ORGANIZERS GENERAL CHAIRPERSONS Prof. Cesare Alippi Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Dr. Enrique H. Ruspini Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRPERSONS Prof. Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA Prof. Mel Siegel The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT AND PUBLICITY CHAIRPERSON Dr. Leonid Perlovsky Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom, MA, USA REGISTRATION CHAIRPERSON Mrs. Lee Myers Myers-Smith Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Mr. Robert Myers Los Angeles, CA, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dr. Fabio Scotti, University of Milan, Italy Dr. Helmut Schiller, GKSS, Germany Prof. Rauf Kh. Sadykhov, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus Prof. Emil M. Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada Prof. Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Dr. Pierre Payeur, University of Ottawa, Canada Prof. Gilles P. Mauris, University of Savoie, France Prof. Fernando López Peña, Universidade da Coruña, Spain Dr. Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NOAA, USA Prof. Lazlo Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Dr. Rajiv Khosla, La Trobe University, Australia Alexander I. Galushkin, Scientific Center of Neurocomputers, Russia Prof. Vincenzo Di Lecce, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Dr. Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University of Aizu, Japan Dr. Eric Benoit, University of Savoie, France Prof. Peter Anderson, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Prof. Robert X. Gao, University of Massachusetts, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Prof. Cesare Alippi Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Dr. David Braudaway Albuquerque, NM, USA Prof. Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA Mr. Robert Myers Los Angeles, CA, USA Prof. Vincenzo Piuri Dept. Information Technologies, University of Milan, Crema (CR), Italy Dr. Enrique H. Ruspini Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA Prof. Mel Siegel Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA