Thursday, April 14, 2011

FuzzyCOPE 3

After many years of being absent from the web, the FuzzyCOPE 3 website is now back online.

I developed FuzzyCOPE 3 at the University of Otago in 1998-1999. FuzzyCOPE 3 is an integrated environment for data processing and fuzzy-neural network modelling. After I left Otago, it was taken off of the web, but I've noticed that people are still searching for it. So, for historical reasons, I have decided to put it back up. There won't be any more bug fixes or updates, but hopefully people will find it useful. Also, there probably won't be a FuzzyCOPE 4, unless someone wants to pay me to do it.

The new address for FuzzyCOPE 3 is http://software.watts.net.nz/FuzzyCOPE3/

A paper describing FuzzyCOPE 3 is available here. The complete citation for this paper is:

1999 - Watts, M., Woodford, B., and Kasabov N., FuzzyCOPE - A Software Environment for Building Intelligent Systems - the Past, the Present and the Future, in: Emerging Knowledge Engineering and Connectionist-based Systems, Proceedings of the ICONIP/ANZIIS/ANNES’99 Workshop "Future directions for intelligent systems and information sciences", Dunedin, 22-23 Nov.1999, N.Kasabov and K.Ko (eds) 188-192.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Conference paper deadline: AI 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2011) is 28 June 2011. This conference will be held in Perth, Western Australia, 5th to 8th December, 2011.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Conference paper deadline: IEEE CIFEr 2012

The deadline for papers submitted to the IEEE Computational Intelligence in Financial Engineering and Economics Conference, 2012 (CIFEr 2012) is 21 October, 2011. This conference will be held in New York City, 30 March 2012.

Conference paper deadline: WCCI 2012

The deadline for papers submitted to the World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2012 (WCCI 2012) is 19 December 2011. This conference will beheld in Brisbane, Australia, 10 - 15 June, 2012.

WCCI combines three conferences: the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN); IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Logic (Fuzz-IEEE); and the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). One registration fee provides access to all three conferences.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Conference paper deadline: IWACI 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence 2011 (IWACI 2011) is 1 July, 2011. This conference will be held in Wuhan, China, 19 - 21 October, 2011.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Conference paper deadline: CACS 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the 2nd International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science 2011 (CACS 2011) is 15 May 2011. Among the many topics covered by this conference are data mining intelligence systems. This conference will be held in Bali, Indonesia, 15 - 17 November, 2011.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Conference paper deadline: TENCON 2011

The deadline for paper submission to the IEEE Region 10 Conference (IEEE TENCON) 2011 is 1st May, 2011. This conference will be held 21 - 24 November in Bali, Indonesia.

Updated website on Evolving Connectionist Systems

I have just updated the Literature section on the website Evolving Connectionist Systems. There are many new references to papers on the algorithms and applications of evolving connectionist systems.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Conference submission deadline: Neuroinformatics 2011

The deadline for submission of abstracts to Neuroinformatics 2011 is April 19, 2011. This conference will be held in Boston, USA, 4 - 6 September, 2011.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Conference paper deadline: IEEE CIG 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (IEEE CIG 2011) is 30 March 2011. This conference will be held in Seoul, Korea, 31 August to 3 September, 2011.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Conference paper deadline: RAICS 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS) 2011 is 28 February 2011. This conference will be held in Thiruvananthapuram, India, 22-24 September, 2011.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Conference paper deadline: KES 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the 15th conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2011) is March 1st 2011. This conference will be held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, 12-14 September, 2011.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Conference paper deadline: ICARIS 2011

The paper submission deadline for the 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2011) is 28th February 2011. This conference will be held at the University of Cambridge, UK, 18-21 July, 2011.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Conference paper deadline: ICONIP 2011

The paper submission deadline for the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2011 is June 1, 2011. This conference will be held in Shanghai, China, November 14-17, 2011.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Associate Professor Mark Laws

I returned home from holiday yesterday to the heart-breaking news that Associate Professor Mark Laws had drowned. He leaves behind his wife, three daughters and five grandchildren.

Mark was a gifted researcher, a loving and devoted husband and father, and my friend.

Mark and I did our PhDs together in the old Knowledge Engineering Lab at the University of Otago. For years we shared an office, worked together, and partied together. With a handful of others from the lab, he made my time as a post-grad not only bearable, but fun.

He was devoted to his family - I still remember how proud he was of his daughters achievements, and how happy he was when his first grand-child was born. It's for them that I feel the most.

Over the last few years we hadn't seen each other as much as we would have liked, but every time I saw him, he had a big smile and welcoming hug for me. I learned so much from him and I'm immensely grateful to have had him in my life.

I still can't believe that he's gone.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Conference paper deadline: ICOMLAI 2011

The paper submission deadline for the International Conference on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ICOMLAI) 2011 is February 1st, 2011. This conference will be held in Penang, Malaysia, June 1-2 2011.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Call for papers: CDMC 2011

Posted by request of Dr Paul S. Pang of the Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand, and the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI) at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).




The competition is associated with the 4th International Cybersecurity and Data Mining workshop (CDM2011), which is an associated event to the 18th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2011), Shanghai, China, November 14 - 17 2011.

The entry is open to researchers from community at large. The proceedings of the competition is planned to be published in a journal special issue—details of this is to be determined.

Venue: Hang Zhou, reputed as Silicon Valley in Paradise, is one of the important tourist attractions in China for its natural beauty and historical and cultural heritages. The workshop will be held on 18th, November 2011 (Friday) in Hang Zhou, China.

Objectives: The purpose of the 2nd ICONIP Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition is to increase awareness of Cybersecurity and the potential of industrial applications, and to give young researchers exposure to the main issues related to the topic and to ongoing work in this area. The focus of this competition is on string sequences analysis towards application of knowledge discovery techniques for protecting personal computer information by means of detection, prevention, and response to various attacks.

Prizes and Awards: We have set prizes for the competition. The top ranking teams of all 3 data mining tasks will be eligible to win a cash prize of NZ $3000. Additional prize may be available as travel grants for deserving participants to help them attend the ICONIP2011 conference and/or the CDM2011 workshop.

Paper submissions and publications: Papers for method description of up to 8 pages are required to be submitted online following the Springer LNCS format. Selected and extended papers will be published in special issues of international journals after the conference. Posters are expected to be in A1 size to fit our boards, otherwise they may not be displayed in poster session.

Deadline for submission: The final submission deadline is the 31st of July 2011, and the competition results will be announced by the 18th, November 2011.