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                      IEEE PICom 2020
     The 18th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence
and Computing (PICom 2020)
           June 22-26, 2020, Calgary, Canada
Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society
Supported by IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC),
IEEE SMC TC on CyberMatics and IEEE CIS Smart World TC

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Regular Paper Submission Due: Feb. 15, 2020
Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: March 10, 2020
Authors Notification: April 1, 2020
Camera-ready Submission: May 10, 2020

INTRODUCTION
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Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from
logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing,
and social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated
ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The
International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is
intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as
their applications in various pervasive computing domains. PICom-2019
is the conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, previously
held as PCC (Las Vegas, USA, 2003 and 2004), PSC (Las Vegas, USA,
2005), PCAC (Vienna, Austria, 2006, and Niagara Falls, Canada, 2007),
IPC-2007 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-2008 (Sydney, Australia,
December 2008), and since 2009 as the name PICom. IEEE PICom 2020 will
be held on 22-26 June 2020 in Calgary, Canada, co-located with IEEE
DASC 2020 CBDCom 2020 and IEEE CyberSciTech 2020. It aims to bring
together computer scientists and engineers, to discuss and exchange
experimental and theoretical results, work-in-progress, novel designs,
and test-environments or test-beds in the important areas of Pervasive
Intelligence and Computing.

TRACKS AND TOPICS
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Track 1: Computational Intelligence
Track 2: Intelligent Networks, Middleware and Applications
Track 3: Pervasive Computing and Activity/Affect Recognition
Track 4: Smart Object, Environment, System and City

Topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:

* Deep Learning and Deep Computation
* Big Data and Smart Data
* Brain-inspired Computing
* Crowdsourcing and Social Computing
* Collective Intelligence
* Agent-based Computing
* Ubiquitous Intelligence
* Cyber-Physical Computing
* The Internet of Things
* Cloud of Things and Cloud of Sensors
* Embedded HW, SW and Systems
* Pervasive Devices and RFIDs
* Wearable Devices and Applications
* Sensor Technology and Networks
* Pervasive Networks/Communications
* Edge and Fog Computing
* Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)
* Device Virtualization
* Privacy, Security and Trust
* Context-Aware Computing
* Mobile Data Mining
* Ubiquitous Data Mining
* Activity Recognition
* Intelligent Cloud Computing
* Services for Pervasive Computing
* Smart Cities and Smart Homes
* Intelligent Social Networking
* Pervasive Technologies for ITS
* HCI for Pervasive Computing
* Mobile Data Modeling
* Middleware for Pervasive Computing
* Intelligent/Smart IoT
* Programming Abstractions for IoT
* Semantic Analysis

IEEE PICOM 2020 CALLS FOR
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* Regular conference paper: 6 – 8 pages, submitted to one of five tracks
* WiP/workshop/special session paper: 4-6 pages, and poster paper: 2-4 pages
* Late breaking innovation paper: We seek the latest research and
development work. The submission can be of any type, and will be
allocated by the Program Chair to a suitable Regular,
Work-in-Progress, or Poster tracks
* All submissions in the IEEE CS proceedings format

PROCEEDINGS
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* All accepted papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI
indexed) in Conference Proceedings.
* Best Paper Awards will be granted to high quality papers.
* Selected papers will be recommended to prestigious journal special issues.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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– Honorary Chairs
Lisa Carter, Athabasca University, Canada
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Hideyuki Tokuda, NICT and Keio Univ., Japan

– General Chairs
Prof. Flavia C. Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
Prof. Liang Chen, University of Northern British Columbia

– General Executive Chairs
Henry Leung, The University of Calgary, Canada

– Program Chairs
Paulo Pires, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
Juan Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

– Track Chairs
Esteban Clua, UFF, Brazil
Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK
Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Claudio Miceli, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Roberto Morabito, Ericsson Research, Jorvas, Finland
Ali Dewan, Athabasca University, Canada

– Workshop and Special Session Chairs
Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan
Antonio Guerrieri, ICAR-CNR, Italy

-Special Issue Chair
Atiqur R. Ahad, U. Dhaka, Bangladesh / Osaka U, Japan

– International Liaison and Publicity Chairs
Wu-Yuin Hwang, National Central University, Taiwan
Zixia Liu, University of Central Florida, USA
Paulo Novais, Minho University, Portugal
        (to be added)

