Call for papers: CISE 2012

The deadline for papers submitted to the 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CISE) 2012 is 11 June 2012. This conference will be held in Wuhan, China, December 14-16, 2012.

Reminder: Paper submission deadline for ECAI 2012

A reminder that the deadline for papers submitted to the 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2012 is 6 March 2012. This conference will be held in Montpellier, France, 27-21 August, 2012.

Reminder: Paper submission deadline for PRICAI 2012

A reminder that the deadline for papers submitted to the 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) 2012 is March 1, 2012. This conference will be held in Kuching, Malaysia, September 3-7, 2012.

Call for papers: IEEE WCCI 2012 Special Session on Fuzzy Ontologies and FML Applications

This call for papers comes from Dr Giovanni Acampora of the University of Salerno. I have previously discussed on this blog some of Giovanni's work on Fuzzy Markup Language. Note that the deadline for submitting papers for this session is already very close: December 19, 2011.

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CfP: IEEE WCCI 2012 Special Session on Fuzzy Ontologies and FML Applications

We would like to invite you to submit a paper for a special session "Fuzzy Ontologies and Fuzzy Markup Language Applications" at the Fuzz-IEEE 2012 conference which will be held as part of the 2012 IEEE WCCI in Brisbane, Australia at June 10-15, 2012.

It is widely pointed out that classical ontology is not sufficient to deal with imprecise and vague knowledge for some real world applications like personal diabetic diet recommendation. On the other hand, fuzzy ontology can effectively help to handle and process uncertain data and knowledge. Recently, the research on the ontology has been spread widely to be critical components in the knowledge management, Semantic Web, business-to-business applications, and several other application areas. Ontologies are a suitable way for representing complex knowledge and facilitating knowledge share and reuse. The concept of ontology has been widely embraced by the fuzzy research community by playing an important role in the development of distributed systems and the composition reveals a vital strategy for enterprise collaboration. In this context, the Fuzzy Markup Language (FML) is one of the most important results because it allows fuzzy scientists to express their ideas in abstract and interoperable way by improving their productivity and, at the same time, increasing the average quality of their works. This special session invites high-quality conceptual, analytical and empirical articles representing intelligent agent and knowledge mining information systems and their integration. The objective of the proposed special issue is to highlight an ongoing research on fuzzy and FML approaches for ontology applications as well as their applications on various domains.

Topics of interest (not limited to):

• Ontologies and Ontological Agents 

• FML Agents for Software Engineering

• FML Agents for Knowledge Discovery 

• FML Agents in a Neuro Fuzzy Approach

• Environment-aware Agents

• Agents for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

• Intelligent Agent Applications

• Knowledge Representation with Ontology

• FML in Evolvable Hardware

• Knowledge-Based Systems

• Semantic Interoperability

• Semantic Web Agents

• Healthcare Ontological Agents

• Agents for Knowledge Management 

• Embedded Agents

• FML Agents for E-Commerce

• FML Agents for Smart Environments 

• FML Agents for Ambient Intelligence 

• Knowledge Sharing with FML Agents 

• Distributed Mining with FML Agents

• Web Services Applications based on FML 

• FML Applications

Further information about the special session can be found at:  http://www.dmi.unisa.it/people/acampora/www/WCCI2012/Home.html

The session deadlines are as follows:
- Paper submission: December 19, 2011
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 20, 2012
- Camera-ready papers: April 2, 2012
- Early registration: April 2, 2012
- Conference dates: June 10-15, 2012

Reminder: paper deadline SEAL 2012

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 9th International Conference on Evolution and Learning (SEAL) 2012 is 1 May 2012. This conference will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, 16-19 December, 2012.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICIC 2012

A reminder that the deadline for papers submitted to the International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) 2012 is January 1, 2012. This conference will be held in Huangshan, China, July 25-29, 2012.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICIST 2012

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies (ICIST) 2012 is December 30, 2011. This conference will be held in Tokyo, Japan, 29-31 May 2012.

Common grammatical errors

English is the result of Norman soldiers attempting to pick up Anglo-Saxon barmaids, and is no more legitimate than any of the other results. - H. Beam Piper

Despite the murky origins of the English language, it is the language of international commerce and science: if you attend an international conference in, for example, China, the presentations and proceedings will be in English. The same applies to the international scholarly journals. Being able to communicate effectively in English is therefore essential for anyone who wants a good career in academia.

Now, if you ever heard me speaking, you'd have probably have trouble understanding me: my New Zealand accent means that I flatten my vowels, my voice is nasal, and I speak too quickly. But, I do write fairly well, and I do avoid the grammatical errors below that really annoy me. Don't feel too badly if you aren't a native English speaker and make these mistakes: I noticed most of these mistakes while teaching New Zealand undergrads. That is, these are the kinds of mistakes that native speakers make in some parts of the world. They're still mistakes, though, and should be avoided.

1) Reversing imply and infer. For example "What are you inferring by saying that?". An inference is made from an implication. That is, the implication is made, then the inference is drawn from it. For example,  someone once said to me: "Are you inferring I'd lie?", to which I replied "No, I'm implying you'd lie - you are inferring it". I know, I'm a bad, bad man.

2) Following from that is the distinction between implicit and explicit. If something is implicit, you know about it through inference. If something is explicit, it is stated. Saying that something was "explicitly implied" (and I have seen that written, but a university student no less) is not just bad grammar, it is complete nonsense. If something is explicit, it cannot be implied.

3) Literally means what you said is as it actually is. If you were to say "it is literally raining cats and dogs", then cats and dogs should be falling from the sky. Jamie Oliver is particularly bad for abusing this word: "and you literally put the mint in the mixture..."!

4) Your and you're. "Your" means it belongs to you. "You're" means you are. Can you see what is wrong with this picture?

Dear Tick Tax: this is your sign, and you're using incorrect grammar.

5) Using the term "begs the question". The original meaning of this is to assume as true something that cannot be taken for granted. The more correct way to saying this is "raises the question". This is probably a lost cause now, as the incorrect meaning of begging the question is widely established.

6) Its and it's. It's is short for it is. Its means something belongs to it. For example: "I saw a dog and said "it's wagging its tail"".

7) There, their and they're. There is a place. Their means something belongs to them. They're means they are. Example: "They're at their house, which is over there".

These are the errors that annoy me the most. For two excellent articles on common errors in academic writing, see "Don't torture your reader" parts I and II, by Professor Corey Bradshaw at the University of Adelaide.

Reminder: Paper submission deadline for ICSI 2012

A reminder that the deadline for papers submitted to the Third International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI) 2012 is December 31, 2011. This conference will be held in Shenzhen, China, June 17-20, 2012.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICML 2012

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2012 is 24 February 2012. This conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 26 - July 1, 2012.

Reminder: Paper deadline CEC 2012

A reminder that the deadline for papers submitted to the 2012 Congress on Evolutionary Computation is December 19, 2011. This conference is part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012) and is held concurrently with the 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) and IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Logic (Fuzz-IEEE). WCCI 2012 will be held in Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012.

Reminder: Paper deadline FUZZ-IEEE 2012

A reminder that the deadline for papers submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) is December 19, 2011. This conference is part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012) and is held concurrently with the 2012 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). WCCI 2012 will be held in Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012.

Reminder: Paper deadline IJCNN 2012

A reminder that the deadline for papers submitted to the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks is December 19, 2011. This conference is part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012) and is held concurrently with the 2012 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Logic (Fuzz-IEEE). WCCI 2012 will be held in Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for IEEE-IS

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IEEE-IS) is 20 December 2011. This conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, September 6-8, 2012.