10 days to go for the video competition

The Youtube video competition for fuzzy logic is due on Sept. 10, 2011. It's a hard deadline. Please submit it on time. More information can be found at http://www.ieee-cis.org/videocompetition/videocompetition.htm

CFP: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems - Special Issue on Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems

I. AIM AND SCOPE
Type-2 fuzzy sets and systems have emerged during the past decade as major areas within the general field of fuzzy sets and systems. This is because they are a natural next step in the progression of general research about fuzzy sets and systems and because many applications that use type-2 fuzzy sets have already demonstrated significant performance improvements over using type-1 fuzzy sets.
During the past decade most of the work that used type-2 fuzzy sets and systems focused on the simplest kinds of such sets and system, namely interval type-2 fuzzy sets (also known as interval-valued fuzzy sets) and interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems. Recently, however, important advances have been made in the theory of general type-2 fuzzy sets and systems. Type-2 fuzzy sets also are important for computing with words, because words mean different things to different people and such linguistic uncertainty can be modeled using type-2 fuzzy sets.
The aim of this special issue is to highlight the most significant recent developments - advances - on the topics of type-2 fuzzy sets and systems, to identify the most recent research directions, and to publicize this area to a wider audience.

II. TOPICS COVERED
Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work in the areas including (but not limited to) the following (note that "type-2" includes interval type-2/interval-valued and general type-2):
- Theoretical studies of current type-2 paradigms and algorithms
- evelopments of new type-2 paradigms and algorithms
- Convincing applications of type-2 fuzzy logic
- Type-2 fuzzy logic control
- Type-2 classification/clustering
- Type-2 for computing with words
- Quantitative comparisons of type-2 and type-1 fuzzy systems
- Type-2 uncertainty measures
- Optimization under type-2 constraints
- Optimization of Type-2 fuzzy systems
- Learning type-2 fuzzy systems
- Adaptive type-2 fuzzy systems

III. IMPORTANT DATES
- April 30, 2012: Submission deadline
- July 31, 2012: Notification of the first-round review
- October15, 2012: Revised submission due
- January15, 2013: Final notice of acceptance/reject
- March 15, 2013: Final manuscript

IV. SUBMISSION
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the instructions of the "Information for Authors" section of the journal found at (http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tfs/authors/) and submission should be done through the IEEE TFS journal website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tfs-ieee/ and clearly mark "Special Issue on Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems" as comments to the Editor-in-Chief. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed using the standard procedure that is followed for regular submissions.

V. GUEST EDITORS
Jerry M. Mendel
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
3740 McClintock Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564
Tel: (213) 740-4445
Email: mendel@sipi.usc.edu

Robert I. John
Director of Centre for Computational Intelligence
De Montfort University
Room Gateway 4.58D,
The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH
United Kingdom
Tel: (44) 116 2078491
Email:rij@dmu.ac.uk

Hani Hagras
The Computational Intelligence Centre
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
England, UK
Tel: + 44 1206 873601
Email: hani@essex.ac.uk

CFP: IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine: Special Issue on Semantic Web Meets Computational Intelligence

Call for papers
The Semantic Web (SW) carries out the vision of a global web of data usable for both human and machines. This web, consisting of inter-connected instance data annotated with possibly expressive ontologies, promises a huge opportunity for web-based applications in many domains. As an open, decentralized, and complex system, the building and development of the Semantic Web bring up a number of new problems to which traditional Artificial Intelligence approaches (Description Logic, Logic Programming, Ontology Reasoning, etc.) are not effective and feasible. More and more researchers from the Semantic Web community are aware of the importance of introducing computational intelligence methodologies and approaches (e.g., including neural network, fuzzy logic or evolutionary computation) to study the complexity of such a huge web of data.

The goal of this special issue is to discuss on current trends in the marriage of the Semantic Web and Computational Intelligence. The specific topics solicited for this special issue will cover all aspects of computational intelligence research, including, but are not limited to:

- Fuzzy logic and uncertainty reasoning for Semantic Web
- Neural network and machine learning for Semantic Web
- Evolutionary computation for Semantic Web
- Hybrid approaches of EC, NN, and fuzzy logic for Semantic Web applications

All papers submitted to this special issue will be rigorously peer-reviewed by experts in this field. To ensure timely publication of this issue, the following timeline will be used for this special issue:

Manuscript Submission Deadline: October 15, 2011
Notice of Review: November 15, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: December 15, 2011

We look forward to your submissions to this special issue!

