Reminder: paper submission deadline for SysInt 2014

A reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2nd International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence (SysInt) 2014 is October 1, 2013. The deadline for submitting full papers is February 1, 2014. This conference will be held in Bremen, Germany, 2-4 July, 2014.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICC 2014

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Intelligent Cloud Computing (ICC) 2014 is September 30, 2013. This conference will be held 24-26 February in Muscat, Oman.

On management 2

The Argentine guerrilla Che Guevara wrote in his book on guerrilla warfare:

"There is nothing more important than information. Moreover, it should be in perfect order, and done well by capable personnel".

I have found, as a manager, that this is very true. Management is about making decisions, and you cannot make good decisions if you do not have good information. This being the case, the most valuable staff you can have as a manager are the staff who will tell you what they think rather than telling you what you want to hear. Getting a forthright, unfiltered opinion is essential to any manager, and the staff who will give you this are the ones you must value the most.

Some managers find those sort of people hard to manage, but I never have. I think that's because, if someone is forthright in their opinion, then it is easier to make them happy. People who keep their thoughts to themselves are harder to manage because you don't always know how to make them happy, and if someone isn't happy in their work, they won't do their job well.

It is tempting to dismiss this as "touchy-feely stuff" that doesn't have anything to do with research, but that's not true. Managing research certainly requires a good knowledge of research, and a good research background - the best managers are leaders, and leaders should lead from the front. But managing research is not really about doing research, it's about managing people. And that is where so many academic labs fall down: they are headed by someone who is very good at research, but doesn't know how to deal with people. These labs are marked by dissatisfied staff and a high staff-turnover, as people arrive, get rapidly disillusioned, and leave. The lucky ones will find a better job somewhere else, while the unlucky ones end up with their careers in ruins. As a person of conscience, I do everything I can to avoid that happening to the people I manage - to the people for whom I am responsible.

Evolving Systems Vol 4, Issue 3, August 2013

1. Sliding mode control of fractional order nonlinear differential inclusion systems
Author(s): Saeed Balochian
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2. Solving the task assignment problem using Harmony Search algorithm
Author(s): Ayed Salman , Imtiaz Ahmad , Hanaa AL-Rushood & Suha Hamdan
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3. A fuzzy logic model based Markov random field for medical image segmentation
Author(s): Thanh Minh Nguyen & Q. M. Jonathan Wu
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4. The transformation method between tree and lattice for file management system
Author(s): Kazuhito Sawase & Hajime Nobuhara
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5. Application of neural network and fuzzy model to grinding process control
Author(s): A. O. Odior
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6. Iris data encryption based on Aztec Symbology
Author(s): Shrinivasrao B. Kulkarni , Ravindra S. Hegadi & Umakant P. Kulkarni
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Second Annual CIS IEEE Video Competition

Following on from the first video competition, which produced two outstanding winning videos about fuzzy  logic, we invite you to produce an introductory 3-minute video about one of the following Computational  Intelligence fields of interest:

● Neural Networks
● Evolutionary Computation
● Hybrid Intelligent Systems

The winners of the previous competition can be seen at:
● www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Q5X0nTmrA
● www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8wY6mi1vV8

The aim of the video is to answer the question “what is...?”, for a Computational Intelligence field of interest, to an audience of high school students and the general public, with limited mathematical background. The video should also explain an example application of how the method can be used in everyday life. The video should be suitable for posting on YouTube and Facebook. The video competition is an exciting opportunity for all IEEE members to work together in conveying technical topics to nonexperts.

Prizes for entrants:

1st prize: 600USD + iPad* + CIS membership (1 year)
2nd prize: 500USD + CIS membership (1 year)
3rd prize: 400USD + CIS membership (1 year)

Prize for everyone: An iPad* will be raffled to anyone who “likes” a video on our www.facebook.com/IEEE.CIS page (excluding competition entrants and organisers).

Teams consist of 1 to 5 people. The team leader must be an IEEE member.

Registration deadline is 2nd September 2013.
Video submission deadline is 14th October 2013.
Winners will be notified on 1st December 2013.

Rules and submission details can be found at cis.ieee.org/videocomp. Please contact cis.ieee@gmail.com for specific queries.

*Disclaimer: The iPad prize does not apply to countries officially embargoed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In accordance with U.S. law, IEEE is unable to provide such goods to OFAC embargoed countries. In the case where the first place winner comes from an OFAC embargoed country, no iPad 2 will be awarded.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for PAKDD 2014

A reminder that the deadline for the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2014 is 16 September 2013. This conference will be held in Tainan, Taiwan, 13-16 May 2014.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for SCDM 2014

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the First International Conference on Data Mining (SCDM) 2014 is 15 December 2014. This conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16-18 June, 2014.

IEEE Transactions on evolutionary Computation: Volume 17, Issue 4, August 2013

1. Multiobjective Metaheuristics for Traffic Grooming in Optical Networks
Author(s): Rubio-Largo, A. ; Vega-Rodriguez, M.A. ; Gomez-Pulido, J.A. ; Sanchez-Perez, J.M.

2. Preference-Inspired Coevolutionary Algorithms for Many-Objective Optimization
Author(s): Wang, R. ; Purshouse, R.C. ; Fleming, P.J.

3. A Hybrid Framework for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization
Author(s): Sindhya, K. ; Miettinen, K. ; Deb, K.

