José Alfredo F. Costa, Prof., DEE/UFRN, Federal University, Brazil

Prof. José Alfredo F. Costa, Dr. Eng.

UFRN – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

CT – Centro de Tecnologia, DEE - Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica

Adaptive Systems Lab. - Núcleo Tecnológico Industrial

Campus Universitário - Lagoa Nova - CEP 59072-970 - Natal / RN / Brasil

Tel.: +55.84. 3215.3882 - E-mail: jafcosta @ gmail.com - URL: http://www.dee.ufrn.br/~alfredo

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Contact information: jafcosta at gmail.com

Research interests:

- Neural networks and self-organizing systems / Data visualization and clustering
- Embedded intelligence / Pattern recognition and intelligent classification

- Data Mining & Business Intelligence

- Systems Engineering / signal and image processing

- Performance measurement, strategy and balanced scorecard

Some technical activities (click here for a complete list):

Publicity Chair & Steering Committee member - 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2013). 20 - 23 October, 2013, Hefei, Anhui, China. URL: http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/index.html
Paper Submission Deadline: 24/May/2013

Publicity Chair - The Fourth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI’2013) will be held in Harbin, China from June 12 to 15, 2013. URL: http://www.ic-si.org/

Paper Submission Deadline: 15/2/2013

Publicity Chair / Social Agenda Coordinator / Advisory Committee Member - 1st BRICS Countries & 11th Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence. 8th - 11th September, Recife, PE, Brazil. URL: http://brics-cci.org/

Paper Submission Deadline: 19/4/2013

Program Committee - CDVE 2013 - 10th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, to be held in Mallorca, Spain, during Sept. 22-25th, 2013. URL: http://www.cdve.org.
Abstract submission: Feb. 15, 2013
Full Paper submission: April 25, 2012

Program Committee - 2013 Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2013) to be held during July 28-31, 2013, in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. URL: http://www.ic-ic.org/2013/
Full Paper submission: February 15, 2013

Program Committee - IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM-2013), part of the IEEE SSCI conference series, which will take place on 15.-19.April.2013 in Singapore.

Program Committee - ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. March 18-23, 2013, Coimbra, Portugal. URL: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2013/ - Data Mining Track - http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/sacdm/sac-dm-2013.htm

Program Committee - IX Workshop de Visão Computacional (WVC 2013). Niteroi, RJ, June 03-05, 2013. website: http://www.ic.uff.br/~wvc2013/

Paper Submission Deadline: 17/3/2013

Advisory Chair & Program Committee - ADAPTIVE 2013 - The Fifth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications. May 27 - June 1, 2013 - Valencia, Spain. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ADAPTIVE13.html
Paper Submission Deadline: 29/1/2013

Advisory Chair - COGNITIVE 2013 - The Fifth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications. May 27 - June 1, 2013 - Valencia, Spain. URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ComCOGNITIVE13.html
Paper Submission Deadline: 29/1/2013

Program Committee - SOCO 2013 - 8th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications. SALAMANCA, SPAIN, 11th-13th September of 2013. URL: http://soco13.usal.es

Program Committee - MMAML 2013 (Multiple Model Approach to Machine Learning) at the 5th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2013). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 18-20, 2013. Conference web site: http://seminar.spaceutm.edu.my/aciids2013/ MMAML 2013 web site: http://kms.ii.pwr.wroc.pl/events/mmaml2013/

Program Committee - KDBI 2013 - Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence - Track of EPIA 2013, Açores, Portugal, September, 9-13, 2013. URL: http://www.epia2013.uac.pt/

Scientific Committee - 10th CONTECSI - International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, June 12 - 14, 2013, USP/São Paulo/SP. URL: http://www.tecsi.fea.usp.br/eventos/contecsi/
Paper Submission Deadline: 30/1/2013

General Chair - 13th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2012), to be held on 29-31 August 2012, Natal, Brazil.
PC member and Track Chair (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) - Iberamia 2012 -
http://iberamia2012.dsic.upv.es/), to be held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, November 13-16,2012.
Technical Committee Co-Chairs of the ICSI’2012 - The 3rd International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI’2012) (http://www.ic-si.org) will be held in Shenzhen, China from June 17-20, 2012.
CDVE 2012 - 9th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, to be held in Osaka, Japan during Sept. 2-5, 2012 at the Osaka University.
Program Committee of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC) which will be held in Beijing, China during April 11-14, 2012.
Program Committee of the Special Session on Multiple Model Approach to Machine Learning - third MMAML 2012 at the 4th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2012) which will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on March 19-21, 2012 (http://bit.kuas.edu.tw/~aciids12/).
Program Committee - Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC), on July 25–28, 2012 in Huangshan, China. Website: http://www.ic-ic.org/2012/.
Program Committee - 2012 ACM SAC data mining track to be held in Trento, Italy, March 25-29, 2012. URL: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/; Data mining track URL: http://integra.cs.wayne.edu/sac2012/
Program Co-Chair - 12th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2011), to be held on 5-7 September 2011, Norwich, UK. (Deadline: Apr 30th, 2011)
Program Chair - CBIC'2011 - Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional, 8-11 de Novembro, Fortaleza / CE. (Data limite de envio de artigos: 29 de maio de 2011)

Recent paper / book chapters (click here for a complete list):

José A. F. Costa (2011). Uma nova abordagem para visualização e detecção de agrupamentos em mapas de Kohonen baseado em gradientes das componentes. Learning and NonLinear Models (Journal of the Brazilian Neural Network Society), Vol. 9, Iss. 1, pp. 20-31, 2011. Link
M. L. Gonçalves, J. A. F. Costa and M. L. A. Netto (2011). Land-Cover Classification Using Self-Organizing Maps Clustered with Spectral and Spatial Information. In: Book Chapter ("Self Organising Maps, New Achievements", Josphat Igadwa Mwasiagi (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-546-4, pp. 299-322, InTech, Vienna, Austria.
Flavius L. Gorgônio, José Alfredo F. Costa (2011). Privacy-Preserving Clustering on Distributed Databases: A Review and Some Contributions. In: Self Organizing Maps, New Achievements. Josphat Igadwa Mwasiagi (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-546-4, pp. 33-54, InTech, Austria.
Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Jackson G. de Souza (2011). Image Segmentation through Clustering based on Natural Computing Techniques. In: Image Segmentation, Pei-Gee Ho (Ed.), pp. 57-82, ISBN: 978-953-307-228-9, InTech. Austria.
Flavius L. Gorgônio, José Alfredo F. Costa (2010). PartSOM: A Framework for Distributed Data Clustering Using SOM and K-Means. In: Self-Organizing Maps, George K Matsopoulos (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-074-2, pp. 43-62., InTech, Vienna, Austria.