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On behalf of the organizing committee I would like to invite you to attend ANNIE 2003, an international conference to be held on November 2-5, 2003, at Marriott's Pavilion Hotel in downtown, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. This will be the thirteenth international gathering of researchers interested in Smart Engineering System Design using neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary programming, data mining and artificial life. The previous conferences each drew approximately 150 papers from twenty countries with their proceedings published by ASME Press as hardbound books in eleven volumes. The last volume, edited by Dagli, et. al., was titled “Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining, and Complex Systems.” The conference will cover the theory of Smart Engineering System Design techniques, namely; neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary programming, complex systems, data mining and artificial life. Presentations dealing with applications of these technologies are encouraged in the areas of: artificial life, evolvable hardware, manufacturing engineering, E-commerce, E-business, re-engineering, bioinformatics, biology and medicine, pattern recognition, image processing, process monitoring, control, recent theoretical developments in neural networks, fuzzy logic, complex systems, data mining, artificial life, evolutionary programming, fractals, chaos, and wavelets that can impact Smart Engineering System Design. The response to ANNIE 2003 was excellent with over 300 abstracts received. Papers submitted based on these abstracts were reviewed by two referees and all accepted papers are included in the conference proceedings to be published by ASME Press as a hardbound book titled Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining and Complex Systems, edited by Drs. Dagli, Buczak, Ghosh, Embrechts and Ersoy. Our Banquet Plenary Speaker for this year's ANNIE is Dr. James Gantt and his talk is entitled “Net Centric Systems: Lessons Learned and Directions.” Dr. Gantt was born in Murray, Kentucky. After graduation from high school, he attended Murray State University and received a Bachelor of Science with honors (Cum Laude) in 1971. In 1972, he received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science, majoring in Operations Research, from the University of Missouri at Rolla. After graduation, he entered the United States Army and served as an instructor at the Army Computer Science School at Fort Harrison, Indiana. In 1978, he received an Education Specialist degree in Management from Ball State University. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia and was employed as an Operations Research Analyst with the Army Institute for Research in Management Information, Communications, and Computer Sciences (AIRMICS), which is now part of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). He was selected to spend the 1981-1982 school year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Fellow in the Center for Advanced Engineering Studies. When ARL was formed in 1992, he became the Chief of the Software Technology Branch and then served as the Chief of the Software and Intelligent Systems Division. In September 1996, he became the Acting Director of the Information Science and Technology (IS&T) Directorate. He was selected to become a member of the Senior Executive Service and appointed as Director of IS&T in June 1998. In May 2000, Dr. Gantt became the Deputy Director of ARL’s new Computational and Information Sciences Directorate (CISD), which was formed by merging the Computational Sciences with the Tactical Information Processing and Communications Research programs. In July 2003 he became the Acting Director of CISD and Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) of ARL. There are six plenary sessions scheduled for ANNIE 2003. Dr. Paul Werbos will present “Unified Neural Network Designs: The Key to Large-Scale Applications and Understanding the Brain” for the Monday morning plenary session. At noon on Monday, Dr. Piero Bonissone will offer “Soft Computing: A Common Framework to Represent Meta-Heuristics” In the Tuesday morning plenary session, “Dynamics of Respiratory Neural Networks During Maturation” will be presented by Dr. Metin Akay. Tuesday's luncheon plenary “A View on the State of AI and New Computing Paradigms” will be offered by Dr. Toshinori Munakata. Dr. Robert Kozma will offer “Nonconvergent Neural Memories for Robust Encoding of Noisy Sensory Data” for the Wednesday morning plenary and Mr. Martin Pelikan will present “Hierarchical Bayesian Optimization Algorithm: Toward a New Generation of Evolutionary Algorithms” for the luncheon plenary. Half-day tutorials have been scheduled for Sunday, November 2nd. These state-of-the-art workshops cover the following areas:
Intelligent Data Mining I would like to thank members of the Organizing Committee and Co-Chairs, Drs. Buczak, Ghosh, Embrechts and Ersoy for putting together an excellent program for ANNIE 2003. I would like to recognize the excellent and timely efforts of the referees and contributors that made the conference possible. We are looking forward to your visit and participation at the meeting. Sincerely, Cihan H. Dagli Conference Chairman
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