5th International Workshop on
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE & APPLICATIONS 2009
(IWCIA2009)

This workshop was hosted by IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter in Hiroshima, Japan from November 10th to November 12th, 2009. The general chair is Professor Hideki Katagiri from Hiroshima Univerity and assisted by the organizing committe. The members of the committee are following:

• General Chair: Hideki Katagiri (Hiroshima University, JAPAN)
• Program Chairs: Kosuke Kato (Hiroshima University, JAPAN), Takumi Ichimura (Hiroshima City University, JAPAN), and Hisashi Handa (Okayama University, JAPAN)
• Publication Chair: Takeshi Uno (Tokushima University, JAPAN), Takeshi Matsui (Hiroshima University, JAPAN), and Tomohiro Hayashida (Hiroshima University, JAPAN)
• Publicity Chair: Yoshiyuki Tanaka (Hiroshima University, JAPAN)
• Financial Chair: Tomohiro Hayashida (Hiroshima University, JAPAN)
• Advisory Chair: Hossam A. Gabbar (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

This is the second time that the workshop IWCIA has been held at Hiroshima University and we believe that it was a very exciting experience for all participants of the workshop.

Following the IWCIA2008 (held at Hiroshima University, Japan), the workshop was instituted based, with all the activities centered at Hiroshima University. The institute is located about 20 km east of downtown Hiroshima, with direct access by expressway bus. There is a number of hotels nearby the institute, and the institute also operates a guest house on the site. There are two world heritage in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Itsukushima Shinto Shrine. It takes about half an hour to travel from the institute to city center of Hiroshima, and it costs only 600JPY (about 6 USD). However, taxis are very expensive in Japan, so most of participants who visited to Hiroshima City takes the expresway bus or conventional train lines.

As usual, all the presentations at the workshop were held at general, student, or organized sessions. They were held by single or parallel sessions, This is made possible by the small size of the workshop and favors the exchange of ideas between researchers from various fields, who quite frequently face similar experimental problems. The fields covered are rather broad as following topics and associated fields:

• Applied Computational Intelligence
• Intelligent Distributed Systems
• Reasoning & Learning
• Expert Systems/Decision Support Systems
• Intelligent Control Systems
• Intelligent Environmental Systems
• Intelligent Safety Systems
• Intelligent Energy Systems
• Intelligent Robotic Systems
• Human Factors
• Applied Artificial Intelligence
• System of Systems
• Computer Vision
• Human-Computer/Machine Interactions
• Sensing Engineering
• Geographical Information Systems & Applications

3 General Sessions, 3 Student Sessions and 8 Organized Sessions were held at the workshop, and 65 papers were presented. The organizing committee voted for selecting a person receiving the best presentation award and a student receiving the best student presentation award. As the result, the following two papers were selected.

Best Presentation Award

Title of paper: Borderline Over-sampling for Imbalanced Data Classificatio
Authors: Hien M. Nguyen, Eric W. Cooper, Katsuari Kamei

Best Student Presentation Award

Title of paper: Self-Organized Similarity based Kernel Fuzzy Clustering Model and Its Applications
Authors: Tomoyuki Kuwata, Mika Sato-Ilic

3 Finalists for the Best Student Presentation Award

• Title of paper: An Improved Scheme for Interest Mining Based on a Reconfiguration of the Peer-to-Peer Overlay
  Authors: Naomi Aoki, Satoshi Fujita
• Title of paper: Self-Organized Similarity based Kernel Fuzzy Clustering Model and Its Applications
  Authors: Tomoyuki Kuwata, Mika Sato-Ilic
• Title of paper: Agent-based Simulation Analysis for Network Formation
  Authors: Rika Kanbara, Tomohiro Hayashida, Ichiro Nishizaki, and Hideki Katagiri

Additionally, two keynote speakers were held at the workshop as follows:

1. Prof. Tsu-Tian Lee
   (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan; Vice President of IEEE SMC; Chair of Membership and Student Activities Committee)
   Title of the lecture: Intelligent Transportation Systems in Taiwan
   
   
   
2. Prof. Hideyuki Takagi
   (Kyushu University, Japan; Vice President of IEEE SMC; Chair of IEEE SMC Cybernetics Committee)
   Title of the lecture: New Frameworks of Interactive Evolutionary Computation
   
   
   

We held fellowship banquet at 11th night. The number of participants were about 40.

Further details about the workshop are available on the web site at:
http://www.hil.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/iwcia/2009/
or by asking Google for "5th International Workshop on Computational Intelligence & Applications Hiroshima University".

Prof. Hideki Katagiri, the general chair of the workshop and the chair of the IEEE SMC Hiroshima Chapter, can be reached at Artificial Complex Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Human Informatics Laboratory, JAPAN.

Phone +81 82 424 7709,
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