Welcome Message from Program Chairs

On behalf of the SoCPaR 2015 Program Committee, we welcome all participants to the

Seventh International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR

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

2015.

SoCPaR 2015 received 111 submissions. Thanks to the strong efforts of the International

Program Committee, 72 papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference. The

acceptance rate is 65%. Almost papers have been reviewed by at least three PC members

except a few papers with two reviews. Authors of submissions are from 25 countries, with

Japan the largest share (76, AR65%), then Egypt (44, AR55%), Malaysia (23, AR64%),

Taiwan (18, AR50%), China (15, AR82%), India (14, AR33%), Brazil (12, AR67%), Indonesia

(10, AR77%), where AR is an acceptance rate per submission. Regional ratios of

submissions and AR are: Asia (65.6%, 61.6%), Middle East and Africa (18.3%, 52.5%),

Europe (12.2%, 94.5%), and others (3.8%, 76.5%), respectively. Most popular submission

topics were (by number of papers): Machine learning (29), Image Processing (26), Computer

Vision (23), Data Mining (22), followed by Artificial neural networks, Evolutionary computing,

Swarm intelligence. The little bit more than 300 reviews confirmed a general above average

quality of the submitted papers.

We also want to express our appreciation to the plenary speakers Václav Snášel and

Mengjie Zhang to come to the conference, and to G. Cabanes, N. Rogovschi, N. Grozavu

and Y. Bennani for organizing a special session on “Incremental Machine Learning.”

It is our hope that we could compile an interesting program for these three days that will

appeal all attendees of the conference, and give ample opportunities to present newest

research, unrevealing new research directions and many plans for future collaborations.

Looking forward to meet you all in Fukuoka this autumn.

PC Chairs

  Mario Köppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
  Bing Xue, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand