Call For Papers

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The 50th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications (SSS'18) will be held on November 1 - 2, 2018, at Hotel Granvia Kyoto, KYOTO, Japan, where it takes a few minutes' walk from the JR Kyoto Station. The technical program will cover the general topic of stochastic systems and its applications, including but not be limited to the following subjects:

Modeling, Filtering and Control of Stochastic Systems and Stochastic Processes
Analysis of Stochastic Systems and Stochastic Processes
System Identification and Parameter Estimation
Time Series Analysis and Spectral Estimation
Signal Detection and Statistical Signal Processing
Stochastic Optimization Methods and Evolutionary Methods
Statistical Analyses of Big Data and Their Applications
Chaos and Fractal
Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems
Image Processing
Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision and 3-D Information Processing
Fault Detection and Diagnosis
Medical and Biomedical Systems
Mathematical Finance
Control of Networks
Probabilistic Robotics
Statistical Methods for GNSS Navigation
Applications in Engineering related to Stochastic Processes and Stochastic Systems

Papers Submission:

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts for review, which must be written in English and must be received by July 31, 2018 with the Submission section in this web site.

The extended abstracts should not exceed two A4 pages with 25mm margins on all sides, in one column format, and with 10-point fonts or larger. Please include the title, author names, affiliations, and addresses on the top of the first page of the extended abstract. They should be prepared in PDF format.

Authors whose extended abstracts are accepted with the review will be notified by August 31, 2018. The accepted authors are requested to submit manuscripts of SSS'18 proceedings by October 18, 2018. They should be in PDF format and submitted with the Submission section in this web site.

The proceeding manuscripts, including both text and illustrations, should not exceed ten pages or about 7500 words in two columns format and should be prepared in accordance with the instructions and the templates available in the Submission section in this web site. To assure high-quality of the proceedings, all the manuscripts will be reviewed and only accepted ones will be included in the proceedings. For the policy of the copyright, please refer the following section.

Policy on Copyright of SSS Proceedings:

Beginning with the SSS'14, the SSS Proceedings are now available at the online electronic journal site JStage (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic). With the author's agreement, the papers in the Proceedings will be registered to the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) system and opened to the public on the web. According to this system, papers in the Proceedings will be officially published works with the copyright, and we need Copyright Transfer from all of the authors who submit their papers. Also, each paper should be the original work of the author(s) and not yet published in any media with the copyright.

Award:

The young researchers who recognized excellent presentation at this symposium will be presented to the SSS Young Author Prize or the ISCIE award. For the SSS Young Author Prize, the presenter must be less than 35 years of age at the time of symposium. For the ISCIE award, the presenter must be a member of ISCIE and must be less than 30 years of age if the affiliation of the presenter is an academic or less than 35 years of age if the affiliation of the presenter is not an academic, at the time of symposium.

Special Lecture:

Special Lecture will give on November 1st.

Special Sessions:

Proposals for organized sessions are welcome and should be submitted to the secretary of Program & Steering Committee by July 31, 2018.

Special Issue of the Transactions of the ISCIE:

SSS'18 special issue of the transaction of the ISCIE is planed next year. Further information will be notified to authors who present their papers at SSS'18.

In Cooperation with:

Official Web Site and Contact to Program & Steering Committee:

SSS Web Site:	http://sci-sss.org
SSS'18 Secretariat:	E-mail: sss18[at]sci-sss.org (Replace [at] with @)