Program

The program of the school includes theoretical and practical talks during 4 days from 12 to 15 November 2015. It also includes poster session.

All students have to present their ideas / works in a poster. A best poster award will be announced in the closing session.

Poster size should not exceed A1 paper size Portrait mode (59 cm * 84 cm).

The preliminary program is as follow:

Thursday 12 November 2015
  • 09:00-12:00 Social Activity: Visit to Bardo Museum
  • 13:30-14:15 Registration
  • 14:15-14:30 Opening
  • 14:30-16:00 “Computational Topology an Introduction“, by Prof. Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
  • 16:30-18:00 “Particle Swarms Heuristics in Optimization“, by Prof. Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Friday 13 November 2015
  • 09:00-10:30 “The State of the Art of Neurodynamic Optimization – Past, Present, and Prospect“, by Prof. Jun Wang, IEEE Fellow, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  • 11:00-12:30 “Neurodynamic Optimization Approaches to Parallel Data Selection in the Era of Big Data“, by Prof. Jun Wang, IEEE Fellow, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
  • 12:30-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-15:30 “Convexity, Sparsity, Nullity and all that….in Machine Leaning“, by Prof. Hamid Krim, IEEE Fellow, North Carolina State Univ., USA
  • 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
  • 16:00-17:30 Poster Session: Doctoral Consortium

Saturday 14 November 2015
  • 09:00-10:30 “Recent trends in parallel metaheuristics“, by Prof. Pavel Kromer, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  • 11:00-12:30 “Bio-inspired Methods for Wireless Sensor Networks – Overview, Applications, and Examples“, by Prof. Pavel Kromer, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • 12:30-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-15:30 “Practical Swarm Optimization – Part 1“, by Prof. Nizar Rokbani, Univ. Sousse, Tunisia
  • 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
  • 16:00-17:30 “Practical Swarm Optimization – Part 2“, by Prof. Nizar Rokbani, Univ. Sousse, Tunisia

Sunday 15 November 2015
  • 09:00-10:30 “Computer Supported Collaborative Design: Technologies, Systems, and Applications“, by Prof. Weiming Shen, IEEE Fellow, Univ. Western Ontario and McMaster Univ., Canada
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  • 11:00-12:30 Evaluation Exam and Closing Session
  • 12:30-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-17:00 Networking / Free Time