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


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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.