Connectionists: SOCO 2013: 4th CFP – The submission system is open now!

[Roberto Vega Ruiz]

SOCO 2013: 4th CFP – The submission system is open now!

* We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once. 
* PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students. 

The 8th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications.
September 11th-13th, 2013 
Salamanca, Spain 
http://soco13.usal.es
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*** SUBMISSION SYSTEM IS OPEN***
The submission system is open now!
Please, submit your contributions through the following link:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=soco13
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SOCO 2013 is organized in conjunction with:

HAIS 2013 (http://hais13.usal.es)
CISIS 2013 (http://gicap.ubu.es/cisis2013)
and
ICEUTE 2013 (http://gicap.ubu.es/iceute2013)
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***JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES AND FAST TRACK:
Authors of the best papers presented at SOCO 2013 will be invited to 
submit an extended version to highly reputed international journals, 
Up to now:
 
Confirmed special issues for the journals:
1. International Journal of Neural Systems (IJNS), World Scientific, I.F.: 4.284, Rank: 4th/111
2. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, IOS Press, I.F.: 3.451, Rank: 7th/111
3. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, WILEY, I.F.: 3.382, Rank: 9th/111
4. Neurocomputing, ELSEVIER, I.F.: 1.580, Rank: 39th/111
5. Journal of Applied Logic, ELSEVIER, I.F.: 0.574, Rank: 70th/99
 

Confirmed Fast Track for the journals:
1. Applied Soft Computing, ELSEVIER, I.F.: 2.612, Rank: 13th/111

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*** PLENARY SPEAKERS: 
Prof. Hojjat Adeli.-The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. 
Prof. Hujun Yin.-The University of Manchester, UK.
Prof. Manuel Graña.- University of the Basque Country, Spain
Prof. Cesare Alipi.- Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
 
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***SPECIAL SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS: 
In addition to regular sessions, participants are encouraged to organize 
special sessions and workshops on specialized topics. 
Each special session should have at least 4 or 5 quality papers. Special 
session organizers will solicit submissions; conduct reviews jointly with the SOCO´13 PC and in the same way recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. 

Submission of Special Sessions and workshops are welcome! 
Dead-line for Special Sessions and submission: 30th March, 2013

For more information, please, send an email to: escorchado at usal.es 
List of Special Sessions & Workshop up to now: http://soco13.usal.es/?q=node/8

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Technical Co-Sponsors by:

WORLD FEDERATION ON SOFT COMPUTING
http://www.wfsc.de

IEEE.-Spain Section 
http://www.ieee.org/spain

IEEE.-Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Spanish Chapter 
http://www.ieee-smc.es/main/index.shtml

CITY COUNCIL OF SALAMANCA
http://www.aytosalamanca.es

AEPIA 
http://www.aepia.org

Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) 
http://www.mirlabs.org/

The International Federation for Computational Logic 
http://www.ifcolog.net/

IT4Innovations Centre of Excellence 
http://www.it4i.eu/en/

INFRANOR 
http://www.infranor.com

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***PROCEEDINGS: 
SOCO'13 proceedings will be published by Springer in its series of 
AISC Series (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series) as in the last previous editions. 
All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must 
register for the conference and pay the fee.
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*** The 8th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO´13)

Soft computing represents a collection or set of computational techniques in machine learning, computer science and some engineering disciplines, which investigate, simulate, and analyze very complex issues and phenomena. This Conference is mainly focus on its industrial and environmental applications.

SOCO Series of Conferences provides an interesting opportunity to present and discuss the latest theoretical advances and real-world applications in this multidisciplinary research field. 
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*** TOPICS 
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

◦Evolutionary Computing
◦Neuro Computing
◦Probabilistic Computing
◦Immunological Computing
◦Hybrid Methods
◦Causal Models
◦Case-based Reasoning
◦Chaos Theory Fuzzy Computing
◦Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory
◦Interactive Computational Models
◦Rough Sets and Granular Computing
The application fields of interest cover, but are not limited to:

◦Decision Support
◦Process and System Control
◦System Identification and Modelling
◦Optimization
◦Signal or Image Processing
◦Vision or Pattern Recognition
◦Condition Monitoring
◦Fault Diagnosis
◦Systems Integration
◦Internet Tools
◦Human Machine Interface
◦Time Series Prediction
◦Robotics
◦Motion Control & Power Electronics
◦Biomedical Engineering
◦Virtual Reality
◦Reactive Distributed AI
◦Telecommunications
◦Consumer Electronics
◦Industrial Electronics
◦Manufacturing Systems
◦Power and Energy
◦Data Mining
◦Data Visualisation
◦Intelligent Information Retrieval
◦Bio-inspired Systems
◦Autonomous Reasoning
◦Intelligent Agents
◦ Databases
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*** PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCEEEDINGS
SOCO'13 proceedings will be published by Springer in its series of AISC Series (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series).

All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on 
originality, significance, quality and clarity. Every submitted paper to 
SOCO´13 will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. 

Papers must be prepared according to the LNCS-LNAI style template 
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must be no more than 
ten (10) pages long, including figures and bibliography. 
Additional pages (over 10 pages) will be charged at 150 Euro each. 
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*** IMPORTANT DATES *** 
Paper submission deadline          20th April, 2013 
Acceptance notification                20th May, 2013 
Final version submission               10th June, 2013
Conference dates                            11th - 13th September, 2013 
Payment deadline                           2nd June, 2013
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*** COMMITTEES  *** 

 
*General Chairs*
 
Fanny Klett                        Director of German Workforce Advanced Distributed Learning Partnership Laboratory (Germany)
Ajith Abraham                   Machine Intelligence Research Labs (Europe)
Vaclav Snasel                     University of Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Emilio Corchado                University of Salamanca (Spain)
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*** CONTACT *** 
Dr. Emilio Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain) (Chair) 
BISITE Research Group 
http://bisite.usal.es/ 
GICAP Research Group 
http://gicap.ubu.es/ 
University of Salamanca 
Email: escorchado at usal.es 
Phone: +34 630736755 

For more information about SOCO´13, please refer to the SOCO´13 website: 
http://soco13.usal.es

* We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once. 
* PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students.
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