Special Session on Trends in Soft Computing Techniques (TSCT)

Aim and Scope

Computationally hard tasks have always remained an enigma. Recent research has been directed towards an understanding of the various natural heuristics and their applications to solve such NP hard problems. Zadeh's prime principles of soft computing exploit the tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty to achieve tractability, robustness, and low solution cost. Thus the key constituents of soft computing such as Fuzzy Logic, Probabilistic Reasoning, Neural Computing, Genetic and Evolutionary Computing and Machine learning are explored in various domains to solve complex problems. The beauty of the soft computing techniques lie in the fusion of its constituents, thus leading to evolution of newer concepts such as NeuroFuzzy systems etc.
This Special Session aims at a conglomeration of research in diverse areas and problems related to Soft Computing. To link the ideas and techniques of soft computing with other disciplines such as education, governance, health etc, this session serves as a unifying platform that fosters comparisons, extensions, and new applications. The session intends to bring together scientists and engineers engaged in research and development to harness the potential of this fast growing field.

Call for Papers

The special session will provide an interactive platform to address various aspects of the research challenges set in above mentioned categories (not limited to) and their contribution towards the theme of special session.

Topics of interests (but not limited to):

Algorithms

• Swarm Intelligence
• Ant Colony
• Evolutionary Computing
• Memetic Computing
• Fuzzy Computing
• Hybrid Methods
• Neuro Computing
• Probabilistic Computing
• Rough Sets

Applications

• Cloud computing
• E-Education/e-Governance
• Big data analytics
• Data/Web mining
• Social networks
• Agricultural Machinery and Produce
• Autonomous Reasoning
• Bio-inspired Systems
• Biomedical Engineering
• Data Visualisation
• Decision Support
• Fault Diagnosis
• Human-Machine Interface
• Industrial Electronics/Consumer Electronics
• Intelligent Agents
• Intelligent Information Retrieval
• Multi-objective Optimisation
• Process Optimisation
• Reactive Distributed AI
• Robotics
• Signal or Image Processing
• Systems Integration
• Telecommunications
• Virtual Reality
• Vision or Pattern Recognition
• Hybridisation of intelligent models/algorithms

Organizing Chairs

Dr. Hema Banati, Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi, India
Dr. Shikha Mehta, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India
Dr. Monica Bajaj, Kalindi College, University of Delhi, India

Submission instructions

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on originality, significance and clarity. Authors must follow the instructions outlined in http://icrcicn.in/callpaper.htm. The accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings as well as will be submitted to IEEE CPP for linking to IEEE Explorer if all prerequisites are completed.

Prospective authors willing to submit their manuscripts for the special session should indicate the acronym of the special session (TSCT) in the footnote of the manuscript during initial submission.

Key Dates

Paper Submission Ends: June 30, 2015
Acceptance Notification: October 01, 2015
Final Paper Deadline: October 15, 2015

Technical Program Committee

Prof. V. Rao Vemuri, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Prof. Ramesh Kumar Agrawal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Dr. P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Punam Bedi, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Dr. Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal, South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Dr. Pranab Muhuri, South Asian University, New Delhi, India