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19 Mar 2009


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* * * CALL FOR PAPERS  * * *
The 2009 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems -
ICAIS'09
September 24th - 26th 2009
Klagenfurt, Austria
http://www.isys.uni-klu.ac.at/icais09/
* * * SPONSORED BY * * *
- The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
- The International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA)
- IEEE Computer Society
* * * SPECIAL ISSUES * * *
- Neurocomputing (Elsevier) on Adaptive Incremental Learning in Neural
Networks
- ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (ACM) on
Self-Adaptive Systems: Models & Algorithms
- The Transactions on Computational Science (Springer) on Adaptive
Evolutionary Computation
- Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (World Scientific) on
Hardware Architectures for Genetic, Neural and Fuzzy Systems
- International Journal of Electronics (Taylor & Francis) on
Evolutionary Synthesis of Network-on-Chip Based Systems
* * * GUEST SPEAKERS * * *
- Prof. K. Warwick, University of Reading, UK
Robots with Biological Brains and Humans with Part Machine Brains
- Prof. N. Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Computational Intelligence Inspired by Nature: Brain-, Gene-, and
Quantum Inspired Adaptive Information Processing Systems
- Prof. M. Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Swarms of Cooperating Robots
* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *
Workshop/Special Session proposal: March 28, 2009 (extended)
Full paper submission: April 30, 2009
Acceptance notification: June 20, 2009
Final camera ready: July 10, 2009
Panel Sessions Proposal: July 15, 2009
* * * PROCEEDINGS * * *
Published as a book by IEEE Computer Society and indexed by IEEE Xplore.
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* * * AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE * * *
The ICAIS'09 conference aims at bringing together international
researchers, developers and practitioners from different horizons to
discuss the latest advances in system learning and adaptation. ICAIS'09
will serve as a space to present the current state of the art but also
future research avenues of this thematic. Topics of the conference cover
three aspects: Algorithms & theories of adaptation and learning,
Adaptation issues in Hardware, Applications.  ICAIS will feature
contributed papers as well as world-renowned guest speakers (see
webpage), interactive breakout sessions, and instructional workshops.
* * * SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE * * *
Adaptation plays a central role in dynamically changing systems. It is
about the ability of the system to "responsively" self-adjust upon
change in the surrounding environment. Like in living creatures that
have evolved over millions of years developing ecological systems due to
their self-adaptation and fitness capacity to the dynamic environment,
systems undergo similar cycle to improve or at least do not weaken their
performance when internal or external changes take place. Internal or
endogenous change bears on the physical structure of the system (the
building blocks: hardware and/or software components) due mainly to
faults and knowledge inconsistency. It requires a certain number of
adaptivity features such as flexible deployment, self-testing,
self-healing and self-correction. Extraneous change touches on the
environment implication such operational mode or regime,
non-stationarity of input, new knowledge facts, interference, etc.
The two classes of change also shed light on the research avenues
towards smart systems. To meet the challenges of these systems, a
sustainable effort is necessary to develop intelligent hardware on one
level and concepts and algorithms on the other level. The former level
may concern various analog and digital adjustments but also
self-healing, self-testing, reconfiguration and many other aspects of
system development and maintenance. The latter level is concerned with
developing algorithms, concepts and techniques which can rely on
metaphors of nature and which are inspired from biological and cognitive
plausibility. This two-fold plausibility is the basis for many
computational models such as neural networks, evolutionary computation,
probabilistic reasoning and many other soft computing and machine
learning models.
Taking stock of both classes of changes, a system must self-adapt its
structure and self-adjust its parameters over time as changes occur. A
fundamental issue is the notion of "self" which refers to the capability
of the system to act and react on its own and which covers all stages of
the system's working and maintenance cycle starting from online
self-monitoring to self-growing and self-organizing.
