From Oct.22nd to 25th , the 2012 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications(IWNICA' 12) was held in Hefei Heng Yue Foreign Club Hotel. 8 distinguished scholars from USA, UK, Australia, Germany, Spain and Singapore attended the workshop and gave 14 lectures. Some are editors and associate editors of IEEE important journals and IEEE Fellows.
IWNICA' 12/ School of Computer Science and Technology
The lectures of the workshop involved several hot issues, including evolutionary multi-objective optimization, evolution of machine learning, artificial immune systems, evolutionary robotics, evolvable hardware. The goal of this workshop is to provide a small and informal setting for researchers to engage in deep discussions on latest research issues in nature inspired computation and its applications. The workshop also attracted many researchers and students from different universities and scientific research institutions in China.
Listening to the lecutre./ School of Computer Science and Technology
During the workshop, Prof. Kay Chen TAN from National University of Singapore, the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, gave a lecture entitled An Introduction to Computational Intelligence. He introduced the basic theory, arithmetic and typical applications of computational intelligence from three perspectives, evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic and neural networks. With his interesting example and witting conversation, he was applauded by students.
Prof. Kay Chen TAN is giving lecture./ School of Computer Science and Technology
IWNICA' 12 is hosted and organized by Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL), USTC and co-sponsored by the Joint Birmingham-USTC Research Institute in Intelligent Computation and Its Applications. It is the fifth in this high-level international workshop series. The first was held in October 2004, the second in October 2006, the third in May 2008 and the fourth in October 2010. The workshop speakers always featured the very best researchers in the world.
(WANG Yifei, School of Computer Science and Technology, USTC News Center)
