1. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee TC Members 2012 June2013 April2013 DecemberJune 2014 50 Members43 Members51 Members North America: 14 North America: 9 Latin America: 1 Latin America: 0 Europe: 12 Europe: 17 Europe: 16 Africa: 0 Asia: 21 Asia: 20 Asia: 22 Oceania: 2 Oceania: 3 Oceania: 5 Male: 38, Female: 12Male: 34, Female: 9Male: 43, Female: 8Male: 42, Female: 9 New Members: 22New Members: 0New Members: 8New Members: 1

2. Task Forces TF in total 14 TF new 0 TF terminated 0 Emerging Technologies Technical Committee

3. Current Task Forces (14) 1.Affective Computing, Chair: Christian Wagner 2.Ambient Intelligence, Chair: Ahmad Lotfi 3.Behavior and Social Informatics and Computing, Chair: Longbing Cao 4.Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems, Chair: Hide Sasaki 5.Brain Informatics, Chair: Ning Zhong 6.Collaborative Learning and Optimization, Chair: Kai Qin 7.Creative Intelligence, Chair: Francisco Fernandez de Vega 8.Emerging Technologies for Computer Go, Chair: Shi-Jim Yen 9.Emerging Technologies in Operations Research and Management Sciences, Chair: Jian Xiong 10.Intelligent Agent, Chair: Jie Zhang 11.Machine Learning, Chair: Eyke Hullermeier 12.Memetic Computing, Chair: Ferrante Neri 13.Quantum Computing, Chair: Guowu Yan 14.Towards Human-like Intelligence, Chair Jacek Mandziuk ETTC Task Forces

4. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI2014 Special sessions organized (organizers, title)  J.J. Liang, Quan-Ke Pan, Yuhui Shi, B.Y. Qu, Swarm Intelligence for Real-world Engineering Optimization  J. J. Liang, P. N. Suganthan, B. Liu, B. Y. Qu, Q. F. Zhang, Q. Chen, Single Objective Numerical Optimization  Ke Tang, Kai Qin, Qingfu Zhang, Yew-Soon Ong, Special session on collaborative learning and optimization  Xiaodong Li, Ke Tang, Zhenyu Yang, Special session on large scale global optimization  Christian Wagner, Dongrui Wu, Faiyaz Doctor, Computational Intelligence for Physiological and Affective Computing  Hani Hagras, Christian Wagner, Dongrui Wu, Applications of Type-2 Fuzzy Systems  Chang-Shing Lee and Giovanni Acampora, Fuzzy Ontologies and Fuzzy Markup Language Applications  Zexuan Zhu, Wenyin Gong, Yew-Soon Ong, Maoguo Gong, Special Session on Memetic Computing

5. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI2014 Special sessions organized (organizers, title)  Ying Tan, Fireworks algorithm for optimizations  Shi Cheng, Yuhui Shi, Yaochu Jin, Evolutionary Computation in Big Data  Esther Andrés, Emiliano Iuliano, Yaochu Jin, Tom Dhaene, Ivo Couckuyt, Surrogate-assisted Global Optimization Methods for Expensive Engineering Design  Chuan-Kang Ting, Francisco Fernández de Vega, Palle Dahlstedt, Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity  Chuan-Kang Ting, Hui Cheng, Shengxiang Yang, Jun Zhang, Zhun Fan, Intelligent Network Systems

6. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI2014 Special sessions organized (organizers, title)  Valentina E. Balas, Tsung-Chih Lin, Rajeeb Dey, Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Time-delay Systems Control  Valentina E. Balas, Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin, Fuzzy Techniques in Biometrics  N Ahmad Taher Azar, Valentina E. Balas, Rajeeb Dey, Hybrid Advances, Applications and Practical Implementations of Neuro-Fuzzy systems

7. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Activities Organized at WCCI2014 Competitions organized (organizers, title)  J. J. Liang, P. N. Suganthan, B. Liu, B. Y. Qu, Q. F. Zhang, Q. Chen, Single Objective Numerical Optimization

8. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Activities to be organized at SSCI2014 Special sessions organized (organizers, title, TF name / TC member)  Workshop on Memetic Computing (Giovanni Iacca, Fabio Caraffini, Ferrante Neri)  Special Session on Grounded Cognition, Creativity and Motivated Learning (Kathryn Merrick, Janusz Starzyk, Frank van der Velde)  Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (S. Mostaghim, Organizer, Bio- inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (S. Mostaghim, Organizer, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence (Jacek Mańdziuk, Włodzisław Duch, Janusz Starzyk, TF on Towards Human-Like Intelligence/Jacek Mańdziuk)  IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents (Vincenzo Loia and Hani Hagras)

9. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Activities to be organized at SSCI2014 Tutorials organized (organizers, title, TF name / TC member)  Keynote Talk on Memetic Computing by Jim Smith  Invited Talk on Memetic Computing by Yew-Soon Ong Competitions organized (organizers, title, TF name / TC member)

10. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)... Journals  Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, special is use on Pervasive Health (Diane Cook, Guest Co-Editor)  ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, special issue on Intelligent Systems for Socially Aware Computing (Diane Cook, Guest Co- Editor)  Journal of Human-computer Interaction, special issue on Ambient Assisted Living (Diane Cook, Guest Co-Chair)  Min JIANG, Ben Goertzel, Jacek MAŃDZIUK and Naoyuki KUBOTA, IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on “Human-Like Intelligence and Robotics” (ETTC, Min JIANG)  Special Issue of Information Sciences Journal on Large Scale Global Optimization

11. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)... Journals  Special Issue in Brain Informatics (Frank van der Velde)  Int J General Systems on Unconventional Computing (A. Adamatzky, Special issue editor, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, Elsevier, on Emerging Spatial Competences: From Machine Perception to Sensorimotor Intelligence (Z. Ji, Special issue editor, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  Parallel Processing Letters on parallel unconventional computers (A. Adamatzky, Special issue editor, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)

12. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)... Journals  Special Issue Fuzzy Computing and Intelligent Transportation 2013; Guest Editors: Valentina Emilia Balas, Tsung-Chih Lin, and Pamela McCauley Bush in Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, IF 1.383.  Special Issue Fuzzy Computing and Intelligent Transportation 2014; Guest Editors: Valentina Emilia Balas, Tsung-Chih Lin, and Pamela McCauley Bush in Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, IF 1.383  Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 561 2014; Innovations in Intelligent Machines-5; Computational Intelligence in Control Systems Engineering; Editors: Valentina Emilia Balas, Petia Koprinkova-Hristova, Lakhmi C. Jain

13. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (Diane Cook, General Co-Chair)  Special Session on “ Swarm Intelligence for Real-world Application“ at ICSI’2014, Boyang Qu, J. J. Liang,Quan-Ke Pan, P N Suganthan  Competition on Single Objective Optimization at ICSI’2014, Ying Tan, Junzhi Li, Zhongyang Zheng, J. J. Liang  Special Session on ”Advances in Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications” at ICIC’ 2014, Ben Niu, J. J. Liang, Yanmin Liu, Hanning Chen  Special Session on “ Evolutionary Computation for Constrained Optimization: Methods and Real-world Application” at IES’ 2014, Chuan-Kang Ting, Ying- Ping Chen, J. J. Liang  Special Session on Evolutionary Computation and Data Mining” at IES’ 2014, Xinye Cai, Zhun Fan, J. J. Liang

14. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)  The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'2013), Technical Co-sponsored by IEEE CIS, 20-23, October, 2013, Hefei, Anhui, China  IEEE CIG 2015 (Chang-Shing Lee, General Co-Chair, http://cig2015.nctu.edu.tw/)  IEEE CIS, Fifth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (Ying Tan)  Nano Communication Networks on biomolecular nanocommunication networks (A. Adamatzky, Special issue editor, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  ALIFE 2014 (H. Sayama, Program Chair, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM) (Co-located with WCCI 2014) (J. Weng, Program Chair, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)

15. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)  Morphogenetic Engineering Workshop 2014 (H. Sayama, Co-Chair, Bio- inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  Morphogenetic Collective Systems Special Track at BICT 2014 (H. Sayama, Chair, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  BICT 2014 Special Track on Artificial, Biological and Bio-Inspired Intelligence (ABBII) (A. Adamatzky, Organizer, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  SPRING 14 S: Memristor materials, mechanisms and devices for unconventional computing (A. Adamatzky, Organizer, Bio-inspired Self- organizing Collective Systems Task Force)  Summer School of Brain-Mind Institute, Beijing, July 14 - August 1, 2014 (J. Weng, Program Chair, Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems Task Force)

16. Emerging Technologies Technical Committee Other Activities (Journal Special Issues, Summer Schools, and IEEE CIS Conferences / Workshops /Symposia) Organizers, event name (TF name / TC member)  Francisco Fernández de Vega, Palle Dahlstedt, Chuan-Kang Ting, “Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity” for CEC 2015  Vincenzo Loia, Keynote at 2014 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA 2014)  General Co-Chair to 6 th International Workshop on Soft Computing and Applications, 24-26 July 2014, Timisoara, Romania