Reminder: conference paper deadline for EANN 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 14th conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN) 2013 is 22 April 2013. This conference will be held in Halkidiki, Greece, 13-16 September, 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 24, Issue 3, March 2013

1. Dissipativity Analysis for Discrete-Time Stochastic Neural Networks With Time-Varying Delays
Authors: Zheng-Guang Wu; Peng Shi; Hongye Su; Jian Chu
Page(s): 345 - 355
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6400254

2. Model-Based Online Learning With Kernels
Authors: Guoqi Li; Changyun Wen; Zheng Guo Li; Aimin Zhang; Feng Yang; Kezhi Mao
Page(s): 356 - 369
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6400253

3. Adaptive Control for Nonlinear Pure-Feedback Systems With High-Order Sliding Mode Observer
Authors: Jing Na; Xuemei Ren; Dongdong Zheng
Page(s): 370 - 382
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6401197

4. Low-Rank Structure Learning via Nonconvex Heuristic Recovery
Authors: Yue Deng; Qionghai Dai; Risheng Liu; Zengke Zhang; Sanqing Hu
Page(s): 383 - 396
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6403554

5. Synaptic Variability in a Cortical Neuromorphic Circuit
Authors: Mohammad Mahvash; Alice C. Parker
Page(s): 397 - 409
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6408287

6. Sampled-Data Synchronization of Chaotic Lur'e Systems With Time Delays
Authors: Zheng-Guang Wu; Peng Shi; Hongye Su; Jian Chu
Page(s): 410 - 421
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6408292

7. Multiplicative Update Rules for Concurrent Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Maximum Margin Classification
Authors: Olga Zoidi; Anastasios Tefas; Ioannis Pitas
Page(s): 422 - 434
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6408294

8. Distributed Synchronization of Coupled Neural Networks via Randomly Occurring Control
Authors: Yang Tan; Wai Keung Wong
Page(s): 435 - 447
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6408291

9. Portfolio of Automated Trading Systems: Complexity and Learning Set Size Issues
Authors: Sarunas Raudys
Page(s): 448 - 459
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6408289

10. Regularized Mixture Density Estimation With an Analytical Setting of Shrinkage Intensities
Authors: Zohar Halbe; Maria Bortman; Mayer Aladjem
Page(s): 460 - 470
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6410430

11. Stochastic Optimal Controller Design for Uncertain Nonlinear Networked Control System via Neuro Dynamic Programming
Authors: Hao Xu; Sarangapani Jagannathan
Page(s): 471 - 484
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6410432

12. Simple Exponential Family PCA
Authors: Jun Li; Dacheng Tao
Page(s): 485 - 497
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6415281

13. Dynamics Analysis of a Population Decoding Model
Authors: Jiali Yu; Huajin Tang; Haizhou Li
Page(s): 498 - 503
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6409467

14. Learning With Kernel Smoothing Models and Low-Discrepancy Sampling
Authors: Cristiano Cervellera; Danilo Macciò
Page(s): 504 - 509
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6410431

Conference paper deadline: EANN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 14th conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN) 2013 is 22 April 2013. This conference will be held in Halkidiki, Greece, 13-16 September, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: SOCO 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO) 2013 is 20 April 2013. This conference will be held in Salamanca, Spain, 11-13 September, 2013.

Paper submission deadline extended for IJCNN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2013 has been extended to 1 March 2013. This conference will be held in Dallas, Texas, 4-9 August 2013.

Evolving Systems Vol. 4, Issue 1, February 2013

Editorial

1. Introduction to the special issue on handling concept drift in adaptive information systems
Authors: Mykola Pechenizkiy & Indre Zliobaite
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Original Papers

2. Real-time algorithm for changes detection in depth of anesthesia signals
Authors: Raquel Sebastião, Margarida M. Silva, Rui Rabiço, João Gama & Teresa Mendonça
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3. Drift detection using uncertainty distribution divergence
Authors: Patrick Lindstrom, Brian Mac Namee & Sarah Jane Delany
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4. Detecting and Visualizing the Change in Classification of Customer Profiles based on Transactional Data
Authors: Edward Apeh & Bogdan Gabrys
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5. Using a classifier pool in accuracy based tracking of recurring concepts in data stream classification
Authors: Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Zahra Ahmadi & Hamid Beigy
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6. EVE: a framework for event detection
Authors: Iris Adä & Michael R. Berthold
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Conference paper deadline: ICANN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2013 is 1 March 2013. This conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 10-13 September 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICONS 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science (ICONS) 2013 is 15 March, 2013. This conference will be held in Chengdu, China, 2-4 September, 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for CIVEMSA 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 2013 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications is March 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Milan, Italy, 15-17 July, 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for IJCCI 2013

A reminder that the paper submission deadline for the 5th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI) 2013 is March 13, 2013. This conference will be held in Vilamoura, Portugal, 20-22 September, 2013. IJCCI is a combination of three computational intelligence conferences: The International Conference on Evolutionary Computation  Theory and Applications (ECTA), the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation Theory and Application (FCTA), and the International Conference on Neural Theory and Applications (NCTA).

Paper submission deadline: ICIC 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) 2013 is 15 February 2013. This conference will be held in Nanning, China, 28-31 July 2013.

Conference paper deadline: CIS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 9th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) 2013 is 30 June 2013. This conference will be held at Mount Emei, Sichuan Province, China, December 14-15 2013.

Conference paper deadline: CIS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 9th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) 2013 is 30 June 2013. This conference will be held at Mount Emei, Sichuan Province, China, December 14-15 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation: Volume 17 Issue 1 2013

1. Parent Selection Pressure Auto-Tuning for Tournament Selection in Genetic Programming
Authors: Xie, H.; Zhang, M.
Page(s): 1 - 19
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151120

2. A Hybrid Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Multiobjective Optimization Problems
Authors:Tang, L.; Wang, X.
Page(s): 20 - 45
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151119

3. Classification of Electromyographic Signals: Comparing Evolvable Hardware to Conventional Classifiers
Authors:Kaufmann, P.; Glette, K.; Gruber, T.; Platzner, M.; Torresen, J.; Sick, B.
Page(s): 46 - 63
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151104

4. A New Sequential Covering Strategy for Inducing Classification Rules With Ant Colony Algorithms
Authors:Otero, F. E. B.; Freitas, A. A.; Johnson, C. G.
Page(s): 64 - 76
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151113

5. Objective Reduction in Many-Objective Optimization: Linear and Nonlinear Algorithms
Authors:Saxena, D. K.; Duro, J. A.; Tiwari, A.; Deb, K.; Zhang, Q.
Page(s): 77 - 99
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151114

6. On the Advantages of Variable Length GRNs for the Evolution of Multicellular Developmental Systems
Authors:Trefzer, M. A.; Kuyucu, T.; Miller, J. F.; Tyrrell, A. M.
Page(s): 100 - 121
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151118

7. The Transferability Approach: Crossing the Reality Gap in Evolutionary Robotics
Authors:Koos, S.; Mouret, J.-B.; Doncieux, S.
Page(s): 122 - 145
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151107

8. The Use of an Analytic Quotient Operator in Genetic Programming
Authors:Ni, J.; Drieberg, R. H.; Rockett, P. I.
Page(s): 146 - 152
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6186815

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICIC 2013

A reminder that the paper submission deadline for the 2013 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) is February 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Nanning, China, July 28-31, 2013.

