I would be very grateful if this could be posted on the Categories newgroup .. thanks ... Nick Call For Papers: Applied Category Theory - Belgium 1998 The 15th International Congress on Cybernetics, to be held from August 24 to 28, 1998,at the Institute for Computer Sciences of the University of Namur, Belgium, is including a symposium on applied category theory. The symposium seeks to bring together researchers with common interests in formalization and analysis of information and other complex systems with category theory. Areas of interest include software engineering, knowledge and data bases, distributed networks, artificial cognition, neural nets, fuzzy logic, consciousness and quantum computation. Authors wishing to submit a paper should send an abstract as soon as possible to: International Association for Cybernetics Palais des Expositions, avenue Sergent Vrithoff, 2 B-5000 NAMUR, Belgique - Belgium Tel. + 32-81-71.71.71 - Fax + 32-81-71.71.00 E. Mail address : Cyb@info.fundp.ac.be English and French are the official languages for this symposium. The conference fee for authors (before 30th April) is 11,000 Belgian Francs. Students and participants from developing countries may apply to the Secretariat of the International Association for Cybernetics for special rates. Any queries on the subject matter of the symposium should be addressed to me. Nick Rossiter, Computing Science, Newcastle University, England NE1 7RU