<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Call for Papers</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Special Issue on “Model Complexity, Regularization and Sparsity”</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://home.deib.polimi.it/boracchi/events/ModelComplexity.html" target="_blank">http://home.deib.polimi.it/boracchi/events/ModelComplexity.html</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Aims and Scope</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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 sparsity prior, which promotes solutions that can be expressed as a linear combination of a few atoms belonging to a dictionary. 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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Topics of Interest</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· Regularization methods for big and high-dimensional data;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· Regularization methods for supervised and unsupervised learning;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· Regularization methods for ill-posed problems in Computational Intelligence;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· Techniques to control model complexity;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· Sparse representations in Computational Intelligence;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· Managing model complexity in data analytics;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· Effective priors for solving Computational Intelligence problems;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· Multiple prior integration;</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· Regularization in kernel methods and support vector machines.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Important Dates</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· 22nd January, 2016: Submission of Manuscripts</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· 30th March, 2016: Notification of Review Results</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· 30th April, 2016: Submission of Revised Manuscripts</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· 15th June, 2016: Submission of Final Manuscripts</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">· November, 2016: Special Issue Publication</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Submission Process</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The maximum length for the manuscript is typically 20 pages in single column with double-spacing, including figures and references. Authors of papers should specify in the first page of their manuscripts the corresponding author’s contact and up to 5 keywords. Additional information about submission guidelines and information for authors is provided at the IEEE CIM website.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Submission instructions can be found at <a href="http://home.deib.polimi.it/boracchi/events/ModelComplexity.html" target="_blank">http://home.deib.polimi.it/boracchi/events/ModelComplexity.html</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Guest Editors</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Prof. Cesare Alippi,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Biongegneria, Politecnico di Milano,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">via Ponzio 34/5, Milano, 20133, Italy</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Giacomo Boracchi,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Biongegneria, Politecnico di Milano,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">via Ponzio 34/5, Milano, 20133, Italy</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Brendt Wohlberg,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Los Alamos NM 87545, USA</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Giacomo Boracchi, PhD</span></font><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:20px">DEIB </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- </span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px">Dipartimento di Elettronica, </span></font><span style="line-height:20px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Informazione e Bioingegneria</span><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px">Politecnico di Milano </span><br style="line-height:20px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">Via Ponzio, 34/5 20133 Milano, Italy.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Tel</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important">.<span> </span></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">+39 02 2399 3467</font><br></span><br><a href="http://home.dei.polimi.it/boracchi/" style="font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:small" target="_blank">http://home.dei.polimi.it/boracchi/</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:small" clear="all"><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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