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Subject: Re: WCCI2018 stats, beyond WCCI2020 From: "Marley Vellasco" <> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 16:52:57 -0300 To: "Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada" <> Cc: Hi Bill, Nice to hear from you again. As far as I know, the answer to your first question is YES! INNS and = IEEE-CIS will continue to collaborate on IJCNN after 2020. Regarding WCCI2018 stats, please find attached a file where you can find = most of the information you need. The acceptance rate is still a little = high but from this year onward, INNS and IEEE-CIS have agreed that the = acceptance rate for IJCNN has to be less than 50%. Best regards, Marley From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada=20 Sent: Friday, March 08, 2019 3:45 PM To: MarleyVellasco.GeneralCo-Chair.WCCI2018Rio.INNSBoG.PUC-Rio.Rio = deJaniero.Brazil=20 Subject: WCCI2018 stats, beyond WCCI2020 Marley - Here are a couple of quick (no-urgent) questions :=20 1. Beyond WCCI2020 - Will IEEE-CIS and INNS still be collaborating on = IJCNN after 2020? It seems that this was a question a couple if years = back, and it affects how I set up an IEEE ListServer to mass emails for = WCCI2020 as Publicity Co-Chair for mass emails. 2. WCCI2018 stats - Do you have stats for WCCI2018 as per the table in = the section "Rough estimates of [WCCI, IJCNN] acceptance rates" below? = L=C3=B3r=C3=A1nt Farkas, Technical Manager, Bell Labs Research, = Budapest, Hungary will be a Silver Sponsor of IJCNN2019, so my immediate = interest is to inform him. I've asked him not to distribute the = results. I don't remember postings of this by [WCCI, IJCNN], although I think = that could be beneficial in spite of the NIPS mantra on very high = rejection rates. NIPS has publicized their numbers in recent years. =20 Mr. Bill Howell=20 1-587-707-2027 www.BillHowell.ca P.O. Box 299, Hussar, Alberta, T0J1S0 member - International Neural Network Society (INNS), IEEE Computational = Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS),=20 IJCNN2019 Budapest, Sponsors & Exhibits Chair, = https://www.ijcnn.org/organizing-committee WCCI2020 Glasgow, Publicity Chair mass emails, http://wcci2020.org/ Retired: Science Research Manager (SE-REM-01) at Natural Resources = Canada, CanmetMINING, Ottawa -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: RE: IJCNN Silver = sponsorship - Bell Labs - Nokia=20 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:31:14 -0700=20 From: Bill Howell. Hussar. Alberta. Canada = mailto:=20 To: L=C3=B3r=C3=A1nt Farkas. Technical Manager. Bell Labs = Research. Budapest. Hungary mailto:=20 L=C3=B3r=C3=A1nt - I'm not sure where the 17% number comes from - = perhaps NIPS2018? (see the section "NIPS and numbers" below my signature = block). In the section "Rough estimates of [WCCI, IJCNN] acceptance rates" = below, I only have estimates of acceptance rates for the IJCNN = conferences (odd years, organised by INNS), so I'll email WCCI2018 = General Co-Chair Marley Vellasco for estimates. WCCI includes = Evolutionary Computing (in the broad sense), and Fuzzy systems, as well = as Neural Networks (IJCNN for even years), as three major areas. Note = that most IJCNN INNS organizing Committee members are members of BOTH = [IEEE-CIS, INNS]. =20 Mr. Bill Howell=20 1-587-707-2027 www.BillHowell.ca P.O. Box 299, Hussar, Alberta, T0J1S0 member - International Neural Network Society (INNS), IEEE Computational = Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS),=20 IJCNN2019 Budapest, Sponsors & Exhibits Chair, = https://www.ijcnn.org/organizing-committee WCCI2020 Glasgow, Publicity Chair mass emails, http://wcci2020.org/ Retired: Science Research Manager (SE-REM-01) at Natural Resources = Canada, CanmetMINING, Ottawa *********************** Rough estimates of [WCCI, IJCNN] acceptance rates=20 I don't have official numbers, and there are many end of paper = submission adjustments, so these numbers are approximate.