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<font face="arial, sans-serif"> *SECOND* Call FOR PAPERS</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">1st BRICS Countries Congress on Computational Intelligence (BRICS-CCI)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> 11th Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence (CBIC 2013)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> Recife (Porto de Galinhas beach), Brazil, September 8th-11th, 2013</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submission Deadline: *NEW* May 20th, 2013</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Notification of Acceptance: July 12th, 2013</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Final Papers Due: July 31th, 2013</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">*** MAIN TRACKS (of the sister conferences):</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">1) Neural and Learning Systems;</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">2) Fuzzy and Stochastic Modeling; and</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">3) Evolutionary and Swarm Computing. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Topics of interest are neatly organized in three tracks and classified </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">in Problems, Approaches and Technologies. For complete list => </font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">*** CO-LOCATED SYMPOSIA (alongside main tracks of the two conferences):</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(I) CI in Bioinformatics (CIBS) </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(II) Complex Systems (CompSysS)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(III) Social Simulation (SocSimS)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(IV) CI Applications in Defense Systems (CIDefS)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(V) CI Applications in Industry (CIAppIndS)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(VI) CI/AI Theses and Dissertations Competition (CI/AI TDC)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(VII) CI Algorithms Competition (CIAC)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(VIII) BRICS-CCI & CBIC Schools on CI (SCI & EBIC)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">*** INTERNATIONAL CONFIRMED DISTINGUISHED GUESTS:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Alan Kirman (d’Aix Marseille Université, EHESS – France) ** Keynote </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Andries Engelbrecht (U. Pretoria – South Africa)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Boleslaw Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic - USA) ** Keynote </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Cristovam Buarque (UNB – Brazil) *** Opening Speech</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Derong Liu (University Illinois – USA)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Feranndo vonZuben (Unicamp - Brazil)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy (Clemson University - USA)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Hani Hagras (University Essex – England)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Hojjat Adeli (Ohio State University – USA) * Keynote & Honorary Chair</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Igor Aleksander (Imperial College – England) * Keynote & Honorary Chair</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Jaime Sichman (USP – Brazil) ** Keynote speaker </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-José Príncipe (University of Florida – USA) * Keynote & Honorary Chair</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Marco Dorigo (U. Libre de Bruxelles – Belgium) * Keynote & Honorary Chair</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Ronald Yager (Iona College – USA)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Russell Eberhart (Purdue University – USA) * Keynote & Honorary Chair</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Sanaz Mostaghim (KIT – Germany)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Snehashish Chkraverty (NIT – India) </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Swagatam Das (ISI – India)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Xin Yao (University of Birminham – England)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Yaser Abu-Mostafa (Caltech – USA) ** Keynote speaker</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Yuhui Shi (U. Jiaotong-Liverpool – China)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">*** PAPER PUBLICATION (in *10* special issues of international journals): </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- International Journal of Neural Systems(IJNS)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering(ICAE) </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research(IJSIR)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- International Journal of Natural Computing Research(IJNCR)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics(IJMLC)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- International Journal of Computational Intelligence & Applications(IJCIA)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Learning & NonLinear Models(SBIC Journal)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society(JBCS)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics(Paladyn)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- BRICS Journal of Computational Intelligence(BRICS-CI)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">*** PAPER SUBMISSION:</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Paper type-O (on-going work): up to 2-page short-papers for </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> presenting positions, on-going work and/or interesting ideas; </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Paper type-R (Regular): up to 6-page full-papers for presenting </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> original work. To be presented orally (15 min. each) or as poster;</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Paper type-X (Extended): selected type-R papers up to 10-pages. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> Presented orally in special parallel sessions (20 min. each); </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Paper type-H (Highlight): up to 12-page, invited only, for ground</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> breaking or relevant surveys. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">* Paper format according to the IEEE A4 double column; </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">*** OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- 2 Conferences of three tracks each;</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- 4 Panels for discussions (Including "Trial of AI");</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- 8 Symposia (2 Schools for: Ibero-American & International);</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- 16 Plenary talks;</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Algorithms & Theses/Dissertations Competitions;</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Awards for Outstanding people;</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Awards for Best papers;</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Many Thematic Meetings on CI & BRICS;</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Busy Cultural Agenda;</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Family & Environment friendly Congress;</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Sports Activities (Soccer and Tennis competitions);</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Touristic Activities (Sightseeing, Scuba classes etc);</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">* 45 universities and 90 people contributing with this pioneering event!</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">*** ORGANIZATION (GENERAL JOINT-CHAIRS of BRICS-CCI & CBIC – 2013):</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(B) Prof. Fernando Buarque (University of Pernambuco – Brazil)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(R) Prof. Ildar Batyrshin (Moscow Power Energy Institute – Russia)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(I) Prof. Sankar Pal (Indian Statistical Institute – India)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(C) Prof. Ying Tan (Peking University – China)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(S) Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala (University of Johannesburg – South Africa)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Complete list of organizers, check: <a href="http://brics-cci.org/organizers/">http://brics-cci.org/organizers/</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
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