IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 21 Issue 4, August 2017

1. Cross-Domain Reuse of Extracted Knowledge in Genetic Programming for Image Classification

Author(s): Muhammad Iqbal; Bing Xue; Harith Al-Sahaf; Mengjie Zhang

Page(s): 569 - 587

2. Stochastic Runtime Analysis of the Cross-Entropy Algorithm

Author(s): Zijun Wu; Michael Kolonko; Rolf H. Möhring

Page(s): 616 - 628

3. An Evolutionary Transfer Reinforcement Learning Framework for Multiagent Systems

Author(s): Si Yaqing Hou; Yew-Soon Ong; Liang Feng; Jacek M. Zurada

Page(s): 601 - 615

4. Matching-Based Selection With Incomplete Lists for Decomposition Multiobjective Optimization

Author(s): Mengyuan Wu; Ke Li; Sam Kwong; Yu Zhou; Qingfu Zhang

Page(s): 554 - 568              

5. Toward a Steady-State Analysis of an Evolution Strategy on a Robust Optimization Problem With Noise-Induced Multimodality

Author(s): Hans-Georg Beyer; Bernhard Sendhoff

Page(s): 629 - 643

6. Surrogate-Assisted Cooperative Swarm Optimization of High-Dimensional Expensive Problems

Author(s): Chaoli Sun; Yaochu Jin; Ran Cheng; Jinliang Ding; Jianchao Zeng

Page(s): 644 - 660

7. Improving Diversity in Evolutionary Algorithms: New Best Solutions for Frequency Assignment

Author(s): Licheng Carlos Segura; Arturo Hernández-Aguirre; Francisco Luna; Enrique Alba

Page(s): 539 - 553

8. Personalized Search Inspired Fast Interactive Estimation of Distribution Algorithm and Its Application

Author(s): Yang Chen; Xiaoyan Sun; Dunwei Gong; Yong Zhang; Jong Choi; Scott Klasky

Page(s): 588 - 600

9. Seeking Multiple Solutions: An Updated Survey on Niching Methods and Their Applications

Author(s): Xiaodong Li; Michael G. Epitropakis; Kalyanmoy Deb; Andries Engelbrecht

Page(s): 518 - 538

10. Changing the Intensity of Interaction Based on Individual Behavior in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game

Author(s): Jiaqi Li; Chunyan Zhang; Qinglin Sun; Zengqiang Chen; Jianlei Zhang

Page(s): 506 - 517

11. Efficient Resource Allocation in Cooperative Co-Evolution for Large-Scale Global Optimization

Author(s): Ming Yang; Mohammad Nabi Omidvar; Changhe Li; Xiaodong Li; Zhihua Cai; Borhan Kazimipour; Xin Yao

Page(s): 493 - 505

CFP: 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence

08-13 July 2018, Windsor Convention Centre, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

www.ieee-wcci.org

On behalf of the IEEE WCCI 2018 Organizing Committee, it is our great pleasure to invite you to the bi-annual IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), which is the largest technical event in the field of computational intelligence. The IEEE WCCI 2018 will host three conferences: The 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2018 - co-sponsored by International Neural Network Society - INNS), the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2018), and the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2018). It encourages cross-fertilization of ideas among the three big areas and provides a forum for intellectuals from all over the world to discuss and present their research findings on computational intelligence.

IEEE WCCI 2018 will be held at the Windsor Convention Centre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Known as one of the most beautiful cities in the World, Rio de Janeiro is the first city to receive the certificate of World Heritage for its Cultural Landscape. This unprecedented title was recently conferred by the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO).