=20 Please do not circulate these numbers as they [are preliminary, aren't = official, will contain errors]. Conference name Co-Authors=20 submitting Paper=20 submissions Papers=20 accepted Acceptance=20 factor =20 2017 IJCNN Anchorage 2,668 946 621 66% =20 2018 WCCI Rio de Janiero n/a n/a n/a n/a =20 2019 IJCNN Budapest 5,337 1,530 877 57% =20 For IJCNN2019, decisions are still being made, with perhaps ~40 papers = to be [accepted, rejected]. ********************** [IEEE-CIS, INNS] journal impact factors (from an early draft email for publicizing WCCI2020) In addition to running leading conferences in the area of Computational = Intelligence, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS), = and the International Neural Network Society (INNS), have maintained = their positions as leaders of journals in computational intelligence. = Their journals continue to sustain their status as premier scholarly = publications, earning high rankings in the Journal Citation Report by = Thomson Reuters: Journal name Impact factor eigen- factor Article influence =20 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 7.982 = 0.03533 2.454 =20 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 8.415 0.02128 2.432 =20 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 8.124 0.00883 = 2.264 =20 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 6.611 0.00201 1.658 =20 INNS Neural Networks journal (Elsevier) 7.197 ------- ----- =20 Note : IEEE-CIS has other journals on Computational Intelligence that = not included above, such as my subscription to Computational Biology (I = might have the wrong title of that). ************************** NIPS and numbers NIPS has traditionally had a : a.. very high rejection rate (~25% acceptance?)=20 b.. strong US focus c.. smaller conference especially a decade or so ago d.. machine-learning focus (now very much Deep Learning) e.. very large registrations for [Workshops-Tutorials-Courses], = especially for Deep Learning, in recent years=20 f.. strong support from industry g.. relatively few oral sessions (mostly posters), although perhaps = that is changing (I haven't checked for a couple of years). =20 Interesting 2017 links are :=20 SyncEd 20Dec2017 "A Statistical Tour of NIPS 2017" Robbie Allen, NIPS Accepted Papers Stats, 2017=20 I didn't see anything for 2019, other than authors commenting in Sep2018 = that the acceptance rate was 21% for NIPS2018. It would be interesting = to see the current trends. Comparison to IJCNN :=20 IJCNN has traditionally encouraged innovative papers and topics that = have only become a bit more popular in the last 10 years. For example, = INNS has always had strong [biology, brain, psychology, etc], and we've = tried to tie in more and more to the neuroscience community. Hopefully = we won't lose that tolerance and just follow [accepted, popular, hot] = topics, but Deep Learning and Big Data certainly have ramped up = activity, and there are occasional calls to=20 -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: RE: IJCNN Silver = sponsorship - Bell Labs - Nokia=20 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 08:47:18 +0000=20 From: Farkas, Lorant (Nokia - HU/Budapest) = mailto:=20 To: Regina Legoo. INNS Meetings & Program Manager. Association = Resources. Washington. DC. USA mailto:, = Karen Gonzalez. INNS Membership-Payments-Websites-Admin. Association = Resources. Washington. DC. US mailto: = CC: mailto:=20 Dear Regina, Karen,=20 Could you please send your template for the sponsorship agreement? I = need to have it checked with our legal department, then have it signed = with our local authorized signatories. After that I would proceed with the payment and send you logos. : thanks for the info and also for the stats! Caglar is a Turkish = name in fact. From this second paper Emre is also Turkish, Miska is a = Finn (I know him from a long time ago), Jani as well, and Francesco is = Italian. Can you please share the acceptance rate for this year? For the last = year I read 17% somewhere. Thanks & Br, Lorant ------=_NextPart_001_F52B_01D4D5CF.61ED8690 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http-equiv=3Dcontent-type> Hi Bill, Nice to hear from you again. As far as I know, the answer to your first question is YES! INNS = and=20 IEEE-CIS will continue to collaborate on IJCNN after 2020. Regarding WCCI2018 stats, please find attached a file where you can = find=20 most of the information you need. The acceptance rate is still a little = high but=20 from this year onward, INNS and IEEE-CIS have agreed that the acceptance = rate=20 for IJCNN has to be less than 50%. Best regards, Marley "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; = DISPLAY: inline'> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2019 3:45 PM Subject: WCCI2018 stats, beyond WCCI2020 "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; = DISPLAY: inline'> a couple of=20 quick (no-urgent) questions : 1. Beyond WCCI2020 = - =20 Will IEEE-CIS and INNS still be collaborating on IJCNN after 2020? = It=20 seems that this was a question a couple if years back, and it affects = how I set=20 up an IEEE ListServer to mass emails for WCCI2020 as Publicity Co-Chair = for mass=20 emails. 