[alife] NaBIC 2009 - Call for Special Sessions

Ajith Abraham abraham.ajith at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 14:26:46 PDT 2009


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World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009)

December 9-11, 2009
Coimbatore, India
http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic09
http://nabic-09.org
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http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic09/cfs.html

NaBIC’09 invites proposals for special sessions to be held in
conjunction with the Congress.
Special sessions provide organizers and participants with an
opportunity to concentrate on focused topics in the areas related to
the congress. Both the emerging research areas as well as the
application issues can be targeted.

Organizers are encouraged to nominate reviewers of papers to the
Program Committee on proposing special sessions. Once a special
session proposal is approved it will be immediately announced on the
website. Along with the publicity chairs and other members of the
NaBIC’09 organization, session organizers are expected to help
promoting the special sessions by their own means.

All papers are submitted through the Submission system are subjected
to reviewing by the NaBIC 2009 Program Committee. Organizers, after
studying  reviewers’ reports of the papers, will make recommendations
to the Program Committee on acceptance. On receiving the finalized
list of accepted papers from the Program Committee, the conference
organizers are responsible for liaising with the authors on the
submission of final papers. A minimum of 5 papers is required for each
session. If a session has too few papers, accepted papers will be
allocated to regular sessions.

All accepted papers will be included in the NaBIC’09 conference
proceedings, published by IEEE Press.

Proposal Detail

Special session proposals should contain the necessary information for
the Special Session Chairs and reviewers from the Program Committee to
judge the importance, quality and community interest in the proposed
topic. Each special session should have one or more designated
organizers. Special session proposals should address the following
issues:

Topic of interest: Provide a full description of the proposed special
session. What will the special session be about? Why should we believe
this is an interesting and significant topic?

Organizers’ biography: Please include a short academic background of
the session organizer (s).

Recommended Reviewers (Optional): Organizers are encouraged to
nominate reviewers for papers submitted to their special sessions. The
affiliations and contacts of the reviewers should be included.

Expected number of papers and publicity: Special sessions for NaBIC'09
should consist of at least 5 papers and organizers should indicate in
their proposal the expected number of papers for the session.
Organizers are also expected to help promoting the special sessions by
their own means and should describe how this will be done.

Submission: It is recommended to submit the special session proposals
as an email attachment to the following Special Session Chairs with a
copy to nabic.system at gmail.com

Dr. X. Z. Gao
Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND
gao at cc.hut.fi

Dr. Mario Koeppen
Kyushu Institute of Technology, JAPAN
mkoeppen at ieee.org

Important Dates

Special session proposals: April 30, 2009
Acceptance of special sessions: May 15, 2009

http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic09/cfs.html



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