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-- 15th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2023) --

*SoCPaR 2023 Theme: *Soft Computing Approaches in Large Language Models and Generative Pre-trained Transformers ============================================================ ================================

http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar23 http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar23

*Onsite and On the World Wide Web*

*Onsite Venues:* *Olten, Switzerland :* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olten *Porto, Portugal :* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto *Vilnius, Lithuania :* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius *Kochi, India :* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi

December 13-15, 2023

HIS 2023 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person and fully virtually to take advantage of the best that the two modalities can offer. Besides regular paper presentations, the technical programme will include 8-10 plenary lectures and poster sessions. HIS 2023 Organising Committee also recognises the benefits of virtual conferences allowing participation at a cheaper rate. This allows a higher number of research scholars and students to attend. Selected authors will have the option to attend and present the papers virtually or present in one of the FOUR venues in Europe and Asia.

Like previous years, proceedings of SoCPaR'23 are expected to be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. (https://www.springer.com/series/15179)

Proceedings of SoCPaR'22: https://link.springer.com/ book/10.1007/978-3-031-27524-1 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/socpar23/previous.php

**Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: September 30, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2023 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 10, 2023 Conference: December 13-15, 2023

**About SoCPaR 2023** ---------------------

After the success of the 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2022), SoCPaR 2023 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- preparation/5636#c3324

SoCPaR’23 Submission Link: http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar23/submission.php (under development)

** SoCPaR 2023 Organization ** ------------------------------ General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA Artūras Kaklauskas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

Program Chairs Andries Engelbrecht, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico

Publication Chair Anu Bajaj, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India

Web Services Chair Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China

Publicity Chair Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India

International Program Committee TBA

Note: If you would like to propose a special session, please email Ms. Mabrouka Salmi s************7@gmail.com with a cc to Dr. Anu Bajaj < e*********j@gmail.com>

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