In the first of June was held a workshop at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), Portugal, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Portuguese Chapter, untitled “IA in the 21st century: What are the new challenges?”. The event was organized by Prof. Ana Madureira (IEEE Portugal Section Chair) and Prof. João Calado (CIS Portuguese Chapter Chair). The workshop began with two presentations about the past and present of IA given by Prof. José Carlos Quadrado (ISEP Vice-President and founder of the CIS Portuguese Chapter) and Prof. Inês Dutra (Science Faculty of Oporto University). The two presentations were followed by a panel debate about the main workshop theme. Panel members included several leading members of the Portuguese IA scientific community namely, Prof. Alípio M. Jorge (Science Faculty of Oporto Univeristy / LIAAD), Prof. Ernesto Costa (Science and Technology Faculty of Coimbra University), Prof. Miguel Calejo (Minho University /APPIA), Prof. Pavel Brazdil (Economy Faculty of Oporto University) and Prof. Vladimiro Miranda (Engineering Faculty of Oporto University / INESC TEC). During the debate several perspectives of the roll of emergent IA, and Computational Intelligence, solutions for human reasoning like problems or bio inspired technologies were discussed. The debate evolved to the question of if IA is already present in our dally life and in what extension, dividing the audience. Several examples were referred as new challenges and the need for IA activities legal regulation was raised in particular concerning with big data retrieval and analyses. Multi-agent cooperative scenarios and signal processing integration were also pointed out as new challenges. The audience attending the event included IEEE members, guests and students, being more than 50 people in the meeting. The event ended with a get-together lunch between the speakers.

About CIS The IEEE Portuguese CIS Chapter was established in 2005. Chapter board directors Chair: João Manuel Calado (Coordinator Professor of ISEL/IPL) Vice-Chair: António Ruano (Associate Professor of UAlg) Vice-Chair: José Igreja (Coordinator Professor of ISEL/IPL) Treasurer: Ana Madureira (Coordinator Professor of ISEP/IPP) It assembles Senior Members, Members, Graduate Student Members, and also Student Members.

• Increase contributions in the area of computational intelligence; • Encourage researchers to cooperate; • Help researchers in order to solve complex and real life problems; • Help students and graduate students on competition activities;

These objectives are achieved through various activities including seminars, lectures, schools, conferences, and other events.

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Recent Activities

IEEE Computational Intelligence Portuguese Chapter Annual Workshop, 26 Nov. 2014, ISEL, Lisbon, Portugal

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Portuguese Chapter 10th anniversary Workshop “IA in the 21st century: What are the new challenges?” 1 Jun. 2015, ISEP, Porto, Portugal

In this year the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Portuguese Chapter Annual Workshop was held in ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, under the following topics:

• Neural computing for biomedical applications; • Nature and Biologically Inspired computing for control and signal

processing applications; • Intelligent Control Approaches; • Open Service oriented Architectures for traffic and transportation

Systems.

The workshop will began with 3-5 minutes presentations during the morning. After lunch discussions for each topic was held separately with moderation in a panel format. The event has provided participants with a great opportunity for networking, presenting and discuss their work and ideas with their peers.

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