[CFP][UKCI 2016] Call for Papers

[UKCI 2016 - Lancaster]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 16th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI-2016

September 7-9, 2016, Lancaster, United Kingdom

http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/ukci2016/
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The 16th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI-2016 this year
is being hosted by Lancaster University. UKCI is the premier UK event for
presenting leading research on all aspects of Computational Intelligence. The
aim of this Workshop is to provide a forum for the academic community and
industry to share ideas about developing and using Computational Intelligence
(CI) techniques, the new trends and to exchange views and ideas.

CI is a rapidly expanding research field, attracting a large number of
scientists, engineers and practitioners working in areas such as fuzzy systems,
neural networks, evolutionary computation, evolving systems and machine
learning. A growing number of companies are employing CI techniques to improve
previous solutions and to deal with new problems. These include evolving systems
that allow high performance in spite of changes which are either external or
internal to the system, thereby increasing the re-usability of developed
systems. This also include smart, intelligent and autonomous systems,
self-learning, self-adapting, self-calibrating and self-tuning.

UKCI-2016 will take place in Lancaster House Hotel, located conveniently within
the campus of Lancaster University, few miles from the city centre including
Lancaster Castle. The city offers excellent transport links, with easy access to
the M6, railway station and ferry links. Beyond the array of activities within
the city, Lancaster is close to Britain's premier tourist area - Lake District,
and is home to theatres, museums, Ashton Memorial and Williamson park.

#################### Important dates #####################
- Special Session proposals: March 20th, 2016
- Submission of Abstracts: March 20th, 2016
- Paper submission: April 1st, 2016
- Notification of paper acceptance: June 15th, 2016
- Camera-ready submission: July 15th, 2016
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#################### Plenary speakers ####################
- Jose Principe, Distinguished Professor, University Of Florida, USA

- Trevor Martin, Bristol University and Senior Researcher, British Telecom, UK

- Xin Yao, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

- Stephen Fubrer, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
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#################### Organizing committees ###############
* Honorary Chair
- Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk, Fellow Polish Academy of Sciences

* General Chair
- Prof. Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University

* Programme Chairs
- Prof. Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University
- Prof. Chrisina Jane, Robert Gordon University

* Publication Chair
- Dr. Alexander Gegov, Portsmouth University

* International Liaison
- Ms Azliza Mohd Ali, Lancaster University

* Finance Chair
- Ms Carol Airey, Lancaster University

* Local Organisation Chairs
- Dr. John Mariani, Lancaster University
- Mr Richard Gnosill, Lancaster University

* Publicity Chair
- Dr. Teng Teck Hou, Singapore Management University

* Awards Chair
- Prof. Araceli Sanchis de Miguel, Carlos III University, Spain

* Special Session Chair
- Prof. Ahmad Lotfi, Nottingham Trent University
- Dr. Xiao Jun Zeng, Manchester University
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############# Paper Submission and Publication ###########
* Papers for UKCI 2016 should be submitted electronically through the Conference
website at http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/ukci2016/call-for-papers/, and will be
refereed by experts in the fields and ranked based on the criteria of
originality, significance, quality and clarity.

* Selected papers will be considered for publication, following substantial
extension, in a Special Issue of the Soft Computing Journal (Springer).
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#################### Awards ##############################
* A best regular paper and a best student paper will be selected for this award

* This best paper award consists of a plaque and a EURO 200 honorarium

* The best paper awards are sponsored by Springer
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###### Topics and Areas include, but not limited to ######
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

* Computational intelligence methodology
* Computational intelligence for big data
* Making Sense from Data (streams)
* Knowledge representation
* Fuzzy logic, fuzzy systems, approximate reasoning;
* New Machine Learning Methodologies
* Artificial Neural Networks
* Evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems,
memetic computing, Nature-inspired computing
* New and emerging computational intelligence approaches from hybrid learning
and systems, molecular and quantum computing
* Software agents and multi-agent systems, intelligent control
* Intelligent Video Analytics
* Applications of computational intelligence techniques in engineering,
healthcare, finances, (cyber)security, signal, image and video processing
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#################### Call for Special Session Proposals #########################
* UKCI-2016 will retain its traditional format of a single track with special
sessions on selected "hot" topics.

* Please email proposals for special sessions to ukci...@lancaster.ac.uk by
20th March 2016
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#################### Co-Sponsors #########################
* Springer
* Department of Engineering and the School of Computing and Communications,
Lancaster University
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