CALL FOR PAPERS: Symposium on "Intelligence for Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems" (IntECS 2016) at IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence 2016

6 – 9 December 2016, Athens, Greece (http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/)

IntECS 2016 Web site: http://ietecs-ssci.deib.polimi.it

*Important Announcement: DEADLINE EXTENSION*

The symposium on "Intelligence for Embedded and Cyberphisical Systems"  (IntECS 2016)  is extending its paper submission to August 15, 2016 (according to the SSCI 2016 new deadline). Please note that this is a strict deadline and that there will be no further extensions. Therefore, we would like to kindly encourage you to submit your paper(s) early rather than wait until the very end. Thank you for considering to submit to the symposium and we look forward to having the opportunity seeing you in Athens!

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:  August 15, 2016 (Extended and final)

Author notifications: September 12, 2016 

Camera-ready submission: October 10, 2016

Early registration: October 10, 2016

Conference Dates: December 6 - 9, 2016

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In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in designing embedded and cyber-physical systems featuring intelligent skills. Beside addressing the specific tasks they have been designed for, these systems are expected, for example, to autonomously make decisions/activate reactions, perform self-diagnosis, and learn from and interact with the operating environment.

This symposium addresses novel and emerging computational-intelligence and machine-learning solutions to provide such an intelligent behavior to embedded and cyberphisical systems. IntECS aspires at providing a forum for researchers who are actively working on intelligent embedded and cyberphisical systems and, more in general, on computational intelligent solutions for real world applications.

The symposium will be held within the IEEE 2016 Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence (6 – 9 December 2016, Athens, Greece)

*Topics*

. Intelligence for embedded systems

. Intelligence for cyber-physical systems

. Cognitive fault-diagnosis systems

. Smart objects and Internet of Things

. Intelligent sensor networks

. Intelligent sensors and robotics

. Intelligent measurement systems

. Adaptive solutions to operate in evolving/changing environments

. Intelligent systems for real-world applications

. Computational intelligence techniques for smart buildings and critical-infrastructure monitoring

*Keywords*

Embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, fault-diagnosis systems, intelligent applications, intelligent sensors, intelligent sensor networks, Computational Intelligence,  Internet of Things.

*Symposium Organizers*

- Cesare Alippi (Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Italy) 

- Giacomo Boracchi (Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Italy) 

- Manuel Roveri (Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Italy) 

*Technical Program Committee*

Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada

Maurizio Bocca, Bosch Research and Technology Center, CA, USA

Ana-Maria Cretu, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada

Guilherme DeSouza, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA

Michalis Michaelidis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Stavros Ntalampiras, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Mimmo Parente, Università di Salerno, Italy

Vicenç Puig, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Yew-Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Stefano Squartini, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Dongbin Zhao, University of Chinese Academy of Science, China

*Paper Submission Procedure*

Submissions must contain original, high quality, not submitted or elsewhere published work. Authors must submit their paper through the IEEE SSCI 2016 webpage http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/

Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE SSCI 2016 proceedings and indexed through IEEExplore.

Further information and Paper submission can be found at the IEEE SSCI 2016 webpage http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/

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The call for papers as well as more detailed information can be retrieved from IntECS 2016 webpage

http://ietecs-ssci.deib.polimi.it

and from the main SSCI 2016 webpage

http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/

Please make sure you select:

"Intelligence for Cyber-physical and Embedded Systems" (IntECS 2016) during the submission process

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WCCI 2016 Deadline Extension

The paper submission deadline for IEEE WCCI 2016 has been extended till 31st January 2016, 24:00 EST (FINAL). Please submit your paper at www.wcci2016.org

Deadline extension: TAAI 2015

Due to many requests, paper submission deadline of The 2015 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2015, http://taai2015.nutn.edu.tw), technically co-sponsored by IEEE CIS (http://cis.ieee.org/), has been extended to August 25, 2015 (UTC-8).
We sincerely invite you, your colleagues, and your students in the world to submit your research performance to TAAI 2015 held in Tainan, Taiwan (a nice place worth visiting) on Nov. 20 - 22, 2015.

