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(Left) Marios Polycarpou, (Middle) Nikhil Pal, and (Right) Alice Smith delivering Plenary Speeches at IEEE SSCI 2014.

major CIS conferences: IJCNNCEC-FUZZY/WCCI and SSCI.
❏ This is the first time that IEEE SSCI has
organized a Doctoral Consortium (DC)
event, specifically targeting the Ph.D.
students in the CI field.With the financial support from CIS, a total of 24 doctoral students participated the DC event.
The Doctoral Consortium provided a
unique platform for the Ph.D. students
to present and share their doctoral
research, interact and network with
other students and senior fellows in our
society, a fundamental activity for their
future research and career development.
❏ IEEE SSCI 2014 has also taken a
new initiative to organize Plenary
Talks at the general conference level.
This year, three plenary talks were
delivered by world-renowned experts
covering all three key aspects of CI:
Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and
Evolutionary Computation:
* Marios M. Polycarpou: "Sensor
Fault Diagnosis in Cyber-Physical
Systems"

* Nikhil R. Pal: "Single Frame Super
Resolution: Gaussian Mixture
Regression and Fuzzy Rule-Based
Approaches"
* Alice E. Smith: "Blast from the
Past-Revisiting Evolutionary
Strategies for the Design of Engineered Systems"
In addition to the Plenary Talks, IEEE
SSCI 2014 also featured 26 Keynote
Talks given by experts in the field, covering the latest developments in basic
research, technology and applications.

BRAZIL, and Aline Neves, Federal
University of ABC, BRAZIL, paper
associated with IEEE Symposium on
Computational Intelligence for Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing
(CIMSIVP'14)
❏ "A Cortex-inspired Episodic Memory Toward Interactive 3D Robotic
Vision" By Abdul Rahman Abdul
Ghani and Kazuyuki Murase, University of Fukui, JAPAN, paper associated with IEEE Symposium on
Computational Intelligence for
Human-like Intelligence (CIHLI'14).

The Awards

Through a rigorous selection process
chaired by the "Best Paper Award Chair"
Gary Yen, IEEE SSCI 2014 selected the
following paper awards:

The Women in Computational
Intelligence (WCI)

On Wednesday, December 10th, Women
in Computational Intelligence sub-committee (Chair: Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung)

Best Student Paper Award
❏ "Visualizing Uncertainty with Fuzzy

Rose Diagrams" By Andrew R.
Buck and James M. Keller, University
of Missouri, USA, paper associated
with IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering
Solutions (CIES'14).
Best Paper Award
❏ "Two Key Properties of Dimension-

Gary Fogel (IEEE SSCI '14 Finance Chair)
presents the Best Student Paper Award.

ality Reduction Methods" By John A.
Lee and Michel Verleysen, Université
Catholique de Louvain, BELGIUM,
paper associated with IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence
and Data Mining (CIDM'14)
❏ "Multivariate PDF Matching via
Kernel Density Estimation" By Denis
G. Fantinato, Levy Boccato, Romis
Attux, University of Campinas,

When CI meets cosplay (right: Hisao Ishibuchi, IEEE CIM EIC).

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