IEEE  CIS  Neural  Networks  Technical  Commi7ee    

(NNTC)    

Chair:      Haibo  He  Vice-­‐Chairs:    Peter  Tino,  Dongbin  Zhao    

June  2013  

NNTC Members 2012 December AdCom 2013 June AdCom

44 Members 59 Members North America: 8 North America: 13 Latin America: 6 Latin America: 6 Europe: 12 Europe: 17 Africa: 1 Africa: 1 Asia: 16 Asia: 19 Oceania: 1 Oceania: 3 Male: 36, Female: 8 Male: 49, Female: 10 Members from Industry: 2 Members from Industry: 5 New Members: 11 New Members: 15

Main  Conferences  Year Location Attendees Submitted Accepted Oral Poster

06 WCCI 1143 779 (68%) 07 Orlando 809 566 (70%) 08 WCCI 1103 642 (58%) 09 Atlanta 710 519 (73%) 10 WCCI 868 621 (72%) 11 San Jose 705 521 (74%) 12 WCCI 755 521 (69%) 13 SSCI

(Singapore) ~ 620 1025 723 (71%) ~575 ~80

13 IJCNN (Dallas, TX) N/A 580

477 (82%) (including 33 abstract-only submissions)

N/A N/A

14 WCCI (Beijing)

14 SSCI (Orlando)

1.  Applications. Chair: Zeng-Guang Hou 2.  Aware Computing. Chair: Qiangfu Zhao (new Chair) 3.  Complex-Valued Neural Networks. Chair: Akira Hirose 4.  Education. Chair: Ivo Bukovsky 5.  Evolvable Neural Networks. Chair: Nikola Kasabov 6.  Future Directions of Neural Networks. Chair: Irwin King 7.  Hybrid Intelligent Systems. Chair: Patricia Melin 8.  Industrial Outreach. Chair: Anya Getman 9.  Mind and Brain. Chair: Leonid Perlovsky 10.  Neural Hardware. Chair: Sylvie Renaud 11.  Neurodynamics. Chair: Alessandro Villa 12.  Recurrent Neural Networks and Recurrent Neurons. Chair: Emilio

del Moral Hernandez

NNTC Existing Task Forces (A total of 12 TFs)

1.  Task Force on Autonomous Learning Systems TF Chair: Plamen Angelov Proposed members: Asim Roy (USA), Nikola Kasabov (New

Zealand), Dimitar Filev (USA), Jacek Zurada (USA), Bernard Widrow (USA), Evangelia Micheli Tzanakou (USA), Marley Vellasco (Brazil), S Yaganathan (Sing), Seiichi Ozawa (J), Ronald Yager (USA)

2. Task Force on Biomedical applications with CI (title tentative). TF Chair: Li-Wei Ko Details are under discussions now.

New Task Force Plans (2013/2014)

General Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (EAIS 2013), SSCI 2013, Singapore, 16-19 April 2013 (Plamen Angelov) Chair, 2013 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2013), SSCI 2013; (Huaguang Zhang) Co-Chair, Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid (CIASG 2013), SSCI 2013 (Haibo He) Keynote: "Intelligent adaptive optimal control: algorithms and stability,” ADPRL 2013, SSCI 2013 (Huaguang Zhang). Keynote, "General-purpose RLADP: Solving the scaling problem,“ADPRL 2013, SSCI 2013 (Paul Werbos). Keynote, “Learning with kernels for streams of structured data,” CIDM 2013, SSCI 2013 (Alessandro Sperduti)

Activities at SSCI’13

Keynote, “How to Get Real Benefits from Real Intelligence in the Grid,” CIASG 2013, SSCI 2013 (Paul Werbos). Special Session, Finite-Approximate-Error Based Adaptive Dynamic Programming: Algorithms and Applications, 2013 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2013), SSCI 2013. (Yanhong Luo, Qinglai Wei, Zengguang Hou) Special Session, Data-driven Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Its Applications in Complex Systems, 2013 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2013), SSCI 2013. (Derong Liu, Haibo He, Dongbin Zhao) Special Session, ADP and RL in real-time feedback systems, 2013 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2013), SSCI 2013. (Xin Xu, Haibo He)

Activities at SSCI’13

General Co-Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013), Dallas, Texas, 4-9 August; (Plamen Angelov)

General Co-Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013), Dallas, Texas, 4-9 August; (Mind and Brain TF, Daniel Levine) Program Co-Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013), Dallas, Texas, 4-9 August; (Emilio del Moral Hernandez) Special Session, Mind, Brain, and Cognitive Algorithms, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013). (Leonid Perlovsky, José F. Fontanari, Asim Roy) Special Session, In memory of John Taylor, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013) (Daniel S. Levine)

