ANNIE 2009 will be held on November 2 through November 4, 2009, at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. This will be the nineteenth international gathering of researchers interested in Intelligent Systems Design using neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, and complex systems. The previous conferences each drew approximately 150 papers from twelve countries. The proceedings of all conferences were published by ASME Press as hardbound books in eighteen volumes. The last volume, edited by Dagli, et. al., was titled "Smart Systems Engineering: Computational Intelligence in Architecting Engineering Systems."

ANNIE 2009 will cover the theory of Computational Intelligence and Systems Engineering techniques, namely; neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, and complex systems. Presentations dealing with applications of these techniques are encouraged in the areas of: bioinformatics, data mining, evolutionary computation, financial engineering, fuzzy systems, infrastructure systems, smart engineering systems, and systems engineering & architecting.