<div dir="ltr"><div><div align="center" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:center;margin:0px"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Call for Papers</b></font></div><div align="center" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:center;margin:0px"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine</b></font></div><div align="center" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:center;margin:0px"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Special Issue on “Model Complexity, Regularization and Sparsity”</b></font></div><div align="center" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:center;margin:0px"><a href="http://home.deib.polimi.it/boracchi/events/ModelComplexity.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1155CC">http://home.deib.polimi.it/boracchi/events/ModelComplexity.html</font></a></div><div align="center" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:center;margin:0px"> </div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin:0px 0px 6pt"><b>Aims and Scope</b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin:0px 0px 6pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">The effective management of solution complexity is one of the most important issues in addressing Computational Intelligence problems. Regularization techniques control model complexity by taking advantage of some prior information regarding the problem at hand, represented as penalty expressions that impose these properties on the solution. Over the past few years, one of the most prominent and successful types of regularization has been based on the </font><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><i>sparsity</i></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif"> prior, which promotes solutions that can be expressed as a linear combination of a few atoms belonging to a </font><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><i>dictionary</i></font><font face="Arial,sans-serif">. Sparsity can in some sense be considered a “measure of simplicity“ and, as such, is compatible with many nature-inspired principles of Computational Intelligence. Nowadays, sparsity has become one of the leading approaches for learning adaptive representations for both descriptive and discriminative tasks, and has been shown to be particularly effective when dealing with structured, complex and high-dimensional data.</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin:0px 0px 6pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Regularization, including sparsity and other priors to control the model complexity, is often the key ingredient in the successful solution of difficult problems; it is therefore not surprising that these aspects have also recently gained a lot of attention in big-data processing, due to unprecedented challenges associated with the need to handle massive datastreams that are possibly high-dimensional and organized in complex structures.</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin:0px 0px 6pt"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">This special issue aims at presenting the most relevant regularization techniques and approaches to control model complexity in Computational Intelligence. Submissions of papers presenting regularization methods for Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation or Fuzzy Systems, are welcome. Submissions of papers presenting advanced regularization techniques in specific, but relevant, application fields such as data/datastream-mining, classification, big-data analytics, image/signal analysis, natural-language processing, are also encouraged.</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin:6pt 0px 0px"><b>Topics of Interest</b></div><div align="left" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:35.7pt"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>Regularization methods for big and high-dimensional data;</div><div align="left" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:35.7pt"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>Regularization methods for supervised and unsupervised learning;</div><div align="left" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:35.7pt"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>Regularization methods for ill-posed problems in Computational Intelligence;</div><div align="left" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:35.7pt"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>Techniques to control model complexity;</div><div align="left" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:justify;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:35.7pt"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>Sparse representations in Computational Intelligence;</div><div align="left" 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6pt 35.75pt"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>Regularization in kernel methods and support vector machines.</div><div align="left" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><b>Important Dates</b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>22<font size="-1"><sup>nd</sup></font> January, 2016: Submission of Manuscripts</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>30<font size="-1"><sup>th</sup></font> March, 2016: Notification of Review Results</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>30<font size="-1"><sup>th</sup></font> April, 2016: Submission of Revised Manuscripts</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font>15<font size="-1"><sup>th</sup></font> June, 2016: Submission of Final Manuscripts</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Symbol" style="font-size:12.79px">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span></font><span style="font-size:12.79px">November, 2016: Special Issue Publication</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin:0px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.79px;margin:0px"><b>Submission Process</b></div><div 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