IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Friday, 11 October 2013

How to publish your research: Video of Professor Xin Yao

This is a video of a talk given by Professor Xin Yao as part of a panel session at the CEC 2013 conference.

Thursday, 10 October 2013

Call for papers: Special Session for WCCI 2014 "Applications of Computational lntelligence in Ecological Informatics and Environmental Modelling"

Aim

The aim of this special session is to provide a forum for recent research in the application of computational intelligence in the areas of ecological informatics, ecological modelling and environmental modelling.

Ecological informatics and the related field of ecological modelling involve constructing computational models of ecological systems. These models include such things as the distribution or abundance of particular species, models of the interaction between multiple species, and models of the future development of populations. Environmental modelling is closely related and involves constructing models of the physical environment that biological eco-systems inhabit. These models cover such topics as the climate and climate change and the detection of landscape features from geographical data. Models have also been constructed of such environmental topics as waste management systems, water quality and drainage systems and air pollution. As these are highly-complex systems, algorithms from the field of computational intelligence have already been widely applied to modelling this data. Previous work has successfully applied artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, support vector machines and combinations of these including neuro-fuzzy and neuro-evolutionary approaches. In each case, computational intelligence methods were shown to be more effective at solving the problem than the alternative methods.

Scope

Topics relevant to this special session include, but are not limited to, the following applications of computational intelligence, including Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and Evolutionary Algorithms:

•    Species distribution and ecological niche modelling
•    Predicting species abundance
•    Remote sensing image analysis and content-based image retrieval for Ecological Informatics and Environmental Modelling
•    Analysis of species assemblages
•    Issues in the preparation of ecological data for modelling
•    Modelling of pollutants in air, land or water
•    Modelling water quality
•    Predicting the effects of climate change
•    Predicting crop hazards, pests or diseases
•    Identifying landscape features
•    Modelling ecosystem biomass

Deadline

The deadline for submissions to this special session is 20 December 2013.

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 IJCNN 2014 paper submission site:
       http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2014/upload.php3)
       Select the Special Session name in the Main Research topic dropdown list
4)    Fill out the input fields, upload the PDF file of your paper and finalize your submission by the deadline of December 20, 2013

Organisers

•    Dr Michael J Watts, AIS St Helens, Auckland, New Zealand. mjwatts@ieee.org
•    Associate Professor Russel Pears, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, russel.pears@aut.ac.nz
•    Professor Jie Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, jieyang@sjtu.edu.cn

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Call for Papers: WCCI 2014

2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence

July 6–11, 2014, Beijing, China

http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org

wcci2014@gmail.com

The IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI) is the largest technical event in the field of computational intelligence, and its 2014 edition will host three conferences: The 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2014), the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2014), and the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2014). IEEE WCCI 2014 will cross-fertilize among these three big areas and will provide a foremost forum for scientists, engineers, educators, and students from all over the world to discuss and present their research findings on computational intelligence. IEEE WCCI 2014 will be held in Beijing, the political, cultural, and educational center of China. The city's history dates back three millennia. It is renowned for its palaces, temples, gardens, walls and gates, and its art treasures and universities have made it a center of culture and art in China.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

IJCNN 2014: The annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the International Neural Network Society. It covers a wide range of topics in the field of neural networks, from biological neural network modeling to artificial neural computation.

FUZZ-IEEE 2014: The annual IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) is the foremost conference in the field of fuzzy systems. It covers all topics in fuzzy systems, from theory to applications.

IEEE CEC 2014: The annual IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC) is one of the leading events in the field of evolutionary computation, and covers all topics in evolutionary computation from theory to applications.

Papers for IEEE WCCI 2014 should be submitted electronically through the Congress website, and will be refereed by experts in the fields and ranked based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity.

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society has maintained its position as the top leader of journals in computational intelligence. According to the 2012 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR), CIS journals sustained their status as premier scholarly publications, earning high rankings in the Impact Factor report.

- IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (IF: 4.629)

- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IF: 3.766)

- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (IF: 5.484)

- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IF: 4.810)

IEEE WCCI 2014 also accepts proposals for tutorials, special sessions, and competitions. For more information, please visit the Congress website (http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org).

IMPORTANT DATES:

Special session proposals deadline: November 15, 2013

Competition proposals submission deadline: November 15, 2013

Tutorial proposals deadline: December 20, 2013

Paper submission deadline: December 20, 2013

Paper acceptance notification date: March 15, 2014

Final paper submission deadline: April 15, 2014

Early registration: April 15, 2014

General Chair: Derong Liu, China

General Co-Chair: Jennie Si, USA

IJCNN 2014 Program Chair: Cesare Alippi, Italy

FUZZ-IEEE 2014 Program Chair: Dimitar P. Filev, USA