The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society is a professional society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) focussing on "the theory, design, application, and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms emphasizing neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained".
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History
The society was formed as the IEEE Neural Networks Council on November 17, 1989 with representatives from 12 different IEEE societies. On November 21, 2001, the IEEE Neural Networks Council became the IEEE Neural Networks Society. In November 2003, it changed its name to the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Publications
The IEEE CIS publishes three peer-reviewed scientific journals:
The society also co-sponsors the following publications:
Through Councils the society also support the following transactions:
The society also publishes a magazine, Computational Intelligence Magazine, and sponsors a book series on computational intelligence.
Education
To promote knowledge dissemination in computational intelligence, multimedia tutorials are being developed and provided, as well as courses and summer schools are being supported. To help graduate student research and exchange especially at the international level summer research grants are provided.
New initiatives cover the needs from the high school to continuous education in order to serve the computational intelligence community and all people interested in computational intelligence and its applications. Among these planned activities there are: student games-based competitions, pre-college educational programs, development of suggested university curricula, continuing education programs (especially for people in industry), and creation of the educational archive.
Conferences
The society sponsors and co-sponsors a number of international conferences, such as CIBB (the International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics) and the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, a series of annual conference on computational and artificial intelligence in games.
Awards
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's awards recognize excellent achievements and outstanding volunteers in the field. Here is a list of the current awards:
Technical Activities
The CIS technical activities cover many exciting technologies in computational intelligence (CI) and their applications in a wide variety of areas. CI aims to mimicking nature for effective problem solving and the CIS technical activities promote scientific research, technological development, practical applications, and knowledge dissemination in CI.
The CIS currently have 11 Technical Committees (TCs), which can be grouped into the following three categories:
Technology-oriented TCs promote CI technologies. They are TCs on:
Application-oriented TCs deal with applications of CI technologies. They are TCs on:
Incubator TCs identify and nurture new CI technologies and new areas for CI applications. They are TCs on:
In addition, the CIS have the Standards Committee, dealing with standards, data sets, and software of interest to people working in CI, and the Technology Transfer Committee, promoting transfers of CI technologies to the industry.
Presidents
The following persons are or have been president of the society: