SOCO 2010: 2nd CFP. Invited Plenary Speakers & Special Sessions/Workshops.

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5th International Workshop on Soft Computing Models in Industrial
Applications	
16th-18th June, 2010
Guimarães, Portugal

soco2010.di.uminho.pt

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 workshop is mainly focused on its industrial
applications.
SOCO 2010 provides interesting opportunities to present and discuss the
latest theoretical advances and real world applications in this
multidisciplinary research field.

SOCO 2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Guimarães,
Portugal, nominated by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage. With
exceptional opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Guimarães is a
wonderful venue for a great workshop.

Technical Co-Sponsors by:
Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)
http://www.mirlabs.org/

PLENARY SPEAKER
Prof. Ajith Abraham
Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Europe
http://www.mirlabs.org

SPECIAL SESSIONS
Special sessions confirmed up to now!!

    SS1 Hybrid Intelligent Systems and Applications

In addition to regular sessions, participants are encouraged to organize
special sessions 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 HAIS´10 PC and in the same way
recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers.

Submission of Special Sessions are welcome!
http://soco2010.di.uminho.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=63
Please, send all this information to: soco2010@di.uminho.pt

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Everyone interested in participating and presenting his work in this
workshop may do so by sending a contribution. There are three
possibilities:
1. Long papers	consisting of original, relevant and previously
unpublished sound research results, related to any of the topics of the
conference, with a maximum of 8 (eight) pages.
2. Short papers	can be project reports, a summary of a PhD thesis or
work in progress, with no more than 4 (four) pages.
3. Doctoral consortium	PhD students are invited to present the topic and
progress of their research, in order to obtain feedback from a panel of
experts. The length of these papers should not exceed 8 (eight) pages.

Papers should be written in English.

PAPERS FORMAT
Papers must be prepared according to Springer’s templates (MS Word or
LaTeX format) for the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing volume
series (www.springer.com/series/4240).

PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in a special volume of Advances in
Intelligent and Soft Computing (Springer), indexed by ISI Proceedings,
DBLP and Springerlink, among others.
For each paper, at least one author is required to register and attend
the workshop to present the paper, so as to have it included in the
workshop proceedings.

SUBMITTING PAPERS
In order to submit a paper, authors must register at SOCO 2010
conference management system (cmt.research.microsoft.com/SOCO2010). All
papers must be submitted in electronic format (PDF format, word document
or latex and images).

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline 8th February, 2010
Notification of acceptance 8th March, 2010
Final version submission 29th March, 2010
SOCO 2010 Conference 16th-18th June, 2010

TOPICS
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Causal Models
• Case-based Reasoning
• Chaos Theory Fuzzy Computing
• Evolutionary Computing
• Neuro Computing
• Probabilistic Computing
• Immunological Computing
• Hybrid Methods
• Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory
• Interactive Computational Models

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


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIR
Emilio Corchado, University of Burgos, Spain
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Paulo Novais, CCTC/University of Minho, Portugal
Cesar Analide, CCTC/University of Minho, Portugal

CONTACTS
e-mail: soco2010@di.uminho.pt
Website: soco2010.di.uminho.pt