60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
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NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
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20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
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Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
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Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
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38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
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2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
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IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
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NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
| |
20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
| |
Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
| |
Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
| |
38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
| |
2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
| |
IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
| |
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
| |
20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
| |
Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
| |
Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
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38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
| |
2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
| |
IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
| |
60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
| |
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
| |
20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
| |
Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
| |
Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
| |
38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
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2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
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IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
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NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
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20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
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Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
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Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
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38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
| |
2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
| |
IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
| |
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
| |
20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
| |
Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
| |
Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
| |
38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
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2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
| |
IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
| |
60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
| |
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
| |
20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
| |
Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
| |
Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
| |
38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
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2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
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IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
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NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
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20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
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Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
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Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
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38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
| |
2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
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IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
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NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
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20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
| |
Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
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Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
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38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
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2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
| |
IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
| |
60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
| |
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
| |
20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
| |
Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
| |
Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
| |
38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
| |
2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
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IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
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NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
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20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
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Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
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Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
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38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
| |
2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
| |
IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
| |
60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
| |
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
| |
20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
| |
Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
| |
Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
| |
38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
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2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
| |
IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
| |
60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
| |
NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
| |
20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
| |
Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
| |
Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
| |
38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
| |
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
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2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) sensor data |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSVP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Symposium will address theory and applications of non-traditional computational intelligence approaches in signal and vision processing. This year's conference includes, but not limited to:
# Bio-inspired Vision
# Neuronal mechanisms of visual processing
# Low level vision and its relationship to biological machinery
# Artificial learning systems for image and information processing
# Evidential reasoning for recognition
# Active visual perception, attention and robot vision
# Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of visual segmentation and perception
# Application of computational intelligence techniques in areas of: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (IA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The intersection between Computational Intelligence and Agent technology opens new significant opportunities in many fields where the representation and management of complex systems play a fundamental role. In the formulation of Agent-based systems, the role of uncertainty is crucial for an efficient and coherent resolution of complex problems. Agents overcome classical programs thanks to their inner capabilities to be autonomous and to adapt their behaviour with the changing of the environment where agents live and interact. This means that inevitably they meet uncertainty during their work, or in many cases, for the high complexity of the problem, the information they handle is (or needs to be) approximate. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for participants from industry, academic, and non-profit organizations to exchange innovative ideas on intelligent vehicles, their systems, and related manufacturing processes.
We welcome papers from all areas of computational intelligence demonstrating applications of theoretical advances to modern and future vehicles and vehicular systems (engine, transmissions, actuators, sensors, networks, communications, interfaces, etc.) and related manufacturing technologies. Although the focus of the symposium is on the application aspects of CI, papers describing simulation-only results are also solicited.