Paper submission deadline: ICONIP 2013

The paper submission deadline for the 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2013 is 1 June 2013. This conference will be held in Daegu, Korea, 3-7 November, 2013.

Down with middlemen!

If there is one thing that the rise of e-commerce sites like eBay and Amazon.com has shown it is that the middleman is doomed. Entire bookshop chains like Borders have vanished from the face of the Earth, largely because they were unable to compete with a model that has no physical presence. Bookshops are middlemen: they connect one group of people (publishers) with another group of people (book purchasers, consumers). And the one thing that the Internet is really good at is getting rid of middlemen. Even publishers are middlemen, they don't produce the product, the authors do. The rise of self-publishing is the strongest indicator yet that the publishers are, like bookshops, an endangered species.

Online sales sites like e-bay (and Trademe, Gumtree) have also had an impact on retailers, and second hand dealers in particular: when we moved from Australia back to New Zealand, we had to sell our car and a few others bits and pieces. We didn't take the car to a second hand car dealer, or call a second hand furniture shop about our excess furniture: we just put some adverts up on Gumtree. While it is harder for online retailers to compete on items that require large volumes such as groceries, for smaller-volume or speciality items online sites are slowly but surely eliminating the traditional merchants. In the last ten years the only time I've booked air travel through a travel agent was for business travel, and then only because my employers had a policy of booking through certain agents.

This all raises a question: what is a middleman? If we define middlemen to be someone who does not produce, add value or provide a service that cannot be automated, then a huge number of current professions come under that heading: real estate agents, immigration agents, literary agent, property management agent... Basically, anyone with the word "agent" in their job title is a middleman and is doomed.

How does this relate to computational intelligence or academia? Well, what if journals and universities are really middlemen?

In the past I have blogged about how open-access journals are the future of academic publishing. But how much value do journals of any kind really add? A journal will arange peer-review, format the accepted articles and assign volume/page/DOI numbers. Apart from peer-review, each of these steps can be automated. In an age when every article published is available online, and are indexed by sites like Google Scholar and Citeseer, journals don't add much to the publicity of an article - in fact, the most effective way of publicising an article seems to be to blog or tweet about it. This is still the major advantage of open-access journals, as anyone with an interest can download and read the article (and hopefully cite it).

The measure of the quality of an article is the number of citations it receives, much more so than the supposed quality of the journal it is published in. Metrics like impact factor are so bogus as to be meaningless, despite the arrogant attitude of editors who deem submissions unworthy of publication in their august journal, without bothering to send them to peer-review. A good article will be cited more, no matter where it is published. Articles that aren't useful won't be cited. In other words, articles now can stand on their own, they don't need the support of journals to be useful. The journals, therefore, are middlemen, standing between the producers (the people who do the research and write it up) and consumers (the people who are reading and citing the research). Do we really need journals to arrange peer review? Or is there scope for a journal-agnostic, peer-review service for individual articles?

If individual articles can now stand on their own, how about individual academics? The Khan academy has been described as a revolution in teaching numerous times, and open courses like those offered by MIT have had thousands of students. In many ways universities are middlemen, providing access to resources (academic staff) to consumers (students). Universities provide tuition, consultation (students can ask their instructors for clarification), assessment (tests, assignments and exams), and accreditation (a degree / diploma from an institution has a certain credibility). Tuition can be supplied directly by the lecturer via sites like YouTube. Consultation can be done via discussion boards and live chat. Accreditation remains as an open problem. There are a huge number of accreditations available in a vast range of technical subjects: the IT industry in many ways leads the way in this, with certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA and others. Professional organisations like the IEEE publish bodies of knowledge that graduates in certain disciplines are expected to know, and it's only a matter of time before this is expanded to include computational intelligence. Practical work is harder to deal with, but even then the large amount of open source software available means that anyone with a cobbled-together Linux box and a basic internet connection can not only do the lecture and practical work associated with undergrad study but also access the accreditation offered by numerous organisations.

The only problem for which I cannot see an obvious solution is, how would the lecturers get paid? Locking material behind paywalls won't work, people just won't use it. Also, a fixed fee won't work either: $500 might not seem like much for someone in the western world, but for someone in parts of Africa, it's more than they see in a year. The pay-what-you can model might work: this is where someone pays as much as they think something is worth, or as much as they can afford. A few people might take advantage and pay nothing when they could afford to pay, but most people are pretty honest and will pay a fair price. The accreditation agencies could also pay a referral fee to lecturers who direct students to their services, much like the Amazon affiliates program.

Universities would still survive, there still needs to be places where research is carried out, and training of the next generation of researchers (postgraduate students) takes place. The survival of journals is a bit less certain, as self-published peer-reviewed articles are much easier to do. Whatever happens, though, middlemen are on the way out.

Paper submission deadline: CIVEMSA 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 2013 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications is March 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Milan, Italy, 15-17 July, 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development: Volume 4, Issue 4

1. A Unified Account of Gaze Following
Authors: Jasso, H.; Triesch, J.; Deák, G.; Lewis, J.M.
Page(s): 257 - 272
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6243178

2. A Developmental Approach to Structural Self-Organization in Reservoir Computing
Authors: Jun Yin; Yan Meng; Yaochu Jin
Page(s): 273 - 289
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6122492

3. Predicting Visual Stimuli From Self-Induced Actions: An Adaptive Model of a Corollary Discharge Circuit
Authors: Ruesch, J.; Ferreira, R.; Bernardino, A.
Page(s): 290 - 304
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6202677

4. Human-Recognizable Robotic Gestures
Authors: Cabibihan, J.; Wing-Chee So; Pramanik, S.
Page(s): 305 - 314
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6246674

5. Intrinsic Motivation and Introspection in Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Merrick, K.E.
Page(s): 315 - 329
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6239563

6. Model-Free Reinforcement Learning of Impedance Control in Stochastic Environments
Authors: Stulp, F.; Buchli, J.; Ellmer, A.; Mistry, M.; Theodorou, E.A.; Schaal, S.
Page(s): 330 - 341
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6227337

Reminder: paper submission deadline for UKCI 2013

A reminder that the paper submission deadline for the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI) 2013 is 17 May 2013. This workshop will be held in Guildford, UK, 9-11 September, 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games: Volume 4, Issue 4

1. Ensemble Determinization in Monte Carlo Tree Search for the Imperfect Information Card Game Magic: The Gathering
Authors: Cowling, P.I.; Ward, C.D.; Powley, E.J.
Page(s): 241 - 257
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6218176

2. Introducing Individual and Social Learning Into Evolutionary Checkers
Authors: Al-Khateeb, B.; Kendall, G.
Page(s): 258 - 269
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6243194

3. Evolutionary Design of FreeCell Solvers
Authors: Elyasaf, A.; Hauptman, A.; Sipper, M.
Page(s): 270 - 281
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6249736

4. Monte Carlo Tree Search for the Hide-and-Seek Game Scotland Yard
Authors: Nijssen, P.; Winands, M.H.M.
Page(s): 282 - 294
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6266709

5. AntBot: Ant Colonies for Video Games
Authors: Recio, G.; Martin, E.; Estebanez, C.; Saez, Y.
Page(s): 295 - 308
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6262464

6. Bayesian-Game-Based Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning Control for Decentralized POMDPs
Authors: Sharma, R.; Spaan, M.T.J.
Page(s): 309 - 328
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6263288

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 24, Issue 2, February 2013

1. Stability for Neural Networks With Time-Varying Delays via Some New Approaches
Authors: Oh-Min Kwon; Myeong-Jin Park; Sang-Moon Lee; Ju H. Park; Eun-Jong Cha
Page(s): 181 - 193
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6376233

2. Sequential Projection-Based Metacognitive Learning in a Radial Basis Function Network for Classification Problems
Authors: Giduthuri Sateesh Babu; Sundaram Suresh
Page(s): 194 - 206
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6392289

3. Developing a Local Least-Squares Support Vector Machines-Based Neuro-Fuzzy Model for Nonlinear and Chaotic Time Series Prediction
Authors: Arash Miranian; Majid Abdollahzade
Page(s): 207 - 218
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6375845

4. Radial Basis Function Network Training Using a Nonsymmetric Partition of the Input Space and Particle Swarm Optimization
Authors: Alex Alexandridis; Eva Chondrodima; Haralambos Sarimveis
Page(s): 219 - 230
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6395832

5. Compositional Generative Mapping for Tree-Structured Data—Part II: Topographic Projection Model
Authors: Davide Bacciu; Alessio Micheli; Alessandro Sperduti
Page(s): 231 - 247
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6395856

6. Efficient Multitemplate Learning for Structured Prediction
Authors: Qi Mao; Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang
Page(s): 248 - 261
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6387742

7. Formulating Robust Linear Regression Estimation as a One-Class LDA Criterion: Discriminative Hat Matrix
Authors: Franck Dufrenois; Jean Charles Noyer
Page(s): 262 - 273
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6384805

8. Fuzzy-Neural-Network Inherited Sliding-Mode Control for Robot Manipulator Including Actuator Dynamics
Authors: Rong-Jong Wai; Rajkumar Muthusamy
Page(s): 274 - 287
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6392290

9. Generalization Performance of Fisher Linear Discriminant Based on Markov Sampling
Authors: Bin Zou; Luoqing Li; Zongben Xu; Tao Luo; Yuan Yan Tang
Page(s): 288 - 300
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6392972

10. Selective Positive–Negative Feedback Produces the Winner-Take-All Competition in Recurrent Neural Networks
Authors: Shuai Li; Bo Liu; Yangming Li
Page(s): 301 - 309
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6392288

11. Identification and Prediction of Dynamic Systems Using an Interactively Recurrent Self-Evolving Fuzzy Neural Network
Authors: Yang-Yin Lin; Jyh-Yeong Chang; Chin-Teng Lin
Page(s): 310 - 321
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6399606

12. New Discrete-Time Recurrent Neural Network Proposal for Quadratic Optimization With General Linear Constraints
Authors: María José Pérez-Ilzarbe
Page(s): 322 - 328
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6376234

13. Incorporating Mean Template Into Finite Mixture Model for Image Segmentation
Authors: Hui Zhang; Q. M. Jonathan Wu; Thanh Minh Nguyen
Page(s): 328 - 335
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6384806

14. Hyperbolic Hopfield Neural Networks
Authors: Masaki Kobayashi
Page(s): 335 - 341
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6389780

Reminder: paper submission deadline for CEC 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2013 is February 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013.

Reminder: paper submission paper deadline for ICANN 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 23rd International Conference on Neural Networks (ICANN) 2013 is February 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, September 10-13, 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for BICS 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 2013 International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS) is February 1, 2013. This conference will be held in Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2013

1.  Editorial: A Successful Change From TNN to TNNLS and a Very Successful Year
Authors: Derong Liu
Page(s): 1 - 7
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6380627

2.  Mixture Subclass Discriminant Analysis Link to Restricted Gaussian Model and Other Generalizations
Authors: Nikolaos Gkalelis; Vasileios Mezaris; Ioannis Kompatsiaris; Tania Stathaki
Page(s): 8 - 21
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6360018

3.  Density-Preserving Sampling: Robust and Efficient Alternative to Cross-Validation for Error Estimation
Authors: Marcin Budka; Bogdan Gabrys
Page(s): 22 - 34
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6360017

4.  Two-Stage Nonnegative Sparse Representation for Large-Scale Face Recognition
Authors: Ran He; Wei-Shi Zheng; Bao-Gang Hu; Xiang-Wei Kong
Page(s): 35 - 46
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365317

5.  Projection-Pursuit-Based Method for Blind Separation of Nonnegative Sources
Authors: Zuyuan Yang; Yong Xiang; Yue Rong; Shengli Xie
Page(s): 47 - 57
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365335

6.  Synchronization for Coupled Neural Networks With Interval Delay: A Novel Augmented Lyapunov–Krasovskii Functional Method
Authors: Huaguang Zhang; Dawei Gong; Bing Chen; Zhenwei Liu
Page(s): 58 - 70
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365364

7.  Observer-Based Adaptive Neural Network Control for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems With Time Delay
Authors: Qi Zhou; Peng Shi; Shengyuan Xu; Hongyi Li
Page(s): 71 - 80
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365333

8.  Qualitative Adaptive Reward Learning With Success Failure Maps: Applied to Humanoid Robot Walking
Authors: John Nassour; Vincent Hugel; Fethi Ben Ouezdou; Gordon Cheng
Page(s): 81 - 93
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365318

