Workshop on Computational Intelligence Applied to Business  
    Jornada sobre Inteligencia Computacional Aplicada al Negocio 
                                                                           
          
                                 JICAN 2009                                     
                                                                           
          
          A unique 2-day workshop exclusively devoted to           
                     real-world applications of CI                         
     

              Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica  
           Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

                      November 5-6 2009


                   http://jican.iti.upv.es
           

The Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica (ITI) is proud to present this
Second Workshop on Computational Intelligence Applied to Business, JICAN2009. 
Its purpose is twofold: on the one hand, to introduce this technology to
companies in any area; on the other, to show actual fields of application to
researchers in academia.

The conference is privileged to count on the participation of national and
international experts in Computational Intelligence, who will present the
latest developments in CI with a special focus on how it is used in real
world business and industry applications.

In this series of talks we hope the audience will gain an overview of some
of the latest techniques and applications of CI and that this will inspire
the use of CI in their own lines of business.

With the support of the Spanish Chapter of IEEE-Computational Intelligence
Society.

PLEASE NOTE: The languages of the Workshop are English and Spanish. 
Two-way simultaneous translation will be provided to those who require it.


Who should attend?
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    The workshop is aimed at :

    # Companies: Project managers or directors (technical and non technical)
who, as part of their work, face complex problems related to optimisation,
prediction and decision making.
    # Academia: Researchers and students interested in the practical
application of Computational Intelligence.
 
Talks
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  # Sales forecasting, planning and production scheduling, the 
    optimisation approach.
  # Optimisation in routing and logistic problems.
  # What a company needs to know about social networks. 
  # Talking to Satellites using Computational Intelligence.
  # Videogames and voluntary computation: exploiting the possibilities 
    of Computational Intelligence.
  # Applying Computational Intelligence: How to create value.
  # A web in versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
  # Learning decision making strategies using computational intelligence

Plus success cases from the ceramics and videogames industries.

  See full programme in
http://jican.iti.upv.es/index.php/en/programme

Invited Speakers
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  # Arthur Kordon - Dow Chemical (USA)
  # Darrell Whitley - Colorado State University (USA)
  # JJ Merelo - Universidad de Granada (Spain)
  # Francisco Fernández - Universidad de Extremadura (Spain)
  # Thomas Runarsson - University of Iceland (Iceland)
  # José Mª F. de Vega - Claroscuro Digital (Spain)        

Registration
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Prices

    # General: 90 EUR + VAT
    # Early registration (on or before October 21th): 50 EUR + VAT
    # ITI Associate, IEEE or UPV member: 20% additional discount 

    # 20% additional discount for registrations of two or more members of
the same company.

    The price includes attendance, documentation, coffees and lunch on Thursday.

    (Attendance on Friday is free for all public)