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Toledo (Spain) | 20th - 22nd June, 2018</a></p>
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<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; padding: 0px 15px 15px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;">Nowadays, most computing systems from personal laptops/computers to cluster/grid /cloud computing systems are available for parallel and distributed computing. Distributed computing performs an increasingly important role in modern signal/data processing, information fusion and electronics engineering (e.g. electronic commerce, mobile communications and wireless devices). Particularly, applying artificial intelligence in distributed environments is becoming an element of high added value and economic potential. Research on Intelligent Distributed Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications are now deployed. The artificial intelligence is changing our society. Its application in distributed environments, such as the Internet, electronic commerce, mobile communications, wireless devices, distributed computing, and so on is increasing and is becoming an element of high added value and economic potential, both industrial and research. These technologies are changing constantly as a result of the large research and technical effort being undertaken in both universities and businesses. The exchange of ideas between scientists and technicians from both academic and business areas is essential to facilitate the development of systems that meet the demands of today's society. The technology transfer in this field is still a challenge and for that reason this type of contributions will be specially considered in this symposium. This conference is the forum in which to present application of innovative techniques to complex problems.</p>
<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; padding: 0px 15px 15px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;">DCAI'18 is sponsored by the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Spain Section Chapter and the IEEE Spain Section (Technical Co-Sponsor).</p>
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</tr><tr align="center" bgcolor="#fff" border="0"><td bgcolor="#fff" style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left; color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"><table align="center" bgcolor="#fff" border="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 500px; width: 500px; height: auto;"><tbody style="color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"><tr><td style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 220px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; padding: 15px;" valign="top"><ul style="padding-left: 20px;"><li>Distributed applications ICTs: trade, medicine, industry, the Internet, etc...</li>
<li>Implementation of AI Bioinformatics</li>
<li>Implementation of AI Biotechnology</li>
<li>Implementation of AI in the development of mobile devices</li>
<li>Networks</li>
<li>Intelligent environments</li>
<li>Distributed Algorithms</li>
<li>Computer GRID</li>
<li>Distributed databases</li>
<li>Multimedia and distributed animation systems</li>
<li>Distributed Operating Systems</li>
<li>Real Time Systems</li>
<li>Trade and Electronic Business</li>
<li>Systems and fault-tolerant real-time systems</li>
<li>Distributed Architectures</li>
<li>Multiagent Systems</li>
<li>High-performance</li>
<li>Languages, Compilers, planning, load balancing</li>
<li>E-learning</li>
<li>Technology for Internet</li>
<li>Middleware</li>
<li>Mobile and wireless systems</li>
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<td style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 220px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; padding: 15px;" valign="top"><ul style="padding-left: 20px;"><li>Security</li>
<li>Parallel</li>
<li>Software Engineering and Formal Methods</li>
<li>Distributed Intelligent Information Systems</li>
<li>Robotics and Control</li>
<li>Satisfaction of restrictions</li>
<li>Search heuristics</li>
<li>Model based reasoning</li>
<li>Reasoning not monotonic</li>
<li>Planning and scheduling tasks</li>
<li>Qualitative Reasoning</li>
<li>Reasoning with uncertainty</li>
<li>Temporal and spatial reasoning</li>
<li>Other reasoning models</li>
<li>Case based reasoning</li>
<li>Data Analysis</li>
<li>Evolutionary Computation</li>
<li>Neural networks</li>
<li>Learning through reinforcement</li>
<li>Other models of learning</li>
<li>Applications of AI (TTIA)</li>
<li>Logic</li>
<li>System support for decision-making</li>
<li>Intelligent Interaction</li>
<li>Knowledge Management</li>
<li>Knowledge Representation</li>
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Japan</i></p>
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Japan</i></p>
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Spain</i></p>
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<td style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 137px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; padding: 15px;" valign="top"><p><b>Fernando De la Prieta</b><br><i>University of Salamanca<span> </span><br>
Spain</i></p>
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<p align="center"><b>Michael North</b><br><i>Senior Decision Sciences Team Leader (Conversant LLC), Illinois Institute of Technology<span> </span><br>
(USA)</i></p>
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<p align="center"><b>Jiming Liu</b><br><i>Chair Professor of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University (China)</i></p>
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<p align="center"><b>Petr Skobelev</b><br><i>Co-Owner & Technology Director at Multi-Agent Technology, Ltd<span> </span><br>
(Russia)</i></p>
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Advances on Demand Response and Renewable Energy Sources in Smart Grids</a></li>
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</tr><tr><td style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 500px; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; font-family: arial; padding: 0px 20px 20px;" valign="top"><p>Smart Grid concepts are rapidly being transferred to the market and huge investments have already been made in renewable based electricity generation and in rolling out smart meters. However, the present state of the art does not ensure neither a good return of investment nor a sustainable and efficient power system. The work so far involves mainly larger stakeholders, namely power utilities and manufacturers and their main focus has been on the production and grid resources. This vision is missing a closer attention to the demand side and especially to the interaction between the demand side and the new methods for smart grid management.</p>
<p>Efficient power systems require, at all moments, the optimal use of the available resources to cope with demand requirements. Demand response programs framed by adequate business models will play a key-role in more efficient systems by increasing demand flexibility both on centralized and distributed models, particularly for the latter as renewable energy generation and storage is highly dependable of uncontrolled factors (such as wind and solar radiation) for which anticipated forecasts are subjected to significant errors.</p>
<p>The complexity and dynamic nature of these problems requires the application of advanced solutions to enable the achievement of relevant advancements in the state of the art. Artificial intelligence and distributed computing systems are, consequently, being increasingly embraced as a valuable solution. ADRESS aims at providing an advanced discussion forum on recent and innovative work in the fields of demand response and renewable energy sources integration in the power system. Special relevance is indorsed to solutions involving the application of artificial intelligence approaches, including agent-based systems, data-mining, machine learning methodologies, forecasting and optimization, especially in the scope of smart grids and electricity markets.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/adress" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(226, 77, 39);">dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/adress</a></p>
