 - ISAS'2000 (see below) Orlando, Florida, July 23-26, 2000 http://www.iiis.org/isas/ - UKROBRAZ'2000 (see below) Ukraine, 27 Nov-1 Dec, 2000 http://www.kar.net/~uasoiro/ ============================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS THE 4TH WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS SCI'2000 and THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS ISAS'2000 July, 23-26, 2000 Orlando, Florida(USA) Sheraton World ORGANIZED BY THE IIIS (The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics) http://www.iiis.org/isas/ Honorary Presidents: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir, Program Committee Chair: William Lesso General Chair: Nagib Callaos Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez MAJOR THEMES * Information Systems Development,* Information Systems Management * Management Information Systems,* Virtual Engineering * Mobile/Wireless Computing,* Communication Systems and Networks * Emergent Computation,* Image,Acoustic,Speech and Signal Processing * Computing Techniques,* Human Information Systems * Education and Information Systems,* Control Systems * Economic and Financial Systems,* SCI in Biology and Medicine * SCI in Psychology, Cognition and Spirituality,* Conceptual Infrastructure of SCI * Natural Resources,* Human Resources * Globalization, Development and Emerging Economies,* SCI in Art DEADLINES May 17, 2000 Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words)or paper draft(2000-2500 words) May 31, 2000 Acceptance notifications June 19, 2000 Submission of camera/ready papers: hard copies and electronic versions ============================================================================ UKROBRAZ-2000 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT The Fifth All-Ukrainian International Conference on Signal/Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (UKROBRAZ-2000) will be held from the 27th of November to the 1st of December 2000 in NAS Cybernetics Centre. Papers are invited in the following topics: - Methodological Problems of Pattern Recognition; - Theoretical Basis of Signal and Image Processing and Recognition; - Computer and Discrete Geometry Problems; - Training and Selftraining Problems in Pattern Recognition; - Automatic Recognition, Understanding and Synthesis of Speech Signals; - Natural Language and Speech Resources and Technologies; - Technical Diagnostics of Objects and Machines on its Signals and Fields; - Printed and Hand-Written Texts, Drawing and Graphic Picture Processing and Recognition; - Photopictures Processing and Recognition; - Scene Processing, Recognition and Understanding; - Simulating and Research Systems; - Processors Architecture for Signal/Image Processing and Recognition; - Signal/Image Input/Output Tools and Multimedia Systems; - Signal/Image Filtering, Compression, Reconstruction and Synthesis; - Audiovisual Data and Knowledge Bases: Retrievial and Summarisation; - Multimodal Means for Man-Machine Communication; - Advanced Information Technologies and Systems Based on Signal/Image Processing. Deadline for submission of the materials is 1st September 2000. All correspondence and inquiry regarding the conference should be addressed to: Taras Vintsiuk, NAS Cybernetics Centre, 40 Academician Hlushkov Avenue, Kyjiv 03680, Ukraine. URL: http://www.kar.net/~uasoiro/ E-mail: ukrobraz@uasoiro.freenet.kiev.ua Tel.: +380 44 266-4356 Fax: +380 44 266-1570 ============================================================================ All additional information at the ISCA web-site: http://www.isca-speech.org The ISCA secretariat can be contacted at: info@isca-speech.org Requests concerning membership, Speech Communication and ordering Proceedings should be forwarded to the Secretariat. For message distribution at isca_list contact: public@isca-speech.org Short messages will be forwarded on a monthly scheme basis to all ISCA members. =============================================================================