Accepted papers will be published in post-conference proceedings in IEEE Xplore digital library.
TAAI 2015 website and submission link are as follows:
•    Website: http://taai2015.nutn.edu.tw
•    Website: http://kws.nutn.edu.tw/taai2015/ for visitors in China.
•    Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=taai2015
•    Venue: Tainan (Capital of Taiwan 200 years ago), Taiwan
•    Date: Nov. 20 - Nov. 22, 2015
•    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4UhhPa1_h4&feature=youtu.be
•    Linked IN: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/taai-2015-deadline-extends-august-25-utc-8-chang-shing-lee?trk=hp-feed-article-title-publish

Tainan, situated on the southwestern coastal plains of the island and enjoying a warm climate year-round, has been historically regarded as one of the oldest cities in Taiwan. It is now the fourth largest city, with a population in excess of 700,000. The gentle-natured people of the city are warmly hospitable, and the relatively tranquil life there seems far from the hustle and bustle of modern urban life. With its long history, Tainan is rich in historic sites and cultural heritage. Additionally, Tainan is also famous for local snack food. For more details, please visit websites of Taiwan Tourism Bureau and Tourism Bureau of Tainan City Government.
We are looking forward to receiving your papers and seeing you in TAAI 2015 in Taiwan.
Best Regards,
General Chair Chang-Shing Lee <leecs@mail.nutn.edu.tw>
General Co-Chair Shun-Chin Hsu <schsu@mail.cjcu.edu.tw>
General Co-Chair Vincenzo Loia <loia@unisa.it>
General Co-Chair Yaochu Jin <yaochu.jin@surrey.ac.uk>
Program Chair (International Track) Chuan-Kang Ting<ckting@cs.ccu.edu.tw>
Program Co-Chair (International Track) Shi-Jim Yen <sjyen@mail.ndhu.edu.tw>
Program Chair (Domestic Track) Yung-Gi Wu <wyg@mail.cjcu.edu.tw>
Program Co-Chair (Domestic Track) Mong-Fong Horng <mfhorng@cc.kuas.edu.tw>
Program Co-Chair (Domestic Track) Chuen-Liang Chen <clchen@mail.cjcu.edu.tw>

Deadline extension IEEE SSCI 2015

The deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI) 2015 has been extended to July 14, 2015. No further extensions will be possible. This conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, December 7-10, 2015.

Deadline change TAAI 2015

The deadline for submitting papers to the 2015 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2015) is now July 30, 2015. This conference will be held in Tainan, Taiwan, November 20-22, 2015.

IJCNN 2015 Deadline Extension

The paper submission deadline for the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2015 has been extended to February 5, 2015. This extension also applies to submissions to the special sessions.

Call for papers: Special session for WCCI 2014 "Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity"

Aim and Scope

Evolutionary computation (EC) techniques, including genetic algorithm, evolution strategies, genetic programming, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, differential evolution, and memetic algorithms, have shown to be effective for search and optimization problems. Recently, EC gained several promising results and becomes an important tool in computational creativity, such as in music, visual art, literature, architecture, and industrial design.

The aim of this special session is to reflect the most recent advances of EC for Music, Art, and Creativity, with the goal to enhance autonomous creative systems as well as human creativity. This session will allow researchers to share experiences and present their new ways for taking advantage of EC techniques in computational creativity. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, EC technologies in the following aspects:

• Generation of music, visual art, literature, architecture, and industrial design
• Algorithmic design in creative intelligence
• Optimization in creativity
• Development of hardware and software for creative systems
• Evaluation methodologies
• Assistance of human creativity
• Computational aesthetics
• Emotion response
• Human-machine creativity

Deadline

The deadline for submissions to this special session is 20 January 2014.

