Session 1 : Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Society
Organizers
* Vukosi Marivate (UP, South Africa)
* Dina Machuve (NMUST, Tanzania)
* Bubacarr Bah (AIMS, South Africa)
* Ciira Maina (DKUT, Kenya)
* Ernest Mwebaze (Google AI, Ghana)

Session 2: Formal Reasoning with Artificial Intelligence
Organizers
* Stefan Gruner (Dept. of CS, Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa)?
* Nils Timm (Dept. of CS, Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa)

Session 3: Data Analytics-Mining: Crisp and Fuzzy Approaches for Intelligent Processing and Knowledge Extraction
Organizers:
Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros (University of Huelva, Spain)<antonio.tallon.diesia@zimbra.uhu.es>
Raymond Wong (University of New South Wales, Australia) <wong@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Barbara Pes (University of Cagliari, Italy) <pes@unica.it>
Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, South Korea) <sbcho@yonsei.ac.kr>

Session 4: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Forensics
Organisers
Hein Venter (UP, South Africa)
Francois Mouton (Cyanre, South Africa)

Session 5: Intelligent Engineering and Management Systems and Approaches for Industry 4.0 oriented Collaborative Networks
Organisers
Leonilde Varela, Minho University, Portugal, <leonilde@dps.uminho.pt>
Ana Maria Madureira, ISEP/IPP, Portugal, <amd@isep.ipp.pt>
Vijaya Kumar Manupati, NIT Warangal, India, <manupati.vijay@nitw.ac.in>

Session 6: Artificial Intelligence Advances in Internet of Things, Big Data, and Cyber-Physical Sensory Systems
Organizers:
Nashwa El-Bendary, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt (nashwa.elbendary@aast.edu)
Qing Tan, Athabasca University, Canada (qingt@athabascau.ca)
Jose Ramon Villar Flecha, University of Oviedo, Spain, (villarjose@uniovi.es)

Session 7: Philosophical Problems of Artificial Intelligence
Organizers:
Stefan Gruner, Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa <sgruner@cs.up.ac.za>
Steve McKinlay, Wellington Institute of Technology, New Zealand

Call for Special Sessions & Events
We kindly invite you to propose Workshop/Special Session in the 18th The International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2019). ISDA’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 ISDA’2019 submission management system and been evaluated with the same standards as the regular conference paper.
All proposal submissions will be reviewed by the ISDA’2019 special session chair and the general conference committee. The following criteria will be considered:

Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to ISDA’2019 attendees.
Complementarity to the ISDA’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 ISDA’2019 conference proceedings published by Springer.

Please send your special session proposal to Dr. Sanju Tiwari, University of Polytecnica, Madrid, Spain <tiwarisanju18@ieee.org>