IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter

CALL FOR PAPERSfor Software Contest

4th International Workshop on
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE &APPLICATIONS(IWCIA 2008)

10, 11-Dec-2008
Hiroshima University, Japan

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CALL FOR PAPERS for Software Contest
The special session for software contest will be held in the 4th International Workshop on
Computational Intelligence and Applications. The software contest has 2 kinds of sessions: GeneralSoftware Contest Session and Data Mining Competitive Session. The software contest will conclude
with some award ceremony.
[General Software Contest Session]
This session will take a competition for software applications with Java, C/C++, and so on at any
platform such as mobile, Windows and Linux. The aim of this event is to give exposure to great smart
software applications that don't have as much exposure and awareness as they deserve. The top
software applications will be determined by a combination of experts and voting by the workshop
attendees. The software developers who will present their work at this session must show the demo ofdevelopment software. If you would like to submit to this part of software contest, please feel free toask the e-mail (ml-ieee-smc-hiroshima-ws@hiroshima-u.ac.jp). The authors in the general software
contest must submit an extended abstract.
[Data Mining Competitive Session]
Medical databases are large and complicated. They consist of unfixed terms and ambiguous values,
and often contain many deficits in the data. Moreover, it is necessary to consider relationships among
multiple items and secular changes in the data. We know the difficulty of handling such medical
databases, but we are expected to get knowledge from the databases to propose good health strategies.
We would like to collect some papers regarding data mining and knowledge acquisition in medical
databases.
Especially, in this session, we have a plan to compare the validity or effectiveness of submitted data
mining methods by using the same medical database. The database consists of more than 10000
records related to heart disease. In this session, we will find outstanding points in proposed algorithms
of data mining and knowledge acquisition (classification capability, knowledge representation
capability, and so on). If you would like to submit the software contest, please feel free to ask thee-mail (ml-ieee-smc-hiroshima-ws@hiroshima-u.ac.jp). The authors in this data mining session must
submit a paper according to the author's instructions in the Workshop.

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Acceptance

Papers Oct. 17, 2008 (Fri) Oct. 31, 2008 (Fri)Final version
Nov. 10, 2008(Mon)

Registration fee: Regular: 3,000 JPN, Student: 0 JPN.

Conference Organization
General Chair:
Hideki Katagiri, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, JAPAN.
Program Chairs:
Kosuke Kato, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, JAPAN,
Takumi Ichimura, Hiroshima City University, JAPAN, andHisashi Handa, Okayama University, Okayama, JAPAN.
Publication Chair:
Tomohiro Hayashida, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, JAPAN.
Publicity Chair:
Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, JAPAN.
Advisory Chair:
Hossam A. Gabbar, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, CANADA.

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