1. Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee (ISATC) Chair: Yew-Soon Ong Vice-Chairs: Qinghan Xiao Sanaz Mostaghim IEEE CIS ISATC, 2014

2. ISATC Members 2013 June AdCom2014 June AdCom 53 Members46 Members North America: 15 North America: 12 Latin America: 1 Latin America: 0 Europe: 18 Europe: 14 Africa: 1 Middle East: 3 Asia: 13 Asia: 12 Oceania: 5 Male: 43, Female: 10Male: 38, Female: 8 Members from Industry: 9 New Members: 10New Members: 7 http://cis.ieee.org/intelligent-systems-applications-tc.html

3. Task Forces TF in total (15) 1.ISATC "Biomedical Engineering Applications" Task Force, Chair: John McCall, Vice Chair: Lilian TangISATC "Biomedical Engineering Applications" 2.ISATC "Biometrics" Task Force, Chair: Qinghan XiaoISATC "Biometrics" 3.ISATC "Brain-Computer Interface" Task Force, Chair: Damien Coyle, Vice Chair: Francisco SepulvedaISATC "Brain-Computer Interface" 4.ISATC "Complex Engineering Optimization (CEO)" Task Force, Chair: Yaochu Jin, Vice Chair: Yew-Soon OngISATC "Complex Engineering Optimization (CEO)" 5.ISATC “Computational Intelligence in the Energy Domain” Task Force, Chair: Markus Wagner, Vice Chairs: Paul Kaufmann, Jun.Oliver KramerISATC “Computational Intelligence in the Energy Domain” 6.ISATC "Hyper-heuristics" Task Force, Chair: Rong Qu, Vice Chair: Sima UyarISATC "Hyper-heuristics" 7.ISATC "Intelligent Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control, Optimization and Reliability" Task Force, Chair: Huaguang Zhang, Vice Chair: Wei-Chang Yeh, Zhanshan WangISATC "Intelligent Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control, Optimization and Reliability" 8.ISATC "Intelligent Network Systems" Task Force, Chair: Shengxiang YangISATC "Intelligent Network Systems" 9.ISATC "Intelligent Space Systems and Operations" Task Force, Chair: Yang Gao, Vice Chair: Nicola PolicellaISATC "Intelligent Space Systems and Operations" 10.ISATC "Robotics" Task Force, Chair: Honghai Liu, Vice Chair: Naoyuki Kubota 11.ISATC "Smart Grid" Task Force, Chair: Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Vice Chair: Haibo He, Andrew KusiakISATC "Smart Grid" 12.ISATC "Security, Surveillance and Defense Applications" Task Force, Chair: Rami Abielmona, Vice Chair: Slawo Wesolkowski, James KellerISATC "Security, Surveillance and Defense Applications" 13.ISATC "Semantic Web" Task Force, Chair: Trevor Martin, Vice Chair: Elie SanchezISATC "Semantic Web" Task Force 14.ISATC "Speech and Vision Processing" Task Force, Chair: Khan IftekharuddinISATC "Speech and Vision Processing" 15.ISATC "Trusted Cloud Computing" Task Force, Chair: Talbi El-Ghazali, Vice Chair: Pascal Bouvry, Albert Zomaya.ISATC "Trusted Cloud Computing" TF new (1) 1.ISATC “Computational Intelligence in the Energy Domain” Task Force, Chair: Markus Wagner, Vice Chairs: Paul Kaufmann, Jun Oliver KramerISATC “Computational Intelligence in the Energy Domain” TF terminated (1) 1."Virtual Reality" Task Force IEEE CIS ISATC, 2014 Technical Committee