Guest Editor:
Huajun Chen (Zhejiang University, China)

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 8, No. 5, 2011

REGULAR PAPERS

A Generalized Multivariate Approach to Pattern Discovery from Replicated and Incomplete Genome-Wide Measurements
Dongxiao Zhu, Lipi Acharya, Hui Zhang
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.102

A Novel Knowledge-Driven Systems Biology Approach for Phenotype Prediction upon Genetic Intervention
Rui Chang, Robert Shoemaker, Wei Wang
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2011.18

A Preprocessing Procedure for Haplotype Inference by Pure Parsimony
Ekhine Irurozki, Borja Calvo, Jose A. Lozano
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.125

An Efficient Algorithm for Approximating Geodesic Distances in Tree Space
Simone Battagliero, Giuseppe Puglia, Saverio Vicario, Francesco Rubino, Gaetano Scioscia, Pietro Leo
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.121

Continuous Cotemporal Probabilistic Modeling of Systems Biology Networks from Sparse Data
David J. John, Jacquelyn S. Fetrow, James L. Norris
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.95

Designing Logical Rules to Model the Response of Biomolecular Networks with Complex Interactions: An Application to Cancer Modeling
Carito Guziolowski, Sylvain Blachon, Tatiana Baumuratova, Gautier Stoll, Ovidiu Radulescu, Anne Siegel
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.71

Efficient Localization of Hot Spots in Proteins Using a Novel S-Transform Based Filtering Approach
Sitanshu Sekhar Sahu, Ganapati Panda
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.109

Fast Flexible Modeling of RNA Structure Using Internal Coordinates
Samuel Coulbourn Flores, Michael A. Sherman, Christopher M. Bruns, Peter Eastman, Russ Biagio Altman
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.104

Improved Algorithms for Finding Gene Teams and Constructing Gene Team Trees
Biing-Feng Wang, Chien-Hsin Lin
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.127

Metasample-Based Sparse Representation for Tumor Classification
Chun-Hou Zheng, Lei Zhang, To-Yee Ng, Simon C.K. Shiu, De-Shuang Huang
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2011.20

Multiple Sequence Assembly from Reads Alignable to a Common Reference Genome
Qian Peng, Andrew D. Smith
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.107

Parameterized Algorithmics for Finding Connected Motifs in Biological Networks
Nadja Betzler, Rene van Bevern, Michael R. Fellows, Christian Komusiewicz, Rolf Niedermeier
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2011.19

Probabilistic Models for Semisupervised Discriminative Motif Discovery in DNA Sequences
Jong Kyoung Kim, Seungjin Choi
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.84

SCJ: A Breakpoint-Like Distance that Simplifies Several Rearrangement Problems
Pedro Feijao, Joao Meidanis
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2011.34

SEGA: Semiglobal Graph Alignment for Structure-Based Protein Comparison
Marco Mernberger, Gerhard Klebe, Eyke Hullermeier
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2011.35

SLIDER: A Generic Metaheuristic for the Discovery of Correlated Motifs in Protein-Protein Interaction Networks
Peter Boyen, Dries Van Dyck, Frank Neven, Roeland C.H.J. van Ham, Aalt D.J. van Dijk
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2011.17

Some Mathematical Refinements Concerning Error Minimization in the Genetic Code
Harry Buhrman, Peter T.S. van der Gulik, Steven M. Kelk, Wouter M. Koolen, Leen Stougie
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2011.40

Using Kernel Alignment to Select Features of Molecular Descriptors in a QSAR Study
William W.L. Wong, Forbes J. Burkowski
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2011.31

SHORT PAPERS

A Mathematical Model for the Validation of Gene Selection Methods
Marco Muselli, Alberto Bertoni, Marco Frasca, Alessandro Beghini, Francesca Ruffino, Giorgio Valentini
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.83

A SAT-Based Algorithm for Finding Attractors in Synchronous Boolean Networks
Elena Dubrova, Maxim Teslenko
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.20

Fast Exact Algorithms for the Closest String and Substring Problems with Application to the Planted (L,d)-Motif Model
Zhi-Zhong Chen, Lusheng Wang
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2011.21

On the Distribution of the Number of Cycles in the Breakpoint Graph of a Random Signed Permutation
Simona Grusea
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.123

Probabilistic Mixture Regression Models for Alignment of LC-MS Data
Getachew K. Befekadu, Mahlet G. Tadesse, Tsung-Heng Tsai, Habtom W. Ressom
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.88

