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<div id="gmail-:201" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao" style="display:block"><div id="gmail-:1zx" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:280px" tabindex="1">** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks **<br><br>-- 13th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2021) --<br><br><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar21">http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar21</a><br><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar21">http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar21</a><br><br>On the World Wide Web<br><br>December 15-17,2021<br><br>Proceedings of SoCPaR'21 will be published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer (Indexed in SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago). <br><<a href="https://www.springer.com/series/15179">https://www.springer.com/series/15179</a>><br><br>SoCPaR 2020 Proceedings:<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030736880">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030736880</a> <br>History of SoCPaR series: <a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar20/previous.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar20/previous.php</a><br><br>**Important Dates**<br>---------------------<br>Paper submission due: September 30, 2021<br>Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2021<br>Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2021<br>Conference: December 15-17, 2020<br><br>**About SoCPaR 2021**<br>---------------------<br>After the success of the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2020), SoCPaR 2021 is organized to bring together worldwide leading researchers and practitioners interested in advancing the state-of-the-art in Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. It is hoped that researchers and practitioners will bring new prospects for collaboration across disciplines and gain inspiration to facilitate novel breakthroughs. The themes for this conference are thus focused on "Innovating and Inspiring Soft Computing and Intelligent Pattern Recognition".<br><br>**Topics (not limited to)**<br>---------------------------<br>Soft Computing and Applications (but not limited to):<br>Evolutionary computing<br>Swarm intelligence<br>Artificial immune systems<br>Fuzzy Sets<br>Uncertainty analysis<br>Fractals<br>Rough Sets<br>Support vector machines<br>Artificial neural networks<br>Case Based Reasoning<br>Wavelets<br>Hybrid intelligent systems<br>Nature inspired computing techniques<br>Machine learning<br>Ambient intelligence<br>Hardware implementations<br><br>Pattern Recognition and Applications (but not limited to):<br>Information retrieval<br>Data Mining<br>Web Mining<br>Image Processing<br>Computer Vision<br>Bio-informatics<br>Information security<br>Network security<br>Steganography<br>Biometry<br>Remote sensing<br>Medical Informatics<br>E-commerce<br>Signal Processing<br>Control systems<br><br>**Submission Guidelines**<br>-------------------------<br>Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. <br>Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.<br><br>Paper format templates:<br><a href="https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324">https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324</a><br><br>SoCPaR’21 Submission Link:<br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2021</a><br><br>**Plenary Talks**<br>-----------------------------<br>You are welcome to attend 8 Keynote Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on conference website.<br><br>Speaker 1: Antônio de Padua Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil<br>Title: Large margin classification with graph-based models<br><br>Speaker 2: Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom<br>Title: Learning to optimise – optimal learning<br><br>Speaker 3: Oscar Cordon, University of Granada, Spain<br>Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Forensic Anthropology and Human Identification<br><br>Speaker 4: Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA<br>Title: TBA<br><br>Speaker 5: Frédéric GUINAND, Le Havre Normandy University, France<br>Title: Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles<br><br>Speaker 6: Cengiz Toklu, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey<br>Title: Hybrid Algorithms. Applications to Structural Mechanics<br><br>Speaker 7: Günther Raidl, Technische Universität Wien, Austria<br>Title: Combinatorial Optimization Meets (Reinforcement) Learning<br><br>** SoCPaR 2021 Organization **<br>------------------------------<br>General Chairs<br>Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA<br>Andries Engelbrecht, Stellenbosch University, South Africa<br>Fabio Scotti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy<br><br>Program Chairs<br>Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Italy<br>Virgilijus Sakalauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania<br>Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden<br><br>**Technical Contact**<br>---------------------<br>Dr. Ajith Abraham<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a><br><div><br></div><div>
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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:13.91px"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:13.91px;color:black">Anu Bajaj, PhD (Computer Science and Engineering)</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Research Associate:</span></b><span style="color:black"> </span><a href="https://www.mirlabs.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><b>Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)</b></a><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence<br>11, 3rd Street NW<br>P.O. Box 2259<br>Auburn, Washington 98071, USA</span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Email: </span><a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org" target="_blank" style="color:blue">anu.bajaj@mirlabs.org</a><span style="color:black"></span><a href="mailto:er.anubajaj@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue"></a><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">ORCID: </span><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8563-6611" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8563-6611</a><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">LinkedIn: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/anu-bajaj/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.linkedin.com/in/anu-bajaj/</a><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Publons: </span><a href="https://publons.com/researcher/2918012/anu-bajaj/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://publons.com/researcher/2918012/anu-bajaj/</a><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Research Gate: </span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anu-Bajaj" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anu-Bajaj</a><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Scopus: </span><a href="https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56825307900" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56825307900</a><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Google Scholar: </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=En_N0VoAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=En_N0VoAAAAJ&hl=en</a></font></p></div>
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