2. WCCI2018 stats - Do you have stats = for=20 WCCI2018 as per the table in the section "Rough estimates of [WCCI, = IJCNN]=20 acceptance rates" below? L=C3=B3r=C3=A1nt Farkas, Technical = Manager, Bell Labs=20 Research, Budapest, Hungary will be a Silver Sponsor of IJCNN2019, so my = immediate interest is to inform him. size=3D+1> him not to distribute the results. I don't remember = postings of this by [WCCI, IJCNN], although I think that could be = beneficial in=20 spite of the NIPS mantra on very high rejection rates. = years. =20 Mr. Bill Howell=20 1-587-707-2027 href=3D"mailto:"> href=3D"http://www.BillHowell.ca">www.BillHowell.ca P.O. Box 299, = Hussar,=20 Alberta, T0J1S0 member - International Neural Network Society (INNS), = IEEE=20 Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS), IJCNN2019 Budapest, = Sponsors=20 & Exhibits Chair, href=3D"https://www.ijcnn.org/organizing-committee">https://www.ijcnn.org= /organizing-committee WCCI2020=20 Glasgow, Publicity Chair mass emails, href=3D"http://wcci2020.org/">http://wcci2020.org/ Retired: = Science=20 Research Manager (SE-REM-01) at Natural Resources Canada, CanmetMINING,=20 Ottawa -------- Forwarded Message --------=20
- I'm not sure=20 where the 17% number comes from - perhaps NIPS2018? (see the section = "NIPS and=20 numbers" below my signature block). size=3D+1> section "Rough estimates of [WCCI, IJCNN] acceptance rates" below, I = only have=20 estimates of acceptance rates for the IJCNN conferences (odd years, = organised by=20 INNS), so I'll email estimates. W broad=20 sense), and Fuzzy systems, as well as Neural Networks (IJCNN for even = years), as=20 three major areas. members=20 are members of BOTH [IEEE-CIS, INNS]. =20 Mr. Bill Howell=20 1-587-707-2027 href=3D"mailto:"=20 moz-do-not-send=3D"true"> moz-do-not-send=3D"true">www.BillHowell.ca P.O. Box 299, Hussar, = Alberta,=20 T0J1S0 member - International Neural Network Society (INNS), IEEE=20 Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS), IJCNN2019 Budapest, = Sponsors=20 & Exhibits Chair, href=3D"https://www.ijcnn.org/organizing-committee"=20 moz-do-not-send=3D"true">https://www.ijcnn.org/organizing-committee Glasgow, Publicity Chair mass emails, href=3D"http://wcci2020.org/"=20 moz-do-not-send=3D"true">http://wcci2020.org/ Retired: Science = Research=20 Manager (SE-REM-01) at Natural Resources Canada, CanmetMINING,=20 Ottawa *********************** Rough estimates of = [WCCI, IJCNN]=20 acceptance rates I don't have official numbers, and there are = many end=20 of paper submission adjustments, so these numbers are approximate. = circulate these numbers as they [are preliminary, aren't official, will = contain=20 errors].
For IJCNN2019, decisions are = still being=20 made, with perhaps ~40 papers to be [accepted,=20 rejected]. ********************** [IEEE-CIS, INNS] journal = impact=20 factors (from an early draft email for publicizing = WCCI2020) In=20 addition to running leading conferences in the area of Computational=20 Intelligence, the moz-do-not-send=3D"true">IEEE=20 Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS), and the Neural Network=20 Society (INNS), have maintained their positions as leaders of = journals in=20 computational intelligence. Their journals continue to sustain their = status as=20 premier scholarly publications, earning high rankings in the Journal = Citation=20 Report by Thomson Reuters:
Note : IEEE-CIS has other = journals on=20 Computational Intelligence that not included above, such as my = subscription to=20 Computational Biology (I might have the wrong title of=20 that). ************************** NIPS and=20 numbers NIPS = has=20 traditionally had a :
17/"=20 moz-do-not-send=3D"true">SyncEd 20Dec2017 "A Statistical Tour of NIPS=20 2017" ers-stats-26f124843aa0"=20 moz-do-not-send=3D"true">Robbie Allen, NIPS Accepted Papers Stats, = 2017 I=20 didn't see anything for 2019, other than authors commenting in Sep2018 = that the=20 acceptance rate was 21% for NIPS2018. It would be interesting to = see the=20 current trends. encouraged=20 innovative papers and topics that have only become a bit more popular in = the=20 last 10 years. For example, INNS has always had strong [biology, = brain,=20 psychology, etc], and we've tried to tie in more and more to the = neuroscience=20 community. Hopefully we won't lose that tolerance and just follow=20 [accepted, popular, hot] topics, but Deep Learning and Big Data = certainly have=20 ramped up activity, and there are occasional calls to=20 -------- Forwarded Message --------=20
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