Due to some requests, the Paper Submission Deadline has been extended to 12th February 2020.

Due to some requests, the Paper Submission Deadline has been extended to 3rd February 2020.

The conference is supported, through technical sponsorship, by the following chapters of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: Spanish Chapter – http://ieee-smc.es Portuguese Chapter French Chapter – https://smc028.hds.utc.fr/ Italian Chapter We sincerely thank all of them for contributing to the success of the conference.

All the accepted papers of SOCO conference (submitted both to the general track and the special sessions) will be considered for its possible inclusion in a special issue of the following journal: Logic Journal of the IGPL Published by Oxford University Press 2018 JCR Impact Factor: 0.609 – Q2 Website: https://academic.oup.com/jigpal

All the accepted papers of SOCO conference (submitted both to the general track and the special sessions) will be considered for its possible inclusion in a special issue of the following journal: Cybernetics and Systems Published by Taylor & Francis 2018 JCR Impact Factor: 1.681 – Q3 Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ucbs20

All the accepted papers of SOCO conference (submitted both to the general track and the special sessions) will be considered for its possible inclusion in a special issue of the following journal: Neurocomputing Published by Elsevier 2018 JCR Impact Factor: 4.072 – Q1 Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurocomputing

The special session SS13 entitled “Computational Intelligence for Laser-Based Sensing and Measurement” has been approved.

The special session SS12 entitled “Artificial Intelligence for Energy-related Problems” has been approved.

The special session SS11 entitled “Applications of Machine Learning in Computer Vision” has been approved.

The special session SS09 entitled “Soft computing for forecasting Industrial Time Series” has been approved.