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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">-- The 9th International Conference on Soft Computing
and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR'17) --<span></span></span></b></p>
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<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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Proceedings of SoCPaR’16:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319606170" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319606170</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Indexed by</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">: SCOPUS, Thomson ISI Web of
Science, DBLP etc.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">History of SoCPaR series:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> <a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar17/previous.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar17/previous.php</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Cambria,serif">SoCPaR 2017: <i>Scopus Proceedings</i></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">All<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><b>accepted
and registered<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></b>papers will be
published in<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><b>AISC Series of
Springer</b>, indexed in<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ISI
Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></i>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></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">** Important Dates **<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Paper
submission due: September 30, 2017<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Notification
of paper acceptance: October 31, 2017<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Registration
and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2017<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Conference:
December 11 - 13, 2017<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">About SoCPaR'17:<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,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. SoCPaR</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">'17 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.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br>
<b>Topics (not limited to)<br>
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[Soft Computing and Applications]<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Evolutionary computing<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Swarm intelligence<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Artificial immune
systems<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Fuzzy Sets<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Uncertainty analysis<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Fractals<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Rough Sets<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Support vector machines<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Artificial neural
networks<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Case Based Reasoning<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Wavelets<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Hybrid intelligent
systems<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Nature inspired
computing techniques<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Machine learning<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Ambient intelligence<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Hardware implementations<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">[Pattern Recognition and Applications]<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Information retrieval<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Data Mining<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Web Mining<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Image Processing<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Computer Vision<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Bio-informatics<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Information security<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Network security<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Steganography<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Biometry<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Remote sensing<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Medical Informatics<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> E-commerce<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Signal Processing<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> Control systems<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Submission
Guidelines:<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">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.<span></span></span></p>
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Paper format templates:<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/11156" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">http://www.springer.com/series/11156</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br>
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SoCPaR’17 Submission Link: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2017"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2017</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">* Organizing
Committee *</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">General Chairs:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Abdelkrim Haqiq, Hassan
1stUniversity, Settat, Morocco<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Ajith Abraham, Machine
Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Layth Sliman, EFREI, Paris, France<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Adel M. Alimi, University of Sfax,
Tunisia<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Technical Committee (Please refer website):<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar17/committees.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar17/committees.php</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br>
<b>For technical contact:<br>
</b>-------------------------------<br>
Ajith Abraham<br>
Email: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span></span></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Best Regards,<br>Azah Muda</div>
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