9.  Novel Z-Domain Precoding Method for Blind Separation of Spatially Correlated Signals
Authors: Yong Xiang; Dezhong Peng; Yang Xiang; Song Guo
Page(s): 94 - 105
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365334

10.  Local Coordinates Alignment With Global Preservation for Dimensionality Reduction
Authors: Jing Chen; Zhengming Ma; Yang Liu
Page(s): 106 - 117
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365829

11.  Hopf Bifurcation of an $(n+1)$ -Neuron Bidirectional Associative Memory Neural Network Model With Delays
Authors: Min Xiao; Wei Xing Zheng; Jinde Cao
Page(s): 118 - 132
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365830

12.  Prime Discriminant Simplicial Complex
Authors: Junping Zhang; Ziyu  Xie; Stan Z. Li
Page(s): 133 - 144
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6353263

13.  Finite-Horizon Control-Constrained Nonlinear Optimal Control Using Single Network Adaptive Critics
Authors: Ali Heydari; Sivasubramanya N. Balakrishnan
Page(s): 145 - 157
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6377305

14.  Feature Combiners With Gate-Generated Weights for Classification
Authors: Adil Omari; Aníbal R. Figueiras-Vidal
Page(s): 158 - 163
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365375

15.  Competitive Learning With Pairwise Constraints
Authors: Thiago F. Covões; Eduardo R. Hruschka; Joydeep Ghosh
Page(s): 164 - 169
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365363

16.  Infinite Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Human Behavior Analysis
Authors: Konstantinos Bousmalis; Stefanos Zafeiriou; Louis-Philippe Morency; Maja Pantic
Page(s): 170 - 177
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6365828

Reminder: paper submission deadline for IJCNN 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2013 is February 22, 2013. This conference will be held in Dallas, Texas, August 4-9, 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICICIP 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP) 2013 is February 1, 2013. This conference will be held in Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for IJCAI 2013

A reminder that the paper submission deadline for the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2013 is January 31, 2013. This conference will be held in Beijing, China, August 3-9, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: ICANN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 23rd International Conference on Neural Networks (ICANN) 2013 is February 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, September 10-13, 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICONS 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science (ICONS) 2013 is 15 March, 2013. This conference will be held in Chengdu, China, 2-4 September, 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Volume 20 Issue 6

1. Robust Nonfragile H_\infty Filtering of Fuzzy Systems With Linear Fractional Parametric Uncertainties
Chang, X-.H.
Page(s): 1001 - 1011

2.  Adaptive Fuzzy Control of a Class of Nonlinear Systems by Fuzzy Approximation Approach
Chen, B.; Liu, X. P.; Ge, S. S.; Lin, C.
Page(s): 1012 - 1021

3. Robust Control for Fuzzy Dynamical Systems: Uniform Ultimate Boundedness and Optimality
Huang, J.; Chen, Y-.H.; Cheng, A.
Page(s): 1022 - 1031

4. An Extension of Fuzzy Measures to Multisets and Its Relation to Distorted Probabilities
Torra, V.; Stokes, K.; Narukawa, Y.
Page(s): 1032 - 1045

5. Observer-Based Piecewise Affine Output Feedback Controller Synthesis of Continuous-Time T–S Fuzzy Affine Dynamic Systems Using Quantized Measurements
Qiu, J.; Feng, G.; Gao, H.
Page(s): 1046 - 1062

6. A Global Exponential Fuzzy Observer Design for Time-Delay Takagi–Sugeno Uncertain Discrete Fuzzy Bilinear Systems With Disturbance
Tsai, S.-H.
Page(s): 1063 - 1075

7. Improved Structure Optimization for Fuzzy-Neural Networks
Pizzileo, B.; Li, K.; Irwin, G. W.; Zhao, W.
Page(s): 1076 - 1089

8. A Kernel-Based Framework for Learning Graded Relations From Data
Waegeman, W.; Pahikkala, T.; Airola, A.; Salakoski, T.; Stock, M.; De Baets, B.
Page(s): 1090 - 1101

9. Preference Learning Using the Choquet Integral: The Case of Multipartite Ranking
Tehrani, A. F.; Cheng, W.; Hullermeier, E.
Page(s): 1102 - 1113

10. A Novel Approach to Filter Design for T–S Fuzzy Discrete-Time Systems With Time-Varying Delay
Su, X.; Shi, P.; Wu, L.; Song, Y-.D.
Page(s): 1114 - 1129

11. Fuzzy c-Means Algorithms for Very Large Data
Havens, T. C.; Bezdek, J. C.; Leckie, C.; Hall, L. O.; Palaniswami, M.
Page(s): 1130 - 1146

12. TSK Fuzzy CMAC-Based Robust Adaptive Backstepping Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems
Lin, C.-M.; Li, H.-Y.
Page(s): 1147 - 1154

13. Uncertain Alternating Renewal Process and Its Application
Yao, K.; Li, X.
Page(s): 1154 - 1160

14. LMI Solution for Robust Static Output Feedback Control of Discrete Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Models
Chadli, M.; Guerra, T. M.
Page(s): 1160 - 1165

15. Relaxed Stabilization Criterion for T–S Fuzzy Systems by Minimum-Type Piecewise-Lyapunov-Function-Based Switching Fuzzy Controller
Chen, Y-.J.; Ohtake, H.; Tanaka, K.; Wang, W-.J.; Wang, H. O.
Page(s): 1166 - 1173

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation: Volume 16 Issue 6

1. The Technology of the Gaps: An Evolvable Hardware Synthesized Oscillator for the Control of a  Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle
Gallagher, J. C.; Doman, D. B.; Oppenheimer, M. W.
Page(s): 753 - 768

2. Continuous Dynamic Constrained Optimization—The Challenges
Nguyen, T. T.; Yao, X.
Page(s): 769 - 786

3. Hybrid Metaheuristics Based on Evolutionary Algorithms and Simulated Annealing: Taxonomy, Comparison, and Synergy Test
Rodriguez, F. J.; Garcia-Martinez, C.; Lozano, M.
Page(s): 787 - 800

4. An Efficient Resource Allocation Scheme Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Gong, Y.-J.; Zhang, J.; Chung, H. S.-H.; Chen, W.-N.; Zhan, Z.-H.; Li, Y.; Shi, Y.-H.
Page(s): 801 - 816 

5. Evolving Boolean Networks on Tunable Fitness Landscapes
Bull, L.
Page(s): 817 - 828

6. Efficient Forest Data Structure for Evolutionary Algorithms Applied to Network Design
Delbem, A. C. B.; de Lima, T. W.; Telles, G. P.
Page(s): 829 - 846

7. An Artificial Immune System for Classification With Local Feature Selection
Dudek, G.
Page(s): 847 - 860 

8. The Automatic Design of Multiobjective Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms
Lopez-Ibanez, M.; Stutzle, T.
Page(s): 861 - 875

Open source textbook - Chapter 6 outline

The outline of chapter 6 of the open-source textbook "Intelligent Information Systems" is now available online here. Chapter 6 is entitled "Fuzzy Inference and Defuzzification" and covers the basic principles of fuzzy inference and defuzzification of fuzzy values into crisp values.

