The 2009 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'09
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* * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * *
The 2009 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems -
ICAIS'09
September 24th - 26st 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 Associtaion (IFSA)
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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. Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE
Computer Society.
* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *
Workshop/Special Session proposal: February 28, 2009
Full paper submission: April 30, 2009
Acceptance notification: June 20, 2009
Final camera ready: July 10, 2009
* * * 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 sythesis
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, will be available at the conference.
* * * POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION * * *
A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be
expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of
international journals (the list of journals will be announced soon).
* * * 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