4. A Differential Evolution Algorithm With Dual Populations for Solving Periodic Railway Timetable Scheduling Problem
Author(s): Zhong, J.-H. ; Shen, M. ; Zhang, J. ; Chung, H.S.-H. ; Shi, Y.-H. ; Li, Y.

5. Evolutionary Foundation of Bounded Rationality in a Financial Market
Author(s): Kinoshita, K. ; Suzuki, K. ; Shimokawa, T.

6. Self-Adaptive Evolution Toward New Parameter Free Image Registration Methods
Author(s): Santamaria, J. ; Damas, S. ; Cordon, O. ; Escamez, A.

7. Clustered Memetic Algorithm With Local Heuristics for Ab Initio Protein Structure Prediction
Author(s): Islam, M.K. ; Chetty, M.

8. Reverse Engineering of Gene Regulatory Networks Using Dissipative Particle Swarm Optimization
Author(s): Palafox, L. ; Noman, N. ; Iba, H.

9. A Memetic Algorithm for Matching Spatial Configurations With the Histograms of Forces
Author(s): Buck, A.R. ; Keller, J.M. ; Skubic, M.

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Volume 21, Issue 4, August 2013

1. Knowledge-Leverage-Based Fuzzy System and Its Modeling
Author(s): Deng, Z. ; Jiang, Y. ; Chung, F.-L. ; Ishibuchi, H. ; Wang, S.

2. Trilateral Teleoperation of Adaptive Fuzzy Force/Motion Control for Nonlinear Teleoperators With Communication Random Delays
Author(s): Li, Z. ; Ding, L. ; Gao, H. ; Duan, G. ; Su, C.-Y.

3. Reliable All-Pairs Evolving Fuzzy Classifiers
Author(s): Lughofer, E. ; Buchtala, O.

4. Priority Weight Intervals Derived From Intuitionistic Multiplicative Preference Relations
Author(s): Xu, Z.

5. A Novel Control Design on Discrete-Time Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Systems With Time-Varying Delays
Author(s): Su, X. ; Shi, P. ; Wu, L. ; Song, Y.-D.

6. Looking for Like-Minded Individuals in Social Networks Using Tagging and E Fuzzy Sets
Author(s): Yager, R.R. ; Reformat, M.Z.

7. Adaptive Moving-Target Tracking Control of a Vision-Based Mobile Robot via a Dynamic Petri Recurrent Fuzzy Neural Network
Author(s): Wai, R.-J. ; Lin, Y.-W.

8. A Fuzzy Logic-Based System for Indoor Localization Using WiFi in Ambient Intelligent Environments
Author(s): Garcia-Valverde, T. ; Garcia-Sola, A. ; Hagras, H. ; Dooley, J.A. ; Callaghan, V. ; Botia, J.A.

9. Extending the Contraposition Property of Propositional Logic for Fuzzy Abduction
Author(s): Chakraborty, A. ; Konar, A. ; Pal, N.R. ; Jain, L.C.

10. A Behavioral Distance for Fuzzy-Transition Systems
Author(s): Cao, Y. ; Sun, S.X. ; Wang, H. ; Chen, G.

11. New Stability Conditions Based on Piecewise Fuzzy Lyapunov Functions and Tensor Product Transformations
Author(s): Campos, V.C.S. ; Souza, F.O. ; Torres, L.A.B. ; Palhares, R.M.

12. Relaxation Technique for a T–S Fuzzy Control Design Based on a Continuous-Time Fuzzy Weighting-Dependent Lyapunov Function
Author(s): Kim, S.H.

13. Comparing Fuzzy, Probabilistic, and Possibilistic Partitions Using the Earth Mover’s Distance
Author(s): Anderson, D.T. ; Zare, A. ; Price, S.

14. Parallel Algorithms for Fuzzy Ontology Reasoning
Author(s): Bobillo, F. ; Delgado, M. ; Sanchez-Sanchez, J.C.

15. A Matrix Approach to Latticized Linear Programming With Fuzzy-Relation Inequality Constraints
Author(s): Li, H. ; Wang, Y.

Paper submission deadline: ICAISC 2014

The deadline for submitting papers to the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC) 2014 is November 20, 2013 (beware the front page linked to has embedded folk-music playing). This conference will be held in Zakopane, Poland, June 1-5 2014.

Paper submission deadline: IEEE CIFEr 2014

The deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics (CIFEr) 2014 is November 1, 2013. This conference will be held in London, UK, 27-28 March, 2014.

Conference paper deadline: ICPRAM 2014

The deadline for submitting papers to the 3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM) 2014 is 25 September 2013. This conference will be held in Angers, Loire Valley, France, 6-8 March, 2014.

Nominations for IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturers

This is cross-posted from the IEEE CIS blog.

The Committee of the Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) of the IEEE CIS Society invites all Society’s Technical Committees Chairs, Chapter Chairs, EiCs, and AdCom/ExCom members to nominate Distinguished Lecturers. Five to seven exceptionally outstanding IEEE CIS members will be selected among the nominees to serve as the DLs for the three year term of 2014-2016. The nominations should be received after the nomination opens July 1 2013 and no later than August 30, 2013.

The nomination form, procedure, policies and criteria for the Selection of DL Lecturers are available at the following URL: http://cis.ieee.org/distinguished-lecturers-program.html

Conference paper deadline: SysInt 2014

The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2nd International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence (SysInt) 2014 is October 1, 2013. The deadline for submitting full papers is February 1, 2014. This conference will be held in Bremen, Germany, 2-4 July, 2014.

