<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> *** Sorry for cross-post *** *** Feel free to distribute ***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span> IEEE LA-CCI - 4rd Latin-American Conference on Computational Intelligence</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Arequipa, Peru (close to Machu Picchu).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt">November, 8-10th, <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> [<font color="#ff0000">The 6-7th, prior, will be dedicated to the LA-School on CI</font>]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt">WEBSITE => </span></b><a href="http://la-cci.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt">http://la-cci.org/</span></b></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-il"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">3rd</span></span> <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-il"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">CFP</span></span> LINK =></span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span><a href="http://la-cci.org/wp-content/uploads/LA-CCI2017/3rd-CFP-IEEE-LA-CCI-2017.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt">http://la-cci.org/wp-conten<wbr>t/uploads/LA-CCI2017/<span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">3rd</span>-<span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">CFP</span>-<wbr>IEEE-LA-CCI-<span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span>.pdf</span></b></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#38761d">LA-CCI is supported by CI Societies/Groups from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru(Host) and Venezuela.</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Submission of full papers (</span><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aBn" style="font-size:9.5pt">23:59</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">, GMT -5) *</span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span><font size="4">July</font></b><b><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aBn"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aQJ"><font size="4"> 10th, <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></font></span></span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> [and also MSc/PhD Theses Contest]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Notification of acceptance and Theses Contest Notification: <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aBn"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aQJ">August 10th, <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></span></span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Final (camera ready) paper due: by <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aBn"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aQJ">August 27th, <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></span></span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Author registration: by <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aBn"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aQJ">August 27th, <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></span></span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Early registration: <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aBn"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aQJ">August <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-il">1st</span>, <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></span></span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Regular registration: <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aBn"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aQJ">September 10th, <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></span></span> and onwards.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12.6667px">*School on CI: </span><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aBn" style="font-size:12.6667px"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aQJ">November 6-7th, <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.6667px">.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">*Conference Meeting: <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aBn"><span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-aQJ">November 8-10th, <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></span></span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>KEY-SPEAKERS (<font color="#ff0000">CONFIRMED</font>):</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="ES-CO" style="color:black">1) José Príncipe </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* </span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-CO" style="color:black">University of Florida (USA) * </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(90,90,90);background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Talk: “Information Theoretic Deep Learning”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2) Giuseppe Zollo * Università </span>degli<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy) * Talk: “The Aesthetics of Complexity: how the mind computes the beauty”</span><br></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">3) Tshilidzi Marwala * University of Johannesburg (South Africa) * Talk: “The Challenges and <wbr>Opportunities of Industry 4.0″</i><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>4) Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto * Universidade de Pernambuco (Brazil) * Talk: “Why Metaheuristics are so useful” </i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>5) Omar Florez * Intel Labs (USA) * Talk: “From Machine Learning to Machine Understanding”</i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>6) Mike Preuss * University of Münster (Germany) * Talk: “Novel developments in CI and Games”</i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>7) Pablo Estevez * Universidad de Chile (Chile) </i></font><i style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Talk: “Big Data Analytics using Deep Learning and Information-Theoretical <wbr>Learning: Applications to Astronomy”</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">8) Ronaldo Menezes * Florida Institute of Technology (USA) * Talk: “Network and Data Science” *** Key-speaker at LA-CCI School</i><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b><br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>CONFERENCE OVERVIEW (4th Edition of LA-CCI):</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">The IEEE <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span> Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence aims to (i) bring together the Soft Computing </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">community to present the latest achievements and innovations in the multiple areas of Computational Intelligence and </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">(ii) encourage participation by young researchers. Following the ethos of LA-CCI (check the Manifesto at </span><a href="http://la-cci.org/manifesto/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">http://la-cci.org<wbr>/manifesto/</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt">),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">we are glad to put together a </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">high-level international forum for scientists, researchers, engineers, professionals, and educators </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">to jointly disseminate </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">latest research results and exchange views of the future research directions in the areas associated </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">to Computational Intelligence. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>MAIN-TRACKS:</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">* Evolutionary & Swarm Computation: Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Artificial Immune Systems, Swarm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Evolvable Hardware, Bio-inspired Methods.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">* Neural & Learning Systems: Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Complex Systems, Molecular and Quantum </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> Computing, Complex Networks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">* Fuzzy & Stochastic Modeling: Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy Control & Decision Making, Uncertainty Analysis, Rough Sets, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> Fractals, Multiagent Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>SUBMISSIONS:</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Papers should be no longer than 6 pages with original contributions, using the IEEE conference format, available at the </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">event homepage along with other instructions. Papers can be submitted using the Easychair system (</span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2017ieeelacci" target="_blank"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">https://easychair.org/confere<wbr>nces/?conf=2017ieeelacci</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt">).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>PUBLICATION (And Special Issues):</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE LA-CCI 2017 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(148,54,52)">-Top papers of IEEE LA-CCI 2017 will be indexed with IEEE / Scopus and published as extended versions in</span></i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(148,54,52)"> IJSIR (Int’l Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research) e no LNLM (Learning and Non-Linear Models).</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(148,54,52)"><span></span></span></i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>POST GRADUATE THESIS CONTEST </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Students graded between January <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-m_-7441108312096378044gmail-il">1st</span> 2016 and June 30th <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span> can send your summaries (2500 words) to Ph.D. Diego Peluffo at </span><a href="mailto:diegohpo@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">diegohpo@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>LA-CCI SCHOOL on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Check instructions on the website.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>VENUE</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Arequipa, a pleasant colonial and touristic Peruvian city (18.C in November), is located 1,000 kilometers southeast of Peru’s capital, Lima. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">The town is next to three volcanoes and close to the world heritage of Machu Picchu.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><b>ORGANIZERS</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-General Chair LA-CCI <span class="m_6174850041623466861gmail-il">2017</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Yván Jesús Túpac Valdivia, Universidad Católica San Pablo – Peru</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-General Co-Chair </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Efren Gorrostieta, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro – Mexico</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Program Chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto, Universidade de Pernambuco – Brazil</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Director of </span><span style="font-size:12.6667px"> 2017 </span><span style="font-size:12.6667px">LA-CCI</span><span style="font-size:12.6667px"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Summer School</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Miguel Núñez del Prado, Universidad del Pacífico – Peru</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Competitions-Chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12.6667px">Diego Hernán Peluffo-Ordóñez– Universidad Técnica del Norte </span><span style="font-size:12.6667px">–</span><span style="font-size:12.6667px"> Ecuador </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Publications Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Nadia Nedjah, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro – Brazil</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Carmelo Bastos Filho, Universidade de Pernambuco – Brazil</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Finance Chair and Treasurer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Yessenia Deysiy Yari Ramos, Universidad Católica San Pablo – Peru</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">-Publicity and Public Relations Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">ARGENTINA: Cristian Rodriguez Rivero – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">BOLIVIA: René V. Reynaga – Universidad La Salle</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">BRAZIL: Hugo Valadares – Federal Technological University of Paraná</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">COLOMBIA: Álvaro Orjuela – Universidad Antono Nariño</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">CHILE: Gloria Millaray Curilem Saldías - Universidad de La Frontera</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">ECUADOR: Diego Hernán Peluffo-Ordóñez– Universidad Técnica del Norte</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">PERU: Ernesto Cuadros Vargas, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">MEXICO: Alma Alanis – University of Guadalajara</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">VENEZUELA: Niriaska del Carmen Perozo – Universidad Centroccidental “Lisandro Alvarado”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#38761d"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Come & enjoy a nice conference as well as a very nice region of Peru </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#38761d"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt">Cultural visits will be organized to the world heritage of <u>Machu Picchu</u>)</span></i></b></font></p><div><div class="m_6174850041623466861gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://fbln.pro.br/images/FBLN_Footer.jpg" target="_blank"></a> </div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace" size="1"><a href="http://www.la-cci.org" target="_blank"><img src="http://la-cci.org/wp-content/uploads//LA-CCI2017/LA-CCI2017_BANNER-1024x415@2x.jpg" width="420" height="170" alt="LA-CCI 2017"></a></font><b><font size="1"><i><br></i></font></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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