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SOCO 2010 :: 4th CALL FOR PAPERS :: DEADLINE EXTENSION
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International Workshop on
Soft Computing Models for Industrial Applications
16th-18th June, 2010 :: Guimaraes, Portugal
http://soco2010.di.uminho.pt

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New submission deadline: 18th February, 2010
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Soft computing represents a collection or set of computational
techniques in machine learning, computer science and some engineering
disciplines, which investigate, simulate and analyze very complex
issues and phenomena. This workshop is mainly focused on its
industrial applications.

SOCO 2010 is the 5th International Workshop on Soft Computing Models
in Industrial Applications and provides interesting opportunities to
present and discuss the latest theoretical advances and real world
applications in this multidisciplinary research field.

SOCO 2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of
Guimarães, Portugal, nominated by UNESCO as a World Cultural
Heritage. With exceptional opportunities for sightseeing and
gastronomy, Guimarães is a wonderful venue for a great workshop.

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Technical Co-Sponsors
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IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Portuguese Chapter
http://www.ieee-pt.org/

Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)
http://www.mirlabs.org/

Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA)
http://www.appia.pt/

Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA)
http://www.aepia.org/

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PLENARY SPEAKERS
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Prof. Ajith Abraham
Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Europe
http://www.mirlabs.org

Prof. Magdy Bayoumi
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/cas/Bio/bayoumi.htm

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SPECIAL SESSIONS
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Special sessions confirmed up to now!!

SS1 Hybrid Intelligent Systems and Applications
http://soco2010.di.uminho.pt/hisa

SS2 Security in Industrial Environments
http://soco2010.di.uminho.pt/sie

SS3 Ensemble Learning and Information Fusion
http://soco2010.di.uminho.pt/elif

SS4 Soft Computing for Service Management
http://soco2010.di.uminho.pt/scsm

In addition to regular sessions, participants are encouraged to
organize special sessions on specialized topics.

Each special session should have at least 4 or 5 quality papers.

Special session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews
jointly with the SOCO 2010 PC and in the same way recommend
accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers.

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Everyone interested in participating and presenting his work in this
workshop may do so by sending a contribution. There are three
possibilities:

1. Long papers: consisting of original, relevant and previously
unpublished sound research results, related to any of the topics of
the conference, with a maximum of 8 (eight) pages.

2. Short papers: can be project reports, a summary of a PhD thesis or
work in progress, with no more than 4 (four) pages.

3. Doctoral consortium: PhD students are invited to present the topic
and progress of their research, in order to obtain feedback from a
panel of experts. The length of these papers should not exceed
8 (eight) pages.

Papers should be written in English.

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PAPERS FORMAT
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Papers must be prepared according to Springer’s templates (MS Word or
LaTeX format) for the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
volume series (www.springer.com/series/4240).

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PUBLICATION
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All accepted papers will be published in a special volume of Advances
in Intelligent and Soft Computing (Springer), indexed by ISI
Proceedings, DBLP and Springerlink, among others.

Extended and improved versions of selected papers will be included in
a special issue of the Information Fusion journal, published by Elsevier.

For each paper, at least one author is required to register and
attend the symposium to present the paper, so as to have it included
in the symposium proceedings.

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SUBMITTING PAPERS
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In order to submit a paper, authors must register at SOCO 2010
conference management system (cmt.research.microsoft.com/SOCO2010).

All papers must be submitted in electronic format (PDF format, word
document or latex and images).

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: 18th February, 2010
Notification of acceptance: 8th March, 2010
Final version submission: 29th March, 2010
SOCO 2010 Conference: 16th-18th June, 2010

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TOPICS
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Causal Models
* Case-based Reasoning
* Chaos Theory Fuzzy Computing
* Evolutionary Computing
* Neuro Computing
* Probabilistic Computing
* Immunological Computing
* Hybrid Methods
* Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory
* Interactive Computational Models

The application fields of interest cover, but are not limited to:

* 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

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Paulo Novais, CCTC/University of Minho, Portugal
Cesar Analide, CCTC/University of Minho, Portugal

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CONTACTS
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e-mail: soco2010@di.uminho.pt
Website: http://soco2010.di.uminho.pt

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