IEEE WCCI 2022 Call for Workshops and Special Sessions - Deadline 15 Nov
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The IEEE WCCI 2022 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main event. Workshop proposals should be submitted by 15 November 2021 using the form at the IEEE WCCI 2022 Call for Workshops website.
The overall purpose of a workshop is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on active and emerging topics of Computational Intelligence. Topics of the proposed workshops should, therefore, be aligned with those set forth in the call for papers for the main event. We strongly encourage the workshop organizers to make their workshops highly interactive and include discussions, Q&A and panel sessions to facilitate a lively exchange of ideas among the attendees.
Workshops can take on a number of forms including but not limited to being organized around emerging research areas, challenging problems and industrial applications. Workshops may include, for example – but not limited to – tutorials, keynote/invited speakers, contributed papers and presentations, panel discussions, even mini-competitions if appropriate for the content. Organizers of accepted workshops are expected to prepare a workshop website and call for papers, publicize the workshop, gather submissions, conduct the reviewing process and decide upon the final workshop program. They must also prepare an informal set of workshop proceedings to be distributed with the registration materials at the conference. They may choose to form organizing or program committees for assistance in these tasks. Workshops can be half or full-day events depending on the scope and the content of the workshop.
Call for Special Sessions Proposals for IEEE WCCI 2022
The Special Sessions Chairs invite the submission of Special Session proposals to the 2022 IEEE WCCI. Special session proposals should be submitted by November 15, 2021 using the form at the bottom of this page.
Guidelines to Special Session Organizers- Each Special Session should generally have a maximum of four organizers and it is mandatory that at least one of them attends and chairs the SS. In special circumstances such as multi-disciplinary proposals or proposals integrating a CI technique from neural networks, evolutionary computation and fuzzy system with machine learning and operations research techniques, four or five organizers are possible but this needs to be fully justified.
- Special Sessions must have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. All the organizers must be a staff member at an institution or a company, and no PhD or other students can be organizers.
- Organizers should avoid very narrow topics for Special Sessions, trying to have accepted papers from different institutions.
- Special Sessions Organizers must handle the review process of papers submitted to their own session. However, at least two reviewers per paper must be selected from researchers outside authors of papers of the special session. It is expected that organizers are committed to providing the reviews in due time.
- The organizers of each special session must decide which conference or event (IJCNN, IEEE CEC, FUZZ IEEE or Industrial Day) they want their special session to be associated with.
- All the submitted special sessions will be assessed by the organizing committee. Proposals of similar topics will be asked to be merged or modified.
For more information on Special Session proposals to the IEEE WCCI 2022 please click here.
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