[alife] CFP: Modeling and Simulation for Cognitive Computation (Special Session and Special Issue)

[Muaz Niazi]

Call For Papers
 
Modeling and Simulation for Cognitive Computation at the International
Workshop on Innovative Simulation for Healthcare (IWISH 2012) as part of the
I3M conference, September 19-21, 2012, Wien, Austria

http://www.msc-les.org/Conf/IWISH2012/index_file/MSforCognitiveComputation.h
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The goal of this special session is to explore the use of Modeling and
Simulation (M&S) in the emerging inter-disciplinary domain of Cognitive
Computation that bridges the gap between life sciences, social sciences,
engineering, physical and mathematical sciences, and humanities. Cognitive
Computation is an exciting area of multi-disciplinary research covering
biologically inspired computational accounts of all aspects of natural and
artificial cognitive systems. Authors of selected papers presented at the
Special Session will be invited to submit expanded and significantly revised
versions of their manuscripts to a follow-on Special Issue of Springer's
Cognitive Computation journal (SCI-E Indexed). Details will follow the
Conference.
For the proposed Special Session, we welcome papers, not submitted elsewhere
for review, with a focus on modeling, simulation and engineering of systems
in the domain of cognitive computation. Topics of interest range from, but
are not limited to:
 
Techniques of interest:

. Agent-based Modeling
. Complex Network based Models
. Multimodal methods for analysis of data
. Other methods from Artificial intelligence, neural networks, cognitive
neuromorphic engineering and other hardware implementations, cognitive
robotics, autonomous cognitive systems, neuroscience, nanotechnology,
self-organizing, swarm and immune systems, complex systems and control
theory, and computational cognitive neuroscience.
. General purpose modeling & simulation paradigms
 
Areas of Application:
. Brain, cognition, perception, action, attention, learning, memory,
decision-making, language processing, communication, reasoning, problem
solving, and consciousness aspects of cognition.
 
Example topics
. Modeling & Simulation of Cognitive disorders (Schizophrenia, dementia
etc.)
. Modeling & Simulation of Brain and other cognitive functions
. Use of agent-based and complex network methods in the development of
autonomous systems
. Social Network Analysis to study spread of Brain/Cognition related
diseases
. Use of cognition, attention, consciousness in robotics, sensors and
autonomous systems
. Management of Healthcare related to psychology/psychiatry
. Verification and Validation of Cognitive Computation related simulations
. Modeling and Simulation of Body Sensor Networks for cognitive health
. Modeling, Simulation and development of Pervasive and Ambient Assisted
Living systems, Disease tracking and monitoring systems for Cognitive
disorders
. Modeling and simulation of consensus formation in brain
 
 
Key Dates
Submissions of Extended Abstracts:         April 12, 2012
Notification of acceptance:                May 12, 2012
Final Camera-Ready Submission:             June 12, 2012
Early Registration:                        July 1, 2012
 
Authors' Guidelines (further information author's instruction section)

FIRST SUBMISSION
Extended abstracts (minimum 2 pages), full draft papers or other proposals
should be submitted for the review process through the submission section by
April 12, 2012
The extended abstract or the full draft paper must contain title, authors,
affiliations, addresses, main body and references.
Each extended abstract or full draft paper will be reviewed by at least two
members of the International Program Committee taking into consideration
scientific quality, originality and relevance. Only original papers, written
in English will be accepted.
The extended abstract or the full draft paper should be prepared by
following the final paper formatting. However any type of paper formatting
can be accepted for the first submission.
 
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE
Notification of acceptance will be sent by May 12, 2012.
 
CAMERA READY PAPER SUBMISSION
The International Program Committee will accept two types of camera ready
papers: extended paper (10 pages, 2 columns); regular paper (6 pages, 2
columns) both for regular and special sessions.
The camera ready paper must adhere to the conference template. The .dot file
contains the complete instructions for preparing a camera ready copy for the
Proceedings. The final version of the paper must be a PDF file.
Your camera ready paper (extended paper or regular paper) in PDF format must
be submitted by using the submission section before the June 12, 2012
The page limit for manuscripts is ten (10) pages (included  in the author
registration fee).Additional pages will require an additional fee.
If your work must be cleared or approved before publication by  your
institution, company, or governmental agency, please be sure that  process
will be completed by the due date above or we will not be able to include it
in the CD Conference Proceedings.

Contacts
Chairs:  (a) Muaz Niazi, (b) Amir Hussain
Affiliation: (a) COMSATS University of Science and Technology, Islamabad,
Pakistan; (b) University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
(a) muaz.niazi at gmail.com ; (b) ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk