The IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI) 2016 is a bi-annual IEEE Congress on held in Vancouver, Canada, 24-29 July 2016. It is financially sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). It encourages cross-fertilization of ideas among the three big areas: neural networks, fuzzy systems and Evolutionary Computation. It provides, also, a forum for intellectuals from all over the world to discuss and present their research findings on computational intelligence.
IJCNN 2016: The annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the International Neural Network Society. It covers a wide range of topics in the field of neural networks, from biological neural network modeling to artificial neural computation.
Boudour Ammar presented 6 papers from the University of Sfax. She presented her two papers named “Single- and Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization of Reservoir Structure in Echo State Network” and “Pseudo almost periodic solutions of impulsive recurrent neural networks with mixed delays”.
Apart from attending the technical programs, participants are also invited to attend various social events to be held during IEEE WCCI 2016, such as Welcome Reception, Award Banquet, Women in Computational Intelligence (WCI) Reception, Student Activities and Young Professionals Reception, IEEE CIS Chapters Forum, etc.
There are more than 100 Chapters and Student Chapters, composed of active volunteers who add value to the membership of CIS members by organizing events, lectures, summer schools, workshops, competitions as well as networking and social events.
Boudour Ammar represented the CIS Tunisia chapter as a secretary in the IEEE CIS chapters forum, the day of the reception on 25 July 2016.
During the Forum, we discussed how to receive funding to organize various events and to be informed on best practices and the benefits of CIS chapter.
The Women in Computational Intelligence (WCI) Committee invited all the ladies to attend the WCI-Reception, Vancouver Convention Centre (West Building) on Thursday evening, 28 July 2016. It is one of WCI traditions to organize receptions for women at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) conferences. IEEE CIS is fully committed to ensure equal opportunities to both genders in the society’s life and the computational intelligence arena.
Boudour Ammar represented the IEEE Women in Engineering and Computational Intelligence Tunisia as a chair. So, she attended the WCI reception at WCCI2016 in Vancouver 24-29 July 2016.
About 19 papers from Tunisia in World Computational Computation Intelligence: a large technical event in the field of computational intelligence. We mention that the number of population of Tunisia is about 11 300 000 people. Proud of Tunisian researchers!