Welcome Message from Program Chairs
On behalf of the SoCPaR 2015 Program Committee, we welcome all participants to the
Seventh International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR
2015) held at Kyushu University, Ohashi Campus, Fukuoka, Japan in November 13 - 15,
2015.
SoCPaR 2015 received 111 submissions. Thanks to the strong efforts of the International
Program Committee, 72 papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference. The
acceptance rate is 65%. Almost papers have been reviewed by at least three PC members
except a few papers with two reviews. Authors of submissions are from 25 countries, with
Japan the largest share (76, AR65%), then Egypt (44, AR55%), Malaysia (23, AR64%),
Taiwan (18, AR50%), China (15, AR82%), India (14, AR33%), Brazil (12, AR67%), Indonesia
(10, AR77%), where AR is an acceptance rate per submission. Regional ratios of
submissions and AR are: Asia (65.6%, 61.6%), Middle East and Africa (18.3%, 52.5%),
Europe (12.2%, 94.5%), and others (3.8%, 76.5%), respectively. Most popular submission
topics were (by number of papers): Machine learning (29), Image Processing (26), Computer
Vision (23), Data Mining (22), followed by Artificial neural networks, Evolutionary computing,
Swarm intelligence. The little bit more than 300 reviews confirmed a general above average
quality of the submitted papers.
We also want to express our appreciation to the plenary speakers Václav Snášel and
Mengjie Zhang to come to the conference, and to G. Cabanes, N. Rogovschi, N. Grozavu
and Y. Bennani for organizing a special session on “Incremental Machine Learning.”
It is our hope that we could compile an interesting program for these three days that will
appeal all attendees of the conference, and give ample opportunities to present newest
research, unrevealing new research directions and many plans for future collaborations.
Looking forward to meet you all in Fukuoka this autumn.
PC Chairs
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Mario Köppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan |
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Bing Xue, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |