Dear Colleagues:
Please find below the CFP for the Machine Learning in Cognitive Networks workshop, held in conjunction with the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. Please visit http://www.wcci2008.org/WCCI2008_Workshop.htm for details, and kindly disseminate this CFP amongst your friends and colleagues to help us to promote this event.
WCCI2008 Workshop
Machine Learning in Cognitive Networks: Theory, Application, and Future
HongKong, June 7, 2008
Abstract
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 behaviour to those changes, learns from its adaptations, and exploits knowledge to improve its future behaviour. 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.
This workshop aims to explore the state-of-the-art application of machine learning in cognitive networks and discuss the problems and practical issues of learning in cognitive network applications. This workshop will also serve as a forum to bring together academic and industrial researchers working in both areas for discussing recent advances in theory and application of learning techniques for cognitive networking.
Themes and Topics
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 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 behaviour, 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;
* hybrid learning models and techniques that combine neural computational algorithms with abstraction and reasoning of a priori 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.
Workshop Schedule/Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 28, 2008
Review period: March 28 - April 8, 2008
Notification Date: April 8, 2008
Registration Deadline: April 15, 2008
Final version submission: May 3, 2008
Submissions and Workshop Proceedings
Papers are limited to 6 pages including all figures, tables, and references. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines for 8.5X11 formatting to prepare your papers (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/). Please send your submissions preferably in PDF format to yanliu@motorola.com by March 28, 2008.
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee according to originality, significance, and relevance. Submissions of this workshop will form the basis of a special issue on machine learning in cognitive networks in a major Journal or book on Computational Intelligence, where extended versions of accepted workshop papers will be published.
Registration
Please register for the workshop through WCCI website at http://www.wcci2008.org/registration.htm. The deadline for registration for accepted papers is April 15, 2008.
Program committee
Dr. Sven van der Meer, Telecommunication Systems and Software Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland.
Prof. Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, USA.
Prof Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Prof. Weidong Xiang, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Dr. Jianfeng Wang, Philips Research North America, USA
Dr. Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Telecommunication Systems and Software Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland.
Dr. Mikhail Smirnov (Fokus-Fraunhofer, Germany)
Dr. Onur Altintas,Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan
Workshop Organizers
Prof. Er Meng Joo, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Email: emjer@ntu.edu.sg
Prof. John Strassner, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland, Motorola Labs, USA. Email: john.strassner@motorola.com
Dr. Yan Liu, Autonomics Research, Motorola Labs, USA. Email: yanliu@motorola.com
Regards,
John
Prof. John Strassner
Associate Professor, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland
Chairman, Autonomic Communications Forum
Motorola Fellow and Vice President, Autonomic Research
Motorola Labs
1301 East Algonquin Road, Mail Stop IL02-2240
Schaumburg, IL 60196 USA
Phone: +1.847.576.2183
Email: john.strassner@motorola.com
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