Associations, Federations and Special Interest Groups

Aware of the importance of international cooperation for the advancement of science, INSTICC works closely together with several other national and international associations and is proud to welcome them as partners in its activities or to arrange initiatives in cooperation with them.

While several forms of partnership are welcome, INSTICC places special value in "Technical Co-Sponsorships", by means of which both associations support each other from a scientific perspective for their mutual benefit. Additionally, in this case, members of partner organizations benefit from the same registration conditions as INSTICC members.

Current Institutional Partners:

The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

FIPA is an IEEE Computer Society standards organization that promotes agent-based technology and the interoperability of its standards with other technologies.

http://www.fipa.org/

Object Management Group

The Object Management Group (OMG®) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. Founded in 1989, OMG standards are driven by vendors, end-users, academic institutions and government agencies.

http://www.omg.org/

Workflow Management Coalition

Founded in 1993, the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) is a global organization of adopters, developers, consultants, analysts, as well as university and research groups engaged in workflow and BPM. The WfMC creates and contributes to process related standards, educates the market on related issues, and is the only standards organization that concentrates purely on process. The WfMC created Wf-XML and XPDL, the leading process definition language used today in over 80 known solutions to store and exchange process models. XPDL is a process design format for storing the visual diagram and all design time attributes.

http://www.wfmc.org/

Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale

The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA - Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale) is a non-profit scientific society founded in 1988 devoted to the promotion of Artificial Intelligence. The society aims to increase the public awareness of AI, encourage the teaching of it and promote research in the field.

http://www.aixia.it/

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines. AAAI aims to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence.

http://www.aaai.org/

European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology

EUSFLAT is a new non-profit European Society with the following aims:
- To promote and disseminate the methods, techniques and developments of Fuzzy Logic and technologies
- To encourage the scientific communication and collaboration among its members
- To assemble a group of specialists belonging to different academic fields and professional practices
- To advise associates and companies on subjects regarding Fuzzy Logic and Technologies and other related matters
- To represent the European researchers in Fuzzy Logic and their technologies at the IFSA council
- To establish relations with other national or international associations with similar aims
- To organize, promote and sponsor conferences, workshops and seminars

http://www.eusflat.org/

Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence

APPIA (the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence, www.appia.pt ) was founded in 1984, and is the portuguese arm of ECCAI. It has circa 200 members active in all areas of AI, in research, academia, and industry. In addition to other international events, every two years it organizes one of the oldest european AI conferences, "EPIA", the Portuguese AI Conference.

http://www.appia.pt/

IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control

The INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL, founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of National Member Organizations (NMOs), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic control in its own country. The aims of the Federation are to promote the science and technology of control in the broadest sense in all systems, whether, for example, engineering, physical, biological, social or economic, in both theory and application. IFAC is also concerned with the impact of control technology on society.

http://www.ifac-control.org/

International Fuzzy Systems Association

The International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) is a worldwide organization dedicated to the support, development and promotion of the fundamental issues of fuzzy theory related to (a) sets, (b) logics, (c) relations, (d) natural languages, (e) concept formation, (f) linguistic modeling, (g) vagueness, (h) information granularity, etc. and their applications to (1) systems modeling, (2) system analysis, (3) diagnosis, (4) prediction and (5) control in decision support systems in management and administration of human organizations as well as electro-mechanical systems in manufacturing and process industries.

http://isdlab.ie.ntnu.edu.tw/

Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly

The Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) is for promoting more active interactions of researchers, scientists, and industry professionals who are working in the Neural Network and related fields in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, APNNA has Governing Board Members in 13 regions–Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Qatar, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey. APNNA seeks more active participation from researchers and professionals in other regions in the Asia Pacific area.

http://www.apnna.net/

ACM SIGAI

ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

Who we are: academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, software developers, end users, and students.

What we do:
- Promote and support the growth and application of AI principles and techniques throughout computing;
- Sponsor or co-sponsor high-quality, AI-related conferences;
- Sponsor recognized AI awards;
- Support important journals in the field;
- Provide scholarships to student members to attend conferences;
- Promote AI education and publications through various forums and the ACM digital library;

http://sigai.acm.org/

IEEE SMC - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

The mission of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society is to serve the interests of its members and the community at large by promoting the theory, practice, and interdisciplinary aspects of systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, and cybernetics. It is accomplished through conferences, publications, and other activities that contribute to the professional needs of its members.

http://www.ieeesmc.org/