* * * TARGET TOPICS (but not limited to) * * *
 - Theories and Algorithms
       o Self growing neural networks
       o Online adaptive and life-long learning
       o Plasticity and stability
       o Forgetting
       o Unlearning
       o Online adaptive neuro-fuzzy rule-based systems
       o Online adaptive fuzzy identification systems
       o Adaptation in changing environments
       o Concept drift
       o Self-monitoring
       o Online diagnostics
       o Novelty detection
       o Time series prediction
       o Online and single-pass data mining
       o Online information routing
       o Online classification systems
       o Online clustering
       o Online regression
       o Online feature selection and reduction
       o Adaptive decision systems
       o Adaptive preference learning
       o Principles of self-organization
       o Methodologies of self-organization
       o Perception and evolution
       o Adaptivity and online learning models in computational
intelligence
 - Applications : Adaptivity and learning in
       o Smart systems
       o Ambient / ubiquitous environments
       o Distributed intelligence
       o Intelligent agent technology
       o Robotics
       o Industrial applications
       o Internet
       o E-commerce, etc
 - Hardware:
       o Evolvable hardware
       o Bio-inspired architecture
       o Self-healing systems
       o Self-reconfigurable systems
       o Evolutionary hardware design
       o Evolutionary circuit synthesis
       o Evolutionary Robotics
       o Hardware/Software co-evolution
       o Adaptive Hardware
       o Embryonic hardware
       o Evolutionary circuit diagnostics and testing
       o MEMS and nanotechnology in evolvable hardware
* * * SUBMISSION  * * *
Papers must be in PDF, not exceeding 6 pages and conforming to IEEE
Specifications and submitted through the submission system
(http://www.isys.uni-klu.ac.at/icais09/openconf/openconf.php). Short
papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less
mature results are also welcome. All submission will be peer-reviewed by
at least 3 qualified reviewers. Selection criteria will include:
relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and
quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that
take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At
least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The
conference proceedings which will be published as a hardcopy by the IEEE
Computer Society and indexed by IEEE Xplore, will be available at the
conference.
* * * BEST PAPER AWARD * * *
Among the outstanding papers, the "best paper" will be designated and
awarded.
* * * POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION  * * *
A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be
expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the special issues of
international journals mentioned earlier.
* * * ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE  * * *
Honorary Chair:
Janus Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
General Chairs:
Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Program Chairs:
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Local Organization Chairs:
Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Roland Mittermeir, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Kyandoghere Kyamakya, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Publicity Chairs:
Aboul-Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt
Chang-wook Han, Dong-Eui University, Korea
Program Committee (to be extended):
Ajith Abraham (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Ulrich Bodenhofer (Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria)
Heloisa Camargo (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
Jean Chamberlain Chedjou (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Yuehui Chen (University of Jinan, China)
Emilio Corchado (University of Burgos, Spain)
Bojan Cukic (West Virginia University, USA)
Rolf Drechsler (University of Bremen, Germany)
Mohamed Feham (University of Tlemcen, Algeria)
Gerhard Friedrich (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Hichem Frigui (University of Louisville, USA)
Bogdan Gabrys (Bournemouth University, UK)
Pauline Haddow (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Hani Hagras (University of Essex, UK)
Barbara Hammer ( TU Clausthal University, Germany)
Salima Hassas (Claude Bernard University of Lyon, France)
Eyke Huellermeier (University of Marburg, Germany)
Frank Klawonn (University of Applied Sciences BS/WF, Germany)
Mario Koeppen (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Lukasz Kurgan (University of Alberta, Canada)
Shiguo Lian (France Telecom R&D Beijing, China)
Frank Neumann (Max-Plank-Institute for Informatics, Germany)
Marcin Paprzycki (IBS PAN and WSM, Poland)
Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Canada)
Da Ruan (CEN-University of Gent, Belgium)
Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College, USA)
Juergen Schmidhuber (IDSIA, Switzerland)
Lukas Sekanina (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Konstantinos Sirlantzis (University of Kent, UK)
Adrian Stoica (NASA-JPL, USA)
Vaclav Snasel (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Giandomenico Spezzano (CNR, Italy)
El-Ghazali Talbi (INRIA Futurs, France)
Jim Torresen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Alexey Tsymbal (Siemens AG, Germany)
Liang Zhao (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Xingquan Zhu (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Djemel Ziou (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
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