CALL FOR PAPERS

LA-CCI 2014 – Latin American Congress on Computational Intelligence
(Co-located at ARGENCON 2014)
June 11-13, 2014
http://la-cci.org/ or http://argencon.ieee.org.ar/la-cci/
San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina)
Organized by the LA-CCI Steering Committee: http://la-cci.org/steering-committee/

AIMS AND SCOPE
The 1st Latin American Congress on Computational Intelligence 2014, co-located with ARGENCON 2014 aims to bring together the Soft Computing community to present the latest achievements and innovations in the multiple areas of Computational Intelligence, encourage participation by young researchers and following the LA-CCI Manifesto: to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, researchers, engineers, professionals and educators to disseminate their latest research results and exchange views of the future research directions in the area of Computational Intelligence.

TOPICS
Any topic related to Computational Intelligence, mainly but not limited to the following:

Problems

For all tracks of Congress
– Foundations of Computational Intelligence;
– Analysis & Identification;
– Modeling & Design;
– Representation & Interfacing;
– Methods & techniques of CI Hybridization;
– Simulation & Estimation;
– Signal & Sensor Processing;
– Machine learning and pattern recognition;
– Time series forecasting;
– Classification & Clustering;
– Search & Optimization (combinatorial, stochastic, dynamic, multimodal, multi-objective etc);
– Constraint handling (Routing, Scheduling, Timetabling, allocation Neighboring, Placement etc);
– Information retrieval & Ambient intelligence;
– Decision Problems;
– Cognitive Robotics;
– Image Processing & Computer Vision;
– Bio & Medical Informatics – Computational biology;
– Information & Network security;
– Data & Web Mining;
– E-commerce, E-Procurement & E-Government;
– Telecommunications and Networking;
– Energy generation and energy dispatch;
– Parallelization & Hardware Implementations.

Approaches

(1) Evolutionary & Swarm Computation:
– Evolutionary computing;
– Swarm intelligence;
– Artificial immune systems;
– Novel metaheuristics and hyperheuristics;
– Memetic and Collective intelligence;
– Nature and Bio-inspired methods;
– Artificial life.
(2) Neural & Learning Systems:
– Machine learning;
– Neural Computation (+Weightless Systems);
– Complex systems;
– Wavelets;
– Molecular and quantum computing;
– Brain-machine interfaces;
– Science of Networks;
– Local search methods.
(3) Fuzzy & Stochastic Modeling:
– Fuzzy logic;
– Fuzzy optimization and design;
– Fuzzy pattern recognition;
– Uncertainty analysis;
– Fractals;
– Game theory;
– Social Simulation;
– Fuzzy control & decision making/support;
– Multi-agent systems;
– Rough sets;
– Computational verb theory;
– Grey systems.

(4) Autonomous Mental Development

Technologies

(1) Evolutionary & Swarm Computation:
– Ant colony optimization;
– Particle swarm optimization;
– Fish School Search;
– Bee colony optimization;
– Genetic programming and Genetic algorithms;
– Cultural Algorithms and Co-Evolution;
– Evolutionary Strategy and Differential Evolution;
– Evolutionary design & scheduling;
– Danger theory and network immune systems;
– Firefly optimization;
– Glowworm Swarm Optimization;
– Cuckoo search;
– Herd optimization.
(2) Neural & Learning Systems:
– Cognitive systems and applications;
– Computer vision;
– Hardware Implementations;
– Web intelligence;
– Natural language processing & Speech understanding;
– Supervised and Unsupervised Learning;
– Semi-supervised and Weakly Supervised Learning;
– Support vector machines;
– Tabu search, iterated search, etc.
(3) Fuzzy & Stochastic Modeling:
– Fuzzy sets & Type-2 fuzzy logic;
– Approximate reasoning;
– Rough sets & data analysis;
– Case Based Reasoning;
– Expert systems;
– Knowledge engineering.
(4) Adaptive Dynamic Prog. and Reinforcement Learning
– Convergence and performance analysis
– RL and ADP-based control
– Complexity issues in RL and ADP
– Monte-Carlo tree search and other MC methods
– Statistical learning and PAC bounds for RL
– Bayesian RL and exploration
– Partially observable Markov decision processes
– Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
– ADP / RL for multiplayer games and multiagent systems
– Distributed intelligent systems
– Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
– Applications of ADP and RL

Presentation of the papers:
The Scientific committee will select the best 12 papers for oral presentation in LA-CCI track. The official language is English. Other relevant works will be selected as poster presentation.

Papers may be submitted using the Easychair system by accessing the following address
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=argencon2014
(notice that an Easychair account is needed for submission)

General format of follows IEEE (instructions are at http://argencon.ieee.org.ar/llamado/trabajos/)

LaTeX and MSWord templates can be downloaded from:
http://argencon.ieee.org.ar/documents/argencon_latex_template_a4.zip
http://argencon.ieee.org.ar/documents/argencon_word_template_a4.doc

Best Papers
Best paper accepted and presented on LA-CCI can be published on a Special Issue of the
“Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Inteligência Computacional: Learning & Non-Linear Systems”
http://sbic.ct.ufrn.br/?page_id=18

Important Dates:
– Submission of draft papers (23:59, GMT-03) 10 April 2014
– Notification of Acceptance 05 May 2014
– Submission of camera-ready papers, 20 May 2014
– Conference desk opens 12 June 2014

Scientific Committee
Chairs:
– Yván Jesús Túpac Valdivia (Universidad Católica San Pablo. Peru)
– Efren Gorrostieta Hurtado (Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro. Mexico)
Members:
Check website for Scientific Committee members of LA-CCI at
http://la-cci.org/scientific-committee/

LA-CCI Steering Committee
ARGENTINA (LA-CCI 2014 Organizing Country):
– Cristian Rodriguez Rivero – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (*** Local Organizer of LA-CCI2014)
– María Daniela López De Luise – Univesidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos (Country Panels Coordinator)
– Javier Areta – Universidad Nacional de Río Negro (Argencon 2014 Organizer)
– Gustavo Juarez – Universidad Nacional de Tucuman (Poster Presentations Coordinator)
BOLIVIA:
– Jorge Antonio Nava Amador – Universidad Mayor de San Andrés
– Grover Zurita Villarroel – Universidad Privada Boliviana
BRAZIL (LA-CCI Proponent Country):
– Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto – Universidade de Pernambuco (*** Steering Committee Coordinator)
– Carmelo Bastos Filho – Universidade de Pernambuco
CHILE:
– Pablo Estevez – Universidad de Chile (Liaison with IEEE-CIS)
– Gonzalo Acuña Leiva – Universidad de Santiago de Chile
– Gloria Millaray Curilem Saldías – Universidad de La Frontera
COLOMBIA:
– Alvaro David Orjuela – Universidad Antonio Nariño
– Juan Bernardo Gómez Mendoza – Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Manizales
MEXICO:
– Efren Gorrostieta – Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro (Scientific Committee Co-Chair)
– Isidro Ignacio Lazaro Castillo – Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo
PERU:
– Ernesto Cuadros Vargas – Universidad Católica San Pablo
– Yván Jesús Túpac Valdivia – Universidad Católica San Pablo (*** Scientific Committee Chair)
VENEZUELA:
– Jose Lisandro Aguilar – Universidad de Los Andes
– Niriaska del Carmen Perozo – Universidad Centroccidental “Lisandro Alvarado”