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Conference
Reports

Amir Hussain
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Marios M. Polycarpou
University of Cyprus, CYPRUS
Xin Yao
Southern University of Science and Technology, CHINA
IEEE WCCI 2020 General Chairs

Conference Report on 2020 IEEE World Congress on
Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2020)

T

he IEEE World Congress on
Computational Intelligence (IEEE
WCCI) is the world's largest
technical event on computational in--
telligence. In 2020, IEEE WCCI was
organized in Glasgow, Scotland, UK,
from 19-24 July, in a fully virtual capaci-
ty for the first time ever, due to the glob-
al COVID-19 pandemic.
IEEE WCCI is sponsored by the
IEEE Computational Intelligence Soci-
ety (IEEE CIS), the Inter national
Neural Network Society (INNS), the
Evolutionary Programming Society
(EPS), and the Institution of Engineer-
ing and Technology (IET).
By hosting the three flagship confer-
ences of the IEEE CIS under one roof:
the 2020 International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks (IJCNN), the
2020 IEEE International Conference on
Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), and the
2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation (IEEE CEC), the congress
brought together leading researchers and
practitioners from all over the world to
exchange and present their perspectives
on a comprehensive range of research
and applications in the field of computa-
tional intelligence.
IEEE WCCI 2020 received a re--
cord number of 3118 paper submis-
sions and more than 2350 registrations
from 73 countries. Among the submis-
sions, a large number of papers demon-
strated refreshing theories and concepts,
supported by strong, compelling a- nalytical

and empirical analyses. Based on rigor-
ous reviews by three reviewers per
paper, 1819 highest quality papers
were accepted for oral and poster pre-

sentations, including 1134 papers
accepted for IJCNN, 259 for FUZZIEEE, and 426 for IEEE CEC. The
organizing committee is truly humbled

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2020.3039042
Date of current version: 12 January 2021

FIGURE 2 Public lecture speaker Yoshua Bengio introducing his talk on " Towards Deep
Learning 2.0 " .

FIGURE 1 General Chair Amir Hussain delivering the opening speech at IEEE WCCI 2020.

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