Ajith Abraham & Katrin Franke 
Intelligent Systems Design and Applications 

ISDA’03 General Chair’s Message On behalf of the ISDA’03 organizing committee, I wish to extend a very warm welcome to the conference and Tulsa in August 2003. The conference program committee has organized an exciting and invigorating program comprising pres- entations from distinguished experts in the field, and important and wide-ranging contributions on state-of-the-art research that provide new insights into ‘Current Innovations in Intelligent Systems Design and Applications". ISDA’03 builds on the success of last years. ISDA’02 was held in Atlanta, USA, August 07-08, 2002 and attracted participants from over 25 countries. ISDA’03, the Third International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, held during August 10-13, 2003, in Tulsa, USA presents a rich and exciting program. The main themes addressed by this conference are: Architectures of intelligent systems Image, speech and signal processing Internet modeling Data mining Business and management applications Control and automation Software agents Knowledge management ISDA’03 is hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State Univer- sity, USA. ISDA’03 is technically sponsored by IEEE Systems Man and Cyber- netics Society, World Federation on Soft Computing, European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, Springer Verlag- Germany, Center of Excellence in In- formation Technology and Telecommunications (COEITT) and Oklahoma State University. ISDA’03 received 117 technical paper submissions from over 28 countries, 7 tutorials, 3 special technical sessions and 1 workshop proposal.