___________________________________________________________________ Fourth International ICSC Symposium on ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (EIS 2004) in collaboration with the University of Madeira, Funchal Island of Madeira, Portugal February 29 - March 2, 2004 And the ISMC 2004 Workshop Workshop on Information Systems for Mass Customization Honorary Chairman: Erkki Oja, Finland Organizing Committee: General Chair: Ana Isabel Portugal de Almada Cardoso, Madeira Vice Chair: Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia Scientific Program Chair: Marjan Druzovec, University of Maribor, Slovenia INTRODUCTION: The problem of engineering of intelligent systems is in fact the science of transferring the methodologies, the knowledge and the experiences from the area of artificial intelligence into the daily life, either directly through the applications or indirectly through basic or applied research. The conference originated in order to provide a wide forum in which the latest developments in the field could be discussed; so the participants from all countries are warmly welcome. The scope of the conference as indicated by its topics has been updated to reflect the recent rapid development of the intelligent systems, such as in the area of control systems, decision support systems or artificial life, to mention only a few. The previous very successful conferences in the series were held in 1998 on Tenerife Island, Spain, in 2000 in Paisley, Scotland, and in 2002 in Malaga, Spain. The success of the previous conferences and the achieved high standard will be reflected also in the coming conference. TOPICS THEORY Artificial Immune Systems; Artificial Life; Case based Reasoning; Data Mining; Chaos; Clustering; Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint Programming; Expert Systems; Evolutionary Computation; Fuzzy Clustering; Fuzzy Control; Fuzzy learning; Fuzzy Modelling; Hybrid Systems; Intelligent Agents; Reasoning with Intervals; Knowledge Extraction; Machine Learning; Model based Reasoning; Multi Agent Systems; Neural Networks; Qualitative Reasoning; Wavelets TOPICS APPLICATIONS Concurrent Engineering; Condition Monitoring and Control; Damage Assessment; Data Mining and Knowledge Extraction; Design; Emerging Organizational Forms; Fault Detection; Hardware Implementations; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Industrial Diagnostics; Management; Medicine Robotics; Mobile robots; Monitoring and Control; Multimedia; Natural Language Processing; Pattern Recognition; Product Development; Resource Allocation; Remote Sensing; Robotics; Security; Sensors fusion; Signal Processing; Speech Processing and Recognition; Teledetection; Teleoperation INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Formally invited: L. Acosta, University of La Laguna Tenerife, Spain L. Almeida, INESC, Lisbon, Portugal E. Alpaydin, Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey P. Anderson, RIT, Rochester NY, USA B. Barbat, University of Sibiu, Romania A. Barreiro, University de Vigo, Spain S. Barro, U of Compostela, Spain Z. Bien, KAIST, Korea P. Bosc, IRISA/ENSSAT, France H. Bothe, University of Oerebro, Sweden R. Brown, ManSA, Australia B. Brumen University of Maribor, Slovenia J. Cabestany, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain B. Cremelleux, University of Caen, France F. Cuesta, University de Sevilla, Spain A. Cichocki, FRP, RIKEN, Japan R. Conejo, Universidad de Malaga, Spain B. Cremilleux, University de Caen, France P. Daponte, University of Sannio Benevento, Italy D. Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA D. Driankov, Linkoeping University, Sweden R. De Keyser, University of Gent, Belgium A. Dobnikar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia D. Driankov, University of Oerebro, Sweden T. Durrani, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom H. Elwany, University of Alexandria, Egypt J.-I. Estevez Damas University of La Laguna Tenerife, Spain C. Fyfe, University of Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom R. Gallard, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina M. Girolami, University of Paisley, Scotland I. Golob University of Maribor, Slovenia Z. Gomolka, Uniwersytet Szczecinski, Szczecin, Poland P. A. Gonzalez Lanza, Spain D. Grimaldi, Università della Calabria, Italy A. Gunasekaran, University of Massachusetts, USA F. Gurgen, Bogazici University, Turkey/Australia D. Heiss-Czedik, TU Vienna, Austria M. Heiss, Siemens Vienna, Austria H. Hellendoorn, Siemens Nederland B.V., The Netherlands A. Hussain, University of Stirling, United Kingdom E. Ifeachor, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom M. Jabri, University of Sydney, Australia G. Joya Caparros, University of Malaga, Spain C.A. Kaestner, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil I. Kalaykov, Oerebro University, Sweden P. Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia N. Krueger, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet, Germany B. Lees, University of Paisley, United Kingdom T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University , USA G.N. Marichal, Universoty of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain F. Maire, Queensland University of Technology Bribane, Australia F. Marin, University of Malaga, Spain M. Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia L. Moreno-Ruiz, University of La Laguna, Tenerife Spain G. Mukundan, Daimler-Chrysler, USA L. Moreno, University of La Laguna Tenerife, Spain M. Nakajima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Ch. Nguyen, Catholic University of America, USA A. Ollero, University of Seville, Spain C. Orlowski, University of Gdansk, Poland J.A. Ortega Ramirez, University of Seville, Spain G. Palm, University of Ulm, Germany I. Philippow, Technical University Illmenau, Germany T. Popescu, Romania H. Prade, Universite Paul Sabatier, France C. Rautenstrauch, University of Magdeburg, Germany B. Reusch, University of Dortmund, Germany B. Roffel, University of Twente, The Netherlands J. Ruiz-Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain J.-L.Sanchez University of La Laguna Tenerife, Spain A. Saffioti, University of Oerebro, Sweden E. Szczerbicki, University of Newcastle, Australia Tan Kok Kiong, National University of Singapore, Singapore A. Tharumarajah, CSIRO, Australia K. Turowski, University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich,Germany H.B. Verbruggen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands J.L. Verdegay, University of Granada, Spain D. Wend, University of Duisburg, Germany K. Zreik, University of Caen, France Important Dates Submission Deadline July 31, 2003 Notification August 31, 2003 Early registration September 15 - 30, 2003 Final Manuscripts + registration by October 15, 2003 Conference: February 29 - March 3, 2004 _____________________________________________