As society moves on to a new era to establish its own membership, the Newsletter will serve as the communication channel between the members and its administrating organization. Beginning 2003, the printed version of newsletter will  be bundled with NNS membership. In addition to what has been included in the past, Newsletter will highlight some state-of-the-art survey articles in the areas of interest to its membership. The topics such as evolutionary multi-objective optimization, particle swarm intelligence, data mining and knowledge extraction, fuzzy intelligent Internet, neuro-informatics, computational neuroscience, artificial life and artificial immune systems are a few examples.Your valuable comments will be greatly appreciated.

Please send contributions for the first issue of printed version Newsletter pertained to
"General Announcements (awards nomination and decision, software codes, new books)"
"Job Openings (in academia, industry, and research labs)"
"TRs & Dissertations (recent technical report and dissertations announcements with links) "
"Journals (table of contents, new journal announcements, call for special issues)"
"Conferences (announcements, call for papers, call for attendances)"
before October 25th, 2002. We encourage contributors to provide essential information only and reserve the right to revise the contents.

Contributions have to be sent to: "gyen@ceat.okstate.edu". It would be useful if articles are already sent in the format that we use, starting with a
"Contributed by:..." and a title centered in the next line. Each line should be no more than 80 characters wide. Please respect the MAXIMUM
LENGTH OF 6 Kb per contribution.

Gary G. Yen
Oklahoma State University
(Phone) +1-405-744-7743
(Fax) +1-405-744-9198
(E-mail) gyen@ceat.okstate.edu