Año de realización: 2013

Breve descripción: Fecha de inicio: 24/06/2013 Duración: 4 días

Special session on

Recommender and decision systems with soft computing

Decision systems has helped decision makers compile useful information from a combination of raw data, documents, and personal knowledge, or business models to identify and solve problems and make decisions in many different fields such as management, operations, and planning. The advent of Internet has raised new niches of application of such a type of systems, being Recommender Systems one of the most successful internet based decision systems to support customers in their shopping decisions in e-shops and so forth.

Despite soft computing techniques are broadly known for their use in expert and control systems, its application to decision systems can be considered similarly significant. Decision making and recommender models have been revisited, modified and optimized by the use of soft computing techniques producing important novelties in both research and applications.

Aims and Scope.

This invited session aims at providing an opportunity for researchers working in both research areas to discuss theoretical and practical aspects of adding soft techniques to decision systems, soft computing in group decision support systems, soft computing techniques in intelligent agents, opportunities and challenges for soft computing in recommender systems, empirical studies of the use of soft computing techniques to add human aspects to decision systems and identify directions for further work.

For the practical organization of the session, we would appreciate your contribution. We would take advantage of the outcome of this session to join researchers from both areas for future cooperation and joint research.

Submissions

Special session papers will be handled in the same way as regular papers. In particular, they will be peer-reviewed by the conference program committee on the basis of the same criteria, and the final decision of acceptance or rejection will be made by the conference chairs.

The important dates are, according to the conference guidelines:

• Paper submission: January 28, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: February 20, 2013
• Full paper submission: March 21, 2013

More information available at: http://www.ualberta.ca/~reformat/ifsa2013/index.html. Please send an e-mail expressing your intention to submit a paper, including authors’ information, a tentative title and abstract, by December 24^th, 2012. E-mail: martin@ujaen.es, Jie.Lu@uts.edu.au.

Organizers
Jie Lu

Head, School of Software
Director of Decision Systems & e-Service Intelligence
Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology,
University of Technology, Sydney
P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia

Luis Martínez

University of Jaén, Department of Computer Sciences

Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén

Email: martin@ujaen.es

Año de realización: 2013

Documento: https://sinbad2.ujaen.es/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CFP_Special-Session_ICMLC2013.pdf

Breve descripción: Fecha de inicio: 14/07/2013 Duración: 3 días

Information for each organizer

Dr  Jun Liu

School of Computing and Mathematics

Faculty of Engineering

University of Ulster at Jordanstown Campus
Shore Road, Newtownabbey
Co. Antrim BT37 0QB
Northern Ireland, UK

Email: j.liu@ulster.ac.uk

Prof. Luis Martínez

University of Jáen

Department of Computer Sciences

Campus Las Lagunillas s/n

23071 Jaén, Spain

Email: martin@ujaen.es

Description of the session

Title: Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches for Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Incompleteness

Quantitative (also data-driven) and qualitative (also domain knowledge driven) techniques have been widely used in the literature, and they are still hot topics due to its importance and potential improvement in different types of decision making problems. This invited special session will be focused on integration of both techniques for different decision making problem under uncertainty and incompleteness, which aims at providing an opportunity for collecting some excellent work on the above common research areas including the state-of-the-art science and technologies, clarify the rationality and applicability of the approaches and their applications, review accomplishments, assess future directions, and share new ideas, original research results and practical experiences.

Accordingly, we would like to invite you to submit your contribution within the following three research domains decision making uncertainty, which can be theoretical formalisms, calculi and methodologies; algorithms investigation or practical applications:

1) Contribution on development of algorithms and systems for modeling, design, fusing and applying both qualitative and quantitative models to handle multiple and heterogonous information for decision making purpose. The approaches could be either numerical or symbolic, or both, could be based on probability theory, fuzzy/possibility theory, belief function theory, and different varieties of logic based approaches (classical logics or non-classical logics).

2) Contribution on investigating the principles, explanation, and strategies on how humans represent and use incomplete and uncertain data and knowledge from a cognitive science perspective;

3) Contribution on practical applications of the integration of both quantitative and qualitative formalisms and modelling approaches in science, engineering, business and education.

We especially welcome submissions of papers with the focus on applications.

Paper acceptance

Expected number of submitted papers: 10-15

Expected number of accepted papers: 6

Submission Guidelines:

Authors should submit papers directly to the session organizer (j.liu@ulster.ac.uk or luis.martinez@ujaen.es). The deadline of paper submission for this invited session is 20th April, 2013.

Año de realización: 2013

Documento: https://sinbad2.ujaen.es/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CFP-IFSA13-CWv2.pdf

Breve descripción: Fecha de inicio: 24/06/2013 Duración: 4 días

Focus session on

Computing with words in decision making:

 Foundations, models and applications

In many real decision situations defined under uncertain environments, with imprecise information, is straightforward the use of linguistic information due to the nature of different aspects of the decision problems. Computing with Words (CW) is a methodology that deals with words or sentences defined in a natural or artificial language instead of numbers, it emulates human cognitive processes to improve solving processes of problems dealing with uncertainty.  Consequently, CW has been applied as computational basis to linguistic decision making, because it provides tools close to human beings reasoning processes related to decision making, which improve the resolution of decision making under uncertainty as linguistic decision making.

Both Decision Making and Computing with Words have recently attracted much attention in which, novel mathematical foundations and new decision models raised to be applied in different decision fields such as multi-criteria decision making, decision analysis, evaluation processes, etc.

Aims and Scope.

This invited session aims at providing an opportunity for researchers working in both research areas to discuss the state-of-the-art science and technologies, and their applications, to share their new ideas, original research results and practical experiences. More specifically, we expect you to have any contribution with the focus on the use of computing with words models in decision making.

For the practical organization of the session, we would appreciate your contribution. We would take advantage of the outcome of this session to join researchers from both areas for future cooperation and joint research.

Submissions

Focus session papers will be handled in the same way as regular papers. In particular, they will be peer-reviewed by the conference program committee on the basis of the same criteria, and the final decision of acceptance or rejection will be made by the conference chairs.

The important dates are, according to the conference guidelines:

• Paper submission: January 28, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: February 20, 2013
• Full paper submission: March 21, 2013

More information available at: http://www.ualberta.ca/~reformat/ifsa2013/index.html. Please send an e-mail expressing your intention to submit a paper, including authors’ information, a tentative title and abstract, by December 24th, 2012. E-mail: rmrodrig@ujaen.es

Organizers
Francisco Herrera

University of Granada, Department of Computer Sciences and A.I.

C/ Daniel Saucedo Aranda s/n, 18071 Granada

Email: herrera@decsai.ugr.es

Luis Martínez

University of Jaén, Department of Computer Sciences

Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén

Email: martin@ujaen.es

Rosa Mª Rodríguez Domínguez

University of Jaén, Department of Computer Sciences

Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, 23071 Jaén

Email: rmrodrig@ujaen.es