Session 1: Importance of Artificial Neural Networks in Smart Era
Organziers:
Dr. Amit Kumar Tyagi, VIT Chennai Campus, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Dr. Sanju Tiwari, Universidad Polytecnica de Madrid, Spain

Session 2:Recent trends in Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics
Organziers:
Dr. Mrutyunjaya Panda, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India
Prof. (Dr.) Manas Ranjan Patra, Berhampur University, Berhampur, India
Prof. (Dr.) B. K. Tripathy, VIT University, Vellore, India

Call for Special Sessions & Events 
We kindly invite you to propose Workshop/Special Session in the 8th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2019) to be held in GIET University, Gunupur, Odisha, India during December 16-18, 2019. IBICA 2019 is intended to be a major international conference bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners who work in the areas of intelligent systems and its applications in industry and the real world.
Session organizer(s) will be responsible for advertising, promoting, and chairing the parallel special session during the conference. Papers will be reviewed by the panel reviewers from the Session Program Committee and approved by the General Conference Program Committee. Each Special Session is expected to have at least 5 papers and at least one author of each paper must register for the paper present during the session. Special Session paper submission will be done through IBICA’2019 submission management system and been evaluated with the same standards as the regular conference paper. 
All proposal submissions will be reviewed by the IBICA’2019 special session chair and the general conference committee. The following criteria will be considered:

• Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to IBICA’2019 attendees.
• Complementarity to the IBICA’2019 program provided by the other tracks.
• Completeness, clarity, and quality of the session proposal.
• Qualification of the submitter(s) to organize the SS.
• Likely success of the proposed session.
• Overlap with other proposal or pre-selected activity.

It is expected that all accepted papers will be included in the IBICA’2019 conference proceedings published by Springer.