Summarizing Probe Intensities of Affymetrix GeneChip 3' Expression Arrays Taking into Account Day-to-Day Variability
Paolo Magni, Angela Simeone, Sandra Healy, Antonella Isacchi, Roberta Bosotti
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.82

The Quality Preserving Database: A Computational Framework for Encouraging Collaboration, Enhancing Power and Controlling False Discovery
Ehud Aharoni, Hani Neuvirth, Saharon Rosset
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.105

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 19, issue 3, 2011

1. Computing the Centroid of a General Type-2 Fuzzy Set by Means of the Centroid-Flow Algorithm
Author(s): Zhai, D. Mendel, J. M.
Page(s): 401 - 422
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5678639

2. Stability Analysis of Recurrent Fuzzy Systems: A Hybrid System and SOS Approach
Author(s): Schwung, A. Gusner, T. Adamy, J.
Page(s): 423 - 431
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5680958

3. A Tabu–Harmony Search-Based Approach to Fuzzy Linear Regression
Author(s): Mashinchi, M. H. Orgun, M. A. Mashinchi, M. Pedrycz , W.
Page(s): 432 - 448
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5688449

4. A New Methodology for the Online Adaptation of Fuzzy Self-Structuring Controllers
Author(s): Cara, A. B. Pomares , H. Rojas, I.
Page(s): 449 - 464
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5710578

5. Application of Fuzzy Sets to Aggregate Production Planning With Multiproducts and Multitime Periods
Author(s): Liang, T.-F. Cheng, H.-W. Chen, P.-Y. Shen, K.-H.
Page(s): 465 - 477
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5713250

6. Relaxed Stability Conditions for Continuous-Time T-S Fuzzy-Control Systems Via Augmented Multi-Indexed Matrix Approach
Author(s): Zhang , H. Xie, X.
Page(s): 478 - 492
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5713252

7. Observer-Based T–S Fuzzy Control for a Class of General Nonaffine Nonlinear Systems Using Generalized Projection-Update Laws
Author(s): Wang, W.-Y. Chien, Y.-H. Lee, T.-T.
Page(s): 493 – 504
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5713834

8. LMI-Based Stability Analysis for Fuzzy-Model-Based Control Systems Using Artificial T-S Fuzzy Model
Author(s): Lam, H. K.
Page(s): 505 - 513
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5762343

9. Distributed Fuzzy Control Design of Nonlinear Hyperbolic PDE Systems With Application to Nonisothermal Plug-Flow Reactor
Author(s): Wang, J.-W. Wu, H.-N. Li, H.-X.
Page(s): 514 - 526
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5714745

10. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in Group Decision Making and its Optimization With an Allocation of Information Granularity
Author(s): Pedrycz, W. Song, M.
Page(s): 527 - 539
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5714744

11. Bisimulations for Fuzzy-Transition Systems
Author(s): Cao, Y. Chen, G. Kerre, E. E.
Page(s): 540 - 552
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5716670

12. T–S Fuzzy Model-Based Robust Stabilization for Networked Control Systems With Probabilistic Sensor and Actuator Failure
Author(s): Tian, E. Yue , D. Yang, T. C. Gu, Z. Lu, G.
Page(s): 553 - 561
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5721808

13. Learning Choquet-Integral-Based Metrics for Semisupervised Clustering
Author(s): Beliakov, G. James, S. Li, G.
Page(s): 562 - 574
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5725180

14. Template-Based Shell Clustering Using a Line-Segment Representation of Data
Author(s): Wang, T.
Page(s): 575 - 580
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5686926

15. A Cluster-Validity Index Combining an Overlap Measure and a Separation Measure Based on Fuzzy-Aggregation Operators
Author(s): Le Capitaine, H. Frelicot, C.
Page(s): 580 - 588
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5688318

16. Polynomial Fuzzy-Model-Based Control Systems: Stability Analysis Via Piecewise-Linear Membership Functions
Author(s): Lam, H. K.
Page(s): 588 - 593
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5719549

17. Further Theoretical Justification of the $k$ -Samples Variation Approach for Discrete-Time Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Systems
Author(s): Lee, D. H. Park, J. B. Joo, Y. H..
Page(s): 594 - 597
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5674079

18. Comments on "Constrained Infinite-Horizon Model Predictive Control for Fuzzy-Discrete-Time Systems"
Author(s): Ding, B.
Page(s): 598 - 600
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5729804

19. Rebuttal to Comments on "Constrained Infinite-Horizon Model Predictive Control for Fuzzy-Discrete-Time Systems"
Author(s): Xia, Y. Yang, H. Shi, P. Fu, M.
Page(s): 601 - 602
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5729805

20. Special issue on advances in type-2 fuzzy sets and systems
Page(s): 603
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5779961

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks; Volume 22, Issue 7, July 2011

The articles can be retrieved on IEEE Xplore:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=5937482
or directly by clicking the individual paper URL below.

