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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="4">Dear Colleagues,</font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="4"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="4">-Greetings from Latin America!</font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000">On the behalf of the organizers, I am glad to invite you and your lab-members to submit your recent results to the </font></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#38761d"> -2018 IEEE – 5<sup>th</sup> Latin-American Conference on Computational Intelligence (IEEE LA-CCI 2018)</font></span></b><br></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" 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" color="#38761d"></font><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri">Your students may also be willing to participate at the inspiring: </font></span></p><p 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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"> </font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#38761d"> -2018 IEEE LA-CCI School on Computational Intelligence & Applications (IEEE SSo-CIA 2018)</font></span></b><br></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#38761d"> </font></span></b></font></p><p 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;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><b><font face="Calibri" color="#38761d"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#38761d"> -2018 LA-CCI Theses Contest on Computational Intelligence & Applications </font></span></b><br></font></b></font></p><p></p><p 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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">In 2018, our event will be held in Guadalajara-Mexico, on </span><span style="font-size:10pt">November, 7-9th. Again, this edition is supported </span><span style="font-size:10pt">by IEEE-CIS, as well</span></font></p><p 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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">as </span></font><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">by CI Societies </span></font><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">and Research Groups </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">from</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri">Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico (Host), Peru and Venezuela</span></p><p></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3" 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><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background:lime">"LA-CCI is an exciting international event on Computational Intelligence held in Latin America to colleagues worldwide"</span></b> <br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri">Please do send your manuscripts and let us all meet in Guadalajara, one of the major </span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri">technology hubs </span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri">and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:large">a lively cultural heritage of Mexico! We have 10 confirmed great key-speakers.</span></p><p 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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><font size="4"><br></font></font></p><p 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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><font size="4">Cordially, Fernando Buarque </font></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> <div style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://fbln.pro.br/images/FBLN_Footer.jpg" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Prof. Fernando Buarque</a>,<span> </span><font size="1">BSc MSc DIC<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_41 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_gramm gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_disable_anim_appear gmail-Punctuation gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-41" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">PhD</span>(UK) Hab(BR) AvH Fellow(DE), Senior<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_21 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_disable_anim_appear gmail-ContextualSpelling gmail-ins-del gmail-multiReplace" id="gmail-21" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">Memb</span>. IEEE(USA), Accred. Res. CNPq(BR)</font></div><div style="font-size:10pt"><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/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small">POLI</a><span style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small">/</span><a href="http://www.poli.br/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:x-small">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="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;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: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" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><font size="1" color="#6fa8dc">ECE@TAMU</font></a><span style="font-size:x-small">) </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;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-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" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ERCIS</a></span><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;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-size:x-small">Visiting Professor - Electrical Engineering/University of Johannesburg, South Africa (</span><a href="http://virtualtour.co.za/clients/University/index.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small">Kingsway Campus</a><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span><br></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
</div></div></div></div><p style="font-size:10pt;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><br></p><p 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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri"><font size="6">*** Further information about the event is as follows:</font></span></p></font></font><p></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3" 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><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"> </font></span></p>
<div><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><u>IMPORTANT DATES</u></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal">PAPERS:<br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"> -Submissions: <b>June 4, 2018 <font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)" color="#000000">NEW</font></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"> -Notification of acceptance: July 2, 2018</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"> -Final version of all accepted papers: July 16, 2018</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal">THESES CONTEST:<br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"> -Theses Contest Deadline: July 2, 2018</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"> -Theses Contest Result Notification: July 16, 2018</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal">AOB<br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"> -Early registration: July 16, 2018</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><u>KEY-SPEAKERS (CONFIRMED):</u></p><p 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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"> -<span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Carlos Coello, Mexico</span></p><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> -Carlos Lopez-Franco, Mexico</span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> -Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas, Germany</span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> -Hojjat Adeli, USA</span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> -Jagannathan Sarangapani, USA</span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> -Nancy Arana-Daniel, Mexico</span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> -Oscar Castillo, Mexico</span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> -Patricia Melin, Mexico</span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> -Paul Werbos, USA</span><br><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> -Vicenzo Piuri, Italy</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"> <u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">WEB-LINKS:</u><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"> </span></font><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> -<font color="#000000" face="Calibri">THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE LINK<span> </span>=><span> </span><a href="http://la-cci.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://la-cci.org/</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small;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"> -F</font><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;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;color:rgb(0,0,0)">OR SUBMITTING YOUR LATEST WORK </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;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;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;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;color:rgb(0,0,0)">=></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;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;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2018ieeelacci" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204);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)">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=<wbr>2018ieeelacci</a><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34);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;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"> -FINAL-CFP (<b>*FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE*</b>)<span style="font-weight:400"> <span> </span></span>=><span style="font-weight:400"> </span><a href="http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2018/call-for-papers-2018/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:400">http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2018/<wbr>call-for-papers-2018/</a></font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"> -School on CI & Applications => </font></span><font face="Calibri"><a href="http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2018/summer-school-on-computational-intelligence-and-applications-ssocia-2018/">http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2018/summer-school-on-computational-intelligence-and-applications-ssocia-2018/</a></font></p><p style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"> -Theses Competition => </font></span><font face="Calibri"><a href="http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2018/theses-competition-2018/">http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2018/theses-competition-2018/</a></font></p>
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<u style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;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)">CONFERENCE-TRACKS:</u><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"> </span></font></div></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3" 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><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri">I)<span> <span> </span></span><b>Evolutionary & Swarm Computation</b>: Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Artificial Immune Systems, Swarm Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Evolvable Hardware, Bio-inspired Methods.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3" 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><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt">II)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt"> </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt">Neural & Learning Systems</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt">: Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Complex Systems, Molecular and Quantum Computing, Complex Networks.</span><br></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3" 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><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt">III)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt"> </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt">Fuzzy & Stochastic Modeling</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt">: Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy Control & Decision Making, Uncertainty Analysis, Rough Sets, Fractals, Multiagent Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Game Theory.</span><br></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3" 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><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt"> <u style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;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)">OTHER ACTIVITIES:</u> </span><br></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3" 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><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;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;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri"> -Summer School, Theses contest, Round-tables, Cultural tours and more.</font></span></p>
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