PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH JOINT CONFERENCE ON
INFORMATION SCIENCES

JULY 21-26, 2005 • SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA

Editors:
Steve Blair, University of Utah
Uday Chakraborty, University of Missouri
Shu-Heng Chen, Chengchi University
Heng-Da Cheng, Utah State University
David K.Y. Chiu, University of Guelph
Sanjoy Das, Kansas State University
Grit Denker, SRI
Richard Duro, Universidade da Corua
Manuel Grana Romay, Universidad del Pais Vasco
Donald Hung, San Jose State University
Etienne E. Kerre, Ghent University
Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech
Jie Lu, University of Technology, Sydney
Liam Maguire, University of Ulster
Chong Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong
M. Sarfraz, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Chris Tseng, San Jose State University
Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University
Dan Ventura, Brigham Young University
Paul P. Wang, Duke University
Xin Yao, The University of Birmingham
C. N. Zhang, University of Regina
Kaizhong Zhang, University of Western Ontario

General Conference Chair:
Heng-Da Cheng, Utah State University

Steering Committee:
Howard Clark, Duke University
Donald Hung, San Jose State University
Zdzislaw Pawlak, Polish Academy of Sciences
Paul P. Wang, Duke University
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley

Sponsors:
Duke University
Utah State University
San Jose State University
Harbin Institute of Technology

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