4. IEEE CIS ISATC, 2014 Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI2014 – 20 Special Sessions Organized & Accepted 1.Catherine Huang, Chair of Industrial Tracks and has obtained Sponsorship from Intel for WCCI 2014. (TC member: Catherine Huang) 2.Catherine Huang, Wed WeI1-1 Intel Special Session on Big Data Analytics (TC member: Catherine Huang) 3.Catherine Huang, NN Session 2, CI on Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency (TC member: Catherine Huang) 4.Catherine Huang, FS Session 1, CI on Big Data and Social Networks (TC member: Catherine Huang) 5.Catherine Huang, EC Session 4, CI on Predictive Maintenance and Optimizations (TC member: Catherine Huang) 6.Catherine Huang, NN Session 3, CI on Control System (TC member: Catherine Huang) 7.Zexuan Zhu, Wenyin Gong, Maoguo Gong, and Yew-Soon Ong, Memetic Computing (TC Members: Zexuan Zhu, Wenyin Gong, Yew-Soon Ong) 8.Vincenzo Loia & Hany Hagras, Intelligent Agents (TC Member: Vincenzo Loia) 9.Wei-Chang Yeh, Intelligent Design for Reliable Cloud Computing (Intelligent Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control, Optimization and Reliability TF : Wei-Chang Yeh) 10.Chuan-Kang Ting, Francisco Fernández de Vega, Palle Dahlstedt, Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity (TC Member: Chuan-Kang Ting) 11.Chuan-Kang Ting, Hui Cheng, Shengxiang Yang, Jun Zhang, Zhun Fan, Intelligent Network Systems (Intelligent Network TF) 12.Mengjie Zhang, Victor Ciesielski, Mario Koeppen, Evolutionary Computer Vision (TC Member: Mengjie Zhang) 13.Christian Wagner, Dongrui Wu, Faiyaz Doctor, Computational Intelligence for Physiological and Affective Computing (TC member: Dongrui Wu) 14.Hani Hagras, Christian Wagner, Dongrui Wu, Applications of Type-2 Fuzzy Systems (TC member: Dongrui Wu)

5. IEEE CIS ISATC, 2014 Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI2014 – 20 Special Sessions Organized & Accepted 15.Rong Qu, A. Sima Uyar, M. Toulouse, Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (Hyper- heuristics TF) 16.Giacomo Boracchi, Robi Polikar, Manuel Roveri, “Concept Drift, Domain Adaptation & Learning in Dynamic Environment” (NN32) (TC member: Cesare Alippi) 17.Xiaodong Li, Ke Tang, and Zhenyu Yang, Large Scale Global Optimization (TC member: Xiaodong Li) 18.Sanaz Mostaghim, Kalyanmoy Deb, Robin Purshouse and Rui Wang, Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision Making (TC Member: Sanaz Mostaghim) 19.Swagatam Das and M. Fatih Tasgetiren, Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms and Their Applications (TC Member: Swagatam Das) 20. Kai Qin, Kenneth V. Price, Swagatam Das, Jouni Lampinen, Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, (TC Member: Swagatam Das) 21.Yi Lu Murphey, Mahmoud Abou-Nasr, Thomas A. Montgomery and Zhiwei Xu, Intelligent Vehicle Systems (Special session proposed, accepted but not included in the conference due to lack of sufficient number of papers) (TC member: Yi Lu Murphey) 22.A. Kattan and A. Agapitos, EC Generalisation in High-dimensional Input Spaces, Received 4 submissions, (2 Rejected and 2 accepted), Session cancelled due to lack of sufficient number of papers. TF Member: A. Kattan 23.G K Venayagamoorthy, Ronald Harley, Komla Folly, Haibo He, Papers submitted by the members of Smart Grid TF to WCCI 2014 (TF Chair: G K Venayagamoorthy, TF Vice Chair: Haibo He, TF Member: Ronald Harley, Komla Folly)

6. IEEE CIS ISATC, 2014 Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI2014 – 4 Tutorials Organized & Accepted 1.The Emerging "Big Dimensionality", Organized by Ivor Tsang and Yew Soon Ong (TC Chair: Yew Soon Ong) 2.Smart Grids, Renewable Energy, & Data Analysis, Organized by Anthony Kuh (Smart Grid TF) 3.Decomposition and Cooperative Coevolution Techniques for Large Scale Global Optimization, Organized by Xiaodong Li (TC member: Xiaodong Li) 4.Differential Evolution: Recent advances, Organized by P. N. Suganthan and Swagatam Das (TC Member: Swagatam Das) Activities Organized at WCCI2014 – 1 Competition Organized & Accepted 1.C. Li, M. Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang, and X. Yao. The 2014 IEEE Competition on Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, part of the 2014 IEEE WCCI Competitions (TC member: Shengxiang Yang)

7. IEEE CIS ISATC, 2014 Technical Committee Activities to be organized at SSCI2014– 5 Special sessions organized 1.Wei-Chang Yeh, Applications of Swarm Intelligence for Industrial Processes (Intelligent Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control, Optimization and Reliability TF) 2.G K Venayagamoorthy, Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid (CIASG) organized by the Task Force. (Smart Grid TF) 3.Sanaz Mostaghim, Marde Helbig and Rui Wang, Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (TC Member: Sanaz Mostaghim) 4.Richard Allmendinger, Sanaz Mostaghim, Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (TC Member: Sanaz Mostaghim) 5.Yi Lu Murphey, Mahmoud Abou-Nasr, Ishwar K Sethi, Robert Karlsen and Chaomin Luo, Intelligent Vehicle Systems (Intelligent Vehicle Systems TF)

