IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Colombian Chapter and IEEE Colombia Section have chosen Medellin as the venue for the First IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications in Computational Intelligence ColCACI 2018. This event seeks to be the most important conference in computational intelligence (CI) in Colombia putting together academic, scientific and industry.
During the last years, Medellin has gained national and international recognition for the development of multiple initiatives in the field of computational applications. These tools have been used successfully to solve some government and education institutions problems. Medellin has 10 universities with undergraduate and graduate programs related to CI. This has allowed the local companies to grow and has encouraged multinational industries to open branch offices in the city. Furthermore, an increasing number of startups has uplifted the innovation ecosystem and contributed to the socio-economic development of the region. Meanwhile, local universities have attracted a new generation of highly skilled professors and researchers, whom have helped to establish doctoral programs and mature research groups.
We hope that both local academy and industry will take active participation in IEEE ColCACI 2018. Papers will be reviewed by an international technical committee under the IEEE standard procedure and accepted papers must be presented in oral session. This process is mandatory for the paper to be published in the conference proceedings (IEEE Xplore database, including ISBN).

TOPICS
We encourage the submission of original, unpublished research focused on (but not limited to) the following topics of interest:


NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING MACHINES
Cognitive models
Neural control and planning
Self-organization
Deep learning
Neural network theory
Bayesian networks
Bayesian learning and approximate inference
Kernel methods
Generative models
Information theoretic learning
Reinforcement learning
Feature extraction and manifold learning
Data mining
Pattern recognition and machine learning
FUZZY SETS AND SYSTEMS
Fuzzy control, robotics, sensors, hardware and architectures
Fuzzy data analysis
Fuzzy clustering
Classification and pattern recognition
Fuzzy systems with big data and cloud computing
Fuzzy systems design and optimization
Fuzzy decision analysis
Fuzzy logic and its application in Industrial engineering
Fuzzy modelling, identification and fault detection
Fuzzy information processing
Fuzzy web engineering
Fuzzy image, speech and signal processing
Fuzzy sets and soft computing in social sciences
Fuzzy logic applications in civil engineering, geographical information systems

EVOLUTIONARY AND SWARM ALGORITHMS
Memetic and collective intelligence
Artificial Immune Systems
Metaheuristics and hyperheuristics
Ant colony for neural networks optimization
Bio-inspired computing and Evolutionary algorithms
Chaos theory in genetic algorithms
Genetic fuzzy systems
Genetic neural systems
Multiobjective optimization
Hybrid optimization techniques
Hybrid intelligent systems for pattern recognition
Nature-inspired smart hybrid systems
Neuro-Fuzzy-Genetic approaches
Neural Agents
OTHER APPLICATIONS IN CI
Industry 4.0
Robotics
Internet of things
Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical engineering applications
Image and signal processing
Natural language processing
Big data and scalable algorithms/applications
Smart grid applications
Intelligent transportation
Smart traffic system operations
Bioinformatics
Brain computer interfaces
Neurosciences
Neural hardware

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: January 29th, 2018
Notification: March 31th, 2018
Camera-ready: April 17th, 2018

PAPER SUBMISSION

We invite authors to submit high-quality full papers reporting original and novel research results on all above topics. Papers must be written in Spanish or English, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Full papers must be formatted as the standard IEEE double-column conference template and submitted exclusively using the link http://ieee‐colcaci.org/authors.html. Maximum 6 pages are allowed for each paper, including all illustrations and references.
Best papers will be candidates to be published in a extended version in REDIN (Engineering Faculty journal – Universidad de Antioquia)