Activities at IJCNN’13

Special Session, Neurocomputational Models of Thought and Creativity, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013). (Ali A. Minai, Simona Doboli, Paul B. Paulus). Special Session, Neural Networks for Multi-Agent Systems, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013). (Siyao Fu, Minzu, Long Cheng, Zeng-guang Hou)

Tutorials Co-Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013), Dallas, Texas, 4-9 August; (Mind and Brain TF, Leonid Perlovsky)

Workshop, Autonomous Learning Systems, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013). (Plamen Angelov) Tutorial, Autonomous Learning and Evolving Neural Networks, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN -2013). (Plamen Angelov, Nik Kasabov)

Activities at IJCNN’13

Other Major Activities Services: Elected Vice-President for Conferences, INNS - April 2013 (Ali Minai) Chair of IEEE CIS Shenyang chapter, (Huaguang Zhang) Action Editor for Neural Networks. (Ali Minai) Co-organizer the conference Cognition and Artificial Life (KUZ 2013) in Slovakia,

http://cogsci.fmph.uniba.sk/kuz2013 (Igor Farkas) Special Issues for CIS-Sponsored IEEE Trans., CIM, other Journals Special Issue on “Autonomous Learning,” Neural Networks, (Leonid Perlovsky, Ali

Minai, et al.)

•  Special Issue on "Developmental Robotics,” Paladyn: journal of behavioural robotics (Angelo Cangelosi)

•  Special Issue, Learning in Nonstatoinary and Dynamic Environments, IEEE TNNLS (Cesare Alippi and Robi Polikar)

•  Guest Co-Editor: Neurocomputing, 2013. (Deshuang Huang)

Other Major Activities for CIS Major Activities for CIS-Sponsored and Related Conferences §  PC Chair of CYBCO-2013, 2013 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics, Lausanne,

Switzerland, 13-15 June 2013 (Plamen Angelov) §  General Chair: 4th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Control and Information Processing

(ICICIP 2013), Beijing, China, June, 9-11, 2013. (Huaguang Zhang) §  Program Chair, 3rd IFAC Int. Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation

Science, Chengdu, China,Sep. 2--4, 2013. (Derong Liu) §  Program Chair, 24th Chinese Process Control Conference, Hohhot, China, Aug.

2--5, 2013. (Derong Liu) §  Organizing Chair, 4th Int. Conference on Intelligent Control and Information

Processing, Beijing, China, June 9—11, 2013. (Derong Liu) §  Steering Committee Chair, 6th International Conference on Advanced

Computational Intelligence, Hangzhou, China, Oct. 19--21, 2013. (Derong Liu) §  Steering Committee Chair, 10th International Symposium on Neural Networks,

Dalian, China, July 4--6,2013. (Derong Liu) §  Senior program committee member in the Asian Conference on Machine

Learning (ACML), and International Joint Conference on Arti cial Intelligence (IJCAI) (James Kwok)

Invited talks in Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR2013), and International Workshop on Advances in Regularization, Optimization, Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines: theory and applications (ROKS 2013) (James Kwok)

General Chair, ICICIP13, Beijing (proceedings acquired by IEEE and Technical

sponsorship of CIS). 436 submitted papers, 38% acceptance rate. (Cesare Alippi)

General Chair, CLEI 2013 conference, http://clei2013.org.ve/en/, (Jose Aguilar) General Co-Chair, 2013 Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Computing

(ICIC 2013), July 28-31, 2013, in Nanning, China (http://www.ic-ic.org/2013/index.htm). (Deshuang Huang)

Publications Chair, 2013 Sixth International Conference on Advanced

Computational Intelligence (ICACI 2013), Hangzhou, China, October 19-21, 2013. (Nian Zhang)

Publications Chair, The International Conference on Information Science and

Technology (ICIST 2013), Yangzhou, China, March 23-25, 2013. (Nian Zhang)

Other Major Activities for CIS

Tutorial Chair of the 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence AI'2013 3 - 6 December 2013, Dunedin, New Zealand, (Lubica Benuskova)

Program Chair, The 4th International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP 2013), June 9-11, 2013, Beijing, China,. (Dongbin Zhao)

Special Session, “Data-based control and optimization for nonlinear systems,”

The 32th Chinese Control Conference (CCC 2013), Xi’an, China, July 26-28, 2013 (Dongbin Zhao)

Special Issue, “Intelligent Control and Information Processing”, Soft Computing,

2013. (Dongbin Zhao, Cesare Alippi, Derong Liu, Huaguang Zhang)

Other Major Activities for CIS

Other Major Activities for CIS Major Journals Editorial Leadership: Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

(Derong Liu) Editor-in-Chief, Neural Networks, (DeLiang Wang) Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Acta Automatica Sinica, (Derong Liu) Editor-in-Chief, Evolving Systems (Springer), (Plamen Angelov) Manager, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Newsletter (Dongbin Zhao) Many of the NNTC members actively serves on the AE and Editorial Board for

the major CIS journals, such as TNNLS and CIM.

