Title of the Special Issue: SOFT-COMPUTING THEORY, APPLICATION AND IMPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY



The special issue of ICTACT journal on Soft Computing and its applications is aimed to bring forward thorough, in-depth, well-focused, and comprehensive papers of the current state-of-the-art developments in Soft Computing. Paper published in this issue will bring together outstanding research and developments in the field of soft computing (evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic, neural networks, Bayesian networks, and their fusion) and its applications, from across the world.



Topics of Interest Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, any of the following areas:

· Soft Computing Techniques

· Soft Computing for Modeling, Control, and Optimization

· Fuzzy Control

· Artificial Neural Networks

· Evolutionary Computing: Genetic

· Algorithms and Genetic Programming

· Neuro-Fuzzy Systems

· Genetic Fuzzy Systems

· Neuro-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems

· Software Agent Systems and Architectures

· Ant Colony Optimization

· Fuzzy Information Fusion

· Rough Sets

· Bayesian Networks

· Fuzzy Image Processing

· Bio-inspired Systems

· Support Vector Machines

Application Areas

· Industrial Applications of Soft Computing

· Intelligent Information Retrieval

· Data Mining

· Robotics

· Fault Diagnosis

· Bioinformatics

· Web Intelligence

· Speech Processing

· Business Information Systems

· Knowledge Management

· Evolvable Hardware and Software

· Image and Signal Processing

· Pattern Recognition

· Traffic and Transportation System



Important Dates

Submission of Manuscript
: April 30, 2014
Notification of Acceptance / Rejection
: June 15, 2014
Revised Manuscript Submission
: July 15, 2014
Submission of camera-ready papers for final review
: September 01, 2014
Publication (Proposed)
: October 2014
Note: All submitted papers will be peer reviewed and if accepted will be published without any publication fees in special issue of ICTACT journal on Soft Computing. There is no limit on number of pages.
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