Overview of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence
IJCCI 2025 (17th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence) received 146 paper submissions from 41 countries. To evaluate each submission, a double-blind paper review was performed by the Program Committee. After a stringent selection process, 36 papers were published and presented as full papers, i.e. completed work (12 pages/25’ oral presentation), 83 papers were accepted as short papers (58 as oral presentation). These numbers, leading to a “full-paper” acceptance ratio of about 25% and a total oral paper presentation acceptance ratio close to 57%, show the intention of preserving a high-quality forum for the next editions of this conference.
The organizing committee included the IJCCI Conference Chair: Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal, and the IJCCI 2025 Program Chairs: Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy, Kurosh Madani, University of Paris-EST Créteil (UPEC), France, and Niki van Stein, Leiden University, Netherlands.
IJCCI technical program included four invited talks delivered by internationally distinguished speakers, namely:
- Luís Paulo Reis, University of Porto, Portugal
- Fei Liu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Henry Prakken, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Pietro Ducange, University of Pisa, Italy
At the closing session, the conference acknowledged a few papers that were considered excellent in their class, presenting a “Best Paper Award”, “Best Student Paper Award”, and “Best Poster Award” for each of the co-located conferences. These awards were conferred to the authors indicated below:
FCTA
Best Paper Award
“Quantum Genetic Algorithm Tuning of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy State Feedback Controllers for MAGLEV Servosystems”
Fábio M. U. de Araújo and Israel da Silva Felix de Lima
NCTA
Best Paper Award
“A Structured Survey of Anomaly Types and Classification-Based Detection Models in IoT”
Nasrin Tavakoli, Atefeh Gilvari, Ziad Kobti, Rajeev Verma and Nayaran Kar
Best Poster Award
“A Universal Urban Electricity-Demand Simulator for Developing and Evaluating Load-Scheduling and Forecasting Systems”
Enrico De Santis, Antonello Rizzi, Sabereh Taghdisi Rastkar and Saeid Jamili
ECTA
Best Paper Award
“Evaluating Fitness Averaging Strategies in Cooperative NeuroCoEvolution for Automated Soft Actuator Design”
Michail Antisthenis Tsompanas, Andrew Adamatzky, Hugo Israel Alcaraz Herrera and Igor Balaz
Best Student Paper Award
“Extending Cartesian Genetic Programming via Iterative Subgraph Assessment”
Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Dennis Wilson, Hervé Luga, Camilo De La Torre, Jörg Hähner and Henning Cui
Best Poster Award
“Decentralized Evolution of Hexapod Gaits with Independent Leg Controllers”
John Asaro, Jim O’Connor and Gary B. Parker
EXPLAINS
Best Paper Award
“Uncertainty in Deep Model Performance for Radiology: A Case Study of Classifying Maxillary Sinus Appearance”
Fara Aninha Fernandes, Christian Omlin, Georgi Chaltikyan and Martin Gerdes
Best Student Paper Award
“Explainable Knowledge Access: Recursive and Rerank-Based RAG for Interpretable QA”
Marco Manolo Manca, Melchiorre Cosseddu, Sandro Gabriele Tiddia, Alessandro Sebastian Podda, Alessandro Giuliani and Marco Pilloni
AGENTICS
Best Paper Award
“Prompt-Augmentation for Evolving Heuristics for a Niche Optimization Problem”
Anne Meyer, Max Disselnmeyer, Nico Koltermann, Laura Dörr and Thomas Bömer
Best Poster Award
“Analysis of Strategies for Interacting with Large Language Models in Meeting Time Optimization”
Andrew Ponomarev and Anton Agafonov
Based on the conference registrations, the total amount of the income was around 53.500€ and IJCCI had an expense around 51.900€.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus, zbMATH and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
After a successful 2025 edition, IJCCI 2026 will be held in Angers, France, from 28th to 30th of October, 2026. For more updated information, please visit the conference website https://ijcci.scitevents.org