Emerging Technologies Technical Committee TC Members 2012 June2013 April2013 DecemberJune 2014 50 Members43 Members51 Members North America: 14 North America:

Emerging TechnologiesTechnical Committee

TC Members

2012 June 2013 April 2013 December June 2014

50 Members 43 Members 51 Members 51 Members

North America: 14 North America: 9 North America: 9 North America: 9

Latin America: 1 Latin America: 0 Latin America: 0 Latin America: 0

Europe: 12 Europe: 12 Europe: 17 Europe: 16

Africa: 0 Africa: 0 Africa: 0 Africa: 0

Asia: 21 Asia: 20 Asia: 22 Asia: 22

Oceania: 2 Oceania: 2 Oceania: 3 Oceania: 5

Male: 38, Female: 12 Male: 34, Female: 9 Male: 43, Female: 8 Male: 42, Female: 9

New Members: 22 New Members: 0 New Members: 8 New Members: 1

Task Forces

• TF in total• 14

• TF new• 0

• TF terminated• 0


Current Task Forces (14)1. Affective Computing, Chair: Christian Wagner 2. Ambient Intelligence, Chair: Ahmad Lotfi3. Behavior and Social Informatics and Computing, Chair: Longbing Cao4. Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems, Chair: Hide Sasaki5. Brain Informatics, Chair: Ning Zhong6. Collaborative Learning and Optimization, Chair: Kai Qin7. Creative Intelligence, Chair: Francisco Fernandez de Vega8. Emerging Technologies for Computer Go, Chair: Shi-Jim Yen9. Emerging Technologies in Operations Research and Management Sciences, Chair: Jian

Xiong10.Intelligent Agent, Chair: Jie Zhang11.Machine Learning, Chair: Eyke Hullermeier12.Memetic Computing, Chair: Ferrante Neri13.Quantum Computing, Chair: Guowu Yan14.Towards Human-like Intelligence, Chair Jacek Mandziuk

ETTC Task Forces


Activities Organized at WCCI2014

• Special sessions organized (organizers, title) J.J. Liang, Quan-Ke Pan, Yuhui Shi, B.Y. Qu, Swarm Intelligence for Real-world

Engineering Optimization J. J. Liang, P. N. Suganthan, B. Liu, B. Y. Qu, Q. F. Zhang, Q. Chen, Single

Objective Numerical Optimization Ke Tang, Kai Qin, Qingfu Zhang, Yew-Soon Ong, Special session on

collaborative learning and optimization Xiaodong Li, Ke Tang, Zhenyu Yang, Special session on large scale global

optimization Christian Wagner, Dongrui Wu, Faiyaz Doctor, Computational Intelligence for

Physiological and Affective Computing Hani Hagras, Christian Wagner, Dongrui Wu, Applications of Type-2 Fuzzy

Systems Chang-Shing Lee and Giovanni Acampora, Fuzzy Ontologies and Fuzzy Markup

Language Applications Zexuan Zhu, Wenyin Gong, Yew-Soon Ong, Maoguo Gong, Special Session on

Memetic Computing



• Special sessions organized (organizers, title) Ying Tan, Fireworks algorithm for optimizations Shi Cheng, Yuhui Shi, Yaochu Jin, Evolutionary Computation in Big Data Esther Andrés, Emiliano Iuliano, Yaochu Jin, Tom Dhaene, Ivo Couckuyt,

Surrogate-assisted Global Optimization Methods for Expensive Engineering Design

Chuan-Kang Ting, Francisco Fernández de Vega, Palle Dahlstedt, Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity

Chuan-Kang Ting, Hui Cheng, Shengxiang Yang, Jun Zhang, Zhun Fan, Intelligent Network Systems



• Special sessions organized (organizers, title) Valentina E. Balas, Tsung-Chih Lin, Rajeeb Dey, Adaptive Fuzzy Control for

Nonlinear Time-delay Systems Control Valentina E. Balas, Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin, Fuzzy Techniques in Biometrics N Ahmad Taher Azar, Valentina E. Balas, Rajeeb Dey, Hybrid Advances,

Applications and Practical Implementations of Neuro-Fuzzy systems



• Competitions organized (organizers, title) J. J. Liang, P. N. Suganthan, B. Liu, B. Y. Qu, Q. F. Zhang, Q. Chen, Single

Objective Numerical Optimization


Activities to be organized at SSCI2014

• Special sessions organized (organizers, title, TF name / TC member) Workshop on Memetic Computing (Giovanni Iacca, Fabio Caraffini, Ferrante

Neri) Special Session on Grounded Cognition, Creativity and Motivated Learning

(Kathryn Merrick, Janusz Starzyk, Frank van der Velde) Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (S. Mostaghim, Organizer, Bio-

inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force) Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (S. Mostaghim,