Conference submission deadline: SIAM SDM 2014

The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SIAM SDM) is 6 October 2013. The deadline for submitting full papers is 13 October 2013. This conference will be held in Philadelphia, USA, 24-26 April, 2014.

Conference paper deadline: IEEE SSCI 2014

The deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2014 is 15 June 2014. This group of symposia will be held in Orlando, Florida, 9-12 December, 2014.

Conference paper deadline: RAICS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS) 2013 conference is 1 August 2013. This conference will be held in Trivandrum, India, December 19-21, 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 24, Issue 9, August 2013

1. Sampled-Data Exponential Synchronization of Complex Dynamical Networks With Time-Varying Coupling Delay
Author(s): Zheng-Guang Wu; Peng Shi; Hongye Su; Jian Chu
Page(s): 1177 - 1187

2. Dictionary Learning-Based Subspace Structure Identification in Spectral Clustering
Author(s): Liping Jing; Michael K. Ng; Tieyong Zeng
Page(s): 1188 - 1199

3. Knowledge-Leverage-Based TSK Fuzzy System Modeling
Author(s): Zhaohong Deng; Yizhang Jiang; Kup-Sze Choi; Fu-Lai Chung; Shitong Wang
Page(s): 1200 - 1212

4. A Cognitive Fault Diagnosis System for Distributed Sensor Networks
Author(s): Cesare Alippi; Stavros Ntalampiras; Manuel Roveri
Page(s): 1213 - 1226

5. Boundedness and Complete Stability of Complex-Valued Neural Networks With Time Delay
Author(s): Bo Zhou; Qiankun Song
Page(s): 1227 - 1238

6. Fast Neuromimetic Object Recognition Using FPGA Outperforms GPU Implementations
Author(s): Garrick Orchard; Jacob G. Martin; R. Jacob Vogelstein; Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Page(s): 1239 - 1252

7. Improving the Quality of Self-Organizing Maps by Self-Intersection Avoidance
Author(s): Ezequiel Lopez-Rubio
Page(s): 1253 - 1265

8. Quantum-Based Algorithm for Optimizing Artificial Neural Networks
Author(s): Tzyy-Chyang Lu; Gwo-Ruey Yu; Jyh-Ching Juang
Page(s): 1266 - 1278

9. Hinging Hyperplanes for Time-Series Segmentation
Author(s): Xiaolin Huang; Marin Matijas; Johan A. K. Suykens
Page(s): 1279 - 1291

10. Ranking Graph Embedding for Learning to Rerank
Author(s): Yanwei Pang; Zhong Ji; Peiguang Jing; Xuelong Li
Page(s): 1292 - 1303

11. Feasibility and Finite Convergence Analysis for Accurate On-Line $nu$-Support Vector Machine
Author(s): Bin Gu; Victor S. Sheng
Page(s): 1304 - 1315

12. Exponential Synchronization of Coupled Switched Neural Networks With Mode-Dependent Impulsive Effects
Author(s): Wenbing Zhang; Yang Tang; Qingying Miao; Wei Du
Page(s): 1316 - 1326

13. Analysis of Boundedness and Convergence of Online Gradient Method for Two-Layer Feedforward Neural Networks
Author(s): Lu Xu; Jinshu Chen; Defeng Huang; Jianhua Lu; Licai Fang
Page(s): 1327 - 1338

14. Phase-Noise-Induced Resonance in Arrays of Coupled Excitable Neural Models
Author(s): Xiaoming Liang; Liang Zhao
Page(s): 1339 - 1345

Conference paper deadline: PAKDD 2014

The deadline for the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2014 is 16 September 2013. This conference will be held in Tainan, Taiwan, 13-16 May 2014.

Conference paper deadline: SCDM 2014

The deadline for submitting papers to the First International Conference on Data Mining (SCDM) 2014 is 15 December 2014. This conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16-18 June, 2014.

Conference paper deadline: TAAI 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 2013 International Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) is 23 August 2013. This conference will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, 6-8 December, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: ICMLC 2014

The deadline for submitting papers to the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC) 2014 is 20 August 2013. This conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, 10-12 January, 2014.

Neural Networks: 9-15 July 2013

1. Is mutual information adequate for feature selection in regression?  
Author(s): Benoît Frénay, Gauthier Doquire, Michel Verleysen

2. An efficient matrix bi-factorization alternative optimization method for low-rank matrix recovery and completion
Author(s): Yuanyuan Liu, L.C. Jiao, Fanhua Shang, Fei Yin, F. Liu

Paper submission deadline: ICC 2014

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Intelligent Cloud Computing (ICC) 2014 is September 30, 2013. This conference will be held 24-26 February in Muscat, Oman.

Conference paper deadline: WSDM 2014

The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 7th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2014 is 19 August 2013. The deadline for submitting full papers is 26 August 2013. This conference will be held in New York City 24-28 February, 2014.

Neural Networks: 2-8 July, 2013

1. A model of task-specific focal dystonia  
Author(s): Eckart Altenmüller, Dieter Müller

2. Universal approximation by radial basis function networks of Delsarte translates  
Author(s): Cristian Arteaga, Isabel Marrero
  
3. Neural architecture design based on extreme learning machine  
Author(s): Andrés Bueno-Crespo, Pedro J. García-Laencina, José-Luis Sancho-Gómez
    
4. Stochastic stability of discrete-time Markovian jump delay neural networks with impulses and incomplete information on transition probability  
Author(s): Yu Zhang

IEEE CIS Second Annual Video Competition

This is cross-posted from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society blog.
 

