CFP

      Fourth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis
                   New University of Lisbon, Portugal
                        13th-15th September 2001

Call for papers
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  IDA-2001 will take place in Lisbon from  13th to 15th September 2001,
and is organised by the  Department of Computer Science  of the Faculty
of Science and  Technology  of the  New  University  of Lisbon. It will
consist of a stimulating program of tutorials, invited talks by leading
international experts in intelligent data analysis, contributed papers,
poster sessions, and an exciting social program.
  Our aim is for  IDA-2001  to  bring  together a wide  variety of  re-
searchers concerned  with extracting  knowledge  from  data,  including
people  from statistics,  machine learning,  neural networks,  computer
science, pattern recognition, database management, and other areas. The
strategies adopted by people from these areas are  often different, and
a synergy  results  if  this is  recognised.  IDA-2001 is  intended  to
stimulate  interaction  between  these  different  areas, so that  more
powerful tools emerge for extracting knowledge from  data and  a better
understanding is developed of the process of intelligent data analysis.

It is the  fourth symposium  on  Intelligent  Data  Analysis  after the
successful symposia in 1999 (Amsterdam), 1997 (London) and 1995 (Baden-
Baden).

IDA-2001 Organisation
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General Chair:       Doug Fisher, Vanderbilt University, USA
Program Chair:       David Hand, Imperial College, UK
Conference Chair:    Gabriela Guimaraes, New University Lisbon,Portugal

Important Dates
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April, 23rd, 2001    Deadline for submitting papers
June, 4th, 2001      Notification of acceptance
July, 4th, 2001      Deadline for submission of final papers

Publications
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  The  proceedings will be  published in the  Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series of Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/). The
proceedings of  Intelligent Data Analysis  97 and 99  appeared in  this
series as LNCS 1280 and LNCS 1642. (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/
volumes/1280.htm).

Additional Information
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  A list of topics of interest, guidelines  for submissions, and infor-
mation about the conference-site will shortly be available on the  con-
ference web site:
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/ida01/