8. IEEE CIS ISATC, 2014 Technical Committee Activities to be organized at SSCI2014 – 5 Symposium organized 1.Xiao-Jun Zeng, 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (IEEE CICA'2014), (TC member: Xiao-Jun Zeng) 2.Jacek Mańdziuk, Włodzisław Duch, Janusz Starzyk, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence (TC member: Jacek Mańdziuk) 3.Qinghan Xiao, David Zhang, Fabio Scotti, 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management (Biometrics task Force) 4.Y. Jin, R. Polikar, S. Yang. IEEE Symp. on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (CIDUE 2014), (TC Member: Shengxiang Yang) 5.Swagatam Das co-chaired with Janez Brest and Ferrante Neri, IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution (TC Member: Swagatam Das) Activities to be organized at SSCI2014– 2 Tutorials organized 1.G K Venayagamoorthy, A tutorial on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid (CIASG) organized by the Task Force. (Smart Grid TF) 2.Qinghan Xiao, Computational Intelligence and Biometric Technologies (Biometrics TF)

9. IEEE CIS ISATC, 2014 Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia ) 1.Vincenzo Loia, keynote to the IEEE CIS co-technical organized conference 2014 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA 2014) (TF on CEO Member: Vincenzo Loia) 2.G K Venayagamoorthy, Special Issue on Smart Grid in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Paper submission deadline closed in February (Smart Grid Task Force, Chair: G K Venayagamoorthy) 3.Francisco Fernández de Vega, Palle Dahlstedt, Chuan-Kang Ting, “Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity” for CEC 2015 (TF Member: Chuan-Kang Ting) 4.Mengjie Zhang (General Chair), the 10th international conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, 15-18 Dec 2014. (IEEE CIS co-technically sponsored) (TF Member: Mengjie Zhang) 5.Mengjie Zhang (Chair), Formation and first meeting of the IEEE CI chapter in New Zealand. (Invited IEEE distinguished Lecturer Prof Yaochu Jin to give a talk) (TF Member: Mengjie Zhang) 6.Diane Cook (General Co-Chair), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (TC Member: Diane Cook) 7.Xiaodong Li, "Big Data and Computational Intelligence Panel" in the upcoming WCCI 2014 (TC member: Xiaodong Li) 8.Xiaodong Li, Special Issue of Information Sciences Journal (ISJ) on "Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Large Scale Global Optimization", to be out around Oct 2014 (TC member: Xiaodong Li) (To be continued…)

10. IEEE CIS ISATC, 2014 Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia ) 9.Ana Maria Dias Madureira Pereira, Co-chair of 6th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2014) 10.Ana Maria Dias Madureira Pereira, Co-chair of 6th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN) (TF on Intelligent Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control, Optimization and Reliability, Vice Chair: Ana Maria) 11.Ana Maria Dias Madureira Pereira, Treasurer of Portugal IEEE CIS Chapter (TF on Intelligent Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control, Optimization and Reliability, Vice Chair: Ana Maria) 12.Ana Maria Dias Madureira Pereira, Associate editor of IEEE TNNLS (TF on Intelligent Adaptive Fault Tolerant Control, Optimization and Reliability, Vice Chair: Ana Maria) 13.Summer School on Advances in Computational Intelligence (SSACI 2014), IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter at ITER, Bhubaneswar, India on 14-15 April, 2014. The event was preceded by the DL of Prof. Cesare Alippi. (TC Member: Swagatam Das) 14.2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA): December 14-17, 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam with 3 special sessions entitled “Computational Intelligence and Spam Filtering”, “Computational Intelligence for Cyber Security” and “Optimal tactics through the use of computational intelligence”, (TF on Security, Surveillance and Defense Applications) Planned Activities in 2015/2016 for “Security, Surveillance and Defense Applications" Task Force: 1.2015 Canadian Tracking and Fusion Group (CTFG) Workshop: September 2015 in Ottawa, Canada 2.2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA): Verona NY 3.Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Security, Surveillance and Defence: WCCI 2016