CALL FOR
PAPERS
and
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS
ICAI'15
The 2015 International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort,
Las Vegas, USA
Paper Submission Deadline: March
31, 2015
You are invited
to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in
printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available
online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that
track citation frequency/data. In addition, like prior years, extended versions
of selected papers (about 35%) of the conference will appear in journals and
edited research books (publishers
include:
Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others; a list that includes a small subset of
such books and journal special issues appear in this document); some of these
books and journal special issues have already received the top 25% downloads in
their respective fields.
The conference
is composed of a number of tracks, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and
panel discussions; all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates:
July 27-30, 2015.
SCOPE: Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Prologue: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is
the science and engineering
of making intelligent machines and systems.
This is an important
multi-disciplinary field which is now an
essential part of technology
industry, providing the heavy lifting for
many of the most challenging
problems in computer science. Since Machine
Learning has strong ties
with AI, the conference also covers the
field of Machine Learning. The
list of topics below is by no means meant to
be exhaustive.
o Artificial Intelligence:
-
Brain models, Brain mapping, Cognitive science
- Natural language processing
- Fuzzy logic and soft computing
- Software tools for AI
- Expert systems
- Decision support systems
- Automated problem solving
- Knowledge discovery
- Knowledge representation
- Knowledge acquisition
- Knowledge-intensive problem solving
techniques
- Knowledge networks and management
- Intelligent information systems
- Intelligent data mining and farming
- Intelligent web-based business
- Intelligent agents
- Intelligent networks
- Intelligent databases
- Intelligent user interface
- AI and evolutionary algorithms
- Intelligent tutoring systems
- Reasoning strategies
- Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
- Distributed AI systems and architectures
- Neural networks and applications
- Heuristic searching methods
- Languages and programming techniques for
AI
- Constraint-based reasoning and constraint
programming
- Intelligent information fusion
- Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
- Search and meta-heuristics
- Multisensor data fusion using neural and
fuzzy techniques
- Integration of AI with other technologies
- Evaluation of AI tools
- Social intelligence (markets and
computational societies)
- Social impact of AI
- Emerging technologies
- Applications (including: computer vision,
signal processing, military,
surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern
recognition, face recognition,
finger print recognition, finance and
marketing, stock market,
education, emerging applications, ...)
o Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and
Applications:
- Statistical learning theory
- Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
- Multivariate analysis
- Hierarchical learning models
- Relational learning models
- Bayesian methods
- Meta learning
- Stochastic optimization
- Simulated annealing
- Heuristic optimization techniques
- Neural networks
- Reinforcement learning
- Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
- General Learning models
- Multiple hypothesis testing
- Decision making
- Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
- Non-parametric methods
- Graphical models
- Gaussian graphical models
- Bayesian networks
- Particle filter
- Cross-Entropy method
- Ant colony optimization
- Time series prediction
- Fuzzy logic and learning
- Inductive learning and applications
- Grammatical inference
- Graph kernel and graph distance methods
- Graph-based semi-supervised learning
- Graph clustering
- Graph learning based on graph
transformations
- Graph learning based on graph grammars
- Graph learning based on graph matching
- Information-theoretical approaches to
graphs
- Motif search
- Network inference
- Aspects of knowledge structures
- Computational Intelligence
- Knowledge acquisition and discovery
techniques
- Induction of document grammars
- General Structure-based approaches in
information retrieval,
web authoring, information extraction, and
web content mining
- Latent semantic analysis
- Aspects of natural language processing
- Intelligent linguistic
- Aspects of text technology
- Biostatistics
- High-throughput data analysis
- Computational Neuroscience
- Computational Statistics
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 30,
2015: Workshop / Session Proposals
March 31,
2015: Submission of full papers (about
7 pages)
April 24,
2015: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)
May 15,
2015: Final papers + Copyright +
Registration
July 27-30,
2015: The 2015 International Conference
on Artificial
Intelligence (ICAI'15)
SUBMISSION OF
DRAFT PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:
Prospective
authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation
web site at: http://world-comp.org . Submissions must be uploaded by the due
date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7
pages including all figures, tables, and
references.) All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their
final papers for publication; these formatting instructions appear at: http://world-comp.org and they conform to the two-column IEEE
style format). Papers must not have been previously published or currently
submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page
of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal
address, and email address for each author as well as a maximum of 5 topical
keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The first page
should also identify the name of the Contact/Corresponding author together with
his/her professional email address. A 100 to 150-word abstract should appear on
the first page.