Topics include but are not limited to theoretical and practical contributions of computational intelligence to the following areas for vehicles and vehicular systems: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (ALife) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE ALIFE 2009 brings together researchers working on the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, especially connections and applications to Biology, Robotics, Space Sciences and Predictive Methods for Understanding and Synthesizing Life-like Systems.
Artificial Life is the study of the simulation and synthesis of living systems. In particular, this science of generalized living and life- like systems provides engineering with billions of years of design expertise to learn from and exploit through the example of the evolution of organic life on earth. Increased understanding of the massively successful design diversity, complexity, and adaptability |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009) covers research on all aspects of computational intelligence applied to scheduling. Due to the huge search spaces that have to be explored, scheduling problems cannot usually be solved by exact approaches. Therefore we often have to turn to techniques in Computational Intelligence (including evolutionary computation, memetic computing, neural networks, swarm intelligence, fuzzy logic, etc.) This symposium aims to explore recent advances in this area. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolvable and Adaptive Hardware (WEAH) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| WEAH09 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to examine recent EAH advances, to articulate open issues and to explore opportunities for EAH in new problem domains. A one-track format for paper presentations will maximize participant interaction. The workshop will focus exclusively on issues that cut across the discipline. We invite papers and panels that examine open EAH issues, Papers describing design problems that could be more efficiently solved by replacing existing, non-EAH design methods with new EAH-based design methods are desired. Of particular interest are papers exploring future opportunities for EAH techniques, especially in new |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The purpose of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA 2009) is to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the theory and application of computational intelligence in control and automation. Topics covered include theories and applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following areas (but not limited to): |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The next International Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (WOMA 2009), will be the sixth in a series of workshops dedicated exclusively to Memetic Algorithms. The WOMA series is a forum where the international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors, that work on aspects related to memetic algorithms, can engage in fruitful discussions, learning and contribute to the advancement of this field. Extended versions of selected papers appearing in previous meetings of WOMA have been published in edited volumes and in a special issue of a prestigious journal. |
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IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This symposium topics include, but are not limited to:
xe2x80xa2 Convergence and performance bounds of ADP
xe2x80xa2 Complexity issues in RL and ADP
xe2x80xa2 Statistical learning and RL, PAC bounds for RL
xe2x80xa2 Monte-Carlo and quasi Monte-Carlo methods
xe2x80xa2 Direct policy search, actor-critic methods
xe2x80xa2 Parsimoneous function representation
xe2x80xa2 Adaptive feature discovery
xe2x80xa2 Learning rules and architectures for RL
xe2x80xa2 Sensitivity analysis for policy gradient estimation
xe2x80xa2 Neuroscience and biologically inspired control
xe2x80xa2 Partially observable Markov decision processes
xe2x80xa2 Distributed intelligent systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-agent RL systems
xe2x80xa2 Multi-level multi-objective optimization for ADPRL
xe2x80xa2 Kernel methods and value function representation
xe2x80xa2 Applications of ADP and RL |
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60th SouthEast Regional Meeting |
| Nov 12-15, 2008 at
Music City Sheraton Hote, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Mark your calendar now for SERMACS 2008 "Living and Working in a Material World" to be held at the Music City Sheraton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12-15, 2008. We are currently in the process of finalizing information and dates. Please visit our web site again soon for updates. |
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NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2008 |
| Nov 28-30, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| International Auto Show |
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20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care |
| Dec 8-11, 2008 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Breakthrough Management Group International is pleased to be exhibiting our world-class Lean & Six Sigma training & consulting offerings at this Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Please join us while we discuss how we can help your organization achieve:
- Cost and Waste Reduction
- Improved Patient Flow
- Increased Claims Accuracy
- Reduced Processing Times
- Improved Clinical Outcomes
- Increased Patient Satisfaction
- Enhanced Employee Retention |
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Tennessee Education Technology Conference |
| Dec 10-12, 2008 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| TETC will provide a great program including training sessions, one-hour labs, and two-hour workshops (separately ticketed), concurrent interest sessions, and networking opportunities with other educational technology professionals from across the state. Hands-on labs and interest sessions are designed to get participants excited about integrating technology into classroom lesson plans. Also, you will be able to attend an exciting trade show with over 100 exhibits showcasing the newest technologies, |
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Nashville Boat Show 2009 |
| Jan 7-11, 2009 at
Nashville Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The luxury pleasure boat sector continues to expand dramatically - it now accounts for almost a fifth of global super-yacht sales. Surging luxury boat sales have, in turn, generated massive demand for mooring facilities. Regional seafront developers have responded by building one luxury marina after another. Nashville Boat Show will offer a unique show of equipment and services ranging from water sports through surfing and luxurious yachts etc. |
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38th Critical Care Congress |
| Jan 31-Feb 4, 2009 at
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multiprofessional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.
With 14,000 members in 80 countries, SCCM is the only organization that represents all professional components of the critical care team. The Society offers a variety of activities that promote excellence in patient care, education, research, and advocacy. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| All aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Image Processing (CIIP 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence, by hosting over 20 technical meetings in one location. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, this event will attract top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The registration, which will allow participants to attend any session in any technical meeting, will also include the complete set of the proceedings of all the meetings, coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet. The event will be held in the magical town of Nashville, city of country music. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (CIB 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| In recent years, biometrics has gained increasing attention and been rapidly developed for various commercial, government and law enforcement applications ranging from physical and logical access control, against identity fraud, to terrorist attack prevention. Various biometric technologies are available for identifying or verifying an individual's identity by measuring his/her fingerprint, hand, face, signature, voice, or a combination of these traits. However, recognition based on traditional methods may not be sufficiently robust because of the possibility of background noise, signal distortion, and template ageing. A special feature that a biometric trait cannot be captured in precisely the same way twice makes biometric matching be never exact, but always a xe2x80x9cfuzzy comparisonxe2x80x9d. Therefore, computational intelligence (CI), primarily based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, etc., turns out to be an ideal approach. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications (HIMA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The International workshop will consist of papers describing research work that integrate different Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies for the development of hybrid intelligent systems. CI methodologies at the moment include (at least) Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Agents, and Chaos Theory. The use of intelligent techniques, like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms, for real-world problems is now widely accepted. However, still the performance of any of these techniques can be improved, in many situations, by using them in conjunction with other techniques. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 2009 IEEE Symposium on CI for Visual Intelligence will gather researchers in the area of Computational Intelligence with the specific interests, in particular, in image manipulation, mental imagery, spatial reasoning, vision-driven navigation, map building, and shape and object representation and recognition.