Confirmed Speakers to date:

• Zhaohui Wu, Professor with the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University and the president of Zhejiang University "Cyborg Intelligence: Towards the Convergence of Machine and Biological Intelligence"
• Irina Perfilieva, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head of the Theoretical Research Department in the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic "Fuzzy (F-) transforms - the efficient tool for (even big) data preprocessing"
• Jose L. Verdegay, Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Spain "On decision and optimization models and their applications"
• Marcos Valle, Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Campinas, Brazil "Fuzzy Associative Memories: Theory and Applications"
• Hussein Abbass, Professor of Information Technology at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia "Trusted Computational Intelligence"
• Ong Yew Soon, Professor and Chair of the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore "'Memes' as Building Blocks of Intelligence: From Refinement to Higher Order Representations in Transfer and Multitask Optimization"
• Miguel A. Nicolelis, Professor in Neuroscience, Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University, USA "Brain-machine interfaces: from basic science to neurological rehabilitation"

Special Sessions: Special session proposals should include the title, aim and scope (including a list of main topics), a short biography of all organizers, and a list of potential contributors. All special sessions proposals should be submitted to the Special Sessions Co-Chairs, according to the most appropriate topic:

Cesare Alippi (IJCNN), Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Patricia Melin (FUZZ-IEEE), Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Chuan-Kang Ting (CEC), National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Mengjie Zhang (Cross-Disciplinary and CI Applications), School of Engineering & Computer Science, New Zealand

Tutorials: Tutorials offer a unique opportunity to disseminate in-depth information on specific topics in computational intelligence. If you are interested in proposing a tutorial, would like to recommend someone who might be interested, or have questions about tutorials, please contact the Tutorials Co-Chairs:

Keeley Crocket, Manchester Metrolpolitan University, UK
Andre Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Carmelo Filho, University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Competitions: Prospective competition organizers are invited to submit their proposals to the Competitions Co-Chairs below.

Simon Lucas, University of Essex, UK
Chang-Shing Lee, Nacional University of Tainan, Taiwan

Workshops: The overall purpose of a workshop is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on active and emerging topics of Computational Intelligence. Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit their proposals to the Workshops Co-Chairs below:

Richard Duro, University of Coruna, Spain
Robi Polikar, Rowan University, USA

Important Dates :

Special Session & Workshop Proposals Deadline:	15 December 2017
Competition & Tutorial Proposals Deadline:	15 December 2017
Paper Submission Deadline:	15 January 2018
Paper Acceptance Notification Date:	15 March 2018
Final Paper Submission & Early Registration Deadline:	1st May 2018
IEEE WCCI 2018 conference:	08-13 July 2018

For more information on the congress, please visit: www.ieee-wcci.org

2018 IEEE WCCI General Co-Chairs and Conference Chairs :

Marley Vellasco, General Co-Chair Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil INNS Director	Pablo Estevez, General Co-Chair University of Chile, Santiago IEEE-CIS President 2016-2017

• Teresa Ludermir IJCNN Conference Chair, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
• Gary Yen, IEEE-CEC Conference Chair, Oklahoma State University, USA
• Fernando Gomide, IEEE-FUZZ Conference Chair, University of Campinas, Brazil

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IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine August 2017 Features

We are pleased to offer you the August 2017 issue of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine in digital form. This is part of ongoing efforts by the society to increase the value of the magazine to our readers. 

Data-to-Text Generation Improves Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
by Dimitra Gkatzia, Oliver Lemon, and Verena Rieser 
Domain Transfer for Deep Natural Language Generation from Abstract Meaning Representationsby Nina Dethlefs

Learning to Generate Descriptions of Visual Data Anchored in Spatial Relationsby Adrian Muscat and Anja Belz

Application Notes
Pattern Recommendation in Task-Oriented Applications: A Multi-Objective Perspectiveby Xingyi Zhang, Fuchen Duan, Lei Zhang, Fan Cheng, Yaochu Jin, and Ke Tang

Review Article
Gene Expression Programming: A Surveyby Jinghui Zhong, Liang Feng, and Yew-Soon Ong

Call for participation: DSAA 2017: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics

The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced
Analytics (DSAA 2017), which is also supported by ACM and ASA, will
take place in Tokyo, Japan, in October 19-21, 2017. Please plan to
participate. DSAA2017 will be an ideal place to learn the
state-of-the-art of Data Science and Advanced Analytics, meet people
to exchange ideas and find opportunities to job matching. DSAA2017 is
featured with two main Tracks (Research and Application), several
Special Tracks, Keynote talks, Trend & Controversies Panel, Invited
Industrial talks and Tutorials.

