The deadline for submitting papers to the 2012 International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2012) is 15 January 2012. This symposium will be held in Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012.
I visited Shenyang in 2005 and found it to be energetic but also very friendly. Shenyang is easily my favourite city in China and I look forward to visiting again.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Teaching Materials Online
I have just made lecture materials from my undergraduate computational intelligence course available online. The lectures cover rule-based systems, fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms and hybrid systems. The lectures are available at: http://mike.watts.net.nz/Teaching/
These lectures were presented in the course INFO 331, Intelligent Information Systems, during my time at the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Also available at the above address are lectures I presented for the course INFO 233, Data Processing.
These lectures were presented in the course INFO 331, Intelligent Information Systems, during my time at the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Also available at the above address are lectures I presented for the course INFO 233, Data Processing.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Deadline extended: AI 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2011) has been extended from 28 June 2011 to 15 July 2011. This conference will be held in Perth, Western Australia, 5th to 8th December, 2011.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Call for papers: 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.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Paper deadline: EAIS 2012
The deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (EAIS) 2012 is 1 November 2011. This conference will be held in Madrid, Spain, 17-18 May, 2012.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Call for papers: CINTI 2011
The deadline to submit papers to the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI) 2011 is September 30 2011. This conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary, November 21-22 2011.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Call for papers: ICCIEA 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Engineering Applications (ICCIEA) 2011 is 1 September 2011. This conference will be held in Bhubaneswar, India, 16-17 October, 2011.
Call for papers: Collective Intelligence 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the 2012 conference on Collective Intelligence is 4 November, 2011. This conference will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 18-20, 2012.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Conference paper deadline: MMIS 2011
The deadline for submitting papers to the 5th International Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS-11) is July 23, 2011. This workshop will be held in Vancouver, Canada, December 10 2011.
Conference paper deadline: ICAISC 2012
The paper submission deadline for the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC) 2012 is 20 October, 2011. This conference will be held in Zakopane, Poland, April 29 - May 3, 2012.
Paper submission deadline: IEA AIE 2012
The paper submission deadline for the 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA AIE) 2012 is 11 November, 2011. This conference will be held in Dalian, China, June 9-12, 2012.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Conference paper deadline: ICPRAM 2012
The deadline for submitting papers to the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM) 2012 is 26 July 2011. This conference will be held in Vilamoura, Portugal, 6-8 February 2011.
Paper submission deadline: PICom 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICOM) 2011 is July 15 2011. This conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, December 12-14 2011.
Paper submission deadline: PAKDD 2012
The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2012 is 25 September 2011. This conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur 29 May - 1 June, 2012.
Conference paper deadline: SAMI 2012
The paper submission deadline to the 10th IEEE International Symposium and Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI) 2012 is 31 October 2011. This symposium will be held January 26-28 2011 in Herl'any, Slovakia.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Paper submission deadline: ICAART 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) 2012 is July 28, 2011. This conference will be held in Vilamoura, Portugal, 6-8 February, 2012.
Conference paper deadline: CIB 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics (CIB) 2011 is 1st August, 2011. This conference will be held in Pittsburgh, USA, November 7-9, 2011.
Conference paper deadline: TAAI 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 2011 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) 2011 is July 12 2011. This conference will be held in Taoyuan, Taiwan, November 11-13 2011.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Conference paper deadline: ADMA 2011
The deadline for submitting papers to the 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA) 2011 is July 7 2011. This conference will be held in Beijing, China, 17-19 December, 2011.
Call for papers: AISec 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec) 2011 is July 6 2011. This conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois, 21 October 2011.
Paper submission deadline: MICAI 2011
The deadline for registration of abstracts for the 10th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) 2011 is July 1, 2011, with full papers due July 7, 2011. This conference will be held in Puebla, Mexico, November 26 - December 4, 2011.
Paper submission deadline: CiSE 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE) 2011 is July 20, 2011. This conference will be held in Wuhan, China, December 9-11, 2011.
Call for papers: CIS 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) 2011 is 30 June 2011. This conference will be held in Sanya, Hainan, China, on December 3-4, 2011.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Paper submission deadline: HIS 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 11th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) 2011 is July 1, 2011. This conference will be held in Malacca, Malaysia, 5-8 December, 2011.
Paper submission deadline: IWACI 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI) 2011 is July 1, 2011. This conference will be held in Wuhan, China, October 19-21 2011.