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The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society is running its second annual video competition. The competition is to create a video on one of the following subjects:

• Neural Networks
• Evolutionary Computation
• Hybrid Intelligent Systems

The first prize is US$600, second prize is US$500, and third prize is US$400. Registration of interest must be received by the 1st of August, 2013, videos received by 14th of October, 2013, and the winners will be announced on the 1st of December, 2013.

More details can be found here.

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development: Volume 5, Issue 2, 2013

1. Brain-Like Emergent Temporal Processing: Emergent Open States
Author(s): Juyang Weng ; Luciw, M.D. ; Qi Zhang
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6504480

2. A Simple Ontology of Manipulation Actions Based on Hand-Object Relations
Author(s): Worgotter, F. ; Aksoy, E.E. ; Kruger, N. ; Piater, J. ; Ude, A. ; Tamosiunaite, M.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6493410

3. An Autonomous Social Robot in Fear
Author(s): Castro-Gonzalez, A. ; Malfaz, M. ; Salichs, M.A.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6493412

4. Adaptability of Tacit Learning in Bipedal Locomotion
Author(s): Shimoda, S. ; Yoshihara, Y. ; Kimura, H.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6491448

5. Reaching for the Unreachable: Reorganization of Reaching with Walking
Author(s): Grzyb, B.J. ; Smith, L.B. ; del Pobil, A.P.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6493413

6. Redundant Neural Vision Systems—Competing for Collision Recognition Roles
Author(s): Shigang Yue ; Rind, F.C.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6491449

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games: Volume 5, Issue 2, 2013

1. Guest Editorial: Brain/neuronal - Computer game interfaces and interaction
Author(s): Coyle, D. ; Principe, J. ; Lotte, F. ; Nijholt, A.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6528021

2. Games, Gameplay, and BCI: The State of the Art
Author(s): Marshall, D. ; Coyle, D. ; Wilson, S. ; Callaghan, M.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6518141

3. Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential-Based Computer Gaming on a Consumer-Grade EEG Device
Author(s): Chumerin, N. ; Manyakov, N.V. ; van Vliet, M. ; Robben, A. ; Combaz, A. ; Van Hulle, M.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6334432

4.Toward Contextual SSVEP-Based BCI Controller: Smart Activation of Stimuli and Control Weighting
Author(s): Legeny, J. ; Viciana-Abad, R. ; Lecuyer, A.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6509428

5. Thinking Penguin: Multimodal Brain–Computer Interface Control of a VR Game
Author(s): Leeb, R. ; Lancelle, M. ; Kaiser, V. ; Fellner, D.W. ; Pfurtscheller, G.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6418003

6. Controlling a Tactile ERP–BCI in a Dual Task
Author(s): Thurlings, M.E. ; Van Erp, J.B.F. ; Brouwer, A.-M. ; Werkhoven, P.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6461930

7. Adapting the P300-Based Brain–Computer Interface for Gaming: A Review
Author(s): Kaplan, A. ; Shishkin, S. ; Ganin, I. ; Basyul, I. ; Zhigalov, A.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6401177

8. Evaluation and Comparison of a Multimodal Combination of BCI Paradigms and Eye Tracking With Affordable Consumer-Grade Hardware in a Gaming Context
Author(s): Kos'myna, N. ; Tarpin-Bernard, F.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6451193

9. On the Use of Games for Noninvasive EEG-Based Functional Brain Mapping
Author(s): Scherer, R. ; Moitzi, G. ; Daly, I. ; Muller-Putz, G.R.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6472046

10. Electroencephalogram and Physiological Signal Analysis for Assessing Flow in Games
Author(s): Berta, R. ; Bellotti, F. ; De Gloria, A. ; Pranantha, D. ; Schatten, C.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6509413

11. Experiencing BCI Control in a Popular Computer Game
Author(s): van de Laar, B. ; Gurkok, H. ; Plass-Oude Bos, D. ; Poel, M. ; Nijholt, A.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6484110

12. Two Brains, One Game: Design and Evaluation of a Multiuser BCI Video Game Based on Motor Imagery
Author(s): Bonnet, L. ; Lotte, F. ; Lecuyer, A.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6400237

Reminder: paper submission deadline for TAAI 2013

A reminder that 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.

IJCNN Early registration deadline

The deadline for early registration at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2013 is rapidly approaching: it is the 15th of June.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 24, Issue 8, July 2013

1. Enhancing Synchronizability of Diffusively Coupled Dynamical Networks: A Survey
Author(s): Mahdi Jalili
Page(s): 1009 - 1022

2. Sparse Representation Classifier Steered Discriminative Projection With Applications to Face Recognition
Author(s): Jian Yang; Delin Chu; Lei Zhang; Yong Xu; Jingyu Yang
Page(s): 1023 - 1035

3. Prediction Intervals for a Noisy Nonlinear Time Series Based on a Bootstrapping Reservoir Computing Network Ensemble
Author(s): Chunyang Sheng; Jun Zhao; Wei Wang; Henry Leung
Page(s): 1036 - 1048

