[alife] Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Marketing and Social Sciences (CIMSS 2016) @ WCCI'16 in Vancouver, Canada

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                       Call for Papers
  Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Marketing and
                   Social Sciences (CIMSS 2016)
    In conjunction with WCCI 2016 (http://www.wcci2016.org/)
                Vancouver, Canada, July 25-29, 2016
                  (Papers Due: January 15, 2016)

Scope:
Computational intelligence has a long history of applications to
marketing and plays an important role in establishing the
interdisciplinary pool of methodologies employed in marketing science
research. For example, evolutionary algorithms, artificial neural
networks, support vector machines and fuzzy logic have been used in
demand forecasting, direct marketing and cross selling, among others.
Expert systems have been used for decision support in brand
management, and data mining has become a core component of customer
relationship management in marketing. Likewise, the use of
computational intelligence in social science research allows
heightened understanding of the dynamics of complex systems. Agent-
based modelling, using agents whose intelligence includes full-blown
creativity thanks to their ability to learn and to adapt, is revealing
information about such systems that has never before been supported.
     The purpose of this special session is to bring together the
computational intelligence community as well as researchers from
marketing and social sciences to set up visions on how state-of-art
computational intelligence techniques can be and are used for
insightful marketing and social science analysis, and how marketing
and social scientists can contribute in promoting new applications
with computational intelligence.

Topics:
We invite submissions of original, previously unpublished papers with
topics on, but not limited to, the following:

Technical issues include (but not limited to) 
 -Evolutionary Algorithms
 -Artificial Neural Networks 
 -Support Vector Machines/Support Vector Regression 
 -Fuzzy Logic 
 -Expert Systems 
 -Data Mining 
 -Knowledge Discovery
 -Business Intelligence
 -Machine Learning
 - Agent Based Modelling  

Issues of marketing and social sciences include (but not limited to)
 -Sales/Demand Forecasting
 -Response Modelling
 -Retailing and Pricing
 -Advertising
 -Customer Relationship Management
 -Brand Management
 -Social Marketing
 -Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences
 -Computational Social Science
 -Politics, Public Policy and Law

Important Dates:
   Full Paper Submission  : January 15, 2016
   Acceptance Notification: March   15, 2016
   Camera-Ready Papers    : April   15, 2016

Submission:
See http://www.wcci2016.org/submission.php (please select
"Computational Intelligence in Marketing and Social Sciences" as the
main research topic)

Publication:
Papers submitted to this cross-disciplinary special session of CIMSS
(if accepted and presented) will be published in one of the three
conference proceedings (IJCNN, FUZZ-IEEE or IEEE CEC) that is deemed
most appropriate based on the topic(s). The decision will be made by
the special session organisers in consultation with the Special
Session Chair and one of the three Conference Chairs.

Special Session Organisers:
Raymond Chiong (Raymond.Chiong at newcastle.edu.au), The University of Newcastle, Australia
Yukun Bao (yukunbao at hust.edu.cn), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Manuel Chica (manuel.chica at softcomputing.es), European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Sergio Damas (sergio.damas at softcomputing.es), European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain