IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games: Volume 5, Issue 1, 2013

1. A Neurally Controlled Computer Game Avatar With Humanlike Behavior
Author(s): Gamez, D. ; Fountas, Z. ; Fidjeland, A.K.
Page(s): 1 - 14
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2.  Designing Automated Allocation Mechanisms for Service Procurement of Imperfectly Substitutable Services
Author(s): Kruse, S. ; Brintrup, A. ; McFarlane, D. ; Sanchez Lopez, T. ; Owens, K. ; Krechel, W.E.
Page(s): 15 - 32
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3. Optimization of an Evaluation Function of the Four-Sided Dominos Game Using a Genetic Algorithm
Author(s): Antonio, N.S. ; Costa Filho, C.F.F. ; Costa, M.G.F.
Page(s): 33 - 43
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4.  Job-Level Proof Number Search
Author(s): Wu, I.-C. ; Lin, H.-H. ; Sun, D.-J. ; Kao, K.-Y. ; Lin, P.-H. ; Chan, Y.-C. ; Chen, P.-T.
Page(s): 44 - 56
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5. Monte Carlo Tree Search for Collaboration Control of Ghosts in Ms. Pac-Man
Author(s): Nguyen, K.Q. ; Thawonmas, R.
Page(s): 57 - 68
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6. A Problem Case for UCT
Author(s): Browne, C.
Page(s): 69 - 74
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Reminder: paper submission deadline for SOCO 2013

A reminder that 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.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 24, Issue 4, April 2013

1. Stability Analysis for Neural Networks With Time-Varying Delay Based on Quadratic Convex Combination
Authors: Huaguang Zhang; Feisheng Yang; Xiaodong Liu; Qingling Zhang
Page(s): 513 - 521
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2. Factor Analysis of Auto-Associative Neural Networks With Application in Speaker Verification
Authors: Sri Garimella; Hynek Hermansky
Page(s): 522 - 528
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3. Projection-Based Fast Learning Fully Complex-Valued Relaxation Neural Network
Authors: Ramasamy Savitha; Sundaram Suresh; Narasimhan Sundararajan
Page(s): 529 - 541
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4. Granular Neural Networks: Concepts and Development Schemes
Authors: Mingli Song; Witold Pedrycz
Page(s): 542 - 553
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5. Noise-Shaping Gradient Descent-Based Online Adaptation Algorithms for Digital Calibration of Analog Circuits
Authors: Shantanu Chakrabartty; Ravi K. Shaga; Kenji Aono
Page(s): 554 - 565
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6. Cluster Consensus in Discrete-Time Networks of Multiagents With Inter-Cluster Nonidentical Inputs
Authors: Yujuan Han; Wenlian Lu; Tianping Chen
Page(s): 566 - 578
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7. Common Nature of Learning Between Back-Propagation and Hopfield-Type Neural Networks for Generalized Matrix Inversion With Simplified Models
Authors: Yunong Zhang; Dongsheng Guo; Zhan Li
Page(s): 579 - 592
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8. Online Support Vector Machine Based on Convex Hull Vertices Selection
Authors: Di Wang; Hong Qiao; Bo Zhang; Min  Wang
Page(s): 593 - 609
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9. Optimizing Spatial Filters by Minimizing Within-Class Dissimilarities in Electroencephalogram-Based Brain–Computer Interface
Authors: Mahnaz Arvaneh; Cuntai Guan; Kai Keng Ang; Chai Quek
Page(s): 610 - 619
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10. Just-In-Time Classifiers for Recurrent Concepts
Authors: Cesare Alippi; Giacomo Boracchi; Manuel Roveri
Page(s): 620 - 634
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11. Least Square Regularized Regression in Sum Space
Authors: Yong-Li Xu; Di-Rong Chen; Han-Xiong Li; Lu Liu
Page(s): 635 - 646
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12. Dynamic Sampling Approach to Training Neural Networks for Multiclass Imbalance Classification
Authors: Minlong Lin; Ke Tang; Xin  Yao
Page(s): 647 - 660
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13. New Parameter-Free Simplified Swarm Optimization for Artificial Neural Network Training and its Application in the Prediction of Time Series
Authors: Wei-Chang Yeh
Page(s): 661 - 665
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14. Distributed Consensus Tracking for Multiple Uncertain Nonlinear Strict-Feedback Systems Under a Directed Graph
Authors: Sung Jin Yoo
Page(s): 666 - 672
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15. Ensemble Pruning Using Spectral Coefficients
Authors: Terry Windeatt; Cemre Zor
Page(s): 673 - 678
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Applications of ECoS: First article available online

The first article accepted for my special issue of Evolving Systems on Applications of Kasabov's Evolving Connectionist Systems is now available online. This article is a comprehensive review of the mechanisms and applications of evolving spiking neural networks. I can thoroughly recommend this article to anyone interested in spiking networks. Congratulations to the authors Stefan Schliebs and Nik Kasabov and my thanks to the reviewers for their time and efforts.

On Being a Postdoc 2: Postdoc survival

One of my favourite quotes from the television series Babylon 5 is: "You do not make history, you can only hope to survive it". As it is with history, so it is with being a postdoc. You do not make history as a postdoc, you can only hope to survive being one. I have done three postdocs, one in New Zealand and two in Australia. Now I'm in a permanent academic position, a head of department no less. But I have seen people destroyed by the postdoc system, who have not just lost their jobs but been pushed out of academia completely. Make no mistake, the postdoc process can be brutal, but there are some techniques that I found useful for surviving.

Be nice. While some people seem to think that the ends justify the means, if you mistreat people, eventually you will get a reputation such that no-one wants to work with you. There is no point in being able to attract research funding if you can't find staff to employ with it, and there is no point being a professor in your early thirties if your research group collapses by the time you're forty, thanks to mismanagement of staff. Be nice to people, and they will be nice to you. As my best friend is fond of saying, good things happen to good people. This isn't due to some mystical Karmic process: rather, people will go out of their way to help someone who is nice to them. Loyalty is something that can only be earned, it doesn't magically spring forth from the payment of salary. On the other hand, some people see niceness as weakness and will try to exploit you. Beware of the users!

Be diplomatic. Your supervisor may be egregiously wrong about something, but you don't have to point it out. Far better to subtly lead them to this conclusion, to let them think that they have worked it out by themselves. While it is nice to think that science runs on the free and frank exchange of ideas and opinions, it is in reality a very delicate egosystem. Beware of the toes you step on-they may be connected to a fragile ego and a peevish personality.

Get everything in writing. It never hurts to have written evidence in case everything goes wrong. People break their word, sometimes you need a little bit of evidence to remind them of what they promised.

Write everything down. A career is not built on a single action or accomplishment. Instead, it is built on a long list of actions and accomplishments. If you don't write down everything you do, then you might forget something vital when you go for your next job. In other words, having a comprehensive and up-to-date CV is vital for keeping track of the evidence that shows that you have built a worthwhile career.

Be diverse. Work in different fields and expand your horizons. Each field of research has its own way of doing things, if you work in a different field you will gain fresh perspectives on your own field of study. I spent eight years working in ecology, and what I learned has made me much better at designing experiments in computational intelligence. Beware of staying in a different field for too long: your own field may move on so much that you can't catch up again.

Get involved with professional organisations. For computational intelligence, the best organisation to get involved with is the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), especially the IEEE computational Intelligence Society (CIS). Volunteering for service on committees of professional organisations is a great way to develop your reputation as a competent, hard working professional. It is also a great way of building your network of professional contacts.

Be useful. Work with other people and broaden your network of research collaborators. Help other people out where you can. Not only is this a great way of increasing your publication output, it's also a good way of diversifying your research experience. Collaborating with other researchers can also lead to other research and employment opportunities.

Know when to get out. Sometimes a field is no longer worth pursuing. Sometimes, you have simply gone as high as you can in that field. This is partly why I left ecological modelling, as I'd risen as high as I could without an ecology degree (something I had no interest in acquiring). Sometimes groups get mismanaged to the point that they can't survive, and start losing staff at such a rate that you have no choice but to flee. There is no point being the last person on the Titanic. In other words, don't go down with the ship

Get enough sleep. I have found that every hour of sleep I miss at night costs me two hours of productivity the following day. It is important to sleep during the night: after the sun comes up, the quality of your sleep is cut in half. Missing sleep also depresses your immune system which makes it more likely that you'll get sick. You might miss out on a bit of work time by going to bed early, but how much work time will you miss if you're sick every three weeks?

Work hard. But not too hard. Success comes to those who work the hardest, and in many ways hard work is more important than native ability. But don't work so hard that you miss out on too much sleep. You especially shouldn't work so hard that your family suffers. At the end of they day, your job is just a job, it's not worth sacrificing your quality of life over. You can always catch up on work later, but missed time with your kids is lost forever.

Plan your next move. Within six months of starting a post-doc position you should be planning the move to your next position. This means that you need to have some idea of where you want to go in your career.

You also need to be flexible, you probably won't end up with your dream job, but you probably will end up with a job that is just as good.

Being a postdoc is hard, and really it is best for young, single people. I was thirty-one when I started my first postdoc, and had a brand-new daughter, which made it much harder for me. But I survived, and I'm a better person for it. I hope these strategies are useful for other people.

Conference paper deadline: ICACI 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI) 2013 is June 1 2013. This conference will be held in Hangzhou, China, 19-21 October, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: TAAI 2013

The deadline for submitting paper to the Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2013 is 1 August 2013. This conference will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, 6-8 December 2013.

Paper submission 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.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICONIP 2013

A reminder that 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.

Paper submission deadline: UKCI 2013

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.

Paper submission deadline: AAIA 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 8th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications is 12 May 2013. This conference will be held in Krakow, Poland, 8-11 September 2013.

Neural Networks: New articles 15-21 February 2013

1. Local minima in hierarchical structures of complex-valued neural networks 
Author(s): Tohru Nitta
   
2. Nucleo-olivary inhibition balances the interaction between the reactive and adaptive layers in motor control  
Author(s): Ivan Herreros, Paul F.M.J. Verschure
   
3. A supervised multi-spike learning algorithm based on gradient descent for spiking neural networks
Author(s): Yan Xu, Xiaoqin Zeng, Lixin Han, Jing Yang

4. Adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo for auxiliary variable method and its application to parallel tempering
Author(s): Takamitsu Araki, Kazushi Ikeda

5. Efficient self-organizing multilayer neural network for nonlinear system modeling
Author(s): Hong-Gui Han, Li-Dan Wang, Jun-Fei Qiao

6. First experiments with PowerPlay
Author(s): Rupesh Kumar Srivastava, Bas R. Steunebrink, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Paper submission deadline: ICARIS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 12th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) 2013 is 22 April 2013. This conference will be held in Nottingham, UK, 27-29 August 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Volume 21 Issue 1

A Vectorization-Optimization-Method-Based Type-2 Fuzzy Neural Network for Noisy Data Classification
Authors: Wu, G.-D.; Huang, P.-H.
Page(s): 1 - 15
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Petri Net Representation of Switched Fuzzy Systems
Authors: Ding, Z.; Ma, J.; Kandel, A.
Page(s): 16 - 29
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A New Gradient Descent Approach for Local Learning of Fuzzy Neural Models
Authors: Zhao, W.; Li, K.; Irwin, G. W.
Page(s): 30 - 44
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6203571

A Review of the Application of Multiobjective Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems: Current Status and Further Directions
Authors: Fazzolari, M.; Alcala, R.; Nojima, Y.; Ishibuchi, H.; Herrera, F.
Page(s): 45 - 65
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6204330

A Review of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Research During the Last Decade
Authors: Papageorgiou, E. I.; Salmeron, J. L.
Page(s): 66 - 79
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6208855

Approaches for Reducing the Computational Cost of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems: Overview and Comparisons
Authors: Wu, D.
Page(s): 80 - 99
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6208856

Evolutionary Robot Wall-Following Control Using Type-2 Fuzzy Controller With Species-DE-Activated Continuous ACO
Authors: Hsu, C.-H.; Juang, C.-F.
Page(s): 100 - 112
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Preference Relations Based on Intuitionistic Multiplicative Information
Authors: Xia, M.; Xu, Z.; Liao, H.
Page(s): 113 - 133
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Adaptive Fuzzy Output Feedback Control of MIMO Nonlinear Systems With Unknown Dead-Zone Inputs
Authors: Tong, S.; Li, Y.
Page(s): 134 - 146
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Control Synthesis of Discrete-Time T–S Fuzzy Systems Based on a Novel Non-PDC Control Scheme
Authors: Xie, X.; Ma, H.; Zhao, Y.; Ding, D-.W.; Wang, Y.
Page(s): 147 - 157
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6248200

Robust Observer Design for Unknown Inputs Takagi–Sugeno Models
Authors: Chadli, M.; Karimi, H. R.
Page(s): 158 - 164
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To Transmit or Not to Transmit: A Discrete Event-Triggered Communication Scheme for Networked Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Systems
Authors: Peng, C.; Han, Q.-L.; Yue, D.
Page(s): 164 - 170
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Fuzzy Nash Equilibriums in Crisp and Fuzzy Games
Authors: Chakeri, A.; Sheikholeslam, F.
Page(s): 171 - 176
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A Three-Domain Fuzzy Wavelet System for Simultaneous Processing of Time-Frequency Information and Fuzziness
Authors: Liu, Z.; Chen, C. L. P.; Zhang, Y.; Li, H.-X.; Wang, Y.
Page(s): 176 - 183
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A Fuzzy Measure Similarity Between Sets of Linguistic Summaries
Authors: Wilbik, A.; Keller, J. M.
Page(s): 183 - 189
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6275487

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
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10. Regularized Mixture Density Estimation With an Analytical Setting of Shrinkage Intensities
Authors: Zohar Halbe; Maria Bortman; Mayer Aladjem
Page(s): 460 - 470
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11. Stochastic Optimal Controller Design for Uncertain Nonlinear Networked Control System via Neuro Dynamic Programming
Authors: Hao Xu; Sarangapani Jagannathan
Page(s): 471 - 484
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12. Simple Exponential Family PCA
Authors: Jun Li; Dacheng Tao
Page(s): 485 - 497
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13. Dynamics Analysis of a Population Decoding Model
Authors: Jiali Yu; Huajin Tang; Haizhou Li
Page(s): 498 - 503
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14. Learning With Kernel Smoothing Models and Low-Discrepancy Sampling
Authors: Cristiano Cervellera; Danilo Macciò
Page(s): 504 - 509
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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
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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
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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
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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

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Page(s): 1849 - 1861
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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
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Page(s): 1919 - 1929
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8. Title: Descent Algorithms on Oblique Manifold for Source-Adaptive ICA Contrast
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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
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10. Title: Adaptive Subset Kernel Principal Component Analysis for Time-Varying Patterns
Authors: Yoshikazu Washizawa
Page(s): 1961 - 1973
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11. Title: Robust Single-Hidden Layer Feedforward Network-Based Pattern Classifier
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12. Title: Compositional Generative Mapping for Tree-Structured Data—Part I: Bottom-Up Probabilistic Modeling of Trees
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13. Title: Real AdaBoost With Gate Controlled Fusion
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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.