Welcome Message from General Chairs

On behalf of SoCPaR 2015 Organization Committee, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the

Seventh International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR

2015) held at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan in November 13 - 15, 2015.

Following past six SoCPaR conference series, SoCPaR 2015 was organized to provide a

forum for researchers, engineers, and students from all over the world, to discuss the state-

of-the-art in Soft Computing and pattern recognition, for exchanging knowledge that

encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. The

conference theme is Innovating and Inspiring Soft Computing and Intelligent Pattern

Recognition.

We would like to express our appreciations to 273 authors who submitted their papers from

25 countries. This wide spread of authors in the world is worthy to the international

conference. Thanks to voluntary efforts of 115 referees' and Local Arrangement team. We

applied a similarity check tool, iThenticate / CrossCheck to all submitted papers and

accepted qualified papers with 65% acceptance rate to keep the quality of SoCPaR 2015

high.

SoCPaR 2015 was co-sponsored by Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) and

Research Center for Applied Perceptual Science of Kyushu University and technically

sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) Japan Chapter.

SoCPaR 2015 was financially supported by Tateisi Science and Technology Foundation and

technically supported by three SMCS technical committees (TC's): TC on Soft Computing,

TC on Pattern Recognition, and Granular Computing. The success of SoCPaR 2015 was

brought by contributions of many volunteers and these organizations. We would like to thank

all the authors for submitting their papers, conference attendees for their presentations and

discussions, and two plenary speakers, Prof. Václav Snášel and Prof. Mengjie Zhang. We

also would like to thank members of our Organization Committee, Program Committee,

Publicity Committee, International Advisory Board, and staff students for their hard works.

General Chairs

  Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA