Connectionists: CfP: Special Issue on Soft Computing Journal

[ANGELO CIARAMELLA]

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Special issue on “Human-Centered Intelligent System”
Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications
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Website of the call for papers
https://www.springer.com/journal/500/updates/19724572

Aims and scope
Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence has become an enabling technology that pervades many aspects of our daily life. At the forefront of this advancement are data-driven technologies like machine learning. However, as the role of Artificial Intelligence becomes more and more important, so does the need for reliable solutions to several issues that go well beyond technological aspects:
How can we make automated agents justify their actions? and how to make them accountable for these actions?
What will be the social acceptance of intelligent systems, possibly embodied (e.g. in robots), in their interaction with people?
How will automated agents be made aware of the whole spectrum of human nonverbal communication, so as to take it into account and avoid missing crucial messages?
Is it possible to avoid amplifying human biases and ensure fairness in decisions that have been taken automatically?
How can we enable collaborative intelligence amongst humans and machines?
Purely data-driven technologies are showing their limits precisely in these areas. There is a growing need for methods that, in a tight interaction with them, allow different degrees of control over the several facets of automated knowledge processing. The diversity and complementarity of Soft Computing techniques in addressing these issues is playing a crucial role.
This Special Issue aims to collect the most recent advancements in the research on Human-Centered Intelligent Systems with special focus on Soft Computing methods, techniques and applications on the following and related topics:

  *   Trustworthiness, explainability, accountability and social acceptance of intelligent systems;
  *   Human-computer interaction to foster collaboration with intelligent systems
  *   Affective computing and sentiment analysis to promote nonverbal communication in intelligent systems
  *   Fighting algorithmic bias and ensuring fairness in intelligent systems;
  *   Real world applications in health-care, justice, education, digital marketing, biology, hard and natural sciences, autonomous vehicles, etc.
Proposals related to further topics are welcome as long as they fall within the general scope of this special issue, which is computational intelligence methods in human-centered computing.

Submission guidelines and review process
Papers must be submitted according to the standard procedure of Soft Computing, selecting the S.I.  “Human-Centered Intelligent Systems”. All submitted papers  should report original work and make a meaningful contribution to the state of the art.
Each submitted paper will undergo a first screening by the Guest Editors. If the submission falls within the scope of the SI, it will undergo a regular revision process. Acceptance criteria are the same of regular issues of the journal.
Important dates

  *   Submissions open: December 1, 2021
  *   Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2022
  *   Final decision: May 1, 2022
  *   Tentative period for final publication: Fall 2022

Authors guidelines and journal information can be found at  https://www.springer.com/journal/500

Guest Editors
    - Angelo Ciaramella - Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
    - Corrado Mencar - Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
    - Susana Montes - Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
    - Stefano Rovetta - Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy

For any information, please contact Angelo Ciaramella <angelo.ciaramella at uniparthenope.it<mailto:angelo.ciaramella at uniparthenope.it>>


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Prof. Angelo Ciaramella, Ph.D
- School of Science, Engineering and Health, Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples Parthenope
- Room 431, C4 Island, Centro Direzionale di Napoli
- I-80143, Naples, Italy
- tel.: 0815476674
- e-mail: angelo.ciaramella at uniparthenope.it<mailto:angelo.ciaramella at uniparthenope.it>

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