Other Major Activities for CIS Major Book/Book Chapter Activities Reinforcement Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming for Feedback Control, First Edition. Edited by Frank L. Lewis and Derong Liu, Wiley-IEEE, 2013. Imbalanced Learning: Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications, Haibo He and Yunquan Ma, Editors, Wiley-IEEE, 2013 Autonomous Learning Systems: From Data Streams to Knowledge in Real Time, P. Angelov, J Willey, IEEE Press series, Jan 2013, ISBN: 978-1-1199-5152-0.

From ‘Human in the Loop’ to Autonomous Systems: Novel Approaches to Cybernetics, J. del R Millan, D. Filev, P. Angelov, A. Abraham, Proc. of CYBCONF-2013, IEEE Press, 264pp., June 2013 Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Control: Algorithms and Stability. Huaguang Zhang, Derong Liu, Yanhong Luo, Ding Wang, Springer Verlag, 2013.

Other Major Activities for CIS Major Book/Book Chapter Activities Co-authored a chapter on "machine learning" in "Handbook in Computational Intelligence“ (James Kwok)

Chapter 2: deep and modular neural networks for Handbook of computational intelligence, edited by Marios Polycarpou and Cesare Alippi, Springer, 2013

Co-editor of several parts of the Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuroinformatics, the handbook of approx. 1200 pages is scheduled to come out in 2014 (Lubica Benuskova) P. Angelov, J. Iglesias, Design and Tuning of Fuzzy Systems, In Ency-clopedia of Life Support Systems, Book on Computational Intelligence, (H. Ishibuchi Ed.), commissioned by UNESCO, 2013, to appear P. Angelov, I Skrjanc, S. Blazic, Self-learning Controllers, In Springer Handbook on Comp. Intel., (O. Castillo and P. Melin Ed.), 2013, to appear Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. LNAI 7888. Springer

Other Major Activities for CIS 1.  Best paper award at European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks ESANN

2013 for paper “Neurally Imprinted Stable Vector Fields" by A.Lemme, K. Neumann, F. Reinhart and J. J. Steil

2.  Contribution to DAGM (German Association for Pattern Recognition) workshop on “New Challenges in Neurocomputing”, Graz, 2012, and associated special issue of Neurocomputing with paper Explorative Learning of Inverse Models: a Theoretical Perspective”, to appear, by M. Rolf and J.J. Steil

3.  Talk at IEEE Conf. Humanoid Robotics (single track) on “Representation and Generalization of Bi-manual Skills from Kinesthetic Teaching", F. Reinhart, A. Lemme and J.J. Steil, 2012 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Osaka, pp. 560 - 567, 2012

4.  Host of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Kasabov to the IEEE Rio Chapter for an eight-hour tutorial on Spiking neural networks and computational intelligence, April 2013 (Marley Vellasco)

5.  Guest Co-Editor, BMC Bioinformatics, Vol.14, Supplement 8, 2013, (Deshuang Huang)

General Chair, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI’14), Beijing, China, July 6--11, 2014. (Derong Liu) General Chair, Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI-2014, Orlando, FL, USA, 12-14 Dec. 2014 (Haibo He) General Program Chair, Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI-2014, Orlando, FL, USA, 12-14 Dec. 2014 (Cesare Alippi) Keynote and Tutorial Chair, Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI-2014, Orlando, FL, USA, 12-14 Dec. 2014. (Derong Liu) Publication Chairs, Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI-2014, Orlando, FL, USA, 12-14 Dec. 2014. (Robert Kozma, Nian Zhang) IJCNN 2014 Program Chair, (Cesare Alippi) IJCNN 2014 Program Co-Chair, (Nikola Kasabov)

Planned Conference Activities in 2014

IJCNN 2014 Program Co-Chair, (Danil Prokhorov) FUZZ-IEEE 2014 Program Co-Chair, (Plamen Angelov) IJCNN 2014 Technical Co-Chair, (Deshuang Huang) Registration Chair, SSCI 2014, (Yaochu Jin, Zeng-Guang Hou) Publicity Chair, SSCI 2014, 2014 (Danil Prokhorov, Plamen Angelov) Special Sessions Chair, SSCI 2014, (Robi Polikar) Poster Session Chair, SSCI 2014, (Dongbin Zhao) Website Chair: SSCI 2014, (Li-Wei (Leo) Ko) Panel Discussion Chair, World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Shenyang, China, June 27-30,2014. (Derong Liu)

