Connectionists: 1st Call For Papers - BRICS-CCI & CBIC2013 - Brazil (8-11th Sept, 2013)

[Prof. Fernando Buarque]

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                            *FIRST*  Call FOR PAPERS

International BRICS Countries Congress on Computational Intelligence
(BRICS-CCI)
                             co-located with sister conference
          11th Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence (CBIC 2013)

         Recife (Porto de Galinhas beach), Brazil, September 8th-11th, 2013

          Website:  http://www.brics-cci.org  .OR   http://www.cbic2013.org

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*** BACKGROUND
Nature inspired techniques, soft computation, machine learning and
stochastic
models are ubiquitous mainly because their evoked features of tackling
complex
problems without necessarily formal prior knowledge required. This is quite
an
edge to more traditional approaches in computer science. Naturally the
myriad
of approaches and technologies available seems insurmountable and this is
why
scientists and practitioners would profit to joint together to discuss
advances
as well as to debate creating and understanding better the challenging
tasks of
how to design and use these tools (and theory behind them), effectively.
The crescent
creative novel means to tackle new as well as old problems is also a
challenge to
be taught in regular programs, that is why the organizers have catered for
including
two schools aimed at students in the area of Computational Intelligence –
they will
serve as good introduction and also specialization for various levels on
future
scientists and practitioners. The very many advancements and people that
contributed
to the field will be awarded for their deed, alongside competition sessions
and six
thematic workshops (symposia) in transversally related areas to main
tracks. Sports,
cultural and social agendas will also be well cared for as plans are to
form/enhance
international links between participants. The stunning venue and impressive
record
of top notch speakers will certainly make this one of the highlights of the
year
in Computational Intelligence.

*** KEY DATES
Submission Deadline:           April 19th, 2013
Notification of Acceptance:    July  12th, 2013
Final Papers Due:              July  31th, 2013

*** TOPICS
Topics of interest are neatly organized in three tracks and classified in
Problems, Approaches and Technologies. The mains tracks are:
1) Neural and Learning Systems;
2) Fuzzy and Stochastic Modeling; and
3) Evolutionary and Swarm Computing.
The complete list is at http://brics-cci.org/research-topics-brics-cci-cbic/

The six planned symposia will have transversal specific topics of interest,
such as: Bioinformatics, Complex Systems, Social Simulation, CI Apps. in
Defense Systems, CI Applications in Industry, and Competitions.

*** INTERNATIONAL CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS
Alan Kirman (d’Aix Marseille Université, EHESS – France)
Andries Engelbrecht (U. Pretoria – South Africa)
Cristovam Buarque (UNB – Brazil)
Derong Liu (University Illinois – USA)
Hani Hagras (University Essex – England)
Hojjat Adeli (Ohio State University – USA)
Igor Aleksander (Imperial College London – England)
Jaime Sichman (USP – Brazil)
José Carlos Príncipe (University of Florida – USA)
Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles – Belgium)
Philippe De Wilde (Heriot-Watt University – Scotland)
Ronald Yager (Iona College – USA)
Russell Eberhart (Purdue University – USA)
Sanaz Mostaghim (KIT – Germany)
Sankar Pal (ISI – India)
Swagatam Das (ISI – India)
Xin Yao (University of Birminham – England)
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (Caltech Institute – USA)
Ying Tan (Peking University – China)
Yuhui Shi (U. Jiaotong-Liverpool – China)

*** PAPER PUBLICATION
We have already confirmed six special issues of the five journals below
(three more
are still pending confirmation):
+International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR)
+International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IJNCR)
+International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing (IJMLC)
+Linear and NonLinear Models (L&NLM)
+Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS)

*** PAPER SUBMISSION
i) Submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE A4 double column;
templates
are at
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
.
ii) To allow the proper kind of scientific communication, all papers will
be complete
(no short papers). And they can be presented orally as well as posters.
This to be
reccommended after the evalution by the Technical Program Committee.
iii) Paper types are:
+ Type-O (on-going work): up to 2-page papers for presenting positions,
on-going
work and/or interesting ideas. They will be presented orally (15 minutes
each,
including questions) in the ‘On going work sessions’ and will be listed in
the
electronic proceedings (e-proceedings);
+ Type-R (Regular): up to 6-page papers will be presented orally in regular
parallel
sessions (15 minutes each, including questions) that will be published in
full in
electronic proceedings. Papers maybe be accepted for presentation as
poster, but they
will also be entitled to full publication in electronic proceedings. Many
good papers
will be selected to be published in extended manner in one of the already
confirmed
several special journal edition already committed;
+ Type-X (Extended): selected type-R papers will be invited to extension up
to 10
pages and will be presented orally in special parallel sessions (20 minutes
each,
including questions). They are all going to be published extended in
special journal
editions;
iv) For submissions (both on-going work, regular or extended), use
  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bricsccicbic2013   [or via
website]
v) For more details please check the website of congress at
www.brics-cci.org

*** INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(see website for up-to-date list of names)

***ORGANIZATION
GENERAL JOINT-CHAIRS of BRICS-CCI & CBIC – 2013
(B) Prof. Fernando Buarque (University of Pernambuco – Brazil)
(R) Prof. Ildar Batyrshin (Moscow Power Energy Institute – Russia)
(I) Prof. Sankar Pal (Indian Statistical Institute – India)
(C) Prof. Ying Tan (Peking University – China)
(S) Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala (University of Johannesburg – South Africa)

For a complete list of organizers, please check: http://brics-cci.org/us/

We are waiting for your paper and to welcome in the stunning Porto de
Galinas beach!

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