Volume 22, Issue 7, July 2011

1. Title: Growing Hierarchical Probabilistic Self-Organizing Graphs
Authors: Ezequiel Lopez-Rubio; Esteban Jose Palomo
Page(s): 997-1008
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5766757

2. Title: Cluster Synchronization in Directed Networks Via Intermittent Pinning Control
Authors: Xiwei Liu; Tianping Chen
Page(s): 1009-1020
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5768081

3. Title: Selectable and Unselectable Sets of Neurons in Recurrent Neural Networks With Saturated Piecewise Linear Transfer Function
Authors: Lei Zhang; Zhang Yi
Page(s): 1021-1031
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5772937

4. Title: LMI-Based Approach for Global Asymptotic Stability Analysis of Recurrent Neural Networks with Various Delays and Structures
Authors: Zhanshan Wang; Huaguang Zhang; Bin Jiang
Page(s): 1032-1045
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5772936

5. Title: Analysis and Compensation of the Effects of Analog VLSI Arithmetic on the LMS Algorithm
Authors: Gonzalo Carvajal; Miguel Figueroa; Daniel Sbarbaro; Waldo Valenzuela
Page(s): 1046-1060
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5776683

6. Title: A Sequential Learning Algorithm for Complex-Valued Self-Regulating Resource Allocation Network-CSRAN
Authors: Sundaram Suresh; Ramasamy Savitha; Narasimhan Sundararajan
Page(s): 1061-1072
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5782993

7. Title: Adaptive Neural Network Decentralized Backstepping Output-Feedback Control for Nonlinear Large-Scale Systems With Time Delays
Authors: Shao Cheng Tong; Yong Ming Li; Hua-Guang Zhang
Page(s): 1073-1086
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5783302

8. Title: Sparse Neural Networks With Large Learning Diversity
Authors: Vincent Gripon; Claude Berrou
Page(s): 1087-1096
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5784337

9. Title: Phase Synchronization Motion and Neural Coding in Dynamic Transmission of Neural Information
Authors: Rubin Wang; Zhikang Zhang; Jingyi Qu; Jianting Cao
Page(s): 1097-1106
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5784338

10. Title: Iterative Algorithm for Joint Zero Diagonalization With Application in Blind Source Separation
Authors: Wei-Tao Zhang; Shun-Tian Lou
Page(s): 1107-1118
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5871331

11. Title: Local Linear Discriminant Analysis Framework Using Sample Neighbors
Authors: Zizhu Fan; Yong Xu; David Zhang
Page(s): 1119-1132
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5893948

12. Title: Adaptive Learning and Control for MIMO System Based on Adaptive Dynamic Programming
Authors: Jian Fu; Haibo He; Xinmin Zhou
Page(s): 1133-1148
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5892895

13. Title: Spectral Clustering on Multiple Manifolds
Authors: Yong Wang; Yuan Jiang; Yi Wu; Zhi-Hua Zhou
Page(s): 1149-1161
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5892896

14. Title: Adaptive Neural Output Feedback Tracking Control for a Class of Uncertain Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems
Authors: Yan-Jun Liu; C. L. Philip Chen; Guo-Xing Wen; Shaocheng Tong
Page(s): 1162-1167
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5871343

CFP: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation

2012 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation

The annual IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) will be held jointly with the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) and the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) as part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia. Cross-fertilization of the three technical disciplines and newly emerging technologies is strongly encouraged.

Call for Contributed Papers

IEEE CEC 2012 will feature a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote lectures, special sessions, tutorials and workshops, panel discussions as well as poster presentations. In addition, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions, and networking to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. The annual IEEE CEC covers all topics in evolutionary computation including

Ant colony optimization
Molecular and quantum computing
Artificial life
Particle Swarm Optimization
Agent-based systems
Artificial immune systems
Bioinformatics and bioengineering
Representation and operators
Coevolution and collective behaviour
Industrial applications of evolutionary computation
Combinatorial and numerical optimization
Evolutionary game theory
Constraint and uncertainty handling
Cognitive systems and applications
Evolutionary data mining
Computational finance and economics
Evolutionary learning systems
Estimation of distribution algorithms
Evolvable/adaptive hardware and systems
Evolutionary design
Evolving neural networks and fuzzy systems
Evolutionary scheduling
Emerging areas

Paper Submission and Inquiries
Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to IEEE CEC 2012. All papers are to be submitted electronically through the IEEE WCCI 2012 website http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/.