Planned Conference Activities in 2014

Publicity Chair, Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI-2014, Orlando, FL, USA, 12-14 Dec. 2014 (Plamen Angelov) Best Student Paper Competition Chair, The IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), Beijing, 2014. (Yi Zhang) Chair, 2014 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2014) ; (Huaguang Zhang) General Co-Chair, Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems, Linz, Austria, June 4-6, 2014 Technical Program Co-Chair, WCCI-IJCNN 2014, (Robi Polikar) Special Session, Learning in Nonstationary, Dynamic Environments with WCCI-IJCNN 2014, (Robi Polikar)

Planned Conference Activities in 2014

Publications Chair, 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2014), Aug 26 - 29, 2014. (Nian Zhang) Publications Chair, 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Beijing, China, July 6 -11, 2014. (Nian Zhang) Finance Co-Chair, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2014), July 6-11, 2014, Beijing. (Dongbin Zhao) Poster Chair, IEEE Symposiums Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2014), Atlanta, US, Dec. 9-12, 2014, (Dongbin Zhao)

Planned Conference Activities in 2014

1.  NNTC Annual Meeting: associated with the IJCNN 2013 in Dallas, TX. 2.  NNTC 2013 annual meeting agenda (tentative) v  NNTC Report – review and discussions; v  NNTC Members status review and discussions; Ø  Members activities, balancing issue (female vs male, academic vs industry/

government, geographical regions, etc), among others. v  Major conference status and updates – IJCNN 2013, SSCI 2013 v  Discussions of support to upcoming major CIS conferences -- WCCI 2014 (July

2014, Beijing), and SSCI 2014 (December 2014, Orlando, Florida); Ø  Special Sessions, Tutorials, Journal special issues, etc.

v  Discussion the support to major CIS journals, such as TNNLS and CIM; Ø  Organizing special issues,

v  Task Force: Ø  TF objectives and activities review and discussions; Ø  New TFs development: two proposed ideas (Task Force on Autonomous

Learning Systems and Task Force on Biomedical applications with CI); Ø  How about a TF on Deep Learning (some discussions last year on this).

v  Other suggestions and discussions;

Planned Agenda of NNTC Annual Meeting (August 2013)

1.  NNTC membership:

•  Promoting a balanced and healthy NNTC members group, with strong activities to support the overall objectives of NNTC;

2.  Promoting existing TFs and new TFs development;

•  TF Website: Currently only one TF has a dedicated website (Need more publicity to promote TFs);

•  Need more activities from TFs;

•  Creating new TFs on emerging and promising directions (two new tentative TFs are under discussions now);

3.  Support to the major IEEE CIS conferences, such as WCCI 2014 (July 2014, Beijing) and SSCI 2014 (December 2014, Orlando, Florida);

•  Special Sessions, Tutorials, Journal special issues, etc.

4.  Support to the major CIS journals such as TNNLS and CIM;

•  Organizing special issues,

NNTC Chair’s Plan in 2013

2013 Task Force Report Applications

Chair: Zeng-Guang Hou Vice-Chair(s): Noriyasu Homma Members: Ivo Bukovsky, Czech Republic Long Cheng, China Madan M. Gupta, Canada Noriyasu Homma, Japan Zeng-Guang Hou, China Xiaoli Li, China Yingzi Lin, USA Yang Shi, Canada Ashu M. G. Solo, USA Xiaohua Yu, USA Anmin Zou, Canada Mohammad R. Rajati, USA Activities in 2012 & 2013:

1.  3rd Int. Conf. on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP 2012), Dalian, China, July,15-17, 2012

2.  9th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2012), Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012 3.  6th Int. Conf. on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), Beijing China, Sept. 27-29,

2012, Plenary talk. 4.  1st Int. Conf. on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing (ICCSIP 2012), Beijing, China, Oct.

