** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks **

-- 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2022) --

http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar22 http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar22

On the World Wide Web

December 14-16,2022

Proceedings of SoCPaR'22 will be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. ( https://www.springer.com/series/15179) (Approval Pending)

Proceedings of SoCPaR'21: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96302-6 Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink

History of SoCPaR series: http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar22/previous.php

**Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: September 30, 2022 Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2022 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2022 Conference: December 14-16, 2022

**About SoCPaR 2022** ---------------------

After the success of the 13th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2021), SoCPaR 2022 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".

**Topics (not limited to)** --------------------------- Soft Computing and Applications (but not limited to): Evolutionary computing Swarm intelligence Artificial immune systems Fuzzy Sets Uncertainty analysis Fractals Rough Sets Support vector machines Artificial neural networks Case Based Reasoning Wavelets Hybrid intelligent systems Nature inspired computing techniques Machine learning Ambient intelligence Hardware implementations

Pattern Recognition and Applications (but not limited to): Information retrieval Data Mining Web Mining Image Processing Computer Vision Bio-informatics Information security Network security Steganography Biometry Remote sensing Medical Informatics E-commerce Signal Processing Control systems

**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-...

SoCPaR’22 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2022

**Plenary Talks** ---------------------------------------- You are welcome to attend 11 Keynote Talks offered by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on conference website.

Speaker 1: Catarina Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Title: Interpretability and Explainability in Intelligent Systems

Speaker 2: Chuan-Kang Ting, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Title: TBA

Speaker 3: Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Title: TBA

Speaker 4: Kaisa Miettinen, Multiobjective Optimization Group, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Title: Some Perspectives to Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Methods.

Speaker 5: Kaspar Riesen, Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern, Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Title: Four Decades of Structural Pattern Recognition – An Overview of the Three Major Epochs

Speaker 6: Katherine MALAN, Department of Decision Sciences, University of South Africa Title: Landscape analysis of optimisation and machine learning search spaces.

Speaker 7: Maki Sakamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan Title: Computer Vision for Expressing Texture Using Sound-Symbolic Words

Speaker 8: Mário Antunes, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal Title: Cybersecurity: the road ahead

Speaker 9: Patricia MELIN, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems based on Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Bioinspired Optimization Algorithms and their application to Pattern Recognition.

Speaker 10: René NATOWICZ, ESIEE-Paris - Université Gustave Eiffel, France Title: Machine Learning in Graphs: Where Are We So Far?

Speaker 11: Yifei Pu, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, China Title : Analog Circuit Implementation of Fractional-Order Memristor: Arbitrary-Order Lattice Scaling Fracmemristor.

** SoCPaR 2022 Organization ** ------------------------------ General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland

Program Chairs Isabel Jesus, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal Nazar Zaki, United Arab Emirate University, UAE

Publication Chairs Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China

Special Session Chair Gabriella Casalino, University of Bari, Italy

Publicity Chairs Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India Anu Bajaj, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA

If you would like to propose a special session, please email Dr. Gabriella Casalino g****************o@uniba.it

**Technical Contact** --------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: a***********m@ieee.org