Conference paper deadline: CIDM 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2011) is 30 June, 2011. This conference will be held in Fukuoka, Japan, November 30 - December 2, 2011.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Call for papers: FUZZ-IEEE 2012
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.
Conference paper deadline: ACAL 11
The deadline for papers submitted to the 5th Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL) 2011 is 28 June 2011. This conference will be held in Perth, Australia, 6-8 December, 2011.
Paper submission deadline: UKCI 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 11th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI) 2011 is 20 June 2011. This workshop will be held in Manchester, UK, 7-9 September, 2011.
Paper submission deadline: ACIIDS 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the 4th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS) 2012 is September 15, 2011. This conference will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 19-21, 2012.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Detecting reefs with ANN
I have just published a paper, along with several of my colleagues at the University of Adelaide, on detecting reefs using MLP.
The problem was that while there is coarse-scale bathymetric data from sonar surveys, and surveys of small areas that list the presence and absence of reefs in a relatively small number of points, there have not been large-scale surveys of where, exactly, reefs are. This is because the fine-scale sonar surveys needed to detect them remotely are very expensive and time consuming, and surveying manually (divers going into the water and looking) can be dangerous in places (either dangerous sea conditions, or big bitey beasties in the water). Not knowing where reefs are is a problem, especially if you want to construct ecological models of reef-dwelling creatures like abalone. In short, abalone like to live on reefs, so to build an accurate model, you must know where the reefs are.
We addressed this problem by firstly, processing the bathymetric data into slope and curvature measures of the sea bed, then training MLP over sliding 2D windows of these variables, where a known reef presence or absence was in the centre of the window. A window in this case was an n * n matrix of values, where we used n=5. So, the third element of the third row was the target cell, which the MLP was learning to classify as either a reef or non-reef point.
We found that combinations of the bathymetric value of the target cell, and a 5*5 window of seabed slope, gave us the best results. The overall experimental method we used was as I described in this post. While we weren't able to classify every reef exactly, the overall accuracy of 85% was enough to construct a useful map of reefs for ecological models of abalone.
We're looking at boosting the accuracy of our models by various means - this first paper is just a proof-of-concept, to show that we can find reefs with ANN.
The full citation for this paper is:
Watts, M.J., et al., A novel method for mapping reefs and subtidal rocky habitats using artificial neural networks. Ecological Modelling (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.024
The problem was that while there is coarse-scale bathymetric data from sonar surveys, and surveys of small areas that list the presence and absence of reefs in a relatively small number of points, there have not been large-scale surveys of where, exactly, reefs are. This is because the fine-scale sonar surveys needed to detect them remotely are very expensive and time consuming, and surveying manually (divers going into the water and looking) can be dangerous in places (either dangerous sea conditions, or big bitey beasties in the water). Not knowing where reefs are is a problem, especially if you want to construct ecological models of reef-dwelling creatures like abalone. In short, abalone like to live on reefs, so to build an accurate model, you must know where the reefs are.
We addressed this problem by firstly, processing the bathymetric data into slope and curvature measures of the sea bed, then training MLP over sliding 2D windows of these variables, where a known reef presence or absence was in the centre of the window. A window in this case was an n * n matrix of values, where we used n=5. So, the third element of the third row was the target cell, which the MLP was learning to classify as either a reef or non-reef point.
We found that combinations of the bathymetric value of the target cell, and a 5*5 window of seabed slope, gave us the best results. The overall experimental method we used was as I described in this post. While we weren't able to classify every reef exactly, the overall accuracy of 85% was enough to construct a useful map of reefs for ecological models of abalone.
We're looking at boosting the accuracy of our models by various means - this first paper is just a proof-of-concept, to show that we can find reefs with ANN.
The full citation for this paper is:
Watts, M.J., et al., A novel method for mapping reefs and subtidal rocky habitats using artificial neural networks. Ecological Modelling (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.024
Call for papers: IJCNN 2012
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.
Monday, June 13, 2011
IJCNN 2011 Final Program
The final program for the 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) has been posted. This conference will be held in San Jose, California, July 31 - August 5, 2011.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Call for papers: CEC 2012
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.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Conference paper deadline: CIBCB 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the 2012 conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is November 20, 2011. This conference will be held in San Diego, California, May 9-12, 2012.
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