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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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VII IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, LA-CCI 2020.

November 4 – 6, 2020

XVI IEEE Latin American Summer School on Computational Intelligence, EVIC 2020.

November 2 – 4, 2020

 

Aula Magna – Universidad de La Frontera – Temuco. CHILE

 

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 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 29, 2020

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We are pleased to invite you to participate in LA-CCI 2020 which will be held this year in Temuco, Chile, jointly with the XVI Summer School on Computational Intelligence, EVIC 2020, that will be from November 2-4. LA-CCI provides a high-level international forum for scientists, researchers, engineers, professionals and educators as well as for young researchers and students to disseminate their latest research results and exchange views on the future research of Computational Intelligence (please visit http://la-cci.org/ for more information).

  

Temuco is a southern city surrounded by parks, lakes, volcanic landscapes that give it a natural beauty and touristic charm. It belongs to the Araucanía Region of Chile and has an important influence of native Mapuche people that preserve a distinctive culture.

 

 

MAIN TOPICS (NOT LIMITED TO):

 

(NEW) Ethical, Humane & Sustainable Applications of Computational Intelligence:

– Social & Environmental Responsibility (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals);

– Governability / Democracy protection;

– Privacy, Individualization, Transparency and Safety challenges;

– Human judgment in Machines;

– Social Ethical Computation;

– Responsible Marketing, etc.

 (1) Evolutionary & Swarm Computation:

– Evolutionary computation;

– Swarm intelligence;

– Artificial immune systems;

– Novel metaheuristics and hyperheuristics;

– Memetic and Collective intelligence;

– Nature and Bio-inspired methods;

– Artificial life.

 (2) Neural & Learning Systems:

– Machine learning;

– Neural Computation (+Weightless Systems);

– Complex systems;

– Wavelets;

– Molecular and quantum computing;

– Brain-machine interfaces;

– Network Sciences;

– Local search methods.

 (3) Fuzzy & Stochastic Modeling:

– Fuzzy logic;

– Fuzzy optimization and design;

– Fuzzy pattern recognition;

– Fuzzy control & decision making/support;

– Rough sets;

– Uncertainty analysis;

– Fractals;

– Game theory;

– Social Simulation;

– Multi-agent systems;

– Symbolic Systems;

– Grey systems.

 

 

 

KEY SPEAKERS

 

Dr. Carlos A. Coello Coello Affiliation CINVESTAV-IPN Departamento de Computación, DF, MEXICO.   Topic Evolutionary & Swarm Computation

Short Biography Carlos A. Coello Coello received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, in 1996. He is a Professor (CINVESTAV-3F Researcher) with the Department of Computer Science of CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico. He has authored and coauthored over 500 technical papers and book chapters. His publications currently report over 49,000 citations in Google Scholar with an H-index of 86. His current research interests include evolutionary multiobjective optimization and constraint-handling techniques for evolutionary algorithms. Dr. Coello Coello has been the recipient of the 2007 National Research Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences in the area of exact sciences, the 2013 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the 2016 The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Award in "Engineering Sciences" and of the 2012 National Medal of Science and Arts in the area of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences.

Dr. Alice E. Smith  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA   Topic: Stochastic Modelling

Short Biography Alice E. Smith is the Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Distinguished Professor of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Auburn University (USA) with a joint appointment with the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.  Her research focus is analysis, modeling, and optimization of complex systems with emphasis on computational intelligence.  She holds a U.S. patent and has authored more than 200 refereed publications.  These have accumulated over 12,500 citations with an H Index of 50 (Google Scholar).  Dr. Smith has been a principal investigator on over U.S. $9 million of sponsored research. She is a four-time Fulbright Scholar with appointments in Turkey, Colombia and Chile. She is a Fellow of IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer.  She is an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer, served twice before on the IEEE CIS Ad Com, and was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.  Dr. Smith is Editor in Chief of INFORMS Journal on Computing and Area Editor of Computers & Operations Research.

 

Dr. Hava Siegelmann   Affiliation University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Computer Science. MA, USA.   Topic Neural & Learning System

Short Biography Dr. Hava Siegelmann earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, an M.S. from The Hebrew University, and a B.A. from Technion, all in computer science. Her academic distinctions include the Rutgers Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence. In 2015, the National Institutes of Health named Siegelmann one of 16 presidential BRAIN Initiative awardees for her work on energy- constrained brain activation. She is the 2016 recipient of the Hebb Award of the International Neural Network Society as well as the 2017-9 IEEE distinguished lecturer. Dr. Siegelmann also serves as a core member of the university’s Neuroscience and Behavior program and of the BINDS lab (Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems), focused on biological learning mechanisms. She co-originated “support vector clustering” with Vladimir Vapnik, which has become one of the most widely used clustering algorithms in industry. She also created a sub-field of computation with her discovery of Super-Turing computation.