Previous posts about other chapters are:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Intelligent Information Systems
Chapter 2: Simple and Linear Transformations
Chapter 3: Non-Linear Transformations, Fourier and Wavelet Transformations
Chapter 4: Crisp Rule Based Systems
Chaper 5: Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzification


Please make any comments in the comments section of this post, or email contactATmike.watts.net.nz.

Reminder: conference paper deadline: KES-IDT 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT) is 6 January 2013. This conference will be held in Sesimbra, Portugal, 26-28 June 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for Fuzz-IEEE 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE) 2013 is 5 January, 2013. This conference will be held in Hyderabad, India, 7-10 July, 2013.

Neural Networks: Twenty-fifth Anniversay Commemorative Issue

1. Editorial Board
Pages: IFC

2. Neural networks
Pages: iv-ix

3. Neural networks referees in 2012
Pages: x-xii

4. Editorial
Pages: xiii-xiv

5. Adaptive Resonance Theory: How a brain learns to consciously attend, learn, and recognize a changing world
Pages: 1-47
Author: Stephen Grossberg

6. Dreaming of mathematical neuroscience for half a century   
Pages: 48-51
Author: Shun-ichi Amari

7. Essentials of the self-organizing map  
Pages: 52-65
Author: Teuvo Kohonen

8. Synthetic event-related potentials: A computational bridge between neurolinguistic models and experiments
Pages: 66-92
Authors: Victor Barrès, Arthur Simons, Michael Arbib

9. DISCOV (DImensionless Shunting COlor Vision): A neural model for spatial data analysis 
Pages: 93-102
Authors: Gail A. Carpenter, Suhas E. Chelian

10. Artificial vision by multi-layered neural networks: Neocognitron and its advances 
Pages: 103-119
Author: Kunihiko Fukushima

11. Outline of a general theory of behavior and brain coordination  
Pages: 120-131
Authors: J.A. Scott Kelso, Guillaume Dumas, Emmanuelle Tognoli

12. Noise-enhanced clustering and competitive learning algorithms
Pages: 132-140
Authors: Osonde Osoba, Bart Kosko

13. A neural model of visual figure-ground segregation from kinetic occlusion
Pages: 141-164
Authors: Timothy Barnes, Ennio Mingolla

14. Neural associative memories and sparse coding
Pages: 165-171
Author: Günther Palm

15. Local circuit inhibition in the cerebral cortex as the source of gain control and untuned suppression
Pages: 172-181
Authors: Robert M. Shapley, Dajun Xing

16. The No-Prop algorithm: A new learning algorithm for multilayer neural networks
Pages: 182-188
Authors: Bernard Widrow, Aaron Greenblatt, Youngsik Kim, Dookun Park

Reminder: paper submission deadline for IC-SI 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the Fourth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (IC-SI) 2013 is January 1, 2013. This conference will be held in Harbin, China, June 12-15, 2013.

Database of University Courses on Computational Intelligence

This post is on behalf of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's University Curricula Subcommittee.

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The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society has a database on over 100 courses of various aspects computational intelligence taught at undergraduate and graduate levels all over the world. If you are interested in learning about the existing courses or intend to list your own course, which could be accessed by students and teachers please visit the CIS University Curriculum web site http://cis.ieee.org/university-curricula.html

What I've learned so far about management

I'm almost three months into my new position, a position that involves managing several lecturers. So, what have I learned about management so far?

An old Chinese proverb goes something like this:

If a king treats his ministers as his arms and legs, they will treat him as their heart and mind.

If a king treats his ministers as his cattle, they will treat him as a peasant.

If a king treats his ministers as grass and mud, they will treat him as an enemy.

I think that this applies just as much to managers as it does to rulers. So, with that in mind, here is what I have learned so far about managing people.

1) To manage others you must first manage yourself. You cannot manage other people's time and tasks if your own time is being taken up with tasks that you have allowed to accumulate. This also means that you need to control the tasks that come your way: if you need an hour of uninterrupted time to get several tasks done, then close your office door, put up a Do Not Disturb sign, and get them done. If you have too many tasks to do, then don't take on anything new until the task list is more manageable. If some members of your staff can do a particular task better than you, then delegate.

2) You have to be nice to the people you manage. If you are indifferent to them, or even bullying to them, you will fail. I actually knew this a long time ago, so I never even thought about trying this approach (also known as the Marquis de Sade school of scorched-earth management). Managers who try to manage through fear engender the hostility of their staff, and hostile staff love to see their manager fail. You must manage your own frustrations and anger (see point 1).

3) You have to be humble. An old saying goes something like "Humility means never getting a door slammed in your face... or ON your face". New Zealand culture is still quite egalitarian and particularly values humility. Arrogant managers will lose the support of their staff, and fail. Humble managers, managers who freely admit that they don't know something and defer to the staff who do, will win the support of their staff. You must admit it when you make a mistake. If mistakes are out in the open, then they can be fixed.

4) You must listen to your staff. Most of the time they know what they are talking about, and most of them will know how to do at least one thing better than you. Apart from the fact that listening is the nice, polite thing to do, it also lets you know who you can delegate particular tasks to.

5) You must lead from the front whenever you can. Anyone can tell others what to do, but if you want to be respected as a manager, you must show that you can do it too.

6) You must explain why you want someone to do something. If you are giving someone a task, then you must tell them why the task must be done, why you are giving it to them, and suggest how you think it could be done. If I tell my young daughter to do something "because I say so", she won't do it. If it doesn't work on a child, why would it work on an intelligent adult?

I'm sure I'll learn more about management as time goes by, and I'll share what I learn.

