Special Sessions

Proposals for special pre-organized sessions are welcome.
If you are willing to organize a special invited session please contact Special Session Chair:

• Professor Sanjay Ranka ( ranka@cise.ufl.edu)

All papers submitted to special sessions are required to meet the same standards and will be published in the conference proceedings. For details see 'publication' and 'instructions for authors'.

The following special sessions are now available for submitting papers. Please contact the organizer(s) to submit a paper.

• Applications of Intelligent Systems. Organizers: Shyi-Ming Chen (smchen@mail.ntust.edu.tw)
  
• Intelligent Techniques for Document Processing. Organizers: Floriana Esposito (esposito@di.uniba.it)
  
• Modeling and Support of Cognitive and Affective Human Processes. Organizers: Catholijn M.Jonker (Technical University Delft) (c.m.jonker@tudelft.nl), Mark Hoogendoorn (VU University Amsterdam) (mhoogen@cs.vu.nl), and Jan Treur (VU University Amsterdam) (treur@cs.vu.nl)
  
• Engineering Knowledge and Semantic Systems (IWEKSS). Organizers: Jason Jung and Dariusz Krol (dariusz.krol@pwr.wroc.pl)
  
• Soft computing techniques applied to manufacturing. Organizers: Andres Bustillo-Iglesias (abustillo@ubu.es), Luis Norberto Lopez De La Calle Marcaide, Cesar Garcia-Osorio (cgosorio@ubu.es)
  
• Nature Inspired Optimization --Foundations and Application. Organizers: Don Walter Potter (potter@cs.uga.edu)
  
• Incremental clustering and novelty detection techniques and their application to intelligent analysis of time varying information. Organizers: Jean-Charles Lamirel (jean-charles.lamirel@loria.fr)
  
• Applications of Optimization Techniques in Resource Management of Computer Systems. Organizers: Ishfaq Ahmad (iahmad@uta.edu)
  
• Chemoinformatic and Bioinformatic Methods, Algorithms and Applications. Organizers: Gonzalo Cerruela-Garcia (gcerruela@uco.es), Javier Perez-Rodriguez (i12peroj@uco.es) and Nicolas Garcia-Pedrajas (npedrajas@uco.es)
  
• Cognitive Computing Facets in Intelligent Interaction. Organizers: Hamido Fujita (HFujita-799@acm.org)