28-30, 2012 Planned Activities in 2013: 1.  20th ICONIP- International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Nov. 3-7, 2013, Daegu,

Korea. 2.  10th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2013), Dalian, China, July 4-6, 2013 3.  4th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP 2013), Beijing, China, July

9-11, 2013

4.  A special issue in Neurocomputing on recent progress of neural networks (a special issue for ISNN 2013).

5.  An invited session at Chinese Control Conference (CCC 2013) on Intelligent Control for Robotics.

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Awareness Computing(1/2)

Chair: Qiangfu Zhao, Japan Vice-Chair(s): Goutam Chakraborty, Japan

Robert Kozma, USA Tadahiko Murata, Japan

Members: Shuxue Ding, Japan Takeshi Furuhashi, Japan Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh, Taiwan Aboul Ella Hassanien, Egypt Runhe Huang, Japan Zhaohui Jiang, Japan Chia-Feng Juang, Taiwan Ohbyung Kwon, Korea Sam T. Kwong, Hong Kong Chin-Teng Lin,Taiwan Yong Liu, Japan Jianhua Ma, Japan

Kurosh Madani, France Zhishun She, United Kingdom Yi Sun, China Kay Chen Tan, Singapore Hideyuki Takagi, Japan Tomohiro Takagi, Japan Wallace Tang, Hong Kong Jhing-Fa Wang, Taiwan Leon S.L. Wang, Taiwan Guangyou Xu, China Simon X. Yang, Canada Hong Zhang, Canada

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Awareness Computing(2/2)

Report of AY2012 & AY2013 (co-sponsored by CIS) • iCAST2012: Int. Conf .Aware Sci. & Tech, August 21-24, 2012, Seoul, Korea (71 attendees). • iCAST2013& Umedia2013, Int. Joint Conf. Aware Sci. & Tech and Int. Conf. Ubi-Media, Nov. 3-4, 2013, Aizu, Japan (~150 attendees). • iWSC2013, Int. Workshop. Self-Conditioned Comp., Nov. 3-4, 2013, Aizu, Japan (~20 attendees).

TF Special Sessions/Tutorials: • IJCNN2012 Spec. Session “Awareness Comp. Theory & Appl.” 6 papers, June, 2012.

TF Publications • Special issue on Awareness in Sensors Networks, International Journal of Sensor Networks (ISSN: 1748-1279) – 17 submissions, and 9 accepted. • Special issue on Awareness Science and Engineering, Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing (ISSN: 1687-9724) –23 submissions, and 11 accepted. • Book entitled “Insight Through Hybrid Intelligence: Fundamental, Techniques, and Applications,” IGI Global Publisher – 41 submission, in process. • Special issue on Computational Knowledge for Social World and its Applications, 2012 International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (ISSN: 1742-7185)

Planned Activities in 2014: • iCAST2014, Int .Conf. Aware Sci. & Tech. Oct. 2014, Paris (tentative) • iWSC2014, Int. Workshop. Self-Conditioned Comp., in IEEE SSCI (Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence) (~20 attendees).

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Complex-Valued NN (1/4)

Chair: Akira Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan Vice-Chairs: Igor Aizenberg, Texas A&M University - Texarcana, U.S.A., Danilo P. Mandic, Imperial College, U.K. Members: Tulay Adali, University of Maryland, U.S.A. Kazuyuki Aihara, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hiroyuki Aoki, Tokyo National College of Technology, Japan Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano, CINVESTAV Unidad Guadalajara, Mexico Sheng Chen, University of Southampton, U.K. Simone Fiori, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya Univerisyt, Japan George M. Georgiou, California State University, U.S.A. Masafumi Hagiwara, Keio University, Japan Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, U.K. Eckhard S. M. Hitzer, Fukui University, Japan Kazushi Ikeda, NAIST, Japan Teijiro Isokawa, Hyogo University, Japan Prem Kumar Kalra, IIT Kanpur, India Mitsunaga Kinjo, TheUniversity of Ryukyus, Japan Makoto Kinouchi, Yamagata University, Japan Masaki Kobayashi, Yamanashi University, Japan Yasuaki Kuroe, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Complex-Valued NN (2/4)

Chu Kiong Loo, Multimedia University, Malaysia Jinwen Ma, Peking University, China Nobuyuki Matsui, Hyogo University, Japan Howard E. Michel, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, U.S.A. Kazuyuki Murase, Fukui University, Japan Garimella Rama Murthy, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Koji Nakajima, Tohoku University, Japan Iku Nemoto, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Ikuko Nishikawa, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Haruhiko Nishimura, Hyogo University, Japan Tohru Nitta, AIST, Japan Ramasamy Savitha, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shigeo Sato, Tohoku University, Japan Takashi Soma, REC R&D Inc., Japan Takako Soma, Illinois College, U.S.A. Andriyan Bayu Suksmono, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Narasimhan Sundararajan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sundaram Suresh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Kanta Tachibana, Kogakuin University, Japan Haruhisa Takahashi, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Gouhei Tanaka, The University of Tokyo, Japan Bipin Tripathi, IIT Kanpur, India Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, U.S.A.

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Complex-Valued NN (3/4)

Activities in 2013 for IEEE CIS: 1.  IJCNN 2013 Dallas: Special Session "Complex-Valued Neural Networks “ (I.

Aizenberg, A. Hirose, D. Mandic and J. Zurada )

2.  IEEE Press – Wiley Book 2013: “Complex-Valued Neural Networks: Advances and Applications” (ed. A.Hirose) (April 2013) 10 chapters

3.  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Special Issue on Complex- and Hypercomplex-Valued Neural Networks, (Guest CoEditors: A. Hirose, I. Aizenberg, D. Mandic) Deadline 31 January 2013, Publication January 2014

4. G.Tanaka, Book Review “Complex-Valued Neural Networks: Advances and Applications” in IEEE CIS Magzine, 8, 2 (2013)

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Complex-Valued NN (4/4)

Planned activities in 2014 for IEEE CIS: 1.  WCCI-IJCNN 2014 Beijing: Special Session "Complex-valued neural

networks: Advances and Applications“ (I. Aizenberg, D. Mandic and A. Hirose, J.M.Zurada (tentative))

Other Activities in 2013 and Planned in 2014 1.  RIEC Project 2012: "Complex- and Hypercomplex-Valued Neural

Networks" Project (A.Hirose, S.Sato) 9 papers

2.  3rd Clifford Algebra and its Applications Working Group Meeting, SICE, February 1, 2013 (Tohru Nitta, Yasuaki Kuroe, CoChairs)

3.  4th Clifford Algebra and its Applications Working Group Meeting, SICE, May 25, 2013 (Tohru Nitta, Yasuaki Kuroe, CoChairs)

4. RIEC Project 2013: "Complex- and Hypercomplex-Valued Neural Networks" Project (A.Hirose, S.Sato)

Details at http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/NNTC_CVNN/

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Education

Chair: Ivo Bukovsky (Czech) Vice-Chair: Robi Polikar (USA) Members: Madan M. Gupta (Canada), Noriyasu Homma (Japan), Zeng-Guang Hou (China), Witold Kinsner (Canada), Ashu M.G. Solo (Canada) TF’s Symposium/Workshop: Merging Fields of CI and Sensor Technology (CompSens ) CompSens 2013, associated with SSCI 2013, Singapore CI in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (CIDUE ) CIDUE 2013: associated with SSCI 2013, Singapore Planned Activities in 2014 Organize a workshop with SSCI 2014 in Orlando, Florida Special Session with WCCI 2014 in Beijing.

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Evolvable Neural Networks (1/2)

Chair: Prof. N.Kasabov (NZ) (nkasabov@aut.ac.nz) Vice-Chair(s): Prof. S Ozawa (Japan), Dr Mike Watts (New Zealand) Current members: Mike Watts (NZ) Nuttapod Nuntalid (NZ) Seiichi Oizawa (Japan) Ng Geok See (Singapore) Liying Ma (Japan) Raphael Hu (NZ) Daniel Weiler (Germany) Gang Xu (USA) Asim Roy (USA) Alexandru Floares (Romania) Jose Delgado (Portugal) Lei P. Lai (Taiwan) Jie Yang (China) Petia Georgieva (Portugal) Stefan Schliebs (NZ) Andreas Koenig (Germany) Yaochu Jin (UK) Liam McDaid (UK) Martin McGinnity (UK) Bogdan Gabric (UK) Damien Cole (UK) Danilo Manidc (UK) C.Draganova (UK) Robi Polikar (USA) Ammar Mohemmed (NZ) H.Sichtig (Florida) Kshitij Dhoble (NZ) Giacomo Indiveri (Switzerl. Plamen Angelov (UK) Bruno Apoloni (Italy) Maurizio Fiasche (Italy) Russel Pears (NZ) M.Vellasco (Brazil)

Symposium: Symposium on Evolvable Adaptive Intelligent Systems (EAIS) ate the CIS SS, April, Singapore

2013 (co-chaired by Angelov, Filev, Kasabov)

Workshop :

Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems, EAIS 2013, Austria

Book with IEEE Press:

Monograph book with Wiley and IEEE Press on Incremental Learning (Ozawa et al) , 2013

IEEE CIS DLP: IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecture by N.Kasabov to the Brazilian chapter of CIS in Rio de

Janeiro (April 2013)

Planned activities for second half of 2013 and 2014 1. SS at the IJCNN 2013 in Texas, August 2. SS at the WCCI 2014, Bejing 2014

