The theme for IES2015 is “Transforming Big Data into Knowledge and Technological Breakthroughs”. 

- The IES 2015 proceedings will be published in Proceedings in Adaptation, Learning and Optimization (PALO), a Springer-Verlag book series.
  More information of PALO can be found at http://www.springer.com/series/13543
- Accepted papers will be considered for the Best Paper Awards and the Best 
  Student Paper Awards, which will be presented during the banquet.
- Selected papers from IES 2015 will be invited to extend and publish in following Special Issues of SCI/SCIE/Scopus-indexed or specialized international journals.

  Memetic Computing
    http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/12293
  International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP)
    http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijaip
  International journal on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT), IOS Press, The Netherlands
    http://www.iospress.nl/journal/intelligent-decision-technologies/
  International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms (IJKESDP)
    http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijkesdp
  International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies (IJCIStudies)
    http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijcistudies
  EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies
    http://eudl.eu/journal/ct

The IES 2015 conference will covers all topics in intelligent systems and evolutionary computation, 
including, but not limited to:

- Computational Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence
- Memetic Computation
- Machine Learning
- Data Analytics/Big Data
- Artificial Life
- Agents and Complex Systems
- Applications of intelligent systems and evolutionary computation