IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium - Sheraton Westport at St. Louis, Missouri, September 21-23, 2008

Plenary Lectures

huxiaohui — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:06:49 -0400

Plenary Lecture - Russ Eberhart, PhD, FIEEE

Swarm Intelligence: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

The presentation begins with a review of the history of swarm intelligence and swarm optimization. Concepts, paradigms, algorithms, and implementations are described. Examples of practical applications are reviewed. The presentation concludes with an outline of recent developments in the swarm intelligence field, and a summary of challenges currently facing researchers and developers in the field. Speculations regarding some approaches to these challenges are presented.

Biography:
Russell C. Eberhart is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is also Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Computelligence LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in electrical engineering. He is co-editor of a book on neural networks, and co-author of Computational Intelligence PC Tools, published in 1996 by Academic Press. He is co-author of a book with Jim Kennedy and Yuhui Shi entitled Swarm Intelligence, published by Morgan Kaufmann/Academic Press in April 2001. He was awarded the IEEE Third Millenium Medal. In 2001, he became a Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2002 he became a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is the co-author, with Yuhui Shi, of a book entitled Computational Intelligence: Concepts to Implementations, published by Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier in 2007. His areas of research include swarm intelligence and extended analog computing, and the detection of sleepy and inattentive driving.

Plenary Lecture - James Kennedy, PhD

Using Social Interaction to Optimize

Computer scientists and engineers have been using the particle swarm for more than a decade to solve hard problems, but the method can also increase understanding of the adaptiveness of social behavior in organisms, especially humans. The paradigm evolved out of social psychological simulations of social influence processes featuring a positivity bias in self-presentation and a proclivity for mimicry, with some random noise added. I will describe the algorithm, show its connection to phenomena in biology and social psychology, and discuss the effects of varying some rules and parameters. A central research question remains: what is required for intelligence to emerge in a population of interacting individuals?

Biography:
James Kennedy is a social psychologist who has been working with the particle swarm algorithm, which he originated with Russell C. Eberhart, since 1994. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of North Carolina, and works for the US Department of Labor in Washington, DC. He has published dozens of articles and chapters on particle swarms and related topics, in both computer-science and social-science journals and Proceedings. The Morgan Kaufmann volume, "Swarm Intelligence," by Kennedy and Eberhart, is now in its third printing.

Banquet Speech - David Fogel, PhD, FIEEE
& President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Then and Now in Computational Intelligence

The roots of computational intelligence extend for more than 50 years. Over those decades, people working in computational intelligence have seen many changes in both in terms of their computing environments as well as their social environment. Some early promising ideas were simply too premature for the available hardware. Other ideas were mischaracterized and too easily dismissed. This talk will provide a glimpse at some of these early ideas and perceptions of people working in computational intelligence, and note how those perceptions have changed over time, particularly in the popular science media.

Biography:
Dr. David Fogel is CEO of Natural Selection, Inc. and managing director of the Lincoln Vale Adaptive Strategies Group. Dr. Fogel received the Ph.D. from UC San Diego in engineering sciences in 1992. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications, including 6 books. Dr. Fogel was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (1996-2002), editor-in-chief of BioSystems (2001-2008), and has served as general chair for many IEEE and other conferences. Dr. Fogel received the 2004 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award and was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999. He serves as the current president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008-2009).

Hotel Reservation

huxiaohui — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:23:44 -0400

Hotel Reservation

http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/IEEESIS

The symposium rate is $109/night excluding taxes. There is free hotel shuttle bus service from the airport to the hotel.

Final paper submission

huxiaohui — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:15:07 -0400

Final paper submission:

IEEE requires that the PDF files submitted for the accepted papers be 100% IEEE Xplore compliant. Please make sure that you follow the Instructions on how to produce IEEE Xplore compliant PDF files.

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Grants

huxiaohui — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:59:10 -0400

1. Limited IEEE CIS Travel Grants for IEEE Student Members

Submission of applications: By July 14, 2008·

Instructions are available at http://ieee-cis.org/edu/travel/apply/

Notification of acceptance: July 28, 2008

2. Limited SIS Hotel Accommodation Grants for Students

Submission of applications: By July 28, 2008

Eligibility: Registration for the Symposium at the Student Rate Required (Regular Rate for sole authors).

Students with a paper accepted for the Symposium will be given higher priority. If many applications are received then paper review scores will be used to rank the students eligible for this grant due to limited of grants.

Please fill out the application and E-mail this form to Dr. Keith Corzine (Keith@Corzine.net)

SIS Student Application for Hotel Accommodations

Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2008

Progam

huxiaohui — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:19:27 -0500

Advance Program can be download here
http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/IEEE SIS 2008- Program_09_01.pdf

Tutorials

huxiaohui — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:31:26 -0400

Cultural Algorithms: A Computational Framework for Studying the Emergence of Social Intelligence

Speaker: Dr. Robert G. Reynolds, Professor, Computer Science Wayne State University

Detail information about the tutorial can be downloaded here

Tutorial on Swarm Intelligence for Sensor Networks Applications

Speakers: Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, Senior Member, IEEE, and Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Senior Member, IEEE, Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO

Detail information about the tutorial can be downloaded here

Swarm Intelligence for Power Systems

Speaker: Dr. Ronald G Harley, Fellow, IEEE School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA and University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Dr. Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy Senior Member, IEEE Director of the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, MO

Detail information about the tutorial can be downloaded here

Cluster Analysis and Swarm Intelligence in Clustering

Speaker: Xu and Wunsch
Detail information about the tutorial will be available soon

IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium 2008

huxiaohui — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:22:01 -0400

The organizers of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium would like to invite you to submit your original work related to latest advances, improvements or breakthrough related to swarm intelligence.

Interested researchers must submit a 2-page extended abstract by August 15, 2008. The abstracts will be reviewed and the review results will be announced within a week. Upon accepted, the extended abstracts will not require any modifications and will be included in the program as is to be presented as a poster.

The call for papers can be downloaded here

http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/Call for Late Breaking News Papers_SIS08.pdf

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more.

Submissions of original and unpublished work related to swarm intelligence are invited, including research, theory, development, and applications. Areas of focus include particle swarm optimization, ant colony swarms, cultural algorithms, foraging techniques, and other swarm-related topics.

Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work in the areas including, but not limited to, the following:

Modeling and analysis of particle swarm optimization, Ant colony optimization, culture algorithm, foraging algorithm.
Optimization techniques in dynamic, multi-objective, constrained environment.
Modeling and analysis of biological collective systems such as social insects colonies, school and flocking vertebrates.
Distributed computing, machine learning, data mining, data clustering, graph partitioning, and decision making based on swarm intelligence principles.
Theory and applications of swarm intelligence principles to real world problems including control systems, evolvable hardware, power system, sensor networks, bioinformatics, business and finance, supply-chain management, planning and operations in industrial systems, transportation systems, and others areas

The call for papers can be downloaded here

http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/Call for Papers_SIS08.pdf