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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">********** Call for Papers **********</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Special Issue: <span>Non-Iterative Approaches and Their Applications</span></span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> on<span> </span><b>Cognitive Computation</b><span> </span>(Springer)</span><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>-----<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Optimization, which plays a central role in learning, has received considerable attention from academics, researchers, and domain workers. Many optimization problems in machine learning can be tackled with non-iterative approaches, which can be presented in closed-form manner. Those methods are in general computationally faster than iterative solutions. Even though non-iterative methods have attracted much attention in recent years, there exists a performance gap when compared with older methods and other competing paradigms. This special session aims to bridge this gap.<u></u><u></u></span></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(2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 style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Topics covered:<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"></span><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Methods with and without randomization<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Regression, classification and time series analysis<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dimensionality reduction<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Spectral methods<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Kernel methods such as kernel ridge regression, kernel adaptive filters, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Feedforward, recurrent, multilayer, deep and other structures.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Ensemble learning<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Moore-Penrose pseudo inverse, SVD and other solution procedures.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Non-iterative methods for large-scale problems with and without kernels<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Theoretical analysis of non-iterative methods<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Comparative studies with competing iterative methods</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Applications of non-iterative solutions in domains such as power systems, biomedical, finance, signal processing, big data and all other areas</span></li></ul><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Journal description<u></u><u></u></span></u></b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Cognitive Computation, Springer (</span><a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/12559" id="gmail-m_8454314650270715439LPlnk114992" class="gmail-m_8454314650270715439OWAAutoLink" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">https://link.springer.com/<wbr>journal/12559</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">) is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that publishes cutting-edge articles focusing on original basic and applied work involving bio-inspired computational accounts of all aspects of natural and artificial cognitive systems. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Cognitive Computation has an Impact Factor of 3.44.</span><u></u><u></u></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Important Dates<u></u><u></u></span></u></b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Submissions Deadline<span> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:red">1st July 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">First notification of acceptance 1st Nov 2018<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Submission of revised papers 1st Jan 2019<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Final notification to the authors 1st Mar 2019<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Submission of final/camera-ready papers 1st April 2019<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Publication of special issue 2019<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(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