Dear Colleague, Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline is now extended to 10 April. We would appreciate your forwarding this announcement to those who may be interested. If you wish to unsubscribe, in which case we apologize, please email icnc.fskd.2@gmail.com with "unsubscribe" in your email subject. If you receive it more than once or from a different email address, kindly copy-and-paste in the email body all email addresses at which you received this announcement. Thank you, Organizing Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 4th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'08) The 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'08) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 25-27 August 2008, Jinan, China *** Extended Submission Deadline: 10 April 2008 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.icnc-fskd2008.sdu.edu.cn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Papers, Invited Sessions & Sponsorship The joint ICNC'08-FSKD'08 will be held in Jinan, China. Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province, which is known for the home of Confucius, the Taishan Mountain, and the Baotu Spring. ICNC'08-FSKD'08 aims to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of intelligent methods inspired from nature, including biological, ecological, and physical systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, and more. It is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. Previously, the joint conferences in 2005, 2006 and 2007 each attracted over 3000 submissions from more than 30 countries. All accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be indexed by both EI and ISTP. Furthermore, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of Soft Computing: An International Journal (SCI indexed). To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China), foreign experts are encouraged to propose invited sessions. Each invited session should have at least 4 papers. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. All invited session organizers will be acknowledged in the conference proceedings. Each invited session proposal should include the following information: (1) the name(s) and contact information of invited session organizer(s); (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to nc2008@sdu.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page. If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at nc2008@sdu.edu.cn Join us at this major event in historic Jinan !!!