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8th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT-2016)
Luxury 5* Hotel Botanico & The Oriental Spa Garden, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
15th-17th June 2016
http://idt-16.kesinternational.org/
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We are delighted to invite contributions to the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies, organised by KES International. IDT-2016 is an international scientific conference for research in the area of Intelligent Decision Technologies with subjects considering theory and application. This conference is dedicated to improving decision making.

The conference is interdisciplinary in nature and will consist of keynote talks, oral and poster presentations, invited sessions and workshops, on the applications and theory of intelligent decision systems and related areas. It will provide excellent opportunities for the presentation of interesting new research results and discussion about them, leading to knowledge transfer and generation of new ideas.

The conference will be co-located under the KES Smart Digital Futures umbrella with our other Intelligent Systems conferences: IIMSS, AMSTA, SEEL and the newly
added InMED (Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare). Registration gives access to all of these conferences, together with a paper published in one set of proceedings.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as book chapters in a volume of the KES Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies series, submitted for indexing in Scopus and Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) and the Web of Science.

Please see the Smart Digital Futures website:
http://sdf-16.kesinternational.org/ for more information.

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Conference Scope
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Papers are invited on theoretical and applied topics related to the scope of the conference.

General Topics of Interest

Authors should relate their topic to improving some aspect of decision making. Topics related to intelligent decision making include, but are not limited to, intelligent agents, fuzzy logic, multi-agent systems, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, expert systems, intelligent decision making support systems, information retrieval systems, geographic information systems, knowledge management systems.

IDT Applications

IDT's have the potential to support decision making in many areas including management, international business, finance, accounting, marketing, healthcare, medical and diagnostic systems, military decisions, production and operation, networks, traffic management, crisis response, human-machine interfaces, financial and stock market monitoring and prediction, robotics.

Emergent Intelligent Decision Technologies

Virtual decision environments, social networking, 3D human-machine interfaces, cognitive interfaces, collaborative systems, intelligent web mining, e-commerce, e-learning, e-business, bioinformatics, evolvable systems, virtual humans, designer drugs.

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Invited Sessions
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An invited session consists of a presentation session of 6 to 12 or more papers on a specific conference topic, organised as half or full day mini-conference. We invite senior scientists who have a special interest in a specific conference topic to take responsibility for an invited session, gathering papers from a range of research expertise around the world. If you would like to submit a proposal for an Invited Session, please contact: admin@kesinternational.org

Here is a list of the approved sessions so far:

IS01: Specialized Decision Techniques for Data Mining, Transportation and Project Management
IS02: Intelligent Decision Technologies for Water Resources Management
IS03: Intelligent Methods for Eye Movement Data Processing and Analysis
IS04: Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications
IS05: Social media analysis and mining
IS06: Decision Making Theory for Economics
IS08: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Business Intelligence Research and Practice (IABIRP 2016)
IS09: Recent advances in Fuzzy Systems

For more details on these sessions please visit:
http://idt-16.kesinternational.org/cmsISdisplay.php

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Dates and Deadlines
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General Track Papers

Submission Deadline: 18 January 2016
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2016
Upload Final Publication Files: 7 March 2016

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Venue
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The venue will be the Hotel Botanico & The Oriental Spa Garden, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife. Puerto de la Cruz is a city and municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. There is plenty to see and do in this beautiful city so it is the perfect place to mix business and pleasure!

We also have negotiated rates at the Hotel Botanico for our delegates here:
http://idt-16.kesinternational.org/hotels.php

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Organisation
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Honorary Chairs
Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Gloria Wren-Phillips, Loyola University, USA
Junzo Watada, Waseda University, Japan

General Chair:
Irek Czarnowski, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland

Executive Chair
Robert Howlett, KES International & Bournemouth University, UK

Programme Committee Chairs
Alfonso Mateos Caballero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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Further Information
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Please note that the above deadlines are provisional and subject to change.
For further information on all the above, please visit the conference website at the top of the page.
For general enquiries about the conference, please contact: admin@kesinternational.org
For registration enquiries, please contact: registration@kesinternational.info
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