• WCCI2008 Website
• WCCI2008 Workshops Website

WCCI 2008 will also feature post-congress workshops covering fundamental and advanced computational intelligence topics. Any inquires regarding the workshops should be addressed to Workshops Chairs Irwin King at king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk and Yangmin Li at ymli@umac.mo by January 1, 2008.

• Although you may use your own workshop proposal format, we highly recommend you to either use the WCCI2008 Workshops Proposal Template or to follow the requested headings closely.
• Submit your completed workshops proposal to the Workshop Chairs.

Please make sure you indicate the correct conference, e.g., IJCNN, FUZZ, or CEC. */

• Er Meng Joo emjer@ntu.edu.sg
• John Strassner john.strassner@motorola.com
• Yan Liu yanliu@motorola.com

Cognitive networks has attracted increasing attention as an advanced form of future networks that is aware of changes in user needs and its environment, adapts its behavior to those changes, learns from its adaptations, and exploits knowledge to improve its future behavior. The notion of cognition in cognitive networks implies a number of intelligent tasks including perception, acting and planning, learning, reasoning, and decision making, all of which require a robust knowledge representation that facilitates the sharing and reuse of knowledge. Hence, machine learning and reasoning play a key role in fuelling and driving the advance of cognitive networks.

Designed to use different forms of intelligence to dynamically learn from and adapt to evolving business needs and environmental changes, cognitive networking has attracted increasing attention as an enabler for network visions including seamless mobility, mobile ad hoc networks, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, and new forms and business models of radio communication. A cognitive network is one that is aware of changes in user needs and its environment, adapts its behavior to those changes, learns from its adaptations, and exploits knowledge to improve its future behavior. The notion of cognition in cognitive networks implies a number of intelligent tasks including perception, acting and planning, learning, reasoning, and decision making, all of which require a robust knowledge representation that facilitates the sharing and reuse of knowledge. Hence, machine learning and reasoning play a key role in fuelling and driving the advance of cognitive networks.

Recently a set of enhancements to the original knowledge plane [1][2] has been proposed for cognitive networks to provide high-level dynamic cognitive functionality to augment the existing low-level rule policies that dictate how the network should behave in certain scenarios. Learning engines have also been proposed to support decision making for context-aware services and applications. However, challenges remain in turning these learning models into viable commercial products. There are also a mix of open issues regarding the implementation of cognition, including distributed learning, decision fusion and robust decision making, dynamic adaptation of parameters, iterative numerical algorithms, and complex adaptive behavior, among others.

In this workshop, we will discuss the following non-exhaustive list of topics:

• theory and application of learning, reasoning, and adaptive methods in cognitive networking;
• knowledge
• advances in defining and using a common knowledge representation that can support different types of dissimilar knowledge for data and decision fusion
• methods and applications of data fusion, decision fusion, diagnostic analysis for cognitive network management;
• application of different forms of computational intelligence to automate decision making in cognitive networks
• application of information and data models to support machine learning in cognitive networking
• application of ontologies and semantic reasoning algorithms to support machine reasoning in cognitive networking
• embedded/distributed real-time learning and knowledge processing;
• implementations of machine learning techniques in cognitive network solutions and experience/lessons learned;
• state-of-the-art survey of machine learning in cognitive networking.

• Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier Bernadette.Bouchon-Meunier@lip6.fr
• Valerie Cross crossv@muohio.edu

Over the last few years significant applications in society have begun to utilise computational intelligence techniques in nurturing professions such as education, health care and social care. Additionally human interfacing to software systems such as customer relationship management are employing computational intelligence. Such applications make a significant difference in peoples everyday lives and provide measurable benefits. The use of computational intelligence techniques to address real-world problems is readily apparent in engineering fields and applications such as system modelling, control, prediction, signal processing, image processing, industrial automation, robotics, sensing systems, aerospace applications, automotive applications, and so on… Its use in other fields such as cognitive or social sciences, biology, linguistics, medicine, and education, however, is less prominent. This workshop emphasizes the use of computational intelligence techniques to tackle challenging problems in such fields where synergistic solutions can have major impacts that greatly benefit society. The workshop will provide an opportunity for a variety of researchers to present and disseminate the capabilities of and support, that computational intelligence can contribute to addressing real-world problems in other domains besides engineering such as cognitive or social sciences, biology, and to the benefit of society.

The workshop is suitable for all tracks (IJCNN, FUZZ, CEC).

The theme of this workshop is real world applications in the field of computational intelligence. All kinds of real-world applications will be taken into consideration, with a focus on those which bring a benefit to humanity, for instance in health, education, risk detection, man-machine communication, etc, and those which are trans-disciplinary. New, unusual and hybrid approaches used to create such applications are particularly encouraged and should clearly reflect the benefit to society.

• Yangmin Li ymli@umac.mo
• Irwin King king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
• Hai-Bin Duan hbduan@buaa.edu.cn

The International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI2008) aims to explore advanced techniques and approaches in the field of computational intelligence for innovative applications. The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers to present and disseminate their latest on-going research work and a chance to share their research work with other internationally renowned researchers. A special issue of extended invited papers will be published by the International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics.

There are several potential workshop venues for WCCI2008. The workshop organizers will work out and decide the venue for their workshop depending on the location, cost, transportation, etc. These venues are listed below.

1. What is the major thing that I need to do to make sure the proposal is accepted?
   • To provide information as to why your proposed session cannot be a regular technical session or a special session. Please justify your proposal clearly and succinctly.
2. What is the format for workshop proposal?
   • Please download WCCI2008 Workshop Proposal Template.doc for the workshop proposal. Fill it out completely and return it to the Workshop Chairs.
3. Is it possible to hold the workshop pre-conference or during the conference?
   • It is possible to host a workshop before the conference, e.g., during the tutorials. However, the workshop organizer(s) will need rent a room at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to accommodate the workshop. At this time, it is not possible to hold a workshop during the conference since it will conflict with the regular technical and special sessions.
4. Will the workshop papers be included in the conference proceedings?
   • No, the workshops papers will not be included in the conference proceedings.
5. What is the deadline for the workshop paper submission?
   • This is left up to the workshop organizer(s) to clearly indicate the deadline for submission on their website and also on WCCI2008's Workshops site.
6. When is the final paper due for the workshop?
   • This is left up to the workshop organizer(s) to decide. Since these papers are not a part of the proceedings, the deadline can be after the regular paper's notification.
7. What is the room cost at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre?
   • For half-day (4 hours) room rental (approximately 50 pax, lecture style) is around HKD $2,200, excluding coffee break. The coffee break per person starts from HKD $35 with coffee only and can go up considerably. Additional requests for equipment, e.g., LCD computer projectors, computers, etc. will be charged accordingly.
8. What is the financial arrangement with WCCI2008?
   • The workshop organizer(s) should include a tentative budget in the proposal. At this time, we are still working out financial related matters and will announce them in due course.

1. How is the registration done for workshop delegates?
   • The workshop registration is done at the same time as the regular registration. The delegate will be able to select the the workshop(s) along with the main conference, tutorial, and other fee-based events.
2. What is the registration fee for the workshops?
   • The workshop fees will be determined by WCCI2008 with inputs from workshop organizer(s) since different workshops may have different costs based on the venue location, venue size, facilities requested, printing, other amenities, etc.