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AI–driven methods for Multimodal Networks and Processes Modeling</a></li>
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<p><a href="https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/aimpm" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(226, 77, 39);">dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/aimpm</a></p>
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Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics</a></li>
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</tr><tr><td style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 500px; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; font-family: arial; padding: 0px 20px 20px;" valign="top"><p>Swarm Intelligence (SI) refers to the complex collective behavior of self-organized and decentralized systems, typically composed of a (spatially distributed and often large) population of individuals, or agents. These agents interact among them and with the environment using different, simple, and local rules for coordinating actions. Such systems of the swarm can be inherently robust, effective, and flexible. Put differently, SI can be regarded as a generic behavioral concept embracing a wide portfolio of decentralized algorithms for performing different tasks, such as signal and graph processing, inference, prediction and optimization.</p>
<p>In this context, a myriad of application subfields of SI can be found in academia and industry, a clear evidence of the momentum gained by this discipline. Specifically, Swarm Robotics (SR) refers to the application of SI methods and techniques to scenarios where the population of agents consists of physical or simulated robotic devices with motion, interaction and communication capabilities. The focus of SR is to analyze how this swarm of relatively simple robots can be configured so as to coordinate in a distributed fashion and collectively accomplish different goals unaffordable for the capabilities of a single robot.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/sisr" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(226, 77, 39);">dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/sisr</a></p>
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Social Modelling of Ambient Intelligence in Large Facilities</a></li>
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<p>This special session will be focused on the challenges and potential solutions that appear when AmI moves to Large Premises (LP). In this context, new requirements consider big groups of people moving in premises that fall beyond the classical closed and controlled environments of most AmI systems. The ways of interaction, the expected services, and the behaviour of people acquire a new dimension and variability in those interconnected smart spaces. AmI systems need to adapt to the crowds using large numbers of multiple and heterogeneous AmI resources in distributed and frequently uncontrollable environments that cause unexpected dynamic changes in the system topology.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/smailf" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(226, 77, 39);">dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/smailf</a></p>
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Communications, Electronics and Signal Processing</a></li>
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<p><a href="https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/cesp" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(226, 77, 39);">dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/cesp</a></p>
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Complexity in Natural and Formal Languages</a></li>
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<p><a href="https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/cnfl" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(226, 77, 39);">dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/cnfl</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/decon" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(226, 77, 39);">dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/decon</a></p>
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<p>E- learning systems have been gaining terrain over traditional educational systems over the last decades. More recent, virtual learning environments which involve either physical or software agents are shaping both processes of teaching and learning. Both tutoring agents and information collecting agents are used nowadays not only for raising standards in education, but also for making it more discoverable and available to everyone, as well as to motivate and guide students and teachers throughout the learning and teaching processes.</p>
<p>This special session will provide an opportunity to bring together researchers with interests in multi-agent systems and educational research and aims at receiving contributions relevant to the area of e-learning and educational systems, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, robotics.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/eemas" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(226, 77, 39);">dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/eemas</a></p>
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</tr><tr><td style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 500px; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; font-family: arial; padding: 0px 20px 20px;" valign="top"><p>The Web has become an indispensable instrument in the daily life for business activities, learning, entertainment, communication, etc. Offer of products and services to Internet users is practically unlimited, nevertheless, this apparent advantage is also a great drawback due to the fact that the Web provides from multiple sources a great quantity of heterogeneous information difficult to handle and interpret. In this context, data mining methods arise as efficient tools for helping users in the recovery of suitable information, products or services from the Web. For that reason, recommender systems have become very popular in recent years, mainly in the e-commerce sites, although they are increasing in importance in other areas such as e-learning, tourism, news pages, etc.</p>
<p>Nowadays, social networks are big sources of data, from which valuable information can be extracted by means of datamining algorithms. Social media mining allows us to explore a wide range of aspects regarding users, communities, networks structures, information diffusion and so on.</p>
<p>WASMM aims at providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the advances achieved in the web mining field.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/wasmm" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(226, 77, 39);">dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/wasmm</a></p>
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<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;">The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who are still far from completing their dissertation.</p>
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<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;">DCAI welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.</p>
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