CALL FOR PAPERS

This year the 24th of the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences will be organized by the Middle East Technical University. The Symposium will be held on September 14-16, 2009 in METU Northern Cyprus Campus.

We kindly invite you to submit papers for the twentyfourth of the ISCIS series of conferences that bring together scientists and engineers from around the world. This year's conference will be held in Northern Cyprus, a beautiful Mediterranean island.

Topics of Interest:

1. Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing:
   Computer Vision, Video Processing, Pattern Analysis and Recognition
2. World Wide Web:
   Web Data Management, Web Information Systems,Web Mining Data
3. Database Management Systems:
   Data Extraction and Reporting, Information Retrieval, Multimedia Databases, Parallel, Distributed, and Grid Databases, Query Processing and Optimization, Database Indexing and Search, Database Modeling and Design, Spatial and Temporal Databases
4. Bioinformatics and Bioengineering:
   Biomedical Data Mining and Engineering, Molecular Sequence/Structure Databases, Functional Genomics, Proteomics, Microarray Technologies, Bio-imaging, Biomedical & Biological Sensors, Tissue Engineering
5. AI, Machine Learning and Data Mining:
   Evolutionary computation, Knowledge representation and reasoning, Natural language processing, Robotics, Machine learning and data mining, Datawarehousing and OLAP
6. Networks, Parallel and Distributed Computing:
   Wireless Communication and Networks, Optical Networks Multimedia Communication and Software, Network Security, Parallel and distributed programming, Grid and cluster computing Peer to peer computing

Important Dates

• Submission of special session proposals: March 16, 2009
• Submission of papers: April 30, 2009
• Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2009
• Camera ready and registration due: July 1, 2009
• Symposium date: September 14-16, 2009

Paper Submission and Publication:

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts written in English. Papers must contain original work not published or under revision elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Papers should be prepared following IEEE format , double column, minimum 10pt fonts and up to 6 pages. The proceedings will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE digital library. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author per paper to register, attend the symposium and present the paper. The submissions will be through the electronic submission system at http://iscis.metu.edu.tr/submission

Organizing Committee

• Honorary Chair: Erol Gelenbe
• General Chair: Fatoş Tünay Yarman-Vural , METU
• Program Committee Co-Chairs: Adnan Yazıcı, İ. Hakkı Toroslu, METU
• Publication Chair: Tolga Can, METU
• Publicity Chair: Pinar Senkul, METU
• Local Organization Chair: Özlem Uzuner, METU NCC
• Web Management: Özgür Kaya, Ahmet Saçan, METU
• General Secretary: Mete Özay, METU