Organizer, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force) IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence

(Jacek Mańdziuk, Włodzisław Duch, Janusz Starzyk, TF on Towards Human-Like Intelligence/Jacek Mańdziuk)

IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (Vincenzo Loia and Hani Hagras)


Activities to be organized at SSCI2014

• Tutorials organized (organizers, title, TF name / TC member) Keynote Talk on Memetic Computing by Jim Smith Invited Talk on Memetic Computing by Yew-Soon Ong

• Competitions organized (organizers, title, TF name / TC member)


Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia)

• Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) ... Journals Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, special is use on Pervasive Health

(Diane Cook, Guest Co-Editor) ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, special issue on

Intelligent Systems for Socially Aware Computing (Diane Cook, Guest Co-Editor)

Journal of Human-computer Interaction, special issue on Ambient Assisted Living (Diane Cook, Guest Co-Chair)

Min JIANG , Ben Goertzel, Jacek MAŃDZIUK and Naoyuki KUBOTA, IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on “Human-Like Intelligence and Robotics” (ETTC, Min JIANG)

Special Issue of Information Sciences Journal on Large Scale Global Optimization



• Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) ... Journals Special Issue in Brain Informatics (Frank van der Velde) Int J General Systems on Unconventional Computing (A. Adamatzky, Special

issue editor, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force) Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, Elsevier, on Emerging Spatial

Competences: From Machine Perception to Sensorimotor Intelligence (Z. Ji, Special issue editor, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)

Parallel Processing Letters on parallel unconventional computers (A. Adamatzky, Special issue editor, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)



• Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) ... Journals Special Issue Fuzzy Computing and Intelligent Transportation 2013; Guest

Editors: Valentina Emilia Balas, Tsung-Chih Lin, and Pamela McCauley Bush in Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, IF 1.383.

Special Issue Fuzzy Computing and Intelligent Transportation 2014; Guest Editors: Valentina Emilia Balas, Tsung-Chih Lin, and Pamela McCauley Bush in Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, IF 1.383

Studies in Computational Intelligence , Volume 561 2014; Innovations in Intelligent Machines-5; Computational Intelligence in Control Systems Engineering; Editors: Valentina Emilia Balas, Petia Koprinkova-Hristova, Lakhmi C. Jain



• Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (Diane Cook, General Co-Chair) Special Session on “ Swarm Intelligence for Real-world Application“ at

ICSI’2014, Boyang Qu, J. J. Liang,Quan-Ke Pan, P N Suganthan Competition on Single Objective Optimization at ICSI’2014, Ying Tan, Junzhi Li,

Zhongyang Zheng, J. J. Liang Competition on Single Objective Optimization at ICSI’2014, Ying Tan, Junzhi Li,

Zhongyang Zheng, J. J. Liang Special Session on ”Advances in Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and

Applications” at ICIC’ 2014 , Ben Niu, J. J. Liang, Yanmin Liu, Hanning Chen Special Session on “ Evolutionary Computation for Constrained Optimization:

Methods and Real-world Application” at IES’ 2014, Chuan-Kang Ting, Ying-Ping Chen, J. J. Liang

Special Session on Evolutionary Computation and Data Mining” at IES’ 2014 , Xinye Cai, Zhun Fan, J. J. Liang



• Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and

Automated Learning (IDEAL'2013), Technical Co-sponsored by IEEE CIS, 20-23, October, 2013, Hefei, Anhui, China

IEEE CIG 2015 (Chang-Shing Lee, General Co-Chair, http://cig2015.nctu.edu.tw/)

IEEE CIS, Fifth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (Ying Tan) Nano Communication Networks on biomolecular nanocommunication

networks (A. Adamatzky, Special issue editor, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)

ALIFE 2014 (H. Sayama, Program Chair, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)

International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM) (Co-located with WCCI 2014) (J. Weng, Program Chair, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)



• Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) Morphogenetic Engineering Workshop 2014 (H. Sayama , Co-Chair , Bio-

inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force) Morphogenetic Collective Systems Special Track at BICT 2014 (H. Sayama ,

Chair , Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force) BICT 2014 Special Track on Artificial, Biological and Bio-Inspired

Intelligence (ABBII) (A. Adamatzky, Organizer, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)

SPRING 14 S: Memristor materials, mechanisms and devices for unconventional computing (A. Adamatzky, Organizer, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)

Summer School of Brain-Mind Institute, Beijing, July 14 - August 1, 2014 (J. Weng, Program Chair, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)



• Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member) Francisco Fernández de Vega, Palle Dahlstedt, Chuan-Kang Ting, “Special

Session on Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity” for CEC 2015

Vincenzo Loia, Keynote at 2014 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA 2014)

General Co-Chair to 6th International Workshop on Soft Computing and Applications, 24-26 July 2014, Timisoara, Romania

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