For general inquiries about IEEE CEC 2012, please contact Conference Chair Garry Greenwood at greeenwood@ieee.org.

For Program inquiries please contact Program Chair: Xiaodong Li at xiaodong.li@rmit.edu.au

General Enquires for IEEE WCCI 2012 should be sent to the General Chair: Hussein Abbass at h.abbass@adfa.edu.au

Call for Special Sessions

The IEEE CEC 2012 Program Committee solicits proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the congress. Special sessions, to be organized by international recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Proposals should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, biographic and contact information of the organizers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposal to the Special Session Chair: Mengjie Zhang at mengjie.zhang@ecs.vuw.ac.nz.

Call for Tutorials and Workshops

IEEE CEC 2012 will also feature pre-congress tutorials and post-congress workshops, covering fundamental and advanced evolutionary computation topics. A tutorial or workshop proposal should include title, outline, expected enrollment, and presenter/organizer biography. We invite you to submit proposals to the Tutorial and Workshop Chair: Janet Wiles at janetw@itee.uq.edu.au.

Call for Competitions

IEEE CEC 2012 will host competitions to stimulate research in evolutionary computation, promote fair evaluations, and attract students. The proposals for new competitions should include descriptions of the problems addressed, motivations and expected impact on evolutionary computation, data description, evaluation procedures and established baselines, schedules, anticipated number of participants, and a biography of the main team members. We invite you to submit proposals to the Competitions Chair: Philip Hingston at p.hingston@ecu.edu.au.

Important Dates

Competition proposals submission deadline: October 17, 2011
Special sessions proposal submission deadline: November 21, 2011
Special session decision notification: November 28, 2011
Paper submission deadline: December 19, 2011
Tutorial and Workshop proposal submission deadline: January 16, 2012
Tutorial and Workshop decision notification: January 23, 2012
Paper acceptance notification date: February 20, 2012
Final paper submission deadline: April 2, 2012
Early registration: April 2, 2012
Conference dates: June 10-15, 2012

CFP: 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

The annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) will be held jointly with the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) and the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC) as part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia. Cross-fertilization of the three technical disciplines and newly emerging technologies is strongly encouraged.

Call for Contributed Papers

IJCNN 2012 will feature a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of neural networks and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote lectures, special sessions, tutorials and workshops, panel discussions as well as poster presentations. In addition, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions, and networking to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. The annual IJCNN covers all topics in neural networks including:

Neural network theory & models
Computational neuroscience
Learning and adaptation
Pattern recognition
Cognitive models
Machine vision and image processing
Brain-machine interfaces
Collective intelligence
Neural control
Hybrid systems
Evolutionary neural systems
Self-aware systems
Neurodynamics and complex systems
Data mining
Neuroinformatics
Sensor networks and intelligent systems
Neural hardware
Applications
Neural network applications
Computational biology
Neuroengineering
Bioinformatics
Emerging areas

Paper Submission and Inquiries
Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to IJCNN 2012. All papers are to be submitted electronically through the IEEE WCCI 2012 website http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/.

For IJCNN inquiries please contact Conference Chair: Cesare Alippi at cesare.alippi@polimi.it

For Program inquiries please contact Program Chair: Kate Smith-Miles at kate.smith-miles@sci.monash.edu.au

General Enquires for IEEE WCCI 2012 should be sent to the General Chair: Hussein Abbass at h.abbass@adfa.edu.au

Call for Special Sessions

The IJCNN 2012 Program Committee solicits proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the Congress. Special sessions, to be organized by international recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Proposals should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, biographic and contact information of the organizers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposal to the Special Session Chair: Brijesh Verma at b.verma@cqu.edu.au

Call for Tutorials and Workshops

IJCNN 2012 will also feature pre-Congress tutorials and workshops, covering fundamental and advanced neural network topics. A tutorial or workshop proposal should include title, outline, expected enrollment, and presenter/organizer biography. We invite you to submit proposals to the Tutorial and Workshop Chair: Toshio Fukuda at fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp.

