WCCI 2008 will also feature post-congress workshops covering fundamental and advanced computational intelligence topics. Any inquires regarding the workshops should be addressed to Workshops Chairs Irwin King at king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk and Yangmin Li at ymli@umac.mo by January 1, 2008.
Please make sure you indicate the correct conference, e.g., IJCNN, FUZZ, or CEC. */
Workshop Title | Status | Proposed Date | Proposed Location | Proposed Fee |
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W1. Machine Learning in Cognitive Networks: Theory, Application, and Future Organizers: Er Meng Joo, John Strassner, and Yan Liu | Accepted | June 7, 2008 | Room 610, HKCEC | USD $75 |
W2. Applications of Computational Intelligence to Benefit Society Organizers: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Valerie Cross, and Keeley Crockett | Accepted | June 7, 2008 | Room 410, HKCEC | USD $75 |
W3. Advanced Computational Intelligence Organizers: Yangmin Li, Irwin King, and Hai-Bin Duan | Accepted | June 6 and 7, 2008 | University of Macau | USD $75 |
Cognitive networks has attracted increasing attention as an advanced form of future networks that is aware of changes in user needs and its environment, adapts its behavior to those changes, learns from its adaptations, and exploits knowledge to improve its future behavior. The notion of cognition in cognitive networks implies a number of intelligent tasks including perception, acting and planning, learning, reasoning, and decision making, all of which require a robust knowledge representation that facilitates the sharing and reuse of knowledge. Hence, machine learning and reasoning play a key role in fuelling and driving the advance of cognitive networks.
Designed to use different forms of intelligence to dynamically learn from and adapt to evolving business needs and environmental changes, cognitive networking has attracted increasing attention as an enabler for network visions including seamless mobility, mobile ad hoc networks, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, and new forms and business models of radio communication. A cognitive network is one that is aware of changes in user needs and its environment, adapts its behavior to those changes, learns from its adaptations, and exploits knowledge to improve its future behavior. The notion of cognition in cognitive networks implies a number of intelligent tasks including perception, acting and planning, learning, reasoning, and decision making, all of which require a robust knowledge representation that facilitates the sharing and reuse of knowledge. Hence, machine learning and reasoning play a key role in fuelling and driving the advance of cognitive networks.
Recently a set of enhancements to the original knowledge plane [1][2] has been proposed for cognitive networks to provide high-level dynamic cognitive functionality to augment the existing low-level rule policies that dictate how the network should behave in certain scenarios. Learning engines have also been proposed to support decision making for context-aware services and applications. However, challenges remain in turning these learning models into viable commercial products. There are also a mix of open issues regarding the implementation of cognition, including distributed learning, decision fusion and robust decision making, dynamic adaptation of parameters, iterative numerical algorithms, and complex adaptive behavior, among others.
In this workshop, we will discuss the following non-exhaustive list of topics:
Over the last few years significant applications in society have begun to utilise computational intelligence techniques in nurturing professions such as education, health care and social care. Additionally human interfacing to software systems such as customer relationship management are employing computational intelligence. Such applications make a significant difference in peoples everyday lives and provide measurable benefits. The use of computational intelligence techniques to address real-world problems is readily apparent in engineering fields and applications such as system modelling, control, prediction, signal processing, image processing, industrial automation, robotics, sensing systems, aerospace applications, automotive applications, and so on… Its use in other fields such as cognitive or social sciences, biology, linguistics, medicine, and education, however, is less prominent. This workshop emphasizes the use of computational intelligence techniques to tackle challenging problems in such fields where synergistic solutions can have major impacts that greatly benefit society. The workshop will provide an opportunity for a variety of researchers to present and disseminate the capabilities of and support, that computational intelligence can contribute to addressing real-world problems in other domains besides engineering such as cognitive or social sciences, biology, and to the benefit of society.
The workshop is suitable for all tracks (IJCNN, FUZZ, CEC).
The theme of this workshop is real world applications in the field of computational intelligence. All kinds of real-world applications will be taken into consideration, with a focus on those which bring a benefit to humanity, for instance in health, education, risk detection, man-machine communication, etc, and those which are trans-disciplinary. New, unusual and hybrid approaches used to create such applications are particularly encouraged and should clearly reflect the benefit to society.
The International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI2008) aims to explore advanced techniques and approaches in the field of computational intelligence for innovative applications. The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers to present and disseminate their latest on-going research work and a chance to share their research work with other internationally renowned researchers. A special issue of extended invited papers will be published by the International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics.
Description | Date |
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Workshop Proposal Deadline | January 1, 2008 |
Workshop Decision Notification | January 21, 2008 |
Regular Paper Notification | February 1, 2008 |
Workshop Submission Deadline | T.B.A. |
Workshop Decision Notification | T.B.A. |
There are several potential workshop venues for WCCI2008. The workshop organizers will work out and decide the venue for their workshop depending on the location, cost, transportation, etc. These venues are listed below.
Description | Location | Transportation | Venue Cost |
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Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) | WCCI2008 Conference site in Wanchai | Conference site | Yes, commercial |
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks | Shatin, New Territories | 30 mins from HKCEC by private bus or 1 hr from HKCEC by public transportation | Yes (lower than HKCEC), semi-commercial |
University of Macao | Macao, China | 2 hours from HKCEC by boat and by bus or taxi | Nominal |