-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] 2nd CfP: 8th Hybrid Intelligent Systems and Special Sessions Datum: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:52:06 +0200 Von: Fatos Xhafa fatos.xhafa@gmail.com Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

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HIS 2008 - Second Call for Papers http://his2008.lsi.upc.edu/

The 8th Hybrid Intelligent Systems Conference – HIS 2008 will be held at the Technical University of Catalonia, UPC Barcelona, Spain

10–12 September 2008

-- HIS 2008 is Technicaly Co-sponsored by --

IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society (pending approval) ENNS: European Neural Network Society IFSA: International Fuzzy Systems Association EUSFLAT: European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology

Past HIS Conference Proceedings: http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLPublication.jsp?pubtype=p&acronym=H...

Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern

artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of the next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the awareness in the academic communities that combined approaches will be necessary if the remaining tough problems in artificial/computational intelligence are to be solved. Recently, Hybrid Intelligent Systems are getting popular due to their capabilities in handling several real world complexities involving imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness. HIS'07 builds on the success of last year's.

HIS'07 was held during September 17-19, 2007, Kaiserslautern - Germany and attracted participants from several countries.

HIS'08 is the Eighth International conference that brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of soft computing, computational intelligence, agents, logic programming, and several other intelligent computing techniques. The aim of HIS'08 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field.

HIS'08 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrates current research using soft computing, computational intelligence and other intelligent computing techniques and their applications in science, technology, business and commerce.

HIS'08 will focus on the following themes:

* Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Architectures and Applications * Soft Computing for Image and Signal Processing * Intelligent Internet Modeling, Communication and Networking * Intelligent Data mining * Computational Biology and Bioinformatics * Intelligent Business Information Systems * Soft Computing for Control and Automation * Multi Agent Systems and Applications * Special topics

(See the full topic list at http://his2008.lsi.upc.edu/call-for-papers-topic-list.html)

Submitted papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical, experimental or application nature, or be unique experience reports.

Papers must be submitted no later than May 31, 2008 and electronic submission in PDF is required. The page limit for a full-length paper is 6 pages. All submissions should be in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Papers should contain up to 5 keywords. Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness, and will be reviewed by at least three or more independent reviewers.

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Selected papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in special issues of several international Journals.

The HIS'08 Program Committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible) and one winner for the Best Student Paper Award. For the best student paper award, the student must be the sole author of the paper or the first author and primary contributor. A cover letter (clearly stating the satisfaction of the above mentioned requirement) to the General Chair/Program Chair must identify the paper as a candidate for this competition at the time of submission. The award winners will each be presented with an award certificate and a direct payment of 500 Euros at the conference, and an extended version of the award-winning papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS).

It is assumed that all accepted manuscripts would be presented at the conference. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid registration to appear in the proceedings. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the web site.

Important dates:

May 31st, 2008 Submission deadline June 30th, 2008 Notification of acceptance July 15th, 2008 Camera ready papers due

For Poster Session, please visit the HIS2008 web page at http://his2008.lsi.upc.edu/

For Workshop and special session proposals, please visit the HIS2008 web page at http://his2008.lsi.upc.edu/

For Industrial Track / Panel session, please visit the HIS2008 web page at http://his2008.lsi.upc.edu/

The following Special Sessions are now opened:

Hybrid learning for Neural Networks: Architecture and Applications Cesar Hervás, Pedro Antonio Gutiérrez University of Cordoba, Spain

Learning Classifier Systems: New trends and challenges Ester Bernadó-Mansilla Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain

Hybrid Intelligent Business and Industrial Information Systems (HIBI2S) Alberto Bugarín, Manuel Lama University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Intelligent Systems and Data Mining Techniques for Bioinformatics Alicia Troncoso, Raul Giráldez Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla, Spain

Hybrid Intelligent Sytems for Data Reduction in Data Mining José Manuel Benítez, Salvador García University of Granada, Spain

Bioinspired and Evolutionary Computation based Data Mining Techniques María José del Jesús, Univ. Jaen Jose Antonio Gámez, Univ. Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Neural Netwoks and Neuro fuzzy systems H.Pomares, L.J.Herrera, Ignacio Rojas University of Granada, Spain

Hybrid Metaheuristics and their applications Pedro Isasi University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

HIS 2008 Organization

General Chairs

* Fatos Xhafa, UPC, Spain * Ajith Abraham, NTNU, Norway * Mario Koeppen, KIT, Japan

Programme Chairs

* Francisco Herrera, Spain * Andreas Koenig, Germany * Enrique Alba, Spain

International Co-Chairs

* Nikola Kasabov, New Zealand * Oscar Cordon, Spain * Jose Mira, Spain * Luis Magdalena, Spain * Andre C.P.L.F. de Carvalho, Brazil * Aureli Soria Frisch, Spain * Christian Igel, Germany * Jun Wang, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong, China

Organizing Chair

* Leonor Frias, UPC, Spain

Local Organizing Committee

* Josefina López (co-chair), UPC, Spain * Angel Alejandro Juan (co-chair), UOC& UPC, Spain * Ivan Bruque, UPC, Spain * Pepa López, UPC, Spain * Oscar Romero, UPC, Spain * Àngela Martín, UPC, Spain * Andreu Moreno, UPC, Spain * Angel Alejandro Juan, UPC, Spain

Web Administrator Chair

* Pau Fernández, UPC, Spain

Contact

Fatos Xhafa PhD in Computer Science Associate Professor Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain Voice +34 93-413-7880 Fax +34 93-413-7833

Email: fatos at lsi upc edu