Location: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
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Soft computing technology includes aspects of computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, evolutionary based methods and tools. Most frequently, soft computing technology methods are employed on complex and computationally intensive problems that have traditionally proved intractable for conventional analysis methods.

The key areas of soft computing covered by this conference include, but are not limited to:

• Neural networks
• Fuzzy systems
• Genetic algorithms
• Ant colony optimization
• Evolutionary methods
• Simulated annealing
• Harmony search
• Cellular automata
• Swarm intelligence
• Bayesian networks
• Chaos theory
• Data mining
• Expert systems
• Support vector machines
• Hybrid optimization algorithms
• Predator-prey
• Response surfaces
• Polynomial chaos
• Artificial immune systems and immune computing

Application Areas

• advances in soft computing technology
• artificial simulation applications
• new trends in numerical methods and solution strategies
• parallel and grid computing technologies
• structural mechanics and design
• mesh and grid generation
• water engineering and hydraulics
• structural computational mechanics
• inverse structural engineering
• multi-scale simulation and failure mechanics
• stochastic mechanics, robustness and reliability
• structural and multidisciplinary optimization
• life-cycle cost analysis and performance-based design
• structural dynamics and control
• coupled and interaction problems
• wave propagation and soil dynamics
• structural earthquake and geotechnical engineering
• computational geosciences, geostatistics and geoenvironmental engineering
• damage analysis and vulnerability assessment
• health monitoring and maintenance systems
• repair and retrofit of structures and infrastructures
• smart structures and materials
• biomechanical mechanisms and structures
• risk analysis and decision making
• project management and operations research engineering