2014 IEEECongress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC)

Beijing, China, 6-11 July, 2014

http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/index.htm

Special Session: Recent Advances onOpposition-Based Learning & Applications

Aim and Scope:

Diverse forms of opposition are already existentvirtually everywhere around us and the interplay between entities and oppositeentities is fundamental for maintaining universal balance and harmony..However, it seems that there is a gap regarding oppositional thinking inengineering, mathematics and computer science. A better understanding ofopposition could potentially establish new search, reasoning, optimization andlearning schemes with a wide range of applications.

The main idea of opposition-based learning (OBL) is toconsider opposite estimates, actions or states as an attempt to increase thecoverage of the solution space and to reduce exploration time. OBL has alreadybeen applied to reinforcement learning, differential evolution, artificial neuralnetwork, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, and geneticalgorithm, etc. Example applications include large scale optimization problem,multi-objective optimization, traveling salesman problem, data mining, nonlinearsystem identification, image processing and understanding. However, findingkiller applications for OBL is still a hard task that is heavily pursued.

The objective of this special session is to bringtogether the state-of-art research results and industrial applications on thistopic. Contributed papers must be the original work of the authors and shouldnot have been published or under consideration by other journals orconferences. Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to:

l        Motivation and theory ofopposition-based learning

l        Opposition-based optimizationtechniques

l        Reasoning and searchstrategies in opposition-based computing

l        Real-world applications insignal processing, pattern recognition, image understanding, robotics, social networking,etc.

l        Other methodologies andapplications associated with opposition-based learning

Important Dates:

PaperSubmission:                       December20, 2013

PaperAcceptance Notification:      March 15,2014

FinalPaper Submission:               April 15,2014

Paper Submission:

Manuscriptsshould be prepared according to the standard format and page limit of regularpapers specified in CEC 2014 webpage, and submitted via the official submissionsystem of IEEE CEC 2014. All papers submitted to special sessions will besubject to the same peer-review review procedure as the regular papers. Allaccepted papers will be published in the CEC electronic proceedings andincluded in the IEEE Xplore digital library, and indexed by EI Compendex.

Note: Please choose"SS7.EC07:Recent Advances on Opposition-Based Learning & Applications"from the "S. SPECIAL SESSIONS"category as the main research topic of your paper in submission.

Organizers:

Dr.Shahryar Rahnamayan

AssociateProfessor

Departmentof Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering

Universityof Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada

Email:shahryar.rahnamayan@uoit.ca

Dr. HamidR. Tizhoosh

Professor

Departmentof Systems Design Engineering

University of Waterloo, Canada

Email:tizhoosh@uwaterloo.ca

Dr.Qingzheng Xu (corresponding)

Departmentof Information Service

Xi’anCommunication Institute, China

Email:xuqingzheng@hotmail.com

Dr.Hui Wang

School of InformationEngineering

NanchangInstitute of Technology, China

Email:huiwang@whu.edu.cn

Program Committee (to be continued)

Dr.Sakti Prasad Ghoshal

Departmentof Electrical Engineering

NationalInstitute of Technology, India

Dr.Maoguo Gong

KeyLab of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education

Xidian University, China

Dr. ZhijianWu

StateKey Lab of Software Engineering

Wuhan University, China

Dr. LeiWang

School of ComputerScience and Engineering

Xi'an University of Technology, China

Dr.Xiaozhi Gao

Departmentof Automation and Systems Technology

Aalto University, Finland

Dr.Millie Pant

Departmentof Applied Science and Engineering

SaharanpurCampus of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Dr.Mohammed El-Abd

Departmentof Electrical and Computer Engineering

AmericanUniversity of Kuwait, Kuwait

Dr.Hajira Jabeen

ComputerScience Department

Iqra University, Pakistan

Dr.Wenlong Fu

School of Engineering andComputer Science

Victoria University of Wellington,New Zealand

Dr.Lining Zhang

Schoolof Electrical and Electronic Engineering

NanyangTechnological University, Singapore

Dr. MuhammadImran

Facultyof Computer Science and Information Technology

UniversityTun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr.Dongdong Yang

School of ComputerSciences and Engineering

Xi'anUnivesity of Technology, China

Pleasecheck the CEC 2014 website for additional information.