WCCI'26 Special Session Announced

1 December 2025

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WCCI'26 has announced a special session co-organized by our professor, Stefan Wermter. The session, titled “Self-organizing Clustering for Continual Learning and Its Applications,” will take place from 21–26 June 2026 in Maastricht, Netherlands. Here's the overview of the upcoming session:

The motivation for this special session stems from the need to explore and advance the field of continual learning, a critical area in artificial intelligence that seeks to emulate the human ability to learn from experiences in an ongoing manner. The continual structuration of information and knowledge is essential for the development of intelligent systems capable of adapting to new environments, learning from their own experiences, and acquiring more complex knowledge over time. Our aim is to foster a deeper understanding of how continual learning can be achieved through self-organizing clustering, adaptation, and cognitive development in dynamic environments.
The objectives of this special session are to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss novel approaches, methodologies, and applications in the field of continual learning, focusing particularly on self-organizing clustering algorithms. These algorithms have the potential to revolutionize the way intelligent systems are designed by allowing for more autonomous and adaptive learning processes. We aim to bridge theoretical foundations with real-world applications, thereby fostering interdisciplinary discussions and innovation.

More information can be found here.