IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - August 2020 - 2

CIM Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Chuan-Kang Ting
National Tsing Hua University
Department of Power Mechanical Engineering
No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, TAIWAN
(Phone) +886-3-5742611
(Email) ckting@pme.nthu.edu.tw
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Gary G.Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Past Editors-in-Chief
Kay Chen Tan, City University of Hong Kong,
HONG KONG
Hisao Ishibuchi, Southern University of Science and
Technology, CHINA
Editors-At-Large
Piero P. Bonissone, Piero P Bonissone Analytics
LLC, USA
David B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, ITALY
Marios M. Polycarpou, University of Cyprus,
CYPRUS
Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
Associate Editors
José M. Alonso, University of Santiago de
Compostela, SPAIN
Battista Biggio, University of Cagliari, ITALY
Giacomo Boracchi, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University,
SINGAPORE
Liang Feng, Chongqing University, CHINA
Eyke Hüllermeier, Paderborn University,
GERMANY
Sheng Li, University of Georgia, USA
Hsuan-Tien Lin, National Taiwan University,
TAIWAN
Hongfu Liu, Brandeis University, USA
Zhen Ni, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Nelishia Pillay, University of Pretoria, SOUTH
AFRICA
Kai Qin, Swinburne University of Technology,
AUSTRALIA
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK
Ming Shao, University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth, USA
Kyriakos G.Vamvoudakis, Georgia Tech, USA
Nishchal K.Verma, Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, INDIA
Handing Wang, Xidian University, CHINA
Dongrui Wu, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, CHINA
Bing Xue, Victoria University of Wellington,
NEW ZEALAND
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Chuan-Kang Ting
National Tsing Hua University, TAIWAN

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

he COVID-19 pandemic broke out at the beginning of
2020. As of mid-May, there have been more than 4.65M
cases reported and 312K deaths. Governments worldwide
implement control measures, such as lockdowns, travel restrictions, school closure, and social distancing, in order to prevent
further spread of COVID-19. This disease not only threatens
people's lives but also impacts economic as well as academic
activities. On the other hand, this difficult time gives us an opportunity to think
about the important things in our life and ponder the value of our research-has it
really contributed to human well-being?
The CIS has launched the COVID-19 initiative to expedite and expand dissemination of research results on computational intelligence helping combat COVID-19. All
the IEEE CIS Transactions and Magazine will speed up the review process of the articles that focus on COVID-19. Under this initiative, the IEEE CIM has set up a fasttrack special issue on "Computational Intelligence for Combating COVID-19" to
present the latest research and development in applying computational intelligence
technologies to fight COVID-19.
In this issue, we interview Hussein Abbass from the University of New South
Wales, Australia. The founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Artificial
Intelligence talks about this new publication, his life and favorites. The Features
includes three articles on computational intelligence and machine learning. The first
article reviews the characteristics and causes of dataset shifts, and presents a survey on
machine learning techniques for handling off-line mode dataset shifts problems. The
second article addresses a desirable feature, namely automatic tuning, for evolutionary
machine learning. The third article leverages the relation between depression level and
emotion intensity. Three multi-task architectures are employed for concurrently learning the two measures and gain promising performance. In the Columns, the Research
Frontier article introduces a strength index to the softmax policy, so as to adjust and
assess the strength of Monte-Carlo tree search. This approach is applied to Go programs and achieves state-of-the-art results.
We hope you will enjoy the articles in this issue. I would also like to encourage
you to contact me at ckting@pme.nthu.edu.tw with your suggestions and comments.
Hope the pandemic will be under control soon and look forward to seeing you at
SSCI 2020.
Stay safe and healthy!

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