FYI, please note that imprecise probabilities are among highlighted topics

 

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Dear colleague,

 

we would like to kindly invite you to submit an abstract to the

 

IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering

Solutions - CIES'2015

 

which we are organizing within the IEEE Symposium Series on

Computational Intelligence SSCI'2015, Cape Town, South Africa,

December 7-10, 2015

http://www.ieee-ssci.org.za

 

Please find below the outline of our Symposium and attached a

conference flyer for your information. We would very much appreciate

if you could accept our invitation.

 

Paper submission will be facilitated through the conference

webpage in due course.

 

Deadline for paper submission:  June 14, 2015

 

The IEEE SSCI'2015 co-locates multiple exciting symposiums at one

single location, providing a unique opportunity to encourage

cross-fertilization and collaboration in all areas of CI. The IEEE

SSCI 2014 features a large number of keynotes, tutorials, and

special sessions.

 

Please accept our apologies if you receive this call for papers

more than once through different channels.

 

Sincerely,

 

Michael Beer, University of Liverpool (mbeer@liverpool.ac.uk)

Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdeburg (kruse@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de)

Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El Paso (vladik@utep.edu)

 

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IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering

Solutions CIES'2015

 

Developments in Engineering are characterized by a growing

complexity, which is balanced by an extensive utilization of

computational resources. This complexity is not only a feature of

engineering systems, processes and products, it is primarily a key

attribute of the respective algorithms for analysis, control and

decision-making to develop those engineering solutions. To cope

with complexity in this broad spectrum of demands, Computational

Intelligence is implemented increasingly in virtually all

engineering disciplines. This emerging approach provides a basis

for developments of a new quality.

 

This Symposium is focused on the utilization of Computational

Intelligence in this context in the entire field of engineering.

Examples concern the control of processes of various kinds and for

various purposes, monitoring with sensors, smart sensing, system

identification, decision-support and assistance systems,

visualization methods, prediction schemes, the solution of

classification problems, response surface approximations, the

formulation of surrogate models, etc. The engineering application

fields may comprise, for example, bioengineering with prostheses

design and control, civil and mechanical engineering processes,

systems and structures concerned with vehicles, aircraft or

bridges, industrial and systems engineering with design and

control of power systems, electrical and computer engineering with

developments in robotics, etc. All kinds of approaches from the

field of Computational Intelligence are welcome.

 

As a part of the Symposium special attention is paid to

sustainable engineering solutions to address current and future

challenges of environmental changes and uncertainty. This includes

developments dealing with climate change, environmental processes,

disaster warning and management, infrastructure security,

lifecycle analysis and design, etc. Events, disasters and issues

under consideration may be natural such as earthquakes or

tsunamis, man-made such as human failure or terrorist attacks, or

a combination thereof including secondary effects such as failures

in nuclear power plants, which may be critical for systems, the

environment and the society. Developments which include a

comprehensive consideration of uncertainty and techniques of

reliable computing are explicitly invited. These may involve

probabilistic including Bayesian approaches, interval methods,

fuzzy methods, imprecise probabilities and further concepts. In

this context robust design is of particular interest with all its

facets as a basic concept to develop sustainable engineering

solutions.

 

Topics

 

The symposium topics include, but are not limited to:

*  Complex engineering systems, structures and processes

*  Intelligent analysis, control and decision-making

*  Management and processing of uncertainties

*  Problem solution in uncertain and noisy environments

*  Reliable computing

*  Sustainable solutions

*  Infrastructure security

*  Climate change

*  Environmental processes

*  Disaster warning and management

*  Lifecycle analysis and design

*  Automotive systems

*  Monitoring

*  Smart sensing

*  System identification

*  Decision-support and assistance systems

*  Visualization methods

*  Prediction schemes

*  Classification methods, cluster analysis

*  Response surface approximations and surrogate models

*  Sensitivity analysis

*  Robust design, reliability-based design, performance-based design

*  Risk analysis, hazard analysis, risk and hazard mitigation

*  Optimization methods, evolutionary concepts

*  Probabilistic and statistical methods

*  Simulation methods, Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo

*  Bayesian approaches / networks

*  Artificial Neural Networks

*  Imprecise probabilities

*  Evidence theory

*  p-box approach

*  Fuzzy probability theory

*  Interval methods

*  Fuzzy methods

*  Convex modeling

*  Information gap theory

 

Symposium Co-Chairs

Michael Beer, University of Liverpool, UK

Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El Paso, TX, USA