Paper submission deadline: ISNN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN) 2013 is December 15, 2012. This symposium will be held in Dalian, China, July 4-6, 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2012

1. Title: Unsupervised Learning by Minimal Entropy Encoding
Authors: Stefano Melacci; Marco Gori
Page(s): 1849 - 1861
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6316176

2. Title: Nonparametric Mixtures of Gaussian Processes With Power-Law Behavior
Authors: Sotirios P. Chatzis; Yiannis Demiris
Page(s): 1862 - 1871
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6320657

3. Title: Generalization Bounds of ERM-Based Learning Processes for Continuous-Time Markov Chains
Authors: Chao Zhang; Dacheng Tao
Page(s): 1872 - 1883
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6327676

4. Title: Neural Network Based Online Simultaneous Policy Update Algorithm for Solving the HJI Equation in Nonlinear $H_{infty}$ Control
Authors: Huai-Ning Wu; Biao Luo
Page(s): 1884 - 1895
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6329970

5. Title: Cost-Sensitive Sequences of Bregman Divergences
Authors: Raúl Santos-Rodríguez; Jesús Cid-Sueiro
Page(s): 1896 - 1904
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6331548

6. Title: Noise-Tuning-Based Hysteretic Noisy Chaotic Neural Network for Broadcast Scheduling Problem in Wireless Multihop Networks
Authors: Ming Sun; Yaoqun Xu; Xuefeng Dai; Yuan Guo
Page(s): 1905 - 1918
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6332524

7. Title: Exponential Stabilization of Memristive Neural Networks With Time Delays
Authors: Ailong Wu; Zhigang Zeng
Page(s): 1919 - 1929
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6332525

8. Title: Descent Algorithms on Oblique Manifold for Source-Adaptive ICA Contrast
Authors: Suviseshamuthu Easter Selvan; Umberto Amato; Kyle A. Gallivan; Chunhong Qi;
Maria Francesca Carfora; Michele Larobina; Bruno Alfano
Page(s): 1930 - 1947
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6338339

9. Title: Sparse Approximation to the Eigensubspace for Discrimination
Authors: Zhihui Lai; Wai Keung Wong; Zhong Jin; Jian Yang; Yong Xu
Page(s): 1948 - 1960
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6338366

10. Title: Adaptive Subset Kernel Principal Component Analysis for Time-Varying Patterns
Authors: Yoshikazu Washizawa
Page(s): 1961 - 1973
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6338365

11. Title: Robust Single-Hidden Layer Feedforward Network-Based Pattern Classifier
Authors: Zhihong Man; Kevin Lee; Dianhui Wang; Zhenwei Cao; Suiyang Khoo
Page(s): 1974 - 1986
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6352923

12. Title: Compositional Generative Mapping for Tree-Structured Data—Part I: Bottom-Up Probabilistic Modeling of Trees
Authors: Davide Bacciu; Alessio Micheli; Alessandro Sperduti
Page(s): 1987 - 2002
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6353263

13. Title: Real AdaBoost With Gate Controlled Fusion
Authors: Efraín Mayhua-López; Vanessa Gómez-Verdejo; Aníbal R. Figueiras-Vidal
Page(s): 2003 - 2009
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6352922

Deadline extension: ICAISC 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC) 2013 has been extended to December 10, 2012. This conference will be held in Zakopane, Poland, June 9-13, 2013.

Open source textbook - Chapter 5 outline

The outline of chapter 5 of the open-source textbook "Intelligent Information Systems" is now available online here. Chapter 5 is entitled "Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzification" and covers the basic principles of fuzzy sets, fuzzy membership functions and fuzzification of crisp data.

Previous posts about other chapters are:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Intelligent Information Systems
Chapter 2: Simple and Linear Transformations
Chapter 3: Non-Linear Transformations, Fourier and Wavelet Transformations
Chapter 4: Crisp Rule Based Systems

Please make any comments in the comments section of this post, or email contactATmike.watts.net.nz.

Paper submission deadline: IJCCI 2013

The paper submission deadline for the 5th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI) 2013 is March 13, 2013. This conference will be held in Vilamoura, Portugal, 20-22 September, 2013. IJCCI is a combination of three computational intelligence conferences: The International Conference on Evolutionary Computation  Theory and Applications (ECTA), the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation Theory and Application (FCTA), and the International Conference on Neural Theory and Applications (NCTA).

Reminder: paper submission deadline for CEC 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2013 is February 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: ICDM 2013

The paper submission deadline for the 13th Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2013 is 18 December 2012. This conference will be held in New York, July 16-21, 2013.

Paper submission deadline: MLDM 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM) 2013 is 18 December 2012. This conference will be held in New York July 19-25, 2013.

Paper submission deadline: IJCAI 2013

The paper submission deadline for the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2013 is January 31, 2013. This conference will be held in Beijing, China, August 3-9, 2013.

Conference paper submission deadline: ICONS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science (ICONS) 2013 is 15 March, 2013. This conference will be held in Chengdu, China, 2-4 September, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: ICIC 2013

The paper submission deadline for the 2013 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) is February 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Nanning, China, July 28-31, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: BICS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 2013 International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS) is February 1, 2013. This conference will be held in Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: ICICIP 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP) 2013 is February 1, 2013. This conference will be held in Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: IC-SI 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the Fourth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (IC-SI) 2013 is January 1, 2013. This conference will be held in Harbin, China, June 12-15, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: ESANN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN) 2013 is 30 November, 2012. This symposium will be helf in Bruges, Belgium, 24-26 April, 2013.

Guest posts and conference reports

There are a lot of posts on this blog about conference deadlines - mostly calls for papers. I would like to post more reports on these conferences, similar to this one. Since I don't make it to a lot of conferences these days, this is an open invitation to the readers of this blog: if you attend a conference on computational intelligence, and would like to write a guest post about it, please contact me via contactATmike.watts.net.nz

If you would like to write a guest post on another topic related to computational intelligence, please contact me and let me know what you would like to write about.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for IJCNN 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2013 is February 1, 2013. This conference will be held in Dallas, Texas, August 4-9, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: KES 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES) 2013 is 1st March, 2013. This conference will be held in Kitakyushu, Japan, September 9-12, 2013.

Open source textbook - Chapter 4 outline

The outline of chapter 4 of the open-source textbook "Intelligent Information Systems" is now available online here. Chapter 4 is entitled "Crisp Rule Based Systems" and covers rule based production systems.

