• The deadline for the camera-ready versions have been extended to July 15, 2009.
• The notifications of acceptance have been sent to authors' emails on June 15, 2009. If you have not received a notification email, you can also follow the "View Decision & Reviews" link on the Submission website.

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.

Important Dates

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

Tracks

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

Special Sessions

1. Special Session on Cognitive Cybernetics and Brain Modeling
2. Special Session on Computer Graphics
3. Special Session on Biological Data Management, Mining, and Analysis
4. Special Session on NLP
5. Special Session on Multiagent Systems
6. Special Session on Audio Speech and Language Technologies
7. Special Session on Software Engineering
8. Special Session on Software Quality
9. Special Session on Software Validation & Verification (V&V)

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