4. Bayesian Learning for Spatial Filtering in an EEG-Based Brain–Computer Interface
Author(s): Haihong Zhang; Huijuan Yang; Cuntai Guan
Page(s): 1049 - 1060

5. Neural Network-Based Optimal Adaptive Output Feedback Control of a Helicopter UAV
Author(s): David Nodland; Hassan Zargarzadeh; Sarangapani Jagannathan
Page(s): 1061 - 1073

6. Random Sampler M-Estimator Algorithm With Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Robust Function Approximation Via Feed-Forward Neural Networks
Author(s): Moumen T. El-Melegy
Page(s): 1074 - 1085

7. Incorporating Privileged Information Through Metric Learning
Author(s): Shereen Fouad; Peter Tino; Somak Raychaudhury; Petra Schneider
Page(s): 1086 - 1098

8. Novel Range-Free Localization Based on Multidimensional Support Vector Regression Trained in the Primal Space
Author(s): Jaehun Lee; Baehoon Choi; Euntai Kim
Page(s): 1099 - 1113

9. Exponential H-infinity Synchronization and State Estimation for Chaotic Systems Via a Unified Model
Author(s): Meiqin Liu; Senlin Zhang; Zhen Fan; Shiyou Zheng; Weihua Sheng
Page(s): 1114 - 1126

10. A Quadratically Constrained MAP Classifier Using the Mixture of Gaussians Models as a Weight Function
Author(s): Tatsuya Yokota; Yukihiko Yamashita
Page(s): 1127 - 1140

11. Pinning Consensus in Networks of Multiagents via a Single Impulsive Controller
Author(s): Bo Liu; Wenlian Lu; Tianping Chen
Page(s): 1141 - 1149

12. Robust Adaptive Dynamic Programming With an Application to Power Systems
Author(s): Yu Jiang; Zhong-Ping Jiang
Page(s): 1150 - 1156

13. Structure of Indicator Function Classes With Finite Vapnik–Chervonenkis Dimensions
Author(s): Chao Zhang; Dacheng Tao
Page(s): 1156 - 1160

14. Approximating Gaussian Mixture Model or Radial Basis Function Network With Multilayer Perceptron
Author(s): Ajay M. Patrikar
Page(s): 1161 - 1166

15. A Novel Approach to the Problem of Non-uniqueness of the Solution in Hierarchical Clustering
Author(s): Isabella Cattinelli; Giorgio Valentini; Eraldo Paulesu; Nunzio Alberto Borghese
Page(s): 1166 - 1173

Conference paper deadline: AI 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2013) is 1 July 2013. This conference will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, 1-6 December, 2013.

I lived in Dunedin for a long time, and I know that the weather in early December is very changeable. If you go to this conference, I'd recommend that you pack clothing that can be worn in layers, take an umbrella, and sunscreen. It is entirely possible that it will be bitterly cold and wet in the morning, and bright and sunny in the afternoon.

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Volume 21, Issue 3, June 2013

1. IVTURS: A Linguistic Fuzzy Rule-Based Classification System Based On a New Interval-Valued Fuzzy Reasoning Method With Tuning and Rule Selection
Author(s): Sanz, J.A. ; Fernandez, A. ; Bustince, H. ; Herrera, F.

2. Fuzzy Rules Interpolation for Sparse Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems Based on Interval Type-2 Gaussian Fuzzy Sets and Genetic Algorithms
Author(s): Chen, S.-M. ; Chang, Y.-C. ; Pan, J.-S.

3. On KM Algorithms for Solving Type-2 Fuzzy Set Problems
Author(s): Mendel, J.M.

4. A Method for Deriving the Analytical Structure of a Broad Class of Typical Interval Type-2 Mamdani Fuzzy Controllers
Author(s): Zhou, H. ; Ying, H.

5. Multiobjective Optimization and Comparison of Nonsingleton Type-1 and Singleton Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems
Author(s): Cara, A.B. ; Wagner, C. ; Hagras, H. ; Pomares, H. ; Rojas, I.

6. Reduced Interval Type-2 Neural Fuzzy System Using Weighted Bound-Set Boundary Operation for Computation Speedup and Chip Implementation
Author(s): Juang, C.-F. ; Juang, K.-J.

7. A Mutually Recurrent Interval Type-2 Neural Fuzzy System (MRIT2NFS) With Self-Evolving Structure and Parameters
Author(s): Lin, Y.-Y. ; Chang, J.-Y. ; Pal, N.R. ; Lin, C.-T.

8. Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach Based on Atanassov's Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets With Incomplete Certain Information on Weights
Author(s): Wang, J.-Q. ; Zhang, H.-Y.

9. Delayed Impulsive Control of Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Delay Systems
Author(s): Chen, W.-H. ; Wei, D. ; Zheng, W.X.

10. Communication Between Information Systems Using Fuzzy Rough Sets
Author(s): Tsang, E.C.C. ; Wang, C. ; Chen, D. ; Wu, C. ; Hu, Q.

11. Distributive Equations of Fuzzy Implications Based on Continuous Triangular Conorms Given as Ordinal Sums
Author(s): Xie, A. ; Li, C. ; Liu, H.

12. Fuzzy Implications Derived From Generalized Additive Generators of Representable Uninorms
Author(s): Liu, H-.W.

13. Complex Neurofuzzy ARIMA Forecasting—A New Approach Using Complex Fuzzy Sets
Author(s): Li, C. ; Chiang, T.-W.

14. A Possibilistic Mean-Downside Risk-Skewness Model for Efficient Portfolio Selection
Author(s): Vercher, E. ; Bermudez, J.D.