– Advisory Committee
Zhikui Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China
Liqiang Wang, University of Central Florida, USA  OK
Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Qiang Yang, Zhejiang University, China – Aceitou
Lidia Fuentes, Malaga University, Spain
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy

– Steering Committee
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland U Tech., New Zealand
Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA
Flávia C. Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

–  Local Organizing Committee
Oscar Lin (chair), Athabasca University, Canada
Ali Dewan, Athabasca University, Canada
Hongxin Yan, Athabasca University, Canada
Joelle Jackson, Athabasca University, Canada
Jillian Calliou, Athabasca University, Canada
Kevin Cole, Athabasca University, Canada

CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS
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KDBD 2020: International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery for Big Data

Workshop on Data Fusion in the Internet of Things (DFIoT)

EoT Workshop 2020

IEEE 6th International Workshop on COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTERNET OF THINGS (IWCCT2020)

Intelligence Big Data Processing Infrastructure and Its Applications

THREE CO-LOCATED CONFERENCES
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* The 5th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2020)
* The 18th IEEE Conf. on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Comp (DASC 2020)
* The 6th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2020)

Hosted by
Athabasca University, Canada

–
Flávia C. Delicato
Professora Associada
Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC / UFF)
http://www.ic.uff.br – http://www.midiacom.uff.br
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* PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students.

The 15th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial
and Environmental Applications

Burgos, Spain. SOCO’20
24th-26th June 2020
http://sococonference.eu

The 15th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial
and Environmental Applications (SOCO’20) is mainly focused on industrial
applications. SOCO Series of Conferences provides an interesting
opportunity to present and discuss the latest theoretical advances and
real-world applications in this multidisciplinary research field.

SOCO’20 will be held in conjunction with:
CISIS’20 http://cisisconference.eu
ICEUTE’20 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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*** SPECIAL ISSUES ***
All the accepted papers of SOCO conference (submitted both to the
general track and the special sessions) 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

More journals could be announced soon.

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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
Paper Submission Deadline: 3rd February 2020 (EXTENDED)
Acceptance notification: 1st April 2020
Submission of revised papers: 8th April 2020
Final version submission: 11th April 2020
Payment Deadline: 11th April 2020
Conference Dates: 24th-26th June 2020

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*** SPECIAL SESSIONS ***
The following special sessions have been confirmed up to now:
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, Modeling 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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*** PROCEEDINGS ***
SOCO’20 proceedings will be published by Springer in a special volume of
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, indexed by ISI
Proceedings, DBLP and Springerlink, among others. All submissions will
be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance,
quality and clarity.
Every submitted paper to SOCO’20 will be reviewed by at least two
members of the Program Committee.

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*** TOPICS ***
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Green Computing
• Evolutionary Computing
• Neuro Computing
• Probabilistic Computing
• Immunological Computing
• Hybrid Methods
• Causal Models
• Case-based Reasoning
• Chaos Theory Fuzzy Computing
• Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory
• Interactive Computational Models

The application fields of interest cover, but are not limited to:
• Industry 4.0
• Decision Support
• Process and System Control
• System Identification and Modelling
• Optimization
• Signal or Image Processing
• Vision or Pattern Recognition
• Condition Monitoring
• Fault Diagnosis
• Systems Integration
• Internet Tools
• Human Machine Interface
• Time Series Prediction
• Robotics
• Motion Control & Power Electronics
• Biomedical Engineering
• Virtual Reality
• Reactive Distributed AI
• Telecommunications
• Consumer Electronics
• Industrial Electronics
• Manufacturing Systems
• Power and Energy
• Data Mining
• Data Visualisation
• Intelligent Information Retrieval
• Bio-inspired Systems
• Autonomous Reasoning
• Intelligent Agents
• Databases

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***PAPER SUBMISSION***
All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on
originality, significance, quality and clarity. Every submitted paper to
SOCO’20 will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee.
Papers must be prepared according to Springer’s templates (MS Word or
LaTeX format) for the Advances in Intelligent and Computing volume
series (http://www.springer.com/series/11156) and must be no more than
ten (10) pages long, including figures and bibliography. Additional
pages (over 10 pages) will be charged at 150 Euro each.

The submission system is available at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soco2020

For further information, please visit
http://2020.sococonference.eu/paper-submission-publication/

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*** SOCIAL ACTIVITIES ***
The conference will be held during the local fair (Saint Peter) so there
is going to be plenty of social and leisure activities.

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

Dr. Emilio Corchado
University of Salamanca (Spain)
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