-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] CfP: IDEAL'13 in Hefei, China - 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:06:52 +0800 From: Thomas Weise tweise@ustc.edu.cn Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

======= Call for Papers: IDEAL'13, October 2013, Hefei, China =======

The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'2013) October 20-23, 2013, Hefei, Anhui, China http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/

The International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) is an annual international conference dedicated to emerging and challenging topics in intelligent data analysis, data mining and their associated learning systems and paradigms. Its core themes include: the Big Data challenges, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Management, Bio- and Neuro-Informatics, Bio-Inspired Models (including Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence), Agents and Hybrid Intelligent Systems, and Real-world Applications of Intelligent Techniques. Other related and emerging themes and topics are also welcome.

The conference provides a unique opportunity and stimulating forum for presenting and discussing the latest theoretical advances and real- world applications in Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Data Analysis. It also features a panel discussion on Big Data chaired by Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou. Authors and researchers are warmly invited to submit their latest findings and research work to the conference.

Potential session/workshop organizers are invited to enlist potential papers in a cohesive topic for their special session(s)/workshops. Proposals and enquiries can be sent to the Programme Co-Chair, Frank Klawonn (f.klawonn@ostfalia.de). More details are on the next page or can be found on the conference website http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/.

Instructions for Authors

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts (in pdf format) written in English by the deadline via the conference online submission system (http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/submission.html). All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. All contributions must be original, must not have been published elsewhere and must not be submitted elsewhere during the review period. Papers should not exceed 8 pages and must comply with the format of Springer LNCS/LNAI Proceedings. (see https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)

Accepted papers presented at the conference will be included in the Proceedings of IDEAL 2013, to be published by Springer in its LNCS series, which is indexed in EI. In addition, selected papers will be invited for special issues in several leading international journals in the field, including the International Journal of Neural Systems (IJNS) and Connection Science.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: 24 May 2013 Special Session/Workshop Proposals Deadline: 26 April 2013 Notification of Acceptance: 05 July 2013 Camera-Ready Copy Due: 26 July 2013 Early Registration: 26 July 2013 Conference Presentation: 20-23 October 2013 Conference Website: http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/

Conference History

In recent years, the IDEAL conference has been held in many countries or continents such as Brazil (2012), England (2011), Scotland (2010), Spain (2009), and Korea (2008). The 14th International Conference, IDEAL 2014, will set foot to Mainland China and will be held from 20th to 23rd October 2013, in Hefei, China, hosted by the USTC-Birmingham Joint Research Institute of Intelligent Computation and Its Applications (UBRI, http://ubri.ustc.edu.cn).

Venue

IDEAL'13 will be held at the Empark Grand Hotel, Anhui in Hefei, China. Hefei, the capital of the Anhui Province, is a fine historical city characterized by a green environment and both modern areas and historical sights. The city is located centrally in China and about 100 miles (160 km) from Nanjing, or 300 miles (500 km) from Shanghai. Hefei has its own airport and an excellent railway connection to many cities of China. It is also easy to reach via airplane from Beijing. Hefei, well known as a historic site famous from the Three Kingdoms Period and the home town of Lord Bao, is a city with a history of more than 2500 years. The city of Hefei is also a well-known "Green City" across the nation. It is a fast developing city which still preserves historical sights and has many local attractions.

============== Call for Workshops and Special Sessions ==============

Special Sessions

In addition to the regular sessions, there will be special sessions devoted to emerging topics and areas with growing attention. Researchers and prospective organisers are invited to submit a one- page proposal for a special session to the special session chair (f.klawonn@ostfalia.de) by April 26, 2013. Each proposal should include the following information:

o The title of the special session. o The organizers with their affiliations. o A description of why the topic is of special interest and how it fits to the scope of IDEAL.

Each special session preferably consists of four or more presentations. Special sessions receiving less than 4 papers will be merged into a suitable regular session.

Workshops

Workshops focus on new and emerging topics. In contrast to special sessions, workshops should include an introductory talk or tutorial on the topic and will have final discussions at the end of the workshop. Apart from the introductory talk in the discussion, Workshops should preferably include six or more additional presentations. Researchers or prospective organisers are invited to submit a one-page proposals for workshops to the special session chair (f.klawonn@ostfalia.de) by April 26, 2013. In addition to the information required for special sessions, workshop proposal should also include the following:

o The name(s) of the presenter(s) of the introductory talk. o A theme for the discussion.

Paper Format and Review Process

The paper format of Special Sessions and Workshops is the same as for the main track of the conference and so is their submission and review process (while each Special Session or Workshop can appoint its own reviewers if necessary, in additional to the main PC). All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

========================== Special Sessions ==========================

We are happy to announce that the following special sessions have been approved for IDEAL'13:

Special Session on Adaptive and Learning Multi-agent Systems

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have grown into an interdisciplinary field that includes various tracks and embraces many previously distinctive research areas. More and more MASs are situated in open and dynamic environments. The changes of environments that may be unpredictable, uncontrollable and evolving typically affect the MAS. Recently, adaptive MAS and MAS learning have become important sub- areas in the literature of MAS. Particularly, both of them investigate how multiple intelligent computational agents can work together to achieve high- level goals by adjusting themselves and obtaining more information. Various approaches have been applied to improve the adaptive and learning ability of MAS. MAS are still facing challenges of scaling to large numbers of entities and real- world tasks.

This special session on adaptive and learning multi-agent systems will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in adaptation and learning for multi-agent systems, and report their latest findings.

