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Open source CI software is ready to make
easier and faster the adoption of CI techniques
in other disciplines, for both academy
and industry.
The third paper "Probabilistic Graphical Models on Multi-Core CPUs using
Java 8" was authored by Masegosa, Martínez, and Borchani. It deals with software design issues related to the
development of parallel CI algorithms
on multi-core CPUs using the new Java
8 functional programming features [6].
These functional primitives are quite
appealing for developing CI software due
to the fact that they allow us to decouple
the problem of what can be parallelized
from the problem of how to run an algorithm in parallel. The proposed approach

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was validated with the development of
the software AMIDST4, intended for the
analysis of massive data streams.
Finally, as Guest Editors of this special issue, we would like to thank
authors for their submissions, not only
the authors of the three accepted papers
but all authors who submitted a paper
for this special issue. In addition, we
would like to recognize the hard and
great job made by the anonymous referees who supported the review process.

We thank them for their kind, valuable
and outstanding cooperation, as well as
for their constructive feedback.
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Nikhil R. Pal
iEEE CiS Vice-president
for publications, inDia

Call for Nominations/Applications: Editor-in-Chief
of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
(TFS) is a flagship publication of the
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), which enjoys a privileged
position among the researchers in Fuzzy
Sets and Systems, and related areas. Its
2014 impact factor is 8.746, the highest
of all IEEE publications. The details
about TFS can be found at: http://cis.
ieee.org/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzysystems.html.

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2016.2532262
Date of publication: 11 April 2016

The tenure of the present Editor
will expire on December 31, 2016. The
IEEE CIS Executive Committee has
formed an Adhoc Search Committee to
seek a suitable candidate to serve as the
next EIC of TFS. The Search Committee solicits nominations/applications for
this. Nominees/applicants should be
dedicated volunteers with outstanding
research profiles and extensive editorial
experience. The nomination/application package should include complete
CV along with a separate description
(max 300 words/topic) on each of the
following items: Vision Statement;

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Editorial Experience; Summary of publishing experience in IEEE-CIS journals/magazine; IEEE CIS Volunteer
Experience; Institutional Support; Networking with Community; Challenges,
if any, faced by the publication, and how
to deal with them (an itemized list of
issues and possible solutions); Why does
the candidate consider himself/herself
fit for this position?
The nomination/application package should be e-mailed as a single PDF
to Nikhil R. Pal at nrpal59@gmail.
com by May 15, 2016.

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