Approved Special Sessions

SS1: Pattern recognition in social networks
Session Chairs
Catarina Silva, CISUC, IPLeiria, Portugal
Joana Costa, CISUC, IPLeiria, Portugal

Proposals for Tutorials/Workshops and Special Sessions are welcome. The proposals should focus on a specific topic that broad appeal and fall within the aims and scope of the SoCPaR conference.

The International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR) is a major international conference bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners who work in the areas of soft computing and pattern recognition in the industry and real world. Every year, SoCPaR attracts authors from over 30 countries. SoCPaR'18 invites novel contributions/papers of soft computing and pattern recognition from fundamental aspects to various practical applications.

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 SoCPaR 2018 submission management system and been evaluated with the same standards as the regular conference paper.

All proposal submissions will be reviewed by the SoCPaR 2018 Workshop and Special Session chairs and the General Conference Committee. The following criteria will be considered: Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to SoCPaR 2018 attendees. Complementarity to the SoCPaR 2018 program provided by the other tracks. Completeness, clarity, and quality of the session proposal.

Qualification of the submitter(s) to organize the Special Session. Likely success of the proposed Tutorial/Workshop/Session. Overlap with other proposal or pre-selected activity. All accepted papers will be included in the AISC Series of SPRINGER, indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.

** Important dates **
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Special Session / Workshop Proposal submission: July 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2018

** Important information **
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Proposal form http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar18/

Proposals for Tutorials/Workshops and Special Session organization should be submitted electronically to:socpar10th@gmail.com with a copy to <niketa.gandhi@mirlabs.org>