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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -5.75pt 0pt 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><B>IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2009 (<A title="SSCI'09" href="http://www.ieee-ssci.org/"><FONT color=#800080>SSCI’09</FONT></A>)<o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><B>IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining 2009 (<A title=CIDM09 href="http://www.ieee-ssci.org/index.php?q=node/14"><FONT color=#800080>CIDM’09</FONT></A>)</B></FONT></SPAN></P><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><o:p>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -5.75pt 0pt 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=1>Nashville, Tennessee, USA, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=1>March 30 - April 2, 2009</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -5.75pt 0pt 0in"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2><o:p><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=3><B>Call for Special Sessions, Tutorials and Competitions</B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></o:p></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in -5.75pt 0pt 0in"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">The 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (<A title="CIDM'09" href="http://www.ieee-ssci.org/index.php?q=node/14"><FONT color=#800080>IEEE CIDM 2009</FONT></A>, at <A href="http://www.ieee-ssci.org/">http://www.ieee-ssci.org/</A>) </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">solicits proposals for <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">special activities </B>within the technical scope of the symposium, focusing on a <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">special session</B>, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">tutorial presentation</B>, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">software</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">presentation</B> or <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">competition</B> of computational intelligence (CI) in Data Mining (DM). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><U><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>Call for Special Sessions<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2>CIDM’09 invites proposals for special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, which aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics in DM. Papers submitted to special sessions will be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Special session proposals should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and relevance to CI and DM, a list of potential authors who might submit papers to the special session, and brief bios of the special session organizers. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><U><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>Call for Tutorials</FONT> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2>CIDM’09 invites proposals for tutorials covering fundamental and advanced topics on DM. A tutorial proposal should include title, outline, relevance to CI and DM, expected enrollment, and presenter biography. Tutorial proposal will be evaluated on its relevancy to the theoretical foundations and practical applications to computational intelligence and data mining research fields. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>Call for Competitions</FONT> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">CIDM</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">’09</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> invites proposals for the organisation of competitions to stimulate and disseminate research in CI and DM, promote fair evaluations of methods and applications, and to attract and engage academic, practitioners and students. A proposal should include a description of the problem addressed, motivation and expected impact</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> <SPAN lang=EN-US>regarding CI and DM</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, data description, evaluation procedures and established baselines, schedule, anticipated number of participants, and biographic information of the main team members. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><U><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>Proposal Submission<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Experts interested in organizing a special activity<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>should submit a proposal in pdf format via email to: </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><A href="javascript:main.compose('new','t=CIDM_special_activity_chair@bis-lab.com')"><SPAN style="COLOR: #3333cc">CIDM_special_activity_chair@bis-lab.com</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> <SPAN lang=EN-US>by September 21, 2008. Informal enquiries before the submission deadline are welcome.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><U><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2>September 21, 2008<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Special activities proposals due<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2>October 31, 2008<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Paper submissions due<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2>November 30, 2008<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Notification to authors<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><U><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>About the IEEE CIDM’09 Conference<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><FONT size=2><A href="http://www.ieee-ssci.org/index.php?q=node/14"><FONT color=#800080>IEEE CIDM’09</FONT></A> will be held simultaneously with 20 other symposia in one location at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2009 (<A title=SSCI09 href="http://www.ieee-ssci.org/"><FONT color=#800080>IEEE SSCI’09</FONT></A>). This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, practitioners and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, Tennessee, USA, the city of country music, from March 30 - April 2, 2009.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">IEEE </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">CIDM’09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of CI applied to issues in DM. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN"><o:p><FONT size=2> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN"><FONT size=2>Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">•<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Data understanding, rule extraction, logical models<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">•<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Feature extraction, selection, aggregation, construction<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">•<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Multimedia data mining<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">•<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Mining of signals and data streams<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">•<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Mining spatial and spatio-temporal data<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">•<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Mining of very large datasets, scalability<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">•<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN">Visual data mining<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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