For more information, see the special session web site http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/ss_alms.html.

Special Session on Big Data

Recent years have witnessed the unprecedented prevalence of "Big Data". Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately, the society itself. This year IDEAL'2013 is pleased to introduce a Special Session on Big Data. We wish to encourage researcher to submit high-quality original papers (including significant work-in-progress) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity): big data science and foundations, big data infrastructure, big data management, big data searching and mining, big data privacy/security, and big data applications.

For more information, see the special session web site http://web.utk.edu/~wzhou4/ideal13bigdata.htm.

Special Session on Soft-Computing Algorithms in Renewable Energy Problems

In the current context of world economic crisis, Renewable Energies are of crucial importance towards a cleaner and more sustainable future. Several factors have recently pushed Renewable Energies, such as recent proofs of the direct connection between global warming and CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, the intended reduction of greenhouse gasses thanks to the Kyoto protocol or the growing of the risk perception after the nuclear accident in Japan in December 2011, among others.

Nevertheless, the establishment and maximum exploitation of Renewable Energy still need a lot of work and research effort. Many of the problems that arise in Renewable Energy are so difficult, that traditional mathematical methods do not obtain good results. The design of new renewable energy facilities (wind farms, solar plants, smart and micro-grids with renewable generation, or stand- alone systems, etc.), the correct estimation of the renewable energy resource (wind, radiation, reservoir levels) or the optimization of technologies to obtain more productive systems (wind turbine design, solar panels design), are just some examples of these hard problems related to renewable energy.

In these problems, the use of Soft-Computing approaches has been massive in the last few years, as powerful computational methods that obtain good results, with moderate computational effort. This Special Session is focused on Soft-Computing approaches in Renewable Energy problems, in a broad sense. We consider all Renewable Energy technologies where Soft-Computing approaches can be used to improve the final systems. Real problems and case studies are particularly welcome.

For more information, see the special session web site http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/ss_scarep.html.

Special Session on Swarm Intelligence and Data Mining (SIDM 2013)

Swarm intelligence is a recent trend in computational intelligence and popular for the simplicity of its realizations, such as particle swarm optimization (PSO), ant colony optimization (ACO), bee colony optimization (BCO), and the like. As optimization techniques, methods in swarm intelligence have been applied to many aspects in the fields of data engineering and automated learning. For example, as reported in the literature, PSO has been adopted to handle data clustering, and ACO has been employed to solve the problem of classification. On the other hand, advances in data mining, an important section in data engineering and automated learning, also assist optimization algorithm designers to develop better methods. For instance, Apriori algorithm has been utilized for finding the relationship among decision variables for optimizers. In order to bridge the concepts and methodologies from the two ends, this special session concentrates on the related topics of integrating and utilizing algorithms in swarm intelligence and data mining. It provides the opportunity for practitioners handling their data mining issues by using swarm intelligence methodologies and for researchers investigating swarm intelligence with data mining approaches to share findings and look into future directions.

For more information, see the special session web site http://sidm2013.nclab.tw (or under http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/ss_sidm.html).

================== Organizing Committee and Contact ==================

Contact

Programme Chair: Hujun Yin School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Tel: +44 161 306 8714 Email: h.yin@manchester.ac.uk

Programme Co-Chair: Ke Tang USTC-Birmingham Joint Research Institute of Intelligent Computation and Its Applications (UBRI), School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, 230027 Tel: +86 551 3600 547 Email: ketang@ustc.edu.cn

Conference Chairs and Organizers

o General Chair: Xin Yao (X.Yao@cs.bham.ac.uk)

o Programme Chair: Hujun Yin (h.yin@manchester.ac.uk)

o Programme Co-Chairs: - Ke Tang (ketang@ustc.edu.cn) - Yang Gao (gaoy@nju.edu.cn) - Frank Klawonn (f.klawonn@ostfalia.de) - Min-ho Lee (mholee@knu.ac.kr)

o Publicity Co-Chairs: - Emilio Corchado (escorchado@ubu.es) - Jose A. Costa (jafcosta@gmail.com) - Thomas Weise (tweise@ustc.edu.cn)

o Organizing Committee: - Bin Li (Chair) (binli@ustc.edu.cn) - Kaiming Chen (chenkm@ustc.edu.cn) - Jinlong Li (jlli@ustc.edu.cn) - Thomas Weise (tweise@ustc.edu.cn) - Rui Xu (rxu@ustc.edu.cn)

o International Liaisons: - China/Visa: Jinlong Li (jlli@ustc.edu.cn) - Europe: David Camacho (david.camacho@uam.es) - America: Guilherme Barreto (guilherme@deti.ufc.br) - Australasia: Brijesh Verma (b.verma@cqu.edu.au)

o International Advisory Committee - Lei Xu (Chair) - Yaser Abu-Mostafa - Shun-ichi Amari - Michael Dempster - Nick Jennings - Soo-Young Lee - Erkki Oja - Latit M. Patnaik - Burkhard Rost - Xin Yao

o Steering Committee - Hujun Yin (Co-chair) - Laiwan Chan (Co-chair) - Guilherme Barreto - Yiu-ming Cheung - Emilio Corchado - Jose A. Costa - Colin Fyfe - Marc van Hulle - Samuel Kaski - John Keane - Jimmy Lee - Malik Magdon-Ismail - Vic Rayward-Smith - Peter Tino - Zheng Rong Yang - Ning Zhong