IEEE Transactions on evolutionary Computation: Volume 17, Issue 3, June 2013

1. Stochastic Diversity Loss and Scalability in Estimation of Distribution Genetic Programming
Author(s): Kim, K. ; McKay, R.I.

2. A Survey on Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms for the Solution of the Portfolio Optimization Problem and Other Finance and Economics Applications 
Author(s): Ponsich, A. ; Jaimes, A.L. ; Coello, C.A.C.

3. A Note on Generalization Loss When Evolving Adaptive Pattern Recognition Systems
Author(s): Igel, C.

4. A Novel Genetic Programming Approach for Frequency-Dependent Modeling
Author(s): Pordanjani, I.R. ; Mazin, H.E. ; Xu, W.

5. Evolving Diverse Ensembles Using Genetic Programming for Classification With Unbalanced Data
Author(s): Bhowan, U. ; Johnston, M. ; Zhang, M. ; Yao, X.

6. A Distance-Based Locally Informed Particle Swarm Model for Multimodal Optimization
Author(s): Qu, B.Y. ; Suganthan, P.N. ; Das, S.

7. Genetic Variation and the Evolution of Consensus in Digital Organisms
Author(s): Knoester, D.B. ; Goldsby, H.J. ; McKinley, P.K.

8. A New Method for Lower Bounds on the Running Time of Evolutionary Algorithms
Author(s): Sudholt, D.

9. A New Particle Swarm Optimization Method Enhanced With a Periodic Mutation Strategy and Neural Networks
Author(s): Pehlivanoglu, Y.V.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 24, Issue 7, June 2013

1. Stochastic Diversity Loss and Scalability in Estimation of Distribution Genetic Programming
Author(s): Kim, K. ; McKay, R.I.

2. A Survey on Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms for the Solution of the Portfolio Optimization Problem and Other Finance and Economics Applications
Author(s): Ponsich, A. ; Jaimes, A.L. ; Coello, C.A.C.

3. A Note on Generalization Loss When Evolving Adaptive Pattern Recognition Systems
Author(s): Igel, C.

4. A Novel Genetic Programming Approach for Frequency-Dependent Modeling
Author(s): Pordanjani, I.R. ; Mazin, H.E. ; Xu, W.

5. Evolving Diverse Ensembles Using Genetic Programming for Classification With Unbalanced Data
Author(s): Bhowan, U. ; Johnston, M. ; Zhang, M. ; Yao, X.

6. A Distance-Based Locally Informed Particle Swarm Model for Multimodal Optimization
Author(s): Qu, B.Y. ; Suganthan, P.N. ; Das, S.

7. Genetic Variation and the Evolution of Consensus in Digital Organisms
Author(s): Knoester, D.B. ; Goldsby, H.J. ; McKinley, P.K.

8. A New Method for Lower Bounds on the Running Time of Evolutionary Algorithms
Author(s): Sudholt, D.

9. A New Particle Swarm Optimization Method Enhanced With a Periodic Mutation Strategy and Neural Networks
Author(s): Pehlivanoglu, Y.V.

Reminder: conference paper deadline for CIS 2013

A reminder that 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.

Neural Networks: 22-28 June

1. The learning problem of multi-layer neural networks
Author(s): Jung-Chao Ban, Chih-Hung Chang

2. Active learning for noisy oracle via density power divergence 
Author(s): Yasuhiro Sogawa, Tsuyoshi Ueno, Yoshinobu Kawahara, Takashi Washio
   
3. Integer sparse distributed memory: Analysis and results  
Author(s): Javier Snaider, Stan Franklin, Steve Strain, E. Olusegun George
   
4. Characterization of seizure-like events recorded in vivo in a mouse model of Rett syndrome  
Author(s): Sinisa Colic, Robert G. Wither, Liang Zhang, James H. Eubanks, Berj L. Bardakjian

Neural Networks: 7-13 May , 2013

1. Stochastic sampled-data control for state estimation of time-varying delayed neural networks
Author(s): Tae H. Lee, Ju H. Park, O.M. Kwon, S.M. Lee
   
2. Interval data clustering using self-organizing maps based on Mahalanobis distances
Author(s): Chantal Hajjar, Hani Hamdan
   
3. A mode-dependent approach to state estimation of recurrent neural networks with Markovian jumping parameters and mixed delays  
Author(s): He Huang, Tingwen Huang, Xiaoping Chen
   
4. Gap junctions facilitate propagation of synchronous firing in the cortical neural population: A numerical simulation study  
Author(s): Takashi Shinozaki, Yasushi Naruse, Hideyuki Câteau
   
5. Generation and annihilation of localized persistent-activity states in a two-population neural-field model
Author(s): M. Yousaf, B. Kriener, J. Wyller, G.T. Einevoll
   
6. A comment on “ image -stability and image -synchronization for fractional-order neural networks”  
Author(s): Li Kexue, Peng Jigen, Gao Jinghuai
   
7. Neuron as a reward-modulated combinatorial switch and a model of learning behavior  
Author(s): Marat M. Rvachev

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 24, Issue 6, June 2013

1. Algorithmic Survey of Parametric Value Function Approximation
Author(s): Matthieu Geist; Olivier Pietquin
Page(s): 845 - 867
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6471847

