Connectionists: Meta-learning and hybrid systems for computational intelligence algorithms

[Norbert Jankowski]

Call for papers

 

Special session: Meta-learning and hybrid systems for computational
intelligence algorithms

World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012), Brisbane,
Australia

 

 

Goals of this special session:

    This session will be devoted to approaches that integrate in an
intelligent way various learning algorithms used in computational
intelligence, especially in meta-learning and hybrid systems. Integration of
machine learning algorithms becomes increasingly more important, especially
in applications to hard problems which still wait to be solved, where
application of specialized methods that do not use additional knowledge has
led to limited success. Data mining packages contain hundreds of algorithms
that may be composed in millions of ways, and are able to beat the "no-free
lunch" theorem, but automatization of this process requires analysis of
learning algorithms at the meta-level. Methods that extract various forms of
useful knowledge, share and integrate it for intelligent information
processing, are necessary to solve hard problems. Such methods may be
inspired by the organization of the brain, or may be based on formal
algorithms. One promissing direction is to use methods that construct new
features, learning from successes of divers algorithms, extracting knowledge
from indirect, partial learning and using it to build final potential
solutions. Another interesting aspect in construction of complex
computational intelligence methods is dealing with different levels of
abstraction; useful meta-knowledge may come in the form of highly abstract
heuristic knowledge directing search process for optimal model, or may be
hidden in details of algorithm implementation. 

 

The main subjects of interest are:

 

- Meta-learning algorithms and system architectures.

- Meta-knowledge representation, acquisition, application, re-use and
construction, analysis of the usefulness of knowledge.

- Hybrid systems, their architectures and ways of integration of individual
models.

- Advanced architectures of data mining systems.

- Ensemble algorithms, advanced data mining systems/algorithms, which
integrate several methods of data analysis.

- Deep learning algorithms.

- Transfer learning, information/knowledge sharing methods between modules
of meta-learning or hybrid systems.

- Extraction and construction of new features that simplify the complex
learning process, pre-processing methods, multimodal signal processing,
extraction of information from specific types of data.

- Methods of reasoning for automatic creation of hybrid systems, estimation
of knowledge usefulness for given problem.

- Methods of testing of complex systems, applications to challenging
problems.

 

    The session is not strictly limited to the above subjects. Every aspects
of meta-learning or other integration of learning algorithms and knowledge
are welcome. 

 

Important dates:

    Paper submission deadline           January 18, 2012       

    Paper acceptance notification date    Feb 20, 2012      

    Final paper submission deadline     April 2, 2012            

    (for more dates see http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org)


 

Paper submission:

        Please REMEMBER to choose "Special session: Meta-learning and hybrid
systems for computational intelligence algorithms"

        Author information
(http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/ieee-wcci2012/index.php?option=com_content&vie
w=article&id=58&Itemid=67)

        Submission page
(http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ijcnn2012/upload.php)

 

Organizers:

    Norbert Jankowski and Włodzisław Duch

    Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University

    ul. Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Toruń, Poland

    {norbert,wduch} @ is.umk.pl 

 

Program Committee:

    Pavel Brazdil, Portugal, Andre C P L F de Carvalho, Brazil, Wlodzislaw
Duch, Poland, Christophe Giraud-Carrier, USA, Krzysztof Grabczewski, Poland,
Salman Halgamuge, Australia, Hisao Ishibuchi, Japan, Norbert Jankowski,
Poland, Pavel Kordic, Czech Republic, Teresa Ludermir, Brazil, Ricardo
Bastos C. Prudencio, Brazil, Rafał Scherer, Poland, Carlos Soares, Portugal,
Bruno F. Souza, Brazil, Joaquin Vanschoren, Belgium, Wang Wenjia, Great
Britain. 

 

Web addresses:

    Special session: http://www.is.umk.pl/WCCI2012-meta, WCCI'12:
http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org

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