PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAN-MACHINE INTERACTIONS ICMMI 2011

October 6-9, 2011
The Beskids, Poland
http://icmmi.polsl.pl
Organised by the Institute of Informatics, the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gliwice, Poland.
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Machines have become an indispensable part of a man’s life. Some say that humans are enslaved to modern technology and reject progress on principle, while fanatics of new trends simply must have not only the latest useful tools but every gadget and gimmick as well. We see machines used in daily routines or in research, to make coffee, to save lives, to study secrets of DNA on the micro, and for space travels on the macro scale. The aim of the Conference is to bring together scientists interested in all aspects of theory and practice of man-machine interactions, providing an international forum for exchanging ideas, setting questions for discussion, and sharing the experience.

The first ICMMI Conference was held in 2009 and it was dedicated to the memory of Adam Mrózek, distinguished scientist in the area of decision support systems in industrial applications. The event turned out to be such a succes that it has been decided to treat it as the beginning of the cycle of conferences organised biennialy.

Authors are encouraged to submit technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research work in the area of Man-Machine Interactions, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Both theoretical and applied papers are of interest for the conference.

SCOPE
Novel and innovative work in areas including but not limited to tracks:
- Computational intelligence - fuzzy set, rough sets, near sets, intelligent systems, evolutionary computation, neural networks, soft computing, soft control
- Decision support - knowledge acquisition, advances in expert systems, autonomous agents, support vector machines, man-machine automation
- AI and simulations in biosciences - bioinformatics and genetics, microarray analysis, computer modelling in biology, perceptual systems, telemedicine and e-health, mechatronics and bio-mechatronics, bio-sensors
- Assistive technologies - e-learning for disabled, accessible computer hardware, computer software for disabled, robots and devices for disabled, accessible internet, adaptive and intuitive interfaces
- Data processing, storage and transfer - data warehouses, data storage and retrieval, data mining, knowledge engineering, computer networks and communication systems, microcontrollers and microsystems, multimedia systems, compression techniques, system integration
- Pattern recognition - computer vision, image recognition, image processing, topology of images, voice recognition and processing

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: January 16, 2011
Full paper submission: February 13, 2011
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 30, 2011
Final paper submission, registration and fee due: May 15, 2011
Conference: October 6-9, 2011

SOLICITED PAPERS
Full papers (up to 8 pages) should describe results and original research work not submitted or published elsewhere in one of the main categories listed above. The papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and the contribution to the field.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Papers must be submitted electronically via the conference web site. Only papers in PDF will be accepted for reviewing. All papers must include title, complete contact information of all the authors, abstract and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author must be clearly identified. Further information is available at the conference web site. Final versions of manuscripts must be prepared with LaTex2e (use Springer class SVMult.cls).

PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Springer-Verlag in Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing.
In addition some number of presented papers will be selected for publication in refereed international technical and scientific journals.

CONTACT
ICMMI 2011 Secretariat
Institute of Informatics
Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science
Silesian University of Technology
Akademicka 16
44-100 Gliwice, Poland
E-mail: icmmi@polsl.pl
webmaster: icmmi.webmaster@polsl.pl
fax: (+48) 32 237 27 33

The Organisers invite you to visit the Conference website and submit a paper to the ICMMI 2011 Conference.