Machine learning and intelligence science: IScIDE (C)

Abstract

Two closely related series of efforts have been organized in the past three years, towards a promotion of Sino-foreigninterchange on interdisciplinary areas of intelligence science, information science, and intelligent data engineering, and also in memory of thirty year anniversary of the Zhongguancun Golden Triangle ISIS Forum founded and propelled by the late senior academicians Prof. T. Chang of Tsinghua University and his collaborator, Prof. M. T. Cheng of Peking University, see the second paragraph of Ref. [1]. One is a serial annual workshops on Intelligence Science and Intelligent Data Engineering (IScIDE) as a collective venue for introducing world frontier researchers to China and for introducing researchers from Chinese major universities and research institutions to international communities. Already, IScIDE2010 and IScIDE2011 were held on June 3–5, 2010 in Harbin and on October 23–25, 2011 in Xi’an, respectively. In addition to having keynote speakers, oral and posters presentations as typically in standard international conferences, one salient feature of the workshops is a single track of oral sessions, which consists of not only strictly selected oral presentations and poster-spotlights but also particularly arranged invited talks by core researchers from Chinese top universities and by their corresponding foreign researchers. For IScIDE2010 and IScIDE2011, there have been in total such invited presentations with 18 from mainland and 15 outside mainland. Another series of efforts were originally scheduled to publish three special issues on Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in China. The first one is named Emerging themes on information theory and Bayesian approach (Vol. 5, No. 3, 2010, shortly V5N3) which consists of nine invited papers from international well-known research pioneers and Chinese senior scientists. The other two special issues come from speakers of IScIDE2010, namely, Machine learning and intelligence science: Sino-foreign-interchange workshop IScIDE2010 (A) (Vol. 6, No. 1, 2011, shortly V6N1) and IScIDE2010 (B) (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2011, shortly V6N2). V6N1 consists of 14 invited papers, roughly with a half from top universities in mainland China and the other half from universities outside of mainland China. V6N2 consists of 19 papers, with a majority coming from major universities in China and the first authors of all these papers are Ph.D candidates, which provides a typical window for international communities to observe the researches by Ph.D candidates in China. After publication of the above three special issues, there were feedbacks that the coverage of V6N1 missed some representative professors and some top universities in mainland China, and a supplementary issue is expected. Thus, we schedule this special issue as a continuation of V6N1, which is named IScIDE (C) since the invited authors mostly come from the invited speakers of IScIDE2010 and IScIDE2011. Keeping the V6N1 style, it is scheduled as the first issue of a year (Vol. 7, No. 1, 2012, shortly V7N1) and the first author of each paper is invited. Originally, authors of 18 papers have accepted invitation. However, from initialization to publication, there had been less than a half year for a schedule of review, revision, and production. Unfortunately, five papers (though three in manuscript revision already) could not reach the editorial office before the final deadline of production. We are sorry about such a rigid time schedule and express our thanks to the efforts made by these authors. Anyway, these special issues may still serve as a representative window for observing the achievements of professors in China. Actually, these authors