[Legacy Report] Executive Committee Meeting

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The Executive Committee Meeting was held at Kanpur Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India from 02:30 PM to 03:15 PM on August 26th, 2017.

Members Present:

  1. R. K. Misra
  2. Sujeet Mishra (on call)
  3. Nishchal K. Verma
  4. Brajesh Varshney
  5. Sonal Dixit (on call)
  6. Rahul K. Sevakula (on call)
  7. Narendra K. Dhar (on call)
  8. Vikas Singh (on call)
  9. Teena Sharma (on call)
  10. Tarun Maini (on call)
  11. Dhan Jeet Singh (on call)

Welcome and Announcements:

Chairman and Secretary both welcomed all the members present in the meeting.

Agenda Item #1: Ratification of minutes of the previous meeting.

Discussion: The minutes of previous meeting were read by the Secretary.

Action Item: With the consent of all present members minutes were approved.

Agenda Item #2: Financial Support to 2017 International Conference of Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions (ICCI-2017).

Discussion: Secretary informed that “2017 International Conference of Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions (ICCI-2017)” is going to held at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India from December 6th – 8th, 2017. He proposed that the sum of INR 30,000 can be given to the ICCI-2017 as IEEE CIS UP Section Chapter has funds. He also informed that the mentioned funds were generated through earlier conference i.e. “2017 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence: Theories, Applications and Future Directions (IEEE WCI 2015)” which held during December 14th – 17th, 2017. He added that IEEE CIS members are getting discount for registration in ICCI-2017 which may attract the CIS memberships.

Action Item: The proposal was approved with the consent of executive committee members to support the ICCI-2017.

Agenda Item #3: Membership Drive and Lectures to encourage researchers in Computational Intelligence.

Discussion: The scheduled lectures were held at Kanpur Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India on August 26th, 2017 on Deep Learning and Computational Intelligence. The researchers were encouraged to become the member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). A membership drive was also arranged at the venue to promote CIS membership and related activities.

Action Item: All the present members were encouraged towards CIS promotional activities.

Agenda Item #4: Towards Logo support for ICCI-2017 from other Ministries.

Discussion: Vice Chairman asked to provide the write up related to the conference explaining basic conference details such as objective, scope, topics of interest etc. He also asked to include the details of earlier conferences i.e. IEEE WCI 2015, IEEE WCI 2013, in the write up. Secretary asked Ms. Teena Sharma to provide the same. Vice Chairman asked the researchers among present members for the problems/issues/cases/aspects in practical challenges to encourage young students or researchers.

Action Item: Ms. Teena Sharma was asked to provide the write up related to ICCI-2017 to Vice Chairman.

 

Next Meeting: To be announced via email.

Minutes Prepared by: Teena Sharma

Meeting was adjourned with vote of thanks at 03:15 PM.


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  • Date: 26 Aug 2017
  • Time: 02:30 PM to 03:15 PM
  • All times are (UTC+05:30) Chennai
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  • Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
  • India
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