2. Impulsive Control for Existence, Uniqueness, and Global Stability of Periodic Solutions of Recurrent Neural Networks With Discrete  and Continuously Distributed Delays
Author(s): Xiaodi Li; Shiji Song
Page(s): 868 - 877
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6487407

3. Effective Neural Network Ensemble Approach for Improving Generalization Performance
Author(s): Jing Yang; Xiaoqin Zeng; Shuiming Zhong; Shengli Wu
Page(s): 878 - 887
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6469240

4. Novel Cost-Sensitive Approach to Improve the Multilayer Perceptron Performance on Imbalanced Data
Author(s): Cristiano L. Castro; Antonio P. Braga
Page(s): 888 - 899
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6469237

5. Robust Kernel Representation With Statistical Local Features for Face Recognition
Author(s): Meng Yang; Lei Zhang; Simon Chi-Keung Shiu; David Zhang
Page(s): 900 - 912
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6471239

6. Adaptive Learning in Tracking Control Based on the Dual Critic Network Design
Author(s): Zhen Ni; Haibo He; Jinyu Wen
Page(s): 913 - 928
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6476025

7. Sparse Coding From a Bayesian Perspective
Author(s): Xiaoqiang Lu; Yulong Wang; Yuan Yuan
Page(s): 929 - 939
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6472078

8. FSMRank: Feature Selection Algorithm for Learning to Rank
Author(s): Han-Jiang Lai; Yan Pan; Yong Tang; Rong Yu
Page(s): 940 - 952
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6476738

9. Fractional Norm Regularization: Learning With Very Few Relevant Features
Author(s): Ata Kaban
Page(s): 953 - 963
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6477145

10. Exponential Family Factors for Bayesian Factor Analysis
Author(s): Jun Li; Dacheng Tao
Page(s): 964 - 976
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6477146

11. Backtrackless Walks on a Graph
Author(s): Furqan Aziz; Richard C. Wilson; Edwin R. Hancock
Page(s): 977 - 989
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6478830

12. Fast-Convergent Double-Sigmoid Hopfield Neural Network as Applied to Optimization Problems
Author(s): Zekeriya Uykan
Page(s): 990 - 996
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6468109

13. Synchronization Design of Boolean Networks Via the Semi-Tensor Product Method
Author(s): Rui Li; Meng Yang; Tianguang Chu
Page(s): 996 - 1001
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6476026

14. Bogdanov–Takens Singularity in Tri-Neuron Network With Time Delay
Author(s): Xing He; Chuandong Li; Tingwen Huang; Chaojie Li
Page(s): 1001 - 1007
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6478832

IEEE TNNLS Special Issue CFP: Learning in Non-(geo)metric Spaces

The IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) is calling for submissions for a special issue on Learning in Non-(geo)metric Spaces. The deadline for submissions to this special issue is October 1, 2014. More details can be found here.

CFP Acta Automatica Sinica Special Issue on Extensions of Reinforcement Learning and Adaptive Control

The journal Acta Automatica Sinica is calling for submissions to a special issue entitled Extensions of Reinforcement Learning and Adaptive Control. The deadline for submissions to this special issue is 31 August, 2013. More details can be found here.

IEEE TFS Special Issue CFP: Web-Based Intelligence Support Systems using Fuzzy Set Technology

An upcoming special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems is Web-Based Intelligence Support Systems using Fuzzy Set Technology. The deadline for submitting papers to this special issue is August 1, 2013. More details are available here.

Nominations for INNS Awards 2014

 The International Neural Network Society's Awards Program is established to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of Neural Networks. Up to three awards, at most one in each category, of $1,000 each, are presented annually to senior, highly accomplished researchers for outstanding contributions made in the field of Neural Networks.

The Hebb, Helmholtz and Gabor Awards:

The Hebb Award - recognizes achievement in biological learning.

The Helmholtz Award - recognizes achievement in sensation/perception.

The Gabor Award - recognizes achievement in engineering/application.

Young Investigator Awards:

Up to two awards of $500 each are presented annually to individuals with no more than five years postdoctoral experience and who are under forty years of age, for significant contributions in the field of Neural Networks.


Nominations:

1. The Awards Committee should receive nominations of no more than two pages in length, specifying:

• The award category (Hebb, Helmholtz, Gabor, or Young Investigator) for which the candidate is being nominated.

• The reasons for which the nominee should be considered for the award.

• A list of at least five of the nominee's important and published papers. 

2. The curriculum vitae of both the nominee and the nominator must be included with the nomination, including the name, address, position/title, phone, fax, and e-mail address for both the nominee and nominator.

3. The nominator must be an INNS member in good standing. Nominees do not have to be INNS members. If an award recipient is not an INNS member, they shall receive a free one-year INNS membership.

4. Nominators may not nominate themselves or their family members.

5. Individuals may not receive the same INNS Award more than once.

All nominations will be considered by the Awards Committee and selected ones forwarded to the INNS Board of Governors, along with the Committee's recommendations for award recipients. Voting shall be performed by the entire BoG.

The Awards Committee:

INNS Award Committee consists of the chair (Prof. Leonid Perlovsky) and two other members. All members must be INNS Governors in the year that they are appointed.

Please email the 2014 nominations along with their attachments directly to the chair of the Awards Committee at leonid@seas.harvard.edu, with a copy to the Secretary of the Society at hava@cs.umass.edu by June 1, 2013. Please use the following subject line in the email: INNS award nomination.