Dr. Piero P. Bonissone Affiliation Analytics LLC 3103 28th St, San Diego, CA 92104   Topic Industrial Applications of Hybrid CI Models

Short Biography "Dr. Bonissone is an independent consultant specialized in the use of analytics for Industrial AI and in Machine Learning applications.  A former Chief Scientist at GE Global Research (GE GR), where he retired in 2014 after 34 years of service. Dr. Bonissone has been a pioneer in the field of analytics, machine learning, fuzzy logic, AI, and soft computing applications. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of AAAI and IFSA.  He received the 2012 Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award from the IEEE CIS, the II Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre of Soft Computing, and the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE CIS.  He served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning for 13 years. He co-edited six books and has 150+ publications in refereed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, with 10,400+ citations, and an H-Index of 53. He received 74 patents issued by the US Patent Office."

XVI IEEE LATIN AMERICAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

The Latin American Summer School on Computational Intelligence (EVIC) is an annual event held in Chile since 2004 with the objective of disseminating the foundations and recent advances of Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Intelligent Control, among others, to the universities and business public of Chile and Latin America. EVIC is organized by the Chilean chapter of the IEEE CIS.

LA-CCI POSTGRADUATE THESES CONTEST (PTC)

The Postgraduate Theses Contest (PTC) promotes the integration and cooperation of young researchers in Computational Intelligence areas, providing greater visibility of the work done.  Among the registered participants, the PTC will select and award the best doctoral thesis and the best master’s thesis on Computational Intelligence. This contest will be held only if the number of registered theses is greater than 6.

A valid thesis or dissertation has to completed, duly defended and approved during the period January 2018 to June 2020.The theses will be evaluated based on their:

(1) Scientific and technological contributions, generated by the work;

(2) Potential impact on society; and,

(3) Potential impact on the state of the art on Computational Intelligence & associated areas.

 

ROUND TABLES AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

 

·       Social challenges (ethics, human rights, indigenous, education), environment and CI applications.

·       CI and development.

·       Invitation to school teachers and students of the region to talk about the advances, opportunities of CI and answer their questions.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Paper submissions:   29 May 2020

Acceptance notification:  3 August 2020

Final paper submission:  31 August 2020

Early Registration:  30 September 2020

Theses Contest Deadline: July 31, 2020
Theses Contest Result Notification: August 31, 2020

EVIC Poster Deadline:  2 October 2020

EVIC Poster Notification: 9 October 2020

 

 

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Registration Fees	Early Bird (US$)	Late or On-site (US$)
IEEE Students and Life Members	245	305
IEEE Young Professionals	360	460
non-IEEE Students	285	355
for IEEE Members	400	500
for Professionals (non-IEEE members)	500	600
Additional Gala Dinner Ticket	60	75

 

SUBMISSIONS

 Paper length will be up to 6 pages.  Papers must be written in MS-Word or Latex.

 Papers must be written in English.  Papers will be submitted using the Easychair System.

 

POST-PROCEEDINGS

Presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, and (per IEEE’s policy) submitted to the Scopus database for indexing. At least one paper author must register and present the paper at the event.

 

STEERING COMMITTEE

Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto–Universidade de Pernambuco (Brazil) Founder & Board of Directors of LA-CIS] [*** Steering Committee Coordinator]

 Gary Fogel, Chief Executive Officer of Natural Selection, Inc. (USA)

Cristian Rodriguez Rivero–Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) [Founder & Board of Directors of LA-CIS] [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI 2014 – Bariloche, Argentina]

Yván Jesús Túpac Valdivia – Universidad Católica San Pablo (Peru) [Founder & Board of Directors of LA-CIS] [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI 2017 – Arequipa, Peru]

Carmelo José Albanez Bastos-Filho – Universidade de Pernambuco (Brazil) [Founder Member of LA-CIS]

Heitor Silvério Lópes – Universidade Federal Tecnológica do Paraná (Brazil) [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI 2015 – Curitiba, Brazil]

Alvaro David Orjuela-Cañón – Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI 2016 – Cartagena, Colombia]

Alma Yolanda Alanis Garcia – Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico) [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI 2018 – Guadalajara, Mexico]

Otilia Maria Alejandro Molina – Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, ESPOL (Ecuador) [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI 2019 – Guayaquil, Ecuador]

Gloria Millaray Curilem Saldías – Universidad de la Frontera (Chile) [*** This edition General Chair of LA-CCI 2020 – Temuco, Chile]

 

Invited Members: Héctor Cancela /Martin Pedemonte – Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay) [*** Next General Chairs of LA-CCI 2021 – Montevideo]

 

 

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

GENERAL CHAIRS	Millaray Curilem, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco Doris Sáez-Hueichapan, Universidad de Chile, Santiago Nelson Aros, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco
HONORARY CHAIR	Pablo Estévez, Universidad de Chile, Santiago
PROGRAM CHAIR	Cesar San Martin, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco
SUMMER SCHOOL CHAIR	Fernando Huenupan, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco
PUBLICATION CHAIR	Daniel Sbarbaro, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción (UDEC)
SPONSORS CHAIR	Gonzalo Acuña, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago
TOPICS CHAIR	Claudio Held, Universidad de Chile, Santiago Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile, Santiago María Cristina Riff, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso Pablo Huijse, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia

CONTACT

Please feel free contact any of the Program Chairs in case you have any questions about the Conference at {LA-CCIchairs@ufrontera.cl].