[alife] MIR Day 2009 - Call for contributions / participation

[Ajith Abraham]

--- Call for contributions / participation  ---

Machine Intelligence Research (MIR) Day - International Workshop
January 24, 2009
Nagpur, India
http://www.mirlabs.org/mirday.html


Organized by
MIR Labs, India


Call for papers

The idea of Machine Intelligence refers back to 1936, when Alan Turing
proposed the idea of universal mathematics machine, a theoretical
concept in the mathematical theory of computability. In the MIR Labs
framework, machine intelligence refers to building adaptive
intelligence in a network of machines (Network Intelligence) to solve
a problem. Defining machine intelligence is not an easy task. It is a
consortium of various technologies involving non-linear dynamics,
computational intelligence, ideas from physics, physcology and several
other computational frameworks.

Workshop presentations are solicited on one or more topics given in
the following link:
http://www.mirlabs.org/ci.png

Proceedings:
We plan to have an online proceedings with presentations and demonstrations.



Special issue:
Depending on the theme and volume of papers, we plan to have a special
issue in an International Journal.



Deadlines:
January 10, 2008: Submission of papers / presentations (please email
the files as a zip archive to: ajith.abraham at ieee.org)
January 15, 2008: Notification / comments/ feedback
January 20, 2008: Camera ready papers / presentations/ demonstrations
January 24, 2008: MIR Day

Workshop program will be published by January 16, 2008.

Workshop Venue
Nagpur the second capital of Maharashtra, India, is uniquely situated
in the geographical centre of India. The zero Milestone of India is in
this city.  It enjoys excellent connectivity to rest of the country
through three National Highways as well as by rail and air connections
to major cities of the country.  It has generally a dry tropical
weather. The monsoon starts in the month of June and extends upto
September. In July, due to rainy season,  the temperature  is  around
30-35° C. Rich in agriculture and horticulture produce,  Nagpur is
famous for its oranges and is also known as 'Orange City'. Huge coal
and mineral deposits exist in this region along with some of the best
infrastructure in the form of educational institutions, health
facilities and a five star Industrial area at Butibori, the largest in
Asia. Nagpur, The second greenest city in India has a plethora of
tourists spots for the wildlife enthusiastic like the Dr Salim Ali
National Bird Sanctuary at Nawegaon, Tiger Parks at Pench and Tadoba
and picturesque treks to the Satpuda mountains. There are three huge
aqua parks.  Nagpur also boasts of a cosmopolitan populace, luxurious
hotels & restaurants. As the nerve centre of Vidarbha,  Nagpur
pulsates with a unique blend of new and old tradition and heritage.
The recent advancement in Nagpur is a MIHAN, a Multi-modal
International Hub Airport at Nagpur, the work for which has just
begin, which is attracting many business persons across the World, as
it has acquired a status of "First City" in India in infrastructure
development.

For more information regarding the workshop, please contact:
Ajith Abraham -> ajith.abraham at ieee.org