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IEEE norms and with the help of the
iThenticate system provided by the
IEEE.
As a part of the banquet, an excellent classical Indian dance program
introduced the attendees to local tradi-

President's Message

new friends with like-minded peers
and mentors while strengthening existing professional links. Every member
can approach their Chapter Chairs
with new ideas of events and activities
and I certainly encourage you to do so.
Last but not least, I would like to
take this opportunity to thank the past
Editors-in-Chief of the CI Magazine,
Profs. Kay Chen Tan and Gary Yen, for
their leadership and enormous effort in
managing and developing the CIM

into the leading society magazine it is
today. The Society is very fortunate to
have Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi, a highly
respected scholar and an experienced
CIS volunteer, as its new Editor-inChief of the CI Magazine from 2014. I
am sure like me, you will enjoy the first
issue of CIM he has put together for us!

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This announcement will include the
deadline for bids and the acceptance
date. Further, as we are aware that putting together a bid, particularly for our
larger conferences is significant work,
we will announce a prioritized listing of
regions sought for a particular conference. This prioritized listing has two
goals: a) to provide some hints to organizers of what the conference committee is looking for and b) ensuring that
conferences do rotate across the geographical regions, where possible.

Publication Spotlight

Conclusion

The challenges facing conference organization are multiple, not least financial,
where not only delegates face a growing challenge to find funding to participate, but also conference organizers face
increasing challenges to meet their budgets. Despite these and many other
challenges, conferences are still fantastic
events, where you can get away, at least
to an extent, from the daily challenges
of your local workplace and engross
yourself in our fantastic field and meet

with both existing and newly formed
collaborators. However, such events
would not be possible without the fantastic work that our conference organizers do. For those of you who have
already volunteered for some role in
upcoming conferences let me take this
opportunity to thank you for your support for our conferences and I look forward to working directly or indirectly
with all of you in the near future.

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Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/
TAMD.2013.2269905
"This paper examines maternal contingent responsiveness to infant object
exploration in 190 mother-infant pairs
from diverse cultural communities.
Dyads were video-recorded, and sequential analysis was used to examine

conclude, we gratefully acknowledge
that the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society played a very active role
in the organization of the conference.

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volunteer involvement. You, the CIS
members, are the one who drives the
development of TCs and TFs.
CIS has over 100 local chapters distributed all over the world, which serve
their local members. CIS Chapters are
run by local volunteers, for the local
members. They host Distinguished
Lecturers and organize seminars and
workshops. They tailor activities
towards the needs of the local membership. These are great ways to make

Society Briefs

tions and cultures. Several of the CIS
technical meetings were held in
Hyderabad to complement the conference program and Prof. Witold Pedrycz
received the 2013 Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award during the banquet. To

whether certain maternal behaviors were
more (or less) likely to follow infant
object exploration relative to chance, to
one another, and to times when infants
were off task. Mothers were more likely
to explore objects and use referential language in response to infant object exploration than to use regulatory language or

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be off task, and maternal behaviors were
reduced in the context of infants being
off task. Infant object exploration elicits
reciprocal object exploration and informative verbal input from mothers, illustrating the active role infants play in their
social experiences."

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