Authors are to
conform to the common CODE OF ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The document for the Code of
Ethics is available on the submission web site.)
Each paper will
be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance,
clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a
member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final
decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from
additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member of the conference
program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process.
(Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for
discussion/panels).
The proceedings
will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made
available online. The printed proceedings/books will be available for
distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data. The
proceedings/books of the federated congress that this conference is part of
have been evaluated for inclusion into major science citation index databases.
We are happy to report that so far, the evaluation board of science citation
index databases have approved the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the
following conference tracks into relevant indexing databases (indexing
databases include, among others: Scopus, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and
others):
BIOCOMP, DMIN,
GCA, ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM. All proceedings are also
approved for inclusion into EBSCO (www.ebsco.com), one of the largest subject index systems.
In addition to
the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple books in each
series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in Computer Science and
Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of
Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference
(the process may take 12 to 18 months), a significant number of authors of
accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the
extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books.
We anticipate having between 10 and 20 books a year in each of these book
series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and
Springer science indexing products (which includes:
Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). For a recent and a very small
subset of the books (and journal special issues) that have been published based
on the extended versions of our congress papers, see below:
O. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition.
O. Springer:
Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems. Series:
Advances in Experimental Medicine and
Biology, Vol 696.
O. BMC
Bioinformatics: Special Journal Issue (Vol 15, Supp. 17);
Impact Factor: 2.67.
O. Springer:
Advances in Computational Biology. Series: Advances in
Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol 680.
O. BMC Systems
Biology: Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology", (Vol. 5, Supp.
3); Impact Factor: 2.85.
O. Springer:
Book: Resilient Computer System Design (April 2015)
O. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in ICT Security (Information and
Communications Technology).
O. BMC Medical
Genomics: Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology", (Vol. 6, Supp.
1); Impact Factor: 3.91.
O. Springer:
Transactions on Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence (multiple books).
O. Sringer:
Book: Real World Data Mining Applications (418 pages, 2015)
O. BMC Genomics:
Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology", (Vol. 9, Supp. 1); Impact
Factor: 4.04.
O. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing
(multiple books.)
O. BMC Genomics:
Special Journal Issue "Advances in Big Data Analytics",
(Vol. 15, Supp. 11); Impact Factor: 4.04.
O. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
and Systems Biology Publisher.
Some of these
books and journal special issues have already received the top 25% downloads in
their respective fields - we already have a number of Elsevier and Springer
books in the pipeline.
SUBMISSION OF
POSTER PAPERS:
Poster papers
can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions that appear in
section SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR EVALUATION - except that the submission
is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that
"This paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if
accepted) will be published as such, if and only if the author of the accepted
poster wishes to do so.
PROPOSAL FOR
ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:
The conference
is composed of a number of tracks. A track is a session, a workshop, or a
symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a workshop at least 12
papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track chairs will be responsible
for all aspects of their tracks, including:
soliciting
papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track chairs will appear as
Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the printed
books (and would be indexed in science databases as such). Track chairs who
attract a sufficient number of solid papers can propose to edit books with a
major publisher based on the extended versions of the papers accepted in their
tracks (the conference will facilitate and help such track chairs to get the
publisher's approval).
Proposals to
organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should include the
following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her
biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of the track
(also mention the name of this conference), and a short description on how the
track will be advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from
colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail
your track proposal to editor@world-comp.org . We would like to receive the track
proposals as soon as possible (see IMPORTANT DATES.)
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being
prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offerings of the congress included
research labs and centers affiliated with major government agencies,
universities, and institutions from all continents.
Sponsors
At-Large included (corporate, associations, organizations):
Intel
Corporation; Super Micro Computer, Inc., California, USA; Microsoft Research;
The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; International
Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; Chapter of Associations from five
countries; US Chapter of World Academy of Science; High Performance Computing
for Nanotechnology; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies (UK);
HoIP Telecom (UK); Hodges Health; OMG; Aldebaran Robotics Inc.; Federated
Council on Science and Education; Science Publications and many others.
