Session Details:

• Title: Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning
• Organizers: Salvador García, University of Jaén, Spain; Albert Orriols, University Ramon Llull, Spain; José Otero, University of Oviedo, Spain.
• Contact: sglopez@ujaen.es, aorriols@salleurl.edu, jotero@uniovi.es
• Important Dates:
• Submission Deadline: 4th February, 2009
• Notification Acceptance: 27th February, 2009
• Camera Ready Papers: 16th March, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

The special session on "Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning" (http://sci2s.ugr.es/keel/workshops/ss1.php) at the 4th Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems Conference (HAIS 2009, http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-02318-7) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning.

The goal of the session is to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas and discussion on recent and new trends for research in the field. Lots of knowledge extraction processes can be addressed by means of Evolutionary Algorithms, obtaining promising results. Evolutionary Algorithms have been successfully applied in several knowledge extraction tasks, such as data mining and data reduction.

We encourage authors to submit original papers as well as preliminary and promising works in the topics of the special session.

TOPICS

The topics for the special session include the application, but are not limited, of Evolutionary Algorithms to:

• Data Mining
• Classification
• Regression
• Clustering
• Association Rules
• Data Reduction
• Feature Selection / Extraction
• Instance Selection / Extraction
• Interval Rule Learning
• Fuzzy Rule Learning
• Neural Networks
• Statistical Learning
• Lazy Learning
• Preprocessing / Postprocessing tasks
• Recent Challenges of Data Mining: Imbalanced domains, Multiple Instance Learning, ...
• Real World Applications

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit papers through HAIS2009 web site. Papers are up to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS Springer-Verlag format. The Proceedings will be published on LNCS by Springer-Verlag. For more details, please visit HAIS 2009 web site:
http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-02318-7

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission Deadline: 4th February, 2009
• Author Notification: 27th February, 2009
• Camera-Ready Due: 16th March, 2009
• Conference Days: 10th - 12th June, 2009

Please feel free to send this invitation to other colleagues that may be interested in these topics.

ORGANIZING CHAIRS

Salvador García
Research Group of "Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems", Department of Computer Science, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain
Contact: sglopez@ujaen.es
Web: http://sci2s.ugr.es

Albert Orriols
Research Group in "Intelligent Systems", Department of Computer Science, University Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain
Contact: aorriols@salleurl.edu
Web: http://www.salleurl.edu/GRSI

José Otero
Research Group of "Metrology and Models", Department of Computer Science, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
Contact: jotero@uniovi.es
Web: http://metro40.edv.uniovi.es/metroweb