DUE TO THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK, THERE ARE SOME NEWS ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:

We are glad to announce the new final dates for the SOCO 2020 conference: from 16th to 18th September 2020.

For conference organizers, delegate' health has priority over all the other matters. As a result, the 2020 edition of SOCO is going to be blended, combining on-site and on-line participation. Conference delegates can choose one of the two modalities:

– on-site modality(as initially planned): delegates will meet at the conference venue and will deliver oral presentations of papers if allowed by international and Spanish regulations at that time. Social and other parallel activities could be modified according to the imposed health restrictions. We strongly encourage taking into account that there may be traveling restrictions when booking flights and accommodation.

– on-line modality: delegates will join the conference through the Internet service, without traveling to Burgos. Tools for accessing presentations and networking will be available.

The type of registration (and associated payment) could be chosen by authors until 20th July 2020. No registration modifications will be accepted after this deadline, except very limited exceptional cases.

It is compulsory for both above mentioned modalities and all authors to submit a video-presentation of papers (MP4 file) by 1st September 2020. Instructions for the video-presentation format as well as submission can be found in the following sections. this is to ensure that the conference will take place, regarded the health scene at a global or local level. We hope you understand it due to the current situation.

Delegates implicitly consent the publication and dissemination of their video-presentations through the conference digital channels, that will by publicly available. We hope you understand it due to the current situation.

Registration fees for each one of these modalities are already defined and available at http://2020.sococonference.eu/registration/

All accepted and presented papers (both modalities) will be included in the conference proceedings (at least 1 registration is required). Additionally, these papers will be considered for its possible inclusion in a special issue of the following journals:

* Neurocomputing (Elsevier). 2018 JCR Impact Factor: 4.072 – Q1
* Logic Journal of the IGPL (Oxford University Press). 2018 JCR Impact Factor: 0.609 – Q2
* Cybernetics and Systems (Taylor & Francis). 2018 JCR Impact Factor: 1.681 – Q3

To let additional researchers join the conference, paper submission has been re-opened according to the following schedule:

Paper Submission Deadline: 14th May 2020
Acceptance notification: 8th June 2020
Submission of revised papers: 17th June 2020
Final version submission: 24th June 2020
Payment Deadline: 24th June 2020

We would like to thank all the Authors, PC members and Special Session organizers for their patience during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Please distribute the news among your contacts that may be interested.

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*** VIDEO-PRESENTATION FORMAT ****

Each speaker, no matter whether he/she is a on-site or an on-line attendee, must produce a video-presentation for each paper considering the following requirements:

* Prepare the slides using your preferred method (Power Point, Beamer, etc).
* Produce an MP4 (video plus audio) version of the slides. This MP4 file should include all the information the speaker wants to explain about his/her contribution. In addition to the slides, the video-presentation could contains extra pieces of video or any other kind of media you consider suitable.
* The deployed MP4 file should be a stand-alone MP4 file that can be played without further human intervention.

Suggestions to produce the MP4 file are:

* The simplest one is MS PowerPoint with VoiceOver (if you have prepared your slides with this tool) or any other application. See this link to get help on obtaining an MP4 file with MS PowerPoint – https://cutt.ly/byzagpz
* If you want to merge different video/media sources (slides, webcam, extra videos, ..) we suggest using open source applications, such as OBS Studio. See this link to get help on obtaining an MP4 file using OBS Studio – https://cutt.ly/JyzablM

These are simple tools that are widely used and documented in the web. You can ask us some questions at soco-cisis-iceute@ubu.es.

There are several restrictions for this MP4 file, tough:
 + Each video must be 10 minutes long at most. Longer videos will be rejected and asked for replacement.
 + Recommended resolution is 720p (1280x720px)
 + Use a 16:9 aspect ratio.

Further instructions about the submission procedure for video-presentations will be given to authors before the registration deadline.

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*** CONFERENCE SPECIAL SESSIONS ***

The following special sessions have been confirmed:

SS01 – Contributions of Soft Computing to Precision Agriculture
SS02 – Soft Computing Methods in Manufacturing and Management Systems
SS03 – Soft Computing Applications for the Management of Industrial and Environmental Enterprises
SS04 – Optimization, Modelling and Control by Soft Computing Techniques
SS05 – Soft Computing and Machine Learning in Non-linear Dynamical Systems and Fluid Dynamics: new Methods and Applications
SS06 – Soft Computing Techniques and Applications in Logistics and Transportation Systems
SS07 – Soft Computing and Machine Learning in IoT, Big Data and Cyber Physical Systems
SS08 – Soft Computing applied to Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles
SS09 – Soft Computing for Forecasting Industrial Time Series
SS10 – Semantic Information in Industry 4.0
SS11 – Applications of Machine Learning in Computer Vision
SS12 – Artificial Intelligence for Energy-related Problems
SS13 – Computational Intelligence for Laser-Based Sensing and Measurement

Further information about the special sessions is available at http://2020.sococonference.eu/special-sessions
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SOCO’20 will be held in conjunction with:

13th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems – http://cisisconference.eu

11th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Educational – http://iceuteconference.eu
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Technically Co-Sponsored by:
Startup Olé – http://startupole.eu
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Spanish Chapter – http://ieee-smc.es
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Portuguese Chapter
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, French Chapter – https://smc028.hds.utc.fr/
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Italian Chapter
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*** CONTACT ***

Dr. Álvaro Herrero
University of Burgos (Spain)
GICAP Research Group
E-mail: soco-cisis-iceute@ubu.es
Web: http://gicap.ubu.es

Dr. Emilio Corchado
University of Salamanca (Spain)
STARTUP OLE ACCELERATOR:
https://startupole.eu

BISITE Research Group
Web: http://bisite.usal.es

For more information and updates about SOCO’20, please refer to the conference website:
http://sococonference.eu