Invited Session for KES2010

14th International Conference on
Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems

held on September 8, 9 & 10, 2010
at Cardiff, UK

 “A Meta Heuristic Approach to
Management Engineering”

1) The scope:

   Meta Heuristics are widely employed in management engineering to solve various NP hard and NP complete problems. The methodology includes A*, Ant colony optimization, Best-first search, Generalized extremal optimization, Genetic algorithms, GRASP, Greedy algorithm and hill-climbing, Harmony search, Local search, Random optimization, Random-restart hill climbing, Reactive search optimization, Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm, Simulated annealing, Stochastic Diffusion Search, Tabu search, Variable Neighbourhood Search and so on. Most concepts of meta heuristic technologies came out in the latter half of 20 century and it was burst into application fields in the last 20 century and the begining of 21 centry. Today the meta heuristic technology plays a pivotal role in modern engineering and contributes to solve problems in Management Engineering. This organized and invited sessions focus on the advanced methodologies of meta heuristic technology which are employed in management engineering.

2) Related fields:
  Systems design, engineering, production, management, economics, policy making, decision making, real options analysis, Kansei engineering, ergonomics, project management, MOT, R&D and so on.

3) Time Schedule:
  Submission of a title and brief abstract       January 31, 2010
  Submission of a full paper:                       March 1, 2010
  Notification of acceptance:                      April 1, 2010
  Submission of the camera-ready paper:       April 20, 2010 

(Session organizers have to send the bundle of camera-ready papers to KES Secretariat
till May 1, 2009, or the papers will not appear in the proceedings,
Final paper publication files to be received by: May 1, 2010
all members haveto pay their registration fee in May 2010 as well.)

4) Submission:

Can we remind you that all Invited Session papers for KES 2010 must follow the instructions at http://kes2010.kesinternational.org/submission.php

and be submitted through the PROSE review software (Address will be publicized soon)

This is:

1.  To enable us to see the results of the review process as requested by Springer.
2. To enable us to collect the files to be sent to the publisher to produce the proceedings.

Note: We cannot send the files to Springer if they have not passed through PROSE and so papers that are not submitted through PROSE cannot appear in the proceedings.

Papers to appear in the KES 2009 proceedings must have their publication files and copyright forms uploaded onto PROSE by May 1, 2010.

For guidance on the use of PROSE please see http://www.prosemanager.co.uk/tutorial1.htm

5) The number of papers gathered:  6 to 12.

6) Contact Address:   

	1)	Junzo Watada, Ph.D, Professor Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems (IPS) Waseda University 2-7 Hibikino, Wakamatsuku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0135
		Phone+Fax:    (+81)93-692-5179 Mobile:          (+81)90-3464-4929 Email:         watadawaseda.jp
	2)	Huey-Ming Lee, Ph.D, Professor Department of Information Management Chinese Culture University 55, Hwa-Kung Road, Yang-Ming-San Taipei  (11114), TAIWAN
		Tel: (886)-937-893-845 Fax: (886)-2-2777-4723 Email: hmleefaculty.pccu.edu.tw
	3)	Taki Kanda Dr. in Economics, Associate Professor, Bunri University of Hospitality 311-1 Kashiwabarashinden Shimogawara, Sayama-city, Saitama-pref.(350-1336), Japan
		Tel:+81-4-2952-9871 Fax:+81-4-2924-7016 E-mail: kandabunri-c.ac.jp Mobile: 090-2742-6221
	4)	Lily Lin PhD, Associate Professor, China University of Technology Taipei  (11114), TAIWAN
		Tel: (886)-2-2931-3416 Ext. 2242 Fax: (886)-2-2358-1815 Email:lilycute.edu.tw

7) Related URL:

Online Submission

  http://kes2010international.org/submission.phd

Prose for the submission

http://kes2010.kesinternational.org/prose.php

Guide for the submission

http://www.prosemanager.co.uk/tutorial1.htm

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