The list of Special Sessions may change. Some Special Sessions can be dropped, some, exceptionally may be added.

1. Session title: "Area of computational intelligence in Manufacturing"
• Organizers:
  Farhat Fnaiech ( ), Senior Member IEEE, Director of Research Team in Signal and Image Intelligent Control of Industrial Processes
  
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2. Session title: "DEsigning Scada Systems in Industry (DESSI)"
• Organizers:
  Salvatore Cavalieri ( ), University of Catania, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Science & Telecommunications Engineering
  
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3. Session title: "HSI for monitoring elders and disabled at home"
• Organizers:
  Jerzy Wtorek ( ), Gdańsk University of Technology
  
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4. Session title: "Modeling the Mind"
• Organizers:
  Gerhard Zucker ( ), Vienna University of Technology
  Dietmar Bruckner ( ), Vienna University of Technology
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5. Session title: "Human Sensory Factors and Their Applications"
• Organizers:
  Hideyuki Sawada ( ), Phone: +81-87-864-2324, Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa Univ., 2217-20, Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, 761-0396, Japan
  Hideki Hashimoto ( ), Phone: +81-3-5452-6257, Institute for Industry Science, Univ. of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8505, Japan
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6. Session title: "Human System Interaction and Wireless Sensor Networks"
• Organizers:
  Lucia Lo Bello, ( ), University of Catania, Italy
  Frank Golatowski, ( ), University of Rostock, Germany
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7. Session title: "Accessing, Structuring, Analyzing and Adapting Information in Web 2.0"
• Organizers:
  Antonina Dattolo, ( ) and Carlo Tasso, ( ), AILab - Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Udine, Italy
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8. Session title: "Computational Intelligence in Human Activity"
• Organizers:
  Krzysztof Pancerz, ( ), University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland
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To enhance the technical program and focus on specific topics and areas, HSI 2010 conference will include some special sessions, in addition to regular ones.

Special sessions can cover topics which belong to a specific track, or multi-track subjects, or novel topics not included in the description of tracks, but in the technical scope of the conference.

Proposals for a special session should be sent to the Special Session Chair Orazio Mirabella (e-mail: ) and to the Co-Chair Marek Pałasiński (e-mail: ) taking into account the Special Sessions Organization Guidelines:

Everybody is invited to organize a special session assuming he/she has at least four people wishing actively participate in the particular session ("actively" means "to have a lecture"). Technical support will be offered.

Special Session Proposal deadline is November 30, 2009.

The list of Special Session Organizers (and Special Session topics) will appear after November 30, 2009. Then, authors who want to submit a paper to a selected Special Session are asked to contact the Session Organizer of the intended Special Session by email before they submit. Papers should be submitted via the paper submission system (see Papers Submission) like other submissions. All formatting guidelines apply to Special Session submissions, too.

The Special Sessions Organizers will take care of managing the review process of their special sessions, through the conference paper submission system. In order to avoid self-reference, at least two reviewers should be selected from the conference Technical Program Committee. Authors contributing to a special session are not to be nominated as reviewers for the papers from the same session.

The Organizers of the Special Sessions will prepare the final composition of their sessions, based on the outcome of the review process. During the conference, Session Organizers have to serve as chairs for the sessions of their Special Session. In order to allow proper composition of the Special Session, a minimum of 4 accepted papers is needed (in case of a lower number of accepted papers, these papers will be moved to the adequate regular tracks).

As for regular papers, each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The final manuscript must be accompanied by a registration form and a registration fee payment proof.