Call for Papers

Call for Papers:

IEEE-SSCI 2020 invites you to submit your original and innovative previously unpublished research. The event has 46 accepted symposiums on all aspects of computational intelligence.

• Policy on Multiple Submissions: IEEE SSCI 2020 will not accept any paper that is under review, has been accepted, or has been published in any other venue at the time of submission or during the review process of IEEE SSCI 2020. If in doubt, email your question to the program chair, Prof. Carlos Coello Coello at carlos.coellocoello@gmail.com.
• Review Process: Each paper submitted to IEEE SSCI 2020 will receive at least two reviews. The paper will be assessed based on originality, significance, adherence to the scientific method, correctness, clarity and quality of scientific presentation. The decision made on the paper by the program chair is final.
• Submission and Registration Restrictions: There are no restrictions on the number of papers submitted by a single author. However, each accepted paper must have at least one of its authors with full registration to the conference. Full registration covers up to two accepted papers.

Call for Special Sessions:

IEEE SSCI 2020 is made up of 46 symposiums. There are areas in computational intelligence that may not be covered by these symposiums or interdisciplinary areas with a narrow focus that sits at the interface of two or more of these symposiums. These areas are better suited for a special session. For example, two of the symposiums at IEEE SSCI are the IEEE Symposium on Immune Computation and the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Cyber Security. It is feasible to see a special session proposal that sits at the interface of these two such as a special session on Immune Systems for Network Intrusion Detection.

Special session proposals should include title, a description of the scope, a list of topics covered, a list of potential contributors, and names, affiliations, websites, and bios of special session organisers. It is expected that at least one of the organizers of a special session would be attending IEEE SSCI 2020.

A special session will only run if there are at least six accepted papers. If the number of accepted papers is less, the papers will be allocated to the most relevant symposium.

Proposals and inquiries regarding special sessions should be addressed to the special session Co-chairs: Xiaodong Li xiaodong.li@rmit.edu.au and Dipti Srinivasan dipti@nus.edu.sg.

Call for Workshops:

IEEE SSCI 2020 will host a few workshops focusing on discussing contemporary topics in Computational Intelligence. Workshops offer a technical community the opportunity to polarize ideas towards a common vision for a sub-field or the development of a position on topic. IEEE SSCI 2020 particularly encourages interdisciplinary workshops that bring researchers from other communities outside mainstream computational intelligence to discuss interdisciplinary topics sitting at the interface of these communities.

A workshop proposal should include title, short introduction to the topic, the motivation, aims and relevance of the proposed workshop to IEEE SSCI 2020, a list of potential speakers, the expected length of the workshop (half a day or a full day), and names, affiliations, websites, and bios of organisers. Papers accepted at a workshop will not be published in the main proceedings. Workshop organizers may need to either seek an independent publication such as a post-even special issue in a journal or to organize a special session within one of the symposiums at IEEE SSCI, where accepted papers will appear in the main conference proceedings.

Proposals and inquiries regarding workshops should be addressed to the Workshop Co-chairs: Keeley Crockett K.Crockett@mmu.ac.uk and Matthew Garratt m.garratt@adfa.edu.au.

Workshops will be held on the 1st of December 2020 at the UNSW Canberra campus in Canberra.

Call for Tutorials:

IEEE SSCI 2020 will feature tutorials covering fundamental and advanced topics in computational intelligence. A tutorial proposal should include title, short introduction to the topic, an outline of the tutorial, expected length of the tutorial (2h, 4h or 6h), the level of the tutorial (introductory or advanced), and names, affiliations, websites, and bios of presenters.

Proposals and inquiries regarding tutorials should be addressed to Tutorials Co-chairs: Sreenatha Anavatti agsrenat@adfa.edu.au and Chaomin Luo chaomin.luo@ece.msstate.edu.

Accepted proposals will run for two, four or six hours on the 1st of December 2020. Tutorials will take place at the UNSW Canberra campus in Canberra. Tutorial presenters will be offered a discounted registration of 20%, 40% and 60% based on the approved length of their tutorial and if the tutorial attracts at least 10 attendees. Tutorials are free to all registered attendees but registration is a must to ensure appropriate space is allocated to each tutorial speaker. Access to each tutorial space will only be available for those who registered for the tutorial.

Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth Time Zone):

1st of April, 2020	Tutorials, Workshops and Special Sessions proposals
1st of April, 2020	Submission Site Opening
15th of April, 2020	Registration Opening
15th of April, 2020	Accepted Workshops and Special Sessions Announced
6th of July, 2020	Accepted Tutorials Announced
22nd of August, 2020	Paper Submission Deadline (one off extension due to late announcement of updated registration fees)
18th of September, 2020	Notification to Authors
2nd of October, 2020	Camera Ready Version
2nd of October, 2020	Early Registration Deadline
1st of December, 2020	Workshops and Tutorials
2-3 of December, 2020	Main Conference

Paper Length and Format:

Each paper should be between 6 to 8 pages, including figures, tables and references. A maximum of two extra pages per paper is allowed (i.e, up to 10 pages), at an additional charge of AU$100 per extra page.

All papers should be submitted using the IEEE two-column conference style file. Instructions are found at submission page.

Authors will need to select the symposium they wish to submit to from the dropdown list of research areas in the submission system.

Archiving policy:

IEEE allows authors to have their paper appears in a public archive such as Techrxiv (https://www.techrxiv.org/) or Arxiv (https://arxiv.org/). The PSPB Operations Manual (Link) (www.ieee.org/documents/opsmanual.pdf) contains the policies related to posting of preprints of articles submitted to IEEE publications.

Copyright:

All accepted papers at IEEE SSCI 2020 will be published in the IEEE SSCI 2020 proceedings, copyrighted by IEEE.

Co-located events:

IEEE SSCI 2020 will be running during the Canberra Artificial Intelligence (CAI) week, which will host a range of activities on AI including the 33rd Australasian Joint Conference on AI. The week will run from Saturday the 28th of November 2020. Events on AI will be announced on the IEEE SSCI 2020 website as they become available.

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