Call for Competitions

IJCNN 2012 will host competitions to stimulate research in neural networks, promote fair evaluations, and attract students. The proposals for new competitions should include descriptions of the problems addressed, motivations, expected impact on neural networks and machine learning, and established baselines, schedules, anticipated number of participants, and a biography of the main team members. We invite you to submit proposals to the Competitions Chair: Sung-Bae Cho at sbcho@yonsei.ac.kr

Important Dates

Competition proposals submission deadline: October 17, 2011
Special sessions proposal submission deadline: November 21, 2011
Special session decision notification: November 28, 2011
Paper submission deadline: December 19, 2011
Tutorial and Workshop proposal submission deadline: January 16, 2012
Tutorial and Workshop decision notification: January 23, 2012
Paper acceptance notification date: February 20, 2012
Final paper submission deadline: April 2, 2012
Early registration: April 2, 2012
Conference dates: June 10-15, 2012

CFP: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

2012 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

The annual IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) will be held jointly with the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) and the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC) as part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia. Cross-fertilization of the three technical disciplines and newly emerging technologies is strongly encouraged.

Call for Contributed Papers

FUZZ-IEEE 2012 will feature a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of fuzzy systems and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote lectures, special sessions, tutorials and workshops, panel discussions as well as poster presentations. In addition, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions, and networking to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. The annual FUZZ-IEEE covers all topics in fuzzy systems including:

Fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory
Fuzzy document retrieval systems, text mining
Lattice theory and multi-valued logics
Fuzzy systems for natural language processing
Approximate reasoning
Fuzzy information processing
Type-2 fuzzy logic
Fuzzy and rough data analysis, fuzzy statistics
Rough sets and random sets
Fuzzy data mining and forecasting
Fuzzy mathematics
Fuzzy systems modeling and identification
Possibility theory and imprecise probability
Fuzzy control and intelligent systems
Fuzzy decision making and decision support systems
Fuzzy systems for robotics
Fuzzy optimization and design
Fuzzy pattern recognition
Fuzzy man-machine interfaces, emotional computing
Fuzzy clustering
Fuzzy computing with words, granular computing
Fuzzy systems architectures and hardware
Fuzzy systems for agent technology
Fuzzy web intelligence
Hybrid fuzzy systems (fuzzy-neuro-evolutionary)
Fuzzy sets in bioinformatics
Fuzzy image and multimedia processing
Fuzzy databases, fuzzy data summarization
Medical, financial, industrial applications
Emerging areas

Paper Submission and Inquiries

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to FUZZ-IEEE 2010. All papers are to be submitted electronically through the IEEE WCCI 2012 website http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/.

For FUZZ-IEEE inquiries, please contact Conference Chair Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier: Bernadette.Bouchon-Meunier@lip6.fr.

For Program inquiries please contact Program Chair James M. Keller: KellerJ@missouri.edu.

General Enquires for IEEE WCCI 2012 should be sent to the General Chair: Hussein Abbass at h.abbass@adfa.edu.au

Call for Special Sessions

The FUZZ-IEEE 2012 Program Committee solicits proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the Congress. Special sessions, to be organized by international recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Proposals should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, biographic and contact information of the organizers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposal to the Special Session Chair: Laszlo T. Koczy at koczy@tmit.bme.hu.

Call for Tutorials and Workshops

FUZZ-IEEE 2012 will also feature pre-Congress tutorials and workshops, covering fundamental and advanced evolutionary computation topics. A tutorial or workshop proposal should include title, outline, expected enrollment, and presenter/organizer biography. We invite you to submit proposals to the Tutorial and Workshop Chair: Scott Dick at dick@ee.ualberta.ca.

Call for Competitions

FUZZ-IEEE 2012 will host competitions to stimulate research in fuzzy systems, promote fair evaluations, and attract students. The proposals for new competitions should include descriptions of the problems addressed, motivations and expected impact on fuzzy systems, data description, evaluation procedures and established baselines, schedules, anticipated number of participants, and a biography of the main team members. We invite you to submit proposals to the Competitions Chair: Simon Lucas at sml@essex.ac.uk

Important Dates

Competition proposals submission deadline: October 17, 2011
Special sessions proposal submission deadline: November 21, 2011
Special session decision notification: November 28, 2011
Paper submission deadline: December 19, 2011
Tutorial and Workshop proposal submission deadline: January 16, 2012
Tutorial and Workshop decision notification: January 23, 2012
Paper acceptance notification date: February 20, 2012
Final paper submission deadline: April 2, 2012
Early registration: April 2, 2012
Conference dates: June 10-15, 2012

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