<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"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">2017 IEEE</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> - 4rd Latin-American Conference on Computational Intelligence</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (IEEE LA-CCI 2017)<br></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Arequipa (close to Machu Picchu) – </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Universidad Católica San Pablo – Peru</span>.<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">November, 8-10th, 2017</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <b>[</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:red"><b>The 6-7th, prior, will be dedicated to the LA-School on CI</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>]</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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br>Sponsored by the IEEE-CIS</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Supported by CI Societies/Groups from:</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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru(Host) and Venezuela</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><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"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE LINK => </span><a href="http://la-cci.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://la-cci.org/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></b></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"><b style="font-size:12.8px">FOR SUBMMITING YOUR ENTRY </b><b style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">=> </font></b><font color="#1155cc" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><u><a href="http://la-cci.org/contest-theses-2017/">http://la-cci.org/contest-theses-2017/</a></u></b></span></font><b><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </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"><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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px">-</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px">Submission of entry for the C</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px">ontest: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px">September 28th, 2017.</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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"></span>-Author registration & </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">Early registration: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px">September 4th</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">, 2017.</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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">-Regular registration: September 28th, 2017 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"><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"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">List of Key - Speakers (</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:red">CONFIRMED</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">):</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">1) José Príncipe </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">* </span></i><i><span lang="ES-CO" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">University of Florida (USA)</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 lang="ES-CO" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> * </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(90,90,90);background:rgb(250,250,250)">Talk: “Information Theoretic Deep Learning”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2) Giuseppe Zollo * Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy)</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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> * Talk: “The Aesthetics of Complexity: how the mind computes the beauty”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3) Tshilidzi Marwala * University of Johannesburg (South Africa)</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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> * Talk: “The Challenges and Opportun<wbr>ities of Industry 4.0″</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4) Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto * Universidade de Pernambuco (Brazil)</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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> * Talk: “Why Metaheuristics are so useful” </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">5) Omar Florez * Intel Labs (USA)</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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> * Talk: “From Machine Learning to Machine Understanding”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">6) Mike Preuss * University of Münster (Germany) </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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> * Talk: “Novel developments in CI and Games”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">7) Pablo Estevez * Universidad de Chile (Chile) </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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> * Talk: “Big Data Analytics using Deep Learning and Information-Theoretical Le<wbr>arning: Applications to Astronomy”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">8) Ronaldo Menezes * Florida Institute of Technology (USA)</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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> * Talk: “Network and Data Science” * Key speaker at LA-CCI School</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Main-Tracks:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:13.5533px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I) Evolutionary & Swarm Computation: Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Artificial Immune Systems, </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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Swarm 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">II) 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">III) 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Activities: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">LA-CCI SCHOOL on CI; POST GRADUATE THESIS CONTEST; ROUND-TABLES & more.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:148.85pt;font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#ff0000"><br></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 lang="EN-US" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ff0000">Highlights:</font></span></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"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#ff0000"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b>This edition will boast thematic roundtables, an exciting School, a Post-Grad Contest/Doctoral Consortium and some </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 face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align:justify"><font color="#ff0000">exquisite cultural activities (such as visiting Machu Picchu over the weekend). </font></span><b style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#ff0000"> </font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></b><b style="text-align:justify"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(148,54,52)"><font size="4">We are waiting for you!</font></span></i></b></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"><br></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"> <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 size="4">Warm regards, </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 size="4">Fernando Buarque - PC-Chair of LA-CCI'2017</font></p><div> <br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><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 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">Prof. Fernando Buarque</a>, <font size="1">BSc MSc DIC PhD(UK) Hab(BR) AvH Fellow(DE), Senior Memb. IEEE(USA), Accred. Res. CNPq(BR)</font></div><div><div style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><div style="text-align:left"><font size="1" style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto">Associate Professor - </font><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:x-small">School of Engineering</span><span style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small">/University of</span><font size="1" style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto"> Pernambuco-UPE, Brazil </font><span style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small">(</span><a href="http://www.poli.br/" style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small" target="_blank">POLI</a><span style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small">/</span><a href="http://www.poli.br/" style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small" target="_blank">UPE</a><span style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small">)</span><br></div></div><div><div style="font-family:arial"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:x-small">Adjunct Professor - Electrical&Computer Engineering/Texas A&M University, USA (</span><a href="http://engineering.tamu.edu/electrical/people/buarque-de-lima-neto-fernando" target="_blank"><font size="1" color="#6fa8dc">ECE@TAMU</font></a><span style="font-size:x-small">) </span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:x-small">Graduate Faculty - Computer Science/Florida Institute of Technology, USA (</span><a href="http://coe.fit.edu/cs/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small" target="_blank">CS@FIT</a><span style="font-size:x-small">) </span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Visiting Professor - School of Business and Economics-European Research Center for IS/University of Münster, Germany (<a href="https://www.wi.uni-muenster.de/department/logistik/people/fernando-buarque" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">ERCIS</a></span><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Visiting Professor - Electrical Engineering/University of Johannesburg, South Africa (</span><a href="http://virtualtour.co.za/clients/University/index.html" style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Kingsway Campus</a><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:x-small">Permanent Member</span><span style="font-size:x-small"> - PostGrad Program on</span><font size="1"> Computing Engineering of UPE</font><span style="font-size:x-small">, Brazil</span><span style="font-size:x-small"> (</span><a href="http://mestrado.ecomp.poli.br/" style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">PPG-EC</a><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:x-small"> - PostGrad Program on</span><font size="1"> Systems Engineering of UPE</font><span style="font-size:x-small">, Brazil</span><font size="1"> </font><font size="1"> (<a href="http://ppges.poli.br/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">PPG-ES</a>) </font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:x-small"> - UnderGrad Program on</span><font size="1"> Computing Engineering of POLI/UPE</font><span style="font-size:x-small">, Brazil</span><span style="font-size:x-small"> </span><span style="font-size:x-small">(</span><a href="http://www.ecomp.poli.br/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small" target="_blank">E-Comp</a><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span><span style="font-size:x-small"> </span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small">Head - Computational Intelligence Research Group of</span><font size="1" style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> UPE</font><span style="font-size:x-small">, Brazil</span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small"> (</span><a href="http://www.cirg.ecomp.upe.br/" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">CIRG@UPE</a><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small">)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:x-small">Director - International Relations Office of </span><span style="font-size:x-small">School of Engineering-</span><span style="font-size:x-small">POLI/UPE</span><span style="font-size:x-small">, Brazil</span><span style="font-size:x-small"> (</span><a href="http://www.poli.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=690:a-ari&catid=74:informacoes-ari&Itemid=273" style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">ARI@POLI</a><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div><div><u>Snail mail:</u></div><div>Universidade de Pernambuco / Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco<br><font size="1">Rua Benfica, 455 (Bl. 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