Information for Authors

1. Information on the format and templates for papers can be found here: 
    http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/Paper%20Submission.htm
2. Papers should be submitted via the IEEE CEC 2014 paper submission site:   
    http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2014/upload.php
3. Select the Special Session name in the Main Research topic dropdown list:   
    [SS3. EC03: Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity]
4.    Fill out the input fields, upload the PDF file of your paper and finalize your submission by the deadline of January 20, 2014

Organizers:

This special session is organized by the co-chairs of IEEE CIS ETTC Task Force on Creative Intelligence

• Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. ckting@cs.ccu.edu.tw
• Francisco Fernández de Vega, University of Extremadura, Spain. fcofdez@unex.es
• Palle Dahlstedt, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. palle.dahlstedt@ait.gu.se

Call for papers: Special session for WCCI 2014 "Intelligent Network Systems"

Aim and Scope

The impact of optimization in network environments, such as communication networks and transportation networks, on the modern economy and society has been growing steadily over the last few decades. The worldwide division of labor, the connection of distributed centers, and the increased mobility of individuals and devices lead to an increased demand for efficient solutions to solve optimization problems in network systems. With the advent of computer systems, computational intelligence approaches have been developed for systematic design, optimization, and improvement of different network systems.

The aim of the special session is to promote research and reflect the most recent advances of computational intelligence, including evolutionary computation, neural network, fuzzy systems, metaheuristic techniques and other intelligent methods, in the solution of problems in network systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Communication network systems:  telecommunications; mobile, satellite, optical, and voice communications; personal communication systems; switching and routing; transmission systems; communication systems simulation; station and antenna design; information and speech processing; intrusion detection; error control coding; compression and cryptography; propagation and channel modeling, protocol design, etc.
• Transportation and logistics network systems: transportation and supply networks; logistics; supply chain management; freight and passenger services; tracking and tracing; fleet and order management; modeling and traffic management; traffic simulation; individual and public transportation; inventory optimization; routing and scheduling, etc.
• Social network systems: action policies; networking strategies; network and friendship management; identification of interests; advertisement of interests; hierarchical networks; distributed games; behavior analysis; inter-personal communication; group communication, etc.
• Financial and economic network systems: system modeling; modeling payment system, market modeling; forecasting market prices; price tracking; invest strategies; portfolio strategies; measuring systemic importance of the financial system though the network topology, etc.
• General network problems: parallel and distributed systems; networks and graph problems; unconstrained and constrained network design problems; structural and computational complexity; adaptability to environmental variations; robustness to network changes and failures; effectiveness and scalability of performance; location and link design; reliability and failure; corporate network design; location placement; network

Deadline

The deadline for submissions to this special session is 20 January 2014.

Information for Authors

1. Information on the format and templates for papers can be found here:   
    http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/Paper%20Submission.htm
2. Papers should be submitted via the IEEE CEC 2014 paper submission site:   
    http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2014/upload.php
3. Select the Special Session name in the Main Research topic dropdown list:   
    [SS10. EC10: Intelligent Network Systems]
4. Fill out the input fields, upload the PDF file of your paper and finalize your submission by the deadline of
    January 20, 2014

Organizers:

This special session is organized by IEEE CIS ISATC Task Force on Intelligent Network Systems
(TF-INS)

• Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. ckting@cs.ccu.edu.tw
• Hui Cheng, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. hui.cheng@beds.ac.uk
• Shengxiang Yang, De Montfort University, UK. syang@dmu.ac.uk
• Jun Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China. issai@mail.sysu.edu.cn
• Zhun Fan, Shantou University, China. zfan@stu.edu.cn

WCCI 2014 Deadline Extension

The deadline for submitting papers to the World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2014 has been extended to the 20th of January, 2014. There will be no further extensions. This conference combines the three major conferences of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society: The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN); the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). This conference will be held in Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014.