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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=""><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Hybrid Special Session
<a name="x_OLE_LINK14">on Intelligent Physiological and Affect Aware System</a>s (IPAAS)
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=""><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2018) 8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">
- </span></span><a href="http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=""><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Aim and Scope:</span></b></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Affective Computing (AC) is “computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotions,”
as initially coined by Professor R. Picard (Media Lab, MIT). It has been gaining popularity rapidly in the last decade because it has great potential in the next generation of automated human-computer interfaces and applications using behavior analytics. One
goal of affective computing is to design a computer system that responds in a rational and strategic fashion to real-time changes in user affect (e.g., happiness, sadness, etc), cognition (e.g., frustration, boredom, etc.) and motivation, as represented by
speech, facial expressions, gestures, physiological signals, neurocognitive performance, etc. Physiological Computing (PC) relates to computation that incorporates physiological signals in order to produce useful outputs (e.g., in computer-human interaction).
It mainly differs from AC in the sense that its foremost focus is not the modeling of affect but rather the utilization of physiological information generally.</span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Practical applications of AC and PC based systems seek to achieve a positive impact on our everyday
lives by monitoring, recognising and acting on our emotional states and physiological signals. Integrating these sensing modalities into scalable human data analytics and pervasive computing systems will reveal a far richer picture of how our fleeting emotional
responses, changing moods, feelings and sensations, such as pain, touch, tastes and smells, are a reaction to or influence how we implicitly or explicitly interact with the environment and increasingly the connected computing artifacts within. The increasing
use of unobtrusive wearable sensors, self-monitoring devices and developments in micro- and nanofabrication of implantable devices can be used to track a variety of physiological indicators (e.g. blood pressure, blood gas, pulse, insulin level, EKG, EEG),
the interpretation of affective states and behavior contextualization in combination of wider pervasive sensing.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">The integration and use of AC and PC raise many new challenges for signal processing, machine learning
and Computational Intelligence (CI). Fuzzy Logic Systems in particular provide a highly promising avenue for addressing some of the fundamental research challenges in AC/PC where most data sources such as: body signals (e.g., heart rate, brain waves, skin
</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">conductance and respiration) facial features, speech and human kinematics are very noisy/uncertain and subject-dependent. Similarly, the
recent success of deep neural network models on classification problems make them a viable path for the development of human-computer interfaces. Clearly however, other key areas of CI research, such as evolutionary learning algorithms and emerging biologically
inspired</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US"> models provide essential tools for behavior discovery and
</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">optimization of complex real-word systems and processes using affective and physiological data.</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">The
<a name="x_OLE_LINK8"></a><a name="x_OLE_LINK9"></a><a name="x_OLE_LINK10"><span style=""><span style="">Intelligent Physiological and Affect Aware
</span></span></a>(IPAAS</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#5B9BD5" lang="EN-US">
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special session aims to bring together researchers from the three areas of CI to discuss how CI techniques can be used individually or in combination to help solve challenging AC/PC problems, and conversely, how physiological and affect (emotion) and its modeling
can inspire new approaches in CI and its applications. Topics of interest for this special session include but are not limited to:</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Models of emotion and physiological information</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Affect acquisition and processing mobile and unconstraint environments</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">CI based architectures for processing emotions and other affective states</span></span></p>
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recognition & synthesis from physiological signals, facial expressions, body language, speech, or neurocognitive performance</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Emotion mining from texts, images, or videos</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Affective interaction with virtual agents and robots</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Affect aware organisational and operational modelling</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Social sensing and context aware environments</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Sentimental analysis from multi-modal data (audio, video, text, ambient sensing, EEG)</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Emotional internet of things</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Social and emphatically aware robotics</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Applications of affective computing in interactive learning, affective gaming, personalized robotics, virtual reality, social networking, pervasive
environments, healthcare and behavioral informatics, etc.</span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=""><a name="x_OLE_LINK13"></a><a name="x_OLE_LINK6"></a><a name="x_OLE_LINK7"><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Accepted
and</span></span></span></a></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US"> presented papers will be published under IJCNN 2018 proceedings. However,
<a name="x_OLE_LINK11"></a><a name="x_OLE_LINK12"><span style="">as a cross-disciplinary and CI applications oriented special session, cross-disciplinary work involving Fuzzy and Evolutionary learning is strongly encouraged.</span></a></span></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">
</span></span></span><a name="x_OLE_LINK4"></a><a name="x_OLE_LINK5"></a></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">For paper guidelines please visit
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and for submissions please visit</span></span></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#5B9BD5" lang="EN-US">
</span></span></span></span><a href="http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2018/upload.php"><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#5B9BD5" lang="EN-US">http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2018/upload.php</span></span></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></span></a><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#5B9BD5" lang="EN-US">
</span></span></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">and</span></span></span><a name="x_OLE_LINK2"></a><a name="x_OLE_LINK3"></a></span><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">
select "CDSS-09. Special Session on Intelligent Physiological and Affect Aware (IPAAS)" as the main research topic.</span></span></span></span><span style=""></span><span style=""></span><span style=""><span class="x_MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#5B9BD5" lang="EN-US">
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:red" lang="EN-US">15th January 2018 – Paper Submission
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:red" lang="EN-US">8-13 July 2018 – IEEE WCCI 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style=""><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Dr Dongrui Wu</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, LIP6</span></span></p>
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</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Marie-Jeanne.Lesot AT lip6.fr</span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style=""><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Ariel Ruiz-Garcia</span></b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics</span></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F4E79" lang="EN-US">Coventry University</span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 15.0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #005eb8;">Gold rating for teaching excellence<br>
</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #005eb8;">Ranked No.12 UK university</span></strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">The Guardian University Guide 2018</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #005eb8;">UK’s highest ranking new university</span></strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">The Guardian and the Complete University Guides 2018</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 15.0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #005eb8;">Top 6 for Student Experience</span></strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018</span></p>
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