Please visit "https://www.dslab.it.aoyama.ac.jp/dsaa2017/" for the
latest information.

- Date: October 19-21 2-5, 2017
- Location: Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo, Japan
- Registration and Accommodation: Open in early August 2017

Highlight Summary

Technical presentations: About 80 technical papers will be presented.
in Research track, Application track and Special Session track.

Keynote speech: Four distinguished speakers will deliver the keynote.

 Hiroaki Kitano (The Systems Biology Institute, Japan)
 Nobel Turing Challenge: Grand Challenge of AI, Robotics, and Systems Biology

 Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
 On Computational Thinking, Inferential Thinking and Data Science

 Dr. Katharina J. Morik (TU Dortmund, Germany)
 Data Analytics for Data Science

 One more to come.

Trend & Controversies Panel: One of unique highlights of DSAA. This
year's theme for discussion is "Trust". Specific focuses range from 1)
the privacy and transparency issue, 2) the fairness between those who
own the data and those who do not, 3) the discrimination caused by big
data analysis, 4) model generalization capability, i.e. How can we
trust the outcome of our mining results? How can we trust the model
used, e.g. deep learning, etc.?

Speakers and panelists include Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa, Italy),
Katharina Morik (TU Dortmund, Germany), Hesuan-Tien Lin (National
Taiwan University and Appier, Taiwan), Ying Li (DataSpark Pte. Ltd., Singapore).

Invited Industrial Talks: Financial sponsors and selected speakers
from industries will give their visions on data science and data
analytics. Speakers include Yanjun Ma (Baidu, China),Wenuan Dai (The
4th Paradigm Data & Technology Co., Ltd., China).


Organizing Committee of DSAA2017

General Chairs

  Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University, Japan)
  Fosca Giannotti (Inf. Sci. and Tech. Inst. of NRC at Pisa, Italy),
  Tomoyuki Higuchi (Inst. of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)

Program Chairs
 Research Track
  Takashi Washio (Osaka University, Japan)
  Joao Gama (University of Porto, Portugal)
 Application Track
  Ying Li ( DataSpark Pte. Ltd., Singapore)
  Rajesh Parekh (Facebook. USA)
 Special Session
  Huan Liu (Arizona State University, USA)
  Albert Bifet (Telecom ParisTech, France)
  Richards D. De Veaux (Williams College, USA)

T&C Panel Chairs
  Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
  Geoff Webb (Monash University, Australia)
  Philip Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
  Bart Goethals (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Invited Industry Talk Chairs
  Hang Li (Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong)
  Matsuo Yutaka (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Tutorial Chairs
  Vincent Tseng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
  Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, Chian)

Best Paper Award Chair
  Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, USA)

Next Generation Data Scientist Award Chairs
  Kenji Yamanishi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  Xin Wang (University of Calgary, Canada)

Travel Awards Chair
  Zhexue Huang (Shenzhen University, China)

Publicity Chairs
  Tu bao Ho (Japan Advanced Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Japan)
  Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
  Marzena Kryszkiewicz (Warsaw University of Technol., Poland)

Local organizing chairs
  Satoshi Kurihara (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
  Hiromitsu Hattori (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

Publication Chair
 Toshihiro Kamishima (Nat. Inst. of Advanced Indust. Sci. & Technol.,
 Japan)

Web Chair
 Kouzuo Ohara (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)

Sponsorship Chairs
 Kiyoshi Izumi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
 Yoji Kiyota (LIFULL Co. Ltd., Japan)
 Tadashi Yanagihara (KDDI Research, Japan)
 Longbing Cao (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
 Byeong Ho Kang (University of Tasmania, Australia)

 

Final CFP: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2017)

November 27 - December 1, 2017
Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Ten years after the first IEEE SSCI held in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2007, we're returning to the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort for the 2017 IEEE SSCI event, November 27 to December 1, 2017. One registration gets you into multiple concurrent symposia in key aspects of computational intelligence. Papers are already under review. You have until August 7, 2017 to submit your paper for consideration
List of Concurrent IEEE Symposia at IEEE SSCI 2017:

