Machine learning and deep learning are among highlighted topics

In response to the requests from many authors who have expressed difficulties to meet the current deadline, we are pleased to announce an extension of paper submission deadline to 31 January 2021.

ICIEA 2021

THE 16th IEEE CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS

1-4 August 2021, Chengdu, China

http://www.ieeeiciea.org

Organisers

IEEE Industrial Electronics  (IE) Chapter, Singapore

Southwest Jiaotong University, China

IEEE Singapore Section, Singapore

Financial and Technical Co-Sponsors

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

On behalf of the organizing committee, we cordially invite you to submit papers and proposals for invited/special sessions to the 16th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2021). The Conference will be held from 1-4 August 2021, Chengdu, China. 

The same as the past 15 ICIEA conferences, ICIEA 2021 will continue to provide an excellent forum for scientists, researchers, engineers and industrial practitioners throughout the world to present and discuss the latest technology advancement as well as future directions and trends in Industrial Electronics as well as relevant topics. The proceedings of past ICIEA have all been included in the IEEE Xplore database and indexed by EI Compendex.

You are invited to submit full papers describing original research works in areas including, but not limited to:

• Artificial Intelligence 
• Control and Systems 
• Cyber-physical Systems
• Energy and Environment 
• Industrial Informatics and Computational Intelligence
• Robotics
• Network and Communication Technologies
• Power Electronics
• Signal and Information Processing

In addition to the technical sessions, there will be three keynote addresses, distinguished lectures and workshop covering the State-of-the-Art in various tracks of Industrial Electronics.

More Details on the conference can be found in the attached Call for Papers and also from the website: http://www.ieeeiciea.org.

We are looking forward to receiving your submissions soon.

Wenxiang Xie, Shibin Gao, Xiaoqiong He
Conference General Chairs, ICIEA 2021

Xing Zhu, Jingjing Huang, Weirong Chen, Lei Ma
Technical Program Chair, ICIEA 2021

https://www.springer.com/journal/43069/updates/18357818 

Advances, Applications & Challenges in Metaheuristics: In Celebration of the Cuckoo Search Algorithm 

Overview 

Cuckoo Search, a nature inspired optimization algorithm, was invented by Xin-She Yang (UK) & Suash Deb (India) 10 years ago. Since then it had been proved to be an important & a very useful tool for addressing myriads of optimization problems, both for industrial applications as well as for theoretical ones. Recently the 1st publication of Cuckoo search, published in the year 2009, reached 5000 citations (Google Scholar). In order to celebrate these milestones, SN Operations Research Forum intends to publish a special topical collection by assembling a collection of papers and showcasing the recent efforts in the areas of metaheuristics and nature inspired computing. Accordingly, the journal invites manuscripts, which neither had been published already nor submitted for consideration elsewhere, for this special issue highlighting “Advances, Applications & Challenges in Metaheuristics” to be guest edited by Ka-Chun Wong (Hong Kong) & Thomas Hanne (Switzerland) & due for publication in 2021. 

The aim here is to present academicians/researchers/industry professionals/post graduate students some of state-of-the-art research on metaheuristics and the cuckoo algorithm through a cluster of original research contributions in any aspect of the below areas as well as their novel applications. Articles highlighting the challenges as faced by the researchers and/or envisaged by them as well as comprehensive surveys are also welcome in the aforesaid areas. 

Along with Cuckoo Search (CS) and the other well-known metaheuristics algorithms like Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Ant colony optimization (ACO), Memetic algorithms, Evolutionary algorithms, Simulated annealing, Artificial bee colony etc., articles dealing with the following (but not limited to) areas are also solicited: • Artificial immune systems • Chaos optimization • Central Force Optimization • Chicken Swarm Optimization • Earthworm Optimization • Elephant Herding Optimization • Firefly algorithm • Grey wolf optimization • Harmony search • Monarch butterfly optimization • Rainfall optimization • Sperm Swarm optimization • Tabu search • Wolf search optimization • Whale optimization 

Guest Editors 

• Ka-Chun Wong, Dept. of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (kc.w@cityu.edu.hk) 
• Thomas Hanne, Inst. of Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland (thomas.hanne@fhnw.ch) 

Submission Procedure 

• Papers should be submitted at the SN Operations Research Forum website: https://www.editorialmanager.com/orfo/default.aspx 
• Select Article Type: Manuscript 
• Upload your files. When the system asks, “Does this manuscript belong to a special issue?” reply: Yes, then choose the option “Advances, Applications & Challenges in Metaheuristics: In Celebration of the Cuckoo Search” 
• Complete the the submission process as required. 

Important Dates 

• Submission Deadline: March 30, 2021 
• Publication Date: Upon acceptance of each paper 

Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date. 

Thanks for attention.

Kind Regards,

Ka-Chun