<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">** We apologize in advance if you

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International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR'16) –<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(59,59,59)">C<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> Vellore,

India ( December 19 - 21, 2016)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar16">http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar16</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar16">http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar16</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">-- The 8th International

Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Network (CaSON'16) –</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Vellore, India ( December 19 - 21, 2016)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic16">http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic16</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic16">http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic16</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">    ** Important Dates **</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">----------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(59,59,59)">Special sessions/Track/workshop

proposals: August 31, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(59,59,59)">Acceptance of special sessions:

September 05, 2016<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(59,59,59)">Paper submission due: September 30,

2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(59,59,59)">Notification of paper acceptance:

October 15, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(59,59,59)">Registration and Final manuscript

due: October 30, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(59,59,59)">Conference: December 19 - 21, 2016</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">About SoCPaR'16 :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">-------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Conference Objective:<br>

</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">The International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern

Recognition (SoCPaR) is a major international conference bringing together

researchers, engineers, and practitioners who work in the areas of soft

computing and pattern recognition in the industry and real world. Every year,

SoCPaR attracts authors from over 30 countries. After the success of the Seventh

edition, which was held in Japan, this year event will be held in Vellore,

India. SoCPaR</span><span lang="EN-US">'16 invites novel

contributions/papers of soft computing and pattern recognition from

fundamental aspects to various practical applications. All accepted

and registered papers will be included in the conference proceedings to

expected be published by Springer.<br>

<br>

<br>

Topics ( not limited to )<br>

-----------------------------<br>

[Soft Computing and Applications]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Evolutionary computing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Swarm intelligence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Artificial immune systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Fuzzy Sets</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Uncertainty analysis</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Fractals</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Rough Sets</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Support vector machines</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Artificial neural networks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Case Based Reasoning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Wavelets</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Hybrid intelligent systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Nature inspired computing techniques</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Machine learning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Ambient intelligence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Hardware implementations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">[Pattern Recognition and

Applications]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Information retrieval</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Data Mining</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Web Mining</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Image Processing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Computer Vision</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Bio-informatics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">  Information security</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Network security</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Steganography</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Biometry</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Remote sensing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Medical Informatics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

E-commerce</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Signal Processing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> 

Control systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">About CaSON'16 :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">-------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Network

(CASoN) is a major international conference that</span><span lang="EN-US"> brings together an  interdisciplinary venue for social scientists,

mathematicians, computer  scientists,

engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> share their experiences, new ideas, and

research results about all  aspects

(theory, applications and tools) of intelligent methods applied  to Social Network, and to discuss the

practical challenges encountered  and the

solutions adopted. Industrial Workshop/Tutorials and conference  sessions will allow individuals interested in

the theory, methods, or  applications of

social network analysis to share ideas and explore common interests. All

accepted and registered papers will be included in the conference

proceedings to expected be published by Springer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">We solicit original research and

technical papers not published  elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical,

practical and application, and cover a broad set of intelligent methods, with

particular emphasis on  Social Network

computing. Methods such as (but not restricted to) :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Neural Networks and Connectionist Models</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Evolutionary Algorithms</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Fuzzy Logic</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Knowledge Management</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Multi-valued Logic</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Semantic Networks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Rough Sets</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Intelligent Agents</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Ontologies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Reinforcement Learning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Applications on Social Networks:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Network evolution</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Network evolution and growth mechanisms. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Online communities and computer networks. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Information diffusion in social networks.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Detection of communities by document analysis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Topology of real networks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Recommendation:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Information diffusion in social networks. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Recommendations for product purchase,

information acquisition and establishment of social relations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Impact of recommendation models on the

evolution of the social network.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Classification models and their application in

social recommender systems.<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Advertisement models :<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Economical impact of social network discovery.

</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Social advertising. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Use of social networks for marketing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Search in network:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Web page ranking informed by social media. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Search algorithms on social  networks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Collaborative Filtering.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Security :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Anomaly detection in social network evolution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Data protection inside communities. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Crime data mining and network  analysis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Modeling trust and reputation in social

networks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Misbehavior detection in communities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Network geography :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Geographical clusters, networks, and

innovation. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Social geography.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> International Collaborations in e-Social

network.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Web :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Automatic discovery and analysis of Web based

social networks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Link Topology and Site Hierarchy. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Web mining algorithms.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Web communities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Web-Based Cooperative Work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Evaluation :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> Test collection. Benchmark creation. Measures

and methodologies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Submission Guidelines:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(59,59,59)">------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Submission of paper should be made

through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the

conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.<br>

<br>

Paper format templates:<br>

</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/11156" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/series/11156</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><br>

<br>

Proceedings are expected to be published by the Advances in Intelligent and

Soft Computing, which is now indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP. Ulrich's,

EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress, Springerlink Proceedings

will be made available during the conference. Expanded versions

of selected papers will be published in special issues of internationally

referred journals (indexed by SCI) and edited volumes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">SoCPaR’16 Submission : <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2016">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2016</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">CaSON’16 Submission : </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cason2016">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cason2016</a>

</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">* Organizing Committee *<br>

----------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Chairs :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence

Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, VIT

University, India</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto

Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Technical Committee ( Please refer

website ) :</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar16/committees.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar16/committees.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/cason16/committees.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/cason16/committees.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br>

For technical contact:<br>

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Ajith Abraham<br>

Email: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org" target="_blank">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">

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