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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:18.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Marketing and Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">(CIMSS 2016)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">In conjunction with WCCI 2016 (<a href="http://www.wcci2016.org/">http://www.wcci2016.org/</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Vancouver, Canada, July 25-29, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">(<b>Papers Due</b>:
<span style="color:blue">January 15, 2016</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Scope:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Computational intelligence has a long history of applications to marketing and plays an important role in establishing the interdisciplinary pool of methodologies employed in marketing
science research. For example, evolutionary algorithms, artificial neural networks, support vector machines and fuzzy logic have been used in demand forecasting, direct marketing and cross selling, among others. Expert systems have been used for decision support
in brand management, and data mining has become a core component of customer relationship management in marketing. Likewise, the use of computational intelligence in social science research allows heightened understanding of the dynamics of complex systems.
Agent-based modelling, using agents whose intelligence includes full-blown creativity thanks to their ability to learn and to adapt, is revealing information about such systems that has never before been supported.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">The purpose of this special session is to bring together the computational intelligence community as well as researchers from marketing and social sciences to set up visions on how state-of-art
computational intelligence techniques can be and are used for insightful marketing and social science analysis, and how marketing and social scientists can contribute in promoting new applications with computational intelligence.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Topics:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">We invite submissions of original, previously unpublished papers with topics on, but not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Technical issues include (but not limited to)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> -Evolutionary Algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Artificial Neural Networks
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> -Support Vector Machines/Support Vector Regression
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> -Fuzzy Logic
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> -Expert Systems
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> -Data Mining
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> -Knowledge Discovery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Business Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Machine Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">- Agent Based Modelling
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Issues of marketing and social sciences include (but not limited to)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Sales/Demand Forecasting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Response Modelling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Retailing and Pricing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Advertising<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Customer Relationship Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Brand Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Social Marketing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Computational Social Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">-Politics, Public Policy and Law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Full Paper Submission: January 15, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Camera-Ready Papers: April 15, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Submission:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">See <a href="http://www.wcci2016.org/submission.php">
http://www.wcci2016.org/submission.php</a> (please select “Computational Intelligence in Marketing and Social Sciences” as the main research topic)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Publication:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Papers submitted to this cross-disciplinary special session of CIMSS (if accepted and presented) will be published in one of the three conference proceedings (IJCNN, FUZZ-IEEE or IEEE CEC) that is
deemed most appropriate based on the topic(s). The decision will be made by the special session organisers in consultation with the Special Session Chair and one of the three Conference Chairs.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Special Session Organisers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Raymond Chiong (<a href="mailto:Raymond.Chiong@newcastle.edu.au">Raymond.Chiong@newcastle.edu.au</a>), The University of Newcastle, Australia</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Yukun Bao (<a href="mailto:yukunbao@hust.edu.cn">yukunbao@hust.edu.cn</a>), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Manuel Chica (<a href="mailto:manuel.chica@softcomputing.es">manuel.chica@softcomputing.es</a>), European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Sergio Damas (<a href="mailto:sergio.damas@softcomputing.es">sergio.damas@softcomputing.es</a>), European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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