MEMBERS OF
PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being
finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the federated congress that
this conference is part of included:
Dr. Selim Aissi,
(formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation,
USA) Vice
President, Global Information Security, Visa Inc., USA; Prof. Nizar Al-Holou,
Professor and Department Chair, and Vice Chair of IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter,
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia,
Professor of Computer Science, Elected Fellow of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of
Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Mary
Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Professor of Engineering Practice, University of
Southern California, USA (and Adjunct Professor, University of California Los
Angeles, UCLA, USA); Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of Information
Management, Central Police University, Taiwan and Program Chair, Security &
Forensics, Taiwan and Director, Information Crypto and Construction Lab (ICCL)
& ICCL-FROG; Prof. Michael Panayiotis Bekakos, Professor of Computer
Systems and Director of Laboratory of Digital Systems and Head of Parallel
Algorithms and architectures Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace,
Greece; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science and Director of
Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, University of Detroit
Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow of IAPR, ISIBM,
WASE and Professor of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern
University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished
Guest Professor, University Magdeburg, Germany; Prof. George Jandieri, Georgian
Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at The Institute of
Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head
of Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE Institute, India; Prof. George
Markowsky, Professor and Associate Director, School of Computing and
Information Science, Chair Int'l Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS, Director 2013
Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, University of Maine, Orono,
Maine, USA; Prof. G. N. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal University of
Studies, India (and Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Information
Technology, India); Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer
Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS, President of
FTRA, Editor-in-Chief of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Prof. Fernando G.
Tinetti,
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, Co-editor, Journal of CS and
Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic, Microsoft, Washington, USA; Prof.
Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg,
Russia; Dr. Michael R. Grimaila, Air Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of
ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Air Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to
the Prince of Wales Fellows & Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities
and PC member of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE);
Prof. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of
HoIP Telecom, UK, and Secretary-General of WABT and Vice-president of ICET,
Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK; Ashu M. G. Solo, Fellow of
British Computer Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies
America; Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer Science, Vice
President, of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Director of
Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com.,
Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow,
Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State University, Virginia, USA; Prof. Mary Q. Yang, Director, Mid-South
Bioinformatics Center and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, University of
Arkansas, USA; Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim, Multimedia Processing Communications
Lab.(MPCL), SunMoon University, South Korea; Prof. Young-Sik Jeong,
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Dongguk
University, Seoul, South Korea; and others.
The 2015 Program
Committee for individual conferences are currently being compiled. Many who
have already joined the committees are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers,
scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of
research labs., fellows of various societies, heads/ chairs of departments,
program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans and provosts.
Program
Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented
research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should
email editor@world-comp.org the following information for consideration:
Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a
one-page biography that includes research expertise & the name of this
conference.
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
The federated
Congress that this conference is part of is composed of research presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have
included:
Prof. David A.
Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric
Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as
Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father
of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR,
U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media
Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost;
OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.),
Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K.
Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program
Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT &
Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/
2000-2005 and
Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge
Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;
Dr.h.c.: ETH
Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H.
Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University - formerly at
Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of
Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr.
Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin
(Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg
(School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior Fellow,
San Diego Supercomputing Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of
Parallel Coordinates and author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed
Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU
Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University,
Colorado, USA); Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent
Scholar; Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in
Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science,
Wright State University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging Center; and The US
Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA and Chair of
IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John McLucas Award, the
highest US Air Force Award for basic research); and many other distinguished
speakers. The Congress is among the top five largest annual gathering of
researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We
anticipate to have attendees from about 85 countries/territories. To get a
feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide show, click on "Start
SlideShow" tab at the url above.)
An important
mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse
community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers,
educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out
to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities,
institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs)
from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants
from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are
affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The
congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity
objectives."
One main goal of
the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences,
workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers
in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied
computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary research initiatives; i.e., facilitating increased
opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.
MEASURABLE
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December
8, 2014, proceedings of the federated congress that this conference is part of,
have received over 27,878 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation
data is obtained from Microsoft Academic Search.
The citation
data does not even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers published
by conferences whose first offerings were initiated by the congress. Individual
proceedings/books (2013 & 2014) of the federated congress can be purchased
from major science book distributors:
(such as: EBSCO
and others):
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information
that appears in this announcement is correct as of December 8, 2014.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should
be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
