[alife] CFP: SCIS Bio-inspired ICT

[Jun Suzuki]

CALL FOR PAPERS: SCIS-ISIS Special Session on Biologically-inspired 
Information and Communication Technology (BICT)

http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/scis-bict/

Kobe, Japan

Paper submission due: June 30, 2012
Conference date:      November 20 - 24, 2012

Proceedings to be published by IEEE and indexed by EI Compendex.

Four journal special issues:
   - Springer Transactions on Computational Science
   - Elsevier Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal
   - Int'l Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
   - Int'l Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering

Online paper presentations are allowed. (See below for more details.)


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CALL FOR PAPERS: SCIS-ISIS Special Session on Biologically-inspired 
Information and Communication Technology (BICT)

http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/scis-bict/

Kobe, Japan

Paper submission due: June 30, 2012
Conference date:      November 20 - 24, 2012

The proceedings will be published by IEEE and indexed by EI Compendex.
Technically-sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 
and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

Biologically-inspired computing has a long history since 1950s. 
Innovative bio-inspired paradigms, models and algorithms have been 
developed, and they have been successfully applied in a number of 
scientific and engineering domains. It is now known that even 
mission-critical and safety-critical systems can be built in 
bio-inspired manners. In recognition of its achievements and potential, 
bio-inspired information and communication technology (bio-inspired ICT) 
was named one of Scientific American magazine’s 10 "World Changing Ideas 
2010."

BICT 2012 aims to provide a multidisciplinary venue for researchers and 
practitioners in Bio-inspired ICT. Particularly, BICT 2012 covers two 
areas: (1) ICT with biological materials and systems (e.g., molecular 
communication and Physarum computing/networking) and (2) ICT designed 
after biological principles, phenomena and processes (e.g., evolutionary 
computation and artificial immune processes).

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

- Signal/information processing and communication in bio-inspired ICT
- Models and algorithms for bio-inspired ICT
- Bio-inspired software and hardware systems
- Simulations and empirical experiments of bio-inspired ICT
- Self-* properties in bio-inspired ICT
- Design and performance issues in bio-inspired ICT
- Tools, testbeds and deployment aspects in bio-inspired ICT
- Real-world applications and standardization of bio-inspired ICT
- Socially-aware, game theoretic and other metaphor-driven 
interdisciplinary approaches to bio-inspired ICT

Application domains include, but not limited to, autonomic computing, 
bioinformatics, biological engineering, computational finance, computer 
networks, computer vision, data mining, green computing and networking, 
grid/cloud computing, intelligent agents, mechanical engineering, 
molecular communication, nano-scale computing and networking, 
optimization, pervasive computing, robotics, security, software 
engineering, and systems engineering.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission:           June 30, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2012
Camera-ready Submission:    September 5, 2012

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit full papers (2 to 6 pages each) or short 
papers (2 to 4 pages each) in the IEEE proceedings format. Up to two 
extra pages are allowed for each full paper (8 pages in total) with 
extra page charges. See 
http://scis2012.j-soft.org/?file=call-for-participation for detailed 
submission instructions.

PAPER PRESENTATION

Paper authors are required to present their papers at the conference 
venue. Alternatively, they can choose to deliver online presentations 
with a Skype-like tool rather than physically visiting the conference venue.

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and indexed by EI 
Compendex. Selected  papers will be published in special issues of:

- Springer Transactions on Computational Science
- Elsevier Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal
- Int'l Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Inderscience), and
- Int'l Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IGI Global).

SESSION CHAIRS

- Jun Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
- Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University)
- Tomohiro Shirakawa (National Defense Academy of Japan)
- Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy of Japan)

ADVISORY BOARD

- Andrew Adamatzky, University of West of England, UK
- Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
- Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Tokuko Haraguchi, NICT and Osaka University, Japan
- Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
- Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
- Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Future University Hakodate, Japan
- Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
- Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (not completed yet)

- Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, TSSG, Ireland
- Pruet Boonma, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
- Chan-Byoung Chae, Yonsei University, Korea
- Paskorn Champrasert, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
- Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, India
- Tyler Garaas, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA
- Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Kobe University, Japan
- Hisashi Handa, Okayama University, Japan
- Taichi Haruna, Kobe University, Japan
- Satoshi Hiyama, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan
- Teijiro Isokawa, University of Hyogo, Japan
- Shouhei Kobayashi, NICT, Japan
- Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
- Jian-Qin Liu, NICT, Japan
- Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia
- Haruhiko Nishimura, University of Hyogo, Japan
- Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Masahiro Sasabe, Osaka University, Japan
- Jian-Wei Shuai, Xiamen University, China
- Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, USA
- Giuseppe Valetto, Drexel University, USA
- Hung-Yu Wei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

ABOUT SCIS-ISIS

SCIS-ISIS 2012 is an international joint organization of the 6th 
International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems 
(SCIS) and the 13th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent 
Systems (ISIS). SCIS-ISIS 2012 is co-sponsored by Japan Society for 
Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (J-Soft; 
http://www.j-soft.org/) and Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems 
(KIIS; http://eng.fuzzy.or.kr/).


-- 
Jun Suzuki
   Associate Professor of Computer Science
   University of Massachusetts, Boston
   jxs at cs.umb.edu
   http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/
   http://dssg.cs.umb.edu/
   @JunSuzukiBoston