** Please circulate this information to your colleagues and networks ** *Please join us online during December 13-17, 2021.* Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) provides an international forum to share the latest research results, ideas and experiences in intelligent systems design and applications; soft computing; information assurance and security; nature-inspired computing, pattern recognition; and information and communication technologies by bringing together the leading communities in this research space. MIR Labs events are built on a solid history, through ISDA to WICT, connecting young researchers with highly experienced peers to forge connections, which can last for many years. *Attendee only registration is open now until December 12, 2021. Please follow the link below:* https://www.townscript.com/e/isda21 *Registered attendee would be entitled to attend all the 10 plenary sessions and over 300+ paper presentations (online and offline) during December 13-17.* *Preliminary conference program:* http://www.mirlabs.org/isda21/program.php *** 7 Concurrent Conferences *** -- 21st International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’21) –- http://www.mirlabs.net/isda21 -- 21st International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'21) -- http://www.mirlabs.net/his21 -- 17th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2021) -- http://www.mirlabs.org/ias21 -- 13th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2021) -- http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar21 -- 13th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2021) -- http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic21 -- The 12th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA'21) -- http://www.mirlabs.net/ibica21 -- The 11th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT'21) --http://www.mirlabs.org/wict21 *** 10 Plenary Talks *** *Speaker 1:* Antônio de Padua Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Title: Large margin classification with graph-based models *Speaker 2: *Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom Title: Learning to optimise – optimal learning *Speaker 3:* Oscar Cordon, University of Granada, Spain Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Forensic Anthropology and Human Identification *Speaker 4:* Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA Title: Customized Evolutionary Optimization for Practical Problem Solving *Speaker 5:* Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Title: Elicitation of Feature Concepts as Data Federative Innovation Literacy *Speaker 6: *Andries Engelbrecht, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Title: Set-based Particle Swarm Optimization Approach to Portfolio Optimization *Speaker 7:* Frédéric Guinand, Le Havre Normandy University, France Title: Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles *Speaker 8:* Yukio Ohsawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Title: Elicitation of Feature Concepts as Data Federative Innovation Literacy *Speaker 9:* Günther Raidl, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Title: Combinatorial Optimization Meets (Reinforcement) Learning *Speaker 10:* Cengiz Toklu, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey Title: Hybrid Algorithms. Applications to Structural Mechanics ***Technical Contact*** ---------------------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: [log in to unmask] You received this email because you are subscribed to the iSchool Discussion List (ISCHOOLDISCUSSION) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, simply send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message signoff ISCHOOLDISCUSSION in the body.