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Evolvable Neural Networks (2/2)

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Future Directions of Neural Networks (1/2)

Chair: Irwin King (Hong Kong) Vice-Chair(s): Ali Minai (USA), Marley Vellasco (Brazil) Members: •  Igor Aizenberg, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA •  Peter Erdi, Kalamazoo College, Hungary •  Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA •  Ali Minai, University of Cincinnati, USA •  Johan Suykens, Katholieke Unversiteit Leuven, Belgium •  Marley Vellasco, marley@ele.puc-rio.br, MIR Labs, Brazil •  Zhihua Zhou, zhouzh@nju.edu.cn, U. Nanjing, China

TF’s Special Session (2012 and 2013): 1.  IJCNN2012, Co-Organizer and Co-Chair of the Special Session on

“Complex-Valued Neural Networks”, (A. Aizenberg) 2.  IJCNN 2012, Co-Organizer of the Special Session on “Time Series

Prediction”, (M. Vellasco) 3.  IJCNN 2012, Neuroscience Liaison, (A. Minai) 4.  IJCNN 2012, Tutorial Chair, (H. He) 5.  IJCNN 2012, Tutorial on “Social Computing and Its Computation

Techniques”, IJCNN 2012, Brisbane, Australia (I. King) 6.  IJCNN 2012, Tutorial on “Machine Learning: Kernel, Sparsity, Online, and

Its Perspectives”, IJCNN2012, Brisbane, Australia (I. King) 7.  Guest Editor for two special issues of Neural Networks 2012 ( IJCNN 2011

and Autonomous Learning) (A. Minai) 8.  CIDM’13 (IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data

Mining), co-chair (Z. Zhou) 9.  IJCNN 2013, PC Chair (P. Erdi, M. Vellasco) 10. Tutorials at IJCNN 2013

2013 Task Force Report Task force on Future Directions of Neural Networks (2/2)

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Hybrid Intelligent Systems(1/2)

Chair: Patricia Melin (Mexico) Vice-Chair(s): Oscar Castillo (Mexico) Members: Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland)

Prof. Witold Pedrycz (Canada) Prof. Roseli Francelin-Romero (Brazil) Prof. Eduardo Gomez-Ramirez (Mexico) Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (India) Prof. Pilar Gomez-Gil (Mexico) Activities in 2012 for IEEE CIS: 1.  IJCNN 2012 Special Session on Hybrid Neural

Intelligent Systems ( 6 Submissions, 2 Accepted) 2.  International Seminar on Computational

Intelligence ISCI’12, in cooperation with IEEE CIS Mexico Chapter, on May 16-17, Tijuana, Mexico

(40 Submissions, 36 Accepted)

Activities in 2013 for IEEE CIS: 1. SSCI 2013 Workshop: HIMA 2013 (Chair: P. Melin Co-Chair Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (12 papers accepted). 2. IJCNN 2013: Special Session: Hybrid Neural Intelligent System session Chair Patricia Melin (5 papers accepted). Other Activities in 2012 and 2013 1.  Edited Book: Recent Advances on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence Vol 451), Springer by Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin and Janusz Kacprzyk (Sep 14, 2012) 2. International Seminar on Computational Intelligence ISCI’13, in cooperation with IEEE CIS Mexico Chapter, Tijuana, Mexico 3. Special Session on “Hybrid Intelligent Systems” (Organizer: Oscar Castillo and Patricia Melin ), IFSA 2013 (6 papers accepted). Planned Activities in 2014 1. IJCNN 2014: Special Session on Hybrid Neural Intelligent System 2. International Seminar on Computational Intelligence ISCI’14, in cooperation with IEEE CIS Mexico Chapter, Tijuana, Mexico

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (2/2)

2013 Task Force Report

Task Force on Industrial Outreach Chair: Anya Getman (Portland, OR) Vice-Chair(s): Kalyan Veeramachaneni (Cambridge, MA) Members:

James Liporace (Houston, TX) Craig Simonds (Dearborn, MI) William Lane (Mossville, IL) Nick Frankle (Santa Barbara, CA) Rami Abielmona (Ottawa, Canada) Fahmida Chowdhury (Lafayette, LA)

Activities in 2013/2014: 1. Brainstorms of Computational Intelligence applications with 40 companies in 2012 has resulted in several funded projects, NSF proposals, & significant progress cooperatively implementing computational intelligence. 2. As a result of earlier presentations and workshops, collaborations have begun with a dozen of the 60 members of local SAE and DriveOregon.org, esp. in the areas of co-development & co-testing, both of which employ computational intelligence. 3. Exploring industry partnerships to implement developed technologies using neural networks for blood pressure classification & hypertension category prediction (Toronto), object classification within video streams (Ottawa) system, manufacturing, & supplier prognostics, & cross platform controller calibration from one wheel & several hundred pounds, up to 6 wheels & 50 tons (across US). 4. Leveraging global project management networks (e.g. Cameron) to diagnose, prognose, & model trends across applications.