• CI in Cognitive Algorithms, Mind & Brain
• Deep Learning
• CI in Cybersecurity
• CI in Data Mining
• CI in Financial Engineering & Economics
• CI & Intelligent Agents
• Foundations of Computational Intelligence
• Swarm Intelligence
• CI in Robotic Rehabilitation and Assist. Tech.
• CI in Production and Logistics Systems
• CI in Engineering Solutions
• Artificial Life
• Differential Evolution
• Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms
• CI in Scheduling and Network Design
• CI for Human-like Intelligence
• CI in Feature Analysis, Selection, and Learning in Image and Pattern Recognition
• CI & Ensemble Learning
• CI for Security and Defense Applications
• Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
• Robotic Intelligence in Info. Structured Spaces
• CI in E-Government
• Neuromorphic Cognitive Computing
• CI in Multicriteria Decision-Making
• CI in Control and Automation
• CI in Big Data
• Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems
• CI Applications in Smart Grid
• CI in Wireless Systems
• CI in Healthcare and E-Health
• CI for Multimedia, Signal, and Vision Processing

Organizing Committee:

General Chairs:
Piero Bonissone & David Fogel (USA)
Technical Program Chair:
Carlos Coello Coello (MEX)
Finance Chair:
Gary Yen (USA)
Publicity Chair:
Kay Chen Tan (Hong Kong)
Publications Chair:
Hussein Abbass (Australia)
Tutorials Chair:
Simon Lucas (UK)
Web Chair:
Haibo He (USA)
Each symposium has its own organizing committee. Visit www.ieee-ssci.org to learn more about each symposium and its own call for papers! One registration gets you access to all 31 symposia and tutorials and all symposia events.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper Submissions: Papers are already in review. Please plan to submit your paper by August 7, 2017. After that we cannot guarantee that there will be time to review your paper. Go to www.ieee-ssci.org and find the symposium where you want to submit your work.
• Author Notification: September 4, 2017
• Early Registration: September 24, 2017

Bookmark: www.ieee-ssci.org
See you in Hawaii! Aloha!
Questions? Email David Fogel: dfogel@natural-selection.com

Call for participation: Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems 2017 (Oct 5-8)

https://documents.epfl.ch/users/c/ch/chavarri/www/smc2017/smc2017_bmi.html

IEEE SMC 2017’s 7th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems will be held October 5-8, 2017 at the Banff Center, Banff, Canada as part of the program of SMC 2017 – the flagship annual conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present research results, facilitate the interaction and intellectual exchange between all researchers, developers and consumers of BMI technology. We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of BMI.

The workshop is organized by the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Brain-Machine Interfaces Systems and is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Brain Initiative.

Participation is free to all registered SMC2017 attendees. The theme of this year’s workshop is:     

 “From Lab to Life: BMI Systems in the Coming Decade”

In the future, the range and sophistication of BMI Systems will achieve what seems impossible today: Intelligent neuromimetic prosthetics that function as a seamless extension of the brain; biocompatible nanotechnology that reside within the brain to read and write neural states without requiring a power supply; sensorimotor and cognitive BMI Systems that restore lost or compromised vision, hearing, memory, and mobility; and artificially intelligent cloud-based systems that seamlessly augment our cognitive capabilities. In the coming decade, we will see progress being made towards these goals.

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present research results, facilitate the interaction and intellectual exchange between researchers, developers, and consumers of BMI technology. We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of BMI. Also of interest will be the report and evaluation of complete systems considering aspects such as multidimensional performance metrics reflecting decoding accuracy, task performance, human factors, decoding algorithms, and feedback. These and other topics represent both challenges to the field and a tremendous opportunity for collaborative and multidisciplinary research, involving not only peers with expertise in the field of BMI, but also those with expertise in systems engineering, human-machine systems, cybernetics, and/or other disciplines. The four-day workshop will feature tutorials, panels, a brain hackathon, a number of prominent invited speakers from industry and academia, and presentations of contributed papers.