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vision processing applications. TheSVPTF intends to combine andexchange knowledge within the areas ofCI and speech and video processing formore efficient representation ofaudio/video information, better min-ing/detection/ recognition of patterns,and effective multimodal fusion/con-version/ synchronization. In the future,the SVPTF will dedicate to advancingthese research topics by organizing TF-related special issues, sessions, confer-ences, and strategic discussions. TheSVPTF Chair for 2006 is K. VijayanAsari (vasari@odu.edu).

The purpose of the TeleCommuni-cations Task Force (TTF) is to fosterresearch in the areas of CI integratinginto networking and telecommunica-tions environments. The TTF intendsto combine and exchange knowledgewithin the areas of networking andtelecommunications for better under-standing of CI in telecommunicationsand to provide guidelines for exploitingtheir practical implementations.

The list of research topics covered bythe TTF are but not limited to: telecom-munications systems and applications,which include autonomous and adaptivesystems, self-organizing software agents,emergent behavior in grid computing,self-organization in grid computing, self-organizing ad-hoc and sensor networkapplications; computing paradigms intelecommunications, which includeautonomic computing and communica-tion, P2P computing and overlay net-works, biologically and socially inspiredcomputing, pervasive, wireless andmobile computing, ambient intelligence,sensor, ad-hoc networking and systems,

web services, evolutionary game theoryand networking. In the future, the TTFwill devise a TF research policy andobjectives plan, disseminate the TF aimsand collaborate with other initiatives topromote these research topics, organizeTF-related special issues, sessions andconferences, strategic discussions to fosterresearch in the areas of CI integratinginto networking and telecommunicationsenvironments. The TTF Chair for 2006is Thanos Vasilakos (vasilako@ath.forth-net.gr).

The Virtual Reality Task Force(VRTF) aims to provide a debatingforum between “birds of the feather,”identify common research collaborationprojects, organize scientific events, anddevelop educational materials in virtualreality. There is an ad-hoc structurebased on the common research interestsamong a group of researchers.

Recently, the VRTF has establisheda working group on “Simulation andmodeling of critical infrastructure inter-dependencies for emergency prepared-ness applications” consisting ofresearchers from the University of Orebro,University of Amsterdam, CMU-RoboticsInstitute, and University of Ottawa, collab-orated in the organization of the“HAVE’2006—IEEE InternationalWorkshop on Haptic Audio VisualEnvironments and their Applications.”In the future, the VRTF would pro-mote the development of soft-comput-ing techniques for real-time modeling ofobject properties and their behavior incomplex interactive virtual reality appli-cations over the net, human-machinecollaboration in tele-robotics andexoskeletons, brain-computer interfaces

(BCI) in tele-operations, simulation andmodeling of critical infrastructure inter-dependencies for emergency prepared-ness applications by organizing specialsessions or proposing special issues. TheVRTF Chair for 2006 is Emil Petriu(petriu@site.uottawa.ca).

Getting InvolvedISATC is open to any members of theIEEE, as well as to other technical pro-fessionals as affiliates. Affiliates are non-IEEE members who have an interest inISATC activities and meetings, but willnot be eligible to vote on matters beforethe committee.

You can participate in the ISATCactivities in many ways. Most of themshall be conducted through task forces,whose core activities will consist of: (1)strategic discussions; (2) dissemination ofthese discussions and other informationvia internet; (3) where appropriate, sup-port the ISATC input to liaise otherorganizations or committees; (4) organi-zation of special issues in CIS journals,CIS-sponsored special sessions or confer-ences. To participate to ISATC activities,you may first apply to be a member ofISATC; if there is no TF relevant to yourresearch topic, you are encouraged tocreate a new TF and be selected to chairit; if the technical activities are fruitful andoutstanding, your TF would be fully con-sidered for promotion to a TC.

You are welcomed to ISATC. Wewill continue to react constructively toyour ideas, comments, criticisms andsuggestions to improve the organization,service and activities of ISATC. Pleasedon’t hesitate to contact the appropriateTF Chair or me.

Newly Elected AdCom Members

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier is currently adirector of research atthe National Centerfor Scientific Research,head of the depart-ment of Databases and

Machine Learning, member of the boardof directors of the Computer ScienceLaboratory of the University Paris 6.Graduate from the Ecole NormaleSupérieure at Cachan, she received thedegrees of B.S. in Mathematics andComputer Science, Ph.D. in Applied

Mathematics and D. Sc. in ComputerScience from the University of Paris. Herresearch interests are on fuzzy logic, softcomputing, information retrieval, datamining and intelligent systems. Sheteaches several courses at the graduatelevel in the University Paris 6.

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Editor-in-Chief of the InternationalJournal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness andKnowledge-based Systems, she is also inthe editorial board of Fuzzy Sets andSystems, International Journal of FuzzySystems, International Journal of Approxi-mate Reasoning, International Journal ofInformation Technology and IntelligentComputing, International Journal of AppliedFuzzy Set Theory, Journal of UncertainSystems, and IEEE EMBS Book Series.

She is the (co)-editor of eighteenbooks and the (co)-author of four booksin French. She is a co-founder and co-chairperson of the International Confer-ence on Information Processing andManagement of Uncertainty inKnowledge-based Systems (IPMU) heldevery other year since 1986 and techni-cally co-sponsored by IEEE CIS. She isthe author or co-author of more than 300papers in journals, conferences and books.

Member of the CIS Adcom since2004, she has chaired the Women inComputational Intelligence committeesince then. She is also a member of theIEEE Women in Engineering commit-tee, representative of the CIS. She iscurrently a member of the IEEE Granu-lar Computing Task Force Committee,the Fuzzy Systems Technical Commit-tee of the CIS and the task force on“Future Directions in Fuzzy Sets andSystems, as well as the IEEE FrenchChapter on Computer. She was afounding member of the IEEE FrenchChapter on Computational Intelligence.She has been involved in the organiz-ing, executive and international pro-gram committees of various IEEEconferences since 1982.

She is an IEEE senior member andan IFSA fellow.

Gary B. Fogelreceived the Ph.D.degree in biology fromthe University of Cali-fornia, Los Angeles in1998, and B.A. inbiology from the Uni-versity of California,

Santa Cruz in 1991. He is currently VicePresident of Natural Selection, Inc., in LaJolla, California. His experience includes

over 13 years of applying computationalintelligence methods to bioinformaticsproblems. He has over 40 publications inthe technical literature, the majority treat-ing the science and application of evolu-tionary computation, and he is theco-editor of the book “EvolutionaryComputation in Bioinformatics” byMorgan Kauffman. He also serves as anAssociate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transac-tions on Computational Biology and Bioinfor-matics, IEEE Computational IntelligenceMagazine and IEEE Transactions on Evolu-tionary Computation, and is on the editorialboard of four other technical journals. Heserved as the General Chairman for the2004 and 2005 IEEE ComputationalIntelligence in Bioinformatics and Com-putational Biology symposia, as co-Tech-nical Chair for the 2001 and 2006 IEEECongress on Evolutionary Computation,and as Program Chair for the 2004 IEEECongress on Evolutionary Computation.Dr. Fogel was Chair of the IEEE Com-putation Intelligence Society Bioinfor-matics and Bioengineering TechnicalCommittee (2004–2005) and served as amember of IEEE CIS ADCOM from2004–2006.

Jerry M. Mendelreceived the Ph.D.degree in electricalengineering from thePolytechnic Instituteof Brooklyn. Since1974 he has been Pro-fessor of Electrical

Engineering at the University of South-ern California in Los Angeles. He haspublished over 480 technical papers andis author and/or editor of eight books,including Uncertain Rule-based FuzzyLogic Systems: Introduction and New Direc-tions (Prentice-Hall, 2001). His presentresearch interests include: type-2 fuzzylogic systems and their applications tosmart oil field technology and computingwith words. He is a Life Fellow of theIEEE and a Distinguished Member ofthe IEEE Control Systems Society. Hewas President of the IEEE Control Sys-tems Society in 1986, and is presentlyChairman of the Fuzzy Systems Techni-cal Committee and an elected member

of the Administrative Committee of theIEEE Computational Intelligence Soci-ety. Among his awards are the 1983 BestTransactions Paper Award of the IEEEGeoscience and Remote Sensing Soci-ety, the 1992 Signal Processing SocietyPaper Award, the 2002 Transactions onFuzzy Systems Outstanding PaperAward, a 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal,and an IEEE Third Millenium Medal. InMay 2006 he received a Pioneer Awardfrom the IEEE CIS Granular ComputingConference for his “Outstanding Contri-butions in Type-2 Fuzzy Systems.”

He has been a very active member ofthe CIS AdCom, serving on many com-mittees and task forces, including Awards,Conference, Technical Activities, Stan-dards, and Multi-media Tutorials Com-mittees, and is especially interested instrengthening the bonds between themajor branches of Computational Intelli-gence, as well as in bringing relatedemerging technologies under the umbrel-la of CI. One achievement that he isespecially proud of is getting the WCCIto be a more frequent meeting.

