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Applications of Computational Intelligence to Benefit Society

Over the last few years significant applications in society have begun to utilise computational intelligence techniques in nurturing professions such as education, health care and social care. Additionally human interfacing to software systems such as customer relationship management are employing computational intelligence. Such applications make a significant difference in peoples everyday lives and provide measurable benefits.  The use of computational intelligence techniques to address real-world problems is readily apparent in engineering fields and applications such as  system modelling, control, prediction, signal processing,  image processing, industrial automation, robotics, sensing systems, aerospace applications, automotive applications, and so on... Its use in other fields such as cognitive or social sciences, biology, linguistics, medicine, and education, however, is less prominent. This workshop emphasizes the use of computational intelligence techniques to tackle challenging problems in such fields where synergistic solutions can have major impacts that greatly benefit society. The workshop will provide an opportunity for a variety of researchers to present and disseminate the capabilities of and support, that computational intelligence can contribute to addressing real-world problems in other domains besides engineering such as cognitive or social sciences, biology, and to the benefit of society.

Workshop Track, Theme and Topics
The workshop is suitable for all tracks (IJCNN, FUZZ, CEC).

The theme of this workshop is real world applications in the field of computational intelligence. All kinds of real-world applications will be taken into consideration, with a focus on those which bring a benefit to humanity, for instance in health, education, risk detection, man-machine communication, etc, and those which are trans-disciplinary. New, unusual and hybrid approaches used to create such applications are particularly encouraged and should clearly reflect the benefit to society.

Workshop Objectives, Goals, and Expected Outcome

The aim of this workshop is to emphasise the use of computational intelligence in applications which benefit society and humanity.

The objectives are to:

·          Provide a forum for the transfer of emerging research in computational intelligence to applications which benefit people’s day-to-day lives. The workshop is designed to encourage a lively atmosphere for discussing future research problems and for forging new contacts and collaborations.

·          Allow the exchange of ideas and technical interaction across all three computational intelligence disciplines to build hybrid intelligent applications.

Whilst the workshop is open to both genders, one outcome of the workshop is to promote and encourage young women to choose a career in computing, specialising in computational intelligence by demonstrating the impact of such applications in people’s everyday lives.

Register for this workshop at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence website at http://www.wcci2008.org/registration.htm