Previous posts about other chapters are:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Intelligent Information Systems
Chapter 2: Simple and Linear Transformations
Chapter 3: Non-Linear Transformations, Fourier and Wavelet Transformations

Please make any comments in the comments section of this post, or email contactATmike.watts.net.nz.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 23, Issue 11, November 2012

1. Decirculation Process in Neural Network Dynamics
Authors: Mau-Hsiang Shih; Feng-Sheng Tsai
Page(s): 1677 - 1689
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6287597

2. Robust Support Vector Regression for Uncertain Input and Output Data
Authors: Gao Huang; Shiji Song; Cheng Wu; Keyou You
Page(s): 1690 - 1700
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6287596

3. Neural-Fitted TD-Leaf Learning for Playing Othello With Structured Neural
Networks
Authors: Sjoerd van den Dries; Marco A. Wiering
Page(s): 1701 - 1713
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6291798

4. Global Tracking Control of Strict-Feedback Systems Using Neural Networks
Authors: Jeng-Tze Huang
Page(s): 1714 - 1725
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6295670

5. Unsupervised Learning of Categorical Data With Competing Models
Authors: Roman Ilin
Page(s): 1726 - 1737
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6298015

6. Discriminative Least Squares Regression for Multiclass Classification and
Feature Selection
Authors: Shiming Xiang; Feiping Nie; Gaofeng Meng; Chunhong Pan; Changshui Zhang
Page(s): 1738 - 1754
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6298965

7. Decentralized Asynchronous Learning in Cellular Neural Networks
Authors: Bipul Luitel; Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy
Page(s): 1755 - 1766
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6313917

8. Boosted Network Classifiers for Local Feature Selection
Authors: Timothy Hancock; Hiroshi Mamitsuka
Page(s): 1767 - 1778
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6316175

9. Semisupervised Classification With Cluster Regularization
Authors: Rodrigo G. F. Soares; Huanhuan Chen; Xin Yao
Page(s): 1779 - 1792
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6317193

10. Latent Feature Kernels for Link Prediction on Sparse Graphs
Authors: Canh Hao Nguyen; Hiroshi Mamitsuka
Page(s): 1793 - 1804
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6317192

11. Innovative Second-Generation Wavelets Construction With Recurrent Neural
Networks for Solar Radiation Forecasting
Authors: Giacomo Capizzi; Christian Napoli; Francesco Bonanno
Page(s): 1805 - 1815
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6320656

12. Multistability of Neural Networks With Mexican-Hat-Type Activation Functions
Authors: Lili Wang; Tianping Chen
Page(s): 1816 - 1826
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6320658

13. Convergence Analyses on On-Line Weight Noise Injection-Based Training
Algorithms for MLPs
Authors: John Sum; Chi-Sing Leung; Kevin Ho
Page(s): 1827 - 1840
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6324446

14. Time Series Modeling and Forecasting Using Memetic Algorithms for
Regime-Switching Models
Authors: Christoph Bergmeir; Isaac Triguero; Daniel Molina; José Luis Aznarte; José
Manuel Benítez
Page(s): 1841 - 1847

Open source textbook - Chapter 3 outline

The outline of Chapter 3 of the open-source textbook "Intelligent Information Systems" is now available online. Chapter 3 is entitled "Non-Linear Transformations, Fourier and Wavelet Transformation" . My previous post about the outline of Chapter 1, "Introduction to Intelligent Information Systems", is here while the post about Chapter 2, "Simple and Linear Transformations", is here.

If you have any comments or suggestions about this chapter outline, please make them in the comments on this blog, or email me at contactATmike.watts.net.nz.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICAISC 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC) 2013 is November 20, 2012. This conference will be held in Zakopane, Poland, June 9-13, 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation: Volume 16, Issue 5, 2012

1. Differential Evolution With Neighborhood Mutation for Multimodal Optimization
Qu, B. Y.; Suganthan, P. N.; Liang, J. J.
Page(s): 601 - 614
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151116

2. Progressive Alignment Method Using Genetic Algorithm for Multiple Sequence Alignment
Naznin, F.; Sarker, R.; Essam, D.
Page(s): 615 - 631
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151111

3. Approximating the Genetic Diversity of Populations in the Quasi-Equilibrium State
Arabas, J.
Page(s): 632 - 644
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151093

4. A Filter Approach to Multiple Feature Construction for Symbolic Learning Classifiers Using Genetic Programming
Neshatian, K.; Zhang, M.; Andreae, P.
Page(s): 645 - 661
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151112

5. Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
Arias-Montano, A.; Coello, C. A. C.; Mezura-Montes, E.
Page(s): 662 - 694
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151094

6. Review and Study of Genotypic Diversity Measures for Real-Coded Representations
Corriveau, G.; Guilbault, R.; Tahan, A.; Sabourin, R.
Page(s): 695 - 710
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151099

7. Evolution of Plastic Learning in Spiking Networks via Memristive Connections
Howard, G.; Gale, E.; Bull, L.; de Lacy Costello, B.; Adamatzky, A.
Page(s): 711 - 729
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151103

8. Memetic Algorithms for De Novo Motif Discovery
Chan, T.-M.; Leung, K.-S.; Lee, K.-H.
Page(s): 730 - 748
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151097

9. Genetic Algorithms for Discovery of Matrix Multiplication Methods
Joo, A.; Ekart, A.; Neirotti, J. P.
Page(s): 749 - 751
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151102

10. Erratum to “On the Design of Constraint Covariance Matrix Self-Adaptation Evolution Strategies Including a Cardinality Constraint” [Aug 12 578-596]
Beyer, H.-G.; Finck, S.
Page(s): 752
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6314484

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Volume 20, Issue 5, 2012

1. Monotone Centroid Flow Algorithm for Type Reduction of General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets
Linda, O.; Manic, M.
Page(s): 805 - 819
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6135785

2. Control Design of Uncertain Quantum Systems With Fuzzy Estimators
Chen, C.; Dong, D.; Lam, J.; Chu, J.; Tarn, T-.J.
Page(s): 820 - 831
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6145644

3. On the Fundamental Differences Between Interval Type-2 and Type-1 Fuzzy Logic Controllers
Wu, D.
Page(s): 832 - 848
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6145645

4. Adaptive Local Fusion With Fuzzy Integrals
Abdallah, A. C. B.; Frigui, H.; Gader, P.
Page(s): 849 - 864
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6146419

5. Fuzzy-Based Self-Interactive Multiobjective Evolution Optimization for Reverse Engineering of Biological Networks
Wu, S.-J.; Wu, C.-T.; Chang, J.-Y.
Page(s): 865 - 882
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6148274

6. General Type-2 Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for Uncertain Fuzzy Clustering
Linda, O.; Manic, M.
Page(s): 883 - 897
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6157608

7. An Efficient Configuration for Probabilistic Fuzzy Logic System
Zhang, G.; Li, H.-X.
Page(s): 898 - 909
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151823

8. Fuzzy Discrete Event Systems for Multiobjective Control: Framework and Application to Mobile Robot Navigation
Schmidt, K. W.; Boutalis, Y. S.
Page(s): 910 - 922
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6159076

9. Intuitionistic Fuzzy Information Aggregation Using Einstein Operations
Wang, W.; Liu, X.
Page(s): 923 - 938
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6159077

10. Enhanced Centroid-Flow Algorithm for Computing the Centroid of General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets
Zhai, D.; Mendel, J. M.
Page(s): 939 - 956
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6165348

11. Robust Filter for Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Systems in Sensor Signal Processing: Fuzzy Approach
Chen, B.-S.; Chen, W.-H.; Zhang, W.
Page(s): 957 - 970
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6166877

12. Three-Degree-of-Freedom Dynamic Model-Based Intelligent Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control for a Gantry Position Stage
Lin, F.-J.; Chou, P.-H.; Chen, C.-S.; Lin, Y.-S.
Page(s): 971 - 985
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6172224

13. Programming-Based OWA Operator Weights With Quadratic Objective Function
Ahn, B. S.
Page(s): 986 - 992
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6220246

14. Comments on “Chaos Synchronization of Uncertain Fractional-Order Chaotic Systems With Time Delay Based on Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control”
Tavazoei, M. S.
Page(s): 993 - 995
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6156435

15. Comment on “Toward General Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems Based on zSlices”
Zhai, D.; Mendel, J. M.
Page(s): 996 - 997
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6165347

Results of IEEE CIS Facebook Photo Competition

This is cross-posted from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's blog.