Witold Pedryczreceived the M.Sc.,and Ph.D., D.Sci. allfrom the Silesian Uni-versity of Technology,Gliwice, Poland. He isa Professor and Cana-da Research Chair

(CRC) in Computational Intelligence inthe Department of Electrical and Com-puter Engineering, University of Alberta,Edmonton, Canada. He is also with thePolish Academy of Sciences, SystemsResearch Institute, Warsaw, Poland.

His research interests encompassComputational Intelligence, fuzzy mod-eling, knowledge discovery and datamining, fuzzy control including fuzzycontrol, pattern recognition, knowl-edge-based neural networks, granularand relational computing, and SoftwareEngineering. He has published numer-ous papers in these areas. He is also anauthor of 11 research monographs.Witold Pedrycz has been a member ofnumerous program committees of IEEEconferences in the area of fuzzy sets and

neurocomputing. He currently serves asan Associate Editor of IEEE Transactionson Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions onNeural Networks, and IEEE Transactionson Systems Man and Cybernetics. He is alsoan Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences.Currently he serves as a President ofIFSA and a Past President of NAFIPS.

Gary G. Yenreceived the Ph.D.degree in electrical andcomputer engineeringfrom the University ofNotre Dame, NotreDame, IN in 1992. Heis currently a Professor

in the School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Oklahoma State University,Stillwater, OK. Before he joined OSU in

1997, he was with the Structure ControlDivision, U.S. Air Force Research Labo-ratory in Albuquerque, NM. His researchis supported by the DoD, DoE, EPA,NASA, NSF, and a Process/Pharmaceuti-cal consortium. His research interestincludes intelligent control, evolutionarymultiobjective optimization, conditionalhealth monitoring, fault tolerant controland their industrial/ defense applications.

He was an associate editor of IEEETransactions on Neural Networks andIEEE Control Systems Magazine during1994–1999, an associate editor ofAUtomzatica during 2001–2004, and anassociate editor of IEEE Transactions onSystems, Man and Cybernetics during2001–2005. He is currently serving asthe founding editor-in-chief for theIEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

since 2006. He is also serving as an asso-ciate editor for IEEE Transactions onEvolutionary Computation, IEEE Transac-tions on Control Systems Technology, andIFAC Journal on Mechatronics. He servedas the General Chair for the 2003 IEEEInternational Symposium on IntelligentControl held in Houston, TX and theGeneral Chair for the 2006 IEEEWorld Congress on ComputationalIntelligence held in Vancouver, Canada.On behalf of IEEE Robotic andAutomation Society and later IEEEControl Systems Society, he was a Rep-resentative to the IEEE Neural Net-work Council/Society AdministratingCommittee. In 2004–2005, he is cur-rently serving as Vice President for theTechnical Activities, IEEE Computa-tional Intelligence Society.

Computational Intelligence techniques have proven to be flexi-ble in decision making in dynamic environment. They typicallyinclude Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, IntelligentAgent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, ArtificialImmune Systems and other similar biologically motivated com-putational models. The use of these techniques allowed buildingefficient and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications.

With the proliferation of complex distributed and Internetcomputing, information security and privacy become veryimportant. In order to protect large cyber infrastructure, weneed flexible, adaptable and robust cyber defense systems,which can make intelligent decisions (in near real-time) indetecting wide variety of threats and attacks, including activeand passive attacks, external attacks and internal misuses,known and unknown attacks, viruses and spam, etc. Computa-tional intelligent techniques seem promising to enhance cybersecurity measures, and have been increasingly applied in thearea of information security and information assurance.

The proposed special issue will be devoted to the applica-tion of the state-of-the-art CI-based technologies — fuzzysystems, evolutionary computation, genetic programming,neural networks, chaotic systems, artificial immune systemsand other soft computing technique. Authors are encouragedto submit their unpublished works which highlight how CI-based technologies play critical roles in various computer andinformation security problems.

CI application areas include, but are not limited to:

• information assurance

• security of storage systems, operating systems, and networks

• intrusion detection, prediction, classification, and response

• models for survivable, resilient, and self-healing systems

• web security, wireless security

• digital forensics

• sensor fusion and decision support in computer security

Important Dates:July 15, 2007 Paper submission dueOctober 1, 2007 Notification of acceptanceNovember 15, 2007 Final version dueFebruary 2008 Intended Issue of publication

Manuscript submission:Authors should send their softcopy as an attachment via email to the guest editor by email.

Guest Editor: Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta Computer ScienceThe University of MemphisMemphis, TN 38152dasgupta@memphis.edu

Call for PapersSpecial Issue of Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM)

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