<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">** First Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks **</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-- The 23rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'23) --</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">HIS 2023 Theme: Hybrid Approaches for Large Language Models and Generative AI</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">==============================</span><wbr style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">==============================</span><wbr style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">====</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/his23" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.mirlabs.net/his23</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/his23" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.mirlabs.org/his23</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Onsite and On the World Wide Web</b><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Onsite Venues:</b><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Olten, Switzerland : </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olten" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Olten</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Porto, Portugal : </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Porto</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Vilnius, Lithuania : </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Vilnius</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Kochi, India : </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Kochi</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">December 12-14, 2023</b><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">HIS 2023 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person and fully virtually to take advantage of the best that the two modalities can offer. Besides regular paper presentations, the technical programme will include 8-10 plenary lectures and poster sessions. HIS 2023 Organising Committee also recognises the benefits of virtual conferences allowing participation at a cheaper rate. This allows a higher number of research scholars and students to attend. Selected authors will have the option to attend and present the papers virtually or present in one of the four venues in Europe and Asia.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Proceedings of HIS'23 will be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. (</span><a href="https://www.springer.com/series/15179" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://www.springer.com/<wbr>series/15179</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">) (Approval Pending)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Proceedings of HIS'22: </span><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27409-1" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://link.springer.com/<wbr>book/10.1007/978-3-031-27409-1</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">History of HIS series: </span><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/his23/previous.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.mirlabs.net/his23/<wbr>previous.php</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">**Important Dates**</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">---------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Paper submission due: September 30, 2023</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2023</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Registration and Final manuscript due: November 10, 2023</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Conference: December 12-14, 2023</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">**About HIS 2023**</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">the next generations of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) investigations is the awareness in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">academic communities about the necessity of the combined approaches to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">solving the remaining challenging problems in artificial/computational</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">intelligence. Hybrid Intelligent Systems are recently getting popular</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">due to their capabilities in handling several real-world complexities</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">involving imprecision, uncertainty, and vagueness. HIS'23 built on the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">success of the previous HIS conferences. HIS'23 is the 23rd</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">International conference that brings together researchers, developers,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">practitioners, and users of soft computing, computational intelligence,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">agents, logic programming, and several other intelligent computing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">techniques. It aims to increase the awareness of the research community</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">about the broad spectrum of hybrid approaches. It brings together</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">worldwide AI researchers to present their cutting-edge results, discuss</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">the current trends in HIS research, and develop a collective vision of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">future opportunities. Thereby helping the researchers and practitioners</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">establish international collaborative opportunities, and as a result,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">advancing the state-of-the-art of the field.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">**Topics (not limited to)**</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">---------------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Fuzzy clustering algorithms and optimization techniques.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Fuzzy inference system optimization using global optimization algorithms.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hybrid computing using neural networks - fuzzy systems - evolutionary algorithms.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hybrid optimization techniques (evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, GRASP etc.).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis, grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Autonomic computing.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hybridizatiion with novel computing paradigms: Qantum computing, DNA computing, membrane computing etc.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Applications</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">**Submission Guidelines**</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Submission of paper should be made through the submission page</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Paper format templates:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://www.springer.com/de/<wbr>authors-editors/book-authors-<wbr>editors/manuscript-<wbr>preparation/5636#c3324</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">HIS’23 Submission Link:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/his23/submission.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.mirlabs.org/his23/<wbr>submission.php</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> (under development)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">**HIS 2023 Organization**</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">General Chairs</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ana Maria Madureira, ISEP, Porto, Portugal</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Cengiz Kahraman, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Program Chair</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Yuchuan Sun, Beijing Normal University, China</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Publication Chair</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Anu Bajaj, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Web Services Chair</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Publicity Chair</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">International Program Committee</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">TBA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Note: If you would like to propose a special session, please email Ms. Mabrouka Salmi <</span><a href="mailto:salmimabrouka7@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">salmimabrouka7@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">> with a cc to Dr. Anu Bajaj <</span><a href="mailto:er.anubajaj@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">er.anubajaj@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">**Technical Contact**</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">---------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dr. Ajith Abraham</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Email: </span><a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a>