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WelcomeAs the 8th Joint Conference on
Information Sciences (JCIS 2005) opens and brings together researchers and scientists from all over the world, I'm honored to extend, on behalf of the Steering Committee and Organizing Committee, a sincere welcome to all
of you to the beautiful state of Utah, and thank you for exploring the areas of your interests in a very productive, comprehensive and inspiring way. Following the historic path of JCIS, we have witnessed the progress
and expansion of this unique platform, which provides a forum for the sharing and discussion of diverse ideas and views of high quality research. The 2005 conference includes 15 tracks and more than 450 papers. We will
hear from 11 keynote speakers including Drs. James Albus, National Institute of Standards and Technology; C.A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV, Mexico; Borko Fuhrt, Florida Atlantic University; Ulrich Goesele, Max Planck
Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany; James Hendler, University of Maryland; Yu-Chi Ho, Harvard University; John Koza, Stanford University; Blake LeBaron, Brandeis University; Meyya Meyyappan, NASA; Andrzej
Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland; and Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley. JCIS also includes presentations by 12 featured speakers: H. John Caulfield, University of Alabama; Ali Jaoua, University of
Qatar, Qatar; Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; Subhash Kak, Louisiana State University; Etienne Kerre, University of Ghent, Belgium; Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University; John Mordeson, Creighton
University (Azriel Rosenfeld Lecture Series); Ruth Nussinov, National Cancer Institute; Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada; Leonid Perlovsky, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA; Da Ruan, Belgian Nuclear
Research Centre, Belgium; and I. Burhan Turksen, University of Toronto, Canada. At this scope and level, JCIS 2005 would have not been possible without the contributions and hard work of many individuals. I'd like to
thank Dr. Paul Wang, Dr. Donald Hung, and Ms. Anna Menzies for their tireless efforts and superb contributions. The track chairs and their organizing committees have done excellent jobs in reviewing, selecting and
assembling papers to guarantee the high quality of the conferences. Our new web team has greatly enhanced the image of JCIS and provided strong technical support to the conferences. Many thanks should also go to the
many reviewers, volunteers and staff for their work, support, suggestions and comments. I'd also like to thank the sponsors: Duke University, Utah State University, San Jose State University and Harbin Institute of
Technology. The following individuals should be specially mentioned for their leadership and outstanding work: Drs. Etienne E. Kerre, Donald Hung, C. N. Zhang, Dan Ventura, Sanjoy Das, Hong Va Leong, Chong Wah Ngo,
Tzu-Wen Kuo, Shu-Heng Chen, Xin Yao, David Chiu, Kaizhong Zhang, David Brady, Steve Blair, Sule Ozev, Karl Pribram, James Albus, Liam P. Maguire, Larry Y. C. Ho, Chris Tseng, Grit Denker, Chan-Tien Lu, Jianping Zhang,
Jie Lu, M. Sarfraz, Shusaku Tsumoto, Akinori Abe, Yukio Ohsawa, Paul Wang, Xiaofei Xu and Xianglong Tang. It is also our great pleasure to announce that two distinguished leading researchers: Dr. James Albus and Dr.
Ulrich Goesele have been selected to receive the prestigious Information Science Award. Let us enjoy the professionally fulfilling experience of JCIS 2005, and I wish you a wonderful stay in Salt Lake City. Heng-Da Cheng
General Chair, JCIS 2005 |
