** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks **
-- The 21st International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'21) --
http://www.mirlabs.net/his21 http://www.mirlabs.org/his21
On the World Wide Web
December 14-16, 2021
Proceedings of HIS'21 will be published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer (Indexed in SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago). https://www.springer.com/series/15179
Proceedings of HIS'2020: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030730499 History of HIS series: http://www.mirlabs.net/his21/previous.php
**Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: September 30, 2021 Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2021 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2021 Conference: December 14-16, 2021
**About HIS 2021** ------------------
Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of the next generations of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) investigations is the awareness in the academic communities about the necessity of the combined approaches to solving the remaining challenging problems in artificial/computational intelligence. Hybrid Intelligent Systems are recently getting popular due to their capabilities in handling several real-world complexities involving imprecision, uncertainty, and vagueness. HIS'21 built on the success of the previous HIS conferences. HIS'21 is the 21st International conference that brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of soft computing, computational intelligence, agents, logic programming, and several other intelligent computing techniques. It aims to increase the awareness of the research community about the broad spectrum of hybrid approaches. It brings together worldwide AI researchers to present their cutting-edge results, discuss the current trends in HIS research, and develop a collective vision of future opportunities. Thereby helping the researchers and practitioners establish international collaborative opportunities, and as a result, advancing the state-of-the-art of the field.
**Topics (not limited to)** ---------------------------
Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems. Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques. Fuzzy clustering algorithms and optimization techniques. Fuzzy inference system optimization using global optimization algorithms. Hybrid computing using neural networks - fuzzy systems - evolutionary algorithms. Hybrid optimization techniques (evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, GRASP etc.). Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques. Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis, grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc. Autonomic computing. Hybridizatiion with novel computing paradigms: Qantum computing, DNA computing, membrane computing etc. Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Applications
**Submission Guidelines** -------------------------
Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.
Paper format templates: https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-...
HIS’21 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=his20210
**Plenary Talks** ---------------------------------------- You are welcome to attend 8 Keynote Talks offered by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on conference website.
Speaker 1: Antônio de Padua Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Title: Large margin classification with graph-based models
Speaker 2: Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom Title: Learning to optimise – optimal learning
Speaker 3: Oscar Cordon, University of Granada, Spain Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Forensic Anthropology and Human Identification
Speaker 4: Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA Title: TBA
Speaker 5: Andries Engelbrecht, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Title: Set-based Particle Swarm Optimization Approach to Portfolio Optimization
Speaker 6: Frédéric GUINAND, Le Havre Normandy University, France Title: Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Speaker 7: Cengiz Toklu, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey Title: Hybrid Algorithms. Applications to Structural Mechanics
Speaker 8: Günther Raidl, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Title: Combinatorial Optimization Meets (Reinforcement) Learning
**HIS 2021 Organization** -------------------------
General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
Program Chairs Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico Patrick Hung, Ontario Tech University, Canada
**Technical Contact** --------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org
Publicity Chair HIS 2021
Anu Bajaj