The term -- Visual Intelligence -- was borrowed from the Psychology circles, and it refers to one of the seven types of Human Intelligence: Logical, Musical, Linguistic... and Visual (or Visual-Spatial) Intelligence. Also, Visual Intelligence refers to the ability to represent the outer world (spatial world) internally in the computer systems. In that sense, the focus of the meeting is not only on how robots (and other systems) observe and acquire the environment (namely, by using computer vision) but also on how it internally represents, handles and depicts that space. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments (CIVE 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| IEEE CIVE 2009 intends to bring a computational intelligence perspective to the theory and practice of virtual environments, and human-computer interfaces and their interactive applications in telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, medicine, training, education, arts, and computer games.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computational intelligence methodology and technology for virtual environment applications, These applications include, but are not limited to, soft-computing techniques for real-time modeling of object properties |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (IEEE CIDM 2009) will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in data mining. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of recent results in data mining algorithms, applications, software and data mining systems.
Some of the topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, graphical models and fuzzy systems for data modeling and data understanding, new approaches for handling uncertainty, evolutionary computation and other emerging optimization techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing (OC 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Organic Computing is a research field emerging around the conviction that problems of organization in complex systems in computer science, telecommunications, neurobiology, molecular biology, ethology, and possibly even sociology can be tackled scientifically in a unified way, by means of which progress in understanding aspects of organization in either field can be fruitful in the others.
Problems of organization become pressing as artifacts increase in complexity regarding both hardware and software. It is becoming inevitable to shift much of the burden of organization into the machines themselves. This brings up the problem |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The 6th Annual IEEE CIBCB symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial neural nets, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging techniques such as particle swarm optimization. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The aim of the annual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM 2009) is to bring together engineers, scientists and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence applied to issues in multicriteria decision making. Topics covered include applications of computational intelligence technologies, such as neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, and other emerging techniques in the following or similar areas: |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have become indispensable in virtually all financial applications, from portfolio selection to proprietary trading to risk management. |
| |
2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems (ESDIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| The newly established concept of evolving intelligent systems (eIS) is a result of the synergy between conventional systems, neural networks and fuzzy systems as structures for information representation and real time methods for machine learning. This emerging area targets non-stationary processes by developing novel on-line learning methods and computationally efficient algorithms for real-time applications. One of the important research challenges today is to develop methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques towards the design of intelligent systems with a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, so that the systems can evolve their structure and knowledge of the environment and ultimately |
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2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up by a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralized control dictating the behavior of the individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bird flocking, fish schooling, honey bees, and many more. |
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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational Intelligence constitutes an umbrella of techniques, has proven to be flexible in decision making in dynamic environment. These techniques typically include Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, Intelligent Agent Systems, Neural Networks, Cellular Automata, Artificial Immune Systems and other similar computational models. The use of these techniques allowed building efficient online monitoring tools and robust decision support modules, providing cross-linking solutions to different cyber security applications. |
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2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (CIAA 2009) |
| Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009 at
Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville
Tennessee United States |
| Computational intelligence algorithms have been used to develop systems with features that can be difficult to achieve with traditional computing techniques. These algorithms have shown promise for improving the capabilities of aerospace systems. Some examples of traits that have the potential to be achieved through the use of computational intelligence and would be useful in aerospace applications include:
* learning of new behaviors, learning to tune and improve current behaviors, learning characteristics of the systemxe2x80x99s domain, etc.
* robustness or the ability to adapt to different operating conditions and act flexibility in new situations
* the ability to extract meaningful information from (possibly large amounts of) s |
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