[alife] HIS 2008 - Barcelona - IEEE CS press- Final Call for Papers

Wed May 28 23:01:54 PDT 2008

-- Apologies for cross postings --

HIS 2008 --SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 15th, 2008--
http://his2008.lsi.upc.edu/

Dear colleagues,

Due to many requests from prospective authors, the paper submission deadline of
HIS2008 conference has been extendted to June 15th, 2008 --FIRM DEADLINE.

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        The 8th Hybrid Intelligent Systems Conference – HIS 2008
        Technical University of Catalonia, UPC
        Barcelona, Spain

        10–12 September 2008

        SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 15th, 2008
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-- 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

Journal Special Issues:

Authors of accepted papers of HIS2008 will be invited to submit extended
version of their papers to the following International Journals.

  * Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier.
    The international electronic journal of the World Federation on
Soft Computing (WFSC),
    covering fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computing

    http://www.elsevier.com/locate/asoc

   * International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics,
Emerald Pub.
     The International Journal of Intelligent Computing and
Cybernetics' objectives are to discuss,
     through papers, new theoretical developments and techniques in
the fields of intelligent computing and cybernetics

     http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijicc

   * Neural Network World, International Journal on Neural and
Mass-Parallel Computing and Information Systems
     In negotiation
     http://www.uivt.cas.cz/nnw/

   * The International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS),
IOS Press.
    The International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS)
is a peer refereed journal
    on the theory and applications of hybrid and integrated
intelligent systems.

PLENARY TALKS:

José Luís Balcázar
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain

Stefano Cagnoni
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Università degli Studi di Parma
Parma, Italy

Andries Engelbrecht
University of Pretoria
South Africa

Imre Rudas
Budapest Tech
Hungary

Albert Y. Zomaya
Chair Professor of High Performance Computing & Networking
School of Information Technologies
The University of Sydney
Australia

SCOPE

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 -- EXTENDED TO JUNE 15th, 2008--
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