Conference paper deadline: IDEAL'13

The deadline for submitting papers to the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) 2013 is the 24th of May, 2013. This conference will be held in Hefei, China, 20-23 October, 2013.

I visited Hefei in 2005, and really enjoyed it. It was a very friendly, and rapidly-developing, city and I can thoroughly recommend it.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for TAAI 2013

A reminder that 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.

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.

Reminder: conference paper deadline for ICACI 2013

A reminder that 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.

Neural Networks Volume 42 June 2013

Cognitive Science

1. Discriminant subspace learning constrained by locally statistical uncorrelation for face recognition
Author(s): Yu Chen, Wei-Shi Zheng, Xiao-Hong Xu, Jian-Huang Lai
Pages: 28-43
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608013000130

Learning Systems

2. Probabilistic DHP adaptive critic for nonlinear stochastic control systems
Author(s): Randa Herzallah
Pages: 74-82
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608013000294

3. Learning in compressed space
Author(s): Alexander Fabisch, Yohannes Kassahun, Hendrik Wöhrle, Frank Kirchner
Pages: 83-93
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089360801300035X


Mathematical and Computational Analysis

4. Wavelet neural networks: A practical guide
Author(s): Antonios K. Alexandridis, Achilleas D. Zapranis
Pages: 1-27
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608013000129

5. A model of analogue K-winners-take-all neural circuit
Author(s): Pavlo V. Tymoshchuk
Pages: 44-61
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608013000282


Engineering and Applications

6. Synthesis of high-complexity rhythmic signals for closed-loop electrical neuromodulation
Author(s): Osbert C. Zalay, Berj L. Bardakjian
Pages: 62-73
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608013000099

Neural Networks Special Issue CFP

Affective and Cognitive Learning Systems for Big Social Data Analysis

 

Guest Editors
Amir Hussain (Lead Guest Editor), University of Stirling, United Kingdom (ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk)
Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore, Singapore (cambria@nus.edu.sg)
Björn Schuller, Technische Universität München, Germany (schuller@tum.de)
Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory, USA (nhmit@mit.edu)

Background and Motivation
As the Web rapidly evolves,Web users are evolving with it. In an era of social connectedness, people are becoming more and more enthusiastic about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through social networks, online communities, blogs, Wikis, and other online collaborative media. In recent years, this collective intelligence has spread to many different areas, with particular focus on fields related to everyday life such as commerce, tourism, education, and health, causing the size of the Web to expand exponentially. The distillation of knowledge from such a large amount of unstructured information, however, is an extremely difficult task, as the contents of today’s Web are perfectly suitable for human consumption, but remain hardly accessible to machines. The opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about social events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns, and product preferences has raised growing interest both within the scientific community, leading to many exciting open challenges, as well as in the business world, due to the remarkable benefits to be had from marketing and financial market prediction.

 

Existing approaches to opinion mining mainly rely on parts of text in which sentiment is explicitly expressed, e.g., through polarity terms or affect words (and their co-occurrence frequencies). However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical approaches ineffective. In this light, this Special Issue focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion of novel techniques that further develop and apply big data analysis tools and techniques for sentiment analysis. A key motivation for this Special Issue, in particular, is to explore the adoption of novel affective and cognitive learning systems to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of natural language text and provide novel concept-level tools and techniques that allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) natural language to (structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

 

Articles are thus invited in areas such as machine learning, weakly supervised learning, active learning, transfer learning, deep neural networks, novel neural and cognitive models, data mining, pattern recognition, knowledge-based systems, information retrieval, natural language processing, and big data computing. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Machine learning for big social data analysis
• Biologically inspired opinion mining
• Semantic multi-dimensional scaling for sentiment analysis
• Social media marketing
• Social media analysis, representation, and retrieval
• Social network modeling, simulation, and visualization
• Concept-level opinion and sentiment analysis
• Patient opinion mining
• Sentic computing
• Multilingual sentiment analysis
• Time-evolving sentiment tracking
• Cross-domain evaluation
• Domain adaptation for sentiment classification
• Multimodal sentiment analysis
• Multimodal fusion for continuous interpretation of semantics
• Human-agent, -computer, and -robot interaction
• Affective common-sense reasoning
• Cognitive agent-based computing
• Image analysis and understanding
• User profiling and personalization
• Affective knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis

The Special Issue also welcomes papers on specific application domains of big social data analysis, e.g., influence networks, customer experience management, intelligent user interfaces, multimedia management, computer-mediated human-human communication, enterprise feedback management, surveillance, art. The authors will be required to follow the Author’s Guide for manuscript submission to Elsevier Neural Networks.

Timeframe
Call for Papers out: April 2013
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2013
Final Manuscripts Due: December 1, 2013
Date of Publication: March 2014

Composition and Review Procedures
The Elsevier Neural Networks Special Issue on Affective and Cognitive Learning Systems for Big Social Data Analysis will consist of papers on novel methods and techniques that further develop and apply big data analysis tools and techniques in the context of opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Some papers may survey various aspects of the topic. The balance between these will be adjusted to maximize the issue’s impact. All articles are expected to successfully negotiate the standard review procedures for Elsevier Neural Networks. Authors are required to follow Elsevier Neural Networks proceedings templates and to submit their manuscripts at http://ees.elsevier.com/neunet.