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The Facebook photo competition closed on the 30th of September. The winners, as judged by the number of "likes" each photo received, are as follows:

In first place, and winner of an iPad, is Ryan Rhay Vicerra, of the Philipines, with 1452 Likes. Ryan also wins free membership to the CIS for 2013.

In second and third place, and winning free CIS membership for 2013, are  Kanny Krizzy David, from the Philippines, with 1219 Likes, and Wissam Audah from the UK, with 489 Likes.

Congratulations to the winners! And our thanks to everyone who entered and who voted for the photos, all of whom made the competition such a great success.

Open source textbook - Chapter 2 outline

The outline of Chapter 2 of the open-source textbook "Intelligent Information Systems" is now available online. Chapter 2 is entitled "Simple and Linear Transformations" and is intended to be a brief overview of some of the data processing techniques that can be used to prepare data before it is modeled with computational intelligence techniques. My previous post about the outline of Chapter 1, "Introduction to Intelligent Information Systems", is here.

As always, you comments and suggestions are requested and valued.

Conference paper deadline: KES IIMSS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (IIMSS) 2013 is 6 January 2013. This conference will be held in Sesimbra, Portugal, 26 - 28 June, 2013.

Open source textbook - Chapter 1 outline

Following on from my post last week about the updated outline for my open-source textbook "Intelligent Information Systems", I've made the outline of Chapter 1 "Introduction to Intelligent Information Systems" available online.

As always, comments and suggestions are most welcome!

Reminder: conference paper deadline: KES-IDT 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT) is 6 January 2013. This conference will be held in Sesimbra, Portugal, 26-28 June 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for Fuzz-IEEE 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE) 2013 is 5 January, 2013. This conference will be held in Hyderabad, India, 7-10 July, 2013.

Important dates for IJCNN 2013

Some important dates for the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2013. The following are all due by December 15, 2012:

• Tutorials proposals
• Workshop proposals
• Panel proposals
• Special sessions proposals

For more information, see the IJCNN website: www.ijcnn2013.org.

An experiment in open-source textbooks 2

In an earlier post, I described how I'm working on an open source textbook about Intelligent Information Systems.

While progress has been slower than I would have liked (mainly due to my relocating permanently to my native New Zealand), I have been able to digest the suggestions made in the comments on my previous post. As a result, I've made the second outline of this textbook available here.

I've also investigated several different licensing schemes, and it looks like I'll be going with one of the Creative Commons licenses. I'm looking at making the LaTeX source and PDF files freely available online, while retaining the print rights.

Any comments on the outline, or my licensing plan, will be gratefully received!

Reminder: paper submission deadline for EvoStar 2013

A reminder that the paper submission deadline for EvoStar 2013 is 1 November, 2012. This conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, 3-5 April, 2013.

The Problem with Academic Journals 7

The following quote was in an email I received from the editor of a certain prestigious general science journal:

"Your manuscript is now undergoing an initial screening to determine whether it will be sent for in-depth review. We will notify the corresponding author of our decision as soon as possible."

That really annoyed me. It annoyed me because it is not the job of the editor to screen submissions. Sure, it is appropriate for them to check that the paper is formatted correctly, that there aren't big sections of it missing, and that it fits the theme of the journal (which is not the case with general science journals like the journal this paper was submitted to). The kind of screening this editor is talking about it a kind of pre-peer review, where the editor is determining whether the paper is worthy of being considered by their august publication. It is, in fact, a rather extreme form of academic arrogance.

Having a paper rejected by peer review is one thing, but being rejected because one person doesn't think it's worthy enough? So many of my colleagues have had so many perfectly good papers rejected by editors without going to peer review. The purpose of peer review is to find errors in the science (and have no doubt about it, computational intelligence is a science). If there are no errors in the science - that is, there are no discernible errors in methodology or interpretation of results - then the paper should be published. Even a rejection is useful, as it allows the authors to improve their research. But editorial rejections eliminate even that, they make the entire process of submitting to that journal a waste of time.

As I've said many times before, the solution is to go to open access journals. Peer review will help catch the errors, and the people reading the papers (and there will be a lot more of them reading open access papers than subscription-only papers) will find the errors the peer reviewers missed. But arrogant editors from expensive subscription-only journals will soon find themselves presiding over a shrinking author base.

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development: Volume 4, Issue 3, 2012

1. Editorial: Impact Factor and Outstanding Paper Awards
Zhang, Z.
Page(s): 189
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6298016

2. Guest Editorial: Biologically Inspired Human–Robot Interactions—Developing More Natural Ways to Communicate with our Machines
Harris, C.; Krichmar, L.; Siegelmann, T.; Wagatsuma, H
Page(s): 190 - 191
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6298018

3. Long Summer Days: Grounded Learning of Words for the Uneven Cycles of Real World Events
Heath, S.; Schulz, R.; Ball, D.; Wiles, J.
Page(s): 192 - 203
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6236014

4. Learning Through Imitation: a Biological Approach to Robotics
Chersi, F.
Page(s): 204 - 214
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6203559

5. Context-Based Bayesian Intent Recognition
Kelley, R.; Tavakkoli, A.; King, C.; Ambardekar, A.; Nicolescu, M.; Nicolescu, M.
Page(s): 215 - 225
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6276240

6. Reciprocity and Retaliation in Social Games With Adaptive Agents
Asher, D. E.; Zaldivar, A.; Barton, B.; Brewer, A. A.; Krichmar, J. L.
Page(s): 226 - 238
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6212318

7. Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans
Lallee, S.; Pattacini, U.; Lemaignan, S.; Lenz, A.; Melhuish, C.; Natale, L.; Skachek, S.; Hamann, K.; Steinwender, J.; Sisbot, E. A.; Metta, G.; Guitton, J.; Alami, R.; Warnier, M.; Pipe, T.; Warneken, F.; Dominey, P. F.
Page(s): 239 - 253
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6204326