[SoCPaR 2011] International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition

Third International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2011)

Dalian, China

October 14-16, 2011

WWW: http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar11/

Plenary Speakers:

- Henri Prade

- Franceso Marcelloni

- Dewen Hu

- Jeng-shyang Pan

- Fuchun Sun

Technically Sponsored by:

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IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society - Spanish Chapter

IEEE Signal Processing Society, Tainan Chapter

IEEE IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society (pending approval)

Technically Supported by:

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Technical Committee on Soft Computing of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society

Technical Committee on Granular Computing of IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society

Publication: IEEE

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Objective:

The aspiration of SoCPaR 2011 is to bring together worldwide leading researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators interested in advancing the state of the art in soft computing and pattern recognition for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. It is hoped that researchers will bring new prospect for collaboration across disciplines and gain idea facilitating novel breakthrough. The 3-day conference will feature prominent keynote speakers, workshop,tutorials, poster and paper presentation in parallel tracks. SoCPaR 2011 invites novel contributions/papers of soft computing and pattern recognition from fundamental aspects to various practical applications.

Topics:

Soft Computing and Applications(but not limited to):

Evolutionary Computing

Swarm Intelligence

Artificial Immune Systems

Fuzzy Sets

Uncertainty Analysis

Chaos and Fractals

Rough Sets

Support Vector Machines

Artificial Neural Networks

Case Based Reasoning

Bayesian Networks

Hybrid Intelligent Systems

Nature Inspired Computing

Machine Learning

Ambient Intelligence

Cognitive Computing

Probability Theory

Pattern Recognition and Applications (but not limited to):

Information retrieval

Data Mining

Web Mining

Image Processing

Computer Vision

Bio-informatics

Cognitive Informatics

Information Security

Network Security

Steganography

Biometry

Remote Sensing

Medical Informatics

E-commerce

Signal Processing

Control Systems

Hardware Implementations

Author Guidelines:

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Submission of paper should be made through the submission link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar11

Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. All accepted papers will be compiled in conference proceedings published by the IEEE. It is mandatory at least an author registers for every paper that is included in the conference proceedings. Proceedings will be made available during the conference. Expanded versions of SoCPaR 2011 selected papers will be published in special issues of internationally referred journals (SCI/SCIE).

Important Dates:

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Deadline for Paper Submission: July 15, 2011

Notification for Acceptance: August 15, 2011

Camera ready submission and author registration : August 31, 2011

SoCPaR 2011 Organizing team:

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General Chairs

Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA

Hongbo Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China

Fuchun Sun, Tsinghua University, China

Program Chairs

Cheng Guo, Dalian Maritime University, China

Sean McLoone, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

Information Contact:

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Professor Hongbo Liu

Dalian Maritime University

Email: lhb@dlut.edu.cn