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Mind and Brain (1/2)

Chair: Leonid Perlovsky (USA) Vice-Chairs: Daniel Levine (USA) Vice-Chairs: Fernando Fontanari (Brazil) Vice-Chairs: Angelo Cangelosi (UK) Members: Bernard Baars (USA) Donald Wunsch II (USA) Robert Kozma (USA) Asim Roy (USA) Nik Kasabov (NZ) Paul Werbos (USA) Khan Iftekharuddin (USA) Ross Deming (USA) Bill Howell (Canada) Boris Kovalerchuk (USA) Gary Marcus (USA) Coyle Damien (UK) Rene Mayorga (Canada) Ganesh Venayagamoorthy (USA) Jagath Rajapakse (China) Jürgen Schmidhuber (Switzerland) Alessandro Villa (Italy) Ricardo Gudwin (Brazil) Roman Ilin (USA) Roman Borisyuk (UK) Igor Ternovskiy (USA) Wlodek Duch (Poland)

TF’s Plenary Session at IJCNN 2013: Higher Emotions TF’s Special Sessions IJCNN 2013: Mind, Brain, and Cognitive Algorithms In memory of John Taylor Biologically Inspired Computational Vision Neuromorphic Science and Technology for Cybersecurity Tutorials at IJCNN 2013: Cognitive Computational Intelligence Autonomous machine learning Autonomous Learning and Evolving Neural Networks

Other Activities in 2013: Special Issue on “Autonomous Learning” (Neural Networks)

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Mind and Brain (2/2)

2013 Task Force Report

Task Force on Neurodynamics Chair: Alessandro Villa Members: Sabri Arik (Turkey) Ammar Belatreche (UK)

Amit Bhaya (Brazil) Jinde Cao (China) Mauro Forti (Italy) Noriyasu Homma (Japan) Tingwen Huang (Qatar) Robert Kozma (USA) Rubin Wang (China) Zidong Wang (UK) Wen Yu (Mexico) Zigang Zeng (China)

Activities in 2012 and 2013: Special Issue, “Dynamic Neural Networks for Model-Free Control and Identification,” Journal of Control Science and Engineering, Guest Editors: Wen Yu et. al. Organization of ICANN 2012 (Alessandro Villa) Dynamic Brain Forum 2012, Carmona, Spain, 3-6 September

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Neural Hardware

Chair: Sylvie Renaud Members: Eugenio Culurciello Hsin Chen Giacomo Indiveri Sylvain Saïghi

Activities in 2012/2013: 1. 2 weeks PhD Intensive Program (EU Erasmus) on BioElectronics (Bordeaux, France, April 2013) 2. Participation in the mounting of the “Neuromorphic Engineering” Pillar of the Human Brain Project, EU Future Emerging Technologies Flagship Project (funded for 2013-2023) 3. Participation in the Telluride and CapoCaccia Neuromorphic and Cognitive Engineering workshops (USA and Italy) Planned Activities in 2013/2014: 1. Special session at BioCAS 2013 in Rotterdam (NT) 2. Publication of Neuromorphic Engineering section in the Springer web Encyclopedia for Computational Neuroscience (11 articles)

2013 Task Force Report Task Force on Recurrent Neural Networks and Recurrent Neurons

Chair: Emilio Del-Moral-Hernandez Members:

Emilio Del-Moral-Hernandez Jose R. Castilho de Piqueira Eva Kaslik Joao Eduardo Kogler Antonio Pedro Timoszczuk Humberto Sandmann Joao Ranhel Leandro Augusto da Silva

Activities in 2012 and early 2013: 1. Program Co-Chair for the IJCNN 2013 (Emilio Del-Moral-Hernandez) 2. VII Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Electronic Neurocomputing – 2012 – University of Sao Paulo 3. CBIC 2013 – Brazilian Congress on Computation Intelligence 2013 – Organization Committee Planned Activities in 2013: 1. IJCNN 2013 – Additional Organization Activities till the event, and follow up activities 2. DINCON 2013 – Brazilian Conference on Dynamics, Control and Applications – October 2013 – participation in the program committee 3. VIII Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Electronic Neurocomputing – 2013 –

University of Sao Paulo