All papers submitted to this conference will be double-blind peer reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee and related technical committees. Acceptance will be based primarily on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation, and references. The conference chair makes the final decision on the acceptance or rejection of the paper. ICA 2009 will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International Conferences on: · Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2009) · Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2009) · Computational Intelligence (CI 2009)