Workshops

• W1 - Machine Learning in Cognitive Networks: Theory, Application, and Future
  Hong Kong, June 7 (Saturday)
  
  Organizers
  Er Meng Joo, John Strassner, and Yan Liu
  
  Outline
  Cognitive networks has attracted increasing attention as an advanced form of future networks that is aware of   changes in user needs and its environment, adapts its behavior to those changes, learns from its adaptations, and exploits knowledge to improve its future behavior. The notion of cognition in cognitive networks implies a number of intelligent tasks including perception, acting and planning, learning, reasoning, and decision making, all of which require a robust knowledge representation that facilitates the sharing and reuse of knowledge. Hence, machine learning and reasoning play a key role in fuelling and driving the advance of cognitive networks.
   

• W2 - Applications of Computational Intelligence to Benefit Society
  Hong Kong, June 7 (Saturday)
  
  Organizers
  Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Valerie Cross, and Keeley Crockett
  
  Outline
  Over the last few years significant applications in society have begun to utilise computational intelligence techniques in nurturing professions such as education, health care and social care. Additionally human interfacing to software systems such as customer relationship management are employing computational intelligence. Such applications make a significant difference in peoples everyday lives and provide measurable benefits. The use of computational intelligence techniques to address real-world problems is readily apparent in engineering fields and applications such as system modelling, control, prediction, signal processing, image processing, industrial automation, robotics, sensing systems, aerospace applications, automotive applications, and so on... Its use in other fields such as cognitive or social sciences, biology, linguistics, medicine, and education, however, is less prominent. This workshop emphasizes the use of computational intelligence techniques to tackle challenging problems in such fields where synergistic solutions can have major impacts that greatly benefit society. The workshop will provide an opportunity for a variety of researchers to present and disseminate the capabilities of and support, that computational intelligence can contribute to addressing real-world problems in other domains besides engineering such as cognitive or social sciences, biology, and to the benefit of society.
  
   

• W3 - International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence  
  Macao,  June 7 (Saturday afternoon)- June 8 (Sunday morning)
  
  Organizers
  Yangmin Li and Irwin King
  
  A special issue will be published by the International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics.