4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing The IIP conference series provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, university and industry to present their latest research findings in any aspects of intelligent information processing.This time, we especially encourage papers on Data Mining, Knowledge Management, intelligent agent, machine learning, autonomic reasoning etc.We also welcome papers that highlight successful modern applications of IIP, such as Biomedicine, Bioinformatics, e-Services, e-Learning, Business Intelligence.IIP-2006 attempts to meet the needs of a large and diverse community. Topics: Topics include, but are not limited to: %G•%@ Autonomic computing %G•%@ Automatic reasoning %G•%@ Bayesian networks %G•%@ Belief revision %G•%@ Bioinformatics %G•%@ Biomedicine %G•%@ Business intelligence %G•%@ Cognitive modeling %G•%@ Computational %G•%@ Computer vision %G•%@ Data Mining %G•%@ E-learning %G•%@ E-services %G•%@ Evolutionary computation %G•%@ Fuzzy and rough set %G•%@ Image processing %G•%@ Information retrieval %G•%@ Knowledge discovery & Data mining %G•%@ Knowledge engineering and management %G•%@ Knowledge grid %G•%@ Knowledge representation %G•%@ Learning theory %G•%@ Logics %G•%@ Logic programming %G•%@ Machine translation %G•%@ Mobile agents %G•%@ Model-based diagnosis %G•%@ Natural language processing %G•%@ Neural computing %G•%@ Ontology %G•%@ Reinforcement learning %G•%@ Software engineering %G•%@ Speech understanding and interaction %G•%@ Text analysis and text understanding %G•%@ Web intelligence %G•%@ Very large knowledge processing Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Proposals: The conference Program Committee invites proposals for workshops, tutorial and panel. Proposals should be received by one of the program chairs no later than May 10, 2006. Submission: Papers should be no longer than 10 pages including all tables, figures, and references but excluding a cover page. Fonts should be in 10-12 pt. Each submission must include one cover page which should contain: %G•%@ Title of the paper with an abstract of no more than 500 words; %G•%@ A few keywords, from the list above where possible, giving a clear indication of topics; %G•%@ Author names with affiliations, complete postal addresses, and phone numbers; %G•%@ Email address of the contact author. Please click here (http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip/iip2006/submission.jsp) to get the detail paper format information or the template. All papers should be sent electronically (preferably in PDF) to a Web submission page to be accessible from the IIP2006 Web site (http://www.intsci.ac.cn/iip/iip2006/ ). Important Dates : Submission Deadline 1 May, 2006 Author Notification 1 June, 2006 Camera-ready Due 1 July, 2006 Contact details Yalei Hao School of Computer and Information Science University of South Australia Adelaide, Australia Tel: (61) 8-83023982 Fax: (61) 8-83023381 E-mail: Yalei.Hao@unisa.edu.au Jiewen Luo Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100080, China Tel (86)10-82610254 Fax(86)10-62567724 E-mail: luojw@ics.ict.ac.cn